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he continued for about five years. In 1873 he sold out his drug store and started in the wholesale grocery business, in which he has continued to the present time. In 1877, when the Sedalia Democrat Company was organ- ized, he was chosen President of the organization, which position he still retains. In Jan., 1880, he was elected Vice-president of the Citizens National Bank, a position he still occupies. Mr. Hogue has been identi- fied with the business interests of Sedalia in no small degree, and enjoys the confidence and respect of all with whom he comes in contact.
DAVID I. HOLCOMB.
Was born in Mercer County, Pa., Nov. 13, 1845. Webster Holcomb, his father, was a native of Connecticut, and is now a resident of Trumbull County, O. His mother, Harriet A., nee Deutcher, who is still living, was born in Ohio. David I. was reared and educated in Trumbull County, O., and in 1861 enlisted in Company A., Forty-First Ohio Regi- ment Volunteer Infantry. He served until the close of the war in the Western Department, and took part in all its battles and sieges, and escaped without any severe injuries, although he received some slight reminders. In 1866 he accepted a position as traveling salesman for a queensware house in Cleveland O., where he remained until the fall of 1867, when he went to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he opened a store and continued in business until 1879. From thence he came to Sedalia, and opened one of the largest queensware houses in Central Missouri. In May, 1881, he was elected Alderman of the First Ward in Sedalia. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Holcomb was married, on the 1st day of January, 1868, to Miss Almira B. Ingraham, of Trumbull County O., daughter of Willis Ingraham, of that county. They have one child, Fred. W. The establishment which Mr. Holcomb now owns is an ornament not only to Sedalia, but is an enterprise of which any city in the State might well feel proud. This house of merchandise was opened, in 1875, by John A. Mohlenhoff, of Cincinnati. In 1879 Mr. Holcomb pur- chased the store, and has since continued the business alone. This is the only store in Sedalia which deals exclusively in queensware, and is the largest in the State outside of St. Louis and Kansas City. He does both a wholesale and retail trade, and carries an enormous stock of goods in his line. Mr. Holcomb imports his earthenware direct from England. He has just completed a large three-story brick building, on Second street, where he has one of the finest arranged rooms in the city, using the entire building for his business. A cut of this house appears on page 533.
JOHN W. HOUX.
Of the firm of Bixby & Houx, hardware merchants. Mr. Houx was born May 13, 1831, in Boonville, Mo. His father, Frederick Houx, was
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a native of Maryland. His mother, Margaret, nec Sears, was also a native of Maryland. John W., the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in Boonville. He learned the tinning business in his youth, and in 1856, engaged in the business in company with Mr. Bixby, his present partner, with whom he has been ever since. Their business career is given in connection with Mr. Bixby's biography. Mr. Houx was mar- ried in 1852, to Miss M. Anderson, of Boonville, Mo. She died in 1855. He was married again in 1856, to Sarah Heard, ot Pettis County. They have four children, Edward H., Frederick L., Nora, and Vest. Mr. Houx has been for many years a member of the Masonic fraternity.
B. L. HULL.
Of the firm of B. L. Hull & Co., grocers. Was born in 1855, in Osage County, Mo. His father, Jacob Hull, was a native of Missouri, now liv- ing in Texas. His mother, Francis C., was also a native of Missouri. B. L., the subject of this sketch, began the mercantile business at his old home, but in 1882, came to Sedalia, when he and his partner, F. E. McKnight, opened the store in East Sedalia, where they are now in business. F. E. McKnight was also born in Osage County, Mo. His father was James G., a native of Illinois. His mother was Paulina, nee Laughlin. F. E. was educated at Westminister College, Fulton. In 1875, he engaged in general mercantile business, which he followed about four years, afterwards dealing in grain for some time. In the spring of 1882 he came to Sedalia, and opened the store where they are now doing a good business. In 1880, he married Mary R. Hull.
WM. F. ILGENFRITZ.
Was born in York, Pa., in 1822. His father, Jacob, was a native of Pennsylvania. His ancestors were from Germany. In 1834, William, with the family, moved to Ohio. He learned the harness and saddlery business in his 'youth, and was engaged in that calling about thirty years, at Wooster, Ohio. In 1850, he married Malinda Duffield, of Wooster. They have three children living: William D., boot and shoe merchant, Sedalia; Clarence E., hardware merchant, Sedalia; Lindel, merchant, Denver, Col. In 1865, Mr. Ilgenfritz moved to Sedalia, Mo., bought property upon Ohio street, upon which he built, and which has since become very valuable, being in the heart of the city, although at that time it was wild prairie. He built the first hall erected in this city for theatrical purposes. In 1870, he started the Ilgen House, which he operated several years. In the spring of 1879, he went to Colorado, and has ever since been largely interested in mining, being President of sev- eral mining companies. He has served as a member of the City Council, and is held in high esteem by the citizens of Sedalia.
