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attending school he was a member of the Hospital Corps of Company A of the Fifty-fifth Iowa Infantry.
On the 19th of May, 1915, in Omaha, Dr. Kinyoun was married to Miss Marie Freeland, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Freeland, well known in Omaha. They have one child, Jack Homer, born in Omaha on the 7th of July, 1916.
Dr. Kinyoun had no assistance in the acquirement of his education after leaving the public schools but earned the money which enabled him to pay his way through the more advanced institutions, and at all times was prompted by a laudable ambition and an unfaltering determination. He is now a member of the Phi Beta Phi medical fraternity of Creighton University and he belongs to the Douglas County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, thus keeping in touch with the trend of modern thought and progress.
WALTER T. MORE.
Walter T. More, of the law firm of More & Jacobson, was born in Shelton, Nebraska, November 25, 1886, a son of Frank H. and Helen (Torrey) More. The father, a native of New York, came to Nebraska in 1880, settling in Shelton, where he engaged in mercantile business. In 1892 he removed to Kearney, where he was engaged in the same line for a number of years, meeting with substantial success. At length he decided to sell out and removed to Omaha, where he established the Tri-City Mercantile Agency and in this, too, he has met with prosperity, being still actively engaged along that line at the age of sixty-four years. His wife was born in New Jersey and in girlhood removed with her parents to Wisconsin, the family home being established at Lake Geneva, where she was afterward married. To Mr. and Mrs. More have been born three children : Mrs. W. C. McConnell, of Saratoga, Wyoming; Walter T .; and Helen, living with her parents in Omaha.
In early life Walter T. More entered the public schools of Shelton, Nebraska, and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1904. He afterward became a law student at Creighton University, where he completed his course in 1914 and then entered upon active and successful practice. He is now senior partner in the firm of More & Jacobson and they occupy a creditable position as prominent lawyers of the city, practicing in all the courts. He worked his way through college and his determination to thus secure an education argued well for later success in active practice. He now stands high in legal circles and his clientage is of a distinctively representative character.
In politics Mr. More maintains an independent course. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the Fraternal Aid Union and he is also identified with the Gamma Eta Gamma, a legal fraternity.
WILLIAM HERMAN BUCHOLZ.
Arriving in Nebraska when a youth of sixteen years, William Herman Bucholz almost immediately afterward entered banking circles and throughout the intervening period has made steady progress in connection with the financial interests of the state and ranks today with its leading bankers as the first vice president and therefore one of the executive officers of the Omaha National Bank. He was born upon a farm in Clayton county, Iowa, in 1866, a son of Dietrich W. and Mary (Wolke) Bucholz. The father, a native of Hanover, Germany, was born in 1817 and was therefore about thirty-two years of age
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when in 1849 he came to the United States, settling in Clayton county, Iowa, where he married. There he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1883, while his wife passed away in 1871.
William H. Bucholz was but five years of age at his mother's death and was a youth of but seventeen when he was left an orphan. After attending the district schools of Clayton county and the high school at Guttenberg, Iowa, he ran away from home at the age of sixteen and made his way to Lincoln, Ne- braska, where he began work on the State Journal but did not like that occupa- tion and after three months went to Norfolk, Nebraska, where he obtained a position in a bank. The institution, however, was soon voluntarily liquidated and when seventeen years of age he secured the position of deputy treasurer of Madison county, Nebraska, in which capacity he continued for three years, doing in reality all the work of the office. In 1886 he entered the Norfolk (Neb.) National Bank, first as assistant cashier, and upon attaining his major- ity was made cashier. After twelve years' connection with the institution he was elected to the presidency and so served for five years. He then disposed of his stock in that institution and went to Oakland, California, where for two years he was vice president of the Central Bank of Oakland. His identification with banking interests in Omaha dates from 1906, when he became cashier of the Omaha National Bank, of which he was elected a vice president in 1910. In January, 1917, he was advanced to the position of first vice president and thus he is active in controlling one of the most stable and important financial institutions of the state's metropolis.
