History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests, Volume I, Part 92

Author: Douglass, Robert Sidney. 4n
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 844

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Coming to Dunklin county, Missouri, in 1870, Captain McDaniel resided at Clark- ton for six years. Moving then to Texas, he was for several years employed as a builder and a painter in Frio county. At a recent reunion in Little Roek, Arkansas, the Cap- tain was there met by his son, C. P. McDaniel, who brought him to Senath, and he is now spending the closing years of his long and useful life with this son.

C. P. McDANIEL. The wide-awake, busy little town of Senath owes its strong vitality and its great popularity to the enterprise and active spirit of its broad-minded and keen-sighted business men, who are putting forth practical efforts to aid its growth in every line of industry. Prominent among the number thus employed is C. P. McDaniel, the leading furniture dealer and undertaker of this part of Dunklin county. He was born April 30, 1851, in Fulton county, Ken- tucky, but was taken to Obion county. Tennessee, when but a year old, and resided there until 1869, when he made his way to Dunklin county, Missouri, which seemed to offer special inducements to a young man of vim and energy, being in the center of a rich and highly productive country.

Locating in Clarkton, Mr. McDaniel there followed his trade of a blacksmith for nearly thirty years. Coming from there to Senath in 1897, he was here not only the "Village Blacksmith" for six years, but was also suc- cessfully engaged in the undertaking busi- ness. Giving up his smithy in 1903. Mr. Me- Daniel has since built up a substantial trade as a dealer in furniture, having gained an extensive and lucrative patronage in Senath and vicinity, his systematic and upright methods attracting customers from all parts of the county. This business he is carrying on successfully in connection with under- taking, in both lines being well patronized.

Mr. McDaniel has been twice married. He married first, at Union City, Tennessee, Ozella B. Starrett, of Dunklin county, Mis- souri, a daughter of Robert C. Starrett, an

early settler of Clarkton. She died at Clar. ton, Missouri, in 1894, after twenty year of happy married life, having four children namely : Florenee E., wife of F. E. W. liams, of Malden, Missouri; Edna May, wi, of Alexander T. Douglass, of Senath; Clay Ann, of Senath; and Arthur S., who is e gaged in business with his father. Mr. M. Daniel married in 1900, in Senath, Hulda C. Douglass, an aunt of Robert Sidney Dou lass, editor of this work, and a sister of Re Robert Douglass, pastor of the Bapti church at Senath.

Mr. McDaniel is not identified with al political organization, but takes an activ interest in the advancement of local affair Fraternally he is a member of the Indepen ent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a memb of the Baptist church, to which Mrs. McDani also belongs, and in which she is and has ev been an active worker, even as a young gi having taken a great interest in the Sunda school work. She attends the Baptist Ass ciation meetings, in which she is frequent "an earnest speaker. A stanch advocate temperance, Mrs. McDaniel at one time a dressed the court on the matter of local os tion, presenting a remonstrance so effective that she carried her point without the a sistance of an attorney.

Mr. MeDaniel is a son of Captain W. I. M. Daniel, a venerable and highly esteemed res dent of Senath, of whom a brief biographic sketch precedes this.

ROBERT A. ANTHONY. Among the distin tively prominent lawyers and jurists of tk state of Missouri, none is more splendid equipped for the work of his profession tha Judge Robert A. Anthony, whose home- ar business headquarters are at Fredericktow Missouri. Throughout his career as a di tinguished attorney and well fortified eou selor he has, by reason of unimpeachab conduct and elose observance of the unwri ten code of professional ethics, gained the ad miration and respect of his fellow praetitio: ers, in addition to which he commands a hig place in the confidence and esteem of his fe low citizens. He has served as judge of th Twenty-seventh judicial circuit of Missou and for four years was prosecuting attorne for Madison county.

. A native of the Lone Star state, Judg Anthony was born in Kaufman county, Texa the date of his birth being the 10th of Marc.

