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Politically, Mr. Aumoth was a Republican. He belonged to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and religiously he was a member of the Lutheran church.
Mr. Aumoth was married in St. Louis, December 10, 1866, to Mrs. Margaret (Logan) Morton, a daughter of William B. and Elizabeth (Mc- Dowell) Logan. William B. Logan was born in Virginia in 1808 and there grew to manhood and engaged in the mercantile business in the city of Bristol. He remained in his native state until 1845 when he came to Spring- field, Missouri, and opened the second store in the town. He sold goods at a reasonable figure while his competitor sold his stock at five times its value. Mr. Logan was well known to the early pioneer settlers of Greene county who admired him for his honesty in dealing with them. He remained here until 1861, when he went to St. Louis, where he lived until 1866, then went to Texas and engaged in business in the town of Mckinney until his death in 1887. His widow survived until 1898, dying in Fisher, Texas. His family consisted of ten children.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Aumoth, namely : Nora C., wife of H. B. McDaniel, president of the Union National Bank of Springfield : Josephine, wife of Robert Boyer, one of the well known business men of Springfield, and Paul, who died at the age of three years.
The death of Joseph G. Aumoth occurred February 10, 1874, at the age
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of forty-three years, when in the zenith of his powers as a successful man of affairs.
Mrs. Amoth is living at the attractive family home on St. Louis street, Springfield, now advanced in years, but a well preserved and well informed lady, who has ever enjoyed the friendship of the best people of Springfield.
JOSEPH NEWBERRY DRAPER.
The life of a gardner is in many respects an enviable one, and as a rule the men engaged in this vocation are peaccable, helpful, pleasant citizens, not given to worry and many of the ills of the flesh of their fellow-men who are engaged in other lines of business. To the contemplative mind the reason is apparent. The closer to Nature one lives, the healthier and hap- pier one will be. This statement can not be successfully refuted and is held by the world's best philosophers, physicians and thinkers in all lines, from the days of Aristotle and Homer to the present time. The gardner has little to antagonize him, to chafe and annoy him in growing his products. He takes a delight in seeing his plants develop, likes to smell the fresh inould and feel the heat of the sun, to breathe the fresh air. He thinks broader thoughts, purer thoughts. He can not well think any other kind.
One of the best known and most successful gardners in Greene county is Joseph Newberry Draper, whose splendid greenhouses are located in the southern part of Springfield. He hails from an old English home, having been born on the "merry isle" on July 13. 1866. He is a son of John Draper and wife, natives of England, where they grew up, were edu- cated and married. Joseph N., of this sketch, came to the United States when he was a child. with Charles and Elizabeth Draper, his uncle and aunt, locating in Greene county. Missouri, about thirty-one years ago, and here our subject grew to manhood and received his education in the public schools under Prof. J. Fairbanks. However, his opportunities along this line were not as adequate as he would have liked.
Mr. Draper was married. November 23, 1892, to Bertha Bemiss, who was born in Macon county, Missouri, June 22. 1868. and she grew to woman- hood in her native state and received a common-school education.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Draper, namely : Harold, born October 8. 1893. is living at home, and Ruth Inez, born June 15, 1907, is attending school.
Mr. Draper turned his attention to the gardening business when a young man and this he has continued to follow to the present time and has been very successful and is now one of the best known and most extensive vegetable growers in this section of the state and owns the largest green-
J. N. DRAPER.
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houses in the county, which are located on South Evans street and are modern in every respect, steam heated from his own large heating plant, and all other equipment found in the best greenhouses; the ones he operates cover about an acre of ground. He makes a specialty of raising lettuce and other vegetables, and also operates about twelve acres besides his green- houses. He uses an auto-truck with which he delivers his fresh vegetables to market over the city every morning. He has been very successful from a financial standpoint and owns a good home near his greenhouses.
CHARLES DRAPER.
