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HJe is endowed with excellent business and executive abilities which enable him to conduct his extensive lumber trade through the west with success, and to control his numerous employes with such systematic order and pre- cision that harmony is the result, thus adding thousands of dollars annually to the business of Louisiana city.
Charles Burkhart, proprietor of the Globe Hotel, Louisiana, Missouri, was born in Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio, Angust 22, 1845. When he was quite young he went with his parents to Tontogany, Ohio, where he lived until manhood and was educated. When he was twelve years of age, his father being dead, he was thrown on his own resources for maintenance. He worked on a farm until 1867 when he engaged in the restaurant busi- ness at Whitehall, Illinois, until 1869, when he came to Louisiana, Missouri, and again engaged in the restaurant business until 1875, when he discon- tinned it and become associated with 1I. C. Duffy, in the firm name of Duffy & Burkhart, and engaged in general merchandising in Louisiana. Hle retired from the firm in August, 1880, and in the following July he became associated with J. M. Blodgett, in the firm name of Blodgett & Burkhart, as proprietors of the Globe Hotel at Louisiana. In October, 1881, Mr. Blodgett retiring from the firm, left him sole proprietor. No- vember 22, 1876, he married S. Amanda, daughter of Charles H. Bealart, one of the original proprietors of the site of Louisiana city. They have one child, Charles Burt. HIe is a member of Riverside Lodge No. 22, A. O. U. W., of Louisiana.
Rev. Donald Kennedy Campbell, pastor of the first Presbyterian church of Louisiana, was born near Glasgow, Picton county, Nova Scotia, April 26, 1846, where he was raised. He is the son of Peter G. and Eliza- beth (Kennedy) Campbell, natives of the highlands of Scotland. He re- ceived the rudiments of his education in the grammar school of Glasgow; when nineteen he entered Dalhousie University at Halifax, graduating as A. B .; and when twenty-three he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he graduated as B. D. when he was twenty-six. He then, in May, 1872, became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Aberdeen, Mary- land, where he preached until 1876, when he recieved a call from the Pres- byterian Church at Paradise, Peun., where he preached until 1874, when he entered on the home missionary work, and was sent by that board to Joplin, Missouri, where he preached until 1879, when he was sent to Wakeeney, Kansas, where he preached until March, 1882, when he received a call from the first Presbyterian Church of Louisiana city. September 22, 1874, he married Margaret Jessie MeGillioray of Picton, Nova Scotia. They have
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four children; William Bruce, Anne McGillioray, Gordon Hensley, and Arthur Wallace.
Rev. James Washington Campbell, was born near Cynthiana, Har- rison county Kentucky, January 13, 1801. He lived with his parents, William and Jane (Gooch) Campbell, at his birthplace, until he was ten years of age, and near Versailles, Woodford county, Kentucky, until he was twelve, and then near Franklin, Williams county, Tennessee, until he was seventeen, when he came with them to Missouri in 1818, they settling in the vicinity of Bowling Green. Pikecounty. He had obtained a fair education before . coming to Missouri by attending school at the various places where his parents have lived, and by private study and reading. He continued to make his home with his parents until bis marriage in 1827, with Sophia A. Henry, of Lincoln. Missouri. In 1822 he professed religion and united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at New Lebanon, Cooper county, Missouri, and was licensed to preach at Bethel, Boone county, in the fall of 1824, and began to officiate as a missionary for the Cumberland Presbyte- rian Chinreht. His district was St. Charles, Lincoln, Montgomery, Callaway, and Boone counties, and was called the St. Charles district. Soon after be be- gan his labors, Marion, Balls, and Pike counties were added to his district. He is the pioneer minister of those counties. His rides through unbroken forests and over prairies without roads kept him constantly in the saddle. His hearers met either in the primitive dwellings or the rude log school- houses of the day. His sermons averaged yearly 365. In the spring of 1826 he was regularly ordained at the house of Perry Erixson in Lincoln county. Rev. Finis Ewing, presiding, gave the charge and Rev. Robert D. Morris preached the ordination sermon. During that year he was placed in charge of the Antioch church, the first Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized in northeastern Missouri, being organized in 1819. In 1827 he settled on land in Calumet township, Pike county, which is now on the gravel road between Louisiana and Clarksville, and is now owned by J. M. Jump, and the house he then built of hewn logs is still standing. He re- moved from there to the Antioch settlement in 1828 where he purchased a farm on which he lived until 1836 when he removed to Bowling Green. Soon after being placed in charge of the Antioch church, several more churches were added. Among them were Ashley, Frankford, and Buffalo, he preaching monthly at each place. After his removal to Bowling Green in 1836, with his pastoral duties he also engaged in the mercantile business, having at different times been associated with Harvey T. MeCune, G. B. Crane, William Watts, and his brother J. G. Campbell. The goods sold
