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DR. JAS. W. HEDDENS.
Joseph with his parents when he was oughly informed on all subjects of in- two years old and here he grew to terest to the medical profession. He manhood. He began the study of has been several times appointed a medicine when quite young and grad- member of the board of commission- uated from the Jefferson Medical Col- ers for State Lunatic Asylum No. 2. Lege, Philadelphia, in 1879, taking the, As a surgeon Dr. Heddens ranks espe- anatomy prize. He continued his cially high. He was married in 1887 studies under the celebrated surgeon, to Miss Marie Barrett of Henderson, Dr. Pancoast, and took a practical Ky., and they have one child, a boy, hospital course after his graduation. Barrett Spencer Heddens.
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WILLIAM AUGUST ZIEMEN- the position he now holds, that of DORFF, humane officer of the City humane officer. He was married in of St. Joseph, was born in Richardson this city May 15, 1894, to Miss Maud County, Neb., Dec. 21, 1864. His Harding, daughter of William T. and father, William H., was a native of Emma Harding, and two boys have Germany and was a lawyer. His been born to them. mother, Margaret (Springer) Ziemen- dorff, was also born in Germany. Mr. DR. J. M. RICHMOND was born Ziemendorff attended the public in Fairfield, S. C., Sept. 17, 1837;
W M. A. ZIEMENNDORFF.
schools in Nebraska, and having de- graduated in medicine from the Uni- cided to become a druggist, attend- versity of New York City, in 1860; ed the University of Buffalo, N. Y., served in the Confederate army as sur- where he graduated in pharmacy in geon; practiced medicine at Abbeville, the class of 1890. He first came to S. C., for six years after the war; came to St. Joseph in April , 1872. July 29, 1863 married Miss Edmonia Tomlin of Clifton, Hanover County, Va., of which union there sprang six sons. He holds a high rank in his profes- St. Joseph in March, 1882, and clerk- ed for some time in some of the lead- ing drug stores. From 1896 to 1898 he held the position of steward at the city hospital, and Jan. 1, 1899, was appointed by the Humane Society and sion and has contributed freely to the board of police commissioners to literature thereof.
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DR. FRANKLIN P. MILES was railroading; was in the war of 1848, in born in Bloomington, Ill., Sept. 15, Germany, and served in the 25th Mis- 1865. He chose medicine as his pro- fession and graduated from the Iowa State University in 1893. He is also a graduate of the Chicago School of souri during the civil war; was a po- liceman 1874-80; was a member of the city council, 1884-86. December 16, 1862 married Bridget Fitzgerald, of Psychology. He engaged in prac- which union there were three sons and tice in Arkansas for a time, and then two daughters, all living. Is a Dem- returned to West Liberty, Iowa, com- ocrat.
DR. FRANKLIN P. MILES.
ing to St. Joseph, Fev. 16, 1898. Dr. J. S. BREWER, architect and con- Miles has succeeded in gaining a lu- tractor, 2225 North Seventh street, crative practice. His office is in the was born in Randolph County, Il1., Ballinger building.
July 15, 1851; attended the public schools; located at Savannah, Mo., in 1866, at Maryville in 1868, and at St. Joseph in 1892, following his line. He was married to Miss Sarah McGloth-
JOHN GILLER, local agent of Anthony & Kuhn, St. Louis brewery, was born at Zweibrucken, Bavaria, April 1, 1835; his father was a tailor. in, at Maryville, March 31, 1875, of Came to America March 25, 1854 and which union there are three children- located at Trenton, N. J .; came to St. two daughters and one son. Mr. Joseph April 16, 1858 and engaged in Brewer is a Republican in politics.