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1859. He is a son of Patrick Henry and Elizabeth (Matthews) Anthony, both of whom were born and reared in Madison county, Missouri. The father was born in 1826 and he died at Fredericktown in 1878. IIe was a farmer and millwright by occupation and at the time of his demise was the owner of considerable valuable farming property. IIe resided in Texas from 1854 until 1865, and in that state was an extensive plantation and slave owner. He lost heavily during the Civil war and shortly after the close of that sanguinary struggle returned to Missouri, where he operated saw and grist mills for a number of years. His father was Samuel Anthony, who came to Missouri from Ten- nessee in 1816. Samuel Anthony was a farmer and he reared to maturity a large family of children, a number of whose de- scendants reside in Texas and Missouri. Pat- rick H. Anthony was one of the forty-niners who made the perilous overland journey to California, where he was fairly successful in his mining ventures. Elizabeth (Mat- thews) Anthony, mother of the Judge, was' born in Madison county, Missouri, as already noted, and she was descended from stanch French stock, her mother having been a Miss Tesreau. She died in 1890, at the age of fifty-four years. Her father was Samuel C. Matthews, a farmer in Madison county dur- ing the greater part of his active career: He died in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony were devout communicants of the Catholic church, in the work of which denomination they were most active factors and in whose faith they reared their children.

Judge Anthony was a child of seven years of age at the time of his parents' return to Madison county, Missouri, to the public schools of which place he is indebted for his early educational training. As a young man he read law under the able preceptor- ship of Judge Fox, at Fredericktown, and he was admitted to the bar in 1884. He initiated the active practice of his profession in this place and for a number of years was associated in the practice of law with Emmet Williams, now of the Bankers Trust Com- pany, of St. Louis. He was also associated in law work with H. Clay Marsh, who is now a farmer in Madison county. At the pres- ent time Judge Anthony is a member of the well known law firm of Anthony & Davis, the same being assistant attorneys for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, repre-

senting that concern in seven counties in southeastern Missouri.

In March, 1905, Judge Anthony was ap- pointed, by the Supreme Court of Missouri, as commissioner to take testimony and try the case of the state of Missouri versus the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri and the Republic Oil Company of New York, the charge being a combination, conspiracy or trust to monopolize and control the oil business in the state of Missouri. After some two years' investigation of the case in the states of Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Ohio, New York and Illinois, Judge Anthony held the companies above named to be guilty and so reported the case to the Supreme Court of the state, which affirmed and adopted that decision. The report and opinion covered over three hundred pages in book form and showed judicious foresight and remarkable knowledge of the science of jurisprudence on the part of Judge Anthony. It is con- ceded to be one of the most important cases ever taken up in Missouri. The prosecution was instituted by the then attorney general of Missouri the present Governor Hadley. Judge Anthony was appointed, in 1902, by Governor Dockery, as circuit judge of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit of Missouri, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge James D. Fox. He served as circuit judge for a period of two years and from 1886 to 1890 he was prosecuting attorney for Madison county. Ile has always been aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Democratic party, in the local councils of which he has been an active and zealous worker. He is affiliated with a number of professional and fraternal organizations of representative character and in all the relations of life has so conducted himself as to be popular with all classes of people. He is possessed of a cheery, kindly disposition and is intensely religious.

In 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Anthony to Miss Jennie Wiley, who was born in Peoria, Illinois, whence she ac- companied her parents to Madison county, Missouri, at the age of fifteen years. For some time prior to her marriage she was a popular and successful teacher in the public schools of Madison county. She is a woman of gracious personality and is deeply be- loved by all with whom she has come in con- tact. Judge and Mrs. Anthony have no chil- dren. They are communicants of the St.

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Michaels Catholic church, at Fredericktown, this mission having been established at a very early day. It did not become a regular pastorate until 1830, however. At the pres- ent time the church has a membership of one hundred and fifty Catholic families and in addition to a fine church it also has two good school buildings, a pastor's residence and a home for the Sisters, who conduct the school. The present pastor is Rev. Father McCartney.

LOUIS STEIN, actively identified with mill- ing interests in Southeastern Missouri, makes his home at Cape Girardeau, where he is general manager of the Cape City Mills. He is deeply interested in community affairs and his efforts have also been a potent ele- ment in the business progress of this section of the state. He has with ready recognition of opportunity directed his labors into va- rious fields wherein he has achieved success. and at the same time has promoted a busi- ness enterprise that has proved of more than local value. In 1911 he was given proof of the high regard of his fellow citizens in that he was then elected city treasurer of Cape Girardeau, an office he is filling with the utmost credit to himself and his constituents.

