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William Herman Morlock was born in Hermann, Mo., the county seat of Gasconade, March 27, 1841; iis parents were Jacob and Fredericka Morlock, atives of Baden, Germany, from which place they mmigrated to America in 1839; after stopping a short time in Philadelphia removed to Hermann, where they located. Mr. Morlock, in his youth, en- oved the educational advantages afforded by the own of his birth, where he was engaged as a clerk ยป the general store of R. Schlender; from here he vent to St. Louis, where ho secured a position in he old Seventh street depot, under Charles MeKis- ock, telegraph operator, having learned the busi- ess previously at Hermann.
He resigned in 1861, at the age of 20, and entered he service of the government as U. S. Military tele- graph operator, in which position he continued hroughout the war, his duties carrying him to all arts of the State. When the struggle was ended which settled the permanency of the Union of States e secured a position as operator for the U. S. Tel- graph Company, which then had an office in this ity and was building a line in opposition to the Western Union. In this work he continued until 866, when he bought a stock of general merchan- lise from Jacob Tanner and leased his building, which he continued to occupy three years, when he purchased the ground on the corner of Jefferson and unklin and erected the substantial brick building n which he has continued to do a prosperous busi- tess in general merchandising and farm machinery inee. He was united in marriage in 1866 to Miss ena, daughter of Frederick and Phillopena Ker- er, of Hermann, Mo. To this union have been born our boys and seven girls. The eklest, William, an excellent young man of sterling worth, died at the ge of 27. The second child, Miss Toney, was also
at home. Otto J., just reaching his majority, is as- sisting in his father's store. Miss Agnes died when just merging into womanhood. Miss Emma is a stenographer. Miss Fredericka, a graduate of the Jefferson City High School, is at home, and Misses Cary and Lena are at school, as is also the youngest,." Grover Cleveland, a lad of 11 years. Mr. Morlock, in addition to his large mercantile interests, is a stockholder in and Vice-President of the Merchants' Bank of Jefferson City. He is a member of the German Evangelical church. He has during his residence of thirty-four years in Jefferson City, in addition to raising a large family and giving them the advantages of an education and the comforts and luxuries of a well-regulated home, performed credibly the duties of a good citizen, and by the prudent exercise of his judgment and close atten- tion to business, made himself comfortably well-off, and now is properly recognized as one of the lead- ing and substantial men of the Capital City.
G. W. TREMAIN.
George Washington Tremain, of Russellville, was born on a farm in Miller county near Tusenmbia, September 3, 1873, where he remained until the age
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of thirteen, attending the neighboring school. He was later a student at the Aurora Springs Acad- emy. and took a course at the State Normal at War- rensburg. When seventeen years of age he engaged in teaching. In 1889 he took charge as foreman of the office of the Aurora Springs "Crescent." a week- ly publication, where he continued one year. In 1895 he came to Russellville, purchasing the "Rust- ler," which he continued to manage most success- fully four years, when he disposed of the plant to his brother, the present owner and publisher. MIr. Tremain was married in 1893 to Miss Jennie Weav- er, of Indiana, whose parents had recently removed to Eldon in Mitler county. Three children have been born to this union, two boys and one girl. To Mr. Tremain's four years' residence and enterprising and well directed efforts, greatly aided by his publi-
cation, Russellville is largely indebted for her pres- ent importance and unusual advantages for a vil- lage of its size and environments. He built the well appointed office which the "Rustler" now occupies, and also was the means of adding the Band Park, a most delightful resort, in which there has been a successful celebration each year since its open- ing. In this work he was greatly aided by his tal- ent as a musician, being an exceptionally good per- former on almost every musical instrument, and in addition a fine vocalist, with a voice rich in volume and tone. In the conduct of his paper, he has con- finnously and ably supported the Democratic party. Fortunately for Russellville, this storting and active young man continues to make his home in that thriving village, being engaged principally in deal- ing in railroad timbers. Mr. Tremain is a young man with a bright and well balanced mind, which,
coupled with his enterprise and industry, makes fo him a promising future.
DR. G. B. WINSTON.
