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JAMES P. GAUGH
Was born in Lexington, Ky., December, 1836, and in 1854 went with his parents to Bloomington, Ill., where he lived until 1856, when he came to Kansas City. Before coming here he clerked for R. O. Warriner, of Bloomington, Ill., and on his arrival in Kansas City, was employed by G. B. Thomas in the dry goods business, being with him four years. In 1861 he began clerking in the mercantile house of L. Bullene & Bro., being in their company until 1865, when he went into the agricultural house of Plant Bros. & Co. Was with them until 1868, when he was employed as clerk by John Doggett & Co., remaining with them until 1874, and since then he has been in various employments, being three years in the real estate business. In 1859 he married Miss M. M. White, who is one of the first settlers of Kansas City. She came here in 1846, when seven years old, with her mother, Mrs. Asenath White. At that time the city site was a wilderness. There was only one business house, and in the same was kept the post-office by Dr. Lykins. Her first schooling was in a log school-house that stood in the woods near where the St. James hotel now stands. She has seen the city grow from the diminutive hamlet of Westport Landing to the magnitude of a metropolis. They have three children : W. Mortimer, Hattie A. and Minnie.
G. G. GAUGH,
Book-binder. Was born at Lexington, Ky., September 8, 1853, and when six years old his parents came to Kansas City. He attended the public and High schools of this city until he was eighteen, when he began to learn the trade of book-binder with an older brother, being with him two years. In 1873 he pur- chased the business and began for himself, and although the youngest man in this business in the city, he is building up a good trade and has an extensive patron- age. His bindery is furnished with all the modern improvements for binding the books, and he has the facilities for doing everything in his line. December 11, 1874, he married Miss Carrie M. Fields, of Malone, N. Y. They have one child, Walter, three years old.
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A. H. GLASNER,
Wholesale dealer in fancy groceries and delicacies. Was born in or near Bruns- wick, Germany, February 30, 1846, and when young was brought by his parents to America, landing in New York. They went immediately to St. Louis, Mo., remained about three years and then moved to Nauvoo, where our subject was reared and educated. At about the age of eighteen he entered the business col- lege at Keokuk, Iowa, took a regular course and graduated. Then engaged in the insurance business and afterward as salesman in a hardware store, serving in the latter capacity about eight years. For one year was employed in the insur- ance business, and then came to Kansas City in 1872, being engaged in the hard- ware business as salesman. A year and a half later he became associated with Mr. Lohrer, in the grocery business, this continuing one year, when Mr. Glasner bought out his partner's interest. Two years later he became connected with Adrian Dick in the same business, this partnership continuing two years. Then commenced running the business alone, and so continues it. In 1881 he started in the wholesale business and is liable in the near future to be numbered among the leading merchants of Kansas City. Mr. Glasner was married in 1878 to Miss Bertha Dick. They have one child. Mr. Glasner is a member of the A. F. and A. M., having attained the degree of M. M.
A. GEORGE,
Dealer in live stock. Is a native of Germany, and was born April 14, 1841. In the spring of 1848 crossed the water to America, landing at Baltimore, and located in Augusta county, Va., remaining in this State till the spring of 1857. Then went to McDonough county, Ill., where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits till the spring of 1862, when he crossed the plains to Washington Territory; pros- pected about the different Territories of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, engaged in various business, also purchased a ranch in Payette Valley, Idaho, .. which he had charge of during most of his stay in the West. In 1869 he returned to Illinois. In the spring of 1871 went to Ft. Scott, Kansas, to buy cattle, keep- ing them till fall when he shipped them to Chicago and returned to Illinois, remaining over winter. In the spring of 1862 he went to Neosho county, Kan., where he was engaged in buying and shipping cattle till fall, when he came to Kansas City. Here he has since made his home, and been engaged in the cattle trade. From May r, 1876, to the fall of 1877 was in the commission trade as one of the firm of Gillespie, Reed & Co. During 1880 was one of the firm of Geo. Beggs & Co. He is also proprietor of a restaurant and saloon opposite Stock Exchange Building. Was married to Miss Jennie Bowden, of Indiana, July 5, 1874. They have three children, two of whom are living : Elmer F. and Minnie.
