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GEORGE SMITH BRYANT, A. M., .
President of Christian Female College, Columbia, is a native of Jessa- mine county, Kentucky, born April 2d, 1841. His parents, Dr. John and Martha Ann Bryant, with their family immigrated to Jackson coun- ty, Missouri, in 1850, and settled in Independence, where they yet re- side. The subject of our sketch received his primary education in the Independence High School, M. W. Miller, now in charge of Webster
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school in St. Louis, then being its principal. After being prepared for college by this institution of learning, Mr. Bryant went to Bethany College, Virginia, then under the management of Rev. Alexander Campbell, its president. At the expiration of two years, Mr. Bryant graduated with honor, and then returned and entered the Indepen- dence High School as assistant to M. W. Miller. Mr. Miller soon thereafter resigned, and Mr. Bryant succeeded him, and successfuly managed the school for ten years. During that time he graduated a large number of pupils, some of whom now fill the principal commer- cial, educational and political positions of the State. On the 29th day of August, 1871, Mr. Bryant married Miss Margaret Frances Fergu- son, daughter of James and Mary Ferguson, of Boone county, Mo. After his marriage he accepted a professorship in the Christian Female College under the presidency of Joseph K. Rogers, and held the posi- tion for about five years. Owing to the failure of Mr. Rogers' health, in 1877, he resigned the presidency and recommended Professor Bryant to the board of trustees, who unanimously elected him Mr. Rogers' successor, which position he has satisfactorily filled to the present day, the last session of the school having been one of its most prosperous.
J. R. CAMPBELL.
James Reyburn Campbell was born in Mexico, Mo., October 1st, 1846. He is a son of John and Sallie (Turner) Campbell. . His father was a native of Kentucky and came to Missouri when a boy. He died in December, 1870, in Audrain county. Mrs. Campbell is a native of Boone county ; she is still alive. Mr. Campbell was a farmer. J. R. Campbell, the subject hereof, was reared on a farm and received a common school education. In the fall of 1862, when but sixteen years of age, he went South and took service in the Confederate army under Gen. Price. His first enlistment was in Company A, of the 1st Missouri brigade (afterwards Company B). During his term of service Mr. Campbell participated in the second fight at Carthage, in Taylor's engagements with and defeat of Gen. Banks in Louisiana, and in Price's last raid. He was under Gen. Price all of his term. The hardest battles in which he was engaged were Big Blue, Jackson county, and " Big Prairie, " near the Arkansas line, both on Price's raid into Missouri. Upon first enlisting Mr. Campbell was in the cavalry, but was afterwards transferred to the infantry. He did a great deal of post duty in Arkansas and Louisiana, guarding the forts at Shreveport and at other points on Red river. He surrendered
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with the main body of Gen. Price's army at Shreveport in the spring of 1865, and returned home June 25th, of that year, and began life without a dollar.
Soon after coming home Mr. Campbell engaged with the Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company, of St. Louis, for which he worked about eighteen months, when he entered the service of the Singer company, and was given their agency for four counties. This territory he has held ever since. In November, 1875, he came to Columbia, where he has since resided. In addition to his sewing machine house, Mr. Campbell also conducts a first-class confectionery store, and since January, 1882, has owned a one-third interest in the large grocery and provision house of Bruce, Moberly & Co.
He was married December 12th, 1868, to Miss Amelia Turner, a native of Audrain county, and daughter of John Turner, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of three children - Mary Pearl, Eula Gertrude and Laura Belle. Mr. and Mrs. C. are both members of the Baptist church, and Mr. C. belongs to the United Workmen and Knights of Honor.
MR. AND MRS. O. A. CARR.
