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There follows a list of Red Cross branches in Gentry County : Al- bany branches, Stanberry, King City, McFall, Darlington, Lone Star, Si- loam, Gentryville, Gentry, Willow Row, Pleasant Valley, Huggins and Ford City.
The following is a list of articles shipped: Hospital bed shirts, 3,347 ; wash cloths, 1,201 ; handkerchiefs, 1,499 ; sweaters, 1,217; band- ages, 9,843; helmets, 246; wristlets, 461; gun wipes, 111,765; socks,
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2,336 ; pajamas, 1,532; napkins, 656; gauze compresses, 19,843; under garments, 1,479 ; miscellaneous, 901.
Such volume and variety of results, spread over the county, re- quired a vast amount of supervision in almost endless detail. This pari of the work was in addition to money given or garments made. It was cheerfully volunteered and faithfully carried through-an abiding tes- timony to the unfailing spirit of sympathy and effective helpfulness so general throughout the whole of the county.
When the war closed and its immediate consequences had been ar- ranged for, Gentry County citizens did not suffer the Red Cross work to lapse. With G. M. Peery, as chairman of the County Chapter and Miss Elma Hundley as secretary, the work of the Red Cross has been made permanent.
Miss Gladys Blume, R. N., has been engaged as Public Health Nurse and is now in her third year, salary and expenses are paid by the Red Cross organization.
Miss Blume's position is thus defined : The Gentry County Chapter of American Red Cross has secured the services of a Red Cross Public Health Nurse.
Duties-(1) To give skilled nursing care through short visits to the patient. (2) Actual demonstrations at the bedside. (3) Instruction in the care of the patient and in those laws of hygiene necessary to the pro- tection of the family and community. (4) Visiting and examining school children. (5) Teaching classes in "Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick."
The nurse does not stay in the home of the patient, but spends one or two hours a day in the home, giving whatever care may be indicated or whatever treatment may have been ordered by the doctor and teach- ing the family how to care for the patient until her next visit. She always works under the direction of a physician.
In general the organization throughout the county is a continua- tion from the war period. The interest continues. In two of the south- west district conventions Gentry County has had the largest delegation in attendance from any county, except the county in which St. Joseph is located.
The work is largely among the children of the graded schools, and makes for better citizens. And the county is earnest in its support.
The efficient work which has been done by Gentry Red Cross Chap- ter the past year has attracted the attention of the officers of the South- west Division, at St. Louis, as well as of those at eastern headquarters, and as a result this county has been given the distinction of being made
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one of two counties in Missouri for the demonstration of Junior Red Cross work.
Bond Sales-The banks of the county cheerfully undertook the placing of United States securities. They responded to every call, and during the war period an aggregate of about $2,000,000 was sold in the county. The people met the various calls with a commendable spirit of determination to see things through in matters financial.
To this should be added the many thousands in small items han- dled by the post-offices. The total number of contributors cannot be known, but the response was very general, and in many cases, generous beyond the means of small investors, who, once the war was over, they were compelled to part with their stamps and small bonds at a heavy discount, but to their lasting honor let it be said that when the need was greatest, they more than did their share.
CHAPTER XVII.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
COUNTY COURT JUDGES-PROBATE JUDGES -- CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT-CLERKS OF COUNTY COURTS-CIRCUIT AND COUNTY ATTORNEYS-SHERIFFS-COLLEC- TORS-ASSESSORS-TREASURERS-JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT-REPRE- SENTATIVES-COUNTY SURVEYORS-SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS-CORONERS- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS.
County Court Judges.
Michael Maltsberger, William Steel, Samuel Collins, appointed in 1845.
Michael Maltsberger, John C. Williams, William A. Childers, elected for four years.
In 1849 Joseph Hawkins was appointed by the governor to fill va- cancy occasioned by the resignation of Michael Maltsberger.
Joseph Hawkins, Phillip Messimer, P. R. Cadle, elected in 1850.
James M. Howell, Peter Price, Adam Black, elected in 1854.
By virtue of an act of the legislature of 1854 and 1855 three justices of the county court were reuired to be elected at the general election in 1856, one to hold the office for six years, one for four years and the other for two yars, at which election Enoch Liggett, Robert Boggs and J. G. Wright were elected, in 1856.