On the 3Ist of December, 1890, in Norfolk, Nebraska, Mr. Bucholz was united in marriage to Miss Marian K. Rainbolt, daughter of the late N. A. Rainbolt, who was an Indiana soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Bucholz have two children, Frederick Herman and Arden Kingsbury. Mr. Bucholz's inilitary record covers service for eight or nine months with a militia company of Norfolk, Nebraska, of which he was orderly sergeant. His political alle- giance is given to the republican party, and, while not a politician in the usually accepted sense of office seeking, he served for two years as a member of the city council of Norfolk. He is a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and his fraternal relations also extend to the Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Omaha and Country Clubs and also to the Commercial Club, which association indicates his interest in the city's welfare and upbuilding. He is a member of the Congregational church and his aid and influence are given at all times on the side of material, intellectual, political and moral progress. He stands for high ideals in citizenship, while the integrity of his own business career indicates his standards of manhood.
CHARLES IMPEY, M. D.
In professional circles in Omaha, Dr. Charles Impey figured prominently for many years or until death terminated his labors. He became a resident of the city in 1885 and passed away on the 10th of January, 1916. He was a native of Missouri, born near Savannah, January 6, 1853, and from Skidmore, that state, he removed to Chicago and afterward to Omaha. While in Chicago he attended medical lectures and he completed his professional course by graduation from the medical department of the University of Kentucky at Louisville as a mem- ber of the class of 1874. He then began practice in Graham, Missouri, and in 1885 went to New York for post graduate work at the New York Post Graduate Medical School. Later in that year he arrived in this city, where he opened an office and entered upon active practice as a physician and surgeon. During his last years he concentrated his energy upon surgery and had a very extensive and important practice. Through the latter part of that period he was associated
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with his son, Dr. Chester C. Impey, who was a graduate of the Creighton Medi- cal College and did post graduate work in the Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Charles Impey for several years conducted a private hospital in Omaha, called the Central Hospital, at Twenty-second and Seward streets, and he was also a member of the staff of the Wise Memorial Hospital. There was no important discovery of the profession with which he was not familiar, for he kept in touch with the latest scientific research and investigation and was at all times abreast with the best thinking men of the age in relation to anything having to do with the complex mystery which we call life.
In 1876, at Graham, Missouri, Dr. Impey was united in marriage to Miss Jennie E. Freytag and to them were born six children: Charles F., now in San Francisco, California; John Earl, living in Omaha; Chester C., a practicing physician of this city; Fred W., who died in 1884, aged seventeen months; Fan- nie I., who is the wife of Edward H. Blakely; and Gladys J., who married W. Harold Downey.
Dr. Impey erected for his family an attractive home on Pacific Avenue. He attended the Episcopal church but was connected with no fraternities or clubs. He was, however, a fellow of the American Medical Association, and a member of the Nebraska State Medical Society and the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society. He was a very active man in all that pertained to Omaha and its welfare and he displayed untiring energy when working along the line of his profession. His knowledge was broad and his judgment seldom, if ever, at fault, and the value of his service was plainly indicated in the extensive practice that was accorded him and in the high respect entertained for him by professional colleagues and contemporaries.
CHARLES H. T. RIEPEN.
Charles H. T. Riepen, a member of one of the leading undertaking firms of Omaha and also a pioneer settler, came from Germany to this city in his early youth, so that he is almost a native son. He was born in Holstein, Ger- many, April 27, 1862, his parents being Detlef and Henrietta (Hahn) Riepen, who were also natives of that country. They crossed the Atlantic in 1869 and made their way direct to Omaha, which was then but a small town. The father secured a position in the machine shops of the Union Pacific Railway, having previously learned his trade in his native land, and there he was employed until 1880, after which he retired from active life. He died in Omaha at the advanced age of eighty-one years and his wife passed away in this city at the age of sixty-nine. They had a family of four children: Fritz, who passed away in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1913; Mrs. Dora Tibke, of Omaha; Mrs. Christina Schnetz, of Omaha ; and Charles H. T., who is the youngest.
