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Men  Who  Are  Makin 
Kansas  City. 


A  Biographical  Directory. 


Compiled  by 
GEORGE  CREEL  and  JOHN  SLAVENS, 
*  "  1902. 


HUDSON-KIMBF.RLY    PUBLISHING    CO. 
KANSAS    CITY,   MO. 


10591 1 A 


Prefatory   Note. 


This  book  was  compiled  to  supply  the  demand  for  a 
standard  volume  of  facts  concerning  men  of  prominence  in 
Kansas  City.  No  such  book  has  appeared  since  Col.  Theo- 
dore Case  issued  his  ''History  of  Kansas  City,"  twenty  years 
ago.  The  need  of  a  reliable  work  of  this  kind  has  long  been 
felt,  especially  by  the  newspapers,  whose  only  resource  in  case 
of  an  emergency  is  to  a  book  which  contains  few  of  the  pres- 
ent generation. 

Necessarily  the  names  of  many  desirous  of  appearing  in 
the  compilation  have  been  omitted  because  not  deemed  by  the 
editors  of  sufficient  prominence.  The  effort  has  been  to  in- 
clude, so  far  as  possible,  all  those  in  whom  the  general  public 
is  interested.  It  was  the  idea  of  the  cjinpilers  to  make  a 
book  that  would  be  a  standard  volume  to  be  used  by  news- 
papers and  libraries. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


WASHINGTON  ADAMS 
was  born  in  Boonville,  Missouri,  April  16, 
1849.  It  was  there  he  lived  until  the 
attainment  of  his  majority,  receiving  his 
primary  education  in  the  Kemper  School 
for  boys.  From  there  he  went  to  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and  taking  a  spe- 
cial law  course,  had  a  degree  conferred 
upon  him  in  1869. 

It  was  in  1870,  the  year  after  receiving 
his  diploma,  that  Mr.  Adams  came  to 
Kansas  City,  and  he  has  ever  since  been  a 
conspicuous  figure  in  the  professional  and 
public  life  of  the  town.  In  1874  he  was 
elected  City  Attorney,  and  his  record  won 
him  re-election  in  the  following  year. 

In  1880  Mayor  Chase  appointed  him 
City  Counselor,  and  Mayor  Lee  Talbot, 
Chase's  successor,  re-appointed  him  be- 
cause of  his  ability  and  energy. 

In   1894  Mr.   Adams  was  tendered  the 

position  of  County  Counselor,  and  there 
he  made  the  same  good  record  as  in  the 
office  of  City  Counselor,  and  so  the  usual 
re-appointment  was  given  him  in  1896. 

vSince  1898  Mr.  Adams  has  devoted 
himself  entirely  to  his  private  practice 
He  was  married  June  5,  1877,  to  Miss  Ella 
Lincoln,  daughter  of  John  K.  Lincoln,  of 
Plattsburg,  and  they  have  one  son, 
John  W.,  now  in  his  sophomore  year  at 
Harvard. 


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ETHELBERT  FORRESTER  ALLEN 
was  born  in  Hartford  County,  Connec- 
ticut, in  1855.  He  received  his  early  ed- 
ucation in  Johns  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  and  the  Hartford  High  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1875. 

He  first  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1876, 
where  he  remained  but  a  short  time,  pass- 
ing on  to  the  Northwestern  country, 
where  he  afterwards  became  general  in- 
spector of  a  company  that  had  Govern- 
ment contracts  to  furnish  supplies  for 
four  Indian  agencies. 

In  1880  he  came  to  Kansas  City  for  a 
permanent  residence,  engaging  in  the 
real  estate  business,  in  which  he  has  ever 

since  remained,  now  being  the  president 
of  the  Allen  Investment  Company. 

In  1889  he  married  Miss  Virginia  Rid- 
dle, of  Nashville,  Tenn. 

In  Masonic  circles  the  name  of  Mr.  Al- 
len is  widely  known.  He  entered  Ma- 
sonry in  1884,  and  has  received  all  the 
degrees  of  Vork  and  Scottish  Masonry 
including  the  thirty-third  degree.  He 
was  grand  master  of  Missouri  in  1888-89, 
and  in  1887  organized  Ararat  Temple  A. 
O.  N.  M.  S.  In  1898  he  was  elected  Im- 
perial Potentate  for  North  America.  He- 
has  served  a  term  as  president  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Real  Estate  Exchange,  and  in 
1900  was  the  Republican  nominee  for 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  Missouri,  actu- 
ated purely  by  party  loyalty,  and  made 
a  splendid  race. 


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HARRY  HERRICK  ALLEN 

was  born  June  21,  1850,  in  Sparta,  White 
County,  Tennessee.  His  early  education 
was  received  in  the  public  schools  in 
Washington,  Ky.,  and  in  the  High  School 
at  Chillicothe,  and  finished  with  a  course 
in  Antioch  College,  Yellow  Springs,  Ky. 
In  187 1  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business 
in  Michigan,  where  he  remained  for  six 
years,  coming  to  Missouri  in  1877.  He 
secured  a  position  in  the  Auditor's  ofhce 
of  the  "Katy"  Railroad  in  Sedalia,  and 
tilled  a  similar  position  in  St.  Louis,  when 
the  Missouri  Pacific  absorbed  part  of 
the  "Katy,"  and  moved  the  offices  to 
Mound  City.  Mr.  Allen  resigned  in  1881, 
however,  and  started  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness in  Sedalia.  In  1889  he  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  and  engaged  in  the  loan  and  real 
estate  business. 

He  is  at  present  Secretary  of  the  Con- 
vention Bureau,  and  Secretary  of  the 
Karnival  Krewe,  and  is  a  prominent 
figure  in  every  public  enterprise.  In 
1896-97  Mr.  Allen  served  as  Grand  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  was  for 
ten  years  Quartermaster  of  the  Missouri 
Brigade,  and  this  is  his  eighth  year  as 
Supreme  Representative. 

He  is  also  a  Knight  Templar,  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  and 
for  six  years  has  been  Recorder  of  Ararat 
Temple,  Mystic  Shrine. 

Mr.  Allen  married  Miss  Dollie  Evans 
in  Sedalia  December  16,  1880,  and  they 
have  two  sons,  Edwin  and  Harry  Jr. 


Photo  hji  Strauss. 

HARRY  T.  ABERNATHY 

was  born  in  Leavenworth,   Kansas,   May 

23,  1865,  the  son  of  J.  L.  Abernathy,  the 

pioneer    furniture    manufacturer    of    the 

West.  He  went  to  the  public  and  high 
schools  of  Leavenworth,  and  then  entered 
Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  from 
which  institution  he  was  graduated  in 
1887. 

He  came  at  once  to  Kansas  City,  the 
Abernathy  Furniture  Company  having 
been  removed  to  this  town  in  that  year, 
and  became  cashier  of  the  company.  He 
held  the  position  for  eight  years,  and  in 
1895  was  given  the  place  of  assistant 
cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank.  In 
1899  he  was  made  cashier,  the  position  he 
still  holds. 

Mr.  Abernathy  is  a  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  the  Missouri  Bankers' 
Association,  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club, 
and  is  a  Mason.  Fo.  two  years  he  has 
been  treasurer  of  the  Provident  Associa- 
tion, an  unremunerated  position,  to  which 
he  has  cheerfully  given  time  and  thought. 
He  has  also  been  treasurer  of  Park  Col- 
lege for  four  years. 

He  was  married  in  1890  to  Miss  Steven- 
son, of  Leavenworth,  and  they  have  there 
children,  two  boys  and  a  girl. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

HAVELOCK    H.    ANDERSON 

was  born  in  Hanover  County,  Virginia • 
March  14,  1858.  His  boyhood  days  were 
spent  on  a  farm,  and  his  education  received 
at  a  private  school  on  the  Anderson  plan- 
tation. After  attaining  manhood,  he 
entered  the  mercantile  business  in  Nor- 
folk, and  later  went  into  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  business  in  Charlottesville- 
In  1887  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  soon 
became  identified  with  the  old  Merchants' 
Exchange,  holding  the  position  of  chief 
clerk  to  Ryerson  Richie,  its  founder. 
His  next  position  was  that  of  traveling 
salesman  for  Peet  Bros.,  and  from  there 
he  went  to  the  Barber  Asphalt  Company. 
He  remained  with  the  paving  people  until 
1897,  and  then  accepted  the  office  of  Jury 
Commissioner,  filling  it  in  a  manner  to 
give  nothing  but  satisfaction. 

For  some  time  interested  with  the  Kan- 
sas City  Transfer  Company,  in  1900  Cap- 
tain Anderson  decided  to  give  all  his 
time  to  it.  He  is  now  secretary  and  man- 
ager of  that  large  concern,  and  has  done 
much    to    increase    its    operations. 

Captain  Anderson  married  Miss  Phoebe 
Brent,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  1891,  and 
they  have  one  boy  four  years  old.  A 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  few  men 
have  given  more  time  to  public  move- 
ments than  Captain  Anderson. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  WARDER  AVERY 
was    born  in   Clinton,    Missouri,    May   28, 
1873.      His  father  was  one  of  the  early 
Missouri  pioneers,  having  been  born  and 
reared  in  Henry  County. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools  in  Clinton,  and 
then  spent  three  years  at  William  Jewell 
College  in  Liberty.  After  leaving  college, 
he  accepted  employment  with  the  Bur- 
lington Railroad  in  Kansas  City,  entering 
the  office  as  clerk,  and  rising  to  the  posi- 
tion of  assistant  ticket  agent. 

With  the  launching  of  the  Kansas  City, 
Pittsburg  &  Gulf  Railroad,  Mr.  Avery 
went  into  its  service  as  ticket  agent  and 
chief  clerk,  and  was  afterwards  made  as- 
sitant  general  passenger  agent.  When 
the  road  became  the  Kansas  City  South- 
ern, Mr.  Avery  was  made  general  passen- 
ger agent  at  Texarkana,  but  resigned  the 
position  to  return  to  Kansas  City  as  chief 
clerk  of  the  general  passenger  agent,  the 
position  he  now  holds  with  the  Kansas 
City  Southern. 

Mr.  Avery  is  a  member  of  the  Phi 
Gamma  Delta  Fraternity,  and  also  be- 
longs to  the  Railway  Club  of  Kansas  City. 
He  was  married  December  25,  1899,  to 
Miss  Margaret  Kelly.  They  have  one 
son,  Frank. 


MH  N  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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WILLIAM   WHITING    ATWILL 

was  born  in  Burlington,  Vermont,  Sep- 
tember 6,  1 87 1.  He  lived  in  that  town 
until  ten  years  of  age,  when  his  parents 
moved  to  Toledo,  Ohio.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  acquired  in  the  public  schools 
of  Burlington,  and  he  entered  the  public 
schools  at  Toledo  soon  after  arriving  there. 
At  the  conclusion  of  his  public  schooling, 
Mr.  Atwill  went  to  the  De  Veaux  Military 
Academy  at  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  took  a  classical  course.  He  graduated 
from  this  institution  in  1891.  His  fath- 
er, Bishop  E.  R.  Atwill,  had  been  elected 

Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  for  this  diocese  while  he  was  in 
the  senior  class  at  the  De  Veaux  Acade- 
my, and  after  his  graduation  from  there 
he  came  to  Kansas  City  to  live.  Soon 
after  taking  up  residence  here,  he  found 
employment  with  the  Kansas  City,  Ft. 
Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad  in  the  general  of- 
fices here,  and  remained  with  the  railroad 
fur  a  number  of  years.  In  January,  1896, 
he  left  his  place  there  and  went  with  the 
Emery,  Bird,  Thayer  Dry  Goods  Com- 
pany, where  he  has  been  ever  since.  He 
had  marked  ability  to  write,  and  from  the 
offices  of  that  company  he  rose  to  be  the 
advertising  manager  of  the  concern,  a  posi- 
tion lie  now  holds.  While  at  school,  Mr. 
Atwill  became  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Psi 
Fraternity.  He  was  married  October 
29,  1898,  lo  Miss  Ellen  Talbot,  of  this 
city. 


HENRY  D.  ASHLEY 
was  born  September  19,  1856,  in  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.  His  parents  soon  removed 
to  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  and  there  Mr.  Ashley 
gathered  his  earlier  education.  After 
some  years  in  the  public  schools  of  Mil- 
waukee, Mr.  Ashley  took  up  a  course  of 
study  at  Racine  College.  After  being 
graduated  from  there,  he  crossed  over  to 
England,  and  enrolled  as  a  student  in 
King's  College,  Somerset  House,  London. 
When  he  had  passed  through  the  courses 
selected  at  King's  College,  Mr.  Ashley 
returned  to  this  country  and  taught  school 
for  a  year  in  Racine.  He  then  went  to 
Milwaukee  and  entered  the  offices  of 
Chief  Justice  Dixon,  studying  law  and 
gaining  insight  into  the  practical  working 
of  the  law.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
1880,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  during 
the  following  year.  His  position  at  the 
local  -bar  is  one  of  the  highest  among  the 
practitioners,  with  whom  he  has  prac- 
ticed law  now  for  twenty  years.  As  an 
evidence  of  this,  might  be  pointed  out 
that  he  has  served  a  term  as  President  of 

the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association,  an  hon- 
or conferred  only  upon  those  of  spotless 
reputations  and  of  absolute  business  in- 
tegrity. 

Mr.  Ashley  was  married  to  Miss  Caro- 
line Schuyler  Mann,  of  Watkins,  N.  Y,. 
August  1,  1896.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ashley 
have  two  children,  Schuyler  and  Anne. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  hn  Cornish. 

CARL   BUSCH 

was  born  in  Jutland,  Denmark,  March, 
29,  1862.  At  an  early  age  he  showed 
great  musical  talent,  so  that  along  with 
his  regular  education  he  was  given  mu- 
sical instruction.  After  studying  under 
private  teachers,  he  entered  the  University 
of  Copenhagen,  where  he  remained  for 
three  years  under  the  tutelage  of  masters 
like  Niels  Gade,  Tofte,  and  Hartman. 
He  played  in  the  Philharmonic  Orchestra 
under  Johann  Svendson,  and  in  the  Music 
Vereirt  under  Gade's  baton.  It  was  after 
this  that  he  won  a  scholarship  in  the 
Brussels  Conservatory,  and  so  greatly 
was  his  art  broadened  there  that  he 
journeyed  to  Paris,  and  played  under  the 
direction  of  the  great  Gounod  and  God- 
ard.  From  Paris  he  returned  to  Den- 
mark; but  in  1887  he  came  to  America, 
locating  finally  in  Kansas  City.  In  this 
country  he  has  attained  favor  as  an  or- 
chestral composer  and  writer  of  songs. 
His  compositions  have  been  played  at 
the  Music  Teachers'  National  Association 
concerts  in  Berlin,  Hamburg,  Leipsic, 
Dresden,  and  Weimar.  Among  his  best 
known  works  are  "The  Lady  of  Shalott," 
"King  Olaf's  War  Horns,"  "The  League 
of  the  Alps,"  and  an  opera,  "The  Grey 
Nun."  He  is  director  of  the  Oratorio 
Society  and  of  the  Philharmonic  Orches- 
tra, and  has  done  much  to  cultivate  and 
elevate  local  musical  taste. 


WILLIAM  BAILEY  CLARKE  BROWN 
was  born  in  Sibley,  Missouri,  in  1861. 
His  father,  Dr.  James  T.  Brown,  came 
out  to  Missouri  from  Virginia  in  1837, 
and  played  a  prominent  part  in  the  devel- 
opment of  the  State.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  reared  in  Independence, 
and  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools.  From  there  he  entered 
Westminister  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1883  with  the  degree  of  A.B. 
He  then  took  a  three  years'  course  in  the 
Harvard  Law  School,  and,  returning  to 
Missouri  in  1888,  located  in  Kansas  City, 
and  commenced  the  practice  of  law  with 
Judge  J.  K.  Cravens. 

Mr.  Brown  has  played  a  prominent 
part  in  Republican  politics,  and  carried 
his  party's  standard  in  the  Congressional 
campaign  of  1890,  failing,  however,  to 
overcome  the  large  Democratic  majority 
in  Jackson  and   Lafayette  Counties. 

He  was  married  in  1888  to  Miss  Anna 
Jones,  of  Seward,  Neb.,  and  they  have 
two  children,  Mercedes  and  Irene,  born 
respectively  in  1890  and  1892. 

At  present,  and  for  some  time  past, 
Mr.  Brown  has  been  practicing  law  by  him- 
self. He  belongs  to  the  Bar  Association. 
and  is  prominent  in  other  public  organ- 
izations. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


WILLIAM  P.   BORLAND, 

Dean  of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law, 
was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  Oc- 
tober 14,  1S67.  He  lived  there  until 
1SS0,  when  he  came  to  Kansas  City. 
After  graduating  from  the  High  School, 
Mr.  Borland  entered  the  law  office  of 
Pratt,  McCrary  &  Ferry.  Then  he  en- 
tered the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1892  with  the  degree  of 
L.L.B. 

Mr.  Borland  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  in  1895. 
He  was  elected  Dean  in  that  year,  and 
has  been  re-elected  every  year  since  then. 

For  one  term  Mr.  Borland  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Associ- 
ation and  a  member  of  its  examining 
board.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
University  Club. 

The  lectures  of  Mr.  Borland  before  the 
classes  of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law 
on  contracts,  wills,  and  Blackstone's 
Commentaries  have  made  for  him  a  rep- 
utation as  an  expounder  of  the  intricate 
problems  of  the  law. 

For  a  while  Mr.  Borland  was  in  partner- 
ship with  Chas.  E.  Pratt,  but  since  1896 
he  has  practiced  alone.  His  duties  as 
Dean  of  the  School  of  Law  are  not  al- 
lowed to  interfere  with  his  practice. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

KELLY  BRENT 

was  born  in  Paris,  Bourbon  County,  Ken- 
tucky, March  8,  1859.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  supplemented  by  a  course  at 
Center  College,  Danville,  Ky.,  from  where 
hew  as  graduated  in  1878,  and  then  he  en- 
tered the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  taking 
his  degree  in  1880.  He  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  Paris,  and  in  1882  was  elect- 
ed Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Bourbon 
County  by  the  Democrats.  In  1886  he 
resigned  the  office  and  removed  to  Kan- 
sas City,  where  he  went  in-to  the  real  es- 
tate business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Baird,  Brent  &  Co.,  representing  a  very 
large  Eastern  clientage  composed  of 
Charles  Francis  Adams  and  others.  For 
this  syndicate  Mr.  Brent  promoted  and  de- 
veloped the  town  of  Armourdale,  the  larg- 
est deal  ever  projected  in  this  vicinity. 
In  1890  he  was  chosen  cashier  of  the  Dol- 
lar Savings  Bank.  In  1895  the  directors 
concluded  to  liquidate  the  bank,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  five  other  saving  banks 
had  failed  in  the  panic  of  1893,  and  it 
seemed  impossible  to  restore  confidence 
in  such  concerns.  The  depositors  were 
paid  in  full,  and  the  assets  turned  over  to 
Mr.  Brent  for  the  benefit  of  the  stock- 
holders. He  again  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business,  and  has  fully  re-estab- 
lished himself.  A  strong  Democrat,  Mr. 
Brent  has  served  on  the  County  Commit- 
tee, and  has  given  freely  of  his  time  for 
the  good  of  the  party.  He  is  president  of 
the  local  Alumni  Chapter  of  B.  O.  P.,  but 
belongs  to  no  other  societies.  He  is  mar- 
ried,  and  has  a  large  family. 


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FRANCOIS     BOUCHER 

was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  June  4, 
1861.  His  family  is  of  French  descent. 
He  spent  his  boyhood  in  Montreal,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  at  the  city's  public 
and  high  schools.  He  was  always  pas- 
sionately devoted  to  music,  and  in  1876 
went  to  the  Royal  Conservatory,  Liege, 
Belgium,  where  he  remained  two  years 
studying  music  and  harmonics. 

After  that  time  he  returned  to  Canada, 
and  studied  with  Jehan  Prume.  He  was 
head  violin  teacher  at  the  Toronto  Con- 
servatory of  Music  for  three  years,  leav- 
ing that  place  to  tour  with  Carreno  and 
Albani.  Mr.  Boucher  was  identified  with 
many  of  the  musical  ventures  held  in  the 

capitals  of  the  various  Provinces  of  Can- 
ada, in  which  his  training  and  experience 
were  given  full  play.  He  was  conductor 
of  the  great  Ottawa  Musical  Festival  giv- 
en under  the  patronage  of  the  Marquis  of 
Lome  and  Lady  Lansdowne,  and  in  a 
number  of  other  affairs  of  national  sig- 
nificance. 

His  local  residence  dates  from  1892, 
since  which  time  he  has  devoted  himself 
to  teaching  the  violin.  He  is  the  author 
of  several  instrumental  compositions 
that  have  won  high  praise  from  musicians. 
Mr.  Boucher  was  married  in  1883  in 
Ottawa.  His  wife  was  Miss  Noel  De 
Tilly.  They  have  two  children,  both 
daughters. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  H.  BLOOD 

was  born  at  Victor,   New  York,  May  17, 

1864.     He    lived    in    Victor    until    early 

manhood.     His    education    was    secured 

at  the  public  schools  of  the  town  with  an 

aftercourse     at     Canandaigua     Academy. 

He  came  to  this  town  direct  from  Victor 

in  1884.  His  earlier  life  was  spent  in  the 
employ  of  various  mercantile  firms,  his 
career  in  the  hotel  business  having  begun 
but  twelve  years  ago.  He  drifted  into  it 
from  his  place  as  collector  on  Santa  Fe 
trains  to  the  employ  of  Fred  Harvey, 
who  controls  eating-houses  along  that 
railroad.  Mr.  Blood's  first  venture  in  a 
responsible  place  in  the  hotel  business 
was  as  the  manager  of  the  Hotel  Bruns- 
wick in  this  city.  Then  a  series  of  local 
hotels  were  placed  in  his  care:  the  Henri- 
etta, the  Auditorium,  the  Richelieu,  all 
having  been  managed  by  him  for  varying 
intervals.  Then  for  a  year  each  he  was 
given  charge  of  the  Sweet  Springs  Hotel, 
at  Sweet  Springs,  Mo.,  and  of  the  Cres- 
cent Hotel,  the  Frisco  system's  magnifi- 
cent hostelry  at  Eureka  Springs,  Ark. 
After  that  he  managed  the  Elms  at  Ex- 
celsior Springs,  Mo.,  for  two  years,  re- 
turning at  the  expiration  of  that  time  to 
this  city  to  become  the  steward  of  the 
Midland  Hotel.  He  remained  there  two 
years,  too,  and  then  took  charge  of  the 
Washington,  the  place  he  now  holds. 
Mr.  Blood  was  married  in  1891  to  Miss 
Constantia  A.  Clark,  of  this  city.  They 
have  but  one  child,  a  girl,  Kathleen  C. 
C.  Blood,  who  is  nine  years  of  age. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


LOUIS  C.  BOYLE 
was  born  February  26,  1866,  at  Port  Col- 
born,  Canada,  and  is  of  Irish  descent. 
He  spent  his  childhood  in  the  town  of  his 
birth,  his  family  removing,  when  he  was 
eight  years  of  age,  to  Watford,  Canada. 
He  acquired  the  rudiments  of  an  educa- 
tion there,  and  left  home  when  fifteen 
years  of  age,  going  to  Colorado  to  work 
in  the  mines.  He  saved  his  money  and 
studied  at  night  with  a  determination  of 
taking  an  academic  course  at  Ann  Arbor. 
Before  he  had  completed  the  course  he 
found  that  the  sum  he  had  saved  was  in- 
sufficient to  take  him  through  the  aca- 
demic course,  so  changed  to  law  and 
graduated  from  the  school  in  1889,  being 
afterwards  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Michi- 
gan. Mr.  Boyle  went  to  Kansas  and  set- 
tled at  Ft.  Scott.  He  was  always  a  Dem- 
ocrat, and  the  members  of  his  party  elect- 
ed him  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Bourbon 
County,  an  office  he  held  for  four  years. 
After  his  terms  in  this  office  he  returned 
to  general  practice  in  Ft.  Scott,  but  was 
afterwards  the  nominee  of  his  party  for 
Attorney-General  of  Kansas  in  1896. 
He  was  elected,  and  at  the  conclusion  of 
his  term  in  1899  came  to  this  city,  where 
he  has  resided  since.  Mr.  Boyle  is  a 
member  of  many  fraternal  and  social  or- 
ders, among  them  the  Elks,  Masons,  K. 
of  P.,  and  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and 
Shriner.  He  married  Miss  Gertrude 
Burson,  of  Garnett,  Kas.,  in  1890.  They 
have  three  children,  George,  Katherine, 
and  Clara   I.ouise. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

CHARLES  CLINTON  BYERS 
was  born  in  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  July 
7,  1843.  He  wrent  to  school  there  in  the 
place  of  his  birth,  but  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  civil  war  joined  the  Seventh  Mary- 
land, and  was  made  first  sergeant  of 
Company  A. 

He  fought  through  the  war,  and  was 
there  to  witness  the  surrender  of  Lee  at 
Appomattox.  He  went  back  to  Hagers- 
town  for  a  while,  but  soon  went  out  to 
Santa  Fe,  N.  M.,  where  he  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1871,  and 
accepted  a  position  with  Tootle,  Hanna 
&  Leach,  and  remained  in  the  wholesale 
dry  goods  business  until  1890.  In  1S95 
he  was  appointed  a  Deputy  Circuit 
Clerk,  and  upon  the  resignation  of  S.  H. 
Raglajid  in  1900,  was  appointed  Clerk  of 
Division  3. 

He  married  Miss  Lucy  Stonestreet  in 
1874  at  Kansas  City,  and  is  the  father  of 
one  child,  C.  C,  Jr. 

While  in  New  Mexico,  Mr.  Byers  or- 
ganized the  first  Grand  Army  Post  in  that 

State,  and  was  elected  Senior  Vice-Com- 
mander. 

He  has  ever  been  a  consistent  Demo- 
crat, and  has  contributed  materially  to 
his  party's  success  by  his  enthusiasm 
and  energy. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

FRED  S.  BULLENE 
was  born  in  Kansas  City  August  23,  1864, 
the  son  of  the  late  T.  B.  Bullene,  one  of 
Kansas  City's  early  Mayors,  and  a  pion- 
eer merchant,  who  did  as  much  as  any 
one  man  to  make  this  town  what  it  is 
to-day. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  went  to  the 
local  schools,  and  later  entered  Phillips' 
Academy  at  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he 
prepared  for  Yale.  He  was  graduated 
from  Yale  in  18S5,  and  at  once  returned 
to  Kansas  City.  His  first  position  was 
with  the  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City, 
and,  commencing  in  a  rather  humble 
capacity,  he  was  made  receiving  tel- 
ler after  three  years.  He  was  with  the 
bank  for  seven  years,  all  told,  and  then 
Mr.  Bullene,  tired  of  commercial  life, 
entered  the  newspaper  field,  for  which 
he  had  always  held  a  fondness. 

His  first  position  was  on  the  repertorial 

staff  of  the  Times,  where  he  remained  for 

two   years.     He    then    went   over   to   the 

Journal,  where  he   stayed   for   one   year, 

and  then  he  accepted  a  position  with  the 

Star  in  1897,  and  has  remained  with  that 

paper  ever  since. 

He  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans 
for  County  Clerk  in  1902,  and,  while  de- 
feated by  the  Democratic  landslide,  ran 
ahead  of  his  ticket. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOSEPH  B.  BRACKEN 

was  born  in  Johnstown,  Pa.,  in  1863 — be- 
fore the  flood.  When  he  was  eleven 
years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Oil  City, 
Pa. .where  the  youthful  Joseph  acquired  the 
oleaginous  manner  which  has  contrbuted 
so  largely  to  his  success  in  life.  He  was 
educated  at  St.  Francis'  College,  Loret- 
to,  and  had  as  a  schoolmate  Charles  M. 
Schwab,  the  steel  king.  When  seven- 
teen years  old,  Mr.  Bracken  came  West, 
and  worked  for  three  years  in  Texas  as  a 
telegraph  operator.  He  came  to  Kansas 
City  in   1883,   and  started  in     the  grain 

business  eight  years  ago. 