In 1860 Enoch Liggett, Robert Boggs and J. G. Wright composed the county court.
Enoch Ligget, Jesse Gay and Jacob Jones, in 1862.
Enoch Ligget, Jacob Jones and George W. Needels, in 1864.
George W. Needels, Jacob Jones, John J. Ross, in 1866.
J. T. Brown, John Huggins, Charles Lowery, in 1868. John Huggins, Thomas J. Brown, John Hall, in 1870. Thomas J. Brown, John Hall, John P. Lilley, in 1872. John Hall, John P. Lilley, Elisha Cameron, in 1874.
Dimmon Dorsey was elected, but died before entering upon the duties of the office, and Cameron was appointed to fill the vacancy.
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Logan Peery, John P. Lilley, Jacob Kessler, in 1876.
Samuel Jordan, R. H. Davidson, Albert J. Clark, in 1878.
Thomas J. Stockton, James H. Campbell, Samuel Jordan, in 1880.
Thomas J. Stockton, J. H. Campbell, J. E. McGuire, in 1883. K. McKenney, J. H. Mitchell, E. M. McLeod, in 1885. K. McKenney, E. O'Malley, L. C. Norman, in 1887. F. C. Norman, A. N. Vance, Ambrose Jennings, in 1893. A. L. Garrett, H. R. Jameson, Wm .. M. Pryor, in 1895.
W. F. Conley, H. R. Jameson, Wm. M. Pryor, in 1897.
W. F. Conley, A. C. Gartin, F. J. Howell, in 1899. W. F. Conley, A. C. Gartin, J. S. Hazen, in 1901. Eli Robertson, T. T. Pratt, John Madera, in 1903.
Eli Robertson, T. N. Rigney, George Rose, in 1907.
Eli Robertson, T. N. Rigney, B. M. Ross, in 1909.
B. M. Ross, J. M. Parnam, J. S. Hazen, in 1911.
B. M. Ross, J. M. Parnam, S. H. Dresbach, in 1913.
T. N. Rigney, D. L. Bratcher, S. H. Drisbach, in 1915.
T. N. Rigney, D. L. Bratcher, Geo. W. Rose, in 1917.
T. N. Rigney, Orville Brown, Geo. W. Rose, in 1919.
T. N. Rigney, Orville Brown, Lester Hawthorne, in 1921.
Probate Judges.
George W. Lewis, elected in 1849, and in 1855, re-elected for the term of six years.
James M. Howell, elected in August, 1861, for six years, but after- wards resigned, and Charles G. Comstock was appointed to fill the va- cancy in May, 1862.
H. M. Rice, elected in November, 1862, who held the office until June, 1866, when he resigned, and Isaac P. Caldwell was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Calvin B. Hinkley, elected in November, 1868.
Caleb S. Canaday, elected in November, 1872.
Joseph B. Kingsborough, elected in November, 1876.
William G. Williams elected in 1880.
W. B. Mastin elected in 1883.
J. W. Sullinger, elected in 1885.
Jasper Cox, elected in 1895.
J. T. S. De Bord, elected in 1903.
J. A. Judd, elected in 1907.
G. P. Adams, elected in 1915.
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Clerks of the Circuit Court.
Elijah P. Powell; Robert E. Dougherty; James O. George; A. G. Whitton; Charles G. Comstock ; James West ; Archibald B. Ross; Joshua B. Thomas; J. B. Thomas, 1882; J. S. Williams, 1893; D. S. Flowers, 1895; H. J. Peery, 1903; J. S. Hawthorn, 1911; Ed E. Birge, 1915 to present time.
Clerks of the County Court.
George W. Birch ; Calvin B. Hartwell, appointed to fill vacancy; A. G. Whitton; James R. Cunningham; William B. Castor; Bart H. Wat- kins; John T. Daniel: William B. Whitley; G. T. Patton, 1883; J. F. Wood, 1893; R. B. Coffey, 1895-97 ; C. M. McNeese, 1899-1903; Wm. E. Teel, 1907-13; C. H. Mothershead, 1915-21.