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were bought at Philadelphia and Baltimore, and to replenish his stock he made long tedious trips to those places twice a year. Ile retired from the mercantile business in 1553, when he removed to a farm he owned in the vicinity of Bowling Green until 1866, when he removed to another farm that he owned near Louisiana, where his wife died in 1872, at the age of sixty-six. By her he has five children living: William IL, justice of the peace at Bowling Green; Robert A., an attorney at law at St. Louis, and now lieutenant governor of the state; John T., an attorney at law at Santa Rosa, California, and a member of the legislature of that state; Robert B., a lum- ber merchant at Clarksville; and Benjamin M., a farmer of Buffalo township, who owns his father's homestead, with whom his father has lived since 1873, and with whom he expects to spend the remainder of his days. Mr. Camp- bell retired from the active duties of the ministry in 1879, after spending nearly sixty years of his life in preaching the gospel. His name in Pike and adjoining counties is as familiar as household words. At the altar he has joined hundreds in the holy bonds of matrimony, by the ordinance of baptisin he has consecrated unknown numbers to a life of holiness, and to the bereaved he has spoken words of consolation, and as the sands of his life have nearly run he, with Christian resignation and fortitude, awaits the summons that will call him hence.
Capt. Stuart Carkener, chief deputy collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of Missouri, and attorney at law. He is the son of George Y. and Sarah E. (Hall) Carkener, and was born at Tecumseh, Michi- gan, December 13, 1887. where he was raised and lived with his parents nn- til manhood. He was educated at the Michigan State University. When he left home he began teaching in the college at Montgomery City, Mis- sonri, teaching there and at Warrenton and other places in Missouri, and at the same time privately studying law, until the spring of 1862, when he was admitted to the bar at Warrenton. Warren county, Missouri, and at once began the practice of law at Danville, Montgomery county, Missouri. In the fall of 1862 he was commissioned second lientenant in the M. S. M., serving only a short time, when he became a member of Company K, Thirty-third Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was chosen and commissioned first licutenant of his company and served during the war. In June, 1863, he was promoted to the captainey of Company G, of the same regiment. July 4. 1863, he was seriously wounded on the field at the bat- tle of Helena, Arkansas, and was in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, some two months. During the last two years of the war he served as judge advocate on the staff's of Generals Mower and Mc-
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Arthur. He participated in many battles, the most important being those of Helena, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee; Tupelo, Mississippi; the battle of the Red River campaign, Sherman's Meridian campaign, and the campaign against General Price in Missouri. He also served as provost marshal of the city of Selma, Alabama, during the summer of 1865. He was inustered out of the service at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, in August, 1865, when he returned to Danville and resumed the practice of law. During 1868 he served as circuit attorney for the third judicial circuit of Missouri, embrac- ing the counties of Pike, Lincoln, Montgomery, and Warren. In 1877 he removed to Lonisiana and became associated in the law practice with Wil- liam H. Biggs, in the firm name of Biggs & Carkener. In 1880 he retired from the firm, and on account of failing health abandoned the practice of law and engaged for one year in the manufacture of tobacco at Louisiana. In the summer of 1882 he received the appointment of chief deputy collec- tor of internal revenue in the fourth district of Missouri, under D. A. Stew- art. November 14, 1866, he married Mary E. Drury, of Danville, Missouri. They have four children: Gertrude, George. Anna, and Lucile. Himself and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Louisiana, of which he is a ruling elder and sabbath-school superintendent.
