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St. Joseph needs and would liberally support cotton and woolen mills, soap factories, tobacco factories, tanneries, paper mills, bag facto- ries, rolling mills, stove foundries, glass works, nail mills, carpet mills, oil mills, distilleries, implement works, flour mills, starch factories, wire works, grape sugar factories, packing establishments, match factories, wooden and willow ware factories, and ore reducing and smelting works.
MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.
It will be noticed by a careful examination of the table here given, that the products of St. Joseph manufactories are growing to immense proportions, the actual figures of which are greatly in excess of any city west of St. Louis-showing a production of nearly $13,000,000 for the year 1880.
The figures given below were carefully compiled from statistics col- lected by Willis M. Sherwood, Esq., Special Enumerator for the Govern-
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ment, from the records of his office, by special permission of General Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Tenth Census, for the use of the Board of Trade :
KINDS OF MANUFACTORIES.
Real and Personal Property Invested
Greatest No. of Hands Employed
Amount of Wages Paid.
Value of Material in Dollars.
Value of Products in Dollars.
Dairies .
$ 10,100
35 $
4,800
18.000
$ 25 000
Stone quarries
11,500
SS
9,530
17.700
69,200
Nurseries.
1 1,500
35
6 450
66,200
28,750
Cigars .
28.350
123
33,467
76,566
134,390
Boots and shoes.
66 200
155
45 926
107,460
198,500
Carriages and blacksmiths
69,200
163
54 000
74,665
167,550
Bakeries and crackers
143,000
124
36,121
263,060
415,627
Brick yards
98 650
682
177,465
1 39,890
527.750
Ornamental wood working and furniture
185,000
184
152,840
286,300
573,350
Printing, publishing and binding .
138,000
ISS
107 640
109 908
284,575
Foundries, machinery, etc .
313,000
233
$6,720
211,900
389,620
Contractors. .
145,190
781
257 099
387 344
845,150
Beer, ale, wine, vinegar, etc
265.423
125
38,870
291,569
862,709
Flour, grist and woolen mills.
358,300
228
58,400
682,045
1,219,000
Slaughtering (including Buchanan Co.).
682,490
480
124,770
3 393,312
4 321,607
Miscellaneous
594,005
1,076
281,009
1,663,772
2,839.337
Total
$3,119.908
4.700 $1.425.187 $7.729,691 $12 902, 115
One of the earliest enterprises in the way of manufactures in St. Joseph, was the foundry, established on St. Joseph Avenue, in 1855, by T. W. Keys. This, with the exception of a small foundry at Lexington, was the first enterprise of the kind west of St. Louis. The power of this foundry was two yoke of oxen. The first pig iron melted in St. Joseph was run here in 1856. This foundry was operated till 1858, when Mr. Keys erected on the corner of Eighth and Messanie Streets, the building now (1881) occupied by the foundry of Crowthers & Rogers, which gives employment to thirty hands. Mr. Keys leased this in April, 1863, to John Burnside. The firm afterwards became Burnside, Crowther & Co. Mr. John Burnside subsequently retired from the partnership.
The foundry of J. W. Ambrose & Co., on the corner of Eighth and Monterey Streets, was established in 1871. Between sixty and seventy hands are here employed.
The machine shops of Niles, Riblett & Co., on Patee Street, between Sixth and Seventh, was opened in September, 1880, by Chase, Riblett & Co. They closed August Ist, 1881.
The Vulcan Iron Works, corner Sixth and Patee Streets, established July Ist, 1880, employ an average force of fifteen men.
CANDY FACTORIES.
August Vegely, candy manufacturer and tropical fruit dealer, started in St. Joseph in 1852.
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William Kneer, in the same line of business, now (1881) on the south side of Market Square, was first established in 1862. His average annual business is $ 100,000.
*F. L. Sommer & Co. also manufacture candy.