Circuit and County Attorneys.
Isaac N. Jones; Lawrence Archer; James Craig; Jonathan M. Bas- sett; William G. Lewis, two terms; Thomas H. Collins; B. K. Davies; Thomas Collins.
The legislature at its session of 1870-1871 abolished the office of circuit attorney and substituted in its place the office of prosecuting at- torney of each county.
Charles H. Goodman was the first elected under the present law and held the office two terms. Joseph L. Mccullough was elected in 1876 and served two terms. Ebenezer H. Wood, George W. Lewis, Wil- liam M. Albin, Charles G. Comstock, Isaac P. Caldwell, Charles O. Pat- ton and Wallace Hubbard; J. W. Witten, 1883; J. H. McCarty, 1885; S. H. Benson, 1887; Wm. F. Dalby, 1893; J. A. Showen, 1897; S. H. Benson, 1901; C. E. Gibboney, 1907; J. B. Wayman, 1909 ; E. C. Lock- wood, 1913; D. D. Reeves, 1915; F. J. McCaslin, 1917 ; C. E. Ernst, 1919, to the present time.
Sheriffs.
James M. Howell; Elisha Cameron; George W. Birch; Thomas Kier; William B. Shoemaker; H. M. Rice; Frank Barkley; James B. Scott; Elisha Cameron; Henton Gibbany; James H. Gillispie; John Thompson, 1883; Wm. S. Jennings, 1885; Joseph A. Ross, 1887; B. B. Harrison, 1889; J. A. Ross, 1893; G. W. Reed, 1895; P. H. Buckley, 1899; J. T. Jennings, 1903; W. G. Carmack, 1907; J. A. Ross, 1913; C. C. Fee, 1917; Dale Brown, 1921.
Collectors.
Robert M. Cammon, 1872, re-elected in 1874; Francis M. Setzer, 1876, re-elected in 1878, and also in 1880; J. F. Liggett, 1882; H. M.
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Wayman; M. O. Mothershead; Hugh Stevenson; M. O. Mothershead, 1893; T. W. Kelley, 1895; D. W. Barrett, 1897; I. G. Patton, 1901. Of- fice merged.
Assessors of County.
John Huggins, Levi Yates, James A. Crawford, A. Garard, Joseph B. Kingsborough, James B. Scott, L. G. Jenkins, E. B. Crissey, Clinton B. Hash, T. Y. Grantham and Charles D. Blodgett; W. M. Harris; Ed. E. Ennis; M. O. Mothershead; J. D. Pelly, 1893; L. P. James, 1895; Wm. N. Bently, 1901. Office merged.
Treasurers of County.
John B. Hundley, William G. Williams, James C. Carter, Mordecai M. Embree, James W. Owen, Logan H. Peery, Harvey M. Cranor, Charles Embree, and C. B. Harris ; R. W. Crockett ; D. F. Robertson ; Hi- ram De Priest, 1893; T. S. Gillespie, 1895; Alex Owings, 1899; J. T. Brooks, 1903; J. S. Clark, 1907 ; F. E. Blue, 1913; Orville Parman, 1921.
Judges of the Circuit Court.
Solomon L. Leonard ; W. B. Almond; Elijah H. Norton; James Mc- Ferren ; William Herne; Jonas P. Clark; Isaac C. Parker; Bennett Pike; Samuel A. Richardson; John C. Howell; C. H. S. Goodman, 1882; Cy- rus A. Anthony, 1893; Gallatin Craig, 1899; William C. Ellison, 1907; John M. Dawson, 1917.
Members House of Representatives.
