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ST. JOSEPH TRUNK FACTORY
is conducted by F. Endebrock, a native of Prussia, Germany, who came to America in 1844, locating in Cincinnati, where he learned the busi- ness of trunk making, working at his trade in that city for a number of years and then removed to St. Louis, where he lived for ten years. In 1870, he came to St. Joseph and established his present business of manufacturing trunks, valises and satchels, and his business is the largest of the kind in the Northwest, extending into the adjoining states and territories. He gives the establishment his undivided attention, and he has built up a business alike creditable to himself and the city of St. Joseph.
S. T. TURNER,
car inspector and outside repairer for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, was born in Richmond, Virginia, November 14, 1850, and was there partially reared and educated. In 1867, he came to St. Joseph, with his parents. His father, William, was a policeman in Richmond, and is well and favorably known in St. Joseph in the same capacity. S. T. commenced to learn the carpenter's trade in his native city, which he finished in St. Joseph. In 1871, he entered the employ of the K. C., St. Jo. & C. B. Co., as car builder, and in the autumn of 1879, accepted his present responsible and well merited position. He was married April 5, 1871, to Miss Eliza E. Hall, of Richmond, Virginia. They have two children, Mollie N., and Willie R. Mr. Turner is a Mason, of the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and an Odd Fellow.
H. N. TURNER
was born in Rochester, New York, October 24, 1819, and with his father's family moved to Marshall, Michigan, in 1832, where he remained four years. He then moved to Connersville, Indiana, residing there until 1856, when he went to California, and in 1857 went to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1859 he came to St. Joseph and engaged in trade on the corner of Eleventh and Penn streets, building up a fine business which he continued until 1876, when he sold out. He then was elected city collector, which office he held four years. He is now (1881) the oldest member of the city school board, having been continuously re-elected to the same for the past sixteen years. He has been a Mason for many
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years, and is now a Knight Templar. He married Miss Matilda New- land in Connersville, Indiana, in March, 1847. They had two children, Mary Ellen and Ira N. Mrs. Turner died in 1851. Mary Ellen married William Morrison, and died in 1866, leaving two children, Mary Agnes and John. Ira, his son, is bookkeeper for Messrs. Kieffer & Co., and is a good business man. In politics Mr. Turner has always been an enthu- siastic Union man and a member of the Republican party. He raised and commanded a company of State militia during the war.
T. H. TURNER,
foreman of tin and copper shop for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, is a native of Missouri, and was born in Hanni- bal, October 26, 1846. He was reared, educated and learned his trade in his native city, and for a time was a resident of lowa and Minnesota, remaining two years in St. Paul. He took up his abode in St. Joseph in the employ of the K. C., St. Jo. & C. B. R. R. Co., in 1878. He was married in 1873, to Miss Emma Disbrow, of Smith's Landing, New Jer- sey. Mr. Turner is a Mason, and belongs to St. John's Lodge, Hannibal. Himself and wife are members of the Episcopal Church.
JUDGE HENRY TUTT
was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, in February, 1803. The family are of Welsh and Irish descent. Judge Tutt was the third of a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His father was a promi- nent citizen, having for many years filled the position of sheriff of the county, and other important offices. The judge was educated at Front Royal Academy. Resided, up to the year 1835, in Culpepper, and at Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County. In 1824, he married Miss Anne Gatewood Conner, daughter of Uriel Conner, Esq., of Culpepper County. He had, by this marriage, six children, four sons and two daughters. Of these but two survive: John S., the eldest, born in 1825, and present (1881) assessor of Buchanan County, and Miss Lou. While still a resi- dent of Virginia he was elected captain of a militia company noted for the precision of its drill. In the spring of 1835, Captain Tutt moved West with many relatives of his own name. He first settled on Prairie Fork, and afterwards at Portland, in Calloway County, Missouri. Here he engaged at different times in various pursuits, teaching, surveying, farming, etc. In 1840, he represented the county in the State Legislature. He was soon after commissioned major of militia, and was finally elected brigadier general in the same service. In 1844, he moved to Platte County, locating in what was known as the. Miller settlement, where, at first, he engaged in farming. He was, shortly after, admitted to the bar,
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and continued for many years to devote his time to the practice of law. In 1849, he moved to DeKalb, in Buchanan County, and the following year was elected from the same to the Legislature. In 1859, he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Buchanan County, a position he has continued to fill uninterruptedly ever since. In person Judge Tutt is a man of unusual stature and commanding presence. Courteous and affable withal, few men have achieved with as little effort a higher degree of popularity than he enjoys. Though advanced in years he is still in full possession of his faculties, and is still the capable, efficient officer he was when first elected.
