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WILLIAMS & TEE, 2017 St. Joseph avenue are prepared to furnish their friends and patrons coal and feed as well as ice, the year round. They have none but reliable wares to sell and do not ask any more than the price charged for inferior articles. They are in every way dependable and worthy of patronage.
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JOHN ALBUS was born Oct. 4, 1860 on a farm in Leavenworth County, Kansas a few miles from Fort Leaven- worth. With his parents he came to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1863. His educa- tion was limited to the grammar grades of our public schools.
He sold newspapers as a boy on the street corners and was a carrier on the "Old St. Joseph Gazette" when Eugene Field was the city editor. He was later connected with Ernst &
now a prominent member of the party. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him surveyor of customs at this port to succeed W. L. Buechle and in 1908 reappointed for another term. He re- mained in the office a total of nine years and three months. He was for thirteen years a stock holder and member of the Combe Printing Com- pany, having charge of the stationery department.
From 1891 to 1896 he served on the
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Brill in the book and stationmy busi- ness. For several years Fe was in partnership with Dr. A. V. Panes in the manufacture of special medicines.
In 1888 he was selected as a drie- gate to the National Republican Con- vention, which convention nominated General Benjamin Harrison as the Republican candidate for president and who defeated President Grover Cleveland in the November election. He has served on the Republican city, county, congressional and state com- mittees on diferent occasions and is
Board of Elluention. He is now located at 811 Edmond street, Moss Building, where he represents the St. Joseph Stock Yards Journal and the Daily Journal as advertising manager and also represents several fire insur- ance companies.
He resides at 728 North Twenty- second street. In lodge and other orders he belongs to the Masonic order, being a life member of Charity Lodge No. . 331, A. F. and A. M .; is a member Woodmen of the World, Elks Lodge No. 40, B. P. O. E., St. Joseph
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Press Club, The Ad Club, Knights and Ladies of Security, The Turnve'ein, German-American Alliance, Commerce Club, North West Missouri Press Association and the Lincoln Club.
C. T. M'QUINN, secretary and man- ager of the McQuinn Clothing Co., was born at Bloomington, Ill., Dec. 12, 1868. He attended the public and parochial schools of Bloomington un- til he was 19 years of age, when he
during the eight years he was con- nected with the company here, he in- creased that number to 5000, this be- ing the largest number of accounts held by any of the credit stores in the city.
In the spring of 1911 he entered business for himself under the name of the McQuinn Clothing Co. and in the same year he incorporated with his sisters, Annie McQuinn and Mary F. McQuinn. Notwithstanding that
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removed to Kansas City where he entered the wall paper and paint busi- ness which business he remained in until 1900 when he accepted a position with one of the large credit companies and in 1902 was sent to Leavenworth, Kas. as manager of the company's store, where he remained for one year and was transferred to St. Joseph in May, 1903.
When he came to St. Joseph the company had about 800 accounts and
the past four years have been very bad from a business standpoint, he has succeeded in building up a very large business and claims the honor of having more individual accounts on his books than any other concern in the city.
It has been said by a very promi- nent attorney, who expressed himself before a court, that of all the credit men in the city, Mr. McQuinn was king of them all.
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Mr. McQuinn has been very active in fraternal organizations, being state treasurer for four years of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, faithful naviga- tor of the St. Joseph assembly Knights of Columbus, delegate to the state convention at St. Louis of the Catholic Knights of America and also a member of the Columbus Club and Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. McQuinn resides at 2717 Renick street and besides his wife there are
and came to America in 1885. He went first to California and located in Marysville. He stayed there four years and in 1889 came to St. Joseph and opened his present place of busi- ness. He was elected a member of the city council in 1906 and again in 1910, serving six years in all. He built the Hickory theater, a two-story brick building, in 1914. It is one of the finest buildings in the southern part of the city and the place has en-
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two children, Miss Marie, who is a graduate of the Cathedral High School and also of the Normal, and at pres- ent a teacher at Hosea School. Miss Margaret is a student at the Sacred Heart Academy.
JOHN EGLI, dealer in meats and provisions, at 2310 South Eleventh street, is a native of Switzerland, in which country he was born in 1867. He was educated in his native country
joyed a good patronage from the first.
