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B. F. LOAN
was born at Hardensburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in 1819, and in 1838, removed to Missouri. He chose the law as a profession and was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Buchanan County. In 1861, when the rebellion broke out, he took an active part in military affairs, and was appointed Brigadier General. In 1862, he was elected to a seat in the Thirty-eighth Congress, and served during this term as a member of the joint committee on military affairs, with Wade, Chand- ler and Julian, and he was one of the most active members, and served as a member of the committee on Pacific Railroads, Freedmen, and debts of loyal states. He was re-elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Con- gress, and was his own successor in the Fortieth Congress, and was chairman of the committee on Revolutionary pensions, and on that of Freedmen's affairs. In 1869, he was appointed visitor to West Point. As a public spirited citizen he was ever identified with the best interests and substantial progress of the city. Soon after commencing the practice
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of his profession, he began to develop those natural and acquired gifts which made him, ere his decease, one of its foremost leaders. He rose rapidly, and from the first his professional work was of a high character. His mind was singularly clear and comprehensive, and he was noted for his accurate and precise methods of work. In matters of legal doubt his opinions had great weight with his professional brethren, for they knew how profound and accurate was his knowledge of law, and how clear and exact were his mental processes. His study was as thorough as it was broad, and his opinions were tenaciously adhered to when arrived at. He was the intimate friend and trusted adviser of many of the leading citizens who have contributed to bring about the commercial greatness of St. Joseph. At the bar, in the active exercise of his profession, he always attracted attention. An excellent advocate, an impressive speaker, his legal opponents, bearing in mind his wide and accurate knowledge of the law, never underestimated his strength, and the result was that Mr. Loan's mental weapons were ever kept bright and his ver- satile abilities constantly active. His reading, outside the realm of his profession, was very extensive, and he was a well informed student of history and general literature. Extremely social in his nature, he pos- sessed the rare gift of attracting friends and the still more rare gift of keeping them. A lawyer, with too high a sense of honor to urge an unjust cause, a moralist without fanaticism, and a careful business man, who recognized personal integrity as the first obligation to his associates, and to society, his loss is a serious one to those circles in which he was a wise and steadfast friend, and to the city in which for so many years he filled an honorable and a useful citizenship.
LOCKWOOD, ENGLEHART & CO.
Samuel Lockwood was born at Willow Grove, Kent County, Dela- ware, March 19, 1812, the fourteenth of a family of eighteen. At the age of fourteen, as was then the rule, was apprenticed to a hat manufac- turer at Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, serving seven years, and learning his business thoroughly. At the close of his time, he started for Louisville, Kentucky, but being of delicate constitution and threat- ened with consumption, he enlisted June 13, 1833, in the First Regiment of the United States Dragoons, then forming, Company C, of which Jef- ferson Davis was First Lieutenant, H. Dodge commanding. After three years' campaigning in the then wild regions of the West, the regiment was disbanded, and Mr. Lockwood settled at Liberty, Clay County, in his old business. Found the Mormons there, after being driven from Jackson County, a quiet, intelligent, industrious people, always to be relied upon. When work was wanted, always on hand. Staying but six months at Liberty, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, working there as a
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journeyman hatter until 1850, when he came to St. Joseph, with $300 in his pocket, a stout heart, strong arm and intelligent brain. Opened the first store devoted to one branch of business-hats-and year after year, by patient industry, laid the foundation of his fortune. About 1857, he commenced jobbing, and having the nerve during the troublous times of the war to lay in a large stock early, although mortgaging everything he had in the world to enable him to do so, he made money when others were utterly ruined. In the spring of 1868, Mr. George J. Englehart, the present manager of the firm, became associated with Mr. Lockwood, and millinery was added to the stock, Mr. E., from this time, doing the buying, and from 1872, when Mr. L. retired from active business, although he still retained his capital interest, Mr. E. has had the entire manage- ment of the business, one of which any city might reasonably be proud. Mr. E. showed something of his mettle by the erection last year of the finest finished store house in the city, the finest indeed, for the purpose in the state, being more complete in its details than any hat house even in Chicago. In July, 1868, Mr. Robert Winning, the financial manager and dispenser of credits, entered the employment of the firm as book- keeper and cashier, and has done much to place the firm in its present enviable position, appreciating which, the firm admitted him to partner- ship in its profits January, 1878. Mr. J. A. Johnston, employed as a trav- eling salesman for eight years on the Santa Fe Railroad, was admitted into the firm January, 1880. This year, 1881, the firm has added gents' furnishing goods to their stock, employing to take charge Mr. T. H. Murdow, of Chicago, a gentlemen of long experience in that line. Mr. Englehart came to St. Joseph from Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1865, as a partner of the dry goods firm of Tootle, Fairleigh & Co., staying in the same one year. Then formed a firm in the hat business with Major S. A. Garth, as the firm of Englehart & Garth, in the spring of 1868.
