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Thomas m. Gash
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the Chapter and Commandery at Liberty. He is a man of close observation and wide range of thought, and the great public issues of the day. which merit the attention of all publie-spirited citizens, receive from him the same earnest thought which he gives to his private business affairs. In former years he was associated in prin- ciple and ballot with the Wing party, later affili- ated with the Democratic, but is now a Prohibi- tionist.
HOMAS M. GASII, an enterprising general merchant and successful business man. and for the past six years the popular Postmas- ter at Claytonville, Clay County. has for a full score of years occupied his present office as .luis- tice of the Peace, ever discharging the various duties pertaining to the position with ability and integrity. Our subject is the son of Bernard P. and Isabelle (Barr) Gash, and was one in a family of eight brothers and sisters who gathered around the hearth of the old homestead many years ago. The father was a native of Maryland. and in later life removing to Kentucky, died in the latter State in the year 1838.
In 1858, about a score of years after the death of his father. Mr. Gash came to Missouri and lo- cated mi Missouri City, where he remained for six- teen months. In the fall of 1859, he settled in Claytonville. His father had been a lifetime farmer and had trained him in the numerous du- ties of agriculture upon the old farm, whose one hundred and twenty-five acres under the skillful management of its owner yielded a bounteous crop year after year. The father had also served as a soldier in the Canadian War, and in the vari- outs duties of life displayed in different occupa- tions the same capable and wise handling of busi- ness which has distinguished the career of our subject.
Mr. Gash owns an excellent and valuable farm of one hundred and four acres, and is also the owner of village property. Having in early life
mastered the trade of a carpenter and buildler, and also having acquired a knowledge of wagon-mak- ing. he successfully followed these various voca- tions for a period of twenty years. but now devotes his time to agricultural pursuits and stock- raising, besides which he is occupied with other business cares and interests. Conducting a general store prosperously for the past six years. Mr. Gash has also faithfully served as Postmaster at Clay- tonville.
In 1851 our subjeet married Miss Eliza Sylvia. a Kentucky lady, who died in 1889, mourned by a large circle of friends. In 1891 Mr. Gash mar- ried for the second time. his present wife having been Mrs. Ida L. (Smith) Markle, of Kansas City. By his first wife he had six children. three of whom yet survive. viz: Dora, Lenora and Fanna G. These danghters are well known and highly re- spected. and occupy prominent positions socially. Mr. and Mrs. Gash are among the valued members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are num- hered with the cheerful givers for the promotion of social and benevolent enterprises. Mr. Gash is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has been Master, Warden and Secretary of the lodge. Our subject is an ardent Democrat. and is interested in the national and local issues of the day. He is widely known as a progressive citizen and a man of sterling worth, and deservedly holds the esteem and confidence of a host of friends.
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R EV. WILLIAM FROST BISHOP. The sub- ject of this notice is a young man of elo- quence and power in the pulpit. a pastor imbued with zeal, and a friend to all who have need of sympathy and aid. His sermons abound in convincing truths, uttered with great earnestness; lus logie is perspicuous, his oratory cap- tivating, and his popularity widespread. The Presbyterian Church at Liberty. of which he is pastor. is fortunate in securing the services of a minister so talented and faithful.
Born in Petersburgh. Va. October 2. 1853, our
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subject is the son of Carter A. and Mary E. ( Head} Bishop. Carter Bishop. a native of Virginia, was prominent in banking circle- of that State, having filled the position of Cashier in some of the lead- ing banks, and was also identified with the leading business enterprises. He was the son of Edward Bishop, a native of England and a planter in Prince George County, Va. The mother of our subject was the only child of Abel Head, who was born in Rhode Island, but was taken to Peters- burgh in infancy. Mr. Head was an active and prominent business man. of great probity and un- blemished reputation, and was the owner of con- siderable property. For nearly hait a century he was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and his labors in that denomination were untiring. Strict in Sabbath observance, firm in his allegiance to the Westminster ereed, and unyielding in his views of right. he passed his days. wronging no man. but seeking to do what was right in all things.