William H. Carroll, of Buffalo township, is a descendant of one of the oldest families in the eastern part of Pike county. Mr. Carroll is a native of North Carolina, born November 7, 1813, in York district. His father, Joseph Carroll, was born in 1781 and raised in South Carolina. The mother, Isabella Henry, was a daughter of William Henry, of South Caro- lina, who was a Revolutionary soldier and took part in the battle of King's Mountain. Joseph Carroll immigrated to Missouri with his family in the year 1817, and settled near what is now known as Buffalo Church, and moved into the cabin which had been occupied by Robert Jordou, who had been killed by the Indians. Joseph Carroll was a blacksmith by trade and brought his blacksmith tools with him from South Carolina, this being the first set of tools brought to Pike county. His shop was known far and near and served a good purpose in mending the many breaks incident to frontier life. While he did the neighborhood blacksmithing he carried on his farm at the same time. He was a man of powerful muscle. great en- ergy, and a determined will. He reared a family of eleven children, six boys and five girls, eight of whom still survive. The mother died in 1840 and the father in 1860. William H. Carroll, our subject, was but four years old when he came to Missouri, and it would be almost useless to tell how he spent his boyhood days. We can rest assured they were spent in
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the wilds of Pike county. Schools at that day were almost unknown, but the yonth had a thirst for books and he read whatever he could get hold of. On arriving at maturity he had acquired a sufficient knowledge to teach school, which, at that day, was considered a great accomplishment. Mr. Carroll has been twice married, his first wife dying soon after marriage. Ilis present wife, was Mary Stark, daughter of the late Judge James Stark, who belonged to pioneer families of the eastern part of this county, the marriage occurring in 1846, and soon after he moved to his present farmi, consisting of 250 acres, the greater part of which is in a high state of culti- vation. Mr. Carroll has for many years been considered one of the success- ful raisers of wheat; later, however, he has been turning his attention to raising stock. Hle has reared a family of cight children, three boys and five girls, all living. Mr. Carroll and all his family are devoted members of the Presbyterian Church.
Earnest Crutcher, M. D., was born at Nashville, Tennessee, March 20, 185S. He is the sixth of ten sons of William H. and Mary C. (Foster) Crutcher, natives of Virginia. He was raised and educated in his native city. His Alma Mater is the Main street high school of Nashville, Tennes- see, from which he graduated in the class of 1877. Prior to his gradua- tion, in 1875 and 1876, he was reporter for the Nashville Evening Banner. In the latter part of 1877 he began the study of medicine under the precep- torship of Dr. T. A. Atchison, professor of materia medica in the medical department of the Vanderbilt University, of Nashville, graduating as M. D. from that institution with distinction in March, 1879. His first practice was at Arcola, Missouri, under his brother, Dr. R. M. Crutcher, until the fall of 1879, when he entered the Homopathic Medical College of St. Louis, graduating in March, 1880, receiving the ad eunder degree, and in the following April located at Louisiana, practicing in both city and country, making a specialty of diseases of children. April 13, 1882, he married Miss Kate V., daughter of Joseph Morrow. of Summit Point, Virginia. He is a member of the M. E. Church South and fills the position of sabbath- school superintendent. He is a member of Anchor Lodge No. 60, K. of' P., of which, in 1881, he was chancellor commander, and represented his lodge in the grand lodge at Carthage, Missouri, in 1882.
Marcus Dreyfus, senior member of the firms of Dreyfus & Micheal, merchants, and of Dreyfus, Hall & Woracek, lumber dealers, is a native of Switzerland. He was born at Zurzach June 15, 1817, where he lived with his parents and attended school until his fourteenth year, when he was per- mitted by his father to sell goods in the vicinity of Zurzach, doing business
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on a small scale. He continued to sell goods until 1840, when he came to the United States and first located at St. Louis, Missouri, where he followed peddling six months, when he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and peddled some six months, when, in the latter part of 1811, he came to Pike county, Missouri, and became associated with his brother in the mercantile business at Frankford, they doing business for three years, up to 1844, when he en- gaged in farming in the vicinity of Louisiana, and with farming kept a wood yard at a landing on the Mississippi River that was called Dreyfus Landing. In 1854 he came to Louisiana and became associated with Earnest Waracek, as Dreyfus & Waracek, in the hardware business, they doing business in that line up to 1874. In 1866, in connection with the hardware business, he with his partner became associated with William T. Hill and established the present lumber company of Dreyfus, Hill & Waracek, of Louisiana. He is also associated with Sam- uel Micheal as Dreyfus & Micheal, and has been engaged in the mercantile business since 1867. In 1864 he and Mr. Waracek built the National Hall Block, on corner of Main and Georgia streets, and in 1868 they built the Lynott business house on Main between Georgia and South Carolina streets. In 1SSO he built the Dreyfus Block on Georgia street between Main and Third. In 1864 he was elected a member of the city council of Louisiana and re-elected in 1866, and served as councilman four years. In 1882 he was elected by the stockholders president of the Exchange Bank of Louisi- ana, and now fills that position. June 5, 1845, he married Rosa Kinney, of Pike county, Missouri. They have one child, Dr. James W. Dreyfus, of Louisiana, Missouri.
