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O. M. SMITH,
merchant, was born in Maryland, September, 1836, and came to St. Joseph in 1860, where he at once engaged in mercantile business. He
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was very successful, gaining the confidence and good will of the people by his fair dealing and affable manners. He continued in business for seventeen years, being one of the few who did so uninterruptedly through the war. He sold out his business in 1878, since which period he has ·devoted his time to real estate transactions, the settling of estates, :as administrator, and various other kinds of business. He has accumu- 'lated a competency, has a fine house, hosts of friends, and enjoys the con- fidence and respect of his neighbors. He married Miss Jane E. Ivery, in St. Joseph, May 27, 1862. She was from Cambria County, Pennsyl- vania. They have one daughter, Mary C., born September 13, 1864.
C. D. SMITH
was born in Virginia, April 22, 1807, and emigrated to Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, in 1838, where he worked at tanning for two years. He then moved to the neighborhood of Otterville, where he carried on tanning, making a new and complete tan yard, which he operated for about twelve years. In 1856 he quit the tanning business and went to farming. He remained on a farm until 1869, when he sold out and moved to Otterville, where he lived with his son-in-law, Mr. T. V. Ellis, nearly twelve years. During 1861 he took to his bed with chronic rheumatism, and was not out of bed for three years. Ever since he has walked on crutches. He sustained loss by the war, in negroes and stock, to the amount of about $2,000. His son, C. Q. Smith, was in the Confederate service about two years, and was under General Cockerel, and taken pris- oner and put in prison at St. Lous. His sister, Mrs. Ellis, secured his release. Mr. Smith was married November, 1835, to Miss Mary A. "Thompson, a native of Virginia. She had seven children, one died in infancy. The others are alive and doing well, and all married except the youngest daughter. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has donated toward building several churches. He has never regretted moving to Missouri, where he has had nothing to encoun- ter except that which is incident to pioneer life. Mr. Smith, although a cripple, is cheerful and happy, truly resigned to his condition, and does not utter a single complaint.
A. T. SMITH,
of the firm of Smith, Frazer & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, was born August 14, 1839, in Cooper County, Missouri. Up to the age of fifteen he worked on a farm and in a tanyard. In 1866, he commenced clerking for H. K. Judd & Co., and in 1869 engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business. Mr. Smith married Miss Louise Wise, a native of Missouri, May 13, 1873. She was born in St. Louis, December 25,
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1848, and was raised in San Francisco, California. They have one child -George A., born September 6, 1878. Mrs. S. is a member of the Epis- copal Church. Mr. Smith has assisted liberally in building churches and school houses. He lost considerably by the late war. He has all through life extended a helping hand to the needy and unfortunate. Mr. Smith is one of the fortunate business men of St. Joseph, starting out in life a poor boy. He has achieved a success in business which ranks him finan- cially with the representative wholesale merchants of the city.
J. M. SMITH,
of the firm of J. M. Smith & Co., dealers in staple and fancy groceries, foreign and domestic fruits and Dozier & Weyl Cracker Co. crackers and fancy buiscuits, was born in Virginia in 1834, where he received good common school advantages. Emigrated to Indiana in 1854, locat- ing in Perryville, Vermillion County. Here he followed general mer- chandising. From thence he moved to Terre Haute in 1876, and trav- eled for Hulman & Cox, wholesale grocers. In 1880, he emigrated to St. Joseph and engaged in the above named business, in a room 22×140 feet, two stories high and cellar, giving employment to five men. At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Lew Wallace. Entering the service as a private, he came out as first lieutenant on Gen- eral Smith's staff. Was in the service two and a half years. He has five children living and doing well : Harry A., Lewis W., Lenora, Doyne and Kate H. Is a Mason and Knight of Pythias.
A. M. SMITH & CO.,
proprietors of Excelsior Soap Works and manufacturers of Turkish White, and other celebrated brands of soap. Among the representative manufacturing industries of the Northwest, the above firm occupies a front rank. It is composed of Dr. A. M. Smith, of Nebraska City, and L. L. McBride, of St. Joseph. The latter is thoroughly conversant with the soap trade, and has charge of the works. The superiority of their celebrated Turkish White, and toilet brands is well known far and near, and their trade is constantly on the increase, extending throughout the adjoining states and territories. Few enterprises in St. Joseph are more favorably known abroad.