We are always glad to welcome to the United States the people of England, between which two countries there now exists the closest bonds of friendship, and it is very doubtful if these relations will ever be broken, for each nation is depending in a great degree on each other, not alone front a commercial standpoint either. We speak the same tongue, sprang from the same original blood of the ancient Angles and Saxons and our aims are similar, so we should be friendly. The late Charles Draper was from the mother country across the Atlantic and he proved to be a valuable citizen to Greene county, Missouri, where the latter part of his life was spent.
Mr. Draper was born in England, in the year 1826 and there he grew to manhood and received his education and made his home until he was thirty years of age. He was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Draper, and was one of a family of five children, all now deceased. After emigrating to America, about 1872, he located in Billings, Missouri, where he remained a short time, then moved to Springfield about forty-two years ago and went to gardening, which business he had followed from his early youth. His knowledge of this line of work increased with the years until he became one of the best informed and most successful gardners in the southern part of the state and was widely known in Greene county.
Mr. Draper was married in England to Elizabeth Newberry, who was born in England, January 31, 1829, and there grew to womanhood and was educated. She is still living on the farm at the foot of South Evans street. Springfield, owning eighteen acres of valuable land, and although advanced in years, she is active. and is a woman of executive ability and manages her affairs well.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Draper was without issue. A sketch of their adopted son, Joseph N. Draper, engaged in the gardening business, appears on another page of this volume.
The death of Charles Draper occurred January 27, 1903, in his seventy- seventh year.
GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI.
GEORGE A. MCCOLLUM.
In what is popularly termed the learned professions, success is the legiti- mate result of painstaking effort and innate attributes, but close study and indefatigable research are also necessary in short, proper intellectual disci- pline. These, together with the possession and utilization of other char- acteristics of equally laudable nature made the late George A. McCollum, of Springfield, eminent in his chosen calling, and for a number of years he ranked among the leaders of the Greene county bar. From the start he seemed to realize that there is a vital purpose in life, "that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," and that there is no honor not founded on true worth, as well as that the highest and most praiseworthy accomplishment must come from a well trained mind and unselfish, sympa- thetic nature. All who knew him well will agree that he was a master of his profession, a leader among men distinguished for the high order of their legal ability, and his eminent attainments and ripe judgment made him an authority on all matters involving a profound knowledge of legal science and vexed and intricate questions growing out of the various phases of juris- prudence and its interpretation. He was also prominent in public and fra- ternal affairs, and when "death, like a friend's voice from a distant field called to him" when in the prime of manhood, this locality' felt that it had sustained an irreparable loss.
Mr. MeCollum was born in Belfast, Tennessee. April 6. 1868. He was a son of E. MAlexander and Martha Jane ( Jones) McCollum.
E. Alexander McCollum, the father, was born in Marshall county, Tennessee, December 19. 1834. and Martha Jane McCollum, the mother, was born in Giles county, Tennessee, May 5. 1844. They both received a limited education in their native state. Mr. McCollum enlisted in 1861 in the Forty- second Tennessee Regiment in which he served three years and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga. He served under Albert Sidney Johnson in the battle of Ft. Dollison and saw lots of active service.
Mr. McCollum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McCollum still reside in Belfast, Tennessee. Seven boys and four girls were born to them, namely : John Henry lives near Belfast; George A., of this sketch: James Edward is with the Frisco lines: Martin Barney lives in Texas: Henry Clinton lives near Belfast : Susan: Phenton: Ethel; Ernest lives near Belfast : Max lives in Michigan and Mattie L.
