History of the development of Missouri, and particularly of Saint Louis;

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Edited by

MARSHALL S. SNOW. LL. D.

Professor of History in Washington University

NATIONAL PRESS BUREAU. Publither*.
Saint Louis, Mo., 1908

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St. Louis was conceived and born a child of
commerce, the possibilities of the fur trade of the
west being directly responsible for the establish-
ment of a trading post at this point, which was
made possible by the organization of the ''Louisi-
ana Fur Company." In 1762 this company, of
which Pierre Laclede Ligueste was the head, se-
cured from Labadie, who was then governor of
Louisiana, the privilege of trading with the In-
dians on the Missouri river and west of the Mis-
sissippi river, with authority to establish such posts
as they might see fit in the furtherance of their
enterprise. The Louisiana Fur Company was or-
ganized in New Orleans, then the capital city of
the Province of Louisiana, and to the enterprise
of some of the citizens of that city the credit is
due for the existence of the embryo of the St.
Louis of 1907.

In 1763, when Laclede set out to explore the
''Empire," whose commerce he controlled, there
were numerous difficulties to overcome, fraught
with dangers and hardships, which none but sturdy
and brave natures could hope to contend with.
Among others who accompanied him were two

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young men, who had to an unusual degree the quaH-
ties that distinguished the successful men of that
day ; the brothers, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau,
who afterwards became leading citizens of "Old St.
Louis."

To successfully carry on the business of the
Louisiana Fur Company it was essential that a trad-
ing post should be established at some particular
point on the ^Missouri or Mississippi riyers which
would not only afford ready transportation to the
markets of the world, but be reasonably accessible
to trappers, hunters and Indian traders of the en-
tire western country as well.

After carefully inyestigating various points along
the river, Laclede finally decided that no other site
presented so great advantages as the spot on which
St. Louis is now located. On February 15. 1764,
formal possession of the site was taken, under the
direction of Laclede, and named St. Louis.

The commerce of the first years of the post was
of the crudest character, and for many years after
pelt was tlie mode of exchange, and deer skin the
basis of value. The ''prominent merchant" of those
days was lucky in having a commodious six by
twelve room in which to carry on his business, and
live in as well, his stock usually being piled in the
corner indiscriminately. Later on the post began to
assume the airs and importance of the village, hav-
ing by that time become firmly established as an
important trading point.

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St. Louis was then a "small town, near Cahokia,"
where was located the nearest post office, and
when the one-horse mail arrived once a month, all
St. Louis had to cross the river for their news and
mail from the friends and world beyond.

Up to 1804 there were few Americans in St.
Louis ; there was a small ferry, several stores and
mills, a tavern, etc., all doing a nice business for
those days. The fur trade being still the most im-
portant business of the place, the annual value of
the fur trade for fifteen consecutive years being
$203,750.

Li 1808 Pierre Chouteau, Manuel Lisa, Wm.
Clark, Sylvester Labadie and others, organized the
Missouri Fur Company. Other enterprises of a
like character succeeded, in which the names of
the Chouteaus, Astors, Campbells, Ashley, Sublett,
Pratte, Cabanne, Bent, etc., are conspicuous.

On July 12, 1808, the Missouri Gazette made its
first appearance, with Joseph Charless as editor.

In 1809 St. Louis ceased to be a village, being
incorporated as a town the ninth of November of
that year, receiving its first charter from the Court
of Common Pleas for the district of St. Louis,
under legislative enactment. The government con-
sisting of mayor and board of aldermen.

Beer was manufactured bv St. Vrain and Habb
at Belief ontain in 1810, the same year Jacob Philip-
son opened a small brewery in the city.

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After an existence of forty-six years, St. Louis
had a population of 1400 souls. In 1815 the popu-
lation had increased to 2000. St. Louis, at this
time, was entering an important period of its de-
velopment. The root of commercial activity was
taking hold, a more progressive population was
coming in, business houses were becoming more
numerous, larger and more active. The first bank,
the Bank of St. Louis, was organized in 1815, and
in 1817 the first steamboat, the Gen. Pike, com-
manded by Capt. Jacob Reed, arrived on August
2nd, landing near the foot of Market street ; the
same year the Bank of Missouri was chartered.
The Western Journal, established in 1815, in op-
position to the Gazette, with Wm. Christy at the
head, had changed hands in 1816, taking the name
of Bniigrant. In 1817 Col. Thos. H. Benton, need-
ing an organ, associated with himself Isaac N.
Henry and E. Maury, and changed the name to the
Enquirer, after a stormy existence, during which
time Patrick H. Ford and Duff Green occupied the
editorial chair. It was bought in 1827 by Chas.
Kemile and Chas. Orr, who changed the name to
The Beaeon, which ceased publication in 1832.

The establishing of banks and a banking sys-
tem was hailed with delight, as filling a long felt
want, and the prospect of steam navigation was a
great incentive to trade development, but unfortun-
ately the banks soon failed and steamboat trans-
portation did not materialize as anticipated. The

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old plan of shipping to the east was a serious prob-
lem, for it took as long as four years to get the
return on a consignment of furs to Europe, and
several months were consumed on a trip to the east
and return. The perseverance and patience of the
merchant of the early days of St. Louis is wonder-
ful to contemplate. The obstacles they overcame
and the hardships they faced in carrying their busi-
ness to a successful issue were of the most trying
nature. At the end of the season the merchant
would gather his currency in the form of pelts,
put them on a raft or barge, and start for the east-
ern market, by the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, on
a trip it took months to consummate, and then the
tedious return trip. Sometimes a number of traders
or merchants would pool their shipments and place
them in the east in the hands of trusted persons.
Bands of river pirates added to the dangers of the
trip, and it is no wonder that St. Louis grew with a
snail's pace during the first years.

After the arrival of the first steamboat St. Louis"^
seems to have taken a new lease of life, as shown
by the increase of population, from 2000 in 1805,
to 4598 in 1820. It had taken fifty-one years to \
grow to a town of 2000 population. During the
next five years it increased over one hundred per
cent in population, and many times that in import-
ance as a place of business, this being a period of un-
usual business activitv.

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May 19, 1819. The Independence, in charge of
Capt. Nelson, made a trip up the Missouri river
to Frankhn, Mo., being the first steamboat to leave
St. Louis for the ^^lissouri river, and on June 2nd,
the Harriet, Capt. Armstrong commanding, was
the first steamboat to arrive from Xew Orleans,
making the trip in twenty-one days. Generations
later, this same trip was made in less than four
da vs.

The first street paved in St. Louis was ]^Iarket
street, between ]\Iain street and the Levee, by Wm.
Decker ; the material used being stone, which was
laid on edge.

In 1820 the trade of St. Louis amounted to
$2,500,000.

In 1821 tlie first loan offices were established,
and the first brick pavement laid in St. Louis, on
Second street.

The town of St. Louis had increased in import-
ance and prestige at such a pace, and civic
pride to such an extent, that the town charter
was considered as having had its day, and on
December 9, 1822, St. Louis was incorporated
as a city, with an area of 385 acres; this had
increased to nearly 50,000 acres in 1907.
A line running up ^lill Creek Valley to Seventh
street, north to a point west of ''Roy's Tower,"
thence to the river, constituted the boundary line
of the new citv.

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During the next six years the commercial pro-
gress of St. Louis was but sHght, a fact clearly
shown by an increase in population of only 600 be-
tween the years 1820 and 1828. The Bank of St.
Louis and the Bank of Missouri both went to the
wall. Satisfactory steamboat transportation was
still lacking, the few boats on the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers at that time being small and inferior
in every respect, but in 1827 six steamboats were
operating regularly out of St. Louis to nearby
points.

In 1829 the United States Bank of Philadel-
phia established a branch in St. Louis, with Col.
John O'Fallon as president. This branch was
closed in 1832, when President Jackson vetoed the
charter of the parent bank, which was the occasion
of a strong protest on the part of a number of St.
Louisans, while others held a counter meeting, en-
dorsing President Jackson.

In 1830 the dawn of a new era was at hand.
With a population of less than six thousand St.
Louis was now taking a firm hold on business af-
fairs, and her interests were of a greater variety
and were furthered by more progressive action. A.
Lynch & Co. had opened their new brewery in 1826,
and John Mullanphy w^as selling ale the year after,
and shortly after Ezra English was also manufac-
turing ale. These were all small affairs, according
to our standards, but sufficient to meet the demands
of the city at that time. A tobacco factory, con-

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ducted by Richards and Quarrels, had been in oper-
ation since 1817, and the paint and oil industry,
which had its genesis in 1816, under the direction
of a Mr. Wilt, was rapidly becoming established as
an important industry for those days, the result of
the fine quality of soft lead, barytes and other min-
eral earths found in large quantities near St. Louis.

In 1822 or 1823 a lot of 70 by 150 feet, on the
corner of Second and Olive streets, with a good
stone house, log kitchen, barn and good fence, sold
for $1500.00. About the same time a lot on Third
street, between Plum and Cedar streets, 75 by 150
feet, sold for $225. In 1805 thirty-five acres sit-
uated in what is now the business district, sold for
$40.00. In 1811 the total assessed value of real
and personal property in St. Louis was $134,516,
and the rate of taxation was one-half of one per
cent. Lots on Olive street, at what is now Ninth to
Twelfth streets, probably sold from one to three dol-
lars per foot in 1830. Seventy-seven years later
(1907), a lot 53 feet on Olive street by 105 on
Tenth street, was leased for ninetv-nine vears on a
valuation of nearly $10,000.00 per foot. The real
estate business, as we know it, did not exist in 1830,
and values did not increase very rapidly until later,
though there was a healthy, steady growth at this
time.

The period from 1830 to 1865 is commonly re-
ferred to as the "Steamboat Era," though the first
years of the thirties were hard years for St. Louis;

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we find the steamboat business growing and the
first of the real steamboating began to materiaHze.
There were arrivals from New Orleans, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Pittsburg, and points on the Missouri
and Illinois rivers, a total of eight steamboats hav-
ing entered the port of St. Louis during the year.

The question of a system of water works had
been agitating the public for some time, culmina-
ting in the construction of a reservoir on Ashley
and Collins streets, east of Fifth street, in 1832,
with a capacity of 230,000 gallons.

During the next three or four years the finances
of St. Louis were in a bad way, no banking facili-
ties except as furnished by private parties, and the
''wild cat'' currency of other states a menace to
trade, and most unsatisfactory.

In 1833 the population of St. Louis was less than
six thousand, the whole tax on personal and real
property being $2745.84, valued at a little over
$2,000,000.00.

In 1834 the first daily paper made its appearance,
published by the Herald.

Up to 1835 St. Louis had been buffeted by the
commercial falls, with no light hand, but though
she staggered under many a blow, the rebound al-
ways found her stronger and more firmly estab-
lished than ever, and while the years to follow have
their own trouble, St. Louis was now focusing the
conditions which would make success a certainty.
Having served her apprenticeship, she was entering

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the lists to win her proper place among the cities
of the world. One of the most important indica-
tions of this was an act on the part of some twenty-
five merchants, which was destined to do more than
any other one factor in the advancement of "Old
St. Louis," by the organization of the ''St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce," in the summer of 1836.
The association thus formed did not contemplate
the buying and selling of produce as is now done on
'change, but was formed for consultation and co-
operation, and to look after matters that affected
the general business interests of the city. Meetings
were held monthly in the evenings, and different
matters were discussed and acted on as required.
The first meeting was held in the ofiice of the Mis-
souri Insurance Company, on the east side of Main
street, between Olive and Pine streets. Henry
Tracy was elected president, Henry Von
Phul, vice-president, and John Food, secre-
tary and treasurer. During the next session of the
legislature a charter was obtained and the former
association became a corporation. The member-
ship increased so rapidly that new quarters soon be-
came a necessity, when they were removed to the
second floor of the Missouri Republican building.

In 1836 a branch of a banking agency of Cincin-
nati commenced business in St. Louis, but the idea
of St. Louis finances being in the hands of foreign
agencies was not satisfactory to the pride of St.
Louis, and in 1837, at the instigation of a number

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of citizens of St. Louis, the Bank of the State of
Missouri was estabHshed under charter from the
State of Missouri, with a capital of $5,000,000,
one-third belonging to the state, which had the right
to name several of the directors. The doors were
opened for business on the 11th of April, 1837,
with John Brady Smith as president, and Hugh
O'Neil, Edward \\'alsh, Samuel S. Reyburn, Ed-
ward Dobyns, A\'m, L. Sublett and John O'Fallon,
as directors. It was a bank of issue, and for over
thirty years its notes were accepted throughout the
entire western country with as much confidence and
as readily as in St. Louis.

The first charter granted by the State of Mis-
souri for a railroad was in 1837, for the St. Louis
and Bellevue Mineral Railway, and the first survey
for a railway made west of the Mississippi river,
was ordered by the state and made in 1839, for
the nearest and best route from St. Louis to Iron
Mountain, Missouri.

The first efTort made in St. Louis towards street
transportation was by a Mr. Belcher, in 1838, who
started an omnibus line, which soon proved a fail-
ure.

In 1839 Judge J. B. C. Lucas and Col. Auguste
Chouteau donated the land for the court house,
and work was commenced immediately, but tardy
progress postponed the completion until 1862.

From 1835 to 1840 was one of the boom periods,
the population increasing to 16,000 in 1840, an in-

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crease of 230 per cent since 1830. From an ar-
rival of eight steamboats in 1830, the arrivals had
increased to 2095, in 1839. Business of every kind
was moving fast and the people generally were pros-
perous.

In 1841 there were in St. Louis two foundries,
twelve tin, stove, grate and copper manufacturers,
thirtv-seven blacksmiths and housesmiths, two
white lead, red lead and htharge, manufacturers, one
castor oil factory, twenty cabinet and chair factories,
two hnseed oil factories, three lead pipe, fifteen to-
bacco and cigar manufacturers, eleven coopers, nine
lathers, twelve saddle, harness and trunk manufac-
turers, fifty-eight boot and shoe shops, six grist
mills, six breweries, one glass cutting establishment,
a britannia manufacturer, a carpet manufacturer,
oil cloth factory, sugar refinery, chemical, fancy
soap, pottery, and stoneware manufacturer, a stone
cutter, two tanneries and several manufacturers of
plows and other agricultural implements.

The development of the cotton business in St.
Louis dates from 1841. when a few bales were re-
ceived, which increased to 20.000 bales in 1863,
and to nearly 500,000 bales in 1880.

The incorporated bounds of St. Louis were ex-
tended in 1841. increasing the area to 630 acres;
the growth of the city from 1840 has been rapid,
the tendencies being toward the north, between
1840 and 1850, and a rapid advance to the south
and southwest from 1850, and to the northwest

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from 1854 to 1860, in later years the growth has
been phenomenal in all directions, the western side
particularly having been built up into one of the
largest and handsomest residence sections to be
found in any city in the United States. The cor-
porate bounds of the city have been extended from
time to time until 1876, when by legislative enact-
ment, St. Louis County and the city were separated,
the county conceding a considerable portion of its
territory, as well as its right of county jurisdiction
over the affairs of the city of St. Louis. The water
works have been increased from time to time to meet
natural requirements, streets have been laid off and
paved, sewers and water pipe laid, etc., until in
1907 St. Louis is one of the best equipped cities in
the country.

In 1840 the gas company was incorporated, the
old plan, what there w^as of it, of lighting the city,
having served its day, but it was not until six years
later, on the night of November 4, 1847, that the
gas plant commenced operation with a general il-
lumination.

The various rivers and bayous of the Mississippi
river furnish St. Louis with over 16,000 miles of
navigable water, tapping the richest agricultural
country in the United States, and being the natural
headquarters for most of this vast territory. It is
evident that her commercial greatness was assured.
Among other staples that come to it naturally is
cotton, which is evidenced bv the fact that St. Louis

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soon became the largest inland cotton market in the
United States. The first cotton factory was estab-
lished by Adolphus Meier in 1844, which after-
wards became the St. Louis Cotton Factory Com-
pany.

During the war with Mexico, in 1846, there was
great activity in St. Louis. The river was over-
run with boats carrying troops and supplies to New
Orleans, and the city being the outfitting point for
New Mexico and L^tah, there was a great demand
for material, and business of all kinds was good.
Again, in 1849, when the California gold excite-
ment was at its height, St. Louis being the main
outfitting point, there was a great rush of business,
the river, at this point, being almost choked with
steamboats, and the importation of goods reached
the sum of two billion dollars.

At this time the river interests were dominant,
and probably one-third of St. Louis' population were
interested in one wav or another with the river
trade. When the Boatmen's Bank was organized
as the Boatmen's Savings Institution October 18,
1847, it came into instant favor, and ever since has
been an important factor in the banking business of
St. Louis. It obtained its second charter in 1856,
having a capital of $400,000, and in 1873, the name
was changed to the Boatmen's Saving Bank, and
again in 1890 to the Boatmen's Bank.

The Chamber of Commerce was now well estab-
lished as the dominant body for all matters pertain-

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ing to the welfare of St. Louis, and it had been
found necessary to move several times to larger
quarters. The needs of a merchants' exchange had
been felt for some time, and at a special meeting,
held on the 11th of September, 1849, the vice-
president, Geo. K. McGunnegal, stated the object
of the meeting to be to take into consideration the
subject of the establishment of a merchants' ex-
change, and the procuring of suita1)le quarters for
the same, for temporary use, with the idea of erect-
ing a suitable edifice later on. After discussion, the
matter was referred to a committee, of which Jas.
E. Yeatman was chairman. The committee re-
ported on September the 17th, that it was imprac-
tical at that time to build a merchants' exchange,
and recommended the leasing of the second floor of
the building owned by Mr. Charless, next door to
the corner of Olive and i\lain streets. The report
was adopted, and a committee was appointed for the
purpose of establishing a merchants' exchange. In
the meantime, the millers of St. Louis, in February,
1849, on the invitation of James Waugh, and T. A.
Buckland, held a meeting at the oflice of C. L.
Tucker and organized the ^Millers Association by
electing as directors Gabriel Chouteau, Dennis
Marks, Jno. Walsh, Joseph Powell, Mr. Tibbets,
T. A. Buckland, and Jas. Waugh ; Jos. Powell was
elected president, and Chas. L. Tucker, secretary.
There were present at the meeting, in addition to
the gentlemen named above, Messrs. Henry Whit-

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more. Henry Pilkington, J. G. Shands. Geo. P.
Plant. Alphonso Smith. ^Messrs. Goodfellow and
Robinson, and ]\Iackelroy and Tibbets. A commit-
tee was appointed to rent rooms and procure the
necessary tables, pans. etc.. and to invite the mer-
chants to bring their samples for sale, and about
the first of March the Millers Exchange was opened
at Xos. 9 and 1 1 Locust street, and was. it is
believed, the first exchange in the United States
established for buying and selling produce.

The Chamber of Commerce soon after established
the Merchants Exchange in connection with the
Chamber of Commerce, on the corner of ]\Iain
and Olive streets, and from the best information
to be had. it seems that about the first of January,
1850. the ]\Iillers Association joined in the ]^Ier-
chants Exchange, and the business was consoli-
dated under the charter of the Chamber of Com-
merce.

At a meeting held on November 24, 1855. the
president was authorized to accept a proposition
made by Messrs. Ed. J. Gay and Robt. Barth. in
which a building was to be erected, fronting 123
feet on the east side of ^lain street, between Mar-
ket and Walnut streets, the second floor to be for
the exclusive use of the Merchants Exchange, at
a rental of S2500 a year for ten years. This build-
ing was occupied July 1st. 1857.

In 1862, on account of dissensions brought about
on account of the Civil War, a number of the mem-

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bers withdrew from the Merchants Exchange and
organized the Union Merchants Exchange, good
feehng, however, returned after the war, and the
members of the Union Merchants Exchange re-
turned to the exchange 1875, which then became the
Merchants Exchange of St. Louis. The old hall
had become too small for the needs of the organi-
zation following the development of St. Louis after
the war, when Geo. Knapp appeared before the
board of directors and submitted a plan for an ele-
gant and commodious building, to be erected on the
square bounded by Third, Chestnut and Pine
streets. The plan was favorably considered, re-
sulting in the erection of the present Merchants
Exchange building. The board of directors of the
exchange at that time consisted of Messrs. Gerard
B. Allen, president ; R. P. Tansey, vice-president ;
Geo. Bain, second vice-president, and Geo. P. Plant,
Jno. F. Mauntell, W. H. Scudder, Phil. C. Taylor,
D. P. Rowland, W. J. Lewis, Web. M. Samuel,
Jno. A. Scudder, Jno. Wahl and Miles Sells, di-
rectors. A corporation was formed under the
name of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce As-
sociation, and the amount of capital stock fixed at
$1,000,000. The original board of directors con-
sisted of Messrs. R. J. Lackland, B. W. Alexander,
H. T. Blow, G. B. Allen, Geo. Knapp, Jno. A.
Scudder, Web. M. Samuel, Geo. Bain, Geo. P.
Plant, H. L. Patterson, E. O. Stannard, W. J.
Lewis, and D. P. Rowland. A committee was ap-

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pointed to obtain subscriptions to the stock of the
new company, and the enterprise which had been
carried to so successful a conclusion was fairly in-
augurated.

On the 12th of December, 1871, the directors
met and organized the board by electing Rufus J.
Lackland, president, G. B. Allen, vice-president;
Geo. Knapp, second vice-president; Geo. H. Mor-
gan, secretary and treasurer. The board went to
work at once to purchase the ground which was
finally secured at a net cost of $561,700.86, and
subscriptions to the capital stock were obtained to
the amount of $835,700. Work was commenced
at once, the corner stone being laid the 6th of June,
1874, on the corner of Third and Pine streets,
with Masonic ceremonies, which was the occasion
of a large procession and ])ublic demonstration.
The new building was formally opened December
21st, 1875.

In 1841 W'm. J. Lemp established a completely
equipped brewery for the manufacture of lager
beer, at the corner of Second and Walnut streets,
which fairly inaugurated beer making as we know
it to-day. From this beginning has grown one of
the largest industries of St. Louis.

That the revolutionary movement in Europe in
1848 was destined to have a great influence on the
destinies of St. Louis was soon after proved by the
large number of Germans who came to St. Louis
to make it their future home, and it has ever since

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been a favored place for these excellent citizens.
St. Louis owes much to its German population.
Among other accomplishments that they brought
with them was the art of beer making, which from
that time on, has been an important industry in
St. Louis, the number of breweries having increased
from one, in 184L to twenty-four, in 1854, making
60,000 barrels of beer, worth $360,Q00, and to forty
breweries in 1860, producing 207,000 barrels,
valued at $12,000,000.

In 1890 the number of breweries had been re-
duced to eight, principally through various consoli-
dations, with a yearly product valued at $16,200,-
000, employing 2870 hands, whose wages amounted
to $2,870,000, with a capacity of 2,265,000 barrels
of beer a year and a capital of $16,000,000.

In 1844 another important factor in the develop-
ment of St. Louis had its beginning when Erastus
Wells associated himself with Calvin Case and es-
tablished an omnibus line, the beginning- of the
present street railway system. The omnibus line
ran from the National Hotel, on Market street, to
the ferry, at the upper end of the city, and though
the people were shy of it at first, not thinking it
an exactly genteel way of traveling through the
streets, it soon won its way to public favor, and
other lines of a similar nature were soon projected.

The first consolidation of public utilities in St.
Louis was made in 1850, when Erastus Wells, Cal-
vin Case, Robt. O'Blennis and Lawrence Matthews

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pooled their interests. In 1851 there were six Hnes
in existence, employing- 90 omnibuses. 450 horses,
4 stables, and about 100 hands. The bounds of
St. Louis had increased to such an extent that the
omnibus as a satisfactory means of public convey-
ance was a failure, and the necessity for a better
system urgent, and when the question of the horse
railway was taken up by the citizens of the first
ward at a meeting held at Jager's Garden, on the
3rd of January, 1859. it met with instant favor.
T. C. Chester called the meeting to order, and
David Bayles was elected chairman, and Benjamin
Bryson, Sebastian Burbeck, and Xoah H. Wliitte-
more, chosen vice-chairmen, and \\\ S. Hilyer, sec-
retary. Committees were sent out to arouse pub-
lic interest in the idea, and the result was the or-
ganization of the first street railway company of
St. Louis, named the "Missouri Railroad Com-
pany," and the first car was run on the line the 4th
of July. 1859, driven by Erastus Wells, president
of the company. This first trip was made under
great defliculties, amid many hurrahs and much ex-
citement. It is evident that the rails of this first
line were not laid with the skill and precision of
later years, and the fact that quantities of small rock
had been put in the track, added greatly to the
troubles of the trip, as these rocks would be pushed
in the way of the car wheels by the horses, in con-
sequence of which the car was off the track nearly
as much as it was on. One of the annoyances

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of the trip was the persistency with which the small
urchins hung on to the platform of the car, sub-
jecting themselves to great clanger when the car was
under way, and causing considerable anxiety to the
distinguished passengers. How^ever, the road was
soon in good working order and was a great suc-
cess. During the same year the Citizens and Peo-
ples lines were also started, various lines and exten-
sions being added from time to time.

In 1882 the following lines were in operation,
viz: Benton and Bellefontaine, established in 1866;
Cass Avenue and Fair Grounds, established 1875 ;
Lindell, established 1867; Missouri, established
1859; Mound City, established 1866; Peoples, es-
tablished 1859; St. Louis, established 1859;
South St. Louis, established 1876; Tower
Grove and Tower Grove and Lafayette, established
1866; Union Line, established 1865, extended 1875;
Union Depot, established 1862. Total miles of rail-
way, 119.6; operating 496 cars; 2280 horses;
1010 men, carried 19,600,000 passengers in 1882.

In 1885 the cable rapid transit came into general
use in St. Louis. In 1899 the lines of St. Louis
employed 4000 men, used 25,000 horse power in
400 miles of street railway. The value of plants
in 1899 was $50,000,000.

