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the first-class work in the Boston Manufacturing Company, at Waltham, which position required experience and ability. He worked at other points in the eastern states, and in 1878 came to St. Joseph. He married in 1853, Miss Emily Snell. By thisu nion they had four children, Mary A. (now Mrs. J. Burlington), Anna, (now Mrs. Dempsey), Rebecca, (now Mrs. Procter), Elizabeth M., (now Mrs. Gaskins). Mr. Butler is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. William Clay was born in Nottinghamshire, England, November 29, 1854, and when young, came to America with his parents, and learned the knitting business and factory work in Need- ham, Massachusetts and other points. He came to St. Joseph in 1878, and engaged in trade. He was married in 1879 to Miss Jennette Archi- bald. They have one son, William D. Mr. Clay is a member of the church of Latter Day Saints.
B. F. BUZARD
was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, October 16th, 1839, and lived in his native place until 1854, and then came to Missouri, and settled first in St. Joseph, and thence to Holt County, Missouri, where he remained until 1856. At this time the Kansas excitement so imbued him that he decided to remove to Kansas and contribute his share towards making it a free state. After a residence in Kansas until 1859, he returned to Holt County, and in 1861, in response to the call for troops to assist in putting down the rebellion of the South, he enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry as a private, and for meritorious conduct at Lexington was promoted to second lieutenant, and was assigned to duty in the First Missouri Regiment of Engineers, which was afterwards consoli- dated with Bissel's Corps of Engineers. In 1863, he was promoted to captain. He served under Grant and Sherman in the armies of the Ten- nessee and Cumberland, and in 1865 was appointed Adjutant General of the District of Northwest Missouri, General W. R. Penick commanding. After the death of Lincoln, he resigned, and engaged in mercantile business, and was in the employ of the St. Joseph Steam Printing Com- pany, of which, at the present time, he is a stockholder. In 1876, he was elected city marshal. In 1874, he commenced the stock business, at first on a small scale, but it has grown to such proportions as to demand his entire time. He married Miss E. Nicholson in December, 1865. She was born in London, England. Their family consists of four children, Frank, Harry, George and Charles J.
HUGH BYRNE,
roadmaster of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Of the railroad men of Missouri there are few more widely known than Mr. Byrne. He is a native of Ireland, and was born in Queen's County, February II, 1840, and was there educated and raised. His father, Timothy, was an
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agriculturist in that country. In 1861, our subject came to America, and made his debut in railroading on the construction of the New York and Albany Railroad, after which he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was employed in the building of the Whitewater Valley Railroad, and when the road bed was complete, he had charge of the track laying. He next came to Sedalia, Missouri, and for four years had charge of the middle division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, after which he was engaged in the construction of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, continuing with that company until the road was completed to Dennison, Texas. He next entered the employ of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, as roadmaster on the east end, where he remained one year, and since has been on other divisions. Twenty years of constant experience has made him very competent in the most essential part of railroading. He was married in 1868, to Miss Kate Sack, of Indiana. By this union they have six children : Mary, Robert, James, Margaret, Ella and Kate.
CABLES & OZENBERGER, .
proprietors of a grist mill, better known as the Corby mill, Section 6. This mill is a substantial brick building, four and one-half stories high, and contains three runs of burrs and a new and complete set of machin- ery. The present proprietors took possession in January, 1881. Mr. Cables has been raised to the business and understands it thoroughly, and patrons may rely on their work with safety.
