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Mr. Krauthoff was elected to the legislature on the democratic ticket in November, 1882, and took his seat in January, 1883, being barely eligible to the office, serving on the committees on criminal jurisprudence, penitentiary, benevo- lent and scientific institutions, permanent seat of government, and on the special committee on judicial circuits.
Mr. Krauthoff is a Knight Templar in Freemasonry.
HENRY M. ESS. KANSAS CITY.
H ENRY M. ESS is of German parentage. He was born March 23, 1840, in Audrain county, Missouri. He was left an orphan when quite young, and as his partner, Mr. Karnes, remarked, "has hoed his own row." Mr. Ess. was graduated at the University of Missouri in 1863, and temporarily filled the chair of mathematics in that institution in 1865, reading law in the meantime. He formed a partnership with J. V. C. Karnes in 1866. Mr. Ess is very much devoted to his profession, and is especially well versed in real-estate law. He is a good lawyer, and in politics is a republican.
JAMES EDGAR WITHROW.
SAINT LOUIS.
M R. WITHROW is a native of Schuyler county, Illinois, a son of William Edgar and Harriet Eliza (Chase) Withrow, and was born at Rushville, May 22, 1843. When James was thirteen years old (1856) the family moved to Macomb, the shire town of MeDonough county, Illinois, where his father was a merchant for many years. James received an academic education. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in company I, 78th regiment Ilinois infantry, and served until June, 1865. He was in several battles prior to the Atlanta campaign, in which he participated; was in the battles of Chicamauga and Savannah, Georgia, Bentonville and Raleigh, North Carolina, etc., and was wounded several times, but only rendered unable for duty a few weeks at a time. He has been slightly lame ever since the war. At its close he settled in Saint Louis, and for
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two years had a clerkship in a store, reading law at the same time during the evenings, making the most industrious use of every spare hour.
Mr. Withrow was admitted to the bar in 1807, and has been diligently engaged in the practice of his profession since that date. He is a man of studious habits, faithful and prompt in attending to business, of good executive ability, and strictly upright and honorable in all his transactions. For about two years, from October 1, 1878, Mr. Withrow was assistant city counselor. Prior to that time he had taken quite an active part in politics, being chairman of the republican cen- tral committee of the city, and conducting several campaigns. Latterly his pro- fessional duties have occupied his entire time.
For six or seven years Mr. Withrow was secretary of the bar association of Saint Louis, and he is now the secretary of the Missouri (state) Bar Association.
Mr. Withrow was married to Miss Addie S., daughter of the late Stephen Partridge, April 25, 1872.
LUTHER T. COLLIER.
CHILLICOTHE.
T' HIE subject of this sketch is a native Missourian, having been born at Frank- lin, Howard county, December 16, 1825. His father, Louis Collier, was born in Madison county, Kentucky. His mother was also born in Kentucky, and was the daughter of Abner Cornelius. After their marriage, they came to Mis- souri, and settled in Howard county, and in 1829 they removed to Randolph county, where they lived until 1853, when they made Livingston county the place of their residence. The mother died in October, 1865, and the father departed this life in March, 1881, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.
Mr. Collier's boyhood was principally spent in the healthful activity of a rural life. He received a liberal preparatory education, and entered the state univer- sity of Missouri in 1842, taking a tull course, and graduating in the summer of 1846. While a student in the university, he was distinguished for close applica- tion to study, propriety of conduct, and for proficiency in scholarship. As a result, he graduated with high honors, being valedictorian of his class. After leaving the university he commenced the study of law, under Hon. William T. Wood, of Lexington, Missouri, in January, 1847, and in the fall of the same year he entered the law office of Gamble and Bates, in Saint Louis, with whom he re- mained until the fall of 1850, when he was admitted to the bar. His health hav- ing become impaired on account of the close application to study, he left Saint Louis in the spring of 1851, and located at Huntsville, Randolph county. In September, 1852, he removed to Chillicothe, Livingston county, where he has been a resident ever since, engaged in the constant and successful practice of the law. In 1856 he was married to Lizzie A. Fugera, daughter of Captain Samuel Fugera, of Logan county, Kentucky.