A manufactory of
POTTERY
was for some time carried on by Peter Habig, on the northeast corner of Main and Faraon Streets. This was not in active operation in 1881. R. Wilson & Co. carry on a
BOX FACTORY
on Second Street north of Felix. They employ seven hands. Lucas Bros. established, on the same street, a
SHOW CASE FACTORY
in 1878. This now employs five hands.
THE TRUNK FACTORY
of F. Endebrock, on Second Street, was established in 1880. He employs a force of twelve hands.
BOOKBINDERS, JOB PRINTERS, ETC.
. Of these there are, in the city in 1881, the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company, C. P. Kingsbury, Geo. Rees, J. H. McGuire, J. J. Sheridan, John Combe, T. H. Hail, E. D. Ford, G. A. Heschong, and John Nusser, most of whom have good offices and turn out a nice class of work. The most extensive is that of the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company.
The St. Joseph Steam Printing Company was established June I, 1870, by F. M. Posegate and John W. Johnson, on the southwest corner of Fifth and Francis Streets, under the firm name of Posegate & John- son. June 5, 1872, it was incorporated as the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company, under the general statutes of the state, with F. M. Posegate, John W. Johnson and Harrison J. Seip as incorporators. The full amount of stock was taken by F. M. Posegate, John W. Johnson, Harrison J. Seip, J. W. Atwill and Edgar Sleppy. The present (1881) stockholders are F. M. Posegate, President ; John W. Johnson, Harrison J. Seip, B. F. Buzard, Edgar Sleppy, D. H. Winton, Geo. Crowther and John T. Scip. Wm. T. Keller is foreman of the lithograph department; Wm. Much- leisen, foreman of the bindery department ; Lon. Hardman, foreman of the type-setting department, and Samuel Ostrander, foreman of the press room.
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This is one of the largest establishments of the kind in the country, operating fifteen steam power presses, and affording employment con- stantly to from seventy-five to one hundred hands. An extensive bind- ery and blank book manufactory is a feature of the concern. Wood engraving, in a superior style of art, is done here. It also includes the only lithographing establishment in the city. July 1, 1872, it was moved to its present quarters, the large three-story building on the northwest corner of Felix Street and Market Square. The capital stock of the concern is $50,000.
C. P. Kingsbury, also, has an extensive establishment, employing ten or twelve hands.
There was but one
FURNITURE FACTORY
in St. Joseph in 1881. This is the large establishment of Louis Hax, founded in 1855. The salesrooms, on Felix Street, occupy one of the most spacious and elegant stone front structures in the city. The saw mill and factory is located on the corner of Seventh and Angelique Streets. Over two hundred hands are employed in this establishment.
Numerous
SOAP FACTORIES
have, from time to time, been carried on in the city. Among the earliest of these, was one started, in 1855, by D. Pinger, but no longer in existence. The most important enterprise of the kind was established, in 1874, by L. Huggins. It did a yearly business of $50,000, till 1878, when the factory was discontinued.
CARRIAGE FACTORIES.
The first carriage factory established in St. Joseph was by A. Dolph. He retired from business in 1860, and was succeed by W. E. Williams & Son, on Fifth Street, between Messanie and Locust. G. Miles, on Sylvanie Street, between Third and Fourth ; McPoland & Farrell, on Fourth Street, below Messanie ; Prawitz & Haegelin, on Charles Street, between Sixth and Seventh, and others, were manufacturing carriages and buggies in 1881.
Among the wagon makers at that period, in the city, were Pape & Co., Prawitz & Haegelin, Wiedmaier & Wildberger, John Heflinger and Conrad Tanner. Besides these, there were numerous dealers of imported vehicles of all kinds.
COOPER SHOPS.
