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and Mrs. Thomas H. Starks being her foster parents. Her parents, Pat- rick and Sarah (Mack) Bannahan, natives of Ireland, died in Cincinnati when she was three weeks old. To Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury have been born four children as follow: Alice B., born May 16, 1888, and died October 24, 1888; Joseph H. Salisbury, the eldest son born to Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, was born in Sedalia October 19, 1889. He was educated in the Sedalia schools, including a course in the Sedalia High School. He learned the carpenter's trade and was associated with his father until the United States declared war against Germany. He then, with Harry B. Scott and Harry O. Berry, organized a company at Sedalia, Harry B. Scott becoming captain; Harry O. Berry, first lieutenant, and Joseph H. Salisbury second lieutenant. This company was mustered into the service, August 5, 1917, as Company D, Sixth Missouri Infantry, and six weeks later, was ordered to Nevada, Missouri, at the mobilization of the Mis- souri State troops. Later they were sent to Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, where Joseph H. became first lieutenant, and in the spring of 1918 the company was sent to Camp Mills, New Jersey, arriving in France May 5th as a part of the Thirty-fifth Division. Shortly after arriving at Camp Mills, New Jersey, Lieutenant Salisbury was transferred from Company D to Company M, One Hundred Fortieth Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division. Lieutenant Salisbury's company participated in the world famed fight against the Germans at Argonne Forrest, in which the Thirty-fifth Di- vision, American Expeditionary Forces, immortalized itself. Lieutenant Salisbury commanded Company M until he was made Third Batallion Sup- ply Officer and was later promoted to captain and is now serving in Europe with that rank. Arthur E. Salisbury, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, was born March 26, 1892. He was educated in the Sedalia schools and learned the cabinet maker's trade. In May, 1918, he enlisted in the cabinet and carpentry department of the army and when peace was declared, he was foreman at the Dupont Engineering Plant at Nashville, Tennessee. He was discharged from the service in November, 1918, and is now employed by the Dickmann Bank Fixture Company of Sedalia. He married Miss Fay Siler and they have one son, Arthur G. Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury's youngest child, Bessie, was born March 5, 1895, and died November 19, 1897.
Joseph Salisbury is a Democrat and his family are members of the Broadway Presbyterian Church. His lodge affiliations are with the Mod- ern Woodmen of America. Mr. Salisbury has had an interesting and
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successful career and has reared his boys well, and given them good edu- cations, and he may well be proud of their courageous conduct in the great World War at times and in places that tested the metal of which humans were made and tried men's souls.
Nelson Painter, a Union veteran of the Civil War and a Pettis County pioneer, is one of the well-known and prosperous farmers and stockmen of Dresden township. Mr. Painter is a native of Ohio. He was born in Richland County, August 23, 1838, a son of Hamilton and Matilda (Grub) Painter. Hamilton Painter was born in Virginia and was a son of John Painter.
John Painter was twice married and both his first and second wives strangely bore the maiden name of Rachel Red, although they were not related. To both of his marriages were born eighteen children. John Painter came to Ohio about 1818 with his first wife and children, one of whom was Hamilton Painter, who was about five years old at that time. Hamilton Painter was a farmer and spent his life in Ohio. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years.
Matilda (Grub) Painter, mother of Nelson Painter, was a native of Ohio. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and her father was killed in the War of 1812. She died in Ohio at about sixty years of age.
Nelson Painter was reared in Ohio amidst pioneer surroundings, the family home in the early days being a little log cabin. In 1860 he came to St. Louis, Missouri, the same year he set out for Kansas, but finally decided to go to Holt County, Missouri, where an uncle of his lived. After remaining there a short time he bought a small tract of land and planted a crop of corn. He had no team and his stock of farming implements con- sisted principally of a hoe. He was living here when the Civil War broke out, and on February 24, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Fourth Missouri Cavalry. He served in the army of the west under General Schofield and General Brown and participated in many battles and skirmishes throughout Missouri and Arkansas. At the close of the war he received an honorable discharge and was mustered out of service and in 1865 returned to Ohio, and on July 27th of that year he was mar- ried to Hannah P. Ewers, a native of Ohio, born October 19, 1841. This union was the culmination of a nine years' courtship. Mr. and Mrs. Painter celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary July 27, 1915. Their married life has been an ideal one. Mrs. Painter was a daughter
NELSON PAINTER.
