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Politically, Mr. Bolin is a stanch supporter of the Republican party and takes a commendable interest in local public affairs. Fraternally, he is a member of the Woodmen of the World. Genial and companionable, he eas- ily makes acquaintances, among whom he numbers many warm personal friends, who esteem him because of his genuine worth.
CHARLEY ENOS REESE.
The career of the well known and highly respected gentleman whose name heads this review illustrates forcibly the possibilities that are open to men of earnest purpose, integrity and sterling business qualifications. A well-spent life and an honorable career constitute his record, and now. after many years of honest toil, he finds himself very comfortably situated on a good farm in Monroe township. Nodaway county.
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Charley Enos Reese was born in St. Lawrence county, New York. Feb- ruary 2, 1862, and is the son of James and Catherine (Gordon) Reese. His paternal grandparents were John and Eveline Reese, the former having come from Germany and located in New York state. For a full history of the subject's ancestors, the reader is directed to the sketch of his father. James Reese, on another page of this work.
Charley E. Reese spent his early boyhood on the home farm in St. Law- rence county. New York. When eight years of age he accompanied his par- ents to Nodaway county, Missouri, arriving here May 2. 1870. They located three miles east of Skidmore, the father buying a farm of two hundred and forty acres in section II and there made the family home. His family con- sisted of five sons and one daughter, of whom Charley E. was the third in order of birth. He grew up on the home farm east of Skidmore, and there worked on the farm during the summer months, attending the neighboring schools in the winter time. He also attended Amity College, and received a very serviceable education.
On January 7. 1885. Mr. Reese married Lydia Bolick, daughter of Amos and Margaret Bolick. She was born and reared at Burlington, lowa. Her mother was born in Germany, and her father was reared in Indiana. Within a year or two after his marriage, Mr. Reese bought a farm in the northwest quarter of section 15. southwestern part of Monroe township, and he has continued to reside on this place to the present time. having improved it in such a manner as to cause it to rank with the best farms in this community. He has a substantial and comfortable dwelling and good outbuildings. He has been very successful as a farmer and has raised some good stock from year to year. .
Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Charley E. Reese, named as follows: Two that died in infancy : James, Melvin. Benedict and Alfred are living.
Fraternally, Mr. Reese is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen at Skidmore. Like his honored father before him. he has always borne a good reputation and is honest and con- scientious in all his relations with his fellow-men, consequently enjoys their confidence and good will.
CLIFFORD MELVIN CLINE, V. S.
The record of Clifford Melvin Cline, one of the best veterinary surgeons in northwestern Missouri, is that of a young man who has worked his way from a modest beginning up to a position of prominence in the professional
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world by his efforts, which have been practically unaided, which fact renders him the more worthy of the praise that is freely accorded him by his fellow- men. His life has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the notably systematic and honorable methods he has followed have won him the unbounded confidence and regard of all who have formed his acquaintance. In looking over the list of Nodaway county's professional men, who have been successful in their line of work, especially those whose place of residence is Maryville. the biographer deems none more worthy of representation in a work of this nature than that of the gentleman whose name appears above.
Doctor Cline is a native of the Gopher state, having been born at Fulda. Minnesota, May 13, 1887, the son of John W. and Margaret Cline. The father has devoted much of his life to railroading and is now running as an engineer on the St. Paul railway, making his home at Madison, South Da- kota. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Methodist church and the Masonic fraternity. also the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Cline.
Dr. Clifford M. Cline, of this review, was educated in the common schools of Madison, South Dakota, whither the family moved when he was young. He finished the prescribed course in the schools there in 1904, and in order to further prepare himself for life's duties he entered the University of South Dakota at Vermilion. Deciding to take up the work of a veterinary physician, he then entered the St. Joseph Veterinary College. at St. Joseph. Missouri, from which institution he was graduated with a very creditable record in March, 1910. He at once came to Maryville, Missouri, and formed a partnership with Dr. Roy Morgan and he is building up an excellent prac- tice. He is thoroughly informed on all subjects relating to his profession, is energetic and well qualified to attend to all cases.
ISAAC N. SNALLON.