Dr. George Biekerton Winston was born in Gree county, Kentucky, June 9, 1822, and came to Mi souri with his father who settled in Cole county i 1833. Ilere his life was mainly spent and his cha acter formed. He graduated from MeDowell Medical College in St. Louis with the class of 184 The same year he volunteered for the war wit Mexico, and was elected Second Lientenant of Col pany F. On his return from California, after a fe years, his earnest, active life as physician cor menced. He married Miss Sarah F. Hough, of Je ferson City, in 1853, and at this time has three so living: Dr. Warwick Winston is in Shangh: China, practicing his profession, (dentistry) ; Geor; Bickerton Winston is in Anaconda, Montana, e gaged in the practice of law, and Chas. A. Winsto Esq., of this city, residing with his mother, M. Sarah F. Winston. Dr. Winston, in many respec was a remarkable man. Without being conscions it he was a born leader of men, and the end and ai of his ambition was to become useful and emine in the profession of his choice, and his reputati was much more than local. The St. Louis Conri of Medicine says of him just after his death, JJu 22, 1882: "So far as we have been able to ascerta Dr. Winston (of JJefferson City, Mo.) was the fil to call attention to the value of gallinacrous peps in the treatment of atonie dyspepsia. Though t idea has been extensively used of late, and wi excellent results under the name of "ingluvin,": think due eredit has not been given Dr. Winst for calling the attention of the profession to which he did in a paper read before the State Me cal Association a number of years ago."
A more thoroughly conscientious physician ney lived. To the end of his long professional life he w a hard student. The writer, who knew him ir mately, once ventured to remark to him: "Doet what necessity is there for this ceaseless labor a study at your time of life?" with a look of astoni ment never to be forgotten, he replied: "My dear : I am under bonds to do it. When I offered my p fessional services to this community there was implied covenant on my part, so far as God ga me strength and ability, I would use them : gathering up and digesting all that has been s or written in regard to the diseases to which hum flesh is heir, and if I should lose a patient becar of my ignorance of the latest and best experien
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of others in the treatment of a given case a just God would hold me responsible for the loss, through inexensable ignorance, of a precious human life, and punish me accordingly; and whenever I get my con- sent to be content with present professional attain- ments and trust to my own experience for success, I will withdraw from the practice and step from under a weight of honorable obligation which, with my best endeavors to meet honestly and conscien- tiously, still sometimes is almost heavier than I can bear." With him a principle was right or wrong, a policy good or bad. There was no half way rest- ing place for him. lle had little respect for com- promises, and only pity for that feebleness of char- acter which yielded up to its convictions rather than contend for them.
While sometimes to strangers he may have ap- peared a little anstere, his friends knew him to be as gentle and sympathetic as a woman, and left to his own choice, he was more at home in a company of little children than on the march as soldier and pioneer from the Missouri to the Rio Grande, or from the borders of the State to the gold fields of California.
He remembered his services in the field and his experience in mining camps as periods in his life bringing ample opportunities for the study of men away from the restraints of civilization and the in- finences of home and family, and regarded these divergencies as time profitably spent. Face to face with danger and trying emergency he was as cool and deliberate a man as lived. To illustrate: He was one of the unfortunate excursionists from St. Louis, in November, 1855, on the railway train that went down with the Gasconade bridge. It was a fearful hour. A terrible storm was raging; black clouds had so obscured the sun that familar faces could scarely be recognized except by the flashes of lightning, which were blinding in their brightness; the thunder pealed as though the artillery of giants was in deadly conflict in the clouds. The pale faces of the dead and groans of the wounded and dying, were seen and heard on every side. Dr. Winston, was himself severely wounded and suffering in- tensely from pain, faintness and loss of blood. He was at last discovered, sewing up and dressing his own wound, and when Dr. McDowell, his old surgi- cal instructor and friend. said: "Winston, let me attend to you," he replied: "No. Doctor; go where von may save a life. I do not think my wound is fatal." Unfortunately there are few such charac- ters. Ile was a man among men.