He  has  been  local  manager  for  Bald- 
win &  Gurney,  then  for  Schwartz  &  Du- 
pee,  and  is  now  local  manager  for  Ware 
&  Eeland,  three  of  the  largest  private 
wire  commission  firms  in  the  country. 
The  first  two  firms  quit  business  because 
the  members  wished  to  retire  on  their 
incomes. 

Mr.  Bracken  is  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  and  is  a  writer  for  local  and  St. 
Louis  papers  on  crop  topics,  and  is  con- 
sidered an  authority  on  crop  conditions. 
He  married  Miss  Olive  Gilmore,  and  is 
the  father  of  two  children.  Walter  and 
Pauline. 

Mr.  Bracken  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Marquette  Club,  the  Knights  of  Co- 
lumbus, and  several  other  social  organi- 
zations, and  has  always  identified  himself 
with  public  movements. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

JOHN  A.   BROWN 

was  born  in  Janesville,  Wisconsin,  Sep- 
tember 1 8,  1858.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  in  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  however, 
where  he  attended  the  public  schools. 
Mr.  Brown  commenced  to  earn  his  own 
living  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  securing  a 
position  as  telegraph  operator  with 
the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroad.  He  was 
transferred  to  a  more  important  post  in 
Chicago  when  eighteen,  and  remained 
there  until  twenty-one,  when  he  removed 
to  Nebraska,  and  engaged  in  the  grain 
business. 

After  four  years  of  Nebraska  life,  Mr. 
Brown  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Rock  Island  Railroad  at  Davenport,  la., 
and  when  he  resigned  after  eight  years 
of  service,  was  chief  clerk  to  the  general 
superintendent.  In  1891  he  went  into 
the  employ  of  the  Equitable  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  at  St.  Louis,  and  in  1893 
came  to  Kansas  City  as  manager  for  the 
local  office,  the  position  he  now  holds. 

From  his  advent,  Mr.  Brown  has  helped 
to  "make  Kansas  City  a  good  place  to 
live  in."  A.S  a  member  of  the  Commer- 
cial Club,  he  lias  served  continuously  on 
important  commit  lees,  and  he  is  now- 
serving  his  fourth  term  as  a  director  of 
Convention  Hall.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Driving  Club, 
the  Country  Club,  and  the  local  lodge  of 
Flks,  and  also  belongs  to  the  New  York 
Athletic  Club. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

CHARLES  MARSHALL  BALDWIN 
was  born  in  Winchester,  Frederick  Coun- 
ty, Virginia,  February  15,  1867,  the  son 
of  Dr.  Cornelius  Baldwin,  who  served 
thoughout  the  Civil  War  as  a  surgeon  on 
the  staff  of  "Stonewall"  Jackson. 

His  education  was  received  at  the 
Shenandoah  Valley  Academy  in  Win- 
chester, and  after  completing  his  course 
there  he  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1885. 
His   first    position   was   with    the    Robert 

Keith  Furniture  Company,  and  he  has 
been  with  that  firm  ever  since.  Begin- 
ning at  the  very  bottom  of  the  ladder, 
he  worked  his  way  up,  and  is  now  vice- 
president  of  the  company. 

Mr.  Baldwin  has  always  been  active 
and-  enthusiastic  in  public  and  political 
matters.  He  is  high  in  the  councils  of  the 
Democratic  party,  but  has  always  refused 
office.  In  1 901  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Conven- 
tion Hall,  and  in  1902  was  re-elected. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
and  also  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club. 

Mr.  Baldwin  was  married  in  1S95  to 
Miss  Lady  Belle  Hammett,  and  they 
have  two  children,  Cornelius  Hammett 
and  Fannv  Belle. 


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HUGH  CHARLES  BRADY 
was  born  February  19,  1870,  in  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  and  while  he  has  wan- 
dered far  and  wide,  has  always  made  this 
town  his  home.  He  learned  the  trade  of 
compositor  when  only  twelve,  and  by  its 
aid  managed  to  secure  himself  an  educa- 
tion. He  attended  the  public  schools, 
and  also  took  a  course  in  St.  Francis  In- 
stitute, Osage  Mission,  Kas. 

His  work  as  a  compositor  took  him  all 
over  the  country,  but  in  1885  he  returned 
to  Kansas  City  for  a  permanent  residence. 
He  worked  at  his  trade  here  until  1894, 
when  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Frank 
P.  Walsh,  and  there  he  completed  the 
studies  begun  a  year  before.  In  1896  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  has  always 
been  more  or  less  connected  with  Mr. 
Walsh's  office  ever  since.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  Prosecuting  Attorney 
in  1807,  and  served  with  honor  and  credit 
for  two  years. 

In  the  spring  of  1902  Mr.  Brady  was 
nominated  by  the  Democrats  for  Police 
Judge,  and  led  his  ticket  by  a  large  ma- 
jority. Mr.  Brady  is  an  honorary  mem- 
ber of  the  local  Typographical  Union, 
and  has  always  been  a  staunch  advocate 
of  organized  labor.  He  was  married  in 
1898. 


Photo  by   Cornish. 

JAMES  E.   BRADY 

is  a  splendid  type  of  Kansas  Cityan.  He 
was  born  in  this  town,  received  his  educa- 
tion in  its  schools,  and  all  his  interests  are 
centered  here. 

After  leaving  school  in  1890,  he  entered 
into  the  Brady-Meriden  Creamery  Com- 
pany, controlled  by  his  father,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  concern,  which,  by  his 
efforts  and  ability,  is  now  the  largest  in 
the  West. 

In  passing,  it  may  be  remarked  that 
the  Brady-Meriden  butter  took  forty-six 
premiums  on  forty-six  entries  at  the  Pan- 
American  Exposition,  wining  over  several 
thousand  competitors. 

Mr.  Brady  has  been  a  director  in  the 
Kansas  City  Produce  Exchange  and  is 
now  its  president,  the  youngest  and  most 
progressive  in  the  history  of  the  organi- 
zation. 

He  is  also  vice-president  of  the  State 
Dairy  Association,  and  a  member  of  many 
local  organizations. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


SHBBBHHH 

Photo  by   Cornish. 


THOMAS  J.  BEATTIE 

was  born  in  Cass  County,  Missouri,  July 
27,  1863.  He  spent  his  boyhood  in  the 
little  town,  and  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools.  He  then  en- 
tered the  University  of  Missouri,  where 
he  took  the  classical  course,  and  in  1881 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  lived 
ever  since. 

Deciding  upon  the  study  of  medicine, 
Dr.  Beattie  entered  the  Kansas  City  Med- 
ical College,  and  was  graduated  in  1881. 
He  then  took  a  course  in  the  University 
of  New  York  city,  from  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1S85.  Returning  to  Kan- 
sas City,  Dr.  Beattie  commenced  the 
practice  of  medicine.  His  hobby  is  pel- 
vic surgery,  and  he  holds  the  professor- 
ship on  the  diseases  of  women  in  the  Kan- 
sas City  Medical  College.  While  he  has 
not    absolutely    specialized    along    these 

lines,  he  has  taken  post-graduate  courses 
in  the  Kast. 

Dr.  Beattie  is  a  member  of  the  Acad- 
emy  of  Medicine,  the  Jackson  County 
Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State  Med- 
ical Association,  and  the  American  Med- 
ical Association.  He  was  one  of  the  ear- 
ly members  of  the  University  Club,  be- 
longs to  the  Driving  Club,  and'  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason,  Scottish  Rite.  He 
married  Miss  Clara  Chouteau  in  1889,  a 
member  of  the  old  St.  Louis  family. 


Photo  by  'Thomson. 

JOHN  BEHR 

was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  December  22, 
1855.     His  was  always  of  a  musical  tem- 
perament, and  at  an  early  age  he  manifest- 
ed a  devoted  love  for  harmony.    At  the  age 
of  twelve  years  he  began  seriously  to  study 
music     under     the     direction     of     Henry 
Heindl,    and    progressed    rapidly.      Later 
he  studied  with  Bernhard  Listeman.      His 
first    professional    appearance    was    as    a 
member  of  Gilmore's  Band.     When  four- 
teen years  old  he  took  part  in  the  great 
World's  Peace  Jubilee  in  Boston,  and  was 
the  youngest  by  many  years  of  the  thou- 
sand musicians  composing  the  organiza- 
tions   appearing    in    the    programs.     He 
was  a    prominent    figure    in    Boston   mu- 
sical circles,  his  membership  in  the  Har- 
vard   Symphony    Orchestra    and    his    ef- 
forts   in    helping    organize    the     Boston 
Symphony   Orchestra,    in   which    he   also 
held   membership,   placing  him   in   touch 
with  those  in  sympathy  with  the  plan  of 
bettering     Boston's     musical     standards. 
Mr.   Behr  came  to  Kansas  City  in   1885, 
and  first  gained  local  prominence  by  con- 
ducting the  festival  held  in  the  Exposi- 
tion building,  in  which  the  five  hundred 
voices  under  his  direction  were  assisted  by 
Gilmore's  Band.      He  has  labored  consist- 
ently since  living  here  to  develop  the  lo- 
cal musical   standards,    and   has    accom- 
plished much  with  the  Kansas  Citv  Sym- 
phony Orchestra,  of  which  he  is  director. 
He  is  also  director  of  the  Willis  Wood 
Theatre  orchestra,  numbered  as  the  best 
of  the  local  theater  orchestras.      His  wife 
was  formerly  Miss  EHa  Backus. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

RUDOLPH  A.  BRUNS 

was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  June  29,  1858. 
He  remained  in  Chicago  until  his  eight- 
eenth year,  and  acquired  an  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  that  city.  Later  he 
took  a  course  in  the  Bryant  &  Stratton 
Business  College,  from  which  institution 
he  graduated.  His  first  employment  was 
as  a  commercial  traveler  for  a  billiard 
supply  company,  at  which  he  remained 
for  several  years,  after  which  he  returned 
to  Chicago,  where  he  took  charge  of  the 
braid  and  trimmings  department  for 
Field,  Leiter  &  Company.  After  a  year 
with  the  dry  goods  firm  he  went  into  the 
ivory-turning  business  with  F.  W.  Voje, 
giving  it  up  in  1880  to  travel  for  the 
Brunswick-Balke  Company,  the  manu- 
facturers of  billiard  and  pool  supplies. 
He  remained  with  that  firm  for  three 
years,  and  then  went  into  business  for 
himself  in  Fon  du  Lac,  Wis.,  as  the  pro- 
prietor of  a  billiard-room.  After  six 
months  in  Fon  du  Lac,  he  removed  the 
business  to  Janesville,  Wis.,  where  he  ran 
a  billiard-room  for  four  years.  Mr.  Bruns 
came  to  Kansas  City  April  1,  1887,  and 
went  immediately  into  business  with  his 
brother,  Oscar  R.  Bruns,  the  two  having 
been  together  since,  and  have  conducted 
billiard-rooms  at  various  places  in  the 
city.  Mr.  Bruns  is  affiliated  with  the 
Masons  and  holds  a  membership  in  the 
North  American  Union,  and  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  local  Billiard-Room  Keep- 
ers' Association.  He  was  married  in 
Chicago  'to  Miss  Frankie  A.  Christie  in 
June,  1 88 1. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

OSCAR  R.  BRUNS 
was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  April  26,  1864. 
While  very  young  his  family  removed  to 
Lowden,  la.,  and  there  Mr.  Bruns  attend- 
ed the  public  schools.  After  leaving 
school  he  ran  a  hotel  for  some  years,  and 
then  went  back  to  Chicago,  where  he  and 
an  elder  brother  established  a  retail  hat 
business.  He  sold  his  interests  there  to 
his  brother  in  1887,  and  came  to  Kansas 
City  with  another  brother,  Rudolph  A. 
Bruns,  with  whom,  under  the  firm  title  of 
Bruns  Bros.,  he  has  been  associated  in  the 
billiard-room  business  here  since.  They 
first  engaged  in  business  at  528  Delaware 
Street,  having  bought  out  Chapin  & 
Gore's  billiard-rooms,  and  remained  at 
that  point  for  two  and  one-half  years. 
The  business  was  removed  to  607  Main 
Street,  where  it  was  conducted  for  three 
years  and  then  to  700  Main  Street.  In 
connection  with  the  Main  Street  place, 
Bruns  Bros,  opened  the  Royal  Billiard 
Parlors  at  108  West  Ninth  Street.  The 
business  at  700  Main  Street  was  removed 
to  1 1 14  Walnut  Street,  where  it  still  is. 
The  West  Ninth  Street  place  was  given 
up  and  a  new  place,  the  Royal,  was  start- 
ed at  Eighth  Street  and  Grand  Avenue, 
and  is  said  to  be  the  finest  billiard-rooms 
in  the  West.  In  connection  with  the  bil- 
liard-rooms there  are  seven  bowling  al- 
leys, an  odd  feature  of  which  is  the  special 
appointments  for  women.  Mr.  Bruns 
belongs  to  the  Masons  and  Knights  of 
Pythias.  He  was  married  in  Lowden, 
la.,  January  10,  1882,  to  Miss  Anne  R. 
Hottendorf.  Thev  have  two  children, 
Stella  H.  and  Walter  O. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  hu  Strauss. 

WILBUR  L.   BELL 

was  born  October  28,  1858,  in  the  State 
of  Indiana.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  and  later  at- 
tended Central  College  in  Danville,  Indi- 
ana  where  he  took  a  classical  course. 

It  was  in  1890  that  Mr.  Bell  came 
to  Kansas  City.  For  some  years  prior 
to  locating  here  he  had  been  traveling 
for  the  American  Book  Company,  the 
largest  institution  of  its  kind  in  the 
world.  He  learned  the  business  thor- 
oughly, settling  in  Kansas  City,  started 
the  firm  \Y.  L.  Bell  &  Co.,  school  fur- 
niture   and  supplies. 

From  a  comparatively  small  beginning, 
the  company  now  controls  the  busiiness 
in  several  surrounding  States  and  Terri- 
tories, and  has  done  much  to  increase  the 
commercial  importance  of  Kansas  City. 

While  he  has  devoted  the  majority  of 
his  time  to  his  business,  Mr.  Bell  has 
been  interested  in  several  outside  ven- 
tures. He  was  president  of  the  Flint 
Advertising  Company  for  several  years, 
and  is  nowfinacial  backer  of  the  Gertrude 
Berkiey  Players.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  and  a  helper  in  all 
movements. 

He  married  Miss  Agnes  Taylor,  of  Con- 
nersville,  Ind. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WILLIAM  EDGAR  BENSON, 
secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education,  was 
born  in  Chicago  June  27,  1851,  and  came 
to  Kansas  City  with  his  parents  in  1869. 
The  following  year  he  was  a  general  de- 
livery clerk  in  the  post  office,  a  position 
which  ill  health  forced  him  to  relinquish. 

After  some  time  in  Colorado,  Mr.  Ben- 
son returned  to  Kansas  City,  and  was  in 
the  insurance  and  real  estate  business 
with  his  father  and  brother  until  1S77, 
when  he  was  appointed  City  Clerk  by 
Mayor  Slavens.  Not  only  the  term  un- 
der Mayor  Slavens,  but  two  terms  under 
Mayor  Shelley  were  served  by  Mr.  Ben- 
son, and  with  such  efficiency  and  capac- 
ity for  the  public  business  that  Mayor 
Shelley  secured  an  endorsement  signed 
by  fourteen  ex-Mayors  demanding  Mr. 
Benson's  retention  in  office.  This  en- 
dorsement was  all  the  more  extraordin- 
ary from  the  fact  that  it  was  non-parti- 
san, Mayor  Shelley  being  a  Democrat  and 
Mr.  Benson  a  Republican.  The  Mayors 
also,  were  of  both   political  parties. 

The  city's  first  were  originated  by 
Mr.  Benson,  including  all  ordinances 
and  proceedings  from   1857. 

But  it  was  as  secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Education  that  Mr.  Benson  has  chiefly 
distinguished  himself,  the  system  origin- 
ated by  him  having  been  widely  copied 
in  other  cities,  and  having  made  him 
known  to  educators  and  educational 
boards  everywhere.  By  his  system  any 
action  of  the  board  or  document  filed  can 
be  instantly  referred  to. 

Mr.  Benson  was  married  in  Colorado  in 
1875  to  Miss  Sallie  Stephens.  They  have 
two  sons. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  BINGHAM  CLARKE 

was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  April  15, 
1848.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
and  private  schools,  and  then  studied  law 
but  after  gaining  admission  to  the  bar  de- 
cided upon  banking.  After  an  appren- 
ticeship in  the  Cleveland  banks,  he  start- 
ed one  of  his  own  in  Abilene,  Kas.,  and 
when  the  boom  died  there  organized  the 
First  National  Bank  in  Junction  City, 
Kas.,  also  the  Kansas  Bond  Bureau.  In 
1886  he  came  to  Kansas  City  as  president 
of  the  Mechants'  National  Bank.  In 
1881  he  bought  heavily  of  Missouri  & 
Kansas  Telephone  stock,  and  became 
president.  In  1888  he  organized  the 
United  States  Trust  Company,  of  which  he 
is  still  president.  Among  his  other  inter- 
ests are  salt  manufacturing  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  mining  in  Colorado,  and  railroad 
building.  Mr.  Clarke  has  twice  served  as 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  once 
as  president  of  the  Country  Club,  was 
third,  second,  and  first  vice-president  of 
the  Commercial  Club  and  in  1891  its  pres- 
ident, although  compelled  to  decline  the 
honor  because  of  business  duties.  He  is 
prominent  in  Episcopal  Church  circles, 
and  is  treasurer  of  the  diocese  of  Western 
Missouri ;  belongs  to  the  Sons  of  the  Rev- 
olution; is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason, 
and  in  1896  was  head  of  the  local  Sound 
Money  League,  which  played  so  large  a 
part  in  that  campaign. 

Mr.  Clarke  married  Miss  Kate  E.  Rock- 
well in  Junction  City  in  1876,  and  they 
have  two  sons,  William  Rockwell  Clarke, 
Yale,  1900;  and  Bertrand  Rockwell 
Clarke,  Williams,  1904. 


EDWIN  RUTHVEX  CRUTCHER, 

one  of  the  leading  real  estate  men  of  Kan- 
sas City,  was  born  August  29,  1853,  near 
Xashville,  Tenn.,  of  a  family  that  moved 
from  Wales  to  Virginia  in  1675.  Mr. 
Crutcher  lived  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  during 
his  childhood,  and  attended  the  public 
schools  there.  He  took  a  course  in  civil 
engineering,  and  when  only  seventeen 
was  one  of  the  official  engineers  of  Louis- 
ville. After  several  years  in  the  corn, 
milling,  and  grain  business,  Mr.  Crut- 
cher moved  in  1887  to.  Kansas  City, 
but  had  been  here  but  a  few  days  when 
he  became  cashier  of  the  Bank  of 
Columbus  at  Columbus,  Kas. ;  then  he 
became  manager  of  the  New  York  office 
of  the  Jarvis-Conklin  Mortgage  Trust 
Company;  then  cashier  of  the  Chatta- 
nooga Savings  Bank;  and  in  1891  back  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since  remained. 
He  and  James  B.  Welsh  organized  the 
real  estate  firm  of  Crutcher  &  Welsh,  the 
best  known  firm  of  its  kind  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Crutcher  was  married  in  1875  to 
Miss  Laura  Loving,  daughter  of  Judge 
Wm.  Y.  Loving,  of  Kentucky.  They 
have  three  children. 


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HEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


EDWARD   McKAIG   CLENDENING, 

the  secretary  of  the  Kansas  City  Com- 
mercial Club,  may  safely  be  alluded  to  as  a 
most  widely  known  and  popular  man  in 
Kansas  City,  possessing  the  maximum  of 
friends  and  the  minimum  of  enemies. 
Mr.  Clendening  was  born  in  the  little 
town  of  Frankfort  Springs,  Va.,  in  1852. 
His  father  was  a  physician,  and  soon  re- 
moved to  New  Philadelphia,  (). 

After  the  death  of  Dr.  Clendening  the 
family  returned  to  Virginia,  taking  up 
their  residence  in  Wheeling,  where  the 
young  Edward  went  through  the  public 
schools  and  took  an  academic    course 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1882,  and 
until  his  election  as  secretary  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club  in  1892,  was  in  the  mercan- 
tile business. 

He  has  been  steadily  re-elected,  and  it 
is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  present 
power  and  prosperity  [of  the  Commercial 
Club  is  largely  due  to  Mr.  Clendening. 
He  is  a  fountain  of  originality  and  the 
soul  of  energy. 

In  1878  he  was  married  to  Miss  Lide 
Logan  in  Wheeling.  The  union  has  been 
blessed  with  one  son,  Logan,  born  in 
Kansas  City  in  18S4. 


GEORGE  R.  COLLINS 

was  born  in  Troy,  New  York.  On  the 
paternal  side  he  is  descended  from  six  of 
the  original  Puritans,  and  the  genealog- 
ical record  on  both  sides  traces  back  to 
the  foundations  of  England  and  Hol- 
land. The  paternal  ancestor  who  came 
to  America  was  Lieutenant  Benjamin 
Collins,  who  located  in  Salisbury,  Mass., 
in  1628,  and  from  whom  George  R.  is  a 
descendant  in  the  ninth  generation. 
The  other  five  original  Puritans  whose 
descendants  married  into  the  Collins 
family  were  the  first  Hugh  Mosher,  the 
first  Samuel  Hubbard,  the  first  John 
Greenman,  the  first  Joseph  Clark,  and 
the  first  Richard  Maxon. 

George  R.  Collins  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Troy,  and  was  gradu- 
ated -from  the  Troy  Military  Academy. 
After  a  business  career  in  the  East,  he 
came  to  Kansas  City  in   1887.     He  was 

book-keeper  and  afterwards  credit  man 
for  the  old  firm  of  G.  Y.  Smith,  and  later 
cashier  of  the  Westport  Bank,  and  then 
the  German  Savings  Bank  of  this  city. 
In  1892  he  formed  a  partnership  in  the 
financial  and  fire  insurance  business, 
and  in  1895  assumed  the  management 
of  the  National  Benevolent  Society. 

He  was  married  July  2,  1900,  to  Miss 
Blanche  Hastings 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

GEORGE  LEE  CHRISMAN 
was  born  in   Independence,   Missouri,    in 
1 85 1.      His     father,     William     Chrisman, 
was  one  of  this  county's  pioneers,  and  was 
firmly  established  as  a  commercial  factor 
in  the  community  at  the  time  of  the  young 
Chrisman 's  birth.     The  boy  was  sent  to 
the  public  schools  of  Independence,  and 
after  passing  through  the  allotted  courses 
of  these  schools  went  to  William  Jewell 
College  at  Liberty,   Mo.,  to  the  Kemper 
Military    Academy    at    Booneville,    Mo., 
and  later  to  Forest  Hill  Academy  in  Jef- 
ferson County,   Kentucky.      After    grad- 
uating   from    the    latter   institution,    Mr. 
Chrisman      returned      to      Independence, 
where    he    entered    his    father's  office   to 
begin  the  study  of  law.      Failing  health 
caused  him  to  give  up  the  study,  however, 
and  he   went  into  the  Chrisman-Sawyer 
Bank,    which   his   father   had   organized, 
in  a  clerical  position.     This,  too,  was  too 
confining  for  him,  and  he    settled    on  a 
farm  near  Lee's  Summit,   Mo.     In   1896 
he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Eastern  Dis- 
trict of  Jackson  County,  and  at  the  con- 
clusion of  his  first  term  was  nominated 
and  elected  Presiding  Judge  of  the  Coun- 
ty Court  by  the  Democratic  party.     This 
place  he  filled  with  distinction,  and  was 
again  placed  in  nomination  in  1902,  and 
elected.     While  all  of  his  life  has  been 
passed  in  the  communities  suburban  to 
this  city,  his  business  interests  have  not 
been  confined  to  his  places  of  residence, 
and  he  has  been    an  important  factor  in 
the    commercial   life    of   this    city.     The 
most  important  of  these  was  his  connec- 
tion with  the  Kansas  City  Times  as  presi- 
dent  and   majority   stock-holder   at   the 
time  of  its  absorption  by  the  Star  in  1902. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

STUART  CARKENER 

was  born  December  13,  1837,  at  Tecum- 
seh,  Mich.,  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Ann  Arbor  Law  School  in  i860.  In  the 
same  year  he  located  in  Montgomery  Coun- 
ty, Missouri,  and  the  following  year  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  entered  the 
army  in  1862  and  served  until  August  10, 
1865,  as  Captain  of  Company  G,  Thirty, 
third  Missouri  Infantry  Volunteers.  He 
resumed  the  practice  of  law  at  Danville, 
Mo.,  in  1865,  where  he  remained  until 
1877,  moving  thence  to  Louisiana,  Mo., 
and  in  1887  coming  to  Kansas  City. 

In  1868  he  was  Circuit  Attorney  of  the 
Third  Judicial  Circuit  of  Missouri,  and  in 
1880  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Re- 
publican Convention  at  Chicago.  In  1882 
he  was  Chief  Deputy  Internal  Rev- 
enue Collector  of  the  Fourth  District  of 
Missouri.  He  was  nominated  for  Con- 
gress. From  1888  to  1898  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Mercantile  National  Bank  of 
Louisiana,  Mo.  He  was  married  No- 
vember 14,  1866,  to  Mary  Ellen  Drury  at 
Danville,  Mo.     They  have  five  children. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  bil  Straus*. 

A.  L.  CHAPMAN 
was  horn  in  Washington  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, June  4,  1825.  His  father,  a 
large  land -owner  and  wool-grower,  was  a 
pioneer  Pennsylvanian,  tracing  his  de- 
scent from  the  Chapmans  and  Loudons 
of  Ireland,  while  his  mother  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  immortal  Thomas  Campbell, 
and  a  sister  of  Alexander  Campbell,  foun- 
der of  the  Christian  Church. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his 
early  education  in  a  select  school  at  home, 
but  in  1844  entered  Bethany  College, 
graduating  in  1849,  having  spent  a  year 
in  the  study  of  Hebrew  in  addition  to  the 
regular  classical  course.  He  then  made 
a  tour  of  the  Southern  States,  and  in  1S51 
was  made  president  of  the  Rockford  Ma- 
sonic College  in  Alabama,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years,  resigning  in  1853  to 
enter  a  medical  school  in  Charleston,  S. 
C.  Returning  home,  in  company  with 
his  brother,  Campbell  Chapman,  also  a 
physician,  lie  came  to  Missouri,  locating 
in  St.  Louis,  where  he  completed  his  med- 
ical studies.  He  practiced  for  ten  years 
in  Clay  County,  and  in  1868  he  removed 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  ever  since 
been.  In  1882  he  retired  from  active 
practice,  and  commenced  the  publication 
of  the  New  Medical  Era  and  Sanitar- 
ian. His  vigorous  pen  made  it  famous 
the  world  over,  but  ill  health  compelled 
its  cessation.  Dr.  Chapman  then  jour- 
neyed to  Europe,  and  put  himself  under 
the   care   of   the    late   Rudolph  Yirchow. 

Dr.  Chapman  was  married  to  Miss  Fran- 
ces Mosby  while  practicing  in  Clay 
County  and  they  have  reared  a  family  of 
four  boys. 


ARTHUR   CHAPMAN 

was  born  in  Clay  County,  Missouri,  De- 
cember 30,  1863.  His  parents  removed 
to  Kansas  City  in  1866,  at  that  time  lit- 
tle more  than  a  village.  Mr.  Chapman 
went  to  the  public  schools  and  finished  at 
the  Central  High  School.  In  the  even- 
ings he  carried  papers — the  first  pub- 
lished in  Kansas  City — and  after  he  was 
graduated  entered  the  employ  of  the  tel- 
ephone company  as  a  "hello  girl." 

After  that  he  went  into  the  employ  of 
the  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis 
Railroad,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he 
was  holding  the  position  of  chief  clerk  in 
the  paymaster's  office  of  the  Southern 
Kansas  Railroad. 

