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Desirous of obtaining more education than was afforded by the public schools of his day, James W. Jones entered the employ of Pro- fessor Kemper and worked his way through the Kemper School. doing most of his studying at night after his days work was done. He served an apprenticeship in the carpenter trade and went to California in 1885, where he followed his trade for the next seven years. He was then employed in the rolling stock department of the Southern Pacific railroad until he was seriously injured in 1896 by a fall from a moving train. Returning to Boonville he engaged in contracting. Mr. Jones built the Farmers Bank building, the Gmelich residence, the Schnack home on High street, the Colored Public School, and many other fine buildings and residences in Cooper County. He retired from business in the spring of 1918 and has served as city collector since April, 1918. His old injury had manifested itself in spinal trouble and after he had completed the erection of the I. O. O. F. building, Mr. Jones suffered a severe spell of sickness which left him incapacitated for further active work.
Mr. Jones is a Republican, and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Thomas P. Jones, when 17 years of age, crossed the Great Plains in 1851 with a cattle outfit owned and operated by Berry & Potter. After he had assisted in driving a large drove of cattle across the plains to the Pacific Coast he remained in California for about four years, engaged in mining and farming.
During the Civil War he was enrolled as a member of the Missouri State Guards and took part in some minor battles with his command. He owned a few teams of horses and kept his horses at the tanyard. George Sahm was then engaged in the shoe business in Boonville and Mr. Sham, at the time of Shelbys raid and the capture of Boonville, hid his stock of shoes and boots in an empty cistern owned by Mr. Jones. Shelby's men captured Mr. Jones and Mr. Sahm, forced Jones to go for his teams, and made Sahm recover his stock of shoes and boots from the cistern. The footwear was loaded on Jones' wagon and they were driven out to Caleb Jones' place southwest of town, both men being taken along as prisoners. At an opportune time, Mr. Jones eluded his guards who were intent on
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getting a pair of boots and the team went on. A squad of cavalry met him on the road and asked "Where in h-l are you going?" Jones an- swered, "I am going for another load of boots." The other told him, "Go ahead." With Mr. Sahm lying in the bottom of the wagon, Jones drove the wagon to Boonville, put up the team and then hid in the brush for some time.
The most important and the largest contract ever undertaken by Mr. Jones was the erection of the Phoenix American Pipe Works in Boonville.
Oscar Spieler, proprietor of "The Riverview Stock Farm" in Saline township, the "Home of Big Bone Spotted Poland Chinas," is one of Cooper County's most progressive and successful stockmen. Mr. Spieler was born Aug. 21, 1870, near California, Moniteau County, Mo., a son of F. E. and Elizabeth (Young) Spieler, natives of Germany and New York, respectively.
Frederick Ernest and Elizabeth Spieler were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Emma ; Maggie; Mrs. Sophia Schilb, of Pilot Grove, Mo .; Mrs. F. E. Eberhardt, of California, Mo .; Mrs. Ida T. Farris, of Boonville ; Theodore, Richard, and Nora, at home. F. E. Spieler was a Union vet- eran. He served in the Civil War for four years, from 1861 to 1865, en- listing in Moniteau County, Mo., where he had located prior to the war. Mr. Spieler was wounded in a skirmish near Gooch's Mill in Cooper County, when he was shot in the right arm. He came with his family to Cooper County in 1873 and settled on the farm now owned by Oscar Spieler. The father is now deceased and his remains rest in Schmidt Cemetery and the widowed mother resides with her son Oscar. Mrs. Elizabeth (Young) Spieler was born Oct. 22, 1844, in New York City, a daughter of Henry and Margaret Young, who settled in Missouri in 1854.
"The Riverview Stock Farm" is located seven miles east of Boon- ville and comprises 240 acres of valuable land on the south bank of the Missouri River. This is the home of the Big Bone Spotted Poland China hogs. Mr. Spieler purchased his most valuable brood sow in March, 1917. In the spring of 1918 he had 15 sows to farrow and from 15 litters raised 108 pigs, selling 105 from this same herd in 1918, 87 of them being shipped out by express. The heads of the herds are "Riverview Mon- arch' 'and "Real Giant." "Riverview Monarch" was sired by "Spotted Mammoth," which won second honors in the Omaha Swine Show in 1917 and first honors at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, in the age class in 1918. "Spotted Mammoth" sold for $400 to an Iowa breeder. "River-
MRS. ELIZABETH SPIELER
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view Monarch" now weighs more than 600 pounds and is not yet two years of age. "Real Giant" is 11 months old and weighs 350 pounds. Mr. Spieler has 20 brood sows and his stock is said to be the best in the County. He has stock purchased from H. L. Faulkner, of Jamesport, Mo .; J. O. Riley, of Cainesville, Mo .; R. G. Sartin, of Fayette, Mo .; B. B. Me- gown, of New London, Mo., and J. D. Gates & Sons, of Ravenwood, Mo. There is no better stock to be had than that on the Spieler place.