O. E. BURCH.
Oscar E. Burch, Secretary and Treasurer of the Burch-Berendzen Grocer Co .. was born in Jefferson City. July 30, 1868, where he graduated from the High School class of 1885. On account of ill health he went to Southern California, engaging first in the grocery business. Later was assistant postmaster at Glendale, and soon after he engaged successfully in contracting and building. Recovering his health he returned to Jefferson City, November, 1894, when
he organized the Burch-Berendzen Grocer Co., and has given this business his close personal attention since. He was united in marriage June 17, 1897, to Miss Bessie, daughter of George Hope, sr., of Jeffer- son City. Mr. Burch is a young man of exceptional habits, an active member of the Presbyterian church, of which he is a deacon, is a stockholder in the First National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal .. and an enterprising, sagacions business man, who gives promise of a continued successful and useful life. His home is 111 East Miller street.
SPEED MOSBY.
Speed Mosby, Deputy Clerk of the Missouri Supreme Court, was born in Osage county, Missouri, at the village of Linn, May 1, 1874. He is the young- est son of the late Sammel Mosby, lawyer and ex- Confederate soldier, who died shortly after election
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to the Missouri Senate, in 1892; on his father's side, is the fourth lineal descendent of Capt. Hal Speed, who fell at the battle of Guilford Court House in the Revolutionary War, and on the side of his mother is the third lineal descendent of Sylvester Pattie, a Kentucky pioneer who came to Missouri in 1812 and who, during the war of 1812. served in the American army as lieutenant of the Rangers.
Mr. Mosby attended a country district school until thirteen years of age, when he began working at the printer's trade. At the age of seventeen he
went to the State of California to follow that trade, but had worked there but a few months when family affairs called him home. In 1892 he was associated with his brother Bayard as editor and publisher of the Unterrified Democrat, at Linn, Mo., and during that great "free trade" campaign the tariff question was discussed in his editorials with a degree of clearness that showed the writer to be perfect master of his subject. He wields a facile pen, and many of his essays are well known, a few of which may be briefly mentioned here.
In 1896 his first essay on "Church Taxation" was published in the North American Review. The bold stand taken in defense of the churches, and the great scholarship and invincible logie which the author arrayed in defense of his position, caused the article to be discussed, especially in religions cir- cles, throughout the United States. It was pub
liely assailed in New York by the Rev. Madison Peters, while the New York Catholic News defende the article in a two-column editorial. It was tran lated into German and published in the Ameril and other German papers in the West. while in Bo ton the article was catalogued by one of the publ libraries and given a place among the archives the institution on the subject of taxation.
In the same year his essay on "The Fellow-Se vant Doctrine" appeared in the American Law R view. This article, in which the laws on the su jeet, both of the several States and of the leadir European nations were reviewed, attacked the fo low-servant doctrine as being unjust and unreaso able. Among the journals making favorable edito ial comment upon this article may be mention the National Corporation Reporter of Chicago, 1 Conceiving the article to be a strong argument the interest of railway labor, the Missouri Lab Bureau issued a special report containing it, ar printed fifty thousand copies of the same, many which were circulated in Missouri, contributir greatly, no doubt. to the popular movement whie culminated in the enactment of the Fellow-Serva act of 1897.
In 1898 he was a frequent contributor to tl Mississippi Valley Democrat and Journal Agriculture of St. Louis, while that paper w: in charge of that distinguished poet, rhet rician and philosopher. William Vincent Byar and in that paper some of Mr. Mosby's best poli cal essays were published, one of them entitle "Plutocracy and Poverty," being extensively copie by the country press in Illinois and Missouri. this year also appeared his "Dangers of Politic Apathy," in the North American Review.
His articles on "Some Defects in the Missou Constitution." "The Monroe Doctrine." "The Grow of the Lobby System." all published in the St. Lou Republic, and his essay entitled "Politics and Pi pit." published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ma be possibly known to the readers of this sketch.
Although deprived of the opportunity of secu ing an education in the schools, he has alwa; evinced the greatest interest in educational matter and some of his writings in the American Journal Education and in the Missouri School Journal, a well known to members of the teaching professio He is now serving his second term as Secretary the Missouri State School Board Association, and a member of the JJefferson City Board of Educatio
October 25, 1896, he was examined by the Judge of Division No. 1 of the Supreme Court, and license to practice law, of which science he has now bee
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a student for eight years, although his favorite study is history.
