The history of Buchanan County, Missouri, Part 71

Author: Union historical company, St. Joseph, Mo., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., Union historical company
Number of Pages: 1104

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DR. THOMAS H. DOYLE

was born in Doylestown, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1840, and received his literary education at the St. Francis Brothers' Col- lege. His taste led him to make choice of the practice of medicine as a profession, and he at once commenced reading with a prominent physi- cian and attended lectures at the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in March, 1865, and it was the last class taught by the famous Prof. Mott. He afterward had the benefit afforded by practice in the Bellevue Medical Hospital, of New York. In March, 1869, he came to Missouri, and settled in St. Joseph, and at once took a front rank as an able and skillful practitioner. He is Professor of Prin- ciples and Practice of Medicine in the St. Joseph Medical College. He is a prominent member of the American Medical Association, also a member of the Northwestern District Medical Association.ª He was Health officer of St. Joseph for the years of 1877 and 1878. He married Miss Margaret G. Sheehan, of this city, October 12, 1871. They have

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two children living-Agnes and John M. In his religious preferences the Doctor is a Catholic, believing that the principles of the Bible applied to the hearts of men is the essential doctrine, rather than the sectarian idea-that I am right and you are wrong. As a citizen he is highly respected ; as a practitioner he is very able and skillful ; as a lecturer practical and progressive.

JOSEPH DREIS,

who devoted the best part of his life to the education of the children of the first German settlers of St. Joseph, and to whom many citizens are indebted for their knowledge, deserves specially to be mentioned. He was born April 11, 1828, at Bremen, on the Mosel, Prussia. When eighteen years of age, after having had his primary education, he went to Trier, where he visited higher schools and studied to prepare himself for the duties of a teacher. From 1850, he served three years as a soldier in the King's Body Guard of the Prussian Army. In 1853, he was honorably discharged, and immediately emigrated to America, arriving at New York City, which place he left after a short rest and went to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he was employed for three months. In 1854, he came to St. Joseph and immediately opened a German school. He was successful and soon had thirty pupils, a large number for that time. In 1855, he married, and in 1856, left St. Joseph, but returned in 1860, when he again opened a private German school, and as his great merits as a teacher were known and acknowledged by the Germans, he soon had more than one hundred pupils. By the request of the directors of the German school, who had erected a school building, he accepted the position of teacher of the Deutsche Verein Schule. By his high qualities as a teacher, and his energy, he was so successful that in 1868, the old school house became too small, and a new and larger one was erected, which soon after was visited by one hundred and fifty pupils. 'In 1869, he resigned his position as teacher and opened a hotel opposite the narrow gauge railroad depot. In 1871, he added to the hotel a grocery business, which he carries on with great success. He was married August 22, 1855, to Miss Magdalene Eliza- beth Bode. They have had eleven children, of whom four are living, Carl August, born August 5, 1863 ; George France, born January 1, 1866; Johanna Sophia, born February 23, 1871; Johann Philip, born Octo- ber 9, 1877.

DUFFY BROTHERS,

grocers. One of the prominent business houses of the eastern part of of the city is the establishment of Duffy Brothers. Mr. Daniel Duffy was born in County Donegal, Ireland, September 10, 1837, and was there raised to manhood and educated. In 1863, he came to America, living tempora-

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rily in different parts of the country until 1865, when he took up his abode in St. Joseph. For a time he was in the employ of J. D. McNeely. In 1869, he engaged in trade and in the spring of 1880, he commenced the manufacture of brick, in connection with their business. In this branch of industry they do a flourishing trade. During the year of 1880, their entire business footed up $20,000, and the year 1881 promises to far excel this. Bernard Duffy, the junior member of the firm is a native of Ireland, and was born in County Donegal, May 15, 1850. He became a resident of St. Joseph in 1869. He is numbered among the sterling and live young business men of the city.

