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Augustus E. Elliott, who ranks among the successful lawyers of Nevada, Missouri, is a native of this state. He was born at Westport, March 24, 1877. After finishing his preliminary edu- cation he was graduated from the Nevada Seminary with the class of 1894, and also pursued a course of study at the Christian University. Later he studied law in the offices of W. L. Jarrott, at Harrisonville, Missouri, and M. T. January, of Nevada, and in 1898 was admitted to the bar and at once established himself in his profession at Nevada. Mr. Elliott is known as a thorough and able lawyer, and stands well among the members of the Vernon county bar. He served as city attorney in 1904-6 and was again elected to that office for the term of 1910-11. He takes an active interest in social and civic affairs, and is identified with various fraternal and benevolent organizations, being a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all the chairs of the local lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Modern Woodmen of America. On December 19, 1906, Mr. Elliott married
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Miss Mary, daughter of W. H. and Carrie (Duren) Talbot, of Nevada.
Joseph W. Ensley, a substantial citizen of Schell City, Vernon county, Missouri, was born in Johnson county, Indiana, June 10, 1848, and one of a family of six children born to John and Ellen (Davis) Ensley, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Kentucky. They were married in Johnson county, In- diana. About 1850 they settled in Clark county, Illinois, and moved thence and settled on a farm in Bates county, Missouri, in 1869, where the father passed away on November 8, 1876, and the mother in 1908. Of their other children Mary Ann, who was married to Mr. G. W. Farris, is now deceased; Nancy Ellen, also now deceased, was the wife of Mr. Robert Montgomery and left one daughter; Joseph W. and John H. are both residents of Schell City; Samuel was killed while working in a coal bank and left one son, John Ensley, and William lives in Bates county.
Joseph W. grew up on his father's farm and acquired his early education in the district schools. After leaving home he studied medicine three years with Dr. A. Shirk, at Johnstown, Missouri, and then engaged in the drug business at Hudson, Bates county, but his stock of drugs was burned; six months later he abandoned his purpose of completing his medical studies and learned the carpenter's trade.
In 1878 Mr. Ensley took up his residence in Schell City and followed his trade, clerking in a store during the winter months some sixteen years. He became interested in fraternal organiza- tions and in 1895 accepted an appointment as deputy sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World for Missouri, and dur- ing the following eight years traveled through the state organiz- ing camps for the order. Impaired health compelled him to re- sign his office, and, returning to Schell City, he was elected jus- tice of the peace in 1903 and has given his time and attention to that office ever since.
In political matters he is a staunch Democrat and in religious faith and fellowship is affiliated with the Christian Church. He is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and secretary of Schell City Lodge No. 355.
In 1870 Mr. Ensley was united in marriage with Miss Emma Frost, a daughter of Charles and Esther (Wiggins) Frost, the
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former born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1821, and the latter a native of North Carolina, born in 1821. Mr. and Mrs. Ensley have one child, Laura B., born in 1872 and now the wife of Mr. W. E. Haddix, of Schell City. They have one son, Melvin O. Had- dix, who was born in 1893.
Joseph P. Eppenauer, who, since the spring of 1894, has been a wide-awake business man in Nevada, Missouri, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 12, 1866, and is the eldest of a family of five children, born to Anton and Emily R. (Porter) Eppenauer. The parents moved from Ross county, Ohio, their native place, to Schell City, in Vernon county, Missouri, in the fall of 1870, where the father was engaged in farming and stock raising. About September 16, 1910, on account of failing health, he took up his residence at St. Cloud, Florida, and there died December 29, 1910, at the age of sixty-seven years, his death having been preceded by that of his wife in 1875, when she was thirty-one years of age. Their earthly remains rest side by side in Green Lawn Cemetery at Schell City. Of their other children, Frank E. lives at Mokane, Missouri, David is deceased, Mary L. is mar- ried to Mr. Thomas McAfee, of Tampa, Florida, and Celia is mar- ried to Mr. John Davis and lives at Ironton, Ohio.
Joseph P. grew to manhood at Schell City, Missouri, and ac- quired his early education in the common schools. On attaining his majority, in May, 1887, he entered the employ of Mr. W. T. Nesbit in the tinning and roofing business at Schell City, with a view to learning the trade. A little later he went to Hutchinson, Kansas, and spent three years in the same line of employment, and then, returning, worked at his trade in Nevada till March 10, 1894, when he established the business which he has since conducted on his own account with eminent success. Mr. Ep- penauer has had charge of his class of work on many of the pub- lic buildings and residences in the city, prominent among which may be mentioned the Nevada High School building, Nevada Wholesale Grocery, state rifle range, Hospital No. 3 additions, residences of Mrs. V. A. C. Stockard and Mrs. Glessner M. Few, the postoffice, the Armory, Cottey College additions, St. Frances Convent, St. Joseph School and many others.
