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CHRISTIAN L. RUTT
CHRISTIAN LUDWIG RUTT, com- piler and editor of the first. History of Buchanan County, was born in Mil- waukee, Wis., October 8, 1859, the son of Christian and . Eva Katherine (Gaiss)' Rutt.""His parents were both German, from the neighborhood of Stromberg, in Rhenish Prussia, a short distance from Bingen, on the oppo- site side of the Rhine: "In September, of 1865, the family removed to Kan- sas, locating at Atchison. The boy
posing room of the Atchison Cham- pion, then a prosperous morning news- paper, edited and published by the late Col. John .A. Martin, afterwards gov- ernor of Kansas. As a journeyman printer, he traveled about the country after the manner of the journeymen printers of those days, until November of: 1881, when he forsook the "case" "for the editorial room, having been · made telegraph editor of the Leaven- worth Standard, then a morning paper,
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edited by ex-United States Senator Ed- gar G. Ross of Kansas. Subsequently he served in a similar capacity on the Leavenworth Times, under the late D .. R. Anthony. In the summer of 1882 he published a weekly paper at Atchi- son-the Sunday Morning Call-in partnership with Luther L. Higby. It was a losing venture, and he returned to Leavenworth and was city editor of the Standard until January of 1883, when he came to St. Joseph, Mo., and served as telegraph editor of the Ga- zette until the following June, when he accepted an offer from the Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette. He remained in Texas until the following December, holding positions on the San Antonio Express, the Galveston News, the Aus- tin Statesman, and the Waco Exam-
made manager of the Gazette-Herald, and when the paper was sold he was retained as managing editor, which place he held until August of 1902, when he resigned to take charge of a political department in the Daily News. In October, 1902, he was ap- pointed managing editor of the Daily News, which place he retained at the consolidation of the News and Press, and which he holds at this time.
Mr. Rutt was married May 11, 1887, to Annie Herbst, daughter of George and Theresa Herbst. Mrs. Rutt is a native of St. Joseph. Like her hus- band, she is of German descent. Our subject's parents are dead, the father having died in St. Louis, Mo., Decem- ber 29, 1895, and his mother in. Boon- ville, Mo., December 21, 1900.
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iner. Malaria sent him north, and he found a welcome at the Gazette, where he served as telegraph editor and city editor until May 1, 1887, when he was appointed secretary of the board of police commissioners, which position he held for thirteen years, during which · period, however, he maintained a connection with the Ga- zette as editorial writer. In March, 1900, he was made editor-in-chief of the Gazette, and in June of that year was made manager of that paper. Two months afterward when the Gazette and Herald were consolidated, he was
Mr. Rutt is a Roman Catholic, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Joseph's benevolent society organiza -. tions of that faith. He is also an active member of the Monroe Club (Democratic), and an honorary mem- ber of the Typographical Union.
ROY A. LINDSAY, attorney at law, was born in Davis County, Mo., Sep- tember 21, 1888. He received a com- mon school education in his native county and graduated from the Gil- man High School in 1907. The same year he matriculated in the Kirksville
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Normal and graduated therefrom in 1909. In 1910 he entered the law de- partment of the Kansas State Univer- sity from which institution he re- ceived his diploma in 1913. After leaving school he went to Springfield, Mo., where he opened an office, re- maining there until January 1, 1914. He came to St. Joseph in June, 1914, and opened an office in Donnell Court. Mr. Lindsay is a Mason.
hanging. He came to America in 1854 and stopped first in Cincinnati. He worked at his trade for four months, and then went to New Orleans. He came from that city to St. Joseph by boat in 1855. He worked at his trade until 1860, when he engaged in busi- ness for himself. At the outbreak of - the Civil War he suspended opera- tions for a couple of years, but began again in 1863. His sons have grown
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HENRY VOSS
HENRY VOSS, pioneer wall paper merchant of St. Joseph, has been in active business for upward of half a century. He has watched with satis- faction the growth of the city of his adoption from a mere village to a modern metropolis. Mr. Voss was born in the village of Pinneberg, Hol- stein, Germany, August 9. 1831. He attended school until he was sixteen years old, when he began an appren- ticeship in upholstering and paper
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up in the business and are now asso- ciated with him, the business having been inicorporated in 1893 as the Henry Voss Wall Paper Company, with Mr. Voss as president. He was married in 1863 to Miss Katie Kitzel, who came with her mother from Ger- many and settled in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Their family consists of four sons and .one daughter.
