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It is worthy of mention that Thomas Hickman, father of Crockett Hickman, crossed the Great Plains in 1862 and spent about four years in the West engaged in freighting and mining.
Mr. Hickman is a Democrat of the stanch variety. He was elected
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to the office of public administrator in 1912 and was re-elected to the office in 1918. He is a member of the Baptist Church and is a Knight Templar Mason.
George A. Weyland .- An interesting and sturdy character who car- ries his years lightly and is as vigorous mentally and physically as most men who are years younger-is the average summing up of a friendly disquisition on the characteristics of George A. Weyland, the aggressive and capable member of the widely known and extensive firm of Roeder & Weyland, dealers in agricultural implements, wagons, carriages, farm machinery of every description. This firm is the most extensive in cen- tral Missouri and is one of the oldest established concerns of this section of the State. Its extension and the prestige which it enjoys of late years has been due principally to the salesmanship, and vigorous personality of Mr. Weyland, who is one of the most successful men in his line in Mis- souri. He has worked his way upward to a position in the business world of Cooper County and central Missouri through his own efforts, and has won his position through the exercise of a tireless energy, prompted by ambition, and aided by a strong physique and an active and well de- veloped mind.
Louis Weyland, father of George A. Weyland was born in Germany, and left his native land because of participation in the Revolution of 1846 and was exiled. He came to this country and located in Boonville in 1848. He had learned the trade of carriage builder. This he followed in Boon- ville.
Mr. Weyland established a shop south of the old court house on Court Street where he plied his trade until 1871. He then located at the northeast corner of High and Main Streets and built up an extensive busi- ness. He made carriages and wagons and in later days operated a re- pair shop until 1908, remaining in business in Boonville for 60 years. Not long after his arrival in Boonville, he was married in 1848, to Catherine Weiland, who was born in Nassau, Germany. Louis and Catherine Wey- land were parents of the following children: Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, Los Angeles, Calif .; Katie, died at the age of six months; Mrs. Mollie Delano, Los Angeles, Calif .; Matilda, died at the age of 19 years; William, living at DeSota, Mo .; E. C. Weyland, resides in Piedmont, Wayne County, Mo .; H. P. Weyland, lives at Muskogee, Okla .; Chas. C. Weyland, owns and operates the Weyland carriage shops in Boonville .; George A. Weyland, of this review.
Reared and educated in Boonville, it was only natural that George A.
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Weyland should adopt the trade of his father. He finished learning his trade of carriage maker in the shops of E. M. Miller, the most famous carriage and bus maker in the world in his day. This was at Quincy, Ill., and the Miller establishment manufactured none but the highest grade carriages and buses for use in the large cities of the country. Mr. Wey- land returned to Boonville in 1880 and made a contract with George Roe- der, the elder, to take employment with the Roeder concern and he was thus employed for 21 years. The firm later became George Roeder & Son. For five years Mr. Weyland was a traveling salesman and then became a member of the firm of Roeder & Weyland prior to the elder Roeder's death. Jan. 1, 1906, the firm became known as Roeder & Wey- land.
In 1880, George A. Weyland and Miss Sophia Heckerman of Prairie Home, Mo., were united in marriage. Mrs. Sophia Weyland is a daugh- ter of Christian Heckerman. Six children are living out of seven born to this marriage: Cozy, Gertrude, Stella, Viola, Grover C., Lon H. Cozy Weyland is operating nurse in the hospital at Clinton, Mo. Gertrude is the wife of Claude L. Driskill, manager of the Antrum Lumber Company of Binger, Okla. Stella is the wife of Lieut. Phillip A. Dickey, who served with the A. E. F. in France and is now located in Denver, Colo. Viola is at home with her parents. Grover C. Weyland is manager of the J. I. Case Plow Works, Kansas City, Mo. Lon H. Weyland, aged 24 years, is a ser- geant in the 35th Division and has seen much active service on the battle front in France. He enlisted in the Regular Army in November, 1917, was trained for service at Fort Sill, Okla., and went to France with his command in February, 1918. Sergeant Weyland participated in the battle of Chateau Thierry, and fought in the great battle of the Argonne Forest.
While Mr. Weyland is a Democrat he is proud of the fact that his father was a Union man and a Jeffersonian Democrat as well. He has generally taken an active and influential part in Democratic politics and served as a member of the City Council, having been the only citizen ever elected on the Democratic ticket from his home ward. During his term as city councilman from April, 1913, to April, 1915, many public improve- ments of benefit to the city were made.
