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Mr. Draffen is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, and the Woodmen of the World.
Walter B. Windsor, owner of "Fairfield" farm of 337 acres in Clarks Fork township, six and a half miles southeast of Boonville, is of the pro- gressive type of agriculturists and stockmen who have made good in Cooper County. He and his sons are owners of a total of 557 acres of rich land. They are cultivating in addition to this land, another very fertile tract of bottom land comprising a total of 150 acres. The Windsor farm is well improved with a modern residence of eight rooms, silos, metal grain bins, barns and buildings all in good condition. The farm is devoted to stock raising, all of the grain and forage raised on the place being fed to live stock which is sold on the hoof. Mr. Windsor maintains a herd of pure bred Angus cattle because of the uniformity and beef producing qualities of the breed. His Poland China hogs are pure bred as are his Oxford and Shropshire sheep. There are sold from the farm and shipped to the markets one load each of cattle, hogs and sheep each year. Mr. Windsor is an ardent soil conservationist who believes in get-
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ting the maximum yield from the land and keeping it in first class con- dition through fertilization and crop rotation. He has raised as high as 85 bushels of corn to the acre, 40 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of rye and 55 bushels of oats. This is a record which can not be excelled anywhere in Missouri or the West. The Windsor farm, "Fairfield," is the old home place of his father, the late John H. Windsor, who was one of the most successful stockmen of his day in Cooper County. John H. Windsor was a son of Horace Simeon Windsor, who settled in Cooper County over four score years ago. The family is of English descent and the history of the Windsors in America begins with Thomas Windsor, of Fairfax County, Va. Further details of the Windsor family history will be found in con- nection with the biography of Eugene A. Windsor, of Boonville, brother of the subject of this review.
Walter B. Windsor was born April 23, 1862. He was educated in the district school and the academy at Boonville. With the exception of eight years spent as a traveling salesman he has always been engaged in farm- ing. Mr. Windsor is a natural salesman and made a success on the road; for a number of years he traveled for the McCormick and Deering har- vester companies and has sold farming machinery, live stock, blooded stock for breeding purposes, and made good. He began farming on a 200 acre tract when he was 20 years of age and .has steadily increased the acreage owned by himself and his sons. Some idea of the magnitude of the farming operations carried on by Mr. Windsor and his sons can be gleaned from the fact that this season (1919) they will harvest 300 acres of wheat, 200 acres of corn, 50 acres of oats, and 20 acres of alfalfa.
May 30, 1888, Walter B. Windsor and Miss Elizabeth Ann Jewett were united in marriage. This marriage has been blessed with children as follows: Elmer and Jewett, twins, educated in the Boonville High School and Business College, born April 29, 1891; Dorsey W., born Feb. 24, 1897, educated in the Boonville High School and Business College, and like his two older brothers, is a farmer; Alma May, born July 25, 1893, educated in Boonville High School, and the Warrensburg Normal School and Boulder University, Colorado, six years a teacher and for the past two years has been in charge of the home district school; Annie Laura, born April 17, 1895, educated in Boonville High School. The mother of these children was born April 3. 1863, in Cooper County, and is a daughter of Samuel L. and Martha Jewett, both deceased. The Jewetts are an old pioneer family of Cooper County.
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Walter B. Windsor is a Democrat of the true and tried variety which knows no deviation from Democratic principles. During the administra- tion of Gov. William J. Stone he was appointed by the Governor to the office of county assessor for Cooper County and filled this office credit- ably for four years. His family worships at the Baptist Church. Mr. Windsor is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons of Boonville, having attained to a membership in the Com- mandery at Boonville. Mr. Windsors' recreation is in hunting and fish- ing, organizing and carrying out "fish fries," picnics, and barbecues, in which he is a past master. In fact no "barbecue" or fish fry is held in his neighborhood without he is one of the mainstays and leading promo- ters. At the great barbecue held in his neighborhood some years ago and which was financed by the merchants of Boonville and to which the entire county was invited, he had charge of the roasting and basting of the meats over long pits of hot coals and the job was done in an expert manner to satisfy the finest epicurean tastes. Over 5,000 people attended this barbecue and it was the greatest event of that year. It is probable that no Cooper County citizen has more warm friends in this section of Missouri than "Walt" Windsor, who is a welcome addition to any and all gatherings because of his unfailing good nature, his desire to please and "his many likable qualities.