COL. JOHN F. TYLER -
was born in Lee County, Virginia, September 12, 1838. His father, Henry C. Tyler, was a merchant of Jonesville, and also operated stores at other points in Lee County. His mother's maiden name was Fulkerson. John F. was their only child. He was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, at that time superintended by Gen. Francis H. Smith. He was graduated here ninth of a class of twenty-nine in 1859. In the same year he moved to Missouri, settling first at Lexington, where he engaged in teaching till the breaking out of the civil war. During the period that he was teaching he studied law in the office of Hon. John F. Ryland, of Lexington. He was a staunch Union man, and as such rendered himself so unpopular with the dominant party in that town that he was forced to enter the army. He enlisted in the Four- teenth Missouri Volunteers, commanded by Col. White. He was almost immediately after elected Major in that regiment, and was subsequently captured with Milligan's command in the battle of Lexington before being mustered into service. On being exchanged he was appointed Aid-de-Camp, with the rank of Major, on Gen. Schofield's staff. In 1862, he was promoted to the grade of Lieutenant Colonel of the First regi- ment of infantry of the Missouri State Militia. He was afterwards pro- moted to the rank of Colonel of this regiment, and remained in the service till near the close of the war, when he moved to St. Joseph and engaged in merchandising. He afterwards farmed for a short time. He has, for some time past, and is at present (1881) engaged in the practice of law and largely in the real estate business in St. Joseph. He was married November 9, 1862, to Miss Jane E. Spratt, of Lexington, Mis- souri. They have had four children, all of whom are dead. Col. Tyler is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has been, for many years, an active Sunday School worker in the same. He has superintended some of the largest and most prosperous schools of this character in the city ; and it was through his efforts that the present flourishing Mission Sabbath School of South St. Joseph was organized. In politics he has always been a Democrat.
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B. ULLMAN,
one of the most prominent men in his line in St. Joseph, is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Pennsylvania, August 1, 1824, and was raised in Philadelphia. When very young, he commenced working at the butchering business, and has followed it, in connection with dealing in stock, all his life. In 1857, he decided to "go West," with the inten- tion of going to San Francisco, but after reaching St. Joseph, he con- cluded to remain. He married Miss Jane Besard, who died in 1877, leaving three children, John, William and Emma.
RUDOLPH UHLMAN,
photographer, was born April 5, 1829, at Chemnitz, Saxonia, where, after having received his education, he visited the weaving school. There he had occasion to develop his talent for drawing, which he had shown already when a child, and after having graduated, he accepted an offer as designer in a weaving factory, which position he kept up to April 12, 1853, when he emigrated to America. He went from New York to New Haven, Connecticut, where he was employed for three years as designer in a suspender factory. In 1856, he concluded to go West, and on his way he met the Massachusetts Aid Society, who went to Kansas. He joined them, and under General Jim Lane, took an active part in the skirmishes and battles fought during 1856 and 1857. Then he went to the mountains, where he kept with success for two years, a general merchandise store. In 1860, he came to St. Joseph, and opened a photograph gallery, which he has carried on successfully, as he endeavors to execute his work in the most artistic style, and ever took hold immediately of any new improvement or invention in his line of business. He is an active member of the National Photographic Association of America. He was married in 1863, to Miss Lisette Doll, a native of Baden, Germany. They have four children, Willie, born September 30, 1865 ; Fred., born April 28, 1868; Emma, born May 4, 1870; Louis, born September 17, 1873.
WILLIAM ULLMAN
is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born November 16, 1855. He received a good education, after which he came to St. Joseph, in 1857. March 29, 1880, he engaged in his present business, and has been doing a prosperous trade.
WILLIAM VALENTINE,
brick manufacturer, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 16, 1850, and at an early age removed to Galena, Illinois, with his parents,
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where he was raised to manhood and educated. He learned locomotive engineering, and from 1868, to the present, has made St. Joseph his headquarters. For several years he engaged in different employments, and in 1877, engaged in his present vocation, which has proven success- ful under his skilled management.