The subjects of this sketch are natives of Kentucky, the former having been born in Lewis county, February 5th, 1845, the latter in Stanford, Lincoln county, September 8th, 1847. Mr. Carr's pater- nal grandparents, Daniel Carr and Richard Clary, were sturdy pioneer farmers of their respective counties. Daniel Carr lived sixty-four years of his married life in one home in Lewis county, near which began the wedded lives of William Carr and Elizabeth Clary, to whom were born eight children, the fifth bearing the name of Oliver Ander- son Carr. In early youth Oliver attended school of winters at the rude log school-house of the neighborhood, the term usually lasting but three months in the year. The elder Carr was not satisfied with the limited facilities thus afforded his children, as he had early resolved to give them as good an education as his means would afford. For this reason he abandoned his farm and removed to May's Lick, Mason county, where, from the age of eleven to sixteen, Oliver attended the academy. After five years' hard study, the subject of this sketch had won the esteem and confidence of all who knew him, and when it was known that he wished to further prosecute his studies at college, and that his means were limited, the young student did not lack for assist- ance, which came without personal solicitation. He was thus enabled
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to attend the Kentucky University, then situated at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. While a student of this institution, the university build. ing was burned and the school was removed to Lexington, where Mr. Carr graduated in 1867, at the age of twenty-two. He was the youngest graduate of the university at that time and the youngest of the class, being the first to receive the degree of A. B. after-the removal of the university to Lexington. His labors in the gospel began at the age of nineteen, when he travelled and preached during the summer months in Northeastern Kentucky - one season in com- pany with Eld. J. W. Mountjoy -preaching in school-houses and forest groves to multitudes who assembled to hear the gospel. Five hundred people acknowledged the Savior under his preaching, and six churches were established by him, one within two miles of his birth place. In the midst of these labors there was a call for mis- sionaries, and Elder Carr was selected for the Australia mission. Previous to commencing his long journey, he was married in the Christian church at Lancaster, Kentucky, to Miss Mattie Myers, March 26th, 1868. Immediately after their marriage they departed for Melbourne, Australia. They sailed from New York to Liverpool, and after remaining three weeks in the British Isles, left Liverpool in a sailing vessel, and after a voyage of one hundred and four days landed safely at Melbourne. Mr. Carr at once began his labors in that city. He established a church, and used the press and pulpit continuously during the period of his labors in that country. In addition to preaching, he taught a class of young men who were pre- paring for the ministry. Excessive toil and the enervating influence of the climate told seriously upon his health, and he was advised to visit Tasmania, two hundred miles south of Australia for the benefit of the climate. Soon after landing at Hobart he was urged to preach and did so, establishing a church of one hundred and twenty members .. After one year's labor at Hobart they sailed for home by way of Ceylon, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, visiting Egypt and the Holy Land, stopping at Naples and Rome, passing through the Mount Cenis tunnel to Paris and Versailles, thence to Southampton, and after three weeks' stay in England sailed for New York, and thence over- land by way of Niagara Falls to Maysville, Kentucky, where Mr. Carr's parents were living, landing at home in August, 1873. After a brief rest Eld. Carr resumed his labors in Kentucky, travelling extensively in the interest of Sunday-schools. In 1874 he responded to a call from a St. Louis church for a specified time, at the expira-
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tion of which time he and Mrs. Carr came to Fulton, Missouri, the former to preach and the latter to take charge of Floral Hill College .. It was thought best to unite this institution with Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, which union was consummated in 1878. Mr. Carr has devoted his time to evangelical labors in Missouri, except while occupying the pulpit of Eld. L. B. Wilkes, at Columbia, during the illness of the latter. Mr. Carr's labors in the last few years have been directed towards securing church cooperation in promulgating the gospel, and to this end he has travelled, preached and written continuously since coming to Missouri. During the last year of his labors in this State he has established a church at Laddonia, Audrain county, and another at Ashland, in Boone county, where they have recently completed an excellent church edifice. Mrs. O. A. Carr, the earnest, zealous partner of Elder Carr in all his missionary and evangelical labors, is the youngest daughter of Henry and Mary (Bur- dette ) Myers, and was born at Stanford, Lincoln county, Kentucky, September 6th, 1847. Her father was of German origin, her mother of English extraction. Mrs. Carr was a pupil of Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, for six years, under the management of President John A. Williams, afterwards president of Christian College, Columbia, Missouri. Having finished the junior course in Daughter's College she was sent to St. Catherine de Sienna, Washington county, Kentucky, where she graduated with the highest honors of her class. The following year, 1865, she returned to Daughter's College and graduated there in 1866 with high honors. Soon after leaving college she was called to the principalship of Franklin College, Lancaster, Kentucky. After nearly two years' prosperous labor she resigned and was married, March 26th, 1868, to Mr. O. A. Carr, since which time her history has been thoroughly identified with his in their labors for the cause of Christ both in this country and in foreign lands. During the three years spent in Australia, Mrs. Carr had charge of a . college for young ladies, and worked with her husband in his church relations until the failure of her health, when they removed to Tas- mania, where she continued her labors in the church and school which they organized at that place. After their return to America she was appointed associate principal of Hamilton College, Lexington, Ken- tucky. She did not remain long with this institution, however, as the work became excessive after the resignation of the principal. Consequently she resigned and joined her husband, who had preceded her to St. Louis, having taken charge of the First Christian church of
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that city. In 1876 she assumed the management of Floral Hill Col- lege, Fulton, Missouri, where she remained until that institution was consolidated with Christian Female College, Columbia, Missouri. She then came to Columbia as associate principal of Christian Col- lege. In this capacity she. labored for one year, at the expiration of which time she received, in 1879, the appointment of lady principal of the Missouri State University, which position she now holds. She also has control of the work department, established for the benefit of the young lady pupils of the University. Besides her weekly labors in the church and in the school, she has contributed to religious peri- odicals, and has delivered frequent lectures in the interest of literary and religious culture.
