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St. Louis, Mo., when she was very young, and where she was reared and lived until her marriage. They have two daughters : May, (wife of Robert Stringfel- low), and Lizzie, (wife of J. A. Lee, both of Kansas City). Their son James R., fell a victim to cholera, while residing in the Indian Territory, when twenty- six years old.
CHARLES McNELLIS,
Of the firm of Callahan & McNellis, importers and jobbers in Irish and Scotch linens, was born in County Dougall, Ireland, May 8, 1848, and spent his boy- hood days on a farm. When twenty-two years of age he came to the United States, and settled in Chicago, where he was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store. He remained under this firm for eight years, when he was made a member of it, and then came to this city, opening a branch wholesale house. Being the only ones who deal exclusively in these goods, their trade extends throughout the northwest, and they are very successful. Mr. McNellis commenced life a poor boy, and he is a good example of what may be accomplished when energy, with a will is brought into play.
CULLIN MCNUTT
Was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1802, where he lived until thirteen. His parents moved to Kentucky, and a year after, 1815, moved from that State to Switzerland county, Indiana, where he lived until 1858. May 27, 1827, he married Miss Mary Campbell, of Switzerland county, and settled on a wild tract of land in the same county, and succeeded in making one of the most valuable farms of the county. There he lived and reared a family of two sons and three daughters : Patterson, professor of mathematics in the Asbury Univer- sity, of Green Castle, Indiana ; William, who died in 1860; Elizabeth; Martha, wife of J. W. L. Slavens, of Kansas City, and Frances Mary. In 1871 he, be- coming infirm from age, sold his farm, and came to Kansas City in the spring of 1872, where he invested his capital in real estate, consisting of tenement houses, from which he is receiving a good income. In January, 1876, he was bereft of his wife, who died a consistent member of the Grand Avenue Methodist Epis- copal church. They were both members of long standing, being converted and received into the church in 1840.
ASA MADDOX
Was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, July 6, 1838, and resided there until he became of age. His early education was received in the common schools of the neighborhood, and in 1855 he entered the St. Louis University, remaining . for about eighteen months. Then attended Jones' Commercial College, of St. Louis, graduating in the winter of 1856, and he came to Kansas City in the spring of 1857. Soon after he engaged in the lumber business, continuing until March, 1873, when he sold out. Previous to this he was elected to the office of presi- dent of the Western Lumber Association of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, holding the position two years. In 1873 he was elected to the office of sheriff of Jackson county, which he held until 1877. Mr. Maddox is a promi- nent secret society man. In the lodge of Arch Masons, he has held the position of worshipful master for ten years. Was captain-general of commandery of the Knight Templars, and is the present grand marshall of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. Also supreme councilor of the Supreme Lodge of the Order of Mu- tual Protection of the United States. Mr. Maddox has been twice married ; first, in 1859, to Miss Mary F. Carter, of St. Louis. She died in 1867, leaving two children : Trustin P. and Effie A. His second marriage occurred in 1869, to Carrie Carter, a sister to his first wife, and of the same place as the former.
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WILLIAM A. MADDIN,
Carpenter and contractor, was born in St. Marks, Canada, April 22, 1851, and when but five years old moved with his parents to Edwardsburg, Canada. Re- mained about ten years then moved to Lisbon, New York. When eighteen years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, working transiently over New York till 1871, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio. Remained in Cleveland, engaged at his trade and show-case making till June, 1880, when he moved to Kansas City.
L. MAINHARDT,
Of the firm of Mainhardt & Co., jobbers of fine cigars, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, November 23, 1854, and when fourteen years of age left home and commenced business for himself. He partly learned the art of telegraphy in Germany, and in 1868, came to the United States and settled in Wisconsin. There he remained some two and a half years engaged at his trade and then went south, telegraphing in Tennessee and Alabama for seven years. He came to Kansas City in 1878, and commenced in business, He keeps a good stock of goods, and is deserving of liberal patronage. He has worked his own way through life, and being possessed of a large amount of energy is bound to succeed in whatever he undertakes.
