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Russell was a teacher by profession. To Joseph and Elizabeth (Penn) Russell were born seven children: Dr. Joseph Penn, who for forty years was engaged in the practice of medicine at Waveland, Indiana; Dr. John T., a professor in Eminence College, Eminence, Kentucky; Mrs. Charlotte Berry; Mrs. Katherine Penn: Mrs. Emily Gillespie ; Harvey, the subject of this review; and Mrs. Elizabeth Wherritt. Both father and mother have long since been deceased.
In private schools in Kentucky, Harvey Russell received his early education. He was later a student for two years in Waveland Academy at Waveland, Indiana, Montgomery county. Mr. Russell's first busi- ness venture was at Pleasant Hill, where he and W. H. H. Gustin were in partnership in the mercantile business for twenty-four years, the partnership being dissolved in 1897, when Mr. Russell sold his interest in the establishment to Mr. Gustin. The store is still being conducted in Pleasant Hill, now under the firm name of Gustin & Son, their place of business to-day the same as when Harvey Russell and W. H. H. Gustin were partners more than a score of years ago. Leaving Pleas- ant Hill, Mr. Russell came to Warrensburg, where he purchased five hundred nine acres of land located on Blackwater near Greendoor, Mis- souri. The tract of land has a splendid drainage ditch crossing it and on this farm, which is widely known as the "Willowdale Stock Farm," Mr. Russell was for many years engaged in raising Hereford cattle. A tenant. Mr. Miller, has occupied the place for the past thirteen years and he is engaged in general farming there. Each winter, for eight years past, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Russell have spent in Miami, Florida, where they own a beautiful home. Mr. Russell enjoys fishing in the ocean at that place and in the winter of 1915 landed a forty-two-pound fish, rivaling the celebrated Isaac Walton himself.
August 29, 1907, Harvey Russell was united in marriage with Mar- garet Zoll, daughter of William and Sarah Martha (Alderson) Zoll, both of whom were natives of Virginia. William Zoll came to Mis- souri in 1857 and located at Lexington, where he remained six months. From Lexington he moved to Warrensburg and the Zoll family resided on Gay street, which was not then a part of the city of Warrensburg. Mr. Zoll purchased the B. W. Grover farm and also twenty-three acres of land, the latter located on the present streets of Broad and Zoll. A part of the twenty-three acres, three and three-fourths acres, now com- prise the present lovely woodland home, known as "The Pines," where Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Russell reside when at home in Warrensburg.
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The handsome and now modern residence is surrounded by numerous, tall, stately pine trees, which were planted by William Zoll more than forty years ago. This was the Zoll homestead. William Zoll was one of Warrensburg's most prominent citizens and a leading man in civic affairs. During the Civil War, he was public administrator. He and Senator Francis M. Cockrell were very dear and intimate friends and in spite of the fact that in the Civil War the two men were on opposing sides the friendship endured the test of the bitter strife of the sixties and lasted throughout the life of William Zoll. The two friends were made Elders Emeritus of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of Warrens- burg at the same time, when the union of the Cumberland and Presby- terian churches of Warrensburg occurred.
William Zoll and Edward Kelley established the Zoll & Kelley Nursery in Warrensburg in 1872 and they were associated in nursery business in this city for more than twenty years. Later, William Zoll purchased Mr. Kelley's interest and the firm became known as Zoll & Son. William and Sarah Martha (Alderson) Zoll celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at "The Pines" in 1898 and nine of the ten children born to them were present at the celebration. Their chil- dren were as follow: Allen A., whose death occurred in 1876; Charles H., formerly county engineer and surveyor of Johnson county, at pres- ent residing in Miami, Florida: Margaret, who is the wife of Harvey Russell, the subject of this review; Mrs. Flora Z. Briggs, of Atchison. Kansas; Mrs. Sallie Callaway, of Waverly. Missouri; Mrs. Mary Z. Doyle, of Albany, Missouri; William, Jr., who was killed in 1899 in a wreck on the Missouri Pacific railway, being employed as engineer by the company: George A., who resides at Fayetteville, Arkansas; Dr. Frank C., who is engaged in the practice of medicine at Reddick, Florida; and Robert L., of Miami, Florida. At the time of Mr. Zoll's death in 1908, he was the oldest Mason in years of membership in Johnson county. His death occurred at the age of ninety-three years, caused by a stroke of apoplexy three years previous. Prior to that, William Zoll was keenly alert mentally and physically very strong. He was well posted on all cur- rent events and exceptionally well informed on political subjects. in which he always took an active interest. Mrs. Zoll had preceded lier husband in death many years before, her death occurring at the age of seventy-one years. Both father and mother were laid to rest in the cemetery at Warrensburg.
