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Robert Arthur Carey, proprietor of "Maple Grove Farm," one mile north of Prairie Home, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born Sept. 9, 1873, son of Calvin M. and Matilda T. (Miller) Carey, the latter of whom is still living, making her home at "Maple Grove," as she has done for many years. Calvin M. Carey died in 1879
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and his widow in 1885 married his younger brother, George W. Carey, who also is still living at "Maple Grove."
Robert A. Carey completed his schooling in the old Prairie Home Institute and in the high school at Boonville, and from the days of his boyhood has devoted his attention to the cultivation of the farm. Some time ago he became owner of the place, with his mother, by purchase of the interests of his brother and sisters. Since then he has made numer- ous substantial improvements to the place, including a remodeling of the residence, the erection of two barns, one 38x54 and the other 36x60, and other essential farm buildings. Mr. Carey has long given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and for the past five years has main- tained an excellent herd of registered Aberdeen-Angus cattle, with which he has had much success. He also has a good bunch of Duroc Jersey hogs and a flock of 60 or more sheep.
Dec. 27, 1909, Robert A. Carey was united in marriage to Catherine Niederwimer, who also was born in this county, and to this union two children have been born, Virginia Lee and Robert Arthur, Jr. Mrs. Carey is a daughter of Frank Niederwimer and wife, who are now living at Fayette. She received her schooling at the Oak Grove School in Saline township. Mr. and Mrs. Carey are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Prairie Home. Mr. Carey gives a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, and has served as clerk and director of the Providence School District several terms. "Maple Grove Farm" is an attractive and well kept place.
Thomas Francis Grathwohl, of the Billingsville neighborhood, has a splendid farm of 260 acres, which is well improved with a modern resi- dence erected in 1907, two large barns, a silo 40 feet in height, and 14 feet in width and everything about his place is kept in first-class shape. Two tracts, one of 80 acres and the other of 108 acres, lay in Boonville township, the rest of his land is in Palestine township.
Thomas F. Grathwohl was born in Logansport, Ind., Oct. 4, 1866. His father was Timothy Grathwohl, a native of Germany, who immi- grated to America when a young man, married Margeretha Barbara Hof- lander, and settled in Cooper County about 1866. He died in this county, Oct. 7, 1871.
Margaretha Barbara (Hoflander) Grathwohl was born Aug. 9, 1836, in Germany, and accompanied her parents, Johann Ernst and Kunigunda
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(Stegner) Hoflander to America in 1854. She died Dec. 29, 1913. The children born to Timothy and Margaretha Barbara Grathwohl are as fol- lows: Charles Timothy, born Sept. 3, 1860; Conrad Ansell, born in La- fayette, Ind., April 3, 1862, died Feb. 18, 1914; Maria Anna, born July 25, 1864, died Aug. 14, 1885; Thomas Francis, born Oct. 4, 1866; Mag- dalena Barbara, born Dec. 11, 1869; Joseph Caspar, born Aug. 24, 1871, died in 1873.
After the death of Timothy Grathwohl, the widow and children went to her father's home at Billingsville and she kept house for her brother until the children were able to work for their own support. The widow eventually bought a small farm and assisted by her brothers Paul and George and her growing sons, the family eventually became possessed of the place of 108 acres, where Thomas F. Grathwohl now lives. Here the mother lived until two years prior to her death, when she made her home with her son Charles.
Thomas F. Grathwohl lived at the homes of his uncles, Paul and George Hoflander, until he became of age. He and his two brothers, Charles and Conrad, then pooled their possessions and strength and bought the Charles Grathwohl farm together. They kept up a partner- ship for 10 years and prospered. In 1904 the brothers divided their land holdings. Thomas F. Grathwohl received 117 acres of land and Charles and Conrad, his brothers, took the original farm bought by the brothers, and the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Grathwohl keeps good live stock and has a thoroughbred male Hereford leader for his herd of cattle. He keeps thoroughbred Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs. Industry, wise management, and close application have made him one of the well to do and influential citizens of Cooper County.
Mr. Grathwold was married on Nov. 8, 1896, to Miss Amelia Muntzel, who was born May 10, 1877, in Cooper County, a daughter of the late Fritz Muntzel, a sketch of whom appears in connection with that of F. H. Muntzel in this history. The children born to Thomas F. and Amelia Grathwohl are as follows: Henry, a senior in the Boonville High School; Corinne, Joseph, Marie, Carl, and Elsie, at home.