E. C. LOCKE,
of the firm of Fuller & Locke, proprietors of the St. Joseph Steam Laun- dry. These gentlemen established their trade in the spring of 1881 and do the largest laundry business in the city. Their successful aim is to give universal satisfaction. E. C. Locke is a native of Ohio and was born in Ravenna, September 6th, 1856, and was there educated and learned the art of photography. He is a nephew of Mr. Locke, who is known as Nasby, of the Toledo Blade. E. C. was engaged in operating photo- graph galleries, for several years, in the Buckeye state, and eventually drifted out on the Pacific Slope, where he pursued the same vocation, until taking up his abode in St. Joseph. He married Miss L. E. Morse, of Aleriale, Ohio, on the 21st of December, 1878. They have one child, Eli. Mr. Locke is a member of the A. O. U. W.
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DR. AUGUSTUS S. LONG
was born August 2, 1840, at Long Swamp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. His father, Daniel Long, was a prosperous farmer, and died a few weeks before his son's birth. Early training fell to a loving, intelligent mother. Received private instruction from William Schubert, Esq., an able teacher. At the age of sixteen he entered Mount Pleasant Seminary, at Bogerstown, Pennsylvania, and later, Union Seminary, at New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania. Commenced the study of medicine in 1863, attended the University of Pennsylvania, Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College, and Long Island College Hospital successively, graduating in 1865 from the latter institution ; was immediately after graduation appointed Resident Physician of his alma mater, serving one year. Came to St. Joseph, September 28, 1866, which place he has made his home ever since. During the location of the County Poor House in St. Joseph, for a period of one year, about 1870, Dr. Long was its efficient superintendent and physician. On the removal of the county poor to the present farm north of the city, he ceased to act as Superintendent of the same, but was continued as County Physician up to the period of his resignation. He has been since 1868 a member of the United States Pension Board, and is probably the oldest physician in this section of country in continuous service in that department. As a healer of chronic diseases Dr. Long has long enjoyed an enviable reputation in St. Joseph and tributary country.
COL. JOSEPH LOOMIS,
was born in Colebrook, New Hampshire, in August, 1826, and received a good common school education, and at the age of fourteen commenced his railroad career by shoveling snow from the track of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, March 4, 1840. After working steadily for two years, he entered the machine shop, where he mastered the trade, and then was appointed conductor on a passenger train, which he held until 1853. In that year he came West and received a position as conductor on the Michigan Central, where he remained two years, and then was appointed Depot and Train Master in the new Central Depot, on Lake Street, Chicago, where he remained until 1857. In 1859, he was appointed General Freight Agent on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, serv- ing one year; was appointed Master of Transportation. On the 4th of June, 1861, the railroad men under his charge were formed into a regi- ment, and he was made Lieutenant Colonel, and remained through the war in charge of the railroad, and also of the regiment. In 1865, he was appointed Superintendent of the Quincy & Palmyra Railroad, and the Quincy Transportation Company. In 1868, he started the transfer
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boats from Blair Crossing for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad, remain- ing three years. He then went to Carondelet and had charge of the Missouri Pacific transfer boats; in 1877, took the position of Superin- tendent on the Smoky Hill Division of the Kansas Pacific, and remained two years, finally coming to St. Joseph, in 1879. He married Nancy F. Watkins, in Lowell, Mass. They have one adopted daughter-Julia, aged 16.