REV. E. S. DULIN, D. D. LL.D.,

was born near the banks of the Potomac, about five miles from Mt. Ver- non, in Fairfax County, Virginia, January 18, 1821. On his father's side he is descended from the Huguenot family of Dulon, which in the latter part of the seventeenth century, settled in Maryland. His mother belonged to the English Quaker family of Shelton, which settled in Loudon County, Virginia. In 1823, his father moved to Washington, D. C., where he died when the subject of this sketch was nine years old, leaving his family in limited circumstances. Thus early the battle of life began. Hard work during the day, diligent study far into the night and at all leisure hours, was the rule and practice of his early days. He enjoyed the blessing of a Christian mother, and in 1839 united with the Calvert St. Baptist Church, Baltimore, and soon after determined to go as a missionary to Burmah. He entered Richmond College in 1841, where he remained four years, earning each vacation the money to pay the expenses of the following term. Upon his graduation, he was recom- mended by Dr. Ryland, and elected principal of St. Bride's Academy. Here, from overwork, etc., his health gave 'way, and he accepted the professorship of ancient languages in the Hollin's Institute. A year in this institute found his health improved, but his hope of going to Bur- mah was abandoned. He spent the next year in taking a special course at the University of Virginia. He was ordained as a minister in Balti- more, in August, 1848, and came to Missouri in the following October, settling as pastor of the Baptist Church in Lexington, March, 1849. August 28, 1849, he married Miss Sarah R. Gilkey. He was a member of the convention at Booneville, which, in 1849, located William Jewell College at Liberty; was elected its president the following October, and January 1, 1850, he organized the college. In the spring of 1856, he was recalled to the pastorate of the Lexington church. Two months later, the Baptists of Lexington bought the Female College property, and in the following September he became its president. The previous session had closed with about thirty pupils. At the expiration of the

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second year Dr. Dulin had two hundred and eighty-six, but the labor was too great for his health and he resigned his position. He became pastor of the Baptist Church in Kansas City in 1858, and, in 1859, was called to the First Baptist Church in St. Joseph. He remained here for six years, and again accepted the management of the Female College at Lexington. The college building had been destroyed during the war and the school closed. He soon restored the college to its former prosperity. In 1870, he founded Stephens College at Columbia, which flourished with increasing patronage during his six years' management. Dr. Dulin removed to St. Joseph in 1876, and became the founder of St. Joseph Female College, intending to make this the crowning effort of his life work. Dr. Dulin ranks among the ablest preachers in the state. His: sermons are carefully prepared, with sufficient rhetorical ornament to interest and please, and delivered with impassioned earnestness. He makes everything subserve in enforcing the sweet truths of the Gospel, as they affect the hearts and lives of men. These truths he enforces with keenest logic, and a fervid and fearless eloquence that makes no compromise with error. His literary and theological abilities have been fittingly acknowledged by the proper scholastic institutions, conferring upon him the degrees of A. M., D. D., and LL. D.

E. J. DUNFORD,

proprietor of hotel, Contrary Lake, was born in Burke County, Georgia" February 15, 1827. He had limited educational advantages in Georgia and Florida. He moved to Alabama, and clerked in a dry goods store for three years. In 1852, he emigrated to Missouri, and settled in Buchanan County, and followed farming for nineteen years. He mar- ried Miss Phebe Ogle, in 1855. Mrs. Dunford died in 1869, leaving four children : A. Josephine, Edward, Ida and Lizzie. He was again married in 1870, to Mary Shields, a, native of Indiana. By this marriage there are two children, Willie and George. Mr. D. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a School Director. In 1871, he built the Lake Shore House, a large frame structure, with ample stabling in connection. He also keeps boats, fishing tackle, minnows, and all the paraphernalia necessary for pleasure seekers, and at reasonable prices. He has made his house a popular place of resort by his genial and affable disposition, and in always anticipating the wants of his guests. During the flood of 1881, he lost 150 tons of ice, and sustained other damages, in all amount- ing to at least fifteen hundred dollars. Water stood one foot deep on the lower floor ; had to move everything up stairs. The door yard and fields were one broad sheet of water, all around looking like an angry river.

HENRY DUNN,

engineer on the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. Of the old stand-bys of this company Mr. Dunn occupies a prominent

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place. He was born in Genesee County, New York, February 22, 1839, and when sixteen years of age came to Missouri, locating in St. Joseph. In 1864, he commenced railroading, for the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, in the capacity of fireman, continuing for a time, when he retired and engaged in other pursuits. He was in the employ of the Western Stage Company, and for two years with the famous Ben Halliday. His next departure was in the capacity of fireman on the old Council Bluffs and St. Joseph Railroad, and one of the oldest employes with the present Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and was one year in the employ of the Burlington and Mis- souri. He is a skilled and careful engineer, and is favorably known to the traveling public, and patrons of this popular line feel perfectly secure when Henry is at the throttle.