Louis Stein is a native of Cape Girardeau, where his birth occurred on the 12th of An- gust, 1864, and he is a son of Christian and Margaret (Mertz) Stein, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, where was cele- brated their marriage and whence they im- migrated to the United States in the year 1859. Settlement was first made at New Orleans, where the family home was main- tained for one year, at the expiration of which removal was made to a more northern section on account of Yellow fever epidemic. Coming to Missouri, the father settled at Commerce, where he entered the employ of James Whitelaw, a prominent miller in that place. Three years later, in 1863, the fam- ily located at Cape Girardeau. where Mr. Stein began to work for G. C. Thelineus, in the flour-mill business. His cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1892, but Mr. Stein is still living. 1911. They were the parents of seven children, six boys and one girl, of whom Lonis was the fifth in order of birth.

In the German school at Cape Girardeau Lonis Stein received his early educational training and this discipline was later sup-

plemented by a course of study in the normal school. When eighteen years of age he en- tered the employ of the F. Fiedemann Com- pany, at Jackson, Missouri, as miller. Four years later he was proffered and accepted a position as expert miller for the Barnard & Leas Manufacturing Company, at Moline, Illinois. In 1887 he assumed charge of all the mills of the Cape County Milling Com- pany and three years later he came to Cape Girardeau, where he has since resided and where, in 1897, he organized the Cape City Mills, of which he is now in charge. He is a business man of splendid ability and his success in his chosen line of work has been on a parity with his own well directed en- deavors. In his political affiliations he is a stanch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party, in the local councils of which he is a most active factor. In 1905 he was elected a member of the city council and he served in that capacity for a period of two years dur- ing Mayor Whitelaw's administration. In 1911 he made the race for and was elected city treasurer, meeting with practically no opposi- tion. He is showing himself a capable ad- ministrator of the fiscal affairs of the city and in this connection is giving the utmost satis- faction to his constituents. Mr. Stein is a charter member of the Commercial Club of Cape Girardeau and he is also a valued and appreciative member of the organization known as the Sons of Veterans, being eligible for representation therein by reason of his father's service in the Civil war. In a fra- ternal way he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights and Ladies of Security. His religious faith is in harmony with the tenets of the Presbyterian church, in which he is president of the board of deacons.

In the year 1886 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Stein to Miss Marguerite Bar- rett, who was reared and educated at Cairo, Illinois. To this union have been born three children, whose names are here entered in re- spective order of birth,-Harvey, Carroll and Marguerite,-all of whom remain at the pa- rental home. The Stein family are well known and popular in the best social circles of Cape Girardeau and here they are accorded the unalloyed confidence and esteem of their fellow citizens.

BARBEAU ANDREW ROY is one of the strong, practical men who have had a helpful expe-

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rience in that popular and immensely valu- able educational institution known as jour- nalism. Beginning life as a teacher, in 1890 he came to Bonne Terre and entered the newspaper field, eventually becoming editor of the Bonne Terre Register, and probably no one factor has been as potent as his influ- ence through the eloquent columns of his paper in changing the county from Demo- cratic to Republican. After eighteen years he abandoned the Fourth Estate and became in January, 1910, postmaster of the city, the office now being one of the four largest in Southeastern Missouri.

Mr. Roy's father, Ferdinand A. Roy, was born in Prairie du Rocher, Randolph county, Illinois, June 5, 1817. He came to Missouri in 1844, when a young man, and was em- ployed by a Mr. Deloge, of Potosi, Missouri, in his mercantile business. In the early '50s he removed to Sainte Genevieve county, where he went into a business association with Francis A. Rozier, in the line of mer- chandise, and later embarked independently in the same business, carrying it on for some time, including the Civil war period. IIe was a man held in respect and confidence, and after retiring from business his useful- ness was by no means at an end and he held several offices, being county judge and for fifteen years justice of the peace. The last years of his life were passed with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Joseph Flynn, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the date of his death being Febru- ary 18, 1898. He was married at about the age of thirty-two years to Rosine Goin and ten children were born to them, only two be- ing alive at the present time, namely : Ferdi- nand Roy, Jr., of Prairie du Rocher, and the subject. The church of this well-remem- bered gentleman was the Catholic and in politics, unlike his son, he was a stanch Democrat.

