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A. E. Barnes was with the Kansas Home Nursery and at the Experi-
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mental Grounds at Lawrence, Kan. for three years prior to coming to Boonville. Prior to that time, Mr. Barnes was employed at the Ortez Fruit Farm & Nursery in Audrain County, Mo. He obtained his general education in the public schools of Mexico, Mo. and at Sproul's Academy, at the latter studying the business course. He spent a year in the state of Colorado, where he was studying irrigation, and thence came to Law- rence, Kan. and to Boonville.
Mr. Barnes was born in Audrain County, Mo., near Mexico, Dec. 29, 1880, a son of Noble and Mary (Bybee) Barnes, natives of Kentucky. Noble Barnes has just completed two terms of service in the office of county treasurer, eight years, and now resides at Mexico. Mrs. Barnes died in 1917 and her remains are interred in Sunrise Church cemetery in Audrain County. The children of Noble and Mary Barnes are: M. C. and Theodore, farmers, Mexico, Mo .; Mrs. T. R. Peyton, of Boonville; A. E., the subject of this sketch; Claud L., who is on a fruit farm in Idaho; and Roy and Ray, who are farming in Nebraska.
In 1909, A. E. Barnes and Grace E. Stammerjohn, a daughter of Claus and Emma Stammerjohn, of Boonville, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Stammerjohn are the parents of nine children, all of whom are living and residents of Boonville; Meta, the wife of Ed Holtman; Henry; Re- becca, the wife of J. J. Heiberger; Julia, the wife of Charles Durr; John, Dora, Edward, and Benjamin; and Grace, the wife of A. E. Barnes. To Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have been born three children, who are now living, one child now deceased: Noel, Meta and Leah. Noble, Jr., the second son and child, died in nfancy. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are members of the Boonville Christian Church, on which Mr. Barnes is a deacon. He is a past-grand officer of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Boonville.
Recently, Mr. Barnes has completed an eleven-room bungalow, mod- ern throughout, equipped with a private water system, in the city of Boonville. He has on his farm an underground silo, which is attracting much attention in the county. The silo is cemented and built on the plan of a cistern and the silage as cut is dropped into the silo. It was filled in 1918 and has proven a success. Mr. Barnes converts an old wine cellar on the farm into a cold storage room, when the season opens. He handles in the nursery business, three kinds of cherries, the Early Richmond, the Montmorency, the Morillo, and he has about 100 each of apples, pears and plums, and these are growing on his farm, the entire tract of 40 acres being set out in fruit.
A. E. Barnes is widely known throughout Missouri and Cooper
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County knows no more useful or better citizen. He and Mrs. Barnes are numbered among Boonville's best families.
Capt. Edgar L. Barnert, captain of Company H, of the Boonville Training School, is one of the county's most valued and respected citizens. He was born Sept. 22, 1891 in Boonville, a son of Dominic and Mary A. (Back) Barnert, the former, a native of Germany and the latter, of Boon- ville. Dominic Barnert is a retired carpenter and contractor and one of Boonville's well-known citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Barnert are the parents of the following children: Minnie, who is married and now resides in Chicago, Ill .; Carl, a traveling salesman of St. Louis, Mo .; Edgar L., the subject of this sketch; Merle, a lieutenant of the 35th Division, 140th Infantry, Company I, who enlisted at Boonville in the National Guards, was transferred to the army and served in Mexico and then re-enlisted for overseas service; Anna E., at home; and Jerome D., a student in the Boonville high school.
Captain Barnert attended the Boonville high school. He worked with his father for a few years in carpentering and contracting and then ac- cepted the position of clerk in the Boonville postoffice, under R. W. Corum. He enlisted Sept. 5, 1918 in Company K, 12th Battalion, Infantry Replace- ment at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, and he was honorably discharged Dec. 19, 1919. Captain Barnert has been connected with the Training School in Boonville for the past five years, at different intervals, and he has held his present position since Dec. 23, 1918. He has 95 boys in his company and he teaches the primary grade. He drills his company one hour each morning and evening and he is responsible also for the moral welfare of the boys. Captain Barnert is giving much satisfaction as instructor and he takes a most commendable interest in his work and in the lads under his charge.
Feb. 27, 1913, Edgar L. Barnert and Marian C. Bradley, a daughter of Thompkins and Mary Bradley, of Boonville, Mo., were united in marriage. The Bradleys are honored pioneers of Boonville and Mr. and Mrs. Bradley are numbered among the county's best families. To Edgar L. and Marian C. Barnert has been born one child, a daughter, Mary Catherine. Mr. and Mrs. Barnert are highly regarded in their community and they have a host of friends in Cooper County.