Quitting  the  railroad  business,  Mr. 
Chapman  was  appointed  Deputy  Record- 
er of  Deeds,  and  served  a  term  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Health.  He  also 
worked  for  a  while  in  the  City  Engineer's 
office. 

In  1899  he  entered  the  mercantile  bus- 
iness, in  which  he  is  now  engaged.  Mr. 
Chapman  has  always  been  a  Democrat, 
and  receiving  the  Democratic  nomination 
for  Representative  from  the  Seventh  Dis- 
trict in  1902,  was  elected  by  a  large  ma- 
jority. He  married  Miss  Jessie  Wallace 
in  1886,  and  has  four  children,  Wallace, 
Josephine,  Ella,  and  Clifford. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  M.  CLEARY 

was  born  on  a  farm  near  Odell,  Illinois, 
August  21,  1869.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm,  and  received  his  early  education  in 
the  district  schools  and  in  the  Odell  High 
School.  He  later  attended  the  Illinois 
State  Normal  School  at  Dixon,  and  then 
took  a  literary  course  at  St.  Victeur  Col- 
lege in  Kankakee,  Illinois. 

Deciding  upon  law  as  a  profession,  Mr. 
Cleary  entered  the  famous  law  school  at 
Bloomington,  and  took  his  degree  in  1893. 
After  a  year  of  practice  in  Bloomington, 
he  came  out  to  Kansas  City  in  1894,  and 
has  ever  since  been  an  interesting  figure  in 
the  public  and  professional  life  of  the 
town. 

A  strong  Democrat,  he  quickly  allied 
himself  with  the  local  organization,  and  in 
1898  was  elected  a  representative  to  the 
General  Assembly.  He  made  a  good 
record  at  Jefferson  City,  and  could  have 
been  re-elected  had  he  chosen  to  make  a 
race.  Instead  he  resumed  the  practice  of 
law,  and  has  risen  rapidly  in  his  pro- 
fession. 

Mr.  Cleary  is  a  member  of  the  Phi 
Delta  Theta  Fraternity,  and  he  also  be- 
longs to  the  Marquette  Club  and  the  Or- 
der of  Elks.  He  married  Miss  Mollie 
O'Rourke,  June  30,  1902. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

CHARLES  S.  CURRY 

was  born  November  1,  1864,  in  Jefferson 
City,  Missouri,  the  son  of  Dr.  W.  A.  Curry, 
who  came  out  to  Missouri  from  Yirginia  in 
1S37,  and  did  much  to  upbuild  Jefferson 
City  and  develop  Cole  County. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  went  to  the 
public  schools,  and  then  learned  the  print- 
er's trade,  but  after  a  time  went  down 
into  Texas,  where  he  remained  in  the  cat- 
tle business  for  three  years. 

His  next  business  venture  was  with  a 
hotel  in  Caldwell,  Kas.,  but  in  1S85  he 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  since 
remained.  In  1887  the  real  estate  firm 
of  Curry  &  Truitt  was  formed,  and  con- 
tinued until  1894,  when  Mr.  Curry  was 
appointed  City  Clerk  by  Mayor  Davis. 
He  also  served  in  this  position  through 
the  two  administrations  of  Mayor  Jones. 
In  1902  a  change  of  administration  retired 
him,  and  he  is  now  head  of  the  real  estate 
firm  of  C.  S.  Curry  &  Co. 

Mr.  Curry  has  always  been  active  in  Re- 
publican politics,  and  has  been  secretary 
of  the  Congressional  and  City  Committees 
at  times.  He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City 
Club,  the  Driving  Club,  and  is  an  Elk. 
He  married  Miss  Lulu  Gordon,  of  Jeffer- 
son City,  in  18S7,  and  they  have  live  chil- 
dren, three  boys  and  two  girls. 


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Photo   by   Cornish. 

ARTHUR  BENTON  CORNISH, 

the  photographer,  is  a  typical  Westerner, 
and  a  man  who  lias  done  much  to  raise 
the  standard  of  his  profession.  Born  at 
Oneida,  111.,  in  1873,  OI  a  family  of  artists, 
and  educated  in  the  schools  of  Chicago 
and  vSt.  Louis,  he  is  purely  a  product  of  the 
West.  While  still  in  the  High  School  at 
( >neida,  Mr.  Cornish,  with  the  enthusiasm 
worthy  of  a  man  twice  his  age,  took  up 
the  study  of  art.  After  leaving  school, 
he  spent  some  time  under  well-known 
artists  of  Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  He 
achieved  especial  success  in  portraiture, 
and  essayed  his  first  venture  in  business 
at  Arkansas  City,  Kas.  There  he  soon 
outgrew  the  town  and  moved  to  Kansas 
City,  associating  himself  with  D.  P. 
Thomson,  the  veteran  photographer. 
Here  he  spent  nine  years,  broadening  out 
in  his  work,  and  making  a  notable  suc- 
cess. That  his  artistic  instincts  might 
have  opportunity  for  greater  play,  Mr. 
Cornish  went  into  business  for  himself 
again  two  years  ago,  surrounding  himself 
with  all  the  up-to-date  mechanical  dev- 
vices  of  the  photograph  business,  and  pro- 
viding for  his  patrons  one  of  the  most  ar- 
tistic galleries  in  the  southwest.  From 
the  start  his  new  venture  proved  a  success, 
and  to-day  lie  stands,  though  but  twenty- 
nine  years  old,  as  one  of  the  foremost  men 
in  his  line  in  the  country.  Mr.  Cornish 
has  in  his  time  given  sittings  to  many 
persons  of  note,  and  has  produced  some 
of  the  largest  and  finest  group  work  ever 
attempted. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

CALDWELL  C.  COURTNEY 

was  born  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  June  24, 
1852,  of  good  old  revolutionary  stock. 
He  was  educated  in  private  schools,  and 
then,  entering  Richmond  College,  was 
graduated  in  1870.  He  then  went  into 
the  dry  goods  business  in  Richmond  with 
his  father  and  brother,  and  made  a  bril- 
liant reputation  for  energy  and  ability, 
so  much  so  that  he  was  secured  by  the 
firm  of  Bullene,  Moore  &  Emery.  Mr. 
Courtney  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1878, 
and  for  four  years  was  with  the  firm, 
when  he  resigned  to  take  a  position  with 
the  Midland  National  Bank.  Quitting 
the  bank  after  a  time,  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  real  estate  and  insurance  firm 
of  Whipple,  Courtney  &  Co.,  which  con- 
tinued until  1888,  when  he  decided  to 
make  -life  insurance  his  future  work. 

For  three  years  he  served  as  district 
manager  of  a  New  York  company,  and  in 
1892  he  became  State  agent  of  the  Mutual 
Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New- 
ark, headquarters  in  Kansas  City,  and  ter- 
ritory including  Jackson  County,  Kansas, 
and  Oklahoma  Territory. 

Mr.  Courtney  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Kansas  City  Life  Underwriters' 
Association,  and  has  been  president  twice. 
He  also  helped  organize  a  similar  body 
in  Kansas.  He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason 
and  a  Shriner.  He  married  Miss  Flora 
Dougherty,  of  Liberty,  Mo.,  and  they 
have  one  daughter,  Leah  Bell. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

THOMAS  T.  CRITTENDEN,  JR., 

was  born  in  Sangamon  County,  Illinois, 
December  23,  1863,  his  family  moving 
some  few  years  later  to  Warrensburg, 
Mo.,  where  his  boyhood  was  spent.  He 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  and  from  the  State  University  in 
1883.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1884, 
going  into  the  real  estate  business  soon 
after  his  arrival,  and  worked  at  the  busi- 
ness three  years,  when  he  was  appointed 
Deputy  Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Appeals. 
He  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for 
County  Clerk  in  1894,  was  elected,  and 
was  again  nominated  and  elected  to  the 
same  office  at  the  close  of  his  first  term 
in  1898,  each  time  carrying  both  city  and 
county  by  handsome  majorities.  He  is 
now  being  mentioned  as  Democracy's 
candidate  for  Secretary  of  State.  Aside 
from  politics,  Mr.  Crittenden  is  interested 
in  a  number  of  business  enterprises,  all  of 
which  are  successful.  He  is  purely  of  the 
fighting  temperament  when  personal  in- 
terests or  those  of  his  friends  are  assailed, 
yet  it  is  all  tempered  by  a  fine  quality  of 
justice  that  renders  enmities  scarce. 

Mr.  Crittenden  was  married  January  5, 
1888,  to  Miss  Jennie  Mason  Rogers,  whose 
father  was  a  former  president  of  Christian 
College,  Columbia,  Mo.  They  have  two 
children,  a  son,  Joseph  R.,  and  a  daughter, 
Mason  A.,  their  ages  being  five  and  two 
years  respectfully. 


ARMWELL  L.  COOPER 
was  born  at  Willow  Grove,  Delaware, 
November  15,  1870.  He  began  acquiring 
his  education  at  an  early  age,  and  was  a 
pupil  at  the  Wilmington  Conference 
Academy  in  Dover.  His  family  came 
West  when  he  was  rather  young,  and  Mr. 
Cooper  finished  his  education  at  the  Kan- 
sas State  Normal,  Ft.  Scott. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1890,  and 
soon  afterwards  entered  a  local  law  office. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  July  15,  1895, 
after  which  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
Mr.  Henry  Wollman.  Mr.  Wollman  left 
the  city  for  New  York,  and  after  his  de- 
parture the  firm  of  Wollman,  Solomon  & 
Cooper  was  formed,  the  individual  mem- 
bers being  Benjamin  Wollman,  brother 
to  Henry  Wollman,  Henry  C.  Solomon, 
and  Mr.  Cooper.  During  the  few  years 
that  have  elapsed  since  Mr.  Cooper's  ad- 
mittance to  the  bar,  he  has  taken  rapid 
strides  toward  making  a  place  for  himself 

among  the  leading  members  of  the  local 
bar. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  is  an 
officer  in  the  leading  Democratic  club  of 
the  city,  the  Jackson  County  Democratic 
Club.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias. 

Mr.  Cooper  is  married,  his  wife  being 
formerly  Miss  Caroline  Ley,  of  this  city. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cooper  have  one  child,  a 
girl,  named  Dorothy  Emily. 


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l//;\    Wlin  MADE  KANSAS  CITY. 


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S.  E.  CHAMBERLAIN 
was  born  in  Seneca  County,  Ohio,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1842.  He  went  to  the  public 
schools  there,  and  his  first  trade  was  that 
of  carpenter.  Thirty  years  ago  Mr. 
Chamberlain  started  as  an  architect  at 
Chicago,  from  which  place  he  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  October,  1878.  He  was 
the  architect  of  the  City  Hall,  and  from 
1889  to  1 891  was  superintendent  of  Build- 
ings in  Kansas  City  under  Mayor  Holmes. 
Many  of  the  handsomest  residences  of  the 
city,  as  well  as  business  structures,  were 
planned    by    Mr.    Chamberlain. 

Mr.  Chamberlain  is  a  Socialist  and  proud 
of  it.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Susan  A. 
Correll  at  Niles,  Mich,.  September  25, 
1867,  and  has  six  children. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

THE  REV.  WM.  CARTER 
was  born  at  Pittington,  England,  May  22, 
1868.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  came  from 
England  to  Illinois,  and  for  three  years 
worked  in  a  store.  He  then  went  to  Par- 
sons College,  Fairfield,  Iowa,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
two.  Three  years  later  he  received  a  di- 
ploma from  McCormick  Theological  Sem- 
inary. His  first  pastoral  work  was  at 
Sterling,  111.  He  was  there  five  years, 
went  to  Frankfort,  Ind.,  for  brief  supply 
work,  and  was  called  thence  to  the  pastor- 
ate of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Kansas  City  in  1899.  Park  College  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy 
upon  Dr.  Carter  in  1900.  He  is  well 
known  through  his  lectures  on  literary 
subjects,  especially  his  lecture  on  Milton. 
He  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  able  to 
repeat  "Paradise  Dost"  from  memory. 
Dr.  Carter  was  married  to  Miss  Alice 
Kellogg  at  Des  Moines,  la.  They  have 
two  children. 


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JOSEPH   S.   CHICK, 

founder  of  the  first  banking  house  in  Kan- 
sas City,  was  born  August  3,  1828,  in 
Howard  County,  Missouri.  In  1836  his 
parents  located  in  Jackson  County,  and 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  Joseph  S.  Chick  be- 
gan his  business  career  as  a  clerk  in  the 
general  store  of  H.  M.  Northrup  in  Kan- 
sas City,  whose  partner  he  became  in 
1852.  Later  he  and  his  partner  went  to 
New  York  and  engaged  in  the  banking 
business,  but  returned  to  Kansas  City  in 
1874,  when  Mr.  Chick  bought  a  controll- 
ing interest  in  the  Kansas  City  National 
Bank.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  iden- 
tified as  a  leading  spirit  with  all  the  most 
important  commercial  enterprises  of  Kan- 
sas City. 

Mr.  Chick  was  married  August  31,  1858, 
to  Miss  Julia  Sexton.  Six  children  have 
been  born  to  them.  Joseph  S.  Chick,  Jr., 
is  associated  with  his  father  in  the  man- 
agement of  real  estate  and  financial  af- 
fairs. One  daughter,  living,  is  the  wife 
of  Edward  E.  Porterfield,  a  well-known 
lawyer  of  Kansas  City.  No  name  is  more 
familiar  to  the  early  residents  of  Western 
Missouri  than  that  of  Joseph  S.  Chick. 


GEORGE  OLIVER  COFFIN, 
one  of  the  most  successful  physicians  of 
Kansas  City,  was  born  at  Danielsville, 
Pa.,  August  4,  1858.  Dr.  Coffin's  early 
education  was  in  the  common  schools  of 
his  native  town  and  at  Williamsburg 
Academy.  He  was  graduated  from  Penn 
Medical  College  at  Philadelphia  in  1879. 
He  practiced  at  Frankfort,  Kas.,  El  Paso, 
Tex.,  and  Silver  Cliff,  Colo.,  locating  in 
Kansas  City  in  the  fall  of  1887. 

In  May,  1894,  he  was  appointed  house 
surgeon  at  the  City  Hospital,  and  in  1895 
became  City  Physician,  remaining  in  that 
office  until  1901.  Dr.  Coffin  was  elected 
to  the  chair  of  surgery  in  the  Medico-Chi- 
rurgical  College,  and  was  Dean  of  the 
Faculty.  He  is  also  Professor  of  Clinical 
Surgery  in  the  Woman's  Medical  College 
of  Kansas  City.  He  is  on  the  medical 
staff  of  half  a  dozen  railroads  and  hospi- 
tals, is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Acad- 
emy of  Medicine,  the  Jackson  County 
Medical  Society,  the  Missouri  State  Med- 
ical Society,  and  the  American  Medical 
Association.  He  is  a  thirty-second  de- 
gree Mason,  a  noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
a  K.  P.,  and  an  Elk.  In  1883  Dr.  Coffin 
married  Miss  Minnie  A.  Deane,  of  Frank- 
fort, Kas.  Their  children  are  Deane  Oli- 
ver and  Bertha  M.  Coffin.  Edward  Carl 
Coffin  is  a  son  by  a  former  marriage. 


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,l//-;.\     WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Pholo  by  Strauss. 

EDWARD  JOSEPH  CURTIN 

was  born  in  Independence,  Missouri, 
August  9,  1875.  He  spent  his  boyhood 
on  a  farm,  and  his  early  education  was 
secured  in  the  district  school. 

It  was  in  1889  that  he  came  to  Kansas 
City,  and  his  education  was  completed  by 
graduation  from  the  ward  schools.  His 
circumstances  were  such  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  go  to  work  at  an  early  age,  but 
his  ambition  was  not  to  be  denied.  He 
studied  at  night,  and  finally  deciding 
upon  the  law  as  his  profession,  became  a 
pupil  of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law. 
He  attended  at  night  after  his  work  for 
the  day  was  over,  and  will  be  graduated 
the  coming  spring,  when  he  expects  to 
apply  for  admission  to  the  bar. 

In  1902  City  Counselor  R.  J.  Ingraham 
recognizing  his  ability,  and  eager  to  fur- 
ther his  progress,  appointed  Mr.  Curtin 
claim  agent  in  his  department,  which  po- 
sition he  now  holds. 

Mr.  Curtin  has  always  been  active  in 
Democratic  politics,  and  is  recognized  as 
a  young  man  with  a  future.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  and 
several  other  organizations. 


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CHARLES  J.  CARTER 
was  born  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  January  9, 
1862.  After  completing  his  education 
in  1876  he  went  to  work  for  a  lumber  firm, 
and  has  been  in  the  lumber  business  ever 
since.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1886, 
and  went  into  business  for  himself,  and  in 
1896  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the 
C.  J.  Carter  Company.  His  other  interests 
include  the  presidency  of  the  Doniphan 
Lumber  Company,  with  mills  at  Don- 
phan,  Mo.,  to  which  he  was  elected  in 
1894;  the  presidency  of  the  Saline  River 
Lumber  Company,  of  Straughan,  Ark., 
formed  in  1898;  the  presidency  of  the  Sa- 
line River  Railway  Company  ;and  the  vice- 
presidency  of  the  Straughan  Stave  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Carter  is  also  treasurer  of  the 
Missouri  Tie  and  Lumber  Compnay,  and 
from  1896  to  1902,  when  he  sold  out  his 
interests,  was  president  of  the  Louisiana 
&  Gulf  Lumber  Company. 

Notwithstanding  his  many  and  impor- 
tant business  interersts,  Mr.  Carter  is  a 
leading  figure  in  all  movements  tending 
to  the  public  good.  He  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  belongs 
to  the  Country  Club,  and  is  a  Hoo-Hoo. 
He  was  married  to  Miss  Cora  Bridges  in 
Keokuk  in  1885,  and  they  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Margaret. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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ARTHUR  CHANDLER  COATES 
was  born  August  17,  1S64,  in  Kennett 
Square,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  a  Kansas 
Cityan  born  and  bred  to  all  intents  and 
purposes,  however,  for  his  father,  Kersey 
Coates,  came  to  Kansas  City,  then  West- 
port  Landing,  in  1854,  and  few  names  are 
more  indissolubly  linked  with  the  growth 
and  greatness  of  the  town. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
local  schools,  and  then  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Phillips 'Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
and  then  entered  Yale. 

He  was  graduated  in  18X5,  and  studied 

law,   but  never  practiced  his  profession, 

as  the  management  of  the  Coates  House 

devolved  upon  him.      From  1889  to  1900 

he  managed  the  house  established  by  his 

father,   and   in  the   latter   year   accepted 

the  general  agency  of  the  Prudential  Life 

Insurance  Company  at  this  point. 

Mr.  Coates  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  University  Club.  He  was  married  in 
June,  1888,  to  Miss  Isabel  Doggett,  and 
is  the  father  of  two  children,  Gladys  and 
May. 


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D    P.  COLLUM 

was  born  at  Mauch  Chunk,  Pa.,  August 
10,  1867.  His  parents  moved  to  a  farm 
near  Brooklyn,  Iowa,  while  he  was  very 
young,  and  Mr.  Collum  lived  there  until 
early  manhood.  His  education  was  se- 
cured at  the  district  schools  in  the  county 
where  he  was  raised  and  at  the  Indiana 
State  Normal  School,  where  he  afterwards 
went  for  a  term  of  four  years.  Three  of 
these  years  were  devoted  to  the  classical 
course,  and  the  last  year  Mr.  Collum  stud- 
ied law.  Later  he  studied  law  in  a  law 
school  at  Des  Moines,  la.  Mr.  Collum 
came  to  Kansas  City  in  1885,  and  engaged 
in  Mercantile  pursuits,  also  studying  law 
at  night  at  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law. 
He  graduated  from  this  institution  while 
in  the  employ  of  the  American  Wringer 
Company.  He  remained  in  its  employ 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  finally  bought 
out  the  Western  interests  of  the  company. 
This  business  he  has  conducted  since  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  the  Collum  Com- 
merce Company,  its  line  of  merchandise 
having  been  extended  to  include  every 
article  of  household  furnishings.  The 
company  has  eleven  branch  stores  scat- 
tered through  Illinois,  Missouri,  Kansas, 
and  Oklahoma.  Mr.  Collum,  since  taking 
up  local  residence,  has  been  prominent  in 
the  social  and  benevolent  movements  of 
local  Catholic  societies  and  is  affiliated 
with  several  of  them. 

He  was  married  July  13,  1885,  to  Miss 
Bee  Anne  Healy  in  Brooklyn,  Iowa. 
They  have  one  child,  James  Emmett, 
who  is  thirteen  vears  of  age. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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WILLIAM  JAMES  DALTON, 

a  pioneer  Catholic  priest  of  Kansas  City 
for  thirty  years  rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Annunciation,  was  born  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  August  12,  1S4S.  His  par- 
rents  were  Richard  and  Bridget  Dal- 
tou,  of  Ireland.  The  father  was  a 
merchant  in  St.  Louis  from  1839  to  1864. 
In  the  parochial  and  public  schools  of 
that  city  Father  Dalton  began  his  edu- 
cation, which  was  completed  at  the 
Catholic  seminaries  at  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
and  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.  Two  and  one- 
half  years  before  reaching  his  major- 
ity, by  special  dispensation,  he  was  or- 
dained to  the  priesthood,  and  came  to 
Kansas  Cjty  June  19,  1872,  by  appoint- 
ment of  Archbishop  Kenrick.  In  1889 
he  was  one  of  the  thirteen  freeholders  to 
draft  the  present  city  charter.  From 
[879  t<i  1SS4  he  was  editor  of  the  Western 
Banner,  the  first  Catholic  journal  pub- 
lished in  Kansas  City.  The  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  his  ordination  to  the  min- 
istry was  celebrated  by  a  great  mass-meet- 
ing, presided  over  by  J.  V.  C.  Karnes, 
at  the  Auditorium  Theater,  in  1804.  The 
encroachments  of  commerce  and  manu- 
facturing crowded  Father  Dalton 's  par- 
ishioners out  of  the  West  Bottoms,  and 
in  1902  he  moved  to  a  new  parish  in  the 
southeastern  part  of  the  city,  where  he  is 
erecting  a  new  church  building. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

SHANNON  CLAY  DOUGLASS 
was  born  at  Columbia,  Mo.,  December  29, 
1852.  He  attended  Christian  College  at 
Columbia  and  then  the  Missouri  State 
University,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
completing  the  course  in  the  law  depart- 
ment there  in  1873.  At  nineteen  years  of 
age  he  was  City  Attorney  of  Columbia, 
and  was  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  of 
Boone  County  for  three  terms.  He  prac- 
ticed at  Columbia  until  1883,  when  he 
came  to  Kansas  City  and  formed  a  part- 
nership with  C.  L.  Dobson.  Then  the 
firm  of  Dobson,  Douglass  &  Trimble  was' 
formed,  continuing  until  1890.  Since 
that  time  Judge  Douglass  has  practiced 
alone,  and  has  served  as  special  Master  in 
Chancery  in  the  Federal  Court,  in  a  num- 
ber of  big  cases. 

Judge  Douglass  was  married  Septem- 
ber 8,  1880,  to  Miss  Hallie  H.  Burr,  daugh- 
ter of  Wm.  E.  Burr,  formerly  president  of 
the  St.  Louis  National  Bank.  There  are 
three  children,  Wm.  Burr,  Shannon  Clay, 
Jr.,  and  Henriette  Brand  Douglass. 

In  December,  1902,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  appointed  to  the  circuit  bench, 
filling  the  vacan:y  left  by  the  death  of 
Judge  John  W.  Henry,  an  appointment 
indorsed  by  the  local  bar. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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JAMES  ROBERT  DOMINICK 
was  born  at  Houston,  Miss.,  December 
9,  1S63,  and  lived  in  that  State  until  he 
grew  to  young  manhood.  He  was  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Mississippi 
in  1884,  and  was  employed  in  a  general 
store  until  August,  1886,  when  he  moved 
to  Kansas  City.  The  third  day  after  his 
arrival  he  went  to  work  for  the  American 
National  Bank,  where  he  rapidly  rose  to 
the  positions  of  assistant  cashier  and 
cashier.  In  October,  1900,  Mr.  Dom- 
inick  organized  the  Traders'  Bank  of 
Kansas  City  and  became  its  president. 
This  institution  started  with  a  capital  of 
$50,000,  and  has  already  doubled  it.  Mr. 
Dominick  was  married  to  Miss  Gertrude 
Mastin  October  28,  1891.  He  belongs  to 
the  Commercial  Club  and  the  Manufact- 
urers' Association. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

DENTON  DUNN 

was  born  May  1,  1868,  at  Marshall,  Mich. 
During  his  boyhood  he  lived  in  Kansas 
and  Maryland.  He  was  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Kansas  in  1887,  where 
he  was  class  day  valedictorian.  He 
studied  law  at  the  St.  Louis  Law  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1891. 
taking  the  Jhesis  prize.  In  that  year  he 
located  at  Kansas  City.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Ashley,  Gil- 
bert &  Dunn  in  1897.  Mr.  Dunn  was 
treasurer  of  the  Bar  Association  1898-99. 
Among  his  other  positions  of  honor  was 
the  presidency  of  the  Knife  and  Fork 
Club,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders. 
He  was  also  president  of  the  Kansas  Uni- 
versity Alumni   Association. 

Mr.  Dunn  has  written  a  number  of  legal 
articles    that    have    attracted   attention. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  and 
Universitv  Clubs. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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CHARLES  P.  DUFF 

was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  April 
6,  1864.  He  spent  his  boyhood  in  Spring- 
field,  111.,  however,  his  parents  removing 
to  that  town  when  the  young  Charles  was 

still  a  babe  in  arms 

He  received  his  education  in  the  Spring- 
field public  schools,  but  had  to  quit  books 
for  work  when  only  fourteen.  He  se- 
cured employment  in  a  furniture  store,  in 
which  business  he  has  ever  since  been. 

In  his  twenty-third  year  Mr.  Duff  moved 
to  Arkansas  City,  Kas.,  where  he  went 
into  the  furniture  business  for  himself.  He 
did  very  well,  and  it  was  while  in  Arkan- 
sas City  that  he  associated  himself  with 
Mr.  Repp,  his  present  partner. 

In  1896  Mr.  Duff  came  to  Kansas  City. 
He  became  a  stockholder  in  the  time-hon- 
ored J.  H.  North  Furniture  Company, 
and  was  elected  vice-president 

In  1900  the  J.  H.  North  Furniture  Com- 
pany ceased  to  be,  and  in  its  place  sprang 
up  the  firm  of  Duff  &  Rep]),  which  has 
ever  since  been  a  leader  in  its  line. 

Mr.  Duff  is  a  married  man,  the  father  of 
two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  He 
js  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  and 
director  in  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club. 


JOHN  F.   DOWNING 

was  born  August  24,  1854,  in  Virginia, 
Illinois,  and  lived  there  until  the  attain- 
ment of  his  majority.  He  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  also  took  the 
classical  course  at  Illinois  College,  Jack- 
sonville, from  which  institution  he  was 
graduated  in  1879. 

Returning  to  Virginia,  he  entered  the 
local  bank,  but  after  three  years  came  to 
Kansas  City.  His  first  position  was  with 
the  old  Armour  Bank,  where  he  worked  as 
a  teller  for  four  years.  In  1885,  when  the 
"boom"  possessed  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Down- 
ing went  into  the  real  estate  business,  and 
after  the  "boom's"  collapse  in  1889  he 
organized  the  New  England  Safe  Deposit 
Trust  Company,  with  A.  W.  Armour  as 
president  and  himself  as  vice-president. 
After  a  year  he  was  elected  president, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  In  1898  the 
New  England  Safe  Deposit  Trust  Com- 
pany was  converted  into  a  National  Bank. 

Mr.  Downing  is  a  member  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Club  and  the  Country  Club.  He 
has  been  twice  married,  his  first  wife  hav- 
ing died  in  1889.  His  present  wife  was 
Miss  Jessie  Burnham,  whom  he  married 
March  30,  1889.  He  is  the  father  of  three 
children,  two  boys  and  a  girl. 


