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Fraternally he is an Elk and holds memberships in the Commerce Club and the Country Club. He served as president of the St. Joseph Clearing House in 1913, and is now president of the St. Joseph Credit Men's Associa- tion and a director in the Y. M. C. A.
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WILLIAM L. PATRICK, at 420 South Sixth Street, is a native of Mis- souri. He was born in Oregon, Holt County, February 13, 1865. At the age of thirteen he went west, locating in Nemeha County, Nebraska, where he received his education. He came to St. Joseph in December, 1899. He en- tered the employ of Graham, Lake & Stringfellow, as machinist, and re- mained with them seven years. In 1896 he went with the Hudnut Mill-
for many years general manager of the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Company. He was born in St. Joseph August 11, 1845, and died here in No- vember, 1911. He was the son of Hon. Joseph J. and Emily M. (Gooding) Wyatt.
Mr. Wyatt received his educational training in the public schools of St. Joseph, and in 1860, embarked in busi- ness. In 1875 he became a member of the firm of Townsend & Wyatt, which
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ing Company, remaining one year. In 1897 he began business on his own account.
Mr. Patrick holds membership cards in the K. of P., Eagles, Moose and Red Men. He was married to Miss Clara Ramsey of Johnson, Neb., in 1889. They have four children, three daughters and a son.
JOHN CAVAN WYATT, a promi- nent and successful business man, was
in 1890 was reorganized as the Town- send & Wyatt Dry Goods Company, and has since been changed to the Townsend, Wyatt & Wall Dry Goods Company. This establishment is classed with the great department stores of Missouri. It was to the wise manage- ment of Mr. Wyatt that much of its development was due. His ability as a business man was universally recog- nized and honest business methods
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gained for him the highest respect of the people. He served as a member of the Board of Education and the City Council, was a trustee in the Y. M. C. A., president of the Robidoux Building and Loan Association and president of the Mt. Mora Cemetery Association. He was an active member of the First Christian Church and served faithfully as a member of its board of trustees.
Mr. Wyatt was married to Miss Kate
was educated in Georgetown Univer- sity, where he studied for the priest- hood. He studied law in the office of Judge Edwards and his brother, James Moran.
He came to St. Joseph in 1880 and plunged at once into the thick of poli- tics and law. He was elected to the state senate in 1887. After serving four years he retired voluntarily, re- fusing to make the race again. He
MICHAEL G. MORAN
Girrard, in 1875, in Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Wyatt died in St. Joseph in 1889.
MICHAEL G. MORAN, for years a noted figure in the public life of St. Joseph, and a lawyer and politician with a fame that was almost nation wide, was born in Berlin, Wisconsin, January 5, 1858, and died in St. Jo- seph, August 30, 1915.
Senator Moran came with his par- ents to Nodaway County in 1869. He
ran for the Democratic nomination fol congress twice, but was defeated While in the state legislature he was the author of the law creating the metropolitan police system. He was an active figure in the campaign wher the present city charter was adopted and in the only recall election evel attempted in St. Joseph, when an ef fort was made to recall Mayor Pfeiffer
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LEE C. BROOM, proprietor of Lee Broom's Restaurant at 420 Francis Street, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, November 9, 1879. At the age of two years he came west with his parents, locating in Topeka, Kans., where he was educated. He has engaged in the restaurant business since the age of fifteen years. His first position was that of bell boy at the Benton Club. Before coming to St. Joseph the sec- ond time he was superintendent of
Shelbyville, Ill., in 1901. They have one child, a son.