The last named attended the public schools of this city in his boyhood days and afterward pursued a business course under the direction of Professor George R. Rathbun, who is still a resident of Omaha and was a prominent edu- cator in his day. On putting aside his textbooks Mr. Riepen secured a position in the clerical department of the Union Pacific Railway Company, with which he remained for eight years. Later he was connected with clerical work with different concerns until he entered into partnership with O. S. Hulse in the undertaking business in 1906 at No. 701 South Sixteenth street. They have been successful from the beginning and this is regarded today as one of the most reliable firms of the city.
On the 6th of September, 1887, in Omaha, Mr. Riepen was united in mar- riage to Miss Elizabeth Callahan, a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Callahan. They have one child, Mrs. Helen Heeney, who
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was born in Omaha, is a graduate of the Omaha high school and makes her home in this city.
Mr. Riepen is well known in fraternal connections. Since 1897 he has been active in the Modern Woodmen of America, first in a clerical capacity, while in 1899 he became secretary. Since then he has had charge of all impor- tant matters of the lodge. He is also connected with various other fraternal organizations in Omaha. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and he is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He also has membership with the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Douglas County Association of Nebraska Pioneers. He belongs to the German Music Verein, the Plattdeutscher Verein, the Carter Lake Club, of which he is secretary, and the Kountze Memorial church. In politics he is a republican, very active and prominent in local party ranks. He served as secretary of the county central committee in 1908 and during three other campaigns and he has exerted widely felt influence in behalf of the party. By reason of his business interests and his political and fraternal activities he is widely known and his circle of friends is almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance.
ยท JOHN MALCOLM DOW.
Omaha, as a splendid shipping point for the east and the west, has drawn to it many important commercial and industrial concerns which have become factors in the steady growth and progress of the city. Industries of almost every conceivable character can be found in its midst and among the now developing and prosperous concerns is that conducted under the name of the National Roofing Company, of which John Malcolm Dow is the president. He is numbered among the sons of Great Britain who have sought the chance for business progress in the new world and has here found the opportunities which he desired. He was born near Perth, Scotland, in 1865, a son of Andrew Dow, who spent his entire life in the land of hills and heather and there passed away in 1892.
After pursuing his education in the schools of Scotland, John M. Dow began learning the roofing business and in 1886, when a young man of twenty-one years, came to America. He spent two years in Chicago and then removed to Omaha, where he at once entered the roofing business in connection with his brother Peter, who died in 1893. For more than a quarter of a century John M. Dow has remained active in that field. He took over a business which under another name began its career in 1878 and which at the present time is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the middle west. In 1900 the National Roofing Company was organized with John M. Dow as the vice president but in March, 1901, he became the president. Following the death of his brother, up to which time their interests had been conducted under the firm style of Dow Brothers, he formed a partnership under the nanie of Dow & Thomsen and in 1900 they consolidated their interests with those of the Lewis Roofing Company in the establishment of the National Roofing Company. At that same time all interest of the Lewis Roofing Company was purchased by J. M. Dow, A. H. Read and H. Thomsen and since that time the business has continued under the management of these gentlemen, with Mr. Dow as president. Starting out as a pioneer industrial con- cern of Omaha, it has remained continuously at the front among the important commercial undertakings and it has placed roofs on many of Omaha's buildings, big and little. It has had the contracts for roofing the City National Bank, the Douglas county courthouse, the United States National Bank, the World-Herald building, the M. E. Smith twin buildings, the Union Pacific shops and numerous other big structures. It has ever been the object of the company to furnish maximum quality in material and finest workmanship and the execution of the
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contracts has been entrusted to most careful foremen. In fact their service is of such a kind as brings to them increasing business month by month and about six years ago they extended the scope of their activities to include paving, which has also become an important feature of the firm's business. Employment is furnished to from fifty to one hundred and seventy-five men, according to the season, and thus it makes large contribution to the city's prosperity through its pay roll. As president of the company John M. Dow has carefully directed its interests since 1900 and has made it one of the foremost industrial enterprises of Omaha.