MAURICE HICKEY-The death of Maurice Hickey, which occurred April
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26, 1902, removed one of the old pio- neer citizens and ... useful, honored and successful business. men of St. Joseph. Mr. Hickey was born in May, 1835, in County Tipperary, Ire- land, a member of an old family of tenant farmers.
At the age of 16 years the youth left home in search of the proverbial for- tune, in which he was more successful than many, for he became, across the Atlantic, a prominent citizen of his
Joseph secured her admirable water- works system, one, which he mainly originated and zealously promoted.
. , The late Mr. Hickey was a devout Catholic, being one of the leading members of the Cathedral parish, and this remains were laid to rest in Mount Olivet cemetery .. He belonged to an old generation which is rapidly pass- ing away, but , the records of their honorable and useful lives remain.
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adopted country and one of the capi- talists of his chosen city of residence. at 413 Felix Street, comes from that After a short season spent at Litch- field, Conn., in 1858, he came to St. makes good citizens. He was born at Joseph, Mo., entering into business Bedford City, Va. After attending the here, in which he continued to be ac- · schools in his birthplace, he removed tively engaged until he retired in 1892. to St. Joseph, where his, education was completed. He came here in 1882 with .his parents, and in 1889 entered the employ of A. N. Schuster & Co., cloth- iers. He remained with this firm until Mr. Hickey was a man of character, and he became a leading factor in the city's affairs. He long held a seat in the city council and was a member of that honorable body ati the time St. . 1894, when he became identified, with
WALTER H. COBB, retail shoeman old Virginia stock that invariably
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the Tootle, Wheeler & Motter Dry Goods Company, with which firm he remained until 1897, when he engaged in the retail shoe business, which has claimed his time and attention ever since. Fraternally Mr. Cobb is a Ma- - son and an Odd Fellow.
DAVID EDGAR HEATON, president ... of the Heaton-BeGole Undertaking Co., one of the oldest undertakers in point of service in the cty, was born in St.
the same. In 1881 he purchased his father's interest in the business and it was continued as the D. E. Heaton Undertaking Company until January, 1911, when he incorporated his busi- ness under the name of Heaton-BoGole Undertaking Company, and it con- tinues as such at this time.
David E. Heaton was married on the 5th day of October, 1882 The family consists of two daughters,
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Joseph, Mc., April 17 1855, and was the son of David Johnson Heaton and Lucinda (King) . Heaton, who started the business in 1842 as furniture and. undertaking and continued as such until 1859 when it was destroyed by fire. Since that time it has been con-
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only. In 1872 David E. Heaton became an apprentice in his father's business and in 1874 purchased an interest in
Hazel E. and Bessie D. (now Mrs. Geo. C. Gordon and Mrs. J. O. Wilson, both of Kansas City, Missouri.)
Politically Mr. Heaton is a Demo- crat, and has served as president of the Monroe Club, the central organi- zation of his party. He is also presi- " dent of the St. Joseph Auditorium Co., and has always been active in any public enterprise worthy of support. He is a member of the various
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branches of the Masonic order, and also belongs to the Elks, Odd Fellows and a number of the fraternal organi- zations.
GEORGE W. MARLOW, one of the pioneer business men and honored citizens of St. Joseph, died at his home in this city, November 16, 1893. Mr. Marlow was born December 14, 1838, in Loundoun County, Virginia, and was one of a family of fourteen chil-
til his decease. ,
The late Mr. Marlow was noted for his innate courtesy and for the gentle- manly instincts that marked his bear- ing. on all occasions. He possessed at- tributes which called forth the respect of all who knew him. He was an hon- orable, upright business man, one who took a deep interest in all that per- tained to St. Joseph, was valued in his church relations and was beloved in
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dren born to his parents, George W. and Mary (Smith) Marlow.
The subject of this sketch was well educated and had many social advan- tages, but he was left, like many oth- ers after the Civil war, with the neces- sity of entering into a business life. He came to St. Joseph in 1869 and es- tablished himself here in the boot and shoe business, becoming proprietor of .the "Elephant Shoe Store," and con- tinued to be interested in this line un-
his home.
