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WALTER A. BUNKER,
Manager of the Kansas City house of the Western Newspaper Union, was born at Bethlehem, N. H., March 12th, 1847. When he had reached the age of seven years the family emigrated to the Northwest, settling in the southern part of Minnesota. In 1865, at the age of eighteen, he purchased a half interest in a flouring mill in the locality in which he then lived, and operated it with marked success for about three years, when, feeling the need of a more thorough business education than could be acquired in the village in which his mill was located, he disposed of that property and removed to St. Paul. Entering the business college of that city as a student, he soon became so proficient in the science of accounts that he was chosen, out of a class of one hundred, to take charge of the book- keeping department of the institution, This position he filled acceptably till the year 1870, when he asked to be relieved that he might accept the more lucrative office of head book-keeper in the Second National bank of St. Paul. Having dis;
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charged the duties of this responsible position to the entire satisfaction of the officers of the bank for seven years, he resigned and removed to Kansas City for the purpose of engaging in business for himself, having been united in marriage, in the meantime, to Miss Blanche Monroe, of Minneapolis, Minn. In Kansas City he, with some other gentlemen, founded the first "ready print" or "auxil- iary" publishing house west of the Missouri river. In 1878 his firm purchased a controlling interest in the Kansas City Journal, but he continued to devote his entire personal attention to the "ready-print" business, which so prospered under his able management that in June, 1880, it was consolidated with the Iowa Print- ing Company, of Des Moines, a stock company was organized with a paid-up capital of $100,000.00, and Mr. Bunker having sold his interest in the Journal retained the management of the Kansas City house. Although still a young man, he has attained a degree of success in business of which he might justly feel proud if it represented the results of a lifetime of effort, instead of the first fruits of his ability and industry.
J. W. BURD,
Dealer in Real Estate, Kansas City, Kans., was born in Warren county, New Jersey, Dec. 6, 1839. Was there reared and attended school. With the excep- tion of one year Mr. Burd lived in N. J. until 1880. During that year he was in Monroe county, Penn., engaged in the flour and saw mill business. For three years he was in the cabinet business and the remainder of the time has been en- gaged in tilling the soil. On the Ist of May, 1880, he came to this city. For six months he made his residence in Allen county and then returned here, where he has since been engaged in his present business. On the 28th of June, 1867, he was married to Miss Carrie H. Lawrence, of Morris county, N. J. They have theee children : Alonzo, Arnold and an infant.
WILLIAM BYERS,
Manufacturer of cider and vinegar. The subject of this sketch was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in January, 1845, and was there raised. In 1872 he went to southern Kansas, remained but a short time, and then en- gaged in railroading, continuing but a little while. Thence to Colorado, and while there was engaged in trading in buffalo hides. After this he commenced the cider business in 1877, which he has since followed. He became a resident of Kansas City in the fall of 1880, and then established his present business.
MICHAEL E. BURNETT,
Of the firm of Burnett & Kane, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, at which place he lived until five years of age, when he went with his parents to St. Louis, Missou- ri. After attending school for seven years he went to learn the butcher trade, at which he worked in St. Louis until the year 1868, when he came to Kansas City. Here he also engaged in the butchering business until he went with Gen. Wright and was one of the party that surveyed the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains. After leaving the employ of this gentleman he joined Col. Green- wood's party and went as far as Denver, Colorado. After this he visited Central City and Cheyenne, subsequently going to Fort Sanders, in the employ of Mr. John Finn, as quartermaster, issuing meat to the United States soldiers. This business he followed for about one year, when he went into business for himself at Bryan City. Continued it one and one half years, then returned to Kansas City, where he engaged in buying stock and carrying on the meat trade. While engaged in this business he helped to organize a hook and ladder company, and was elected foreman, which position he held until the abolition of volunteer com- panies, when he was appointed by the city as running foreman of engine No. 1. While in this capacity he was appointed chief of the fire department, consisting of three steam fire engines, one Babcock on wheels, four hose carriages, and one
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hook and ladder company, holding the position of chief about one and one-half years. After leaving the fire department he engaged in the retail grocery and meat business, where he is now located. Mr. Burnett was married January 12, 1873, to Miss Margaret Connor, of Kansas City, by which union they have three chil- dren : Agnes (now dead), John, Edward, and Joseph.