H. W. DUNN,

Street Commissioner, was born in Lee County, Virginia, April 9th, 1838. His early days, until he attained his nineteenth year, were spent in til- ling the soil, his father, John Dunn, being an agriculturist. In 1857, the family migrated to Buchanan County, locating near Agency, where his father died, October 20th, 1859. In 1859, the subject of this sketch removed to Kansas, residing there until 1861, when he returned to Agency, remaining until 1865, thence to Page County, Iowa, sojourning one year, when he became a resident of St. Joseph. For twelve years he was engaged in street sprinkling, after which, for a number of years, he was Deputy Street Commissioner. In the spring of 1881, he received the appointment to the position he now occupies. His wife, Miss. Malinda Reese, of Agency, he married July 4th, 1861. The union has. been blessed by nine children, eight of whom are living : Franklin P., Mattie D., Charles H., Bertha E., Otie M., Fred. A., Nannie L., Jacob P. John L., the third eldest son, met his death on the 24th of May, 1877, by being drowned in the Missouri River. Mr. Dunn is a member of the A. O. U. W .- Select Knights-and the I. O. O. F. He is known throughout the city from the smallest urchin to the oldest inhabitant as. "Commissioner" Dunn.

E. DURAND,

President of the Durand Organ Company, and manager of sales in the Chicago Temple of Music, was born in the state of New York, March 8th, 1833. At an early age he removed from that state, locating in Boston, a city famous for producing the finest musical talent in this land. Mr. Durand was designed to figure conspicuously in the musical world, and at an early age manifested a strong interest in that direction. In Boston, he learned the piano building trade and became proficient in

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the art of tuning, and all the essential features connected with the busi- ness. After operating successfully in Boston, Worcester and other eastern cities for a number of years he traveled through the western states, engaged in piano tuning and selling musical instruments, eventu- ally locating in St. Joseph, in 1874. He embarked in the musical mer- chandise business, which has been steadily on the increase. An estimate of his business may be inferred from the fact that in six years time his sales in organs amounted to over fourteen hundred. In 1880, his sagac- ity and live business qualifications came to the view of Mr. W. W. Kim- ball, of Chicago, who saw in Mr. Durand the right man to manage successfully a branch of his extensive industry, and as a result, in 1880, he entered the employ of W. W. Kimball, of Chicago, as manager of sales and placed in St. Joseph a stock of pianos and organs. Mr. J. L. Reeder presides as business manager, and Prof. Frank Glazier, who, as a manipulator of the ivories, is a success in showing the merits of the instruments to the visitors and patrons. Miss Hattie Thorp, a lady of culture, and an accomplished pianist and teacher, is a member of the corps of ushers in the Chicago Temple. The Durand Organ Company was organized and incorporated under the State Laws of Missouri, in 1879, with E. Durand as President ; John A. Read, Secretary, and John F. Tyler, Treasurer and Attorney. The Western Cottage Organ Com- pany, of Mendota, Illinois, manufacture their organs, and, although in existence but a short time, it has attained a wide reputation and prom- ises a bright future. The salesroom of the Temple of Music is the first floor, where a large supply of the Durand organs, Chickering, Emerson & Hale and Kimball pianos, and all the standard makes of instruments, and also a full line of the latest popular sheet music of the day is kept. The third floor is used as the store room, where is kept a large surplus stock. The second floor, or music hall, is where ye refined St. Josephite delights to linger and hear discoursed instrumental and vocal music. Mr. D. has attained considerable celebrity as a vocalist, and to meet a long-felt want in St. Joseph had the music hall fitted up appropriately and seated, where the lovers of select music can enjoy a pleasureable feast. Regular levees are held here by the best musical talent in the city. In conclusion we would say, revising the immortal Shakespeare some- what, he that hath no music in his soul had better attend one of them, and if his adamantine heart is not softened he is a fit subject for any office his enemies see fit to inflict.

MISS CARRIE A. DUTZSCHKY,

a native of St. Joseph, and the youngest of a family of four children, is a daughter of the late Charles E. Dutzschky, Esq., who died April 9, 1854, while Postmaster of St. Joseph, of which city he had been for many years

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a representative citizen. He had, previous to his appointment as post- master, held various positions of honor and trust under the national and state government, and served in the commissary department of the army during the entire period of the Mexican War. He was a native of Dresden, and son of an officer who served with distinction in the armies of the first Napoleon. He was an active and prominent member of the Masonic order, and at the period of his death, an officer of St. Joseph Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He was also a member of the Baptist church. He married his wife (then Miss Eliza Greason), in Michigan. In 1850, they moved to St. Joseph, where the subject of this sketch was after- wards born, as above stated. Miss Carrie was graduated in the class of 1871, in the St. Joseph High School. She early determined to embrace the profession of teaching. Some time after her first experience in Iowa as a teacher, she accepted, in 1874, the appointment as principal of the Avenue Primary School, the duties of which position she has ever since continued to discharge acceptably. She has long been a member of the Baptist Church, in St. Joseph, the religion of both her parents.