Our subject is the third of five children, viz .: Abel H., a civil engineer in Virginia: Carter R., an educator at Owensboro, Ky .. for ten years, now holding the position formerly occupied by his father as Cashier in a Petersburgh bank; Rev. Will- iam F., our subject: Mary E .. wife of Rev. Joseph A. Smith, pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Bal- timore, Md .; and Charles E., a graduate of the University of Virginia, and also of that at Leipsie, Germany, which he attended for four years, taking the degree of Ph. D.
Under the tuition of W. Gordon MeCabe, a cel- ebrated educator of Petersburgh, our subject made commendable progress in his studies during boy- hood. Afterward he entered Hampden Shiney College, a famous Virginia institution, and took the honors of his class, receiving the degree of A. M. He then became a student in the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward County, Va., from which he was graduated in 1873. Fol- lowing this he crossed the ocean to Scotland and entered the University of Edinburgh. graduating in English literature and church history. Thence he proceeded to Germany and took the theological course in the University of Jena. Returning to the United States, he was married in 1877 to Miss Leonora, daughter of LeRoy and Emily A. ( Bart-
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iet() Roger. Her father was a native of Virginia, was a prominent business man of Petersburgh, and an extensive dealer and operator in tobacco in the various markets. Her mother was a lineal de- scandans of Nathaniel Bartlett. one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
After his marriage our subject was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ashland, Va., for seven years; then served as pastor for four years at Kan- sas City. Mo., and since September, 1891, has been pastor of the church at Liberty. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are the parents of four children, viz .: Car- ter R .. Bartlett R .. Judith Joyce and Henry Roper.
1 EWIS J. WOOD. Jr .. an energetic citizen and at present the valuable assistant in the prosperous and well-known mercantile es- tablishment of De Berry & Co., at Smithville. was for thirteen years a most efficient and successful traveling salesman, and widely known throughout the Western States, especially in Colorado. for some time making Leadville his headquarters. Mr. Wood is a native of Smithville and was born in 1856. He is the son of Lewis JJ. and Mary (Duncan) Wood. Ilis primary education wa- gained in the district schools of Clay County, and he afterward completed a business course in spauld- ing's Commercial College of Kansas City. being graduated from that excellent institution in the latter part of 1871. He ambitiously and self-re- liantly attended the Business College in the even- ings and during the day clerked in the store of hi- brother Benjamin, who owned a hat and cap store in Kansas City.
In the fall of 1871. when our subject was about sixteen years of age, he began his travels as a salesman and covered an extensive territory west of the Missouri River. For three of the thirteen years which he spent in this occupation he made his temporary home in Leadville. there establishing a fine trade and becoming thoroughly acquainted with the leading mercantile houses of the Far West. After Mr. Wood abandoned the vocation
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of a commercial traveler he returned to his father's farm near Smithville. March 2. 1886, he was united in marriage with Mis C. Allie, daughter of the late J. D. and Mary M. De Berry. A. is gen- erally known, Mrs. De Berry is the senior member of the firm of general merchants widely known a- De Berry & Co. The estimable and attractive wife of our subject is a native of Platte County. Mo., and enjoys the esteem and confidence of a large cirele of sincere friends.
The happy home of Mr. and Mrs. Wood has been blessed by the birth of a charming little daughter, Bernice, who is the light and sunshine of the household. Fraternally, our subject is as- sociated with the Masonie order and the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows at Smithville. Polit- ically, he has always been an active factor in the local issues of Missouri when resident in the State and. an ardent Democrat. is well able to defend the principles and platform of the party which to-day holds the political key to the advancing future of our great and prosperous American nation. A man of energy. self-reliance and earnest purpose. he is thoroughly alive to the issues of the hour. and, believing it his duty to take a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the public good and general welfare. is liberal in the support of relig- ious and edneational enterprise. Ever ready to aid in the local progress and material advancement of the best interests of his home neighborhood and locality, he is esteemed a true American citizen of sterling integrity of character.