CELSUS C. CALVERT, city editor of the News-Press, was born on a farm near Weston, Mo., Feb. 25, 1862. His father, James M. Calvert, and an uncle, were the proprietors of the St. George Hotel at Weston, one of the famous hostelries of Missouri river steamboating days. His father after- ward conducted the old Virginia House in Platte City, and in 1871 the
LEE C. BROOM
he eating houses on the Gould Sys- em of the Iron Mountain and Mis- souri Pacific railroads. Mr. Broom first came to St. Joseph when fourteen years old. His first position was that of day clerk at the Benton Club. He hen went to Kansas City and was superintendent of service at the Kan- sas City Club. Later he opened the University Club in that city, where he remained until he went with the Gould System. He returned to St. Joseph rand was married to Miss Sylvin of
family removed to Atchison, Kans. When he was sixteen years old Celsus Calvert entered upon a newspaper ca- reer, starting as city circulator of the Atchison Patriot, a Democratic after- noon daily published by H. Clay Park and Thomas J. Stivers. Displaying a fondness for news gathering and writing, he soon was made a reporter. After two years of newspaper experi- ence, he entered the Atchison postof- fice as register clerk. Two years later, although of pronounced Demo-
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cratic ancestry, friendship with the late Senator John James Ingalls of Atchison obtained for him an appoint- ment as railway postal clerk on the old Atchison & Nebraska (Burling- ton) road, between Atchison and Co- lumbus, Neb. Although he was not of age, Calvert enjoyed the distinc- tion of being the only person of Dem- ocratic antecedents in the mail service in Kansas-possibly in the United States-for it was fashionable at that
covered the Thirty-fifth Missouri Gen- eral Assembly, in 1891, for the paper, when Colonel Cochran was serving his first session as state senator from Bu- chanan County. In August, 1891, he went to the St. Joseph Daily News, of which C. M. Shultz was publisher and, with the exception of one year spent in the south as a representative of the Illinois Central Railroad Com. .. be pany, has been employed by the Daily News and the News-Press as reporter
DR. E. A. GUMMIG
time to appoint only tried and true Republicans to these much-coveted po- sitions. But the newspaper instinct asserted itself and he resigned after two years on the road to return to the Patriot as city editor. In May, 1888, he was offered a position as reporter on the St. Joseph Gazette, by the late Col. C. F. Cochran, who was publishing that newspaper then, and who had known Calvert as a boy in Atchison. Calvert worked for the Gazette some- thing more than three years, having
or city editor continuously ever since He was married June 10, 1895, to Mis ba Emma K. Gates of St. Joseph, and onffed Ted C child was born to them, which die in infancy.
DR. E. A. GUMMIG, room 121 nd Corby-Forsee building, was born ay Wathena, Doniphan County, Kansas a September 14, 1883. He attended the schools of Wathena and graduate am from the Wathena high school in 190 et and graduated from the St. Josep Business University in 1905. In 191 21
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n.he entered the Ensworth Medical Col- rege and graduated therefrom April is0, 1914. He was interne in the Ens- u-vorth Hospital from March 1, 1913, to heMarch 1, 1914, as junior, from the lat- ser date until March 1, 1915, as senior. rAfter graduating, he commenced prac- aricing, and the future looks bright for re im. His lodge memberships are in m he Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the ly. Vorld. He is a member of the Bu-
of employment to take up the surplus energy with which all ambitious boys are endowed. He decided that the street railway company offered ex- cellent advantages and in 1902 became connected with the company in the capacity of clerk. That he was not mistaken in his decision that there was a chance for advancement in the company's service is evident from the fact that in a few years he had been
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anan County and the Missouri State edical Societies and the American edical Association. P CHARLES E. FOSTER, secretary d treasurer of the St. Joseph Rail- 1
jay, Light, Heat & Power Company. a native Missourian. He was born Chillicothe, February 20, 1877. He me with his parents to St. Joseph in 89 and here his education was com- eted. When he had finished school began casting about for some form
promoted to the post of assistant sec- retary-treasurer and in 1913 was made the head of this important department. Mr. Foster was married to Miss Anna Sims, of Platte city, in 1899. One son, Charles E. Jr., has been born to them. Fraternally he is an Elk and a Mason. He is a member of the Patee Park Baptist church. He is the son of W. T. Foster whose reliable weather fore- casts have made him famous.
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WALTER H. ROBINSON, comes from an old and prominent family of Virginia. He was born in Rappahan- nock County, March 4, 1862, and traces his lineage back to one of the best families in Scotland. He received his early education in the rural schools and also attended Flint Hill Academy.
in the automobile business, making a remarkable success of that venture. Mr. Robinson was married to Miss Ida L. Yocum in 1890. They are the parents of two sons, Kenneth and Ed -! win Bryan. Mr. Robinson was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Po- lice Commissioners by Governor!
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He began teaching school at eighteen and in 1881 came to St. Joseph. He first engaged as a salesman for the Brady Carpet Company and advanced to the position of manager. Later he and his brother, benjamin C. Robin- son, succeeded to une business. Mr. Robinson sold out in 1909 and engaged
Stephens and reappointed by Governo Dockery. He has served two term as president of the Monroe Club and at the present time is a very promising candidate for the Democratic nomina. tion for Mayor of St. Joseph. Frater. nally he is a Mason, K. of P. and an Elk.