He is a member of the Boonville Board of Public Works. During his entire active life Mr. Weyland has been a doer, and is always found in
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the forefront of all good movements for the benefit of Boonville and Cooper County.
William Mittelbach, druggist and secretary of the Boonville Board of Education, is one of the most useful and highly respected business men of Cooper County. Mr. Mittelbach was born in Boonville, April 2, 1856, and is a son of Frederick Mittelbach, a native of Germany who emigrated from his native land in 1849, first resided in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a short time and came to Boonville in 1852.
Frederick Mittelbach was born Jan. 10, 1826, at Seeheim-Hessen, Germany, and died at Boonville, Mo., Aug. 12, 1902. He opened a shoe shop in this city and made boots and shoes until the factories began turn- ing them out by the aid of machinery when he embarked in the retail shoe business until his death. He married Elisabeth Hoflander on Jan. 7, 1865. Elisabetha Hoflander Mittelbach was born in Germany, Aug. 9, 1830, and was a daughter of John Ernst Hoflander, one of the pioneers of the Billingsville neighborhood in Cooper County. She died Jan. 23, 1911. To Frederick and Elisabetha Mittelbach were born eight children: Wil- liam, subject of this review ; Fannie, born Oct. 22, 1857, died Sept. 2, 1903; John George, born July 13, 1859, deceased; Amelia Laura, born Jan. 18, 1862, resides in Boonville; John George, born Nov. 4, 1864, is a shoe mer- chant in Iola, Kan .; Henry Mittelbach, born Oct. 23, 1867, died Oct. 20, 1915, at St. Joseph, Mo .; Friedrich, born June 12, 1870, died March 12, 1871; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lamora, born July 25, 1874, resides in Chicago, Ill.
William Mittelbach, of this review, was reared in Boonville and re- ceived his early education in the public and high school here. After graduation from the Boonville high school, he studied for two years in the State University at Columbia. He then entered the drug business and was for four years under the tutelage of the late Dr. Ernest Roeschel, th epioneer druggist of Boonville and a splendid citizen. In 1877 he entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and was graduated in 1879. Later, in 1915 he received the Masters Degree from his alma mater. After spending one year in St. Louis he went west to Santa Fe, N. M., in 1880. This was before the advent of the railroads into the southwest and the railroad reached Santa Fe that same year and its arrival as witnessed at Albuquerque. Mittelbach. Soon afterwards he returned to Mis- souri with the intention of beginning his business career in St. Louis.
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He was persuaded, however, by his father to open a drug store in Boon- ville. This he did in Oct. 1880 and for 38 years, Dr. Mittelbach has been engaged in business in this city and is the oldest druggist in Boonville at this day. The Mittelbach Drug Store is one of the landmarks of Boon- ville and is a modern, well stocked establishment which enjoys a splendid trade.
Dr. Mittelbach was married to Mollie Sahm in 1882. She was a daughter of George Sahm, a pioneer shoe merchant of Boonville, a sketch whom appears in this history. She died in 1892, leaving two children: Leola, a teacher in the primary department of the Kansas City Public Schools; Leonore, wife of D. C. Durland of New York City. Doctor Mit- tlebach's second marriage in January, 1899, was with Miss Sophia Rein- hart, of Boonville, a daughter of Charles Reinhart, Sr., a former con- fectioner and baker of this city.
Doctor Mittelbach is a Republican and is a member and active worker in the Evangelical Church of this city. No man in the history of Boon- ville has held more positions both honorary and active than this esteemed citizen. For the past 20 years he has been connected with the Walnut Grove Cemetery Association in the capacity of superintendent and secre- tary, a position which he has held for the past six years. The success of this association has been due in a great extent to his tireless interest and management of the affairs of the cemetery. For the past 26 years he has been a member of the Board of Education and has filled the post of secretary of the board for the entire time. Doctor Mittelbach is a member of the Knights of Pythias and stands high in Pythian circles. He was the first chancellor commander of the local lodge when it was organized in 1883. He served as a member of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias several terms, representing the local lodge. Since the organi- zation of the Boonville Commercial Club in 1909 he has served as treas- urer of the organization. For 24 years he served as treasurer of the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Association and also filled the office of president of this association. He was formerly active in the affairs of the National Pharmaceutical Association and served as president of the National Association of State Boards of Pharmacy. Doctor Mittelbach has served as president of the State Board of Pharmacists and has filled all offices of the American Pharmaceutical Association, serving as first, second and third vice-president and for five years was a member of the
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committee on membership. He has been mindful of his civic responsi- bilities and has served two terms as a member of the City Council. Doc- tor Mittelbach enjoys the respect and esteem of all citizens of Boonville and Cooper County.