G. D. SHAFFER, plumber and gas fitter, 1018 Frederick avenue, is one of the newer men in business in St. Joseph, and has already given evi- dence of his ability to hold his own against the fiercest competition. He is a practical man in his line, a good workman and insists that every piece of work turned out shall bear the stamp of quality.
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E. F. HARTWIG-The wholesale liquor house of E. F. Hartwig, 212 South Third, is known all over the west as one of the leaders in that line of business and the name has come to be a synonym for merit. For: per- sonal integrity and sterling worth no man stands higher than Ernst F. Hartwig, a position which he has at- tained by many years of business ex-
remarkable success. In 1887 Major Hartwig, who had meantime served as mayor of St. Joseph, retired, and since then the business has been con- ducted by Mr. E. F. Hartwig, and is accompanied by the same success that marked the career of the original firm. Mr. Hartwig was born in the Province of Hessen, Germany, where he was trained in the grocery busi-
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perience, in which his motto has al- ways been fair dealing. This house was originally founded in 1864 by Maj. H. R. W. Hartwig, brother of E. F. Hartwig, the latter becoming a mem- ber of the firm of H. R. W. Hartwig & Co. in 1869, and this firm, by the exercise of strict business integrity and unbounded energy, forged steadily and rapidly to the front and achieved
ness. In 1862 he came to America and was bookkeeper in the dry goods house of Stix, Eckhart & Co. of St. Joseph for seven years prior to join- ing his brother in the business which he now conducts, and which he has brought to the high standing it now occupies in the business world. Mr. Hartwig was married March 18, 1868, to Miss Emma Friedrich, and the have had five children.
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HENRY O. HARTWIG, 212 Southonly those whose memory is good can Third street, associated with his remember when it first began busi- ness. There is a reason for the long continued prosperity of this store. It is due to the straight-forward, fair and impartial treatment the trade has received from the first day this store opened. The indications are that the same policy will make possible the continuance of good business at this stand for many years to come. father, Ernest F. Hartwig, in the wholesale liquor business, is a native of Missouri. He was born in St. Jo- seph November 5, 1868. He received his education in the schools of the city. He entered the business house of his father in 1886 in the capacity of bookkeeper. He is now manager
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of the house.and has been a potential factor in its success.
He was married to Marie Louise Wenz, a daughter of Fred Wenz, June 20, 1897. They have two children, Caroline E. E., fifteen, and Elizabeth, nine years old. Fraternally Mr. Hart- wig is a Mason.
SCHENEKER'S DRUG STORE at the corner of Third and Franklin streets has been there so long that
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JOHN BERGEN, whose bakery is at 1608 Frederick avenue, appeals to the buying public as a man who keeps his goods in first-class condition and sells them at right prices. This in- spires confidence and confidence means more and better business. Mr. Bergen is developing an excellent trade by treating his patrons right and he deserves the success he has. attained.
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EUGENE AYRES, son of Reuben and Maria S. Ayres, was born near New Brunswick, New Jersey, Nov. 15, 1843 and is of Scotch-English ances- try. In early boyhood his parents re- moved to New York City. He grad- uated from the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute in that city in 1860. He then entered Rutgers Col- lege at New Brunswick, N. J., and later studied law in the offices of Col.
Susan Morton of Bordentown, N. J., were united in marriage December 18, 1867, Mrs. Ayres being a graduate of the Bordentown Female College. They have two sons, Clarence Morton Ayres, who is a civil engineer residing in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Eugene Bruce Ayres residing at Hartford, Conn .; their only daughter, Helen May, died in early girlhood. All the family is connected with the Protest- ant Episcopal Church. Mr. Ayres is
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Garrett S. Cannon at Bordentown, N. J. and attended lectures in the Philadelphia Law School. He was ad- mitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor in chancery by the Supreme Court of New Jersey at Trenton, Nov. 9, 1865, and settled in St. Joseph in May, 1866, being admitted to practice in this state by the late Judge Wm. Heren. Mr. Ayres and Miss Margaret R. Morton, daughter of Jacob and
also a member of two fraternal organi- zations, the Delta Kappa Ejsilon with which he became connected in college, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Missouri. Mr. Ayres ranks as the leading lawyer in Saint Joseph in Government practice: he is registered in the United States Patent Office and for many years has given large attention to the prosecution of Patent applications in both the United States and Foreign countries, as also
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to claims in the Pension Bureau.