B. F. CALLAWAY,
contractor and builder, one who has been interested in the building interests here, and also in the manufacturing of brick, is our subject. He is a native of Indiana, and was born in Madison, Jefferson County, March 15, 1840. Was there raised to manhood, educated and learned the brick mason's trade. He came to Missouri in 1858, locating in Boon- ville, and was engaged in contracting and building until 1869, when he took up his abode in St. Joseph. During the war, he was in the state militia. Many of the palatial mansions and attractive business houses of St. Joseph have been erected by Mr. Callaway. He was married in 1859, to Miss Susan G. Morton, of Missouri. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
CHARLES W. CAMPBELL
was born in Winchester, Virginia, February 10th, 1827. His father, Thomas B. Campbell, also a native of Virginia, was, by occupation, a goldsmith. The subject of this sketch was one of five children, two of whom were boys. He received an excellent education in a private academy of his native town, and embarked in mercantile pursuits, selling
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goods first in his native city, for a period of about three years, to 1846, when he started for the West, and landed in Louisville, Kentucky ; from there he came to St. Joseph, February, 1849. His first business experi- ence in this, then embryo city, was in the capacity of clerk for Donnell, Saxton & Duval, dry goods merchants. He remained in this house for some time, when, in partnership with William T. Duval, he opened a general stock of merchandise in St. Joseph. He remained in this busi- ness about three years. About 1855, he moved to Rock House Prairie, in Buchanan County, where he engaged in general merchandise, first in partnership with Duval, and afterwards alone. He also, about this period, purchased and operated a farm in the neighborhood of his store. He sub- sequently received in partnership in his mercantile business his brother, T. Ed. Campbell, a well known business man of St. Joseph, and now (1881) of the wholesale dry goods house of R. L. McDonald & Co. In 1857, he traded his stock of merchandise for a plantation in Clinton County. In 1861, being a heavy loser by change of times at the breaking out of the war, his plantation was disposed of, and he returned to St. Joseph, where he engaged in business with Tootle, Fairleigh & Co., wholesale dry goods dealers, and as an active partner with Tootle, Craig & Co., whole- sale dry goods dealers, and, subsequently, in the same capacity with Tootle, Hosea & Co., in the same line of business, of which firm he is now (1881) an active member. In 1854, Charles W. Campbell married Miss Sarah Jones, daughter of Harvey Jones, an old settler of Buchanan County, and niece of Robert W. Donnell. The result of this union was eight children, seven sons and one daughter. Of these, all but two sons are living. Mr. Campbell has been, all his life, an active public spirited citizen, and for several years past an influential member of the City Council. His effort has ever been to promote the interests of the city of his adoption. Among the number of beneficial acts of which he is the author, are the ordinances changing the city warrants to what are known as ones and twos, creating a circulating medium, which at once caused the floating warrants of the city to advance from eighty-five, interest bearing, to par, non-interest. As chairman of the Water Works Committee, he was influential and active in securing to the city its admirable system of Gravitation Water Works. He is also (1881), as chairman of the City Finance Committee, successfully engaged, in con- nection with the Mayor and the committee, in exchanging the bonded indebtedness of the city, bearing interest from six to ten per cent., into twenty-year four per cent. bonds. This was, at one time, deemed impracticable, but nearly $1,000,000 have been exchanged, and the mat- ter is now pronounced a complete success. . In politics, since the death of the old Whig Parly, Mr. Campbell has been, and is now, a staunch Democrat, and, as such, is frequently called to preside over its city and county conventions and central committees.
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LUCIAN E. CARTER,
attorney, was born in Jefferson County, New York, April 25, 1836. He determined at an early age to acquire a thorough education, and embraced every opportunity to study. After becoming sufficiently advanced he entered Union College, and after four years of close appli- cation, he graduated with honors in 1859. The same year he graduated at the Law School in Albany. In 1860, he removed to Yazoo, Missis- sippi, and taught school and studied law until the war broke out, when he came to Montgomery County, Missouri, and was employed in the Danville College to teach Latin and Greek. After remaining a few months, he returned to Watertown, New York, and entered the law office of Hon. M. H. Marvin, who is now a Supreme Judge of the Court at Utica. In the spring of 1862, he left the office and raised a company of one hundred and fifty men, in Jefferson County, for the Tenth New York Artillery, and was appointed Lieutenant. The command was sent to Staten Island, where they were thoroughly drilled in all branches of artillery service. They remained at this school of drill for one year, and were then ordered to the fortifications at Washington, D. C., remaining there on duty for nearly a year. Lieutenant Carter was detailed on spe- cial duty to accompany detachments of soldiers from New York to duty in the field. Early in June, 1864, they were ordered to Cold Harbor, where they arrived just in time to participate in a portion of the battle. For his heroic conduct at Cold Harbor, he was promoted to a Captaincy. They were ordered to Petersburg, in time to participate in the five day's battle, June 15th. He also participated in the battles at Ber- muda Hundred and in the Shenandoah Valley. In January, 1865, he was ordered on detached service as Division Judge Advocate at Bermuda Hundred. March 31, 1865, he was ordered to report to his command, and was mustered out of service in July, 1865, and returned home. He immediately entered the office of Judge Marvin, and studied with him until December, when he was admitted in Syracuse to practice. In Jan- uary, 1866, he came to St. Joseph, and entered the office of Samuel Ens- worth, Esq., with whom he formed a partnership. By his strict attention to business, his good legal judgment as an adviser and genial ways, Mr. Carter has won the genial esteem of all and built up a very large .practice. He married Miss Eliza G. Overall, of St. Charles, Missouri, April 27, 1870. They have three boys-Edwin O., John O. and Marvin G.