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Photo  hij  Strauss. 

JAMES  DONOHUE 

was  born  in  Canada,  April  12,  i860.  He 
went  to  the  common  schools  until  the  age 
of  thirteen  years,  when  his  school  life 
ceased  abruptly  through  employment  he 
secured  with  the  Great  Western  Railroad 
of  Canada.  '  Since  that  time  Mr.  Donohue 
has  continued  in  the  railroad  business.  He 
has  run  the  full  gamut  of  the  business, 
messenger  boy,  telegraph  operator,  stenog- 
rapher, ticket  agent,  station  agent.  He  re- 
mained in  the  employ  of  Canadian  roads 
until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  when 
he  went  to  Des  Moines,  la.,  where  he  re- 
mained for  six  years,  coming  to  Kansas 
City  from  there  in  1886. 

He  was  for  three  and  one-half  years  gen- 
eral freight  and  passenger  agent  of  the 
Kansas  City,  Pittsburg  &  Gulf  Railroad, 
and  went  from  that  road  to  the  Kansas 
City,  Fort  Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad  in  1896. 
In  1 90 1,  when  the  Kansas  City,  Fort 
Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad  was  amalgamated 
with  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Rail- 
road, under  the  name  of  the  Frisco  System 
Mr.  Donohue  was  made  assistant  general 
passenger  agent  of  the  system,  which  place 
he  now  holds. 

Mr.  Donohue  was  married  June  9,  1SS0, 
to  Miss  Mary  Ellen  Martin,  of  Ingersoll 
Canada.  They  have  three  children,  Stew- 
art, sixteen  years  of  age;  Adah,  fourteen 
years  of  age;  and  James,  Jr.,  aged  eleven 
years. 


EDWARD  MAITLAND  DART 

was  born  in  Susquehanna  County,  Penn- 
sylvania, April  20,  1859.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  toil,  for  until  he  entered  his 
teens  he  was  engaged  in  farm  work  or  em- 
ployed in  the  lumber  camps.  He  only 
went  to  school  long  enough  to  acquire  the 
rudiments  of  an  education,  and  after  that 
he  educated  himself,   studying  at  night. 

He  went  to  Chicago  in  1881,  where  his 
brother  was  in  the  live-stock  business, 
and  remained  there  for  three  years.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  came  to  Kansas 
City,  and  soon  after  his  arrival  went  to 
work  for  the  Western  Newspaper  Union, 
with  which  company  he  is  still  identified. 

He  went  to  work  as  an  assistant  press- 
man, was  promoted  first  to  the  position  of 
shipping  clerk,  and  was  then  taken  into 
the  office  as  correspondent  and  book- 
keeper. In  1900  he  was  made  manager 
of  the  local  office,  the  position  he  now 
holds.  The  Western  Newspaper  Union 
supplies  plate  matter  for  country  news- 
papers, and  also  does  general  publication 
work.  Under  Mr.  Dart's  management 
the  territory  has  been  doubled,  and  the 
capacity  of  the  plant  enlarged  time  after 
time.  Aside  from  his  managerial  duties, 
Mr.  Dart's  hobby  is  blooded  stock,  and  he 
owns  several  farms  in  Missouri,  Kansas, 
and  Florida,  where  he  indulges  his  fond- 
ness. 


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MEX    WHO  M.U)E  KANSAS  CITY 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WALTER  S.  DICKEY, 
president  of  the  W.  S.  Dickey  Clay  Man- 
ufacturing Company,  is  in  the  forefront 
of  both  business  and  politics  in  Kansas 
City.  He  was  reared  in  Toronto,  Can- 
ada, where  his  first  instruction  was  in  the 
provincial  "Model"  school.  It  was  in 
January,  1885,  that  he  came  to  Kansas 
City.  The  very  next  year  he  served  on 
the  Republican  City  Committee.  From 
1887  to  1898  he  resided  at  Independence 
Mo. 

In  1900,  having  again  established  re- 
sidence in  Kansas  City,  he  was  elected 
as  a  delegate  from  the  Eifth  Congressional 
District  to  the  Republican  National  Con 
vention  at  Philadelphia,  and  was  also  hon- 
ored by  being  selected  as  Missouri's  mem- 
ber on  the  Vice-Presidential  Notification 
Committee.  In  July,  1900,  in  company 
with  that  committee,  he  visited  Mr.  Roose- 
velt at  his  home  in  Oyster  Bay,  on  Long 
Island,  New  York  State. 

In  July  of  1902  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber-at-large  of  the  State  Republican 
Committee,  and  was  appointed  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Executive  and  Finance  Com- 
mittee. 

Although  Mr.  Dickey  has  constantly 
taken  active  part  in  politics,  he  has  at 
the  same  time  conducted  one  of  the  larg- 
est commercial  enterprises  carried  on  in 
the  West. 

He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  is  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Manufacturers'  Association. 


WEBSTER  DAVIS 
was   born   June    1,    1861,    in    Ebensburg, 
Pennsylvania.     In   1868   the  family  set- 
tled on  a  farm  in  Daviess  County,  Missouri, 
but  after  six  years  moved  to  Chillicothe, 
and  later  to  Gallatin,  all  in  the  same  coun- 
ty.    The  young  Webster  worked  on  the 
farm,  clerked  in  a  store,  and  in  Gallatin 
took  up   shoemaking   under   his   father's 
instruction.      In    1881    he    determined   to 
to  have  an  education,  and  so  went  to  Lake 
Forest,  near  Chicago.     He  became  town 
lamplighter,  and  not  only  paid  his  school- 
ing, but  sent  money  home.    It  was  not  suf- 
ficient, however,  and  returning  to  Gallatin, 
he  resumed  shoemaking,  and  later  clerked 
again.    In  18S2  he  became  a  copyist  in  the 
law  office  of  Shanklin,   Low  &   McDougal 
and  studied  while  he  worked.      In  1884  he 
contrived  to  take  a  two  years'  course  in 
the  Kansas  University,  and  securing  ad- 
mittance to  the  bar  began  to  practice  law 
in  Garden  City,  Kas.     He  later  attended 
the    Ann   Arbor  Law  School,  after  which 
he  located  in  Kansas  City.     He  soon  made 
a   reputation    for    brilliance    and    ability, 
and  became  prominent  in  Republican  pol- 
itics.     His     splendid,     but     unsuccessful, 
race  for  Congress  in  1892  was  followed  by 
his  election  as  Mayor  in   1894.       In  1897 
he  was  appointed  Assistant  Secretary  of 
the  Interior,  which  place  he  held  until  a 
trip  to  South  Africa  in  1899  made  him  a 
Boer     sympathizer.      He     resigned,    and 
failing  to  have  the  Republicans  adopt  a 
resolution  of   sympathy  with  the  Boers, 
secured  such  a  plank  in  the  Democratic 
platform,  and  so  joined  that  party. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 
FREDERICK    STERLING    DOGGETT 

was  born  in  Chicago  March  i,  1856.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools,  and  later  attended  the  Chicago 
University.  After  emerging  from  the  lat- 
ter institution  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
he  entered  the  laboratory  of  the  Chicago 
Sheffield  Steel  Company,  where  he  re- 
mained for  three  years.  He  then  migrated 
to  Colorado,  and  for  four  years  was  en- 
gaged in  mining  and  kindred  industries. 

In  1878  Mr.  Doggett  came  to  Kansas 
City,  and  secured  employment  in  the 
Union  Pacific  offices,  and  a  year  later 
went  over  to  the  Chicago  &  Alton  road, 
just  built.  When  he  left  the  C.  &  A.'s 
employ  in  1 886  he  had  risen  to  the  position 
of  general  western  freight  agent. 

Since  1886  Mr.  Doggett  has  devoted 
himself  to  his  own  business  affairs,  prin- 
cipally the  management  of  the  Blossom 
House,  having  married  a  daughter  of  the 
late  G.  H.  Blossom. 

A  very  busy  man,  Mr.  Doggett  has  al- 
ways given  freely  of  his  time  to  public 
movements.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
members  of  the  Commercial  Club,  and 
has  served  as  vice-president  of  that  or- 
ganization. He  was  also  a  moving  spirit 
in  the  organization  of  the  Kansas  City 
Club,  and  was  its  president  for  a  term. 
He  was  elected  a  director  of  Convention 
Hall  in  1900  and  re-elected  in  1901,  and 
is  a  leader  in  the  Priests  of  Pallas  Associa- 
tion. He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Ma- 
son, a  Knight  Templar,  and  a  Shriner. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ALLEN  J.  DEAN 

was  born  in  Sherman,  New  York,  January 
11,  1854.  He  went  to  school  until  thir- 
teen, when  he  begun  to  earn  his  own  liv- 
ing. A  year  in  a  drug  store,  and  then  he 
took  up  the  trade  of  carriage  trimming, 
and  when  nineteen  started  in  the  harness- 
making  and  carriage-trimming  business 
for  himself. 

\\ 'hen  twenty-four  he  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  hotel  business,  but  sold  out 
to  his  brothers  after  a  time.  Later  he 
bought  them  out  in  turn,  and  remained 
in  the  hotel  business  until  1894,  when  he 
became  president  of  a  bank.  In  1895, 
however,  he  came  out  to  Pittsburg,  Kas., 
where,  in  company  with  his  brothers,  he 
operated  the  Hotel  Stilwell.  In  1897  the 
Ewins-Dean  Hotel  Company  was  formed 
in  Kansas  City  by  Frank  Ewins,  A.  J. 
Dean  and  D.  J.  Dean,  and  commencing 
with  the  Savoy,  the  Baltimore  was 
launched  in  June,  1899.  In  December  the 
Deans  bought  out  Ewins,  and  formed  the 
Baltimore  Hotel  Company,  of  which  A.  J. 
,Dean  is  secretary  and  treasurer.  In  addit- 
tion  to  the  enlarged  Baltimore,  the  com- 
pany controls  and  operates  the  Hotel  Met- 
ropole  at  St.  Joseph  and  the  Midland  in 
this  city 

Mr.  Dean  married  Miss  Francis  Relf,  of 
Sherman,  and  they  have  one  daughter. 
He  belongs  to  the  Driving  Club,  is  a  thir- 
ty-second degree  Mason,  and  a  Shriner. 
Although  still  retaining  his  banking  and 
other  interests  in  Sherman,  Mr.  Dean  is 
indissolubly  attached  to  Kansas  City. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  hij  Strauss. 

JAMES  DAVIS  EUBANK 

was  born  in  Clarke  County,  Kentucky 
February  21,  1867,  and  lived  on  the  par- 
ental farm  until  twelve  years  old,  when  the 
family  moved  to  Pleasant  Hill,  Mo.  He 
went  to  the  district  school  in  Kentucky 
and  later  to  the  public  schools  in  Pleasant 
Hill,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  accepted 
a  position  with  the  Citizens'  National 
Bank.  He  remained  there  for  two  years 
and  was  then  appointed  assistant  post- 
master of  Pleasant  Hill,  but  resigned  at 
the  end  of  a  year  to  accept  a  position  as 
bookkeeper  with  the  First  National  Bank 
in  Independence,  Mo. 

He  remained  there  about  three  years  and 
a  half,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  deputy  in  the  office  of  County 
Collector  E.  W.  Hayes,  and  so  fine  a  record 
did  he  make  that  he  was  retained  under 
tin-  administration  of  Collector  McCurdy. 

Retiring  from  the  County  Collector's 
office,  Mr.  Eubank  went  with  the  land  de- 
partment of  the  Kansas  City  Southern 
Railroad  as  tax  commissioner,  the  position 
he  now  holds. 

An  enthusiastic  Democrat,  Mr.Eubank 
has  served  as  secretary  of  the  County  Com- 
mittee and  was  treasurer  in  the  last  cam- 
paign.     He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Woodman. 

Mr.  Eubank  married  Miss  Brent  Forbis 
May  26,   1896,  and  they  have  one  boy. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ORA  DARNALL 

was  born  on  a  farm  in  Indiana  July  17, 

1865.     His  education  was  received  in  the 

district  and  ward  schools,  what  there  was, 

for  Mr.  Darnall  picked  up  the  most  of  it  by 

contact     with    the    world.     He    traveled 

through  Montana  and  the  West  while  still 

in  his  teens,  and  came  to  Kansas  City  for 
a  permanent  location  in  1883. 

His  first  employment  was  as  a  clerk  in 
the  Missouri  Pacific  offices,  and  he  re- 
mained with  the  road  until  1887,  by  which 
time  he  had  risen  to  the  position  of  local 
claim  agent. 

From  there  Mr.  Darnall  accepted  the 
general  management  of  the  Kansas  City 
Switch  &  Frog  Company,  but  soon  re- 
signed to  take  a  place  with  the  Bolen 
Coal  Company.  His  unique  advertising 
soon  brought  the  company  a  really  na- 
tional fame  and  largely  increased  its  busi- 
ness. The  company  was  reorganized  in 
November,  1901  as  the  Bolen-Darnall  Coal 
Company  and  with  Mr.  Darnall  as  general 
manager. 

He  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City  Club, 
the  Elks,  the  Kansas  City  Driving  Club, 
the  Warwick  Club,  and  is  a  Mason,  a  Hoo- 
Hoo,  and  an  active  worker  in  the  Com- 
mercial Club. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

ANDREW  F.  EVANS 

was  born  in  -Kentucky  in  1863.  His  boy- 
hood was  passed  on  a  farm,  and  his  educa- 
tion was  confined  to  such  schooling  as  dis- 
trict schools  afforded.  He  afterwards  at- 
tended St.  Mary's  College  and  later  he  took 
a  classical  course  at  Centre  College,  Dan- 
ville, Ky.,  from  where  he  graduated  in 
1882.  Then  he  took  up  school-teaching 
reading  law  meanwhile,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1884.  Not  satisfied  with 
this,  however,  he  determined  to  equip 
himself  more  thoroughly  for  the  practice 
of  the  profession,  and  entered  Harvard 
University  for  a  year's  course,  and  at  its 
termination  he  went  to  the  University  of 
Virginia  for  one  year  more.  He  engaged 
in  practice  in  earnest  in  his  home  State 
for  a  year,  but  feeling  that  wider  fields  of- 
fered themselves  in  the  West,  he  came  to 
this  town  in  1887  and  has  remained  here 
at  his  profession  since.  He  practiced 
alone  for  years,  but  later  went  in  with 
N.  B.  Carskadon,  the  partnership  being 
terminated  only  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Cars- 
kadon. Soon  after  this  Mr.  Evans  tcok 
B.  P.  Finley  into  partnership  with  him, 
the  firm  name  being  Evans  &  Finley. 

Mr.  Evans  is  a  member  of  a  number  of 
fraternal  and  social  organizations,  among 
them  being  the  Bar  Association,  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  the  Knife 
and  Fork  Club.  He  was  nominated  by 
the  Democratic  party  for  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  in    1902,  and  easily  elected. 


-  M    J 


Photo  hii  Thomson. 

EDGAR  CLARENCE  ELLIS 
was  born  in  Eaton  County,  Michigan, 
October  2,  1854.  He  was  educated  in  the 
country  schools  and  at  Olivet  College,  in 
his  native  county,  being  graduated  from 
the  latter  institution  in  1880  with  a  B.  A. 
degree. 

He  was  immediately  offered  a  position 
as  instructor  of  Latin  in  Carleton  Col- 
lege, Northfield,  Minnesota,  and  after  a 
year  there,  was  tendered  the  office  of 
superintendent  of  the  city  schools  at  Fer- 
gus Falls,  Minn.  During  the  three  years 
in  that  place,  he  studied  law  at  night,  and 
in  1 884  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  first 
practiced  in  Beloit,  Kansas,  but  in  1887 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  ever 
since  remained.  In  1893  lie  associated 
himself  with  Hale  C.  Cook  under  the  firm 
name  of  Ellis  &  Cook,  and  later  James  A. 
Reed  and  Ernest  Ellis  were  admitted. 
The  firm  is  now  Ellis,  Cook  &  Ellis,  Mr. 
Reed  having  been  elected  mayor. 

Mr.  Ellis  has  been  very  prominent  in 
Republican  politics,  along  high  lines,  and 
has  been  frequently  mentioned  for  mayor, 
and  in  connection  with  the  office  of  pros- 
ecuting attorney. 

He  is  a  married  man,  having  wedded 
Miss  Emily  H.  Roy,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Joseph  E.  Roy,  of  Chicago.  They 
have  three  sons. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

URIAH  SPRAY  EPPERSON 
was  born  in  Marion  County,  Indiana,  De- 
cember 22,  1 86 1.  His  parents  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  1S69,  however,  so  he  is 
virtually  a  Kansas  City  product.  He 
went  through  the  ward  schools,  and  soon 
after  went  to  work  in  a  railroad  office,  and 
has  never  known  an  idle  day  since.  In 
1880  he  accepted  a  position  with  the  Fow- 
ler Packing  Company,  where  he  remained 
until  the  purchase  of  the  plant  by  the 
Swifts  in  September,  1902.  Beginning  at 
the  very  bottom,  he  worked  up  to  the  of- 
fice of  general  manager,  and  in  bettering 
himself  he  bettered  the  company. 

-Mr.  Epperson  is  perhaps  the  best  known 
man  in  Kansas  City,  for  he  has  played  a 
prominent  part  in  all  movements  tending 
to  the  public  good.  For  years  a  member 
and  director  in  the  Commercial  Club,  he 
served  as  president  of  the  organization  for 
a  term,  and  a  notable  term  it  was.  From 
the  very  outset  an  enthusiastic  supporter 
of  the  Convention  Hall  idea,  he  served  as 
director  in  those  first  and  trying  days  of 
the  idea's  launching,  and  did  as  much  as 
any  man  to  make  success  possible.  As 
Kansas  City  stands,  the  famous  Epper- 
son's Megaphone  Minstrels  will  be  re- 
membered, not  only  because  they  dedi- 
cated the  hall,  but  because  they  earned 
the  greater  portion  of  the  monev  for  the 
erection  of  the  Public  Bath.  Mr.  Epper- 
son was  elected  vice-president  of  Conven- 
tion Hall  in  1900,  elected  president  in 
1901  and  re-elected  in  1902. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  Weav- 
er December  11,  18S9.    "He  is  an  Elk. 


EDWARD  DAVID  ELLISON 

was  born  in  Kansas  City,  December  5, 
1869.  He  first  went  to  school  at  the 
Franklin  ward  school  and  then  to  the 
High  School.  He  was  graduated  from 
Princeton  in  1892,  and  studied  law  in  the 
office  of  C.  O.  Tichenor.  In  September, 
1893,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  in 
May,  1895,  the  law  firm  of  Ellison  &  Tur- 
pin  was  formed. 

Mr.  Ellison  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law,  which  was 
started  in  1895.  Under  the  supervision 
of  Mr.  Ellison  and  the  other  officers  of  the 
school  it  has  made  a  remarkably  rapid 
growth. 

Mr.  Ellison  was  married  December  5, 
1 894,'  to  Miss  Mary  W.  Stone,  of  Lawrence, 
Kas.  They  have  one  child,  Elizabeth, 
four  years  old.  David  Ellison,  father  of 
Mr.  Ellison,  came  to  Kansas  City  from 
New  York  in  1866,  and  has  made  a  notable 
success  of  the  real  estate  business. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

JUDGE  JAMES  ELLISON 
was  born  at  Monticello,  Mo.,  July  12, 
1850,  the  sixth  child  and  third  son  of 
Judge  James  Ellison  of  the  Northeast 
Circuit  Court  of  the  State.  He  went  to 
school  first  at  Christian  University,  Can- 
ton, Mo.,  and  later  to  Christian  Brothers' 
College  in  St.  Louis.  He  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  at  Kirksville,  Mo.,  at  eighteen 
years  of  age  with  his  father,  Andrew  El- 
lison, afterwards  judge  of  that  circuit  for 
twenty-two  years.  In  1884  Judge  Ellison 
was  a  Cleveland  elector,  and  in  the  fall  of 
that  year  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Court  of  Appeals  for  four  years. 
He  was  elected  in  1888  for  a  term  of  eight 
years,  and  in  1896  was  again  elected  for  a 
term  of  twelve  years. 

Judge  Ellison  has  rendered  decisions  in 
many  of  the  most  important  cases  in  the 
State. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 
GEORGE  HARRISON  ENGLISH,   Sr., 

was  born  at  Newark,  Ohio,  January  21, 
1836.  In  1854  his  father,  moved  from 
the  Ohio  farm  to  Illinois,  and  Colonel 
English  attended  the  Illinois  College  at 
Jacksonville,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in    1857. 

The  young  barrister  read  law  with 
Judge  Cyrus  Epler,  of  Jacksonville,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  i860.  He  be- 
gan to  practice  at  Greenfield,  111.,  and 
when  the  war  broke  out  he  became  cap- 
tain of  the  Thirty-second  Illinois  Infan- 
try, serving  four  years  and  rising  to  the 
ranks  of  major,  lieutenant-colonel  and 
colonel.  After  the  war  he  located  at 
Leavenworth,  Kas.,  practiced  there  eight 
years,  then  in  Wichita  four  years,  and  to 
Kansas  City  in  1878. 

Colonel  English  was  married  in  Kansas 
City  in  1873  to  Maggie  S.  Stonestreet. 
They  have  one  son,  George  H.  English. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


THOMAS  PHILIP  FLAHIVE 
was  born  December  16,  1861,  in  the  County 
Kerry,    Ireland.     He   received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  and  in  1S78  came 
to  America,  locating  in  Kansas  City. 

He  was  a  poor  boy,  without  capital  or 
influence,  but  he  did  not  lack  for  energy 
and  pluck.  His  first  position  was  with  a 
railroad  in  the  offices,  but  in  1882  he  se- 
cured a  position  on  the  police  force,  where 
he  has  ever  since  remained. 

Honest,  willing,  and  brave,  he  showed 
capability  from  the  start,  and  in  1887  he 
was  promoted  to  be  sergeant.  In  that 
position  he  also  showed  efficiency,  and  in 
1889  he  was  made  a  captain,  the  office 
he  now  holds. 

Captain  Flahive  belongs  to  no  lodges  or 
clubs,  for  his  whole  life  is  given  over 
to  his  work.  In  the  time  he  has  been  on 
the  force  he  has  made  himself  a  splendid 
reputation  both  at  home  and  abroad,  and 
although  he  has  gone  far,  will  go  farther. 

Captain  Flahive  married  Miss  Lizzie 
Burns  in  <  >ctober,  1888,  and  they  have  one 
son,  John  Joseph. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

HARRY  FRIEDBERG 

was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  July  14, 
1873.  He  attended  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  of  the  town  until  his  gradua- 
tion, when  he  went  to  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  to  take  the  pre- 
paratory course  for  Harvard.  He  gradu- 
ated from  Harvard  in  1896,  and  on  his  re- 
turn entered  the  employ  of  the  Consolidated 
Electric  Company,  for  which  company  he 
had  worked  odd  months  during  all  his 
school  life,  as  assistant  general  manager. 
In  1900  the  Consolidated  Electric  Com- 
pany and  the  Standard  Electric  Company 
merged  interests,  and  ^Mx^Frfeclberg  as- 
sumed charge  of  all  the  business  of  the 
companies  west  of  the  bluffs  in  this  city. 
May  25,  1902,  the  two  companies  went  in 
with  the  Kansas  City  Electric  Light  Com- 
pany, and  Mr.  Friedberg  was  made  man- 
ager of  the  consumers'  department  of  the 
consolidated  companies.  While  in  one 
( if  his  earlier  positions  with  the  minor  com- 
panies, Mr.  Friedberg  decided  on  law  as  a 
profession,  and  entered  the  Kansas  City 
School  of  Law,  from  where  he  graduated 
in  1889,  but  he  never  undertook  practice. 
He  is  a  member  of  numerous  social  and  se- 
cret societies,  among  them  the  Masons, 
the  Elks,  the  Progress  Club,  the  Young 
Men's  Club,  and  the  newly  organized  Har- 
vard Club.  Among  the  business  organiza- 
tions in  which  he  holds  membership  are 
the  Commercial  Club  and  its  kindred  asso- 
ciation in  Kansas  City,  Kas.,  the  Mercan- 
tile Club,  in  which  he  is  chairman  of  the 
entertainment  Committee. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

FRANK  A.  FAXON 

was  born  May  29,  1848,  in  Scituate,  Mas- 
sachusetts, coming  of  good  old  Revolu- 
tionary stock,  his  grandfather  serving  di- 
rectly under  Washington.  His  father, 
Asaph  A.  Faxon,  immigrated  to  Law- 
rence, Kas.,  in  1855,  and  two  years  later 
his  wife  and  children  joined  him.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools,  and  then  went  to  work 
in  the  drug  store  of  B.  W.  Woodward  & 
Co.  He  rose  step  by  step  until  he  was 
finallv  admitted  to  the  firm,  which,  by 
reason  of  tremendous  increase  in  i.usiness 
was  compelled  to  remove  to  Kansas  City 
in  1878.  In  1897  the  firm  of  Woodward, 
Faxon  &  Co.  gave  way  to  to  the  present 
one  of  Faxon,  Horton  &  Gallagher.  De- 
spite the  cares  and  demands  of  the  largest 
drug  business  in  the  West,  Mr.  Faxon  has 
never  failed  to  give  freely  of  his  time  to 
the  public  good,  and  few  men  have  done 
more  for  Kansas  City.  He  has  served  as 
president  of  the  Humane  Society,  has  also 
been  vice-president  of  the  Bureau  of  As- 
sociated Charities,  and  was  the  third  pres- 
ident of  the  Commercial  Club.  He  has 
also  served  in  the  City  Council,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
since  1894,  and  has  been  a  valuable  aid  in 
building  up  the  splendid  library  and  great 
public  school  system. 

He  was  married  in  187 1  to  Miss  Kate 
Darlington,  of  Chester  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania and  she  died  in  1S84,  leaving  three 
children  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  In 
1892  he  married  Miss  Francis  Darlington, 
and  thev  have  one  daughter,  born  in  1902. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  J.  FRICK 

was  born  in  Montgomery  City,  Missouri, 
November  3,  1867,  but  his  youth  was 
spent  in  Oak  Grove,  Lafayette  County. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  in  Oak 
Grove,  then  went  to  an  academy  in  Lex- 
ington, and  from  there  entered  William 
Jewell  College  at   Liberty. 

Deciding  upon  medicine  as  a  profession 
he  enrolled  himself  as  a  student  in  the 
Kansas  City  Medical  College,  from  which 
institution  he  as  graduated  in   [888. 

Dr.  Frick  has  always  practiced  here,  and 
few  young  men  stand  higher  in  their  pro- 
fession. He  has  been  connected  with 
every  hospital  in  the  city  at  one  time  or 
another  and  is  now  surgeon  of  St.  Joseph's 
Hospital.  He  is  also  Professor  of  Anato- 
my in  the  Kansas  City  Medical  College. 

He  belongs  to  the  local  medical  or- 
ganizations and  also  the  state  and  na- 
tional bodies. 

Dr.  Frick  has  taken  post-graduate  cours- 
es in  the  hospitals  of  Chicago  and  New 
York,  and  is  an  eager  and  never-ceasing 
student.  He  is  unmarried,  and  makes  his 
home  with  his  aged  mother. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

SAMUEL  THEODORE  FULTON 
was  born  in  Topeka,  Kansas,  January  n, 
1866.  He  received  his  education  in  that 
town,  residing  there  until  1887,  when  he 
went  to  Chicago  to  take  a  position  with 
the  Santa  Fe  system.  His  next  move  was 
to  Cincinnati,  where  he  occupied  a  posi- 
tion with  the  "Big  Four,"  and  then  in 
1 89 1  he  came  to  Kansas  City  to  take  the 
place  of  secretary  to  E.  S.  Washburn,  at 
that  time  traffic  manager  of  the  Kansas 
City,  Fort  Scott  &  Memphis  Railroad. 
He  was  afterwards  promoted  to  be  assist- 
ant to  President  Netteton,  and  in  turn 
was  assistant  to  President  Washburn 
and  President  Winchell.  When  the  Fris- 
co absorbed  the  Memphis,  and  the  gen- 
eral offices  were  removed  from  Kansas 
City,  Mr.  Fulton  went  to  St.  Louis  as  Mr. 
Winchell 's  chief  clerk,  but  only  remained 
there  a  few  months. 