In 1881 Mr Collier was elected a member of the board of education in the city
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of Chillicothe, which position he faithfully and ably filled for a term of two years. In the spring of 1875 he was nominated by Governor Hardin, and confirmed by the state senate as a member of the board of curators of the Missouri University, which position he held for about two years.
In 1882, without solicitation on his part, he received at the hand of the demo- cratic convention of his county, the nomination for representative in the state leg- islature, and was triumphantly elected. During the session of 1882-3 of the gen- eral assembly of Missouri he proved himself an able and successful legislator, and accomplished much good for his immediate constituents and the state at large. He was chairman of two important committees, to wit: benevolent and scientific institutions, and commerce, and discharged these important trusts with industry and fidelity to the public interests.
Religiously, he is connected with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; lib- eral, however, toward other denominations, and ever ready to cooperate in any movement which has for its object the interests of religion and morality. He is one of the useful and influential men of north Missouri.
HON. SILAS WOODSON.
SAINT JOSEPH.
ILAS WOODSON, ex-governor of Missouri, is the most prominent member SI of the Saint Joseph bar. His eventful life, and the many public positions held by him, render his name almost a household word in Missouri. He is cele- brated as an advocate before a jury, having great personal magnetism and fluency of speech; is a strong reasoner, rather than a polished orator; has an excellent voice, a commanding presence, and is the acknowledged leader of the bar at , Saint Joseph.
He is a native of Kentucky, born May 18, 1819. He lived on his father's farm and attended school until eighteen years of age, when for a short time he engaged in selling goods. But this occupation being uncongenial, in 1839 he commenced the study of law, and was licensed to practice.
At the age of twenty-three he was elected a member of the general assembly. Declining a reflection, he was appointed circuit attorney of the twelfth judicial district. He was reappointed, but soon resigned on account of his increasing pro- fessional business. He was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Kentucky in 1849. In 1853 he was again elected to the legislature, and with the expiration of this term closed his official career in Kentucky. He removed to Saint Joseph, his present home, in August, 1854, where he practiced law until 1860. He was then elected judge of the twelfth judicial circuit; he gained a good reputation as a judge, and returned to practice at the close of his term. He was nominated by the democratic state convention for governor of Missouri in 1872, and was elected by an overwhelming majority. His numerous constituents justly
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take pride in the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he discharged his duties in that high office. At the expiration of his term he returned to Saint Joseph, and resumed the practice of his profession.
Governor Woodson has been married three times, the last time to Miss June Lard, daughter of Rev. Moses E. Lard, of Kentucky, a distinguished minister of the Christian Church.
COL. WILLIAM S. POPE. SAINT' LOUIS.
W ILLIAM SPENCER POPE is a Kentuckian by birth, and made his advent on the dark and bloody ground in Christian county, April 25,
1837. His father, Abraham Pope, was born near London, England; came to this country soon after the close of the second war with the mother country; married Elizabeth Farley, of Richmond, Virginia, and moved to Kentucky with his wife and two older children the year before William was born. His business was that of a manufacturer. In 1840 Abraham Pope moved to Saint Clair county, Illinois, where his wife died about five years afterward, and he himself in 1861.
Colonel Pope is a graduate of Mckendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, class of 1857. At the end of the freshman year he was unexpectedly appointed tutor in mathematics, and held that post until he was graduated, when he became adjunct professor of mathematics in the same institution. The next year he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Rock River Seminary, at Mount Mor- ris, Illinois. While connected with that institution he spent his vacations in studying law in the office of Goodrich, Farwell and Smith, Chicago, and was admitted to practice in 1861, still retaining his chair at Mount Morris.
Our subject was an intimate acquaintance of Governor Yates, and immedi- ately after the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, in the spring of 1862, the governor sent a dispatch, asking him to repair immediately to the battlefield, and look after the wounded Illinois troops, which summons was promptly obeyed. Not long afterward he, Pope, accompanied the governor to Washington as a commis- sioner, to settle the accounts of the state of Illinois with the general government for moneys paid out of the state in equipping troops at an early stage of the war, and hurrying them to the front. While in Washington he was appointed pay- master, and sent to Saint Louis late in the year 1862. The duties of that post he performed with the utmost faithfulness, and at the close of the war he was mus- tered out with the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel. After leaving the army he visited Washington city, and while there was appointed paymaster in the regular army, by General Grant. Having received the order for his appointment, he took the matter under advisement and decided to decline it, and take his chances in civil life, and returned to Saint Louis as his field.