WILLIAM LOVING,
for many years a representative business man of St. Joseph, was born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky, April 8th, 1830. His father, Willis Loving, was a merchant and his great grandfather, William Lov- ing, was the founder of Lovingston, Nelson County, Virginia. The sub- ject of this sketch was reared and educated in his native county. He first engaged in the drug business in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, and afterwards in Hopkinsville. In 1855, he moved to Mis- souri and settled in the town of Lexington, where he was engaged in business about the period of a year. In the winter of 1856-'57, he moved to St. Joseph, where he established himself in the wholesale and retail drug business. Notwithstanding the want of facilities, such as now exist, for canvassing wide extents of territory and of transporting goods over the same, Mr. Loving early succeeded in building up a lucrative wholesale trade, in addition to his well-sustained retail business. Dur- ing the long period of his residence in St. Joseph, he has steadily advanced with the progress of the city, and has always manifested a lively and liberal interest in the prosperity of St. Joseph. He married, in 1853, Miss Susan E. Wharton, of Springfield, Kentucky. The have, by this marriage, a family of three children: Phoebe, William and Arthur.
FRANK H. LOVEJOY,
yardmaster of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and was born January 14, 1851. At an early age he removed to Wisconsin with his parents, his father Harry, locating with his family at Madison, where Frank was raised and educated. In 1869, he commenced railroading at Sterling, Illinois, on the R. R. I. & St. L., in the capacity of brakeman, remaining two and one-half years, after which for a time he filled the same position on the B. C. R. & N., in Iowa. Was next with the P. & R. I. for three years and for four years was in the yard at Peoria, for the Peoria and Springfield Company. Thence on the Hannibal and St. Joseph, and from their yard at Kansas City, took his present position June 11, 1881. He was married in 1873, to Miss Mattie E. Martin. By this union, they have two children, Alice and an infant.
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WILLIAM H. LOVE,
proprietor of the Atlantic Hotel, is a native of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, and was born in 1831. Was deprived of his father by death when quite young, and his mother again married, and the family left for the West, when our subject was in his seventh year. Unfortunately his step- father was robbed of his money en route, and William and his sisters were left to the care of strangers. He was raised in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and learned the millwright trade, having many difficulties to contend with. In 1857, he drifted westward and located in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri; worked at his trade, and erected the first steam flouring mill in the county. First visited St. Joseph in 1858, and in 1861, went to Nebraska, residing there until 1864, when he removed to Leavenworth. There he enlisted as a mechanic, and for a time was located at Union, New Mexico. In 1865, he came to St. Joseph, and engaged in the restaurant business, and in 1872, he opened Love's European Hotel, which was previously known as the Oregon House. Of this he was proprietor until 1876. For several years he was bridge builder on the St. Joseph and Des Moines Railroad and the St. Joseph and Western Railroad. May I, 1881, he assumed control of the Atlantic Hotel. Was married May 7, 1867, to Mrs. Jane Barnett, nee Gallatin. By this union they have three children-Oscar M. and Ada-and lost one, Arthur. Mrs. Love had two children by her first husband-Florence and Effie-(wife of Hon. E. J. Crowther). Mrs. Love died October 28, 1880.
ROBERT LOVELL,
car inspector for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway. This trusted employe of the "Old Reliable " is favorably known on the line from the Missouri to the Mississippi. He is a native of England, and was born in London, September 26, 1830. Was there raised and learned his trade, after which he went to Canada, residing there several years. In 1856, he came to the United States, locating at Hannibal, and entered the employ of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Company, and for a quarter of a century has been in their employ. His reputation for proficiency and reliability is an enviable one. Was married in England, to Miss Car- oline Gutteridge. They have two children, Robert and Eliza, now Mrs. D. Lacy. Mr. Lovell is a Master Mason, and Robert is also a Mason, being a Knight Templar.
ISAAC LOWER,
farmer and stock raiser, Section 36, post office St. Joseph, was born in Roane County, Tennessee, June 20, 1820, and when one year of age, his parents moved to Granger County. In the fall of 1836, he moved to
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Jackson County, Missouri, and in December, 1837, came to Buchanan County. His vocation through life has been that of a farmer. In March, 1840, he was married to Miss Rebecca Nash, and in 1842, they moved to Platte County, and in the spring of 1844, to Jackson County. He returned to Buchanan County in 1848. His wife died in the fall of 1848, leaving four children, one of whom is now living, Louisa J. He was again married in August, 1849, to Miss Matilda Riley, of Kentucky. By this union they have six children, Sarah R., James K. P., Stephen A. D., Sarah E., Henry I. A. J. and William R. E. L. In 1861, Mr. L. moved to Andrew County, where he remained till 1863, when he returned to Buchanan County. His landed estate consists of 372 acres, his home farm containing 336 acres. He is a Mason, and a member of the Agency Lodge No. 10, also a Chapter member.