In 1895, in Omaha, Mr. Dow was united in marriage to Lavinia (Elmslie) Dow, the widow of his brother Peter, by whom she had two sons, Norman E. and Andrew G. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Dow have three children, Florence Jessie, Jeannie Isabel and Margaret.
Mr. Dow is a republican, giving stalwart support to the party, but the only office that he has ever filled was that of trustee for the town of Dundee for six years. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, the Happy Hollow Club and the Rotary Club and is a Master Mason. Those who have met him in business and social relations bear testimony to his sterling traits of character, his thorough reliability in business and his progressive spirit in citizenship.
JAMES A. CAMPBELL.
James A. Campbell, a member of the Pollard-Campbell Dredging Company of Omaha in which connection he is conducting an extensive business, was born in Douglas county, Illinois, December 7, 1862, a son of Allen and Mary (Withers) Campbell. His paternal grandfather, William Campbell, settled near Chester- ville, Illinois, in 1830 and became the largest landowner of the county, owning several thousand acres. Allen Campbell was born in Illinois and after arriving at years of maturity wedded Mary Withers, a native of Kentucky, who went to Illinois with her parents when a maiden of fifteen years. Following this mar- riage they resided upon a farm in Douglas county until after the father's death, which occurred in 1876, when he was forty-two years of age. His widow sur- vived him until January 16, 1917, when she passed away in Champaign county, Illinois, at the age of seventy-seven years. In their family were five children.
James A. Campbell, the second in order of birth, attended the public schools of Douglas county and spent his youthful days in the usual manner of the farm bred boy. Every swimming hole along the Okaw river was familiar to him, and at a recent visit there he identified the old elm under which the boys used to dress. He went to Chesterville to bid upon a contract for widening and deep- ening the river and said if he got the contract, the old elm would be spared, even if the steam dredges had to make a circuit around it. Before entering upon his present line of work, however, he engaged in farming on his father's land, remaining at home until he reached the age of twenty-four years, when he took up the work of dredging, spending seventeen years in the employ of Pollard, Goff & Company. He then entered into partnership with J. S. and C. R. Pollard in the dredging business, forming the present Pollard-Campbell Dredging Company. In this connection he came to Omaha in 1908 and has since carried on his dredging business, taking contracts all over the central states. He has done drainage dredging on a large scale and the company employs upwards of thirty-five men in various fields. They have two steam dredges at the present time in Arkansas, where they are completing a contract of four million cubic yards. Other extensive contracts have been accorded them in various districts and their business has now reached extensive and gratifying proportions.
On the 5th of November, 1895, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, Mr. Campbell was
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united in marriage to Miss Minnie Norviel, her parents being Eli and Susan Norviel, of that place. They have a son, Jack, who was born in Omaha on the 25th of August, 1914. Mr. Campbell is a Mason and in his political views is a democrat, but while he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, he has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his ener- gies upon his business affairs of growing volume and importance. His ability has been the test of his success and his powers have developed through the exercise of effort until he is recognized as one of the leaders in his line in the middle Mississippi valley.
LESLIE H. KRANZ.
Leslie H. Kranz, lawyer, practicing at the Omaha bar, received the thorough training accorded by the law department of the University of Michigan. He was born in Ida county, Iowa, May 20, 1891, the son of H. G. and Margaret (McKay) Kranz. In 1905 his father, H. G. Kranz, removed with his family, including Leslie H. Kranz, to Omaha, Nebraska, where he has since continued in the lumber and building material business, in which he had been engaged since early manhood. He is now one of the active and substantial business men of Omaha, being president of the Missouri River Lumber Company and the Bowman-Kranz Lumber Company and regarded as one of the foremost lum- bermen of the state of Nebraska.