In 1849 St. Louis had its first telegraph, the
newspaper service of this period costing $20.00 a
week.

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The development of St. Louis during this period
is indicated by the increase of population: In 1840
the population of St. Louis was 16,000; in 1850
it had increased to 77,860, an increase of 327 per
cent; to 188,587 in 1860, an increase of thirtv-six
fold from 1830.

In 1850 St. Louis was a hustling, thriving city.
This was the very heyday of steamboating, when
the roustabout was in his glory, the levee alive with
sliipping, and the river full of steaming palaces,
whose existence was a perpetual competition. The
rush and life of those days are gone for ever, but
St. Louis can never forget them, for they were
the very heart and sinew of the life that followed.
The disasters on the river were numerous ; fires,
explosions of boilers, snagging, etc., all tending to
keep up the dangers and excitement of river navi-
gation ; but with all that, nearly every body was
making money and the business of St. Louis was
advancing by bounds.

The years from 1850 to 1860 were important
years in the development of St. Louis. It was dur-
ing this period that a considerable part of the foun-
dation of the greater St. Louis was laid. It marks
the dawning of the railroad era. About this time
a general interest was aroused in the building of
railroads throughout the country, and St. Louis
was the particular point of attraction and initiative
in this section. Railroads were projected and incor-
porated in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, that were

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to form important trunk lines to St. Louis. The
Ohio and Mississippi Raih'oad, chartered by the
state of Indiana for the construction of a raih'oad
from Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, via Vincennes,
Indiana, was the first to come in from the east, the
first train arriving in East St. Louis in 1857. This
was the occasion of a big celebration on the part
of St. Louisians, people from many cities along the
line and prominent citizens of Cincinnati. The St.
Louis directors of the original company were
Messrs. Bryan Mullanphy, Ferdinand Kennett,
Robert Campbell, George K. McGunnegle and Wil-
liam Carr Lane. The Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road now forms an important part of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, organized in 1893.

The Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company
was another of the early railroads receiving its
charter from the State of Illinois in 1847, for build-
ing a railroad from Alton to .Springfield, Illinois.
This, completed in 1852, was extended to Blooming-
ton in 1854, and to Joliet in 1855, connecting at
that point with the Chicago and Mississippi to Chi-
cago. The original charter of this road did not
contemplate extending its line to St. Louis on ac-
count of the policy of the Illinois legislature, which
was to prevent, as far as possible, cities in other
states from benefiting from acts of the state of
Illinois. Therefore, Alton remained the southern
terminal for this road for a number of years, con-
nection being made with St. Louis by fast steamers

330 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

on the Mississippi river, and for a time this was
the favored route to the northeast for St. Louisans.
In 1857 the road was reorganized as the St. Louis,
Alton and Chicago Railroad Company, with St.
Louis as the objective southern terminal; this, how-
ever, was not consummated until 1863, when the
track was completed to East St. Louis. In 1872 the
line was extended from Roodhouse, Illinois, to Ce-
dar City, Missouri, and through the control of the
Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad in
1879, gave a through line from St. Louis and Chi-
cago to Kansas City, ^Missouri. Other extensions
and connections have been made from time to time,
until the famous "Alton" sytem became one of the
best railroad properties in the countrv.

The Wabash had its genesis in a little road built
from Meredosia to Springfield, Illinois, in 1838,
though the first use of the name did n(jt appear
until 1852, when the Lake Erie, Wabash and St.
Louis Railrr)ad Comjjany was incorporated to build
a road across the state of Ohio. From time to
time over twenty railroads have been consolidated
and important extensions made to make the "Wa-
bash" of 1907. By securing possessi(jn of the De-
catur and East St. Louis Railroad in 1870 it gained
entrance into St. Louis, with through line to Tole-
do, Ohio. The western division of the Wabash
had its beginning in the X^ortli Missouri Railroad
Company, incorporated March 3, 1851, to build
a line from St. Charles, Missouri, to the Iowa state

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line. In 1852 the charter was amended so as to ex-
tend the road to St. Louis, and at a meeting held in
St. Louis June 11, 1853, Frederick Schulenberg,
Lewis Bissell, Gerard B. Allen, Thomas L. Stur-
geon, Francis Yosti, Charles D. Drake, Arnold Kre-
kel, James T. Sweringen, James S. Rollins, Calvin
Case and William G. Moore were elected directors.
Col. John O'Fallon was made president, E. C.
Willis, secretary and treasurer, and C. D. Drake,
counsel. Col. O'Fallon declined re-election at the
next meeting, and Isaac H. Sturgeon succeeded to
the presidency. The road was beset by difficulties
from the beginning, and was finally established
through the assistance of the state, being completed
to Macon, Missouri, February 1st, 1859. By means
of further favors from the state in 1865, it was able
to complete the line from Moberly to Kansas City,
erect the bridge across the Missouri river at St.
Charles, and extend the line to the Iowa border.
The name was afterwards changed to the St. Louis,
Kansas City and Northern Railroad Company, and
subsequently passed into the hands of the Wabash
Railroad Company, which later on absorbed the
Brunswick and Chillicothe, the St. Louis, Council
Bluffs and Omaha, and the accessory roads in Iowa
and Missouri in 1879. The name of the Wabash
was changed in 1875 to the Wabash, St. Louis and
Pacific Railroad Company. The Wabash entered
Chicago in 1880 by getting control of the Chicago
and Paducah and the Chicago and Strawn Rail-

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roads, also securing through connection to Detroit
in the same year. This road, with the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern and the Missouri Pa-
cific Railroad, is under the influence of the "Gould
System," and with its extensions and connections
forms one of the great railway systems of the
world.

The Illinois Central was chartered in 1857 to
build a road from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, with
a branch from Centralia to Galena.

In May, 1853, the first part of the road was com-
pleted and opened between La Salle and Blooming-
ton. In 1855 the branch to Dubuque and Galena
was finished, and in September, 1856, the line was
finished to Cairo from Chicago and Galena. The
Illinois Central made connection with St. Louis at
Sandoval, via the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
but did not enter St. Louis over its own line until
1896, when it secured control of the St. Louis, Alton
and Terre Haute Railroad, and later secured a direct
line to Chicago by getting control of the St. Louis to
Springfield section of the St. Louis, Peoria and
Northern Railroad, which had previously gone into
the hands of a receiver.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company entered St.
Louis through the "Vandalia," the St. Louis, Van-
dalia and Terre Haute Railroad Company, from
which the name was taken, was opened to St. Louis
in 1870. The Vandalia system being composed of
the Vandalia, Terre Haute, Terre Haute and

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Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Logansport, Terre
Haute and Peoria, and the East St. Louis and Ca-
rondelet Railroads. This was the first line to run
through cars to New York and inaugurated the first
fast mail from St. Louis to the east.

The Louisville and Nashville, which was char-
tered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, entered St.
Louis in 1880, when it secured control of the St.
Louis and Southeastern Railroad, which extended
from St. Louis to Evansville, Indiana. The St.
Louis and Southeastern was completed in 1871 —
went into the hands of a receiver in 1873, and in
1879 passed to the control of the Nashville, Chat-
tanooga and St. Louis Railroad. The Louisville
and Nashville gives St. Louis direct connections
with the south and southeast.

The "Burlington" had its beginning in 1852 in
a little branch road from Turner Junction to Au-
rora, Illinois. The same year the Chicago and Au-
rora Railroad Company was organized, succeeding
the Aurora Branch Railroad Company, extending
the line to Mendota. In 1885, by authority of the
legislature of Illinois, the name was changed to the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com-
pany. Consolidations were effected and extensions
have been made from time to time until now it is
one of the largest systems in the United States,
running trains over its own lines from Chicago and
St. Louis to Denver, Colorado, and Billings, Mon-
tana in the West, as well as covering the central

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west with a net work of tracks, entering the im-
portant cities of that section. The BurHngton se-
cured an entrance into St. Louis by getting control
of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Rail-
road, which had previously come into existence
through the absorption of eleven small roads. One
of tlie important links in the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad is the old Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad, which was one of the first roads
chartered by the state of Missouri and is the one
road of the original railroads that discharged its
obligation to the state without recourse to the
courts. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was
chartered in 1847, ground broken at Hannibal in
185L and was completed to St. Joseph, Missouri,
in 1859.

In 1904 a spur was built from the Burlington
main line to ^Mexico, Missouri, connecting with
the C. & A. and arrangements made by which
the C. & A. and Burlington inaugurated the new
St. Louis to Kansas City line.

The **Big Four,'' officially known as the Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
Company, is one of the important lines to the east,
making connections at Cincinnati with the Chese-
peake and Ohio Railroad for Washington and New
York. This line was formed in 1889 by the consoli-
dation of several railroads, the St. Louis connec-
tion being the St. Louis and Indianapolis Railroad,
which commenced operation July 11, 1870.

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The Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad
Company was reorganized in 1900 as the Toledo,
St. Louis and Western Railroad Company, com-
monly known as the ''Clover Leaf."

The Southern Railway absorbed the Louis-
ville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad Company
in 1901, thereby securing entrance into East St.
Louis.

The Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad
organized in 1887 and St. Louis extension com-
pleted in 1890.

The St. Louis and Cairo Railroad Company, a
narrow gauge road, completed in 1875, was bought
by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, who
immediately broadened the gauge and commenced
running regular trains into St. Louis in 1886.

The Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Rail-
road Company is closely identified with the Louis-
ville and Nashville Railroad Company, and enters
St. Louis over the Louisville and Nashville tracks.

The Pacific was St. Louis' first railroad. A
charter having been granted by the state, Thomas
Allen called a meeting of the incorporators for
January 31, 1850. The following gentlemen being
present : Col. John O'Fallon, James H. Lucas, Ed-
ward Walsh, George Collier, Daniel D. Page, James
E. Yeatman, Wayman Crow, Thomas Allen,
Adolphus Meier and Adam Mills.

John O'Fallon was elected president; Thomas

336 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Allen, secretary, and Daniel D. Page, treasurer.
In March, 1850, thirteen directors were elected, and
on the motion of Col. O'Fallon, Thomas Allen was
elected president; Louis A. Lebaume, secretary, and
James P. Kirkwood, chief engineer. On July 4,
1851, L. M. Kennett, who was then mayor of St.
Louis, commenced actual construction by removing
the first spadeful of dirt, which was the occasion of
a large and enthusiastic public demonstration. The
Pacific road was particularly a St. Louis enterprise,
fostered by the state, counties and individuals. On
November 13, 1852, the road was completed to
Sulphur Springs, a distance of about five miles
from the starting point, and the first train made a
trip on the Pacific Railroad. In the fall trains were
running to Kirkwood, and the first division to
Pacific was completed July 19, 1853, and to Jeff-
erson City in 1855. To celebrate the completion of
the road to Jefferson City, a trainload of prominent
people and excursionists had started to Jefferson
City from St. Louis, and one of the most appalling
calamities of the century occurred when the train
went through the bridge over the Gasconade river.
The road was completed into Kansas City in 1865,
under the able management of Mr. Daniel Randall
Garrison, who completed the road under the stress
of war times, amid the greatest difficulties. With-
in a few years the road passed to the control of
Commodore C. K. Garrison of New York, and sub-

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sequently to that of Jay Gould, in whose hands the
road was a great success. Other roads have come
under its control and extensions have been made
until to-day it covers a vast territory, reaching the
richest sections of the United States.

In 1851 the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Rail-
road was chartered, reviving for the most part, the
charter of the Bellevue Mineral Railroad Company,
chartered in 1837. The first board of directors
were : John O'Fallon, James Harrison, William M.
McPherson, Jules Valle, Henry Kayser, Francis
Kellerman, Jr., William H. Belcher, i\ndrew
Christy, Solon Humphreys, Lewis V. Bogy, John
Simonds, Frederick Schulenberg, and John Cav-
ender. On November 7, 1853, the following di-
rectors were chosen : Wm. H. Belcher, Jno. Caven-
der, Jno. How, Adolph Abeles, L. V. Bogy, L. M.
Kennett, M. Brotherton, Jas. Harrison, Wm. M.
McPherson, F. Schulenberg, E. Haren, M. Miller
and E. R. Mason. L. M. Kennett being elected the
first president.

The road was completed to Pilot Knob in May,
1858. The first locomotive manufactured by Wil-
liam Palm of St. Louis ha\'ing been placed on the
rails of the road in 1856. Failing to live up to its
obligation to the state, the state took possession, and
the road was managed by three commissioners until
January 12, 1867, when Thomas Allen came into
possession of the road, incorporating the St. Louis
and Iron Mountain Railroad Company, July 29,

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1867, having adopted the same name and acquired
the property and rights of the original corporation.
The state's attorney, claiming that Thomas Allen
and associates had not lived up to agreement, the
governor seized the road. January 15, 1868, but
the legislature ordered complete restoration and con-
firmed the title forever by the act of ^larch 17.
which secured Thomas Allen in the possession there-
of. Extensions were made to Texarkana, branches
built to Hot Springs and other points. In 1887
the St. Louis and Iron Mountain became a
part of the Gould system, and through its connection
with the Texas and Pacific, and the International
and Great Xorthern. both of the Gould system, di-
rect connections were made to points in Texas, ]\Iex-
ico and the great southwest. Tlie official title of
the road is the St. Louis, Iron ^Mountain and South-
ern Railroad Company.

The "Frisco" was originally a i)art of the ''Pa-
cific Railroad," and one of the original chain of
roads intended to traverse the different sections of
the state, making connections with the Pacific Rail-
road at Franklin, now Pacific. Missouri. It was
completed to Rolla, ^Missouri, in 1861, having had
the troubles common to all the new roads in this
part of the country, excepting the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad, it went into the hands of a
receiver in 1866 on account of failure to meet its
obligations to the state, and was bought by General
John C. Fremont, who failed to meet his obliga-

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tions, and the governor took possession the next
year. It was then sold to Andrew Pierce, Jr., and
J. B. Hays, who changed the name to the
South Pacific. After that it became the At-
lantic and Pacific, which was sold in 1876,
and the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road Company then came into existence. The
road was built from Pacific to St. Louis, and
from Rolla to Springfield and beyond, to points
in x\rkansas, Indian Territory, Kansas and
Texas, etc. It has absorbed other roads, branches
have been built, and consolidations have been ef-
fected, until to-day the Rock Island-Frisco System
is one of the largest and most important systems
in the United States. In 1904 the Frisco and Rock
Island systems were consolidated, the Rock Island
securing control of the St. Louis, Kansas City and
Colorado Railroad, completing that road to Kansas
City, and St. Louis, and the Frisco got control of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, building
a new line from Pana, Illinois, to Granite City, com-
pleting the Chicago connection, the St. Louis to
Memphis line being opened the same year.

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Com-
pany came into existence April 7, 1870, taking over
the southern branch of the Union Pacific, Junction
City to Chetopa, one hundred and eighty miles.
The Neosho Valley and Holden, the Labette and
Sedalia and the Tebo and Xeosho Railroads, the
lines from Sedalia to Parsons, and from Holden to

340 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Paola, were then built. Extensions were also
built through the Indian Territory to Denison, Tex-
as, in 1873. April 29, 1872, the M., K. & T.
purchased the St. Louis and Santa Fe from Holden
to Paola, and in 1874 the Hannibal and
Central Missouri, between Hannibal and Mo-
berly. It was originally the intention to go around
St. Louis, but the management finally saw the ad-
vantages of a St. Louis connection, which was ef-
fected in 1893. The M, K. & T., like all the
other lines entering St. Louis, has built branches,
made extensions and absorbed other lines to make
the road as we know it to-day, and the "Katy," as
it is commonly known, is one of the great railroads
of the southwest.

The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company
was organized in 1891, though it had its origin in
1876. In 1885 the company passed into the hands
of Samuel W. Fordyce, as receiver, and was
sold to J. W. Paramore and others the next year,
the road then being known as the St. Louis, Ar-
kansas and Texas Railroad. In 1887 the Arkansas
and Southern Railroad bought the property in Ar-
kansas, and about the same time the property of
the Little Rock and Eastern Railroad Company,
and the name was changed to the St. Louis, Ar-
kansas and Texas Railroad Company of Arkansas
and Missouri. Extensions were made and then the
road went again into the hands of a receiver. In
1890 the road was sold to Louis Fitzgerald, pur-

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chasing trustee, and the St. Louis and Southwest-
ern Railroad came into existence. The Gould
interests secured control of the road, and it now
forms one of the links of that system. This road
is commonly known as the "Cotton Belt."

The genesis of the terminal connections of St.
Louis was in an act of the legislature of Illinois
chartering the Wiggins Ferry Company, March,
1819, entitled, ''An act to authorize Samuel Wig-
gins to establish a ferry upon the waters of the Mis-
sissippi, near the town of Illinois, and to run to
same from lands at said place that might belong
to him, provided he should not use any boat or
water craft except such as should be propelled by
steam, horses, oxen, or other four-footed animals."
The charter in a modified form, but of greater
length, was renewed to Wm. C. Wiggins, Andrew
Christy, Adam L. Mills, Louis V. Bogy and Napo-
leon B. Mullikin, the right and privilege creating
them — the Wiggins Ferry Company — a body
corporate and politic by the name and style
of the Wiggins Ferry Company, with per-
petual succession and very extensive powers,
as to purchase of lands for coal mining,
the construction of levees, docks, warehouses,
etc., which was approved February 11, 1853.
Until 1869 this was the only means of trans-
fer between St. Louis and East St. Louis, for the
railroads, and in winter it was very unsatisfactory,
especially when the river was frozen over. Rail-

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roads being compelled to refuse perishable freight
at that time. After 1869 barges for the transfer
of cars, and inclines were made by the ^Madison
County Ferry Company at Venice, and the A\^ig-
gins Ferry Company put in inclines at East St.
Louis, operated In" the Ohio and ^Mississippi Rail-
road on the north and the Indianapolis and St.
Louis on the south, pioneers in this service be-
tween St. Louis and East St. Louis, the inclines
on the west side of the river being operated by the
Xorth [Missouri Railroad at IMound street, and by
the Iron [Mountain and Missouri Pacific at Chouteau
avenue, on the south. Nearly all of the earlier rail-
roads were built narrow gauge (all having since
been made standard gauge), which necessitated all
ferries and terminal connections using a third rail,
and while this method was crude, it was a big
advance over the old method of breaking bulk on
either side of the river, adding not only to the
convenience in handling, but a great reduction in
cost of freight as well, thereby helping to encourage
trade development to a considerable degree.

The North [Missouri Railroad had terminals for
passenger traffic at Biddle street and freight at
North [Market street. The [Missouri Pacific had
built a small shed on the west side of Fourteenth
street, near Poplar street, in 1852, the first depot
built in St. Louis, later on erecting a larger station
on the west side of Seventh street, near Poplar,
where the freight house now^ stands, and in 1852

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or 1853, the Iron Mountain erected a two-room
station at Plum street, and about the same time the
North Missouri built their station.

The roads entering East St. Louis maintained
passenger and freight stations on the east side,
passengers being transferred by omnibus, and all
freight, except car load lots, broke bulk in East
St. Louis and was hauled by the then existing trans-
fer companies over the river to St. Louis. Each
line maintained ticket offices on both sides of the
river. The old Planters Hotel was the point of ar-
rival and departure in St. Louis until the Eads
bridge connections were effected.

In 1873 the East St. Louis and Carondelet Rail-
road was built with inclines for ferry service to
Carondelet, where connections were made with the
Iron Mountain Railroad on the w^est, thereby gain-
ing trade in that section, heretofore controlled by
the Wiggins Ferry Company.

The bridging of the Mississippi at St. Louis had
long been a live question, and when Capt. Eads un-
dertook the construction of the famous structure
that bears his name in 1867, it was recognized as
one of the important events of the century. This
was emphasized in 1874, when the bridge was com-
pleted. It had been assumed by the promotors of
the bridge, as well as the public, that as soon as the
bridge was completed the railroad would hasten to
taken advantage of this safe and convenient cross-
ing of the great Mississippi. They were mistaken;

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there were other interests in the field, consequently
the bridge and its great tunnel lay idle, as far as
the railroads were concerned, nearly a year. It
had originally been the intention of the projectors
of the bridge to provide terminal facilities. This
was probably hastened by conditions, resulting in
the organization of the Union Railway and Transit
Company in 1875, to furnish power, yards, etc., that
the bridge might be operated to advantage. The
Union Depot Company was organized to provide
passenger facilities, and on June 13, 1875, the first
passenger train discharged passengers at the new
Union Depot, located at Twelfth and Poplar streets,
extending from Eleventh to Twelfth streets. This
was considered a model depot and ample for all
future needs, containing eleven tracks, sheds cov-
ering platforms between tracks, substantial brick
buildings, containing waiting rooms, baggage and
express rooms, and the second floor offices.

It was a great improvement over the separate
depot, and for a number of years served its purpose
well ; however, in less than ten years traffic had
outgrown the depot and consideration of better fa-
cilities were in order. In 1880 the St. Louis Term-
inal and the East St. Louis Terminal Railroads
were organized to furnish freight facilities at St.
Louis and East St. Louis for the bridge, extend-
ing the yards on both sides of the river, which, in
addition to freight terminals of a number of in-
dividual roads and the famous Cupples stations, has

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given St. Louis superior facilities for handling
freight. In 1889 the Terminal Railroad Associa-
tion was formed for the purpose of constructing the
new Union Depot, taking over the St. Louis Term-
inal, the East St. Louis Terminal, the Union Rail-
road and Transit Company, and the Union Depot
Companies' properties. The new Union Station was
completed in September, 1894, which gave to St.
Louis one of the handsomest, most convenient and
largest union railway stations in the world. In
1904 extensive improvements were made in the ap-
proaches to the station, and additions installed be-
neath the tracks, which has added greatly to its
facilities in handling trains, baggage, etc., the in-
terlocking system used, and the arrangement of
the tracks and approaches, being a perfect equip-
ment.

In 1889 the St. Louis Transfer Railroad was

built from the water works on the north to Arsenal
street on the south, with frequent inclines and Wig-
gins Ferry connections, forming a most convenient
belt line for railroads entering the city from the
north, west and south.

In 1887 the Merchants Bridge Company was or-
ganized by prominent St. Louis business men, the
Eads bridge arbitrary, as it is commonly called, and
other conditions supposed to be of a retarding
nature to St. Louis commerce, were the immediate
cause of the project. One of the conditions of the
grant by the United States Government was a

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clause prohibiting its consolidation with the Eads
bridge interests, but like many other good clauses,
this was made to be broken. In 1893 the
Merchants Bridge and Terminals was absorbed by
the Terminal Railroad Association. The Merchants
bridge, with ample terminal facilities on both sides
of the river, was completed in 1890. The W^abash
and the St. Louis Transfer Railroad, being the
original lines to use the bridge on the west side.
Belt lines were built, and to reach the Iron Moun-
tain, Missouri Pacific and Frisco Railroads on the
south, the elevated road was built from Second and
Carr streets to Eighth and Gratiot, where delivery
yards were established and connections with other
roads effected.

The St. Louis Transfer Company has been a fac-
tor in terminal development, and has occupied a
position of satisfactory service to both the rail-
roads and the merchants. The St. Louis Car Ser-
vice Association has also rendered a desirable ser-
vice in freight movement.

St. Louis is one of the great railroad centers of
the world, and without a doul:)t the railroads have
been the greatest factor in the development of St.
Louis, the lines radiating as they do to every point
of the compass, traversing the richest agricultural
and mineral country of America. In 1850 to 1860
the population of Missouri was little over eight hun-
dred thousand, with a taxable wealth of one hun-
dred to one hundred and fiftv million dollars. The

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railroads were built mostly on credit, as cash was
very scarce at that time, the state, counties, cities
and towns voting bonds liberally, the debt insured
in this way amounted to about fifty million dollars
at one time. Emigration into the state was rapid,
the railroad contributing to this to a very large ex-
tent. With the increase of population came the
increase in agriculture, mining, business, etc., and
the state was able to meet its obligations without
disturbing its credit, though the railroads them-
selves were in financial straits for many years, and
changes in management were frequent.

In 1897 there were six thousand, six hundred and
sixteen miles of railroad in Missouri that cost three
hundred and fifty-seven million, two hundred
and sixty-four thousand dollars. The popula-
tion had increased to three million, and the
taxable wealth to one billion, one hundred
and eight million, three hundred and forty-
eight thousand, two hundred and ninety-three dol-
lars. In 1905 there were over ten thousand, three
hundred and thirty-eight miles of railroad in Mis-
souri that cost over five hundred and seventy mil-
lion dollars. The population had increased to three
million, eight hundred and ninety-six thousand. In
1906 the taxable wealth had increased to one billion,
four hundred and eighty-nine million, three hun-
dred and ninety thousand, three hundred and
nineteen dollars.

348 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The population of St. Louis increased from 11 ,-
860 in 1850, to 700,000 in 1907, and the value of
real and personal property from $87,625,534 in
1865 to $4,499,000,000.00 in 1907 (estimated).
Before the war St. Louis commerce did not extend
over a large territory, but the extension of the rail-
roads increased her influence to such an extent that
St. Louis soon became the metropolis of the south-
west. In 1881 the following states were officially
considered as being tributary to St. Louis : Mis-
souri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, one-half of Illi-
nois, one-half of Iowa, one-half of Texas, one-half
of Kentucky, Indian Territory, one-half of Tennes-
see, Colorado, Xew ^lexico, one-half Louisiana and
Mississippi, with a total population of 10,853,055
in 1880, which had increased to 16,646,000 in 1907
(estimated). A coincidence of the railroad devel-
opment about St. Louis is the fact that about the
time that the railroads were coming into general
use, the difficulties of navigation on the Alississippi
river were multiplying, added to this the inroads
of the railroads on the river transportation busi-
ness, we mark the decline of the steamboat inter-
ests. In recent years, however, a great deal of at-
tention has been given to the subject of river navi-
gation. The advantages of this great national water-
way have been impressed upon the bordering states
and cities, and the cry for deep water from the
Lakes to the Gulf, culminating in President Roose-
velt's trip during the month of October, 1907, in

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the interest of the movement, bids fair to make the
subject an issue in future national campaigns, which
it is confidently expected will lead to a practical and
satisfactory consummation.

