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Mr. Peterman was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1861. He is a grandson of Jacob Peterman, a native
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of Pennsylvania, and a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shale) Peterman, natives of England. The father was born on De- cember 10. 1819, in Westmoreland county, and when he was about twenty- five years of age moved to Michigan, where he was actively and successfully engaged in farming until April, 1869, when he moved to Missouri and located in Shelby county. He purchased 200 acres of good land one mile east of En- terprise, and on that fruitful and re- sponsive farm he expended his efforts successfully and profitably until 1880, when he retired and moved to Clarence. But he was not destined to enjoy long the rest for which he longed and which he sought by his retirement from active pursuits. He died in April, 1880, a few days after his removal to the city. In early life he was a carpenter, but the greater part of his time on earth, after reaching maturity, was passed in farm- ing.
He was married in 1842 to Miss Eliz- abeth Shale, native of England, as has been noted. and by this union became the father of nine children, five of whom are living: Frankie, the wife of W. M. Davis, of San Diego, California; Wil- liam, a resident of New York City; Addie, the wife of Thomas Freeman, of St. Clair county, Missouri ; Charles and Lewis J., residents of this county. In polities the father followed faithfully the fortunes of the Republican party, and in religions affiliation he was actively con- nected with the Methodist Episcopal church.
Lewis J. Peterman obtained his edu- cation in the district schools of Shelby county, and when he left school to begin
the battle of life, worked on the old home- stead until 1884, passing one year (1880) or the greater part of it, in Clarence with his mother, just after the death of his father. In 1884 he moved to Oregon, where he was engaged in ranching three years. At the end of that period he sold his ranch and changed his residence to Tulare county, California, and there he followed buying and shipping fruit with moderate snecess until 1895. He then re- turned to Clarence, Missouri, and during the next two years carried on a lively trade in boots and shoes, and for the lat- ter portion of the time, also in gents' fur- nishings. Bnt his health began to give way under the close confinement of the store, and in 1897 he sold his business in the mercantile line and returned to farm- ing on 160 acres five miles south of Clar- ence. He retired from the farm, how- ever, within a short time and took up his residence in Clarence, where he has ever since been living in ease and freedom from toil. He retains his farm and em- ploys the revennes from it in comfort- able living, the land being in charge of a tenant, who farms it largely under his supervision and direction.
Mr. Peterman was first married on June 24, 1885, to Miss Stella Gorby, of Shelby county, Missouri, and by this marriage became the father of two chil- dren, both of whom are deceased. Their mother died on December 20, 1891, and on December 28, 1897, the father con- tracted a second marriage, being united on this occasion with Miss Emma Whiles, of Macon connty, Missouri. They have one child, their son William Lewis, who is living at home with them. In political affairs the father adheres with fidelity to
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the Republican party, and he is at all times zealous and effective in its service, but never seeks any of its positions of honor or profit for himself. His frater- nal affiliation is with the orders of Mod- ern Woodmen of America and the I. O. O. F., and in religious matters he is con- nected with the Methodist Episcopal church. He has won a competence for life by his industry, enterprise and good management, and holds a high place in publie estimation because of his useful- ness as a citizen and his worth and ex- cellence as a man.
THOMAS A. BEAN.
This highly esteemed citizen of Clar- ence, who is now living in ease and com- fort in his attractive home, retired from active pursuits after many years of toil and trial, is a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on November 4, 1836. He is of Irish ances- try, both his father and his mother hav- ing been natives of the Emerald Isle. The father, William Warren Bean, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1833. He located in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, at that time one of the most progressive and prosper- ous sections of the country, and there he followed architecture and building, and in addition engaged extensively in farm- ing until 1843.
In that year he sold all his interests in Bucks county and moved to Philadel- phia, where he carried on a large grocery business until his death in 1855. He was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Briton, like himself born in Ireland, as has been stated. and by this marriage be-
came the father of seven children, three of whom are living : Daniel, whose home is in Fresno, California; Martha, the wife of George Bright of St. Louis, Mis- souri, and Thomas A. The father was a devout member of the Presbyterian church and took a great interest in the welfare of the congregation to which he belonged. His political faith was an- chored firmly to the principles of the Democratic party, and in the success of that organization he at all times mani- fested the most earnest interest. He was a very active worker for the good of the party and during his life spent a large amount of money in its behalf, although at no time desirous of holding any of the offices in its gift, either by election or appointment.