H. B. MARTIN,
Broker and commissioner in iron and steel, was born in Galesburg, Ill., January 27, 1852, where he lived with his widowed mother, his father dying when he was very young. He received the rudiments of education in the district schools, and further at Knox College at Galesburg. In 1880, after leaving school, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the Britton Iron and Steel Works, with a view of making himself proficient in the business, and came to Kansas City in February, 1881, and established himself in the commission and brokerage busi- ness. His prospects for the future are very promising. He represents the stand- ard firms of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio, and although quite a young man, is well qualified for the business he has chosen.
E. S. MARSHALL,
Druggist, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Mt. Sterling, Fayette county, July 22, 1857. When but a boy. he moved with his parents to Lexington, Ky., where they remained till the fall of 1865, when they moved to Cass county, Mo., and shortly after located on a farm. Was engaged in tilling the soil about five years, when they moved to Holden, Johnson county, Mo. Mr. M. was engaged as clerk in a drug store, and in the fall of 1878 he began a thorough course in phar- macy at Ann Arbor, Mich., graduating July Ist, 1880. In November, 1880, he purchased the store, which he now owns, of W. K. Hawkins. Mr. M. is an enterprising young man and experienced in his business.
JOHN H. MENSING,
Gardener and dealer in ice, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1818, and when twenty years old he came to the United States, stopping in Charleston, South Carolina, for one year. Thence to Savannah, Georgia, and engaged in the grocery business, and also owned a mill, propelled by horse power, for grinding corn. He left Savannah in 1847, and came to Missouri and settled in Franklin county, where he was in the distilling business for a short time. Then went to Franklin county, Kansas, where he tried to farm but abandoned it in 1859, and came to Kansas City where he has been in various pursuits, and is now gardening and dealing in ice, selling from 600 to 1,000 tons of the latter yearly. He married Miss Mary Ann Gager, of Washington, Missouri, by whom he has had eight
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children: Henry, (connected with his father in the ice business), Willie, Mary, Sarah, Johnnie, Tony, Avis, and Georgie.
J. W. MERRILL,
Lumber Dealer, was born in Mesopotamia, on the Western Reserve, of Ohio, September 26, 1827, and when eleven years old his parents removed to Gaines, Orleans county, New York. He was educated by attending the common schools at Gaines. In 842 he went into the printing office of the Western Reserve Chronicle at Warren, Ohio, to learn the printing business, being in that and other offices in the same town until 1845, when he went to Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, and established the Mahoning Index. This he published until the following year when he went to Youngstown, Ohio, and assisted other parties to establish a Democratic paper. In 1847 he went to Wisconsin and settled at Kenosha where he was employed by the Kenosha Pier Company, doing a grain, commission and shipping business until 1868. In the meantime he had himself become owner of several vessels, doing a very successful business on the lakes. In January, 1869, came to Kansas City and established himself in the lumber business, doing a wholesale and retail trade. His sales the last year reached $180,000. March 2d, 1853, he married Miss Mary P. Foster, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, by whom he has four children : John F., Joseph William, Charles Brockway, and Henry Chase.
ROBERT B. MIDDLEBROOK,
Attorney, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, September 4, 1855. He received his education at the common schools and the academy of his native county. He graduated from the law department of Yale College in 1878, and came to Kansas City in the fall of that year, where he has established himself in the practice of law.
