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GEORGE F. BARNES.
GEORGE P. ROWE, attorney at law, is a native of Maryland and was ers' College of Philadelphia. Lived in Indianapolis some years and came to St. Joseph in 1888, where he has been engaged as commercial traveler and traveling auditor for a life insur- educated at Gettysburg, Pa. Came to St. Joseph in 1884 and began the prac- tice of law in 1885. He was elected city attorney in 1888 and held the office two terms. Mr. Rowe is a Democrat and takes an active part in ance company. Is now a director in politics.
"The National Association of Man- agers of Circulation." He was mar-
ALEX T. WHELAN, hardware ried at Oregon, Mo., December 24, merchant, Ioth and Lafayette streets, is 1890, to Miss Theresa Spoerle of that a native of St. Joseph, born Nov. 25, place.
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JOHN DONOVAN, JR., one of grocery business. Was married to the most progressive citizens of St. Miss Eliza M. Robertson (born in Joseph, grew to manhood in this city. Boone County, Mo.) in 1870, in An- His early business training was obtain- drew County, Mo., of which union ed in the State Bank. He was one of there are three daughters. Mr. Card- well is an Odd Fellow, a member of the organizers and the first president of the German-American Bank, and the Christian church and a Republican.
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JOHN DONOVAN.
was the promoter of the Stockyards and the vast interests that have grown up in South St. Joseph. Mr. Dono- van was a member of the first board in 1860 and came to Buchanan County of police commissioners appointed in St. Joseph, and served on that body five years.
WILLIAM S. MISSEMER, mer- chant, born May 30, 1850, in Lebanon County, Pa .; went to Dayton, Ohio
in 1864, locating at Easton. He at- tended the common schools and is by profession a mechanical engineer. Married Miss J. L. Light at Easton and they have had two boys, one of whom, John M., is twenty years old.
WILLIAM CARDWELL was born April 28, 1849, in Mahaska Coun- ty, Iowa, and was educated in the pub- lic schools. Came to St. Joseph in The other child died at five years of 1880, and has been engaged in the age.
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JAMES MORAN, lawyer, 424 becca Beck, born at Georgetown, Md. Francis street, was born in Sharon Mr. Hudson enlisted April 19, 1861, Valley, Conn., in 1850, and came to in Co. C., 5th Ohio, and served three Missouri when quite young, his family years. Was a prisoner at Belle Island locating at Maryville. Mr. Moran read three months and escaped. He came law, and in 1874 was admitted to the to St. Joseph in December, 1869 and bar. He has been especially sucessful engaged in the saloon business. Re- in criminal cases. He was elected on tiring from business he spent some the Republican ticket in 1896 to repre- years in California and then returned
JAMES MORAN.
sent Buchanan County in the legisla- to St. Joseph. Was married at Quincy ture, and was a prominent member of that body.
THOMAS HUDSON, proprietor of restaurant and bar at 617 Edmond street, was born at Lebanon, O., De- cember 14, 1842. His father, Matthew T. Hudson, born at Cincinnati, was a mine owner and dealer in hardware. His mother's maiden name was Re- son.
in .April, 1868 to Mary S. Sides of that city, who died in 1881, leaving a daughter, Blanche, now Mrs. Frank Garrett, Council Bluffs. In January, 1882, married Lavania, daughter of E. O. Sayle, who was born in Platte County, 1856. Of this union there are two children, a daughter and a
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DR. DANIEL MORTON, physi- eral practice he has given especial cian and surgeon, was born at Russel- thought and study to rectal surgery. ville, Ky., and is the son of the late and the diseases of children, and is David Morton, D. D. of Louisville, regarded among physicians as es- Ky., an eminent member of the Meth- pecially well qualified for this work. odist Episcopal Church, South. Our Before its publication the manuscript subject's mother was a native of Mary- copy of Gant's Text Book on Diseases land, her maiden name being Hannah of the Rectum was submitted to him W. Bottomley. Dr. Morton attended for criticism. He is at present editor
DR. DANIEL MORTON.
