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JOHN G. SCHNEIDER, vice-presi- dent of the German-American National Bank, has been active in the affairs of the city, both in business and in. public life, continuously since 1879. He was born in St. Joseph on May 12, 1862, and is the eldest son of Ulrich and Katherine (Schott) Schneider.
John G. Schneider was educated in
Yards Company, of the Buchanan Hotel Company, of the St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway Com- pany, of the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway Company; and a number of other business enterprises of similar importance.
Mr. Schneider has become identi- fied with the leading fraternal socie-
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the St. Joseph public schools, and when he was fifteen years of age be- came associated with his father in the real estate and insurance business, continuing so from 1877 to 1887. In the year last named he was one of the organizers of the German-Ameri- can Bank of St. Joseph, now the German-American National Bank, and he began then to serve that bank as assistant cashier. In 1892 he became vice-president, and he has continued in that office ever since.
Mr. Schneider is a member of the directorate of the St. Joseph Stock
ties, including the A. F. & A. M., St. Joseph's Lodge No. 78; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, the Court of Honor, and the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a member of the St. Joseph Turn- verein, St. Joseph Swaben Verein, a director of the St. Joseph Country Club, a member of the Benton Club of St. Joseph, of the Lotus Club of St. Joseph, and of the St. Joseph Com- merce Club.
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On October 12, 1887, Mr. Schneider was married to Miss Helen Garth, a daughter of Major Samuel Garth of St. Joseph and a member of one of the pioneer families of Buchanan
taught school in his native county. In 1896 he was elected superintend- ent of schools in Platte County. Later he resigned to become principal of the Eastwood School at Marshall, Mo.
In 1898 he was elected to the County.
JAMES RALPH CLAY
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schneider-Ulrich Schneider, Helen, married to Henry Walker, and John G. Schneider, Jr.
JAMES RALPH CLAY, dealer in real estate, Eighth and Edmond streets, was born at Camden Point, Missouri, Platte County.
After receiving such education as the public schools provided, he spent several years in the state normals. Then he attended the Gem City Busi- ness College at Quincy, Illinois. He received his diploma from this insti- tution in 1888. For several years he
presidency of Northwest Missouri Col- lege at Albany, Mo., which position he held until some eight years ago when he came to St. Joseph and engaged in the real estate and loan business.
Mr. Clay was married to Miss Wil- lie E. Bywaters of Camden Point, Mo. August 24, 1890. They are the par- ents of three sons. All live in St. Joseph.
Mr. Clay is a man of superior literary tastes. Astudent of our best literature. He is a gifted public speaker. A man of rare personality. Often solicited to address assemblies where only the clearest and most dignified utterances are welcome.
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DR. EDWARD DUMVILLE HOLME was born April 1, 1867 in northwest- ern Missouri in Andrew County, on an old negro plantation purchased by his father at the close of the Civil war.
He was born of English parentage, his father being the son of a draper of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England,
was to become a physician, hav; left school once to read medicine Dr. Eli Ensor's office. On the de: of Dr. Ensor he returned to school.
After graduation from the Ame can School of Osteopathy in 1901, engaged in the practice of medicine Tarkio, Mo., to join his sister, 11 Anna Holme Hurst, his present as
DR. EDWARD DUMVILLE HOLME
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and his mother, the daughter of Thomas Dumville, a woolen manu- facturer of Huddersfield, England.
He was educated in the public schools of Savannah, Mo., after which he attended the Northwestern Nor- mal, and later, Louis College, Glas- gow, Mo.
After engaging in school work for some years, he took up the study of his profession from boyhood, namely -medicine, in the American School of Osteopathy. His earliest ambition
ciate and with whom he enjoys a very successful and lucrative practice.
Dr. E. D. Holme was elected presi dent of the first osteopathic organi zation in St. Joseph, Mo. He has been a member of the American Osteo pathic Association since his gradua tion and is held in high esteem by the members of his profession. He also graduated from the Illinois Post Grad uate School of Medicine and Surgery Chicago, Ill., in 1915.