George A. McCollum grew to manhood in his native community in Tennessee and there received a good education. He remained at Belfast until 1888, when he removed to Springfield. Missouri, attending high school here. Soon after he began teaching school near Elwood, Greene county, then
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took up the study of law in the office of J. R. Vaughan. A comparatively short time later he was admitted to the bar and in 1892 he and Major W. M. Weaver formed a partnership for the practice of law. In 1898 the firm was dissolved and Mr. McCollum entered the office of Judge Arch A. Johnson as a partner. This association was discontinued in 1907, at which time Mr. McCollum was retained as attorney for a local public utility. For more than three years prior to his death he had maintained a suite of modern offices in the Woodruff building and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. In coun- sel he was thorough, exhausting, always delving to the bottom of things, eager to know the truth. He was earnest and resolute, never urging his imagination to soar into vapory nothings. He always went into court with his case completely in hand, every preparation had been made-no gaps were let down. In forensic disputation his strong. weapon was pure reason, by both comparative and deductive processes, without marshaling the aids of rhetoric or eloquence, accessories, it may be added, which, if occasion would suggest, he employed as invaluable reserve. He proceeded firmly and strongly on and along direct lines to his objective, deflecting neither to the right hand nor to the left. Fluent in expression, with purity and elegance of style, pre- cise and faultless in language and the orderly and symmetrical arrangement of words and ideas, the stream of calm, subtle, sinewy, unbroken logic, dis- daining unnecessary ornament and declining the ordinary resources of the orator, was fascinating to hear and often almost irresistible in its persuasion. At the time of his death he was attorney for the Springfield Gas and Electric Company and the Springfield Traction Company.
Mr. McCollum at one time was exalted ruler of the Florence Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Springfield. He was also a mem- ber of practically all the Masonic bodies having chapters in Springfield. He also was a member of the Knights of Pythias and was also a member of the Scottish Rite at Joplin, Missouri: the Modern Woodmen of America lodges. At various times he had held offices in these lodges. He was at one time a member of the school board, also served in the city council. He was an active worker in the Democratic party and in 1906 was chairman of the Demo- cratic county committee. He was possessed of much business sagacity and was known to be highly successful in the Springfield commercial world, hav- ing had considerable business interests here. He owned a beautiful home on South Market street where his family still reside.
Mr. McCollum was married in Springfield in 1896, to Ivy Holman, who was born here, where she was reared and educated. She is a daughter of Dr. David E. and Mary S. Holman. To Mr. and Mrs. McCollum two children were born, namely: Katherine, now sixteen years of age; and Josephine, who is four years old.
Mr. McCollum's death occurred suddenly and unexpectedly. when only
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about forty-six years of age, on August 10, 1914. Mrs. McCollum and chil- dren were spending the summer at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and were thus absent from Springfield at the time of his death, which came as a shock to the entire community.
JOHN RANDOLPH HUDNALL.
Four score years is a long time to live, in view of the fact that the aver- age life of mankind is only thirty-three years. One can accomplish much and do a vast amount of good in the course of eighty years or on the other hand one can idle the time away or spend it in a manner that is harmful to himself and to those with whom he comes in contact. Human life is at once a serious and a powerful thing. It is often said to be what we make it. Others believe that environment and fate, which is another name for luck, shapes our destiny and often prevents us from doing noble things even if we have the desire to do them. Those familiar with the life record of John Randolph Hudnall, for many years a widely known traveling salesman out of Springfield, who is now living on a small farm in Clay township, Greene county, passing his declining years in serenity, are unanimous in their opinion that he has lived to good purpose and has accomplished a great deal of good.
Mr. Hudnall was born in Litchfield. Illinois, September 16, 1834. He is a son of Dr. Moses L. and Minerva ( Henderson) Hudnall. The father was born in Lee county, Virginia, in 1808, was reared on a plantation there and received a good education in the schools of that state. When nineteen years of age he began the study of medicine and when twenty-one years old moved to Tennessee, later locating in Kentucky, where he practiced medicine for two years, then moved to Pike county. Illinois, where he practiced about ten years, and from there came to Scotland county, Missouri, locating in the town of Memphis in 1845 where he continued the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the Civil war. In 1863 he went to Arkansas to work for the Federal army as surgeon, but not long afterwards he died in that state. He was a prominent man in the communities where he lived and was a skilled physician, enjoying a large practice wherever he located. He was among the first settlers in Scotland county. Missouri. He married while in Tennessee. Politically, he was a Whig and for some time a Democrat. He was a member of the Masonic order and prominent in the work of the same. His wife was born in Claiborne county. Tennessee, and she was reared on a farm in Powell's Valley. She received a common school edu- cation. She was noted for her piety and hospitality as well as industry. To her parents five children were born, namely: Rhoda, who married John
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Hunt of Polk county, Missouri, which county he represented in the state Legislature for some time ; he died at Jefferson City, Missouri, while a mem- ber of the Legislature. Preston and Calvin are both deceased; Minerva (mother of our subject) : Paul, deceased. Mrs. Minerva Hudnall died at Memphis, Missouri, several years after the war.