Mr. Eppenauer is active in fraternal organizations and is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
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Knights and Ladies of Security. In religious faith and fellowship he is connected with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Nevada.
On February 16, 1898, he was united in marriage with Miss Litha C. Elkins, daughter of Joseph and Nannie (Barbee) Elkins, of Nevada.
George Z. Ervin is a native Missourian, and next to the youngest child of a family of six children born to Marcus D. Lafayette and Melvina Matilda (Flanery) Ervin, the other chil- dren being Jesse V. and Walter G., both of Jackson county, Missouri. Benjamin F., of Bonner Springs, Kansas; Alonzo, also of Jackson county, and Marcus D. Lafayette, now deceased. Both parents were born in Missouri and the father died there soon after the close of the Civil War. After his decease the mother married, and now-1911-lives at Lee Summit, Mis- souri, the widow of Mr. Alphonzo Bowers, deceased.
George Z. was born in Jackson county, Missouri, March 26, 1875, and there acquired his early education in the district schools. While yet a boy he began to learn the printer's trade, in the establishment of the Hudson and Kimberly Printing Com- pany at Kansas City, and remained there till he became a prac- tical printer. He was afterwards in the employ of other print- ing houses in Kansas City, but in March, 1910, took up his resi- dence in Nevada, and established himself in business as propri- etor of the Commercial Printing Company, with a well equipped plant and office on South Cedar Street, and every facility for turning out every variety of high-class commercial printing.
Mr. Erwin is an energetic, enterprising man, a thoroughly practical printer and since establishing his plant has conducted it with gratifying success. He has little time for matters outside his business, but is identified with the local hive of Maccabees and is a member of the Modern Brotherhood of America.
In July, 1909, he was united in marriage with Miss Lena E. Cornwell, of Coffeyville, Kansas.
Charles M. Ewing is a native Missourian and a prosperous busi- ness man of Nevada, where he began his business life in 1905. He was born in Vernon county, November 27, 1878, and is a son of Squire Milton and Lucy B. (Gordon) Ewing, whose family
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genealogies are shown in connection with the sketch of Lee B. and G. G. Ewing, appearing elsewhere in this work.
He was reared on the family homestead in Walker township, and there acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, supplementing it with a three years' course in the Kansas City high school, where he was graduated with the class of 1896. Charles Ewing had intended to fit himself for the legal profession, but on account of trouble with his eyes was forced to forego that purpose, and instead took a position in the general freight office of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company at Kansas City. Ill health compelled him to resign his position at the end of a year, and soon afterward he pursued a complete course of study in the Coyne Plumbing School at St. Louis. Then, in 1905, he and L. J. White purchased the plumbing business that had been carried on by L. Pond and C. E. Evans at Nevada, and which thereafter was conducted under the firm name of Ewing & White some two years. In 1907 Mr. Ewing purchased his partner's interest in the busi- ness and has carried it on in his own name ever since with most gratifying success, having executed contracts for the work in his line on many of the important public buildings and residences in the city and elsewhere.
Mr. Ewing is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, and in religious faith and fellowship is identified with the Christian Church.
On May 7, 1902, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Barker, a daughter of the late Joseph V. Barker, formerly a resi- dent of Bates county, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing have two children, named respectively James Milton and Joe Leroy Ewing.
Mrs. Ewing is the youngest of a family of ten children born to Joseph Vyrick and Margaret Amanda (Ripley) Barker, the former a native of Manchester, England, and the latter being of American lineage. Of their other children, two died in infancy, and Mary, who was married to Mr. Thomas Campbell, of Nevada, also is deceased. The others are: Ruth, who is married to Mr. Gus Hogan, of Pueblo, Colorado; Edward, who lives in Norborne, Missouri; James, a resident of Rinehart, Vernon county ; Ida, the wife of Mr. Henry Smading, of Caney, Kansas; Jennie, wife of Elsworth Clark, who lives at Stotesbury, Vernon county, and
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Ellen, who is married to Mr. Delbert Miller and lives near Hume, Missouri.
Mrs. Ewing's parents died when she was quite young, and she was reared and educated by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Underwood, of Walker, Missouri. At the age of fourteen she became a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Walker, but after her marriage she, with Mr. Ewing, united with the Christian Church at Nevada.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewing are both charter members of Walker Re- bekah Lodge, No. 355.