Bethel College, at Russelville, and the of the rectal departments of the Medi- high school at Louisville, and in 1887 cal Herald and of the Medical Fort- graduated from the medical depart- nightly, and occupies the chairs of ment of the University of Louisville. Rectal Surgery and of Diseases of Subsequently he took a post graduate Children in the Ensworth Medical course at the College of Physicians College. He is a member of the St. and Surgeons in New York City. In Joseph Medical Society and the State the fall of 1888 Dr. Morton located at Medical Society, attending physician St. Joseph, where he has resided con- at the Home for Little Wanderers, tinuously since, and where he has ac- consulting physician at Memorial quired a reputation and a lucrative Home, assistant surgeon of the St. Jo- practice. Although engaged in gen- seph & Grand Island railroad. Poli-
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tically Dr. Morton is a Democrat and ject to St. Joseph in 1881 and after at- he was a member of the board of pen- tending the public schools took a sion examiners under President Cleve- course at the Iowa Law School and land during the years 1893-97. Last was admitted to the bar Jan. 26, 1898. January he was appointed county phy- He located at South St. Joseph and was soon after appointed justice of the peace. He continues the general practice of the law and for the short sician by the county court, which posi- tion he now holds. He was married March 8, 1894, to Miss Fannie E. Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. time he has been in the growing su- Wm. B. Johnson of St. Joseph. Two burb he has met with gratifying suc- children, both boys, have come into this union.
WILLIAM T. HARDING was born Oct. 28, 1848, on Third street, between Felix and Edmond, now the heart of the business district of St. Joseph. His parents, D. R. and Su- san (Kendall) Harding came to St. Joseph in 1843. Mr. Harding attend- ed school at Fourth and Edmond and Third and Jule streets; afterwards he learned the painter's trade. He mar- ried Miss Emma Mckown, daughter of Jeremiah and Lucinda R. Mckown. Mr. and Mrs. Harding have four chil- dren, two sons and two daughters, one of the daughters being the wife of Humane Officer Ziemendorff.
JAMES E. GATES, contractor and builder, was born at Salem, Mass., May 26, 1855. He attended school and learned his trade in his native state, coming to St. Joseph in 1879, where he began the business he has since conducted successfully. £
Mr. Gates was first married in St. Joseph. April 24, 1881 to Miss Emma Dickin- son, who died Jan. 9, 1894 and he was again married March 14, 1896 to Miss Gussie Brink. They occupy a beauti- ful home at 2019 North Third street.
cess. Mr. Walker is an Odd Fellow and is unmarried.
CHARLES S. JOHNSON, real es- tate agent, was born at New Salem,
CHARLES S. JOHNSON.
Pa., November 27, 1857, the son of Aaron and Anna (Loomis) Johnson; attended school at Hiawatha; came to St. Joseph in 1880 and opened a bakery; is a Republican and was su- perintendent of the city work house in 1890-94; January 15, 1880, married Mary G. Stadler of this city, who was
JOSEPH N. WALKER, lawyer and justice of the peace in South St. Joseph, was born in Andrew county, Missouri, March 22, 1870. His father N. B. Walker, was for many years on born at New Albany, Ind .; they have the St. Joseph police force. Our sub- one child, a son.
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CHARLES WOOD FASSETT is the Medical Herald, a monthly period- an Indianian by birth, but came to St. ical second to none of its class in the Joseph with his parents soon after the country. In 1891 Mr. Fassett estab- war. He received his education in the lished The Medical Fortnightly, in St. St. Joseph public schools and served Louis, a biweekly professional journal his apprenticeship under Captain
which met with much favor among the Frank Posegate and Lon Hardman in physicians of the Mississippi valley. the St. Joseph Steam Printing Com- With a view to furnishing information
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CHARLES WOOD FASSETT.