N. EGLY

was born Oct. 18, 1825, at Ober Mossan, Grossherzogthum Hessen, South Germany, where he was raised and learned the trade of cooper, with his father, Leonhard Egly, working at it until 1846. Then he left his home and went to Colmar, France, and, in 1847, went to Fredburg, Switzer- land. After being employed there four months, a religious war broke out. Egly and his countrymen were ordered by the government to leave Switzerland, when he returned to his home, where he remained until 1849. At the outbreak of the German revolution, he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main, and worked there without interruption until 1852, when he emigrated to America. He landed at New York, and worked as cooper up to 1857. Becoming ill, he returned to Germany, to recover his health, and again came to New York, in May, 1858. After a short stay there, he got a situation at Detroit, Michigan, where he worked four months. Thence to St. Louis, and afterwards to Leavenworth, Kan- sas, working in each place a short time. Attracted by the favorable news which he had heard of St. Joseph, he came here May 29, 1859, and opened his own cooper business, which he carried on successfully; but becoming sick in 1860, he went to Colorado by team. After four months, he was able to return to St. Joseph, and again opened his business. At the out- break of the civil war he joined the militia, called out to protect the city of St. Joseph, and did his duty as long as his services were required. In 1875, he paid a visit to his fatherland, where he remained one year and returned, in 1876, to St. Joseph, when he sold out and retired from business.

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J. P. EMMERT,

dealer in live stock, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in 1844- He emigrated to Illinois in 1851, and remained there until 1861, when he enlisted in the Thirth-seventh Regiment, Illinois Infantry, and was in the service three years, under General Herron Totten, entering as a pri- vate and returning as Sergeant. He was raised on a farm, and engaged in the stock business in 1868. He came to St. Joseph in 1873, and took charge of the stock yards until 1877, and since then has been in the com- mission and forwarding business. He is a Mason and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

SAMUEL ENSWORTH,

who for the past twenty years has been closely identified with the city of St. Joseph, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, in February, 1816. He had good educational advantages in youth, and at the age of sixteen he taught a school near Providence, Rhode Island. The following year he followed a cherished plan of visiting the South and West, and traveled for some time in Kentucky, selling clocks. He formed the acquaintance of J. S. Henderson, a prominent attorney of Mount Vernon, Kentucky, who induced him to enter his office and study law. After reading with Mr. Henderson, he attended the Pennsylvania Law School, and was graduated in 1840. He at once commenced the active practice of his profession, and remained in Kentucky for seventeen years, doing a large business. In 1857, he became impressed that St. Joseph offered a wider field for his talents, and he came to Buchanan County, and formed a partnership with Governor Woodson. The firm did a large legal busi- ness, and dealt to some extent in real estate. This relation existed until Governor Woodson was elected Circuit Judge. Mr. Ensworth con- tinued his practice until 1873, when his private business demanded his entire attention, and he abandoned active practice. He has large landed interests outside of the city and county, in Holt, Atchison, and Andrew Counties. His time is mostly spent at his farm in Andrew County.

FREDERICK C. ERNST,

of the firm of Ernst & Brill, booksellers, was born in Wurtemburg, Ger- many, December 5, 1843, and came to this country in 1843, and, with his father's family, settled in West Virginia. He came to St. Joseph in 1862, obtained a situation in the Postoffice, where he remained for twelve years, in the meantime starting a news stand in the Postoffice on a small scale. In 1870, he formed a partnership with Henry Brill, and since that time the firm of Ernst & Brill have been doing a very large share of the book and stationery business of the city. Their stock is large, choice

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and attractive, and the firm richly merits the success which has attended their career. He married Caroline E. Decker, of this city, May 12th, 1867. They have four children : Mary M., Frank R., Eda May and Emma L.

FRED. ERB, JR.,

was born in Lafayette, Indiana, November 25, 1859, and came to St. Joseph in 1874. He married Miss Addie Schaufert, of this city, May 18, 1880. They have one son, Freddie. He early developed a natural taste for hunting, and is an expert with a gun. In 1880, in St. Joseph, in a trial with the celebrated Bogardus, he beat him 93 to 83. In June of the same year, at Easton, Pennsylvania, he won the shot of Bogardus, by 50 to 47. These games were for large sums of money. At St. Louis, May 28, 1881, he shot with W. T. Mitchell, for $200, 100 birds each, English rules, killing 93 to Mitchell's 85, which is the best score on record by seven birds, using a Purdy Gun, English make. He has had trials with many of the professionals, and almost always was the victor.

