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Mr. Silver is a studious man, and thorough in all his work. He is building on a solid foundation of character and scholarship
In 1882 Mr. Silver was elected, by his democratic constituents, prosecuting attorney for Cole county, which office he is now filling with praiseworthy prompt- ness and decided ability.
HON. WILLIAM YOUNG.
TROY
T HIE Methuselah of the Lincoln county bar is William Young, who has been a resident of the county, and an attorney at law here, since 1828. He has hold a variety of offices; was made one of the justices of the county court in 1834, and held that office four years; was county treasurer the same length of time, 1812-46; was public administrator one or two terms; county superintendent of schools a while, and he taught the Troy Academy one year ( 1839). For fifty-five years Judge Young has been a model of industry, sobriety, and all the proprie- ties of life, and for more than forty years a total abstainer from intoxicants of every kind. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1833, and he served in the office of elder for a long period.
The parents of Judge Young were James and Ann Frances ( Booker) Young, both natives of Virginia, and he was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, March 26, 1803. He was educated at Shelbyville Academy and Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, being a graduate of the class of 1824; studied his profes- sion at Shelbyville; came to Missouri in 1827, and after being one year in Saint Charles, settled in Troy. Part of the time he has lived in the city and part on his farm, near town. He left the farm in 1876, and sold it in 1881. He has a second wife, and five children
EDWARD T. SMITH.
BOWLING GREEN.
E DWARD THOMAS SMITH, prosecuting attorney of Pike county, is a native of the county of Lewis, and was born March 26, 1842, his parents being William and Elizabeth (Staples) Smith. His father was born in Kentucky; his mother in Virginia. He finished his education at La Grange College, in his native county, leaving in his sophomore year ( 1861). He was for two and a half years orderly sergeant of company A, in Green's brigade, confederate troops. After the war he studied law awhile, but the test oath being in force, he dropped his studies, and sold merchandise at Canton. He resumed his legal studies in 1800; was licensed to practice by Judge Wilson in 1870, and after spending three years at the Lewis county bar, he settled in Bowling Green. He was elected
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prosecuting attorney in 1876, and again in 1882. As a prosecutor he is prompt and energetic, and he has an excellent standing in the community as a citizen, as well as at the bar of his county.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Baptist Church, and a man of high moral prin- ciples. His wife was Miss Nannie Biggs, daughter of ex-Senator George K. Biggs, of Clark county; married March 9, 1865. They have had four children, burying two of them.
JOHN M. BARKER. DINVILLE.
JOHN M. BARKER was born December 20, 1841, in Saint Charles county, J Missouri, and is the second son of Simeon L. and Louise I. Barker, both now deceased. The father is buried near Cuivre River, in Montgomery county, and the mother in the cemetery at Flint Hill In 1856 the subject of this sketch re- moved from Saint Charles to Montgomery county with his father, and the next year, at the age of sixteen, he began the study of the law under the instruction of his father, who was a fine literary scholar, a good lawyer, and had a good library, thus furnishing an exceptional opportunity to an industrious boy. The civil war soon came on, however, and put a practical end to his studies until its end, when he resumed study, continuing it at home until 1867, when he spent a short time in the law office of Moses Conger, of Potosi. In November of that your he was admitted to the bar at Farmington by Judge William Carter, then of the twentieth judicial circuit. Mr. Barker taught school a while at Richwoods, and in the spring of 1868 returned to Montgomery county, the home of his adop- tion, and began practice at Wellsville. By untiring industry he has accumulated a reasonable competence for a large family, and has now a good and successful practice at the bar.
As a mark of appreciation on the part of his fellow-citizens it may be stated he has more than once been called upon to go into the campaigns of his party (the democratic), and help lead in what sometimes seemed a forlorn hope, and being ready and willing to help, and having many friends in the county, he was able to do some service to his party.
In the face of strong opposition he has been elected three times in succession to the office of prosecuting attorney for Montgomery county, and each time ran ahead of his ticket. He was elected to that office in 1878, 1880 and 1882, and has maintained the confidence of the people as an honest and able officer.