CAPT. H. N. COOK.
Henry Nixdorff Cook was born at Palmyra, Marion county, Missouri, October 30, 1838. He was educated in the common schools, and at St. Paul's College. In 1851 he came to Columbia, and has ever since been a resident of Boone county. His first occupation in Columbia was that of jeweler and watchmaker.
Upon the breaking out of the civil war Captain Cook announced him- self an unconditional Union man, and ready to fight for his principles. April 22, 1862, he received a commission as captain of company F, 9th Cavalry, M. S. M. (Guitar's regiment), and in this capacity served for three years. During his term of service Captain Cook par- ticipated in the engagement at Moore's Mill, Kirksville, Independence, and in the other leading battles of General Price's last raid into Mis- souri, besides innumerable fights and skirmishes with Confederate guer- rillas and bushwhackers. In one engagement with Jim Carter's band in this county, in the winter of 1865, he killed four of the guerrillas and effectually broke up the band. In April, 1865, he received a com- mission as captain of the " Boone County Company " of militia, and served some months. He received the surrender of the notorious Jim Jackson and his band in the spring of 1865, and gave them writ- ten paroles. Jackson was afterwards killed by the militia with his parole on his person. The captain passed through all the dangers of the war without a scratch.
In the fall of 1868 Captain Cook was appointed county clerk of Boone county, to which office he was elected in 1870 as a Republican, although the county was Democratic at the time: He served as county clerk till January 1, 1875. In June, 1881, he was appointed postmaster of Columbia, and is still in that position.
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In March, 1859, Captain Cook married Miss Hettie Scott, of Arrow Rock, Saline county. They are parents of two children, a son and daughter, both of whom have reached maturity. Henry Guitar, the son, is deputy postmaster, and Mary, the daughter is now Mrs. Wage, of Columbia.
HENRY CRUMBAUGH.
Henry Crumbaugh, a prominent business man of Columbia, and one of the pioneer settlers of the place, was born in Fayette county, Ken- tucky, May 16, 1814. He is the son of John and Mary (Snyder) Crumbaugh ; he was raised and educated in his native county, and learned the saddler and harness-maker's trade at Lexington, serving an apprenticeship of five years. After completing his trade he came to Columbia, Missouri, and located, opening a shop in the spring of 1838. His first shop was situated on Broadway, where the Exchange Bank now stands. He landed in Columbia without money, possessing only his trade and a laudable resolution to win, which, coupled with industry, prudence, and economy, soon laid the foundation for a suc- cessful business. His property was not rapidly accumulated, but surely and steadily, until now in his old age he finds himself the pos- sessor of a handsome estate, earned by the labor of his own hands. For many years he served as town trustee ; he was also city collector for fifteen or sixteen years. He was married April 30, 1840, to Doro- thy A., daughter of Col. Richard Gentry. They had three children - one son and two daughters. Mary A. married J. V. C. Karnes, a prominent lawyer of Kansas City ; Dorothy A. married J. H. Lips- comb, also a lawyer of Kansas City ; Luther H. married a daughter of Major Harbinson, a prominent lawyer of Southwest Missouri.' Mrs. Crumbaugh was born March 13, 1816, and died March 9, 1854. On the 13th of December, 1855, he was married to Mary C. Reynolds, of Columbia, Missouri. They have three children - James E., city attorney of Columbia, and a promising young lawyer, being a gradu- ate of the literary and law departments of the Missouri State Univer- sity ; Roberta Lee - named in honor of Gen. Robert E. Lee -and Mary C. In 1833 Mr. Crumbaugh joined the Presbyterian church at Lexington, Kentucky, under the preaching of Dr. Hall ; he was elected an elder of his church in September, 1844. His motto through life has been, " Every day something learned ; every day something done."