G. T. SMITH,
dealer in White sewing machines, was born in Muskingum, Ohio, June 20, 1846. His father, Thomas, was an agriculturist and a native of the Buckeye State. When G. T. was in his tenth year he removed with his
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parents to Cincinnati, where he resided until 1864, when he enlisted in Company I, Eleventh Ohio Cavalry. Was in the Army of the Plains, at Ft. Laramie and other points in the West, serving until July, 1866, when he was honorably discharged. Returning to Ohio, he located in Vinton County, and for five years was engaged in merchandising at Eagle Mills. Thence he removed to Hamilton, Caldwell County, Mis- souri, where he was engaged in the furniture business until 1877, when he came to St. Joseph, and has since been engaged in the sewing machine business. He controls four counties, and being a first-class salesman, combined with the unquestioned merits of the White machine, does a large business. Was married, in 1872, to Miss C. E. Bray, of Ohio. They have had four children, three of whom are living: Melville, Alice and Clyde. Nora died in August, 1874. Mr. S. is a member of the I. O. O. F., and also the A. O. U. W.
F. L. SOMMER,
of the firm of F. L. Sommer & Co., manufacturers of fine crackers and confectionery, and wholesale dealers in fruits, nuts, etc., was born and received his elementary and business education in West Virginia. He left his native home in 1869, and settled in St. Joseph. His first experi- ence there was in the capacity of clerk for the firm of Townsend & Wood, in whose employ he remained till 1873, when he first attempted his present business, then on a comparatively small scale. Few men in legitimate business in the West have met with more signal and rapid success. The building occupied by the sales room, office and ware rooms includes four stories and measures forty by one hundred and forty feet. The factory, which also includes four floors, is sixty by one hun- dred and forty feet. It affords employment to from seventy-five to one hundred hands, exclusive of the twelve traveling men constantly on the road. The business of this house amounted in 1873, to $50,000. In 1880, the same amounted to $400,000. It extends over a great part of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Dakota Territory. The firm manufactures its own packing boxes and barrels ; this department of the business alone affording constant employment to eight men. In 1873, F. L. Sommer was married to Miss Carrie Pinger. They have had four children, three of whom are living.
PHILIP SOMMER,
is a popular representative of the drug trade in St. Joseph. He is a Vir- ginian by birth, and became proficient in pharmacy in the City of Wheeling. His store is centrally located, and he being the most genial of gentlemen, does a lucrative business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
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S. H. SOMMERS,
was born June 22, 1818, in Schoharie County, New York, where he was raised. In 1849, he went to Albany, and there became connected with a railroad company as pattern maker, car builder, and also in locomotive work. In 1854, he went to Bloomington, Illinois, where he carried on the same business for two years. Attracted by the news of the West, he went to Geary City, Kansas, where he staid one year. In 1857, he came to St. Joseph, and opened the Merchants' Hotel, which he conducted with great success. In 1878, he sold out to Mr. Wagner, who changed the name of the hotel to Atlantic Hotel, and Mr. S. retired from busi- ness. He was married in 1835, to Miss Charlotte Amy Riltse, of New York. They have had twelve children, Gertrude L. born October 22, 1836, married S. L. Bean, August 1, 1854, and died July 22, 1868 ; Charlotte M., born May 12, 1839, married George Fanning, July 12, 1860 ; Irvin J. born June 16, 1842 ; Alzina, born September 7, 1844, died May 27, 1847 ; Alvina, born November 6, 1847, married to George H. Packard, Decem- iber 30, 1879; Anliza, born September 7, 1851, died May 10, 1852 ; Estela and Arbel, twins, born June 10, 1855, Estela died October 12, and Arbel died November 5, 1855 ; Howard, born September 2, 1858, died August 2, 1859 ; Adia and Idea, twins, born May 8, 1860, both died September 18, 1860; Emma, born August 7, 1862, died May 12, 1863.
W. L. SOMMER,
foreman and manager of F. L. Sommer & Co.'s Cracker Factory, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Philadelphia July 16, 1853. At an early age he remove with his parents to Wheeling, Virginia, residing there for a number of years, and also, for a time, lived in Columbus, Ohio. In 1868, he became a resident of St. Joseph. He was married, in 1876, to Miss Eliza Bowen. They have two children, Beatrice and Gertrude.
