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C. C. Mendenhall, a Civil War veteran and for 35 years and a well known merchant at Stanberry, is a native of Ohio, born in Ross County, Sept. 6, 1844. His parents were Jesse and Clara (Kilbourn) Mendenhall.
Jesse Mendenhall was a native of Virginia and died in Illinois in 1865. His wife was born in Ohio, and died at Burlington Junction, Mo. Their children were: Addie, now Mrs, Loomis of Hickory County ; C. C., the sub- ject of this sketch ; William, deceased; Edgar, a resident of Salem, Neb .; and Emerson, living in Oklahoma. The Mendenhall family left Ohio and went to Fulton County, Ill., in 1846. After the death of Jesse Mendenhall there, his widow drove overland to Missouri and located at Burlington Junction, where she later married William Graham.
C. C. Mendenhall settled at Farmington, Ill., where his father had been interested in the manufacturing of "Blue" steel plows, so called because of the blue paint used on the plows. Mr. Mendenhall later came to Burling- ton Junction, then moved to Fall City. He afterwards located at Norcatur, Kans., where he farmed for ten years and followed the trade of sign paint- ing which he had learned earlier in life. He moved to Maitland, Mo., and operated a restaurant there for some time, and came to Stanberry in 1887. He opened a restaurant and made a specialty of a 15 cent meal for farmers. Finding himself successful in handling mercantile work, he opened a racket store about 15 years ago. He handles groceries also and conducts a thriv- ing business.
Mr. Mendenhall enlisted for service in the United States Army on
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Jan. 26, 1864. He was placed in Company C, 103rd Illinois Infantry. He was on garrison duty at Paducah, Ky., and later in South Carolina. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., in May, 1865, and was mustered out of service at Springfield, Ill., after a service of 18 months, and having marched over 500 miles with the company. Mr. Men- denhall had served in the 100 day enlistment during 1863 also. He joined the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Norcatur, Kans., and while living there in 1890, he was appointed census enumerator for two townships.
C. C. Mendenhall was married in 1872 to Amanda J. Golding of Bed- ford, Iowa. Mrs. Mendenhall was born in Indiana, and died at Stanberry, in March, 1919. Her remains are buried at Stanberry. Mr. Mendenhall has three living children: Edith, married to Clarence Shisler of Stanberry ; Frank Leslie, married Hazel Akers, and lives in Chicago, Ill .; and Nellie Fay, the wife of Blaine Van Tilburg of Kansas City. Two sons are dead: Charles Ernest, the oldest child, died in 1887, at the age of 21 years; and the fourth child, Carl, died in infancy. Mr. Mendenhall has the following grandchildren; Gwendolyn and Clarence Jesse Shisler, and the adopted daughter of F. L. Mendenhall.
Mr. Mendenhall has been an acute observer of men and events all of his life, and is an interesting conversationalist. He says that he prefers to keep in touch with the outside world by remaining in active business life, and he operates his business with the same vigorous foresight that built up the enterprise in the first place.
Samuel H. Dresbach, judge of the County Court of Gentry County, from 1912 to 1916, president of the Gentry County Trust Company since its organization in 1919, and a member of the firm of Dresbach and Ross at Stanberry, is one of the well known men of Gentry County, where he has lived since 1902.
Judge Dresbach was born in Edgar County, Ill., Feb. 5, 1861, the son of Samuel B. and Mary A. (Cheeseman) Dresbach. Samuel B. Dresbach died in Illinois in 1862; and his widow moved to Iowa, and later came to Gentry County, where she died in 1911. Their children were: Charles E., a farmer at Glenwood, Ark .; Helena, the wife of R. Weldon of San Antonia, Texas; and Samuel H., the subject of this review.