Edward Gantner and Joseph Gantner, proprietors of "The De Luxe Studio", at 4191/ East Spring street in Boonville, one of the best studios in Missouri, entered the business of photography in this city in April, 1911 and their gallery was formerly on Main street. Joseph Gantner
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served an apprenticeship under Pete Stockholm and completed his study of the art of photography under Holborn at Columbia, a photographer who is widely known as one of the artists in his line of work. Since the Gant- ner brothers began business, Joseph Gantner has established a splendid reputation throughout the country as a most capable retoucher and etcher and he has had exceptional success with children's photos. The studio, a large, modern one of four rooms, equipped with north skylights, artifi- cial lights, the best lenses, every up-to-date convenience, is one of the busiest places in Boonville. The printing and enlarging is done by elec- tricity. "The De Luxe Studio" is a monument to the industry and enter- prise of the Gantner brothers and they are most highly appreciated by the people of Boonville and adjoining territory. Both young men were born, reared, and educated in Boonville. Joseph Gantner was for five months with the First Infirmary Section, United States Medical Corps, at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas.
Frank Gantner, father of Edward and Joseph Gantner, a well-known and capable bricklayer of Boonville, was born Nov. 27, 1859, at Boonville, a son of Andrew and Rosa (Diringer) Gantner, honored pioneers of Boon- ville. Both the father and mother have long been deceased and their remains rest in the Catholic cemetery. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gantner are as follows: Frank and Louis, of Boonville; Joseph, of Fayette,' Mo .; Andrew, deceased; John and Mrs. Louise Potter, of Boon- ville; Mrs. Julia Kohlbick, of Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Annie Graner, of Boonville ; and Dora, deceased.
In the Catholic school at Boonville, Frank Gantner obtained nis primary education. He later attended the public schools of Boonville. His elementary education was supplemented with a course pursued at the Business College in Boonville. Since attaining maturity, Mr. Gantner has followed his vocation of bricklaying and he is recognized in the county as a most efficient workman.
In June, 1881, Frank Gantner and Mary Kathrain Augusta Smith, a daughter of Nicholas and Amelia (McDaniel) Smith were married. Mr. Smith served three years in the Union army during the Civil War and died while in service. His remains are buried in the cemetery at Glasgow, Mo. Mrs. Smith later died in Texas and is buried there. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Smith are, as follow: Mrs. Frank Gantner, the wife of the subject of this sketch; Peter F., of Kansas City, Mo .; John J., of Oregon; and Nicholas M., of Kansas City, Mo. To Frank and Mary K. Gantner have been born the following children: Flora, the wife of Carl
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Neff, of Boonville; Francis Edward, one of the two brothers, the subjects of this sketch; Reverend B. N., chaplain at Camp Mills, Long Island; Joseph K., one of the two brothers, the subjects of this sketch; and Mittie Rosa Amelia, the eldest child, who died at the age of 13 years. Mr. and Mrs. Gantner reside on South Eighth street in Boonville. They are highly regarded in the community and they are worthy and consistent members of the Catholic Church.
Capt. J. W. Bozarth, chief engineer of the Boonville Training School, is a native of Worth County, Mo. Mr. Bozarth was born in Allendale, March 18, 1878, a son of John Rogers and Mary E. (Blodgett) Bozarth, the former, a native of Worth County, Mo. and the latter of California.
The Bozarths are of French lineage and the Blodgetts are of English lineage. John Rogers Bozarth was a son of John Rogers Bozarth, Sr., who came from New York to Missouri about 1870. The senior Bozarth died in Iowa. John Rogers Bozarth, Jr. and Mary E. Blodgett were united in marriage at Burlington, Iowa, and to them were born the following children: Rosa, the wife of John L. Crandall, of Wichita, Kan .; Capt. J. W., the subject of this sketch; Andrew J., of Liberal, Kan .; Francis F., of Liberal, Kan .; Grace, the wife of Everett Stalker, of St. John, Kan .; and Jess M., who is, at the time of this writing, a member of the 44th Infantry, Company G., now at Camp Lewis, Wash. Jess M. Bozarth enlisted in the service of the United States in May, 1918. The father died at the age of 42 years in 1890 and his remains were interred in the cemetery at Ruskin, Neb. The widowed mother now makes her home at St. John, Kan. Mrs. Bozarth is a member of an old and prominent pioneer family, who, upon coming to America, located first in Tennessee, afterwards in Missouri, and then settled in California, during the period of the excite- ment over the discovery of gold there. Mrs. Bozarth was born in 1851.
