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ed with the Barber Asphalt Co., until herd and his mother's maiden name in 1898 he was appointed deputy reve- was Asenath Mack. Mr. Shepherd nue collector. Mr. Shepherd stands received his education in Dover and high in Masonic circles and is a mem- Adrian, Mich., and for five years ber of the Chapter, Royal and Select
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WM. M. SHEPHERD.
clerked in a drug store in Adrian. In Masters, Knights Templar, and No- 1870 he went to Troy, Kan., where he bles of the Mystic Shrine.
opened a drug store, which he con- tinued for five years. He then came
HARRY G. KERR, commercial to St. Joseph and was business man- traveler, was born in Newport, Ohio, ager of the Herald for several years. Sept. 27, 1869. He came to, St. Jo- In 1880 he was appointed assistant seph in 1889 and has been engaged in postmaster under Col. Tracy, where mercantile pursuits since. He was
he remained until 1884, when he again married in St. Joseph, Oct. 7, 1892, assumed control of the business affairs to Miss Lillie M., daughter of Fred- of the Herald. Mr. Shepherd is a Re- erick and Margaret Endebrock. Their publican, and in 1890 was elected daughter, Elva M., is four years old.
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CHESLEY A. MOSMAN, general family to Cincinnati in May, 1854, and solicitor for the C., B. & Q. R. R., afterwards lived in Paducah, Ky., and. was born in Chester, Illinois, July 29, Memphis, Tenn., coming to St. Joseph 1842, and was educated in the High in September, 1866, and engaging in School of St. Louis. He served in mercantile business. He was married the Union army during the civil war, Nov. 29, 1869 to Miss Fanny Levi, and and came to St. Joseph Dec. 15, 1868. has five sons and one daughter living. He had adopted the profession of law and in 1872 was made attorney for the THOMAS A. WINSTON was born Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council in Ireland in 1842. He attended the Bluffs road. In 1879 he was appoint- Catholic College of England, from ed to the position he now holds, that which he graduated in 1856, coming at
C. A. MOSMAN.
of solicitor for the C., B. & Q. lines. once to America. He was in Illinois Mr. Mosman has achieved a reputa- two years and came to St. Joseph in tion as a lawyer of superior ability, and his long service with the great railroad corporation has made him familiar with every phase of legal complication that arises in the transac- tion of their immense business.
1859. From 1861 to 1881 he was in the freight department of the H. & St. J. railroad, after which he engaged in the hotel business. He is an ardent Democrat and served in the city coun- cil from the old Fifth Ward four years and in the school board from
SAMUEL HESS was born Sept 1890 to 1895. Mr. Winston was mar- II, 1842 in Baden, Germany, and is ried in 1860 to Miss Honora Dooley a son of Kaufman and Babetta (Hau- and five children have been born to ser) Hess. He came with his father's them.
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DAVID E. HEATON, the leading two daughters, Hazel D., aged fifteen. undertaker of the city, was born in St. and Bessie D., aged thirteen, have come to bless their home. .
Joseph April 17, 1855. His parents were David J. and Lucinda (King) Heaton. His father, who recently died, was known as the oldest undertaker in JOHN J. CASTLES, pressman for the St. Joseph Press Publishing Co., is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., where the United States. Our subject, after attending the public schools of the city, adopted undertaking as his call- he was born Aug. 14, 1858. He at- ing, beginning as a partner in his fath- tended school at St. Gall's College,
DAVID E. HEATON.
er's business in 1871. After the retire- Milwaukee, and learned the trade of ment of his father he conducted the pressman, which he has since follow- ed. He worked in Milwaukee and Omaha and came to St. Joseph Feb. 4, 1895. Mr. Castles was married July 30, 1891 in Omaha, to Miss Mary O'Hara. He is an earnest worker in business himself and has succeeded in securing the very best patronage of the city. He is up-to-date in everything that pertains to embalming and caring for the dead, and is always reliable and prompt: Mr. Heaton is a Democrat in politics, but has never held any public the cause of labor unions and has been office. He was married in Tecumseh, president of the Central Trades and Neb., to Miss Mollie H. Thurman, and Labor Assembly of St. Joseph.