Samuel H. Dresbach attended the public schools of Illinois, and left that state in 1899. He located in Clarinda, Iowa, then moved to Missouri, where he settled in Clearmont, in Nodaway County. He bought a farm there which he later sold, and moved to Winterset, Iowa. From Iowa he came to Gentry County and purchased a farm which he operated until he entered his present occupation. In 1919 Judge Dresbach, in partnership with Clarence D. Ross, bought the N. G. Dillion mill at Stanberry, and have
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been operating it with success ever since. The mill grinds wheat for graham flour, oats, corn, and the owners buy and sell feed grains. The business has developed rapidly and is one of the flourishing commercial en- terprises of the community.
S. H. Dresbach was married in 1887 to Laura B. Morris, daughter of Oliver and Mary K. Morris, both deceased. Mrs. Dresbach was born and reared in Edgar County, Ill. To her union with S. H. Dresbach the follow- ing children were born: Hilah B., died at the age of 12 years; Mary K., the wife of John Hanson of Luverne, S. Dak .; Charles Chester, married Gladys Chilton, and is living on the home farm in Gentry County ; Bruce, enlisted for service in the World War, but died at the age of 22 years before he had been called for training; and Helen B., now a student in the Stanberry High School.
Samuel H. Dresbach was elected the judge of the County Court on the Democratic ticket and made an efficient and unprejudiced official of the county. He and the county officials who were serving at the same time had the court house remodeled and redecorated and made a much needed improvement in the county jail. As a county official, as one of the direct- ing factors in the Gentry County Trust Company, as a business man, and as a private citizen, Judge Dresbach has proved himself a capable and reliable man.
George A. Sager, carrier on Rural Route No. 2, from Stanberry, Gentry County, since June 1, 1901, is a native of the county, where he was born in Cooper Township on Oct. 16, 1872. His parents were Augustus and Eva (Kaiser) Sager.
Augustus Sager was born in Germany, Aug. 14, 1830, and came to America in 1842, with his parents. They settled in Sandusky Plains, Ohio, later moving to Iowa, and to Gentry County in the fifties. Mr. Sager en- tered 240 acres of land in Cooper Township, and married Eva Kaiser, the eldest of 12 children born to Conrad and Martha Kaiser, early settlers of Cooper Township. Augustus Sager enlisted for service in the Civil War from Gentry County and served in Company K., Missouri Infantry, under Colonel Craner and Captain Curry. He moved to Stanberry in 1882, and died there Jan. 31, 1918. His widow died at Stanberry on Dec. 16, 1921. The remains of both are buried in High Ridge Cemetery. Their children were: Alena, the wife of George Allen of King City; Martha, married to J. A. Dresbach, a veterinary surgeon at Stanberry; Susie, married to W. C. Smelzer of Muscatine, Iowa; G. A., the subject of this sketch; Clara, the wife of A. G. Heyde of Stanberry; Elmer, a farmer in Cooper Township; and Nellie, the wife of Earl Temple of Fleming, Colo.
George A. Sager attended the public school in his boyhood and grad-
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uated from the commercial department of the Stanberry Normal School in the class of 1898. He worked at the terminal shops in St. Joseph for a short time, then returned to Gentry County and farmed until he was appointed mail carrier by President McKinley. Mr. Sager is the oldest man in the point of service in Gentry County, and is very popular with his patrons. He expedites the delivery of the mail on his route by using an automobile.
George A. Sager was married Dec. 1, 1920 to Jennie Roberts, a daugh- ter of J. W. and Diana (McClintock) Roberts. Mrs. Roberts was a daugh- ter of Colonel Armstrong McClintock a veteran of the War of 1812 and a United States Indian Agent in this part of Missouri in the pioneer days. He helped to lay out the town site of Athens, now Albany. He died near Gower in Clinton County in 1872. Mrs. Roberts died there in 1881. J. W. Roberts was sheriff of Worth County. He was born near Rosendale, Andrews County, and died in Nodaway County, in 1918. Besides the daughter, Mrs. Sager, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts had a son, John, now living on the home farm in Nodaway County, where the Roberts family is well known, J. W. Roberts having lived there for more than 30 years. Mrs. Sager was born in Clinton County and attended school there and in Noda- way County.