Capt. J. W. Bazarth received his elementary education in the public schools. He attended Armour's Technical Engineering School in Chicago, Ill. and studied civil engineering in the Kansas City Technical School at Kansas City, Mo. Captain Bozarth also took the machinists' course at Kansas City with the Eagle Manufacturing Company. He was appointed engineer of the Boonville Training School, now the Missouri Reformatory at Boonville, in Dec., 1904, a position he has since held. He has an assistant engineer and about 20 boys help with the work. The different shops of the school are run by electric motor power, furnished by the engineering plant, which plant also supplies the light, heat and hot water used by the school. A tunnel, 5,000 feet in length, has been constructed under the hill upon which the buildings of the school are and through
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this tunnel are the pipes which carry the water and heat to the various buildings.
Dec. 25, 1906, Capt. J. W. Bozarth and Georgia M. Cheshire were united in marriage. Mrs. Bozarth is a daughter of Thomas B. ana Angelina (Strickland) Cheshire, now residents of Versailles, Mo. Mr. Cheshire was born in Howard County, Mo. in 1841 and Mrs. Cheshire was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1844. The Cheshire family is of English descent. David Cheshire, a pioneer blacksmith of Old Franklin, Mo., came from Virginia in the early days to Missouri and located in Howard County. The children of Thomas B. and Angelina Cheshire, are: Nettie S., the wife of J. W. Wilkerson, born March 31, 1863 and is now deceased ; Nannie, the wife of J. W. Odell, born Feb. 3, 1865; Ethel, the wife of P. F. Casey, born June 17, 1879, now residing in Oklahoma City, Okla .; Mrs. J. W. Bozarth, born June 6, 1881, in Morgan County, Mo .; Jimmie, born Jan. 20, 1868 and Julia, born Sept. 18, 1870, died in infancy. Mrs. Bozarth was prior to her marriage a school teacher in Morgan and Moniteau Counties. She was a student at the Warrensburg State Normal School.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bozarth are numbered among the most respected citizens of the county and the best families of Boonville.
Capt. C. C. Meyer, the efficient night watchman of the Missouri Re- formatory, is one of Cooper County's best-known citizens. Captain Meyer is a member of a prominent pioneer family of Missouri. He was born Feb. 8, 1869 at California, Mo., in Moniteau County, a son of W. F. and Mrs. Meyer.
W. F. Meyer was a native of Germany. He immigrated to America in his early manhood and located in Cole County, Mo., on a farm near Warsaw. Later, he moved to Moniteau County. He was a veteran of the Civil War and he held the position of city treasurer of California, Mo. for 20 years. He died in 1908 at the age of 77 years and his remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at California, Mo. Ten years later, he was joined in death by his wife, in 1918, and she, too, was laid to rest in the cemetery at California. The children of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Meyer are as follows: Henry, a tailor, of California, Mo .; W. L., who is engaged in the lumber business at Sandy Hook, Mo .; Adolph, manager of a hotel at Mountain Grove, Mo .; Ed, a tailor, of California, Mo .; Frank, who is engaged extensively in the lumber business near Palm Beach, Fla .; Capt. C. C., the subject of this sketch; A. B., cashier of the Bank of Jamestown, Mo .; and Rose, of California, Mo.
Capt. C. C. Meyer is a graduate of the California High School. He was for 18 years employed as station agent by the Missouri Pacific and the
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Missouri, Kansas & Topeka Railway companies. For eight years, he cap- ably filled the position of marshal at California, Mo., which position he resigned to accept the appointment as night watchman at the Missouri Reformatory. Captain Meyer has charge of the quarry at the Reforma- tory. He is an exceptionally intelligent workman and is conscientious in his efforts to give the boys a fair chance to become good citizens.
In 1894, Capt. C. C. Meyer and Lou Harris, a daughter of C. C. and Ellen Harris, of California, Mo., were united in marriage. Mrs. Meyer has one brother, Frank, a harness maker, of California, Mo. To Captain and Mrs. Meyer have been born two children: Harris, who assists his father with the work at the reformatory; and Winona, a teacher. Miss Winona offered her services as Red Cross nurse, but as she was too young to be accepted, she continued her work as a teacher.
Captain Meyer is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He and Mrs. Meyer are worthy members of the Christian Church and in politics Captain Meyer is a democrat.
William L. Nelson, congressman from the Eighth Congressional Dis- trict, is a native of Cooper County, and was born on his father's farm, Aug. 4, 1875. After completing the course in the district school he was awarded a scholarship in Hooper Institute at Clarksburg, Moniteau County, and studied there for some time. He later entered William Jewell College and taught school while studying at this college to pay his expenses. Mr. Nelson would attend William Jewell for a year and then teach school in order to earn the needed funds to pay his way. He has also taken special work in the Missouri College of Agriculture.