Harvey Russell keeps abreast of the times and has read extensively
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on current topics. He is a very entertaining and gifted conversationalist. Possessing a remarkable physical constitution, he is the equal, if not the superior, of men more than a score of years younger than he. Since he was eighty-two years of age, he has mastered the intricate machinery of an eight-cylinder Scripps Booth car, and he is his own chauffeur. Mr. and Mrs. Russell never speak of their "lost youth" or represent the period of youth as the end of happiness. Mr. Russell states emphatically that he is enjoying life more today than at any other period in his career. He believes that, as Joseph H. Choate once said in an after-dinner speech, when he was seventy-eight years old. "The happiest years of life are those between seventy and ninety, and I advise you to hurry up and get there as soon as you can." A visit at the Russell home, at the beautiful "Pines," will convince anyone that it is a fallacy to lament one's "lost youth." Both Mr. and Mrs. Russell are giving Johnson county a wonderful example of how to grow old-not gracefully-but triumphantly.
Dr. Joshua N. Shaneyfelt, a highly respected resident of Warrens- burg, Missouri, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born August 8, 1839, in Fayette county on a farm near Perryopolis, a city which was laid out and planned after the style of Washington, D. C. He is a son of George and Elizabeth (Underwood) Shaneyfelt. George Shaney- felt was a son of Frederick Shaneyfelt, who in early manhood emigrated from Germany and settled on a tract of land near Perryopolis, where his death occurred several years later. Elizabeth (Underwood) Shaney- felt was born in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. George Shaneyfelt were the parents of ten children: Mrs. Mary Ann Carr, who died at the age of ninety-two years; Charity, who died in girlhood; Elihu, who died in youth ; John S., the second son, also deceased; Henry S., who was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in Company H. Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and would have been promoted to the position of captain within a few days, when his death occurred, caused by a railroad acci- dent while he was in active service; Rebecca; Joshua N., the subject of this review; Nathan, a Civil War veteran, serving in Company N., Six- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, who is now residing in Warrensburg, Missouri: George, of Baxter Springs, Kansas; and Elizabeth, who is the wife of Mr. Chesler of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania. Both the father and mother died on the homestead near Perryopolis.
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his early education. Later, he attended the Washington Normal School, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Iron City Commercial College, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a student at the business college after the Civil War, in which he enlisted October 16, 1862, serving in Company B, Fifth division of the Eighteenth corps, One Hundred Sixty- eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, of which he was a musician. His regi- ment was encamped at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, from which place they were ordered to. Norfolk, Virginia, thence to Washington, D. C., and to Newbern, North Carolina, where they constructed a fort and remained throughout the winter of 1862 guarding the battery at Fredericktown. At one time this regiment was sent after General Lee, the great Southern commander. Mr. Shaneyfelt made out the discharges for his company. He himself, was discharged from service at Harrisburg, July 23, 1863. After receiving his honorable discharge from the army, Mr. Shaney- felt was a student in the commercial school. He was then engaged in teaching penmanship and followed that vocation in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri for a period of six years. after which he began the study of dentistry, serving as an apprentice in the office of a highly reputable dentist, as dental colleges had not yet been established. In 1875, he began the practice of dentistry at Hendrysburg, Ohio. Five years later, in 1880, he came to Missouri, where his dental office was located, for eight years, in Sedalia and then in Eldorado Springs for seven years. From Eldorado Springs he returned to Sedalia, where he purchased a farm and for several years was engaged in improving this place, which he afterward sold. Mr. Shaneyfelt then moved to Spring- field, Missouri, where he remained nine months, and from Springfield to Kansas City, where he resided about four months, coming thence to Warrensburg about sixteen years ago, in which city he has since resided. Joshua N. Shaneyfelt still does some practice in dentistry, frequently making plates, but he no longer fills cavities or does any extracting of teeth, as he desires to retire from dental work.
October 20, 1874, Joshua N. Shaneyfelt and Harriet Ann Harris were united in marriage in Pennsylvania. Harriet Ann ( Harris) Shaney- felt is a daughter of Jacob Harris, Jr., who was a son of Jacob Harris, Sr., one of the first of the Colonial settlers of Pennsylvania. Jacob Harris, Sr., entered the tract of land from the government, which later became the site of Perryopolis. George Washington had originally purchased the land from the Indians. Mr. Shaneyfelt has in his pos-
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session a picture of an old mill, which was erected in Perryopolis by the great general. He also has a splendid view of the old town. About six years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Shaneyfelt visited the old homestead in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Shaneyfelt is the only living member of the family of children born to her parents. The Shaneyfelt residence in Warrens- burg is located at 343 East Market street.