He was married September 4. 1895, to Bertha, daughter of the late Herman Neef of Jefferson City. Of this union two children have been born, a daughter, Frances Elaine, now nearly four years of age, and a son, Donald Speed, now 10 months of age.
While Mr. Mosby has always been a Democrat. he writes his political creed with but a single word -"Justice:" and in theserviceof this principle from which all good doctrines flow. his voice and pen have ever been enlisted. He made a number of speeches for the Democratic nominee during the special Congressional campaign in Bland's old dis- triet in 1899, and has always done good work for the principles in which he so sincerely believes.
MICHAEL SCHUBERT.
In the commercial world there is now developing in all the principal cities large department stores, the result of the enterprise and the executive abili- ty of some one individual. We find these giant commercial establishments now in all of the large cities. In Philadelphia. for instance, John Wanna- maker is the head of the list. In Chicago, Marshall Field; in St. Louis, Barr, Crawford and others; but one would hardly expect to find an establishment entitled to class proportionately with these great concerns in a village in Cole county, yet such is the case. The well appointed and managed general store of the Schubert-Weiler Mercantile Company at Russellville is the largest and best appointed de- partment store in the county. Their ground floor space tevery foot of which is utilized to accommo- date their large and varied stock of merchandise, which includes everything needed by a human be- ing. from the cradle to the grave) is 54 by 128 feet ; in addition, the upper rooms are used for duplicate stock. furniture, hardware, etc. The head and Pres- ident of this company is Michael Schubert, who was born on a farm in Cole county, near Taos, Septem- ber 25, 1869, where he was reared. attending the pub- lie and a private German school in the nearby vil- lage. At the age of 24 he associated in the mervan- tile business with F. Steffens, at Decatur, continu- ing four years, when they dissolved partnership and he removed to Barnett, in Morgan county, where he purchased a stock of goods and continued a most successful business the following six years. From there he removed to Russellville in 1895, where he was one of the organizers of the Russellville Ex- change Bank, of which he was cashier for two years,
during which time, however, be was also engaged in the furniture and hardware business, which assumed such proportions that he resigned his position in the bank in order to give this his whole attention .. In 1897, in order to accommodate the stock for his largely increasing business, he extended his store building back 128 feet. In the fall of 1898, Mr. Weiler (who is at present associated with him in business) rented one of his store rooms and engaged in the general dry goods business. The association and observation resulting from their close business relations developed a mutual respect and confidence, which resulted in their uniting their mercantile in-
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terests and incorporating under the present firm name of the Schubert-Weiler Mercantile Company. As a result of their united interests their trade is greatly extended. many buyers coming a distance of fifteen or twenty miles, being drawn by their low prices, large and varied stock from which to make selections. Mr. Schubert was married September 29. 1889, to Miss Mary, daughter of Martin and Kath- erine Schneider, of Taos. This companion, who is the mother of his daughter. Frieda, now & years of age, he had the misfortune to lose by death in De- cember, 1893. His present wife was Miss Emma Kantsch. of Lohman, to whom he was married May 11, 1897, and is the mother of his boy. AAlmer. now 2 years of age. Mr. Schubert is a member of the M. W. 1. and of the Lutheran church. Ile occupies his own comfortable home in the village of Russellville and also owns the building occupied by the mercan- tile company, of which he is President. Although he has had large and varied experience and been emi- nently successful he still is in the prime of life, with every prospect of being able to fully gratify his am- bition as a successful merchant and business man.
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J. L. RITCHIE.