In politics Mr. Ayers is independ- ent, although for many years he has been favorable to prohibition and a few years since was the nominee of the Prohibition Party for Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
DR. FRANK X. HARTIGAN was born in Horton, Kas., in 1888 and moved to St. Joseph in 1895 and re- ceived his education in the public
Dr. Hartigan has been practicing medicine and surgery in St. Joseph since his return and for two years taught anatomy at Ensworth Medical College and has been chief anaesthet- ist at St. Joseph's Hospital for three years.
He is a member of the Buchanan County and State societies and is . secretary of the Academy of Surgery.
His office is at 71012 Felix street.
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schools and graduated from Christian Brothers College in 1906. In the fail of 1906 he entered Ensworth Medical College and graduated in 1910. Imme- diately he received the appointment of house physician and surgeon at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, which position he occupied until June, 1911, then received appointment as house physician in St. Ann's Maternity Hospital and Infant Asy- lum in Cleveland, Ohio.
DAVID L. LITTLE, while a com- parative new comer in the business world in this part of the city, has been at 1503 North Third street a sufficient length of time to become permanently established. He carries a line of the choicest groceries that can be pro- cured anywhere and he sells them at the lowest possible prices consistent with good merchandising. His meth- ods are such that his popularity is bound to increase.
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ORVILLE M. SHANKLIN, attorney at law, was a son of Col. John H. Shanklin, of Trenton, Mo. Was born at Trenton September 16, 1854, reared in his native city, whose public schools supplied his education, and after studying in his fathers office,
cuting attorney. In 1902 Mr. Shank- lin came to St. Joseph, and has since been in the active practice of law, making a specialty of real estate and probate practice, and is now title ex- aminer for the Bartlett Bros. Land & Loan Company, as well as in the gen- eral practice of those branches of law.
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was admitted to practice by Judge Burgess, in the Circuit Court at Tren- ton in January, 1877, and began the practice of law at Jamesport in Daviess County, Mo., and after a short residence there returned to his na- tive town. While at Trenton he also held the offices of city attorney, jus- tice of the peace, and assistant prose-
September 19, 1877, he married Miss Dora A. Newton, who was born in Grundy County, a daughter of Obediah G. and Mary G. Newton. Five child- ren were born of this marriage, the two now living are John H. and Mary. John H. married Ruth Peterson and resides with his father. Marry mar- ried Samuel Z. Weaver, and they re-
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side at Toronto, Ontario, Dominion of Canada, Mr. Weaver being head of a department of Swift's Canadian Com- pany. Mr. Shanklin was reared in the Christian Church, while his wife is a member of the Huffman Metho- dist Episcopal Church. He has always been active in fraternal affairs; he joined Adelphia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Trenton in 1885, and is now a member of Golden Cross Lodge No. 143, of which he served as chan-
1956. He attended the schools of his native city and came to St. Joseph in 1881. He engaged in the hardware business with Sanders & McDonald on Fourth street between Edmond and Charles streets, where he remained two years. In 1884 he went with the R. H. Jordan Hardware Company on Fourth street between Felix and Ed- mond streets. He was with this firm
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cellor three successive years, and has served as outer and inner guard and master-at-arms in the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He is also a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Woodmen's Circle, and the Sons of Veterans.
JACOB B. DAVIS, manager of the Curtin & Clark Hardware Company's business at 209-211 South Sixth street, was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, July 3,
nineteen years and became one of the leading men of the concern. In 1903 h accepted the position of manager of the Curtin & Clark Hardware Com- pany, and after twelve years of ser- vice seems good for as many more. He was married to Miss Josseta Rich- ards of St. Joseph, April 1884. They have three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Davis is a Mason and Odd Fellow.
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LUCIAN J. EASTIN, one of the prominent lawyers and a leader of his profession in the St. Joseph bar, is properly mentioned, even though somewhat briefly, in a work of the nature and purpose of this publication. His legal activities, for the most part, since he launched out into the prac- tice of his profession, have been car- ried on in Buchanan County, and he is widely and favorably known here- abouts.