HENRY G. GILCHRIST,
Grocer. Mr. Gilchrist is a native of Jackson county, Mo. He was born at In- dependence June 3, 1849, where he was reared and educated. His father was killed during the late war, supposed to be by Quantrell's men, while he was out buying cattle. In 1867 Mr. G. took a commercial course at Rohrer's Business College at St. Louis, and afterward in the same year he, with an uncle, made a trip through Colorado to Santa Fe to purchase cattle, and drove back, returning in the spring of 1868. He afterward made several trips up to 1870, when he was employed in the grocery house of James Burnes, being with him until De- cember, 1875. In February of 1876 he engaged in the grocery business for him- self and is still in business.
ROBERT GILLHAM,
Civil Engineer. Was born in New York City September 24, 1854. By the time he was fifteen he had received a good literary education and at that age he began
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a scientific course in the Mathematical Institute of New Jersey, at Hackensack, under the instructions of Professors William Wilham and D. G. Murray, graduat- ing in 1871, and soon after he became the first assistant of Professor Wilham in his library, and at the same time began taking a special course in civil engineering. He began his labor as a practical engineer in Hackensack and in 1873 also had an office in New York City. His proficiency as a civil engineer has been duly appreciated, and the preferments received from eminent public men and civil engineers mark the standard of his merits, having been placed on committees, to make important investigations in legal and personal disputes, with such men as Prof. Charles B. Brush, of the University of New York City, and William B. Earl, engineer of the Jersey City Water Works. He superintended the construc- tion of the double draw bridge of Court street, Hackensack, and also the iron combination bridge built by the Watsons' Bridge Company of Patterson, N. J. In 1879 he made a trip to Colorado and accidentally stopping at Kansas City on his return, and readily seeing its promising future, and its imperfect system of sew- erage and non-established grades presented a good field for a practical engineer, he determined to locate and cast his lot with those who had preceded him. Since establishing himself in Kansas City he has originated an improvement of Ninth street by connecting it with West Kansas by an inclined plane, and has organized a company for its construction composed of the representative men of the city. He has made sewerage and sanitary engineering a study, and has submitted a system of sewerage to the Academy of Science of Kansas City in a series of lectures, which have been published, and may be adopted by the city. He is a member of the Academy of Science, of this city, and also of the Kansas Academy of Science, at Topeka, being one of a committee on geology of that society.
A. J. GILLESPIE,
Of the firm of A. J. Gillespie & Co., Live Stock Commission Merchants. 'Is a native of Illinois, and was born in Clinton county, March 14th, 1835, was educated in his native county, and has followed the stock business from boyhood. When about twenty-five years of age he moved to St. Louis, where he was engaged in speculating in stock, horses and mules, also in filling government contracts. In 1868 he came to Kansas City and immediately began in the live stock commission trade as one of the firm of Toby, Gillespie & Co. In 1870 he was with W. A. Rogers till 1873. In connection with the stock trade was also interested in an elevator known as that of Gillespie & Bancroft. They erected this, and it was the only one in the city, and had charge of it four years. In 1878 he, with his three sons, started the present firm. They also have a ranch in Wyoming Territory, where they keep many cattle, and have, since 1875, driven cattle from Montana and Washing- ton Territories. He was married to Miss A. L. Nichols, May 4th, 1859. They have three children : Louis J., Thomas E., and John F.
J. B. GISH,
Physician and surgeon. Was born in Virginia, in 1836, and in 1848 he immi- grated to Indiana. Lived in that State until 1865; when he came to Missouri, locating in Cedar county. In 1861 he moved to Kansas and made that State his home until 1880, living in Jefferson county from 1862. He attended the St. Louis Medical College, and graduated in 1871. On the 24th day of January, 1880, Dr. Gish took up his abode in Kansas City. His marriage was June 15th, 1856, to Miss Kate A. Masterson.
A. L. GLENN,
Circulator of the Kansas City daily Journal of Commerce. Was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1837, and at the age of twelve years removed to Iowa with his brother. From there he went to Kansas, and thence to Colorado, and in
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1 862 he enlisted in the 2nd Colorado Cavalry, and served for three years. During this time he was in many severe skirmishes, and was mustered out at Leaven- worth, Kansas, in 1865. After this he came to Kansas City, and December 1, 1870, he took charge of the circulation of the Kansas City daily Journal of Com- merce, which has a large patronage. Mr. Glenn was married in 1871, to Miss Alice Umbarger, of Liberty, Clay county, Missouri. She was born and reared there, her father being one of the earliest settlers of Clay county, having come from Kentucky. They have had three children, two of whom are living: Cora E., and Daisy B. One child died when twelve months old.