S AMUEL MOORE. an enterprising and pros- perous agriculturist and highly esteemed citizen of Clay County. Mo .. is a native of Woodford County. Ky .. and was born in 1×12. His parents, John and Freelove ( Williams) Moore, were both native Kentuckians, the father having been born in Anderson County in 1814, und the mother in Woodford County in Ist. John Moore had but very limited opportunities
for acquiring an education, and at eighteen years of age began working out by the month upon a farm. which employment he continued for about eight years. In 1810, he was married in Ken- tucky to Mrs. Freelove ( Williams) Darr, daugh- ter of William Williams, and made his home in Woodford County until 1859. when he went to Platte County, Mo .. where he rented land for one year, and then. removing to Clay County, bought four hundred and eighty acres near where our sub- jeet now resides. Until 1866, he remained upon this farm, and then permanently made his home in Ray County, where he purchased one hundred and twenty aeres of improved land and lived upon it until his death, in April, 1892.
The mother of our subject bore four children: Samuel was the eldest; Allen; Elizabeth. deceased. was the wife of George Newby; Henry was the youngest. Mrs. John Moore passed away many years before her husband. dying in 1878. The pa- ternal grandfather, David Moore. and his wife were Virginians, but emigrated to Kentucky when that State was yet terrorized by the Indians, and endured the privations and experiences of pioneer life. Our subjeet remained with his parents until he had attained manhood. and received an educa- tion in the district schools of his home neighbor - hood. Upon starting out to make his own way in the world, he rented a part of his father's farm in Clay County, and cultivated the soil of the old homestead until, in 1875, he purchased a partly im- proved farm of eighty acres, to which he has since added, until he now owns one hundred and twenty acres, most of which are under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Moore answered Gov. Jackson's call for State Guards at the time of the war, and served in the Confederate army under Gen. Price: he was also in the command of Col. Winston under Gen. Stein, and actively participated in the battles of Liberty Landing, Lexington and Pea Ridge. He was never wounded nor taken prisoner upon the field, but while home ou a furlough wa- captured by the Federals, but was soon after re- leaved.
In 1862. Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Miss Martha, daughter of William and Nancy (Hawkins) Ross, who were natives of Virginia and
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Kentucky respectively. but early removed to Clay County, Mo., in which State Mrs. Moore was born. Two children have blessed the marriage: John W., a promising young man, who died at the age of twenty-two years; and Elizabeth, the wife of Hanson Allen MeCracken. Our subject and his estimable wife are both worthy members of the Christian Church, and are ever foremost in the promotion of the good work and social and bener- olent enterprises of that religious organization. Politically, Samuel Moore is, a- was his father be- fore him, a strong and earnest Democrat, interested in local and national issues. A long-time resident of his pleasant home in township 53, range 32. our subject is widely known and. a true. earnest Chris- tian man, intelligent and progressive, has a large circle of friends and commands the confidence of the general public.
ERRY T. WILSON. It has long since been demonstrated that ability is not measured by age, and the subject of this sketch is proof that a young head can carry a more than average share of business sense. Our sub- ject is a member of the firm of I. T. Wilson & Co .. dealers in general merchandise at Richmond. Ile was born in Ray County. Mo .. at Millville. July 10, 1860, and is the son of Philip and Charlotte (Lenx) Wilson, natives of Kentucky, who there married, but settled in this State in 1810. After their marriage they lived in Grape Grove Town- ship, Ray County, where the father pursued his trade of blacksmith and at the same time managed his farm. His death occurred March 4. 1877. Hle was the son of Pleasant Wilson. a native of Ken- tucky and an early settler of Ray County, Mo.
Our subjeet's mother was the daughter of Fred- erick Lenx, who was one of the carly settler- of Kentucky. Mrs. Wilson makes her home at Mill- ville and is now ( 1893) in her sixty-second year. Jerry T. Wilson is the third of six children. four boys and two girls. After receiving a common- school education he began his career as a clerk in
the store of Graham & Craven. at Millville. with whom he remained from 1877 to JJanuary. 1850. In the latter year he came to Rielmond and was employed by Fowler & Ewing, general merchants. from January, 1880, to July, 1885, when he formed a partnership with W. A. Crane, under the firm name of J. T. Wilson & Co., engaging in the gen- eral merchandise business and continuing until September 1. LEXX, when both partners sold to Crispin & Co.