Oscar Spieler is numbered among the leading stockmen of this sec- tion of Missouri and he ranks highly among the enterprising citizens of his township and county.
E. J. Huber, proprietor and founder of the Huber Jewelry Company of Boonville has a handsome and well stocked store in which only de- pendable goods of the best quality are sold. Mr. Huber was born in Boonville, June 29, 1858, and is a son of Karl F. and Anna (Walz) Huber, natives of Germany.
Karl F. Huber was born in 1829 and died March 10, 1873. He ran away from home in the early forties and made his way to America, where he first worked in the woolen mills of Massachusetts. He soon came west and was employed on the construction of the C. B. & Q. rail- road while this line was being built to Galesburg, Ill. He opened a board- ing house at Mendota, Ill., after a period of employment at Peru, Ill., and in 1857 he came from Mendota to Boonville. Hle conducted a saloon busi- ness in this city until his death. While a resident of Illinois, Mr. Huber was married to Anna Walz, who was born in Germany in 1834 and died at her home in Boonville in 1892. E. J. Huber of this review, was the only child of his parents reared to manhood out of six born.
In 1873 E. J. Huber was apprenticed to Jacob Gmelich the pioneer jeweler and watchmaker of Boonville, after receiving a good common school education. After spending a four years' apprenticeship with Mr. Gmelich he was then employed by Gmelich for another three years. From 1882 to 1893 he was a partner in the business, which was con- ducted under the firm name of Gmelich and Huber Jewelry Company. In 1893 Mr. Schmidt came in as a junior partner. In 1906 Mr. Huber sold his interest to Mr. Schmidt and after a period of resting for a few years, he spent seven years in business at Blackwater, Mo. He returned to Boonville in 1915 and established his present successful business.
Mr. Huber was first married in 1880 to Miss Laura Hayne, who died in 1892, leaving one child, Karl A. Huber. This son was born in 1883 and has served his country in France. He enlisted in August of 1917,
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in the Twentieth Engineer Corps, and was promoted to the post of ser- geant. Sergeant Huber's regiment was engaged from the first of its advent in France in the building of saw mills and railroads on the west- ern front in France. Sergeant received his honorable discharge May 27, 1919, at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Upon his return home he resumed his posi- tion in the Huber jewelry store. His grandfather, John A. Hayne, was a soldier in the Civil War. He fought in the Battle of Boonville as a sergeant. After the battle was won, he jumped to a mound, waved the Union flag, shouted "Hurrah for the Union," and was shot twice and killed. The local Grand Army post is named in honor of John A. Hayne.
Mr. Huber's second marriage was with Miss Laura Roerder, who departed this life in 1903. Three children blessed this union, as follows: George, his fathers' assistant in the business; Ernest, and Min- nie. Ernest Huber was for four years a student at the Missouri State University and graduated in the class of 1916. He enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps of the National Army in 1917 and upon receiving his dis- charge from the service he resumed his medical studies at Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1915 Mr. Huber was married to Miss Katie Back.
Politically, Mr. Huber is a Republican. He is a member of the Evan- gelical Church and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Augustus H. Sauter .- Sincere regret was expressed by hundreds of people in Cooper County and the surrounding country when the Sauter Mercantile Company passed out of existence in April, 1919. For nearly 50 years this concern had been doing business in Boonville and the Sauter store had become a widely known landmark. The Sauter Mercantile Company was established in 1870 as Sauter & Company, the firm being composed of Fred Sauter, A. H. Sauter, and John Weber. The business was conducted under the name of Sauter & Company until 1905, when it was incorporated under the name of Sauter Mercantile Company, a corporation having five members: Fred Sauter, president; J. Memmel, vice-president ; A. H. Sauter, secretary and treasurer; F. S. Sauter and J. L. Sauter. When Fred Sauter died on Sept. 21, 1918, it was decided to close out the business. A sale of the stock of goods was carried on for several weeks until the remaining stock and good will of the concern was disposed of to the Bassett-Gregory Company on March 21, 1919. The Sauter Mercantile Company occupied a large building of three floors 140x180 feet in extent and the stock of goods usually carried for sale would exceed $40,000 in value. The volume of business transacted in the Sauter store annually exceeded $100,000. This immense trade was car-
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ried on each year and the patrons of the establishment were the sub- stantial people of Cooper and Howard Counties who had the utmost con- fidence in the integrity and honesty of the management and regularly made their purchases at this store.