MRS. HANNAH PAINTER.
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of George W. and Rebecca (Painter) Ewers, natives, respectively, of Loudoun and Frederick counties, Virginia.
In the fall of 1866, Mr. Painter and his wife came to Pettis County, Missouri. He bought a farm in Dresden township, which is his present home and where he has lived ever since. When he settled on this place it was unimproved. He broke the prairie with horses and ox teams, and has improved his place until it is one of the well improved farms of Pettis County. Some of the trees on the place which Mr. Painter set out him- self, are now two feet in diameter. He has a splendid farm of 173 acres and carries on general farming and stock raising, and has met with suc- cess.
To Nelson Painter and wife have been born six children as follow: Rebecca, married John Ritchey and is now deceased; Sherman, Quenemo, Kansas; Lucy, married James Crawford, and they reside in Blackwater townhsip; Mary O., deceased; George W., Dresden township; and Elmer, Dresden township. Mr. Painter has fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His grandson, Leslie Painter, son of Sherman Painter of Quenemo, Kansas, is now serving in the United States Army in France, and it might be said here that there has not been a war since the founding of this Republic but what some of Mr. Painter's ancestors or descendants have served in it.
Mr. Painter is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Church. He has been a close student of men and affairs all his life, and is an un- usually well-read man with a remarkably retentive memory. As a pio- neer soldier and citizen his career has been altogether creditable to him- self and his family.
William H. Powell .- Thirty-five years of endeavor and close appli- cation to the duties at hand in the banking field of Sedalia and Pettis County have resulted in placing William H. Powell, president of the Citi- zen's National Bank of Sedalia in the front rank of Missouri bankers. From messenger boy during his youth to the position of president of one of the most important financial institutions of western Missouri while still comparatively a young man is the record of Mr. Powell. Being a native born citizen of Pettis County, he has always evinced a keen and absorbing interest in the progress and development of his native county as will be attested by the various positions of honor and trust which he has held and is now filling to the satisfaction and well being of his associates and fellow citizens.
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William H. Powell was born on a farm eight miles east of Sedalia on April 14, 1867. He is the only child of William H. and Sarah Jane (Rudy) Powell. William H. Powell, the elder, was born near Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1813, and died in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1900. He was reared to the life of a farmer and when a young man he migrated to Missouri and made a location in Heath's Creek township. After making a start in his farming operations in Heath's Creek township, he removed to a farm east of Smithton, where he developed and owned a fine farm of 300 acres. He resided upon this farm until he located on a larger tract near Green Ridge. Here he was extensively engaged in farming and stock raising and became one of the best-known and well-to-do stockmen in this section of Missouri. He was one of the organizers of the Citizen's Na- tional Bank of Sedalia and was always found in the forefront of move- ments intended for the further development of Pettis County. He served as president of the Citizen's National Bank for a period of ten years. Mrs. Sarah Jane (Rudy) Powell was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1817 and departed this life in 1884.
William H. Powell, subject of this review, was reared on his father's farm and received his primary education in the neighborhood district school. He then attended the Sedalia High School and pursued a busi- ness course in the Robbins Business College. At the age of seventeen years he entered the Citizen's National Bank as messenger and office boy. During the course of his successful career he has capably filled every post in the bank excepting that of janitor. Rising successfully to the position as bookkeeper, assistant cashier, then cashier and later president of the bank, he has grown in importance and influence with the bank.
In addition to his responsibilities as president of the Citizen's Na- tional Bank, Mr. Powell is vice-president of the McAllister Edwards Coal Company and is owner of a large tract of 640 acres of land. He is a stockholder and vice-president of the Sedalia Democrat Company. He is treasurer of the Missouri State Fair Board of Commissioners and is a member of the commission having charge of the Twelve Mile Special Rock Road Districts in Pettis County.