Mr. Grathwohl is a republican. He is a member of the Evangelical Church of Billingsville and is superintendent of the Billingsville Sunday school. He is a director of the Bank of Speed, Mo., and is a director of the Clarks Fork Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
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Judge Thomas Alvin Harris, of Prairie Home, is one of the highly respected citizens and interesting men of the older generation of Cooper County's native sons. He was born in Prairie Home township in 1839, a son of Thomas and Nancy (Edwards) Harris, both natives of Kentucky. Thomas Harris came here with his father, William Harris, and settled in Cooper County in 1820. They settled in Prairie Home township, and William Harris died a few years after coming here, and was the first per- son to be buried in the Harris private cemetery. Nancy (Edwards) Har- ris, mother of Judge Harris, died in 1864.
Judge Harris is the only survivor of 10 children born to his parents. The others were: Stanton P .; Mrs. Margaret Johnston; Mrs. Elizabeth Read; William ; Mrs. Lucinda McDuffee; John; Mrs. Eliza Son; Mrs. Cath- erine Son; and George all of whom are deceased.
Judge Harris was reared in Prairie Home township and received such education as the local schools of his time afforded. In the early part of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army at Boonville, under General Marmaduke, and took part in a number of battles, among which were the engagements at Independence, Big Blue, Mine Creek, Newtonia, being in the campaigns through Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. He was at Shreveport, La., when the war closed, there surrendering, and returned home by way of the Mississippi River to St. Louis, and from there to Jefferson City by rail. After the close of the war he resumed farming and stock raising in Prairie Home township, and met with well- merited success. He raised cattle, hogs and sheep and attained quite a reputation as a breeder of Oxford sheep. He lived on the place of 120 acres where he was born, except the time he was in the army, for 80 years, or until 1919, when he bought a pleasant home in the town of Prairie Home, where he and his wife are enjoying well-earned peaceful retirement.
During the course of his caree, Judge Harris has always taken a deep and abiding interest in matters affecting the public welfare, and has been prominently identified with Cooper County in a political way. He was elected one of the judges of the County Court from the eastern district in 1891, and re-elected by a larger majority than the first time to succeed himself. Many improvements were made of a character which came within the scope of the jurisdiction of the County Court during his two terms of office. Among the more important, which might be here men- tioned, was the building of the Jewett bridge over Clarks Creek, and a number of other bridges in the county.
Judge Harris was first married in 1859 to Miss Rachel Hall, of North Moniteau township, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Hall. The follow-
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ing children were born to this union: Letitia, married Henry Carpenter, Prairie Home township; Lulu, who married D. W. Hunt, who is now de- ceased, and she lives at Pisgah, and George W., died at the age of 23. The mother of these children died in 1883. In 1890, Judge Harris was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Apperson, daughter of Gilbert and Martha (Berkley) Apperson. The former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Virginia. They were pioneers of North Moniteau town- ship. They were the parents of the following children: Bessie, the wife of Judge Harris, born May 10, 1846; William F .; Robert W .; Thomas F .; George P .; Nancy P. The last three mentioned are deceased.
Judge and Mrs. Harris are members of the Baptist Church of Prairie Home, and he has served as clerk of the Pisgah Baptist Church for 22 years. The Harris family are numbered among Cooper County's most valued and highly respected citizens, and Judge Harris and his wife have a host of friends.
Walter L. Coleman of the firm of Coleman and Lee, general mer- chandise, Bunceton, Mo., has been a resident of Bunceton since 1887 and has been engaged in the mercantile business since 1910. This store is well stocked with groceries, dry goods and general merchandise and has an excellent and substantial trade.
Walter L. Coleman was born June 13, 1873, in Lees Summit, Mo., and is a son of John Coleman, a sketch of whom appears in this history. W. L. Coleman attended the Bunceton, Mo., schools and for ten years he traveled over the country, and was a baseball player for some years in various parts of the country. Mr. Coleman returned to Bunceton in 1902 and engaged in the grain business with his father and brothers. He was next engaged in the hardware business and in 1910, in partnership with Mr. Lee, the firm of Coleman & Lee Merc. Co. was established.
Mr. Coleman was married on May 30, 1902 to Miss Huldah Lee of Bunceton, a daughter of Caleb A. Lee, partner in the business. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman have one child: John Lee Coleman, aged 15 years.