Augustus H. Sauter, former secretary and treasurer of the Sauter Mercantile Company and now engaged in conducting a music store in Boonville was born in South Germany, Nov. 17. 1847. He is a son of Matthew and Rosa (Knapp) Sauter. Matthew Sauter was born in 1811 and died in 1896. With his family he immigrated to America in 1859 and arrived in Boonville, Oct. 5 of that year. Mr. Sauter was a skilled cabinet maker in his native land but when he came to Missouri he engaged in farming. He located on a farm 22 miles south of Boonville in Moniteau County. Later he came to a farm one and a half miles south of Boonville, where he resided until 1882. He then, even in his old age, went to South Dakota, homesteaded another farm in that new country and died there in 1896. He remained hale and hearty to the end of his days. His wife, Rosa (Knapp) Sauter, was born in 1819 and died in 1884. The children born to Matthew and Rosa Sauter are as follows: Mrs. John Weber, living in South Dakota; Mrs. Fannie Memmel, Fayette, Mo .; Mrs. Bertha Dief- endorf, Sioux Falls, S. D .; Frank S. Sauter, vice-president of the Boonville National Bank: J. L. Sauter, with the Boonville Mercantile Company. Boonville, and A. H. Sauter of this review.
A. H. Sauter was 13 years of age when he accompanied his parents to Boonville. He had received a good public school training in his native land and this was supplemented by further training in Boonville. From childhood, Mr. Sauter has had the remarkable gift of the born musician. His first work in Boonville was as a teacher of music, a profession which he followed for 25 years. Professor Sauter taught both piano and organ to many Cooper County people when devoting his time and talents to his favorite profession. During all the time in which he has been engaged in the mercantile business he has carried pianos and organs as a side line. Since retiring from the mercantile business Professor Sauter has returned to his first love and is following his personal inclinations. He has opened a piano and music store where his time is mainly spent and his natural ability as a musician has full sway.
Ifc embarked in the mercantile business in 1870 and has achieved a reputation as a good business man as well as musician, a rare combina- tion. He was formerly connected with the Farmers Bank and the Citi- zens Trust Company of Boonville and took part in the erection of the
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old Trust Company building at the corner of Main and Court streets. He was the main promoter in the organization of the Citizens Trust Company which purchased the Bankers Bank, and both were subsequently merged with the Boonville National Bank, the largest and strongest bank in Missouri in cities of 5,000 to 10,000. In a single day Mr. Sauter suc- ceeded in securing subscriptions to the stock of the Citizens Trust Com- pany to the extent of $100,000.
Mr. Sauter was married in 1914 to Miss Mary Wenig of Boonville. He is a Republican. While not a member of any religious denomination Mr. Sauter has been and is a liberal supporter of all churches. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. No group of men stand higher in the esteem of the people than the sons of Matthew Sauter, and Augustus H. Sauter is one of the best liked and substantial citizens of Boonville and Cooper County.
Henry Carl Friedrich .- The life story of Henry Carl Friedrich, of the Billingsville neighborhood, Palestine township, is a record of indus- try, energy, good business management, and of an interest taken in good works beyond that of the ordinary citizen. Since the purchase of his first modest farm of 121 acres in Aug., 1909, Mr. Friedrich has been pros- perous and enterprising. His present home place of 214.70 acres is a fine farm, good land, which raises good crops each year. This farm, which is fairly well improved, was purchased by Mr. Friedrich in 1909 at a cost of $74 an acre, or a total cost of $16,000. Mr. Friedrich has done con- siderable improving of the property since he purchased it. He has built over seven miles of woven wire fencing. He handles pure bred Hereford cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs.
Henry Carl Friedrich was born in Germany, Feb. 11, 1866. He is a son of Herman and Martha Elizabeth (Sunshine) Friedrich. His father was a public school teacher in Hesse-Cassel, and died in 1868, leaving seven children: Mary died in Germany; William came to America, set- tled in Cooper County, Mo., and died here in 1897; August died in the land of his birth; Ferdinand lives in Pennsylvania; Charles lives on a farm eight miles east of Boonville; Henry Carl, subject of this review; Adam resides on a farm south of Bunceton, Mo. The mother of these children was born May 3, 1835, and is living at the home of Mr. Friedrich.