JAMES .W. VANCE, M. D.,
was born in Abbeville, South Carolina, September 16, 1845. His father, James Kincaid Vance, was a cotton planter. The Vance family are of Scotch-Irish extraction, and are among the earliest settlers of the county, Dr. Vance's great grandfather being a well known planter in the State before the Revolutionary war. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Watson, also of South Carolina. The doctor is the eldest of a family of thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters. Of these ten survive. He received an excellent education at the State Military Academy in Charleston, and during the last three years of the war served in the cadet corps in the Confederate army. He early resolved to make the profession of medicine the pursuit of his life, and determining to acquire a knowledge of the science in the first medical school of the world, he visited Scotland, and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Edinburgh. After four years of unremitting application, he was graduated in 1870 with honors in a class of one hundred and fifty. He then returned to the United States and located in Greenville, South Carolina, where he practiced with great success for several years. In 1880 he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, his present (1881) home where, establishing himself, he was soon in posses- sion of a lucrative practice. December 2, 1866, Dr. Vance was married to Miss Susan Shelby Vance, daughter of William L. Vance, Esq., of Memphis, Tennessee. They have one child living, a daughter, Leta. Mrs. Vance is known in the literary world as the authoress of a popular satire on New Orleans and Memphis society entitled "Lois Carroll; or Her Two Selves," besides many poems of acknowledged merit.
AUGUSTUS VEGELY,
wholesale confectioner. Among the many successful business men who have made their home in Buchanan County no one is deserving of spe- cial notice more than the subject of this sketch. He was born in Alsace, on the 9th day of June, 1826. His father was a contractor, and the son assisted him until 1847, when he determined to avail himself of the advantages that America offered to men of energy and economy, when coupled with sterling honesty. He landed at New Orleans, where he remained only a short time, and then went to Galveston, Texas, and
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after a residence there of a few months, settled in St. Louis. In 1852,. he came to this county and engaged in his present business, and is the pioneer in his line now doing business, as well as one of the oldest firms in the city. His business at first was on a small scale and has grown year by year, and Mr. V. is a good illustration of what an industrious man can accomplish by giving his attention to one subject and bending his energies in one direction. He is eminently a self-made man, com- mencing with but little means, he has gained wealth and a prominent social position by preserving a straight-forward, true, honest and upright course, and has been eminently successful in all his undertak- ings. He has always shown a worthy public spiritedness and has heartily sympathized with all local improvements and enterprises. He built the first business building on Felix Street, on the corner of Fifth Street, on the lot where Baldwin & Co.'s jewelry store now stands. He has never been a political aspirant, preferring the peace and quiet of his legitimate business to the strifes and turmoils of public life. Was married to Miss A. Augustine, March 24, 1855. She is also a native of Alsace, and was born December 16, 1833. Their family consists of five children: Augustus, Adel, now Mrs. H. M. Ramey, Emma, Oliver R. and Norman' O. They lost one son, Edward. 0
B. R. VINEYARD,
attorney-at-law, was born upon what is known as the Platte Purchase, July 31, 1842. He was raised on a farm and educated at Pleasant Ridge College, near Weston, and at William Jewell College at Liberty, Clay County. In October, 1864, he began the study of law with Judge Henry M. Vories, at St. Joseph, and was admitted to the bar March, 1866. He established himself in the practice of his profession at St. Joseph, and in 1868, formed a partnership with Silas Woodson and S. A. Young. He was married on the 19th day of May, 1868, to Miss Emma Hoagland, daughter of Hon. George T. Hoagland, President of Buchanan Bank, and by this union had three children. He is a member of the M. E. Church South, and was for two years member of the City Council. Since 1873 Mr. Vineyard has been alone in the practice, and has achieved an enviable rank among the best lawyers of St. Joseph. Politically he has always been a Democrat.