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JOHN STERNE LAWTON, Ref. Dr. Lawton was married in Province- D., 712. Felix, an expert and scientific town, Mass., Jan. 3, 1884, to Miss Isa- bella Turner of that place, and two children have been born to them, both of whom are living. oculist, was born near Bedford, Mass., August 2, 1857, his parents being na- tives of Rhode Island. Mr. Lawton, after gaining the ordinary education afforded by the schools, decided to adopt optical science as his profession, MATHEW M. TOOHEY, ice and attended the Klein School of Op- dealer, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., tics of Boston and the Philadelphia July 5, 1854, and came to St. Joseph
DR. J. STERNE LAWTON.
Optical College, and also graduated in 1856. He attended school in St. Jo- from the Optical Institute of New seph and from 1876 to 1881 was a York City. Having thus fitted him- member of the St. Joseph Fire De- self for the practice of his profession, partment. He then entered the Unit- he located in Boston, where he for ed States mail service, where he was many years practiced successfully as a engaged until 1884, when he went into specialist in refractive eye troubles and his present business, that of an ice the cure of all the troubles of the eye. dealer. Mr. Toohey is a Democrat He came to St. Joseph Oct 15, 1898, and takes an active interest in poli- and secured his present location, where tics. He was married May 10, 1883 he is meeting with flattering success to Miss Agnes Miller, whom he sur- in the treatment of defective vision. vives. They had four children.
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JOHN COMBE, president of the vice-president of the Midland Build- Combe Printing Company, came to ing Association. St. Joseph in 1858. He learned book- binding, and in 1879 started in busi-
DEAN U. O'CONNELL, physi-
ness, the firm being Combe & Mc- cian was born in Ireland in 1842. He Crary. To Mr. Combe's tireless en- graduated from the Queen's Royal ergy and business tact the present College in 1858 and came to America establishments stands as a credit. The in 1859, locating in New York, engag- Combe Printing Company is incor- ing in mercantile pursuits, until 1892, porated for $100,000, and does busi- when he began the practice of medi- ness at 315, 317 and 319 Felix street, cine in St. Joseph. Mr. O'Connell is
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JOHN COMBE.
occuping four floors, and at Second well known in St. Joseph and among and Charles streets, where a large business men throughout the West. three-story building is occupied as a paper-box factory. Seven traveling E. H. KUSTER, optician, 621 Ed- men are employed by the Combe mond, was born in Covington, Ky., Printing Company. Lithographing is Nov. 28, 1870. He graduated from the a specialty, as well as book-binding. Eclectic School, Indianapolis, and Business is done on a large scale, came to St. Joseph in 1895, where he fully 160 persons being employed. has made for himself a high reputation Mr. Combe is a Republican and rep- as an optician and business man. He resented the Sixth Ward in the coun- was married in Cincinnati, April 8, cil in 1892-94. He is president of the 1896, to Miss Emma Dolls, and a girl Merchants' Transfer Company, and baby has come to bless the union.