Finis Young Ewing, who was born in Lafayette county, Mis- souri, August 2, 1841, is a son of Washington P. and Aletha J. (Ewing) Ewing, both natives of Kentucky, the father born in Logan county in 1814, and the mother born in 1816. They were married in Lafayette county Missouri, in 1834. In 1849 the father went to California overland, returned for his family in 1852, and settled in Sonoma county, California, and lived there till 1860. Thence he went via the Isthmus of Panama and boat to New York and from there by rail to Texas, settling first in San Antonio and later near Austin, in Hays county, where he lived till after the close of the Civil War. He died at Houston, Texas, in 1867. The mother passed away at Eldorado Springs, Missouri, in 1884. The first representative of this branch of the Ewing family came from Ireland and settled in Bedford county, Virginia. Among them was Robert Ewing, the fore- father of Finis Y. Ewing. He married Mary Baker and their son, Finis Ewing, who was the father of Washington P. Ewing, was one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He -Finis-married in Nashville, Tennessee, Margaret Davidson, daughter of William Lee Davidson, for whom Davidson county, in which Nashville is situated, was named. General Davidson was killed in battle on Catawba river while opposing the advance of the British under Lord Cornwallis. The Continental Congress passed an order for the erection of a monument to the memory of General Davidson.
Finis Y. Ewing, our subject, in June, 1861, enlisted in the Confederate Army as a member of Company D, Fourth Regi- ment, Texas Infantry, commanded by Col. J. B. Hood. On ac- count of disability he returned to Texas after one year's service
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in Virginia and in 1863 helped to recruit Company C, Fourth Regiment of Arizona Cavalry, of which he was elected first lieu- tenant, and, though not commissioned captain, was in command of his company till the close of the war. He surrendered at Gal- veston to Gen. Gordon Granger.
Lee Davidson Ewing, a brother of Finis Y., was in the final engagement between the Union and Confederate forces at Palo Alto, where Gen. Zachary Taylor fought during the Mexico War. This battle occurred after the surrender of the Confed- erate Army, news of which had not reached the officers, those on the Confederate side being Generals J. E. Slaughter and John S. Ford. After the close of the war Finis Ewing returned to Hous- ton, Texas, and in 1866 started with a drove of five hundred cattle, intending to deliver them at Westport, Missouri, on June 1, but was turned back by the citizens of Vernon county on ac- count of Texas cattle fever. Going to Barton county, Missouri, he there sold his herd and returned to Texas and in 1868 drove ยท a herd of twelve hundred cattle from Hays county, Texas, to Abaline, Kansas, passing over the site of the present city of Wichita. Mr. Ewing, in the fall of 1868, came to Vernon county and bought from Samuel Carrington (who entered it from the Government) a section of land in Blue Mound township, where he has since made his home, engaged in general farming opera- tions and giving particular attention to breeding, buying, feed- ing and selling live stock. Before Oklahoma was opened for settlement he leased from the Indians large tracts for grazing, and at one time had fifty thousand acres fenced.
In political opinion and action Mr. Ewing is a Democrat.
In 1870 Mr. Ewing was united in marriage with Miss Martha A. Davis, who was born in Camden county, Missouri, in 1850, and two children were born to them, viz., Finis Leedavis Ewing, born June 9, 1876, and Mattie Olivia, who was born July 30, 1879, and is married to C. M. Moss. The mother died in 1879 and on May 12, 1886, Mr. Ewing married Anna K. Philapy, a daughter of J. W. and Fannie Philapy, of Nevada, Missouri. Of four children born of the second marriage, the three survivors are Jane E. Ew- ing, who was born April 11, 1887; Anna W., who was born Oc- tober 1, 1889, and is married to Mr. Clarence Forman, and Arthur W. Ewing, who was born October 11, 1894.