In 1881, there were, in St. Joseph, eight cooper shops. Of these the earliest established was that of John Lee, on South Eleventh
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Street ; - Vogel ; Robert Mccrary, on Messanie and Third Streets ; George Meyerhuer, corner Mary and Third Streets ; M. Swere, corner Fifth and Pattee Streets ; Peter Fhaw, on Frederick Avenue ; Brighten & McGuire, corner Sixth and Charles Streets, and A. Olsen, corner Seventh and Charles Streets. Frank Sommer also manufactured the kegs used in his cracker factory.
Among the larger manufacturing establishments of the city is the
SADDLE, HARNESS AND COLLAR SHOP
of Wyeth & Co., established in 1867. This factory, which affords employment to seventy-five hands, superintended by W. W. Bernard, is located on North Second Street, occupying lots from 300 to 306, inclu- sive. The factory does an annual business of $150,000.
Sanders & McDonald, manufacturers of tinware, on Fourth, below Edmond, were established in 1863. They employ 35 hands.
Schultz, Hosea & Co., manufacturers of tinware, galvanized iron cornices, etc., established in 1865, employ 40 hands.
Tootle, Shireman & Co, importers and wholesale dealers, began, August, 1881, the manufacture of overalls, shirts, etc.
There are in the city
FOUR MARBLE YARDS.
One of the most extensive are the works of the Pfeiffer Stone Com- pany, the office and yards of which extend from Third to Fourth Streets, on Locust. These works were established in 1860, and incorporated in 1881, with Charles A. Pfeiffer, President; Joseph Pfeiffer, Vice President, and F. W. Gansen, Secretary. This is probably the largest establish- ment of the kind between the Mississippi River and the mountains, and affords employment to sixty operatives.
Abercrombie & Son's marble yard is on Fourth, between Messanie and Angelique Streets.
I. B. Thompson's yard is on the the northeast corner of Seventh and Edmond.
J. B. Johnson's marble works are on Frederick Avenue.
There were in 1881, five large
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORIES.
in St. Joseph.
Patterson, Noyes & Co., manufacturers of men's and women's shoes, were established in 1870. They employ two hundred men and women in their factories, and do an annual business of half a million dollars.
Moorby & Fink, on the corner of Third and Charles, manufactur- ers of boots and shoes, operate forty hands. The firm was established in 1879.
PACIFIC HOUSE, ST. JOSEPH.
TEAM
PRINTINGEL
S! JOSEPH STEAM PRINTING CO.
BOOK BINDING
TORV
ST. JOSEPH STEAM PRINTING COMPANY.
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Smith, Frazer & Co., established in 1878, employ forty hands, and turn out fifty thousand dollars worth of boots and shoes yearly.
H. Patterson & Co., on the corner of Third and Isadore Streets, established in 1880, manufacture exclusively ladies' and misses' shoes. This firm employs twenty-five hands.
Tootle, Hosea & Co., established in 1877, manufacture yearly 3,000 cases of men's boots and shoes, and give employment to from fifty to seventy-five hands.
MILLS AND MANUFACTORIES.
To notice, individually and specifically, every industry in St. Joseph, would swell the proportions of this work beyond the limits of appropri- ate fulness. We shall, however, briefly refer to some of the more import- ant interests of that character, as well as to the earlier efforts of the pioneers of the city to inaugurate them.
There are, in the city, three large flouring mills, nearly equal in capacity : The Eagle Mills, owned by Saxton & Co., are located on the corner of Seventh and Olive Streets, and operate four run of burrs.
The City Mills, on the corner of Third and Antoine, R. T. Davis, proprietor, were accidentally destroyed by fire in the summer of 1881, but were speedily rebuilt.
The Excelsior Mills, owned by Hauck Bros., are located on the cor- ner of Second and Franklin Streets. These are all first-class.
St. Joseph Woolen Mills, or Buell Manufacturing Company, one of the most extensive factories in the state, will be found described in our personal sketch of George Buell.
St. Joseph Planing Mill, on the corner of Third and Messanie, estab- lished in 1860, John DeClue, proprietor, employs forty hands.