LEWIS C. BURNES was born and reared in Missouri. He is a member of one of the oldest and best-known families in the Platte Purchase, if not in Missouri. He is president of the Burnes National Bank; and by reason of long training and a careful study of the business has come to be recog- nized as one of the leading bankers in the Middle West.
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SIMON BROUSE-It requires a man of varied accomplishments and thor- oughly versed in modern business methods to successfully manage the extensive interests in St. Joseph of that great manufacturing , concern, the Val Blatz Brewing Company, and thereby sustain the fair name and great reputation of the product that "made Milwaukee famous;" therefore when. the. Blatz interests sought for a
under the control of Mr. Brouse. There is no point or detail of the busi- ness with which Mr. Brouse is not. thoroughly familiar, and the success of his management is largely due to these essentials.
Mr. Brouse was born in Leaven- worth, Kansas, on the New Year's Day, 1880, and was given a classical and business education in the best institutions of that state. After com-
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man in whom they could feel that their interests were safe and compe- tent hands, they selected Simon Brouse, and in 1912 gave him the man- agement of the St. Joseph Branch. That they made no mistake is shown by the added popularity of their famous brew in this section and the constant and substantial increase in the volume of business, not only in St. Joseph but in the large territory" tributary to this city which is also
pleting his education, he associated himself with the Blatz interests and rose rapidly to his present position. He was married to Miss Rose Wien- berg, of St. Joseph, in 1911. They have two children, both sons. Mr. Brouse is an Eagle, a Moose, and Beneigherouth.
RT: 1. REV. MAURICE FRANCIS BURKE, bishop of the diocese of St. " Joseph, is one of the most venerated of the ecclesiastics of the Catholic
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church in Missouri, and was born in Ireland, May 5, 1845. He is one of eight children born to his parents, Francis N. and Hohanna (Casey) Burke, native of Ireland.
The family came to America in 1849 and settled at Chicago, Ill., then a city of small area with but 23,000 popula- tion. However, a parochial school had been established, and this the youth attended, subsequently taking a com-
Chicago. After three years of faith- ful service there he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's church, Joliet, Ill., where he remained nine years.
In 1887. he was made Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. In June, 1893, he was trans- ferred to the diocese of St. Joseph.
RICE McDONALD, treasurer of the Empire Trust Company, 116 South Sixth Street, was educated in the pub-
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mercial course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College and later attended St. Mary's University.
In 1866 he completed his literary course and education at Notre Dame, Ind., and the same year went to Rome to pursue his philosophical and theo- logical studies in the American Col- lege. He was ordained to the priest- hood at Rome, May 22, 1875, by Car- dinal Patrizi. Upon his return to the United States he was assigned an as- sistant pastor of St. Mary's church,
lic schools of the city. His education being completed he began his business career with the R. L. McDonald Dry Goods Company of this city. , He be- came identified with the Empire Trust Company in 1912 and was made treas- urer ..
COL. JOSEPH A. PINER, one of the best known citizens of St. Joseph, of which city. he was mayor four years, was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in' 1820, and died in this city January, 1905. He spent his. boyhood days in
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Kentucky, after receiving his educa- tion in the common schools. In the early '40's he was appointed sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky, byl the governor, and subsequently was elect- ed to that office.
Col. Piner was, engaged in the bank- ing business in Campbell County until 1860, and two years later came to St. Joseph, where he started a general store.' He had the misfortune to lose
ing mayor, of St. Joseph, served his .. party and his county as representative' in the legislature.
MARTIN L .. KULLMAN, M. D., is prominently engaged in the practice. of medicine in St. Joseph, where he has resided since 1896. He was born in Wisconsin in 1865.
He was reared in Wisconsin, and there received his early education. He later attended the Chillicothe Normal
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his store through a destructive fire and subsequently engaged in various business enterprises.