Mr. Wilson was then engaged by the firm and remained with it until May 7, 1892, when he formed his present partnership with W. H. Kellar, under the firm name of J. T. Wilson & Co., gen- eral merchants. The establishment is 24x100 feet. and is admirably adapted to the business for which it is utilized. Mr. Wilson was married March 14. 1888, to Miss Cora L. Pierce. of Carrollton. Mo .. daughter of William Pierce. Mrs. Wilson is a native of Carrollton County, and has borne her husband one child. a daughter, Alline. In their religious connections Mrs. Wilson is a member of the Baptist Church and Mr. Wilson is identified with the Christian Church, both being actively in- terested in church work. They have a cozy home at the corner of Lexington and Thornton Ave- nues. Politically, Mr. Wilson isa Democrat, and is a public-spirited man who ever maintains an in- terest in enterprises calculated to enhance the progress of the city.
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AMES R. AKERS, A careful man of busi- iness. honest in his dealings, considerate toward others, and an exemplary man in walk and conversation. Mr Akers is highly esteemed in the community in which he lives. 1 resident of the village of Camden. Ray County. he was born within four and one-half miles of his present location. where he carries on the business of a grocer. His parents were Joseph and Eliza- beth (Heard) Akers, the place of whose nativity is not certainly known. but the father was born in 1795 and the mother in 1805 and both were reared
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mywon farms in the timbered part of Kentucky. Their education was quite limited. although the father was a very good penman.
The parents of our subject were married in Ken- tucky in 1828 and soon thereafter came to Mis- wouri, settling in Saline County. The father was a cupenter and pursued that trade for some time after moving to this State. He entered land near C'amden and lived there a few years: then pur- chased more, east of Camden. so that he had three hundred and forty-twoacres in all. Afterward he embarked in the commission business on the river, being probably the first commission man in the county, and the chief commodities in which he dealt were tobacco and hemp.
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Joseph Akers was a member of Richmond Lodge No. 57. A. F. & A. M. He was a Whig, with all the ardor that stamped the followers of Clay. Harrison. Taylor and Scott. Five children came to bless his household. namely: Sarah, Mrs. Robert McCann; Catharine: JJames, our subject; Mary, Mrs. Henderson MeGonigal: and Marion. All are deceased with the exception of our subjeet. The father died when our subject was but eight years old, and his wife subsequently married Al- bert Cook.
Our subject left his home in 1852, going across the plains to California. in company with seven- teen others, all with ox-teams and wagons. The party consumed five months and twenty day- in the trip, and the provisions giving out. they had to pay $32 per hundred for flour. Mr. Akers lo- cated in Butte County. and mined for a short time. But making little money at that occupation. he hired.out as a teamster to a tluming company. . with which he worked for one season. and was then employed as a collector of foreign taxes. The latter work was extremely hazardous. his life being almost in constant jeopardy; so after six months thus occupied. he resigned and turned his face homeward, going by way of the sea to New York and thence by rail to Missouri. He settled upon the farm left him by his father and remained there until November 18. 1566, except the time he was in the Union army. At the date named he entered the mercantile. business at Camden. in which he has continued ever since, meeting some
reverses, such being inseparable, it would seem. from all business enterprises; yet steadily advane- ing, until now in a store 20x50 feet, well stocked with groceries. he conducts a very satisfactory bus- iness.
Our subject was married December 9, 1857. to Malinda M., daughter of Lloyd and Rachael ( Cox) Cooper. Eight children were born of the union: John T., George R., Walter K., Melissa, Mary E. (deceased). William T., and two that died young. Mr. Akers and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Camden. He is a member of Lodge No. H41. 1. F. & A. M., of Orrick. The teachings of the Democratic party are in entire harmony with his views, and his vote and influence are freely given to its support. He entered the Union army in Company C, Fifty-first Regiment Enrolled Militia, in 1862. and took part in several engagement -. Ile was taken prisoner at the battle of Glasgow, conveyed to St. Louis, but soon returned to his home, never having been discharged.
UGUSTUS CORNTHWAIT. our subject. is a firm believer in the teachings of Chris- tianity and in the brotherhood of man. Pursuing the occupation of farming and neglecting no duty pertaining thereto, he finds time in the midst of his lahors for reading and re- flection; hence by his large fund of information is able to exert an influence for good upon his com- munity. He was born in Butler County, Ohio. in 1841. and is the son of Francis and Margaret Cornthwait.