Francis Street Planing Mill, R. K. Allen, proprietor, was started in 1873, and operated by horse power. It is now turned by steam and does a large business. It is located on Francis, between Main and Second Streets.
CRACKER FACTORIES.
The Cracker Factory of F. L. Sommer & Co., established in 1873, one of the largest mercantile establishments in the city, is located on Main Street. It is four stories high, and occupies lots from 202 to 212 inclusive. The firm employs eighty hands, and, in 1880, did a business of $400,000. They also manufacture candy.
Koenig & Co's Cracker Factory, 320 Third Street, was established in 1874, and, till 1881, employed fifteen hands.
WHOLESALE HOUSES.
Tootle, Hosea & Co., dry goods, notions, boots and shoes. Established in 1849.
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Schuster, Tootle & Co., clothing. Established in 1873.
Tootle, Shireman & Co., clothing, hats, caps, etc. Established Jan- uary 1, 1881.
Samuel I. Smith & Co., druggists. Established in 1873.
R. L. McDonald & Co., dry goods, notions and gents furnishing goods. Began wholesaling in 1866.
John S. Brittain & Co., dry goods, notions and furnishing, goods. Established in 1864.
Mckinney, Hundley & Walker, dry goods, notions and furnishing goods. Established in 1880.
Smith, Frazer & Co., boots, shoes and manufacturers. Established in 1880.
Nave & McCord Mercantile Company, grocers. Established in 1857. Turner, Frazer & Co., grocers.
J. V. Brady & Co., teas and cigars. Established 1880.
J. W. Dimmitt & Co., teas and cigars.
F. L. Sommer & Co., cracker manufacturers. Established in 1873. Sanders & McDonald, stoves, tin plate, sheet iron, wire, etc.
Shultz & Hosea, hardware and cutlery manufacturers.
Studebaker & Welch, carriages and wagons. Established in 1876.
A. Furst & Co., liquor dealers. Established in 1858.
Lockwood, Englehart & Co., hats, caps, gloves, furnishing goods, millinery, straw goods and notions. Established in 1850.
C. D. Smith & Co., grocers. Established in 1859.
D. M. Steele & Co., grocers. Established in 1873.
J. B. Brady & Co., carpets, oil cloths, etc. Established 1870.
Louis Hax, furniture, upholstery, carpets, oil cloths, etc. Established in 1859.
Ernst & Brill, booksellers and stationery. Established in 1870. Woolworth & Colt, booksellers and stationers.
Israel Landis, saddles, harness, collars, saddlery hardware, etc. Established in 1844.
Wm. M. Wyeth & Co., saddles, harness, collars, saddlery hardware, etc. Established in 1857.
Bailey, Fairleigh & Weil, dry goods and notions. Established in 1879.
J. Goodlive, Jr., watches, clocks and jewelry. Established in 1861. A. B. Warren & Co., paper. Established in March, 1881.
Wm. R. Penick, drugs. Established in 1852.
Baldwin & Co., watches, clocks, jewelry and watchmakers' tools.
There are at present (1881) five breweries in St. Joseph, all doing a more or less prosperous business. The oldest and most extensive of these is the St. Joseph Brewery, on the corner of Eighth and Charles Streets. It was established in 1849, by Joseph Kuechle, who died in
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1878. The present proprietors are Kuechle & Greiner. The senior member of the firm is a son of the originator and former proprietor of the concern. The present capacity of this brewery is 15,000 barrels a year. There are two
CIRCULATING LIBRARIES
in St. Joseph. That of Carl Fuelling, on Edmond Street, was established in 1866, and contains 6,064 volumes, in the German, English and French languages.
Woolworth & Colt's circulating library, on Felix Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, was first opened in 1875, and includes about four thousand volumes, chiefly in the English language.
THE LAW LIBRARY
occupies room nine, at the Court House. This library was established in 18 -- , and contains about 2,200 volumes. The officers are Allen H. Vories, President ; B. R. Vineyard, Treasurer ; Vinton Pike, Secretary ; B. J. Woodson, Librarian.
