The history of Buchanan County, Missouri, Part 74

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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PETER HABIG,

manufacturer of stoneware and terra cotta goods. An important industry, is operated by this gentleman. He is a native of Germany and was born on the 24th of May, 1836, and was there raised until he attained his 19th year, when he came to America, locating in St. Louis. In 1866, he removed to St. Joseph, engaging in the manufacture of terra cotta in a small way, and has been gaining until now he has one of the largest institutions in Northwestern Missouri. In sewer and drain pipes he has a very extensive trade. On the 18th of March, 1866, Miss M. A. Miller became his wife. She is the daughter of D. and Mary Miller, pioneers of Andrew County. Her grandfather Miller, in his time, was a promi- nent politician of Virginia, and a personal friend of Cabe Jackson. The Millers are among the leading families of Virginia.

T. H. HAIL.

commercial job printer, was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, May 18, 1838. His father, Micajah, and mother, Elizabeth, nee Vaughan, were natives of Virginia. T. H. spent his youthful days in farming, receiving the benefits of common schools. In his fifteenth year he entered the Somerset Gazette office, where he received his primary knowledge of the printing business. He eventually came to Muscatine, Iowa, worked at his trade about a year and then came to Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, and became the editor and publisher of the Democrat, which he published until 1861. The strong prejudices which were existing at that time in this section culminated, and Mr. Hail found his sanctum, one morning, minus the requisite paraphernalia for operating a first-class newspaper, After this serious loss he tendered his services to the Con- federate army and fought for the cause he advocated with his pen. After returning from the army he went into the employ of the St. Joseph Herald. He spent one year in Montana, and after returning became foreman on the Herald, which position he held until he engaged in the job printing business. In 1868, he was one of the members of a new job printing company, which is now the Steam Printing Company, and after-

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wards was associated with C. P. Kingsbury in the book and job printing business. During A. Beattie's administration as Mayor, Mr. Hail was President of the City Council, and to him the city is partly indebted for cheap gas, for through his instrumentality the second gas company secured the privilege of laying pipe.

W. G. HALL, M. D.,

a representative physician of the City of St. Joseph, was born in the State.of Pennsylvania, whence he emigrated to Ohio, in 1858. He read medicine three years, under the direction of Dr. W. R. Cowden, and, during the winter of 1853 and 1854, attended medical lectures in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. He also attend lectures at the Cleveland Med- ical College, under Professor Weber, in the winter of 1857. He subse- quently took a complete course in the Homeopathic School of St. Louis, Missouri. He was graduated in both these institutions. After careful investigation of the respective merits of the two systems, he adopted the Homeopathic, which he continues to practice to-day. In August, 1864, he left Ohio, and moved to Quincy, Illinois. In February, 1865, he again moved, settling permanently in St. Joseph, Missouri. During the civil war, Dr. Hall served in the Army of the Cumberland as sur- geon of the Tenth Ohio Cavalry. He is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, and at present (1881) Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of the State of Missouri. He is also a member of the thirty- second degree of A. A. S. R. In recognition of his valuable official services, the members of St. Joseph Commandery presented the Doctor an elegant gold badge. His professional visits are confined to the city, only visiting points beyond its limits which may be reached by rail. He has strong faith in the virtue of electricity, the application of which he considers indispensable in the treatment of certain diseases. His labor- atory and dispensary are amply supplied with every appliance of modern excellence, and his library is one of the most complete to be found in a Western city. Dr. Hall and his wife are both members of the M. E. Church South.

J. HANNAN,

bridge superintendent on the St. Joseph and Western Railroad, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Canada West, and was born Febru- ary 28, 1841. He was partly raised in that country and learned his trade in Saginaw, Michigan, where he resided several years. In 1864, he enlisted in the Second Michigan Artillery ; was taken prisoner near Nashville, Tennessee, but effected an escape soon after, and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He returned to Michigan, thence to Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1866, came

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to St. Joseph and commenced bridge work with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, after which, for four years, he was in the employ of the Missouri Valley Company, and has since been on the St. Joseph and Western Railroad. To Mr. H. much credit is due for the excellent con- dition which the bridges on this road are in. He married February 8, 1868, Miss Mary McEvoy, of this city. By this union they have five chil- dren, Frank J., Eugene Elizabeth, George, Maud and James Mark.