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ADOLPH GOERMAN, vice-president of the Sturgess, Ellingwood & Goer- man Dry Goods Co., is a native of Ger- many. He was born in Ham province, Westphalia, May 30, 1861. He was educated in Germany and served an apprenticeship in the mercantile busi-
r ness in that country. He came to America in November, 1881, coming di- rect to St. Joseph. He started with the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Company, January 4, 1882, with which
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SOLOMON LEONARD, a pioneer judge of the circuit in which Buchan- an County was located, was born in Ohio in 1811 and was one of the early settlers in Platte County. He was first a school teacher and then a law- yer and farmer in Platte County. In 1843 the state of Missouri was en- titled to 500,000 acres of public land, and our subject was one of the com- missioners to select this land. Subse-
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concern he remained twenty-four years ind three months. He worked himself ıp from cash boy to stockholder in this company in a period of eight rears. In 1906 he became identified with his present company. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Wildberger of St. Joseph in 1888. They have one c ... d, a daughter. Mr. Goerman is a member of the Odd Fellows, Elks and
quently he located in Buchanan Coun- ty, a few miles east of St. Joseph. In 1845 he was appopinted judge of the circuit court upon the resignation of Henderson Young, and served until 1852. He then formed a law partner- ship with Bela M. Hughes. In Octo- ber of 1861 he was drowned near Fort Gibson, I. T., while journeying on horseback to Texas.
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DR. L. S. LONG, the subject of this sketch, was born in Longswamp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1871. Educated in the grammar schools of the township, attended the Keystone State Normal school at Kutztown, Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pa., University of Pennsylvania, and grad- uated in medicine and surgery at Baltimore Medical College in 1892. Came to St. Joseph and associated with an uncle, Dr. A. S. Long, a pio-
Chicago Post Graduate Medical School, Laboratory of Dr. Zeit, New York Post Graduate, New York Lying-in Hos- pital. Served as president of the Rochester Surgical Club in 1913. AS- sistant City Health Officer of St. Jo- seph 1897-98. Member of Mystic Shrine, York Rite and Scottish Rite Masonry.
CHARLES J. L. MAY, who has been engaged in newspaper work in St. Jo-
DR. L. S. LONG
neer physician of St. Joseph, who de- voted most of his talents to the sub- ject of orficial surgery and rectal dis- eases. Married to Meta Bode, 1898. Two children, Eleanor and Mildred Long. Office 822 Edmond. President Zions Evangelical German Church, trustees 1914-1916. Member of Ameri- can Medical Association, Missouri State Medical Association, St. Joseph- Buchanan Medical Society. Dr. Long has attended post-graduate courses at
seph a number of years, was born in Brunswick, Mo., July 28, 1874, and has been a resident of Missouri all his life. He was married to Miss Mary Albright of Kansas City, Kans., April 2, 1902. Five children were born, Frederick W., Elmer Lawrence, Alice Nona, Elizabeth H., and Carl Grogg May. Alice died in her eighth year. The others survive. May attended the public school of St. Joseph and is a graduate of Central high school.
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CAVAN G. WYATT, of the Wyatt Fuel Company is a native of Missouri. He was born in Boone County, on the Bill Anderson battlefield, September 14, 1877. He came with his parents, Cavan Wyatt and wife, to St. Joseph when a. child. He was educated in the schools of St. Joseph and immeLiately after leaving school, took up the active atrairs of business and has been un- commonly successful. He was with the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods
daughters. Mr. Wyatt is a member of the First Christian church.
HON. CHARLES F. COCHRAN, member of congress from the Fourth District from 1896 to 1904, was born in Kirksville, Mo., September 27, 1848. The family moved to Lancaster and. Weston, Mo., and Atchison, Kan., be- fore our subject grew to manhood. In · each of these points he attended the public schools and then learned the printers' trade. He continued to be
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Company for nineteen years and par- ticipated in the growth and develop- ment of the business during that time. In 1911 he disposed of his interests there and engaged in the fuel business, taking charge of the Wyatt Fuel Com- pany, 721-723 South Eight Street, and has been doing an excellent business ever since. He was married to Miss Catherine Hartwig, daughter of Ernest F. Hartwig, in 1901. They have an in- teresting family of two children, both
interested in newspaper work, as com- positor or editor, until 1872, when he was elected justice of the peace in Atchison. He had spent his spare time studying law. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Atchison County; Kansas, in 1884, and served two terms. He early became inter- ested in politics and espoused the cause of democracy with much zeal and fervor. He soon became known as one of the hardest-working Demo-
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crats in this section, and later, when he was sent to congress, he jumped at once into national prominence be- cause of his exceptional ability as a debater and because of his compre- hensive knowledge of public affairs. He became part owner and manager of the St. Joseph Gazette in 1886 and continued to direct its policy until 1896 when he was first elected to con- gress. He was elected to the state senate in 1890 and served four years.