In the autumn of 1868 he was happily married to Miss Margaret Pace, the oldest daughter of William II. Pace, one of the earliest citizens of Callaway and Montgomery counties. On her father's side her relations are the Paces and Irvines, of Kentucky, and the Pitmans, Talbots and Hockadays, of Missouri, and on her mother's side the Wickliffes and Davises, of Kentucky.
The subject of this sketch came from an ancestry wh , landed in America at
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an early date. His grandfather, Stephen Barker, was a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, of English and Holland extraction. Full of the fire of the revolution, he left college at the age of sixteen and joined the army under the immediate command of General Washington, participating in every battle of the revolution in which Washington commanded. When he was old and tottering he would tell his children's children of the little army that crept away from the British in the darkness and storm; then the fight with the drifting ice in the Delaware, and then in the grey winter morning the storming of Trenton. At the close of the war he went to Virginia, where he married Betty, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Lloyd. Later he also joined in the war against the Indians and British, during the cam- paigns of which he camped on the ground where Cincinnati now stands, then a great beech forest. He was in the battle where Tecumseh was killed, that cam- paign taking him into Kentucky, where, like many other men, he fell in love with the dark and bloody ground, and moved with his family to Campbell county, dying in Grant county in 1845. He was borne to his grave by his old comrades in arms.
The grandfather of Mr. Barker on his mother's side was James Mackay, the youngest of seven brothers who left Scotland about the close of the American revolution and came to this country, where he married Miss Elizabeth L. Long, of Philadelphia, and then came on to the then little Spanish trading post of Saint Louis, being, it is reported, the first English-speaking man west of the Missis- sippi. He was brave and generous, and being well educated was given the com- mand of the place by the Spanish authorities under the title of Capitan Com- mandante. Within the scope of his authority were the civil, military, judicial, and in a measure the ecclesiastical arms of government, all under the superintendency of Governor De Lassus, with whom he was on terms of cordial friendship. His duties consisted partly in preventing the Protestant forms of worship, which duty grew so odious to him that, although a Catholic, he drove the informers from his door. For his public services he was granted large tracts of fine lands by the Span- ish crown. Little of his history has been written. He erected, the first brick house in Saint Louis, now a part of the Academy of the Sacred Heart. He commanded in the fight against the Indians at old Fost Saint Andrew, near Saint Charles, Missouri, in the early settlement of the West, and was always found in the front wave of civilization, as borne westward under the Spanish flag in upper Louisi-
ana. Years before Lewis and Clark made their famous exploration Captain Mac- kay led an expedition to the West, the then terra incognita of North America. Ilis command and colony consisted of one hundred men and twelve women, and with their mules, horses and other effects they embarked at Saint Louis in their boats; thence up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, when began a hand-to- hand fight with the great river and the unknown obstacles of a land to many of them full of goblins and dark terrors. They reached the head waters of the Yel- lowstone River; thence, to the head waters of the Columbia River, thus unlocking the then mystery of the Great West, but the storms of snow, ice and hail, and the
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bloodthirsty savages ever present, with death on every hand and stalking by their side, was too much even for their prowess, and they, what was left of them, turned their faces to the Mississippi and home. They were gone on the expedition three years, but only seventeen ever returned to Saint Louis, Captain Mackay and sixteen of his comrades -twelve men and five women. All the rest gave up their heroic lives on the picket post of civilization.
Outside of the Spanish papers no written history of this campaign has been preserved, except that Lewis and Clark mention that they saw inscribed on the rocks of one of the passes in the Rocky Mountains the name of James Mackay.
HON. JOHN T. REDD. PAL.MYR.1.
JOHN THOMAS REDD, late judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, is a J native of Jefferson, now Oktham, county, Kentucky, his birth being dated September 7, 1816. His father, John Redd, a farmer, was born in Virginia. Two brothers, it is reported. came to this country from England, settling in Virginia, and from them have sprung the few people of that name now found in the United States. John Redd was married to Miss Ann Bullock, who also belonged to a Virginia family, which is now well represented in the upper counties of Ken- tucky. John T. received such an education as the country schools of Kentucky could furnish fifty and sixty years ago. In 1834 he came to this state with the family, who settled on a farm in Marion county, four miles north of Palmyra, and he had no school drill after that date.