By the judicious rotation of crops and a plentiful use of natural fertil- izers Isaac N. Snallon, farmer of White Cloud township, Nodaway county. not only retains the soil's original fertility, but increases its productiveness. and seldom if ever does he fail to realize proper returns from the time and labor expended on his fields. He is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in Hamilton county. Ohio. April 21. 1846. He is the son of John and Mary ( Miller) Snallon, both natives of New Jersey. The father de-
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voted his life to farming, was a hard worker and an honest man. He and his wife came to Hamilton county, Ohio, in early life and remained there until their deaths. Five children were born, of whom Isaac N. of this sketch was the second in order of birth.
Isaac N. Snallon was reared in Hamilton county, Ohio, where he began work in his father's fields when but a boy and gained some primary schooling in the neighboring schools, remaining in his native community until he be- came of legal age. Like many young men of his day who grew up in Ohio and the older Eastern states, his attention was called to the fertile lands be- yond the Mississippi river, and he migrated to Missouri, and soon after ar- riving within her borders, settled in June, 1867, on the farm where he has since resided, having a neat little place of fifty-six acres. He has always been a farmer and has lived very comfortably by the "sweat of his brow" in this connection.
Mr. Smallon was married in Hamilton county, Ohio, April 24. 1867, to Jennie Morehead, who was born, educated and reared in that county. her birth occurring there on October 11, 1841, the daughter of Samuel and Cyntha (James ) Morehead, who were natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Snallon are parents of four children, namely : Victor B., Cyntha E., Hannah B. and Orr.
Mr. and Mrs. Snallon are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
CAPT. IRA V. McMILLAN.
The best history of a community or state is the one that deals most with the lives and activities of its people, especially of those who, by their own endeavor and indomitable energy, have forged to the front and have placed themselves where they deserve the title of progressive men. In this review will be found the record of one who has outstripped the less active plodders on the highway of life and achieved a career surpassed by few of his con- temporaries, a career of marked success in one of the most exacting of pro- fessions and a name in legal. public and social circles which all who know him delight to honor owing to his upright life, his public spirit and his habits of thrift and industry. With many of his other accomplishments, Captain McMillan is an eminently practical man-farsighted and result-seeing: his crafty eye quietly intent on business and his private affairs. Bodily activity does not seem to necessarily characterize the career of the world's workers
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or thinkers-else we would not have had a Newton, of starry splendor; a Bacon, the great confidante of nature; a Sumner, with his pure scholasticism; or a George Law, a Titan in business, the Colossus of contractors, an intellect- ual Samson, who could have, as was said, carried off the gates of Gaza and whipped the Philistines, but, of whom it was written, "he was lazy." Realiz- ing in his youth that success never comes to the inert. the Captain has all his life been a man of energy and industry.
Capt. Ira V. McMillan, one of the oldest and best known members of the Nodaway county bar and one of Maryville's most loyal and highly re- spected citizens, is a native of the Buckeye state, having been born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 13, 1842, the youngest of a family of six children born to Jacob and Sarah ( Vale) McMillan, who were natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they moved to Ohio in 1836. They were people of much sterling worth and took infinite pains in rearing their children.
Ira V. McMillan spent his youth under the parental rooftree and re- ceived the benefits of the common schools, afterwards attending college at Haysville, Ohio. Upon leaving this institution he began reading law at St. Clairsville, that state, under Judge and Colonel Cowen, and he was admitted to the bar there in the fall of 1865. and in December of that year he came to Missouri, crossing the Mississippi river at St. Louis on the ice. December 26th. He was at Mexico, this state, in the recorder's office until he finally lo- cated in Maryville, Nodaway county, where he has since -resided con- tinuously, and been engaged in the practice of his profession. with the ex- ception of one year spent in the volunteer service of the army during the Spanish-American war period, serving with distinction as captain of Com- pany E. Fourth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry. As a lawyer he has enjoyed a large clientele and has been very successful. He is cautious, pains- taking and always alert to the best interests of his clients, and he makes a strong, earnest and forceful plea before a jury. He holds the oldest license as an attorney or a lawyer at the local bar, and he has practiced longer than any other member.