Mr. Sager is a Mason, belonging to No. 109 Blue Lodge, and Chapter at Stanberry, No. 98 Council P. W. G. at Chillicothe. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America, at Stanberry. He is highly esteemed in the community for his efficiency in his work, and is accounted an enterprising and industrious citizen. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, singing in the choir for 25 years. He never missed Sunday School unless he was sick or out of town. He is a member of the Board of Trustees.
E. C. Lockwood has been a well known lawyer in Gentry County since 1901, when he began practicing at McFall, later moving to Stanberry, where he has remained. He was born near McFall, Dec. 26, 1874, the son of Jacob and Eleanor D. (Christie) Lockwood.
David Lockwood, the paternal grandfather of E. C. Lockwood was born in Kentucky in 1798. He married Jane Wilson, a native of Cabell County, Va., and two years later they moved to Warren County, Ind., where they remained for 14 years. In 1844 they came to Daviess County, and David Lockwood entered 800 acres of land which he improved. He became one of the prominent men of his community. He died on his farm in 1864, and his widow died in 1888. Their children were: William, died near Ft. Laramie on his way home from California, in a party which in- cluded Henry Bolen and Pole Brown of Pattonsburg; Robert, died in Colo-
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rado; Jacob, mentioned later in this sketch; Henry, killed in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark .; Mary A., married J. Watson; Sarah A., married Rueben Shultz, a representative from Gentry County to the Missouri legis- lature of 1861, and a supporter of Claiborne Jackson, the war governor of Missouri; Elizabeth, married to Z. Spiers, a pioneer farmer of Gentry County ; Moriah J., the widow of Francis Cravens of Payson, Utah ; Eliza, the widow of Abram Miles of Gentry, Ark .; and four children who died in infancy. Three sons served in the Confederate Army.
Jacob Lockwood, the father of E. C. Lockwood, was born in Warren County, Ind., Sept. 16, 1836, and came to Missouri with his parents. He married Eleanor D. Christie, a daughter of Israel Christie, who moved from Shelby County, Ky., to Davies County, in 1851. Israel Christie's wife was a daughter of Abram Cook, a pioneer Baptist minister of Kentucky, and the ancester of the Cook family whose name appears in the annals of the Baptist church in Missouri. Two of Israel Christie's sons, Jeffry and Israel, Jr., were well known Baptist ministers in Northwest Missouri. Jacob and Eleanor D. (Christie) Lockwood were married in the Liberty church in Daviess County, and to their union the following children were born: Anna Lee, died in infancy; Henry Wayne, accidently killed while working in timber land on Dec. 18, 1897; Charles S., formerly a teacher and an attorney at law in Gentry County, now a salesman in Tulsa, Okla .; Robert P., died in infancy ; and Ernest C., the subject of this review. Mrs. Lockwood died in 1878, and by the second marriage of the father to Naomi Belle Shores he had two children : Bernice, now Mrs. Williams of Oklahoma City, Okla .; and Eva, died in infancy. Naomi Belle (Shares) Lockwood died in 1885.
E. C. Lockwood attended the public schools of Daviess and Gentry Counties, was a student in Central Christian College at Albany, and took the law degree at the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1900. In the fall of 1901, he located at McFall, later moving to Stanberry on July 2, 1917. He served as the prosecuting attorney of Gentry County in 1913 and 1914.
E. C. Lockwood was married on Sept. 30, 1906, to Ellen G. Hendrix of Edgerton. To this union two children were born: Margaret Ellen, and Jacob R. Mrs. Lockwood died July 23, 1919. On Dec. 29, 1921, Mr. Lock- wood was married to Anora Nelle Law, who was born and reared in Gentry County, and attended Central College at Lexington.
E. C. Lockwood is highly esteemed in Gentry County. As an officer of the county he served faithfully and efficiently. He is capable in his pro- fession, and is a citizen of high ideals. The Lockwood family has been known in the county for many years and has always been a respected family, one that has been an asset to the community.