Caleb Atkinson Lee, father of Mrs. Coleman, was born Jan. 4, 1851, in Howard County. He is a son of Atkinson Hill and Susan (Wilcox) Lec, natives of Kentucky. The ancestry of this branch of the Lee family traces back to the Lees of Virginia and thence to Ireland. Col. Phil Lec, an uncle of C. A. Lee, fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A. H. Lee, father of C. A. Lee, was born in 1808 and died on April 5, 1863. He came to Missouri from Kentucky in 1830, and drove a freight- ing outfit from St. Louis to Old Franklin for a number of years and later
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engaged in farming. He was father of nine children, of whom C. A. Lee is the only one living.
Caleb Atkinson Lee was married in 1876 to Mattie M., a daughter of William R. George; she was born in 1855 in Cooper County. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have two children: Mrs. Walter L. Coleman and William Atkin- son Lee, of St. Louis, Mo.
Sept. 5, 1881, Mr. Lee moved to Cooper County, and located on a farm one mile east of Bunceton where he followed farming for 18 years. He then engaged in business with Mr. Coleman.
Mr. Coleman is a democrat, a member of the Presbyterian church and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Lee is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and is a Mason.
Joseph Popper .- The largest mercantile establishment in central Missouri, is the department store on Joseph Popper and Company, Bunce- ton, Mo., established in 1893. Mr. Popper began business on an ordinary scale in that year on a side street of Bunceton, in a room 18x60 feet and carried a stock of goods value at about $8,000. His business soon out- · grew its quarters and he moved to his present location in 1894. The Popper Store occupies a floor space of over 4,000 square feet besides a ware room of the same size. The business occupies two floors of the largest building in Bunceton. The clothing department occupies a space 30x65 feet ; the grocery department occupies a space 40x50 feet; the dry goods and notions department occupied 28x80 feet; the shoe department is situated along one entire side of the building 80 feet; and the goods are arranged on the departmental plan with every modern facility for the rapid transaction of the large volume of business. Six sales people are employed in this store and the extensive trade covers southern Cooper County and Moniteau County.
Joseph Popper was born in Austria, Feb. 12, 1863. He is a son of Adelbert and Johanna Popper, the former of whom was a merchant and farmer in his native land and who gave his son Joseph a good education to fit him for his career. Mr. Popper came to America in 1883 and located at Versailles, Mo., where he was employed by William Mendel, a merchant of that city, for ten and a half years. He then came to Bunceton and began his successful business career.
Mr. Popper has been twice married. His first marriage was with Miss Johanna Winter, who died in 1905 leaving one son: Herman Popper,
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an ex-soldier in the National Army. Herman Popper was born in 1896. He enlisted in the aviation department of the National Army early in 1918, was trained at the New York Aviation School and was then trans- ferred to the training station, Kelly Field, at San Antonio, Texas, and received an honorable discharge in Feb., 1919. Mr. Popper was again married in 1907 to Bettie Nassauer, of St. Louis, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Nassauer, of that city.
Mr. Popper is a republican. He was born and reared in the Jewish religious faith. He is a member of the Masons, the Chapter at Boonville, the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Per- sonally, Mr. Popper is a pleasant, genial, likable citizen who is liberal in his support of all public enterprises.
Herbert L. Hawkins .- The Hawkins Hardware Co., Bunceton, Mo., of which Herbert L. Hawkins is president and treasurer, was organized in 1916 with a capital of $7,000. This capital has since been increased to $30,000, the demands of the growth of the business making necessary an increase in the capitalization. L. H. Moore is the vice-president and secretary of the company. Two floors, 60x100 feet are occupied by a splendid stock of hardware, harness and implements. Three warehouses are used in addition to the store room, and six people are given employ- ment in conducting this large business. A plumbing and electrical de- partment is maintained as well as a tin shop, and a wagon and automobile repair shop. A line of wagons, buggies and automobiles is car- ried, such substantial makes as the Studebaker, Maxwell and Scripps- Booth automobiles being sold and in addition the firm handles the famous "Titan Tractors".
Herbert L. Hawkins was born in 1883 at Mohawk, Tenn. He is a son of J. K. and Sarah C. (Lotspeich) Hawkins. J. K. Hawkins has been during his whole active life, a promoter and organizer whose profession took him in various parts of the country while he made his headquarters at Morristown, Tenn. H. L. Hawkins was educated in the public schools and the seminary at Bowling Green, Ky. For several years he was en- gaged in the paint manufacturing business at Louisville, Ky., following which he was engaged in the real estate business at Versailles, Mo. Mr. Hawkins came to Bunceton in 1914 and embarked in the hardware and implement business as previously stated. Mr. Hawkins is president of the Bunceton Ice, Electric Light and Fuel Company.