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George G. Ewing is a prominent citizen and prosperous busi- ness man of Nevada, Missouri, where he has been called to fill various public and private positions of honor and trust. He was born at Lexington, Missouri, August 18, 1860, and came to Ne- vada with his parents when he was seven years of age. He is the eldest of seven children born to Milton and Lucy B. (Gordon) Ewing, natives of Missouri and Kentucky, respectively, the father settling in Lexington and moving thence to Nevada in 1867, where the mother still resides. The father died there on January 13, 1902. Of their other children, Young resides in Center town- ship, Vernon county ; William H. lives at Walker, Vernon county ; Elizzabeth R. is the wife of Mr. William M. Merrill, of Walker township; Mattie is married to Mr. David F. Woodward and lives at Independence, Missouri; Lee B. is prosecuting attorney at Nevada, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work with a more complete history of the Ewing family, and Charles M., who lives in Nevada. George G. grew up and acquired his prelim- inary education in Vernon county and supplemented that with a course of study at Ozark. College of Greenfield, Missouri. In 1887 he was appointed deputy county clerk and served in that capacity seven years under Mr. W. F. Gordon, and during 1897-8 filled the position of deputy county treasurer. In 1898 Mr. Ewing was elected recorder of Vernon county and re-elected at the ex- piration of his term, and served in that office continuously . till 1907. In 1908 Mr. Ewing was elected assistant cashier of The Bank of Nevada and after two years' service in that position was elected vice-president of the same institution, and January 1, 1911, was elected cashier, which office he still holds. Mr. Ewing's conduct of these various responsible offices has been marked by efficiency and faithfulness and gained for him universal confi- dence and esteem as an able, straightforward, honorable and high-minded man. Since 1889 he has been a member of the local lodge of the Masonic order, and since 1892 of the Knights of Pythias. He is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
On December 3, 1890, Mr. Ewing married Miss Olive, daugh- ter of Samuel R. and Helen M. (Duncan) Crockett, of Eldorado Springs, Missouri, and there have been born to them two children, named, respectively, Helen, now deceased, and Madalyn S.
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Lee B. Ewing, a successful lawyer of Nevada, Mo., was born and reared on his father's farm near Walker, in Vernon county. He was born August 17, 1870, and is the sixth child of Milton Ewing and Lucy Boyd (Gordon) Ewing. The other chil- dren are George Gordon Ewing, Young Ewing, William H. Ew- ing, Mrs. Bettie R. Merrill and Charles M. Ewing, of Vernon county, and Mrs. Mattie W. Woodward, of Independence, Mis- souri. Milton Ewing was born at Lexington, Missouri, April 7, 1832, and Lucy Boyd (Gordon) Ewing was born at the same place January 25, 1837. They were married at Lexington in the fall of 1858. Their four oldest children were born in Lafay- ette county. In December, 1867, they moved to Vernon county and settled on a farm, then raw prairie. There has been the fam- ily homestead for the past forty-four years and there Milton Ew- ing died January 13, 1902. The mother still lives upon the old homestead.
The Ewing and Gordon families have had no mean part in the history of the development of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama. It is deemed appropriate, therefore, to briefly trace the genealogy of the subject of this sketch.
His paternal grandparents were Young and Elizabeth (Ren- ick) Ewing, both of whom were born in Logan county, Kentucky, the former in 1790, the latter April 8, 1795. They were married and came to Missouri Territory in 1819 and settled at Lexington, where the grandfather died October 21, 1844 His widow survived until August 14, 1878, and passed away in Vernon county.
Young Ewing was a son of Chatham and Elizabeth (Camp- bell) Ewing; the former was born in Bedford county, Virginia, about 1755 and was a brother of Gen. Robert Ewing, of Ken- tucky, and Finis Ewing, who founded the Cumberland Presby- terian Church. The lineage of Elizabeth Campbell is not defi- nitely known.
Elizabeth Renick was a daughter of Henry and Prudence (Hall) Renick, both natives of Virginia, the exact dates of their births not being known. Both his and her parents came to this country from Wales. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was in Johnson's division of Harrison's army at the Battle of the Thames, Canada, when the famous Indian chief, Tecumseh, was killed.
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Our subject's paternal great-great-grandfather, Robert Ewing, was born in Ireland about the year 1715 or 1720, and his wife's maiden name was Mary Baker. They emigrated to America and settled in Virginia.
His maternal grandparents were George Haynes Gordon and Martha (Boyd) Gordon, who were born in Hawkins county and Davidson county, Tennessee, respectively, the former March 27, 1796, the latter February 25, 1799. They settled in Missouri near Lexington in 1832. There they both died, the husband November 10, 1844, and the wife August 23, 1858. The maternal great grand- father, Joseph Gordon, was born near Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, February 12, 1745, and died in Kentucky February 12, 1815. He was a son of James Gordon, a native of either Virginia or Scotland, and married Nancy Ann Haynes, who was born in Halifax county, North Carolina, about 17-, and died in Ken- tucky. His maternal grandmother, Martha Boyd, was a daughter of Abraham Boyd, of Virginia and Kentucky, and a sister of Lynn Boyd, at one time speaker of the National House of Repre- sentatives, and of Alfred Boyd, who was a staff officer with Gen- eral Breckenridge. Her mother, Nancy Lynn (Abraham Boyd's wife), was a daughter of Abner Lynn and Sidney (Ewing) Lynn, the last named being a daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing. In other words, Sidney Ewing, the great great grand- mother on the maternal stem of the family tree, was the daugh- ter of the paternal great, great grandfather on the paternal stem.