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Victor Fields, president of the Chamber of Commerce and proprietor of the Fields Clothing Company at Stanberry, is a native Missourian. He was born in Linn County, April 25, 1876, the son of Joseph J. and Eliza- beth (Street) Fields.
Joseph J. Fields was born in Virginia in 1837. He served in the Con- federate Army during the entire four years of the Civil War, and came to Missouri in 1865. He located at Linneus, and taught school practically all the remainder of his life. He died in 1917. His remains are buried in the Confederate Home Cemetery at Higginsville. His widow, born in Sulli- van County on Dec. 31, 1850, now lives at Browning. Their children were: Hermia, the wife of Guy Adams of Browning; W. H., Pine Apple, Ala .; Maude, living at Browning; Victor, the subject of this review; Floy, now married to Claude Manning of Chula; and Claude, address unknown.
Victor Fields attended school at Humphreys, and began work in a store there when he was 16 years old. He spent two years in St. Louis working in the Rice, Styx Wholesale house, and in 1901, he went to Brown- ing and established a general dry goods store. After operating that store for eight years, he sold out and went to Gifford for two years. From Gif- ford he came to Stanberry in 1912, and traded for the R. B. Coffey Cloth- ing Store. He has operated this business ever since and has made a mark- ed success of his venture. He carries a good line of merchandise, handling the Society Brand clothes for men and boys, Stetson hats and Ralston shoes.
Victor Fields was married on Oct. 16, 1904, to Ollie Dunkin, a daugh- ter of J. H. and Martha Dunkin of Browning. Mrs. Dunkin died in 1915. She and her husband were both born in Iowa. Mr. Dunkin still lives in Browning, where he is a poultry dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Fields have five children: Mary, a student in the Stanberry High School; Ruth in the grammar school; Richard and Harold, twins ; and Paul Eugene.
Mr. Fields is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Yoe- man, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias lodges. He was elected alderman of Stanberry in April, 1921. Mr. Fields is a man of keen business ability, energetic and capable. He is one of the highly esteemed men of Stanberry.
Benjamin Pierce, deceased, was a Civil War veteran and a well known farmer of Gentry County, where he came after the close of the Civil War, and bought 160 acres of land which he improved and which is now owned by his widow. Mr. Pierce was born in Clinton County in 1844. His parents were John and Sarah Pierce.
Mr. Pierce was reared in the county of his birth and enlisted there in Company A, 13th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. After three years of
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service, he reenlisted in the Federal service and was placed on duty to cross the plains. He became a prominent farmer in Gentry County, where he spent many years of his life. He was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Grand Army of the Republic at Stanberry. He died on Feb. 8, 1903, and his remains are buried in the High Ridge Cemetery.
Benjamin Pierce was married on May 29, 1870, to Elizabeth Liggett, born, Jan. 9, 1854, the daughter of Enoch and Frances (Wilson) Liggett. Mrs. Liggett was born in Indiana, and died on the Liggett farm in Cooper Township, Gentry County. Her remains are buried in Cooper Cemetery. Enoch Liggett was well known in political annals of the county. He served as a county judge, and was the representative from Gentry County to the state legislature for a term. After the death of his first wife, he married Sarah Elizabeth Osborn, and to their union three children were born: Enoch, deceased; Joseph, now living in the southern part of Missouri; and Rolla, deceased. Enoch Liggett died in 1895, and his remains are buried in Cooper Cemetery. His son, John Thomas Liggett, has been a member of the Missouri legislature.