For many years, Joshua N. Shaneyfelt was engaged in teaching penmanship. From boyhood days, he has been especially skilled in this art and at college took a course in penmanship. Specimens of his excellent work in this line are framed and in glass cases, where they can be seen at his home. The skill manifested in his drawings of birds and in his pen and ink sketches can not be excelled and it is to be questioned if the art shown can be equalled.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaneyfelt are numbered among the best families of Johnson county. Quiet, unobtrusive, and refined, they are enjoying the peacefulness of their home life, their church relations, and their countless friendships.
H. E. Vitt, president and manager of the Vitt-Mayes Manufacturing Company of Warrensburg, Missouri, was born, reared, and educated in Sedalia, Missouri. He is a son of Jerome Henry and Philomena (Myers) Vitt. Jerome Henry Vitt was a native of Germany but of French descent. At the age of twelve years, in 1848, he emigrated from Germany and came to America, locating in Pennsylvania. In 1849, he moved to Jefferson City, Missouri Jerome Henry Vitt was one of the most enterprising of pioneer merchants. He operated branch stores along the Missouri Pacific railway erecting stores as fast as the railroad was being built. He owned stores in California, Syracuse, Smithton, and Sedalia, Missouri. His Wholesale Dry Goods & Commissary Store was in Sedalia, where he was the leading merchant in 1863. From this store, goods were supplied southwestern Missouri, eastern Kansas, and northern Arkansas. Jerome Henry Vitt possessed unusual executive ability and excellent business judgment. He was a citizen of great and true worth and his death in 1916 was deeply regretted in Sedalia and Pettis county. Mrs. Vitt preceded her husband in death several years, having passed away in 1884 at Sedalia, Missouri. Jerome and Philomena (Myers) Vitt were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Edward Hough, of Sedalia, Missouri; A. L. Vitt, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Frank See, Kansas City, Missouri; W. P., of Kansas
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City, Missouri; and H. E., the subject of this review. The father, Jerome Vitt, remarried after the death of his first wife, the mother of the chil- dren above named. his second wife being Theresa Cramer. To Jerome Henry and Theresa (Cramer) Vitt was born one child, a son, Jerome, Jr., who resides at Sedalia, Missouri.
H. E. Vitt, was educated in the city schools of Sedalia. In 1894, he entered the employ of the Lamey Manufacturing Company and for six years was with this company, learning the manufacturing business thoroughly from first-hand information and experience. . After six years he left the company and entered the employ of the Star Clothing Com- pany of Jefferson City, Missouri, and for two years was superintendent of that company. From Jefferson City, Mr. Vitt went to Lincoln, Nebraska, as superintendent of the Herman Brothers Clothing Manu- facturers establishment. Returning to Missouri, he again accepted a position with the Star Clothing Company as general superintendent and remained in their employ several years, when he assumed charge of the Lamey Manufacturing Company Factory No. 2 of Warrensburg. The account of the subsequent developments in the business career of H. E. Vitt will be found given at some length in the history of the Vitt-Mayes Manufacturing Company, which is elsewhere in this vol- ume. Mr. Vitt is now president of the largest factory in Warrensburg, one which is doing a successful and extensive business in many states.
In Warrensburg, Missouri, H. E. Vitt was united in marriage with Eliza Robinson, daughter of John and Mary Margaret (Hocker) Robin- son, a sketch of whom appears in this history. Mr. and Mrs. Vitt reside in Warrensburg at 212 East Market street. H. E. Vitt is a valued member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Knights of Columbus. He and Mrs. Vitt are numbered among Johnson county's most respected and valued citizens.