ALEXANDER LOZO,
If your photo you would show. See that it's from A. Lozo.
This gentleman was born in Ogdensburg, New York, March 9, 1840, and at the age of ten years removed to Canada. His father, Alexander, was a lumber mechant. Alexander learned his profession under the tutor- ship of the famous Notam, one of the master artists of the province. In 1864, he opened a studio at Belleville, and operated at different points until 1870, when he located in St. Joseph. His rooms are handsomely furnished, and in all lines of art he does a good business, embracing water colors, crayons, and the latest styles of photographing.
LUCAS BROTHERS,
show-case manufacturers. This is the only establishment of the kind in St. Joseph, and their business extends over a vast area of country. Their cases are to be found on sale in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, California, Oregon, Wyoming, and other States and Territories. J. W. Lucas is a native of Highland County, Ohio ; was born in 1842, and there resided until August 19, 1862, when he enlisted in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, participating in many notable engagements, Fort Don- aldson, Chicamauga, and others. At the latter place he was taken prisoner, and for fourteen months his time was spent in Andersonville, Danville, Belle Isle, Macon, and Salsbury and several other "pens." He was honorably discharged in 1865. In 1866 he removed to Montgomery County, Iowa, residing there until 1879, when he became a resident of St. Joseph, engaging in his present business. Mr. C. B. Lucas was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1850, and was there raised to manhood and resided until the autumn of 1880, when he came to this city and associ- ated himself with his brother.
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MRS. NANCY LYKINS,
Section 26, post office St. Joseph, was born in Cooper County, Missouri, March 28, 1820. She received a fair education and was raised in the country. She married Dr. C. B. Lykins, June 1, 1837. He was born in Indiana, February 3, 1813. By this union they had twelve children: Andrew C., Mary V., Julia A., David A., John J., William C., Sarah E., Cynthia A., Emma V., James S., Charles R., and an infant who died when young. Dr. L. died July 3, 1878. By industry and economy he saved 160 acres of land, which is all under fence, with fair improve- ments and five acres of orchard. The Doctor was two years in the Fed- eral army. He was a Mason. Since his death his wife has been doing the best in her power to protect the property and raise up the family, so that they may be bright and shining lights in the community.
GEO. LYON
was born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, May 22, 1823, and lived there until twelve years of age. The following eighteen years were spent mostly in Albany, his native place, and Brooklyn, Long Island. He was raised with a mercantile experience, and continued the same until 1854, when he removed to Chicago and engaged in the lumber trade. In 1860, he removed to St. Joseph, and continued the same business. In 1862, he was elected Treasurer of Buchanan County, and held the office eight years. He has also held the office of City Treasurer. During the late war he enlisted as a private in Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment E. M. M., and was commissioned Captain. Since he became a resident of the county, he has been of its representa- tive business men, taking an active part in all things having a tendency to promote the interests of the city. He was the President of the first agricultural exposition of any magnitude in the county. He married Miss Jane C. Judson March 10, 1843. She is also a native of St. Law- rence County, New York. They have a family of nine children, Jno. F., Judson, George, David and Jennie (twins), Frederick W., Horace, Arthur, and May. Lost one daughter, Grace.
I. MCADAMS,
wagon maker, was born in Allen County, Kentucky, August 2, 1837, and when fourteen years of age, removed to this state, his father, William, locating in Buchanan County. In 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Missouri, but owing to ill health, was honorably discharged in 1863. For a number of years he was a resident of Troy, Kansas, but took up his permanent abode in St. Joseph in 1872. He has been twice married ; first, in 1858, to Miss R. A. Bradshaw, who died, leaving two children-
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G. William and I. Walker. His second wife was N. E. Godby, and by this union they have one daughter-Birdie May.