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He was married in 1910 to Miss Sallie Burger of Bunceton, a daugh- ter of John G. Burger. One child has been born of this union, Helen Hawkins, aged four years.
Mr. Hawkins is a democrat of the old school. He is a member of the Baptist Church and the Masons of Bunceton, the Chapter of Boonville, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, Independent Order of Red Men and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Samuel L. Hickam, a substantial land-owner and retired farmer of Cooper County, now living in a historic old house on the corporation line of the city of Boonville, is a native Missourian, and has lived in this State all his life. He was born in Moniteau County in 1852, son of Joseph and Susan (Teeters) Hickam.
Joseph Hickam was born in Illinois, and was eight years of age when he came to Missouri with his parents in 1824, the family landing at Marion, Cole County, going from there to Moniteau County, where they settled. He thus grew up in Moniteau County, where, after his marriage to Susan Teeters, who was born in Boone County, he located on a farm, remaining there until 1876, when he moved to Cooper County, where he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. Joseph Hickam died Feb. 23, 1889, and his wife died two days later. By an astonishing coincidental train of sorrow in the Hickam family at that time, Samuel L. Hickam's first wife died Feb. 22, the day prior to her father-in-law's death, and two of the funerals were held together in the Hickam Cemetery in Moniteau County. To Joseph Hickam and wife were born 17 children, 10 of whom grew to maturity, namely: Squire William, deceased; John T., who was killed while serving under Gen. Sterling Price at the battle of Little. Blue; Jasper, deceased; Mrs. Nancy Lamm, who died Jan. 31, 1889; Mrs. Susan Stevens, deceased ; Samuel L., subject of this sketch; Mrs. Henrietta Tee- ters, deceased; S. H. Hickam, living in Moniteau County ; Joseph, de- ceased ; and James T., near Boonville.
Samuel L. Hickam was reared in Moniteau, County where he received his schooling, and where he began farming, later coming to Cooper County, where for 21 years he was engaged in farming near Wooldridge, the owner there of a fine farm of 1,100 acres, which he sold in 1917. Prior to that he was for four years engaged in farming in Howard County, where he owned a farm of 360 acres. In 1907, upon his retirement from the active labors of the farm, Mr. Hickam bought the historic old house on the Jefferson City road, at the city limits of Boonville, and has since made his
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home there. Surrounding this house Mr. Hickam has 63 acres of land, 28 acres of which are in the city limits. He also owns. 202 acres in Saline township. The house in which the Hickams live has 20 rooms, and stands right on the city corporation line, the house being thus divided that the family take their meals in the city but sleep in the suburbs. The house was erected in the thirties or early forties by the original owner, Mr. Morton, and was constructed from bricks burned on the place. The next owner was Mr. Isaac Lionberger, who built an addition to the house, ex- tending it to its present capacious dimensions. Mr. Hickam is a democrat, and he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Hickam has been thrice married. On March 15, 1877, he was united in marriage to Nannie Stone, who was born in Boone County, and who died Feb. 22, 1889. To that union five children were born, four of whom died in infancy, the survivor being Mary, wife of Henry Lachner, of Clarksburg. June 25, 1891, Mr. Hickam married Dora Wiggins, who was born in Boone County, and who died in May, 1896, and is also buried in the Hickam Cemetery. To that union was born four children, one child living, Mildred, wife of John McDaniel, of Saline township. July 8, 1897, Mr. Hickam married Myrtle Sumner, who was born up in Audrain County. This union has been without issue, but Mr. and Mrs. Hickam have reared the following children: Clarence Dietz, Joe Jones (a colored boy), Fred Teeters, John Earnhardt, Harry Vots, Ollie Thomas and Nannie Hickam. Mrs. Hickam has a sister, Mrs. J. A. Benham, living in East St. Louis, Ill. Her parents, Joseph Thomas and Martha Elizabeth (Clement) Sumner, were both members of pioneer families in Missouri, the former born in St. Louis County in 1844, and the latter in 1839. Joseph Thomas Sumner was a soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War and spent his 18th birthday in a Federal prison, having been taken a prisoner of war. He died in 1902, and his widow died in 1912. Both are buried at Santa Fe, Monroe County. Mr. Hickam has seven grandchildren, namely: Nannie Hickam, Anna Leona, Mildred Jewel and Clara Louise Lachner and and Samuel L. McDaniel, and two step-grandchildren, William and Henry Lachner and Minnie Lachner. Sergeant William Lachner, one of the grandchildren served 18 months with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, a member of the 140th Infantry 35th Division. On his birthday, Sept. 26, he was slightly wounded in the battle in the Argonne Forest, and was for some time thereafter confined to hospital, but recov- ered and was returned to his command, and is now at home in Boonville.