HEINRICH VOSS,
dealer in wall paper, window shades, manufacturer of mattresses, etc., was born August 9, 1831, at Pinneberg, Holstein, where he was raised and learned the trade of upholsterer. In 1854 he emigrated to America and landed at New York city September I, from there going to Cincin-
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nati, Ohio, where he remained several months. Then went to New Orleans, and after seven months came to St. Joseph in April, 1855. Here he was employed at his trade for some years, and in 1862 estab- lished himself in business, keeping a full line of wall paper, window shades and baby carriages. Being an upholsterer, he added the manu- facture of mattresses, to which he paid his full attention. He married November 22, 1863, Miss Kathrina Ketzel, of Nebraska City. They have had seven children, Calvin, born in 1864, died July, 1865 ; Rose, born in 1867 ; George, born in 1869; Frank, born in 1871 ; Oscar, born in 1873; Katharina, born in 1875, died when three weeks old ; Adolph, born in 1876, died in 1881.
EGID WAGNER
was born in Bavaria, September 5, 1843. In 1859 he moved to the United States, and settled in St. Joseph, Missouri. Poor in purse, but rich in that indomitable spirit of enterprise and perseverance which always commands success, he started a bakery, and by strict attention to business soon built up the lucrative trade he still continues to enjoy. By industry, economy, and judicious management, he has acquired val- uable property in the city, and now owns the substantial block in which the Atlantic Hotel, which he formerly kept, and his bakery are located. A self-made man, he has succeeded, without effort, in impressing his fel- low-citizens with a sense of his personal judgment and ability in busi- ness affairs, and was elected by a large majority to the office of Council- man from the Fourth Ward. May, 1866, he married Miss Theraca Von Arx, of St. Joseph. They have seven children living: August, Jose- phine, Mary, Flora, Emma, Agnes and Rosa.
CAPTAIN GEORGE WECKERLEN
was born August 18, 1823, at Siblingen, Canton Schaffenhausen, Switzer- land, where he was educated. March 24, 1852, he left home, went to Havre, and took passage on a sailing vessel to New Orleans, which place he reached after fifty-six days' journey. Resting for two days, he went on to St. Louis, and thence to .St. Joseph, arriving May 28, 1852. He accepted the first offer of work as laborer. In 1857, he engaged in the grocery business, and in 1859, opened a saloon, which was burned out in 1861. When the war broke out he raised a cavalry company and was commissioned Captain, and attached to Colonel Peabody's regiment, which was captured at Lexington, Missouri. Weckerlen, being cut off with his company, was successful in making his escape, and to reach Springfield and Sedalia, where thirty-five men of his company served as a body-guard of General Sturgis. January 1, 1862, he returned to St. Jos-
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eph, and his company was mustered out. Then he raised a new com- pany and joined Colonel Penick's regiment, in which he served up to September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. For about two years he bought horses and mules for the government. In 1865, he started a train of wagons loaded with general merchandise for Denver, Colorado. On the plains the news of the assassination of President Lin- coln and his death, reached them. The people in the far West were dis- couraged, no business was transacted, and Weckerlen had to dispose of his goods with great loss. When he returned, he commenced to deal in live stock, and has been very successful. He married February 3, 1848, in Germany, Miss Salomina Rueddi. They have had eight children- Jacob, born March 18, 1849; Louise, born in 1851, died in three months ; Heinrich, born in 1853, died in 1855; Adelheid, born in 1860, died in 1869; Lilly, born in 1862, died in two months ; Lizzie, born July 24, 1855 ; George, born June 27, 1865 ; Heinrich, born April 3, 1867, died in 1869.
PHILIP WECKERLIN
was born March 21, 1838, at Siblingen, Switzerland, where he was raised. In 1855, he emigrated to the United States, and went from New Orleans to St. Louis, where he was employed as a baker for four years. In 1859, he came to this city, and found employment at his trade, at which he worked for three years. In 1862, he commenced business for himself, which he carried on with great success, and in 1865 opened a boarding house and saloon. By his industry he accumulated wealth and made good investments in real estate. He married, in 1862, Miss Eliz- abeth Knoth. They have had three children-Emma, born January 17, 1863, died October 9, 1863 ; Anna, born July 29, 1867 ; and Philip Ferdi- nand, born May 29, 1871.