JAMES BURK,
Proprietor of the Sterling Stone Works, was born in Vandreud county, Canada, June 23, 1844, and there lived until he was thirteen. He attended school until twelve, when he went into the country store of Donald McDonald, and was em- ployed as clerk one year, and then went to an adjoining county, and was employ- ed as clerk by Angus S. McDonald, with whom he stayed three years. Leaving him in the fall of 1862, he was engaged as foreman in a lumbering camp, making square timber, which he followed until 1865, when he came to Chicago, and was employed in the office of the Northern Transportation Company. Soon after, he made a tour through Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, and finally located in Kansas City in 1868, when he engaged in lathing and carpenter work. He was city car- penter for three years, and was employed as such one year by the city water- works. In 1875 he built the jetties in the Kaw River, under contract, for the Stock Yards Company, and afterward, up to 1878, he was a general contractor and builder, and in that year he established himself in the grocery business, at which he did a successful business. In 1880 he sold out, to engage in the man. ufacture of the Sterling stone, under the Greer patent, he owning the full right in Jackson county, Missouri, and one-half of the United States. He manufact- ures window and door caps and sills, walks and curbing, burial vaults, and lawn ornaments of the most beautiful designs. He has been twice married; first, to Emma Malone, of Kansas City, in 1870, who died in 1874. They had one child, John T. In 1876 he married his second wife, Miss A. C. Mansfield, also of Kansas City, by whom he has three children : May, Frances and Rose, all living at home.
JOHN W. BYERS,
Is a Virginian by birth, having been born near Shepherdstown, November 12th, 1833. There he spent his early childhood. His father removed to Washington county, Maryland, when he was eight years old, where he lived until attaining his majority. His education was mostly obtained under the tutorship of his father, who was a practical teacher and taught many years. When ten years of age he entered the office of the Pledge, published at Hagerstown, Maryland, as an apprentice to learn the printer's trade, and made such rapid proficiency that by the time he was thirteen he was foreman in the office. He left that office in 1845, when eighteen years of age, and was employed as a clerk by Tice & Hammond, in the hardware business, of the same place, for eight years. Leaving there in 1854 he came to Missouri, and settled in Fayette county, where he was engaged as an accountant in a general business house until 1857. Then came to Kansas City, or what was then Westport Landing, where he was employed as an accountant by Alexander Majors, a freighter. Was with him until 1859, when he spent one year in visiting in Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, and on returning to Kansas City was employed by C. E. Kearney, having general charge of his office business, until the spring of 1864, when he went to Leavenworth, Kansas. There took charge of the office of the Government Transportation Company, and was employed as such until 1867. In the following year he, with his family, made a trip east, to regain his health, which had been somewhat impair- ed by close application to business. Returning to Kansas City in 1869, in company with J. L. Kelley, he embarked in the wholesale hardware business under the firm name of J. L. Kelley & Co., and although Kansas City, at that time, had no railroad transportation, their business amounted to one-fourth of a
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million dollars during that year. In 1870 he retired from the firm to accept the position of cashier in the Mechanics' Bank of Kansas City, it being a branch of the Mechanics' Bank of St. Louis, which is still in existence. The bank having closed up its business here in 1875, he again engaged in the mercantile business in Kansas City, retiring from it in 1878, when he became engaged in the real estate business, which he is still pursuing. He is among the enterprising men to whom Kansas City is indebted for its many substantial business blocks and fine residences. He has built two business blocks on Delaware street, and a fine residence on Charlotte street. April 14th, 1858, he married Miss Lucy C. Holloway, of Fayette county, Missouri, a granddaughter of Mathew G. Scott, so long connected with the Northern Bank of Kentucky. They have one daughter, Lulu Lee, wife of James M. Love, of Kansas City.