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CLARENCE E. ILGENFRITZ.
Hardware merchant. Mr. Ilgenfritz is a native of Missouri, and a son of Wm. F. Ilgenfritz, of whom we speak elsewhere. Clarence E. was educated in Sedalia, and at Washington University, St. Louis, graduating from the latter place in 1873, after which he entered the employ of the Simons Hardware Company, remaining three years. From there he went to Colorado, where he was in the hardware business until 1881, when he returned to Sedalia, and took charge of his father's business, and has also engaged in the hardware trade, having one of the largest and most complete stocks of goods to be found in Sedalia, doing both a retail and wholesale business.
WILLIAM D. ILGENFRITZ.
Dealer in boots, shoes, hats and caps, No. 205, Ohio St., Sedalia, Mo. This enterprising young business man commenced at his present stand in November, 1881, and although recently established, his trade has become large and is steadily increasing. Being well and favorably known in the city from his long residence here, and having constantly on hand a stock of first quality goods his future success is assured. He was born near Wooster, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1851, in which State he resided for fourteen years. His father, Wm. F. Ilgenfritz, is a native of Pennsylvania, having removed to Ohio when a young man. The father of our subject was engaged in the saddlery and harness business, and afterwards in farming till 1864. In the spring of 1865 the family removed to Sedalia, where they have since resided, first conducting a bakery, then proprietor of the Ilgen Hotel, which has enjoyed such popularity. W. D. obtained a good education, attending the common schools, and also the State University at Columbia. He was married in December, 1881, to Miss Belle McNair, of St. Louis, daughter of C. A. McNair, at present connected with the Missouri Furnace Co. At the April election, in the city of Sedalia, 1882, Mr. Ilgenfritz was elected on the Republican ticket as Alderman of the First Ward, and is now worthily serving in that capacity.
BENTON HOWARD INGRAM.
Circuit Clerk of Pettis County. Was born in Green County, Mo., Nov. 24, 1838, and is the son of Martin and Anna A. Ingram. Martin was a native of North Carolina, born in August, 1803, and is the son of Archibald Ingram, of English descent, who died in North Carolina, in 1858. Martin died in Green County, Mo., June 1, 1881. Anna A. Ingram was born in November, 1804, in North Carolina, and is now living with her youngest son, Martin V., in Green County, Mo. Benton H. is the sixth child of a family of eight, all of whom are yet living. They are Mrs.
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Mary J. McCracken, Archibald F., now Treasurer of Green County, Mo., Sidney N., John B., Thomas J., Benton H., Martin V. and Virginia A., now wife of John L. McCraw, of Green County, Mo. Benton H. received a common school education. He commenced business in 1862, opening a drug store with Dr. E. T. Robberson, in Springfield, Mo., but sold out in eighteen months, and soon thereafter came to Sedalia, and in 1864 opened a general country store with S. S. Vinton, and continued in this business until 1871, when he lost his entire stock by fire. He then engaged in the fire and life insurance business. In the fall of 1872 he was elected Collector of Pettis County, and held the office one term. In 1879 he was appointed Circuit Clerk of Pettis County, by Governor John S. Phelps, and at the expiration of the term was elected by the people to the office. He is now, July, 1882, renominated for the same office for the coming term, by the Democratic party. Sept. 12, 1865, he was married to Maria Grimshaw, daughter of Jonathan and Eliza M. Grimshaw, at Jefferson City. His wife, Maria, was born in the city of Leeds, England, Jan. 25, 1847. Her father was born in Yeaden, near Leeds, Jan. 24, 1818, and her mother in the city of Leeds, May 2, 1818. They came to America in 1851, and located in Jefferson City, where Mr. Grimshaw resides at present. Mrs. Maria Ingram has two brothers and four sisters living, viz: Elizabeth, wife of Ex-Mayor Geo. L. Faulhaber, of this city; Emma, wife of Lewis Miller, of Peoria, Ill .; Arthur P., Jefferson City, Mo .; Fannie, wife of Charles N. Seipe, of Kansas; Jonathan T., of Lead- ville, Colorado, and Sallie N., wife of Herman J. Rodman, of Atchison, Kansas. Mr. Ingram and wife have five children, Nellie A., Martin G., Charles H., Juliette B. and Bessie H. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, at present holding the office of District Deputy Grand Master. He has always had the interests of Sedalia in mind, and was one of the members of the committee which was appointed to consult in regard to the feasibility of construction of the Water Works. In his offi- cial capacity he has discharged his duties to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. Politically, he is a firm and consistant Democrat. His present position in society and in the confidence of the people is due to his own energy and perseverance, and among the young men of the great West who have carved a name by their own industry, he stands in the front rank.