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B. R. DAILY, live stock commis- Joseph in 1858 and taking up his res- sion, does business at the St. Joseph idence at what is now 321 N. Tenth stock yards and resides in Andrew County. He was born in Andrew
street, where he still lives. His father, Ziba, and mother, Lydia, were from County, Oct. 20, 1866, the son of C. Vermont. He married Elizabeth L. M. Daily, live stock shipper, born in Steel in 1849 and they have had six DeKalb County, and Mary (Holt) children. Mr. Ransom has held the Daily, born in Andrew County. Mr. offices of sheriff, collector, state Sen- Daily was engaged in the live stock ator and member of the St. Joseph
B. R. DAILY.
business at Savannah prior to locat- ing in St. Joseph. He began business here Dec. 1, 1898, and has been high- ly successful, having the confidence of his many patrons.
City Council. He is liberal in re- ligion, belonging to Unity Church.
THEODORE STEINACKER, civil engineer, born May 4, 1853, at St. Louis; came to St. Joseph in 1858 and was educated in St. Joseph High School and Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, Troy, N. Y., graduating from the latter in 1873. Mr. Steinacker was
DANIEL RANSOM, now retired, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived till 1850, when he removed to Leavenworth. For a time he lived in Weston, Platte County, Mo., and county surveyor from 1881 to 1888, then in DeKalb County, coming to St. and was again elected in 1896.
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MAJOR CLAY C. MACDON- terward entered the law office of Jud- AI.D was born in Stewartsville, Mo., son & Motter, attorneys, and later, in from which place his father, Colonel D. M. Macdonald, after returning
1887, formed a co-partnership with the Hon. T. F. Ryan, which continued from a term of four years' service in until 1892, when it was dissolved by the Confederate army, under Gener-
mutual consent. Major Macdonald als Price and Shelby. removed his then continued the practice of his pro- family to St. Joseph, Mo., in Novem- ber, 1865. Major Macdonald was
fession alone, until April, 1894, when he was appointed by President Cleve-
MAJOR CLAY C. MACDONALD.
educated in the public schools of St. land surveyor of customs for the port Joseph. He was graduated from the of St. Joseph, and custodian of the high school in June, 1875, and was public building. Major Macdonald chosen valedictorian for his class, that administered this trust with fidelity to being the highest honor then confer- the government and with honor and credit to himself. In politics, Major McDonald has always been a staunch Democrat, believing that red in the high school. After grad- uation, he studied law in the office of H. K. White, Esq., and was admit- ted to the bar, but did not enter into the welfare of the people can active practice for some years, being be best subserved by the triumph of in the employ of Messrs. R. L. Mc- the principles of that party. He has Donald & Co. of this city. He af- been on both county and city central
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committees, and has held the office graph before it was known what regi- of secretary and treasurer of the for- ments would be taken from Missouri. mer, and has always worked earnestly On May 9, 1898, the company, under to advance the interests of the party. command of Captain Macdonald left Major Macdonald has always been an St. Joseph for Jefferson Barracks, Mo. enthusiast in military matters. He While here Captain Macdonald was has been a member of the National promoted to major of the Fourth Reg- Guard of Missouri for quite a number iment and was mustered into the serv- ice of the United States on May 16, 1898, as major of the Fourth Regi- ment, Missouri Infantry, United States Volunteers, and was assigned to the command of the third battalion, and later on to the command of the second battalion. He served with his regi- ment in the same capacity until it was mustered out at Greenville, S. C., Feb. IO, 1899. Major Macdonald brought to his new position the same strict ideas of discipline and performance of military duty that had characterized of years. In 1880 he joined the Saxton Rifles of this city, and in 1881 rose from the ranks to first lieutenant of Company B of the Saxton Rifles Battalion; later he was made captain of the company, and upon a reorgani- zation of the Rifles the two companies were consolidated and Major Macdon- ald was made captain and continued in that position until, from a lack of state support, the company disbanded in the fall of 1883. In July, 1891, he received from Colonel Arbuthnot an appointment as captain and quarter- his administration of company affairs. master of the Fourth Regiment, N. G. The most implicit obedience to orders M. He held this office until Angust, and performance of