After spending a few months in reviewing his legal studies, toward the close of 1865 Colonel Pope opened an office, and has since been in the practice of his
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profession, and has ever since maintained a high and honorable rank at the Saint Louis bar. At present he is devoting most of his time to the management of some estates that have been intrusted to his care.
Colonel Pope has served one term in each branch of the general assembly of Missouri. The first was in the house, when F. P. Blair was elected to the senate. During this contest Colonel Pope brought him out squarely on the famous "Broadhead letter," and forced him to back or indorse it again, which Blair in his usual bold manner did His republican friends have urged him to accept the nomination for congress, but he has peremptorily declined. Though an out- and-out republican, and thoroughly devoted to the interest of his party, he is wedded to his profession and business and family, and relegates political honors to persons who covet them.
Colonel Pope was married in December, 1866, to Miss Caroline E. Moore, daughter of Captain Henry J. Moore, of Saint Louis, and they have three chil- dren. The family belong to the Episcopal Church. Colonel and Mrs. Pope are prominent factors in the higher social circles of the city.
BENJAMIN T. HARDIN. MOBERLY.
B ENJAMIN THOMAS HARDIN is a son of Benjamin and Susan G. (Hub- bard) Hardin, and was born in Prairie township, Randolph county, Missouri, October 8, 1852. He belongs to the Kentucky branch of the Hardin family. His mother was born in this state, and died in 1864; his father in 1879. Ben was educated at Mount Pleasant College, Huntsville, and the state normal school at Kirksville, being graduated in the three years' class in June, 1874, and the four years' class in 1875. He was principal of the graded school at New London, Ralls county, one year, and came to Moberly in June, 1876.
Mr. Hardin read law with Martin and Priest, and meantime filled the post of deputy clerk of the court of common pleas. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1877, and was in partnership with Colonel A. F. Denny, now of Kansas City, until late in the autumn of 1879; then with Senator Rouse until the spring of 1881, and since December of that year he has been of the firm of Martin and Hardin. Both members of this firm were born in Prairie township. Mr. Martin was Mr. Hardin's teacher in the public schools of that township about twenty years ago; the one read law with the other, and now they are partners in the law business, forming a highly respectable firm. Mr. Hardin is a young man of good abilities, and has a well trained mind, studious habits, and a disposition to do carefully all his legal work. He is strictly upright, and has the fullest confidence of his clients in his integrity, as well as his knowledge of law.
Mr. Hardin was city attorney two terms ( 1879-81), and we believe that is all . the office he has held, devoting his time very closely to his profession. He is a
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democrat, like the Hardins generally of Missouri and Kentucky, and is a distant relative of ex-Governor Hardin, of this state.
Mr Hardin is a Freemason, and now master of Morality Lodge, No. 186, Renick, and lecturer for the seventh Masonic district. He is a member of the Christian Church. He was married October 8, 1870, on the morning that he was twenty seven years old, to Miss Clara R. Phillips, of Audrain county.
G. LAFAYETTE WINTERS.
TRENTON.
THE subject of this notice was born November 19, 1842, at Whitehall, Illinois. He is the son of Colonel Joshua C. Winters and Cynthia .A. (Cochran) Win- ters. His father represented Greene county in the legislature, and on the breaking out of the war was commissioned captain in the 9th Missouri regiment. He was in the battle of Pea Ridge and other battles in Missouri during the first year of the war, and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 59th Illinois infantry. Our subject received the most of his education in the public schools in Illinois, where he resided until 1874, when he came to Missouri. He read law with John W. Kitchell, of Pana, Illinois; was admitted to the bar at Trenton, in 1876, and has since been in successful practice. He held the office of justice of the peace six years.
Mr. Winters is well posted in his profession, and is eminently practical in everything connected with it. He is a good speaker, and exhibits considerable aptness in the trial of causes in court. He married Miss Eliza A. Banning, March 16, 1870. They have had two children, one of whom was drowned at eight years of age. The other is still living
HON. THEODORE BRACE.