On January 14, 1889, William H. Powell and Miss Louisa Humphreys were united in marriage. Mrs. Louisa Powell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a daughter of David Humphreys, a native of Virginia, who was engaged in the commission business in St. Louis. Three children have
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been born to this marriage: William H., Jr., David H., and Janette. Lieut. William H. Powell, Jr., was born January 4, 1890. He was educated in the Sedalia public and high schools and graduated from Princeton Uni- versity. He filled the position of assistant cashier of the Citizen's Na- tional Bank until his enlistment in the National Army for service in the great World War in May, 1917. He became a member of the Three Hundred Forty-second Field Artillery, Eighty-ninth Division, and entered the offi- . cers training camp at Camp Funston. He was commissioned second lieu- tenant and then promoted to a first lieutenant. Lieutenant Powell sailed for France with the Eighty-ninth Division in June, 1918, and has had command of a company on the western front during some of the hardest fighting in which the Eighty-ninth Division covered itself with imperish- able glory and drove back the Germans. With his command, he is now located on German soil with the American Army of Occupation.
David H. Powell, the second son, was born March 23, 1897. He gradu- ated from the Sedalia High School and attended college at Lawrence- ville, New Jersey. He enlisted in the National Army in May, 1918, and entered the officer's training camp at Funston where he was commis- sioned a second lieutenant. He was discharged from the service at the close of the war and is now a student in the State University at Co- lumbia.
Janette Powell died at the age of five years.
Mr. Powell is an independent Democrat who thinks along an indi- vidual line in political affairs. He served as a member of the Sedalia School Board for a period of fifteen years and has always been interested in the cause of education. At present he is a member of Governor Gardner's staff. Mr. Powell is a member of the Christian Church. He is affiliated fraternally with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has taken practically all degrees of Masonry and stands high in Masonic circles.
Chris. Brunckhorst, a Pettis County pioneer, who has spent over fifty years of his life in Missouri, is now living retired at his home, 420 North Quincy avenue, Sedalia, after a long and successful career. He has acquired a sufficiency of this world's goods and is now the owner of 160 acres of land in Dresden township and also 160 acres in Arkansas. Mr. Brunckhorst was born in Hanover, Germany, July 18, 1846, a son of John and Anna (Brandt) Brunckhorst, to whom the folowing three chil-
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dren were born: Chris, the subject of this sketch; Jacob, who lives on the old homestead in Germany ; and Allie, married J. Steffens, who is now deceased, and she resides in Sedalia. The mother died in 1856 and John Brunckhorst married for his second wife, Miss Anna Hiens, and five chil- dren were born to this union as follow: Henry, Sedalia ; John, Mrs. Anna Shroder, Paul, and Heinrich, all live in Germany. The parents both spent their lives in their native land.
Chris. Brunckhorst was reared and educated in his native land, receiv- ing a good education. In 1866, he came to America and first settled in Morgan County, Missouri. He taught school at old Sover and Buffalo Prairie, Missouri, for a time, when he engaged in saw-mill work and sawed timber for the construction of the Tipton and Versailles railroad. He operated a saw-mill at Hawk Creek, Morgan County, for a time. In 1874, he came to Sedalia and here he built a residence and for a time clerked in a grocery store. He then bought a saw-mill west of Sedalia which he operated for a time when he bought a farm five miles north of Sedalia, which was quite heavily timbered. Here he erected a saw- mill which he operated for a time and after clearing up his farm, he removed to Sweet Springs, Missouri. Here he operated a saw-mill, a grist mill and bought and shipped grain and at the same time owned a saw- mill at Smithton. He disposed of his Sweet Springs properties in 1881, and engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Sedalia. He closed this business out in 1884 and bought a farm near Green Ridge where he was engaged in farming until 1888. He then traded that for another and dur- ing the course of his career, has owned several different farms in Pettis County. For the past six years, he has been living retired in Sedalia.