Considered in the light of modern business con-
ditions the banking system up to 1857 was unsatis-
factory, if not chaotic, "wild cat" notes, issued by
obscure Illinois banks, being a principal source
of trouble. These banks, located in obscure places,
would issue notes, which were handled by agents
and accepted at one to three per cent discount.
It was often the case that a merchant accepting
these notes would find them of no value twenty-
four hours after. When the legislature of the state
of Missouri made provision for a general banking
system in 1857 to supply the people with a sound
currency, it was received with general satisfaction
throughout the state. The basis of the system was
authority to issue two dollars in paper to one dol-
lar of paid up capital, the notes to be payable in
specie on demand. The banks organized under this
law were subject to examination by state commis-
sioners, who were required to make regular and full
reports of bank conditions. This brought about a
satisfactory banking system, which operated suc-
cessfully until the national banking law went into
effect in 1862, when the notes of the state banks
disappeared on account of the tax of ten per cent
that the national bank law imposed. The result was
that, with one exception, the St. Louis banks of is-

350 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

sue became national banks, and their development
has been continuous under this system.

Prior to the existence of the state banking law-
there were a number of private bankers, prominent
among which was the house of Daniel D. Page and
his son-in-law% Henry D. Bacon, with a branch house
in San Francisco, which undertook the building of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. Wdien the panic
of 1855 came, its resources were tied u[) in that en-
terprise, with no alternative Imt failure. Other
prominent houses were : Lucas, Turner and Com-
pany, L. A. Benoist & Co., Jno. J. Anderson & Co.,
Darby, Barksdale & Co., Bogy, Miltenl^erger & Co.,
B. M. Runyan & Co., Tesson and Daugen, Loker
and Renick. E. \\'. Clark & Co. and Allen, Copp &
Nesbit.

The run on Page and Bacon, in 1855, started a
general panic in St. Louis, during which over $700,-
000.00 was withdrawn on Saturday, January 15th,
wdien Sunday came and saved all from ruin. By
Monday the banks had got together, and a card
published and signed by John O' Fallon, Edw^ard
Walsh, J. B. Brant, L. A. La Beaume, L. M. Ken-
nett, John How, James Harrison, Charles P. Chou-
teau and Andrew Christy, pledging their fortunes
in support of the leading banking houses, proved a
panacea to the pul^lic excitement and saved the day.

When the general panic of 1857 struck St. Louis
the same methods were tried to avert disaster, but
the stringency increased, and banking houses were

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 351

forced to suspend. Even the old banks of the city
ceased specie payment. The depression incident to
the war following close upon this, forced a contin-
uance of this condition until the resumption by the
government in 1879.

After the war legitimate business relations were
resumed. The southwest, especially, was entering
a prosperous era, and the commercial energies of St.
Louis were being focused on its legitimate trade
territory. The St. Louis banks shared in the in-
creasing prosperity, and when the panic of 1873
came, St. Louis was better able to withstand the
shock than ever before, and by resorting to tem-
porary expedient of certificates of indebtedness
based upon approved assets and guaranteed by the
banks in the clearing house association, business
moved along and disaster was averted. Past ex-
periences had instilled in the minds of financiers
of St. Louis the necessity of sane retrenchments
and careful management, and it was the exercise
of this conservatism which gave to St. Louisans the
stigma of ''old fogyism." To a great extent, as
a matter of fact, it was the acme of sound business
operation, and when the panic was repeated in 1893
throughout the country, it found the St. Louis banks
practically invulnerable.

The idea of trust companies originated in Phila-
delphia, Pa., in 1812. The original design was that
of life insurance, other considerations being sec-
ondary. This has been changed entirely in the

352 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

modern trust company, their purposes now being
akin to those of a bank, doing various services in
addition, executing trusts, procuring capital for va-
rious enterprises, acting as registrars and agents
for transfer of stocks and bonds, with power to exe-
cute wills, administer estates, to act as guardian,
curator, assignee, to act as receiver, and depository
for money for courts in complicated litigation, to
do a general financial business for corporations and
others, make investments, collect interest and per-
form a number of other financial services, not the
least of which is the functions of a savings bank.
They are under state supervision, the examiners be-
ing required to make minute examinations and re-
ports at stated periods. Trust companies in j\Iis-
souri were authorized by a state law, enacted in
1885, to which has been added various amendments.
At first the trust companies in St. Louis were re-
ceived as usurpers by the St. Louis banks, ])ut there
was a grafting of interests later on that reconciled
matters, and both interests have developed side by
side to the advantage and satisfaction of all con-
cerned.

The St. Louis Clearing House began operations
December 24, 1868, the charter members being the
Accommodation Bank, Bartholomew, Lewis & Co.,
Boatmen's Savings Institution, Butchers and Drov-
ers Bank, Central Savings Bank, Clark Bros. & Co.,
Commercial Bank, Exchange Bank, First National
Bank, Fourth National Bank, Fourth Street Bank,

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 353

Franklin Avenue German Savings Institution, Ger-
man Bank, German Savings Institution, Haskell &
Co., International Bank, G. H. Loker & Bro., Me-
chanics Bank, Merchants National Bank, National
Bank State of Missouri, National Loan Bank, North
St. Louis Savings Association, Peoples Savings
Institution, Provident Savings Institution, St. Louis
National Bank, St. Louis Building and Savings As-
sociation, Second National Bank, State Savings As-
sociation, Third National Bank, Traders Bank,
Union National Bank, Union Savings Association,
United States Savings Institution, Western Savings
Bank. Failures, liquidations, absorptions and con-
solidations have reduced the membership to thirteen
in 1907, all other banks and trust companies clear-
ing through members of the Clearing House Asso-
ciation. Of the banks belonging to the original
Clearing House, and subsequent members, the fol-
lowing is a complete history to 1907 :

The Accommodation Bank was reorganized as
the Manufacturers Savings Bank in 1871. The
Traders Bank absorbed by the Valley National Bank
in 1873. The Valley National and Manufacturers
Savings Bank were consolidated in 1878 as the Val-
ley National Bank. Bartholomew, Lewis & Co.
was changed to the Banking House of Bartholo-
mew, Lewis & Co. in 1872, was reorganized in
1881, as the Laclede Bank. In 1885 the Valley Na-
tional Bank consolidated with the Laclede Bank,
and in 1890 the Laclede Bank became the Laclede

354 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

National Bank. In 1895 the ^Merchants National
Bank and the Laclede National Bank went into
voluntary liquidation for the purpose of forming a
union, and the Merchants-Laclede National Bank
came into existence. The National Bank of the Re-
public was organized in 1890, and taken over by
the Merchants-Laclede National Bank in 1897. On
i\ugust 22, 1907, the ]\Ierchants-Laclede National
Bank had a capital of $1,700,000.00 and deposits
of $12,778,223.47, total assets of $18,103,522.92.

The Boatmen's Savings Institution became the
Boatmen's Savings Bank in 1873, and the Boat-
men's Bank in 1890. The statement for August
22, 1907, shows a capital of $2,000,000.00, deposits
of $11,722,948.94, and total assets of $15,432,-
935.70.

The Butchers and Drovers Bank failed July 14,
1877.

The Central Savings Bank failed July 7, 1876.

The Third National Bank had its beginning in
the Southern Bank, organized in 1857, which
changed its name to the Third National Bank on
becoming a National Bank in 1864. The Chemical
National Bank was organized in 1891, and was
consolidated with the Third National Bank in 1897.
August 22, 1907, the Third National Bank had a
capital of $2,000,000.00, deposits of $30,993,177.83,
and total assets of $37,292,730.36.

The State Savings Association had its beginning
in the State Savings Institution, organized in 1855.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 355

Changed to the State Savings Association in 1859,
to the State Bank of St. Louis in 1889, and to the
State National Bank of St. Louis in 1899. The
Commercial Bank of St. Louis was consolidated
with the State National Bank of St. Louis in 1899.
August 22, 1907, the State National Bank of St.
Louis had a capital of $2,000,000.00, deposits of
$11,721,516.22; total assets, $16,030,661.13.

The Exchange Bank, organized 1857, liquidated
1879.

The First National Bank consolidated with the
Empire Bank in 1873. The Empire Bank liquidated
March 1st, 1877.

The Fifth National Bank was organized in 1882
and failed November 7, 1887.

The Fourth National Bank was organized 1864
and absorbed the Second National Bank in 1878.
The Fourth National Bank, absorbed by the Na-
tional Bank of Commerce in 1907. St. Louis Build-
ing and Savings Association, organized in 1857,
changed to Bank of Commerce in 1868, to Na-
tional Bank of Commerce in 1889. National Loan
Bank, organized March, 1866, changed to Con-
tinental Bank in 1873, to Continental National Bank
in 1889, absorbed by the National Bank of Com-
merce, 1902. The St. Louis National Bank, or-
ganized in 1857 as the Bank of St. Louis, was ab-
sorbed by the National Bank of Commerce in 1898.
The statement of the National Bank of Commerce
for August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $10,000,-

356 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

000.00, deposits of $58,347,275.92; total assets,
$84,027,321.87.

The Fourth Street Bank reorganized as City
Savings Bank in 1872, changed to Bank of North
America in 1873, hquidated April 4, 1877.

Franklin Avenue German Savings Institute, or-
ganized in 1867, was changed to the Franklin Bank
in 1879. August 22, 1907, the capital of the Frank-
lin Bank was $600,000.00, deposits, $5,515,076.66;
total assets, $6,740,332.81.

The Franklin Savings Institute was absorbed by
the United States Savings Institute in 1877. The
United States Savings Institute was absorbed by
the ^lechanics Bank in 1879. Haskell & Co.
changed to Haskell Bank in 1871, was absorbed by
the Lucas Bank in 1873. The Lucas Bank, organ-
ized in 1870, was absorbed by the Mechanics Bank
in 1879, became the ^Mechanics National Bank in
1901. The Union Savings Association, organized
in 1864, changed to the American Exchange Bank
in 1888, to American Exchange National Bank in
1905. The Citizens Savings Bank, changed to Citi-
zens Bank, 1895, was absorbed by the American
Exchange Bank in 1897. In 1905 the Mechanics
National and the American Exchange National
Banks were consolidated, taking the name of the
Mechanics-American National Bank. The state-
ment for August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $2,-
000,000.00, deposits of $29,101,605.31, and total
assets, $36,315, 676.10.

COMMERCIAL DE:vELOPMENT 357

The German Bank failed July 11, 1877.

German American Bank was organized in 1882.
The statement for August 22, 1907, shows a capital
of $1,000,000.00; deposits, $6,658,850.87, and total
assets of $8,158,850.87.

The German Savings Institute was organized in
1853. The statement of August 22, 1907, shows a
capital of $500,000.00, deposits of $9,383,574.71,
total assets of $11,206,565.46.

The Hibernia Savings Bank, organized in 1873,
liquidated August 1st, 1876.

International Bank, organized 1865, reorganized
1885, absorbed the business of the Iron Mountain
Bank in 1877. The Carondelet Savings Bank, or-
ganized in 1875, absorbed the South St. Louis Sav-
ings Bank in 1876. The Carondelet Bank liqui-
dated in 1878, the International Bank taking over
its business. The statement of August 22, 1907,
shows that the International Bank's capital to be
$200,000.00, deposits, $2,735,626.59; total assets,
$3,122,705.16.

G. H. Loker & Bro. failed September 25, 1878.

The National Bank of the State of Missouri
came under the control of a combination of capital-
sits, headed by Jas. B. Eads, in 1866, when it be-
came a national bank, with eight branches in the
state. Its capital was reduced in 1876 and on July
11, 1877, it failed.

The Mercantile Trust Company was organized
in 1899, absorbed the American Central Trust Com-

358 COMMERCIAL DEV^ELOPMEXT

pany in 1904, and the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Com-
pany in 1907. The ^^lercantile Trust Company be-
came a member of the St. Louis Clearing House
Association July 28, 1904. The statement of the
Missouri-Lincoln Trust Company for August 22,
1907, shows capital of $3,000,000.00, deposits of
$6,921,863.08, total assets of $11,766,909.14. The
statement of the ^Mercantile Trust Company shows
a capital of $3,000,000.00, deposits of $21,426,-
103.02, total assets of $31,230,090.15.

The North St. Louis Savings Association failed
July 16, 1877.

Peoples Savings Institute failed February 1st,
1875.

Provident Savings Institute changed to Provi-
dent Savings Bank in 1885, failed July 14, 1886.

Soutli Side Bank, organized in 1891. The state-
ment of the South Side Bank for August 22, 1907,
shows a capital of $200,000.00, deposits of $2,101,-
801.90, total assets of $2,470,126.00.

The Union National Bank failed October 8, 1873.

Clark Bros. & Co. liquidated November 9, 1869.

A\^estern Savings Bank liquidated in 1875.

^Mercantile Bank, organized in 1871 , liquidated
January 27, 1877.

Clark's Savings Bank, organized in 1872,
changed to Security Bank in 1875, liquidated Au-
gust 1st, 1876.

Broadway Savings Bank, organized in 1872,
failed Alav 22, 1879.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 359

Capital Bank, organized in 1872, failed June 15,
1876.

West St. Louis Savings Bank, organized in 1872,
failed January 13, 1876.

The Central National Bank, organized 1907.
Capital, $1,000,000.00: deposits on August 22,
1907, was $5,877,231.41; total assets, $7,899,-

Of the banks in St. Louis which are not members
of the Clearing House, the following clear through
members: Bremen Bank, organized in 1868, clears
through the German American Bank. Statement of
August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00,
deposits of $2,743,948.73, total assets of $3,290,-
910.48.

Broadway Savings Trust Company, clearing
through the National Bank of Commerce, was or-
ganized December 16, 1904. Statement of August
22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00, deposits
of $556,488.89, and total assets of $686,458.11.

Cass Avenue Bank, organized May 9, 1906, clears
through the Third National Bank. Statement, Aug-
ust 22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00, de-
posits of $665,519.52, and total assets of $778,-
600.21.

The Chippewa Bank, organized May 22, 1906,
clears through the National Bank of Commerce.
Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capital of
$100,000.00, deposits of $376,376.70, and total as-
sets of $488,459.93.

360 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The City National Bank, organized August 3,
1903, clears through Mechanics- American National
Bank. Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capital
of $200,000.00, deposits of $1,113,251.36, total
assets of $1,542,950.32.

The Commonwealth Trust Company, organ-
ized June 11, 1904, clears through the National
Bank of Commerce. Statement, August 22, 1907,
shows a capital of $200,000.00, deposits of $10,-
173,042.07, and total assets of $16,128,996.84.

The Grand Avenue Bank, organized July 28,

1905, clears through the National Bank of Com-
merce. Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capi-
tal of $100,000.00, deposits of $156,381.98, and
total assets of $260,890.16.

The Jefferson Bank, organized in 1892, clears
through the Third National Bank. Statement of
August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $200,00.00,
deposits of $1,511,656.36, and total assets of $1,-
837,236.36.

The Lafayette Bank, organized January 15, 1878,
clears through the Boatmen's Bank. Statement,
August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00,
deposits of $4,874,104.24, and total assets of $5,-
954,742.87.

The Lemay Ferry Bank, organized February 27,

1906, clears through the Third National Bank.
Statement of August 22, 1907, shows a capital of
$25,000.00, deposits of $201,877.93, and total as-
sets of $231,071.81.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 361

The Lowell Bank, organized June 14, 1905, clears
through the Franklin Bank. Statement of August
22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00, deposits
of $274,524.59, and total assets of $382,841.76.

Manchester Bank, organized in 1902, clears
through the Third National Bank. Statement,
August 22, 1907, shows a capital of $100,000.00,
deposits of $1,089,852.95, and total assets of $1,-
287,657.15.

The Mississippi Valley Trust Company, organ-
ized October 14, 1879, clears through the Third Na-
tional Bank. Statement, August 22, 1907, shows
a capital of $3,000,000.00, deposits of $17,552,-
869.88, and total assets of $26,279,914.23.

The Northwestern Savings Bank, organized in
1873, clears through the Third National Bank.
Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capital of
$200,000.00, deposits of $3,369,991.79, and total
assets of $3,940,398.59.

The St. Louis Union Trust Company is the result
of a consolidation of the St. Louis Trust Company,
organized October 8, 1899, and the Union Trust
Company, organized June 16, 1890. The consoli-
dation was effected in 1902. The Union Trust
Company clears through the National Bank of Com-
merce. Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capi-
tal of $5,000,000.00, deposits of $20,398,458.51,
and total assets of $31,927,068.27.

The Southern Commercial and Savings Bank, or-
ganized in 1891, clears through the German- Ameri-

362 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

can Bank. Statement of August 22, 1907, shows
a capital of $100,000.00, deposits of $1,444,852.17,
and total assets of $1,643,602.86.

The Vandeventer Trust Company, organized May
8, 1906, clears through the Mechanics-American
National Bank. Statement, August 22, 1907, shows
a capital of $50,000.00. deposits of $246,124.07,
and total assets of $296,124.07.

The Washington National Bank, organized May
26, 1903, clears through Third National Bank.
Statement, August 22, 1907, shows a capital of
$200,000.00, deposits of $355,419.50, and total as-
sets of $713,054.14.

The Scruggs- Vandervoort-Barney Dry Goods
Company established a hanking department iri con-
nection with their store in 1906, clearing through
the Boatmen's Bank. Statement, August 22, 1907,
shows a cajjital of $5,000.00, deposits of $167,-
356.82, and total assets of $173,157.39.

There are a number of banks and trust com-
panies located in suburban towns and on the east
side of the river, which clear through members of
the St. Louis Clearing House Association.

August 22, 1907, the total assets of the strictly
St. Louis banks and trust companies was $388,-
520,995.64; capital, $41,180,000.00; deposits, $283,-
221,806.14. The clearings of the St. Louis Clear-
ing House Association for 1869 were $292,195,-
745.00. In 1879 the clearings were $546,882,903,
in 1889 the clearings were $987,522,629.00. In

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 363

1899 the clearings were $1,638,384,203.00. In

1900 the clearings were $1,688,849,494. In
1904 the clearings were $2,793,233,902. In 1905
the clearings were $2,899,798,976. In 1906 the
clearings were $2,972,653,307.

The Civil War was detrimental to St. Louis busi-
ness, but she was more fortunate than many, as the
natural advantages of location had caused the Na-
tional Government to make St. Louis one of the
principal distributing points, and a considerable
business grew out of this condition.

The population was 185,000 in 1860, and St.
Louis had taken its place as one of the important
cities of the country, though prior to this its trade
influence was not extensive. After the war, how-
ever, in the general adjusting of things, St. Louis
began to appreciate the extent of her opportunities,
as evidenced in the rapid development of the entire
western country, and then was born the spirit of
commercial effort that has since made St. Louis
the commercial metropolis of the great southwest.
There were practically no industries, as we con-
sider them to-day, prior to 1850, and it was not
until after the war that what might be called a
system of manufacturies was developed. The in-
fluence of the railroads as a factor in commercial de-
velopment was now evident, and a system of varied
industries was necessary to the proper development
of St. Louis and its commerce. Pork packing and
flour milling were flourishing, the preparation of

364 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

tobacco was carried on on a small scale, and beer
was manufactured in sufficient quantities for local
trade, and the cooperage business had grown out
of the necessities of other industries. The internal
revenue tax imposed during the war caused many
of the small tobacco factories to close, which in
turn, helped to increase the larger factories. In
1880 St. Louis was the largest tobacco manufactur-
ing city in the United States. The manufacturing
of street cars had its origin in a small shop owned
by Andrew Wright. wHo had come to St. Louis
to engage in repairing and painting omnibuses,
which subsequently merged into a street car manu-
facturing business.

The first boot and shoe manufactory in St. Louis
was established by Howard Brolaski in 1866. He
failed during the panic of 1872-3. The advantages
of St. Louis as a distributing point were too many
to allow a business of this character to wane, and
others soon took up the business of manufacturing
boots and shoes, until to-day St. Louis has out-
distanced all competitors as a shoe market.

The industrial development of St. Louis is best
shown by the following statement :

In I860 capital invested in manufacturing was.$ 9,205,205

48,387,150

50.832,885

" 120,759,817

" 162,179,331

" 265.891,387

1870

1880

1890

1900

1905

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

365

In 1860 the value of manufactured products was.$ 21,772,323

" 1870
" 1880
" 1890
" 1900
" 1905

109,513,950
114,333,375
213,199,268
233,629,733
267,004,314

In 1871 the number of wage-earners was 2i^,684

" 1905 " " " " 93,946

In 1871 the wages paid amounted to $17,865,000

" 1905 " " " " " 56,015,197

In 1870 the value of raw material was $ 60,427,500

" 1905 " " " " " 137,577,144

In 1865 the number of manufacturing firms was 612

" 1900 " " " " " " 6,732

" 1905 " " " " " " 2,480

In 1865 the sales (manufacturing) was $140,688,856

•' 1905 " " " " 556,169,000

In 1869 the clearings, St. Louis Clearing House,

was $ 292,195,745

" 1905 the clearings, St. Louis Clearing House,

was 2,899,798,976

In 1859 the amount of real estate assessed in

St. Louis was $ 69,846,845

" 1905 the total assessed valuation of St. Louis

was 468,903,700

In 1877 there were 2115 building permits,

cost $ 3,229,726

" 1905 there were 8265 building permits,

cost 23,434,564

In 1877 real estate tranfers amounted to $10,606,469

" 1905 " " 'i " " 79,496,331

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In 1864 receipts of flour were, bbls 1,161,138

" 1864 amount manufactured in St. Louis, bbls.. 743,281

" 1905 receipts of flour were, bbls 2,529,780

" 1905 shipments of flour were, bbls 3,472,609

" 1905 amount manufactured in St. Louis, bbls. .1,285,537

In 1865 the receipts of corn were, bushels 3,162,313

" 1905 " " " " " " 18,067,905

"1905 " shipments " " " 14,547,717

In 1870 the receipts of wheat were, bushels 6,638,253

" 1905 " " " " " " 21,001,852

" 1865 " shipments " " " 67,710

" 1905 " " " " " " 18,240,660

In 1865 the receipts of barley were, bushels 846,230

" 1905 " " " " " " 2,921,183

" 1905 " shipments " " " 287,681

" 1865 " " " " " " 50,000

In 1870 the receipts of oats were, bushels 4,519,510

19,278,365

3,083,864

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569,706

32,445

492,266

In 1865 the receipts of cotton were, bales 89,215

" 1905 " " " " " " 617,658

In 1880 bagging manufactured, yards 10,000,000

" 1905 " " " 15,000,000

In 1865 the receipts of hay were, bales 266,511

" 1905 " " " " " tons 246,945

In 1865 the receipts of tobacco were, hhds 16,483

" 1905 " " " " " " 53,381

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

367

In 1865 the receipts of lead were, pigs.... 116,636

" 1905 " " " " " " 2,137,935

" 1905 " " " zinc and spelter were, slabs.3,364,955

In 1880 the hog product, total shipments, were,

pounds 199,456,866

" 1905 the hog product, total shipments, were,

pounds 609,638,832

In 1870 the receipts of cattle were, head 201,422

1,254,236

94,777

690,378

310,350

2,407,336

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1905 the receipts of horses and mules were

head 190,193

1865 total number of hogs packed, were, head. . 84,093
1905 " " " " " " " ..1,908,592

In 1880 the receipts of lumber and logs were,

feet 330,935,973

" 1905 the receipts of lumber and logs were

feet 1,674,996,000

In 1865 the receipts of hides were.

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1905

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187,591

120,739

Bundles.

7,310

37,424

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18,436,253

63,544,350

In 1865 the receipts of sugar were, hhds 17,889

" 1865 " " " " " bbls 8,189

"1865 " " " " " boxes 29,410

"1880 " " " " " lbs 113,627,470

1905

206,268,750

368 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

In 1865 the receipts of molasses were, bbls 10,090

" 1865 " " " " " i/o-bbls 998

•^ 1865 " " " " " kegs 1,461

"1905 " " " " " gals 3,042,600

In 1865 the receipts of coffee were, bags 60,106

" 1905 " " " " " " 576,860

"1905 " ." " " . " Pkgs 29,565

In 1879 the receipts of coal were, bushels 36,978,150

"1905 " " " " " tons 7,027,950

"1870 " " " " " tons 957^59

In 1876 the total tons of freight shipped and re-
ceived were 6,380,150

" 1905 the total tons of freight shipped and re-
ceived were 39,512,088

In 1880 the receipts of wool were, pounds 12,387,089

" 1905 " " " " " " 24,296,130

In 1900 the value of out-put of woodenware was.$ 8,500,000
" 1905 " sales of the woodenware houses was 15,000,000

In 1890 the volume of the hat and cap business

was (estimated) $3,000,000

" 1905 the value (total) of hat and cap manu-
facturers was 275,448

" 1905 the sales of hats and caps from St. Louis

were 4,500,000

In 1890 the volume of the saddlery and harness

business was $3,000,000

" 1905 the total value of the saddlery and har-
ness manufactured was 2,169,554

" 1905 the sales of saddlery and harness were. . 4,000,000

In 1890 the volume of the hardware trade was. .$14,000,000
*' 1905 " sales of the hardware trade were... 35,000,000
" 1905 " value of product manufactured in

St. Louis was 340,690

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 369

In 1900 the volume of (men's) clothing business

was (estimated) $ 3,500,000

" 1905 the value of the product manufactured

in St. Louis was 5,497,201

" 1905 the value of the product of ladies' cloth-
ing manufactured in St. Louis was. . . . 3,075,066

" 1905 the sales of clothing were 10,000,000

In 1880 the grocery sales were estimated at. .. .$30,000,000
" 1905 " " " " " " . . . . 65,000,000

In 1890 the value of product of boots and shoes

was $ 7,000,000

" 1905 the value of product of boots and shoes

was 19,000,000

" 1905 the value of sales of boots and shoes were 50,000,000

In 1890 the product of the breweries were, bbls. 1,856,883
" 1905 " " " " " " 2,682,610

" 1905 " sales " " " $22,000,000

In 1890 the business of the dry goods, etc., was $35,000,000
" 1905 " " " " " 68,000,000

In 1865 the number of pieces of mail matter

originating in St. Louis was 11,000,000

" 1905 the number of pieces of mail matter

originating in St. Louis was 330,659,050

" 1866 the amount of cash received at St. Louis

postofRce was, estimated $ 195,000

" 1905 the amount of cash received at St. Louis

postoffice was 8,470,310

" 1880 the number money orders issued was, 53,337

" 1880 " amount " " " " $879,943.90

" 1880 " number " " paid " 279,029

" 1880 " amount " " " " $4,491,800.75

1905 " number of money orders issued and

paid was 1,628,815

1905 the amount of money orders issued and

paid was $12,329,957.82

370 COMMERCIAL DEV^ELOPMENT

The total capacity of elevators in St. Louis and
East St. Louis in 1905 was (bushels) —

Public 8,500,000

Private 2,475,000

Prior to the war St. Louis' principal trade was
to the south, but the ravages of war were detri-
mental to these good people for a time, and St.
Louis had to seek other outlet for its growing com-
merce. Missouri iron and Illinois coal were im-
portant factors in the development of St. Louis, and
the coal production of our own state is increasing.