1875
H.R.W. HARTWIG & CO WHOLESALE -
WINES & LIQUORS
WHOLESALE LIQUORS
PAINT.DIL & GLASS
H.R.W.HARTWIG & CO SAML.I.SMITH & CO
II. R. W. HARTWIG & CO., WHOLESALE LIQUORS.
CHAPTER VIII.
HORACE GREELEY-LINCOLN -SEWARD-SEWARD'S SPEECH-GRANT-SHERMAN-HAYES -PARK AND BOULEVARD-NEW ULM PARK-CEMETERIES-DEATH OF JOSEPH ROBI- DOUX-PONY EXPRESS-HOMES OF ST. JOSEPH-TOM FARRIS.
We have noted the visits of Commodore Stockton and Colonel Thomas H. Benton, to St. Joseph, at an early period in the history of the town.
May 13, 1859, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, passed through St. Joseph on his way to the Ossawattamie Convention, Kansas. December 1, 1859, Abraham Lincoln, afterward President of the United States, passed through St. Joseph on his way to Kansas.
On the 22d December, 1860, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, under President Lincoln, reached St. Joseph. He was escorted from the cars to the Patee House, and being introduced from the balcony by Mr. T. J. Boynton, made the following speech :
MR. CHAIRMAN, GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW CITIZENS :- I think that I have sometime before this said, that the most interesting and agreeable surprises that ever human being has had on this earth, was that which Columbus felt when, after his long and tedious voyage in search of a continent, the existence of which was unknown to himself, as to all man- kind, and the evidence of whose existence was nothing but a suggestion of his own philosophy, surrounded as he was by a mutinous crew, who were determined on the destruction of his own life if he should continue the voy- age unsuccessfully another day, he went out at night on the deck of his little vessel, and there rose up before him, in the dark, the shadow of an island, with habitations lighted by human beings like himself. That was the most interesting surprise that ever occurred to any man on earth. And yet I do not think that Columbus was much more surprised than I and those who are with me have been to-night.
We have been traveling in a land of friends and brethren, through many states, from Maine to Missouri, along the shores of the ocean, along the shores of the great lakes, and along the banks of the great rivers, and I will not deny that our footsteps have been made pleasant by kind and friendly and fraternal greetings. We entered the soil of Missouri this morning at ten o'clock, feeling that, although we had a right to regard the people of Missouri as our brethren, and although we were their brethren and friends, yet we were to be regarded by its citizens as strangers, if not aliens and enemies ; but this welcome which greets us here, surpasses anything that we have experienced in our sojournings from Bangor, in the State of Maine, to this place. The discovery that here there is so much of kindness for us ; so much of respect and con- sideration, takes us by surprise. I will confess freely that it effects us
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with deep sensibility, for we did not propose to visit St. Joseph. There is a land beyond you-a land redeemed and saved for freedom, through trials and sufferings that have commended its young and growing peo- ple to the respect of mankind and to our peculiar sympathy.
We proposed to be quiet travelers through the State of Missouri, hoping and expecting without stopping here, to rest this night on the other side of the Missouri, where we know we would be welcome. [a voice-we wont hurt you.] No, I know you won't hurt me. The man who never wished evil to any human being, who challenges enemies as friends to show the wrong with which any being made in his own form can accuse him when he comes before the bar of justice, has no fear of being harmed in the country of his birth and of his affection. But I stated that, not merely for the purpose of showing how agreeable is this fraternal welcome. It is full of promise. I pass over all that has been said to me of consideration to myself. There are subjects on which I take no verdict from my fellow-citizens. I choose to take the approba- bation of my own conscience if I can get it, and to wait till a future age for the respect and consideration of mankind. But I will dwell for one moment on this extraordinary scene, full of assurance on many points, and interesting to every one of you as it is to me. The most cheering fact, as it is the most striking one in it, is that we, who are visitors and pilgrims to Kansas, beyond you, find that we have reached Kansas already, on the northern shores of the Missouri River. Now, come up here-if there are any such before me-you who are so accustomed to sound an alarm about the danger of a dissolution of the Union ; come up here and look at the scene of Kansas and Missouri, so lately hostile, brought together on either shore in the bonds of fraternal affection and friendship. That is exactly what will always occur when you attempt to divide this people, and to set one portion against another. The moment you have brought the people to the point, where there is the least degree of danger to the national existence felt, then those whom party malice or party ambition have arrayed against each other as enemies, will embrace each other as friends and brethren.