WILLIAM S. CARVER,
foreman of buildings for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad Company. He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1848, and was there raised to manhood, educated, and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1868, he came West, and from 1871
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until 1874, during the season, he was in the employ of the K. N. Line Packet Company. as clerk. His father, Mr. J. M. Carver, at present resides in Des Moines, Iowa, and is engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds. The subject of this sketch, for a time after coming to St. Joseph, was in the employ of R. K. Allen, and also worked in the car department for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Rail- road Company. In 1876, he took charge of the building department, a position he has retained, discharging the duties creditably to himself and to the satisfaction of the company. He was married in 1878, to Miss Annie Newell, of St. Joseph. They have one daughter, Lulu Belle. Mr. Carver is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
J. W. CAUGHLAN,
publisher of the Good Way, was born in Cabell County, Virginia, August 2, 1832. His father, John, was a teacher, and when J. W. was young, removed with his family to St. Louis, where he was raised and · · educated. At an early age our subject manifested a desire for the min- istry, and in 1857, took charge of the M. E. Church in St. Joseph, which was then in its infancy. In 1860, he went to Savannah in the same capacity, and, until 1879, was at Macon, Hannibal and Mexico. During the rebellion, Mr. C. was First Lieutenant in the Fifth Missouri State Militia. In 1879, he established and commenced the publication of the Good Way and Temperance Bugle in Savannah, and in 1880, removed the office to St. Joseph, discontinuing the Temperance Bugle. The Good Way, under his supervision and management, has obtained a wide spread reputation and is numbered among the leading non-sectarian religious newspapers of the day. Mr. C. has devoted many years to the cause of religion and temperance, and has always been found a success- ful and stalwart worker. He was married in Savannah, Andrew County, in 1858, to Miss Jane Miller, of that place. By this union they have six children, Charles W., N. L., Mary D., Fred W., J. W., and Helen V.
CHAPMAN & CORNELL,
real estate brokers, negotiators of loans, and collecting agents. M. B. Chapman, the senior member of this firm, is a native of Lousiana, where he was born October 22d, 1846. He has been all his life a member of the M. E. Church South, and is recognized as a preacher of ability. He is at present (1881) minister in charge of the church in Weston. . During the civil war, he served in the Confederate army, enlisting as private in the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. In the following year, he was promoted to the position of chaplain in his regiment. He is also a mem- ber of the Masonic order .. He afterwards moved to Missouri, settling in St. Joseph, where he married Miss Maggie Harris. Mr. Chapman was the founder and for four years editor of the Evening Chronicle, which
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was afterwards consolidated with the Gazette, and for some time pub- lished as the Gazette-Chronicle. H. N. Cornell was born in the State of Vermont, November 16, 1828, and at the age of seven years his parents moved West, stopping for a short season in New York and Pennsylvania. He served in the United States navy, and was, from 1844, two and one- half years on the steamer Michigan. He then learned the saddle and harness business. In 1850, he passed through St. Joseph on his way to California, in an overland trip, returning to old Fort Kearney, now Nebraska City, where he carried on for several years the saddle and har- ness business. April 14, 1861, he married Miss Mary H. Deneen, a native of Indiana, by whom he has had six children. In 1864, he crossed the plains to Idaho, with his own freight train, a venture in which he lost all he had. In 1867, he returned to St. Joseph, and the following year, again engaged in business. In 1880, the present partnership of Chapman & Cornell was formed.