pany. In 1882 Mr. Fassett purchased to medical editors and publishers the the printing establishment owned J. American Medical Journalist was es- H. McGuire, and for several years tablished two years ago, Mr. Fassett conducted a job business in the Opera being its editor and publisher. This House block, making a reputation for magazine has already taken a promi- artistic printing. He was succeeded nent place in journalism. Mr. Fassett by Mr. Lon Harman, and shortly is secretary of the Association of afterward turned his attention to med- American Medical Publishers, and a ical publishing, assuming charge of member of the Medical Press club of
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the Mississippi valley. His time is HERMAN M. GARLICHS, a pio- spent chiefly in attendance upon the neer druggist and leading business various state and national society meetings, in the study of medicine, and in procuring for his various publica- tions the very highest class of litera- ture obtainable. He makes his home in St. Joseph, although St. Louis claims a considerable portion of his time. In 1884 Mr. Fassett was mar- ried to Miss Minnie Cook, and they have one little daughter, Bonnie-Les- ley. man, was the son of German par- ents, his father, Dr. Frederick A. H. Garlichs, having been a graduate of Heidelberg. Our subject was born at Liberty, Clay county, Oct. 3, 1839, where his father practiced and was also in the drug business. After the failure of a venture in St. Louis Dr. Garlichs and his family came to St. Joseph in 1857. In 1860 our subject engaged in the drug business for him- self and rose to prominence and im-
GEORGE ALEXANDER TOL- SON, dealer in hardware, 2006 St. Jo- seph avenue, was born in Prince George County, Maryland, in 1852, the son of Dr. Alex H. Tolson and Helen B. (Tyler) Tolson. The family came to St. Joseph in 1859. Our subject was educated in St. Joseph and has lived here all his life, with the excep- tion of five years, 1882-87, which he spent at Fairfax, Mo., where he was in business and was also mayor. He was married in 1873 to Miss Lizzie M. Whitman of Buchanan County, daugh- ter of David and Mary Whitman. They have three daughters-Anna M. (Mrs. Vincent E. Burch of St. Jo- seph), Edna (Mrs. O. M. White of Kansas City), and Lela, at home. Mr. Tolson is a member of the Methodist Church, Knights of Pythias, Wood- men of the World and I. O. O. F.
H. M. GARLICHS.
portance in the community. In 1864 he married Miss Emma Minturn, who, with three children-Fred A. H., Alice and Hartley M., survives him. On Christmas day, 1898, while in conver- sation with several friends in the store, Mr. Garlichs was stricken with a hem- orrhage and expired before medical aid arrived. He had been a member
ELMER E. RUSCO, contractor and builder, 1611 South Eleventh street, was born in Wisconsin, May 30, 1860; came to St. Joseph in 1866, where he was educated; learned the carpenter trade, and then began tak- ing contracts. He was full of energy, of the state fish commission and a and his strict integrity soon brought park commissioner for St. Joseph. He was an ardent Democrat and while he took active part in politics never sought or accepted reward. him all the business he could handle. Mr. Rusco was married Nov. 21, 1898, to Miss Mattie Fortune of St. Jo- seph.
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ISHMAEL DAVIS, treasurer of 1876, to Miss Bettie G. Coates, a na- Buchanan county, was born in Rock tive Shelbyville, Ky., and she has House Prairie, Buchanan county, Feb- borne him a daughter, Jessie Pearl. ruary 19, 1842. His parents were Ishmael and Nancy (McDaniel) Da- EDWARD RAY BRANDOW, vis. Mr. Davis attended the district news dealer, 721 Edmond street, was schools and also a commercial school born in St. Joseph, Feb. 11, 1869; his in St. Louis. He was raised a farmer parents were Edward R. and Harriett and also has been engaged in the mill, (Prescott) Brandow. Mr. Brandow
ISHMAEL DAVIS.
brickmaking and merchandising busi- was educated in the public schools of ness. He is an ardent Democrat in St. Joseph, graduating from the High politics and was city assessor in 1885- School. On June 5, 1891 he was mar- 86. In 1896 he was elected county ried to Miss Margaret Dalton and two children were born to them, Ger- trude A. and George O., both of whom are living. Mr. Brandow re- sides at 433 North Seventeenth street. His father was a native of Hudson, New York and his mother was born treasurer for two years and was re- elected to succeed himself in Novem- ber of 1898, and is therefore now serv- ing his second term in this responsible office. Mr. Davis is a very careful, painstaking official and has the confi- dence and respect of the community. He was married in Platte City July 12, in Maine.