J. W. CALDWELL,
Physician and Surgeon, was born in Adams county, Illinois, and is now forty-three years of age. His father was a farmer and the son helped with the duties of the farm. He attended school at Quincy College and also McKendree College in Illinois. Took a course in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, gradu- ating therefrom in 1863; also graduated in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1866. From the spring of 1863 until the close of the war Dr. Caldwell was assistant surgeon in the 97th Ohio Regiment. He found a wife in the person of Miss Isabell Calvin, of Adams county, Illinois, whom he married in October, 1866. By this union they have one child, Victor, twelve years of age. Dr. Caldwell came to Kansas City in 1868, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, with a large degree of success. He is well and favorably known among his brother practitioners, and to the sick is always a welcome visitor.
L. F. CALHOON,
Proprietor of Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, was born May 7th, 1838, in Mahon- ing county, Ohio, and moved to Indiana when thirteen years of age. There remained till nineteen, when he came to Missouri and settled in Sullivan county, and engaged in farming. Followed the business some eight years and came from there to Kansas City in 1868, and commenced the livery business in which he has since been engaged. He keeps an average of about thirty head of horses and a good stock of buggies and carriages. He is the youngest of a family of twelve children, and they are all living. He was married to Miss Mary Flickinger, in 1866. She is a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and was born in 1843.
O. B. CAMPBELL,
Of the firm of Elliott & Campbell, was born in West Virginia in the year 1847, and lived in that State until he was twenty-three years of age, attending medical and literary colleges, also took a medical course at Cleveland, Ohio. After com- pleting his studies, at the age of twenty-four, he went to Powhattan, Belmont county, Ohio, and entered into the practice of medicine. Stayed in Powhattan until the year 1878, and then went to Great Bend, Kentucky, and practiced medicine two years, and then came to Kansas City, Missouri, where he is now in the real estate business. Mr. Campbell was married in 1873 to Miss Mary A. Campbell, of Manteno, Kankakee county, Illinois, and by this union they have two children : Alice L. and Lizzetta. The firm of Elliott & Campbell is No. 605, Main street.
CAPT. J. S. CANNON,
Attorney at law, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 12, 1832, and there lived with his grand-parents until fourteen, his parents having died when he was very young. At that age he went to sea on a vessel called the
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" Two Sisters," his relations being ship-owners and interested in the vessel. He followed the sea one year and then returned to his native town and entered Rut- ger's College, graduating in 1850, at the age of eighteen. He immediately began the study of law in the office of Wm. L. Dayton, where he studied three years, and after attending, the law department at Princeton one term, was admitted to the bar in Trenton, in 1853. He opened his first office in New Brunswick, where he practiced a short time, then he went to New York City and established himself in his profession, where he was for a long time retained by Horace H. Day in his numerous suits against the Goodyear Rubber Company. In 1855, being broken down in health, he gave up the practice of law and again went to sea, and became interested in the Charleston and Savannah Steamship Company, being connected with them until their business was destroyed by the events of the late war. In 1861 entered the navy as an ensign and served during the war on the southern coast, being promoted through the various grades from ensign to lieutenant-commander, and when he was mustered out held the rank of captain. He participated in the bombardments of Port Royal and Forts Sumter and Pulaski, and in the capture of many of the coast towns. Immediately after being mustered out of service he came to Missouri, and settled near Lee's Summit, in the spring of 1866, where he purchased a large tract of land and engaged in farming, which he is still following in connection with his law practice and real estate business. He became a resident of Kansas City in the winter of 1878, and, in connection with his other business, he is heavily engaged in building residences and business houses for rental. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth Chestnut, of Philadelphia, whom he married in 1855, and who died in 1864, leaving two children : Spencer and Elizabeth. His second wife, Miss T. N. Barrett, of Savannah, Georgia, he married in 1866. She died in Kansas City in 1879. By her he has five children : Mary, Robert, Nellie, John, and Richard. He is a member of the Grand avenue M. E. Church, and is the teacher of the auditorium bible class of that Sabbath-school.