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HERMAN K. LIBBE, born Oct. 20, road and telegraph lines were ab- 359 at Burlington, Iowa. German leescent. Early education at Burling- sorb by the A. T. & S. F. Ry. March 1, 1885. On that date he went to Sprague, Washington Ferry as train master and chief dispatcher for the 1, Northern Pacific Ry., remaining two years. In 1887 he was with the St. L., I. M. & S. at Parsons, Kas. as train dispatcher and May 1, 1888 he came to lon, Iowa, and at Carman, Ills. At mene age of 14 learned telegraphy and ecame an expert in that line and in ne 375 was made chief clerk for the Noadmasters Dept., B. & M. Ry. at assincoln, Neb. In 1876 was appointed
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elief agent and operator for C. B. & 2. Ry. in Illinois for three years when n 1879 he was promoted to chief dis- batcher and train master of the B. & J. W. Ry. at Burlington, Iowa when hat road was absorbed by the C. B. erik. Q. Ry. in 1881. He was sent as rain master and chief dispatcher to esi Keokuk, Iowa, for the Burlington sys- an
em and while at Keokuk was ap- pointed superintendent of telegraph by the Western Union Telegraph Co. n charge of the St. L. K. & N. & N. lua
W. lines. In 1883 he went west to Deming, New Mexico and built the 180 Deming, Silver City and Pacific tele- ad graph lines from Deming to Silver ry, City, New Mexico and became super- intendent, remaining there until the
St. Joseph, Mo., as trainmaster and chief dispatcher for the old Wabash Ry. and remained with them through all the changes until the system was absorbed by the A. T. & S. F. Ry. He was then transferred to Marceline, Mo., where he had charge between Kansas City and Fort Madison, Iowa as chief dispatcher until 1892, when he went to Bonne Terre, Mo., as train master and chief dispatcher of the M. R. & B. T. Ry., remaining only a year. March 4th, 1894 he established the wholesale flour company of H. H. Libbe & Co. with Mr. John Muehlei- sen, but for the past eight years has been sole proprietor. He is specially interested in the civic pride of St. Jo. seph, Mo.
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DR. CARYL POTTER was born October 1, 1886 at Cameron, Missouri, and has lived in St. Joseph since he was one year of age. He was edu- cated in the St. Joseph public schools and graduated from Central High School. He entered the University of Missouri in the fall of 1905 and re- ceived the A. B| degree in the fall of
places in New York, Roosevelt, Presbyterian and St. Luke's Hospi- tals in the city of New York he stood sixteenth and received the appoint- ment to the surgical staff of Roose- velt Hospital where he served for two years, the last six months of his ser- vice holding position of House Sur- geon.
DR. CARYL POTTER
1908, having received A. B. and com- pleted one year of medicine in three years and two summer schools. While at the university he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta. and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities and a member of the University of Missouri Glee Club. He entered the second year of the medical department of Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1908 and graduated in 1911, the only man in his class to have received A. B. and M. D. degrees in six years. While there he was a member of Nu Sigma Nu, an honorary medical fra- ternity.
In a joint competitive examination with 184 men from medical schools throughout the United States for 36
For two months he was an interne at the Lying-in Hospital of New York and a substitute interne in medi- cine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for three months.
He is registered in the State of New York, having passed the state board examination in that state in 1911 and in the state of Missouri, having re- ceived his license before that boar i in 1913.
During the last year of the exist- ence of the Ensworth Medical Col- lege, he was Professor of Medicine and has been associated with Dr. T. E. Potter in the practice of medicine and surgery since July, 1313.
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DR. JOHN I. TUCKER, one of the physicians in the Swift Packing plant comes from good Missouri stock, his birthplace being Sullivan County and the date September 4, 1880. He re- ceived his early education in the schools of his native county and in 1900 entered William Jewel College where he remained one year. In 1905
Tucker was married to Miss Ethel Carter of Waldron, Kan., in 1907. They have three children, two sons and a daughter. Fraternally Dr. Tucker is an Odd Fellow.
WILLIAM M. BECKETT, real es- tate dealer, at 108 North Seventh street, comes from Indiana stock. He was born in Henry County, March
DR. JOHN I. TUCKER -Photo by Mulvane.
he attended a summer term at the Northwestern, at Alva, Oklahoma. He began the study of medicine at the Ensworth Medical College in St. Joseph in 1908 and graduated from that institution in 1912. He first be- gan practicing at Rochester, Andrew County, where he remained for seven months when he removed to South St. Joseph and was made a member of the medical staff of Swift & Co. Dr.