JOHN J. GRANFIELD,
Market Master. Was born in the State of New Hampshire, February 28th, 1851, and received an education in the St. Patrick's Academy at La Salle, Illinois. After this he spent some years in traveling over the west and finally located in Kansas City, in the. spring of 1873. He was employed by the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company as check clerk and foreman of the freight house in Kansas City, filling this position to the satisfaction of all concerned. In April, 1880, he received the appointment to the office which he now holds.
MRS. E. P. GRAVES,
Nee Amanda C. Smart, is another of the first settlers of Kansas City who came to Jackson county with her parents in 1837, before Kansas City was ever thought of as a city, and while it was known as Westport Landing. At that time there was an old log warehouse and a small collection of frame and log houses. She was born near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, April 21st, 1829. Her father, Thomas A. Smart, was a native of Virginia, and her mother of Kentucky. They settled on an acre of ground that is now between Ninth and Twelfth streets and east of Main street, that being near his farm which is now the main part of Kansas City, and where she, in her girlhood days, dropped corn and pumpkin seed with her father's negroes, as a pastime. Her old home was on the corner of Main and Twelfth streets, where Deardorff's lumber yard now is, that being the play-ground of her brothers and sisters, nine in all, only two of whom are now living, herself and sister, and Mrs. Dr. John Bryant, Jr. Her first schooling was in the old log building near the old convent, which still remains, and is the only building of the days primeval of Kansas City. She was mostly educated at the High school of Inde- pendence, Missouri. She has been three times married. Her first husband was Madison M. Waldron, to whom she was married in 1847 and who died in 185.4; they had three children, only one of whom (Alice, wife of D. O. Smart, of Kan- sas City) is living. Her second husband was G. W. McLeod; they were married in 1857, and he died in 1867 ; they had one daughter, Martha Elizabeth, (wife of Langston Bacon, Esq., of Kansas City). She married her present husband, E. P. Graves, in 1872.
S. S. GRANT,
Manager of the Kansas City Stock Yards, Horse and Mule Market, was born in Lawrence county, Alabama, August 24, 1823. His father, Thomas B., was a native of Virginia, and was one of the first settlers in Alabama, and spent his entire life dealing in fine stock. The subject of this sketch, in 1844, moved to Tuscaloosa, where he remained engaged in the horse and mule trade till December, 1859, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio. There he was also engaged in the same trade, till the commencement of the war, after which he was engaged buy- ing horses and mules for the Government. He bought through several States, hav- ing the name of purchasing more than any other one man in the business. After the close of the war he moved to St. Louis, at which place he had a part of the time been interested during the time of his government purchases, and was in this place till the fall of 1878. Then he came to Kansas City and accepted his
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present position. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Millet September 4, 1844. She is a native of same county as himself, and was born December 8, 1824. They have seven children, five of whom are living : Benjamin T., Solon C., Lorenzo, Martha E., Sarah A.
JAMES M. GREENWOOD,
Superintendent of the Kansas City Schools, was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, November 15, 1836, and in 1852 removed with his father to Adair county, Missouri, where the latter now resides. James was brought up on a farm, and at the age of nine years commenced attending school in winter and working on the farm in summer. He went to school in this manner until sixteen years of age, when he moved to Missouri, where, for four years, all his school advantages were at an end. But by self application he made substantial progress in Latin, alge- bra, chemistry, etc., and in 1855 commenced teaching. During the next winter he attended school, and after working on the farm the following summer, entered Canton Seminary, where he passed the examinations of the entire course, but, however, at the cost of his health. For one year he gave himself up to rest, and from this time until 1867 he taught during the winter and worked on the farm in summer. Upon the establishment of the North Missouri Normal School at Kirks- ville, in 1867, he was chosen to teach the higher branches, and filled this position for three years, when he accepted the same chair in the Mount Pleasant College, at Huntsville. Here he taught until the North Missouri Normal School was made a State Normal, when he returned to that institution. This position he resigned in the summer of 1874 to accept the superintendency of the Kansas City schools. Since holding this office he has refused the principalship of four Normal schools within the State. In 1872 Prof. Greenwood received the well merited degree of A. M. from the Missouri State University. During the last twelve years he has delivered five hundred lectures on educational topics in Missouri, Iowa and Illi- nois. He has conducted Normal institutes since 1868, and in the meantime has contributed largely to leading journals of our State. He was made a Mason in 1864, and belongs to Kirksville Lodge No. 105. He is also a member of K. of P. Lodge No. 39, Kansas City. He served in the State militia from 1862 to 1864. Prof. Greenwood was married in Carroll county, Missouri, November 1, 1859, to Miss Amanda A. McDaniel. They have three children: Ada M., Hervey V. and Nettie E. Under the present management the city schools are attracting attention for the high standard of scholarship, the thoroughness of their instruc- tions and the efficiency of their government.