PARIS.
T THEODORE BRACE, judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, June 10, 1835. His parents were Charles and Adelia (White) Brace. his father being of English birth, and coming to this country when very young. The subject of this sketch had an academic education in his native state; read law in Cumberland, Maryland, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1856. In December of that year he settled in Paris.
In 1861, Mr. Brace enlisted as a private in what eventually became the third regiment Missouri confederate cavalry; went in as captain company A, and by repeated promotions became colonel. He was taken prisoner near Springfield, in the spring of 1862, and took no further part in the war.
Mr. Brace resumed practice after the removal of the Drake test oath, and soon
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had a good business. At an early day he held the office of city attorney; was elected in 1874 to the state senate, to fill out an unexpired term; was elected judge of the probate court in 1879, and resigned in i8Si to take his present office of judge of the circuit court. He is well read in history as well as law, and is a clear-headed, methodical man of business. He made a first-class probate judge, and is rising as a circuit judge. He is a democrat, a Royal Arch Mason, an Odd- Fellow, and a member of the Christian Church.
The wife of Judge Brace was Miss Roana C. Penn, daughter of Major William Penn, who served Monroe county as its clerk for sixteen or eighteen years. They were married in October, 1858, and have had eight children, including two pairs of twins, all living but one of the last pair.
EDWIN R. MCKEE.
MEMPHIS.
E DWIN RUTHVEN MCKEE was born in Knox county, Indiana, August 31, 1844 He was educated at Western College, lowa, and Lombard University, Galesburgh, Ilinois, but was never graduated. He taught more or less until he had reached his majority; read law at Galesburgh, and was admitted to the bar in 1865. Prior to this time, in 1861, he served a few months in the civil war, in an Iowa regiment, leaving the service on being wounded at Wilson's Creek.
Mr. Mckee practiced a short time in Clarke county, Missouri, and in the spring of 1867 went to Memphis, the seat of justice of the adjoining county of Scotland. The next autumn he returned to Clarke county; was married to Miss Givens, and remained in that county some years, serving one or two terms as prosecuting attorney. Mr. McKee returned to Memphis in 1875, and since that date has had a prominent place at the Scotland county bar.
GARDINER LATHROP.
KINS IS CITY.
O NE of the ablest young lawyers of northwest Missouri is Gardiner Lathrop, a native of Wisconsin. He was born February 16, 1850, at Waukesha, and is the son of Francis E. Lathrop, a prominent educator. He was president of Hamilton College, New York, president of the state university of Missouri, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, president of the state university of Indiana and of the state university of Wisconsin. Gardiner was educated at the university of Missouri, and was graduated in 1867, and also from Yale College in 1809. He came to Kansas City and entered the office of Karnes and Ess, where he pursued the study of the law nearly three years. He attended Harvard . Law School, graduating in 1873. He returned to Kansas City, September i of
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that year, and formed a partnership with William M. Smith, under the firm name of Lathrop and Smith, which partnership has been continued up to the present time, with the exception of a part of the year 1881, when the firm was Lathrop, Gill and Smith. When Judge Gill was elevated to the circuit court bench the partnership was continued as first formed. Mr. Lathrop has a legal mind of great strength. It is subtle, and grasps the pivotal points of a case with great ease. He is a fluent, easy speaker, a sound reasoner and an excellent advocate.
He is industrious, and is destined to occupy high rank at the bar. He was married January 16, 1879, to Miss Eva Grant, the accomplished daughter of the present Kansas City comptroller, Nathaniel Grant. They have two children.
HON. DAVID REA.
D AVID REA was born January 19, 1831, in Ripley county, Indiana, and is the son of Jonathan and Lorana ( Breeden) Rea. They removed from North Carolina when David was quite young, and settled in Andrew county in 1842. David was educated in the public and select schools; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1862. He began practice in 1863, and was in partnership with Judge Heren about two years. Afterward he formed a partnership with his brother, Joseph Ray, which lasted about ten years In 1874 he was elected repre- sentative to congress, and was reflected in 1876, serving, in all, four years. He Was a congressman of whom his constituents felt proud, being a man of eminent ability. As a lawyer he is learned, and he is an advocate of great power.