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JOHN T. WARBURTON, Justice time worked on the St. Joseph Herald. of the Peace, is a native of Burg, He then enlisted on Sept. 1, 1862, in Lancashire, England, born Nov. 22, Company I, 13th Kansas, and went at 1845. In May, 1855, when he was but once to the front in Arkansas. where ten years old, he sailed with his par- he served under General Blunt, and ents from Liverpool and after five was in several battles. He was known weeks landed at Boston, from where as "the boy of the regiment," on ac- they proceeded to St. Louis, remain- count of his youth. The last eighteen ing till September, 1856, when they months of his service he was detailed came to St. Joseph. Ellwood, Kansas, as clerk at regimental and post head-
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just across the river, was then a quarters at Fort Smith. His regiment "booming" place and in the spring of was mustered out June 26, 1865, and 1857 the Warburton family moved on his return to St. Joseph he com- there. Young Warburton peddled ap- menced work in the Herald job office ples on the ferry boat till 1859, when and later worked for the St. Joseph he entered the office of the Ellwood Steam Printing Co. Then he opened Free Press, as an apprentice. Here a job office of his own and for many he worked till 1861, when the civil war years did a general job printing busi- broke out, and he, with the entire Free ness. Mr. Warburton is a. staunch Re- Press force, went into the Federal publican, and in 1895 was appointed army, although, owing to his ex- clerk of the police court, which posi- treme youth, he was not enlisted. tion he held two years. In the fall After six months of service in Mis- of 1898 he was elected by a handsome souri, he returned home and for a majority as justice of the peace of
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Washington township .. Mr. Warbur- ing paper, published by ex-Unit- ton was married on July 20, 1871 to ed States Senator Edgar G. Ross, of Miss Mary E. Long, and three girls Kansas. In the spring of 1882 he and one boy have blessed the union. went to the Leavenworth Times, ed- Mr. Warburton is an active member iting telegraph, and remained until of the Knights of Pythias, I. O. O. F. July, when he bought a half interest and G. A. R. in the Sunday Morning Call, publish- ed at Atchison. This venture was dis-
CHRIS L. RUTT, secretary of the astrous and he returned to Leaven- board of police commissioners, was worth and became city editor of the born at Milwaukee, Wis., October 8, Standard. In 1883 he came to St. Jo- 1859, the son of Christian and Cath- seph, and worked on the Gazette as
CHRIS. L. RUTT.
erine (Geiss) Rutt, both from the reporter, telegraph editor and city neighborhood of Bingen. on the editor, until May of 1887, when he Rhine, Germany. In 1865 the fainily was appointed secretary of the board located at Atchison, Kan. The boy of police commissioners, which place attended the Catholic parish school he has held continuously since then. and also St. Benedict's College. At He has been a contributor to the Ga- thirteen he left school and went to zette and other newspapers during all work, finding employment in the of- this time. Incidentally he com- fice of the Atchison Champion, where piled the foregoing history. In May he learned the printer's trade. After of 1887 he was married to Miss Annie working at his trade in various parts Herbst, a native of St. Joseph. of the country, he accepted the place Four children were born into this of telegraph editor on the Leaven- union, two of whom-Helen and Ma- worth Standard, in November of rie-are dead. Those living are 1881. The Standard was then a morn- Frances and Anna Katherine.
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CAPT. MAX MANNHEIM, real cd after he found the regiment would estate dealer, was born in Prussia, Jan. not be sent to the front. Captain 6, 1851, and attended school there. He Mannheim was married at Memphis, came to this country in 1865 and locat- Tenn., in 1875 to Miss Theresa Just. ed in Michigan; came to St. Joseph in 1866 and for years was engaged in JOHN C. BENDER, claim agent, the clothing trade. He organized was born near Hesse Cassel, Ger-
CAPT. MAX MANNHEIM.
Company F, 4th reg.ment N. G. M. many, June 5, 1832, and came to the in 1890, of which he was captain until United Statets in the following year 1891, when he was elected lieutenant- with his parents, who located at Bal- colonel of the Fourth Regiment. In timore, and subsequently moved to a 1898 he organized Company C, 4th farm in Butler County, Ohio. Our regiment and entered the service for subject went to school at College Hill, the Spanish-American war, but resign- and among his mates was Murat Hal-
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stead. In 1858 he came to Missouri came to St. Joseph, where for many and taught school in Buchanan and years he has been the senior member Platte counties until 1859, when he of the law firm of Stauber & Crandall, located in St. Joseph, embarking in who have a very extensive and lucra- his present business. During the war tive practice. Mr. Stauber is an active he was in the United States secert ser- Republican and is prominent in poli- vice for one year. He was first mar- tics. Never asking for an office for ried in 1865 to Miss Lizzie Markle, of himself he is a power in his party and Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, who is very close to the national adminis- died in 1868. Subsequently he mar- tration, where his judgment and sagac- ried Miss Ella Markle, of the same ity are esteemed. Mr. Stauber was
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RALPH O. STAUBER.
place. They have two children, Wal- married June 20, 1888 to Miss Anna ter Bender, druggist, and Mrs. John M. Carter of St. Joseph, and she has G. Drew. borne him two girls.