Col. Charles Edward Andrews, a leading citizen of Cooper County of the past decade and a scion of an old pioneer family of Boonville, was one of the best known of the citizens of this section of Missouri. He was a man of intellect and presence, who conducted his business on a large scale and had various interests in different sections of the country. Col. Andrews was for years engaged in business in Boonville, first in partner- ship with his father, the late David Andrews, and then on his own account. He became interested in farm development and did considerable business in lands; his financial interests were large and extensive. He was vice- president of the Kasigan Oil and Gas Company of Independence, Kans; vice-president of the Independence (Kas.) Plate Glass Company ; a stock- holder in the Boatman's Bank of St. Louis; formerly owned the Sicher Hotel, now the Antlers Hotel, of Sedalia, and had other extensive property interests in Sedalia. Among his business associates in that city was John H. Bothwell, prominent attorney and banker.
Col. Charles E. Andrews was born in Boonville, Feb. 8, 1849, and de- parted this life Nov. 24, 1917. He was reared and educated in Boonville, attending the Kemper School, and Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., grad- uating therefrom in 1867, and entered his father's hardware store as a partner in the business when he attained his majority.
He was engaged in business until 1889 when he retired from business and dealt in farm lands and real estate for a number of years. Mr. An- drews made a business of buying farms, building them up as regards soil and improvements and then selling at a profit.
Charles Edward Andrews was united in marriage Nov. 9, 1880, with Miss Jennie Dobyns of Memphis, Tenn. Four children were born to this union : Florie, Hardage Lane, Charles Edward Jr., and David Adair. Florie is the wife of Todd M. George, treasurer of Jackson County, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. George reside in Lees Summit, Mo., and have three children: Todd M., Hardage Virginia, and Florie Ann. Hardage Lane Andrews was born in 1889. He is an official of the General Electric Company of Schenectady, N. Y. His profession is that of a railway and traction en- gineer in which he is a recognized expert. He married Mittie Huff. Dur- ing the World War he was connected with the building of submarine de- stroyers in the service of the United States Government. Charles Edward
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Andrews Jr. was born in 1886. He is in the employ of the General Elec- tric Company of Schenectady, N. Y. During the World War he was in the Government service. David Adair Andrews was born in 1893. He volunteered for service in the World War and was a second class petit officer in the dirigible balloon section of the air service, National Army.
Mrs. Jennie (Dobyns) Andrews is a member of an old Southern Amer- ican family. She is a daughter of Col. Thomas Jefferson Dobyns who served as colonel of the Second Polish Brigade of Louisiana in the Civil War. He organized three companies of Confederate soldiers in Louisiana and commanded the Second Louisiana Regiment during the war. His command was known as the "Tiger Rifles" on account of the fierceness in which they waged battle. This was a strong fighting organization which fought with General Lee at Gettysburg. He was born in 1801 and died in 1865 as a result of chills and fever contracted during his arduous serv- ice. He was a loyal southern man, so loyal that when he had gone to a health resort called the "Springs," a man called out to him "Lee has sur- rendered," he replied as he was getting a drink from the spring, "I hope I may never live to see Lee surrender." A few weeks later he was again at the spring taking a drink. A friend called to him, "General Lee has surrendered." Col. Dobyns rolled over, paralyzed and never moved again. He had married Martha Caroline Sharpe Feb. 12, 1837, who was the first white child born in Moulton, Ala., Sept. 29, 1819, and died in Memphis, Tenn., in February, 1887. Eight children were born to Col. Thomas J. and Martha Caroline Dobyns, seven of whom were reared, as follows: Mollie Thomas, born in Randolph, Tenn., died in Boonville, Mo., in 1912, was the wife of Capt. D. DeHaven, a citizen of Boonville, who during the Civil War had charge of all the Confederate gunboats and was stationed at Selma, Ala .; Flora Roselle, born in Randolph, Tenn., deceased wife of James Clare McDavitt, of Kentucky, former Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Civil War; Eloise Lee, born in Randolph, Tenn., widow of Edward L. Col- burn, a Civil War veteran, formerly resident of Pine Bluff, Ark., and now living in Denver, Colo .; Eliza Senora, born in Randolph, Tenn., wife of S. W. E. Pegues, of Oxford, Miss., now a government official in the pen- sion department at Washington, D. C .; Emily Coons, died in May, 1918, was wife of Joseph Philip Angell, of Pine Bluff, Ark .; Thomas .Jeffer- son, Jr., born in June, 1851, former railroad man, unmarried, died in St. Louis, Mo., in 1881; Mrs. Jennie Andrews of this review; Deslond Beau- regard, called "Carrie," born at Amite City, La., wife of Cyrus Garnsey of New York, has a winter residence in Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Garnsey gave
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his services without price to the government as assistant fuel inspector during the World War, and Mr. and Mrs. Garnsey lost their only son, Lieut. Cyrus Garnsey (III), in the battle of the Argonne Forest. Lieu- tenant Garnsey was in the artillery and had been twice cited for bravery in action with the A. E. F.