He was married in 1852 lo Nancy E. Beattie. They have six children. The eldest son is a graduate of the University of Missouri, a partner of his father, and a promising young lawyer.
EDWARD M. CLARK. HERMANN.
E DWARD MCCABE CLARK is a son of William and Rebecca (Campbell) Clark, and was born in the city of Saint Louis, December 12, 1844. His father was of Scotch extraction, his mother of Irish. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Saint Louis when a young, unmarried man. Edward is the youngest child in the family. He received an academic education at Steel- ville, Crawford county, and at seventeen years of age went into the army on the federal side, enlisting as a private in company A, 8th Missouri cavalry, serving from October, 1861, to August, 1865, being twice promoted, and coming out of the army with the rank of first lieutenant. In April, 1864, he was severely wounded in Arkansas, and made a prisoner on the battlefield. He draws a pen- sion.
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Mr. Clark read law with his older brother, N. G. Clark, of Steelville, and from 1807 to 1800 Was United States assistant assessor of internal revenue, with head- quarters at Rolla, where he was admitted to the bar in 1870 In that year he was elected circuit clerk of Phelps county, holding that office one term, and continu- ing the practice of his profession at Rolla, until he settled in Hermann in 1879. He has business in the supreme court of the state, as well as in the lower court, and he has an encouraging miscellaneous practice. He is regarded as a good jury lawyer.
Mr Clark is a republican in politics, a Royal Arch Mason in Freemasonry, and amember of the Rolla chapter. He was united in marriage, April 7, 1869, with Miss Mary Gibson, daughter of Doctor Gibson, of Steelville, and they have two children.
STEPHEN FRAZEE.
UNION.
S TEPHIEN FRAZEE, mayor of Union, and one of its most substantial citi- zens, hails from the Buckeye State, being born in Mahoning county, Febru- atry 25, 1834. His parents were Jonathan and Mary ( McCague) Frazee, both natives of Pennsylvania. Jonathan Frazee was a farmer and mechanic, and a stanch Presbyterian, who reared his family in habits of industry and virtue. The MeGagues were Scotch covenanters. The grandfather of Stephen was in the second war with England.
Our subject farmed and attended the public school until his seventeenth year, when he learned the shoemaker's trade, and became a manufacturer, carrying on the business for ten or twelve years at Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio. During his apprenticeship and all the time he was manufacturing boots and shoes, he kept up historical and literary readings, including also, at times, the law. He was township clerk in Ohio, where the office is of a good deal of importance; and before leaving that state he hell for three years a position in -the state reform school at Lancaster.
In 180g Mr. France came to Missouri, and soon after, on account of the state of his health, he spent three years on a farm. He was appointed a justice of the peace, and still holds that office. For years he read law by himself, and in 1873 he complied with the wishes of his friends, and was admitted to the bar by Judge D. Q. Gale, after passing an unusually creditable examination. Since that time he has been in steady practice. He makes no pretence to brilliancy as an advocate, but is clear headed, knows the law, and lays it before the court or jury in clear and plain language. His candor, sincerity and honesty tell favorably on whatever man or body of men he is addressing.
Mr. Frazee was deputy sheriff of Franklin county several years ago, and for the last eight years has been at the head of the municipality of the town of I'nion. In the latter office he looks carefully to the general interests of the place.
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During this period the town debt has been removed. He is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church, and a man of eminent usefulness in many spheres.
He was married October 14, 1858, to Miss Eliza M. Haynes, of Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio. She was formerly a teacher, is well educated, and an effi- cient member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Frazee are important factors in the social circles of their pretty little town.
LEROY B. VALLIANT.
SAINT LOUIS.
EROY B. VALLIANT was born in Moulton, Alabama, June 14, 1838. His I father, Colonel Denton HI. Valliant, was an officer in the United States vol- unteer army in the Florida war, and was a prominent public man in north Ala- bama up to 1844, when he removed to Mississippi, and died there soon after. Leroy was raised in Mississippi, graduated at the university of that state, at Oxford, in 1856, and in 1858 graduated at the law school at Lebanon, Tennessee. He began the practice of law at Greenville, Mississippi, in 1859, where he remained until the winter of 1874-75, when he removed to Saint Louis.
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