RALPH O. STAUBER, attorney, is a native of Martinsburg, Va., where he was born June 2, 1859. His father Col. T. J. Stauber, was an editor and his mother, Margareth (Burwell) Stauber, was a native of Virginia. Our subject attended Lewis College, Glasgow, Mo., from which he gradu- 1861 to Miss Louisa Lewis. and one ated in 1879. He read law and prac- son and two daughters have been born ticed first in Brookfield, but in 1883 to them.
HARVEY S. BUCK, real estate dealer and agent, was born in New York Dec. 10, 1837. He came west in 1866 and located in Clinton County, where he was a banker and real estate dealer. A few years ago he came to St. Joseph and has been successful. Mr. Buck was married in Illinois in
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DR. JOHN ANDREW FRENCH and Missouri; carried mail from was educated in the common schools, Rock Port to Brownville, Neb., 1862; the New York Polyclinic and Hospi- served in 43d Mo. under Col. Chester tal, the Keokuk Medical College and Harding, one year. Was in drug busi- the Missouri Medical College at St. ness at Rock Port. Came to St. Jo- Lonis, graduating from the latter in seph in 1880, and engaged in the fur- the class of 1880. He began practice nishing goods line. Subsequently he in this city and was prominently iden- opened a drug store at Eighth and tified with the Northwestern Medical Edmond, and, in the fall of 1893, College. Dr. French was born in moved to his present quarters. Mr. Gentryville, Mo., Nov. 8, 1853, and Hope was married at Bethel, Ky., was married February 12, 1884 to Miss 1869, to Miss Fannie Peters; six chil-
DR. J. A. FRENCH.
Kate V. Lewis of Andrew County. dren were born to them, three of Dr. French founded and is proprietor whom-Thomas, Ophelia and Nellie of the St. Joseph Private Hospital at -are living.
Eighth and Sylvanie streets. He was for two years city health officer. The MUNSON D. AYRES, agent of the doctor is a member of several secret Singer Manufacturing Company; was societies and is a contributor to sev- born Nov. 29, 1848, in New Jersey. eral medical journals as well as a ical associations. He graduated from the Michigan Uni- versity in 1871, and later went to Kan- member of the state and other med- sas City, where he engaged in the sewing machine business. He came to St. Joseph in 1889, and has been in charge of the Singer Company's busi- ness here since. Mr. Ayres was mar- ried in Albany, N. Y., in 1879, to Miss Isabella Kromer.
JOHN C. HOPE, druggist, 1724 Messanie, was born in Caseyville, Ky., Nov., 1845, the son of John P. Hope, a merchant. Went with father to Rock Port, Holt County, Mo .. in 1859. Attended school in Kentucky
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.DR. CHARLES G. GEIGER was HENRY F. GLEITZE, hotel keep- born in Champaign County, Illinois in er, 701-703 South Sixth, was born in 1865; he went to Kansas in 1869, where Hanover, Germany, Dec. 25, 1831, the he grew up on a farm and attended the son of Christopher and Maria Cather- common schools. In 1886 he came to ine (Brandt) Gleitze. Came to Amer- St. Joseph and graduated from the St. ica with his parents, settling at St. Joseph Medical College, took an hon-
Louis; was married in 1854 to Mary orary degree at the Ensworth, then Intfeld, who died in 1862. Mr. Gleitze graduated with high honors from the came to St. Joseph in 1863, engaging Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- in the hotel business; was married phia, and subsequently attended lec- again Nov. 19, 1886, to Agnes C. tures in Vienna. Dr. Geiger has held Witthopt, of Leavenworth. Four
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DR. CHARLES GEIGER.
important chairs in the Ensworth Col- children were born of the first union lege, St. Joseph, and has a member- and one of the last. ship in several medical societies. He has a bright professional future.