In 1871 the Cotton Association was formed
where daily receipts, quotations, quality, and quan-
tity can be ascertained on enquiry, proving a great
incentive to the cotton business. The Peper Com-
press, established in 1871.

April 14. 1875, tlie Real Estate Exchange was
organized. It has now l^ecome an important factor
in the real estate business of St. Louis.

February 22, 1876. the Merchants Exchange
established a transportation bureau, not in opposi-
tion to the railroads, l)ut for the purpose of co-op-
eration in establishing equitable rates and condi-
tions.

The old post office, erected in 1859, on the cor-
ner of Olive and Third streets, had outgrown its
capacity, and in 1873 the excavating for the new
post office on Olive, Eighth, Ninth and Locust
streets, was commenced.

In 1890 the population of St. Louis was 460,357,
the city covered an area of 40,000 acres, or 61.37

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 371

square miles. The length of the river front was
19.15 miles, length of western city limits was 21.27
miles, length of extreme north to south, 17 miles;
length extreme east to west was 6.62 miles. In
1890 there Avere 2268.30 acres of public parks,
341.75 miles of paved streets, 80.22 miles of paved
alleys, public and private sewers, length, 320.86
miles. Water works at Chain of Rocks, 7^ miles
north of city, cost over $4,000,000, with a capacity
of 100,000,000 gallons per day. Seventeen lines of
street railway, total mileage of 214.36 single track;
carried 68,105,561 passengers.

On May 4, 1890, the change to lighting the prin-
cipal districts of the city with electricity was made.

In 1880 the total output of shoes in St. Louis was
valued at about $600,000; this had increased to
$8,000,000 in 1891.

In 1891 the furniture business had increased
100 per cent over 1881, to $20,000,000 ; the territory
covered by sales being largeh- increased, trade with
Mexico, Central and South American States, being
a feature.

The following table presents the amount of capi-
tal directly invested and the value of goods manu-
factured during the census year of 1890, including
the principal manufacturing industries in the city
of St. Louis, aggregating 60.45 per cent of the
total capital invested in manufacturing operations,
and 53.61 per cent of the total value of manufac-
tured products ;

372 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Value

Capital. Product.

Boots and shoes (factory product).. $ 3,333,527 $ 4,250,961

Brick and tile 2,531,128 1.691.692

Carriages and wagons 2,651,880 3.629.579

Coffee and Spices —

(Roasting and Grinding) 816,588 2,466,392

Cooperage 1,042,643 1,912,779

Drugs and chemicals 1,587,044 2,864,980

Flour and grist mill products 4,320,955 12,641,000

Foundries and machine shop products 12,132,803 14,566,852

Furniture 1,878,289 3,321.612

Iron and steel 1,724,000 2,513,761

Liquors and malt 15,898,817 14,308,059

Lumber 3,376,391 5,102,383

Oil (linseed) 1,018,562 1,438,201

Paints 3,498,108 3,228,632

Patent medicines 1,482.966 1,916,251

Plumbers' materials 1,280,486 1,465,371

Printing and publishing 5,089,152 8,273,139

Saddlery and harness 2,159,152 2,800,261

Slaughtering and meat packing 3,286,236 11,556,606

Tobacco —

Chewing, smoking and snuff.. . 3,894,320 14,354,165

Total $73,003,533 $114,302,676

In 1880 the mileage of railroads centering in

St. Louis was 14,801

" 1890 the mileage of railroads centering in

St. Louis was 25,678

" 1880 the freight received by railroads in St.

Louis was (tons ) 6,097,000

" 1880 the freight forwarded by railroads in

St. Louis was (tons) 2,756,000

" 1890 the freight forwarded by railroads in

St. Louis was (tons) 5,271,000

" 1890 the freight received by railroads in St.

Louis was (tons) 9,970,000

COMME^RCIAL DEVI^LOPMliNT ?)7^

In 1880 the mileage of railroads tributary to

St. Louis was 35,473

1890 the mileage of railroads tributary to

St. Louis was 57,174

1880 the freight earnings of railroads in St.

Louis was $70,453,000

" 1890 the freight earnings of railroads in St.

Louis was 91,779,000

1880 the number of passengers carried was. . . 14,51^5,000
1890 the number of passengers carried was. . . 32,871,000

In 1900 the population of St. Louis was 575,238.
There were 130 pubhc schools, 1700 teachers,
78,263 scholars, buildings cost $5,500,000, 465 miles
single track street railway, passengers carried, 106,-
953,411. Revenue of City from taxation was $6,-
050,000, rate of taxation, $1.95 per $100.00 of
assessed valuation, which is 60 to 7S per cent of
estimated value.

St. Louis is now the supply point of a dozen
states, including nearly a million square miles of
territory, and shares in the commerce of another
six states.

In 1905 the population of St. Louis is estimated
at 700,000, and there were 23 parks, comprising
2183 acres, 499 miles of paved streets, 135 miles
paved alleys, 601.9 miles sewers that cost $14,368,-
702, 191 miles of conduits for underground wires.
Capacity of water supply 160,000,000 gallons per
day, 97 public schools, 2032 teachers, 89,401 schol-
ars, buildings cost $8,456,937, 26 lines of railroad
terminating in St. Louis Union Station, which con-
tains ?>2 tracks and consists of 11 acres, 453.83

374

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

miles street railway, that carried 191,775,646 pas-
sengers in 1905.

In 1905 tobacco manufactured, 65,001,781 lbs.;

valued at $29,659,317

" 1905 output of breweries (bbls.) 2,682,610

" 1905 grain receipts (bushels) 61,839,011

" 1905 sales dry goods, millinery, notions, etc.,

was $68,000,000

" 1905 sales vehicles 16,500,000

" 1905 " plumbers' and steamfitters' supplies 6,500,000

" 1905 " groceries, etc 65,000,000

" 1905 " boots and shoes 50,000,000

" 1905 " tobacco, cigars, etc 40,000,000

" 1905 " hardware 35,000,000

" 1905 " wooden ware 15,000,000

" 1905 " lumber 45,669,000

" 1905 " candies 4,000,000

" 1905 " beer 22,000,000

" 1905 " clothing 10,000,000

" 1905 " furniture and kindred lines 33,000,000

" 1905 " stoves, ranges and furnaces 8,500,000

"1905 " agricultural implements 16,500,000

" 1905 " electrical machinery, supplies, etc.. 10,500,000

" 1905 " paints, paint oil and white lead 12,000,000

" 1905 " saddlery and harness 4,000,000

"1905 " hats, caps and gloves 4,500,000

" 1905 " drugs and kindred lines 23,000,000

" 1905 " glass, plate and window 3,000,000

" 1905 " clay products 5,000,000

" 1905 " furs 9,000,000

" 1905 " railway supplies 25,000,000

" 1905 " trunks and bags 2,500,000

" 1905 " foundry and machine shop products 22,000,000
" 1905 the wool receipts were 24,296,130 lbs.,

valued at 12,000,000

" 1905 the hide receipts were 63,554,350 lbs.,

valued at 19,000,000

V

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 375

In 1905 sales carpets and kindred lines amounted

to 5,000,000

" 1905 railroad and street cars manufactured

was 25,000,000

" 1905 paper, stationery and envelopes was.... 8,000,000
" 1905 carriages, wagons and buggies 8,000,000

In 1905 St. Louis was the fourth city in popu-
lation in the United States, the largest manufac-
turer of tobacco in the world, has the largest drug
house in the United States, largest woodenware
house in America, largest hardware house, is the
best dry goods market west of the Alleghenies, has
the largest shoe house, is the largest shoe distribut-
ing center in the United States, is the second largest
millinery market, is the largest inland coffee dis-
tributing center, the largest hardwood lumber mar-
ket, largest horse and mule market in the world.
It stands in the fourth place in manufacturing in
the United States, leads in out])ut of American-made
chemicals, in manufacture of stoves and ranges,
and has the largest brew^ery in the United States.

The value of crops, etc., in this section increased
by more than $1,000,000,000 in the 14 years end-
ing 1905. The population increased by about
7,000,000 during the same period.

Missouri, like her neighbors, Illinois, Iowa, Kan-
sas and Arkansas, has millions of acres of fertile
soil, together with these valuable mineral deposits.
Her orchards yield an enormous yearly revenue.
Her variety of surface and of climate adapt her
to serve as a healthy and attractive residence for

376 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

all who may come within her borders. Irrigation
from her many rivers, large and small, is easy.
Transportation, by water and by rail, makes an
easily-reached market, and an easy break from the
old monotony of country life. These natural re-
sources which recent enterprise has been so keen
in developing, make the state of Missouri sure of a
prosperous and influential future.

Springfield, Mo., came into existence as a hab-
itat of man in 1830, when Wm. and John Ful-
bright and A. J. Burnett came to the present loca-
tion of Springfield and built the first house from
logs, cut down in the immediate vicinity. The
first post office was established in 1834, with Jas.
T. Campbell as postmaster.

The development of Springfield was slow until
the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was
built in 1870, when it took on new energy and soon
became the leading city of that section of the state,
and gained the name "Queen City of the Ozarks."
The population was little over seven thousand in
1870; in 1900 it had grown to over twenty-three
thousand, with a trade amounting to more than
seventeen million dollars per annum.

Springfield is an important railroad city, contain-
ing the main shops of the ''Frisco" Railroad, which
employ about two thousand men.

The finances and business of Springfield are of
a most substantial character, its wholesale business
being an important item in its development.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 377

In 1838 John C. Cox located on Turkey Creek,
just east of the present city of Jophn, Mo., and the
first post office, named Blytheville, was estabhshed
at his cabin. In 1839 a minister named Harris G.
Joplin settled near him, the city which later came
into existence, receiving its name from that of
Joplin creek, so called from the fact that the creek
had its source in a spring on the Reverend Joplin's
farm.

The early history of Joplin is varied ; rival towns
were built on opposite sides of Joplin creek, and
then united under the name of Union City for pro-
tection of its citizens from the rough element; dis-
sensions and rivalries soon developed, and other
arrangements became necessary. On March 23,
1873, the general assembly passed the charter pre-
viously drafted by I. W. Davis, and Joplin came into
legal existence with E. R. Mofifett as mayor, J. A.
C. Thompson, Lee Taylor, J. H. McCoy and J. C.
Gaston, councilmen.

The development of Joplin dates from 1870,
when rich ore deposits were discovered in Joplin
creek valley,- when mining began in earnest, since
which there has been developed the greatest lead and
zinc producing region of the world. The country
for miles around is studded with mines, reduction
plants, etc., and an air of prosperity and hustle is
every where evident.

The population of Joplin in 1890 was 9943; in
1900, 26,023.

378 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Joplin is abundantly supplied with churches and
schools, and its finances and business is on a solid
basis. In later years it has become an important
wholesale center, and that a greater Joplin will be
a reality in the near future is evident.

Kansas City, like many of the other great cities
of the west, came into existence because of its
natural advantages as a shipping point to the still
farther west, there being three branches of trade
focusing at this point — the French, Indian and fur
trade; combined these were great in volume, and
rich in possibilities, and the great Santa Fe trail,
with its army of men and teams forms one of the
important incidents of western history. A strip
of land twenty-four miles wide, east of 94 degrees,
38 minutes south, to the Arkansas river, belonging
to the Osage and Kansas Indians, was bought by
the United States and opened for settlement in 1826.
A few years subsequent the Indians were removed
west, and the tide of emigration towards the Mis-
souri and Kaw rivers began, which resulted in the
Kansas City of to-day.

The pioneer settler, Daniel IMorgan Boone, a
son of Daniel Boone, located at the point which
afterwards became Westport, in 1785. In 1800
Louis Bartholt, known as ''Grand Louis," went
from St. Charles and settled at the mouth of the
Kaw, his wife being the first woman to make her
home on the site of Kansas City. In 1821 Fran-
cois Chouteau established a camp opposite Ran-

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 379

dolph Bluffs, which was destroyed by the flood of
1826, when he moved to the bottoms of the present
site of Kansas City, at the mouth of the Kaw.

Westport w^as platted by John C. McCoy in
1833, which developed into an important trading
center before Kansas City had an existence.

At the August term of the Circuit Court of Jack-
son county in 1838, commissioners were appointed
and ordered to advertise for sale the farm of Gabriel
Prudhomme, and in pursuance therewith, a tract
of land consisting of 256 acres was sold to Abraham
Fonda and others for $4,220.00. This land was
subdivided into lots and blocks and called the town
of Kansas. Nothing came of the proposition until
1846, when a company was organized to accjuire the
town site and push its development. A sale was
advertised and carried through, during which 150
lots were sold, averaging $55.00 each. The town
took on life immediately, and within a few months
had a population of about six hundred.

The town of Kansas was officially organized
May 3, 1847. In 1853 the town was incorporated
by the legislature as the City of Kansas, and a
mayor, marshal and six councilmen were elected.
W. S. Gregory was elected the first mayor, but
as his business kept him out of town, Dr. Johnston
Lykins, the president of the council, filled out his
term and was elected mayor in April, 1854. The
trade and prestige of the City of Kansas increased
rapidly up to 1860, the freight shipped from the

380 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

point for that year being estimated at 16,439,134
pounds, the overland shipping employing 7084 men,
6147 mules, 27,920 yoke of oxen, and 3033 wagons.
A daily line of steamers was in operation between
Kansas City and Omaha and Kansas City and St.
Louis. Stage lines were in operation to the south
and far west, and lousiness of all kinds was in a
growing, healthy condition. The population in
1860 was 4418. The Civil War was a hard blow
to Kansas City, and conditions were of the worst
kind. After the Battle of Westport the Federal
authorities were in charge and business became
more secure. In 1865 the assessed valuation of
property in Kansas City was $1,400,000.00.

The question of railroads had been an engross-
ing subject with Kansas City since 1854, the move-
ment to make Kansas City possible by making neces-
sary grades and streets was actively commenced and
carried to a certain point with great success, and the
trails and cattle paths around the easy side of the
hills begin to give way to the streets of the prog-
ressive western city. The first railroad was built out
of Kansas City in 1864. and the first railroad, the
''Pacific," was built into Kansas City in 1865. The
bridge was built across the river in 1869, which has
since been proven an important factor in the de-
velopment of that city. A first-class system of
public schools was inaugurated in 1867. the same
year receiving its first illumination with gas.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 381

The conditions which made Kansas City the term-
inal of a vast trading business in the old days, were
increased evidence when considered from the point
of modern commercial development, and as a
matter of course, enterprises of all kinds be-
gan to multiply. In 1870 the live stock and
packing business began to develop, and the
building of street railways was started. In 1870
there were eight railroads entering the city; the
population was 32,286.

The first attempt at commercial organization was
in 1856, when the Board of Trade was organized,
which was chartered by act of legislature in 1857
as the Chamber of Commerce. This organization
was broken up on account of the dissensions inci-
dent to the Civil War, and was, during its life, a
most potent factor in the development and for all
that was good for Kansas City. A new Board of
Trade was organized in 1869, which has, in the
best sense, been a worthy successor to the original
organization.

The panic of 1873 caused a period of inactivity —
temporarily, but did not hurt the city for any great
length of time, and before the close of the decade
commerce had revived, manufacturing was on the
increase, and a period of activity was at hand. The
population, which was 32,286 in 1870, had increased
to 65,000 in 1880, and to 160,000 in 1890; the as-
sessed valuation from $13,000,000 in 1880 to $82,-
000,000 in 1890; during the same period the bank

382 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

clearings had increased from $51,000,000 annually
to $471,000,000, and the real estate transactions for
a single year, from S5, 000,000 to $38,000,000.
Business in general slackened during the early
nineties, but things soon adjusted themselves, and
then began the steady, substantial development for
which Kansas City has recently become noted.

Its population in 1900 was 163,752.

The City of Kansas was changed to Kansas City
:\Iay 9, 1889.

On July 26, 1843. tlie plat of St. Joseph was
recorded in St. Louis, and the town of St. Joseph
came into legal existence. The existence of St.
Joseph was brought about, directly, through the
rivalry of the early fur traders. Joseph Robidoux,
born in St. Louis, was the original settler, locating
at first at Roy's Branch, just above Blacksnake
Hills, where he established a trading post in 1826.
The following spring he moved his post to the
mouth of Blacksnake creek, thereby forming the
nucleus of the ])resent city.

Robidoux was a successful trader, and his post
was the trade mart for quite a section of the coun-
tr}-. but he was left to the enjoyment of his ''do-
main" for a number of years until 1834, when the
families of a number of emigrants from Franklin
county settled near him. The population of Black-
snake Hills, as it was then called, remaining about
stationary until after the "Platte Purchase" in 1837,
when there was a rush of settlers, who, quite natur-

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 383

ally made the leading trading post their objective,
and its population began to increase.

Robidoux having in the meantime secured two
quarter sections, embracing what is now knov/n as
the "original town site," and various Robidoux ad-
ditions, in 1839 he parceled off parts of this ground
to settlers, and quite a little town soon nestled about
him. A flour mill was erected at the mouth of
Blacksnake creek, and a saw mill was built by Dr.
Daniel Keedy, south of town. The first post office
was established in 1840.

In 1842 the county court appropriated $6,000.00
for the second court house. Robidoux being alive
to the importance of having it located at Blacksnake
Hills, whose population at that time was about 200,
had surveys and plats made and selected the name
of St. Joseph for the new town.

During the rush of 1849 for the gold fields of
California, St. Joseph became an important out-
fitting point, and was fairly launched into the sea
of commerce. In 1851 a special charter was granted.
In 1861 St. Joseph had become quite a city of about
twelve thousand inhabitants, with many of its
streets paved, and a general aspect of prosperity all
about. Pork packing had become an important in-
dustry, and hemp and grain were handled in con-
siderable quantities.

The completion of the Hannibal and St. Joseph
Railroad in 1859 was an important event in the
development of St. Joseph. Mr. John Patee do-

384 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

nated forty acres of land south of the main part of
the city for terminal purposes, which gave a con-
siderable impetus to the development of that portion
of the city. One of the handsomest hotels in the
west, for that day. was built by IMr. Patee and nu-
merous business houses and markets were located
in the vicinity, though the main part of the city
maintained its lead and prestige. Other railroads
have come into St. Joseph, until to-day it is one
of the important railroad centers of the west. The
completion of the bridge across the [Missouri river
in 1873. was also an event of the first importance
to St. Joseph. The union depot, which was com-
pleted in 1882. was destroyed by fire on the night
of February 9, 1895, and the new and improved
union depot was erected within the year, being ready
for business in January. 1896, giving to St. Joseph
superior facilities for handling the large traffic
which passes through that city.

St. Joseph is one of the great cities of the west,
and few cities in this or any other country can show
a record of growth equal to it. In 1846 the popu-
lation of St. Joseph was 936; in 1850, 8932; 1860,
12.000; 1870, 19,565; 1880. 32.431; 1890, 102,979.

It has become an important wholesale and manu-
facturing center, and few cities are so free from
municipal corruption. Situated in one of the most
fertile sections of the globe, its natural advantages
are unsurpassed, and its future development into
one of the great cities of the country assured. St.

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT 385

Joseph is rated one of the weahhiest cities of the
United States in proportion to population, and its
finances and financial institutions are of the sound-
est character. Armstrong Beattie was the first
banker, having opened for business in the City
Hotel, at Jules and Main streets, in 1852. Other
bankers and banking institutions have followed, giv-
ing to St. Joseph a modern, safe banking system.

John Corby was the pioneer packer of St.
Joseph, having been in the pork packing business in
1846. Others took up the business as time went by,
and in 1861 there were three important concerns
doing a packing business, which was increased from
time to time, and then consolidations, etc., were ef-
fected. Swift & Co. entered the stock yards in
1897, assuring the success and continuance of the
stock yard and packing enterprises. Others soon
followed, and to-day the St. Joseph yards and pack-
ing industry is one of the largest in the world.

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MINERAL RESOURCES

Lead. ^Missouri has an extent and variety of
lead deposits which is far greater than that of any
country of equal area. This lead is found in many
different forms. It occurs as "Galena" in ferru-
ginous clay, sometimes in an extended mass, or
again in distinct individual forms ; sometimes in
regular cubes, both smooth and rough, on the sur-
face. Some of it is found in the carboniferous
rocks, but more comes from the magnesian rocks
of the lower silurian. Occasionally a deposit of
lead has been found in dark brown sandstone.

The greatest lead region of Missouri occupies
the northern portion of ]\Iadison and the southern
part of St. Francois counties. Within this terri-
tory are the mines and works of the St. Joseph
Lead Company, at Bonne Terre. The Flat River
and Doe Rim works and those at Joplin and Mine
La ^lotte.

The first discovery of this underground wealth
was made in 1720 by the Frenchmen, La Motte and
Renault, and the name of the former is kept in
mind in the name of the town, which is now one
of the centers of the lead interest in Missouri. The
first furnace for the reduction of lead in this coun-
try was built near Potosi in 1789, by Moses Austin

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of Virginia, who had secured a large grant of land
from the Spanish government, which then controlled
the Louisiana Territory. He made the first opening
into the magnesian limestone, similar to the shafts
now so numerous throughout all that district.
Other counties besides those mentioned above con-
tain lead deposits, Wayne, Carter, Reynolds, Ste.
Genevieve and a few others.

In recent years capital and skilled labor, making
use of all recent inventions and discoveries, have
vastly increased the output from all the lead mines
of the profitable districts of the state. The pro-
duction of pig lead for the year 1872 was reckoned
at a little more than 20,000,000 pounds, and in 1901
as 58,000,000 pounds ; this showing an increase of
nearly three hundred per cent in twenty-five years.
The output of lead and zinc in 1901 was valued
at about $7,000,000. The great works at Bonne
Terre, Doe Run, Joplin and Mine La Motte employ
thousands of men, and thriving towns and pro-
ductive farms have gathered about these busy cen-
ters.

Zinc. In most of the mines in this territory which
has the richest deposits of lead, zinc ores have al-
ways been found, and in some of them they abound.
For many years the distance from a market and
difficulties of transportation, together with a lack
of recognition of the real value of this material
prevented the operators of the mines from making

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this mineral of much account in their operations.
In places where it occurred in such quantities as to
hinder the process of lead mining operations thou-
sands of tons were thrown aside as so much rubbish.
During the seventies, and especially during the next
decade, railroad transportation was vastly improved,
and in several counties piles of hitherto worthless
stuff became valuable merchandise.

Missouri is now the third state in the union in
the production of zinc, being surpassed only by
Kansas and Illinois. Eighty per cent of the world's
zinc comes from Missouri. In 1882 only twenty-
five hundred tons of ore were smelted, in 1898,
sixteen years later, the amount was nineteen thou-
sand, five hundred and thirty-three tons; in 1901
the amount had fallen off somewhat, with a product
of thirteen thousand and eighty-three tons.

Cobalt, silver and nickel are found in many of
the lead mines, the last named in such quantities
as to be of considerable commercial value.

Iron. The iron ores of Missouri are found, in
the largest extent, in the southern and southwestern
portion of the state. The great mass of specular
iron in Iron Mountain, and the seemingly ex-
haustless ores of Pilot Knob, near by, made
an enthusiastic geologist say, about thirty-five
years ago, that they, together with other de-
posits, had ore enough to run one hundred
furnaces one thousand years. "More could not be

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desired," he remarked, 'Svithout an appearance of
too much soHcitude for posterity, who would be
too far removed to appreciate our good wishes."

Pilot Knob, however, turned out to be rather a
pocket than a true continuous vein, and the ore
of Iron Mountain, on account of its character and
situation, could not be worked wnth advantage in
competition with the ores of Pennsylvania.

Many of the high hopes, therefore, based upon
the richness of these sources of iron ore, were
doomed to disappointment and fortunes were lost
in vain endeavor to make these ores available. The
total output of Iron Mountain, however, during the
days of its prosperity, has been given as not less
than five million tons.

In many parts of Missouri, however, good beds
of iron ore have been found and worked, and the
development of this interest has accompanied that
in all other directions.

The marble beds of Missouri are numerous and
extensive. There is the Fort Scott marble, which
extends from Kansas into Western Missouri, a hard,
black, full-grained marble, taking a good polish,
and of much beauty. In Marion county is a fine
white marble of great hardness and durability. In
Cooper county is a well-known drab or bluish-drab
marble, capable of use for many ornamental pur-
poses. In other places are variegated, or clouded
with buff and flesh colors, or tinged with a peach

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blossom shade. In the Ozarks are marbles which
have more than a local reputation, some of which
have been used in the decoration of the capitol at
Washington, and for other similar purposes.