ADAM ITTEL.
Cashier Citizens National Bank, Sedalia. Was born in Erie County, N. Y., January, 1840. At the age of nineteen he went to Memphis, Tenn., where he was employed as book-keeper and clerk for a mercan- tile firm of that city. He remained in Memphis about two years, after which he served in the Confederate army for about one year. After the
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surrender of Memphis he came to Sedalia, in July, 1862; where he has since remained. He began in Sedalia as clerk and served in that capacity and as book-keeper in various houses until 1868, when the Central Mis- souri Banking and Savings Association was organized, and now known as Sedalia Savings Bank, at which time he was chosen book-keeper and teller. In 1870 he was chosen cashier; where he remained until 1872, when the Citizens National Bank was organized with Adam Ittel cash- ier, where he has since remained. Mr. Ittel has been married twice. His first wife, Ella M. Haskins, of Cleveland, Ohio, and by whom he had. three children, named respectively, Daisy H., Charlie, and one deceased, was a lady of rare accomplishments. She died in 1875 at Cleveland, Ohio, and is buried at Lake View. He was again married in 1878 to Miss Glorvina Beaty, of Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., and by her he has one child, Willie. Mr. Ittel began life a poor boy, but being pos- sessed of a "will" he sought the "way" and found the old adage true. Holding one of the highest positions in Pettis County, respected for his sterling worth and business qualities, he well deserves the honor which has been bestowed upon him. During his career in Pettis County Mr. Ittel has not escaped the toils of public office. In 1872 he was called upon to officiate as County Treasurer, being elected to that office by a large majority of the votes polled at that election, and was re-elected in 1874. He was the first I. O. O. F. initiated in Sedalia who is now a resi- dent of this county. He is also a devout member of the Old School Pres- byterian Church of Sedalia.
CLIFFORD L. JACKSON.
Attorney at law, Sedalia. Was born Nov. 25, 1857, and is a native of Louisiana. His father's name was George, a native of England, born in 1817. He came to this country in 1826 and stopped a few years in Penn- sylvania, but seeing a better prospect for a young man further South em- igrated to Thibodeaux, Louisiana, where he remained until 1869, amass- ing a fortune, but lost a considerable portion of it in the war. Clifford's mother was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Harrisburgh in 1828. His parents were married in 1846. In 1869 he came with his parents to Pet- tis County, Mo., and settled on the farm where they now reside. In 1876 he left the farm and attended private a school for two years, after which he entered the law office of his brother, Geo. P. B. Jackson, in Se- dalia, and commenced the study of law. In September, 1879, he was ap- pointed Deputy Circuit Clerk of Pettis County, and on Sept. 7, 1880, was admitted to the bar by Judge William T. Wood. Jan. 1st, 1881, he was re-appointed Deputy Circuit Clerk, and after serving one year he resigned and began the practice of his profession. Mr. Jackson is a young man of quick perception, a ready speaker and a rapid thinker. Though but
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twenty-five years of age he already stands high in his profession. A close student, attending faithfully to his clients' business intrusted to his care, he still finds time to pursue a literary line of reading, keeping fully abreast with this rapid age of thinkers. Brought up in the Episcopal Church he leans slightly to that denomination, but is not connected with it. Belonging to no particular denomination, his views are broad and liberal, devoid of prejudice characteristic of those who zealously advocate special dogmas. His temperament is genial and social; his conversation spirited and enter- taining; his address pleasant and attractive. Still young, he has already achieved a large measure of success and is destined, if spared to the future, to stand second to none in his influence on the society in which he moves.
GEORGE P. B. JACKSON.