Thomas A. Bean obtained his educa- tion in the district schools of his native county, and on leaving school in 1858 came to Missouri and located in Monroe county. There he worked on a number of different farms until 1862, when he moved to Shelby county. In this county he was continuously, energetically and profitably engaged in farming and rais- ing live stock until 1901. He then sold his farm and retired from active work. Ile and his wife passed the next four years in visiting their children in Idaho, Washington, and Montana, and also vis- ited Oregon. Returning to Missouri in 1905, he bought the home he now occu- pies in Clarence, and with his wife he has made this a center of refined and gracious hospitality and one of the pop- ular resorts of the city ever since.
Mrs. Bean, whose maiden name was Sarah S. Meadows, was born on Decem- ber 25, 1837, and is a daughter of Ander-
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son Meadows of this state. They were married on January 24, 1862, and their union resulted in the birth of eight chil- dren, seven of whom are living: Fannic L., the wife of J. L. Million of Maud in this county; Daniel O., who resides in the state of Washington; James A., whose home is at Mullan, Idaho; Samuel C., who is also a resident of Mullan, Idaho; Warren, who lives in this coun- ty; William P. of Mullan, Idaho; and Nora, the wife of W. W. Stohr of Plains, Montana.
Mr. Bean, the father of these children, has been a life-long adherent of the Dem- ocratie party and one of the wheel horses of the organization in the locality of his home. He is active in its service without any personal interest to serve, as he nev- er desires an office of any kind for him- self. His fraternal relations are with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in religious affairs he leans to the Missionary Baptist church, of which his wife has long been a member, zealous in her devotion to its interest and energetic in its service.
WILLIAM F. HIRRLINGER.
Beginning the battle of life for himself at an early age, and wholly dependent on his own resources for advancement, Wil- liam F. Hirrlinger of Clarence, where he carries on a flourishing business as a furniture dealer and undertaker, real- ized that it was necessary for him to em- ploy his every energy, all his time and all the business capacity he could sum- mon to succeed and make headway. He has acted on this conviction and made it
tell greatly to his advantage, having be- come one of the men of material sub- stance in his community and risen to high standing as a man, a merchant and a citizen among its people.
Mr. Hirrlinger was born on December 26, 1877, in Shelby county, Missouri, and obtained his education in its district schools and at the high school in Clar- ence. After leaving school at the age of eighteen, he at once began a mercantile career as a dealer in buggies and imple- ments. He continued his operations in these lines two years, then, in 1897, sold his business in them and transferred his energies and attention to the furniture trade and undertaking. He has been ac- tively engaged in these departments of mercantile life ever since, with the ex- ception of two years, during which he was on the road for F. C. Biddle & Bros., handling coffins and other undertakers' supplies. While he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business he was also associated with M. H. Lewis in the hardware trade. He has been very successful, now owning business and residence property of value, and holding other interests which are of consequence and remunerative, and all his acquisi- tions are the result of his own persever- ing industry, alertness to see and seize his opportunities, and good management in making the most of them.
Mr. Hirrlinger was united in marriage with Miss Emma A. McCarty of this county in 1900. They have two children, their sons, Charles and Harold, both of whom are living at home, and brighten- ing the family fireside with their pres- ence. In political relations the father is a firm and faithful member of the Dem-
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ocratie party, in whose affairs he shows an earnest interest and takes an active part, rendering his party good service in all its campaigns, although seeking none of its official favors for himself.
As an active and devoted member of the Masonic order and the order of Knights of Pythias, he has for years been zealons and energetic in the fraternal life of the community; and as a com- municant of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church he has contributed es- sentially and substantially to the moral and spiritual welfare of the section in which he lives. He has also done a good citizen's part toward promoting the material welfare and progress of his lo- cality, supporting with ardor and prac- tical service every worthy undertaking in which the lasting good of his township and county has been involved, or where- by the comfort and convenience of its people could be enlarged and advanced. He is esteemed as one of the best citi- zens of his home town, and is widely and favorably known throughont the county and a large extent of the surrounding country.