In  January,  1902,  he  accepted  the  gen- 
eral management  of  the  J.  R.  Crowe  Coal 
and  Mining  Company,  the  position  he 
now  holds. 

Mr.  Fulton  is  a  married  man,  having 
wedded  Miss  Alice  Lee  Payne,  of  Topeka, 
November  26,  1890,  and  is  the  father  of  a 
son,  Darrow  Bruce  Fulton,  born  in  1895. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club 
and  several  other  organizations. 


Photo  by  Stranss. 

JOHN  P.  FONTRON 

was  born  March  22,  1873,  in  Castleton,  Ill- 
inois. His  parents  removed  to  Kansas 
when  he  was  three  years  old,  and  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  spent  his  boyhood 
on  a  farm  in  Reno  County. 

He  attended  the  district  schools,  and  in 
1890  the  family  moved  to  Hutchison,  Kas. 

Mr.Fontron  's  education  was  supplement- 
ed by  a  three  years'  course  in  the  Kansas 
State  Normal  School,  after  which  he  taught 
school  for  a  time. 

Deciding  to  adopt  law  as  a  profession, 
he  entered  an  office,  and  in  1 897  was  admit- 
ted to  practice.  He  then  entered  Columbia 
University,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  by 
virtue  of  his  previous  study  and  experi- 
ence, was  enabled  to  take  the  degree  of 
L.L.B.  in  one  year.  He  came  to  Kansas 
City  in  1898,  and  was  admitted  to  the  local 
bar  shortly  after  his  arrival. 

Mr.  Fontron  is  a  strong  Republican 
and  has  identified  himself  with  local  poli- 
tics to  some  extent.  He  is  now  secretary 
of  the  Missouri  Republican  Club,  and  at 
the  recent  election  was  the  Republican 
nominee  for  the  Legislature  from  the 
Seventh  District.  A  Democratic  landslide 
brought  him  defeat,  but  he  ran  far  in  ad- 
vance of  his  ticket. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  J.  FOSTER 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Ray  County,  Mis- 
souri, April  5,  1858.  He  remained  on  the 
farm  until  1875,  doing  the  work  the  life 
calls  for  and  attending  at  odd  months 
the  district  school  of  the  county.  After 
attending  school  at  Richmond,  Mo.,  for 
one  year,  Mr.  Foster  came  to  Kansas 
City  and  entered  the  public  schools. 
Three  years  previous  to  this  Mr.  Foster's 
father  had  died,  leaving  him  an  interest 
in  coal  mines  situated  on  the  homestead, 
and  it  was  with  the  income  from  this  that 
he  was  securing  an  education.  The  ad- 
ministrator, in  leasing  the  mines,  failed 
to  provide  for  non-usance,  and  the  les- 
see shut  down  the  mines  in  order  to  work 
others  with  shorter  lessees.  Mr.  Foster, 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  was  conse- 
quently forced  to  leave  school.  He  de- 
termined to  learn  harness-making,  and 
entered  upon  a  three  years'  apprentice- 
ship. Soon  after  serving  his  time  he 
went  into  partnership  with  A.  J.  De 
Berry,  the  firm  name  being  De  Berry 
&  Foster.  They  purchased  a  business  at 
306  Main  Street  that  had  been  operated 
by  Smith  &  McDonald  since  the  early 
forties.  After  a  partnership  of  a  year 
and  a  half  Mr.  Foster  bought  De  Berry's 
interests,  and  conducted  the  business 
at  that  location  for  ten  years,  moving 
after  that  time  to  511  Main  Street,  his 
present  location.  Mr.  Foster  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Manufacturers'  Association, 
the  Horse  Show  Association,  the  Coo- 
ley  Lake  Hunting  Club,  and  the  local 
Driving  Club.     He  was  married  June  30, 

1879,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Mintun,   of  this 
city. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

CHARLES  E.   FINLAY 

was  born  in  Illinois  in  1861.  His  early 
education  was  procured  at  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  state,  followed  by 
a  course  in  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Notre  Dame  in  South  Bend, 
Ind.  He  graduated  from  this  institution 
in  1885,  and  came  that  year  to  Kansas 
City.  He  started  into  business  in  this  city 
immediately  after  his  arrival  here,  and  de- 
veloped from  a  small  beginning  one  of  the 
largest  real  estate  and  building  companies 
in  the  city.  As  organizer  and  president 
of  the  Chas.  E.  Finlay  Real  Estate  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Finlay  platted  over  forty  sub- 
divisions to  this  city,  and  built  for  sale  in 
the  neighborhood  of  350  homes.  His  in- 
terests and  business  were  steadily  broad- 
ened, and  Mr.  Finlay  went  into  the  pro- 
ducing oil  business.  He  is  secretary  and 
general  Manager  of  the  Apex  Oil  Com- 
pany, which  is  one  of  the  largest  oil  com- 
panies in  Texas,  and  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Southwestern  Oil  and  Steam- 
ship Company,  a  transportation  company 
formed  to  carry  refined  and  crude  oil  from 
Texas  to  the  North  Atlantic  and  Gulf  ports 
The  latter  company  has  the  largest  line 
of  American  ships  in  the  oil  business  in 
the  world.  Mr.  Finlay  is  at  present  offi- 
cingin  NewYork  City,  but  retains  his  busi- 
ness interests  in  this  city. 

He  was  married  in  1887  to  Miss  Annie 
E.  Redfield.  They  have  three  children, 
Julia  Esther,  Neva  Estelle,  and  Redfield  E. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

RICHARD  H.  FIELD 
was  born  in  Cherokee  County,  Georgia 
December  27,  1853.  He  lived  in  the 
South  until  the  attainment  of  his  major- 
ity, attending  private  schools  and  ac- 
quiring   a    thorough    classical    education 

Deciding  upon  the  profession  of  law 
he  began  its  study,  and  in  1875  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  He  only  practiced  a 
year  in  his  native  State,  however,  com- 
ing out  to  Missouri  in  1876,  and  locating 
in  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  ever  since 
'  been. 

In  1888  we  was  appointed  by  Govern- 
or Moorhouse  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  cir- 
cuit bench,  and  the  appointment  was  in- 
dorsed by  a  nomination  from  the  Demo 
crats  at  the  next  election  thereafter 
Judge  Field  was  elected  by  a  large  major- 
ity, and  served  for  four  years  with  dis- 
tinguisned  honor. 

At  the  conclusion  of  his  term  he  re 
commenced  the  practice  of  law,  and  ranks 
high  in  the  Missouri  bar. 

He  belongs  to  no  societies,  no  clubs,  no 
organizations. 

Judge  Field  married  Miss  Annie  Camp, 
of  Marietta,  Ga.,  and  they  have  five  chil- 
dren, one  boy  and  four  girls. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WALLACE  CAMPBELL  GOFFE 
was  born  in  New  York  City  December  26, 
1865.     He  spent  his  boyhood  in  that  city, 
attending  the  public  and  high  schools. 

At  an  early  age  he  secured  a  position 
with  the  Wall  Street  firm  of  Goffe  and 
Randle,  and  for  ten  years  remained  in 
that  wonderful  thoroughfare,  learning  and 
rising.  In  1S91,  while  identified  with  the 
firm  of  Jones,  French  &  Maury,  he  met 
the  late  H.  F.  Peavey,  and  was  induced  by 
the  capitalist  to  leave  New  York  for  Kansas 
City.  His  position  out  here  was  chief 
clerk  of  the  Midland  Elevator  Company, 
but  he  only  remained  there  for  two  years. 

In  1893  the  grain  commission  firm  of 
Goffe,  Lucas  &  Carkener  was  organized — 
all  three  fellow-employes — and  success 
has  crowned  its  efforts  from  the  start.  The 
chief  business  of  the  firm  is  receiving  and 
shipping,  and  progressive,  yet  conserva- 
tive, methods  have  established  it  strongly. 

Mr.  Goffe  is  a  director  in  the  Grain  Ex- 
change, and  has  ever  been  identified  with 
those  movements  tending  to  the  develop- 
ment of  Kansas  Citv. 

He  married  Miss  Bevie  Gill  in   1893. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

JAMES  C.  GREENMAN 
was  born  at  Washington,  111.,  May  15, 
1845.  He  lived  on  a  farm  until  sixteen, 
when  he  ran  away  from  home  and  enlisted 
at  Chicago  in  the  Forty-second  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry,  serving  two  years 
and  re-enlisting  in  the  Fourth  Illinois  Cav- 
alry in  1S64  at  Natchez,  Miss.  He  was 
mustered  out  June  5,  1S65,  at  Memphis, 
returned  to  Joliet,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile business  two  years.  In  1S67  he 
entered  the  train  service  of  the  C.  &  A.  as 
brakeman.  Then  he  became  a  successful 
freight  and  passenger  conductor,  and  was 
for  sixteen  years  in  the  passenger  service. 

Mr.  Greenman  came  to  Kansas  Citv  in 
1880,  continued  in  the  railroad  service 
until  1884,  and  went  into  the  real  estate 
business  with  W.  B.  Lippincott  for  nine 
years,  and  was  postmaster  at  Bristol  for  a 
term  prior  to  1893.  In  1895  he  became 
the  agent  of  the  Humane  Society,  a  posi- 
tion in  which  he  has  made  himself  known 
to  everyone. 

He  was  married  to  Phoebe  L.  Dickinson 
at  Cleveland,  N.  Y.,  June  29,  1870.  They 
have  two  children,  Charles  H.  and  H.  D., 
thirty  and  twenty-eight. 


Photo  bij  Strauss. 

MARTIN  R.  GOSSETT 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  the  State  of  Ken- 
Kentucky  April  11,  1S58.  He  remained 
there  until  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age, 
when  his  family  removed  to  Jackson  Coun- 
ty, settling  on  a  farm  near  Independence. 
He  attended  the  district  schools  of  the 
county  in  the  winter  and  worked  on  the 
farm  in  summer  until  he  had  reached  his 
early  manhood.  He  then  went  to  a  pri- 
vate school  in  Independence,  taking  a  clas- 
sical course.  After  leaving  school  Mr.  Gos- 
sett  came  to  Kansas  City  to  live,  and  ob- 
tained employment  in  a  local  clothing 
store.  He  worked  there  for  years,  and  as 
a  feature  of  his  efforts  for  the  betterment 
of  those  working  in  the  same  business, 
was  instrumental  in  helping  organize  the 
local  branch  of  the  Retail  Clerks'  Union. 

Mr.  Gossett  from  then  on  became  a 
prominent  figure  in  union  labor  circles, 
and  was  deemed  suitable  timber  for  the 
Democratic  nomination  for  County  Re- 
corder of  Deeds.  He  was  nominated  and 
elected  to  this  office  in  1898.  Four  vears 
later,  at  the  termination  of  his  term,  he  was 
renominated  by  acclamation  and  again 
elected. 

Mr.  Gossett  holds  membership  in  a 
number  of  secret  and  benevolent  societies, 
among  them  the  Masons,  the  Knights 
Templars,  the  Elks,  the  Woodmen,  and 
also  remans  affiliated  with  the  Retail 
Clerks'  Union. 

He  was  married  in  1881  to  Miss  May 
Carter,  of  Independence,  at  her  home  city. 


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i/.'Y  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

HENRY  N.  GARLAND 
was  born  in  Oswego,  New  York,  February 
21,  1850.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  that  town,  and  after 
leaving  school  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  lived 
ever  since. 

His  first  position  was  with  the  Hannibal 
&  St.  Joseph,  and  until  his  retirement 
from  active  business  life  in  1902  he  remain- 
ed in  the  railroad  business.  He  was  also 
with  the  Burlington  for  awhile  in  the  ear- 
ly days,  but  finally  accepted  employment 
with  the  Wabash,  and  changed  no  more. 
Commencing  as  ticket  agent,  he  worked 
up  rung  by  rung  until  he  was  appointed 
western  passenger  agent.  It  was  from 
this  position  that  he  resigned  in  1902,  hav- 
ing decided  that  "all  work  and  no  play 
makes  Jack  a  dull  bov." 

Few  men  have  done  more  to  "make 
Kansas  City  a  good  place  to  live  in"  than 
Mr.  Garland.  He  was  a  prominent  figure 
in  real  estate  circles  in  "boom  days,"  and 
the  Garland  Block  is  still  a  monument  to 
his  faith  in  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Garland  has  long  been  a  leading 
figure  in  the  local  lodge  of  Elks,  and  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Passenger 
Agents'  Association. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

JOHN  CUTLER  GAGE, 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Kansas  City 
bar,  was  born  April  20,  1835,  at  Pelham, 
New  Hampshire.  His  childhood  days 
were  spent  upon  a  farm,  and  he  was  edu- 
cated at  Phillips  Academy,  Dartmouth 
College,  and  Harvard  College,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1856.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  Boston,  and  in  1858 
came  to  Kansas  City,  becoming  one  of  the 
pioneers  in  the  legal  profession  here. 

In  1870  Sanford  B.  Ladd  became  his 
partner,  and  in  1878  Chas.  E.  Small,  form- 
ing the  firm  of  Gage,  Ladd  &  Small. 
These  men  are  all  noted  lawyers. 

John  C.  Gage  was  the  first  president  of 
the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association  and  like- 
wise of  the  Law  Library  Association.  He 
was  for  a  while  president  of  the  State  Bar 
Association. 

Mr.  Gage  was  married  April  26,  1886, 
to  Miss  Ida  Bailey.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren. 


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THOMAS  J.  GREEN 

was  born  in  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1856.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  and  came  to  this  country  in 
1874,  locating  in  New  York,  where  he 
worked  for  four  years  in  the  store  of  A.  T. 
Stewart. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  187S,  and 
for  a  while  was  with  the  T.  Green  Grocery 
Company,  but  the  possibilities  of  the  real 
estate  business  in  the  booming  town  ap- 
pealed to  him,  and  he  opened  an  office  in 
1880,  and  has  been  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness ever  since. 

Some  years  later  his  brother,  John  J. 
Green,  joined  him,  and  the  firm  played  an 
important  part  in  the  development  of  Kan- 
sas City  from  a  steamboat  landing  into  a 
metropolis. 

Mr.  Green  platted  upwards  of  forty 
additions,  among  the  most  prominent 
being  Greenview,  Phoenix  Park,  Finsbury 
Park,  Prospect  Heights,  Mount  Prospect, 
etc.  He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of 
the  Real  Estate  Exchange,  and  as  much 
as  any  man  is  responsible  for  Kansas  City's 
present  greatness. 

Mr.  Green  wTas  married  in  1897  to  Miss 
Mary  Hartley,  in  County  Cavan,  Ireland, 
and  they  have  one  daughter,  May  Gwen- 
dolin. 


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JOHN  J.  GREEX 
was  born  in  Ireland  March  5,  1857.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Armagh, 
and  came  to  this  country  in  1879.  He  lo- 
cated in  New  York,  and  was  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  until  1882,  when  he  came 
out  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  ever 
since  been. 

Upon  his  arrival  here  he  associated  him- 
self in  the  real  estate  business  with  his 
brother,  T.  J.  Green,  and  that  firm  played 

no  small  part  in  the  development  of  Kan- 
sas City. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  he  soon  made 
himself  a  prominent  figure  in  the  partv 
locally,  and  in  1888  was  elected  Alderman 
from  the  Seventh  Ward.  His  record  in 
the  Council  was  such  as  to  inspire  confi- 
dence, and  in  1894  he  was  elected  City 
Treasurer  by  a  flattering  majority.  In 
1896  he  was  renominated  and  re-elected, 
and  his  record  in  that  office  has  been  a 
standard  of  efficiency  and  trustworthiness. 

Mr.  Green  married  Miss  Ida  Fuller, 
daughter  of  George  W.  Fuller,  April  21, 
1886,  and  they  have  two  children,  George 
Fuller  Green  and  Elsie  Green. 

He  is  a  Mason,  Scottish  Rite  and  York, 
a  Shriner,  and  a  Knight  Templar. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

ALFRED  N.  GOSSETT, 
one  of  the  most  substantial  members  of 
the  bar,  was  born  at  Sharpsburgh,  Ky., 
November  i  ,3,  1 86 1 .  His  father  and  moth- 
er came  to  Jackson  County  in  1S57,  and  it 
was  in  the  schools  near  Independence  that 
Mr.  Gossett  first  became  familiar  with 
books.  He  was  graduated  from  Wood- 
land College  in  1880,  and  then  went  to 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  grad- 
uating with  first  honors  from  the  law  de- 
partment there  in  1883.  The  same  year 
he  began  to  practice  law  at  Kansas  City, 
forming  with  J.  D.  S.  Cook  what  has  the 
distinction  of  being  the  oldest  law  firm  of 
unchanged  name  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Gossett  was  married  in  Kansas  City 
November  23,  1887,  to  Miss  Daisy  Vera 
Galbaugh,  now  deceased.  One  child, 
Gale  Galbaugh  Gossett,  is  living. 

Mr.  Gossett  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Bar  Association  and  of  the  Kansas 
City  Club.  He  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Jacob 
D.  Gossett,  late  of  Independence,  Mo., 
and  a  brother  of  Martin  R.  Gossett,  Re- 
corder of  Deeds. 


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ROBERT  PERNELL  GREENLEE 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Johnson  County, 
Missouri,  October  12,  1868.  He  led  the 
life  of  the  usual  farmer  boy,  working  in 
summer  and  going  to  the  district  school 
in  the  winter.  His  father,  however,  who, 
by  the  way,  represented  his  county  in  the 
Legislature,  sent  his  son  to  the  High  School 
in  Warrensburg,  and  then  gave  him  a 
course  at  the  State  Normal,  from  which 
institution  he  was  graduated  in  1886.  He 
came  to  Kansas  City  the  same  year,  and 
after  taking  a  course  at  Spalding's  Com- 
mercial College  entered  the  Western 
Dental  College.  He  took  his  degree  in 
1 89 1,  and  at  once  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  here  in  Kansas  Citv. 

Dr.  Greenlee  is  a  member  of  the  Mis- 
souri Dental  Association,  and  stands  high 
in  his  profession. 

In  the  spring  of  1902  he  was  nominated 
for  the  Lower  House  by  the  Democrats 
of  the  Eighth  Ward,  a  Republican  ward, 
and  triumphantly  elected. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret  Gano 
May  10,  1892,  and  is  the  father  of  one  son, 
six  vears  old. 


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JOHN  P.  GILDAY 
was  born  November  3,  1S61,  in  Pleasant 
Hill,  Missouri,  but  his  parents  removed  to 
Independence  when  he  was  a  year  old, 
and  in  1868  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
the  family  has  ever  since  remained.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  high 
•  schools  of  this  city,  and  while  attending 
the  High  School  worked  as  a  messenger 
boy  during  his  leisure  hours. 

After  his  graduation  he  entered  mer- 
cantile life,  but  soon  turned  his  attention 
to  stenography.  Having  become  an  ex- 
pert court  stenographer,  he  was  given  that 
position  in  Division  No.  3  in  1896,  and  still 
holds  it. 

Mr.  Gilday  has  studied  law,  but  never 
asked  for  admittance  to  the  bar. 

A  close  student  of  public  matters  and  a 
wide  reader,  he  has  a  library  such  as  few 
men  possess. 

Mr.  Gilday  has  always  been  interested 
in  politics  as  a  Democrat,  having  at  various 
times  in  the  last  fifteen  years  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  City,  County,  and  Congressional 
Committees,  serving  as  secretary  of  each 
through  many  hard-fought  campaigns. 
As  a  reward  for  these  distinguished  ser- 
vices, he  has  been  given  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Sheriff  this  year,  and  tri- 
umphantly elected. 

Mr.  Gilday  married  Mrs.  Maude  Dean 
in  1902. 


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OVERTON  H.  GENTRY,  Jr., 
the  present  treasurer  of  Jackson  County, 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Independence, 
Missouri,  May  9,  1859.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  only  four  years  old,  and  from 
that  day  to  this  he  has  never  lacked  care, 
work,  and  responsibility. 

Mr.  Gentry  went  to  the  district  schools 
in  his  youth,  and  later  in  life  took  a  chem- 
ical course  at  the  Missouri  University, 
working  all  day  to  pay  his  way,  and  study- 
ing at  night.  He  did  the  same  thing  in 
Philadelphia,  where  he  attended  the 
School  of  Pharmacy.  Returning  to  Mis- 
souri, he  formed  a  partnership  with  J.  C. 
Pendleton,  under  the  firm  name  of  Pendle- 
ton &  Gentry,  which  firm  still  continues, 
although  Mr.  Fleming  Pendleton  has  suc- 
ceeded his  brother. 

Mr.  Gentry  has  always  been  a  Demo- 
crat, and  has  contributed  largely  to  his 
party's  success  by  his  work  on  campaign 
committees  and  personal  prestige. 

The  nomination  for  Treasurer  came  to 
him  without  opposition  and  by  acclama- 
tion, and  he  justified  the  confidence  placed 
in  him  by  securing  a  triumphant  majority. 

Mr.  Gentry  was  married  in  1884  to  Miss 
Emma  Robertson,  of  Saline  County,  and 
they  have  three  children.  He  is  an  Elk, 
a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
is  a  Woodman. 


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men  who  are  making  Kansas  city. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

FREDERICK  C.  GUNN 
was  born  in  Atchison,  Kansas  in  1865. 
His  parents  came  of  old  New  England 
stock,  and  his  father,  Maj.  0.  B.  Gunn, 
was  active  in  the  early  railroad  develop- 
ment of  the  West.  The  family  removed 
to  this  city  when  Mr.  Gunn  was  fourteen 
years  of  age,  and  his  interrupted  studies  in 
the  public  schools  of  Atchison  Mr.  Gunn 
then  took  up  in  the  public  schools  here. 
After  finishing  at  the  high  school,  he  went 
to  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  graduated  in  1873.  He 
worked  in  New  York  for  over  two  years, 
and  then  returned  to  Kansas  City,  and 
took  up  his  practice  of  architecture.  He 
organized  the  firm  of  Gunn  &  Curtiss. 
The  partnership  existed  for  ten  vears, 
after  which  time  Mr.  Gunn  practiced  alone. 
He  has  designed  several  of  the  finer  build- 
ings in  this  city  and  a  countless  number  of 
public  buildings  throughout  the  West, 
notably  the  court  houses  at  Lawrence, 
Emporia,  and  Salina,   Kas. 

Mr.  Gunn  is  a  Democrat,  and  represent- 
ed that  party  in  the  Council  from  the 
Third  Ward  from  1892  to  1894.  During 
his  term  of  office  he  was  chairman  of  the 
Finance    and    Park    Committees. 

Under  President  Cleveland's  administra- 
tion he  was  appointed  local  architect  for 
the  new  Postoffice,  a  position  he  held  for 
six  years,  being  relieved  during  the  Mc- 
Kinley  administration. 

Mr.  Gunn  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  the  University  Club,  and  the  Kan- 
sas City  Chapter  of  the  American  Insti- 
tute of  Architects. 

He  was  married  in  1892  to  Miss  Wini- 
fred Burt,  of  Michigan. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

JULES  EDGAR  GUINOTTE 
was  born  on  the  old  Guinotte  homestead 
at  Fourth  Street  and  Troost  Avenue  in 
this  city  in  August,  1855.  His  parents 
were  among  the  earlier  settlers  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country,  and  all  his  life  has 
been  passed  in  this  city.  His  education 
was  secured  at  the  local  common  and  high 
schools.  After  leaving  them  he  went  to 
vSt.  Louis  University  to  take  a  classical 
course.  On  his  return  here  he  engaged 
bn  clerical  work  for  a  while,  but  determined 
on  law  as  a  profession.  He  entered  the 
law  office  of  Tichener  &  Warner,  and  after 
some  years  of  study  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  He  then  engaged  in  general  practice, 
and  was  busy  with  the  duties  of  his  prac- 
tice until  nominated  and  elected  Probate 
Judge  by  the  Democratic  party  in  1886. 
This  position  he  has  since  held,"  being  re- 
turned each  four  years  with  increased  ma- 
jorities. He  was  renominated  again  in 
in  the  spring  of  1902,  and  re-elected. 

Probably  no  man  in  the  community  is 
better  fitted  for  the  arduous  responsibili- 
ties of  the  place  than  Judge  Guinotte,  for 
temperamentally  he  is  gifted  with  the  gen- 
erous sympathy  that  makes  for  ideal  super- 
vision over  the  affairs  of  the  widow  and  or- 
phan, and  the  honesty  and  force  of  char- 
acter to  carry  out  the  plans  best  suited  to 
each  circumstance. 

Judge  Guinotte  married  in  1883  the 
only  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  John  K. 
Stark. 


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ANDREW  E.  GALLAGHER 
was  born  March  24,  i860,  on  a  farm  near 
Oswego,  New  York.  He  attended  the 
district  school,  and  later  on  went  to  the 
State  Normal  School.  After  his  gradua" 
tion  he  taught  school  for  a  couple  of  years, 
but  in  18X2  gave  up  pedagogy,  and  came 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
real  estate  business.  He  is  now  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Hicks  &  Gallagher. 

Always  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Gallagher  has 
taken  a  leading  part  in  politics  ever  since 

coming  to  Kansas  City,  having  served  for 
ten  years  as  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
County  Committee.  He  is  now  chairman 
of  the  County  Committee,  and  his  con- 
duct of  the  recent  campaign  was  largely 
responsible  for  the  brilliant  Democratic 
victory. 

In  1902  he  was  appointed  City  Comp- 
troller by  Mayor  Reed,  the  place  being  the 
first  political  office  ever  held  by  him. 

He  was  married  June  12,  1887,  to  Miss 
Kittie  Burns,  of  Oswego,  N.  Y.  They 
have  five  children,  Burns,  Grace,  Harry, 
Laura,  and  Louise. 

Mr.  Gallagher  is  a  Modern  Woodman, 
and  a  prominent  figure  in  the  public  life 
of  the  town. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

ROBERT  LEE  GREGORY 

was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  March 
24,  1863,  and  has  lived  his  whole  life  here. 
His  father,  William  S.  Gregory,  came  to 
Kansas  City  from  Kentucky  in  1844,  and 
when  the  city  was  organized  in  1853, was 
elected  Mayor — the  first  Mayor  of  Kansas 
City. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
old  Washington  School  and  then  the  Cen- 
tral High  .School,  being  graduated  from 
there  in  1876.  He  then  went  to  the  Kemp- 
er Military  School  in  Booneville  until  1878, 
when  he  accepted  a  position  in  Texas  in 
the  cattle  business,  and  later  embarked 
in  the  industry  on  his  own  hook.  He  re- 
turned to  Kansas  City  in  1884,  and  went 
into  the  employ  of  the  Gregory  Grocery 
Company,  founded  by  his  father.  He 
purchased  a  fourth  interest  in  1887,  and 
in  iSgo  bought  a  controlling  interest. 

Mr.  Gregory  is  a  Democrat,  and  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Police 
Commissioners  by  Governor  Stone,  serv- 
ing until  1902. 

He  married  Miss  Nellie  Weston  Novem- 
ber 6,  1885,  and  they  have  three  children, 
Katherine,  Robert  Lee,  Jr.,  and  William 
Simpson. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

EDWARD  P.  GATES, 

lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born  March  5,  1845, 
at  Lunnenburgh,  Vermont.  When  he  was 
the  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  received  his  early  educa- 
tion. He  was  graduated  with  the  highest 
honors  from  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  in 
1867.  Meanwhile  his  parents  had  moved 
to  Independence,  Mo.,  and  he  came  West 
to  join  them.  For  a  year  he  read  law  in 
the  office  of  Comingo  &  Skiver,  and  in  1868 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1S77  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  William  H. 
Wallace,   enduring  for  twenty  years. 