OSCAR SORGE,
baker and dealer in groceries, is a native of Saxon, Germany, and was born August 12, 1829. He was there reared, educated and learned the harness making trade, and came to America in 1854, locating in New Jersey, where he resided two years ; thence to Illinois, locating in White- sides County, for a time, after which he came to Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, and there lived until 1861. He enlisted in Company B, Third Iowa Cavalry, was elected sergeant, and passed through the usual routine of promotion and was honorably discharged as First Lieutenant. He participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Helena (Arkansas), and all the principal engagements of the Potomac, and served until the rebel-
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lion was suppressed. He returned to St. Louis and then went to Tren- ton, Grundy County, Missouri, and engaged in the hotel business, keep- ing the Bismarck House for four years; also kept the Palace Hotel at Gallatin, Missouri. He next engaged in the hotel business at Atchison, Kansas, and was burned out, which proved disastrous financially. Came to St. Joseph in January, 1880, worked at the harness making trade for Mr. Landis and Mr. Haspel, and in June, 1880, engaged in trade. He was married in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth Shaffer. They have seven child- ren, Annie, Bertha, Lena, Dora, Minnie, Laura, and Blanche. Mr. S. was an Encampment Odd Fellow, and was a charter member of Grand River Lodge No. 53, of Trenton, Missouri.
J. H. SOUTHWORTH,
engineer with Louis Hax, was born in Orleans County, New York, Octo- ber 12, 1838, and there raised to manhood, educated, and learned the carpenter trade. Darius, his father, also pursued that vocation. In 1864, our subject removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being of a mechanical turn of mind, he adapted himself to and learned engineer- ing. After remaining three years, he located at Whitewater, Wiscon- sin, in the capacity of engineer in the paper mill, which was soon after demolished by fire, when, upon its being rebuilt, Mr. S. took the same position, and remained in Whitewater four years. In 1871, he went to Nebraska, and engage in farming, which undertaking proved somewhat disastrous, on account of the grasshoppers. In 1875, he came to this city, but previous to coming here, was engineer in a mill at Hiawatha. He has been in the employ of L. Hax for five years. In May, 1869, he was married to Miss Jennie M. Penny, of Whitewater, Wisconsin. They have one child, J. D., and one adopted, Amy Belle. Mr. S. is a member of the I. O. O. F.
D. L. SOUTHWORTH,
blacksmith, was born in Medina, New York, September 27, 1836, and was there reared, educated and learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1864, he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and for four years worked as a journeyman, after which he returned to New York and for several years did business in Medina. Was also for a couple of years in Knowlesville. Came to St. Joseph in December, 1880, engaging in trade. Is a practi- cal workmen in all branches. Was married, in 1859, to Miss J. P. Mor- gan, of New York. They have one daughter, Minnie.
J. L. SPALDING,
engineer on the K. C., St. J. & C. B. R. R., was born in Claremont, Sulli- van County, New Hampshire, August 30, 1833. His father, Sanford Spald- ing, was a farmer in that state, and his grandfather, Dyer Spalding, was
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a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, under Ethan Allen. Our sub- ject, when seventeen years of age, commenced railroading as fireman on the Vermont Central, continuing until 1853, the latter part of the time being engineer. In that year he came to Ohio, and engaged as an engi- neer in the construction of the Ohio Central Railroad for eighteen months. In the fall of 1854, he went on the C., R. I. & P. R. R., and in 1855 we find him with the Illinois Central as engineer, and with this company he remained for over a quarter of a century, being in their employ until March, 1881. Then commenced work for the K. C., St. J. & C. B. R. R. Although but a short time in St. Joseph, Mr. S. has gained the esteem of all who have formed his acquaintance. Was married in 1860, to Miss Ruth Hiles, a native of England. They have one son- James S .- a promising young man, who is a telegraph operator, at Am- boy, Illinois. Mr. S. is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and is a Master Mason.
SPALSBURY BROS.,
dealers in stoves, tinware and hardware. O. M. Spalsbury is a native of New York, and was born in 1849. At an early age he removed from the Empire State to Michigan, where he was raised and educated. In 1863, for a time, he was a resident of Chicago, after which he emigrated to Kansas, coming to St. Joseph in 1865, and has since principally made it his home. For a time he was in the lumber trade at Hiawatha, Kansas, and Maryville, Missouri. In the autumn of 1877 he engaged in his present business. He is a member of the Mason's Blue Lodge. E. A. Spalsbury is a native of Jefferson County, New York, and was born in 1855. He came to Missouri with his parents, taking up his abode in St. Joseph, and here he was raised and educated. He is numbered among the popular and promising young men of the city.
JAMES M. SPANGLER,
foreman with R. K. Allen, was born in Clay County, Missouri, March 24, 1845. His father, William H. was among the early settlers in the state, and of Clay County. Our subject was raised and learned his trade in Ray, Andrew and DeKalb Counties. He was a resident of Savannah and Andrew County, for thirteen years. In 1863, he enlisted in the Union cause in Company M, Ninth Missouri Cavalry, serving in the capacity of Corporal for two years. In 1879, he took up his residence in St. Joseph, and has since been in the employ of R. K. Allen. He is one of the most thoroughly skilled workmen in the city, and favorably known among the mechanics. He was married in 1865, to Miss Agnes Elliott, of Savannah. They have four children, Charles E., Carrie, Gertrude and Louie. Mr. S. is a member of the I. O. O. F.