Let me tell you this simple truth ; that though you live in the land of slavery, there is not a man among you who does not love slavery less than he loves the Union. Nor have I ever met the man who loved free- dom so much, under any of the aspects involved in the present Presiden- tial issues, as he loved the Union, for it is only through the stability and . perpetuity of the Union that any blessings whatever may be expected to descend on the American people.
And now, fellow citizens, there is another lesson which this occasion and this demonstration teach. They teach that there is no difference whatever in the nature, constitution or character of the people of the several states of the Union, or of the several sections of the Union. They are all of one nature, if they are not all native born, and educated in the same sentiments. Although many of them came from distant lands, still the very effect of their being American citizens is to make them all alike.
I will tell you why this is so. The reason is simply this: the Dem- ocratic principle that every man ought to be the owner of the soil that he cultivates, and the owner of the limbs and the head that he applies to that culture, has been adopted in some of the states carlier than others,
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and where it was adopted, earliest, it has worked out the fruits of higher advancement, of greater enterprise, of greater prosperity. Where it has not been adopted, enterprise and industry have languished in proportion. But it is going through ; it's bound to go through. [A voice-It's not going through here.] Yes, here. As it has already gone through eighteen states of the Union, so it is bound to go through all of the other fifteen. It is bound to go through all of the thirty-three states of the Union for the simple reason that it is going through the world."
In 1868, General Grant was here, and in 1879, Rutherford B. Hayes, then President of the United States, in company with Mrs. Hayes and General Sherman, was present at the opening of the fair at St. Joseph.
PARK AND BOULEVARD.
We take the following from the Evening News :
"Here we sit gracefully reclining upon our seven hills, forty thous- and souls, with block after block of costly business houses, wherein thous- ands upon top of thousands of dollars change hands daily ; with beauti- ful residences and everything necessary to make this the city of the west, yet not a park have we. It has been a standing disgrace to us for years, but thanks to Messrs. Chapman & Cornell, the live real estate dealers under the News office, for one. They were far-seeing, and imbued with a love for their home and determined to have a park, or know the reason why. They went to work some time ago, and have kept up a "still hunt" which has proven very successful. They labored late and early, and last week completed all arrangements, and it is at last definitely settled that within a very short time St. Joseph will have a park and a boulevard which will be an honor and a credit to the Queen City.
One hundred and fifty acres of land have been secured, which is undoubtedly the most beautiful location for a park that could be found.
The land has been purchased from different parties during the last six months, and has been all sown in blue grass this spring. The tract embraces what is known as the old Richardson or Hawley farm, lying north of Corby's Grove, part of Corby's Addition, and two other tracts adjoining these pieces. It is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, has some seventy-five acres of lovely woodland, several springs and streams, and one of the finest orchards in Buchanan County. There are several high points on it that command a view of St. Joseph and the sur- rounding country. Near the center of the park will be a mile track, one hundred feet wide. Surveyors and parties who have looked at the ground say it will make the best track in the West. While the plans of the projectors of this enterprise are not yet fully developed, as an initial step they propose at once to raise a subscription to make the boulevard from Faraon Street north on Twenty-second Street, until it strikes their ground, where they will widen it to one hundred feet, and run it through
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