In  1SS6  Judge  Gates  was  County  Coun-  - 
selor.  He  was  once  pitted  against  Ros- 
coe  Conkling  in  the  trial  of  a  case.  At  the 
election  in  1896  Judge  Gates  was  elevated 
to  the  Circuit  bench.  The  demands  of  a 
large  and  important  law  practice  have  not 
prevented  Judge  Gates  from  becoming 
well  versed  in  literature.  His  private 
library  is  one  of  the  most  complete  in  the 
city. 

Judge  Gates  was  married  November  4, 
1886,  to  Miss  Pattie  Field  Embrey,  of 
Richmond,  Ky. 


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J.  K.  GRIFFITH 

was  born  near  Cynthiana,  Harrison  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  February  22,  1863.  He 
spent  his  boyhood  there  on  the  Kentucky 
farm,  and  received  his  early  education  at 
a  private  school  in  Cynthiana.  He  after- 
wards went  to  Chickering  Institute,  Cin- 
cinnati, and  then  entered  Yale,  gradu- 
ating with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1886. 
After  his  graduation  there,  he  attended 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  taking  his  de- 
gree of  L.L.B.  in  1888.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Ohio,  then  in  Kentucky,  and 
came  to  Kansas  City  for  a  permanent  res- 
idence in  the  fall  of  1S8S.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  here  early  in  1889,  and 
entered  the  office  of  Scarritt  &  Scarritt. 
In  1895  the  firm  of  Scarritt,  Griffith,  & 
Jones  was  formed. 

Mr.  Griffith  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  a  Mason,  having  been  Mas- 
ter of  Temple  Lodge  in  1902.  He  was 
married  June  21,  1893,  in  Kansas  City,  to 
Miss  Georgie  Moore,  and  the  union  has 
been  blessed  with  two  children,  Kerfoot 
M.,  and  Margaret  F. 


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HENRY  A.  GUETTEL 

was  born  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  March  t, 
1866.  His  boyhood,  however,  was  passed 
in  Chicago,  where  he  went  to  the  public 
schools  and  grew  to  manhood. 

His  first  employment  was  as  office  boy 
in  a  wholesale  house,  where  he  remained 
for  nine  years,  working  up  to  the  position 
of  traveling  salesman. 

In  1887  the  firm  of  Auerbach  &  Guettel 
was  formed,  and  the  young  men  started 
out  for  themselves  with  a  retail  store  in 
Topeka,  Kas.  The  business  grew,  their 
capital  increased,  and  in  1893  another  Pal- 
ace Clothing  Store  was  started  in  Kansas 
City,  where  Mr.  Guettel  has  ever  since 
been  located. 

A  third  store  was  started  in  Emporia 
in  1899,  and  in  1901  the  fourth  store  was 
added  to  the  chain  at  St.  Joseph. 

All  are  partnerships  save  the  Plymouth 
Clothing  Company  at  St.  Joseph,  which  is 
a  corporation  of  which  Mr.  Guettel  is  pres- 
ident. 

Mr.  Guettel  belongs  to  the  Commercial 
Club,  the  Progress  Club,  and  is  an  Elk. 

He  married  Miss  Martha  Auerbach  in 
1896,  and  they  have  three  children,  two 
bovs  and  a  s;irl. 


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PORTER  BEACH  GODARD 
was  born  at  Granby,  Connecticut,  June  6, 
1 86 1,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  a 
farm.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Wesley- 
an  Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  entered 
Yale  in  1885,  and  was  graduated  in  1889. 
His  study  of  the  law  began  in  the  office  of 
Judge  Elisha  Johnson  and  Samuel  0. 
Prentice  in  Hartford,  Conn.  In  1891  he 
was  graduated  from  the  Yale  Law  School, 
and  came  to  Kansas  City  July  31  of  the 
same  year,  to  accept  an  offer  from  Gardi- 
ner Lathrop.  He  continued  with  Mr. 
Lathrop  until  March  1,  1892,  when  he  en- 
tered the  law  office  of  Gage,  Ladd  &  Small 

and  has  ever  since  remained  there. 

Mr.  Godard  was  secretary  of  the  Bai 
Association  1899-01,  and  was  one  of  those 
who  started  the  local  Yale  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation, of  which  he  is  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. 

Mr.  Godard  and  Miss  Eleanor  M.  Howd 
were  married  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June 
30,  1S97. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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WARREN  NOBLE  GROFF 
was  born  in  Tiffin,  Ohio,  in  1874.  His  ed- 
ucation was  received  at  the  public  schools, 
followed  by  a  course  at  Notre  Dame,  after 
which  he  entered  the  Ohio  State  Univer- 
sity. He  was  graduated  from  the  latter 
institution  in  1896  with  the  degree  of  A.B. 
He  then  entered  the  law  department,  tak- 
ing his  degree  in  1899. 

Mr.  Groff  comes  of  a  family  of  lawyers, 
his  forebears  having  been  eminent  in  the 
legal  profession  in  Ohio  for  many  vears, 
and  it  was  in  his  native  town  that  he  first 
commenced  to  practice. 

The  great  [Middle  West  called  him, 
however,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he 
came  to  Kansas  City,  and  let  the  local 
winds  dally  with  his  shingle.  Mr.  Groff 
is  alone  in  the  practice  of  the  law. 

He  is  unmarried,  and  belongs  to  the  Chi 
Phi  Fraternity,  the  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  and  the  University  Club. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  since 
coming  to  Kansas  City  has  identified  him- 
self with  the  local  organization. 


JAMES  M.  GREENWOOD 
was  born  in  Sangamon  County,    Illinois, 
November    15,    1837,    his    parents    being 
Edmund   Greenwood   and   Jeanette    Fos- 
ter.    He  spent  his  boyhood  on  the  farm, 
attending    the    district    school.     In    1852 
the  Greenwoods  removed  to  Adair  Coun- 
ty, Missouri,  where  the  father  still  lives. 
It    was    here    that    Professor    Greenwood 
taught  his  first  school,  being  barely  six- 
teen.    In    1857   he  completed  his  educa- 
tion at  the  Methodist  Seminary  in  Can- 
ton, Mo.     He  taught  school  in  Lima  and 
Quincy,  and  in  1862  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army,   serving  throughout   the  war.     He 
taught   in   the   Kirksville   Normal  School 
from  1867  to  1874,  when  he  became  Su- 
perintendent   of    the    Public    Schools    in 
Kansas    City,    then    a    town    of    28,000. 
Professor  Greenwood  has  been  president 
of  the  Missouri  State  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, and  in    1884  became    a    member  of 
the  council  of  the  National  Educational 
Association.     He     has     also     served    as 
treasurer  of   the  National  Association,  and 
in  1897  was  elected  a  life  director  in  the 
association.     In    that    year    the    Missouri 
University  conferred   upon  him    the    de- 
gree of  LL.D. 

Professor  Greenwood  was  married  No- 
vember 1,  1859,  to  Miss  Amanda  Mc- 
Daniel,  a  teacher  in  Kirksville. 

He  has  written  and  revised  many  text- 
books, and  contributed  copiously  to 
mathematical  journals. 


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WILLIAM  P.  HAYDE 
was  born  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  November  6, 
1863,  but  his  father,  a  civil  engineer  and 
contractor,  removed  to  Missouri  when  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  only  a  year  old. 
His  early  boyhood  was  spent  in  the  towns 
of  Edina  and  Kirksville,  where  his  father 
built  the  State  Normal  .School,  and  in 
1879  the  family  came  to  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Hayde  took  a  course  in  a  local  com- 
mercial college,  and  then  learned  the  trade 
of  brick-laying.  Of  a  nomadic  tempera- 
ment, he  worked  all  over  the  country — 
Washington,  Chicago,  New  York,  Ogden, 
Salt  Lake  City,  etc. — sometimes  working 
at  his  trade,  but  more  often  superintend- 
ing jobs.  In  1 89 1  he  was  sent  to  Toronto, 
Canada,  as  a  delegate  to  the  bricklayers' 
National  Convention  from  Utah. 

Returning  to  Kansas  City  in  the  early 
'90's,  Mr.  Hayde  went  into  the  office  of 
Inspector  of  Buildings  during  Mayor  Cow- 
herd's first  administration,  and  from 
there  went  over  to  the  office  of  the  Circuit 
Clerk  to  serve  as  deputy.  He  worked 
there  for  three  years,  making  a  record  for 
efficiency,  and  in  1898  was  appointed 
County  License  Inspector. 

Always  a  Democrat,  Mr.  Hayde  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  City  Committee 
from  the  Eighth  Ward  for  eight  years. 
He  is  a  life  member  of  the  Elks,  a  Knight 
of  Columbus,  and  a  Woodman. 

He  married  Miss  Ida  Welch  in  1893, 
and  they  have  three  children,  one  girl  and 
two  boys. 


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JACOB  ALBERT  HARZFELD 
was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  30, 
1877.  He  lived  in  that  city  until  his 
twentieth  year,  and  his  education  had  its 
beginning  in  the  ward  schools  of  the  city. 
He  entered  the  city  high  schools  at  the 
conclusion  of  his  ward  schooling,  and  after 
his  graduation  took  the  classical  course  at 
the  University  of  Chicago.  When  this 
course  had  been  finished,  Mr.  Harzfeld 
became  a  student  at  the  Northwestern 
University  Law  School,  and  pursued  his 
studies  until  he  had  graduated  from  the 
institution. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1S97,  and 
almost  immediately  entered  the  law  office 
of  Mr.  I.J.  Ringolski.  He  remained  with 
Mr.  Ringolski  for  over  three  years,  being 
engaged  almost  exclusively  on  the  brief 
work  of  the  office. 

He  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
January,  1898,  and  during  the  two  years 
following  was  given  much  opportunity 
for  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  follow- 
ing the  general  practice  of  Mr.  Ringolski 's 
office.     In    1900    Mr.    Harzfeld    left    Mr. 

Ringolski 's  office  and  engaged  in  general 
practice  for  himself,  officing  in  the  New 
York  Life  building,  and  making  a  specialty 
of  commercial  law.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Progress  Club  and  of  the  Young  Men's 
Club. 


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FRANK  HAGERMAN, 
who  has  achieved  a  success  that  few  other 
lawyers  have  attained,  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  Missouri,  April  27,  1857.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  at  Keokuk,  la.,  where 
he  attended  the  public  schools.  He  stud- 
ied law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  P.  T.  Loraax 
at  Keokuk,  and  was  admitted  to  practice 
there  in  1876. 

M.  Hagerman  came  to  Kansas  City  De- 
cember 1,  1887,  when  he  was  thirty  years 
old,  and  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm 
of  Pratt,  McCrary,  Ferry  &  Hagerman. 
In  1896  the  firm  was  dissolved,  and  Mr. 
Hagerman  has  since  practiced  alone. 

Mr.  Hagerman  is  attorney  for  the  Met- 
ropolitan Street  Railway  Company,  the 
Milwaukee  &  Great  Western,  the  packing 
houses  and  other  large  concerns. 

He  was  married  February  22,  1887,  to 
Miss  Ella  Comstock,  of  St.  Louis.  There 
are  two  children,  Haywood  and  Abbie 
Stanton,   thirteen  and  nine  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Hagerman's  brother,  James  H.  Ha- 
german, is  general  solicitor  of  the  M., 
K.  &  T.  at  St.  Louis. 


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HERBERT  SPENCER  HADLEY 
was  born  in  Olathe,  Kansas,  February  20, 
1872.  After  attending  the  public  schools 
he  entered  the  Kansas  University  in  1887, 
and  was  graduated  from  there  in  1898. 
He  then  attended  the  Northwestern  Law 
School  in  Chicago,  and  took  his  degree  in 

1894.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  the 
same  year,  and  was  admitted  to  practice 
here. 

Mr.  Hadley  took  an  active  interest  in 
local  politics  from  the  commencement  of 
his  residence,  and  in  1898  was  appointed 
Assistant  City  Counselor.  In  January, 
1901,  he  resigned  in  order  to  make  the 
race  for  Prosecuting  Attorney,  and  was 
elected  by  a  handsome  majority,  being  the 
first   Republican   to   fill  that  office  for   a 

quarter  of  a  century. 

Mr.  Hadley  gave  promise  of  oratorical 
ability  in  his  school  days.  He  won  first 
prize  for  Kansas  University  in  the  State 
oratorical  contest  in  1891,  and  in  1894, 
while  attending  Northwestern,  repeated 
the  performance. 

Mr.  Hadley  wedded  Miss  Agnes  Lee  Oc- 
tober 8,  1 901,  and  they  have  a  daughter. 


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FRANK  MAYNARD  HOWE 
was  born  in  Arlington,  Mass.,  July  20, 
1849.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  in  Cotting  Academy,  and  after- 
wards took  a  special  course  in  architecture 
at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy in  Boston.  In  1868  he  entered  the 
office  of  Ware  &  Van  Brunt,  architects,  in 
Boston,  and  upon  the  retirement  of  Mr. 
W.  R.  Ware  in  1832,  became  a  partner  in 
the  concern  under  the  name  of  Van  Brunt 
&  Howe,  which  partnership  still  exists. 
Prior  to  this  he  spent  some  time  in  travel 
and, study  abroad,  and  in  1880  formed  a 
partnership  with  the  late  Arthur  H.  Dodd, 
of  Boston,  but  in  1882  this  was  dissolved, 
and  that  of  Van  Brunt  &  Howe  formed. 
In  1885  the  firm  was  established  in  Kan- 
sas City. 

The  present  firm  enjoys  a  large  practice 
in  all  parts  of  the  country,  and  has  always 
retained  its  eastern  office  in  Boston. 
They  were  on  the  Commission  of  Archi- 
tects at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion in  1893,  and  enjoy  a  similar  honor  on 
the  same  commission  at  the  Louisiana 
Purchase  Exposition.  In  their  practice 
in  Kansas  City  they  have  built  many  of 
the  largest  and  most  important  buildings 
here. 

Mr.  Howe  was  married  in  187 1  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Wyman,  of  Arlington,  and  they 
have  two  daughters,  Katherine  and  Dor- 
othy. He  belongs  to  the  Papyrus  Club, 
of  Boston,  the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  is  president  of  the  Knife  and 
Fork  Club,  president  of  the  Symphony 
Orchestra,  and  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  and  Shriner. 


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HORATIO  LOOMIS  HARMON 

was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  July  5,  1855. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high 
schools,  and  after  his  school  days  selected 
a  railroad  career.  For  six  years  he  was 
in  the  freight  office  of  the  Chicago  and 
Northwestern,  and  then  went  to  Southern 
Illinois  as  agent  of  a  constructing  com- 
pany. 

After  two  years  he  accepted  a  position 
as  chief  clerk  in  the  motive  department 
of  the  Burlington  at  Aurora,  111.,  and  after 
a  year  went  to  Chicago  as  contracting 
freight  agent  of  the  C,  B.  &  O.  He  served 
in  that  capacity  for  six  years,  and  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  1889  as  general  agent  of 
the  freight  department.  In  1895  he  was 
made  general  agent  of  the  freight  and  pas- 
senger departments,  and  in  189S  general 
southwestern  agent. 

Mr.  Harmon  has  served  as  secretary  of 
the  Country  Club  since  its  organization, 
is  president  of  the  Railway  Club,  and  is  a 
a  director  in  the  Commercial  Club,  in  the 
Kansas  City  Club,  and  in  the  Board  of 
Trade.  He  is  also  vice-president  of  the 
Symphony  Orchestra,  and  is  a  leading 
figure  in  every  public  movement. 

He  married  Miss  Jeannette  Dodson  in 
Chicago  January  16,  1889. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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GEORGE  B.  HARRISON,  Jr., 
was  born  at  Glasgow,  Mo.,  October  23, 
1870.  His  is  a  pioneer  family,  his  grand- 
father, John  Harrison,  who  was  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  having  settled  in  Howard 
County  in  1814.  There  Mr.  Harrison's 
father,  George  B.  Harrison,  Jr.,  was  born 
and  reared.  Mr.  Harrison  spent  all  his 
earlier  life  in  Glasgow,  going  to  the  public 
schools  there  and  afterwards  to  Pritchett 
College,  where  the  degree  of  A.B.  was  con- 
ferred upon  him  in  1887.  Mr.  Harrison 
went  into  the  banking  business  soon  after 
his  graduation  from  college  in  the  employ 
iif  the  Glasgow  Savings  Bank,  rising  from 
a  clerkship  until  he  was  the  bank's  cashier. 
This  place  he  held  for  ten  years.  He  came 
to  Kansas  City  in  July,  1901,  and  became 
assistant  cashier  of  the  New  England  Na- 
tional Bank.  January  1,  1902,  he  was 
made  cashier  of  the  bank. 

Since  his  local  residence  began,  Mr.  Har- 
rison has  become  identified  with  many  in- 
stitutions of  the  town,  notably  the  Kansas 
City  Athletic  Club,  the  Kansas  City  Club, 
and  he  also  holds  membership  in  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  His  affiliations  in 
banking  and  business  circles  are  extensive, 
being  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Bankers' 
Association,  of  which  he  has  been  first  as- 
sistant secretary-treasurer  and  president 
(1900  to  1 901.)  He  is  also  treasurer  of 
the  Trans-Mississippi  Commercial  Con- 
gress, and  treasurer  of  the  Commercial 
Club. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  married  in  1891  to 
Miss  Ligon,  of  Texas.  They  have  two 
children,  a  boy  and  a  girl. 


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JOHN  THOMAS  HARDING 

was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  Novem- 
ber 15,  1 866.  His  boyhood  days,  howev- 
er, were  passed  in  Nevada,  Missouri,  where 
he  grew  to  manhood.  He  attended  the 
public  schools,  and  then  took  a  course  at 
the  Southwest  Normal  School  in  Port 
Scott,  Kansas,  after  which  he  entered  the 
University  of  Missouri's  law  department. 
He  was  graduated  in  1888,  and  being  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  at  once  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Nevada. 

Always  an  enthusiastic  Democrat  and  a 
public  spirited  man,  Mr.  Harding  served 
terms  as  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Vernon 
County  and  City  Counselor  of  Nevada 
during  his  residence  there. 

In  1900  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
he  has  since  lived.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
local  Bar  Association,  is  a  Mason,  a  Knight 
Templar,  a  Shriner,  and  a  member  of  the 
Beta  Theta  Pi  Fraternity. 

He  was  married  in  1S91  to  Miss  Joel 
Atkinson,  and  they  have  one  child,  Patti, 
born  in  1893. 


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FRANKLIN  HOUSTON 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Huntsville, 
Alabama,  December  18,  1849.  He  is 
practically  a  Missourian,  however,  as  his 
parents  removed  to  this  State  when  he  was 
less  than  a  year  old.  They  first  resided 
nar  Booneville,  but  in  1852  his  father  en- 
tered a  large  tract  of  land  in  Pettis  County 
and  they  located  permanently  there.  His 
father  was  one  of  the  largest  farmers  and 
most  widely  known  man  in  Central  Mis- 
souri. 

Mr.  Houston  attended  the  public  and 
private  schools  in  Missouri  until  1864, 
when  he  entered  Bethany  College  in  West 
Virginia,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1867 
as  valedictorian  of  his  class.  In  1868  he 
entered  the  law  department  of  Michigan 
University.  Returning  to  Sedalia  in  1869, 
he  entered  the  law  offices  of  Phillips  &  Vast, 
then  the  most  widely  known  lawyers  in 
Central  Missouri,  and  remained  with  them 
for  two  years. 

In  1872  he  was  elected  Prosecuting  At- 
torney of  Pettis  County,  and  re-elected  in 
1874,  and  continued  to  practice  law  at  Se- 
dalia and  adjoining  circuits  until  1892, 
when  he  removed  to  Kansas  City.  In 
1900  he  was  appointed  General  Attorney 
of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railway  for  Mis- 
souri, which  position  he  still  holds.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  local  and  State  Bar  As- 
sociations. 

Mr.  Houston  was  married  to  Miss  Har- 
iet  S.  Brown  of  Sedalia,  in  187 1. 


CARL  HOFFMAN 
was  born  at  Brensbach,  Hesse  Darmstad, 
December  24,   1847.     He  acquired  the  ru- 
diments of  an  education  at   the  gymna- 
sium of    his  birthplace,  and  finished  later 
with  a  course  at  the  University  of  Giessen. 
He  had  inherent  taste  for  music,  and  took 
organ,    piano,    and   harmony   under   Man- 
gold   and    Niederhoff.     He    came  to  this 
country  in  1867  and  located  at  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  where  he  devoted  his  energy  and  abil- 
ity to  musical  instruction.     He  was  suc- 
cessful, and  was  offered  and  accepted  the 
chair  of  music  in  Beaver  Seminary,  near 
Pittsburg,    then    the    largest    educational 
place  for   women  in  America.     Tiring  of 
this,  he  came  farther  West,  and  in  Leaven- 
worth, Kas.,  started  into  the  business  of 
selling  musical  instruments,  gradually  de- 
veloping the  business  into  a  retail  store  for 
sheet    music    and    musical    sundries.     He 
left    Leavenworth    in    1894,    moving    his 
stock  and  business  offices.     While  in  Leav- 
enworth Mr.  Hoffman  made  much  progress 
in  perfecting  the  musical  taste  of  the  town, 
his  position  as  organist    of    the  Catholic 
Cathedral  for  ten  years  giving  him  the  op- 
portunity his  tastes  inclined  to.     A  year 
ago  his  business  was  incorporated  under 
the  firm  name  of  the  Carl  Hoffman  Music 
Company,    with   his   two   sons   as   partial 
stockholders. 

Mr.  Hoffman  was  married  while  living 
in  Leavenworth,  his  wife  being  Miss  Ida 
Schmelzer.  They  have  four  children, 
John,  Ernest,  Josephine,  and  Margaret. 


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HARRY  HENLEY, 
elected  Circuit  Clerk  of  Jackson  County 
at  the  recent  election,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Independence  a  little  over  thirty 
years  ago.  The  story  of  his  life  is  one  of 
struggle  against  adverse  circumstances, 
adversity  cheerfully  borne,  obstacles  over- 
come, and  duty  done.  Before  he  had 
even  had  the  advantages  of  a  public  school 
education,  he  commenced  to  earn  his 
livelihood,  and  ease,  as  a  friend,  has  never 
known  him  from  that  day.  There  were 
few  things  that  the  boy  did  not  do — he 
sold  papers  in  the  street  and  carried  them 
from  house  to  house,  worked  in  a  woolen 
mill  from  dawn  till  dark,  served  as  helper 
in  a  painter's  shop,  and  finally  learned  the 
painter's  trade — and  every  change  he 
made  was  one  of  advancement. 

Knowing  everybody,  and  making  a 
friend  of  every  acquaintance,  it  came 
around  that  influence  secured  him  a  place 
in  the  Circuit  Clerk's  office  at  Independ- 
ence. Commencing  as  an  office  assistant, 
he  worked  himself  up  to  the  position  of 
deputy,  and  finally  came  to  have  sole  con- 
trol of  the  Independence  office. 

Mr.  Henley  studied  law  at  night,  and 
has  been  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  lives 
with  his  parents,  and  belongs  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Woodmen. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

EDWARD  EYERETT  HOLMES 

was  born  in  West  Winstead,  Connecticut, 
December  29,  1849.  He  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools  of  his  native  town, 
and  also  studied  civil  engineering.  His 
first  occupation  was  as  axeman  in  a  rail- 
road surveying  crew,  and  he  rose  steadily 
until  made  division  superintendent.  In 
1873,  when  the  panic  stopped  all  building, 
he  found  himself  in  Muscatine,  la.  He 
located  there,  and  for  two  years  worked 
as  a  book-keeper.  From  that  he  worked 
into  the  real  estate  and  mortgage  business, 
in  which  he  has  continued  ever  since.  In 
1879  he  moved  from  Muscatine  to  Em- 
poria, Kas.,  and  in  1S82  came  to  Kansas 
City. 

Mr.  Holmes  is  second  vice-president  of 
the  United  States  and  Mexican  Trust  Com- 
pany, which  is  engaged  in  securing  the 
right  of  way  for  the  Orient  line,  and  is  also 
director  in  several  mining  companies.  He 
is  a  man  of  intensest  energy  and  applica- 
tion, and  has  been  an  important  factor  in 
the  upbuilding  of  the  town. 

Mr.  Holmes  is  a  member  of  the  Evans- 
ton  Golf  Club.     He  was  married  in   1873 
to  Miss  Martha  J.  Hawley,  of  Muscatine 
la.,  and  they  have  one  son,  Albert. 


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NUMA  FLETCHER  HEITMAN 

was  born  September  1 1 ,  1 860,  in  David- 
son County,  North  Carolina.  He  was  the 
oldest  in  a  family  of  nine,  and  his  struggle 
for  the  education  he  so  much  desired  was 
a  long  and  hard  one.  He  had  two  uncles, 
one  a  Methodist  preacher,  and  they  helped 
him  in  the  furtherance  of  his  ambitions. 
By  borrowing  from  the  Charles  F.  Deem's 
fund,  he  entered  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  and  was  graduated  in  1882  with 
the  degree  of  A.B.  While  at  school  he 
made  the  highest  average  grade  in  his 
class,  won  the  prize  in  moral  philosophy, 
and  also  carried  away  the  gold  medal  of- 
fered in  oratorical  competition. 

He  decided  to  study  law,  and  entered 
the  law  department  of  the  University  of 
Virginia,  taking  his  degree  in  18S5.  He 
came  to  Kansas  City  at  once  and  hung  out 
his  shingle,  and  has  been  engaged  in  gen- 
eral practice  ever  since. 

He  married  Miss  Emma  Coleman  Octo- 
ber 8,  1888,  and  is  the  father  of  two  chil- 
dren, John  Hood  Heitman,  twelve  years 
old,  and  Numa  F.,  Jr.,  twenty  months  old. 


C.  LESTER  HALL 
was  born  in  Arrow  Rock,  Saline  County, 
Missouri,  March  10,  184s,  the  son  of  a 
prominent  physician  and  pioneer  Missou- 
rian.  His  boyhood,  however,  was  spent 
on  a  farm  south  of  Marshall,  and  his  early 
education  was  received  at  the  district 
schools.  In  1 86 1,  although  only  16,  he 
entered  the  Confederate  army  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Dill's  famous  regiment,  but  was 
captured  at  the  battle  of  Milford  and  put 
in  prison,  first  at  Alton  and  then  in  St. 
Louis.  After  a  few  months  he  took  the 
oath  and  returned  home,  soon  after  enter- 
ing the  Kemper  School  at  Booneville. 
He  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  in 
1864,  and  attended  the  St.  Louis  Medical 
College,  and  then  for  four  years  he  studied 
with  his  father,  after  which  he  entered  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  at  Philadelphia, 
where  he  took  the  degree  in  1867.  He 
first  practiced  with  his  father,  but  after 
six  years  removed  to  Marshall,  where  he 
remained  until  1890,  when  he  came  to 
Kansas  City. 

Dr.  Hall  has  served  terms  as  president 
of  the  local  Academy  of  Medicine,  the  Mis- 
souri State  Medical  Association,  and  sec- 
retary of  the  section  of  diseases  of  women 
in  the  American  Medical  Association. 
He  is  president  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College,  and  pro- 
fessor of  diseases  of  women  and  abdominal 
surgery  in  that  institution. 

He  married  Miss  Katherine  Sappington, 
of  Saline  County,  in  1867,  and  they  have 
four  children,  Walton,  C.  Lester,  J.,  Kath- 
erine May,  and  Mrs.  Leon  Smith. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

ROLAND  HUGHES 

was  born  in  Plattsburg,  Missouri,  March 
20,  1855,  the  son  of  Colonel  John  F. 
Hughes,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Independence  shortly  after  being  brevet- 
ted  brigadier-general.  The  boy  Roland 
was  just  eight  years  old  at  the  time,  and 
with  his  mother  and  brothers  began  the 
work  of  making  a  living  on  the  farm.  He 
worked  early  and  late,  but  managed  to  se- 
cure some  schooling,  and  later  in  his  teens 
contrived  a  course  in  William  Jewell  Col- 
lege at  Liberty.  He  then  taught  school 
For  a  while  in  Clinton  County,  and  with  the 
money  thus  saved  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Governor  Ingles  in  Plattsburg,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S76.  His  first  act 
was  to  sell  the  reversion  in  his  mother's 
dower  interest  in  the  farm,  buying  it  in  for 
her.  Lawyers  denied  that  it  could  be 
done,  but  the  Supreme  Court  upheld  the 
youthful  Roland  in  his  generosity.  He 
began  the  practice  of  law'  in  Plattsburg, 
and  his  ability  soon  brought  him  into  po- 
litical prominence.  He  was  elected  twice 
to  the  office  of  Prosecuting  Attorney,  and 
the  nature  of  the  man  was  admirably 
shown  by  his  disposition  of  the  salary. 
The  first  term's  pay  went  to  build  a  house 
on  the  farm  for  his  mother,  and  the  second 
to  educate  his  two  younger  brothers. 