In 1893 he and his brother Louis O. Nelson purchased the Bunceton Eagle, and the success which they achieved in this new field of endeavor attracted attention throughout the State.
In 1900, when 25 years of age, Mr. Nelson was nominated for the State Legislature. His election followed. In 1906, he was again chosen to serve in the Missouri General Assembly. As a legislator, he took spe- cial interest in farm matters, and was the author of various agricultural measures. Serving through two regular terms and one special session, he was never absent from his desk when the House was in session.
Mr. Nelson has also been a frequent contributor to agricultural papers, and has several times refused offers of editorial positions on such publications. He has always taken an interest in community work of every kind. While on the farm he assisted in organizing the Cooper County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and for seven years
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served as secretary. He was also the first secretary of the Cooper County Fair at Bunceton, which, for more than 20 years, has lived up to the motto which he gave it-"For Farmers, Not Fakirs."
In the spring. of 1908, Mr. Nelson was asked by H. J. Waters, then at the head of the Missouri College of Agriculture, and George B. Ellis, at that time secretary of the State Board of Agriculture to become assistant secretary of the board. The offer was entirely unsolicited and not until August did Mr. Nelson accept it.
As assistant secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, Mr. Nelson served during the latter part of Governor Folk's administra- tion, throughout the terms of Governor Hadley and Governor Major, and in January, 1916, was elected to serve during the four years of Governor Gardner's administration. Each time his election was by the unanimous vote of the board. In August, 1917, Mr. Nelson was asked by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York City publishers, to assist in editing a farmers' cyclopedia. The Board of Agriculture, on learning of the offer, gener- ously granted Mr. Nelson a three months' leave of absence-the first vaca- tion that he had ever taken. On his return to Missouri, the offices of the Board of Agriculture having in the meantime been moved to Jefferson City, Mr. Nelson resigned his position and continued to make his home in Columbia. Later, he did special organization work under the direction of the College of Agriculture and the U S. Department of Agriculture.
In the fall of 1918, W. L. Nelson was elected to represent the Eighth District in the Congress of the United States, and on March 4, 1919, he took his seat in the House of Representatives.
Mr. Nelson was married June 9, 1909, to Miss Stella Boschert, a daughter of W. J. Boschert, of Bunceton. To this marriage has been born one son, Will L., Jr. Mr. Nelson is a member of the Baptist Church, and is a thorough democrat.
Capt. George Todd Irvine, instructor of mathematics and physical sciences at Kemper Military School, is one of the county's most successful and prominent citizens. Captain Irvine is a native of Ohio. He was born Oct. 25, 1876, at Wakeman, Ohio, a son of Rev. Edward and Ellen Georgi- ana (Todd) Irvine.
Rev. Edward D. Irvine was a native of England. He immigrated to America, when he was but a lad, with his father, Samuel T. Irvine, and settled at Springi .- Ohio. Reverend Irvine was educated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and was in the ministry practically all his life. Ellen Georgiana (Todd) Irvine is a native of Wakeman, Ohio. She was
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born March 3, 1848, a daughter of George and Betsey (Pierpont) Todd, who came from Connecticut to Ohio in the early days. To Rev. Edward D. and Ellen G. Irvine were born the following children: Capt. George Todd, the subject of this review; Pierpont Edward, an engineer employed by the American Coal and By-Products Coke Company of Chicago, Ill., and Silva Grace, who died at the age of five years. The father died Dec. 15, 1906, at Wellsburg, W. Va. and the widowed mother now makes her home in Wakeman, Ohio.
Captain Irvine is a graduate of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, as was his father before him. He was a member of the class of 1898. Since completing his college course, he has been engaged in the teaching pro- fession, for one year in the state of New York and since then at Kemper Military School, taking his present position as instructor of mathematics and physical sciences in Jan., 1900.
Captain Irvine is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star, and he has filled the office of Master. He is a worthy and consistent member of the Episcopal Church, of which church his father was for so many years a highly respected and beloved minister. Captain Irvine is one of the county's most popular young citizens and he is held in the highest regard in Boonville.
Charles Henry Dunnavant, of the Sand & Gravel Company of Boon- ville, is one of the highly regarded citizens of Cooper County. Mr. Dunna- vant was born at Boonville, Jan. 16, 1868, a son of George and Mary Jane (Sullens) Dunnavant, the former, a native of Kentucky and the latter, of Howard County.