of that city. In 1895 he embarked in the furniture business in Marion, which business he continued with suc- cess for fourteen years. He came to St. Joseph in 1908 and. opened the store which he is still' conducting. His success here has been due to his painstaking efforts, a determinatien ' to please every customer and to the strict adherence to sound .business principles. He was married to Miss Francis E. King of Canada, in 1900.
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Congressman Cochran was married to Miss Louisa M. Webb in 1874. They reared one son, Charles W., who is still a resident of St. Joseph. Con- gressman Conchran died in this city in 1906.
SWAYZE A. LYON, proprietor of the Lyon Furniture Company, Seventh and Charles Streets, is a native of In- diana. He was born in Loogootee, August 28, 1872. When yet an infant his parents moved to Marion, Ohio, where he was educated in the schools
Fraternally he is an Elk. Religiously he is a member of the Francis Street Methodist church.
CHARLES F. KLIPHARDT, pastor of First Church of the Evangelical Association, Sixteenth and. Locust streets, was born at Wallace, Ontario, Dominion of Canada, May 11, 1878. At- the age of nine he moved with his parents to Kansas, where he attended grade and high schools at Leaven- worth, Peabody and Holton He grad- uated from Northwestern :... College,
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Napierville; Ill., in 1904, since which spot where the Metropole Hotel now time he has served as pastor of dif- stands. His father, Prestor T, Moss, ferent churches in Kansas and, Mis- souri. He was appointed to St. Joseph in 1914. Rev. Kliphardt served many years as secretary of the Kansas Con- ference Missionary Society, an. organ- was a. Kentuckian; his mother (Sus- an Henry Beattie) was from Virginia. Mr. Moss has been engaged in the lumber business for many years and is a member of the Dougherty & Moss Lumber Company at Tenth Street and Mitchell Avenue. He was married in 1891 to Miss Mary Wood Leach, daughter of Lewis and Ellen J. W. Leach of St. Joseph; one girl, Cather-
ization carrying on extended work throughout Missouri, Kansas, Okla- homa and Colorado .; He did editorial work on the first volume of the His- tory of the Kansas Conference, pub-
JAMES B. FARBER
lished in 1915, and has been honored by his conference with appointment on some of. her most important com- mittees. For two years he was treas- urer and. a member of the executive, committee of the Kansas Conference Branch young people's organization of his church. He was married July 17, 1906, to Miss Lydia Abbuehl of Valley Falls, Kansas, and has one child, An- netta Kliphardt ..: :
ine Corby, and one boy, Preston Leach, were born of this union.
JAMES B. FARBER, seed dealer, at 725 South Fourth Street, is a native of Iowa. He was born in Chariton, September 16, 1856. He was educated in the schools of the town of his birth and .came to St. Joseph in 1883. He engaged in the implement and seed business, the firm being known as Chesmore & Farber. He is now in the JOSIAH BEATTIE MOSS, lumber -. seed business exclusively. He was man, was born in St. Joseph on the. married to Miss Alice Ashford of St.
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Joseph. They have one son, Reuel A. Farber, age 18, whose halftone appears on this page. Fraternally Mr. Far- ber belongs to the Knights of Pythias.
AUGUSTUS W. HORN, former city assessor and until recently a member of the board of public works, was born in St. Joseph in 1854 and is the son of the late John A. and A. L. (Horning) Horn. In 1870 Mr. Horn went to Kansas City, where he ac- cepted a clerkship in a grocery store
subject of our sketch in 1890, and placed upon the market. It represents a considerable portion of the south- eastern part of the city and much of the growth of that part of St. Joseph is due to his development efforts. He was first elected to the city legislative body in 1900. Later he served eight years as City Assessor and was ap- pointed member of the Board of Pub- lic Works in the spring of 1915. This office he resigned eight months later
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and engaged in the clothing business a few years later. After thirteen years in this line he embarked in the grain and commission business, dealing also in real estate, and was recognized as a shrewd, reliable and - leading busi- ness man of Kansas City. He returned to St. Joseph in 1892, as he had been · made the executor of his father's es- tate. That part of the city known as "Horn Heights" was platted by the
on account of failing health. Frater- nally Mr. Horn is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order of United Work- men. Mr. Horn was married to Miss Lillie E. Bruce of Kansas City, who died a few years ago. One son, John A., lives in Omaha, where he has an important position with Swift & Com- pany.