Barbeau Andrew Roy was born November 25, 1866, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, and within its pleasant boundaries he passed his early life. He received his education in the common and high schools and after finishing such advantages as they had to offer he taught school for a time in Sainte Genevieve county and then went on to South Dakota, where he engaged in the mercantile business. In 1890 he came to Bonne Terre and here en- tered into the newspaper business with his brother-in-law, Joseph Flynn, the two gentle- men editing and publishing the Bonne Terre Democrat. In the fall Mr. Roy bought out

the interests of Mr. Flynn and continued in publication of the paper alone until 1893, when he bought the Bonne Terre Register and consolidated the two papers under the name of the Register, the policy of the sheet being Republican. He continued in com- mand until May, 1908, when he sold the Reg- ister to Mr. George Stanfill. He proved him- self a talented and influential editor and the Register flourished under his regime. After quitting the newspaper field, Mr. Roy en- tered for a time the accounting department of the Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Rail- road, where he remained until he was ap- pointed postmaster in January, 1910, and which office he holds at the present time. The postoffice has made rapid and definite strides, for it was but a short time ago third class. In July, 1910, six months after Mr. Roy became its head, the office was entered as second class and it is now one of the four largest offices in Southeastern Mis- souri. Mr. Roy, as all are ready to agree, has ever discharged its duties with prompt- ness and fidelity.

Mr. Roy was married on the 20th day of January, 1897, to Onna G. Thomure, of Bonne Terre, and their happy and congenial union has been blessed by the birth of two children, namely: Edgar L. and Lucian T. Mr. and Mrs. Roy are communicants of the Catholic church and the head of the house is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, of which he holds the important office of state secretary. He is also a member of the Commercial Club and stands as a thoroughly helpful and public spirited member of society.

HENRY C. VOSSBRINK is the efficient recorder of Franklin county, in Boone township of which his birth occurred November 25, 1872. His father, John H. Vossbrink, was born in Hanover, Germany, and came to the United States as a youth in 1845, locating in St. Louis, where he completed his trade as a tailor and then engaged as clerk in a furniture store, spending eleven years of his early manhood in St. Louis. He was born in 1830 and was un- der thirty years of age when he came out to Franklin county. Here he abandoned his trade and adopted as his own the great basic industry, engaged in the wholesale cultiva- tion of wheat and succeeded in building up a splendid estate. He is now a resident of the community of Gerald.

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tration of what industry and perserverance can accomplish upon the farm. The aim of his life has been the achievement of financial in- dependence, and while this has been in process of accomplishment, he has infused habits of industry and thrift into the younger genera- tion of his household. He has kept away from politics, except in the capacity of the voter, and as such is aligned in harmony with the Republican party. He married Wilhelmina Keller, who survives, and the issue of their union are as follows: Louis H .; Edward C .; Julia C., wife of Julius Wulfert; Emma E., who married Dr. A. T. Kessler; John W .; William H .; Henry C .; George H .; Julius A .; and Minnie A., now Mrs. W. H. Linstrom- berg.

Henry C. Vossbrink was educated in the public school and is an excellent German stu- dent, having acquired the parental tongue with unusual aptitude. At the age of eighteen years he began his career as a business man by forming a partnership with one of his brothers at Shotwell, near the family home. They established a thriving mercantile busi- ness and continued the same for four years. A change in conditions caused him to seek em- ployment in St. Louis and he spent eighteen months there as a street car conductor. Sub- sequently he spent a period engaged in the retail liquor business at St. Louis and after spending a few months as a clerk in Sullivan he associated himself with a brother in Tolo- na, Missouri, and there spent a year. Fol- lowing this he spent nine months at Shotwell engaged in clerking and then went to Wash- ington, Missouri, where he tended bar for two years. He passed the next twelve years as bartender for Kramolowski in Union and terminated it when he assumed the office of recorder in 1911.

Mr. Vossbrink was reared to loyalty to the principles of what its admirers call "The Grand Old Party," and his residence at sev- eral points in Franklin county gave him an unusually large acquaintance and an enthusi- astic one, so that when he became a candidate for office, support came to him from many sources. He made the race before the primary against five competitors and distanced them all for the nomination, winning the election from his Democratic opponent by better than the party vote. He is making a record as a popular official.