Joseph Linn Dyer, grocer, of Louisiana, was born near Troy, Warren county, Missouri, January 10, 1848. His mother dying when he was an in- fant he was taken by his grandmother, Mrs. Nancy R. Dyer, with whom he lived near Troy, Lincoln county, until 1865, when he came with her to Louisiana, where he attended school two years, when, in 1867, he began to work in the tobacco factory of Cash, Henderson & Co., and worked for them and in other factories in Louisiana until 1882, when he engaged in the grocery business. He is a member of the M. E. Church of Louisiana. He is a Good Templar and member of Louisiana Lodge No. 278.
William Andrew English, bricklayer and contractor, was born near Cynthiana, Harrison county. Kentucky, September 11, 1824. He is the son of William and Sarah (Dickson) English. He was raised a farmer at his birthplace, and his father being a bricklayer as well as a farmer he also learned that trade. He lived with his parents until 1850 when he next
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went to Paris, Kentucky, and worked at bricklaying one year when he came to Louisiana, Missouri, where he has followed his trade ever since. In 1862 he became a member of company K, - Regiment M. S. M. In the spring of 1863 he was elected second lieutenant by his company, and in 1865 was promoted to captain. Ile served at intervals during the war. Himself and wife are members of the Seventh Street M .. E. Church of Lonisiana.
Hon. Thomas James Clark Fagg is a native of Virginia, and was born near Charlottesville, Albemarle county, July 25, 1822. He is the youngest of four children of John and Elizabeth (Oglesby) Fagg. In 1836 he came with his parents to Missouri, they settling in Pike county near Bowling Green. In the following spring his parents sent him to Illi- nois College at Jacksonville. Previons to his coming to Missouri he had taken a preparatory course at the University of Virginia near his birth- place. His collegiate course was interrupted the first year by the death of an only brother, a student of the same college, when he returned home and remained until the following year, when he resumed his studies in the same college, but only to take an irregular course of three terms, when, in 1841, he again returned to his home and remained until 1843, when he entered the office of Hon. Gilchrist Porter as a law student at Bowling Green, with whom he studied until he was admitted to the bar in 1845. He then be- came associated in the law practice with Hon. James O. Broadhead at Bowling Green, with whom he practiced until 1848, when he removed to Clarksville where he continued his law practice, and also settled the large estate of H. T. Kent and brother. In the summer of 1850 he, espousing the Benton policy. became a candidate on that ticket for a seat in the legis- lature, but after a bitter and vindictive campaign he was defeated. In November, 1850, by a coalition of the Benton Democrats and Whig party, he was elected probate judge of Pike county, a position that he filled so acceptably that he was re-elected to the same office in 1854. In January, 1855, he resigned the judgeship to accept a seat in the legislature, to which he had been elected to fill a vacancy, and to which he was re-elected in 1858. Hle removed to Louisiana in 1856 and became associated with Hugh Allen in the practice of law, he retiring from the firm when he went to the legis- lature in 1SS. In 1575 he received the appointment of judge of the Lou- isiana court of common pleas, filling that position one year, when by an act of the legislature the circuit judge became judge ex officio of that court. In 1860 he was a candidate on the American ticket for lieutenant-governor, but with the rest of his ticket he was defeated. During the war he was an uncompromising Union man; and during the summer of 1861 assisted in
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organizing several companies of home guards, and was appointed by Gov- ernor Gamble brigade inspector with the rank of colonel. In the mean- time the Fifth Regiment of the State troops was organized, known as Fagg's Regiment, of which he was elected colonel and served in command until Jannary, 1862, when he was appointed judge of the third judicial district by the Governor to fill a vacancy, and in 1863 he was elected to the same office for a term of six years, but in 1865 the state convention passed an ordinance vacating all the offices in the state. Ile was then appointed by Governor Thomas C. Fletcher to fill the same position, which he held until September. 