In 1838 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Francis, and continued to farm with his father until 1840, when he had a farm of his own. This he cultivated until 1843, reading law at the same time The next year he was admitted to practice, and opened an office in Palmyra.
In the autumn of 1856 Mr. Kedd was elected judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, and held that office until the autumn of iso1, when he was counted out - by the busting process of the provisional government. In that year he was a member of the convention which met to decide on the course which Missouri should take with reference to the Union.
.On the removal of the Drake test oath in 1866, he resumed practice, and in 1871 was again placed on the beach to fill out a term which expired in 1874 In that year he was reelected for the full term of six years, leaving the bench, which he had honored, at the close of 1880. He made a clear-headed, cool and impartial judge, and is regarded by members of the bar as one of the best law- yers in this part of the state.
Judge Redd is a democrat, but was never an active politician. He is a mem- ber of the Christian Church, and has lived a life of strict integrity and purity. His neighbors who know him best speak most highly of his moral as well as legal and judicial character
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The wife whom he chose forty-five years ago, is still living, and of thirteen children, the fruits of their union, ten, two sons and eight daughters, are living. One of the sons, Rev. Edward B. Redd, is pastor of the Christian Church at Memphis, Scotland county, Missouri, and the other, John T. Redd, Jr., is a mechanic. Four of the daughters are married and four are at home.
A. M. GARDNER.
SAINT LOUIS.
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BRAHAM MILLER GARDNER, one of the older dass of lawyers in Saint
Louis, is descended from a very ofil Long Island (New York) family. He is the seventh generation from Lyon Gardiner, who came from England to New England in 1635, and settled on Long Island in 1039. The parents of Abraham were Jeremiah Wilson Gardner and Polly (Miller) Gardner.
Our subject was born at East Hampton, Long Island, December 16, 1818. Hle early had an avidity for knowledge, with unusual skill in acquiring it, and in the course of a year and a half's attendance at the Canajoharie Academy, he pre- pared himself to enter the junior class of Union College, Schenectady, and he was graduated in 1838.
Mr. Gardner read law in Buffalo, New York, with H. K. Smith, and Edward S. Warren, and was admitted to the bar at Rochester in 1842, settling in. Saint Louis the next year. He has always preferred the civil practice, and has had little other except during the term that he was city attorney, which was at an early day in this city. His brother, Samuel II. Gardner, was the first collector of internal revenue tor the Saint Louis district, and at the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1864, our subject performed the duties of that office for about three months.
His religious adhesion is to the Presbyterian faith, and he has long been a trustee of the Second Church Mr. Gardner was married, in 1845, to Miss Eliza C' Palmer, daughter of Innis Palmer, of Buffalo, and they have three children, all daughters.
HON. AUGUST H. BOLTE
A' UGUST HENRY BOLTE the judge of the probate court of Franklin county, is a young man to be on the bench, and yet he is serving his second term, being still under thirty years of age. He was born in this county, September 3, 1854; a son of William Henry Bolte and Wilhelmina (Haase) Bolte. The former is a Prussian by birth; the latter a native of Hanover, Germany. Her grand- father was under Wellington at Waterloo. Both parents came to this country and this county in childhood. They are still alive.
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August was educated in the schools of Franklin county, the Saint Louis high school, and the university at Watertown, Wisconsin, and is a graduate of the law department of the state university at Columbia, class of 1875. Ile has had his office at Union, the county seat, since that time; has been in general practice, civil and criminal, in this county and the adjoining counties, and has made a fair success in his profession, considering his age and the comparatively short time he has been at the bar. The people of the county speak well of him. Mr. Bolte was elected probate judge in November, 1880, when only twenty-six years of age, and was reflected in 1882. He is a democrat, living in a republican county, and his success at the polls indicates his popularity. He is a young man of decided promise.
Judge Bolte is a member of the Lutheran Church, and bears an excellent character. He was married in 1882, to Miss Christina K. Arand, of Franklin county, and they have one child.
CHARLES HARLEY MAUSUR.
CHILLICOTHE.