August 15, 1872, Mr. Brunckhorst was united in marriage with Miss Frederika Steinbrink, a native of Morgan County, Missouri, born March 19, 1855. Her parents, Frederick and Minnie (Fige) Steinbrink, were natives of Germany and came to this country prior to the Civil War. Mr. Steinbrink served in the Civil War and was wounded. After the war he en- gaged in farming and also operated a saw-mill and a grist mill in Morgan County, and was a pioneer miller in that section of the State. To Mr. and Mrs. Brunckhorst have been born the following children: Kathrine, wife of J. Bierman of Sparks, Oklahoma; John, who operates a large ranch which consists of 3,200 acres, located near Columbus, Montana ; William, a saw-mill and threshing machine man at Columbus, Montana ; Fred, lives at Winfred, Montana, where he is manager of a large co-opera-
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tive association; George, a farmer and thresher in Dresden township, Pettis County ; Edward, a farmer and stock man at Columbus, Montana; Chris., a farmer and stock man, Columbus, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Brunck- horst have sixteen grandchildren, the oldest of whom is twenty-three years of age, and they have one great-grandchild.
Mr. Brunckhorst is a Republican and was reared in the Lutheran faith, although he is inclined to be liberal in both politics and religion. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a man of extensive and varied experiences. When he came to this country first, the vessel in which he made the voyage met with much rough weather and was nine weeks and three days in making the trip. In 1907, he made a trip to Germany and was gone over three months. He has traveled considerably in various parts of the United States and saw much of the early-day frontier life of the West. Operating saw-mills, has been his chief occupation and it is safe to say that he is the veteran saw-mill man of Pettis County. He began life practically with nothing and after being in this country a short time, his father gave him $200, and today, he is a well-to-do man. Besides his farm properties in Arkansas and Pettis County, he owns five residence properties in Sedalia. He has met with adversities and financial losses, but in spite of that, he has made good and reared his family in a way that they are a credit to themselves, their parents and the community.
Arthur Lee Crandall, a prominent loan and investment man, of Se- dalia, is a native son of Pettis County, and belongs to one of the well- known pioneer families of this section of Missouri. He is a son of Ores- tes A. and Kate A. (Kidd) Crandall, the former a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and the latter of Calhoun, Missouri.
Orestes A. Crandall was born February 25, 1833, a son of Beman and Pollie (Tuttle) Crandall, natives of Connecticut. In 1835, O. A. Cran- dall. when about two years of age, was brought by his parents to Illinois. They settled at what is now Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois. This was in an early day in the settlement of that section of the West. The nearest settlement to where the Crandalls located was forty miles distant. Here O. A. Crandall was reared and obtained such education as the coun- try afforded at that time, and he later attended normal school in Chi- cago. However, he obtained the greater part of his education by self- study. In 1853 he went to California, making the trip overland. Dur- ing the course of this journey across the continent, he walked about five
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hundred miles, carrying his few belongings on his back. He remained on the Pacific Coast about eight years, during which time he was engaged in mining. In 1861, he returned from California and settled in Saline County, Missouri. About this time the Civil War broke out. He was a decided Union man, and returned to his old home in Illinois, where he assisted in raising two regiments of troops for the Union Army. This being accomplished, he returned to Missouri, where he took part in the battle of Marshall, and also the battle which was fought at Sedalia and was taken prisoner by the Confederates at the latter engagement. How- ever, he was released shortly afterward, when the Union forces took pos- session of Sedalia.
O. A. Crandall was always an industrious student, and during his early career, in addition to his other extensive reading, studied law, and after taking the examination at Sedalia, where he had settled in 1863, he was admitted to the bar of Pettis County. Later he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. He was an able lawyer, and practiced successfully in Pettis County for a number of years. In his legal capacity, he represented Pettis County in defending the railroad bond suits. By his skill and ability in handling these cases, he effected a compromise by which the county was saved over $100,000. During the course of his professional career he was retained in a great many important cases in Pettis County and western Missouri. In 1875, Mr. Crandall organized the Pettis County Bank, becoming the president of that institution at the time of its organization, a position which he held for five years. He then organized the Missouri Trust Company, becom- ing its president, and served in that capacity until that institution was removed to St. Louis in 1901. Mr. Crandall and others then organized the Sedalia Trust Company, of which he became president. However, he lived but a few months after the organization of this company. He died at Westchester, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1901, while there on business in the interests of the Sedalia Trust Company.