Captain McMillan has been twice married, first, in 1868, to Rose V. Howarter, which union resulted in the birth of three children, namely : Ira R., who died in infancy : Frank J., who resides in Ohio; and Ira H., who makes his home in California. The mother of these children died in 1872. The Captain was again married in 1874 to Mattie L. Hosmer, and by this union three children were born, named as follows: Mary A., who died in in- fancy ; Ross H., now a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, and Bess, who mar- ried W. R. Patterson, is residing at Atlanta, Georgia.
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Captain McMillan has long been conspicuous in public affairs. He has held the office of county attorney and public administrator of his county, and that of city attorney several times. It is worthy of note that he, as attorney, incorporated Maryville and drew all the orginal ordinances for said city, none of which on being tested in our courts was ever held illegal or void; that in all the years he was city attorney the city never lost a case, paid a cent of damages or costs, nor paid a dollar for other counsel to assist their attorney. He is a Republican, and during his entire residence in Missouri he has taken an active part in politics and he estimates that he has given one full year in campaigning for his party.
The Captain has taken much interest in Masonry, and has held practically all the offices in the several subordinate bodies as well as many in the grand bodies. He is past grand orator of the grand lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Missouri; past grand high priest of the grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Missouri, and past grand commander of Knights Templar of Missouri.
In all the years of his residence in Maryville he has been closely identified with the growth and public improvement of both city and county. He drafted the propositions for subscriptions and bonds in aid of the building of both the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs (now the Burlington Railroad Company (now the Wabash system), and he was for several years the local attorney for both companies. But few citizens are better or more favorably known in the best county of northwestern Missouri, than Captain system) through this county, and also those of the Chillicothe & Omaha McMillan.
ROY FRANCIS HANNA.
Among the native sons of Nodaway county. Missouri, who have, by their inherent worth and native ability, gained an enviable position in the business world and earned the sincere respect of their associates, is Roy F. Hanna, cashier of the Bank of Worth, at Worth, Missouri. He was born at Hopkins. Nodaway county, on March 9, 1884, and is a son of William and Glenna ( McCoshum) Hanno. William Hanna was born in Compton, La- salle county, Illinois, on March 7, 1854, and is a son of James and Bridget (O'Hallom) Hanna, natives of county Kilkenny, Ireland. These ancestors emigrated to the United States and established their home in Lasalle county.
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Illinois, where they became respected and well known. James Hanna became a successful farmer in his native county, and about thirty-two years ago he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, buying one hundred and twenty acres of land northeast of Hopkins, to the operation of which he devoted himself assiduously until January, 1910, when he moved to Oklahoma, where he has established himself permanently. In his political views he is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, while his religious membership is in the Roman Catholic church, in which he was reared.
In 1883 Mr. Hanna was united in marriage with Glenna McCoshum. and their union was blessed in the birth of two children. Roy Francis, of this review, and Donald, who lives with his parents.
Roy Francis Hanna was educated in the public schools of Hopkins. graduating in 1900. after which he engaged in teaching school for two years. He then entered the Maryville high school, where he was graduated in 1903. During the following three years he was engaged as a teacher in country schools, in the meanwhile attending a summer school at Maryville. He then accepted the position of principal of the schools at Ravenwood. in which position he was retained two years, then taking the schools at Gra- ham for a year. The following year he became superintendent of schools at Skidmore, this county, in which position he was rendering efficient serv- ice. when he resigned in order to accept the cashiership of the Bank of Worth, which responsible office he now fills. He is a man of marked business and executive ability and, as cashier, he has the practical management of its affairs, much of its success being directly due to his efforts. The Bank of Worth is one of the solid and influential monetary institutions of Worth county, enjoying the unlimited confidence and the patronage of the public.
On February 8, 1909. Mr. Hanna was united in marriage to Frances E. Sobbing, of Hopkins, the daughter of Joseph A. H. and Josephine ( Dow- ling) Sobbing. Joseph Sobbing was born in the province of Westphalen. Prussia, in 1848, and in 1877 came to the United States, locating at once in Hopkins township, Nodaway county. Missouri, where he became a suc- cessful farmer, being now deceased.
Politically, Mr. Hanna is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party and takes an intelligent interest in public affairs, though he is in no sense a seeker after public office. His fraternal relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Personally, he is genial and accommodating, and because of his genuine worth he enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire community.