William G. Williams, 1846; Richard Roberts, 1848; Joab Neal, 1850; Daniel Conway, 1852; Nathaniel Mothersead, 1854; William M. Albin, 1856; James R. Conway, 1858; Reuben Shultz, 1860; James R. Conway, 1862; David Cranor, 1864; Hudson M. Rice, 1866; Charles C. Byrne, 1868; Phillip M. Adams, 1870; Enoch Liggett, 1872; James L. Mccullough, 1874; David C. Ganaway, 1876; Thomas A. McKinney, A. B. Ross, 1880 ; Anderson C. Smith, 1883; Frank A. Weimar, 1885; John T. Liggett, 1889; Oliver P. Russ, 1891 ; Edwin E. Ennis, 1893; James W. Sullinger, 1895; David F. Ftizgerald, 1897; Henry P. Tandy, 1901 ; Sam- uel T. Earixson, 1903; John A. Dale, 1907; John H. Burgin, 1911; J. W. McKnight, 1913; Drank Jones, 1917; W. S. Hardin, 1921.
County Surveyors.
John Plasters; Thomas Keith; James L. Plasters; A. Garard; Pier- pont H. B. Moulton; Fred N. Henton; George T. Kenyon; G. Butler ; S. G. Clark, 1893-1901; W. A. Hunton, 1901-1909; J. B. H. Ray, 1915; C. N. Dewin, 1921 to present time.
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School Superintendents.
John H. Whedbee, 1857; David McGaughey, 1860-'62; W. B. Cas- tor, 1864; N. Thomas Rogers, 1866; John B. Twist, 1868-'72; L. C. Tay- lor, 1873; W. B. Whitely, 1875-'77; John H. Sampson, appointed 1878; George Pomeroy, 1879-'80; C. B. Hinkley, 1881-'83; J. H. Markley, 1897; W. D. Crosswhite, 1899; G. L. Gray, 1909; C. H. Allen, 1911; Egbert Jennings, 1915; Gretchen Jennings, 1917; E. C. Duncan, 1919, to present time.
Coroner.
C. B. Hinkley ; J. S. Hathaway; L. H. Peery ; J. L. McCullough ; R. P. Duncan; T. A. Daugherty ; L. E. Miller; L. H. Peery ; R. P. Duncan, 1893; T. A. Daugherty, 1895; L. E. Miller, 1897; J. D. Halstead, 1899; L. H. Peery, 1901; T. E. Graham, 1903; J. N. Barger, 1907 to 1915; A. M. Ganaway, 1917; G. W. Whitley, 1919; S. O. Harding, 1921.
Public Administrator.
R. L. Whaley; Horace Peery; Wallace Hubbard, 1884 to 1903; C. H. S. Goodman, 1907 to 1911; W. H. Haas, 1913 to 1915; R. M. MeCam- mon, 1918, to present time.
Yours Sincerely, Joshua Alexander
PART III. Biographical.
Hon Joshua W. Alexander, attorney at Gallatin, Daviess County, has had the honor of distinctive public service for his community and for the state during a period of 46 years. His long period of public life has covered the epoch making years of America public policies. Admitted to the bar in Missouri, in 1875, he began practicing in Gallatin, and he next year was elected public administrator of Daviess County. This position he held with credit until 1882. That year he became a member of the Gallatin Board of Education, serving first as the president, and later as the secretary. He remained on the board for 21 years, and his high ideals of the duty of the state in relation to the educational facilities for its future citizens have been instrumental in molding the public school policies of Gallatin.
In 1882, Mr. Alexander was elected to the office of representative of Daviess County, and served in the Missouri General Assembly through some eventful years. He was the chairman of the committee on appropria- tions in the 33rd General Assembly, and was a leader in the enactment of legislation enforcing the provisions of the constitution of 1875 to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs, and establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight on the rail- roads in the state.
For two successive terms, Judge Alexander served as the mayor of Gallatin. In 1894 he was appointed a member of the Board of Managers of the Missouri State Hospital No. 2 at St. Joseph by Gov. W. J. Stone, and served for a number of years. In the meantime he had continued his prac- tice of law with increasing success, and because of his well established ability, in January, 1901, he was appointed by Gov. L. V. Stephens, judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit to fill out the unexpired term of Judge E. J. Broaddus, who had been elected judge of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in November, 1900. In 1904 Judge Alexander was reelected judge for a term of six years, but in 1906, without being a candidate, he was nominated as representative in the Congress of the U. S. from the Third Congressional District, and the following November he was elected to that office. In February 1907 he resigned from the bench to assume his new duties in
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Washington, and he continued in active service there during the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, and 66th Congress up to Dec. 15, 1919.