To the union of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Liggett) Pierce the fol- lowing children were born: Sarah F., the wife of William Stephenson of Stanberry ; Charles, married Nannie Philips, and is a farmer and stockman in Gentry County ; D. M., married Mary Ellen Swaringen, and is a farmer and stockman on the home farm; James H., died at the age of 19 years; Florence, married first to Clyde Brown, and later to Earl Murry, now living at Stanberry; and Benjamin Harrison, married Vinna David, and lives at Stanberry. Mrs. Pierce has the following grandchildren: Clarence, Gladys, Dorothy, Doris and Edgar Pierce; Forest and Bernice Stephenson ; Norma and Velma Pierce; Eva, Neva and Mona Frances Brown; Curtis Murry ; and Millard Pierce.
Mrs. Pierce has been a resident of this neighborhood for 63 years. She and her husband are both members of the Baptist church, as were also Mrs. Pierce's parents. The Pierce family has been well and favorably known for many years in Cooper Township, where the members of the family have always been esteemed as reliable and capable men and women.
Judge Lester L. Hawthorne, a member of the Big Four Hardware Company of Stanberry, Gentry County, was born in Illinois, the son of Dr. J. A. and C. M. (Yost) Hawthorne. Dr. Hawthorne died at Stanton, Va., his home at that. time, in 1899. His widow brought her family to Gentry County in 1901, and she now lives at Stanberry. Dr. and Mrs. Hawthorne had the following children : Leota, now Mrs. Dice of Stanberry ; Fred Y., of Stanberry ; Harry L., also a resident of Stanberry ; Don S., the
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cashier of The Bank of Bronson, at Bronson, Kans .; and Lester L., the sub- ject of this review.
Judge Hawthorne was educated in Gentry County. He became con- nected with the Big Four Hardware Company in partnership with S. J. Dice, Fred Y. Hawthorne and Harry L. Hawthorne, just after he com- pleted his work in the Stanberry High School, and has been with the firm ever since. He is now the vice president of the company of which S. J. Dice is the president; Fred Y. Hawthorne, the secretary-treasurer, and Harry A. Hawthorne, a director of the company and manager of the imple- ment and coal departments. The firm carries a complete line of farm implements, hardware and coal, and does plumbing. The company was or- ganized in 1904, and the business has become a well established enterprise. The company now has a branch store at Clyde, where R. J. Gross is the manager; and another store at Whitesville, where Ed Kerns and Fred Berry are the managers, and at Burlington Junction, Mr. L. D. Severs, manager. At these branch stores the same line of goods is carried that is handled at the main store.
Lester L. Hawthorne was elected judge of the North District in 1920 on the Republican ticket by a majority of about 350 votes. He is now serving his second year in his official capacity, and has made a thoroughly competent officer. The other members of the court are Judge T. N. Regney, and Orvil Brown of King City. The court is starting a Holstein herd at the County Home with ten cows, and one male, purchased from the State Hospital at St. Joseph.
Judge Hawthorne is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Stanberry. He is a man of keen intellect and of marked business ability, and is well and favorably known throughout the county.
J. A. Dresbach, for 42 years a well known veterinary surgeon of north- west Missouri, is a native of Ohio, where he was born in Fairfield County, Oct. 18, 1856, the son of Benjamin and Emily (Roby) Dresbach, both of whom died in Ohio.
Dr. Dresbach has lived in Stanberry, Gentry County, since 1890, and has practiced his profession in this and surrounding counties all of that time. He attended the Toronto Veterinary College in Toronto, Ontario, in his youth, and graduated from that institution in 1875. He later prac- ticed in Ohio for 10 years, and for two years in the West. He came to Gentry County from Dallas, Texas, and for the years prior to that time, he had worked in the states of Nebraska, Colorado, Indiana and Texas. He was a pioneer in his work in northwest Missouri, and soon established an excellet business. For many years he did all of the veterinary work
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for C. A. Comstock, Robert Chenowith, Daniel Gibson, nad Mr. McClelland, all prominent stockmen of Gentry County. At the same time, Dr. Dres- bach widened his territory to include Daviess, Nodaway, DeKalb, Worth, and Andrews Counties, and he still handles a large practice.