It is thus noted that this family is closely connected with the Boyd family of Kentucky and the Haynes family of Carolina. The Davidson family of the Carolinas is also closely related to them by lineage. The Ewings of Ohio are a collateral branch of the same family.
The subject of this sketch was graduated from the Nevada High School with the class of 1890, then taught school three years in Vernon county, after which he studied law in the law office of Judge Elijah Robinson, of Kansas City, and was there ad- mitted to the bar in 1895. Mr. Ewing remained in Kansas City until 1897, and then accepted a position as assistant claim agent for the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain railway companies. He went to Bismarck, Missouri, that year, and in 1898 moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, remaining there until January 1, 1900, when he took up his residence at Sedalia; in 1902 he was made
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claim agent for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company and filled that office, with headquarters at Nevada, until 1906. In 1906 he resigned his position with the railway company, resumed the practice of his profession, and became a candidate for prose- cuting attorney of Vernon county at the Democratic primary. He was defeated in the primary, being second of four candidates. At the primary election in 1908 he received the nomination and was elected at the general election following. In 1910 he was renominated at the primary and was re-elected without opposi- tion, it being the first time in more than thirty years that a prose- cuting attorney was elected in Vernon county without an oppos- ing candidate.
In 1897 Mr. Ewing was united in marriage at Kansas City with Miss Edith Moore, who was born and reared in Jackson county. She is the daughter of John Moore and Margaret (Bryant) Moore. They have three children, John Boyd, aged 13; Lynn M., aged 8, and Robert L. Ewing, aged 4.
William H. Ewing,* who was born in Mayview, Lafayette county, Missouri, September 2, 1863, is a son of Milton and Lucy B. (Gordon) Ewing, who came to Vernon county, Missouri, with their family in 1867. He grew up in his parents' home and acquired his education in the public schools, and on attaining his majority, in 1884, went to the "Cherokee Strip" and thence to New Mexico, where he was employed on a ranch. Returning to Vernon county about 1888, he soon afterward went to Kansas City and lived there some five years, after which he came back home. From 1899 till 1903 Mr. Ewing served as deputy recorder at Nevada, and then after a short trip into Arkansas, settled at Walker, Vernon county, and took charge of the Ewing farm, which he has since conducted, giving particular attention to raising and feeding stock for the market, in which he has achieved gratifying success. He also conducts a meat market at Walker, which he opened in 1910.
On June 19, 1895, Mr. Ewing was united in marriage with Miss Mary P. Prewitt, a daughter of Judge W. H. and Barbara (Bush) Prewitt.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ewing, viz .: Margaret, born September 25, 1896, and William, who was born October 17, 1905.
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Mr. Ewing is identified with Walker Lodge, No. 354, I. O. O. F., and in political opinion and action is a Democrat.
Jacob Faith, one of Vernon county's substantial representa- tive citizens, and a man whose influence has been widely felt throughout this community, was born in Germany, May 3, 1836, and is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Faith, both natives of Ger- many. When he was five years old, in 1841, his parents emi- grated to the United States and settled in Lee county, Iowa. The father was a farmer and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, which he followed until his death in 1871. He left ten children, of whom Jacob, the eldest, was reared to farm life, also learning the trade of cooper ; he received in youth a good practical educa- tion, both in the English and German languages. In 1859 he re- moved to Adair county, Missouri, and, having acquired a taste for horticulture, he commenced in 1860 to turn his attention in that direction, and since that time the nursery and fruit growing industry has not only been greatly advanced by his knowledge and experience in this section, but his name is familiar to the readers of all the leading agricultural and horticultural journals of the country ; particularly is Coleman's Rural World a recipient of many communications from his pen. In 1875 he came to Ver- non county and engaged extensively in his present business. Of 140 acres in his homestead, fifty acres are devoted to an orchard and nursery and the raising of small fruit. In this enterprise he has met with well merited success. Among his stock are found sixty varieties of apples, fifty of plums, thirty of peaches, sev- enty-two varieties of strawberries, twenty-six of raspberries. etc., etc. He is a member of the State Horticultural Society and has taken an active interest in promoting the success of its meetings. Mr. Faith possesses to an eminent degree the rare faculty of maintaining his own convictions, even to the discomfiture of his opponents, without exciting their animosity. This accounts for the fact that, although firm in his opinions, fearless, open and able in advocacy of them, he has made during his career but few if any personal enemies, and has surrounded himself with many friends. And after the many years devoted to his adopted call- ing he has the satisfaction of knowing that, if not blessed with a large fortune in the way of earthly possessions, he is enviably rich in the esteem of a host of fellow citizens and a consciousness
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