WALLACE JACKSON DAVIS.
Wallace J. Davis, editor and proprietor of the Boone County Sen-
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tinel, is a native of this county, having been born in Perche township, April 14, 1850. He is the younger son of Linnæus and Nancy T. (Weaver) Davis. His father was a native of New York, but emi- grated in early youth to Missouri, where he was principally raised and educated. Mrs. Davis is a native of Alabama. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in Boone county. At the age of twenty he entered the office of the Democratic Banner, published at Fayette, Missouri, by James H. Robinson. He remained with Mr. Robinson over a year. His next engagement was with the Columbia Herald. He afterwards worked on the Columbia Statesman, Cedar City Clarion, and all the papers published at Fulton, Missouri, hav- ing served as foreman of the Fairplay and the Mail of that city. In 1874 he worked on the Jefferson City Tribune. The year following he was engaged on the Daily Times, and the Dispatch, then under the management of Stilson Hutchins. In June, 1876, he established the Centralia Sentinel, a Democratic paper, which he soon afterwards removed to Columbia, changing the name to Boone County Sentinel. The first number of the new edition was dated February 4, 1877. The Sentinel has been a fearless, outspoken paper, and has carried the Democratic banner to the front in every political campaign since the day it was started. When it had a preference it did not hesitate to say so. If it believed an aspirant for office unworthy of the support of the party, it proclaimed the fact regardless of consequences. F. F. Davis, brother of Wallace J. Davis, is associated with him in the management of the Sentinel. The subject of this sketch was married May 24, 1880, to Miss Alice, daughter of Charles Ustick, of Dover, Lafayette county, Missouri. They have one son, Kenneth Forrest, born December 5, 1881. Mr. Davis and wife are members of the Methodist Church South. His brother, F. F. Davis, was born July 31, 1842. He is also a member of the Methodist church. The oldest brother, Leander B. Davis, was killed in the Confederate service.
PROF. CONRAD DIEHL.
Prof. Conrad Diehl was born near Landau, Germany, July 16, 1842. His father, Conrad L., was a notary and a leader in the revo- lution of 1848, for which he forfeited his estate and was sentenced to death. He fled to America and settled in St. Clair county, Illinois. Young Conrad was educated principally at Oakfield, Franklin county, Missouri. At the age of seventeen his father sent him to Munich,
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Germany, to complete his artistic education. He studied for five years under the most celebrated artists of that city, among whom were Kaulbach and Foltz. It was while attending the art school at Munich that Prof. Diehl produced his celebrated picture, " Hamlet," representing the Prince of Denmark in one of his most dramatic atti- tudes. This picture at once established his reputation as an artist of very high order. He brought this picture with him to America, and presented it to the Chicago Art Association. It was consumed in the great fire of 1871. Prof. Diehl attended the Paris Exposition in 1867, and while there painted another fine picture, " Macbeth," which is now in an art collection in St. Louis. In 1871 he went to St. Louis and taught art in the public schools until 1877. While a teacher in that city he introduced a new mode of instruction which became very popular, but was finally driven out by ignorant prejudice. He has since reduced this system to writing, and it is now ready for the press. He thinks his book will revolutionize the study of art in this country. He was at one time president of the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1879 he succeeded Gen. Bingham in the art department of the State University, and has been connected with that institution ever since. He uses no text books. His mode of teaching is wholly practical, and his pupils advance very rapidly. In addition to art,
Prof. Diehl possesses a thorough literary education ; speaks English, German and French. He was married in Paris, France, to Miss Isa- bella Dupont, the marriage ceremony being performed by Gen. John A. Dix, then United States minister to France. Mrs. Diehl is also an artist of considerable ability. Specimens of her work may be seen in the art rooms of the University. She is devoted to her husband and her children, and has been of great help to him in his chosen pro- fession. They have had seven children, five of whom are living. Their names are Rose, Alice, Felix Conrad, Conrad Lewis and Mignon. Prof. Diehl is not a church member. Mrs. Diehl is a Catholic.