17, 1858. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1867, locating in An- drew County. He was educated there, after which he went to Rosen- dale and learned the railroad station work. In 1879 he went to King City and was the first operator on the St. Joseph & Des Moines Narrow Gauge. In August, 1881, he went to Nishna- botna as agent for the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs road, where he remained a year and was
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then transferred to Fairfax, where he remained six years. In 1888 he quit railroading and engaged in the lum- ber business in Tarkio. He was elected county recorder of Atchison county in 1894. Mr. Beckett located
sas, where he received a common school education. He was in the em- ploy of the Rock Island Railroad com- pany in New Mexico for several years. In 1907 he began the study of den- tistry in the Kansas City Dental Col-
DR. OSCAR L. HUMMEL -Photo by Mulvane.
in St. Joseph in 1901 and has been an active business man here ever since. He was married to Miss Lillian Offutt of Brown County, Kansas, in 1889. They have one child, Evelyn A., age 18 years.
DR. OSCAR L. HUMMEL, dentist, in the I. O. O. F. building, King Hill and Missouri avenues, is a native of Illinois. He was born at Lawn Ridge, February 10, 1882. At the age of two years he moved with his parents to Nortonville, Jefferson County, Kan-
lege and graduated therefrom in 1910. He first located in Lucas, Kan., where he practiced for two years. He came to St. Joseph in 1912 and opened the office in which he is now located. Dr. Hummel has been very successful as a practitioner and is one of the enterprising business men of the South Side. He was married to Mrs. Lethia Hook of Rossville, Kan .; in 1908. They have one child, a son. Dr. Hummel is a K. of P. and an Odd Fellow.
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JAMES B. O'BRIEN entered the shoe business in 1896 as salesman for the Geiwitz & Holland Shoe Co. at Fourth and Felix streets. A year later the firm was reorganized and Mr. O'Brien became vice-president and manager of the Holland & O'Brien
shoe stores in Northwest Missouri.
In 1910 Mr. O'Brien left the firm of the Holland & O'Brien Shoe Co. and organized the O'Brien-Kiley Shoe Co. at 516 Felix. He was president and manager of the concern for sev- eral years-when he sold out his in-
JAMES B. O'BRIEN
Shoe Co., remaining in that capacity for thirteen years. After a year at the old store at Fourth and Felix they moved into the store at 612 Felix under his management the business grew until they were compelled to take over the next store at 614 Felix, having one of the largest exclusive
terests and decided to leave the re- tail end and go on the road. For three years he represented the Noyes- Norman Shoe Co. of this city in Kan- sas and Texas, leaving them a year ago to again enter the field of retail- ing, taking over an interest in the Burke Shoe Co. at 614 Felix, the old
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store where he was so many years when it was the Holland & O'Brien Shoe Co. The firm is now Burke & O'Brien Shoe Co. and since Mr. O'Brien has come back to his first love the business has shown a very healthy increase.
the promotion of the retail interest. Governor Hadley appointed him a member of the Board of Regents of the State Normal School at Maryville, Mo., resigning when he went on the road. Jim O'Brien is widely known to the shoe trade all over the country.
EDWARD C. BURKE
Mr. O'Brien has long been active in commercial and civic affairs in St. Jo- seph. He was the first president of the old Ad Club and during his ad- ministration he helped to build up a membership of 1200. He was a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Retail Merchants Association for many years and always was on hand when there was anything in sight for
EDWARD C. BURKE, member of the firm of the Burke-O'Brien Shoe Company, 614 Felix street, was born in Lowell, Ind., Oct. 8, 1887. At the age of four years his parents brought him to St. Joseph and he was edu- cated in the Christian Brothers' Col- lege, graduating in 1904. Immediately following his graduation he became identified with the Cobb Shoe Com-
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pany, and left that firm in 1910 take an interest in and participate in the management of the Battreall- Burke Shoe Company. In 1914 he purchased the Holland Bootery, which is known now as the Burke-O'Brien Shoe Company. He was married in January, 1913, to Miss Gertrude Parry, and (ne son has been born of the union. Mr. Burke is at tnis writ-
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JOHN T. BURKE was born in Galla- tin, Mo. Dec. 1, 1888. Came with his parents to St. Joseph, Mo. in 1893. Made his initiatory entry into school here-finishing the primary grades of school and entering the Christian Brothers College. He graduated with high honors June, 1905. He then ac- cepted a position with the old reliable
JOHN T. BURKE
ing secretary of the Monroe Club, president of the Christian Brothers' College Alumni Association and presi- dent of the Columbus Club. He is also Deputy Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Burke is generally regarded as one of St. Joseph's leading young business men, and his record to date is considered an unusual one.
shoe concern of Holland & O'Brien Shoe Co. and shortly afterwards de- veloped into a retail shoe salesman of great ability. Remained in capacity of shoe salesman until 1914, when he with a brother opened a first-class shoe store in the heart of the retail business district.