Granville A. Douglass, one of the brave Civil War veterans resid- ing in Warrensburg. Missouri, comes from a fine, old colonial family of noted ancestors. He was born in Virginia, now West Virginia, March 10, 1838, son of Levi and Malinda (Nutter) Douglass, both of whom were natives of Virginia. Levi Douglass, Jr., was a son of Levi Doug- lass, Sr., whose father emigrated from Scotland. when a lad of twelve years, coming to America as a stowaway on a sailing vessel. The boy was on board ship many days before he was discovered. The Douglass
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family has long been renowned in the annals of Scottish history. Levi Douglass, Sr., inherited all the bravery and all the glorious love of free- dom, that distinguished the clan in Scotland, and in the War of 1812 was one of the boldest soldiers. In the Indian campaign, he reached the rapids of the Maumee, when orders were received by his company to return to Virginia, which the soldiers reluctantly obeyed. Malinda (Nutter) Douglass was the granddaughter of Christopher Nutter, who came to America with his parents when he was a child of four years of age. The Nutter family emigrated from Germany. A little girl, also four years of age, was with her parents on the same vessel in which the Nutter family had sailed and she was of Scottish birth. The two emigrant families, one from Germany and the other from Scotland, settled in Virginia. When the little lad and maid attained maturity, they were united in marriage and to them was born the son, who later became the father of Malinda (Nutter) Douglass, mother of the sub- ject of this review. Levi Douglass, Jr., and Malinda (Nutter) Doug- lass were the parents of the following children: Jacob M., Walla Walla, Washington; A. M., Braxton county, West Virginia: C. H., Harrison county. West Virginia; Granville A., the subject of this review; Mrs. Jane C. Garner, Pennsboro, West Virginia; and Mrs. Mary Ellen Davis, Pennsboro, West Virginia.
In West Virginia, Granville A. Douglass was reared and educated. He remained in that state until after the close of the Civil War, in which he enlisted at Harrisville, West Virginia, February 3, 1862, serving in Company K, Tenth West Virginia Infantry under Colonel Harris. His regiment was kept in West Virginia practically all the time. Twice Mr. Douglass was wounded, once by a gunshot in the hip joint and the other, a flesh wound in the left hip, both wounds received the same day in a skirmish. Due to his wounded condition, Mr. Douglass was unable to return to active service and was not with his regiment at the close of the war. He was mustered out and honorably dis- charged February 22, 1865, having been in the service three years.
After the Civil War had ended, Granville Douglass returned to his home in West Virginia and for a time was engaged in farming. For nine years, he was employed in the city engineering department in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, as inspector of masonry and sewers. In 1892, Mr. Douglass came to Missouri and located in Columbus township. Johnson county, where he purchased one hundred sixty acres of land
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and engaged in general farming until 1901, when he purchased his present residence at 437 East Market street in Warrensburg, where he has since made his home. For some time after coming to Warrens- burg, Mr. Douglass superintended the work of paving the city streets.
May 28, 1908, Granville Douglass was united in marriage with Sarah A. (Herwick) Reed, daughter of Joseph and Catherine ( McClay) Herwick, of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass were married in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah .\. Reed Douglass was for- merly the wife of Alfred C. Reed, a native of Pennsylvania, to whom she was united in marriage on December 21. 1882. Alfred C. and Sarah A. (Herwick) Reed were the parents of the following children: Mrs. W. B. Carson, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, whose husband is employed as conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio railway; Joseph E., a prominent young merchant of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, who was with the national guard on the Mexican border in 1916; and Edward Karl, who is clerk in a Connellsville railway office and was also with the national guard on the Mexican border in 1916. Alfred C. Reed died in October, 1906, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. By a former marriage. Gran- ville Douglass and Mary (Hill) Douglass were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Martha Jane, who is now deceased; M. M .. Warrens- burg, Missouri ; Belle, who is the wife of Henry Douglass, of Wenatchee, Washington: Mrs. Rosa May Wallace, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Maggie G. Domias, Grand Rapids, Michigan. After the death of Mary (Hill) Douglass, Mr. Douglass was married to Emma Pyle, who is now deceased. Granville Douglass is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he became a member at Braddock, Pennsylvania. After coming to Warrensburg, his membership was transferred to the post here, of which he is now a valued member.
Robert E. L. Hatfield, a well-known and up-to-date blacksmith of Warrensburg, Missouri, is one of Johnson county's most respected and industrious citizens. He was born in 1865 in Macon county, Missouri, where his parents, Mahlon and Sarah ( Cook) Hatfield, had settled prior to the time of the Civil War. Mahlon Hatfield was a native of Ken- tucky. He enlisted in the Civil War, serving in the Confederate army tinder General Robert E. Lee throughout the conflict and he was with the great Southern commander. when he surrendered at Appomattox court house on April 9, 1865. After the close of the war, Mr. Hatfield returned to Macon county and opened a blacksmith shop at Laplata.