T HE subject of this sketch is a native of Philadelphia, where he was born in the shadow of Independence Hall, March 6, 1835. In 1837 he removed with his parents to Saint Louis, where he remained until 1845. His father's health failing, he abandoned mercantile pursuits, in which he had been engaged during his residence in Saint Louis, and removed to Ray county, where he died in August, 1847. In the spring of 1850, Charles attended Lawrence Academy, in Groton, Massachusetts, where he remained about two and a half years. He re- turned to Ray county, and was a clerk in a store for a brief period, and was sub- sequently made deputy sheriff of the county. He began the study of law in the office of Olive and Conron, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He moved to Livingston county, Missouri, in November of that year, and entered upon a suc: cessful career as a lawyer. In 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Liv- ingston county, and was reflected to that office in 1876. In 1872 he was the nominee of both democratic and liberal republican parties for representative to congress. The district at that time being strongly republican, he was defeated. He is deservedly popular with his party, being one of the most influential and best known democrats in Missouri.
In Odd-Fellowship he has been grand master, grand patriarch, and grand representative, thus exhausting the honors that can be conferred in the state. He is also a Master Mason. He is liberal in his views of Christianity. He is a friend of education, and a warm supporter of the free public-school system. He is a fearless advocate of what he deems to be right, and a valuable citizen; his potent influence is felt upon society, standing as he does as a leader in politics, and at the head of his profession as a lawyer. He was nominated in 1880 by the
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democratic party at Brunswick, as a candidate for representative to congress from the tenth district. He cut down an opposition majority, two years previous, of one thousand six hundred and fifty-six votes to sixty-five votes, but was de- feated by a combination of greenbackers and republicans, who supported Hon. J. H. Burrows. For the last three years Mr. Mausur has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession.
He was married in September, 1850, to Miss Damaris M. Brosheer, daughter of Thomas Brosheer, a master mechanic, of Palmyra, Marion county, Missouri.
BENJAMIN R. VINEYARD. SAINT JOSEPH.
T HE subject of this sketch is a native of Missouri, born July 31, 1842, in Piatt county. His early days were spent on a farm, and his literary education was obtained at Pleasant Ridge, near Weston, and at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. He commenced reading law in October, 1864, in the office of the late Hon. Henry M. Vories, at Saint Joseph, and was admitted to the bar in that place in March, 1800. He immediately commenced the practice of his pro- fession, and in 1868 he formed a partnership with Hon. Silas Woodson and S. A. Young. This was a strong firm, and their business was extensive in both state and federal courts. In 1873, Mr. Woodson was elected governor of the state, and Mr. Vineyard has been by himself since that time, doing an extensive business. He has a legal mind of a high order, original in its methods, powerful in its grasp, comprehensive and thorough. He has profound legal learning, and is master of all of the subtleties of his profession.
As a citizen he stands high. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in political sentiments a democrat. He was married May 19, 1868, to Miss Emma Haylard; they have three children.
HON. DAVID WAGNER.
CANTO.V.
D RAW your learning out of your books, and not out of your brain," was the wholesome advice which Lord Bacon gave Mr. Justice Hatton on swearing him in; and such has always been the method of drawing learning practiced by the subject of this sketch. He read law thoroughly before being admitted to the bar, and has been a student ever since. His legal attainments were early discov- ered, and his elevation was rapid. David Wagner was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1826; the son of Jacob and Christina Wagner. His father was a native of New York, and a farmer, and in his younger years the son had some experience in cultivating the soil, a truly noble vocation.
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In 1842 the family came to Lewis county, this state, and our subject finished his education at Masonic College Ile read law with Judge Ellison, of Canton; was admitted to practice in 1848, and had an office at La Grange until civil war began. He was an unconditional Union man; a Benton democrat; helped organ- ize the militia of Lewis county; raised a company of state troops, and was captain of a company of home guards, when, in 1862, he was elected to the state senate. He attended two sessions, taking an active and patriotic part in the debates, and resigned in 1864 to go on the bench as judge of the fourth judicial circuit. In 1865 he was elevated to the beach of the supreme court of Missouri, and held that seat for twelve years, when he was ousted by the democrats.