Judge Alexander's services to the nation have been well known. He was the chairman of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries in the 62nd, 63rd, 64th, and 65th, Congresses. One of the important pieces of work done after the Democrats gained control of the House in the 62nd Congress conducted by Judge Alexander was the "Investigation of the Shipping Combinations" under House Resolution No. 587. His work in connection with that investigation, his report to the House and the bills introduced by him to carry out the recommendations of the committee, are among his greatest achievements during the period of his congressional service. Following the sinking of the steamship, Titanic, in April, 1912, Judge Alexander introduced the joint resolution, which became a law in June, 1912, authorizing the President of the United States to call or partic- ipate in an international conference on the subject of Greater Safety of Life at Sea. The Conference was called by Great Britian, and President Wilson appointed Judge Alexander the Chairman of the United States Commissioners to this conference which met in London from Nov. 12, 1913 to Jan. 20, 1914. Participating in the conference were 14 nations, besides Canada, Australia and New Zealand. All the great maritime nations were represented in the conference. The Convention upon which the Conference agreed, was ratified by the United States Senate, and Judge Alexander was personally congratulated by President Wilson for the distinguished service which he had rendered the United States government in the Conference.
Judge Alexander's ability and his intense desire to accomplish the things which he felt were essential to the prosperity and welfare of the government, kept him active in Congress. In, 1914, shortly after the World War began he introduced into Congress the Bill creating the War Risk Insurance Bureau in the Treasury Department. The aim of this legis- lation was to insure merchant vessels, their freight money and cargoes against war risks. The bill became a law in August, 1914. Later and to meet conditions as they arose during the war, Judge Alexander introduced bills, which became laws, extending the Act Creating the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, to protect the officers and seamen on U.S. Merchant vessels, against the risks of navigation in the war zone. He is also author of what is known as the Shipping Act of 1916; this Act created the United States Shipping Board and under its provisions the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation was incorporated, and both organizations rendered great service in building up our merchant marine to meet the imparative needs of the World War, as well as to meet the requirements of our foreign com- merce in the time of peace.
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In September, 1917, Judge Alexander introduced the bill further amending the Act creating the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, which be- came a law Oct. 6, 1917, known as the Soldiers and Sailors Insurance Act ; all of these bills were war measures, and were put through Congress with expedition, and were some of the many accomplishments of the Wilson Ad- ministration.
Judge Alexander took a prominent part in framing the Radio Act of 1912, and in all legislation enacted by the Congress regulating wireless communication, and requiring vessels carrying passengers to be equipped with wireless apparatus.
On Dec. 15, 1919, Judge Alexander's loyal arduous, and able service to the Country and the Administration was rewarded by his appointment to a seat in the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson, as Secretary of Com- merce, succeeding Hon. William C. Redfield of New York. He served in the Cabinet of President Wilson until March 4, 1921, going out of office with the Wilson Administration. The great honor of a seat in President Wilson's Cabinet came to Judge Alexander unsought on his part, but met with universal approval.
Judge Alexander always refers to his service in Congress as represen- tative of the Third Congressional District with great satisfaction. He had a fine constituency and did his utmost to reward their loyalty to him by efficient servcie.
The above brief review of Judge Alexander's service to his community, his state and his country, is only a brief summary of the labors of a man of great ability, high ideals and eminent fitness for public service, and of the power he possessed to carry to a successful sonsummation the policies and ideals in which he believed. But back of Judge Alexander lies several gen- erations of fine family stock. The Alexanders are Scotch-Irish ancestry ; and during the days of the American Revolution, they emigrated to Amer- ica and settled in a rugged section of Southwestern Pa. They were Pres- byterians in religious faith. Both of Judge Alexander's paternal grand- parents were born and reared in Washington County, Pa. They were mar- ried in that county in 1796 and soon thereafter moved to Mercer County, Pa., where they were among the very first settlers; there they improved a farm and, there the Alexanders early became identified with all the stirring events and romance of early pioneer life in western Pennsylvania.