John Thomas Pigott, one of the best known of the successful merch- ants of the Boonville of a decade or so ago, was a native Missourian. Mr. Pigott was born in St. Louis June 14, 1823, and died Nov. 29, 1907. He was a son of John T. Pigott, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and died in Missouri when his son, John Thomas was but a boy in years. Mr. Pigott was reared in St. Louis and when a young man he opened a book store at Lexington, Mo. He came to Boonville in 1867 and he and Wil- liam E. Walton made the first set of abstract books in Cooper County. He engaged in the mercantile business in partnership with William H. Trigg and Company and was successfully engaged in business until 1899. Prior to this he was engaged in banking until 1880. In 1899 Mr. Pigott retired from active business and went to his farm southeast of Boon- ville where he remained until his death in 1907.
On March 17, 1859 Mr. Pigott was married to Josephine Trigg, a daughter of William H. Trigg of Boonville. Five children were born to this marriage: Frank, Los Angeles, Calif .; John C., member of the dry
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goods firm of Pigott and Mckinley, Boonville, Mo .; Harry H., living at Helena, Mont .; Fred, a farmer living near Boonville.
John Thomas Pigott was for 60 years a Mason and at the time of his death he was the oldest Mason in Cooper County.
David Andrews .- The Andrews family is one of the oldest pioneer families of Boonville, and the name has been an honored one for many years. Ninety years ago, David Andrews, father of the late Charles Andrews of Boonville, settled at Old Franklin where he remained until the fickle Missouri washed away the business section of the old pioneer town. He then came to Boonville where he identified himself with the business interests of the city and was one of the builders of Boonville. David Andrews came to this section of Missouri, a poor youth, aged 19 years-so poor that he had but one shirt to his back, and this one he took off and washed in the Missouri River as the boat he was traveling on came near to the frontier town of Franklin. This boat, upon which he trav- eled, was drawn by horses hitched to long ropes and drawn through the water in this manner, the horses walking along the banks of the river.
David Andrews was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 2, 1809, and died in Boonville, April 30, 1893. He came West in 1820 and lived with a brother, Thomas Andrews, in St. Louis until 1828 when he came to Old Franklin and thence to Boonville. Thomas Andrews, his brother, was one of the first stockholders in the Boatsman Bank of St. Louis, as was his brother, David Andrews, at a later date. David Andrews learned the trade of tinner in his brother's shop in St. Louis. Upon his arrival at Franklin, he established a tin shop and then returned to St. Louis for his bride whom he married that same year. She was Margaret Baird, who was also born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 17, 1818, and died in March, 1901. On two occasions after establishing himself in Boonville, after the decadence of Old Franklin, Mr. Andrews had the misfortune to have his shop destroyed by fire. Each time he rebuilt and succeeded in amassing a competence despite adversity.
During the Civil War he made canteens for the Southern soldiers. This brought him into conflict with the Union forces and he was taken prisoner by General Lyon's command. Previous to his being taken pris- oner, some soldiers had waylaid him, knocked him down and left him lying for dead. His faithful wife found him, succored him, and he was then placed under arrest and taken to the prison in Jefferson City. His wife also went to the State Capital and so determined and energetic was she that she succeeded in getting him freed, in spite of the fact that Gen-
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eral Lyons insisted that Mr. Andrews be shot for a rebel sympathizer and adherent.
David Andrews was of Irish descent and was an energetic man of business who had the gift of finance and able management of his business affairs. He amassed a fortune of over $300,000 and was one of the wealth- iest citizens of Boonville in his time. He opened a hardware store in Boonville, one of the first to be conducted in the city, and the business prospered. By fair and honest dealings and by the exercise of energy and the strictest of integrity, Mr. Andrews carved an honored and re. spected place in the business world of Boonville, and his name will always be known as that of one of the real pioneers of the city. He took an active and influential part in civic affairs during his long residence here, served as a member of the City Council and was mayor of the city for some years. He was father of 11 children, ten sons and one daughter, five of who were reared to maturity: Hardage Lane, David, Florence, Charles Edward, Lonnie or Alonzo.