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A. E. MALOTTE.
The county of Nodaway numbers among its citizens many skillful phy- sicians, lawyers of state repute, well-known manufacturers and business men of much more than local reputations. While proud of them, she is not lacking in others who have achieved distinction in callings requiring intel- lectual abilities of a high order. Among the latter. Prof. A. E. Malotte. the popular and efficient principal of the Graham public schools, occupies a deservedly conspicuous place. No one is more entitled to the thought ful consideration of a free and enlightened people than he who shapes and di- rects the minds of the young. adds to the value of their intellectual treasures and moulds their characters. This is pre-eminently the mission of the faith- ful and conscientious teacher, and to such noble work is the life of the sub- ject of this sketch devoted.
Professor Malotte is a native son of Missouri, having been born in Holt county on March 9. 1880, and is a son of Rev. James W. and Mary (Eddy) Malotte. These parents also were natives of Missouri, the father born in Clay county and the mother in Holt county, and after their marriage they settled on a farm in the latter county. The father gave his attention to the operation of this farm until 1886, when he came to Graham and ac- cepted the pastorate of the Baptist church, which position he retained sev- eral years, giving eminent satisfaction and doing much to strengthen and build up the society. He established the first lumber yard at Graham and erected practically all the houses in the Facade addition. He was engaged in the lumber business there for five years, at the end of which period he accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church at Mound City, this state. Afer serving that church for two years, he retired from active labor and came to Maryville, this county, to reside, his death occurring here one year later, on November 18, 1901, in the sixtieth year of his age. He and his wife were the parents of four children, namely: A. E., the immediate sub- ject of this sketch: Paul, who died at the age of nineteen years; Laura is the wife of Frank Armstrong, an attorney at Maryville; Karl, a successful physician in Chicago.
A. E. Malotte received his elementary education in the public schools, supplementing this by attendance at the old Maryville Seminary and at the Fifth District Normal School at Maryville. On completing his education he engaged in teaching in the public schools of Nodaway, Holt and Andrew counties, and met with uniform success in every school in which he was engaged. In the spring of 1909 he accepted the position of principal of the
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schools at Graham, in which capacity he has given the most eminent satis- faction to both patrons and pupils, having exhibited pedagogical and adminis- trative qualities of the highest order. A thorough education, studious habits and correct principles have been concomitants which have contributed largely to the success of Mr. Malotte, and because of his high personal character and success as an educator he has won and retains the respect and confidence of the entire community.
CHRISTIAN BUTTMANN.
It is a fact patent to all that the United States can boast of no better or more law-abiding class of citizens than the great number of Germans who have found homes within her borders. Though holding dear and sacred the beloved fatherland, they are none the less devoted to the fair country of their adoption and they exhibit here those qualities for which Germany is famous -industry, patience, intelligence, morality and sturdiness. Among this large and highly respected class is the subject of this sketch, who for a number of years has been successfully engaged in business in the thriving little town of Barnard. Nodaway county.
Christian Buttmann was born on October II, 1854. in Holstein, Germany. a son of Fredrich and Metta ( Plotz) Buttmann, natives of Holstein. The father died in 1905 and the mother in 1888, and they were buried in their native land. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native land and received a good education in the public schools. At the age of twenty-eight years he came to America and located in Nebraska, where for two months he was employed at farm work. He then went to St. Joseph, Missouri, and secured employment at his trade, that of a harnessmaker, at which he had worked before coming to this country. He was industrious and practiced a wise economy so that in 1887 he was enabled to locate in Graham, Nodaway county, and set up in business for himself, in which he was continuously engaged for twenty years. He has prospered and accumulated considerable valuable business property in that town, which he now rents, the postoffice being located in one of his rooms. In 1904 he sold his harness business there and re-engaged in the same line at Barnard. where he now lives. He carries a large and well selected stock of goods, practically all of which is the product of his own shop and the quality of which is superior to the average factory output. His stock is large and would be a credit to any town of
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much larger size. By elose application and fair treatment he has built up a large and constantly increasing patronage, being now numbered among the successful business men of Barnard.