Thomas W. Alexander, father of Judge Alexander, was born and rear- ed on a farm in Mercer County, Pa., and later learned the carpenter's trade at which he worked in Pitbtsurg and later in Cincinnatti, Ohio. He mar- ried Jane Robinson in the latter city. She was a woman of fine intellect and esteemed for her many womanly virtues. She was born in England and
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was brought to the United States in her infancy. The only child born to this union was Joshua W., the subject of this sketch. He was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1852. Four years later his father went to Minnesota because of ill health. There he was joined the following year by his wife and little son. Thomas W. Alexander died in Minnesota, Oct. 12, 1859, and the following spring his widow and son came to Canton, Mo., to live, but soon returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Judge Alexander spent three years in the public schools, and in 1863 he and his mother returned to Canton, Mo. After his graduation from the public school in Canton, Judge Alexander entered Christian University there in 1868. He graduated from the university with a degree of A. B. in 1872. In June of the next year he came to Gallatin, to visit three former classmates, W. N., James A. and George W. Richardson, sons of Judge Samuel A. Richardson. Judge Alex- ander was then 21 years old and had planned to study law and fit himself for the legal profession. He planned to go to California and after teaching school for a time to fit himself for the law. But Judge Richardson prevail- ed upon him to remain in Gallatin and study law in the latter's office. The families later became more intimately connected through the marriage of Judge Alexander to a daughter of Judge Richardson. From the time of his admission to the bar in 1875 Judge Alexander's success was assured, and his career has amply proven the keen foresight of Judge Richardson, when he insisted upon the young, untried but promising man remaining in the state, which he has served so faithfully In February, 1876, Judge Alexander was married to Roe Ann Richardson, daughter of Judge Samuel A. Richardson. Mrs. Alexander is an ideal wife and mother, and has dis- charged all the duties of her station in life with good taste, rare tact and judgment. Judge and Mrs. Alexander are the parents of 12 children, four of whom died in infancy ; of the others, Samuel T. the oldest son, was educated in the public schools of Gallatin and the University of Missouri, and for several years was grain inspector at St. Louis under the State Rail- road and Warehouse Commission, resigned and engaged in business at Col- umbia, Mo., from which he was later compelled to retire on account of a sudden breakdown in health, and died Dec. 24, 1915. He married Miss Eulalie Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Campbell of Columbia, and is survived by his wife and two sons; a daughter, Julia Jane, educated in the public school of Gallatin and at Grand River College in that city. She is now a widow, her husband Dr. N. R. Jenner one of the leading physicians of Washington, D. C., having died April 14, 1921; Francis, who was edu- cated in the public school at Gallatin, and at Grand River College, and a student for three and one half years in the St. Louis School of Fine Art, is the wife of Arthur G. Ficklin one of the leading farmers of Gentry
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County ; George Forrest, graduate of High School of Gallatin and of the State University of Msisouri in 1904, with the degree of L. D., removed to Portland, Ore., in 1912, engaged in the practice of law, appoined United States Marshall for the state of Oregon in September, 1917, serving until Oct. 1, 1921, when he resumed the practice of law at Portland, Ore. He is married, his wife (Nee Lola Mae Surface) and four children, two sons and two daughters grace his home; Rowena attended the public schools at Gal- latin and William Wood College at Fulton, Mo., makes her home with her parents ; Preston Carter, graduated from both academic and law depart- ments of the University of Missouri, practiced law for a time with his brother George F., in Portland, Ore., later returned to Missouri and on July 23, 1918, after our entry into the World War, enlisted in the U. S. Army and was assigned to 9th Co. 164th Dept. Brigade July 25, and trans- ferred to Field Hospital Company No. 238 (Sanitary Train) August 5, 1918, was discharged from service Jan. 23, 1919, and is now serving in the office of the Solicitor of Internal Revenue, Washington, D. C .; Walter Rich- ardson, a brief sketch of whose life appears later; and Lawrence Wood- ward, graduated from the Gallatin High School, entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1918 as a Midshipman, resigned in September, 1919, after the World War, and entered the University of Mis- souri. During the greater part of the seasons of 1920 and 1921 he served as deck officer on vessels of the United States engaged in the coast survey off the coasts of Florida and Alaska.
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