JOHN McBRIDE,
engineer on the St. Louis, Wabash & Pacific Railway. Is a native of Ayr- shire, Scotland, and was born September 17, 1843. Was there raised to manhood, educated, and commenced railroading, and for fourteen months was fireman on the North British Railroad. In 1870 he came to the United States and thence to this city, and for seven years was in the employ of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad, the greater portion of the time as fireman. Since that time he has been with the present company. Mr. McBride is thoroughly familiarized with the details of railroading, and as an engineer has few equals. He was married in 1874 to Miss Margaret Priestly. They have four children, John, Isabelle, Mary, and Laura.
M. J. McCABE,
city engineer, was born in Ireland, October 25th, 1831, and came to this country in 1851, soon engaging in railroad engineering in St. Louis. In 1861, he entered the U. S. service as Government Engineer, and remained in this position until 1866. In 1869, he came to St. Joseph, and, until 1876, was engaged as a railroad engineer, which has been his life-calling. At that time he was elected City Engineer, and the city of St. Joseph owes him a debt of gratitude for the perfecting, in her midst, of one of the finest systems of water works in the state. His system of sewerage is excellent, and, altogether, the citizens of St. Joseph have cause to congratulate themselves upon having an officer competent to fill so important a position. He married Miss Elizabeth F. Welch, in this city, in 1872. They have two children : Rose and Frances.
C. J. MCCLELLAN,
carpenter and builder, was born August 3rd, 1858, in Mercer County, Missouri, and when young, the family removed to Fairfield, Iowa, where his father, J. C., engaged in merchandising and hotel keeping. They subsequently returned to Missouri, locating where J. C. McC. still resides. Our subject learned his trade principally in Iowa. In the spring of 1879, he came to St. Joseph, and has since been actively engaged in his busi- ness. As a mechanic he will compare favorably with many of the older workmen. On February 24, 1881, Miss Luella Chapman, an estimable lady, of St. Joseph, became his wife.
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JAMES McCORD
was born in Randolph County, Virginia, January 7, 1826, and came with his parents to Missouri, in 1836, settling first at Cape Girardeau, and after- wards moving to Morgan County. After his father's death, in 1839, James left school at the age of fourteen, and obtained a situation in a store at Calhoun, Henry County. His finances not admitting of any other mode of travel, he walked from his home to Calhoun, a distance of sixty miles. After remaining here three years, he went to Warsaw in 1843, and remained there until 1846, excepting an absence of two months. In the spring of 1846, he made a trip to New Orleans in the interest of his employers, and upon his return in June, closed his engagement and went to Northwest Missouri, stopping until October in Savannah. Thence he went to Oregon, Holt County, and in company with Abram Nave opened a store under the firm name of Nave & McCord. This business continued three years, at the expiration of which time he withdrew and went to New Orleans. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, arriving in July of that year. In the month following he went to Nevada City and opened a provision store. Owing to ill health, he sold out and returned to Sacramento City, and met D. M. Steele, who had just arrived from Missouri. They immediately formed a partnership for buying emigrant cattle and feeding them until fat. Mr. McCord's health not improving, he sold his interest to Mr. Steele, and returned to Savan- nah, in January, 1851, and once more formed a partnership with Abram Nave, under the old firm name of Nave & McCord, which connection has been maintained in some form ever since. In January, 1852, the firm bought a drove of cattle for the California market. He was engaged in the cattle business for eight years. In 1857, in company with Mr. Nave, he came to St. Joseph and engaged in the wholesale aad. retail grocery business. In 1860, they were burned out, their stock being a total loss, but, not discouraged, they re-established their business. The firm has houses in other cities doing a large business, and wherever their name is connected it is a synonym for success. Mr. McCord's success in life is due to sterling principles of truth, diligence and persevering application, and he affords a striking illustration of what a man can accomplish by concentrating his energies on one subject. He was mar- ried, in 1854, to Miss Mary E. Halleck, of Jessamine County, Kentucky.
F. McCOUN,
of the firm of F. McCoun & Co., importers and jobbers of queensware glassware, platedware, mirrors, lamps, etc., was born in Kentucky, May 31, 1836, and emigrated to Missouri in 1856, locating in Andrew County, where he followed farming until the war broke out. He became engaged
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