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JOHN T. CHESNUT, clerk of party. He was elected clerk of the the circuit court, was born in Laurel circuti court in 1894 and re-elected in county, Kentucky, Aug. 12, 1839. His 1898. Under his management the af- father, Andrew Chesnut, and his fairs of this important office have mother, whose maiden name is Eva- been conducted in a business like and line Jones, were both natives of Lau- systematic manner, and to the satis- rel County, Kentucky. In 1842 the faction of all. Mr. Chesnut was mar- family came to Missouri, locating in ried Feb. 14, 1864, in Jackson town- Crawford township, Buchanan county, ship, to Miss Edna, the daughter of
JOHN T. CHESNUT.
on a farm. Our subject was educated John and Ann Nidy. Mrs. Chesnut in the district schools, and then en- was born in Roanoke county, Virgin- gaged in farming and merchandising. ia, April 8, 1844. Three children were He was located at Halleck and Wal- born to Mr. and Mrs. Chesnut: Carrie F., Feb. 17, 1865; Evaline C., Jan. 13, 1867; J. William, May 22, 1869, died May 25, 1880. Mr. Chesnut was in business at Wallace up to the time of his election in 1894, after which he moved his family to St. Joseph. He is a man of strong character and has
lace, Crawford Township. In the civil war his sympathy was with the South and he enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861. He started out as a second sergeant, fought gallantly for the lost cause throughout the strug- gle and was mustered out in 1865 as a captain. He has ever been a con- sistent Democrat and a leader in the many warm friends.
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EUGENE H. SPRATT, collector 1875. He attended the common schools of the district and for a time went to the Leavenworth, Kan., high school, which, with an extensive course of reading, and his natural keen
of Buchanan county, is an example of what energy and enterprise is posses- sed by the native sons of Buchanan county. In Bloomington township, Buchanan county, on August 17, 1858, observation, has qualified him for al- Mr. Spratt was born. He is the son most any business position. Mr. of James B. Spratt, a wealthy farmer
Spratt's first office was that of deputy
EUGENE H. SPRATT.
and stock grower, who came to this sheriff under James L. Spencer, to county from Kentucky in 1843, a poor which he was appointed in 1878, and man, but who, by industry and good which he held for two years. He then judgment, gained riches. His clerked for Woolworth & Colt, book dealers, for two years, returning to the mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Spencer, a daughter of the late O. farm in 1882, where he remained until M. Spencer. Mr. Spratt's early 1888, when he was elected sheriff on life was spent on the homestead and the Democratic ticket, and to which he here gained a practical knowledge of all the details of farming, which en-
office was re-elected by an overwhelm- ing majority in 1890. On retiring from abled him to manage affairs after the the sheriff's office he dealt in real es- death of his father, who was killed in tate till 1896, when he was elected
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county collector. He was re-elected are three children living: Susa, 14; in 1898, and is therefore now serv- Eva, II, and Nellie, 9; three are dead. ing his second term in this important Mr. Reynolds is now engaged at the office. Mr. Spratt is an ideal cam- Hotel Donovan. paigner. Of pleasant manners and extensive acquaintance he is an inde- fatigable worker, and never rests a moment from the day of nomination till the election is over. His adminis- tration of the public offices entrusted to him has been all that could be de- sired, and his books are scrupulously kept.