Limestone and clays of great value also abound,
and have in recent years been developed to a large
extent. The limestone output uf the year 1901 was
valued at $1,362,272.

Clays for pottery, for bricks, and fire clays, for
the manufacture of fire bricks, are found in many
parts of the state, the last named being especially
abundant and valuable in St. Louis county. The
great brick yards and earthenware factories of
St. Louis and vicinity show Imw largely this natural
resource has been developed during the past quarter
of a century. In 1901 the value of the output of
clay for that year was placed at $4,474,553.

Coal is found in greater or less abundance in
more than one-third of the state. Some of the
strata are very thin, sometimes not more than five
feet in thickness, and this very near the surface.
In other places these surface l^eds go down forty
or fifty feet. For many years it was supposed that
no coal could be found at any great depth, but
shafts have since been sunk several hundred feet,
and good coal has been found. The close proximity
of St. Louis to the coal fields of Illinois, and easy
access to their apparently inexhaustible mines has

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made that city depend largely upon its sister state
for its supply of bituminous coal. Kansas City,
also, gets much of its supply from Kansas. But,
nevertheless, the coal industry in Missouri itself
is one of no small importance and grows rapidly
as the manufacturing interests in many portions
of the state are developing. In 1873 the value of
the output of Missouri coal was only seven hundred
and eighty-four thousand dollars; in 1901 it was
estimated for that year as three million, eight hun-
dred and two thousand and eighty-eight dollars.

All of the minerals mentioned have been a large
source of revenue and have kept busy many thou-
sands of people, especially during the later years of
rapid progress. The supply of the most of these
is practically inexhaustible. But few deposits of
the precious metals have been found, but the history
of the past shows that such mineral wealth as is
found in Missouri is, in the long run, of more real
and permanent value in the true growth and de-
velopment of the civilization of a state than an
abundance of gold and silver. The balmy climate
and agricultural resources of California are the
real attractions of that state in these days to thou-
sands of immigrants, and not the gold mines. In
like manner, the iron and lead, as well as the vast
agricultural resources of Missouri may be depended
upon for such accumulation of material wealth as
will give opportunities for the education and cul-
ture which lie at the foundation of true civilization.

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HOUGH, Warwick, lawyer and jurist; born
Loudonn County, Virginia, January 26, 1836; son
of George W. and Mary C. (Shawan) Hough; was
educated in private schools of Jefferson City, Mo. ;
at the age of 16 taught school ; graduated from the
State University of Missouri in class of 1854, with
degree of Bachelor of Arts and three years later
received Master's degree from same institution ; was
later appointed assistant state geologist by Governor
Sterling Price ; was secretary of the State Senate
during the sessions of 1858-61, having in the mean-
time been admitted to the bar in 1859; in 1860
formed ])artnership with J. Proctor Knott, then at-
tornev-seneral of Missouri, which continued until
1861, when he was appointed adjutant-general of
Missouri, having previously had military experience
as first lieutenant in the Governor's Guards of Mis-
souri ; was secretary of state under Governor
Thomas C. Reynolds, which office he resigned in
1863 to enter the confederate military service; ap-
pointed captain January 9. 1864, serving on the staff
of Lieutenant-General Leonidas M. Polk, then on
staff of General Stephen D. Lee. and then on the
staff of Lieutenant-General Dick Taylor, with whom
he surrendered ]\lay 10, 1865 ; he then took up the
practice of law in ^Memphis, Tenn., later removing
to Kansas Cit}", ]\Io., where he continued the prac-
tice of his profession; in 1874 was elected judge of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, serving ten years,
two years of which he was chief justice; on his

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Warwick Hough.

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retirement from the bench in 1884 he removed to
St. Louis, where he has since been located; was ap-
pointed one of the receivers of the Sioux City and
Northern Railroad in 1893. continuing until 1900;
was elected judge of the Circuit Court of St. Louis
in 1900, retiring January 7. 1907, to private prac-
tice. The State University of ^Missouri conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1881.

HOUGH, Warwick Massey, lawyer; born Co-
lumbus, Mississippi, September 29, 1862; son of
Judge Warwick Hough and Xina E. (Massey)
Hough; educated in public schools of Kansas City,
Mo., St. Louis University and Central College, Fay-
ette, Mo., where he completed academic course in
1883; studied law under guidance of father, 1883-
1886; also plained experience in office of clerk of the
Supreme Court of Missouri, where he assisted in
preparing opinions of the court for the official re-
porter; admitted to bar February, 1886, and engaged
in practice of law in St. Louis, where he has since
been located. Was Assistant United States Dis-
trict Attorney of Eastern District of ^lissouri dur-
ing last part of President Cleveland's first term, and
was called upon to make especially close study of
internal revenue laws of the United States ; there-
fore, although engaged in general practice, has
given especial attention to litigation growing out
of the enforcement of the revenue laws. After his
admission to the bar. he was associated with his

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father in the practice of his profession under the
firm name of Hough & Hough, and upon the elec-
tion of his father to the bench of the Circuit Court
of the City of St. Louis in the fall of 1900, he be-
came associated in 1901 with Judge Jacob Klein,
whom his father succeeded upon the circuit bench,
under the firm name of Klein & Hough. He was at
that time and is now general counsel of the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association of America,
and as such has been called upon to make arguments
before the Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives and of the Senate of the United
States, upon the constitutionality of proposed legis-
lation under the interstate commerce clause of the
Constitution, affecting the interests of his clients.
He is a member of both the local and national bar
associations.

HOUSER, Daniel M., president and general
manager Globe-Democrat ; began career in
minor capacity in newspaper office St. Louis
Union, 1851; book-keeper and general manager,
1854-62; proprietor, 1862; business and financial
manager, Missouri Democrat, 1862-72; in July,
1872, founded and became general manager St.
Louis Globe, which three years later was consoli-
dated with the Democrat under the present title, of
which he has been in control since ; delegate-at-large
and chairman Missouri delegation. Republican
National Convention, 1900; Republican presi-

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dential elector-at-large, 1904: born Washington
County, Md., December 23, 1834; son of Elias
and Eliza Houser ; was a director and vice-president
of the old Music Hall Association for fourteen
years ; was director and third vice-president of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

HOUSTON, James W., wholesale and retail
grocer; born Jacksonville, Ala., February 7, 1840;
son of Mathew M. and Mary (Gillispie) Houston;
educated at Andrew College, Trenton, Tenn. ; began
business career at Jackson, Tenn., in the wholesale
and retail grocery business ; came to St. Louis Feb-
ruary 16, 1876; from 1876 to 1880 was of the firm
of Houston, Sayler & Co., cotton factors and com-
mission merchants; 1880 to 1884, Houston, \\'est
& Co.; 1884 to 1893, Houston, Meeks & Co.; 1893
to present time, James M. Houston Grocery Com-
pany, of which he is president.

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James M. Houston

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HOUTS, Charles Alfred; lawyer; born War-
rensbiirg, Missouri, December 13, 1868; son of
G. Will and Annie (Duffield) Houts ; educated at
the public schools and Warrensburg State Normal
School 1882-6, DePauw University, Greencastle,
Indiana, graduating 1891 A. M. ; admitted to prac-
tice of law in 1892 at Warrensburg, Missouri, and
in July of same year entered legal department of
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of St.
Louis; remained until 1895, when, with George S.
Johnson, formed law firm of Johnson & Houts ; in
1897 H. R. Marlatt entered the firm, and in 1898
Harry B. Hawes became a member, forming the
present firm of Johnson, Houts, Marlatt & Hawes.

HOWARD, Clarence Henry, president Common-
wealth Steel Company; born Centralia, 111., Febru-
ary 22, 1863; son of Blake C. and Sarah (Sawyer)
Howard; moved to Grand Island, Neb., September,
1871; attended public schools; learned machinist's
trade at Union Pacific shops. North Platte, Neb.,
1878-81; also served as locomotive fireman; 1882
entered Manual Training School, Washington Uni-
versity, St. Louis; graduated 1885 with highest
honors, receiving Ralph Sellew medal ; made fore-
man Mo. Pac. shops, October, 1885 ; in 1886 made
general foreman; same year accepted superinten-
dency Mo. Car & Foundry Company, Cambridge
City, Ind. ; 1886-7, moved plant to Birmingham,
Mo., remaining there during 1887, then returned

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Charles Alfred Houts.

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to Mo. Pac. R'y as assistant master mechanic at St.
Louis ; then accepted managership Scarritt Car Seat
Works, then made assistant general manager St.
Charles (Mo.) Car Company; then for eight years
western manager and secretary Safety Car Heating
and Lighting Company ( Pintsch System); then
vice-president and general manager Shickle-Harri-
son & Howard Steel Company, which later became
Leighton «& Howard Steel Company, which consoli-
dated with American Steel Foundries in 1902 ; made
vice-president American Steel Foundries ; in 1904
resigned and bought controlling interest in Com-
monwealth Steel Co., of which is now^ president;
also president Double Body Bolster Company, Cast
Steel Platform Company, Davis Locomotive Wheel
Company, vice-president Ozark Pottery Company.

HOYT, Edward Randall, president Hoyt
Metal Company, director United Lead Company,
New York ; Magnus Metal Company, New York ;
American Type Founders' Company, Jersey City ;
Merchants-Laclede National Bank, St. Louis ;
St. Louis Museum Fine Arts, etc.; born Exeter,
N. H., November 26th, 1856; son of Joseph Gib-
son and Margaret Tilton (Chamberlain) Hoyt;
began career in metal business with brother, C.
C. Hoyt, in St. Louis in 1873, in small shop
back of 218 Locust street; removed to larger
quarters in 1875; incorporated Hoyt Metal
Company with $50,000.00 capital, 1879; built on

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Edward Randall Hoyt.

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Wabash Railroad 1885, and Granite City, 111., 1904;
capital $1,250,000.00; sold controlling interest,
1903, to United Lead Company.

HUMPHREY, Henry H. ; consulting electrical
and mechanical engineer ; born Coolville, Ohio, June
22), 1862; son of Shepherd and Emily (Cole)
Humphrey ; graduated Ohio University, Athens,
Ohio, A. B., 1884, A. M., 1886, post-graduate work
at Cornell University, M. S., 1886; on the United
States Coast and Geodetic survey, 1884-5 ; construc-
tion engineer with \\^estinghouse-Church Kerr &
Co., 1886-7; superintendent Buffalo Electric Light &
Power Company, 1888, Brush Electric Light Com-
pany. Buffalo, 1889-90, agent Edison General Elec-
tric Company at Omaha, Xeb., and St. Louis in
1891, St. Louis manager General Electrical Com-
pany, 1892, engineer and salesman to St. Louis
Electric Supply Company, 1893, Laclede Power
Company, St. Louis, 1894-5, partner in the firm of
Bryan & Humphrey in 1896-1900, since 1900 gen-
eral consulting and electrical mechanical engineer.

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405

Henry H. Humphrey

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HUTTIG, Charles H.. president 3rd National
Bank, Hiittig Sash and Door Company, director
American Central Insurance Company, North
American Company, Laclede Gas Light Company;
born of Gemian parentage in Muscatine, Iowa;
son of Frederick and Sophia (Schnell) Huttig;
began business career in banking house of Cook,
Musser & Co. of ^luscatine, and later became a
stockholder in and then president of the Huttig
Bros. Manufacturing Company of Muscatine. In the
latter part of 1885 he came to St. Louis and estab-
lished the Huttig Sash and Door Company. After
having served as vice-president he was elected presi-
dent of the Third National Bank in 1897. Member
School Board, 1891-95.

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Charles H. Huttig.

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IVY, William, vice-president N. O. Nelson
manufacturing Company, president Bessemer
Soil Pipe Company, Bessemer, Ala., and director
of the Joplin Supply Company, Joplin, Mo. ;
born Xew Orleans, La., March 28, 1861 : son of
Virginius Henry and ^larguerite (Watts) Ivy;
entered service of the X. O. X^elson Manufactur-
ing Company in 1881 ; elected second vice-presi-
dent 1897, and first vice-president in 1900.

JAMISON, Dorsey Albert, lawyer; born in
Rutherford county, near ^lurfreesboro, Tennessee,
November 22, 1853. son of Henry Downs and Sarah
(Thomas) Jamison; graduated from the St. Louis
Law School (Washington University), LL. B.,
1875, and studied law in the office of Cline. Jamison
& Day, 1873 to 1875; admitted to bar June, 1875,
and continued office with that firm until 1881, when
firm of Collins & Jamison was formed, which con-
tinued until May, 1902 ; since then senior member of
Jamison & Thomas ; Grand Master of Masons of
Missouri 1906-7; president of Tennessee Society of
St. Louis, 1904-5.

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DoRSEY Albert Jamison.

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JOHAXX. Frederick Augustus, railway supplies;
born Philadelphia, Pa., June 29, 1845; son of
George Alathew and ]\larian (W'eigle) Johann;
served from 1861 to 1864 in ^Missouri Light Artil-
lery; was in the railroad business in 1865 with [Mis-
souri Pacific Railway, occupying various clerical
positions; then transferred to the transportation de-
partment and served as brakeman, baggage master
and conductor on both freight and passenger trains,
and later held various official positions. In 1886
became traveling salesman for various firms and
1898 went int(j the present business; was deputy
state and county tax collector and dramshop col-
lector in St. Louis before the adoption of the scheme
and charter ; one of the organizers of the St. Louis
Legion of Honor, etc. ; father of the St. Louis Rail-
way Club.

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Frederick Augustus Johann.

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JOHAXSEX, Johan. president of Johansen
Brothers Shoe Company ; born Hamar, Xorway,
September 4. 1851 : son of Johan and Carrie ( Gul-
bransen j Johansen ; came to St. Louis from Xorway
in 1872: started to work for a shoe manufacturing
company; began business for self with brother, as
Johansen Brothers, in 1876; went to St. Paul, Minn.,
in 1877: returned and resumed business in St. Louis
in 1878, and in 1888 estabhshed factories for the
manufacture of shoes, and on January 1, 1902, in-
corporated Johansen Brothers Shoe Company, of
which he is president.

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JOHAN JOHANSEN.

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JOHXSON, Crar}^ P., president Johnson Broth-
ers' Drug Company, vice-president DeLacy Chem-
ical Company; born Jefferson City, Mo., August
19, 1866; son of Rev. J. Wesley and Mary E.
(O'Neal) Johnson; began career at the age of 15
in drug store, afterwards becoming clerk in various
drug stores, Kansas City, until 1894, when he en-
tered the drug business for himself in Kansas City;
came to St. Louis in 1896 with brother, F. V. John-
son, and established Johnson Brother's Drug Com-
pany.

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KIRBY, Daniel Xoyes, lawyer; born Lyme,
Conn., August 22, 1864; son of Eliab B. and Caro-
line L. Kirby ; graduated from Washington Uni-
versity, A. B., 1886, St. Louis Law School, LL. B.,
1888; began practice in office of Chas. Xagel, then
partner in firm of Nagel & Kirby, later of Finkeln-
burg, Xagel & Kirby, and in 1895 of new firm of
Nagel & Kirby; formerly lecturer at medical de-
partment Washington University ; lecturer at St.
Louis Law School, member of St. Louis Bar Asso-
ciation, etc.

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JOHXSOX, Jackson, shoe manufacturer; born
La Grange College, Alabama, November 2, 1859;
son of James Lee and Helen (Rand) Johnson;
began business career at the age of 19 in general
merchandise business in Mississippi, in which he
continued until 1892, when he sold out and re-
moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and joined in or-
ganizing Johnson-Carruthers & Rand, of which he
was president five years ; sold out and came to St.
Louis, where in March, 1898, was organized
Roberts-Johnson & Rand Shoe Company, of
which he has since been president ; director Me-
chanics-American National Bank, vice-president
Planters Hotel.

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JOHXSTOX, Robert, vice-president of
Scruggs- Vandervoort-Barney Dry Goods Company,
ex-vice-president Caledonia Society ; born King's
County, Ireland, December 28, 1846; son of John
and Elizabeth fColbournj Johnston: began business
career in Dublin in 1862, in the silk business; came
to Xew York in ]\Iarch, 1870, and was salesman and
assistant superintendent with James A. Hearn &
Son, dry goods merchants. In 1872, entered employ
of James ]\IcCreary & Co. of X^ew York as superin-
tendent of window dressing, became assistant
manager of silk and velvet department 1875. In
1885 to 1899 had management of both retail and
wholesale department, visiting all the foreign mar-
kets where these goods are produced ; came to St.
Louis, August, 1899, and became connected as part-
ner and merchandise director with the Scruggs-
Vandervoort-Barney Dry Goods Company, and on
reorganization of the company after the death of
Mr. Scruggs, was elected to present position of
vice-president; vice-president General Roofing and
Manufacturing Company of East St. Louis.

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Robert Johnston.

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JOXES, Rol)ert McKittrick, dry goods com-
mission, director Boatmen's Bank, St. Louis Union
Trust Company and Alercantile Library ; president
board trustees ^Mission Free School ; advisory board,
St. Louis Children's Hospital ; chairman admissions
committee Saturday and Sunday Hospital Associa-
tion, etc. ; born County Down, Ireland, May 8, 1849;
son of William and Margaret (McKittrick) Jones.
Began career as apprentice with linen manufacturer,
Banbridge, Ireland ; came to the United States in
1872, to St. Louis, where he entered the employ of
Crow, McCreery & Co. After four years bought
half interest in Randell & Co., dry goods commis-
sion, firm becoming Xoland, Jones & Co. ; in 1883
bought Noland's interest and firm name was changed
to Robert McK. Jones & Co.

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Robert McKittrick Jones.

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JOY, Charles Frederick ; lawyer ; born Morgan
county, Illinois, December 11, 1849; son of Charles
and Georgiana E. A. (Batchelder) Joy; entered
Yale in 1870; graduated A. B. 1874, LL.B. ;
admitted to bar 1876; has since practiced in St.
Louis, Missouri ; was elected to Congress November,
1892, and re-elected four times from Eleventh Mis-
souri District, and served until March 4, 1903;
president of the Standard School Book Co. ; at pres-
ent Recorder of Deeds of the city of St. Louis.

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Charles Frederick Joy.

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JUDSON, Frederick Xewton, lawyer; born St.
Mary's, Ga., October 7, 1845; son of Dr. Frederick
J. and Catherine (Chapelle) Judson ; graduated
from Yale College, A. B., 1866, A. M., 1869; grad-
uated from W^ashington University, LL. B., 1871 ;
LL. D., Missouri State University, 1906; Yale
University, 1907; was private secretary to Gov. B.
Gratz Brown of Missouri, 1871-3; admitted to bar
in 1873, and has ever since been engaged in the prac-
tice of law in St. Louis, now l)eing the senior mem-
ber of law firm of Judson & Green ; was special
counsel of United States Sante Fe rebate investi-
gation, member Board of Education, St. Louis,
1878-82; president of the board. 1878 to 1882;
president 1880 to 1882, and again member and
president, 1887 and 1889; was chairman of National
Conference on Taxation at Buffalo, 1901 ; president
(1907) American Association of Political Science,
chairman (1908) Alumni Advisory Council of Yale
University, chairman Uniform Tax Commission,
1906, author of legal treatises, and articles and ad-
dresses on legal and economic topics.

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Frederick Newton Judson.

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KAVANAUGH, William Kerr, president South-
ern Coal & Mining Company, Wiggins Ferry Com-
pany, East St. Louis Connecting Railway, St.
Louis Transfer Railway, Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
Waterway Association; born near Sweet Springs,
Saline county, Missouri, July 13, 1860; son of
Richard Parsons and Sarah Talbot Kavanaugh ;
education recei.ved at Fulton, Missouri ; began his
business career in 1876, in railroad tie contracting
business; came to St. Louis in 1878, and was with
the State Savings Institution for five years ; then
went into the transportation and tie business on
the Tennessee river; then in transportation and
sand business on the Mississippi river at Memphis,
Tennessee, and has been in the sand, transportation,
railroad and coal business for the past eighteen
years in St. Louis; member of the board for the
Missouri School for the Deaf at Fulton, Missouri.

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William Kerr Kavanaugh.

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KILPATRICK, Claud, born Huntsville, Ala-
bama, November 11, 1848; son of Dr. Thomas J.
and ]\Iary (Gibbons) Kilpatrick ; came to St. Louis
in early childhood and was educated mainly at \Vy-
man University ; after the war he returned to the
south and was (in 1866) witli tlie Quarter Masters'
Department U. S. Army at Alemphis, Tennessee ; he
returned to St. Louis at the expiration of his term
of service and became bookkeeper and cashier for
Jesse Arnot, liveryman; in 1884 he entered the real
estate business as junior member of the firm of
Porter & Company, which was succeeded two years
later by the firm of Rutledge & Kilpatrick.

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429

Claud Kilpatrick.

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KIXG, Goodman, president Mermod-Jaccard &
King Jewelry Company; son of D. W. and Sarah
King; educated in St. Louis public schools and
Clark's Academy ; began business career October 7,
1865, as bookkeeper and cashier for Mermod &
Jaccard Jewelry Company, with which company he
has since been connected, having advanced through
various positions up to that of president. One of the
founders and directors of the Fall Festivities Asso-
ciation, and chairman of Publicity and Promotion
Committee, member of executive committee, vice-
president and one of the founders of Business Men's
League, judge and historian of Art ]\Ietal Section
Department of Liberal Arts, World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, 1893; director and department
juror Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis;
also vice-chairman of Liberal Arts, Manufacturers,
Anthropology- and Etnology Departments of same,
and special commissioner to Japan on behalf of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The French gov-
ernment conferred upon him membership in the
Academy of France with the title of ''Officer de
rinstruction Publique'' for his work in the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Member of St.
Louis Academy of Science, ^lissouri Historical
Society, St. Louis ]\Iuseum of Fine Arts, Aero Club
of St. Louis, National Geographic Society, Wash-
ington, D. C, etc.

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431

Goodman King.

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KIXG, Harry Bronson, secretary and treasurer
of King, Brinsmade ^Mercantile Company; born in
1857, at Medina, Ohio: son of David H. and Helen
M. King-; educated public schools. New York, and
University of the City of New York ; began business
career as clerk in Wall Street, New York City; was
in several lines of mercantile Inisiness in Minnesota,
finally settling in St. Louis in 1896, and was asso-
ciated with his father in firm of D. H. King & Co.

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433

Harry Bronson King.

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KIXGSLAXD, Lawrence Douglas, president
Kingsland Alanufacturing Company, president
American Cotton Separator Company, founder
and president St. Louis ^Manufacturers Association,
founder, director and ex-president Latin-Ameri-
can Club, Consul General in St. Louis for Central
American States of Nicaragua, Gautemala. Salva-
dor and Honduras, director St. Louis Exposition
& ]\Iusic Hall Association, Commissioner from Nic-
aragua to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, dele-
gate for Gautemala to the International Library
Congress of St. Louis in 1904, ex-vice-president
for Alissouri of National Association of ^lanufac-
turers of the United States : vice-president St. Louis
Public Museum : Police Commissioner and Election
Commissioner during administration of Gov. Lon.
V. Stephens ; as president of the St. Louis Smoke
Abatement Association for several years, chairman
of the joint committee of the free bridge bond is-
sue ; meml)er ^Merchants Exchange, Mercantile Club,
Royal Arcanum, Legion of Honor, etc. : born St.
Louis, September 15, 1841 : son of George and
Eliza A. ( Ferguson ) Kingsland. Served in civil
war, 1861 to 1865, being commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant by State of Tennessee, and later Captain.
C. S. A. : entered business in 1865 as bookkeeper for
father. Geo. Kingsland of firm of Kingsland & Fer-
guson and succeeded him at his death in 1874 as
president of the Kingsland ^^lanufacturing Com-
pany ; former president and now honorary president
Alillion Population Club.

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435

Lawrence Douglas Kixgsland.

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KIXSEY, William M.. jurist; born ]\It. Pleas-
ant, Jefferson County. Ohio, October 28, 1846;
son of Caleb B. and Sarah (Metcalfe) Kinsey;
graduated from the law department of Iowa
State University; admitted to practice in Mis-
souri in 1875; elected judge of the Circuit Court
of St. Louis in 1904, to Congress in 1888, as
Republican from the Tenth District of Missouri
and served in 51st Congress, 1889-91 ; director
for thirteen years in Southerns Commercial and
Savings Bank of St. Louis.

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437

William M. KinsEy.

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KXAPP, Charles W'., president and editor St.
Louis Republic: born St. Louis, January 23, 1848;
son of John and Virginia \\'right Knapp ; gradu-
ated St. Louis University, A. B. 1865, (A. ^I.
1867, LL.D. 1904) ; graduated University of Ken-
tucky LL.B. 1867; in 1867 entered the service of
the Missouri Republican, of which his father, Col.
John Knapp, was one of the principal proprietors ;
served in various capacities and long had charge
of the paper's Washington bureau. In November,
1887, because president of the corporation Pub-
lishers: George Knapp & Co., owners of the paper,
the name of which was changed to St. Louis Re-
public in Alay, 1888: is director American News-
paper Publishers' Association, Associated Press,
etc.

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439

Charles W. Knapp.

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KNIGHT, George Harris, lawyer, born Owen
Sound, Canada, April 29, 1856; son of Benj. A. and
Ann (Edwards) Knight; admitted to bar in 1883
and began practice of law, specializing patent, trade-
mark and copyright matters, and became associated
with firm of Knight Brothers. Since death of his
partner, Samuel Knight, has practiced alone. Mem-
ber of Missouri Bar Association.