In 1876 Judge Wagner settled at Canton, just outside the corporation, where he is enjoying the quiet of a retired life. He has a second wife, and four children living by the first.
J. V. C. KARNES. KANSAS CITY
T HIE subject of this sketch is an able lawyer; he excels in the trial of cases in court, and is a pointed, fluent advocate, and understands and improves all of the technical opportunities in favor of his client. He was born in Boone county, Missouri, February 1, 1841, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Payne) Karnes. He was graduated at Missouri University in 1862; studied law in the office of Boyle Gordon three years, and was a tutor of Latin and Greek in the Missouri University. He attended Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1861, at Columbia, Missouri; came to Kansas City in 1865, and has prac- ticed law ever since, in partnership with Henry M. Ess. Mr. Karnes was a candi- date for judge of the supreme court in 1886, but his party being in the minority, he was defeated.
HON. JOSEPH P. VASTINE. SAINT LOUIS.
J OSEPHI P. VASTINE was born December 21, 1837, at Williamsport, Pennsyl- vania. He is the son of Doctor T. J. Vastine, who was a medical practitioner · in Saint Louis many years. His maternal grandfather was Colonel Joseph Pax- ton, a prominent iron manufacturer, who was called the father of the Catawissa railroad. He was a delegate for the state of Pennsylvania at large to every national whig convention ever held in this country; was a particular friend of Nicholas Biddle, and was actively engaged with him in establishing the United States Bank.
Joseph was educated in Lafayette College, Pennsylvania; was graduated in 1856; studied law with Bland and Coleman, of Saint Louis, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In 1861 he was made assistant circuit attorney, which office he
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held four years, and was then elected circuit attorney, holding that office two years, when he was elected public administrator, and resigned the office of circuit attorney. In 1869 he was elected judge of probate for the city of Saint Louis, and held that office two years. He is a member of the city council, and one of the immortal seven.
Judge Vastine has a well balanced judgment, and is discriminating in his practice. He is a gentleman of firm integrity, and has always discharged his duty, both in public and private life, with fidelity to all those whose interests have been intrusted to his care.
He was married, November 14, 1874, to Miss Minnie Byers, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have one child.
MAJOR ROBERT D. CRAMER.
MEMPHIS.
R OBERT DOBINS CRAMER was born in Fayette county, Ohio, May 12, 1836, his parents being George and Hannah (Wilson) Cramer. He finished his education in select schools in Ohio, where he also commenced teaching. In 1856 he went to Jefferson county, Iowa, and continued to teach until the rebellion began. In the autumn of 1862 he went into the army in the 30th Iowa regiment, served three years, and was mustered out as major of the regiment. He read law at Fairfield, lowa; attended lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was graduated in the spring of 1867, and he has since been in practice at Memphis, and his standing is excellent.
Mr. Cramer is a republican of the unwavering kind; a Knight Templar; a third-degree Odd-Fellow, and a member of the Methodist Church. He has a second wife and five children.
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HON. LOUIS C. KRAUTHOFF JEFFERSON CITY.
L° OUIS CHARLES KRAUTHOFF, one of the youngest and most promising attorneys at law at the capital of Missouri, was born in the city of Saint Louis, February 18, 1858. His father was Louis Krauthoff, a native of Coblentz, Germany, who married Sophia Riseck, and Louis was the eldest child.
He was educated in the common schools of Saint Louis and Jefferson City until thirteen years of age, when he became a merchant's clerk, and remained such for eighteen months, and then attended Washington University, but did not graduate. At sixteen he commenced the study of law with HI. C. Ewing and J. L. Smith, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, when only eighteen years old. He was appointed clerk to the attorney general of the state, Hon. J. L. Smith, in
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1877, and held that post until 1881, since which time he has been in partnership with Mr. Smith in the practice of law. They are assistant attorneys for the Mis- souri Pacific and Chicago and Alton railroad companies at Jefferson City. Their practice is general and almost entirely civil, and quite extensive.
Mr. Krauthoff has a good deal of energy, and engages in all professional work with zeal, and evidently with zest. He has a logical mind, and ambition, indus- try and ability enough to be likely to succeed in any branch of the law to which he devotes his time and energies.
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