WILLIAM H. MILLER,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trade, is a native of Missouri, and was born on the 12th of January, 1843, in Jasper county. When two years of age he was taken by his parents to Macon county, there remaining until ten years old, when he removed to Atchison county. There he spent most of his time until becoming of age, receiving a common school education. When seventeen he commenced learning the printers trade, which he continued until the breaking out of the war. In July, 1871, the country being so disturbed, it became neces- sary to organize home guards, and Mr. Miller became a member of that organiza- tion. In October, 1861, he enlisted in the Missouri State Militia, remaining therein until December 2d, 1862, when he was commissioned second lieutenant of th 35th Missouri Infantry ; on the 22d of the same monlh he was promoted to first-lieutenant, and May 26th following to Captain. While in Arkansas ill health caused him to resign from the service in December, 1863, and he went to St. Louis. In January, 1864, he accepted a commission as first lieutenant of the 11th Missouri Cavalry, returned to Arkansas and remained until July, 1864, when he resigned and left the service. During the following August, 1864, he engaged in the newspaper business continuing until January 1, 1877. He was publisher of the Advertiser of Brownsville, Nebraska, for a few months, and also of the Register of Rulo, same State, for a few months. Then in January, 1865, he became connected with the Press of Nebraska City, of which he afterward became proprietor, but owing to financial depression he suspended that paper in January, 1869, and removed to Omaha, where he was for a time with the Republi- can. He then returned to Nebraska City, and was connected with the Chronicle for a short time. In July, 1871, Mr. Miller came to Kansas City, and accepted a position on the Journal, remaining until January 1, 1877. He held the position of reporter, city, commercial and managing editor, and at all times gave the editor-in-chief more or less assistance. In 1873 he became Secretary of the Board
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of Trade, in connection with editorial duties, until January 1, 1877, when he gave up the editorial profession to give his entire attention to this position. He was, until lately, also Secretary of the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Com- pany, and is now Secretary and Treasurer of the Mining Stock Board, and of the K. C. & N. E. and K. C., N. & W. railroads; is vice-president of the Robert Raikes Association, which is interested in religious and benovelent work; and is vice-president also of the Academy of Science. As one of the editors of the Journal and as Secretary of the Board of Trade, he has given much attention to the development of Kansas City's commerce and markets, and originated the idea of barge navigation of the Missouri River. This, after several years' discussion, has finally been made a practical reality in the organization of the Missouri Valley Transportation Company. Mr. Miller was married in Nebraska City, in 1866, to Miss Geneva Linton, a native of Ohio, born August 29, 1848. They have had three children, all of whom are deceased. They attend the Congregational church.
W. C. MILLER
Was born in Laporte county, Indiana, April 4, 1840, and was principally reared and educated in his native county. In 1870 he removed to Jackson county, Missouri, and located in Kansas City, where he has made his home ever since. Immediately after coming here, he purchased three farms in Johnson county, Kansas, one of which he traded for a livery stock and outfit in Kansas City, where he has been actively engaged, at the same time doing an extensive business, and has built up for himself an enviable reputation. In 1867 he married Miss Phebe Pottinger, of the same county and State as himself. Their family consists of three children : Lillie T., William R., and Luetta Grace.
WILLIAM MILLER,
Liveryman, was born in Greenfield county, Michigan, in 1838, and when twenty two years of age left his native county, and removed to Kansas City. After coming here, he worked at various avocations, and was engaged in freight- ing across the plains. In 1875 he embarked in the livery business, and has since continued, it being very successful. He has been prudent and economical, and has secured a nice competency to rely upon. In 1860 he married Miss Mary Ann McCracken, daughter of Judge McCracken, of this city. Their family consists of six children: Minnie A., Mary M., Jennie, Horace, George W. and Samuel.
JOHN K. MILLER
Was born near Shippingsburg, Pa., January 18, 1816. There he was raised, and served an apprenticeship in the blacksmithing business. He left his native town in 1840, and went to Mansfield, Ohio, and engaged in the manufacturing of plows, which he followed until 1855, after which time he made a tour to South America for his health. Returned in 1856, and in the spring of 1857 he came to Missouri, and settled in Kansas City, and opened a shop for shoeing horses at the junction of Main and Delaware streets, being exactly in the center of Main street, and being obliged to move his shop when the street was opened in 1868. He has been very successful in his business, and has realized much by the advance of city property. November 26, 1848, he married Miss Ellen Wise, of Mans- field, Ohio, by whom he has one son, John H., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Junction City. Himself and wife are members of the First Presbyterian church of Kansas City.
F. A. MILLER,
Of the firm of Fred. A. Miller & Son, wholesale dealers in heavy hardware and wagon material, was born in Weston, Platte county,' Mo., June 12, 1855, and 52-
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there resided until 1864, when his father, on account of political differences, was compelled to move. Going to Leavenworth, Kansas, he established himself in the hardware business, and there he is at present engaged. In the year 1878, in company with his son, F. A., they started their business in this city, where they carry a large stock, and are doing a good business in Kansas and Nebraska, beside a fine local trade. Our subject was principally reared and educated in Leavenworth, and when sixteen years of age went to Europe, and attended school in Germany for four years. There he received a thorough German education. After his return, he went to Leavenworth, where he remained three years prior to coming here. Although yet a young man, he possesses an unusual amount of business principles, and is fully competent for his position.