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O. M. SPENCER, JR.,
was born on the 23d day of August, 1850, in Missouri, and is the son of O. M. Spencer, who emigrated from the State of Kentucky and located on the Platte Purchase in 1846. He passed his boyhood days, until he arrived at the age of eighteen, upon a farm, at which time he laid aside the implements of husbandry and left the labors of the field in order to enter the public schools of St. Joseph, where he fitted himself for col- lege. He afterwards attended Christian University, where he graduated in 1872 with the second honors, and by virtue of those honors was rep- resentative of the class. Having chosen the profession of law for his avocation in life, he entered the office of a distinguished attorney in Leavenworth, Kansas, where he pursued his legal studies until he was admitted to the bar. In order to become still more proficient and to gain that scientific knowledge of the fundamental principles of the com- mon law which distingushes the true lawyer, he entered the law depart- ment of Harvard College, and completed his education under the instruction of those venerable and profound expounders of the law. With a mind full of learning and a future full of promise, he returned to his favorite city of the West, and located in the practice of his profes- sion, and shortly after he met the accomplished Miss Lillian Tootle, whom, in the winter of 1875, he led to the marriage altar. In 1880 came the interesting election of officers for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit and for the county of Buchanan. Mr. Spencer was nominated on the Dem- ocratic ticket for Prosecuting Attorney, and after an exciting contest was elected to that position, which he now holds, and the duties of which he performs to the satisfaction of all but the criminals.
C. G. STALL,
was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1829. He was the last child but one of a family of six sons and three daughters, all but one of whom, a brother, are living. He was educated in his native county, and soon after leaving school engaged in railroading in Mis- souri and other western states, and in hotel keeping. April 16, 1877, he took charge of the Saunders House in St. Joseph. The reputation of this well-known hotel he has continued to sustain, and it is now (1881) recognized as one of the best kept and most popular houses in this sec- tion of country.
DUDLEY M. STEELE,
was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky, February 18, 1821. His mother died when he was quite young, and when sixteen he buried his father. By this time he had a good English and fair classical education,
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and commenced clerking in a wholesale and retail dry goods house in Lexington, Kentucky. His health becoming impaired, and having heard glowing accounts of the rich Platte purchase, and of Missouri, he in the spring of 1842 started on horseback for the West. At Louisville he took passage for St. Louis and thence to Columbia, Missouri, where he spent several days with a relative, David S. Lamb, and proceeded to what was then Robidoux Landing, now St. Joseph. Captivated by the fertility of the soil, he purchased land five miles east of Savannah, and became a farmer. In August, 1848, he was married to Miss Mary E. Mitchum, formerly of Woodford County, Kentucky. Mrs. Steele died in 1849. In the fall of 1849 he engaged in merchandising in St. Joseph. He subse- quently determined to visit California, and in the spring of 1850 started with an ox team and small herd of cattle to cross the plains. The Indians were numerous, and frequently troublesome, and emigrants therefore traveled in companies sufficiently strong for self-protection. A company of twenty men and ten wagons, principally from Andrew County, was formed, and Mr. Steele was selected as the manager. They traveled with but few adventures. Mr. Steele, desirous of visiting Salt Lake, arranged a series of signals by which he could join the train west of that point, and in company with a Mr. McClain, started on horseback for the great Salt Lake Valley, where they spent two weeks. They joined their comrades as arranged, having successfully traversed that wild Indian country a distance of five hundred miles. They arrived at their destination after a four months' journey, and Mr. Steele immedi- ately engaged in the stock business. In the spring of 1852 Mr. Steele formed a co-partnership with Messrs. McCord, Nave, and Clark, under the firm name of Steele, McCord & Co. This firm afterwards became one of the most prominent as dealers in and raisers of American stock in Upper California. In 1856 Mr. Steele was elected by the counties of Colusa and Tehama to represent them in the California State Legisla- ture, receiving the largest Democratic vote ever cast in the district. He continued in the California cattle trade until 1857, during which time he crossed the plains three times in a " prairie schooner," and made nine trips across the Isthmus, sometimes by the Panama, and at others by the Nicaragua route. In 1857 he returned to St. Joseph, where the mem- bers of the firm of Steele, McCord & Co. entered the wholesale grocery trade, under the firm name of Nave, McCord & Co. In May 1858 Mr. Steele was married to Miss Eliza May, of Washington County, Ken- tucky, by whom he had two children, who were left motherless by the death of Mrs. Steele in the spring of 1861. In consequence of the dis- turbed state of the country during the civil war, Nave, McCord & Co. deemed it advisable to move part of their goods to Omaha, then a small village. Mr. Steele took the management of this consignment, and of the branch house shortly afterwards established there. In the spring of