Attorney at law. Mr. Jackson was born Nov. 28, 1846. In 1868 he came to Pettis County, Mo .; he was educated in Ohio; he attended law school at the State University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, in New Orleans, and practiced at Thibodeaux, Louisiana, until 1868, when he came to Pettis County, Mo. His health being poor, he remained on a farm until 1873, when he again took up the practice of law. In 1876 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of this county. He was re-elected in 1878. In 1879 he formed a partnership with Col. Philips and has since been associated with him. Mr. Jackson was married in 1877 to Miss Mollie Vest, daughter of Hon. G. G. Vest, of Sedalia. They have one child, George V.
COL. A. D. JAYNES.
Was born in Lawrence County, O., Nov. 26, 1829. His ancestors were from Virginia, and participated in many of the important affairs of that State. His father removed to Ohio, where he became largely interested in the iron business, and the youthful Jaynes, though enjoying but limited opportunities for an education, improved rapidly, and became an elegant penman, and expert in arithmetic and accounts. From the age of fourteen to that of twenty-one he received a most careful business training with his father, and then became interested in the mercantile business with C. & W. H. Kelley. In 1853 he became connected with the Vinton Iron Furnace, Vinton County, O., and continued with this corporation until 1864, having an interest in the management a considerable portion of that time. To more effectually complete the military organization of the State, in 1861, the Governor of Ohio requested A. D. Jaynes to raise and equip an independent regiment, which he did, and was commissioned Colonel. Near the close of the war the regiment was mustered into the United States service, as the 141st Regiment Ohio Volunteers. This was one of
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the finest regiments that did service for the Union during the great civil war. Its officers were: A. D. Jaynes, Colonel; T. W. Hampton, Lieuten- ant-Colonel; A. D. Brown, Major; Dr. C. L. Wilson, Surgeon, and Rev. C. C. Baker, Chaplain. The command did valuable service in forwarding supplies and recruits to the army, and protecting the State during the raids of Lightburn and Morgan. Subsequently Col. Jaynes was ordered, with his command, to report to Gen. George Crook, at Charleston, where he assumed the management of the whole department of West Virginia. His regiment was mustered out of service in 1864 by reason of expiration of time. His duties were performed to the entire satisfaction of both civil and military authorities. After the war closed Col. Jaynes, to find a wider field of enterprise and operation, in company with Cyrus Newkirk, came to the great undeveloped West, and settled in Sedalia, Mo., then only a small village. These two gentlemen, after viewing well the sur- roundings, decided that this point was destined to become a railroad center and of commercial importance, thereupon they organized the First National Bank, in March, 1866, with a capital stock of $100,000. This bank, with Col. Jaynes as cashier the first eight years, and then until July, 1880, as its President, has ever exercised a wide influence over the mate- rial growth of Central Missouri, and thenceforth he has been identified with all the most important enterprises of Sedalia and Pettis County. He took a prominent part in the organization of the Lexington & St. Louis Railroad, and acted as agent of the county in subscribing the stock. He was efficient in 1867-8 in building the Tebo & Neosho Railroad, which afterward became the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, of which he was, much of the time, General Agent. In 1874, when the road passed into the hands of a Receiver, Col. Jaynes was appointed Treasurer and Agent of the Receiver and General Manager, Mr. Bond, who resided in New York. Probably to him, more than any other person, the credit of forwarding this great railroad enterprise through Pettis County is due. Col. Jaynes has been interested in a number of financial institutions out- side of Sedalia. He assisted in the organization of the First National Bank of Fort Scott, being one of the incorporators and a member of the first Board of Directors. In 1869 he organized the First National Bank of Parsons, Kan., and was its President and largest stockholder three years. He organized the First National Bank of Denison, Tex., in 1872, and was, for some time, its President. He was one of the incorporators and Vice-President of the Valley National Bank of St. Louis: was one of the original incorporators and directors of the Life Association of America, and also one of the incorporators of the Missouri Stock and Bond Board of St. Louis. He suggested and advocated the introduction of the Holly Water Works now in use in Sedalia, and being intrusted with the negotia- tion of the bonds, for building the works, turned them over to the city