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His brother, Henry Lachner, was also in service of the United States Navy. One of Mr. Hickam's cousins, Capt. John T. Hickam, was an officer of the 35th Division, A. E. F., in France.
August Stegner .- For 66 years August Stegner, well to do retired farmer, living at 1006 Seventh Street, Boonville, Mo., has been a resident of Cooper County, and for 55 years prior to his removal to Boonville, he resided on one farm, reared a splendid family and has well earned a place in the history of his home county.
Mr. Stegner was born in Sachsen-Coburg, Germany, Aug. 24, 1843, and immigrated with his parents, John Peter and Margaret Barbara (Hertte) Stegner in 1853. The parents were accompanied by their four children, as follows: August, of this review; Mrs. Mary Rentchler, now deceased; Mrs. Christina Engen, who died in Howard County, Mo., in March, 1919; Feodor, a farmer, living at Billingsville, Mo .; and Mrs. Hildegarde Diehl, who died in this county.
John Peter Stegner settled on a farm near Billingsville, now owned by Feodor Stegner, and which was purchased in June, 1853.
August Stegner was 10 years old when he accompanied his parents to America. He enlisted in the Missouri State Guards in 1863, under Capt. Tom George and Colonel Pope and served for six months. His next service for another six months was under the command of Captain Shoe- maker. He was taken prisoner by Shelby's raiders in 1864 and held for two days in the Cooper County court house.
Mr. Stegner built his home in 1873 and settled on the farm at Bill- ingsville now owned by his son, Fred C. Stegner. He resided there until 1908 and then came to Boonville. He became owner of 280 acres in three farms, which he has sold to his sons at different times, and is one of the well to do citizens of Cooper County.
Jan. 3, 1871, August Stegner was married to Anna Engemann, who was born in Sachsen-Coburg, in 1852, and came to America with her par- ents in 1864. Seven children were born to this marriage, of whom five are living: Laura is deceased; Otto is a farmer in Palestine township; Benjamin is a farmer in Cooper County; Frederick Carl, owner of the home place; August Gottlieb is deceased ; Mrs. Augusta Twillman lives at Lone Elm, Mo .; Mrs. Anna, wife of Fred Dueschle, lives near Speed, Mo.
Mr. Stegner is a republican and is a member of John A. Hayne Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Boonville, Mo. He is a member of and was one of the builders of the Billingsville Evangelical Church. Mr. Steg- ner is one of the fine "old timers" of Cooper County, who has a good rec-
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ollection of the early pioneer days of Cooper County's development. Dur- ing his boyhood days there was only one man in the neighborhood who had a team of horses, everybody using oxen for work and for travel. Mr. Stegner recalls that he paid $140 for a wagon after the close of the Civil War and did all of his plowing and farm work with oxen. Horses were used only for riding and corn plowing, and no one was rich enough to own a carriage. His wagon had no sideboards and no springs and rid- ing in a wagon was a rough, jolting experience over the nondescript roads of that day. Everybody used big, clumsy wagons when it was necessary to transport produce or carry the family to church or on a visiting trip.
Otto H. Cramer, proprietor of the Cramer Mercantile Company, Bunceton, Mo., is conducting the oldest business enterprise in Bunceton. This store was established in 1867 by Edward Cramer, and is one of the best in Cooper County, retailing general merchandise and dry goods. Two generations of patrons have dealt with this store and it is now practically old enough for the third generation of patrons.
Edward Cramer, father of Otto H. Cramer, was born at Harmon, Mo., March 12, 1844 and died Dec. 31, 1914. He was a son of Dr. Edward Cramer, the first physician who practiced in Gasconade County. Dr. Cramer was a native of Prussia, and received his medical education in one of the universities of his native country. Soon after his graduation in medicine he came to America, and located in Gasconade County, Mo. Here he was married to Margaret Knocker, who was born in Philadelphia, Pa. After practicing medicine for a number of years, Dr. Cramer en- gaged in merchandising until his death on Jan. 3, 1878.
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