DR. O. BURNETT ESTES,

magnetic physician, is a native of Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, and was born April 28, 1854. His father, Woodson S., was among the first settlers in the Platte Purchase ; his grandfather, Joel, was a native , of Kentucky, and his great grandfather, Peter, was one of the pioneers of that state. Mr. Woodson S. Estes was also an early settler in Oregon, Holt County, and in 1847, was engaged in the hardware trade in St. Joseph. In 1861, the family removed to Illinois, and in 1862, located in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and that same year the senior Estes oraganized a company for the Union army and went in the service as its captain. O. B., in early life, conceived the idea of choosing the medical profession, and adopted the magnetic theory. He received the benefits of a good education, at Mt. Pleasant, and commenced the study of magnetism in Chicago, and in a short time became very proficient. He commenced and practiced several years at Riverton, Iowa, and in September, 1876, established in St. Joseph. His success in curing acute diseases of any description has been wonderful. His operating rooms containsone of the finest vitalizing electro-therapeutic cabinets for giving electric baths that is in use. The doctor has built up a good reputation in St. Joseph. Many of his patients are from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas and other states. Since coming to St. Joseph he took up the regular study of medicine and is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His wife, Mrs. Allie Estes, is an accomplished electrician. Her maiden name was Hutton, and in December, 1878, married Dr. Estes. They have one daughter by this union-Pearl. They are mem- bers of the First Baptist church.

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JAMES FAHEY,

one of our pioneer contractors, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1829; was raised to manhood and educated in his native country, and in 1853 came to America. For two years he resided in New York; then went to Chicago, remaining a few years, and in 1858 came to St. Joseph. He engaged in working at his trade, that of a mason, on the Patee House, and has since been identified with the building interests of the city. His specialty has been basement work, and in this branch he has built the foundations of a large number of fine structures; was also fore- man on the construction of the Cathedral. For a time Mr. F. was in partnership with Judge Patton, and at an early day was associated with C. Arnhold. He has been interested to a considerable. extent in railroad contracting during his sojourn in St. Joseph. Mr. Fahey has a well stored mind, and when once made up it takes pointed and reasonable argu- ments to change it. In 1861, Miss Jane Burns, a native of Indiana, became his wife. They have seven children, Bernard, James, Mary, Annistasia, Susan, Belle and Jane.

WILLIAM G. FAIRLEIGH,

one of St. Joseph's most successful merchants, was born in Elizabeth- town, Hardin County, Kentucky, February 9, 1830. In 1843, he removed to Weston, Platte County, Missouri. In the spring following, he made his first attempt at merchandising by selling apples on the streets, and to the numerous passengers who, in those days, arrived and departed on the steamboats frequenting that port. In the spring of 1845, he went to Savannah, in Andrew County, and entered a hotel as clerk. He soon after assisted Felix Robidoux in his store. The latter may be termed the initial point of his business experience. In the spring of 1846, then a lad of sixteen, he went in quest of a fortune, to St. Joseph. His first experience there was in cleaning out a new store for Smith & Donnell, by whom he was afterwards employed as clerk. In 1848, Mr. Donnell sold his interest to Milton Tootle, the new firm being Smith, Bedford & Tootle, and continuing so till July, 1849, when Mr. Smith died. The succeeding firm was Tootle & Fairleigh. This continued to exist till January 1, 1873. In 1853, this firm was the first west of St. Louis to start an exclusive jobbing trade. They continued in the business some twenty-five years. In the meantime, in view of declining health, Mr. Fairleigh determined to temporarily suspend business, and engage in traveling. In 1873, he sailed for Europe, visiting England and the Con- tinent. Returning to the New World, he visited California, Colorado and Canada. His travels occupied six years of his life. In 1879, he was again in St. Joseph, when he entered into partnership with Bailey & Weil, in the wholesale dry goods business, constituting what is now the

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The history of Buchanan County, Missouri, Part 71

Author: Union historical company, St. Joseph, Mo., pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1881 Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., Union historical company Number of Pages: 1104

Author: Union historical company, St. Joseph, Mo., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., Union historical company
Number of Pages: 1104