O. A. Crandall was prominent in the political affairs of Pettis County, and Western Missouri. He was a Democrat, and in 1868 was his party's candidate for State senator from the district composed of Lafayette, Safine and Pettis counties. From 1868 to 1872 he was a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee. He was conspicuous in the early day affairs of Pettis County and Sedalia, and was active and influential in every movement for the development, betterment and upbuilding of Pettis County. O. A. Crandall was united in marriage at Sedalia, Mis-
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souri, in 1864, with Miss Kate A. Kidd, and to this union were born four children, three of whom are living, as follow: Emma C., married Charles C. Evans, a sketch of whom appears in this volume; Arthur Lee, the subject of this sketch, and Stella May, who resides with her aged mother on West Broadway street in the old Crandall home, where the family has resided since 1871.
Arthur Lee Crandall was reared in Sedalia, and attended the public schools and the old Sedalia University. He then attended the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, where he took the civil engineering course. After following the civil engineering profession for three or four years in Texas, he engaged in the farm loan business at Fort Worth, where he remained until 1901, at the time of his father's death, when he returned to Sedalia, which has since been his home. For a number of years he has been successfully engaged in the farm loan business here.
Arthur Lee Crandall, since early life, has been interested in military affairs and identified with the local military organizations. When a young man he was a member of the Sedalia Rifles, and while a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, he was a member of the Fort Worth Fencibles. This was a crack military organization, and the only one from west of the Mississippi River to attend President Cleveland's second inauguration. Mr. Crandall served as company clerk and also served as aide-de-camp with rank of captain on General Smyth's staff, Texas National Guards. After returning to Sedalia, Mr. Crandall was identified with the Missouri State Militia, and served as quartermaster sergeant of Company K, Sixth Regi- ment, Missouri National Guards, and was later promoted to first lieu- tenant, serving under Col. Arthur L. Oliver, who is now United States District Attorney of the eastern district of Missouri.
Mr. Crandall is a member of the Sons of Veterans and was secretary of the local lodge. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge, the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Work- men. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, as are the other mem- bers of the Crandall family, and he has served on the vestry and has been secretary. He is a Democrat and takes a keen interest in matters political. He has served as deputy county surveyor of Pettis County. In the interest of the Liberty Loan Campaign of 1918 and 1919 he devoted much time to the work as Director of Distribution and Supplies for the Pettis County Organization. He also served as a member of the Red Cross Organization in the capacity of Director of Distribution and Supplies.
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Vergil S. Reavis is one of the successful and progressive farmers and stock men of the younger generation of Pettis County, and is a de- scendant of a prominent pioneer family. He was born in Elk Fork town- ship, May 23, 1896, a son of Daniel Haywood and Mollie (Pemberton) Reavis, both also natives of Pettis County.
Daniel Haywood Reavis was born in Elk Fork township and was a son of Daniel Reavis, who was a very early settler in this section. Daniel Reavis was one of the pioneer ministers of the Baptist faith, who preached the gospel in Pettis and adjoining counties at a very early day. He also followed farming.
Daniel Haywood Reavis was prominent in the affairs of Pettis County, and was a successful farmer and stockman. He gave special attention to stock raising and met with considerably more success than the average man. He was a heavy stockholder in the LaMonte Bank, LaMonte, Missouri, and was president of that institution for nine years. He was an exceptionally good business man, and his judgment on mat- ters of business and finance was highly regarded by his business asso- ciates and those who knew him best. At the time of his death he was the owner of about 780 acres of land. He died June 25, 1916. His wife Mollie (Pemberton) Reavis, was also born in Elk Fork township, Pettis County, and her parents were early settlers here. She is a daughter of Allen Pemberton, and she now resides in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Vergil S. Reavis is one of a family of nine children born to his pa- rents and is the sixth in order of birth. He received his education in the district school and the LaMonte High School. He has always been engaged in- farming, with the exception of six months, when he was assist- ant cashier of the Farmers Bank, LaMonte. At the death of his father he inherited some land from the estate and has bought more land, and now owns a valuable farm of 343 acres, situated in LaMonte township. Here he carries on general farming and stock raising and gives special attention to breeding Poland China hogs. He is one of the successful breeders of the county.
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