Hardage Lane Andrews learned the trade of jeweler, but never fol- lowed it. He went West in 1850 and eventually located in San Jose, Calif., as one of the pioneer pork packers on the Pacific Coast. He amassed a comfortable fortune and died at the age of 50 years, worth $60,000. David Andrews also went West to the Pacific Coast and was associated with his brother, Hardage L., in the pork packing business. He died in San Jose, Calif. Florence Andrews married ex-Congressman John T. Heard, of Sedalia. She was born Sept. 7, 1846, and died Sept. 14, 1886. "Lonnie" or Alonzo Andrews was born in 1854, and died in 1875. A sketch of Charles E. Andrews appears in this volume. All of the de- ceased children of David Andrews lie sleeping in the beautiful Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boonville. Although some of them had wandered far from the city of their birth, it was the wish of each that his final resting place be in the home town which they loved so well, and where their hap- piest days had been spent.
David Andrews was a man eminently fitted for the period in which he lived. He was a member of the Methodist Church and was a devout man who feared God and loved his fellow men, his wife and his children. He was a democrat and a stanch believer and upholder of democratic principles of government.
Charles W. Nixon, senior member of the firm of Nixon and Brosius, engaged in the farm loan and real estate business, Boonville, is a native of Cooper County and was born in Pilot Grove, Feb. 28, 1870. He is a
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son of David F. and Christina (Schlotzhauer) Nixon, well known resi- dents of Pilot Grove.
David F. Nixon was born in Ross County, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1842. His father, William H. Nixon, was born in Loudoun County, Va. in 1816 and died in 1901. His parents were David and Rachel (Carr) Nixon, botlı natives of Virginia, and settled in Ross County, Ohio, where they reared a family of eight children, of whom William H. Nixon was the eldest. Mrs. Elizabeth E. (Edmiston) Nixon, mother of David H. Nixon, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1815. She resided at Old Chillicothe when Indians were plentiful in the forests of the neighborhood, and she died in 1887. She was a daughter of John and Miss (Teeter) Edmiston, natives of Tennessee. The Nixons are of Scotch descent. Three children were born to William H. and Elizabeth Nixon: John W., was a veteran of the Civil War and ranked as sergeant; David F. Nixon, of this review; and Emily, deceased wife of James Benner.
In October of 1861, David F. Nixon enlisted in Company C, 73rd Ohio Regiment of Volunteers and served until his honorable discharge in 1864. He was hit by a shell in the right leg at the second battle of Bull Rnn and was also hit by a minnie ball in the left thigh. He partici- pated in the battles of Cross-Kris, Fort Republic, McDowell, Morefield and Romney, besides many minor battles and skirmishes. He was trans- ferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in 1863 and was a member of Com- pany A 21st Regular Regiment. He was a corporal and was on duty at Trenton, N. J., saw a lot of hard work in the ensuing year and was mustered out of service in 1864.
In 1866, David H. Nixon came to Pettis County, Mo., and located on a farm. Not long afterward he came to Cooper County and purchased a farm located two and a half miles south of Pilot Grove, where he farmed extensively for a number of years and was a successful breeder of Short- horn cattle. Mr. Nixon has disposed of all his land excepting a tract of 94 acres. In 1916 he left the farm and moved to a home in Pilot Grove.
Jan. 30, 1868, David H. Nixon and Christine Schlotzhauer were united in marriage. The children born of this marriage are: Alexander Nixon, cashier of the Bank of Wooldridge; Rudy, died in 1905; Katie, is at home with her parents; Charles W. Nixon, of this review, is the eldest of the family.
David H. Nixon is a Republican and served a term judge of the County Court for the western district of Cooper County. He is a stock- helder in the Wooldridge Bank and assisted in the organization of the.
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Pilot Grove Bank serving as president of this bank for two years. He is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
Charles W. Nixon received his education in Pilot Grove College, founded and conducted by the Johnson family and which was in charge of William F. Johnson for some years. Mr. Nixon farmed in the vicinity of Pilot Grove for three years and continued in farming near Bunceton, Mo., until 1902, when his election to the office of county clerk on the Republican ticket required his residing in Boonville. He served for four years in this office and in June, 1905, became associated with Mr. Brosius in the loan and land business.