GEORGE T. GILMAN.
The scion of old New England families and inheriting their traits of ingenuity, thrift and readiness for every emer- geney, George T. Gilman, one of the re- speeted and influential citizens of Clar- ence, has known how to promote his own interests under all circumstances and has also been potential in furthering the wel- fare of the community of his home and promoting the best interests of its people.
Mr. Gihnan is a native of Piscataqnis
county, Maine, where he was born on November 29, 1858. His grandfather, James Gihnan, was a native of New Hampshire, and his son, George W. Gil- man, the father of George T., was born in Somerset county, Maine, on August 24, 1828. In his early manhood the father was proprietor of hotels in Maine and California for a number of years. He came to Missouri in 1868 and settled on a farm three miles southeast of Clar- ence, on which he was energetically, pro- gressively and profitably engaged in farming and raising live stock until 1897. He then moved to Clarence, and during the rest of his life enjoyed the peaceful existence of a well-to-do retired farmer, highly esteemed by his fellow citizens and in all respects worthy of the regard and good will they bestowed upon him.
In 1900 he made a trip to his old home in the far East to visit the scenes of his early life and his relatives in that part of the country, and while there died at Foxcroft, Maine, on June 8 of that year. It was in Foxcroft, also, that he was married, being united there in 1855 with Miss Martha Thompson, of that town. They became the parents of two children, both of whom are living: George T. and his older sister Abbie, the wife of C. F. Osgood, of Garland, Maine. In politics the father was a Republican of pro- nounced convictions and faithful party service, and in fraternal relations was connected with the order of Odd Fellows.
George T. Gilman did not accompany his father to the Pacific coast, but re- mained in the home of his ancestors and grew to the age of sixteen there. He was educated in the district schools of his na- tive county and at an excellent academy
DR. JOHN M. McCULLY
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in Foxcroft, in that county. Upon the completion of his education in 1874 he came to Missouri and joined his father, who had been here in Shelby county for six years before his arrival. He worked with his father on the farm and in the live stock industry conducted on it until the father retired in 1897, when he took practical charge of the business. But about the same time he, also, moved to Clarence, putting the farm of 400 acres out to be farmed on shares, as it has been ever since, he still retaining the ownership and superintending the farm- ing operations.
On January 24, 1889, Mr. Gilman was married to Miss Ella M. Chinn, a daugh- ter of George W. and Maria (Abington) Chinn, and a resident of Clarence at the time of the marriage. They have one child, their daughter, Abbie L., who is living at home with her parents. The father, like his father, but as a matter of firm conviction for himself, has been a life-long Republican in political faith and activity, and, like his father, also, has rendered his party energetic and effec- tive support without political ambition or aspirations to public office. His fra- ternal connection is with the Masonic or- der. IIe is a friend to all good angencies at work among the people of his com- munity, and helps to support all without regard to sect or partisan considera- tions. He is universally regarded as one of the most active and helpful citizens of Clarence and Shelby county, and is al- ways reliably numbered among their most progressive and representative men.
In January, 1911, Mr. Gilman pur- chased the interest of E. C. Shain in the
Shelby County State Bank of Clarence and was elected president of the same to succeed Mr. Shain. Mr. Gilman is a gen- tleman of wide business experience and enjoys the confidence of the people of the entire county.
JOHN M. McCULLY, M. D.
Dr. McCully, who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Clarence, is recognized as one of the able and representative physicians and sur- geons of Shelby county, and in view of this fact he is well entitled to considera- tion in this compilation, which has to do with the history of the county and its people. He is a scion of one of the hon- ored pioneer families of Missouri, where his grandfather, John McCully, a native of Tennessee, took up his abode in an early day, becoming one of the sterling pioneers of Randolph county, where he passed the residue of his life and where he followed agricultural pur- suits.