{"He purchased and operated .saw mills at Lake Contrary and several years later embarked in the transfer and omnibus business. This he con- ducted alone for some time and then took as a partner Col. Elijah Gates, the firm becoming Piner & Gates. The business was sold to Amos M. Brown in the '80's, and is now conducted un- der . the name of the. Brown Transfer. and Storage Company, one of the larg- est concerns of the kind in the coun- try. In politics. Col. Piner was always a consistent Democrat and .besides: be-
School of Chillicothe, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1892. He came to St. Joseph the following year and attended the Central Medi- cal College, graduating therefrom in 1896. He then entered upon his prac- tice in this city, and has since con- tinued with a great deal of success, establishing a large and well-paying practice.
In 1890 Doctor Kullman was united in, marriage with Betty Herrth, a na- tive of Missouri, and they have one daughter, Clara, who was born in . Chillicothe. The doctor is a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 22, I. O. O. F., and Modoc Tribe, No. 29, Improved
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Order of Red Men. In politics he has always been a loyal supporter of the Republican party.
PETER M. EGGER, at 114 North Second Street, proprietor of the Colo- rado House was born in Davenport, lowa, August 28, 1855. He went to St. Louis in 1873 and engaged in the bakery business, for a period of thir- teen years. He came to St. Joseph in 1886 and entered the employ of Som-
densburg, New York, February 21, 1845, and died at his home in St. Jo- seph, April 7, 1890. He received his primary education in the public schools of the state of New York. Later he became a student at Hamil- ton College at Clinton, New York, and was subsequently graduated there, and then entered the Albany Law School at Albany, New York, where he com- pleted the prescribed course. He came
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mer-Richardson Co., now the National Biscuit Co., where he remained for sixteen years. He took charge of the Colorado House August 2, 1902. He was married to Miss Mollie Jones of St. Louis .n 1883. Four children have been born to them, two of whom, a son and a daughter are living. Mr. Egger is a Redman and an Eagle; in the lat- ter lodge he is a member of the board of trustees.
WINSLOW JUDSON, one of the. great lawyers and public spirited citi- zens of St. Joseph, was born at Og-
to St. Joseph in 1867 and entered upon the practice of law, and this city con- tinued to be his place of residence dur- ing the whole of his subsequent ca- reer.
Perhaps it was as a promoter of great business enterprises that Mr. Judson was best known. In this he benefitted both himself and the city for which he was so loyal and persist- ent a worker. " He was at the head of a number of movements which re- sulted in the erection of large build- ings, the construction of many miles
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of railroad and the development of a pleasure resort that has since become one of the favorite spots for summer recreation seekers in the West.
The Board of Trade Building is a monument to the enterprise of Mr. Judson. It was to his unceasing ef- forts that the shops of the St. Joseph Terminal Company were built. The yards and freight house of this com- pany were built under his personal
present popularity of that place is due, primarily, to his efforts.
JOHN W. PATT, merchant tailor at 511 Francis Street, was born in Rhine Province, Germany, November 2, 1869. He was educated in his native country. He came to America in 1883, locating first in New York where he remained three years. In 1886 he went to Se- dalia, Mo., in which city he resided for three years. Mr. Patt came to St.
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supervision. Mr. Judson is the man who convinced the officials of the Santa Fe railroad that they ought to own a line into St. Joseph. He pur- chased what was then the St. Joseph & St. Louis railroad, from St. Joseph to Lexington Junction, Missouri. This property was sold to the Santa Fe in 1885 and is still a part of that great railroad system. Soon after' this he took up the development of Lake Con- trary as a pleasure resort and the
Joseph in 1892 and established the merchant tailoring business of Patt brothers, his brother being associated with him. He was married in 1893 to Miss Stella M. Reiplinger of St. Joseph. Their family consists of one' daughter and two sons. Fraternally Mr. Patt is a Mason and an Elk. He is a man for whom the glamor and glory of poli- tics has no attraction, having recently declined to accept the appointment of member of the city council., ,
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MERRILL E: OTIS, the subject of this sketch, was born near Hopkins, in Nodaway County, Missouri, July 7, 1884. He remained on the farm until he entered the University of Missouri. Having graduated from the university with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Laws, Mr. Otis began the practice of law in St. Joseph, Mo. in November, 1911, and shortly afterward entered into a
Ashland College, Ohio! . She was mar- ried , to Charles Gibbons October 27, 1887, who died the following. month. The subject of this sketch was in busi- ness as'a dressmaker 'in Milledgeville, Ill., and later followed nursing and missionary work in Chicago. She was married to John W. Evalson of St. Joseph September 7, 1915. Rev. Eval. son has been active in the ministry of the Brethren church for many years
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partnership with Mr. Louis V. Stigall, under the firm name of Stigall and Otis. Mr. Otis was the Republican. candidate for congress in the Fourth District of Missouri at the November election in 1914. He is a member of the Lincoln Club, of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges, of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
REV. SADIE GIBBONS EVALSON was born in Ringgold, Pa., February 20, 1864, and lived in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas before coming to St. Jo- seph in 1913. She was educated in the common schools of Iowa and in
. . BENJAMIN F. MIDDAUGH, pi prietor of the Victoria Hotel and Re taurant, 622-624 South Sixth Street, a native of Missouri. He was bo at Cameron, April 22, 1860. He car to St. Joseph in 1898. In 1890 "'opened the Victoria and has been .VE 'successful in. this venture. He w married to Miss Rosa E. Powell Cameron, in 1879. They have fc children. Mr. Middaugh believes the future of the city of his adopt: and always aids' every worthy ent prise that is calculated to build up Joseph and make it a better place which to live.