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WILLIAM MUSE CAMPBELL, one of the leading physicians and sur- geons of St. Joseph Mo., was born in Robinson, Brown County, Kansas, March 17, 1873.
His father, t the Rev. William G.
of Western Pennsylvania.
Our subject was educated in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen, he began the study and practice of medicine and graduated from the Northwestern Medical Col-
WILLIAM MUSE CAMPBELL M. D.
Campbell, was a minister of the M. E. Church in Kansas -and a member of the Kansas Conference. He died in 1889. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Muse, and she was the daughter of Joseph Muse, a resident
lege of St. Joseph in 1893. He then engaged in practice at Fairview, Kan- sas, where he remained two years and obtained a large practice. He then left for Philadelphia, Penna., where he attended Jefferson Medical College,
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and while there was elected to the Chair of Physiology in Central Medi- cal College of St. Joseph.
He returned to St. Joseph, forming a partnership with his uncle, Dr. O. B. Campbell. In 1897 Dr. Campbell left St. Joseph and practiced his profes- sion in Sullivan County, Missouri for a couple of years. Returning to St. Joseph, he again took up the practice of his profession. His fame, both as a physician and surgeon, is wide-
present the fruition of her prophecies and his hopes.
Dr. Campbell was married in Decem- ber, 1913, to Miss Vera Marie Lechler, a daughter of Charles F. Lechler of this city.
JAMES N. NORRIS, JR., commis- sion merchant at 214 North Second street came from New Jersey, in which state he was born at Ridge- wood, May 23, 1886. At an early age
JAMES N. NORRIS, JR.
spread, and he is often called in con- sultation and to perform
difficult operations at distant points.
In his social life, Dr. Campbell is prominent in Masonic circles, and is a member of the Odd Fellows, Elks and a number of other fraternal orders.
In his early struggles he received every encouragement and sympathy from his mother, a woman remarkable for her energy and lofty ambition, for her nobility of purpose and strength of character, and he naturally feels proud when he sees in his successful
he went to New York City where he was educated. He is a son of J. N. Norris, the pioneer commission mer- chant in the poultry business who be- gan business in the early '70's. Mr. Norris came to St. Joseph in Febru- ary, 1912 and took charge of the house here. He has proven one of St. Joseph's most successful business men and well deserves the success he has attained. He has demonstrated that enterprise, coupled with push and energy, will succeed where per- functory activity will only end in disappointment.
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ELLIOT MARSHALL, the twenty- ninth mayor of the city of St. Joseph, Mo., was born in New York City on April 28, 1860. He was educated at the following military schools: West- chester County, New York and the Military Academy of St. John's at Sing Sing, New York, and finished up at Columbia University, leaving in his sophomore year to accept a place with the New York branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpo- ration, of Shanghai, China.
then has claimed St. Joseph as his home. He remained with the C. B. & Q. until 1908. He was assistant gen- eral freight and passenger agent of the Burlington at St. Joseph for eight years.
In 1911 President William Howard Taft appointed him Collector of the Port of St. Joseph, but in 1913 the Port of St. Joseph was closed and consequently he was legislated out of office.
Mr. Marshall has always taken a
ELLIOT MARSHALL
Mr. Marshall comes from the old Colonial stock of New York on his mother's side, she being a great granddaughter of Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence, and also a descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New York.
Mr. Marshall came west in 1881 with the C. B. & Q. Railroad in Bur- lington, Iowa. In 1883 he came to St. Joseph with the same road and since
keen interest in both civic and politi- cal affairs. In 1900 Mayor John Combe appointed him a member of the St. Joseph Library Board. In 1902 he was president of the St. Jo- seph Country Club. He was appointed in 1895 a major on the staff of Gov- ernor E. N. Morrill of Kansas, and in 1905 a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Governor E. W. Hoch of Kansas. At the time of these appoint- ments, Mr. Marshall was general
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agent for the C. B. & Q. at Leaven- worth, Kas. In 1911 Governor H. S. Hadley of Missouri appointed him a colonel on his staff.