On February 10, 1887, Mr. Buttmann was united in marriage with Lucy Ellen Johnston, who was born on the 31st day of January, 1869. Mrs. Buttmann is the daughter of James and Mary Johnston, who were natives of Virginia, the family coming to Nodaway county in 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Buttmann are the parents of two children, namely: James Frederic, born November 20, 1887. who is a harnessmaker and machine operator by trade, lives at Maryville, this county: Mary Leona, born November 26, 1889, and who remains at home with her parents, completed her common school educa- tion and then took a course in music at Maryville.
Politically. Mr. Buttmann is a Republican and, while a resident of Gra- ham, he was twice elected trustee of Hughes township. Fraternally, he is identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World, in both of which bodies he has served in various offices. Re- ligiously, he is a member of the Lutheran church, to which he gives an earnest support. They are genial and companionable people, the spirit of hospitality ever pervading their home, and they enjoy the good will of all who know them.
B. RALEIGH MARTIN.
One of the most successful attorneys of the younger generation in north- west Missouri is B. Raleigh Martin. now practicing in St. Joseph, but until recently one of Nodaway county's best known members of the bar, being known for his industrious habits, prompt and faithful to all business matters entrusted to him, and strictly honest in all his transactions, professional or otherwise. He is deliberate. painstaking and cautious in his methods of work. and in all that he does he recognizes the principles of system and order. His talents are of that mould that the world inclines to denominate brilliancy in oratory, and are also of the equally useful, valuable and practical kind. He aims to be familiar with his books, and his purpose is to understand the law : a matter-of-fact, straightforward. responsible, unassuming gentleman and lawyer. He has deservedly gained the respect and confidence of the people. and is succeeding well in his profession. with the best of prospects for a future compensating enlargement of practice.
Mr. Martin was born in McDonough county, Illinois, July 6. 1872, and is the son of Dr. Francis M. and Salome Sarah ( Westfall) Martin, the father
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now a well known homeopathic physician of Maryville, a native of Illinois where he was reared and educated. Following his graduation at the Hahne- mann Medical College in Chicago, in 1877, he practiced his profession at La Harpe, Illinois, for ten years, moving to Maryville, Missouri, in 1887 and has remained here to the present time, being one of the best known homeo- paths in the state, and in 1899 was president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Missouri. He married Salome Sarah Westfall on August 24. 1871, in McComb, Illinois, and four children were born to this union : Beverly Raleigh, of this review ; Mabel P., of Maryville, Missouri; Dr. Charles V .. whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and Alice Almyra, of Maryville.
B. Raleigh Martin received his primary education at LaHarpe, Illinois. and in the Maryville ( Missouri) schools, graduating from the local academy in 1892. He read law while attending school, and after his graduation he entered Judge Ramsay's office, and in 1893 was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Hopkins, Missouri, and was very successful in the practice there until 1898, in which year he was elected prosecuting attorney of Nod- away county, his abilities and public spirit having attracted the attention of party leaders and the public as well, for prior to that time he had become prominent as a criminal lawyer, having been retained in a number of im- portant cases, among which were these : the State of Missouri against Ulmer and Rasco, Ulmer receiving a sentence of twenty years in the state peniten- tiary : also that of the state of Iowa against Friend, Beabout and Pope. As a prosecutor he had charge of a number of important cases, all of which he handled with consummate skill and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.
Mr. Martin's oratorical powers and his familiarity with the literature of the world and general topics of the day have rendered his services in demand as a lecturer and he has appeared on many platforms on diverse themes. always delighting his audience, whatever the subject presented. Politically he is a Republican, and he belongs to the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias.
Seeking a large field for the exercise of his talents, Mr. Martin moved to St. Joseph on April 15, 1910, where he will, no doubt, soon take a position in the front rank of the Buchanan county bar.
Mr. Martin was married, in 1893. to Mabel Thurston, the excellent rep- resentative of a fine old family of Jackson county, Missouri, and this union has been graced by the birth of two children, Pauline E. S., now fifteen years of age, and Marion T.
Judging from his past enviable record and the fact that he is yet young in years, the future of Mr. Martin is particularly bright as a lawyer, lecturer. politician and citizen.
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