DR. HARRIS S. GREENO
Was born at Millport, Chemung county, New York, August 7, 1832. His father was an extensive millwright, contractor, and builder, and during the war of 1812 was placed in charge of the construction of boats for government use, at Buffalo. The parents of our subject both died in the fall of 1849, within two months of each other, and one of his brothers, Isaac, died the same night of his mother's death. Two weeks later another brother, Horace, died, leaving him the only member of the family at home. At this time, being seventeen years of age, he removed to Owego, New York, and entered the Owego Academy. He paid his way by doing janitor work at the institution, and working nights and mornings. This course he pursued for over two years, receiving a fair education, and then was employed by the Panama Railroad Company, for six months, laying up a small amount of money. This enabled him to pursue the study of medicine, which he had previously chosen, and after studying it for one year, he engaged in the mercantile business at Roseville, Pennsylvania. Being burned out, he determined to finish his medical education, and accordingly entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1857. His first field of practice was at Amboy, Lee county, Illinois, where he remained until
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August, 1858, then moving to Kansas. He engaged in practicing at Osawatomie. until the fall of 1859, when he moved to Fort Scott, residing until the breaking out of the war in 1861. There being great excitement along the border of Kan- sas and Missouri, and as there was no military protection at that time, he organ- ized an independent force of over one hundred men, establishing a camp on Cox's Creek, twelve miles south of Fort Scott. In that capacity he gave such protec- tion as was in his power, until Gen. Lane arrived with Kansas troops, in Au- gust 1861, when he disbanded his men, most of them entering the regular service. Our subject himself was made captain of Company C, 6th Kansas Vol- unteers, and was afterward engaged in scouting and fighting guerrillas. In the spring of 1862 he was placed in charge of four companies of the 6th Kansas Cavalry, attached to the command of Col. Charles Doubleday, of the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, and started on an expedition to the Indian nation. Space prevents a full account of the engagements along this route. On the 24th of August, 1862, Captain Greeno was wounded, which prevented him from duty for several weeks. On the 26th of November he rejoined his regiment and was engaged in recruiting and raising companies until October 14, 1864, when he was promoted to major. He served until the close of the war, was mustered out at Little Rock, and was afterward breveted colonel by the President, for meritorious conduct. Dr. Greeno is a prominent secret society man, being a Royal Arch Mason (of which he has filled the chair as Master of the Blue Lodge), and an Odd Fellow, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for several years was Post Commander of the G. A. R., of Topeka. He resumed the practice of his profession after the close of the war, and in March, 1877, came to Kansas City. He was married August 28, 1855, to Miss Sarah E. Bodine. They have one daughter, Nettie, who was educated at Mt. St. Mary's Convent. One died at the age of two years.