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complete, at a cost of $110,000, which was $50,000 cheaper than any sys- tem of ike capacity used in this country. He is an ardent advocate of education, warmly in favor of the improvement of our common school system, a pronounced temperance man, honorable in his intercourse with all men, a friend of the poor and oppressed. He is universally esteemed and gives moral tone to the business community. Though often solicited to accept positions, both State and National, he has declined, believing his career lay in another direction. His great ambition is to make the country rich in material improvements, and to do those things which most contrib- ute to the peace, the prosperity and the happiness of the community. Col. Jaynes was married, July 20, 1858, to Miss Mary Jane Brown, daughter of John Brown, Esq., of Athens County, O. Their family consists of five refined and exceptionally well reared children, two sons and three daugh- ters, William V., a graduate in class of 1881, Washington University, St. Louis ; John Brown, a graduate of Chickering Institute, Cincinnati; Hattie Ellen, attending the Wesleyan College, Cincinnati; Flora May and Jennie Susan, attending the Public School of Sedalia. The sons and daughters are artists in music, painting and drawing. The Jaynes mansion, one of the finest in the Union, is situated on the corner of Broadway and Ohio street. He and his accomplished wife have drawn discreetly upon the best treasures of modern decorative art for the embellishment of their model home. Tapestry from the first looms of Britain, frescoing by gen- uine artists in the most elegant French designs, mantels, statuettes and vases, delicately wrought in unique styles from the rarest marbles, uphol- stering of chaste and beautiful patterns, landscapes and figures of rare finish and beauty sketched and painted by the fair and deft hands of the daughters, and original draughts and sketches wrought by the skilled hands of the household; one of the finest libraries in the West; rare China table service from the land of the celestials; complete telegraphic and telephonic connection with all portions of the city, worked by the sons, who are accomplished electricians and phonographers, with many another gem of beauty and utility, gathered and grouped with exquisite taste in this charming home, which Col. Jaynes and his accomplished family have the appreciation to thoroughly enjoy, and within whose elegant and ample apartments they are wont to dispense a gracious and refined hospitality. This elegant home is adorned with the most ample lawns, beautiful shade trees that the gardner's art could devise, and is enclosed by a superb iron fence. A dozen life-size figures, representing Flora, Hebe, Mercury, the Amazon, the Seasons, with a noble pair of lions, mounted by winged musicians, with harp and lute, happily symbolizing the power of music over the savage nature. The figures are all of pure bronze and life-size Roman and Persian casts, after models by masters in the noblest of arts. Bronze vases and seats, unique and costly; thousands of square feet of cut
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stone walks, broadly laid in great slabs; a bronze fountain finely set in an ample stone basin. The architecture of this beautiful home, both external and internal, is without blemish, and abounds in fine effects from every possible point of view. Fine contrasts of form and color are everywhere visible, and in all the plans and elegant furnishing, the architect, and the master and mistress of the mansion, have achieved the happiest effects from cellar to attic. Colonel Jaynes is most emphatically a self-made man, individual and positive in his character. By his bravery, energy, persistence and executive gifts, he has led his neighbors into new schemes for the building of a new city, and what Sedalia is to-day, commercially, educationally, morally and progressively, is, in a great degree, the result of his enterprise. His strict integrity and disposition to oblige are among his chief characteristics. Col. Jaynes has never made the mistake common to little men. If he possesses any vanity it does not appear in his inter- course with men. He regards talent and enterprise as a full equivalent for money, and never loses sight of the fact that a brilliant, daring and restless man, although poor, may exercise an influence that wealth can never aspire to. His royal hospitality has been extended to many of the nation's distinguished representatives, as well as fellow citizens in humbler walks. President Rutherford B. Hayes, wife and son, Burchard Hayes, Gen. W. T. Sherman and other distinguished guests, while on a tour through the West, came to Sedalia, Sept. 24, 1879, and breakfasted with Col. Jaynes and lady. President Grant, at one time during his Presidential term, made a tour of the Indian Territory with Col. Jaynes, and such strong attachments existed between them, that when the Colonel was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, at Chicago, in June, 1880, with the "immortal 306," he voted thirty-six times for the nomination of the gallant General for President.
HENRY P. JEFFERSON.
Of the firm of R. M. Olmsted & Jefferson, livery and sale stable. Mr. Jefferson was born in 1851 in Denmark, where his father still resides. In 1871 Henry P. came to this country, locating in Kansas; afterward went to Texas, and in 1877 came to Sedalia, where he has ever since resided. In 1882 he, in connection with his partner, built the stable on Hancock street, East Sedalia, where he is now in business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. He was first married to Eliza Hill, who died in 1877, leaving one child, Alice. His second wife was Minnie Buningarten, of Sedalia. They have one child, named Lee.
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