W. D. CARLILE,
Attorney, was born in Barbour county, Virginia, May 20, 1851. When a child his parents moved to Clarksburg, Harrison county, where he was raised. His father, John S. Carlile, held an office of public trust in that State for about thirty years, as senator, etc. His mother, Mary E., whose maiden name was Gettings, was a cousin of Stonewall Jackson. The subject of this sketch received his primary education in the common schools of Clarksburg, and spent one year in the Military Institute of Maryland. In 1866 he entered the University of West Virginia, with the intention of taking a thorough classical course, remaining two years. At the end of his junior year, on account of failing health, was compelled to give up this undertaking. The following year he was engaged in teaching school and working on a farm. In the fall of 1870 he entered the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he remained one year. He then accepted the position of traveling agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Michigan, which he retained about three months, and then was appointed manager of the Brook- lyn Life Insurance Company for West Virginia and the District of Columbia, continuing in this three months, when he resigned, and devoted his time to the study of his present profession. May 20, 1872, was admitted to the Harrison county bar, where he was engaged in practice till October, 1874, when he was elected to the Legislature for two years.
The summer of 1876, he went to Chicago, and was there engaged in the practice of his profession till 1878, with considerable degree of success. In March, 1878, was taken sick, and took a trip to California, and on his return, spent six months in Denver, Colorado. January, 1879, he moved to his present location. Was married December 15, 1875, to Miss Mary S. Foster. She is a.
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daughter of Geo. F. Foster, one of the pioneers of Chicago, where she was born, October 6, 1854. They have one child, Mary Seville, who was born in Kansas City, June 26, 1879.
GEO. CARMAN,
Architect, was born in Milwaukee county, Wis., December 24, 1852, and was there raised and educated in the common schools, spending four terms in the High School at Broad Head, Wis. In 1872 he went to St. Paul, and immedi- ately began the study of his profession under the instruction of Radcliffe & Buf- fington, the most prominent architects of Minnesota, taking a year's course. In the spring of 1875 he went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged at his profes- sion, and also in the furniture business with Mathews & Co. for three years. In the spring of 1879 he located in Kansas City, and is considered one of the promi- nent architects of the city.
THEO. S. CASE.
There are few men in Kansas City who are more highly esteemed, by all who know him, than Theodore S. Case, the present postmaster of that city. He is native of Georgia, but his parents were both natives of Connecticut, who removed to Jackson, Butts county, Georgia, soon after their marriage, and where Theodore was born, January 26, 1832. Soon after his birth they returned to the north, and settled at Columbus, Ohio. He obtained the rudiments of his educa- tion in the best schools of Columbus, and was graduated from Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio, in 1851. He began the struggle of life for himself as a teacher, being the principal of the schools in Dublin, Ohio, and filled the chair of mathe- matios in Esther Institute, at Columbus, Ohio. In 1853 he began the study of medicine under Prof. S. M. Smith, M. D., graduating from Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, in 1856, and afterward practicing with his preceptor until May, 1857; then he came to Kansas City, where he practiced until 1861. At the time of his arrival, Kansas City was an unsightly town built on hills and in hollows, but was the headquarters of western emigration and transportation. He soon built up a lucrative practice, and identifying himself with the interests and growth of the new city, became associated with the men to whom Kansas City now owes her rapid growth and prosperity. In 1860 he, with Dr. G. M. B. Maughs, began the publication of a medical journal, which was discontinued on the breaking out of the late war, his colleague giving his services to the Confed- erate army, and he enlisting in the Union army as a private in the spring of 1861, in Company C, of Col. R. T. Van Horn's Battalion of the U. S. Reserve Corps, which was afterward the 25th Missouri Volunteers. Two weeks after his enlist- ment he was elected second-lieutenant, and one year after, was appointed by President Lincoln, captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers stationed at Kansas City, filling that position until the spring of 1863. He was promoted by Gen. Thomas Ewing to chief quartermaster of the District of the Border, his headquarters being at Kansas City.