CHAMBERS, MARNEY & CO.,
wholesale and retail dry goods dealers on Felix, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, rank with the eminently successful men of this country. Com- mencing in 1866, with exceedingly limited capital, they soon succeeded in building up a retail trade second to none in their line in St. Joseph. Exclusive of their wholesale trade, they did, in 1880, a retail business of $175,000. Their store, in one of the most elegant blocks in the city, is one of the most attractively arranged and substantially stocked in St. Joseph. Till 1881, the firm was Chambers & Marney. R. H. Chambers, the senior member, a native of Canada, was born in 1838; he has resided in the United States from early boyhood, and was educated in the dry goods business, a calling which he has pursued all his life with unfailing success. He was married to Miss Alice C. Wheelock, in Ogdensburg, New York. By this marriage he has three children, two boys and a girl. E. L. Marney was born in Rouse's Point, New York, in September, 1841; here he received his early and subsequent business education. From 1857 to 1859, when he embarked in his present business, Mr. Marney was actively engaged in railroading. In 1873, he married Mrs. Colum- bia Williams, in Atchison, Kansas. There is no more popular business man in St. Joseph than E. L. Marney. The Co. of the concern is Mr. C. G. Sampson, formerly a clerk in the establishment. Previous to his becoming a member of the firm in 1881, Mr. Sampson had been engaged in mining in Colorado.
PROF. T. C. CHAPMAN,
of the St. Joseph Normal Business College, is a native of Ohio, and was born in Hiram, Portage County, June 27, 1842. His primary education was received in the common schools, and he also attended the Western
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Reserve Eclectic Institute, when, the now President of the United States, J. A. Garfield, was principal. He completed his classical course at Geneva, Ohio, and graduated in penmanship at the Cleveland Business College. On the 17th of August, 1862, he tendered his services to the Union cause, and enlisted in Company D, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participated in the Georgia campaign, and many noted engagements of the rebellion. He was honorably discharged at Greensboro, North Car- olina, in 1865. Returned to Ohio, residing there until 1871, when he became a resident of St. Joseph. For about a year, he was instructor in Bryant's Business College, and, for a time, was bookkeeper for the St. Joseph Building and Loan Association, and three years teacher of pen- manship in the public schools. On the 20th of December, 1880, he opened the St. Joseph Normal Business Institute. Mr. Chapman has established a reputation in St. Joseph as a successful teacher of penman- ship, bookkeeping and an instructor on commercial law. He has had a varied experience, is a close student, and has received the commenda- tions of the press and the people. The Normal Business Institute is in its infancy, but with Prof. Chapman, as its Faculty, it is destined, in the near future, to figure among the leading educational institutes of the Northwest. Our subject married December Ist, 1880, Miss Cassie Brunts, of St. Joseph.
F. A. CHASE,
Master Mechanic for the K. C., St. J. & C. B. R. R., is a native of Ashta- bula County, Ohio, and was born August 18, 1836. At an early age he removed with his parents to Windsor, Vermont, where he was raised and educated. His father, John F., was a native of New Hampshire, and his mother, Mary Cummings, was born in Vermont. F. A. commenced to learn his trade when thirteen years of age, in the machine shops of Rob- bins & Lawrence, his wages being forty cents per day. He remained in this establishment eight years, and became thoroughly proficient with all the details of machinery. As he advanced in the knowledge of his adopted profession, so likewise did his salary increase, and before his quitting the place he filled the most responsible position and commanded the largest salary. He eventually drifted West, and for several years was in the employ of the Detroit Locomotive Works, at Detroit, Michi- gan ; after which, he worked with the C., B. & Q. Co. as machinist ; after- wards as fireman, and eventually as engineer, continuing in the latter capacity about ten years. As engineer, was for a time on freight, thence to passenger, and finally was placed in charge of pay car and specials. For about three years he had charge of the round house at Aurora, Illi- nois, for the same company. In the autumn of 1880, he accepted his present position. Mr. Chase has had a broad and varied experience as a machinist and railroad man, and is one of the most thoroughly proficient
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to be found in the United States. He is prompt, methodical, perfectly reliable, and resolute in all his undertakings. He married in 1861, Miss Fannie B. Cummings, of New Hampshire. They have one daughter- Nettie.