Henry Carl Friedrich received a good education in his native land, which he left in 1885, accompanied by his mother and his brother, Adam Friedrich. When he arrived in Cooper County, he was possessed of $200 in cash. He first worked out by the month until he became familiar with
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conditions and then began renting land. He has made a success of his vocation as an intelligent tiller of the soil. His first farm was bought on time payments and the first crop season, that of the famous dry year of 1901, was a period of discouragement to him. However, everybody suf- fered the same hardships and like his neighbors, he managed to pull through and has had enough good crops in past years to enable him to trade his first homestead for his present place. This trade placed him $8000 in debt, but this is all paid and the Friedrich farm is clear of all indebtedness.
Jan. 7, 1892, Henry Carl Friedrich and Miss Lena Grauer were mar- ried. Mrs. Lena Friedrich was born March 5, 1872, near Boonville, Mo., and is a daughter of Jacob and Catherine Grauer, natives of Germany and Texas, respectively, the latter of whom died in 1881.
The children born to Henry Carl and Lena Friedrich are: Ferdi- nand, Edward Carl, Arthur Henry, Oscar Harmon, Henry Rudolph, Adolph Eugene, Adolph Elmer. Ferdinand William Friedrich was born Nov. 19, 1892. He is a farmer and owns 85 acres of land. He married Lydia Delius. Edward Carl Friedrich was born Jan. 23, 1895, is a farmer and land owner. He was called to the colors to serve in the National Army July 26, 1918. He was in training at Camp Funston, received his honorable discharge in Jan., 1919, and returned to his home Jan. 14, 1919. Arthur Henry Friedrich was born Feb. 7, 1897, and is a land owner and farmer. Oscar Herman Friedrich was born Jan. 30, 1899. Henry Ru- dolph Friedrich was born Nov. 3, 1902. Adolph Eugene Friedrich was born March 27, 1908. Adolph Elmer Friedrich was born July 8, 1916.
Mr. Friedrich is a republican.' For a number of years he has been a member of the local school board and is serving as president of the board. For the past 13 years he has been trustee of the Billingsville Evangelical Church. He is active in educational work, is a teacher of the Bible Class in the Sunday School and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for a number of years. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is active in lodge circles. He holds membership in the Wood- men of the World and he and his brother Charles inaugurated and were the principal organizers of the Speed Camp of Woodmen in 1900. He is a member of the Ladies' Circle and Auxiliary of the Woodmen.
Charles Durr, presiding judge of the County Court of Cooper County, and senior member of the Durr-Warnhoff Hardware Company and junior member of the Durr Brothers Saddlery Company, is a member of one of the oldest business families in Boonville. The Durr saddlery concern
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was established in 1859 and the hardware business was inaugurated in 1915. It is one of the best equipped hardware stores in central Missouri and a complete and modern stock of hardware, stoves, etc., is carried for discerning buyers. The harness manufactory is a flourishing concern maintained to supply local trade. Judge Charles Durr was born in Boon- ville, Aug. 16, 1872, and is a son of the late John Durr.
John Durr was born in Germany, Nov. 4, 1837 and died March 4, 1918. He came to America in 1851 and first located in New Jersey. He eventually made his way to Louisville, Ky., where he learned the trade of saddler and harness maker. He was next employed by the J. P. Siekles & Company harness and saddle manufacturers in St. Louis until 1859, when he located in Boonville, where he established the business which he carried on successfully until his death. During the Civil War he was enrolled as a member of the Missouri State Guards, serving in a defensive capacity. He served for a few years as city treasurer of Boon- ville and was active in civic affairs during his lifetime. The wife of John Durr was Mary Augusta Sombart, born 1839, died March 7, 1900. Mrs. Mary Augusta (Sombart) Durr was a sister of Judge C. W. Som- bart. John and Mary Augusta Durr were parents of the following chil- dren : John W., of the Durr Brothers Harness and Saddlery Company, Boonville; Mary, died at the age of nine years; Charles Frederick, of this review.
Charles Frederick Durr attended the public schools of his native city and at an early age he entered his father's shop, where he learned the trade of saddler and harness maker. He followed his trade until he en- gaged in the hardware business in 1915. Judge Durr was married on Nov. 26, 1896, to Julia M. Stammerjohn, a native of Cooper County, and a daughter of Claus Stammerjohn. To this union have been born two children: Mary, aged 21 years, bookkeeper for the firm; Mildred, aged seven years.
Judge Durr is a Republican and is one of the leaders of his party in Cooper County. He was elected to the office of county treasurer in 1906 and served two terms in this office. In November, 1918, he was elected presiding judge of the County Court. Judge Durr is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Knights of Pythias. He is popular, genial, well informed, a splen- did county official as well as successful business man.
William E. Crutchfield, manager of the Harris Lumber Company, Boonville, Mo., has been a resident of this city in charge of the Boonville
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yards of the Harris Lumber Company for the past 10 years. He was toin in Randolph County, Mo., Feb. 22, 1878.