The District of the Border being abolished in the spring of 1864, he was ap- pointed by Gen. E. B. Brown chief quartermaster of the District of Central Mis- souri, with headquarters at Warrensburg. Resigning his command at the close of the war, in 1865, he was immediately appointed quartermaster-general of the State of Missouri by Gov. Fletcher, stationed at St. Louis, filling that position until June, 1866, when he again resigned and returned to Kansas City. Finding its prosperity and growth blighted by the war, its business crippled, and the pop- ulation reduced from 7,000 to 3,000, he, with renewed energy and zeal, began, with others, to build up the city, being ever ready to aid with work, influence, advice or money as far as he possessed it. He was also engaged with John R. Balis in the real estate business, which he successfully followed until 1870. when, with Col. Coates, John R. Balis, Major L. K. Thacher and W. S. Ide, he organ-
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ized the Commercial Bank, of which he was president, and at the same time was connected with his brother, Oliver Case, in the manufacturing of wagons and farming implements, in which, on account of the severe drouth and grasshoppers of 1872 devastating Kansas, they failed, losing heavily, but maintaining their character for honesty and integrity unspotted. In 1873 he received the appoint- ment of postmaster of Kansas City, a position which he still holds. He has been twice married, first to Julia M. Lykins, daughter of Dr. J. Lykins, of Kan- sas City, October 12, 1858. She died in 1872, leaving three children, Lilah, Johnston and Ermine. He married his second wife, Miss Fidelia O. Wright, of Kansas City, in June, 1846.
Col. Case is of decidedly a literary turn of mind, having, as before stated, published the. Kansas City Medical Review before the war. He also wrote a military work for the use of army officers, in 1864, called the Quartermaster's Guide, which was highly recommended by the quartermaster-general offthe army, and many other prominent officers. For the past five years he has added to his other avocations the publication of the Kansas City Review of Science and Indus- try, a popular periodical which has a wide circulation in the west, and which has received the approbation of many of the most distinguished scientists in this country and Europe.
P. CASEY
Was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 3, 1833, and was principally reared and educated in Ashland county. In 1856 he came to Iowa, locating in Iowa City, then the capital, and remained four years, and during '59-'60 he went to the mountains. After returning he was engaged in the mercantile business until 1862, when he enlisted in the 11th Iowa Infantry, served during the war and was mustered out at Detroit, Michigan. Again went to Iowa in the summer of 1865, and thence to Kansas City in September, immediately embarking in the coal trade, thus continuing until 1880. Since then he has been engaged in various enter- prises. In 1877 was elected alderman on the Republican ticket, serving for two years. Was married in 1861 to Miss Catharine Givans, of West Liberty, Iowa. By this union they have seven children, five boys and two girls: Frank, Lizzie, James E., Philip R., Eva B., Stanley C., and Norris M.
CHARLES A. CHACE.
Among those who have been prominently identified with railroad interests in this State and others, is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Austerlitz, Colum- bia county, N. Y., and his father, who was a farmer in that county, educated Charles in the common schools of Monroe county and also in the Rochester Colle- giate Institute, his course being chiefly in the commercial branches. Having completed his schooling at Rochester, he went to Brighton, Monroe county, and while living there was elected superintendent of schools in the town, and served
for two years. Then came west, locating at Rockport, Ill., and there became connected with the Chicago and Galena Union Railroad ; was first made ticket agent, but after six weeks was sent to the end of the road at Warren, being placed in charge of all stations from Freeport to Warren. From this time on he had charge of all new stations as the road progressed. After the road was opened he was ordered to move to the Dixon Air Line, at Dixon, Ill., and opened all the stations from there to Fulton, on the Mississippi River, and appointed agents be- tween the two places. In 1859 Mr. Chace resigned his position and in the spring of 1861 came to Missouri and was appointed station agent at Iatan for the H. & St. Joe R. R., holding the position two years. As the road advanced he was removed to Weston, where he lived four years. On the completion of the road to Kansas City in 1867, he came here and was appointed general agent of the company at this place, and so many years continuous employment as a railroad official indi- cates a confidence in his business ability and integrity that must be very grateful
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to Mr. Chace. He has always felt a deep concern in the subject of education; in 1873 was elected a member of the Board of Education, and at the expiration of his first term, which was for three years, was re-elected for another term. Mr. C. is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order, having been made a Mason in Dixon, in 1855. He was Master of the Lodge in Fulton, Ill., three years. His marriage occurred in 1852 to Miss Martha E. Dryer, of Brighton, N. Y.
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