FRANK W. BEACH was born in St. Joseph, June 8, 1869, his parents
DR. ROBERT W. THOMAS, vet- being James T. and Sarah H. (Foote) erinary surgeon, Seventh and Fran- Beach. Mr. Beach was educated in cis, was born in Kentucky, May 4, St. Joseph, and has held several im- 1854. He went to Holt County, Mo., portant positions. He was deputy in 1857, where he remained till 1896, sheriff under Joseph Andriano, and in when he removed to St. Joseph. He 1898 was nominated by the Republican is a graduate of the Chicago Veter- party for representative from the Sec- inary College. Dr. Thomas was mar- ond District. He made a very cred- ried in Holt County, June 6, 1883, to itable race in a strong Democratic Miss Susie B. Atkins, and they have district, being defeated by a very small two children, a boy and a girl. majority.
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VINTON PIKE was born in York CHARLES F. KNIGHT, JR., ci- County, Maine, and received his edit- gars, tobacco and news stand, Dono- cation at North Bridgeton Academy, North Bridgeton, Me. He came to St. Joseph in 1869 and studied law under Bennett Pike, gaining admis- van Hotel, is a native of St. Joseph, where he was born Nov. 6, 1867. His father, Dr. Charles F. Knight, is a well-known physician. Our subject sion to the bar in 1872. He is one of attended school in St. Joseph, and for the foremost and most successful law- fifteen years, from 1884 to 1899, was yers in Northwest Missouri. engaged in the drug business, four
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FRANK D. MANN, dentist, was years of the time at Eighth and Ed- born in Paris, Ill., in 1860, his parents mond and two years at Sixth and Fe- lix. He recently became engaged in the news, tobacco and cigar business being named Levi C. and Elizabeth Mann. After attending school at his home he entered the Pennsylvania ROBERT WALKER, florist, 616 South Eighteenth, was born in Eng- land, March 1, 1844, where he learned his profession. He went to Leaven- worth, Kan., in 1888 and remained four years, spent six years in Atchison, and in 1898 came to St. Joseph. He is rap- idly gaining patronage, as he thor- oughly understands his business. Mr. Walker married Miss Louisa Smith in England in 1877. His wife died in 1884, leaving four children. College of dental surgery, and was in the class of 1882. He began practice at Paris, but after six years removed to St. Joseph in 1888, and is located at Seventh and Felix streets. In 1890 he married Miss Laura Loflin of Indian- apolis, Ind. He is president of the Odontological Society of St. Joseph and dentist for the Home for Little Wanderers.
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EDMOND J. ECKEL, architect, and then studied medicine, graduat- was born in Strasburg, Alsace, Ger- ing from the Central Medical College many, June 22, 1845. He studied archi- in the class of 1898.
tecture in Germany and in Paris, where he graduated in 1868, and came to America, landing in St. Joseph, July 3, '69. He at once obtained em-
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DR. LOUIS J. DANDURANT was born and reared in St. Joseph the date of his birth being March 2, 1875. He attended the Christian Brothers College in St. Joseph and New En- gelberg College at Conception, after which he took a course at Central Medical College, St. Joseph, graduat- ing in the class of 1898. Though young, Dr. Dandurant has a good practice and is professor of chemistry in the Central Medical College. His office is at Eleventh and Faraon streets.