Dr. MeCully was born in Randolph county, this state, on May 8, 1851, and is a son of William and Frances C. (Yates) MeCully. William McCully was born in Randolph county, Missouri, on June 4, 1828, and was there reared and educated. He was identified with the great basic in- dustry of agriculture throughout his en- tire active career and in this connection he so ordered his efforts as to gain a gen- erous measure of success, becoming one of the substantial citizens of Shelby coun- ty, whither he removed from Randolph county in the year 1860 and where his death occurred in the year 1901. He left an estate whose valuation was conserva-
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tively placed at fully thirty thousand Cully married Mrs. Mary E. Vandiver, who survives him. dollars, and at the time of his demise he was the owner of more than eight hun- Dr. John M. MeCully passed his boy- hood and youth on the home farm and was a lad of nine years at the time of the family removal to Shelby county, where he was reared to maturity and where he received his early scholastic training in the district schools of Taylor township. Thereafter he continued his academie studies in Mount Pleasant College, at Huntsville, this state, in which well or- dered institution he completed the full four years' course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1871, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon afterward he began the study of medi- cine under the effective preceptorship of Dr. Luther Turner, of Cherry Box, this state, and in 1873, after the comple- tion of the prescribed three years' course, he was graduated in the St. Louis Medical College, from which he received his well earned degree of Doctor of Med- ieine, and from which he came forth ad- mirably equipped and fortified for the active work of his exacting profession. He initiated his professional practice at Sue City, Macon county, this state, where he remained for a period of nine years, at the expiration of which, in 1SS2, he removed to Shelbina, Shelby county, where he devoted his attention to pro- fessional work for a short period, and then, in May, 1883, purchased the plant and business of the Shelbina Index, of which weekly paper he continued as edi- tor and publisher for two years, being successful in the journalistic field. In 1885 he disposed of the paper and busi- dred acres of valuable land. He was prominent and influential in public af- fairs in his community and for many years held the office of school director in his distriet. His fine old homestead, where his death occurred, is located in Taylor township, this county. In poli- ties he was a zealous and efficient advo- cate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands spon- sor. He was a man of probity and honor and ever held the implicit confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact in the varions relations of life. On March 28, 1850, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Frances C. Yates, who was born in Kentucky and reared in Ran- dolph county, this state, and whose death occurred on April 1, 1891. She was a de- voted member of the Cumberland Pres- byterian church and was a woman whose gentle and gracious attributes of character endeared her to all who came within the sphere of her influence. Of this marriage seven children were born and of the number the subject of this review is the eldest. William C. is a successful farmer of Shelby county, Sarah C. is the wife of James W. Collins, of Macon county ; Georgia E. is the wife of William E. Me- ('ully, of Macon, this state; Mary E. is the wife of John H. Hudson, of Cherry Box, Shelby county ; Thomas M. is a suc- cessful physician and surgeon and is en- gaged in practice at Novelty, Knox. county, and Lucy V. is the wife of Charles II. Sterling, of Cherry Box. ness and the publication of the same is On November 21, 1893, William Me- now continued under the title of the
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Shelbina Torchlight. After retiring from the newspaper field Dr. McCully engaged in the drug business in Shel- bina, continuing this enterprise, together with the practice of his profession, for twelve years. He then sold his drug business and shortly afterward he ef- fected, in 1896, the organization of the Shelby County Telephone Company, his interest in which he later sold to other citizens of Shelbina. During the six years of his active identification with the telephone business the doctor was presi- dent and general manager of the com- pany which he thus organized and he developed its business along most effect- ive and successful lines. He also has the distinction of having been a pioneer in the development of the independent tele- phone business in the United States.
In 1903 Dr. MeCully removed to Clar- ence, where he established MeCully's pharmacy, which he has since conducted with ever-increasing success, while he still gives no little attention to the prac- tice of his profession. He is identified with the Missouri State Medical Society and the Shelby County Medical Society, and is held in high esteem both as a phy- sician and as a progressive and public spirited business man of unqualified civic loyalty and optimism. He is a stockholder in the Clarence Savings Bank, is a staunch Democrat in his polit- ical allegiance, is affiliated with the In- ยท dependent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is a member of the Southern M. E. church. He was president of the board of education at Shelbina for nine years and was largely instrumental in provid- ing for the erection of the fine new school building in that place.