The father of our subject was a native of Penn- sylvania, born in 1799, while the mother, a native of Butler County, Ohio, was born m 1805. The former was a son of John Cornthwait, a native of Kendal, England, who came to the United States in about 1795. being married at the time of hi- emigration. The father of our subject came to Butler County, Ohio, with his parents in 1501.
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and received a slight amount of schooling in the common schools, supplementing the few months of instruction he obtained with years of study, until he became very apt in reading, writing and arith- metic. He remained with his parents until he at- tained his majority, learning the occupation of a farmer, which he continued all his life.
At the age of twenty-one. the father of our sub- ject purchased land from his father and began married life, selecting for his life partner a Miss Cowgill, and this lady bore him six children, namely: Thomas; Jane. Mrs. I. Carr, deceased; Isabella, deceased. formerly the wife of Mr. Carr; Mary, wife of R. Busenbark; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Benjamin Hartley; and Sarah, the wife of William Peck. After the death of his first wife, the father married the daughter of Robert Bone, and she bore him seven children: One who died when young: Robert L. John F. William II. (de- ceased). Francis (deceased). David, and Augustus, our subject. Until his death, which occurred in 1867. the father was engaged in farming. with the exception of two years, when he was employed in the gristmill busines .. Both he and his wife were members of the Christian Church, in which they were prominent workers. In politics, he was a stanch Republican. upholding the principles of that body upon any and all occasions. The faith- ful wife and mother survived her husband until 1885, when she too died.
Our subject was educated in the common schools of his district and remained with his parents until the death of his father, during which time he learned his life occupation of farming. He began life for himself by renting his father's farm, and after the death of that parent in 1869 he went to Richland County. Ill .. where he rented land for two years, then purchased a small farm adjoining the town of Noble, where he remained for ten years. At the expiration of that time. he removed to Riley County. Kan .. where he bought one hun- dred and sixty acres of land and remained there until he came to his present home. in 'ISAS, where he now has one hundred and twenty acres.
Mr. Cornthwait married Margaret ( unningham, a native of I'nion County. Ind .. born in 1849, and the daughter of James and Charlotte ( Kernoble)
Cunningham, the former of Irish parentage, born in 1807 and dying in 1862. The mother. a native of Indiana, was born in 1828 and died in 1879. Four children have been born to the union of Mr. and Mis. Cornthwait, namely: Albert F., Mabel D .. Edward O, and Bertha E. Our subject and hi- wife are devout followers of the teaching, and doctrines of Alexander Campbell. Like his father before him, onr subject votes and works for the Republican party. Socially, he is connected with the Masonic fraternity at Richmond. having joined the order in the State of Illinois in 1870.
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YRUS WRIGHT. In the prime of life and full of industry and enterprise, our subject has all the natural and acquired essentials for success in the occupation he follows. The condi- tion of his farm and the yield of the harvest year by year prove his good judgment and application. His birth occurred in La Fayette County. Mo .. May 26, 1850. a son of James V. and Arabella Wright. natives of Kentucky, born about 1816 and 1826. respectively.
The father of our subject grew to manhood on a farm in Kentucky with his parents and received a good common-school education for that early day. At the age of twenty-one he began the bat- tle of life for himself, and soon thereafter married a Miss West. who bore him four elnldren, all of whom are deceased except Lucian B. After the death of his first wife the father married the lady who became the mother of our subject, Miss I. Thenoble, an orphan, both of his marriages taking place in Kentucky. By his last marriage he had six children. all of whom are now living. namely: Martha J .: Cyrus, our subject: Amanda ... the wife of W. R. Renick; Elizabeth. Mrs. W. T. Davidson; Thompson B. and Katie s.
In 1850, the father came to Missouri. landing in Lexington in March of that year, having made the journey to beat. He remained near Lexington ore year and then removed to Carroll County. where he bought land on the present site of Nor-
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vore. Later he platted this land and sold it in town lots. So well did he like this location that he still makes it his home. lle and his wife are members of the Old Baptist Church, with which they were connected in early life. In politics. he is a strong Republican and upholds the principle, of his party upon any and all occasions. James Wright was the son of John and Delila Wright. natives of Kentucky who came to Missouri.
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