JOHN F. GREGORY,
Of the firm of Gregory & Stephens, Commission Merchants, was born in Cayuga county, New York, May 10th, 1838. When sixteen years of age, he came to Shelby county Illinois. June, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, 22nd Illinois Infantry, for three years, and after being in service one year, was pro- moted to non-commissioned orderly sergeant, participating in the battles of Charles- ton, Belmont, New Madrid, No. 10; Farmington, Mississippi; siege of Corinth, Stone River, and Murphy's Ferry, Tennessee. Here he was wounded in the wrist, after which he was taken prisoner and lodged in the hospital at Montgomery. Was kept in this institution three months when he was transferred to Vicksburg, remaining till the begining of Grant's siege, when he was taken to Libby prison. Remained about fifteen days, when he was released, serving his time out in the veteran reserve corps. Was mustered out, June, 1864, and then returned to Vandalia, Illinois, accepting a position as clerk in a store. Retained this position one year, when he went to Chicago and engaged in a sash and door factory. In 1868 he began the stock business, most of the time with Gregory, Cooly & Co., till 1870, when he came to Kansas City. Here he opened an office, attending business for the firm till 1875, when he began an office for himself. In 1879, he accepted as partner James Stephens, which constitutes the present firm. Was married to Miss Lillie Sanford, June 9th, 1878.
WILLIAM B. GRIMES,
Son of Richard and Charlotte Bradford Grimes, was born at Rocky Hill, Hartford county, Connecticut, September 15th, 1825. His father was a great seaman and of Scotch lineage, while his mother was a direct descendant of the second colo- nonial Governor, William Bradford, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. When twelve years of age, our subject was left in New York City to be educated, and when seventeen returned to his native place to begin his career as a mer-
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chant. After serving an apprenticeship of three years, he removed to Circleville, Ohio, remaining there for three years, when, nearly falling a victim of malaria, he visited his father's home in Texas in 1847. In 1848, he commenced raising cat- tle, giving his entire attention thereto for ten years, when he engaged in shipping cattle to New Orleans. On account of the civil war, Mr. Grimes, to meet the demand for general supplies in his section, conceived the idea of sending cotton to Europe by way of Mexico, which he continued until the close of the war, be- ing pecuniarily successful. Soon after, in connection with another party, he furnished means to two young men to carry on the dry goods jobbing business, but not giving his personal attention to this enterprise it proved a financial failure, proving a serious loss and many years of perplexity and care. In 1868 he erected in Texas, at his home ranch in Matagorda county, a steam rendering and packing house, in which were slaughtered from 5,000 to 14, 000 cattle per annum ; adding, in 1873, beef canning for foreign markets. In 1875, owing to Indian depreda . tions on a cattle ranch he had established about 1860 on the Mexican frontier, he was obliged to devote his attention to their removal, and in 1875 stopped his canning works, in the full tide of prosperity, to take these cattle to the Kansas market. Being successful in this, he has continued in the business to the present, all cattle interests and his Texas ranch being in charge of his son, B. R. Grimes. Commencing life in Texas, as a bachelor, he built a log house for a home and purchased about 1, 000 cattle. In 1854 he purchased another ranch near by and continued adding to his herds up to the time he located in Kansas City, in 1877, sas when he had about 20,000 cattle on his Texas ranch, and about 4,000 in Kan- In .1854, his losses and damages were heavy, caused by a hurricane which visited that section. In 1875, Mr. Grimes handled in Kansas 8,000 cattle; in 1876, about the same; in 1877, something over 10,000 ; wintering in Kansas in 1877-8 over 4,000 head which he marketed in eastern cities. Through all these operations he must have been very systematic, and his early training for mercan- tile pursuits was carried into the work of his later life. He has never taken an active part in politics nor mingled in public life, more than his large range of business has compelled him to do. Mr. G. at the age of thirty, 1855, was first married to Maria L. Robbins, of Hartford, Connecticut, when he took his wife to Texas, erected a store, dwelling, etc., and lived with her in Texas for twenty years, where she died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving nine children ; four had preceded her and one immediately followed to her heavenly home. His second marriage was to Mrs. Irene T. Poole, widow of a well known and highly respected gentleman of Indianola, Texas, having three children. December, 1880, Miss Grace Irene was presented to Mr. G., making twelve the entire number of chil- dren in his household. Mr. G's. experience in handling Texas cattle on the plains of Kansas, and frontier country northwest, west and southwest of Kansas City, gave him great faith in the future of the "Gate City" of the West ; hence in 1877 he bought a large, comfortable but plain residence, and made a number of invest- ments in real estate at this point. In 1880, he built the fine stone business house on Delaware street known as the "Grimes Block," after which he organized the dry goods jobbing house of Grimes, Woods, La Force & Co., which firm are fill- ing that entire block with one of the most complete stocks of dry goods and notions, ever brought west of the Missouri River.
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