Mr. Eastin has been active as an Odd Fellow, has been grand master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, and has since 1908 represented that body in the Sovereign Grand Lodge, of which he is an active member.
On October 4, 1904, Miss Janet Strong, a daughter of Col. James W. Strong, became the wife of Mr. Eastin. Mr. and Mrs. Eastin have one son, Robert Strong Eastin, and the family home is at No. 202 South Twentieth street.
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He was born in Clay County, Mis- souri, on July 12, 1868. He grad- uated from the law department of the University of Michigan, in 1894, and came direct to St. Joseph and began practice, and he has since been occu- pied in legal work in the city and county.
In November, 1908, he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of Bu- chanan County, and he served from January 1, 1909, to January 1, 1911, when he resigned to return to the practice.
HENRY W. McCOOL is a native of Kentucky and was born in Louisville April 5, 1875. He came to St. Joseph in 1899. He was appointed to a posi- tion on the St. Joseph Fire Depart- ment in 1906. He has been in the employ of the city in this capacity for seven years. He was married to Miss Ida West of Lyons, Kans., in 1903. Their family consists of one son. Mr. McCool is one of St. Jo- seph's most highly respected and honored citizens.
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WILLIAM E. SPRATT, a prominent and old-established real estate man of St. Joseph, has been identified with this city in a successful and public spirited manner for many years, and is numbered among the citizens who have been instrumental in helping to promote many projects for the up- building and progress of the com- munity. Mr. Spratt has the distinct- tion of being the third Democratic
ette County, in 1867. Deprived of his mother when he was two years old, caused the placing of William E. Spratt in the home of his grand-par- ents at St. Joseph, where he spent the first nine years of his life, and from 1876 he lived for several years in his father's home at Hamilton. He was sent away to school, and altogether was absent from St. Joseph for a period of eleven years. In 1886, hav- ing graduated from the St. James
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candidate elected to the office of mayor of St. Joseph in a period of twenty-two years. His real estate at business conducted 213 North Seventh street has really been in con- tinuous existence ever since the close of th Civil war, having been founded by the late Col. John F. Tyler, his uncle, and continued as Tyler & Co., until 1911.
William E. Spratt is a native Mis. sourian, born at Lexington, in Lafay.
Military Academy at Macon City, Mr. Spratt returned to St. Joseph, and in the spring of the following year en- gaged in the real estate business with his uncle, Col. John F. Tyler, who had been both a lawyer and real estate man of St. Joseph since the close of the Civil war. In 1887 the firm be- came John F. Tyler & Company, and to the large and growing real estate interests of the firm Mr. Spratt gave his undivided attention. At Colonel
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Tyler's death, in 1911, the firm name was changed to W. E. Spratt.
In 1902, Mr. Spratt was first candi- date for the office of mayor on the Democratic ticket. His defeat was accomplished by only eight votes al- though the city was normally between six and eight hundred Republican. This was a high personal tribute to Mr. Spratt's popularity and ability. and in 1904, having been renominated by his party by acclamation, he was
and societies. In 1890 Mr. Spratt married Effie L. Cowgill, who was born in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Spratt are the parents of three children: Tyler, who died in infancy; Elliot Cowgill Spratt, and Leah Spratt.
JOHN M. CRAWFORD, chief deputy in the county assessor's of- fice, was born in St. Joseph April 8, 1870. He was educated in the Chris- tian Brothers College, from which in-
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triumphant by eight hundred major- ity, and as already stated, was one of the few Democratic mayors in a period of more than twenty-two years. Mr. Spratt is a director of the Audi- torium Association, and has identified himself in a public spirited manner with every organization and measure for the benefit of his home city. His fraternal affiliations are with the Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, and other lodges
stitution he was graduated in 1883. In 1896 he was a deputy in the county collector's office under E. J. Breen. He went into the assessor's office in the fall of 1898 and has been identi- fied with this office ever since. For seventeen years Mr. Crawford has made up the tax books for the county and has frequently been called upon to assist in this work at the city hall. He was married to Miss Loretta Ly- saght of St. Joseph January 24, 1914.