George Dunnavant was a steamboat pilot on the Missouri River and for 36 years he operated the ferry at Boonville. During the Civil War, Mr. Dunnavant piloted the boat which brought the soldiers of the Federal army up the Missouri. George and Mary Jane Dunnavant were the par- ents of the following children: James, of Jefferson City, Mo .; Joseph, of Nelson, Mo .; Frank, of Boonville; Charles Henry, the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Georgiana Ross, of Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Mollie Robinson, of Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Luttie Hogg, of Kansas City, Mo .; and Feedy, Johnny, Willie, Eddie and Mrs. Maggie Grundy, all of whom are now de- ceased. The father died about 1889 and the widowed mother now resides in Boonville.
Charles Henry Dunnavant attended the city schools of Boonville. He has been engaged in river work and engineering practically all his life.
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At the time of this writing, in 1909, Mr. Dunnavant is the engineer of the Sand & Gravel Company at Boonville. He is a capable workman and he has been very successful in his vocation.
In 1890, Charles Henry Dunnavant was united in marriage with Daisy Brown and to them were born two children: Earl, at home; and Grace, the wife of James Kramer, who resides in Arkansas. Mrs. Dunnavant died May 8, 1903 and she was laid to rest in the cemetery at Boonville. Mr. Dunnavant was married to Alpha Spry, a daughter of George and Nancy Spry. George Spry died Sept. 22, 1906 and his remains were in- terred in Nelson cemetery. George and Nancy Spry were the parents of four children as follows: Mrs. Charles Henry Dunnavant, the wife of the subject of this sketch; Corp. Walker Allen, who was with the 35th Division, 3rd Regiment, 140th Infantry in the World War and was wounded in the battle of Argonne; Pearl C. and Mabel F., of Boonville. Mrs. Dunnavant has a halfsister, the child born to Mrs. Spry by her first mar- riage, Mrs. Bertha C. McLaughlin, of Boonville. Mrs. Spry has remarried and she is now the wife of Ben Dobson, of Boonville. To Charles Henry and Alpha Dunnavant has been born one child, a daughter, Rosalie. Mr. and Mrs. Dunnavant reside at 112 Water street in Boonville.
Mr. Dunnavant is a member of the Woodmen of the World. He is a democrat and he has served as councilman from the first ward for two terms. He is one of the leading citizens of the city of Boonville and he and Mrs. Dunnavant are highly regarded and valued in Cooper County.
Patrick Darby, a late prominent citizen of Cooper County, was a native of Ireland. Mr. Darby was born April 4, 1838, a son of James and Catherine (Ferrell) Darby. He immigrated to New York, when he was a young man, 18 years of age. In 1862, Mr. Darby enlisted in the Civil War with the First New York Veteran Cavalry of Volunteers and served until the end of the conflict. For ten months he was confined in Ander- sonville Prison and no words could possibly depict the sufferings of every unfortunate soldier there, victims of barbarous cruelty. In 1868, Patrick Darby came to Missouri and purchased the farm located near Billingsville and engaged in farming and stockraising and became very successful.
In New York, Patrick Darby and Ellen Coleman were united in mar- riage. Ellen (Coleman) Darby was a native of Geneseo, N. Y. To Patrick and Ellen Darby were born the following children: John F., of Saline County ; James, of Shreveport, La .; Mrs. Matt Cleary, of Boonville; Mrs. Ed Garthoffner, of Boonville; Edward B. and Eugene M., of Boonville.
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Mrs. Darby died in 1898 and her remains were laid to rest in the ceme- tery at Boonville.
May 4, 1904, Patrick Darby and Miss Albertine Hartman, of Tipton, Mo., were married. Albertine (Hartman) Darby is a daughter of Henry and Josephine (Veulemans) Hartman. She was born March 14, 1852 in Cooper County. The Hartmans were among the first families of Moni- teau County, where they located prior to the coming of the railroads in this section of the state. Mrs. Darby is the eldest of 14 children, six of whom are now living: Mrs. Patrick Darby, Adam, John, Herman J., Frances J., and Thomas F. With the exception of Mrs. Darby, the Hart- man children all reside at Tipton, Mo. Mr. Darby was a member of the John A. Hayne Post Grand Army of the Republic.
In this entire state, there could be found no more patriotic citizen than Patrick Darby, no man of higher ideals or stronger character. He was beloved by all with whom he came in contact and he had countless friends in the county, who still lament their loss. Mr. Darby died Jan. 30, 1917. A writer at the time of the death of Mr. Darby, thus described a beautiful floral tribute laid at his feet :
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