On September 18, 1873, Dr. Mc- Cully was united in marriage to Miss Martha Alice Rawlings, who was born in Tiger Fork, Shelby county, on Oc- tober 11, 1851, and who is a daughter of the late William H. Rawlings, one of the representative citizens of this coun- ty. Dr. and Mrs. McCully became the parents of three children, of whom two are living, Aubrey M., who resides in Shelbina, and Glessner. Dr. and Mrs. McCully are prominent and popular in connection with the social activities of their home town and their attractive resi- dence is a recognized center of gracious hospitality.
JAMES F. CROW.
One of the most successful among the farmers, merchants and manufacturers of Scotland and Shelby counties of this state and widely and favorably known throughout northeastern Missouri as a public spirited and enterprising citizen, whose energies and resources were al- ways available for the service of his lo- cality and its people, James F. Crow, of Shelbina, had won his way to the conse- quence and influence and the business prosperity for which he was distin- guished by his own efforts and inborn capacity.
Mr. Crow was a native of Scotland county, this state, born on March 2, 1846. He was a grandson of John Crow, a na- tive of Kentucky, and a son of Jacob and Agnes (Fifer) Crow, the former born near Perryville, Boyle county, Kentucky, and the latter in Angusta county, Vir- ginia. The father came to Missouri at an early day and located in Boone coun-
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ty with his parents. The family soon afterward moved to Pike county, and there he was educated in the district schools and began his life work as a farmer and stock man on his father's farm. He remained with his parents, helping them on the farm and assisting the family for a number of years after attaining his majority, and then moved to Scotland county, near Memphis, while vet the nomadic aborigines infested the region and sometimes became trouble- some, although in the main they were not unfriendly to the white invaders of their ancestral range and aboriginal rights. There he became an extensive and enterprising farmer, and also raised live stock and traded in it on a large scale until 1865, when he re- moved to Monroe county and resided there with his family until his death, which occurred on December 12, 1899.
He was also a builder and put up the first jail erected in Scotland county, and took a great and very serviceable inter- est in school affairs, working with ardor for the cause of public education and vastly augmenting the power and useful- ness of the institutions devoted to it in that county. More than this, he mani- fested a very earnest interest in every- thing involving the welfare of the region and the advancement of its people, and never withheld the aid of his resourceful brain or ready and skillful hand from any worthy enterprise likely to promote them. At the time of his death he was possessed of about 600 acres of superior land and had it all under vigorous and productive cultivation.
He was united in marriage with Miss Agnes Fifer and they became the parents
of six children, two of whom are living: James F., who is the interesting subject of these paragraphs, died May 29, 1910; William D., who resides in Kansas City, Missouri; and Alice, the wife of John W. Gillispie.
In political affairs and allegiance the father adhered to the Democratic party through life, and was a faithful worker for the success of the principles in which he believed. His religious connection was with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and to this, also, he gave earnest and cordial support.
James F. Crow obtained his education in the district schools of Scotland conn- ty and a graded school in Memphis, its present county seat. He remained on the parental farm, working under the diree- tion of his father and assisting the fam- ily until 1891, but during a large part of the time was also engaged in farming and raising and trading in live stock on his own account. At the time of his leav- ing home he owned and cultivated 600 acres of land of his own. In 1892 he lo- cated in Shelbina, but continued his farming and stock industries, and in ad- dition carried on a flourishing and ex- tensive business as a dealer in farm lands. During the last seventeen years of his life he was continuously, profitably and extensively occupied in the milling industry, being conducted under the firm name of Crow & Co. Later it became Crow & Whaley, and still later Crow & Co., and is now known as the Shelbina Milling Company. This, however, had not been Mr. Crow's first experience in the milling industry, for during 1885 and 1886 he was interested in a mill at Clar- ence and also a lumber business at the
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