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Sarah (Cook) Hatfield was born in Missouri. She was married to Mahlon Hatfield in Macon county and to them were born the following children: J. G., Warrensburg, Missouri; W. F., Alva, Oklahoma; Rob- ert E. L., the subject of this review; Mrs. Clara Parr, Cameron, Mis- souri; and three children, who died in infancy. The Hatfield family moved from Laplata to old Cambridge, Missouri in 1866 and in this place the mother died in 1871. Mahlon Hatfield remarried and to him three children were born of his second marriage: Mahlon, Jr., Commerce, Oklahoma; Charles, East St. Louis, Illinois; and Mrs. Nannie Evans, Moberly, Missouri. From Cambridge, the Hatfields moved to Slater, Missouri, where the father was engaged in the manufacture of plows. He erected the first building in Slater, a blacksmith shop, on the right- of-way of the Chicago & Alton railway. The family resided in Slater ten or twelve years, when they moved to Marshall, Missouri, in 1878. Mahlon Hatfield died January 14, 1914, at Alva, Oklahoma.
In the schools of Marshall, Missouri, Robert E. L. Hatfield was educated. At the age of thirteen years, he began the work of shoeing horses, assisting his father in the shop at Marshall. He was taught the blacksmith's trade by his father and for four years remained in his employ. When seventeen years of age, Robert E. L. Hatfield pur- chased a blacksmith shop in Columbus, Missouri, and for the past thirty- three years has resided in Johnson county, ten years at Columbus, eleven years at Centerview, and the remainder of the time at Warrens- burg. His shop was first located in Warrensburg on North Holden street. October 15, 1916, Mr. Hatfield moved to his present location on the south side of the public square. Robert E. L. Hatfield has one of the best blacksmith shop in Johnson county, 24 x 80 and 26 x 85 feet in dimensions, modern in every particular, and equipped with the latest tools and devices. Mr. Hatfield is at the present time, in 1917, installing an up-to-date power shop. He is a naturally gifted mechanic, a member of a family widely known for the number of blacksmiths, five of the Hatfield boys learning the blacksmith's trade from the father, who was a mechanic of marked skill and ability. Practically all his life, Mr. Hatfield, the subject of this review, has been a blacksmith. His first work was done in the shop of his father and he was then a mere child. Robert E. L. Hatfield began blacksmithing by swinging the sledge and blowing the bellows for his father and as the lad was not tall enough, his father arranged a box for the child to stand upon while
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he worked. In those days the blacksmith made the horseshoe nails from rodiron. Mahlon Hatfield would form the nails in the rough and the boy, Robert, then finished them.
In 1887, Robert E. Lee Hatfield was united in marriage with Mat- tie Pemberton, of Columbus, daughter of Taylor and Catherine Pember- ton, the former born in Howard county and the latter in Boone county, Missouri. They are now residing at Hardy, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield are the parents of six children, who are living: Mrs. Ethel Stockton, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Oleta Sherman, East St. Louis, Illinois; Robert E., Jr., East St. Louis, Illinois; Raymond C., who resided in North Dakota and died at Oaks, that state, August 31, 1917; and Lela Fern and Catherine, who reside at home with their parents. The Hatfield home is in Warrensburg at 208 West Culton street. Mr. Hatfield is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, lodge No. 2087 of Warrensburg, to which his membership was transferred from Centerview, where he joined. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield are held in the highest esteem in Johnson county, where they are widely and favorably known.
Mrs. Carrie (Peak) McDonald, the highly esteemed widow of the late J. Q. McDonald, a prominent farmer and stockman of Johnson county, is one of Warrensburg's noblest women and a member of one of the best pioneer families in Missouri. She was born on the Peak homestead in Jefferson township, the place now owned by Jefferson Cooper. Mrs. McDonald is a daughter of G. W. and Eliza (Draper) Peak. G. W. Peak was born in Kentucky and when a lad fourteen years of age came to Missouri with his parents and they settled in Benton county. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peak in 1853 went to California on their "honeymoon," making the trip over the plains driving a team of oxen and, besides the wagons carrying provisions of meat and flour, taking with them their milch cows, several horses, numerous slaves, and a colored cook, who had long been in the Draper family. One of Mrs. Peak's brothers, M. C. Draper, accompanied the bride and groom on their trip. When the caravan would find a grassy spot out on the plains, they would stop at the "oasis" for perhaps a week or more, per- mitting the stock to graze. They experienced many intensely exciting and interesting incidents on the journey and Mrs. Peak often related her thrilling adventure with a mountain lion. She had strolled away from the camp and on her walk stumbled over a sleeping mountain
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