BENJAMIN F. HILL, superin- tendent of the Press Printing Com- pnay, was born in Atchison county, Missouri, September 13, 1850, and spent his early years on a farm. His father, Henry S. Hill, was a lieuten- ant in company D, Fifth Missouri cav- alry, and our subject accompanied his
OLIN EDWARD VAN DEVEN- TER, commercial traveler, is a son of Rev. Cornelius I. and Elizabeth A. (Grimes) Van Deventer of the M. E. Church, South, and was born at Glas- gow, Mo., August 1I, 1852. He came with his parents to St. Joseph in 1868, attended the High School and then entered commercial life. He manag- ed a wholesale grocery house at Macon, Mo., then traveled for six years for a grocery house out of Den- ver; in 1881 returned to St. Jo- seph, engaged in the fire insurance business, was for four years steward at Asylum No. 2, during the adminis- trations of Governors Marmaduke and Francis and then engaged in the plumbing business for several years. He was married at Greenleaf, Kan., December 24, 1879, to Carrie B., daughter of William H. and Emeline Truesdell, the bride being a native of Belvidere, Ill., born Sept. 5, 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Van Deventer have two chil- dren, Olin H. and Mary B.
B. F. HILL.
father through the entire campaign of that regiment. Subsequently he learned the printer's trade at Brown-
LEE D. B. REYNOLDS, the ville, Neb., and came to St. Joseph in son of William and Susan (Gibson) March of 1877 to take the position of Reynolds, was born at St. Joseph, foreman of the Gazette composing August 2, 1861, and was educated in room, in which position he continued the public schools of St. Joseph. Was Printing Company in 1893. Mr. Hill married at Maryville, Mo., Sept. 13, is known to the craft throughout the 1881 to Miss Nellie Sullivan of Nod- land as a man of marked executive away County, of which union there ability and a strict disciplinarian.
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FRED HOEFER, meat packer and WILLIAM A. BROWN of the member of the city council, was born William A. Brown Transfer and Stor- age Company, was born in St. Joseph
in Germany, Nov. 16, 1854. He is the son of John and Mary (Seitz) Hoefer, February 25, 1866, his father, Milton farmers. Mr. Hoefer was liberally A. Brown, having located here just after the war. Our subject attended the public schools and for six years was a carrier for the Daily News. In educated in Germany. In 1873 he came to America, locating in Philadelphia, where he engaged in the butcher busi- ness. In 1876, at Philadelphia, he 1886 he joined his father in the trans- married Miss Carolina Brandt, also a fer business and they now have the native of Germany, and three boys and largest transfer and storage establish-
FRED HOEFER.
one girl have been born into this ment in the city. He was married Jan- union, all of whom are living. In 1881 uary 18, 1899, to Miss Margaret Stew- the family came to St. Joseph, and Mr. art. Hoefer began business in his line in a modest way. By thrift, honesty and CHARLES L. STANLEY, con- nected with the Armour Packing Company, was born in St. Joseph July 12, 1866, the son of W. B. and Jennie D. (Calvert) Stanley; attended the Webster school; was in the grocery business. October 17, 1886, married Cora B., daughter of J. M. and Eliza Reed; has one son, Harry E., aged II. Is a Democrat. judgment he has built up a large trade and the institution which he heads oc- supies the old Pinger packing house, on Dewey avenue. A specialty is made of high-grade meats. Mr. Hoef- er is a leading German-American citi- zens. Politically, he is a Republican, and as such was elected alderman for the Third Ward in April of 1899.
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THOMAS FRANCIS RYAN was torney for Buchanan county, which born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, office he filled for two years with December 25, 1850. His parents, marked ability. In 1886 he was ap- Michael and Mary (Brown) Ryan, pointed city counselor, in which re- meeting with reverse of fortune, came sponsible position he made an envi- to America in 1851 and settled in able record. In 1893 Governor Fran- Pennsylvania. In 1858 they came to cis appointed him police commission- St. Joseph, where they lived a short er for three years. When this term time and then removed to Andrew was out he was reappointed to the county and engaged in farming. same position by Governor Stone. Thomas began his education in the Mr. Ryan is a thorough lawyer, well district school and afterwards entered versed in all the technicalities of the
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THOMAS F. RYAN.