On Aug. 30, 1891, Dr. Dresbach was married to Martha A. Sager, a daughter of Augustus and Eva (Kaiser) Sager, who were pioneer settlers of Cooper Township.
Dr. Dresbach is a Republican, but is independent in his political views. He served on the town council of Stanberry for six years, and was twice elected to the office of mayor. His last term expired in 1907. Dr. Dres- bach filled the office with marked success, and went back to private life with the highest esteem of his fellow citizens. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1902, Dr. Dresbach built his present residence on North Park Street. He is one of Stanberry's reliable and substantial citizens.
Truman Cooper, a fireman with the Union Pacific Railway Company, is a resident of Stanberry, Gentry County. He was born in Cooper Town- ship, Dec. 12, 1895, the son of William M. and Ollie (Van Horn) Cooper.
William M. Cooper was born in Cooper Township, Gentry County, Jan. 6, 1868, the son of J. C. and Polly (Floyd) Cooper. J. C. Cooper was born in 1843, and died on Nov. 23, 1911. He was a member of the Missouri State Militia from Gentry County during the Civil War. His wife was a daughter of Benjamin Floyd, an early settler of Cooper Township. She died Aug. 29, 1921, at the age of 76 years. To her union with J. C. Cooper two children were born: William M., the father of Truman Cooper; and B. L., a resident of Stanberry, who is connected with the Wabash Railway shops. He married Mary Miller.
William M. Cooper attended school in the Floyd district, and followed farming until 1910, when he moved to Stanberry. He and his brother still own a farm of 78 acres three miles west of Stanberry. For several years after he came to Stanberry, Mr. Cooper operated a mill, and was agent for the Collins Oil Company, four years before the mill burned. The mill was burned, and in 1920, he discontinued that work, and since that time has been operating a truck, handling commercial business.
William M. Cooper was married, June 30, 1880 to Ollie Van Horn, a daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (Vinsent) Van Horn. Mr. Van Horn was born in Bucks County, Pa., June 17, 1826, and came to Missouri in 1850. He settled close to Meadville on a farm, and died at Hale, April 8, 1900. His wife was born in Ohio, and died in Missouri, Dec. 19, 1916, at the age of 89 years and nine months. The remains of both Mr. and Mrs. Van Horn are buried in Cooper Cemetery. Their children were:
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George L., deceased; Anna, married Mr. Randal, and is now dead; Clara, now Mrs. Brown of Hot Springs, Ark .; Emma, now Mrs. Bierbower of Camden, Minn .; John, living at Meadville; Harriett, now Mrs. Belsher of Junction City, Kans :; Ida, married Mr. Taggart and lives in Oklahoma City, Okla .; Ada, now Mrs. Madden of Oklahoma City, Okla .; Grant, a resi- dent of Oklahoma City, Okla .; Ollie, now Mrs. Cooper; and two children who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper had two sons: Irvin, born on Feb. 24, 1891, mar- ried Cleota Montgomery on Feb. 18, 1912, and died in Aug. 1920; and Tru- man, the subject of this sketch. Irwin Cooper left three children, Eldred, Lora Evelyn, and Lester; and they and their mother now live at Gregory, S. Dak.
Truman Cooper was born, educated and has spent most of his life in Gentry County. He married Mary Cure on Dec. 31, 1916, and they have a daughter, Phyllis. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Brotherhood of Fire and Locomotive Engineers. He is a young man of excellent character, in- dustrious, and competent.
Guy Forrest Grissinger, a well known photographer fo Stanberry, Gentry County, was born in Jasper County, Iowa, April 13, 1882, the son of John A. and Gertrude (McClellan) Gressinger. They came to Gentry County, where Mr. Gressinger was a successful farmer for several years. Since March, 1921, Mr. and Mrs. Gressinger have lived at Stanberry. Their children are : Guy F., the subject of this sketch ; Oakey, a farmer in Nodaway County ; Z. Henry, a resident of Stanberry; and Andrew, a teacher of Gentry County.
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