ERNEST HANSEN,

foreman of car and building department for the St. Joseph and Western Railroad, is a native of Germany, and was born in Prussia, April 29, 1846. He came to America with his parents when young. His father, Henry, was a cabinet-maker, and located with his family in Chenango County, New York, where our subject was raised, educated and learned his trade. In" 1869, he came West and located at Netawaka, Kansas, and was in the employ of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific until 1872, when he came to this city, and has since been with the St. Joseph and Western Railway. He is among the excellent mechanics of the country, and well up in car building and general railroad work. In 1870, Miss Beatrice E. Bibb, of Nemaha County, Kansas, became his wife. They have three children-Joseph, Arthur and Victor. Mr. H. is a Master Mason of Polar Star Lodge, No. 31, of Netawaka, and a member of the Druids.

JOSEPH HANSEN,

Assistant General Freight and Passenger Agent of the St. Joseph and Western Railroad, was born in the City of Cologne, on the River Rhine, in Prussia, April 19th, 1840, and emigrated to America September 13th, 1853, landing at New York, where he remained but a short time and then settled in Chenango County, where he attended school for one year and then entered as an apprentice in the establishment of Hays, Lattin & Co., manufacturers of pianos, and remained until the outbreak of the war. He enlisted as a private, April 19th, 1861, in Company H, Seventeenth New York State Volunteers, Colonel Lansing commanding. May 10th, 1861, he was appointed sergeant major, and in 1862 was transferred to Company G, Fourteenth United States Infantry, and served through the Peninsular campaign, and participated in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hills and others. He was wounded at the latter place, and being disabled, he learned the art of telegraphy, and after his recovery was ordered to report to the United States Military Telegraph Corps at St. Louis, and served until the close of the war, very efficiently, in this branch of the service, in Missouri and Arkansas. At the close of the war he remained at Weston, Missouri, as agent and telegraph operator

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of the Missouri Valley Railroad. In 1870, he left the employ of this company and was in the employ of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad in different positions, at various stations, until 1873, and then came to St. Joseph, where he has been connected with the St. Joseph and Denver, now St. Joseph and Western, first as General Agent, then Master of Transportation and Superintendent of Telegraph. In 1878, he was appointed General Freight and Ticket Agent, and also has charge of the telegraph department. He now holds the position of Assistant General Freight and Passenger Agent and Master of Transportation and Superintendent of Telegraphs. In 1879, he raised a company of State Militia called the St. Joseph Light Infantry, and was soon after elected Major of the Second Battalion National Guard of Missouri. Mr. Hansen married Miss Rebecca Thompson, of Van Buren, Arkansas, August 15th, 1864.

W. P. HARTMAN,

painter, is a native of Missouri, and was born January 6, 1854. His father; Michael, was an agriculturist, and W. P., until he was thirteen years old, spent his days in farming. He then went to Kansas City and learned his trade and resided there until 1874, when he became a resi- dent of St. Joseph, and has since applied himself diligently to his trade, in which art he stands among the foremost. He was married August 26, 1877, to Miss Nettie Dennison. By this union they have one son, William Arthur.

J. M. HARRISON,

merchant tailor, stands among the popular cutters and fitters of St. Joseph. Was born in Springfield, Ohio, January 14, 1842. His father, J. M., was one of the pioneers of that city, and well known in commer- cial circles. For a number of years he was in partnership with James Leffel, of turbine water wheel fame. The subject of this sketch, in 1861, enlisted in Company B, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the three months call, after which he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close. After the war he went to Muscatine, Iowa, and assumed the management of a tailoring establishment, a business he had become familiarized with in his native state. In 1869, he came to this city, and has since been recognized among its most enterprising business men. He is one of the patentees of Harrison's kitchen safe, an article of furniture that has won a well merited reputation. Was married, in 1872, to Miss Abby Sander- son, a native of Springfield, Illinois. They have two children, Francis and Charles.

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C. F. HARRAL,

foreman of the paint shops of the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad Company, was born in Leeds, England, December 24, 1845, and when young, came to the United States, with his parents, his father, B. F., locating in Aurora, Illinois, where the subject of this sketch was principally raised. He learned his trade in Aurora and Galesburg, and in the latter place was a resident for eleven years, being in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. On the 15th of August, 1878, he took charge of the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs shops. His long experience has made him proficient in the various details of railway painting, and few in the profession have a more enviable reputation. He was married in 1869, to Miss Mary Stockdale, of Ohio. They have four children, Frank, Minnie, Lillie and Edith. Is a member of Blue Lodge of Masons.