A. W. MILLSPAUGH,
General ticket agent Union Depot. The subject of this sketch is a native of Orange county, N. Y., and was born December 28, 1814. Was reared in his native county and there received his primary education. In January, 1834, (after having attended the Academy of Montgomery), he entered the junior class of the Union College located in New York, graduating in July, 1835, after which he went to Prince Edward county, Va. There he was engaged in teaching a classical and mathematical school for thirteen years. Then he went to Richmond, Va., where he was engaged on the James River and Kewanee Canal about four years. Then became general freight agent on the Richmond & Danville Railroad till 1856; and till 1857 was most of the time engaged traveling for his health. Was afterward employed by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad till 1860, when he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and took charge of the southern division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad till 1861. Thence went to St. Louis and was under the employ of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad a short time. In 1864 went to Washington, D. C., and was there engaged in the Quartermaster-General's office till 1865, and returned to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was contracting agent till 1867, when he returned to St. Louis and was there general agent for the North Missouri Railroad till May and then general ticket agent till 1870-the time he located in Kansas City. First, he was ticket agent for the North Missouri Railroad till August, 1870, when he began in his present position. Mr. Millspaugh has the name of being one of the most experi- enced railroad men in the west. Was married in Mitchell, Ind., October 7, 1862. They have three children : Mary J., Margaret E. and Susan E.
J. P. MITCHENER,
Weigh master at Kansas City Stock-yards, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was born October 12, 1848. When he attained the age of five years, he, with his parents moved to Warren county, Ill., where they remained till 1859; then moved to Kansas City and in 1862 moved to Chicago. In 1866 he accepted the position of weigh master at the Union Stock-yards of Division C. In 1869 removed to Kansas City, and was, till 1871, engaged in buying and shipping live stock. June 1, 1871, he accepted the position of weigh master for the Kansas City Stock- yards, which he retained till the spring of 1873. Then, with his father, J. L. Mitchener, engaged in the live stock commission trade for one year as the firm of J. L. Mitchener & Son. From May 1, 1874, to Feb., 1878 was engaged as book- keeper for Hunter, Evans & Co., when he then again embarked in the commission trade as one of the firm of Saulsbury & Mitchener. January 1, 1880, he began work as book-keeper for A. J. Gillespie & Co., remaining till November 1, 1880. December 1, 1880, he accepted his present position.
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B. F. MITCHELL,
Dealer in grain and mill feeds, was born March 1, 1836, in Montgomery coun- ty, Kentucky. He spent his boyhood days on a farm, and at the age of twenty- one engaged in the mercantile business at Mount Ida. Immigrated to Platte City, Mo., in 1850, thence to Bloomington, Ill., in 1862, and to Jackson county, Mo., in 1866. He engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1877, when he came to Kan- sas City and engaged in his present business. Has been identified with the school board for quite a number of years, and at present holds the office of no- tary public. He married Miss Ella Whaley in 1857. She is a native of Ken- tucky and was born in 1838. Their family consists of four children : C. W., Emma L., Susan S. and Claude W. They are members of the Christian church.