KNIGHT, Harry French, stock and bond
broker, vice-president A. G. Edwards & Sons
Brokerage Company, also of the firm of A. G.
Edwards & Sons, director Third National Bank,
etc.; born St. Louis, February 18, 1864; son of
Augustus and Fanny (French) Knight; began
career in 1881 with Crow, Hargadine & Co.,
wholesale dry goods, then became director of
Brown-Desnoyers Shoe Company, and in 1894
went into the stock and bond business.

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441

George Harris Knight.

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LANE, Charles Edward, president Allan-Pfeiffer
Chemical Company, Chas. H. Denison Realty Com-
pany, Colonial Automobile CcMiipany ; born Green-
field, Tenn., Alarch 6, 1874; son of Thomas Benton
and JMartha (Carleton) Lane: began career with
Allan-Pfeiffer Chemical Company, at the age of
seventeen ; was on the road as salesman soon after
for eight years ; then admitted to firm, and year later
promoted to vice-presidency and made general man-
ager. In 1906 was promoted to the presidency of
Allan-Pfeiffer Chemical Company.

LANE, Nathaniel T., secretary and treasurer
Goodwin Manufacturing Company, president Price
Realty Company, and Almira Realty Company;
born Quincy, 111., August 30, 1857; son of Nathaniel
T. and Helen E. (Le Roy) Lane; came to St. Louis
in 1875 ; was with the Gilkerson-Sloss Commission
Company, cotton factors, from 1878-89, when he
went with the Goodwin Alanufacturing Company,
of which he became secretary and treasurer in
1893.

LEE, John Fitzgerald, lawyer; born Washing-
ton, D. C, June 29th, 1848; son of John Fitz-
gerald and Eleanor Ann (Hill) Lee; educated
at Mount St. ]\Iary's, Emmitsburg, Maryland,
Georgetown University, Washington, and grad-
uated in law from the University of Virginia
July, 1870; came to St. Louis in September,

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443

John Fitzgerald Lee.

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1870, and began the practice of law, where he
has practiced ever since; president of the St.
Louis Club : ex-president of the St. Louis Bar
Association ; vice-president and director in the
West St. Louis ^^^ater & Light Company; di-
rector A\^ashington University, St. Louis PubHc
Library, St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, Mis-
souri Historical Society, Union Sand & Ma-
terial Company, Hydraulic Press Brick Com-
pany, Bridge & Beach Manufacturing Company,
Chemical Building Company, A\^alter C. Taylor
Realty Company and Chouteau Investment
Company.

LEMP, Wm. J., Jr., president Wm. J. Lemp
Brewing Company established by grandfather in
1840; president W^estern Cable Railway Company,
president Joplin Ice and Cold Storage Company of
Joplin, ]Mo. ; president Columbia Manufacturing
Company, Dallas, Tex. ; president Alena Ice and Cold
Storage Company, Mena, Ark. ; president Little Rock
Brewing and Ice Company, Little Rock, Ark. ; presi-
dent Sedalia Ice, Light and Fuel Company, Sedalia,
Mo. ; president Ardmore Ice, Light and Power Com-
pany, Ardmore, Okla. ; director Kinloch Long Dist-
ance Telephone Company, German Savings Insti-
tution, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis;
also director Temple (Tex.) Ice and Refrigerating
Company and innumerable ice plants throughout the
country; born, St. Louis, August 13, 1867; son of

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445

Wm. J. LEmp, Jr.

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Wm. J. and Julia (Feickert) Lemp; began career in
father's brewery and learned the business thor-
oughly ; was soon advanced to position of superin-
tendent; later, in 1892, was elected vice-president;
elected president in 1904, which position holds at
present time.

LE^^ IS, John Ashbury, cashier National Bank
of Commerce; born St. Louis, October 24, 1864;
son of John and Margaret (Bentz) Lewis; left
school in 1881 to take position as messenger at
Bank of Commerce; left Bank of Commerce Oc-
tober 1, 1881, to become coin teller with Gen.
A. G. Edw^ards, wdio was then assistant treas-
urer of the United States at St. Louis, and re-
mained with liim until the end of his term, April
1, 1887. After a trip to Europe entered the
Continental Bank of St. Louis, occupying vari-
ous positions in that bank from September 16,
1887, until it was absorbed by National Bank
of Commerce, May 31, 1902. Was appointed
assistant cashier and later was elected to pres-
ent position.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

447

John Ashbury Lewis.

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LOCKWOOD, George Robinson, lawyer ; born
St. Louis, March 22, 1853; son of Richard J. and
Angehca Peale ( Robinson ) Lockwood ; graduated
as civil engineer from University of Virginia, then
graduating from the St. Louis Law School LL. B.,
began practice of law in St. Louis in 188L in which
he is still engaged. President of the Bellefoun-
taine Cemetery Association, George D. Hall Real
Estate Company, Lockwood Real Estate Company,
member of bar associations, etc. In 1895 organized
the St. Louis Democratic Sound Money Club, and
was its secretary until close of campaign until 1896;
candidate for presidential elector on the Palmer and
Buckner ticket in 1896, and is the author of several
well-known articles on public questions ; elected
member of St. Louis Board of Education in 1903 on
Democratic ticket for a term of six years, president
of the board for the vear 1906-7.

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449

George Robixsox Lockwood.

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LUBKE, George William, lawyer; born St.
Louis, February 22, 1845; son of H. William and
Catherine ( Penningroth ) Lubke ; read law in office
and under direction Hon. Henry Hitchcock; ad-
mitted to bar October, 1864, and has ever since been
engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo.,
except a period from 1883 to 1889, when he served
as judge of St. Louis Circuit Court. ^^lember of
Board of Examiners of applicants for license to
practice law in the Federal Courts in ^lissouri ; also
member of advisorv board of St. Louis Law School.

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451

George William Lubke.

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LUDIXGTOX, Francis Henry, president of H.
& L. Chase Bag Company; born Boston, Mass.,
September 3, 1836; son of Corbet and Lucy
(Green) Ludington : began career at age of 16
in grocery store, then in wholesale and retail gro-
cery house of J. W. Carter & Bro. of Boston, until
1856; then taught school and attended educational
institutions for a number of years ; came to St.
Louis in 1866 to take charge of business of
H. & L. Chase; later became member of firm, and
in 1896 organized the corporation of H. & L. Chase
Bag Company.

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453

Francis Henry Ludington.

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IvUTZ, Frank Joseph, physician ; born May 24,
1855, in St. Louis; son of John T. and Rosina
(Aliller) Liitz ; received degree of bachelor of arts
St. Louis University, 1873, and his doctor's degree
from the St. Louis Medical College in 1876; he
in St. Louis, acting at the same time as assistant
physician to Alexian Brothers Hospital, of which
he is now the chief surgeon; served as surgeon-
general of the National Guard of Missouri, 1893-
97; was vice-president of the Board of Police Com-
missioners of St. Louis under Governor Crittenden
from 1893-97; was member Missouri State Board
soon afterward began the practice of his profession
of Health ; professor of surgery in medical depart-
ment of St. Louis University, ex-president Missouri
State Medical Association, St. Louis Medical So-
ciety, the Southwestern Association of Railway
Surgeons, National Association of Railway Sur-
geons, and the United States Board of Pension
Examiners at St. Louis, etc.

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455

Frank Joseph Li'Tz, M. D.

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]\IcCHESXEY, William Samuel. Jr., president
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis ; born
Cynthiana, Harrison county, Ky., August 5, 1856;
son of Wm. S. and Martha (Curry) ]\IcChesney;
began railway service as passenger agent for Ohio
& ]\Iississippi Railroad, 1879 to 1880, and was then
general agent Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington
Railway, 1881-2, when he went to Lexington for
general agent L. & X. R. R., remaining there until
1895, when he came to St. Louis as superintendent
of L. & X. R. R. : later he became connected with St.
Louis Terminal Association as vice-president and
general manager; in 1903 was elected president.

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457

William Samuel !\IcChEsnEy, Jr.

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]\IcDOXALD, AA^illiani Lee, vice-president
and director Commonwealth Trust Company,
director Grand Avenue Bank, ^Missouri State
Life Insurance Company. Germania Trust Com-
pany; born A\'ashington. ]\Io., June 28, 1865;
son of \\m. B. and Sarah E. (King) McDonald;
began business career as book-keeper, then clerk
in general store at Brownington, ]\Io.. then was
elected to assessor. 1890-92; county collector,
1892-6, in Henry County, Mo.; receiver for Bank
of ^lontrose, :\Io.. 1898-1900; appointed bank
examiner by Secretary of State Lesseur, 1900,
reappointed by Secretary of State Sam B. Cook.
1901 ; came to St. Louis. January, 1902, and be-
came connected with Germania Trust Company
as vice-president and treasurer, until it was
merged with the Commonwealth Trust Com-
pany, 1904.

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AlcKEE, Charles Henry, vice-president Globe-
Democrat; born St. Louis, July 5, 1852; son of
Henry and Mathilda Jane (Hill) McKee. The
first position was assistant coal inspector, 1871 to
1872 for his father, who was appoined by Gov. B.
Gratz Brown, then clerk and kept books for the
Globe-Democrat until 1891, the assistant secretary
until 1897, when he was elected vice-president.

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461

Charles Henry McKee

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McKITTRICK, Hugh, vice-president Harga-
dine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company, director of
Mechanics-American National Bank, treasurer St.
Louis Mercantile Library, secretary Civil Service
Reform Association of Missouri, member of Public
Bath Commission, Municipal Bridge and Terminals
Commission; born St. Louis, August 16, 1868; son
of Hugh and Mary Weber (Cutter) McKittrick;
graduated from Washington LTniversity, Ph. B.,
1888, after which he entered the Hargadine-Mc-
Kittrick Dry Goods Company, advancing through
various positions of that company to that of vice-
president.

McKITTRICK, Thos. Harrington, president
Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company,
vice-president \A m. Barr Dry Goods Company,
director National Bank of Commerce, St. Louis
Union Trust Company, Broadway Savings Trust
Company, American Central Insurance Com-
pany, etc., also Fourth National Bank of New
York; born St. Louis, April 17, 1864; son
of Hugh and Mary W. (Cutter) McKittrick.
At an early age he entered the employ of Harga-
dine-McKittrick & Co., and after serving in the
various departments of that house and its suc-
cessor, incorporated in 1889 as the Hargadine-
McKittrick Dry Goods Company, was elected
vice-president in 1892 and president in 1895.

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463

Hugh McKittrick.

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IMAFFITT, Pierre Chouteau, president Alaffitt
Realt}' and Investment Company, director Bell
Telephone Company, former vice-president Iron
Mountain Company, and the Chouteau-Harri-
son-Valle Iron Company ; .born St. Louis, Sep-
tember vSrd. 1845; son of Dr. Wm. and Julia
(Chouteau J Alaffitt.

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465

Pierre: Chouteau Maffitt.

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MALLINCKRODT, Edward, manufacturer of
chemicals: began career in 1867 as member of the
firm of G. MalHnckrodt & Co., which was succeeded
by the MaUinckrodt Chemical Works, incorpor-
ated in 1882, of which he has since been presi-
dent; also president of The National Ammonia
Company, organized in 1889, and of a number of
other companies engaged in the manufacture of
chemical products ; director Washington University,
overseer of chemical laboratory, Harvard Univer-
sity; member American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, American Pharmaceutical
Association, American Chemical Society, Society of
Chemical Industries of Great Britain, Deutscher
Chemiker Verein, Berlin, Germany; St. Louis
Academy of Science, etc. ; born St. Louis, January
21, 1845 ; son of Emil and Eleanor Didier (Luckie)
MaUinckrodt.

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467

Edward Mallinckrodt.

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MANLEY, John David, president and treasurer
of the John D. ]\Ianley Implement Company, presi-
dent John D. ]\Ianley Carriage Company, Alanley-
Hill Carriage Company: horn St. Louis, June 1,
1859; son of Wihiam C. and Alargaret McVeigh
]\Ianley : hegan career in the early 70's with
the Furst & Bradley ^Manufacturing Company;
hecame shipping clerk and afterwards salesman
on the road for the ]\Ioline Plow Company;
then with Kingman & Co., Peoria, 111., with whom
he remained until 1888; then associating himself
with Mr. Thompson, the firm of Manley & Thomp-
son was organized, later the name was changed to
Alanley & Thompson Implement Company and in
1902 to John D. ]\Ianley Implement Company.

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469

John David Man ley.

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MARKHAM, George D., general insurance, ex-
president of Missouri and the National Association
of Local Fire Insurance Agents ; in 1902 organized
the Individual Fire Underwriters of St. Louis; was
chief of the Bureau of Music and a director of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition ; born in New^ Ha-
ven, Conn., July 25, 1859; son of Wm. H. and Mar-
garet M.- (Dickson) Markham ; graduate Harvard
College, 1881 ; graduate law course at Wash-
ington University Law School, LL.D., 1891; has
been in the insurance business in St. Louis since
1881 ; now doing a general insurance business under
the firm head of W. H. Markham & Co., established
1873; has been active in various public movements.

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George D. Markham.

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MARSHALL, William C, lawyer: born Vicks-
burg, Mississippi, November 13th, 1848; son of
Thomas Alexander and Letitia Oliller ) ^Marshall :
Avas educated at the University of ^Mississippi and
at the University of Virginia and was admitted to
the bar at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1870; he soon
after came to St. Louis where he has since practiced
his profession, first as a partner of Judge Shepard
Barclay, whom he succeeded on the supreme bench
of ^Missouri ; his partnership with Judge Barclay
continued until Judge Barclay was elected a judge
of the circuit court in 1882, when he practiced alone
until 1891, when he was appointed city counselor;
was reappointed after his four-year term was up
and while serving the second term was appointed
judge of the supreme court of Missouri by Governor
Stephens to fill the vacancy created b}- the resigna-
tion of Judge Barclay; in the fall of 1898 was
nominated and was chosen in the ensuing election
for a full term on the supreme bench ; was presi-
dent Young Alen's Democratic Association until
1876; ex-president ^Missouri Democratic Associa-
tion, }^Iissouri Bar Association, etc.

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William C. Marshall.

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MEIER, Edward Daniel, president Heine
Safety Boiler Co., born St. Louis, May 30, 1841 ;
son of Adolphus and Rebecca (Rust) Meier; edu-
cated in the St. Louis public schools, Washington
University, Royal Polytechnic Institute, Hanover,
Germany, graduating mechanical engineer, finisher
in Wm. Mason ^Machine \\^orks, Taunton, Mass.,
1862-3; finisher and draftsman in Rogers Locomo-
tive Works, Paterson, Xew Jersey, 1865-7; super-
intendent of machinery Kansas Pacific Railway at
Wyandotte, Kansas, 1868-70; after that in St. Louis
as mechanical engineer with Illinois Coke Co., 1871-
72 ; mechanical engineer Meier Iron Works, Besse-
mer, 111., 1873-5 ; mechanical engineer and manager
Peper Cotton Press, 1876-9; member firm of
Adolphus Meier & Co., 1878; since 1885 president
and chief engineer of the Heine Safety Boiler Com-
pany; from 1898 to 1901 was also engineer in chief
of the Diesel ]Motor Company of America, Xew
York; since 1901 engineer in chief and secretary-
treasurer American Diesel Engine Company of
Xew York ; enlisted in 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry
July 31, 1863; Xim's 2nd Massachusetts Bat-
tery, December, 1863; promoted to engineer
corps 1864; 2nd lieutenant 1st Louisiana Cavalry
1864; 1st lieutenant and aide-de-camp to General J.
W. Davidson, 1864-5 ; captain Branch Guards ^lis-
souri Volunteer Alilitia, 1877; major 1877, lieu-
tenant colonel 1877; colonel 1st Regiment Xational
Guards ^Missouri, 1882-7 ; past president St. Louis

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475

Edward Daniel Meier.

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Engineer's Club : past vice-president American
Society of ^Mechanical Engineers ; past secretary
American Boiler Manufacturers Association, etc.

MEIER, Theodore Gerard, treasurer Heine
Safety Boiler Company; born 17th ^larch, 1836,
Bremen, Germany: son of Adolphus and Rebecca
Meier; parents brought him to St. Louis in 1837;
educated St. Louis L^niversity; then in classical
schools in Germany; began business career in 1852
with Adolphus Meier & Company as clerk; in 1854
was sent to Boston to serve apprenticeship with
the hardware h(nise of Butler, Keith & Hill, and
then after two years as salesman, returned to St.
Louis in 1856, to work for his father and was ad-
mitted as partner in the firm of Adolphus ]\Ieier
& Company, January 1st, 1859, and continued in
that capacity until house went into liquidation in
1884. On January 1st, 1885, became treasurer of
the Heine Safety Boiler Company, which position
he has filled ever since.

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The:odore: Gerard AIeiEr.

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MEYER, Theodore Frederick, president Meyer
Brothers Drug Company; born Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
June 4, 1857; son of Christian F. G. and Franciska
(Schmidt) Meyer; began business career in 1878
at Ft. AA'ayne with Meyer Bros. & Co. ; was trans-
ferred to Kansas City in 1879, to St. Louis in 1883;
elected vice-president and manager Meyer Brothers
Drug Company in 1889, president in 1906. Meyer
Brothers Drug Company was estabhshed at Ft.
Wayne, Ind., in 1852; commenced business in St.
Louis in 1862.

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Theodore Frederick Meyer.

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MICHAEL, Elias, president Rice-Stix Dry
Goods Company, Premium Manufacturing Com-
pany, director Commonwealth Trust Company,
elected member Board of Education (finance
committee), in 1905: appointed by Mayor \\>lls
as vice-chairman Bridge and Terminals Com-
mission ; member of board of directors of Jew-
ish Charita1)le and Educational Union of St.
Eouis, trustee St. Louis Provident Association,
member executive board, Hospital Saturday and
Sunday Association ; director of Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition, and various charitable and
business organizations : born Eschau, Bavaria,
Germany, September 28, 1854; son of Simon and
Sarah (Ottenheimer ) Alichael; came to the
United States at an early age and began busi-
ness career at the age of 15 in the employ of
Rice, Stix & Co. of Memphis, Tenn. ; then ad-
vanced to stock clerk, then buyer, taking over
various departments from time to time ; admit-
ted to firm in 1884; full partner, 1885; secretary
when firm was incorporated in 1899; vice-presi-
dent, 1903, and president in 1906.

]\IOORE, Robert, civil engineer; born New
Castle, Pa., June 19, 1838; son of Henry C. and
Amelia ( A\'hippo) Moore; graduated from the
Miami University, Ohio, A. B., 1858, A. ]\I. ; has
practiced civil engineering since 1863, was as-
sistant United States engineer in military service

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Robert Moore.

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in Central Kentucky in 1863. sewer commis-
sioner of St. Louis, 1877-81 ; since 1897, member
and now vice-president of the Board of Educa-
tion of St. Louis: past president of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers of London, etc.

MOORE, William Grant, physician; born
Lexington, Ky., February 16, 1853; son of \X\\-
liam Grant and Sarah Banks (McConnell)
Moore; graduated from Jefferson Medical Col-
lege, Philadelphia, Pa., 1875, as ]\I. D. ; came to
St. Louis in 1875, where he has since practiced
his profession. Ex-president ^Missouri State
Medical Association, St. Louis ^Medical Society,
St. Louis Obstetrical Society, etc.; member of
important medical societies, etc.

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William Grant AIoorE, M. D.

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]\IOTT. Frederick Webster, real estate and finan-
cial agent : born Xew York City, December 4th,
1849, son of John and Anna Mott ; came to St.
Louis in 1865; educated St. Louis High School,
Blackburn University of Illinois and St. Louis Law
School ; began business career as clerk in the Old
Life Association of America with which he con-
tinued until 1878, when he was elected to House of
General Assembly of Missouri for four years. In
1883 to 1887 assessor and collector of water rates,
then was elected to State Senate to fill out balance
of term of J. C. ]\IcGinnis and re-elected for four
years more ; is now in the real estate and insurance
business.

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Frederick Webster Mott.

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MUDD, Harvey Gilmer, surgeon ; born St. Louis,
August 29, 1857; son of Henry Thomas and Sarah
EHzabeth (Hodgen) Mudd ; graduating from St.
Louis Medical College in 1876, from Washington
University, AI. D., 1881 ; then went abroad and
studied in Berlin, Paris, London and Edinburgh,
1885-7; professor of fractures and dislocations and
clinical surgery, medical department Washington
University. ]\I ember board of directors and ])resi-
dent medical staff St. Luke's Hospital, surgeon and
member of board of directors St. Louis Skin and
Cancer Hospital, member of various medical so-
cieties; member of the American Surgical Associa-
tion ; also member and president of the American
Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons for 1908.

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Harvey GilmEr Mudd, M. D.

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NAGEL, Charles, lawyer; born in Colorado
County, Texas, August 9, 1849; son of Dr. Herman
and Fredericka Xagel ; studied at the St. Louis Law
School and then one year in the University of Ber-
lin, where he studied law, political economy, etc. ;
returned to St. Louis in 1873, and engaged in prac-
tice, associated at different times with various part-
ners, and January 1, 1903, became partner in the
firm of Finkelnburg-Xagel & Kirby, which changed
on Judge Finkeln])urg's appointment as United
States District Judge in June, 1905, to Xagel &
Kirby; has been professor at St. Louis Law
School since 1875 ; has been member of the
board of trustees Public Library, is trustee of Wash-
ington University and member of board of control
of St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts; was member of
Missouri House of Representatives, 1881-2, and
president City Council, St. Louis, 1893 to 1897.

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Charles Nagel.

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XELSOX, Xelson O., persident X. O. X'elson
Manufacturing Company ; born in X^'orway, Septem-
ber 11, 1844; son of Anders and Gertrude X^'elson;
came to United States in childhood ; began manufac-
turing phimbers' supphes in 1872, and has since
estabhshed factories at Leclaire. 111., and Bessemer.
Ala.; adopted profit-sharing with employes in 1886;
established the co-operative village of Leclaire, III,
in 1890; active in single tax and social reform
movements.

XICOLAUS, Henry, president St. Louis
Brewing Association, president Brewers' Asso-
ciation of St. Louis and East St. Louis, director
Mechanics-American Xational Bank, Kinloch
Telephone Company, Gilsonite Construction
Company, Hammer Dry Plate Company, etc. ;
born Rhein-Pfalz, Germany, August 14, 1850;
son of Gottfried and Caroline (Fuhrmann)
Xicolaus ; commenced work in the malt house of
Becker and Hoppe, then with the X'ational
Brewery as a practical brewer, and afterward
with E. Anheuser & Co., brewers, as brewer;
then went to Europe to study brewing; then re-
turned to the United States and located in Cin-
cinnati, O., then to Keokuk, low^a, then to St.
Louis with the Green Tree Brew'Cry; became a
partner until the brewery was merged into the
St. Louis Brewing Association, of which was
made director, then president.

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491

Nelson O. Nelson.

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XICHOLLS, Charles Chamberlain, president
Xicholls-Ritter Realty & Financial Company,
director of Citizens Insurance Company; born
Camden, X. J.. January 4. 1855: son of Ebenezer
and Rebecca \'<)iing (Anderson) X'icholls; at the
age of 14 entered the employ of Lee & Walker,
publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., and remained with
them five years. In 1875 entered employ of Beard
& Bro., dealers in cotton ties and safes, and two
years later when business was incorporated as
Beard & Bro. Safe & Lock Company, was made
secretary. A\'hen Mr. Beard died in 1885, wound
up the business and administered Mr. Beard's
estate; started in real estate business in 1885,
and in 1892 sold a half interest to E. P. V. Rit-
ter, organizing the Xicholls-Ritter Realty &
Financial Company.

XIEKA^IP, Charles Henry, president and gen-
eral manager Beck & Corbett Iron Company,
president Shelter Top Company, director St.
Louis Screw Company, Eagle Horse Shoe Com-
pany ; born Osnabrueck, Hanover, Germany, March
31, 1851: son of Casper H. and Catherine (Lam-
mert) Xiekamp : came to United States with parents
in 1854; started in business April 7, 1873 as A. Bur-
man & Company : firm name changed four years
later to Xiekamp & Baker, incorporated June 18,
1891 as Globe File & Hardware Company, changed

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Charles Chamberlain Nicholls.

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February 2i, 1895 to Globe File & Iron Company,
who consolidated January 1, 1901, with the Beck
& Corbett Iron Company.

NOBLE, John W'illock, lawyer ; born Lancaster,
Ohio, October 26, 1831 ; son of Col. John and Cath-
erine f]\IcDillj Xoble; graduated from the Yale
College. 1850-1, A. B., from Cincinnati Law School
in 1852 (LL. D.. Miami University, 1890, Yale
University. 1892 ) ; admitted to bar, first at Colum-
bus, Ohio, in 1853. and at St. Louis, ]\Io., 1855,
Keokuk, Iowa, 1856. where was city attorney and
there engaged in practice until 1861, then enlisted
in the L'nion Army, serving through war in 3rd
Iowa Volunteer Cavalry as Lieutenant, Adjutant,
Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and was
brevetted Brigadier General by Act of Congress for
service in the held. After war. returned to St. Louis
and has since been engaged in the practice of law
here. Appointed L'nited States District Attorney,
March, 1867, serving three years; was offered place
of solicitor general by Gen. Grant, Imt declined ;
was member of firm of Xoble & Hunter, and of
Noble & Orrick, was member of President Harri-
son's Cabinet in 1889-93, and as Secretary of the
Interior opened Oklahoma to settlement, presided
over entrance of four states into Union, and was
first secretary establishing forest reservations under
statute of ^larch 2, 1891.

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TOHX AA'lLLOCK XOBLE.