Mr.  Hughes  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
iNS;,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Gen- 
eral Byron  Sherry,  which  continued  until 
the  latter 's  removal  from  the  citv. 

The  firm  of  Witten  &  Hughes  was  then 
formed,  which  continued  until  the  election 
of  Mr.  Hughes  to  the  office  of  Prosecuting 
Attorney  in  1902. 


JAMES  WILLIAM  HULL 
was  born  May  10,  1873,  in  Weston,  Mis- 
souri. His  father,  Walter  S.  Hull,  is  one 
of  the  pioneer  residents  of  Platte  County, 
having  emigrated  from  Kentucky  in  1840. 
His  mother,  Susan  A.  Lowe,  was  the 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Shelton  Lowe,  a  Bap- 
tist minister,  and  who,  by  the  way,  enjoyed 
the  distinction  of  cousinship  with  Jeffer- 
son Davis. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  schools,  and  then  entered  Washing- 
ton LTni versify  in  St.  Louis.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  dental  department  in 
1897,  and  in  1898  came  to  Kansas  City, 
where  he  commenced  the  practice  of  his 
profession. 

Mr.  Hull  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri 
Dental  Association,  and  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  body  in  1901.  He  has  also 
occupied  the  position  of  demonstrator  of 
operative  dentistry  in  the  Western  Den- 
tal College,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Kan- 
sas State  Dental  Association. 

Dr.  Hull  is  a  Mason,  having  taken  all 
the  degrees  in  the  York  rite,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  Temple  299,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Orient 
Chapter,  102  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Oriental 
Commandery  128,  Knights  Templar,  She- 
kinah  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters, 
and  is  also  a  Shriner.  He  belongs  to  the 
University  Club,  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club, 
and  the  Evanston  Golf  Club. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

HALE  HOLDEN 
was  born  in  Kansas  City  August  11,  1869, 
and  laid  the  foundation  for  his  later  learn- 
ing in  the  public  schools  of  this  city.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  High  School  in 
1886,  and  in  1890  received  the  degree  of 
A.B.  from  Williams  College.  Two  years 
later  he  was  graduated  from  the  Harvard  - 
Law  School,  and  entered  the  law  office  of 
Warner,  Dean,  Hagerman.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Warner,  Dean,  Gib- 
son &  McLeod  January  1,  1S95.  Subse- 
quently James  Hagerman  went  to  St. 
Louis,  and  Judge  Gibson  went  on  the  Cir- 
cuit bench  in  1898,  when  the  firm  became 
Warner,  Dean,  McLeod  &  Holden. 

Mr.  Holden  was  married  September 
iS,  1895,  to  Miss  Ellen  M.  Weston,  daugh- 
ter of  ex-Lieutenant-Governor  Weston, 
of  Massachusetts,  at  Dalton,  Mass.  They 
have  two  children,  Eleanor  Weston  and 
Hale  Holdan,  Jr. 


Photo  by  SI  runs*. 

CHARLES  MORGAN  HOWELL 
was  born  at  Sholes,  Indiana,  in  1872.  His 
family  moved  to  Fairfax,  Mo.,  when  he 
was  eight  years  old,  and  it  was  there  Mr. 
Howell  received  his  early  education.  He 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  of  the 
town  and  then  took  a  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Missouri,  from  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1890.  After  his  graduation  he 
took  a  course  in  political  economy  and 
kindred  subjects  at  William  Jewell 
College  in  Liberty,  Mo.  He  studied  law 
for  a  time  in  the  office  of  Congressman 
Dougherty,  and  then  went  to  Ann  Arbor 
for  a  special  law  course,  graduating  from 
there  in  1893.  After  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  at  Liberty,  Mo.,  he  came  to  Kan- 
sas City.  He  was  appointed  by  former 
Prosecuting  Attorney  James  A.  Reed  an 
assistant  prosecutor,  and  served  through- 
out Mr.  Reed's  term  of  office  from  1899  to 
1900.  He  is  now  an  Assistant  City  Coun- 
selor. 

He  has  always  been  active  in  politics, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Jackson  County 
Club.  Aside  from  this,  he  holds  member- 
ship in  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America, 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Greek  let- 
ter society,  Kappa  Alpha.  Mr.  Howell 
enlisted  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish 
war  and  was  elected  first  lieutenant  of 
Company  F,  Third  Missouri  Volunteers, 
and  was  afterwards  commissioned  captain 
of  Company  A,  Missouri  Volunteers.  Mr. 
Howell  is  unmarried. 


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MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

ARCHIBALD  DAVID  L.  HAMILTON 

was  born  at  Brampton,  Ontario,  Novem- 
ber 16,  i860,  and  is  of  Irish  descent.  His 
family  moved  to  Toronto  when  he  was 
twelve  years  of  age,  and  his  education  was 
secured  in  the  public  schools  of  Brampton 
and  Toronto.  At  the  end  of  his  school 
life  Mr.  Hamilton  went  into  the  paper 
business,  and  has  remained  in  it  ever  since. 

He  came  to  the  United  States  in  1S85, 
when  he  went  with  the  American  Roll 
Paper  Company  and  afterwards  with  the 
Graham  Paper  Company.  He  came  to 
this  town  in  1S91  for  the  latter  company 
to  take  charge  of  the  local  branch.  Aside 
from  his  position  as  manager  of  the  place, 
Mr.  Hamilton  has  aided  in  many  ways  the 
plans  tending  to  the  upbuilding  of  Kansas 
City,  and  is  affiliated  with  various  associa- 
tions having  that  end  in  view. 

He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  or- 
iginal Karnival  Krewe,  and  has  been  its 
secretary  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was 
a  director  in  the  Krewe.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Commercial  and  Kansas 
City  Driving  Clubs,  and  a  member  and  di- 
rector of  the  Manufacturers'  Association. 
Among  the  secret  societies  he  is  affiliated 
witli  are  the  Elks  and  the  Masons,  he  being 
;i  Scottish  Rite  and  a  Shriner. 

Mr.  Hamilton  was  married  in  Toronto 
in   [886  to  Miss  C.ammie. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

BEN   T.    HARDIN 

was  born  in  Randolph  County,  Missouri, 
October  8,  1852,  and  lived  there  until  he 
was  nineteen  years  old.  His  first  work  was 
on  the  farm,  splitting  rails  and  hewing  ties 
for  the  C.  &  A.  railroad.  He  taught  school 
two  years,  and  went  to  the  State  Normal 
at  Kirksville,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1875.  The  two  following  years  he 
was  Principal  of  the  Public  Schools  at 
New  London,  and  then  entered  the  law- 
office  of  Martin  &  Priest,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  1877,  and  came  to  Kansas 
City  May  17,  18S9. 

Mr.  Hardin  was  Prosecuting  Attorney 
of  Randolph  County  four  years.  In  Kan- 
sas City  he  has  acted  as  special  judge  fre- 
quently on  the  Circuit  bench,  and  is  well 
known  as  a  Republican  campaign  speaker. 

He  was  married  October  8,  1S79,  to  Miss 
Clara  Phillips. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

SIGMUND  HARZFELD 
was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  October  2, 
1867,  but  his  parents  moved  to  Chicago 
,when  he  was  still  a  mere  child.  In  the 
Lake  Front  city  he  spent  his  boyhood, 
and  received  his  education  in  the  schools 
there.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  first  man- 
ual training  school  in  the  State  of  Illinois, 
by  the  way. 

After  getting  out  of  school,  he  went  to 
work  as  office  boy  in  a  mercantile  house, 
and  by  dint  of  "hustling"  worked  up  to 
the  position  of  manager  of  the  business. 
In  1S90  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  start- 
ed the  Parisian  Cloak  Company. 

In  those  days  the  company  occupied 
one  store-room,  and  employed  only  fif- 
teen people.  To-day  the  Parisian  Cloak 
Company  has  its  four-story  building,  and 
has  over  a  hundred  people  on  its  pay-roll. 

Mr.  Harzfeld  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  has  been  active  in  every 
movement  tending  to  make  Kansas  City 
greater.  He  is  also  president  of  the 
Progress  Club,  and  an  Elk. 

He  married  Miss  Florence  Stern  in  1894. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

EDMUND  ALEXANDER  HUPPERT 

was  born  near  Alton,  Illinois,  November 
22,  1863,  but  was  reared  to  manhood  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  went  to  the  public 
schools  there  and  then  to  Washington 
University,  after  which  his  parents  de- 
cided to  give  him  an  art  education,  as  he 
had  shown  artistic  talent  ever  since  child- 
hood. A  course  at  the  St.  Louis  School 
of  Fine  Arts  was  followed  by  a  three  years' 
stay  in  Europe,  where  he  worked  early 
and  late  under  the  tutelage  of  masters. 
He  studied  for  a  while  in  the  Royal  Acad- 
emy at  Munich,  but  soon  entered  the  Ju- 
lian Academy  in  Paris,  where  he  sat  under 
the  teachings  of  Lefebvre  and  Boulanger. 
After  some  months  spent  in  travel,  he  re- 
turned to  St.  Louis  in  1887,  and  in  1S89 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  established 
the  Kansas  City  School  of  Fine  Arts,  with 
only  energy  and  talent  for  capital.  He 
has  made  the  venture  a  success,  and  the 
school  now  ranks  with  the  best  in  the  coun- 
try. 

Professor  Huppert  was  appointed  su- 
pervisor of  drawings  in  the  public  schools 
in  1902,  a  position  that  does  not  interfere 
with  his  own  school  work.  His  canvases 
are  in  many  galleries  of  note  throughout 
the  country,  and  hang  in  many  public 
buildings,  notably  the  Missouri  State 
University. 

He  married  Miss  Tessie  Withers  in  189 1. 
He  is  a  Woodman,  and  a  charter  member 
of  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

DANIEL  B.  HOLMES 
was  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  March 

I3i  1850.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  then  attended 
the  Transylvania  High  School,  and  in  1870 
graduated  from  Kentucky  University  at 
Lexington  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  He 
then  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
and  was  graduated  from  there  in  1872 
with  the  degree  of  L.L.D.  He  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  the  same  year,  and  soon 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  ex-Senator 
T.  V.  Bryant,  which  continued  for  thirteen 
years.  For  two  years  he  was  alone,  and 
then  the  firm  of  Karnes,  Holmes  &  Kraut- 
hoff  was  formed  in  1 889  and  continued  for 
ten  years.  He  is  now  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Holmes  &  Perry. 

It  was  February  6,  177,  that  Mr.  Holmes 
married  Miss  Lyda  A.  Massey,  of  Jeffer- 
son City,  daughter  of  Hon.  James  F.  Mas- 
sey, Secretary  of  State  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  civil  war,  and  also  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention.  Mr. 
Holmes  is  the  father  of  four  children, 
Massey  B.,  now  practicing  law  in  New 
York;  Mrs.  George  B.  Langford,  Miss 
Mignon,  and  Gilbert. 

Mr.  Holmes  has  served  a  term  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

FREDERICK  HUTTIG,  Sr., 

was  born  in  Isserstedt,  Germany,  June  10, 
18.32.  His  education  was  secured  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  place.  Mr.  Huttig 
came  to  this  country  and  located  in  in 
Muscatine,  Iowa,  in  1852.  He  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  after  a  time,  and 
remained  in  the  business  for  five  years. 
He  then  went  into  the  sash  and  door  bus- 
iness, being  a  pioneer  in  that  line  of  work 
in  the  West.  In  conjunction  with  the 
sash  and  door  business  at  Muscatine,  Mr. 
Huttig  engaged  in  selling  lumber  at  Kel- 
logg, la.  He  remained  in  the  sash  and 
door  business  in  Muscatine  for  nineteen 
years,  and  was  twice  honored  with  public 
office  by  the  citizens  of  the  town,  first  as 
a  member  of  the  City  Council  and  then  as 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors. 

Mr.  Huttig  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1895. 
His  two  sons,  Frederick,  Jr.,  and  William, 
had  preceded  him  to  this  city,  and  had  or- 
ganized and  were  running  the  Western 
Sash  and  Door  Company.  Mr.  Huttig 
went  into  the  business  with  them,  and  is 
the  company's  vice-president.  It  is  by 
far  the  biggest  company  in  that  line  of 
business  in  the  West,  and  shows  a  most 
marvelous  growth  within  recent  years. 

Mr.  Huttig  holds  membership  in  a  num- 
ber of  secret  societies,  among  them  the 
Masons  and  the  Knights  of  Honor. 


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Photo  hy  Thomson. 

WILLIAM  HUTTIG 

was  born  in  Muscatine,  Iowa,  November 

26,   1859.     His  education  was  received  in 

the  public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  ten 

he  went  to  work  for  his  father,  a  pioneer 
in  the  sash  and  door  business.  The  young 
William  was  started  in  at  the  very  bottom, 
his  daily  wage  being  twenty  cents,  but  he 
worked  up. 

The  business  was  moved  to  Kansas  City, 
in  1S82.  At  that  time  the  Western  Sash 
and  Door  Company  was  capitalized  for 
$30,000,  but  to-day  its  capitalization  is 
$800,000.  Mr.  Huttig  is  president  of  the 
company. 

He  is  also  vice-president  of  the  Fidelity 
Trust  Company,  a  director  in  the  Eagle 
Manufacturing  Company,  the  Sonora  De- 
velopment Company,  and  the  Kansas  City 
and  Arkansas  Development  Company. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  executive  members 
of  the  Mexico  &  Orient  Railroad. 

Mr.  Huttig  is  a  very  public  spirited  man, 
and  has  played  a  prominent  part  in  the 
upbuilding  of  the  town.  He  belongs  to 
the  Commercial  Club  and  the  Kansas  City 
Club.  He  was  married  June  16,  1896,  to 
Miss  Nannie  Holmes,  daughter  of  J.  T. 
Holmes.  They  have  one  daughter.  Mr. 
Huttig  has  three  sons  by  a  former  wife. 


Photo  hii  Thomson. 

FREDERICK  HUTTIG,  Jr., 

was  born  in  Muscatine,  Iowa,  August  14, 
187 1,  son  of  the  pioneer  sash  and  door 
manufacturer  of  the  West.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools, 
and  also  had  the  advantage  of  a  high  school 
course.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  com- 
menced to  work,  accepting  employment 
with  his  father's  house,  and  it  was  not 
long  until  he  reached  a  stage  of  efficiency 
that  recommended  him  for  promotion, 
and  he  was  given  charge  of  the  firm's 
branch  house  at  Wichita,  Kas.  He  suc- 
ceeded so  admirably  that  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  more  important  branch  at 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  Here  he  remained  until 
1890,  when  he  came  to  Kansas  City  to  ac- 
cept the  position  of  treasurer  of  the  West- 
ern Sash  and  Door  Company. 

This  position  he  still  holds,  and  he  has 
played  no  small  part  in  developing  the 
Western  Sash  and  Door  Company  from 
an  average  concern  to  perhaps  the  great- 
est of  its  kind  in  the  world. 

Mr.  Huttig  married,  April  17,  1S96 
Miss  Catherine  Holmes,  daughter  of  J.  T. 
Holmes,  one  of  Kansas  City's  pioneer  cit- 
izens, and  they  have  one  boy. 

Mr.  Huttig  belongs  to  the  Kansas  City 
Club,  to  the  Commercial  Club,  the  Driving 
Club,  and  is  an  Elk  and  a  Mason. 


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\I1-X  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WALTON  H.  HOLMES, 
one  of  the  best  known  men  in  Kansas 
City,  was  the  second  child  of  Nehemiah 
and  Mary  Holmes  and  was  born  in 
1 86 1  in  Independence,  Missouri.  His 
father  was  the  founder,  of  the  street 
railway  system  of  Kansas  City,  and  dur- 
ing his  vacations  from  the  local  high 
school  and  the  Christian  Brothers'  Col- 
lege in  St.  Louis,  the  young  Walton 
learned  the  business,"  beginning  at  the 
bottom. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  engaged  in 
the  business  of  contractor  and  builder 
on  a  large  scale  and  when  seventeen  years 
old  was  elected  vice-president  of  the 
Kansas  City  and  Westport  Horse  Rail- 
wav  Company,  and  upon  attaining  his 
majority  was  elected  president.  In  1886 
he  introduced  the  cable  system,  and  was 
the  first  president  in  the  L'nited  States 
to  introduce  the  overhead  trolley  elec- 
tric system.  It  was  chiefly  through  his 
instrumentality  that  the  street  car  line 
of  the  city  were  consolidated,  after  which 
he  was  made  vice  president  and  general 
manager,  and  in  1 898  was  elected  pres- 
ident. In  1902  Mr.  Holmes  severed 
his  connection  with  the  Metropolitan, 
and  is  now  engaged  in  looking  after  his 
own  personal  interests. 

In  1884  he  was  married  to  Miss  Flee- 
cie  Phillips  daughter  of  Dr.  Phillips, 
an  eminent  surgeon  of  Austin,  Tex., 
and  a  niece  of  U.  S.  District  Judge  John 
F.  Phillips.  They  have  one  son,  Wal- 
ton H.,  Jr. 


1'lioto  hy  Thomson. 

CONWAY  F.  HOLMES 
youngest  child  of  Nehemiah  and  Mary 
Holmes,  was  born  in  1864  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  local  schools  and  the  business  col- 
lege at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  Like  his 
brother,  Walton,  he  entered  the  street 
railway  service  while  yet  a  lad,  and  in 
1886  became  superintendent  of  the  Grand 
Avenue  Cable  Company.  With  his  broth- 
er he  brought  about  the  first  street  railway 
consolidation  and  the  subsequent  merg- 
ing of  all  the  Kansas  City  lines  into  the 
Metropolitan  Street  Railway  system,  of 
which  he  became  general  superintendent 
and  later  general  manager.  In  addition 
to  his  duties  with  the  Metropolitan,  he 
was  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Electric 
Light  Company,  a  director  in  the  Kansas 
City  State  Bank,  and  a  vice-president 
and  member  of  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  American  Street  Railway  Associa- 
tion. 

In  1885  he  married  Miss  Maud  Gregory, 
daughter  of  Kansas  City's  first  mayor, 
and  has  one  son,  named  William  Gregory. 


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Photo  by  Cornish. 

ELIHU  WATTS  HAYES 
was  born  in  West  Lebanon,  Maine,  Octo- 
ber 23,  1857.  His  early  education  was  se- 
cured in  the  public  schools,  and  he  after- 
wards took  a  classical  course  in  the  West 
Lebanon  Academy. 

After  graduation,  he  entered  the  mer- 
cantile life  in  North  Lebanon,  remaining 
in  that  town  until  1882,  when  the  larger 
West  called  him. 

He  located  in  Kansas  City  in  1882,  and 
has  been  a  steady  resident  ever  since,  be- 
ing continuously  engaged  in  the  real  estate 

and  building  business. 

Always  a  Democrat  and  an  active  work- 
er for  the  party's  success,  Mr.  Hayes  was 
given  the  nomination  for  County  Collector 
in  1890,  and  elected  by  a  handsome  ma- 
jority. He  served  the  four  years'  term, 
and  then  returned  to  his  private  business. 
He  has  served  at  different  times  on  the 
City,  County,  and  Congressional  Com- 
mittees, and  is  a  strong  man  politically. 

Mr.  Hayes  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Ma- 
son. He  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss  An- 
nie E.  Jones,  of  North  Lebanon,  and  is  the 
father  of  three  children,  Bessie  C,  Victor 
E.,  and  Mabel  A. 


MATTHEW   SIMPSON   HUGHES, 

pastor  of  the  Independence  Avenue 
Methodist  Church,  was  born  at  Dod- 
dridge, Virginia,  February  2,  1863.  He 
was  educated  at  Linsley  Institute  and 
at  the  West  Virginia  University,  in 
whose  faculty  at  that  tihie  was  Wm.  L 
Wilson,  afterwards  famous  as  the  auth- 
or of  the  Wilson  Bill  in  Congress.  Dr. 
Hughes  lived  in  Virginia  until  he  was 
twenty-four  years  old  He  was  or- 
dained for  the  ministry  in  1888  and  his 
first  pastoral  work  was  in  Iowa.  He 
rose  rapidly,  and  was  soon  called  to  the 
Methodist  Church  in  Portland,  the  larg- 
est Protestant  Church  in  the  State  of 
Maine.  He  next  went  to  the  Wesley 
Church  in  Minneapolis  from  which  he 
was  called  to  the  Kansas  City  church  in 

1898. 

Dr.  Hughes  studied  law,  and  was  of- 
fered a  partnership  with  one  of  the  lead- 
ing attorneys  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
city  editor  of  a  newspaper  at  Morgans- 
town  and  one  at    Parkersburg. 

Newspaper  work  gave  him  facility 
and  a  deep  knowledge  of  human  nature, 
while  the  law  imparted  a  certain  judicial 
dispassionate  tinge  to  his  mind.  He  is 
a  brilliant  pulpit  orator,  whose  oratory, 
however,  is  of  ideas,  not  mere  words. 

Dr.  Hughes  was  married  to  Miss  Har- 
riet F.  Wheeler  at  Grinned,  la.,  in  1888 
They    have    two    children,    Blakely    and 
Esther 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


LEE  HANEV 
was  born  in  Carroll  County,  Missouri, 
April  2,5,  1869,  but  spent  his  boyhood  in 
Leavenworth  County,  Kansas,  where  he 
attended  the  district  schools.  When 
eleven  he  ran  away  from  home  and  went 
to  Xew  York  city.  He  sold  papers  for 
three  years,  when  he  went  with  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Hotel  as  bell-boy,  leaving  three 
years  later  as  night  clerk.  He  joined 
Sells  Bros.'  Circus,  and  made  the  Austra- 
lian tour  with  the  company  in  1885.  On 
his  return  he  went  into  the  newspaper  bus- 
iness at  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  and  after  a  year 
or  so  there  drifted  to  the  Santa  Fe  ma- 
chine shops  at  Argentine,  where  he  re- 
mained three  years,  leaving  to  become  a 
foreman  on  the  road  for  a  year.  He  then 
went  to  Topeka  as  day  clerk  in  the  Ches- 
terfield Hotel,  owned  by  Allen  Sells,  and 
came  to  Kansas  City  as  night  clerk  at  the 
Midland  in  1892.  He  then  toured  a  sea- 
son with  the  "Alabama"  Company,  play- 
ing a  part,  and  returned  to  Kansas  City  in 
189S,  going  to  work  for  the  World  as  Kan- 
sas City,  kas.,  editor.  He  went  with  the 
Joiirnal  in  1902,  and  later  in  the  year  was 
made  press  agent  of  the  Orpheum  Theater, 
which  place  he  now  holds.  He  was  mar- 
ried August  28,  1898,  to  Miss  Edith  Davis, 
of  Kingston,  Mo.,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Jefferson  Davis.  They  have  one  child, 
Lee  Haney   Jr. 


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ROBERT  JAY  INGRAHAM 

was  born  in  1864  in  Coshocton,  Ohio, 
but  has  nobly  lived  it  down. 

After  going  through  the  public  and 
high  schools  of  Coshocton,  he  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  1884,  and  went  into  the 
office  of  C.  0.  Tichenor,  where  he  read 
law  for  two  years  under  the  tutelage  of 
that  able  jurist. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1886, 
and  remained  with  Mr.  Tichenor  until 
1889,  when  the  law  firm  of  Teasdale, 
Ingraham  &  Cowherd  was  organized. 
Mr.  Cowherd  was  first  elected  Mayor, 
then  Congressman.  In  1901  Mr  Teas- 
dale  was  made  Circuit  Judge,  and  in 
1902  Mr.  Ingraham  was  appointed  City 
Counselor  by  Mayor  Reed.  It  is  really 
his  first  political  office,  unless  one  counts 
his  terms  as  Mayor  and  City  Counselor 
of  Westport  before  its  consolidation  with 
Kansas  City. 

He  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat, 
and  plays  an  important  part  in  every 
political  campaign,  although  never  put- 
ting party  above  public  welfare. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret 
Nelon,  of  Lawrence,  Kas.,  and  the  mar- 
riage has  been  blessed  with  two  children 
Margaret  and  Robert  James. 


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LAWRENCE  MONROE  JONES 

president  and  treasurer  of  the  Jones 
Bros.  Dry  Goods  Co.,  was  born  in  Frank- 
lin County,  Illinois,  December  28,  1856. 
His  early  education  was  received  in  the 
public  schools,  but  he  earned  money 
enough  to  take  himself  through  Ham- 
ilton College.  After  graduating  he 
taught  school  for  six  years,  but  his  bent 
was  commercial  rather  than  pedagogic. 
In  1879,  in  the  hamlet  of  Parrish,  111., 
he  started  a  general  store  in  company 
with  his  brother,  Logan  and  another 
partner.  After  the  first  year  they 
bought  out  the  third  man,  and  the  sec- 
ond year  did  a  business  of  $30,000. 
Spreading  their  wings,  the  Jones  broth- 
ers removed  to  the  county  seat,  Benton, 
and  then  the  family  journeyed  to  Kan- 
sas. In  a  general  store  in  Winchester, 
then  in  Stratford,  and  then  in  Kansas 
City,  Kas.,  was  their  record,  in  each 
place  adding  to  their  capital  and  ex- 
tending their  operations.  After  five 
years  in  the  latter  place,  the  firm  of 
Jones  Bros  moved  to  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
and  from   that   time  until  now  has  been 

a  time   of  progress   and   improvement. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Jones  married  Miss  Emma 
Williams,  of  Du  Quoin,  111.,  and  has  four 
children,  Junia,  Jessica,  Chester  L.,  and 
Abbie. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  forceful  writer  and  an 
attractive  speaker,  as  well  as  an  able 
business  man. 


J.  LOGAN  JONES, 
vice-president  and  secretary  of  the  Jones 
Bros.  Dry  Goods  Company,  had  a  ro- 
mantic birth.  He  first  saw  the  light  of 
day  in  an  Indian  hut  where  Ottawa, 
Kas.,  now  stands. 

That  was  in  1859,  when  the  Jones 
family  was  journeying  westward.  The 
father  soon  returned  to  Illinois,  and  there 
young  Logan  received  his  education  at 
the  public  schools  and  at  Hamilton  Col- 
lege. Like  his  brother,  he  taught 
school  after  graduation,  and  it  was  with 
the  monetary  rewards  of  pedagogy  that 
they  secured  the  capital  of  $400  apiece 
with  which  to  lay  the  corner-stone  of  their 
present  enormous  business. 

In  1883  he  married  Miss  Jennie  Charl- 
ton, and  now  has  three  children,  Charles 
Vernon,     Ernest    Charlton,     and     Vivian 

From  the  time  of  coming  to  Kansas 
City  Mr.  Jones  and  his  brother,  despite 
their  tremendous  responsibilities,  have 
never  failed  to  take  an  active  part  in  all 
movements  tending  to  the  public  good. 
He  is  in  every  respect  a  useful  citizen. 
With  his  brother,  Lawrence,  Mr.  Jones 
is  a  general  manager  of  the  great  store 
and  also  has  charge  of  the  advertising 
department,  so  important  a  branch  of 
the  modern  mercantile  business.  He 
has  a  pretty  taste  for  literature,  and  is 
always  in  demand  for  addresses. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


CHARLES  S.  JOBES, 
the  president  of  the  American  National 
Bank,  was  reared  in  Northeastern  Ohio, 
from  where  he  moved  south  in  1 871,  at  the 
age  of  seventeen,  and  engaged  in  civil  en- 
gineering, railroad,  and  levee  construction 
in  the  States  of  Texas  and  Mississippi. 