He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, having been president of the St. Joseph Chapter in 1903; also Society of Colonial Wars and Hugue- not Society. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and a Republican in politics.
shall and Elliot Marshall Jr.
In April 1914, he was elected mayor of St. Joseph, defeating David E. Cur- tin, the Democratic nominee.
JUDGE CHARLES A. LOOMIS, jus- tice of the peace in the South Side, is a native of Buchanan County; was born September 10, 1878. He was educated in the common schools of
JUDGE CHARLES A. LOOMIS
In 1885 he married Miss Constance Blessing, daughter of the late Rever- end Doctor James F. Runcie, who for eighteen years was the Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in St. Jo- seph; and Constance Faunt LeRoy, who was the founder of the first Womans' Club in the United States. He has two children, Jean Dale Mar-
the county. He is a son of O. M. Loomis, a well known citizen of this community. In 1910 he was elected Justice of the Peace and was re- elected in 1914. He is now the oldest justice, in point of service, in the city. Fraternally his memberships are in the Knights of Pythias
and the Eagles.
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JOHN M. STAUBER could trace his ancestry back to John Christian Stau- ber, who was born near Frankfort on the Mayne, Germany, in 1690, and whose descendants emigrated to America in 1749, twenty-seven years before the Revolutionary war.
His father, Benjamin Stauber, was born in North Carolina, in 1796, and on reaching manhood he moved to
During his life he was an active Grand Army man, at his death being a mem- ber of Custer Post, G. A. R. No. 7, St. Joseph, Missouri. At the close of the war he came west and settled in Linn County, Missouri, living there until 1887, when he removed to St. Joseph, to engage in the retail drug business, which in 1892 was incorporated as Stauber Drug Company.
His parents were members of the
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Pennsylvania, where he married Elizabeth McCord, and to them were born thirteen children, John M. being their fourth child.
He was born in Bellefonte, Center County, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1830. He was married April 6, 1854, to Isabella H. McIntyre; the fruit of this union was seven children, six of whom still survive. At the age of fifteen years he entered the drug business and for sixteen years was established for himself in Lewistown, Pennsylva- nia. He served in the Federal army in the medical corps with the 36th and 205th Pennsylvania regiments.
Methodist Church, which he joined early in life and continued this re- lation to his death, for twenty-five years; he was a member of the St. Paul M. E. Church, of which he was a charter member.
He was a devoted husband, a kind father, a loyal helpful friend, and a kindly, courteous, broad-minded, gen- erous, genial, christian gentleman.
On August 5th, 1913, at the age of eighty-three years (83), three months (3) and twenty-six days (26), he de- parted this life in the confident hope of the resurrection of the just to im- mortal life.
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MRS. ELIZABETH MUSE CAMP- BELL was born in Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, August 28, 1845. She was the daughter of Joseph and Martha Wilson Muse. Her father was noted in musical circles in Western Penn- sylvania, and her mother was a woman of strong yet sweet character. Mrs. Campbell has always felt very grateful to her parents for the educa- tional advantages they gave her, for she was one of a large family, and it meant many sacrifices to them.
benefits of an education and she went resolutely to work to secure it for them. In four weeks from the time of her husbands death she was ap- pointed postmistress at Robinson, Kansas, serving six years to the satis- faction of all the patrons of the office. She wrote for the newspapers, and became known as a literary woman of ability. The titles of some of her short stories show a delicate and ar- tistic taste. "Lilacs" and "A Wild Rose" were published in the St. Jo-
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She was married to the Rev. W. G. Campbell of the Kansas Conference, Jan. 18, 1872, coming almost imme- diately to Kansas with her husband. Her life for the next seventeen years was much the same as all Methodist ministers' wives, having no abiding stay, and moving every two or three years.
The death of her husband in 1889 left her with a family of children and but scanty means, but she determined that her children should have the
seph Herald and "White Roses" in an Eastern publication. She then moved to Harris, Missouri, where she served another four years as postmistress, al- so keeping up her literary work.
Her home has been in St. Joseph since 1901. Mrs. Campbell is a woman of strong personality and high ideals. In 1904 she organized the X. X. M. D. Study Club in St. Joseph and has held it a strictly literary organization, she being president all these years, and it is now one of the
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leading women's clubs in the city. In 1913 she organized the Sheltering Arm's Circle, to work exclusively for the children of the Sheltering Arm's Home, and it is a great success. Mrs. Campbell believes in specializing work, claiming that more good is ac- complished in that way.
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