In August of 1894, Charles W. Nixon was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Rodgers, a daughter of E. H. Rodgers, who now makes his home in Boonville with Mr. Nixon. Mr. Rodgers was born at West Lib- erty, W. Va., in 1842 and was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War. After the close of the war he came to Cooper County and became a large land owner in this county. Prior to his advent in Cooper County he had married Mary Elliot who was born in West Virginia in 1843 and died in 1915.
The children born to Charles W. and Margaret Nixon are: Mary Jane, a graduate of Sweet Brier College, West Virginia, class of 1919; Mar- garet, a graduate of Boonville High School, class of 1919; David, a grad- uate of the Boonville Public Schools, class of 1919; Helen, aged six years.
Mr. Nixon is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is frater- nally affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, having attained a membership in Ararat Temple Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
Rev. Fr. Theodore Kussman .- For nearly 34 years Father Kussman has been in charge of Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church in Boonville, Mo. Two years after taking charge of this church, on Aug. 17, 1885, he was made irremovable rector and will remain in Boonville during the rest of his natural life as rector of this large and prosperous church which is one of the oldest in central Missouri and which celebrated Father Russ- man's golden jubilee on May 27, 1916.
Theodore Kussman was born in Germany, Jan. 19, 1843. He is a son of Christopher and Clara Gertrude (Sperlbaum) Kussman, who immi- grated to America in 1847 and settled in St. Louis, where the father plied his trade of carpenter and cabinet maker.
Theodore Kussman attended the parochial school and Christian
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Brothers College in St. Louis. He then spent two years as student in St. Francis Seminary near Milwaukee. He next studied for three years at the Theological College in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and was ordained in the priesthood May 27, 1866.
Father Kussman's first charge was as substitute priest at Kirkwood for six months. He was then pastor of the Richwood, Mo., church for one year. He was pastor of French Village Church for two years and also had charge of the De Sota, Mo., church at the same time. For the next four years he filled the post of pastor of the Palmyra Church and also cared for two other churches in the vicinity of Palmyra. For the next 12 years he was pastor of the Springfield, Mo., Catholic Church and has spent 34 years in Boonville.
During his long years of service in Boonville he has built the large church which is still standing and doubled the size of the rectory. The celebration of his golden jubilee on May 27, 1916, was a great occasion in the history of the church.
Dr. Charles Doerrie, the veterinarian, Boonville, Mo., besides being a successful practitioner, is a manufacturer. His manufacturing busi- ness was first established in 1893 at 404 East Vine Street. The Doerrie office, residence and factory is now located at 722 Main Street, Dr. Doerrie having recently purchased the Col. John S. Elliot property. Dr. Doerrie came into possession of an excellent recipe for a facial cream which he has named "Hattie's Complexion Beautifier." This is a splendid face and skin preparation for the use of both women and men, and cach year it is becoming more and more popular with the trade. Over 70 gross were manufactured and sold in 1918, and this business was accom- plished without advertising, the goods being sold only through agents and the drug trade in all parts of the United States. The quality of the product speaks for itself, and the user of a first jar of the beautifier is generally a continuous customer who tells of its qualities to others of her acquaintance. Dr. Doerrie has been manufacturing and selling the prep- aration under the name of the Beautifier Company, Boonville, Mo.
Charles Doerrie was born in Illinois, June 23, 1862, and was yet an infant when his parents located in St. Charles, Mo. Henry Doerrie, his father, died when Charles was but a child. His mother, Mrs. Louisa (Kemper) Doerrie, reared the two children to maturity. Dr. Doerrie has a sister, Mrs. Minnie Shubert, residing southeast of Boonville. The Doerrie family came to Boonville in 1881 and the mother makes her home in Boonville. After the death of Mr. Doerrie she married Peter Young, who is deceased.
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Dr. Charles Doerrie came to Boonville in the fall of 1882, and fol- lowed farming and coal mining for the first 10 years of his residence in Cooper County. He studied veterinary surgery at the New York Veter- inary College and began the practice of his profession in 1893. During the past 26 years his practice has ranged over Cooper, Howard, Saline, Moniteau, Morgan and Chariton Counties.