JOHN S. HARKEY,

carpenter and builder, was born in Montgomery County, Illinois, Decem- ber 30, 1850, and when sixteen years of age, his father, Daniel V., who was a carpenter, removed to Gentry County, Missouri. John S. was raised and learned his trade in Missouri, and resided in various places till he finally located in St. Joseph in the spring of 1881. He married May 22, 1869, Miss S. R. Shaffer, and by this union, they have five children, Dora S., John D., Mary E., Thomas E. and Lillie M.

MAJOR HENRY R. W. HARTWIG,

of the firm of H. R. W. Hartwig & Co., was born at Niedermoellrich, near Cassel, Province Hessen, Germany, April 1I, 1837. Here he received his education. At the age of seventeen years, actuated by a restless spirit of enterprise, he determined to leave the home of his fathers and try his fortune in the New World. Embarking at Bremen, he, in due time, landed in the city of New York. After a short stay, he proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained till the fall of 1856. Eager to see the West, he visited the states of Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, and, in the fall of 1857, landed in St. Joseph, where, one year later, he engaged in active mercantile business. His first experience was in the retail grocery business, in which he met with highly encour- aging success. In 1863, he engaged in the grain and produce trade, shipping largely up to 1864, when he embarked in the wholesale grocery and liquor business. In 1870, he abandoned the grocery trade, and con- fined his attention exclusively to the sale of wine and liquor, engaging largely in importing. In 1869, his brother, Ernst F., engaged in part- nership with him, creating the present firm, which by well directed

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energy and scrupulous integrity, has achieved merited success. Mr. Hartwig has always taken an active part in public affairs, and has at dif- ferent periods, held several important positions, both civil and military. At the outbreak of the civil war, he enlisted in Captain Harbine's com- pany of Missouri militia, and August 21, 1862, was promoted by Governor Gamble to the grade of First Lieutenant. October 7, 1864, he was com- missioned by Governor Hall Captain of Hartwig's Independent Artillery Company. June 29, 1865, he received from Governor Fletcher a com- mission as Major in the First Regiment of Buchanan County militia. His merits as an upright and competent business man were fully recog- nized by his fellow-citizens, who elected him in April, 1870, to the Col- lectorship of the City of St. Joseph, a position the duties of which he discharged acceptably to the close of his two years' term. He is now (1881) First Vice President of the Board of Trade. He is also a Director and First Vice President of the St. Joseph Exposition Company. He is also a Director of the St. Joseph and Northwestern Missouri Immigra- tion Society, of which association he holds the office of Treasurer. In 1867, Governor Fletcher showed his personal regard for Mr. Hartwig by appointing him one of the Commissioners to represent the State of Mis- souri at the Paris Exposition, an honor which, however, in view of the sudden illness and subsequent death of his child, he was prevented from accepting. Mr. Hartwig married March 1, 1860, Miss Carolina Kuechler. He has had two children-George Henry, born in 1860, and Ernst Charles, born January 1, 1864. The former died in 1867.

E. F. HARTWIG,

of the firm of H. R. W. Hartwig & Co., was born February 20, 1844, at Niedermoellrich, near Cassel, Province Hessen, Germany, where he was reared and employed in the grocery business. In 1862, he followed his brother and emigrated to America, arrived in New York City, and came to St. Joseph in April, 1862. There he was employed as clerk and book- keeper in the dry goods house of Stix & Eckhart for seven years. In 1869, he joined partnership with his brother, and opened a wholesale business under the firm of H. R. W. Hartwig & Co., and helped, by industry and energy, to bring the business to the high standing it now occupies. He married March 18, 1868, Miss Emma Friedrich, of St. Louis. They have four children, Henry Oswald, Emma, Metta and Katharina.