To Dr. Moses L. Hudnall and wife eight children were born, namely : Mrs. Ermina E. Blackburn, deceased; Mrs. Emily Gorin, deceased; Mrs. Mary Martin, deceased, was the wife of Charles Martin, who was deputy secretary of the state of Nevada for some time, and he and his wife were friends of Mark Twain, the humorist: Mrs. Lena Bridges lives in Long Beach, California: Mr. Bridges was sheriff of Greene county two terms, also a state senator for two terms: John R. of this review was next in order of birth : Mrs. Venitia Hamilton, deceased : Mrs. Helen Seaman lives in Iowa ; Theodore F., youngest of the children, lives in Memphis. Missouri.
John R. Hudnall was reared in Memphis, Scotland county, Missouri and educated in the common schools. At the age of sixteen he went to St. Louis where he worked in a broker's office as cashier for a time, remaining in that city four years, then went back to Memphis where he engaged in the general mercantile business until 1857 when he engaged in the livery business.
Mr. Hudnall was married November, 1856. to Ann M. Knott, a sister of Governor Knott, of Kentucky. Our subject's wife lived only fifteen months after her marriage. Mr. Hudnall remained in Memphis until the breaking out of the Civil war when he enlisted in the Confederate army as secret service agent in which he remained until the close of the conflict. performing much meritorious work of a dangerous and exciting character. After the war he went to St. Louis and worked for the Appleton & Noyes Company, a wholesale boot and shoe house, as traveling salesman. Remaining in that capacity about two years he then went to work for the Frisco railroad. having charge of the store department at the time of the construction work in this state. In 1870 he went into the produce business at Marshfield, Webster county and remained there until the great cyclone of the spring of 1880 which destroyed the town. He was secretary of the Marshfield Relief Committee after the storm. Leaving there soon afterwards he came to Springfield and took a position as salesman for the McGregor, Noe & Keet Hardware Com- pany, later traveled for the Crenshaw Hardware Company here. then traveled for Rogers & Baldwin in the same line for several years. Mr. Hudnall is now living retired at 427 South Market street where he and his daughter occupy a fine residence in the very heart of the city.
Mr. Hudnall was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth Harold, who came from Mt. Vernon, Ohio. She was a daughter of Isaac and Alice Harold. She was a member of the Episcopal church. Her death occurred October 22, 1913, in Springfield, at the age of seventy-nine years. One
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child was born to Mr. Hudnall's first marriage, Anne, who is chief clerk at the mint at Carson City, Nevada. Three children were born to his second marriage, namely : Bruce M., deceased: Retta Lee Hludnall lives in Spring- field : and Isaac R. who makes his home with our subject.
Mr. Hudnall is a Democrat and has always been faithful in his support of the party. Hle is a member of the Christian church. Miss Hudnall is a member of the Episcopal church.
CYRUS BYINGTON MCINTIRE.
The name of a man of the type of Cyrus Byington McIntire, one of the leading and best known publishers of Missouri and Kansas a generation ago, should not be permitted to perish from our historical annals, for he did more to develop a higher grade of work in his special line of endeavor in the Mid- dle West than anyone else had ever done and his efforts were greatly appreci- ated and their effects are still felt, although he has long been a traveler to the mysterious realms of shade of which poets and philosophers have dreamed and speculated since the dawn of civilization, or more properly, the beginning of man on the earth. Our subject was also a man who did an inestimable amount of good in a moral way, by both word and deed, his example having been such as to inspire right living in those with whom he came into contact.