Mr. Vossbrink is one of the directors of the Bank of Union; is interested in the Helling Manufacturing Company and was its secre-

tary and treasurer for more than three years. He is also a stockholder in the National Cob Pipe Works of Union and is an important fig- ure in the Masonic Blue Lodge and the Mod- ern Woodmen.

On January 27, 1900, Mr. Vossbrink mar- ried in Union Miss Ida E. Gehlert, daughter of an old settler of Franklin county, Louis H. Gehlert, who was of German blood and birth. Mr. and Mrs. Vossbrink share their delightful home with a daughter and son, namely : Meta W. and J. Henry.

FELIX G. LAMBERT. In the forefront of the

- enterprising group of citizens whose efforts have established and maintained the progress and prosperity of Bollinger county stands Felix G. Lambert. He practically built Don- gola, and though that is perhaps his most notable achievement it is by no means his only one. He was born November 13, 1847. . in Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, and ! both of his parents were natives of Missouri. His father, Ira B. Lambert, died when Felix G. was but two years old, in the year 1849. After this sad event the mother, Polly Lam- bert, moved to Cape Girardeau county, where she had inherited about two hundred acres of land. Here she later married Brazilus Estes. Her death occurred in 1865, when Mr. Lambert was but eighteen years old. Up to : this time he had followed the usual course of the sons of that generation, assisting in the farm work and attending the district school.

The year after his mother's death Mr.' Lambert started out to work for himself.' Though young, he was a keen business man and one who had the genius for management. which is largely the ability to work hard and look after details. He bought a grist mill in ; Cape Girardeau county, which he ran for twelve years and developed into a most profit- able business. After selling this mill Mr. Lambert bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Bollinger county. He continued to add to his farm acreage until he is now farming two hundred and twenty acres. Both stock raising and general farming en- gage his attention.

In 1882 he came to his farm near Dongola. which at that time was a settlement of one house. Since that date the history of the } town has been mostly of his making. His first contribution to the industrial resources of the , village was a saw mill. With this start. the town sprang up and has continued to grow steadily. Mr. Lambert's enterprises did not

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end with the saw-mill. He built a planing nill and a grist mill, both of which attracted lesirable citizens to the town and increased ts value as a place of residence and as a busi- iess centre.

Though pre-eminently a business man, Mr. ambert is a citizen who takes the liveliest in- erest in all public questions, and one who is ready to fulfill all duties whether of public or private import. Of this he has given evi- lence by his twelve years' service in the of- ices of the county. He was eight years jus- ice of the peace and four years publie admin- strator. In polities he is a Democrat, and is regarded as a most influential member of his party, because of those qualities which make for his eminence in all things in which he ngages.

Mr. Lambert has been married three times. Iis first wife was Levina Mayfield, daughter of Elisha Mayfield, a native of Missouri. She lied in 1879, leaving a son, Shelby, three years old. Mr. Lambert was later united to Amanda Plummer, daughter of George Plum- mer, born in Ohio. Her son, Grover Cleve- and Lambert, was born in 1886. He is now married to a daughter of Missouri, whose maiden name was May Zimmerman. Amanda Plummer Lambert died in 1888. Mr. Lam- ert's third wife was Mrs. Sarah V. Brown, lee Smith, a Kentuckian by birth. She passed to her reward in 1909.

JOHN H. BRADLEY was born near Senath, Dunklin county, Missouri. His parents were Reuben and Anna Aletha (Myracle) Brad- .cy, Reuben was born near Vincit, in Dunk- in county, January 7, 1847, and when le was very small both of his parents died. When he was seventeen years old he enlisted n the Confederate army, in which he served until the close of the Civil war. After he was nustered out he returned to Dunklin county, where he bought a farm at Senath and he was farmer all of his life. His wife died in 1890 ind he has recently come to live with his son it Kennett. Mr. Bradley never laid claim to being a politician, but he worked for all mat- ers of public advancement. He has a family of three sons, all of whom have made suc- esses of their lives. The eldest is James A., he clerk of Dunklin county. John Hender- son is the second, while the third, Milton Mil- iard, has a drug store at Smith.

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History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests, Volume I, Part 92

Author: Douglass, Robert Sidney. 4n Publication date: 1912 Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 844

Author: Douglass, Robert Sidney. 4n
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 844