In his youth Leslie H. Kranz was educated in the schools of Sioux City, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, until the completion of his preliminary education, after which he studied at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Nebraska. When he decided to make the practice of law his life work he matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan. There he completed the full course, received his law degree and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Michigan. He immediately returned to Omaha, was admitted to local practice by the supreme court of Nebraska and the United States courts, and has ever since devoted strict attention to the active practice of his profession. A young man, he has already made a good start and his personal qualities are such as argue for his continued success in the future. He is a member of the Barristers Club, Omaha Bar Association, Nebraska State Bar Association and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has exer- cised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party ever since attaining his majority. Although he is a director in two of Omaha's most enterprising lumber companies, he concentrates his efforts and attention most largely on the many duties incident to his profession of the law, conformably to the requirements of his growing general practice.
LEON J. MILLARD.
Leon J. Millard, president of the Independent Lumber Company of Omaha, is a native of Iowa, his birth having occurred in West Union on the 7th of October, 1881. His father, Milford N. Millard, a native of New York, went to Iowa as a young man and after farming for a time took up railroad work, becoming a conductor.
Leon J. Millard, the elder of two children, acquired a public school educa- tion and afterward attended the Upper Iowa University at Fayette. When his school days were over he became connected with the lumber trade at Freeport, Illinois, and later was identified with the lumber trade in Dubuque, Iowa, occu- pying a salaried position in connection with wholesale and retail establishments.
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Subsequently he acquainted himself with the mill end of the business at Drum- mond, Wisconsin, and in 1899 he removed to Nebraska, entering the employ of the Nebraska Bridge Supply & Lumber Company as buyer and traveling salesman. His connection with that firm continued until 1907, when he organ- . ized the Independent Lumber Company, of which he became the president and treasurer. The yards and offices of the company are at Fortieth and Leaven- worth streets, on the South Omaha belt of the Missouri Pacific. Here they have a city block and they carry an extensive line of 'lumber and building materials. The business has had a steady growth through the ten years of its existence and today the company is doing a business of one hundred thousand dollars annually, selling to the local trade. The interests have been developed along progressive lines and the success which has come to Mr. Millard repre- sents the fit utilization of his innate powers and talents. His main lumber shed is three hundred feet long and twenty feet in height and the plant is equipped with an electric derrick of a capacity of three tons, which is used in unloading the lumber from the cars. The lumber is bought in all localities, north, south and west, and there is nothing known to the trade which they do not handle.
In January, 1901, Mr. Millard was united in marriage to Miss Adah Mae Kuns, of Marseilles, Illinois, a daughter of Dr. D. J. Kuns, formerly of Mor- rison, Illinois. Mr. Millard holds membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is also a member of the Athletic Club and the Omaha Field Club. He is a fine type of the enterprising and progressive young business man. He has made it his purpose to thoroughly acquaint himself with every phase of the lumber trade, so that he knows absolutely the value of the materials which he handles, and the integrity of his business methods as well as his enter- prise and determination have gained for him not only success but the full confi- dence and warm regard of those with whom he has been brought in contact.
GUSTAV ADOLPH MEYER.
Gustav Adolph Meyer, chemical engineer, engaged also in the building of sugar factories and allied industries, has through his business connections be- come widely known in various parts of the country where the manufacture of sugar is being developed on an extensive scale. His activities are proving an asset in Omaha's commercial progress, constituting one of those radiating forces which are reaching out to all sections, making this city a center of trade. Mr. Meyer is a native son of Omaha. He was born March 2, 1885, to Henry and Marie Louise (Von Brandt) Meyer, both of whom were natives of Germany but came to America in childhood days, he settling in Omaha in 1867 and she in 1883. They were married in 1884. The father opened one of the first whole- sale grocery houses of the city and conducted the business on an extensive scale up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1904. He passed away in Omaha at the age of fifty-eight years. He was interested in many things and cooper- ated in many projects and movements that were directly resultant in the benefit and upbuilding of the city. He served as a member of the Trans-Mississippi congress and his voice carried weight in other connections affecting Omaha's welfare. His widow still survives and is living in Omaha at the age of fifty- seven years. In their family were four children: G. A .; Charles A., who is superintendent of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Soap Company ; Mrs. Helen Balle, of Denison, Iowa ; and Margaret, now Mrs. Robt. S. Flockhart, of Omaha.
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