JOHN J. SHERIDAN of the Sher- idan-Clayton Paper Co., was born in Buchanan County, Dec. 8, 1846, the son of Solomon N. Sheridan, elected sheriff of Buchanan County in 1856. Mr. Sheridan obtained his education in the St. Joseph schools and engaged in the printing and publishing busi- ness, to which is now added the whole- sale paper business. He was married
ployment as a draftsman with the firm of Stigers & Boettner, becoming a in St. Joseph in 1872 to Miss Lonise, partner in 1872. In 1880 the firm be- daughter of Thomas and Lucinda Ashton, and they have one boy and came Eckel & Mann, and in 1891, it was dissolved. Mr. Eckel continuing two girls.
the business. Some of the finest struc- tures in this and other large cities were designed by Mr. Eckel. In 1875 he was married to Miss M. L. Schroers, who bore him four children.
DR. ROBERT L. McALLISTER is a native of St. Joseph, born Feb. 14, 1873. His parents, Thomas B. and Mary (Jordan) McAllister, were from Pennsylvania. Mr. Mc- Allister was with the Wyeth Hardware Company for eight years prior to 1898, and was married Sept. 16, 1896 to Miss Katherine Siner of Dearborn, Mo. He Have had four boys, two of whom are attended the public schools of this city living. Mr. Carter is a Republican.
LUCIAN E. CARTER, attorney, was born April 25, 1836 at LeRoy, N. Y .; attended Theresa High School, Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary and Union College, Schenectady, graduat- ing in class of 1859. From 1859 to 1861 taught in Yazoo City, Miss .; serv- ed as first lieutenant and captain of Ioth N. Y. artillery from 1862 to 1865. Came to St. Joseph in 1866, and prac- ticed law. Married Miss Eliza G. Overall, April 27, 1870, at Macon, Mo.
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JAMES W. BOYD, one of St. Jo- Carolina Cadets, who formed the fa- seph's leading lawyers, is a native of mons Boy Brigade in General Am- South Carolina. His ancestors were brose Wright's division of Johnston's among the cavaliers who made En- army. The Boy Brigade received its taw Springs, Cowpens, Hays Station baptism of fire in the desper- ate battle of Stony Hill, a short dis- tance from Savannah, Ga., after an all and other places famous in the history of the Revolutionary war. His grand- mother was a near relative of Arthur night march. From this time until Middleton. Within two hundred yards February 17, 1865, when Charleston
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of the Boyd homestead, in Laurens was evacuated, these brave boys de- County, S. C., there stands an impos- fended and held the line of railroad from Savannah to Charleston against heavy odds, resisting Federal troops and the terrific fire of Federal gun- boats. General Wright declared that he never saw more valiant soldiers than the boys of this light brigade. Mr. Boyd was with the brigade every day until Johnston's surrender and during part of the time commanded
ing monument erected to the memory of Lieutenant Niel, John Cook and Yancy Saxon, Mr. Boyd's ancestral relatives, and other officers and sol- diers of Col. Joseph Haynes' com- mand, who fell in the battle of Hays Station on October 20th, 1781. In Oc- tober, 1864, when not yet sixteen years of age, Mr. Boyd entered the Confed- erate army as a member of the South his company. One of his brothers was
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killed in the army of Northern Vir- JAMES CRAIG, better known as ginia and another surrendered with General Craig, was born in Washing- Lee. After the war Mr. Boyd applied ton County, Pennsylvania, February himself to books and after graduating 28, 1817, went with his parents to from Wofford College in 1871, with Richland County, Ohio, when two distinction and the degree of A. B., years of age; in 1844 moved to Ore- took up the study of law. In 1874 he gon, Mo., and began the practice of located in St. Joseph and began the law; represented Holt County in the practice of his profession. Today he legislature in 1846; commanded a com- pany in Powell's battalion in 1847; went to California in 1849, was suc- cessful and returned in 1850, locating
ranks with the ablest and most suc- cessful lawyers in the West. As an advocate he has few equals. Political- ly Mr. Boyd is a Democrat. His in St. Joseph and opening a law office; party elected him prosecuting attorney of Buchanan County in 1884 and his record in that office is still the stand- ard by which the people measure in- cumbents. Yet he now seldom en- gages in criminal cases. Mr. Boyd is prominent in Masonic circles and in 1885 was elected Grand Master of the state.
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