Jacob Lee Ritchie, of the firm of Ritchie & Stark, proprietors of the Russellville Roller Mills, was born on a farm near Prairie Home in Cooper county, June 21, 1864, where he continued until twenty-one years of age. Ilis education being in the neighboring dis- triet schools. He engaged in farming ou his own account. renting a farm near his birthplace. where he continued for four years, running also a thresh- ing machine and saw mill. Removing to Moniteau county he purchased a farm, which he continued in connection with his saw mill and threshing machine four years, when he sold his interests and removed to Boone county, associating with C. A. Edwards in building a mill at Huntsdale, which was conducted
with marked financial success four years, when he disposed of his interests to his partner. About this time the enterprising village of Russellville, in its etforts to secure the advantages of a mill tone of the most important elements in aiding the material progress of any town, offered him a bonus of about $1,000 and the ground if he would establish there a good roller mill; a proposition which he accepted. at once building a complete tifty-barrel roller mill. The wheat grown in that district being of an excep- tionally good quality. Mr. Ritchie, with his excellent mill, converted it into tour of such excellence. its popularity resulted in a demand requiring an in- creased capacity for production; as a result, he formed a partnership with Mr. W. A. Stark, and doubled the capacity of the mill. The Russellville Roller Mills now being one of the most complete in the county, with a demand for its produet, which keeps it running to its full capacity. Mr. Ritchie
was married July 26. 1885, to Miss Addie Belle Rains of Indiana, whose parents had recently re- moved to Cooper county. Seven children are the result of this union, five girls and two boys, who, to- gether with his congenial wife, make a most inter- esting and happy family circle in his elegant home, the most modern and complete in the town of his adoption. He is a member of the M. W. A., and is now banker of the Russellville Camp. a member of
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the Christian church, in which he fills the important office of elder. Mr. Ritchie is a self-made man, who is a natural born mechanic. His knowledge o: machinery and mechanism and his practical ability to construct is rarely found in a man with practica business sense and untiring industry. In Mr Ritchie's case, these qualities are combined. and although yet a young man who left home with only $150, he has made himself comfortable, and ha: promise of a continued useful life, in which he wil do his whole duty as a citizen and give to his family the comforts and advantages afforded by the wel directed efforts of a well balanced man.
B. W. LANSDOWN.
Bailey W. Lansdown was born on a farm in Miller county, near Iberia, the 9th day of June, 185! where he continued until twenty-one years of age when he started out in the world to fight the battl of life on his own account; when he left his parenta roof his wealth consisted of $11.65. His first wor on his own account was in JJackson county, wher he engaged in husking corn. He soon after wen to Butler, the county seat of Bates, where his firs position was clerk of a hotel. He remained in Bir ler five years, when he engaged as a traveling sales man, selling tobacco, in which he continued on
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year, when he embarked in the mercantile business at Enon; from this place, after two years, he re- moved to Olean, engaging in the same business suc- cessfully, eightreu months, when he disposed of his interests and removed to Decatur where he was again a general merchant, doing a prosperous busi- ness for three years. In 1892 be removed to Russell- ville, where he continued merchandising something over eight years, aiding materially during his stay to advance the village to its present. pro-
portions, it now being the second town in im- portance in Cole county. In May, 1899, he dis- posed of his interests at Russellville and removed to Centretown. where he is at present a successful merchant and doing a large business. Mr. Lansdown was united in marriage March 21, 1889, to Miss Tracy, daughter of F. Steffens, a wealthy and promi- nent merchant of Russellville, Mo. This union has been blessed with three children, bright, interesting girls, Anna, Clara and Ila. Mr. Lansdown, who is familiarly known as "Bailey," is a hustling, en- terprising, genial man, who has left many friends at every point where he has engaged in business. He has been eminently successful, financially, and in addition to his mercantile interests at Centre- town, is the owner of valuable real estate in Russell- ville and Olean and a large stockholder in the Rus- sellville Exchange Bank.
S. J. HAWKEN.
Saumel J. Hawken, editor and proprietor of the Cedar City Reporter, was boru at the foot of the Rockies, in Denver, September 10, 1861, to which place his father had removed for his health the year previous. When four years of age, his father
returned to St. Louis, where he soon after died. At the age of fifteen the subject of this sketch went to Franklin county, near Union, where he secured work on a farm, continuing until the age of twenty- one, when he began farming on his own account, tilliug the soil until 1892, when he engaged in the work of a carpenter. In 1897 he bought the New Haven "News Nofes," a weekly paper, which he sokl one year later. Removing to Chamois he established the "Head Light," which plant he also sold in De- cember, 1898, and January 1. 1899. assumed the man- agement of the Cedar City "Chronicle." In Novem- ber of the last year he leased the "Reporter" of that place, of which paper he has been editor and pub- lisher since. Mr. Hawken was married March 6, 1889 to Miss Dena Schorer, at Dundee, Franklin county. There came to his home and heart two boys and a girl to brighten his life. Mr. Hawken is
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