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WALTER W. HEAD-As cashier of the German-American National Bank of St. Joseph, Walter W. Head is reckoned among the rising young bankers of Northwest Missouri, as well as one of the most enterprising and valuable citizens the city claims today. He was born at Adrian, Han- cock County, Illinois, on December 10, 1877, and is the son of Alfred W. and Margaret (Lambert) Head. The
County and was graduated therefrom in 1894, with the highest honors of his class. He then entered Stanberry Normal School, and in 1897 was grad- uated. During the five years that fol- lowed he was engaged in teaching in the schools of DeKalb and Buchanan Counties, and during the last year of his pedagogic work he was principal - of the DeKalb public schools. While teaching, Mr. Head took a very promi- nent part in the work of Teachers In-
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father was a man of Scotch and Ger- man descent, while the mother comes of English parentage, her family hav- ing long been established in Lan- cashire, England. In 1885 the parents of the subject came to Missouri, set- tled in DeKalb County, and there they have continued to reside. They are now living retired after active lives devoted to the farming industry.
Walter W. Head had his early edu- cation in the schools of DeKalb
stitute, and instructed institutes in the years 1900 and 1901. One of them was in DeKalb and the other was in Buchanan County, and each of them was attended by a hundred teachers of the respective counties. His edu- cational work was of a high order and gained much praise for him during the brief space he devoted to it. Had he elected to continue in the teaching profession, it is more than probable that he would have reached a high
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place in educational circles as the exponent of public school instruction, but he chose another field for the exercise of his talents.
In 1903 Mr. Head served for ten months as receiving teller in the German-American National Bank of St. Joseph, that service being pre- liminary to his acceptance of the post of cashier of the DeKalb State Bank of DeKalb, Missouri, a new organiza- tion that entered upon its business career August 21, 1904, and to which he had been elected cashier despite the fact of his very limited banking experience.
In June, 1906, Mr. Head resigned his position as cashier of the DeKalb State Bank, having been appointed by Honorable John E. Swanger, secre- tary of the state of Missouri, to the office of bank examiner for a term of four years. In June, 1908, he re- signed the office of bank examiner to accept the position of cashier of the German-American National Bank of St. Joseph, which position he still holds.
He is at the present time chairman of the agricultural committee of the Missouri Bankers Association, serving his second year as such. Is also chairman of the executive committee of the Third Annual Agricultural and Industrial Congress, which meetings are held in the St. Joseph Auditorium in December each year. Is also presi- dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of St. Joseph.
Other banking connections of Mr. Head's are the vice-presidency of the Drovers and Merchants Bank of St. Joseph and a number of smaller banks throughout the state, which claim his attention as stockholder or official, or both. He is vice-president of the St. Joseph Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Head is a member of the Re- publican state committee. He attends the First Christian Church of St. Jo- seph and is prominently identified with numerous fraternal and purely social orders. The Masonic fraternity claims his as a member in many of its bodies and he has held offices in practically all of them. He is past master of DeKalb Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M .; past high priest of Ringo Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons; member of Hugh De Payens Com- mandery No. 51, Knights Templars; past potentate of Moila Temple, An-
cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; member of St. Jo- seph Council No. 9, Royal and Select Masters; member of all the Scottish Rite bodies and a member of St. Jo- seph Consistory No. 4, A. A. S. R., of Thirty-second Degree Masons. He is past noble grand of DeKalb Lodge No. 191, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; past consul of DeKalb Camp No. 5256, Modern Woodmen of America; member of Charity Camp No. 220, Knights of Pythias; member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks No. 40, of St. Joseph, and a life mem- ber of St. Joseph Lodge No. 315, Loyal Order of Moose. Those organizations of St. Joseph of a purely social na- ture with which he is identified are the St. Joseph Country Club, the Highland Golf and Country Club of St. Joseph, the Benton Club of St. Joseph, and the St. Joseph Automobile Club. He is also a member of the St. Joseph Commerce Club, was elected presi- dent of the club in December, .1913, but owing to an injury of the knee, sustained from an accident, could not serve; and he was president of the St. Joseph Interstate Fair Association . in 1913 and 1914. In all of these clubs and societies he is popular and prominent, and he has a wider circle of friends in the city than perhaps any other man who might be men- tioned by reason of his many sterling traits of character, his genial good fel- lowship, and his hearty and whole- some interest in all matters that make for the betterment of local conditions along whatever lines.
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