the Christian Brothers' College, where profession. He is a cogent reasoner, he was graduated in 1871. For two possesses great fluency, and is an able years he read law under private in- advocate before both court and jury. struction, and in 1873 entered the law He possess a peculiar aptness for the office of Judge Bennet Pike as a stu- trial of cases. His mind is subtle and dent and was admitted to the bar in refined. He sees a point clearly and May, 1874. In November of the fol- is able to express himself in a lucid, lowing year he was elected a justice forcible manner. He has been life- of the peace, serving as such for sev- long Democrat and has always taken eral years. But his law business in- an active part in state and national creased to such an extent that he re- politics. On Oct. 15, 1884, in this signed his office and began to devote city, Mr. Ryan was united in marriage himself earnestly to the practice of with Miss Elizabeth Cecelia McEvoy, his chosen profession. In November, who belongs to an old St. Louis fam- 1882, he was elected prosecuting at- iily.
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FREDERICK A. H. GARLICHS, surance companies embraces a large general insurance agent, is a native of number of the best underwriting insti- St. Joseph and one of her foremost tutions in the world. Mr. Garlichs young business men. His father was was born Oct. 1, 1866, and on June 7, the late Hermann M. Garlichs. Our 1892, he was married in Chicago to subject was educated in the St. Jo- Miss Edith M. Wallbridge of that city, seph public schools. In 1881 he went who has borne him three children- to Chicago and was employed in a Lorren, aged 6; Mary, aged 4, and wholesale grocery house four years, Janet, now two years of age.
FRED A. H. GARLICHS.
REV. CHAS. C. HARL was born
after which he was four years in the employ of the Union Trust Company in Council Bluffs, Ia., March 3, 1870, bank of that city. He then returned his father being Attorney Thos. W. to St. Joseph and organized the Mid- Harl. He came to St. Joseph in 1879 land Building and Loan Association, and after a course in the public afterwards taking insurance, real es- schools, attended the law school at tate and safe deposit business, in all Columbia, Mo., graduating in 1891. He began practicing with his father in of which lines he has been very suc- cessful. The St. Joseph Safety De- St. Joseph in 1892, but later entered posit Vault, managed by Mr. Gar- on the ministry of the Christian lichs, is one of the most successful en- Church, and is now preaching in terprises of the city, and his list of in- Southern Kansas.
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DR. LEVI SAMUEL LONG, 820 from Mexico, Arizona, Indiana, Mich- Edmond stret, was born August 12, igan and Dakota. Dr. Long was mar- 187I, at Longswamp, Berks County, ried in St. Joseph January 27, 1897, to Pennsylvania. His father, Dr. Man- Miss Meta S. Bode, daughter of Geo. oah S. Long, was also a native of and Eleanor W. Bode, and they have Berts county, as was his mother, one child, a daughter, born August 14, Maryetta (Schwartz) Long. The 1898. Long family came to America in 1763. Dr. Long was for a time at Mertz-
JAMES LIMBIRD, attorney at town, Pa., and came to St. Joseph in law, was born at Bicker, Lincolnshire, 1893, where he began his practice as a England, July 24, 1843, the son of
DR. LEVI S. LONG.
professional specialist. He attended James and Elizabeth (Lane) Limbird. the Kurtztown Normal school, Wyo- In 1854 he came to Delphos, Ohio, ming Seminary and Baltimore and and worked about from place to place till the war, when he enlisted in com- pany I, 27th Ohio Infantry, being dis- charged in 1862 for disability, but later he enlisted in a cavalry company, serv-
Jefferson Medical Colleges. He has held several public offices, among them United States Census Enumera- tor, assistant city physician of St. Jo- seph, United States jail physician, Bu- ing till the war closed. Was twice chanan county jail physician, and was prosecuting attorney for Holt County, once in the legislature, three years city counselor of St. Joseph, and in March,
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