April 22, 1886, Dr. Doerrie was married to Miss Alice G. Bull, of Cooper County. She is a daughter of Thomas Bull, of this county. Three children have been born to Charles and Alice G. Doerrie. Van Lee, resides at home, student in the State University, is the only child living. Van Lee Doerrie tried on seven different occasions to enlist in the National Army and was finally accepted. Seven days after he received notice to report for duty at Austin, Tex., the armistice was signed and the war ended. He is a student of architecture at the State University. By a former marriage, Dr. Doerrie has a daughter, Mrs. Wash Robertson, of Moulton, Iowa.
Dr. Doerrie is a republican who has served as a member of the Boon- ville City Council. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Wood- men of the World and Travelers' Protective Association.
Fred G. Lohse .- The general store of M. Lohse & Son, managed by Fred G. Lohse, is one of the old established and most successful business concerns in Boonville. A large room on Main street is stocked with high class groceries, dry goods, and feed, and the Lohse store unquestionably carries the largest stock of goods of its kind in the city. Some special- ties which have made this store famous throughout the country are its home roasted coffees, fresh made peanut products or butter, and the Heinz products. The Lohse store sells more kraut than all other stores in Boonville combined and the store always presents a busy, hustling scene, the force of five employees being kept busily employed in caring for the large trade. Lohse & Son caters to the highest class of trade in Cooper County and makes a distinction in favor of quality of the goods sold rather than in the quantity.
H. Lohse, father of Fred G. Lohse, was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1845, and immigrated to America in 1863 to escape military service in the Prussian army. He came to Boonville and engaged in the manufac- ture of lime, operating a lime kiln successfully until 1916. He married Carrie Stubbins, who departed this life when Fred G. Lohse was but a child. The children born to M. and Carrie Lohse are as follows: Fred G.,
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of this review; William, engaged in the automobile business at St Louis, Mo .; Mrs. Flora Hale, died in 1916; Leslie, is connected with the largest wholesale grocery corporation west of the Mississippi River with head- quarters at Tucson, Ariz .; Edgar, the youngest of the family, is a soldier in the National Army. He enlisted in the army at the age of 16 years and saw service on the Mexican border, later going to France when America entered the World War. He is a sergeant in Company B, 140th Regiment of the famous 35th Division, which so covered itself with glory in the severe fighting at St. Mihiel and the Argonne Forest on the west- ern front in France.
Fred G. Lohse was born in Boonville, Mo., March 3, 1881, and was reared and educated in this city. He embarked in business in 1898 and has risen to become one of the leading and influential merchants of Boonville during the past 21 years. The success of M. Lohse & Son has been due to his energy, ability, and natural aptitude for business. Mr. Lohse was married in 1901 to Miss Mayme Gibbons, a daughter of the late Frank Gibbons, who was prominent in the affairs of Boonville for several years, was a member of the Commercial Club and was active in boosting the commercial advantages of Boonville.
Mr. Lohse is a Republican, an active and influential booster for Boon- ville, liberal in his contributions to worthy causes intended for the ad- vancement of the best interests and growth of his native city. For the past 15 years he has been superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school and takes a just pride in conducting its affairs. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
James William Jones, city collector of Boonville, Mo., is a native of this county. Mr. Jones was born in Boonville, June 10, 1863, and is a son of Thomas P. Jones, who was born in Ireland in 1834 and died June 5, 1900.
Thomas P. Jones was a son of James I. Jones, who immigrated to · America in 1840, first resided in New York, and then came to Boone County, Mo., and in 1854 located in Boonville. When he attained ma- turity he became engaged in the transfer and freighting industry and hauled goods from the river front of Boonville to Tipton and points in the southwest for a number of years. When the overland freighting industry waned and the steam railroads took up the work formerly done by oxen and mules, Mr. Jones followed the trade of carpenter. He mar- ried Anna Cochran, born in 1842 at Turley, County Mayo, Ireland, a daughter of John Cochran, who came to America in 1850 and settled at
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Boonville and engaged in farming in Cooper County. To Thomas P. and Anna Jones were born eight children, of whom five are living: J. W. Jones is the oldest of the family; Samuel F. is yardmaster in the rail- road yards, St. Louis, Mo .; Rosa, at home in Boonville; Alice Jones is a trained nurse at the Kemper Military School, Boonville, Mo .; Margaret Jones is a saleslady in Chasnoff's store, Boonville, Mo.
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