PHILIP HAUCK,

carpenter and builder, was born in Germany. His father, Theo., was a cooper, and before Philip attained his majority came to America, locat- ing in Buffalo, New York, where he learned the carpenter trade, and

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became proficient in architecture. During the war, he was a soldier in Company A, 100th New York, and during his term participated in twenty-four engagements, among which were Nashville, Lookout Mount- ain and Pittsburg Landing, where he was severely wounded. Was honor- ably mustered out as Orderly. After his discharge, he traveled through Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and other portions of the West. His party consisted of eighteen, Mr. Hauck owning several teams and a large amount of provisions. They were captured by the Sioux Indians, and detained eight months. He received an ugly arrow wound on the hand, and a severe scalp wound from a tomahawk. His weight at the time of capture was 165 pounds, and when released was 105 pounds. For days his sustenance was a small portion of raw buffalo meat. In 1870, he came to St. Joseph, where he has since been engaged in working at his trade. He married Miss Carrie Christensen, by whom he has four children : John, Christena, Charles, A. S. He is a Druid, and member. of the A. O. U. W.

JACOB HAUCK,

of the firm of Hauck & Bro., millers, is a native of Germany, born June 10, 1820, in South Germany. When eleven years old he came with his parents to America, and landed at New York. After a short rest they went to Cincinnati, where his family settled. Jacob assisted his father in the butcher and lard oil manufacturing business until 1844. Hearing of the prospects offered at the growing city of St. Joseph, he came to. this place in 1852, and formed a partnership with his brother-in-law in the business of manufacturing soap, candles and lard oil. Two years later, in connection with this business, engaged in packing, which they continued with great success until 1865. In this year he went into the milling business with his brother, George M. Hauck, by opening the Excelsior Mills, first working on a small scale. With great industry, and giving all their attention to the business, they had an increase every year. Now having four runs, they are able to turn out one hundred barrels of flour per day. They ship to St. Louis and the States of Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. He married June 23, 1846, Miss Christine Pinger, at Cincinnati, Ohio. They had eight children, George William, born April 2, 1847 ; Mary, born August 28, 1849; Lydia, born March 8, 1853, died in January, 1873 ; Emilia, born June 4, 1855; John P., born April 6, 1859; Charles and Wesley, twins, born February 10, 1862, Wesley died when six months old), and Emma, born July 12, 1864.

S. R. HAWLEY.

St. Joseph is not deficient in having inventors who have contributed to. the world's machinery implements to facilitate labor, and one who ranks.

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among the first in this class is S. R. Hawley. In the invention of the check rower and corn planter, he has placed before the agriculturists a want long felt. It is simple and durable in its construction, can be operated by one person and it checks and drops the corn with rapid- ity and uniformity. It is adapted for rough ground and triangular fields, a feature that has always been a drawback to other implements in this line. The testimonials Mr. Hawley has received from prominent farm- ers in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and other states, is prima facie evidence of the satisfaction it gives. Mr. H. was formerly a resident of Illinois, where he patented the check rower and planter, November 19, 1878.

DAVID J. HEATON,

was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 16th, 1808, and with his parents moved to Butler County, Ohio. When ten years of age he lost his mother by death, and was then apprenticed to learn the cabinet trade in Maysville, Kentucky, and served seven years. After working for five years in different places, he located in Ripley, Ohio, and remained three years. He married Emily Donovan, of Augusta, Ken- tucky, July 31, 1832. They had seven children, three of whom are living: Mary Ann, Augusta C., and Elizabeth H. In the fall of 1834, Mr. H. went to Mississippi, and remained there until the spring of 1845, at which time he came to this city, and started a cabinet shop. St. Joseph at that time contained about three hundred inhabitants. He com- menced here very poor, but immediately started a good business, but by the signing of a sheriff's bond had $3,000 to pay. In 1857, he lost a. warehouse by fire, losing $6,000. He kept at work enlarging his busi- ness and was very successful. He was the first undertaker in the city, and continued in the business until 1881, when he sold out to his son,. David E. He was the first City Marshal, and in 1858 and 1859 was elected City Councilman from the Third Ward, and was chairman of that body. In 1876, he commenced keeping a boarding-house, and in 1877 he built additions to his house, and opened the Heaton House, on Sixth Street, now the St. James. Mr. Heaton has always been a Demo- crat, but when the rebellion broke out he was a strong Union man and assisted in every way to do his duty as a loyal citizen. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1839. In 1849, his wife died, and in 1851 he married Miss Lucinda King, of Boone County, Missouri. They had five children, four of whom are living: Laura, David E., Bell and Melsonia.