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DR. ROLLA H. BROWN, osteopath, Room 28, Ballinger Building, is a na- tive of Kansas, having been born at Huron, December 31, 1883. He re- ceived his education in the schools of his native town, and in the fall of 1912 entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville. He gradu- ated from this school in June, 1915. He came at once to St. Joseph and began practicing.
to St. Joseph in 1912. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and fin- ished the classical-theological course in Central Wesleyan College at War- rensburg, Mo. He was married to Miss Ida Goebe of Kansas City in 1897. Four children were born to them. Rev. Buechner is a trustee of
his alma mater. He served the churches at Cosby, Mo., four years .; Sedalia, Mo., seven years; Higgins-
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Doctor Brown was married to Miss Ruby Klostermeier of Atchison, Kans., June 15, 1915. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and a member of the First Baptist Church. He is one of those determined, progressive young men that are bound to succeed, and his future looks exceptionally bright.
REV. SAMUEL BUECHNER, clergy- man, pastor of the First - German Methodist Episcopal Church, at Third and Robidoux streets, was born at Cameron, Mo., July 12, 1873, and came
ville, Mo., four years, and the St. Jo- seph church four years.
H. ROLEAU KAULL, newspaper re- porter, is a native of St. Joseph, hav- ing been born here March 12, 1890. He received his education in the local public schools and the Central High school. When seventeen years old he went with his parents to live in Cleveland, Ohio, but returned a year later. He is now city hall reporter for the News-Press.
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JOHN FISKE, BARNARD, who died in this city a few years ago, was one of the men who made railroad history in the early days. , He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, April 23, 1829, and came from a family which had its origin in England. His for- bears were among the early settlers in New England, and the family is now scattered all over the United States, some members of which have become distinguished in the varied
career in which his mechanical abili- ties might have play, and this resulted in his entering the Rensselaer Poly- technic School at Troy, New York, where he tok a course in civil engi- neering, graduating from that insti- tution in 1850.
He was almost immediately engaged as chief engineer of the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad, now a part of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, to go to the Dominion, where he re-
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walks of life.
Mr. Barnard was reared on a farm and until he was seventeen enjoyed only the educational advantages of the 'country schools during the win- ter months. In 1847, however, his prospects changed and he entered the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts."His special talents at- tracted the attention of his teachers, who suggested to him the wisdom of thoroughly preparing himself for a
mained until the spring of 1857, when he took charge of a short road on the banks of the Ottawa river in Canada. After filling several other important positions acceptably, he came back to the United States in 1869 and took charge of the Missouri Valley Rail- road as chief engineer and superin- tendent. In 1870 the Missouri Valley and the Council Bluffs & St. Joseph roads were consolidated and he was retained as chief engineer. In 1871
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he went with the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad as chief engineer, and extended the construction of the road fifty miles westward. In August, 1872, he was appointed superintendent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Coun- cil Bluffs Railroad, which position he retained until he was made general manager of the same upon its pur- chase by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1880. In the au- umn of 1884 he was also made gen-
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