WILLIAM H. MORGAN, (Deceased),
Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Piqua, Ohio, March 13, 1834, and was the son of Dr. S. B. Morgan, a physician and druggist of that place. In 1845 the family removed to Crawfordsville, Indiana, where our subject entered Wabash College, and when eighteen years of age, unaided by his father, he. secured an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, gradu- ating in 1856. He resigned immediately after on account of what appeared to him an unjust preferment of a class-mate. He returned home and read medicine with his father, attending lectures at the Medical College at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1861 he went to Kansas to locate some land warrants, and during this trip Fort Sumter was fired upon. On his return, while going down the Missouri River, he witnessed such exhibitions of sectional strife among the passengers that he enlisted as a private in a Crawfordsville company immediately after arriving there, much to the disapproval of his parents. He was offered the captaincy of a company, but Governor Morton required his services in the military camp to organize and drill recruits as they came in. He was afterward commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 25th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and ordered to the department of Missouri, participating in the severe service of that campaign. Charmed with the natural beauty and climate of the State, he resolved at the close of the war to locate in Missouri. During the war his most active service was in the Army of the Tennessee, and was engaged in the battles of Fort Donel- son, Hatchie, Pittsburg Landing and Davis' Mills, distinguishing himself for conspicuous bravery and courage at Fort Donelson. Soon after he was promoted colonel of the regiment. At Pittsburg Landing he was wounded, carried off the field and sent home; he was afterward placed at Davis' Mills, Mississippi, to guard that part of the line, and, with a small detachment of a few hundred men, de- feated Colonel Vandorn with 6,000 men. He was afterward placed in command- of a brigade, and General Grant sent his name to Washington urging his speedy promotion. This mail was captured and the request never came before the senate. Near the close of the war he was-by way of reparation-made brigadier-general by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services. He then was retained on a com- mittee for examining applicants for the regular army, not being mustered out until March 6, 1866. On the 7th of April following he arrived in Kansas City. In July he opened the first wholesale drug house in Kansas City; his capital being insufficient to meet the demands of trade, he associated with himself Joseph Parders and J. W. L. Slavens in 1867. The latter shortly retired, and Mr. Parders sold his interest to A. W. Bidwell, who proved to be an unprofitable partner, and who committed suicide in 1871. In order that the stock should not be sacrificed at public sale to satisfy eastern indebtedness, thus throwing a heavy debt on the heirs, General Morgan, with the promise of liberal time, bought the interest, but at the end of the second year a forced final settlement was made, and the stock passed into other hands. This misfortune, taken with others, re- sulting from the financial crisis, accelerated the incipient disease engendered
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in the army, causing death by bronchial affection in 1878. He proved himself one of Kansas City's most public spirited citizens; was a stockholder in the Han- nibal & St. Joe Railroad, and was one of the originators of the Kansan City & Santa Fe Railroad, and a member of the first board of directors. He married a daughter of the late John Binford, of Indiana, in December, 1862. General John Love, of Indiana, left this tribute of our adopted citizen : " General Morgan has the confidence of the people of our State for all the qualities that adorn the gentleman and the soldier." And General Grant, in recommending him to the Secretary of State for a foreign appointment in 1875 said of him: "General Morgan is personally known to me as a brave and gallant soldier, and in my opinion is worthy and capable of filling any position in the government to which he may aspire."
WILLIAM MULKEY.
Retired farmer and capitalist, was born in Ash county, North Carolina, Sep- tember 22, 1824, and when young was taken by his parents to Jackson county, Mo., in the fall of 1828, locating at Westport, as it was then known. His early education was given him by the noted Joe Smith, for a period of six months. At the end of this time the Mormons, becoming troublesome, were driven out of the county, and they went to Clay county, Mo. Our subject afterward attended the common schools, and at the age of eleven years commenced business for himself with the Indians, continuing until grown to manhood. In 1844-'45 he com- menced in Westport, being engaged in running a little steamer, and was here for a number of years. He has frequently visited John C. Fremont, when he was camping near this place, and assisted in preparing the outfit for his great trip across the plains. Mr. M. well remembers the prediction made by Thomas H. Benton, in a letter to a friend, an early settler here, that the time would come when railroads would run across the plains in all directions, the river be dredged and roads run across the plains and mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Mr. M. has lived to see this realized to the fullest extent. He was married to Miss Catharine Dripps, in 1852. She is a native of Oregon, and a daughter of Major Dripps, one of the American fur traders, who died in 1860.
FREDERICK MULLETT,
Of the firm of Mullett Brothers, wholesale dealers in photographic goods and in- struments, was born in Taunton, England, in 1840, leaving there with his parents when he was very young. They came to the United States and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was reared. When nineteen, in 1857, he went into the wholesale house of Tyler Davidson & Co. as a clerk, and was in their employ until 1865. In July of that year he went to Vicksburg, Miss., and was employed as manager in the hardware department of the retail house of Louis Hoffinan & Brother, being with them until 1866. Then he came to Kansas City and became a partner with S. Gardner in the hardware business, they being together for eight years. Dissolving the co-partnership in 1875 he went east and was employed as. traveling salesman for Gatchel & Hyatt, of Cincinnati, and other firms, until January, 1877, when he returned to Kansas City and established himself in the business in which he is now engaged, with his brother Richard B. Mullett, who became a member of the firm in 1881. In 1878 he married Miss Martha Camp- bell, of Ottumwa, Iowa.
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