EDWIN HEDENBER,

carpenter and builder, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, July 5, 1840, and was reared, educated and learned his trade in that city, there resid-

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ing until 1870. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and First Illinois infantry, and participated at the sieges of Vicksburg and Atlanta, and many other stirring events. He was honorably discharged May 25, 1865. In 1870, emigrated to Salina, Kan- sas, and engaged in building until 1880, when he became a resident of St. Joseph. As a mechanic he has few competitors. He was married December 24, 1869, to Miss Annie T. Underwood, of Ohio. They have a family of six children living, Walter E., Annie C., Mary L., Reuben C., . Ellen E. and Milton D. Lost one, Charles U.

J. C. HEDENBERG,

attorney at law and abstractor, is a native of Illinois, and was born in 1843 ; received limited school advantages up to the age of fourteen, and then commenced working on a farm, where he resided until 1863, at which time he went into the army. He was Orderly Sergeant, and was detailed in the Commissary Department for two years. Came to St. Joseph in January, 1866, and read law under Parker & Strong, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1869, and has been a successful prac- titioner for many years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F, and was mar- ried, in 1871, to Miss Mary S. Reeves, a native of Pennsylvania. By this union they had two children. Mr. Hedenberg has been in the abstract business since 1869. He has a complete and thorough abstract of titles for the County of Buchanan, and is the oldest abstractor in the county now in business. He is a thorough going, active, energetic man, having secured his present condition in life by industry, economy and strict attention to business.

WILLIAM I. HEDDENS, M. D.,

was born in Preble County, Ohio, February 14, 1828. His father was a Pennsylvanian, and his mother from South Carolina. He received his lite- rary education in Cincinnati, Ohio, after which he prepared himself for the profession of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia. Immediately after receiving his diploma, Dr. Heddens began the practice of medicine and surgery in Barboursville, Kentucky, where he remained three years, but desirous of securing a wider field of usefulness, he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he has since continued to practice with satisfactory success, both professionally and financially. He is a member of the Royal Arch Masons and of the I. O. O. F .; also, a member of the International Medical Congress, a permanent member of the American Medical Association ; also, a member of the Medical Associa- tion of the State of Missouri, and has served as Vice President and was President of the Medical Association of Northwest Missouri in 1875 and 1877, and in 1877 President of the St. Joseph Medical Society. His whole

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time is given to his professional studies and practice, and as a citizen and physician is held in high esteem by those who know him best. He has been twice married-first to Miss Katherine Adams, of Barboursville, Kentucky. She died June 6, 1874, leaving six children. He married for his second wife Miss Mattie D. Offutt, of Shelbyville, Kentucky.

THOMAS HEENAHEN,

policeman, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, September 22, 1839, and was there brought up, making it his home until he attained his nine- · teenth year, when he came to the United States. In 1859, he came to St. Joseph, and during his sojourn here, has been in numerous pursuits, for a number of years was engaged in boating on the river, and since 1878, he has been on the police force, and ranks as one of the best guardians of the peace in the city. He was married in Ireland to Miss Bridget Knight. They have had eight children, four of whom are living, Margaret, Bridget, Catherine and Thomas. Lost four, Mary Ann, Mary, John and Thomas.

J. B. HEIN

was born September 7th, 1820, at Girzhagen, Prussia, where he was reared. In 1832, his father moved to Oettershagen and bought a farm, J. B. assisting him with its cultivation. May 9th, 1849, he emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, and from there went to St. Louis, where, for nine years he was engaged at different occupations. In 1858, he came to Jefferson City, Missouri, and for three years he and his wife had charge of the residence of Governor Robert M. Stewart. Hearing of the favorable reports of the good prospects of St. Joseph, he came here in May, 1861, and commenced work as a carpenter. In 1862, he enlisted in the Missouri militia and was detailed for hospital duty ; first, at the military hospital, in the Allen House, on Fourth Street, St. Joseph, and afterwards transferred to the general hospital at Jefferson City. In 1865, he returned to this city and was employed for over ten years on the Missouri Valley Railroad, now known as the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs. He was married at St. Louis, August 24th, 1856, to Miss Anna Geck.

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The history of Buchanan County, Missouri, Part 74

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