military duties 1891, when the Wickham Rifles were were exacted from his officers and men, and all infractions of the regu- lations were visited with swift and se- vere punishment. His battalion soon became noted for its discipline and ef- ficiency, and was chosen to represent Missouri in the Peace Jubilee at Phil- adelphia in October, 1898, by Lieuten- ant-Colonel W. P. Burnham, then commanding the regiment. Major Macdonald, upon his return to civil life, has taken up the practice of his profession. organized and he was chosen captain and commissioned by Governor Fran- cis. The company was attached to the Fourth Regiment and assigned the let- ter "K." In 1892, on accounut of the efficiency in drill and discipline of his company, Captain Macdonald was cho- sen to command Company H, Fifth Provisional Regiment, N. G. M., which was to represent the state at the dedication of the World's Fair, in October, 1892. Captain Macdonald was appointed aide-de-camp on Gov- ernor Stone's staff, with the tank of FREDERICK LAUBERT is a na- tive of Hessen, Germany, where he at- tended school. He came to America in 1851 and located in St. Joseph, where he engaged in boot and shoe making. He was in the militia during the civil war. In 1866 he was married in St. Joseph to Miss Yant, a native of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and they have lieutenant-colonel of cavairy, and a commission was forwarded him. Cap- tain Macdonald respectfully declined to leave his company, believing he could be of more use to the state guard in the capacity of captain of Compa- ny K. On the call for volunteers for the Spanish-American war, Captain Macdonald tendered the services of had six children, four of whom are Company K to the governor by tele- living. Mr. Laubert is a Republican.
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CAPTAIN CHARLES F. KEL- holding the position of judge advocate, LER, attorney at law, is a native of with the rank of captain, and when the Columbus, Ohio, where he was born call came for troops for the Spanish- Feb. 9, 1864. He came with his par- American war he at once began re- ents to St. Joseph early in 1866. His father is Jacob Keller, a well-known
cruiting a company for the service, raising a full company, which was grocer. After attending the public mustered in with the Fourth Regiment schools and the Christian Brothers'
as Company I, with Captain Keller College, our subject assisted his father commanding. He was with the regi-
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CAPT. CHARLES F. KELLER.
in the store, then learned the cigar- ment all through its service until mus- maker's trade and afterwards engaged tered out at Greenville, S. C., Feb. IO, in the grocery business for himself. 1899. Captain Keller gained distinc- Finally he decided on the study of tion as an officer, and had one of the law, and with this end in view took best companies in the regiment. He the law course at the Missouri State is an active Democrat, politically, and University, from which he graduated. at the time he entered the army was a candidate for nomination for prose- cuting attorney. Mr. Keller was mar- His reading was done in the office of Kelly, Crosby, Rusk & Craig, and he began to practice in 1890. Mr. Keller ried April 26, 1893, to Miss Annie was a member of the Fourth Regi- Farrell of St. Joseph, and they have ment, National Guard of Missouri, two children, Marie and Richard F.
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JAMES M. WILSON, attorney, of his profession. Mr. Wilson is a was born Dec. 29, 1857, in Buchanan Republican and in 1888 was nominated County, Mo., near DeKalb. He is by his party for city attorney, but was the son of Joseph Wilson, who came defeated by a small majority; he was to the county in the fall of 1837 and afterwards, in the same year, nominat- located on a farm near DeKalb, where ed for county prosecuting attorney, he still resides, at the age of seventy- but declined to make the race. He is seven years. The old pre-emption now chairman of the Republican coun- house on the farm, built in 1837, still ty central committee. He is a mem-
JAMES M. WILSON.
stands, and is probably the oldest ber of Enterprise Lodge, No. 232, I. house in the county. The subject of O. O. F., Zeredatha Lodge, No. 189, this sketch went to school in the log A. F. and A. M .; Pride of the West school house and worked on his fath-
Lodge, No. 42, A. O. U. W., and Mis- er's farm until the fall of 1881, when souri Camp, No. 1883, M. W. A. On he engaged in teaching a country July 19, 1892, he was married to Ger- school, at the same time reading law, trude Minor of Stockbridge, Mo., a until he was admitted to the bar in daughter of Dr. John Minor, deceased. May of 1886, since which time he has They have two children, Robert N. been actively engaged in the practice and Bernice.