Mr. McIntire was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 5, 1830, and was. a son of James and Hannah ( Bigler) McIntire. The father was for years a prominent business man of Cincinnati, in which city his death occurred prior to the breaking out of the Civil war. His wife was a daughter of Governor Bigler, who was chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania in an early day, and descended from German ancestry. The father was a prominent Presbyterian and gave largely of wealth to the church and its causes.
Cyrus B. McIntire spent his youth in Cincinnati where he was given every advantage in the way of education that the period afforded. He was educated for the Prebyterian ministry, but later discovered he had little in- clination for the work of a minister and turned his attention to learnng the binding business. In 1852 he went to St. Louis where he started the largest bindery in the Middle West which was a great success under his able management. He did all the legal printing for the state of Missouri as well as much work for private individuals. His work was far ahead of anything in its line ever before seen in this country, and the volumes which his presses turned out over a half century ago are still sound and show high-grade work- manship, comparing most favorably with modern work by our best publishing
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houses. Remaining in St. Louis until 1861, Mr. McIntire went to Kansas, locating his binding and printing establishment in the town of Leavenworth. His reputation had preceded him and he had all the work he could do from the start, including the state work. He remained in the Sunflower state until 1878 when he came to Springfield, Missouri, and opened a printing and binding establishment and continued with his usual success until his death November 5, 1885.
Mr. McIntire was a man of exemplary Christian character and never overlooked an opportunity to work for his Master. He was especially active and loyal in Sunday school work, which he kept up practically all through his business career. After locating in Springfield he was superintendent of the Sunday school in Grace Methodist Episcopal church until his death.
Mr. McIntire married Susan F. Fraser, of St. Louis, March 6, 1856. She was born in New York City, November 15, 1837, and is a daughter of Mathew H. and Hetty Grace (Merritt ) Fraser. Mathew Fraser was also a book binder by trade at Albany, New York, and he had charge of all the state printing in New York until he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. in 1852. The Merritts were an early Pennsylvania Quaker family. Mrs. McIntire died in St. Louis in 1860 and Mr. McIntire some ten years later. Mrs. Mc- Intire spent her girlhood in New York and she received a good education, being educated at the Mrs. Willard Seminary of Troy, New York. She is one of the oldest members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, in Spring- field. She is an earnest Christian and has practically devoted the latter years to the work of the church. She is a charter member of the local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and is still active in the work. She also belongs to all the church societies of her denomination. She is superintendent of the jail and prison work for southwest Missouri, and while she has had many trying things to contend with, she has been very successful in her work in this connection, overcoming many discouraging obstacles and has become widely known for her work in this line. She was one of the leaders in establishing juvenile courts in this section of the country and in getting laws framed covering such courts.
Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McIntire, six of whom are still living, namely: Mrs. Nellie F. Banks, born in 1860: Stephen L., born in 1864; Mrs. Charlotte A. Barton, born in 1870: Mrs. Jesse May Banks, born 1872: Cyrus B., born in 1874; Mrs. Grace S. Bruer ; those deceased never reached maturity.
Politically, Cyrus B. McIntire was a Republican, but never evidenced a desire to be-a politician or office holder. Fraternally, he belonged to the® Knights of Honor, also Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was an active member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church. .
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DAVID H. ROBINSON.
Although the number of Scotchmen in the United States has never been so large as that of men of other European nationalities, they have made their presence felt from the earliest days of our history to the present time, the earlier emigrants pointing with pride to John Paul Jones, the great sea figliter of Revolutionary days, and men of later periods who were like him, natives of the land of heath and blue bells, have accomplished much in our land of the free in various ways. We have always welcomed them, for they have proven at all times and in all vocations to be people of sterling worth and their courage and industry never lacking. One of this type was the late David H. Robinson, for a quarter of a century a very familiar figure on the streets of Springfield, and for eighteen years of that time superin- tendent of the Springfield Water Works, a position which he filled, evi- dently most satisfactorily, else he would not have been retained so long, and it was with regret on the part of the company that failing health compelled him to turn over his work in that capacity even after nearly a score of years.
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