Col. Thomas Dobyns was a son of Thomas Dobyns who was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Martha Caroline Dobyns was a second cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Members of the Dobyns and Sharpe families have figured prominently in the affairs of the nation for over 200 years and by virtue of this an- cestry, Mrs. Jennie (Dobyns) Andrews is a member of the Colonial Dames, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She organized the local Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and this chapter is named in honor of her great-great-grandmother, Jemima Alex- ander Sharpe, who was a heroine of the Revolutionary War, working on the battlefields caring for the wounded and the dying. Her husband was lost while fighting in the Indian Wars and who had five sons who fought for American Independence in the American Revolution. Mrs. Andrews is also a member of the United States Daughters of 1812, Americans of Armorial Ancestors, the Colonial Daughters of America, and the Daugh- ters of the Confederacy. She has good and just right to be proud of the interesting fact that she has had ancestors and descendants who served their country in every war in which Americans have been engaged since the early settlement and colonial days.
Alexander's History of Mecklenburg County has this to say of Jemima Alexander Sharp, "On one occasion, Jemima, in company with Mrs. Jack- son, the mother of a subsequent Vice-President, and others volunteered as nurses to go from Charlotte, N. C., to Charleston to the prison ships as nurses. They set out on foot, traveling through a thinly settled cun- try, struggling bravely on-these brave, tender, noble women of the Revolutionary day-Bible loving, church going women who were willing to endure all things in the path of duty."
Mrs. C. E. Andrews is a member of the Virginia Historical Society, Washington Headquarters Association, Maryland Historical Society, and the "Ark and the Dove" of Maryland, the latter being the name of the vessel bringing over her first ancestors to settle in Maryland and which arrived a few years previous to the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth.
Col. Charles Edward Andrews while a student in Westminster Col- lege, embraced the Presbyterian faith. He was a Democrat and promi-
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nent in the affairs of his party, served as a delegate to the national con- vention which nominated W. J. Bryan for President. He was a man dis- tinguished and commanding in appearance, handsome and possessed of a fine physique, and because of his fine military bearing he was called "Col- onel" by his friends and acquaintances until the title became appropriate. Practically his entire life was spent in Boonville and he loved his native city. He was kind and had kind deeds to his credit, kindly in thought and action. He gave liberally to all worthy enterprises to assist his home city, was owner of extensive properties in Cooper and Saline counties, and was connected with various large enterprises elsewhere. Other con- cerns in which he was interested was the Western States Portland Ce- ment Company of Independence, Kas., of which he was the largest stock- holder and vice-president. He was a large stockholder and vice-president of the West St. Louis Water and Light Company. At one time he was the largest taxpayer in Cooper County.
Colonel Andrews easily made and retained friendships, on account of a pleasant and winning disposition and was respected and loved by those who knew him best. He was a devoted husband, a loving and indulgent father and loved his home and fireside. His greatest pleasure was to spend his leisure time in his own home surrounded by his children, enter- ing into their sports and teaching them truth, honor, and rectitude by his living example-principles which have been followed by his sons, who are successful and talented men.