JOHN T. WARBURTON
was born in Bury, Lancashire, England, on the 22d day of November, 1845, and lived in various parts of England until nearly ten years old. About May 1, 1855, he sailed with his parents from Liverpool, England, and after a voyage of five weeks, landed at Boston, Massachusetts. Leaving that port two days after, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, remain- ing there until September, 1855, when he came with his parents.to St. Joseph, Missouri. In the spring of 1857 the Warburton family moved to Elwood, Kansas, and during the summers of 1857 and 1858, John T. peddled apples on the ferry boat running between St. Joseph and Elwood. During the year 1859 he commenced work on the Elwood Free Press as an apprentice at the printing business. Here he worked until in 1861, when the paper was suspended on account of the war, the
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proprietor and editor both enlisting in the Union army. John T. being too young to enlist, the publishers of the Free Press insisted on his going with them, anxious to have it said that the whole office had joined the army. After remaining with their regiment about six months and being with them during the raids through Jackson and Bates Counties, Missouri, and while his command was in camp at Lawrence, Kansas, young Warburton, not being an enlisted soldier, left and came home. During the months of July and August, 1862, he worked on the St. Joseph Morning Herald, and on the Ist day of September, of that year, enlisted in Company I, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry Volunteers, at Elwood, the regiment being mustered into the service at Atchison, and immediately after was ordered South in General Blunt's command to the State of Arkansas, where he participated in several engagements. In consequence of his extreme youth he gained the designation of "the boy of the regiment." During the last eighteen months of service he was detailed clerk at regimental and post headquarters at Fort Smith, Arkansas. His regiment was mustered out of service at Little Rock, on 26th day of June, 1865, and he returned direct to St. Joseph. In the year 1866 Mr. W. commenced work in the Herald job office, of which the present St. Joseph Steam Printing Company is the out-growth. He has been steadily employed here for the past sixteen years. On the 20th of July, 1871, he married Miss Margaret E. Long. The fruits of their marriage are four children : Thomas, deceased, Katie L., Mary Jane and Nellie Elizabeth. He is a member of the following orders : St. Joseph Typographical Union, Knights of Pythias and Endowment Rank of same, Subordinate Lodge and Encampment of I. O. O. F. and U. A. O. D. Mrs. Warburton is Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge I. O. O. F.
W. H. WATERS,
is a native of Virginia, and was born at Faulquer's Court House May 29, 1823. At an early age he removed to Henry County, Kentucky, with his parents, and was there reared and educated. In 1843 he came to Missouri, and was the first settler in the town of New Castle, Gentry County. He engaged in merchandising and resided there eighteen years, was postmaster, and for four years Justice of the Peace, and also for a number of years practiced law. In 1865 he came to St. Joseph, and for a time was engaged in trade, and has since been in the employ of different firms-R. L. McDonald, James Sanders, Kahn & Schloss, F. G. Hopkins & Co., and others. Mr. Waters is a gentle- man of wide experience in business, and is favorably known in commer- cial circles of St. Joseph.
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JOHN WARFIELD,
grocer, was born on the 8th of October, 1825, in St. Louis County, Mis- souri, his father, John, Sr., being among the early settlers in the Terri- tory. He was a farmer by vocation, and young John spent his early days in tilling the soil. In 1841 he commenced to learn the tinner's trade in the establishment of David Andrews, at Boonville, Missouri, remaining six years, after which he went to St. Louis and worked as journeyman for a time. On the 5th of July, 1848, he became a resident of St. Joseph, which at that time was in its primitive state, and Mr. W. has since been a resident. He kept pace with its progress and grew solid like the city. He commenced as a journeyman with Messrs. Con- ner & Love, dealers in stoves and tinware. The firm was afterwards Kercheval & Welch, and later Kercheval Bros. In 1856 in company with R. F. Maxwell, he bought out this establishment, and the firm was well known until 1872 as Maxwell & Warfield. In that year Mr. W. engaged in his present business. He has been twice married; first, in 1849 to Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who died, leaving one son, William H. Mr. W. was again married in 1866 to Louisa Johnson, by whom he has one son, Lawrence E.
FRED. WEDDLE,
farmer, section 26, postoffice St. Joseph, was born May 31, 1830, and is a native of Denmark. Was reared in his native country, receiving a collegiate education .. In 1846, he came to America, landing at New York, and from there to Weston, Platte County, Mo., and in a short time to Buchanan County. In 1849, he went to California, and was there engaged in mining and trading till 1854, when he returned to Buchanan County. His farm contains 150 acres. Was married May 22, 1861, to Miss M. C. Nelson, who is a native of Norway, and was born May IS, 1834. They have seven children-Fred A., Peter N., Charlotte, Martha E .. Valdemar, Harold and Nettie.
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