L. A. Crutchfield, his father, was also born in Randolph County and is a son of William Crutchfield, of Virginia, who was a pioneer settler in Missouri. The Crutchfields are originally from Virginia and the Caro- linas and are an old American family. L. A. Crutchfield was born in 1350, followed farming until late years and is now living in Huntsville, Mo. His wife, who was Margaret Richardson, was born May 1, 1856. Eleven children were born to L. A. Crutchfield and wife, as follows: Two died in infancy; Annie, died at the age of five years; Mrs. Josephine Graves, lives in Randolph County, Mo .; William E., of this review; Leon- ard, lives in Randolph County, Mo .; Mrs. Fannie Robinson, lives at Yates, Mc .; Mrs. Edith Owens, and Mrs. Ella Stark live in Randolph county ; Mrs. Zouri Burton, lives on a farm near Armstrong, Mo .; Margaret, lives in California.
W. E. Crutchfield attended the Huntsville Public Schools and the Salisbury Academy. When 19 years old he went to California and lived with his aunt, who was conducting a hotel. He remained in California for three years and in 1900 he came back to Missouri. In 1901 he be- came connected with the lumber business at Huntsville, Mo., in the em- ploy of his uncle. After the purchase of his uncle's yard by the Harris Lumber Company, he entered their employ and was stationed at Louisi- ana, Mo., and Vandalia, Ill., for a year. For the past 13 years he has been connected with the Harris Lumber Company, has a financial interest in the company and is treasurer of the concern. Mr. Crutchfield located in Boonville in 1908.
He was married Feb. 17, 1904, to Miss Mattie Lee Wallace of Ran- dolph County, Mo .; who has borne him two children: Gladys Elzarine, born Oct. 4, 1908; and William Elzie, Jr., born Feb. 17, 1915. The mother of these children is a daughter of William Harry and Leora E. (Matlock) Wallace, the former of whom was a native of Indiana and the latter of Randolph County, Mo.
W. H. Wallace was born April 16, 1850, in Gibson County, Ind., and died June 21, 1902. He was a son of Robert Wallace, of Scotch-Irish descent. He came to Missouri in 1871 and first settled at Moberly. He was married at Huntsville, Nov. 22, 1877, to Leora E. Matlock, born Feb. 8, 1856, a daughter of James A (born May 4, 1824, died Oct. 30. 1895) ; Susan (Gunn) Matlock (born Oct. 19, 1828, died July 3. 1912). Mrs. Wallace's parents were natives of North Carolina and accompanied their
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respective parents to Missouri in childhood, the trip being made overland in wagons, the Gunns making the long trip by wagon in 1829. Michael Gunn, a brother of Susan (Gunn) Matlock, made three trips back and forth between North Carolina and Missouri and bought a great deal of land. Susan (Gunn) Matlock was a daughter of Thomas Gunn, who was a son of Thomas Gunn, who married Martha Hooper, and was a native of Ireland and founder of the Gunn family in this country. Thomas Gunn (II) married Anna Montgomery, a daughter of Michael and Jeanette Montgomery, both of whom were natives of Ireland.
James E. Matlock was a son of James Matlock, who was a son of Nicholas Matlock. Mrs. Leora E. (Matlock) Wallace now makes her home in Boonville with her daughter, Mrs. Crutchfield. She has one other child, Mrs. Lessie Ball, of Macon, Mo.
Mr. Crutchfield is a Democrat. He is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Travelers' Protec- tive Association. He and his family worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Ernest Louis Moehle .- The Moehle family have been resident in Cooper County since 1867, when Louis Moehle, father of E. L. Moehle, of Boonville, township, came to this county from Prairie City, Iowa, and purchased the William Howard farm of 185 acres on the Lamine River and also operated a saw mill.
Louis Moehle, the elder, was born in Germany, married Elizabeth Brunscheid, and after coming to this country, settled in Iowa, where he built a mill, which he operated until his removal to Cooper County in 1867. He built a saw mill on the Lamine River and he and his son Gustav engaged in the building of steamboats. Some of the boats which the Moehles built are still running on the Missouri River. Capt. "Nick" Smith bought an interest in the first boat which they built. Gustav Moehle later built gasoline boats at Arrow Rock. The father died in May, 1892. Mrs. Moehle died in 1891. They were parents of the follow- ing children: Mrs. Emma Deit Maring, Covington, Ky .; Gustav, engi- neer on the Boonville Ferry Boat; Mrs. Bertha Hines, Carrollton, Mo .; Mrs. Dena Friess, Boonville; Ernest Louis, of this review; Hugo, died in Los Angeles, Calif.
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