James Wellington Draffen .- One of the best known and most dis- tinguished members of the Cooper County bar was the late James W. Draffen of Boonville. Mr. Draffen was born in Albemarle County, Va., March 24, 1824, and died April 21, 1896. He was a son of Thomas and Mary (Douglas) Draffen, both natives of Virginia, and migrated to Cooper County, Mo., in 1836. They settled on a farm in this county whereon James W. Draffen was reared. After attending the district school, he studied for two years at the Kemper school. He then studied law in the office of his uncle, John Draffen, a prominent attorney of Lawrenceburg, Ky. He was admitted to the bar in 1852 and entered the office of Judge Washington Adams in Boonville. Two years later he began the practice of his profession alone. Later he formed a partnership with George Vest, who became United States Senator from Missouri, and also prac- ticed in partnership with Col. J. L. Stephens, William D. Muir and H. A. Hutchinson. He then formed a partnership with the late Judge W. M. Williams, which continued until his death. This firm was one of the
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ablest in Missouri and handled many notable cases and much important litigation, their practice extending over the entire State and even beyond its borders.
In July, 1859, Mr. Daffen was married to Miss Louise Tichenor, of Newark, N. J., a daughter of David S. and Jane S. Tichenor. Mrs. Draffen was born Dec. 20, 1835, and died April 22, 1911. Eight children were born to James W. and Louise Draffen as follows: David T., deceased; Edwin L., member of New York Appraisal Company, New York City; William M., deceased; James Wellington, Los Angeles, Calif .; Whilton Vest ; Frank D., Boonville ; Martin T., an officer at Missouri Training School, Boonville, Mo .; Mary H., wife of F. T. Pigott, Boonville.
Mr. Draffen was a stanch Democrat. Although always greatly inter- ested in matters of public concern, he never sought nor desired official position, notwithstanding the fact that he was frequently solicited by the leaders of his party to become a candidate for high office. He was an able lawyer and a good citizen who had the sincere respect and regard of his fellow citizens and the members of the bar throughout the State.
Judge Philips delivered the following touching tribute to the life of his long time friend: "For a quarter of a century I met him, term after term, at the Circuit Courts of central Missouri. We were generally ar- rayed on opposing sides. He was a foeman worthy of any man's steel and an adversary in the arena of. the forum never to be despised. I bear testimony. here in the presence of his casket, that a more honorable practitioner. a more chivalrous opponent, free from all petty meanness and trickery, I never encountered. Do you ask for a record of his achieve- ments ? Look into the volumes of your Supreme Court, extending from the 25th through 100 volumes, and from the 17th to the 50th volumes of the Court of Appeals, and you will find his name connected with much of the important litigation of the central part of the State. His briefs are his monuments. In their sententious vigor, lucidity of statement and conciseness of argument, with appropriate citation of authorities, they stand as models, worthy the study and imitation of every young lawyer.
"His client's cause was his own, and to him his client was always in the right. There was not money enough in Christendom to induce him to betray the cause, however small, of the humblest man committed to his keeping. If it be true that 'an honest man is the noblest work of God' Draffen was God's nobleman. There was not an element of dishon- esty in his composition."
At the meeting of the members of the bar held at the court house
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in his memory, the following resolutions were passed: "Whenever he accepted a retainer, he seemed to abandon everything, save honor, in his client's interests. He was untiring in his efforts, often forgetting, or appearing not to care for, that remuneration which was due for his val- uable services. His record as a bold, adroit and able lawyer and advocate commanded the admiration of his associates, and is worthy of the emula- tion of the younger members of the bar. His integrity was of the highest order. His strong characteristics won him a host of friends, in and outside of his profession, and gave him great influence with courts and juries of the country. His integrity and dauntless courage, coupled with his open advocacy of every cause in which he believed, made a valuable and worthy citizen, whose death will be seriously felt by all classes. He left behind him the record of an honorable man, an able lawyer, an affec- tionate husband and father, and a good citizen."
Whitlow Vest Draffen, successful attorney of Boonville, and a worthy son of a distinguished father, was born in Boonville, May 4, 1870, and is a son of James Wellington and Louise J. Draffen. He was educated in Westminster College at Fulton, Mo., and the State University at Columbia. Mr. Draffen studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1896. He is an excellent attorney, well versed in the lore of the legal profession and is an able pleader in the courts of central Missouri.
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