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DR. WILLIAM W. WALKER, whose offices are in rooms 10, 11 and 12 of the Commercial Building. Sixth and Edmond Streets, was born in Marion County, Illinois, June 29, 1861. HG was educated in the common schools of Charleston, Ill., and later entered the Chiropractic School of Oklahoma City, from which institution he was graduated in 1908. After graduation he began practicing in Lincoln, Neb., where he remained six years. In 1914
was graduated from Coe College, Ce- dar Rapids, Iowa, in 1908, and after teaching two years in Earlham Acad- emy, Earlham, Iowa, entered the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Omaha, Nebr., where he graduated in 1913, and came to St. Joseph, Mo., as pastor of the Third Street Presby- terian church. He is now on a leave of absence from his church, taking work preparatory to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.
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he came to St. Joseph and opened his present offices. He was married to Miss Mattie McCracken, of Oklahoma City, in 1895. They have a family of five daughters. .He is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, and the Brotherhood of . Locomotive Firemen. REV. E. J. NICKERSON, Presby- terian clergyman, pursuing post-grad- uate study in the Princeton Theologi- cal Seminary at Princeton, N. J., was born at: Inman, Nebr., August 12, 1884. His boyhood days were spent in vari- ous towns in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa, completing the high school course at Malvern, Iowa, in 1903. He
DICK KLEINBRODT. - There are few men in the city better known among the good fellows than Dick Kleinbrodt. His buffet, the Sterling, at 416 Francis Street, is headquarters for those who care. It has a reputa- tion for selling none but first-class goods, and the patronage it enjoys is proof positive that Mr. Kleinbrodt's methods are correct. Few men in the city have a larger circle of warm friends than he, and once a man be- comes a friend of Dick Kleinbrodt he never has occasion to regret it. Mr. Kleinbrodt has the finest collection of deer, elk and buffalo heads in the city,
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which adds very materially to the at- tractiveness of his place and helps make it more homelike. ..
ORRILLIS E. SHULTZ, lawyer, was born in Henry County, his, father be- ing a farmer. He attended school at the Northwest Missouri College, at Albany, and at Clarence, Mo. Later he took a course in the Missouri State University, from which institution he was graduated in 1898. He came to
He was born at New Athens, Ohio, .January 10, 1848. The Kennard fam -. ily is of English origin and, some of its members were among the early set- tlers of Pennsylvania. Our subject's father was a member of the Society of Friends, from which he was expelled for marrying out of the meeting.
George A. Kennard was quite young, when he was taken by his parents to ;. Omaha, Neb .; where he grew to ma -- . ...
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St. Joseph in June 1898, and. at once began the practice of law. He was appointed assistant prosecuting attor- ney January 1, 1899, and served, four years. January 1, 1907, he was ap- pointed assistant city counselor by W. B. Norris and , served until April, 1913. He has since been engaged in the general practice of law ..
turity. . He, attended the common: schools and later completed .a course- in bookkeeping. While a young man he.,located in Chicago, with Marshall Field & Company, with whom he re- mained . until .1874, when he came to. St. Joseph. Here he accepted, a posi- tion as bookkeeper and served as such until 1877, when he embarked in the-
GEORGE A. KENNARD, deceased, tea and spice business, as the senior was a prominent citizen of St. Joseph, member of the firm, of Kennard, Wil- where he was engaged. in the whole- . son; & Company. They transacted a sale grocery business for many years. large, wholesale business and contin-
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ued with success for' a number of years. He then engaged in the whole- sale grocery business, first in associa- tion with William G. Fairleigh and later by himself. He established' an extensive patronage and continued the business for some time, then he sold out to good advantage to the Roberts- Parker Mercantile Company of St. Jo- seph. After disposing of his business he lived in retirement until his death on May 28, 1903.
was sent to school at St. Benedict's then a primitive academy, but which has since become famous in the West as a college: After having acquired the rudiments of English, German and Latin, he left school early in his thirteenth year, and went to work in a "brickyard. " Subsequently he la- bored in a boiler shop, was helper to a plumber, tried book-binding. and the drug trade, and finally found congen- ial employment as "devil" in the com-
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