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1862 he again visited California to close up the unsettled business of Steele, McCord & Co., and remained there till September, 1863, when he returned to St. Joseph and again resumed his active interest in the grocery trade, which he continued until 1867. In March, 1868, he was married to Miss Minnie Withers, of Clay County, Missouri. In June of the same year he was elected president of the St. Joseph Fire and Marine Insurance Company, to which position he was re-elected in 1869-'70. During the same time he was the vice-president and manager of the Merchants' Insurance Company of St. Joseph, and conducted the business of both companies in the same office. In the fall of 1868 Mr. Steele formed a partnership in the wholesale grocery business with Sam- uel R. Johnson, of Council Bluffs. In 1870 he was elected president of the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad, and re-elected in 1871. The pressure of business was so great that he on September 13, 1870, resigned the presidency of the St. Joseph Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and in November, 1872, after one hundred and fifty miles of the railroad had been built under his management, resigned his position as president. In 1872 he was elected president of the Merchants' Insur- ance Company of St. Joseph. In 1873 Mr. Steele, W. B. Kemper and others entered the wholesale grocery trade, under the firm name of D. M. Steele & Co. In 1876 he was elected president of the St. Joseph Board of Trade. The same year he was elected a director of the St. Joseph Bridge Company, and re-elected in 1877. Mr. Steele was born and brought up in the Presbyterian faith, and has been a constant sup- porter of and general attendant upon the services of that denomination.
N. STEEN.
carpenter and builder, was born in Buffalo, New York, October 28, 1837, and removed to Wisconsin with his parents at an early age, locating in Waukesha County, where he was raised to manhood, educated and learned his trade. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Com- pany F, Fifth Wisconsin, and was soon promoted to first sergeant. Was at the engagements of Peach Orchard, Williamsburg, White Oak Swamp, Fredericksburg, Antietam, and all the general engagements of the Potomac. Was slightly wounded, and for six weeks was an occu- pant of Libby Prison. Was in New York City during the riots, going there from Gettysburg. Was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term, and returned to Wisconsin, and after a short sojourn came to to St. Joseph. Was married, in Wisconsin, in 1864, to Miss Susan Sceets. They have a family of five children, Nellie, Susan, May, Ada and Wil- liam Irving. Mr. Steen has contributed an ample share towards the cause of the Union, and as a mechanic and citizen occupies a front rank.
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FRED STEFFEN,
carpenter, was born in Prussia, Germany, April 22, 1855, and came to the United States when young, his father, Carl, taking up his abode in St. Joseph. He is well known in this city as a dairyman. Fred was here reared, and learned his trade. For a number of years he was in the employ of the K. C. Railroad, in the capacity of bridge builder. He is among the well known mechanics of the city.
J. O. STEPHENS,
restaurateur and proprietor of fish, oyster and produce market, was born in Monroe County, Indiana, November 20, 1844. His father, David, was a circuit minister of the Methodist denomination, and migrated from Ohio to Indiana at an early day, and was also closely identified with the educational interests of that locality up to the time of his demise, which occurred when J. O. was quite young. His grandfather, John, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and he was born in Boonsborough, Kentucky, in 1781. He married a sister of Daniel Boone, and migrated to Ohio, in 1801, locating near where the City of Columbus now stands. J. O.'s mother was again married, and with them he lived until fourteen years of age, tilling the soil. Then came west, and located in Nebraska, and after a short sojourn, returned to Indiana for a time. Subsequently he located in Doniphan County, Kansas, residing there until December 12, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-fifth Missouri Volun- teer Infantry. Was at the battle of Shiloh and many other stirring events ; served three years and seven months, when he was honorably discharged, and returned to Doniphan County. For a time he was engaged in merchandising, at Wathena and Troy, and came to St. Joseph in the autumn of 1865. Embarked in the fish and oyster business, after- wards in butchering, eventually turning his attention to his present vocation. In 1866, he married Miss Sarah J. Dinkle. Mr. Stephens has built up a large and lucrative business by sagacity and fair dealing.
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