1866, when he was appointed one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and presided as such until the fall of 1868. Since he has held no office, but has twice run for Congress against Hon. A. HI. Buckner, in 1872 as the Republican candidate, and as an independent candidate in 1878. Mr. Fagg is a man endowed with broad and comprehensive views, and acquitted himself with honor in all the positions he has filled; a firm advocate of right, yet courteous in his bearing toward those with whom he came in contact. Since retiring from judicial and political honors he has successfully engaged in the practice of law at Louisiana and St. Louis, remov- ing to the latter place in July, 1882. He was at one time associated with Hon. D. P. Dyer in the law practice, and in June, 1879, his son E. B. Fagg and Hon. M. G. Reynolds, his son-in-law, became associated with him. form- ing the present law firm of Fagg, Reynolds & Fagg, of Louisiana city. November 11, 1847, he married Miss Madora, daughter of Eleazer Block, of Ashley, Pike county. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Master and Royal Arch Mason.
David Sevens Flagg, lumber merchant, of Louisiana city, is a native of Massachusetts. He was born at Middleton, Middlesex county, May 20, 1845. He was educated in the public schools, and in the scientific and lit- erary school of New London, New Hampshire. At the age of sixteen he left home and went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was employed by Joel Parker to work on his place in the suburbs of the city, for nearly a year, when the same gentleman procured him a situation as a clerk in a wholesale and retail furniture establishment in the city, where he remained until 1864, when he became desirons to try his fortune in the west, and that year he came to Chicago, Illinois, and soon after his arrival there he was employed by the United States government as a member of a pioneer corps, and was sent to Tennessee, The duty of his corps was to go in ad- vance of the Federal troops and rebuild bridges destroyed by the Confeder- ates, and he was many times placed in hazardous and dangerous positions, and
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in the battles of Johnsonville and Nashville took part as a private soldier, that being a contingent requirement of his corps. After the close of the war, in the fall of 1865, he made a short visit at his home in Massachusetts, and in the spring of 1866 he came to Missouri and located at Centralia, Boone county, where he was variously employed for a time, when, having acquired some knowledge of carpentering while in the army, he began to contract in building, which he followed nearly a year, when, on account of failing health, the result of exposure while in the army, he returned to Massachusetts and farmed his father's farm one year. In the spring of 1869 he returned to Centralia, Missouri, and resumed the business of build- ing and contracting, and in the following year added to it dealing in Ium- ber. His lumber trade rapidly increasing he abandoned that of building and devoted himself exclusively to the lumber business. In 1575 he established a general yard at Louisiana, and supplied his yards at Centralia and one he had established at Miami, Missouri, which were conducted by managers up to 1878, when he discontinued his branch yards and concen- trated them at Louisiana, where he is now doing an extensive busi- ness. Mr. Flagg's success is an exemplification that doing well whatever is found to do leads to success. He came west with no capital, excepting a determined and resolute will, and by hard work and persevering energy has secured for himself a pleasant and lucrative business footing. Septem- ber 22, 1880, he married Miss Ella Nora, daughter of Joseph Pollock, of Louisiana city.
Frederick Drummond Flye, manager of the Freeman Box and Wooden Ware Manufacturing Company, of Louisiana, is a native of Pike county, Mis- souri, and was born at Louisiana, January 7, 1859, where he was raised and educated, and lived with his parents until 1879, when he began busi- ness for himself as a grocer, and followed that business until 1880, when he engaged in packing ice for the trade, which proved unprofitable on account of his ice house being flooded by the high water of the Mississippi River, when he was soon after employed as a clerk by W. C. Freeman in bis wooden ware factory, and was with him one year, when he, with Mr. Freeman and others, incorporated the Freeman Box and Wooden Ware Manufactur- ing Company, of Louisiana, of which he became manager and now holds that position. May 26, 1880. he married Fannie, daughter of W. C. Free- man, of Louisiana, by whom he has one child, Walter.
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