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DR. JOHN H. SAMPSON, physi- tended field of operation and his suc- cian and surgeon, whose office is in cess in the city has been in keeping the Corby block, Fifth and Edmond, with his expectations. Dr. Sampson was born in Buchanan County, Jan. was married Aug. 7, 1878 to Miss 29, 1857. His father, Benjamin, is a Mary J. Parnell of Buchanan County. farmer and miller and was born in One boy and four girls, all now living, Illinois, while his mother Eliza have been born to them.
(Ewell) Sampson is a native of Ray County, Mo. Our subject early de- LOUIS EGER of Hund & Eger, cided on the profession of medicine as bottling works, 423 N. Second, was
DR. JOHN M. SAMPSON.
the one best suited to him and he pre- born in St. Joseph Oct. 20, 1860, and pared himself by attending the Mis- attended the public schools of his na- souri Medical College at St. Louis, tive city, after which he engaged in graduating in 1881; also with a post- the brewing business with his father at graduate course in 1891. On his grad- the New Ulm brewery. He remained uation, in 1881, he located at New in this business till 1877, after which he went into the bottling business with William Hund, and the firm has a wide reputation as bottlers of beer and Market, in Platte County, Mo., where he built up a large practice and where he still has many patrons. February 19, 1896 Dr. Sampson located in St. manufacturers of soda and mineral Joseph that he might have a more ex- waters.
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WALTER ANGELO POWELL, the shops of the Kansas City, St. Jo- architect, was born in Maryland, Jan. seph & Council Bluffs Railroad Com- 7, 1829. He was educated in New pany for ten years, and then went to York and Philadelphia, adopted ar- Walnut, Texas, where he remained chitecture as his profession, and has two years; returned to St. Joseph in since achieved fame. He came to St. 1887 and embarked in the real estate Joseph in 1866, where he has design-
W. ANGELO POWELL.
ed and erected some of the best build- ings. Mr. Powell was married in 1857 and has eight children.
business, in which he has been suc- cessful. Was married Oct. 10, 1876, in St. Joseph, to Miss Mary A. Estes, born Jan. 15, 1855. They have one child, Otie E., born Dec. 14, 1877, who graduated from the St. Joseph High School, class of 1896; entered the freshman class of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Ill., in Sep- tember, 1896, and the sophomore class of the University of Chicago in Oc- tober, 1897, and is now a member of the junior class of that institution. Mr. Betts is a Republican in politics, though not a strict partisan. He is not identified with any church.
EDWARD KIEFFER, of the met- ropolitan police force, was born on March 1, 1859, in Harrison Counuty, Ohio, of German parents; attended country schools in Johnson County, Mo .; came to St. Joseph August, 1884, and worked at stock yards, woolen mills and drove street car until 1888, when he was appointed patrolman. Was married Sept. 25, 1880, in John-
CHARLES M. BETTS, real estate agent, 7161/2 Edmond street, was born son County to Mary L., daughter of In Otsego County, N. Y., June 27, ,Louis A. and Nancy Hunt; they have 1852. His father, Roderick C. Betts, two children, Everett Archie, aged a farmer, was born in Maryland. His ten and Ethel Naomi aged one, living mother's maiden name was Johanna and Anthony P., dead.
P. Wilson; she was a native of New York State. The family went to Bloomington, Ill., in September of 1865, and returned to New York in August of 1873. Our subject was ed- ucated in the district and common schools and then learned the machin- ist's trade; came to St. Joseph March 13, 1875, and has resided here con- tinuously since, with the exception of two years; worked as a machinist in teen years prior to 1885.