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NOLKER, Louis Theodore, president and treas-
urer of Commercial Electrical Supply Company,
president St. Louis Credit Agency Company, vice-
president Guarantee Electrical Company, member
advisory board of the National Irrigation Associa-
tion, director in Latin-American Club and Foreign
Trades Association, formerly president Smith
Academy Alumni Association, now member of ex-
ecutive board; born St. Louis, September 7, 1878;
son of W'm. F. and Louisa Brinkwirth) Xolker; was
connected with the Kinloch Telephone Company for
a short while, and since Alarch, 1899, has been vice-
president and treasurer of Commercial Electrical
Supply Company to 1907, president and treasurer
since then ; secretary and treasurer of St. Louis Tin
& Sheet ]\Ietal W^orking Company, director Citizens
Independent Telephone Company, Terre Haute ;
Wabash Valley Telephone Company, Paris, 111. ;
Kinloch Bloomington Telephone Company, Bloom-
ington, 111.

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497

Louis Theodore Nolker.

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NORVELL, Saunders, president Norvell-Shap-
leigh Hardware Company, director Mississippi Val-
ley Trust Company, juror Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position, 1904; vice-president Civic Improvement
League, president Self Culture Hall Association,
vice-president Artists Guild, member St. Louis City
Council, member Board of Control, St. Louis
Museum and School of Fine Arts ; president Noon
Day Club; board of governors University Club;
president Contemporary Club, etc. ; born St. Cathe-
rines, Canada, August 12. 1864; son of Louis C.
and Sarah (Saunders) Xorvell; began career with
Simmons Hardware Company in 1880, serving in
various positions until 1898, when he was elected
vice-president; in 1901 he resigned when the Xor-
vell-Shapleigh Hardware Company was incorpo-
rated, of which he was elected president.

NUGENT, Byron, president B. Nugent &
Bro. Dry Goods Company, director Boatmans
Bank; born Marysburg, Prince Edward County,
Canada, ^^>st, July 31st, 1842; son of Thos. and
Eleanor A. (Morgan) Nugent; l)egan work in
dry goods house at St. Thomas, Canada, in 1855,
when he went to ]\It. Vernon, 111., and started in
business for self, then came to St. Louis in 1873,
and established the business of B. Nugent, which
later on became B. Nugent & Bro., and in 1899
w^as incorporated as B. Nugent & Bro. Dry
Goods Company.

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499

Saunders Xorvell.

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ORTHWEIX, William D., president Wm. D.
Orthwein Grain Company, president Kinloch Tele-
phone Company, etc. ; born Wurtemberg, Germany,
February 9, 1841; came to United States, 1855;
returned to Germany to complete education ; came
back to United States, 1860. -

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William D. Orthwein.

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PETERS, Henry AMlliam, president Peters Shoe
Company: born in St. Louis, February 14. 1856;
son of Francis H. and Charlotte Peters ; at the age
of 16 began business career as shipping clerk with
Claflin, Allen & Co., shoe jobbers; at the age of 18
became salesman, traveling for ten years; then be-
came member of the firm and bought them out in
1892, organizing the Peters Shoe Company; mem-
ber of executive committee of Business ]\Ien's
League, director ^Mississippi Valley Trust Company,
St. Louis Coliseum Company and ^Missouri ]^Ianu-
facturers Association; member of other important
trade and business organizations.

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503

Henry William Peters.

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PATTISON, Everett Wilson; lawyer; born
Waterville, Maine, February 22, 1839; son of
Robert Everett and Frances (Wilson) Pattison;
graduated from Waterville (now Colby) College,
Maine, A. B., 1858; A. .AI., Shurtleff College, Illi-
nois, 1867; LL.D.. Colby College, 1906; principal
West Gardiner Academy, Maine, 1858; professor in
Oread Institute, Worcester, Alass., 1859-61 ; entered
U. S. volunteer service at Boston, May 28, 1861, as
private Company I, Second Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment ; was promoted to first sergeant same com-
pany, later to second lieutenant and first lieutenant
Company E, then captain of Company F, all of the
same regiment. Came to St. Louis in 1865 and be-
isran the practice of law, in which he has continued
ever since ; was attorney for the St. Louis School
Board for two terms, beginning 1877, author of
Digest of Missouri Reports (eight volumes), a
work on Missouri code pleadings, and one on crim-
inal instructions ; also four articles in American and
English Encyclopedia of Law, etc.

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505

Everett Wilson Pattison^

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PFLAGER, Harry Miller, vice-president Com-
monwealth Steel Company, vice-president Ameri-
can Steel Body Double Bolster Company, Davis Lo-
comotive Wheel Company, Cast Steel Platform
Company, president Transom Draft Gear Com-
pany: born St. Louis, November 29, 1866;
son of Henry A\\ and Jessie (Aliller) Pflager ;
began ])usiness in the employ of the Pull-
man Company in their St. Louis shops, ad-
vancing to various positions to that of me-
chanical superintendent, with offices in Chicago,
remaining there until 1901 ; from 1901 to 1903 in
the manufacturing business in Chicago; 1903-4, as-
sociated with American Steel Foundries at St. Louis,
since September 1, 1904, associated with Common-
wealth Steel Company.

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Harry MillKr Pflager.

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PIERCE, Lawrence Blunt, born ^larch 30, 1859,
in Greenville County, Virginia ; son of R. B. and
Martha (Blunt) Pierce; came to St. Louis from
Kentucky in 1879; began St. Louis business career
as an entry clerk for wholesale dry goods house ;
became active secretary of St. Louis Exposition and
Music Hall Association in 1883 ; entered the real
estate office of Chas. H. Turner & Co. in 1886 as
chief clerk and was admitted to partnership in the
firm in 1889; organized the Commonwealth Trust
Company in 1901 and was active vice-president of
that company until 1905; in that year he resigned
from the vice-presidency to devote his time to his
private financial interests, retaining his office as
director of that company; in 1906 he organized and
became the active head of the corporation which
erected the Pierce building, the largest office build-
ing in St. Louis; he is president of the Income Leas-
hold Company and of the Standard Reduction &
Chemical Company, and also a director in a number
of other corporations in St. Louis.

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Lawrence Blunt Pierce.

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PILCHER, John E., vice-president Baldwin
Forging & Tool Company: born Dover, Kent,
England, July 19, 1844; son of Jno. and Eliza-
beth V. (Brett) Pilcher; commenced business
career with Charless Blow & Co. in 1860, wholesale
druggists, and early in 1863 entered employ of
Wilson, Levering & A\'aters, wholesale hard-
ware, as shii)ping clerk: later became traveling
salesman for its successor, the firm changing to
Levering, \\'aters & Co., then to AA'aters, Sim-
mons & Co., E. C. Simmons & Co., and then the
Simmons Hardware Company, of which he became
vice-president, retiring April 1st, 1905, joining the
Baldwin Forging & Tool Company of Columbus, O.

PLOESER, Lnuis, president J. B. Sickles Sad-
dlery Company; born St. Louis ^lay 14, 1852: son
of Christian and Elizabeth (Luft) Ploeser : began
career in 1866 as office boy with Fourth National
Bank, working during school vacation : became reg-
ularly employed as office boy with Grimsley & Co.
in 1869, and when that firm retired in 1872 started
in with J. B. Sickles & Co. : traveled for this firm
for 16 years; was elected vice-president on its in-
corporation in 1881, and in 1897 was elected presi-
dent and general manager, purchasing the stock of
J. J. Kreher, former president, then deceased.

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511

Louis Plokser.

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PORTER, William, physician; born March 18,
1852, at Beaver, Pa ; son of Byron and Agnes
(Rankin) Porter; graduated from Westminster Col-
lege and the Jefferson ^ledical College, Philadelphia,
M. D., 1873: London Hospital, 1874; Golden
Square Throat and Chest Hospital of London and
assistant to Sir ]\Iorell McKenzie, 1874-5, Vienna,
Paris and Berlin, 1875-6; has been engaged in the
practice of medicine in St. Louis since 1876; phy-
sician in charge Blount St. Rose Throat and Chest
Sanatorium, medical director State Sanatorium for
Incipient Tuberculosis, professor of clinical medicine
in St. Louis University, director of the National
Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis, corresponding member of the International
Congress for the Study of Tuberculosis, and mem-
ber of various other medical associations for the
prevention of tuberculosis, etc.

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513

William Porter, M. D.

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POST, Lewis Walter, vice-president and general
manager Blackmer & Post Pipe Company, pres-
ident Post Pipe Co., Texarkana, Texas; born
Essex, Conn., March 6, 1847; son of David Raw-
son and Maria Philips (Urquhart) Post. In
April, 1862, shipped before the mast in London
packet ship, American Eagle; in 1869 was chief
mate of ship Goodhope in same line ; came to St.
Louis in 1872, engaging in minor capacity with
H. M. Thompson, then in sewer pipe manu-
facturing business; formed partnership in same
line with L. R. Blackmer, as Blackmer & Post,
in 1878; built first factory in 1880, second factory
in 1887; incorporated business, 1893, as Black-
mer & Post Pipe Company, of which is vice-
president and general manager, erecting the
third factorv in 1900.

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515

Lewis Walter Post.

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PRICE, X'incent Leonard, \ice-president of the
National Candy Company, chairman of executive
committee and a director of same, president and
director Price Cereal Food Company. Chicago ; vice-
president Clinton Sugar Refining Company. Clinton,
Iowa: president and director Granite Luhricating &
Fuel Company, Granite, Okla. ; chairman executive
Committee National Confectioners' Association of
United States; born Waukegan. Ill, Julv 30, 1871 ;
son of Dr. Vincent C. and Harriet (White) Price.
Since 1894 has been actively identified with the
interests of his father. Dr. \'. C. Price of Chicago,
in the manufacture of Dr. Price's baking powder,
flavoring extracts, etc.. and since 1902 has been iden-
tified with the National Candy Company.

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Vincent Leonard Price.

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RANDOLPH, Tom, president Commonwealth
Trust Co., born Rome, Tennessee, Xovember 13,
1854; son of John Lewis and ]^Iary (Bradley)
Randolph : began banking business career as mes-
senger in year 1872 : was made cashier in 1874; was
elected president of the ^Merchants and Planters
National Bank of Sherman, Texas, in 1886, and is
still president of that institution ; was elected presi-
dent of the Commonwealth Trust Co. of St. Louis,
February 7, 1903: director in the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of New York, St. Louis-South-
western Railway Co., and is director in several cor-
porations, railways, cotton oil mills, etc., in Texas
and the southwest; member of the executive com-
mittee of the American Bankers Association, 1893
to 1896.

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Tom Randolph.

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REID, Thomas Joseph, president of the T. J.
Reid Shoe Company; born at Ballagherine, Ire-
land, February 29, 1852; son of Michael ]\I. and
Bridget (Regan) Ried ; first started to work in
New York in 1869, with wholesale clothing man-
ufacturing firm; in 1872 became a partner in the
shoe business established by his brother, M. \\\
Reid in 1860, and firm name became Reid Bros.
The brother withdrew in 1884, then continued
alone until 1892, when incorporated the busi-
ness as T. J. Reid Shoe Company.

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Thomas Joseph Reid.

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REITH, Edward Benjamin, treasurer Adam
Roth Grocery Company, director Lindell Grocery
Company, Columbia, Mo., treasurer Early Break-
fast Coffee Company ; born in St. Louis, December
17, 1857; son of Henr}- T. and Catherine (Arnold)
Reith ; began career as collector with the Iron Moun-
tain Bank; after one year went with the Interna-
tional Bank ; with the Adam Roth Grocer)- Company
since 1879, having been successfully bookkeeper,
cashier and credit man, and in 1900 was elected
treasurer.

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Edward Benjamin Reith.

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REXARD, Louis ; carpets and curtain goods ;
born Berlin, Germany. October 1, 1854; son of
Charles and Helene ( Rosenstock) Renard ; began
business career as cash ])oy in 1867; in 1869 en-
tered employ of Trorlicht & Duncker, as office as-
sistant, and has remained in the same house in
various capacities, being advanced to vice-president
of Trorlicht-Duncker & Renard Carpet Company;
September 9, 1907, retired from the firm and at
present not ccjnnected in any pursuits.

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Louis Renard.

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RICHMOND, Manley Glencoe, president
Shaw & Richmond Produce Company, second
vice-president Merchants' Exchange, 1904-5,
vice-president, 1905-6; president, 1906-7; second
vice-president St. Louis Manufacturers Associa-
tion, etc.; born Detroit, Mich., March 12, 1857;
son of Emerson and Mary (Cassidy) Rich-
mond; began career as teacher, later superin-
tendent of schools, and then as book-keeper in
produce concern in Detroit for two years ; came
to St. Louis, 1881, and went in with a Mr. Andrews
in the produce business as Richmond & Andrews for
one year, then by self for two years, and in 1884 the
firm of Shaw & Richmond, incorporated, 1890, as
Shaw & Richmond Produce Company.

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527

ManlEy Glencoe Richmond.

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RITTER, Edward P. \'. : real estate and
financial agent ; born Chester, Illinois, September 27,
1858; son of Valentine and Josephine Hortense
(Paschali) Ritter : began business life as clerk with
the Famous Shoe and Clothing Co., of which after-
ward became successively cashier, book-keeper, sec-
retary, vice-president and president. In 1892 en-
gaged in the real estate business with Charles C.
Nicholls, when the Xicholls-Ritter Realty & Finan-
cial Company was organized, of which he is vice-
president : secretary St. Louis, Lakewood & Grant
Park Railwav.

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Edward P. V. Ritter.

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ROBLEE, Joseph Henry, vice-president of The
Brown Shoe Company; born Granville, X. Y., April
8, 1859: son of ]\Iahalone and Rhoda (Dillingham)
Roblee; came to St. Louis in 1879 and entered the
employ of Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company as clerk,
July 5, 1879; later on became traveling salesman for
the same firm until 1887, when he entered The
Brown Shoe Company as treasurer, continuing in
this capacity until 1893, when he became vice-
president.

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Joseph Henry Roblee.

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RORICK, David, vice-president Americaa Cen-
tral Insurance Company ; born near Columbus,
Franklin County, Ohio : son of Cornelius Hoyt and
Julia Fowler (Kimball) Rorick ; began business ca-
reer as clerk in hotel ; learned the marble cutting
trade and followed it until 1862, when enlisted as
private in Company G, 31st Iowa Infantry, promoted
to 1st Lieutenant on battle field at Vicksburg, Miss.,
and thereafter served as brigade. picket and skirm-
ish ofificer on staff of 3rd brigade, first division
15th army corps. Gen. W. T. Sherman's army, at
Lookout Mountain, to Atlanta, the "]March to the
Sea" through the Carolinas and to Washington.
After having been wounded several times and hav-
ing been engaged in numerous battles, he was mus-
tered out with honor in 1865. After studying law
he went to Jefferson County, Kan., and began prac-
tice of law in firm of McArthur & Rorick in 1867;
elected to lower house of Kansas Legislature,
1869-70; became connected with the American
Central Insurance Company, November, 1869, and
has served consecutively as special agent, general
agent on Pacific coast, general adjuster, and April
18, 1894, was elected 2nd vice-president, April 22,
1893, became a director in 1875.

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David Rorick.

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RUMSEY, Lewis Miller, Jr., president L. M.
Rumsey Manufacturing Company, director St.
Louis Union Trust Company, State National
Bank of St. Louis, and secretary Granite Bi-
Metallic Consolidated Mining- Company; president
Moberly Gas and Electric Light Company ; served
for eight years in Alissouri National Guard, 1st
regiment, and for six months 1st Missouri Vol-
unteer Infantry in Spanish-American WsiV, etc.;
born St. Louis, January 24, 1876; son of Lewis
Miller and Emma (Gaty) Rumsey; started to
work for L. M. Rumsey Manufacturing Com-
pany, established by father, in 1865; after ad-
vancing through the various departments of the
business was made president early in 1905.

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Lewis Miller Rumsey, Jr.

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RUAISEY. \\^illiam Claude, president Rumsey
& Sikemeier Company; born Painted Post, N. Y.,
November 26, 1854; son of Wm. S. and Sarah J.
(Gazley) Rumsey, began lousiness career as sales-
man; since 1885 engaged in the plumbing supply
business ; was elected president of Rumsey & Sike-
meier Company in 1886.

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537

William Claude Rumsey.

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SAUXDERS, Edward Watts, physician; born in
Campbell County, Va.. October 15, 1854: son of
Robert C. and Caryetta (Davis) Saunders; grad-
uated from the University of Virginia, ^I. D., class
1875; post-graduate work in Royal University of
Vienna, etc. ; came to St. Louis, 1878, and has since
been continuously engaged in the practice of his
profession ; professor of Pediatrics, and Clinical
Obstetrics in Medical Department of Washington
University ; member of medical staff of the Bethesda
Hospital and of the ^lissouri Baptist Sanitarium,
treasurer of the Beard-Hayne Defiberator Company,
president of the Bethesda Association, etc.

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539

Edward Watts Saunders, M. D.

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SAWYER, Isaac Howe, director of The Brown
Shoe Company, manager of the advertising and rub-
ber departments ; ex-president of the St. Louis Shoe
Manufacturers' Association, ex-vice-president of the
St. Louis Advertising ]^Ien's League : born at Box-
ford, Mass., April 3, 1858: son of Thomas and
Sophia Bridgeman ( Howe ) Sawyer ; l^egan business
career at Boston, Mass., in 1876, in the wholesale
shoe business ; moved to Toledo, Ohio, as general
manager and salesman in 1880; with the American
Rubber Company of Boston. ]\Iass., from 1884 to
1890, when he became connected with The Brown
Shoe Company; was elected director in 1893; is
president of the Union M. E. Church Choral Society,
a member of the ^Mercantile Club, the New England
Societv, and the Scottish Rite ^Masons.

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541

Isaac Howe Sawyer.

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SCHRAUBSTADTER, Carl, secretary Inland
Type Foundry; born Boston, Mass., December 23,
1862: son of Carl and Augusta ( Stearn) Schraub-
stadter ; began business career in 1879 with Central
Type Foundry; superintendent in 1883; started in
business for self in 1886, and in 1890 incorporated
as Western Engravers Supply Company. In 1895
merged business into that of the Inland Type Foun-
dry, of which is now secretary and general manager.

SCHRAUBSTADTER, Oswald, vice-president
Inland Type Foundry; born Brookline, ]\Iass., April
23, 1868; son of Carl and Augusta (Stearn)
Schraubstadter ; entered the employ of Central Type
Foundry in 1884, advancing to various positions
with that company until, 1894 when the Inland Type
Foundry was incorporated, being one of the incor-
porators of that company, with which he has since
been associated.

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543

Oswald Schraubstadter.

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SCHRAUBSTADTER, William A., president
Inland Type Foundry: born Brookline. Mass., Octo-
ber 21, 1864; son of Carl and Augusta ( Stearn )
Schraubstadter : came to St. Louis with parents in
1875; began business with Central Type Foundry
of St. Louis, where he remained until 1893, when
in 1894 his brothers, Oswald and Carl organized
the Inland Type Foundry Company.

SCL'DDER, Elisha Gage: born Hyannis Port,
Mass, May 17, 1839: son of Frederick and Cor-
delia (Gage) Scudder : began business in whole-
sale grocery house in Boston, ]\Iass., 1857: came
to St. Louis in 1865, becoming salesman with
wholesale grocery firm of Joseph Hamill & Co.,
and then with their successors, Brookmire &
Rankin: then of hrm of Brookmire, Rankin &
Scudder, when in 1885, the firm of E. G. Scudder
& Bro. was formed: incorporated May 1st, 1893,
as Scudder-Gale Grocery Company. In 1903
was consolidated with the firm of J. A\ . Scudder
& Co. under the new corporate name of Scud-
ders-Gale Grocery Company, of which he is pres-
ident : also president Scudders-Gale-W'earen Com-
pany. Cairo. 111.

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545

Elisha Gage Scudder.

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SCULLIN, John, chairman board ScuUin-
Gallagher Steel and Iron Company, director St.
Louis Union Trust Company, St. Louis Trans-
fer Compan}-, Missouri and North Arkansas R. R.
Company, Denison Light and Power Co., etc.;
worked on father's farm in Xew York state,
then at the age of 19 went to railroad work with
construction crew : was later advanced in charge
of crew; became contractor, 1863, for construc-
tion of Minneapolis and Cedar Valley R. R.,
then crossed plains prospecting until 1865;
bridge contractor in Leavenworth County,
Kan., 1866; contractor for central branch, Union
Pacific Ry., 1867; built extension of Missouri
Valley Ry. to Iowa state line in 1868, and part
of road from Leavenworth to Cameron, Mo. ;
began construction of AI., K. & T. Ry. in 1869,
from Emporia, Kan., through to Texas, and the
Missouri division through to Moberly, complet-
ing same in 1874; in 1875 became interested in
street railways in St. Louis ; appointed general
manager A\'estern Division Mexican Central Ry.,
City of Mexico, in 1883, resigning in 1885 to
return to St. Louis ; president Wiggins Ferry
Company, 1886-1902; St. Louis, Kansas City and
Colorado R. R. Co., 1899-1902; St. Louis and.
North Arkansas Rv. Co., 1899; Arkansas and
Choctaw Ry. Co., 1901-2; born St. Lawrence
County, N. Y., August 17, 1836; son of Nicholas
and ]\Iary (Callahan) Scullin.

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547

John Scullin.

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SHAPLEIGH, Alfred Lee, treasurer Xorvell-
Shapleigh Hardware Company, president Shap-
leigh Investment Company, Union Lead Com-
pany, AA^ashington Land and [Mining Company,
second vice-president Merchants-Laclede Na-
tional Bank, vice-president American Credit-Lidem-
nity Company of Xew York, director St. Louis
Cotton Compress Company, United Elevator
and Grain Compan}', president St. Louis ]Mer-
cantile Library Association, treasurer St. Louis
Light Artillery Armory Association, first vice-
president Hospital Saturday and Sunday Asso-
ciation, director AA'ashington University, mem-
ber executive committee Louisiana Purchase
Exposition Company, also director, etc. ; born
St. Louis, February 16th, 1862; son of Augustus
Frederick and Elizabeth Anne (Umstead) Shap-
leigh ; began career as clerk in ^Merchants Na-
tional Bank in 1880, then in wholesale coffee
and spice company, then cashier ]\Iound City
Paint and Color Company, and in 1885 became
secretary of A. F. Shapleigh Hardware Com-
pany (founded in 1843), and on incorporation
of present company in 1901 was elected treas-
urer.

SHAPLEIGH, John Blasdel, Physician; born
St. Louis, October 3L 1857; son of Augustus Fred-
erick and Elizabeth Ann (Umstead) Shapleigh;
graduated Washington University, A. B., 1878, St.

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549

John Blasdel Shapleich, M. D.

550 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Louis ^Medical College, 'M. D.. 1881, took post-
graduate course in ear diseases, Vienna, Austria,
1884-5, interne St. Louis City Hospital, 1881-2, St.
Louis Female Hospital, 1882-3 ; since 1885 engaged
in practice limited to diseases of the ear. Lecturer
on diseases of the ear. St. Louis ^ledical College,
1886-90, clinical professor of diseases of the ear, St.
Louis Aledical College ( Aledical Department Wash-
ington L^niversity), 1890 to 1895; since 1895 pro-
fessor of otology, ^Medical Department, \\^ashington
University, and was dean of faculty of depart-
ment, 1901-2; member of staff St. Luke's Hospital,
and St. Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital; president,
1896, of the Medical Society of the City Hospital
Alumni : member of important medical societies.

SHAPLEIGH, Richard Waldron, first vice-
president Xorvell-Shapleigh Hardware Com-
pany; born St. Louis, AIo., September 28, 1859;
son of Augustus Frederick and Elizabeth Anne
(Umstead) Shapleigh : 1)egan business career
with A. F. Shapleigh & Co., hardware jobbers,
in 1876, with which firm and successors he has
since been connected. For four years was a di-
rector and then president \\ estern Commercial
Travelers Association, ex-member Battery A,
National Guard of Missouri, member Municipal
Bridge and Terminal C(jmmission.

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551

Richard Waldron Shapleigh.

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SHELTOX, Theodore, wholesale hats; born
Sheltonville, Georgia, June 18, 1844; son of V. B.
and Emily (Connelly) Shelton : educated in
schools in Georgia and Boonville, Missouri ; began
commercial career as clerk with Cloney-Crawford
& Co., Sedalia, Missouri: came to St. Louis in 1866
and entered the employ of Henderson, Ridgley &
Co., wholesale dry goods; when they retired from
business, ]\Iarch. 1867, he entered the employ of
Gauss-Hunicke & Co., wholesale hats, became a
partner of this firm in 1874, the name of the firm
changing later on to the Gauss-Shelton Hat Com-
pany; sold out his interest in this company in 1901
and bought an interest in Wliite-Branch & Shelton
Hat Company, of which he is vice-president.

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553

Theodore ShElton.

554 BIOORAPHTCAL SKKTCHES

SHEPLEY, Arthur Behn ; l)orn St. Louis,
March 21st, 1873; son of John R. and ^Nlary A.
(Clapp) Shepley ; admitted to St. Louis bar in
1897; became member of firm of Xagel and
Kirby in 1903.

SHEPLEY, John Foster, vice-President St.
Louis Union Trust Company; born St. Louis,
October IL 1858: son of John R. and Mary A.
(Clapp) Shepley; practiced law from 1880, be-
ing a member of the firm of Lionberger & Shep-
ley up to 1900, when he retired to enter the
Union Trust Company ; on consolidation of the
Union Trust Company and the St. Louis Trust
Company, in 1903, was elected vice-president.

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SIMMONS, Edward Campbell, chairman of the
board of directors Simmons Hardware Company,
director Bank of Commerce, St. Louis Union Trust
Company, St. Louis Refrigerator & Cold Storage
Company, Police Commissioner under Gov. Critten-
den, serving on Couples' board ; born Frederick,
Md., September 2L 1839; son of Zachariah T. and
Louisa C. Simmons ; engaged in the hardware busi-
ness in St. Louis since January, 1856. On January
1, 1874 incorporated Simmons Hardware Company,
and has ever since been head of this company.