C. B. CHASE,
. builder of engines and general iron worker. Of the proficient and skilled machinists in the northwest, Mr. Chase occupies a prominent position. He is a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was born March 5, 1848. When 16 years of age, he went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he learned his trade in the establishment of Nat Colyer, after which he migrated to Syracuse, New York. For three years he was in the rivet department of Frazier & Byrnes, resided in Syracuse seven years and then removed to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and after a ten years' sojourn came to Ottumwa, Iowa, residing there one year, thence to St. Joseph, and for a time was foreman for Burnside, Crowther & Rogers, and afterward was one of the Lincoln Manufacturing Company. In August, 1880, he became one of the firm of Chase, Riblet & Co. This co-partnership existed until the spring of 1881, when Mr. Chase embarked in trade alone. He is a close observing man and combines the practical with the theoretical. In 1864, he enlisted in Company E., First Maine Heavy Artillery, passing through the usual routine of warfare, and was honorably discharged in 1865. His wife, who was formerly Miss Eliza- beth Warner, he married in 1869. By the union they have five children, Inez, Frankie, Charles, William and Leo.
MAJOR T. J. CHEW
was born in Columbus, Ohio, in the year 1838; he was the oldest of a family of three children, besides a half-sister older than himself. Anthony S. Chew, his father, was a native of Connecticut, a distinguished graduate of Yale College, and a lawyer by profession. In 1836, he moved to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati, where he formed a law partner- ship with the celebrated Thomas Corwin, who afterwards achieved a national reputation. The style of the firm was Corwin & Chew. The subject of this sketch received a liberal education, first in Heron's Semi- nary, and afterwards in Brooks' Preparatory Classical School, both private institutions of high order in Cincinnati. At the age of sixteen he visited Iowa. From 1858 to 1861, he was engaged in the insurance business in the city of New York. In the latter ycar he moved his residence to St. Joseph, where he permanently located, pursuing, for a brief period, his old calling, the insurance business; he then embarked in the wholesale grocery trade in partnership with several others, the style of the firm being Koch, Chew & Co. In this he continued till 1874, when he embarked in the
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brokerage business. In 1861, he married Miss K. M. Forbes, a native of New York. The fruit of this marriage was one child, who died in infancy. He served during the civil war on the staff of General Hall and of twelve other generals; he also served as quartermaster of the department of St. Joseph, with the rank of major, from 1862 to 1865. He has long been recognized as an enterprising and public-spirited citi- zen. During the years 1872 and 1873, he filled, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned, the position of President of the Board of Trade of St. Joseph, and has been uniformly identified with the best interests of the city.
A. M. CHESMORE,
dealer in standard farm machinery, wagons and grass seeds, general agent for manufacturing company's goods, Buckeye grain drills, Barley's reversible tooth harrow, D. M. Osborne's goods, Minnesota Chief thresher, Garr, Scott & Co's. threshers, engines, etc. Mr. Chesmore established this business in 1878. He is a native of Massachusetts, and emigrated to Missouri in 1863. He was raised a farmer, and was married in 1864 to Miss Lucy E. Brown, a native of New Hampshire. They have six children. He is a Mason and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. By a fire, in 1879, he sustained a severe loss.
CHARLES CHESNUT,
of the firms of Chesnut & Son, dealers in stoves and tinware, C. & P. E. Chesnut, grocers, and.C. & P. E. Chesnut, livery. Few of the represen- tative business men of St. Joseph have been more actively engaged in various branches of industry than Charles Chesnut. He is a native of Laurel County, Kentucky, and was born in 1834. His father Abraham, was among the early settlers of that state, and died when Charles was young. In 1850, our subject came to Missouri, locating in Chariton County, where he was raised to manhood and educated. His boyhood days were spent in tilling the soil. In 1863, he became a resident of Buchanan County, farming one year, after which he located in Platte County, residing there until 1865, when we find him in St. Joseph, engaged in the grocery trade, which he still pursues with a considerable degree of success. In 1876, he became the senior member of the firm of C. & P. E. Chesnut, liverymen. In 1851, Miss Mary E. Blakely, a native of Kentucky, became his wife, and by this union they have one son living, William, a promising young gentleman, and the junior member of the firm. Mr. Chesnut is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Master Mason and a member of the Chapter, and also a Forester.
P. E. CHESNUT,
of the firm of C. & P. E. Chesnut, livery. Among the popular gentle- men of St. Joseph, Pleasant, as he is usually called, occupies a front
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