WILLIAM B. McNUTT, book- binder, was born at Londonderry, Ire- land, April 22, 1838 and came with his parents to Philadelphia in 1848, where he attended school. He came to St. Joseph in 1857 and has been engaged in book-binding since then. He was chief of the fire department for four-
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WILLIAM KNOWLES JAMES, close application to study the follow- at present Judge of Circuit Court, Di- ing year affected his health, but by vision No. 2, of Buchanan County, farm work it was soon regained. He the son of Urias Thomas James and taught one school in East Nebraska Eliza J. (formerly Knowles), of Sus- City, in his home county, and the sec- sex County, Delaware, was born in ond year he again attended Central that county, August 20, 1852. When College. He then went to Yale Col- fourteen years of age he, with his par- lege, taking the regular course, grad- ents, moved to the neighborhood of uating in 1878. Since August of that
JUDGE W. K. JAMES.
Barry, Pike County, Illinois, and after year he has been a citizen of St. Jo- three years there the family made their residence near Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa. The early life of Judge James was spent on a farm, save a few
seph, applying himself to his chosen profession, the law. His legal precep- tor was the late ex-governor, Willard P. Hall. By study, energy and up- months of the year passed in the coun- rightness he has justly earned a posi- try or village school. At eighteen he tion of honor among the lawyers of taught a winter school three miles St. Joseph and Northwest Missouri, and the people, in 1898, by a handsome from home, walking the distance to save board, and with his earnings at- majority over his party vote, elected tended the spring term, in 1870, of the him circuit judge. In politics he has Central College at Fayette, Mo. Too always been a Democrat. He has reg-
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ularly participated in every campaign, he entered land and lived until 1859, but was especially active on the stump when he came to St. Joseph. Freight- ing to Denver was then a lucrative, though dangerous business. . Mr. Bloomer invested in teams and cross- ed the plains repeatedly each year un- til the close of the war. He was first and in joint discussions for his party in Northwest Missouri in 1896. When fourteen years of age he united with the church. Since coming to St. Jo- seph he has been a member, and for years has been an elder, of the First appointed policeman in 1866. In 1868 Presbyterian Church. In 1883 he was married to Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas E. and Ellen (Bell) Tootle, and has two children, Nellie Tootle James and Thomas Tootle James, aged fourteen and ten years, respectively.
SIMEON KEMPER, a pioneer and one of the first surveyors, was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, February 5, 1799 and came to Black- snake Hills in 1840. He made a plat of Robidoux's prospective town, but it
he was appointed street commissioner. In 1874 he was again appointed police- man and has been continuously on the force since then. When the Metro- politan police force was organized in 1887 he was made first sergeant. In March of 1888, when Capt. Broyles died, he was made captain, which po- sition he has since filled with credit. Capt. Bloomer was married in 1858, in New York City, to Miss Abbie O'Reilly. Nine children were born unto them, three of whom are living.
HIRAM P. BURCH, barber, 608 Edmond street, was born in Green County,. Ind., Nov. 23, 1861. He at- tended school in his native state and learned the barber trade, after which he worked in various places until July, 1891, when he located in St. Joseph. Mr. Burch was married June 27, 1888, to Miss Ida B. Summers, who, with four little girls, graces his home at 603 South Fifth street.
was rejected because the streets were too wide. The people of St. Joseph today sincerely regret this. Mr. Kem- per was one of the original surveyors of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail- road, and held the office of county surveyor. He died March 11, 1882.
WASHINGTON BENNETT was born in Union County, Ohio, and came to Buchanan County in 1858, and to St. Joseph in 1872. He enlist- ed in Colonel Penick's regimert in 1862, and again in the Forty-fourth Missouri Infantry, serving until 1865. He was elected to the legislature in
JOHN BLOOMER, captain of 1866, and from 1873 to 1884 was a police, was born in County Tyrone, member of the police force. Since Ireland, on May 15, 1835 and came to that time he has been acting as spe- America when eighteen years of age, cial watchman. He was married in locating at Litchfield, Conn. After St. Joseph in 1860 to Miss Christina working for three years on farms he Oldham, who died in 1873, leaving located in Dodge County, Neb., where five children.