J. S. DORSEY.
Jere. Spires Dorsey is a native of Nicholas county, Kentucky, where he was born November 11th, 1834. He lived in his native county and at Mt. Sterling until he was nineteen years old. He was educated at Mt. Sterling under the instructions of Hugh B. Todd, an eminent teacher, afterwards principal of Camden Point Academy, Platte county, Missouri. In 1854 Mr. Dorsey came to Columbia, where he started the first hardware store in the place. In 1857 he took in Dick Carter as
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partner. Continued the business until 1862, when he was banished by order of Gen. Merrill. Went to Cincinnati, where he was en- gaged to sell hardware as a commercial traveller. Returned to Colum- bia in 1863 and engaged in the dry goods business with Samuel, Conley & Strawn. In 1864 went to St. Louis and engaged in selling hardware as a commercial traveller. In the fall of 1865 returned to Columbia and bought the drug store of Swallow & Gilman, in which business he has continued ever since, adding a jewelry department in 1867. Was the first railroad agent in Columbia, receiving his appointment in 1867, holding the position for one year. He established the first in- surance agency in the county in 1854, representing the Home, of New York. He also sold the first reaper and mower. The purchasers were Messrs. Beatty & Simmons, and the reaper one of the Atkins patent. He was first express agent for Richardson's Express Com- pany at Columbia, appointed in 1857. Afterwards was agent for the United States Company, and the Merchants' Union, filling the office of express agent continuously for fifteen years. He has been presi- dent of the Boone County Insurance Company since its organization in 1875. He is curator, trustee and treasurer of Christian College. September 10th, 1857, Mr. Dorsey was married to Miss Margaret, daughter of Samuel W. Williams, of Kentucky. They have six chil- dren living and one dead. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey are both members of the Christian church.
GEN. J. B. DOUGLASS.
Gen. Joseph Beeler Douglass was born in Mercer (now Boyle) county, Kentucky November 12th, 1819. His father, William Douglass, was a native of Maryland, born in 1775, died in Boone county, Missouri, June 3d, 1843. He came to this county in 1827, and settled near Harrisburg, where he lived out the remainder of his days. Gen. Douglass remained on his father's farm until 1848, when he came to Columbia as deputy sheriff under Wm. P. Hickman. In 1850 he was elected sheriff and in 1852 was re-elected. In 1856 he was elected to the Legislature with Col. William F. Switzler. In 1859 was elected clerk of the county court, which office he was holding when the war com- menced. In 1862 was commissioned colonel of the Sixty-first E. M. M. The year following he was commissioned a brigadier-general by Gov. Hall, and assigned to the Eighth military district, embracing several counties in this part of Missouri. Left the service in 1865. He was of much service to the citizens of this county, protecting their lives
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and property. Was severe on men in arms, especially bushwhackers, but guarded the rights of non-combatants. After the war (in 1866) he was appointed United States assessor of the Fourth district, which position he held for two years. Afterwards followed the nursery busi- ness, at the same time acting as general agent of the horticultural de- partment of the State University. He is now living in Columbia. Gen. Douglass was married in 1849 to Miss Nannie Wirt, of Boone county. She died in 1875. They had six children, of whom only two are now living, Joseph L. and Fannie D. Two children died in infancy. One son, William Wirt, a graduate of medicine, died in 1877, aged twenty-three years. Mary A. died in 1882, aged twenty- eight. She was a graduate of Christian College, and possessed a bright intellect and fine culture. She excelled in music and mathe- matics, and was quite proficient in all the accomplishments that con- stitute a refined and cultivated lady. She was universally loved by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, and her death cast a gloom over the entire community. Gen. Douglass is a member of the Methodist Church South.
HON. SHANNON CLAY DOUGLASS.
The subject of this biographical sketch is the son of Alexander Douglass, a prominent citizen of Columbia and for many years iden- tified with the business interest of the people among whom he lived and died. He was a native of Harrison county, Kentucky, where he was born and reared to the age of twelve years, when he came to Co- lumbia, Missouri, where he spent the remainder of his life in active business, dying in February, 1866. In October, 1851, he was married to Ann M. Shannon, eldest daughter of Rev. James Shannon, LL. D., then president of the State University. Five children were born of this marriage : Shannon C., William H., Alex. E., Fannie B., and Mary Evalina Douglass, all of whom are now living. The subject of this sketch was born December 29, 1852. He entered the State Uni- versity in early youth and graduated in June, 1870. Although but eighteen years of age, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and was chosen valedictorian of his class. Two months later he com- menced reading law with Gen. Odon Guitar, and remained in his of- fice for about five years. In the spring of 1871 he was appointed town attorney, at which time he was licensed a member of the bar. Was city attorney for four years in succession. In June, 1873, he graduated in the law department of the State University, taking
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