SIMMONS, Wallace Delafield, president
Simmons Hardware Company ; born St. Louis,
November 24, 1867; son of Edward C. and Garrie
(Welch) Simmons; began business career in
hardware business, wdiich he has since followed;
made director Simmons Hardw^are Company in
1892, and president January 3rd, 1898.

556 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SKINKER, Thomas K., lawyer; born in St.
Louis County, AIo., June 9, 1845, son of Thomas
and Jane (Xeilson) Skinker ; graduated from Wash-
ington University, A. B., 1863, University of Vir-
ginia, 1866-7; admitted to bar in the Circuit Court,
St. Louis, December 29, 1867, Supreme Court
United States, 1876; official reporter of decisions
of Supreme Court of ^Missouri, 1877-84; engaged in
general practice, but for many years has given spe-
cial attention to municipal bonds ; director and
counsel Trust Company of St. Louis County, di-
rector and president Law Library Association
of St. Louis; was president Clayton & Forest Park
Railroad Company, built road in 1893. ^Member of
Board of Election Commissioners, city of St. Louis,
delegate to Xew York Conference for Reform of
Primarv Election Laws, 1906.

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557

Thomas K. Skinker.

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SLOAX, James MelnKJth. shoe manufacturer;
director Hamilton, Brown Shoe Company ; born
Marshall County, Mississippi ; son of Rev. James A.
and Sarah ( Moffatt ) Sloan : began business career
as clerk in retail store at I'aylors. ^^lississippi, on
salary of S12.50 per month, including board; five
years later was given charge of clothing department
of R. E. Doyle, Oxford, Mississippi, where he con-
tinued for man}- years : twenty-one years ago (1887)
took position on road for Hamilton, Brown Shoe
Company, with headquarters in Ft. Smith, Ark. ; in
1900 was elected buyer and director of Hamilton,
Brown Shoe Company, and located in St. Louis.

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559

James Melmoth Sloan.

560 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SMITH, Elsworth, Jr.. physician; burn St. Louis,
Jan. 1, 1864; son of Dr. Elsworth F. and Isabella
(Cheniej Smith; educated at St. Louis public
school, St. Louis University, A. B., 1884, A. M.,
1899, St. Louis :Medical College, ^l. D., 1887;
served as junior and senior physician and assistant
superintendent St. Louis City Hospital, 1887-90;
since then engaged in private practice; professor
of clinical medicine. Medical Department, A\'ashing-
ton University, physician, St. Louis ^luUanphy
and St. Louis Skin & Cancer Hospitals, and O'Fal-
lon Dispensary ; ex-president [Medical Society of
City Hospital Alumni ; member of various medical
societies.

S]\IITH, Irwin Z., vice-president Junior Realty
Company; born St. Louis, August 19, 1862; son
of Irwin Z. Smith and Elizabeth (Kerr) Smith;
began career as manager of an orange grove ; then
with the St. Louis L'nion Trust Company as clerk,
then secretary and director; resigned in 1899 to go
into the real estate business as a meml>er of the
Junior Realty Company.

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561

Elsworth Smith, Jr., M. D.

562 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SXOW, Lewis Eben, insurance agent; born
Barkhampstead, Conn., December 30, 1842; son of
E. G. and Eunice (Woodruff) Snow; served as pri-
vate, Company A, 23rd Connecticut Regiment in
civil war ; began in the insurance 1)usiness March
1, 1864, and since February 9, 1866, has been part-
ner with Wallace Delafield in insurance firm of Dela-
field & Snow ; charter member Mercantile Club.

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563

Lewis Eben Snow.

564 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SPENCER, Horatio Xelson, physician ; born
Port Gibson, Miss., July 17, 1842; son of Horatio
N. and Sarah (^Marshall) Spencer; graduated from
the University of Alabama, 1862; served in Cowan's
Battery, Loring's Division, Army of Tennessee,
under Generals Bragg and Johnston for three years ;
graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, M. D., 1868; honorary LL.D., West-
minster College, 1897: engaged in the practice of
medicine since 1868; specialist of diseases of the ear,
professor of diseases of the ear, ^Medical Depart-
ment of Washington University ; member of import-
ant medical societies, etc.

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565

Horatio Nelson SpEncer. M. D.

566 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SPEXCER, Seidell Palmer, lawyer ; born Erie,
Pa., September 16, 1862; sou of Sam'l Selden and
Eliza D. (Palmer) vSpencer ; graduated from the
Yale University, A. B., 1884; law department of
Washington University. LL.B.. 1886 (A. M. Ph.
D. Westminster College, honorary ]M. D, Missouri
Medical College), admitted to bar at St. Louis,
1885, member of the ^Missouri Legislature, 1895-6,
judge of the Circuit Court, 1897 U) 1903 ; was for
several years professor of medical jurisprudence
in the Missouri Medical College, president ^lissouri
Bar Association, 1898; professor of medical juris-
prudence, medical department, W^ashington L^niver-
sitv. Was agreed upon by 64 members of the ^lis-
souri Legislature in 1905 as candidate United States
Senator.

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567

Selden Palmer Spencer.

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STAXARD, Edwin Obed. president E. O.
Stanard ^lilling Company, director Boatmens
Bank and St. Louis Union Trust Company,
president ^^lerchants" Exchange, 1866; elected
lieutenant-governor of ^lissouri, 1868; to Con-
gress from St. Louis, 1872; member Indianapolis
Monetary Conference, 1897-98; born Newport,
X. H., January 5, 1832; son of Obed and Betsy
Ann (Webester) Stanard; family came west in
1837 to Iowa; came to St. Louis, 1853; taught
school, then book-keeper and then traveling
salesman for commission house in Alton, 111.;
in grain commission business in St. Louis,
1857-66; since 1866 in milling l)usiness.

STEWART, Alphonso Chase; lawyer; born
Lebanon, Tennessee, August 27, 1848; son of
Lieutenant General Alexander P. and Harriet
Byron ( Chase j Stewart; served in Stearns' 4th
Tennessee Cavalry C. S. A. ; cadet on staff Lieuten-
ant General Alexander P. Stewart, Alabama Mili-
tary Corps Cadet; admitted to bar in 1876; member
of firm of Turnev & Stewart, lawvers, Winchester,
Tennessee, 1869; Evans & Stewart, Enterprise and
Meridian, Mississippi, 1871 ; since 1873 engaged in
practice of law in St. Louis, member of firm of
King, Phillips & Stewart, 1873, Phillips & Stewart,
1874, Phillips, Stewart, Cunningham & Elliott,
1889; Stewart, Cunningham & Elliott, 1897;
Stewart, Elliott & Williams, 1904; since October,

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569

Alphonso Chase Stewart.

570 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

1889, counsel St. Louis Trust Co., now St. Louis
Union Trust Co. : director of Schultz Belting Co.,
Goodwin ^Manufacturing Co., Tower Realty Co.,
^lermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., president and
treasurer of \^inita Realty Co., Spring Avenue
Realty Co., secretary and treasurer Southwestern
Improvement Association ; was secretary, treasurer
and counsel of Northwestern Building & Loan As-
sociation, 1873 to 1879; was president of the Board
of Police Commissioners, City of St. Louis ; mem-
ber St. Louis Board of Health, February, 1905, to
February, 1908: president Sabbath School Assembly
Synod of ^Missouri ; president St. Louis Public
Museum; master of the Kadosh at the citv of St.
Louis, Mo., and deputy inspector general for said
city.

STICKXEY, William Albert, president Wil-
liam A. Stickney Cigar Company ; born Town-
send, Mass., August 5th, 1844; son of Dr. Au-
gustus G. and Louise (Wilson) Stickney; be-
gan business career as clerk in tea, coffee and
tobacco store in Boston in 1862; enlisted 1864
in 6th [Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; after
term of service expired became identified with
cigar trade in Xew York City; came to St. Louis
in 1872 and later established the A\'illiam A.
Stickney Cigar Company.

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571

William Albert StickxEy

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STIFEL, Herman Charles, stock and bond
broker; born St. Louis, June 7th. 1861; son of
Christopher A. and Emeha ( Hamerstein) Stifel;
began career as mechanical engineer for Girard
B. Allen Iron W^orks, then assistant superinten-
dent for Rupferle Bros. ^Manufacturing Company,
then in charge of factory for X. O. Xelson ]Man-
ufacturing Company, and in 1897 went into the
stock and bond business as vice-president and treas-
urer of the Altheimer & Rawlins Investment Com-
pany ; also President Xew Long-Distance Telephone
Company of Indiana ; director United States Tele-
phone Company, Rochester, X. Y. ; Toledo Tele-
phone Company; Detroit Telephone Company;
Cuyahoga Telephone Company and United States
Long-Distance Company, both of Cleveland, Ohio,
and the Interstate Long-Distance Company of
Alichigan ; ex-president St. Louis Stock Exchange,
etc.

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573

Herman Charles Stieel.

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STIX, William, vice-president Rice-Stix Dry
Goods Company, president Premium Manufacturing
Company, president Alid-City Realty Company ;
born in Demmelsdorff, Germany, April 25,
1838: son of Solomon and Deborah (Colin) Stix;
started in retail business in Springfield, 111., in 1854,
in wholesale and retail dry goods at St. Joseph, Mo.,
in 1856; formed a partnership in wholesale and re-
tail dry goods business with Henry Rice as Rice-
Stix & Co. in Memphis, Tenn., in 1862; moved to
Cincinnati in 1868, retaining interest in Rice-Stix
& Co., also becoming partner in the house of Stix-
Krouse & Co., wholesale clothing, Cincinnati; dis-
posed of his interest in this company in 1884. and
moved to St. Louis to devote his entire time to Rice-
Stix & Co., with which he has since been con-
nected.

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0/0

William Stix.

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STOCKTON, Robert Henry, president Ma-
jestic Manufacturing Company (Majestic Ranges),
Page Avenue Heights Realty Company, Avenue
Hotel Company (Majestic Hotel), Hot Springs,
Ark. ; director Mississippi Valley Trust Company,
chairman Press and Publicity Committee, Louisiana
Purchase Exposition; born Mt. Sterling, Ky., July
5th, 1842; son of George Jouett and Gusta Ann
(Somersall) Stockton; served in Civil War four
years and was 1st lieutenant of Company I, 2nd
Missouri Regiment, Cockrell's Brigade, C. S. A.
Was first secretary Simmons Hardware Company,
serving in that capacity for twelve years; then as
second vice-president for two years ; president Ma-
jestic Manufacturing Company since 1891.

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577

Robert Henry Stockton.

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SWARTS, Charles Louis, secretary and treas-
urer of Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company, Good-
bar Shoe Manufacturing Company; born Cincinnati,
Ohio, February 25, 1859; son of Jos. L. and Caro-
Hne (Stix) Swarts; graduated as civil engineer in
1879; associated with Louis Stix & Co., wholesale
dry goods, 1879 to 1883 ; associated with J. J. Wer-
theimer since 1883. In 1901 he and Air. J. J.
Wertheimer established the present corporation of
Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company, of which he
has since been secretary and treasurer.

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579

Charles Louis Swarts.

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TAUSSIG, AX'illiam. president St. Louis
Bridge Company, member of Board of Educa-
tion and president thereof, 1903-4: president Self-
Culture Hall Association since 1895 : president
Tenement House Association, St. Louis, since 1905 ;
born Prague. Bohemia, Fel)ruary 28, 1826: son
of John L. and Charlotte ( Bondyj Taussig:
graduated from L'niversity of Prague, 1844: arrived
in St. Louis 1848: St. Louis School of Medicine, M.
D., 1850 (honorary LL.D., Washington University.
1905 ) : member of the Board of Trustees, Washing-
ton University : practiced medicine from 1850 to
1864; mayor of Carondelet, 1852 : member, 1859-65,
and presiding justice, 1863 to 1865, St. Louis
County Court: president Traders Bank, 1866-9;
director and general manager of St. Louis (Eadsj
Bridge, 1867 to 1896: president Terminal R. R.
Assn., 1889 to 1896, when he retired from that
position.

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TEICHMANX, Otto Louis, secretary and
treasurer Teichmann Commission Company ; born
St. Louis, i\Iay 12, 1865 ; son of Chas. H. and Emily
(Bang) Teichmann; president of the ^Merchants'
Exchange, 1905.

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583

Otto Louis Teichmanx.

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TIFFANY, Dexter, lawyer; born St. Louis, Mo.
(corner 5th and Olive streets), August 28, 1846;
son of Dexter and Hannah (Kerr) Tiffany; re-
ceived degree of A. B. from Harvard in 1868, and
began the practice of law in St. Louis, where he has
since been located ; was at one time associated with
Finkelnburg & Rassieur.

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585

Dkxtkr Tiffany.

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TUHOLSKE, Herman, surgeon ; born at
Meseritz, Prussia, March 27, 1848; son of Newman
and Johanna (Arnfield) Tuholske ; educated in pub-
lic school and gymnasium, Meseritz, Prussia; grad-
uated from Missouri Medical College, M. D., 1870;
engaged in practice in St. Louis since 1870, specializ-
ing in surgery ; took post-graduate courses at the
Universities of Berlin, Vienna and London; was
surgeon to 1st Regiment National Guard of Mis-
souri ; was in cliarge of the St. Louis City Dispen-
sary from 1870 to 1875 ; demonstrator and professor
of anatomy, Missouri Medical College, 1873 to
1881 ; professor of surgery, Missouri Medical Col-
lege, 1881 to 1899; surgeon to the Polyclinic Hos-
pital till 1899; is now surgeon in chief St. Louis
Jewish Hospital, surgeon to Washington University
Hospital, consulting surgeon Martha Parsons Free
Hospital for Children, consulting surgeon City Hos-
pital ; professor of surgery, medical department,
Washington University ; member of various medical
societies in this country and Europe, and now presi-
dent of the St. Louis Medical Societv ; one of the
authors of the International Text-book on Surgery,
in Vol. n. ; author of many original articles, notably
on the surgery of the stomacli.

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587

Herman Tuholske, M. D.

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VAN BLARCOM, Jacob Craig; president
National Bank of Commerce ; born in Bergen
county, New Jersey, June 1, 1849; son of Jacob Van
Riper and Euphemia (Dixon) Van Blarcom; began
career with Peterson-Hawthorn & Co., wholesale
saddlery, hardware and leather, 1866-71 ; appointed
chief accountant Bank of Commerce, July, 1870;
elected cashier in 1877; elected vice-president Na-
tional Bank of Commerce, St. Louis, December,
1898, and became president on the death of Mr.
AX'illiam H. Thompson, in 1905 ; director St. Louis
Car Wheel Company. W^agner Electric ]\Ianufactur-
ing Company, Burlington Elevator Company, Bes
Line Construction Company, St. Louis & South-
western Railway Company, American Central In-
surance Company, \\^illis Coal & ^Mining Company,
and Phenix National Bank of New York.

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589

Jacob Craig Van Blarcom.

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VAN CLEAVE, James Wallace, president of The
Buck's Stove & Range Company, St. Louis, Mo. ;
president the Citizens Industrial Association of St.
Louis, president of the National Association of
Manufacturers of New York City, etc. ; born in
Marion County, Kentucky, July 15, 1849; son of
Henry Mason and Eliza J. (Burks) Van Cleave;
began career in stove business in employ of J. S.
Lithgow & Co., in 1867; became secretary of suc-
cessor, and later established the firm of J. W. Van
Cleave & Co., Louisville, Ky. ; came to St. Louis
in 1888 and has since been in control of The Buck's
Stove & Range Company.

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591

James Wallace Van Cleave.

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VOX BRECHT, Frank Alexander, vice-presi-
dent G. Von Brecht Butchers' Supply Company;
born St. Louis, November 30, 1875; son of Gus-
tavus and Emilia Von Brecht : in 1890 entered busi-
ness of G. V. Brecht Butchers' Supply Co. (estab-
lished by father in 1853), and as apprentice went
through the different departments uf the plant and
office. In 1893 became manager of the Buenos
Ayres branch of the house: in 1894, manager of
Central Asiatic branch; in 1896, went into Western
China, Afganistan, and Southern Siberia ; manager
of European house in 1897; traveling through
Europe, Russia and Turkey ; elected director of firm
in 1898, and had charge of all three foreign branches
in 1898 to 1902; elected vice-president in 1902,
which office he now holds.

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593

Frank Alexander Von BrEcht.

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\\\\DE, Festus John, president ^lercantile Trust
Company, Commerce Realty Company, Corner
Realty Company, Eleventh Street Realty Company,
Hotel Realty Company, The Public Building Com-
pany, Twenty-hrst Street Realty Company, Equit-
able Building-. Germania Realty Company, Northern
Investment Company. Haw Real Estate Company,
secretary and treasurer Peter A. O'Xeil Estate,
Rialto Building Company, vice-president Emporium
Realty Company, Henderson Realty Company, and
director St. Louis Transit Company, United Rail-
ways Company. Calvary Cemetery Association, In-
dividtial Fire Underwriters Association, etc. ; born
Limerick. Ireland, October 14. 1859: son of Thomas
and Catherine (McDonough) Wade: after a num-
ber of years in the real estate business in St. Louis,
he organized and became president of the ^Mercantile
Trust Company.

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595

Festus John Wade.

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WALBRIDGE, Cyrus Packard; wholesale drug-
gist; ex-mayor; born Madrid, New York, July
20, 1849; son of Orlo Judson and Althea Maria
(Packard) Walbridge; graduated from the law de-
partment of the University of Michigan, 1874;
since April, 1879, has been connected with the J.
S. Merrell Drug Co., of which he is president; presi-
dent of the Bell Telephone Co. of Missouri ; served
eight years in National Guards of Missouri, retiring
in 1885 as lieutenant colonel 1st Regiment, served
in House of Delegates, St. Louis. 1881-3; president
City Council 1889-93; mayor of St. Louis 1893-7;
endorsed by Republican convention of ^vlissouri for
vice-president of United States ; Republican
nominee for governor of Missouri, 1904.

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597

Cyrus Packard Walbridge.

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WALLACE, ]\Iahlon Brookings, vice-president
and general manager Samuel Cnpples A\^oodenware
Company; born St. Louis, ^Missouri, July 29, 1871 ;
son of Asa A. and Alary J. (Brookings) Wallace;
educated Smith Academy, St. Louis ; began busi-
ness career as stock clerk in 1890, with Samuel
Cupples Woodenware Company, and has advanced
through various positions to that of vice-president
and general manager of the Samuel Cupples Wood-
enware Company; director State National Bank,
Commonwealth Trust Company, Union Bag and
Paper Company, New York City, and president
Escanaba [Manufacturing Company.

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599

Mahlon Brookings Wallace.

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WALSH, Julius S., chairman board of direct-
ors Mississippi Valley Trust Company, chair-
man board of directors St. Louis Terminal As-
sociation, president Mississippi Glass Company;
born St. Louis December 1st, 1842; son of Edward
and Isabelle (de Mun) Walsh; graduated from
law department of Columbia College, LL.B., 1864;
admitted to practice law in New York, 1864; St.
Louis, 1865; president Citizens Railway Company,
1870; president Union Railway Company, 1873;
president South Pass Jetty Company, 1875; presi-
dent St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
Association, 1874-1878; president People's Railway
Company, 1877, also the Tower Grove and Lafay-
ette Railway Company ; built the Northern Central
Railway in 1885; president St. Louis Bridge Com-
pany, 1875-90; vice-president St. Louis Terminal
Association, 1895; president, 1896; president St.
Louis & Suburban Railway to consolidation, and in
1890 organized the Mississippi Valley Trust Com-
pany; president 1890-1906.

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601

TuLius S. Walsh.

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WANGLER, Joseph Francis; president of the
Joseph F. Wangler Boiler & Sheet Iron Works
Company, Joseph F. \\"ang-ler Realty Company ;
member Merchants' Exchange, etc. ; born Pittsburg,
Pa., ]\Iarch 4. 1837: came to St. Louis in 1851 by
steamboat : took seven days to come from Pittsburg
to St. Louis ; started as an apprentice in boiler
making and sheet iron work in Broadway Foundry;
worked at the trade until March 28, 1864, since
which time he has been conducting a general boiler
and sheet iron works, of which he is the head.

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603

Joseph Francis WanglEr.

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WELLS, Rolla. mayor St. Louis, April 2nd,
190L and re-elected April 4tli, 1905; director
American Steel Foundries, Mississippi Valley Trust
Company, State National Bank, etc. : born St. Louis,
June 1st, 1856: son of Hon. Erastus and Isabella
Bowman (Henry) Wells; began career as assistant
superintendent of street raihvay corporation and
afterwards general manager, 1879-1883; then as-
sociated with father in various enterprises until
father's death in 1893 ; was president American
Steel Foundry Company in 1903, which has since
been consolidated with the American Steel Foun-
dries.

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605

RoLLA Wells.

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WENNEKER, Charles Frederick, president
Blanke-Wenneker Candy Company; born St.
Louis, October 10, 1852; son of Clemmens and
Henrietta (Blanke) W^enneker ; educated in St.
John's Lutheran Parochial School and Bryant &
Stratton's Business College ; began business career in
employ of the Blanke Brothers Candy Company as a
boy about 1868, and advanced to an important posi-
tion in the company which he left in 1889 in order to
organize the A\'enneker-Morris Candy Company,
of which he was president until that company and
the Blanke Brothers Candy Company consolidated
on September 15, 1904, as the Blanke-Wenneker
Candy Company, of which he is president; was
United States collector of internal revenue for
Eastern District of ^Missouri, appointed by Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison, serving from 1899-1903;
was elected city collector of St. Louis, serving
1897-1901, was delegate to National Republican
Convention in 1880 and 1888, has served at
numerous State and City Republican conventions
as chairman and secretary ; was chairman ^Missouri
State Delegation of Trans-]\lississippi Congress at
Salt Lake City, was a director of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, was secretary Missouri State
Republican League eight years ; ex-Grand Master
State of Missouri, A. O. U. W., etc.

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607

Charles Frederick WennekEr.

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WERTHELMER, Jacob J., president Werthei-
mer-Swarts Shoe Company, director of Merchants-
Laclede National Bank, member of Business Men's
League, member of the Commercial Club, St. Louis
Club and Noonday Club ; born in Troy. Ohio, June
12, 1852; son of Joseph and Jeanette (Barnet)
Wertheimer; came to St. Louis February 14, 1873;
started in the boot and shoe business in 1882, and in
1891 joined in organizing The Wertheimer-S warts
Shoe Company, of which he is president.

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609

Jacob J. Wertheimer.

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WESTEX, Edward; president Edward Westen
Tea & Spice Co. ; born Moravia, Austria,
August 3, 1850; son of Anton and Eva Westen;
was officer in Austrian army 1871 to 1873; since
1874 has been in mercantile Ijusiness on own ac-
count, first in Europe and since 1885 in United
States; in 1893 established the Edward Westen
Tea & Spice Co., of which he is president.

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611

Edward Westex

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WHITAKER, Edwards, vice president Boat-
mans Bank, vice-president Bell Telephone Com-
pany, director St. Louis Union Trust Company;
stocks and bonds, etc. ; born St. Louis, April 29,
1848; son of William A. and Letitia (Edwards)
Whitaker ; first position as clerk under Col. L. S.
Metcalfe, quartermaster's department. United States
Army ; then clerk in United States subtreasury office
at St. Louis under Gen. Albert G. Edwards, assistant
United States treasurer ; then with firm of Edwards
& Matthews, bankers and brokers; became junior
member of Matthews & Whitaker, and in 1890,
when Matthews retired, this firm became W^iit-
aker & Hodgman, changing later to W^hitaker
& Company.

A\^ILLIS, Gordon ; vice-president and secre-
tary Hunkins-Willis Lime and Cement Co. ; born
Galena, Illinois, May 29, 1859; son of W. B. and
Ellen P. (Pratt) Willis: came to St. Louis in 1866;
began business career with Wiggins Ferry Co. ; was
superintendent of car ferry for eight years ; then for
four years was with R. S. McCormick & Co. ; in
1889 became secretary of Thorn & Hunkins Lime
and Cement Co. (established in 1875), which was
succeeded in 1896 by the Hunkins-Willis Lime and
Cement Co., of which he is vice-president and sec-
retary; on January, 1906, was elected president of
National Builders Supply Association.

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613

Gordon Willis.

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WINKLE, Joseph, president Winkle Terra
Cotta Company, Winkle Mercantile and Agricul-
tural Company, of Illinois ; born in Staffordshire,
England, June 1st, 1837; son of Andrew and
Martha (Littler) Winkle; came to the United
States in March, 1859, having served his appren-
ticeship and worked in the potteries before coming
to the United States ; on his arrival in this country
he entered the clav industries, and has continued
in that business since; he organized the Joseph
Winkle Terra Cotta Works in 1883; incorporated
as the Winkle Terra Cotta Company in 1889, of
which company he is president.

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615

Joseph Winkle.

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WINTERMAXX, Rudolph, president St. Louis
Syrup and Preserving Company ; born Oldenburg,
Germany, Alarch 2nd, 1853; son of C. R. and Marie
(Brackenhoff) Wintermann ; came to America in
1870; St. Louis. 1871, and organized the St. Louis
Syrup and Refining Company in 1887; absorbed the
Columbia Preserving Company in 1900 and changed
name to St. Louis Syrup and Preserving Company.

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617

Rudolph Wintermanx.

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WRIGHT, Thomas, president Chemical Build-
ing Company, Xew Imperial Building Company,
Lincoln Trust Building Company, ^Monetary Realty
& Building Company, Thos. Wright Investment
Company ; director Third National Bank, etc. ; born
New York City, January 27, 1841 ; son of Robert
and Alartha Wright; served in Army of the Potomac
through Civil War, enlisting as private and being
mustered out as maj(jr and brevet lieutenant col-
onel ; established cigar business at Third and Olive
streets in 1866 as T. Wright & Co., until 1896,
when retired in favor of brother, Jno. H. Weight
& Sons, W. R. WVight and G. H. Wright, incor-
porated as T. Wright & Co. Cigar Co.

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619

Thomas Wright.

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