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HENRY W. BURKE, Justice of mond until 1865, when he went to the Peace, Washington Township, was Philadelphia and obtained employ- born in King William County, Va., ment in the book-printing department Nov. 30, 1837, the son of William and of Lippincott & Co. In 1868 he came Sophia (Bosher) Burke. His father with his mother and the family of his was of Irish ancestry; was a farmer, brother, Josephus Burke, to St. Jo- bookkeeper and court clerk; also a seph. Worked as a printer on The slave owner. His mother is still liv- Daily Union and was subsequently a ing with her sons in St. Joseph, and reporter under John B. Hinman, the
HENRY W. BURKE.
is eighty-seven years of age. Our city editor. Was sent to Baltimore subject received a limited education in as delegate to the International Typo- the common schools at Richmond, graphical Union and is today an hon- Va., and learned the printer's trade in orary member of the St. Joseph the office of the Richmond Examiner, branch of that organization. Worked owned and edited by John M. Daniel, as a reporter on C. C. Scott's Daily uncle of Senator Daniel of Virginia. Evening Chronicle, on the Evening He was identified with the Confeder- News, published by Switzler & Chap- acy during the civil war and took man, on the Gazette and on the Her- the oath of allegiance at Libby prison, ald. Was appointed Justice of the where he had been on duty for five Peace of Washington Township April months. Worked as a printer at Rich- 11, 1882, to succeed Augustus Saltz-
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man, who had been elected city attor- ing attorney in those days and was ney; was elected for four years in No- admitted to the bar. March 28, 1844 he married Miss Emily Gooding. To
vember of 1882, and for two succeed- ing terms of four years each; was de- them twelve children were born, only feated in November of 1894 and again three of whom-John C., George H. elected in November of 1898. Served and William-are living, the first be- three years as a member of the school ing of the firm of Townsend & Wyatt, board from the Second Ward. On the second of the firm of Brady & January 14, 1896 was licensed to prac- Wyatt of the city, and the last being tice law by Judge A. M. Woodson of prominent in commercial circles at the Circuit Court. Judge Burke is Omaha. Our subject came to St. Jo- prominent in the Democratic party. seph in 1845. He was town clerk, pro- He is unmarried. bate judge, judge of the court of com- mon pleas, postmaster and held other positions of public trust and honor and he discharged every obligation with scrupulous care and fidelity. In November of 1850 he identified him- self with the Christian Church and was in time called to the pulpit, which he filled with zeal and distinction.
In fact Elder Wyatt, as he was better known, was the leader of the strug- gling congregation and had the satis- faction of beholding the good fruits of his earnest work before he died. His was an active life and he left a record that is without tarnish. He died suddenly April 9, 1881.
JOHN M. FELLING, born April 23, 1849, died February 16, 1899, was the largest member of the St. Joseph police force, and one of the largest policemen in the country in his time. Mr. Felling was born in Germany, JOSEPH J. WYATT. and came with his parents to Wes- ton, Platte Counuty, later moving to JOSEPH J. WYATT was one of St. Joseph, where he was head saw- the pioneers of St. Joseph, and one of yer in the Hax furniture factory for the most worthy of our citizens during a number of years. Oct. 10, 1888, he his career. He was a native of Illi- was appointed on the police force and nois, born in St. Clair County, July served with credit and distinction up 13, 1819. When two years of age his to the time of his death. His wife mother died and his father moved to and six children survive him. The Kentucky, where our subject spent his children are Charles, Rasalie, Joseph, youth. He enjoyed good educational Lizzie (Mrs. Roberts), Clara and Ed- advantages and was a diligent student. mond. Deceased was a staunch Dem- He read law with John Cavan, a lead- ocrat and a practical Catholic.
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