Later  he  engaged  in  banking,  and  in 
1886  located  in  Southern  Kansas,  where 
he  continued  in  banking  until  1897,  when 
he  was  appointed  National  Bank  Ex- 
aminer, and  was  thus  employed  until 
October  8,  igoi,  when  he  resigned  as  Bank 
Examiner  to  accept  the  presidency  of  the 
Vmerican  National  Bank  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo.  During  his  term  of  service  as  Na- 
tional Hank  Examiner  his  territory  cov- 
ered all  the  States  of  Kansas,  Missouri, 
south  of  the  Platte  River  in  Nebraska  and 
the  Indian  Territory,  and  included  over 
two  hundred  and  fifty  National  Banks. 
His  work  as  Bank  Examiner  also  gave 
him  high  standing  with  the  Comptroller 
of  the  Currency,  and  he  was  made  receiver 
of  three  National  Banks  during  his  period 
of  service. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

SAMUEL  W.  JURDEN, 
president  of  the  City  National  Bank,  was 
born  in  North  Adams,  Massachusetts,  May 
7,  1848.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years  his  par- 
ents removed  to  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  where  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  went  to  the  public 
and  high  schools. 

When  eighteen  years  old,  he  and  the 
family  came  out  to  Missouri  and  located  at 
Holden,  Johnson  Countv. 

For  a  while  he  was  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business,  and  then  accepted  a  position  as 
cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Holden. 

In  1895  he  was  made  president  of  the 
bank,  in  which  position  he  remained  until 
August  1,  1900,  when  he  came  to  Kansas 
City  to  take  the  presidency  of  the  City 
National  Bank. 

Since  coming  here,  Mr.  Jurden  has  iden- 
tified himself  with  the  Commercial  Club, 
and  has  shared  in  the  work  of  many  pub- 
lic movements. 

He  is  a  Mason,  and  has  been  a  prominent 
figure  in  Republican  politics  in  Missouri 
for  many  years. 

Mr.  Jurden  married  Miss  Ellen  Red- 
ford  at  Fayetteville,  Mo.,  in  1874,  and 
they  have  three  children,  two  boys  and  a 
erirl. 


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HENRY  SAINT  JULIAN 
was    born    July    23,     1862,     in    Franklin 
Kentucky.     He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  and  in  the  Kentucky 
Military  Institute. 

Deciding  upon  the  legal  profession,  he 
entered  the  law  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan,  and  immediately  after 
his  graduation  in  1885  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  commenced  to  practice. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  in 
1 89 1,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  As- 
sembly until  1895.  While  at  Jefferson 
City  he  introduced  the  bill  to  tax  fran- 
chises, which,  while  it  failed  of  passage  by 
a  narrow  margin,  paved  the  way  for  later 
legislation.  Mr.  Julian  was  also  one  of 
the  first  men  to  agitate  the  question  of 
municipal  ownership  of  the  waterworks, 
and  in  1898  secured  the  insertion  of  the 
municipal  ownership  plank  in  the  Demo- 
cratic platform. 

He  was  appointed  Chief  of  Police  in 
1897,  and  during  his  tenure  of  office  put  a 
stop  to  the  foot-pad  reign  of  terror  by  is- 
suing orders  to  "shoot  to  kill." 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  late  war  with 
Spain  he  was  commissioned  Major  of  the 
Fifth  Missouri,  and  served  until  peace  was 
declared. 

A  Democrat  all  his  life,  he  has  served  in 
every  campaign  on  the  City  or  County 
Committees,  and  is  high  in  the  councils  of 
his  party. 


HENRY  WESTFALL  JACQUES 
was  born  January  30,  1870,  in  Hannibal, 
Missouri,  where  he  resided  until  his  par- 
ents removed  to  Kansas  City  in  1881. 
He  attended  the  Kansas  City  public  and 
high  schools,  and  completed  his  education 
at  Kansas  University. 

After  his  school  days  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Memphis  Route,  where  he  re- 
mained for  two  years.  He  then  went 
with  the  South  Missouri  Land  and  Lum- 
ber Company  as  book-keeper,  and  then 
for  a  while  with  the  Sunny  South  Lumber 
Company. 

In  1 89 1  he  accepted  a  position  as  trav- 
eling salesman  for  the  Kansas  City  Car 
and  Foundry  Company,  afterwards  ac- 
quired by  the  Armour  interests,  and  re_ 
mained  with  it  for  three  years. 

In  1893  he  organized  the  Mercantile 
Lumber  &  Supply  Company,  and  was 
elected  president.  Under  his  direction  the 
business  has  grown  from  the  original  cap- 
italization of  $5,000  to  $50,000,  and  a  rail- 
road supply  house  is  also  operated  by  it 
now. 

Mr.  Jacques  married  Miss  Bessie  Hib- 
ler  in  1897,  and  has  one  child,  Henry  P., 
fourth  of  that  name  in  the  family,  which 
traces  back  to  1630. 

Mr.  Jacques  belongs  to  the  Commercial 
Club  and  the  Kansas  City  Club. 


MEN    WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

THOMAS  JONES 

\v;is  horn  in  Wales,  October  7,  1857,  and 
was  the  son  of  a  minister.  He  came  to 
New  York  when  fifteen  years  old,  and 
was  educated  at  Oberlin  College,  gradu- 
ating there  in  1885,  and  from  the  Cincin- 
nati Law  School  in  18S7.  He  came  to 
Kansas  City  July  4,  1887.  Senator  Ly- 
man was  his  partner  two  years,  then  it 
was  Jones  &  Kirshner.  For  several  years 
he  has  practiced  alone.  Mr.  Jones  is  sec- 
retary and  attorney  for  the  Florence  Crit- 
tenden Home;  lie  is  in  close  touch  with 
the  National  Municipal  League;  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities,  and  is  vice-president  of 
the  Missouri  Republican  Club.  He  was 
a  candidate  for  police  Judge  in  1896.  He 
is  president  of  the  local  Christian  Endeav- 
or Union,  and  was  State  president  for  two 
years.  He  is  now  the  world's  vice-pres- 
ident for  Missouri  of  this  society.  He 
was  prominently  identified  with  the  West 
Side  Law  and  Order  League  from  1894  to 
1900. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

KITTREDGE  JENNEY 
was  born  in  Norwalk,  Ohio,  April  26,  1871. 
His  family  moved  to  Kansas  City  when 
Mr.  Jenney  was  but  a  year  old,  and  he  has 
lived  in  this  city  ever  since.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  public  schools,  and  took  a 
course  of  study  at  the  Lehigh  University, 
graduating  from  that  institution  im893. 
After  his  return  to  the  city  from  the  uni- 
versity he  entered  the  law  office  of  Pratt, 
Ferry  &  Hagerman  two  years,  after  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1 894.  He  remained 
with  Pratt,  Ferry  &  Hagerman  two  years 
after  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  when  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  Herman 
Brumback  under  the  firm  name  of  Brum- 
back  &  Jenney. 

Mr.  Jenney  has  been  a  life-long  Demo- 
crat, and  was  nominated  for  Justice  of  the 
Peace  on  that  party's  ticket  in  1897.  He 
was  elected,  and  on  the  expiration  of  his 
term  in  1902,  was  re-elected. 

In  his  school  days  he  developed  a  pro- 
pensity for  joining  societies,  holding  mem- 
bership in  the  Psi  Epsilon  and  the  Univer- 
sity Club.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the 
Bar  Association,  the  Eagles,  and  the  Elks. 

Hr.  Jenney  is  unmarried,  and  lives  in 
the  Third  Ward. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

GARLAND  MORDECAI  JONES 
was  born  June  14,  1873,  in  Abingdon,  Vir- 
ginia. He  was  taken  by  his  father  to  Mis- 
sissippi while  young,  and  entered  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  that  State  as  a  pupil.  After 
his  graduation  from  the  common  schools 
he  was  sent  to  University  of  Mississippi, 
and  the  degree  of  A.B.  was  conferred  upon 
him  in  1893  and  a  year  later  that  of  L.L.B. 
Soon  after  he  enrolled  as  a  student  of 
Washington  and  Lee  University,  taking 
the  law  course.  Even  before  taking  the 
law  course  he  was  reading  law  at  home 
and  under  the  supervision  of  local  attor- 
neys, devoting  odd  hours  and  vacations  to 
the  task.  He  graduated  from  Washing- 
ton and  Lee,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Mississippi  soon  after.  After  his  ad- 
mittance to  the  bar,  Mr.  Jones  took  up 
practice  of  his  profession  at  West  Point, 
Miss.  He  met  with  a  fair  degree  of  suc- 
cess, but  the  more  strenuous  and  wider 
fields  of  the  West  appealed  to  him,  and  he 
decided  to  come  to  Kansas  City.  He  did 
so  in  1898,  following  the  footsteps  of  his 
brother,  R.  W.  Jones,  Jr.,  and  entered  into 
practice  here  on  his  arrival. 

While  at  school,  Mr.  Jones  became  af- 
filiated with  the  Greek  Letter  Society,  Del- 
ta Kappa  Epsilon,  and  he  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  Club  and  the  Jack- 
son County  Democratic  Club. 

Mr.  Jones  is  unmarried.  Ja 


HORATIO  SEYMOUR  JONES 
was   born    August    26,    1867,    in    Liberty, 
Clay    County,    Missouri.     His    family    re- 
moved to  Kansas  City  three  years  after 
his  birth,  and  his  education  was  secured 

in  the  public  schools  of  this  city.  After 
his  term  of  school  here  he  attended  Wil- 
liam Jewell  College  in  Liberty,  Mo.,  tak- 
ing the  classical  course,  and  was  gradu- 
asanA.B.  in  1884.  His  father,  Dr.  L.  J. 
Jones,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  physicians 
of  this  city,  and  helped  organize  the  first 
medical  society  the  town  ever  had.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Medical  College,  and  was  in  many 
respects  among  the  foremost  of  local  phy- 
sicians. From  him  young  James  inherit- 
ed a  liking  for  medicine,  and  soon  after  his 
graduation  from  William  Jewell  College 
he  took  up  the  study  of  the  profession  at 
the  University  Medical  College.  He  grad- 
uated from  that  institution  in  1888,  and 
entered  immediately  on  professional  prac- 
tice. He  was  stationed  at  the  Wabash 
Railroad  Company's  hospital  in  this  city 
and  Springfield,  111.,  as  house  surgeon, 
and  afterwards  held  the  same  post  at  the 
Memphis  Railroad  Company's  hospital  in 
Kansas  City  and  Memphis,  Tenn.  He 
then  took  up  regular  practice. 

Dr.  Jones  is  a  member  and  physician  of 
Mayflower  Camp,  Royal  Neighbors  of 
America,  holds  membership  in  the  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America,  and  the  Masons, 
the  Missouri  State  Medical  Association, 
the  American  Medical  Association,  Clay 
County  Medical  Association,  and  Tri 
County  Medical  Association,  composed  of 
Clav,  Platte,  and  Clinton  counties. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

ARTHUR  L.  JELLEY 

was  born  in  Windsor,  Canada,  May  25, 
1876,  the  son  of  a  railroad  man.  His  boy- 
hood days,  therefore,  were  spent  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  country,  but  for  the  most 
part  in  Des  Moines,  la.,  where  he  received 
a  thorough  public  school  education.  He 
served  as  a  page  in  the  Iowa  Legislature 
during  the  assemblies  of  1890  and  1892, 
and  in  1S91  worked  in  a  wholesale  grocery 
store.  In  1893  he  came  to  Kansas  City, 
and  his  first  employment  was  with  the  J. 

C.  Dold  Packing  Company  in  a  rather 
humble  way.  He  soon  went  out  as  ad- 
vance agent  for  Mabel  Jenness  Venter, 
but  quitting  that  after  six  months  se- 
cured a  position  in  the  office  of  the 
Schwar/schild  &  Sulzberger  Packing  Com- 
pany. In  1896  he  bought  out  Wolf,  of 
the  firm  of  Wolf  &  Schull,  tailors,  and 
the  firm  of  Schull  &  Jelley  was  started 
with  a  capital  of  S47.  The  business  in- 
creased steadily,  until  soon  three  stores 
were  being  operated,  but  in  March,  1902, 
they  were  consolidated  into  one  large 
Main  Street  store,  and  the  business  incor- 
porated with  a  capital  stock  of  $25,000, 
all  paid  in. 

Mr.  Jelley  and  Mr.  Schull  also  do  a  lot 
of  building  on  the  side,  many  a  house  in 
Kansas  City  having  been  put  up  by  them. 

Mr.  Jelley  is  an  Elk,  an  Eagle,  a  Mason, 
a  Knight  Templar,  a  Shriner,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Commercial  Club. 

He  is  unmarried,  and  lives  at  the  Elks' 
Club. 


WILLIAM  T.  JAMISON 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  Penn, 
sylvania,  November  16,  1858,  living  on  a 
farm  in  his  boyhood  and  attending  dis- 
trict school.  He  went  to  Washington 
and  Jefferson  College,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Michigan  Law 
School  in  1884.  Following  graduation, 
he  taught  school  five  years,  and  then  be- 
gan the  practice  of  law  at  Wheeling,  W. 
Va. 

It  was  April  6,  1886,  that  he  came  to 
Kansas  City  and  entered  the  law  office  of 
L.  C.  Slavens,  four  years  later  becoming  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Slavens,  Spotts- 
wood  &  Jamison.  This  partnership  con- 
tinued until  January,  1895,  when  Mr. 
Jamison  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attor- 
ney of  Jackson  County  by  the  Republi- 
cans. In  1894  he  represented  the  Seventh 
Ward  in  the  lower  house  of  the  Council, 
was  Speaker  of  the  House,  resigning  that 
position  to  become  Prosecuting  Attorney. 

Mr.  Jamison  was  married  February  17, 
1886,  to  Miss  Anna  M.  Whitely.  They 
have  one  son,  Howard  L.,  fourteen  years 
old. 


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ELLIOTT  H.  JONES, 
a  young  lawyer  who  has  risen  rapidly, 
was  born  at  Camden,  Alabama,  July  18, 
1870.  He  resided  there  until  he  was  fif- 
teen years  old,  when  he  went  to  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  and  prepared  for  college  in 
the  Latin  School.  For  two  years  suc- 
ceeding this  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  0.  H.  Houghton 
of  that  company  being  his  uncle.  He  en- 
tered Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  in  1887,  took  the  degree  of  A.B.  in 
1891  and  the  degree  of  L.L.B.  in  1893. 
August  i,  1893,  he  came  to  Kansas  City, 
and  entered  the  law  office  of  W.  C.  Scar- 
ritt.  The  firm  of  Scarritt,  Griffith  & 
Jones  was  organized  January    1,    1896. 

Mr.  Jones  was  married  December  27, 
1894,  to  Miss  Mattie  Scarritt.  They 
have  three  children,  Elliott  Scarritt,  Rus- 
sell Houghton,  and  Paul,  aged  seven, 
five,  and  two. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  member  of  the  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, and  takes  a  lively  interest  in 
athletics. 


JOSEPH  VAN  CLIEF  KARNES 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Boone  County,  Mis- 
souri, in  February,  1841.  From  the  dis- 
trict schools  he  entered  the  State  Univer- 
sity in  1877,  and  was  graduated  with  high 
honors  in  1862.  Immediately  thereafter 
he  enrolled  himself  in  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  but  left  it  in  his  first  year  to  ac- 
cept a  Greek  and  Latin  tutorship  in  the 
Missouri  University.  In  1865,  upon  re- 
signing, he  was  given  an  A.M.  degree. 
During  his  tutorship  he  had  studied  law 
and  been  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  in  Au- 
gust, 1865,  he  came  to  Kansas  City  in  com- 
pany with  Henry  N.  Ess,  and  formed  the 
law  firm  of  Karnes  &  Ess,  which  continued 
for  twenty-one  years.  He  is  now  head  of 
the  firm  of  Karnes,  New  &  Krauthoff. 

Few  men  have  done  more  for  Kansas 
City  than  Mr.  Karnes.  As  a  member  of 
the"  school  Board,  he  stood  for  progress 
and  non-partisanship,  and  worked  early 
and  late  in  the  development  of  Kansas 
City's  magnificent  educational  system, 
and  the  upbuilding  of  the  great  Public  Li- 
brary. As  chairman  of  the  Commercial 
Club  Committee  on  Municipal  Legislation, 
he  has  also  labored,  and  he  was  also  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Provident  Associa- 
tion. He  helped  to  found  the  Kansas  City 
Bar  Association,  and  was  its  president  for 
three  terms,  and  was  also  one  of  the  foun- 
ders of  the  Kansas  City  Law  Library. 

Mr.  Karnes  married  Miss  Mary  Crum- 
baugh,  of  Columbia,  and  they  have  three 
children,  a  son  and  two  daughters. 


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GEORGE  E.  KESSLER 
was  born  in  Frankenhausen,  Thueringen, 
Germany,  July  16,  1862.  His  family  re- 
moved to  New  York  City  when  he  was  in 
his  infancy,  and  he  secured  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Gotham.  He  af- 
terwards went  to  the  University  of  Jena, 
Germany,  where  he  took  a  partial  classic- 
al course,  going  from  there  to  Weimar  and 
Potsdam  colleges  for  a  four  years'  course 
in  gardening,  botany,  and  engineering, 
preparatory  to  taking  up  landscape  engin- 
eering. He  returned  to  New  York  after 
graduating  in  1SS2,  and  took  charge  of 
some  special  work  in  Central  Park,  leav- 
ing after  several  months'  residence  for 
this  city.  Soon  after  arriving  he  was 
placed  in  charge  of  Merriam  Park  by  the 
Ft.  Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad. 

As  engineer  of  the  Board  of  Public 
Works,  he  planned  Kansas  City's  magnifi- 
cent park  and  boulevard  system,  having 
been  engineer  of  the  board  since  its  incep- 
tion in  1892.  He  also  planned  the  park 
systems  of  Topeka,  and  Memphis,  Tenn., 
and  the  landscape  work  at  Mt.  Washington 
and  originated  and  remodeled  features  of 
Elm  wood  and  Forest  Hill  cemeteries,  be- 
sides doing  a  raft  of  local  and  out-of-town 
lawn  work. 

At  present  he  is  superintendent  of  parks 
for  the  Frisco  System;  landscape  engineer 
of  the  World's  Fair  in  St.  Louis,  in  charge 
of  the  work;  and  is  taking  care  of  the  Fris- 
co System's  forestry  experiment  at  Farm- 
ington,  Kas. 

Mr.  Kessler  is  a  Mason  and  an  Elk.  He 
was  married  May  14,  1900,  to  Miss  Ida  G. 
Fields,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Photo  bij  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  THORNTON  KEMPER 
was  born  in  Gallatin,  Missouri,  November 
2,    1867,   and  lived  there  until  seventeen 
years  old,  when  his  parents  moved  to  St. 
Joseph. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high 

schools,  and  began  his  business  career 
as  salesman  for  a  boot  and  shoe  house- 
After  four  years  on  the  road,  he  started  a 
bank  and  general  store  in  Valley  Falls 
Kas.,  where  he  remained  until  1893,  when 
he  came  to  Kansas  City  and  formed  the 
Kemper  Grain  Company. 

Mr.  Kemper  was  president  of  the  Grain 
Exchange  in  1900,  and  in  February,  1902, 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Police  Commissioners  by  Governor  Dock- 
ery. 

He  is  also  a  director  in  the  National 
Bank  of  Commerce,  president  of  the  Kem- 
per Investment  Company,  and  operates 
department  stores  in  Leavenworth,  To- 
peka, and  Valley  Falls. 

In  1890  he  married  Miss  Lottie  Crosby, 
of  Valley  Falls,  Kas.,  and  is  the  father  of 
two  children,  James  M.  and  Rufus  Crosby. 

Mr.  Kemper  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  is  prominently  identified 
with  the  political  and  business  organiza- 
tions of  Kansas  City. 


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WILLIAM  FREDERICK  KUHN 
was  born  in  Lyons,  New  York,  April  15, 
1S49.  When  he  was  eight  years  old  his 
parents  removed  to  a  farm  in  Kalamazoo 
County,  Michigan,  where  he  remained  un- 
til his  majority.  He  was  graduated  in 
1875  from  Wittenburg  College,  receiving 
the  degree  of  A.B.,  and  later  had  the  de- 
gree of  A.  M.  conferred  upon  him.  He 
taught  school  in  Ohio  until  1S62,  when  he 
entered  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  in 
Philadelphia,  receiving  his  diploma  in 
1864.  He  first  practiced  in  Eldorado, 
Kas.,  but  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1S88, 
where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  medicine.  For  several  years 
prior  to  1893  Dr.  Kuhn  occupied  the  chair 
of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics  in  the 
University  Medical  College,  and  from  1 893 
to  1899  he  held  the  chair  of  neurology  in 
the  Medico-Chirurgical  College  and  the 
Women's  Medical  College.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Kansas  City  School  of  Medi- 
cine and  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the 
Western  Dental  College. 

He  has  been  honored  with  more  offices 
and  degrees  in  Masonry,  perhaps,  than  any 
other  man  in  Kansas  City. 

Dr.  Kuhn  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Elizabeth  C.  Wilson,  of  Belle 
Centre,  Ohio,  who  bore  him  two  children, 
Elizabeth  and  Harold.  She  died  in  1887, 
and  October  21,  1891,  he  married  Miss 
Jessie  O.  Wilson. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 


I.  B.  KIMBRELL 

was  born  in  Irving,  Kentucky,  September 
8,  1862.  He  first  went  to  school  at  Avers' 
Academy,  College  Hill,  Ky.,  and  in  1872 
his  father,  a  farmer,  removed  to  Galloway 
County,  Missouri. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  finished  his 
education  at  Central  College,  Fayette, 
Mo.,  completing  his  course  with  unusual 
credit. 

Mr.  Kimbrell  began  the  practice  of  law 
when  he  was  twenty-four  years  old,  locat- 
ing in  Aurora,  Mo.,  and  from  there  went  to 
Webb  City,  where  he  practiced  for  a  while. 
In  1 89 1  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
he  has  ever  since  remained. 

Mr.  Kimbrell  has  always  been  an  active 
worker  for  the  success  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  in  1901  his  party  loyalty  was 
rewarded  and  his  ability  recognized  by 
appointment  to  the  position  of  Assistant 
Prosecuting  Attorney. 

He  married  Miss  Lillian  Lease  in  1888 
at  Centralia,  Mo.,  and  is  the  father  of  four 
children,   Kate,  Lorna,   Marian,  James 


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FREDERICK  W.  KELLOGG 
was  born  in  Norwalk,  Ohio,  December  ;, 
1866.  He  lived  in  that  city  until  seven- 
teen years  of  age,  acquiring  meanwhile  an 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  the  town. 
After  a  course  in  the  High  School  he  went 
to  work  for  one  of  the  Scripps  papers,  the 
Cleveland  Press,  and  has  been  continu- 
ously in  the  newspaper  business  since  that 
time.  He  worked  for  the  various  papers 
in  the  Scripps  League  in  different  depart- 
ments, and  acquired  an  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  the  business  from  the  ground  up. 
He  is  an  advertising  expert,  and  has  been 
an  unqualified  success  as  a  solicitor  and 
designer  of  "catchy"  advertising. 

He  became  a  joint  proprietor  of  the 
Omaha  News  in  connection  with  M.  L.  V. 
Ashbaugh  in  1899,  and  in  the  same  year 
the  two  assumed  proprietorship  of  the  St. 
Paul  News.  The  following  year  they  ab- 
sorbed the  Kansas  City  World,  and  this 
year,  1902,  they  became  the  proprietors 
of  the  Des  Moines  News.  Mr.  Kellogg 
is  president  of  the  various  corporations, 
and  is  besides  a  stockholder  in  the  Scripps- 
McRea  Association. 

He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  a  Shri- 
ner.  He  was  married  in  1S90  to  Miss 
Florence  Scripps  in  Detroit,  and  has  three 
children. 


HENRY  G.  KYLE 

was  born  September  20,  1872,  in  Bates 
County,  Missouri.  His  first  years  were 
spent  on  a  farm.  He  attended  William 
Jewell  College  for  six  years,  graduating  in 
1897.  Then  he  took  a  two-year  law  course 
at  the  University  of  Kansas,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1899.  That  same 
year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  came 
to  Kansas  City.  His  connection  with  sev- 
eral important  murder  trials  as  counsel 
for  the  defense  has  given  him  a  reputation 
as  a  criminal  lawyer. 

Mr.  Kyle  represented  the  Kansas  Law 
School  at  the  State  Bar  Association  meet- 
ing at  Topeka  in  1899. 

Since  coming  to  Kansas  City  he  has 
identified  himself  actively  with  the  workers 
in  the  Republican  party. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

DR.  J.   PHILIP   KNOCHE 

was  born  in  Jackson  County,  Missouri, 
July  25,  1859.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Kansas  City  public  schools  and  at  Spald" 
ing's  Business  College.  His  first  course 
in  medicine  was  taken  at  the  Kansas  City 
Medical  College.  Afterwards  he  attended 
the  Belleview  Hospital  Medical  College 
of  Xew  York,  and  in  1883  went  to  the 
University  of  Vienna  in  Austria,  where  he 
took  a  post-graduate  course  of  three  years. 

Meanwhile  he  had  begun  practicing  med- 
icine in  1881,  first  in  partnership  with  Wal- 
ter R.  Fisher  and  later  with  Dr.  J.  D.  Grif- 
fith. 

Dr.  Knoche  makes  a  specialty  of  skin 
diseases,  and  is  serving  his  third  term  as 
professor  of  Dermatology  in  the  University 
Medical  College.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Jackson  County  Medical  Society,  the 
Academy  of  Medicine,  and  the  Missouri 
State  Medical  Association. 


Photo  by  St  muss. 

LUCIUS  KNIGHT 
was  born  July  5,  1850,  in  Washtenaw 
County,  Michigan.  His  boyhood  was 
spent  on  a  farm,  and  his  early  education 
received  in  a  country  school.  When  he 
was  seventeen  years  old  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  where  he 
entered  the  high  school,  and  was  gradu- 
ated. 

In  1S71  he  enrolled  himself  as  a  student 
in  the  law  school  of  the  University  of  Mich- 
igan, and  was  graduated  in  the  spring  of 
1873.  For  four  years  he  practiced  his 
profession  in  Central  and  Northern  Mich- 
igan, at  the  end  of  which  time  he  removed 
to  Arkansas  City,  Kas.  While  studying 
law  he  also  studied  stenography,  and  nev- 
er allowed  himself  to  forget  his  proficiency. 
In  Arkansas  City  he  was  appointed  court 
stenographer  by  Judge  W.  P.  Campbell, 
of  the  Thirteenth  Judicial  District  Court, 
and  was  later  re-appointed  by  Judge  Ed- 
win Torrance. 

In  1 88 1  he  resigned  his  position  and 
came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  engaged 
in  general  short-hand  work  until  1882, 
when  he  was  appointed  Court  Stenogra- 
pher of  Division  No.  1  by  Judge  Turner  A. 
Gill.  He  held  the  same  position  under 
Judge  R.  H.  Field,  Judge  E.  L.  Scarritt, 
and  now  holds  it  under  Judge  James  Gib- 
son. 

Mr.  Knight  married  Miss  Mary  A.  Clark, 
of  St.  Louis,  June  29,  1S92,  and  they  have 
three  children  living,  Stewart  C,  Ralph 
A.,  and  Helen  J. 


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LATHROP   KARNES 

was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  July, 
31,  1868,  and  has  lived  his  whole  life  in 
the  town.  He  attended  the  local  public 
schools,  and  then  entered  Central  High 
School,  from  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1873.  He  then  attended  the  Kemper 
School  in  Booneville,  receiving  his  diplo- 
ma from  that  institution  in  1S86. 

He  at  once  went  to  work,  securing  em- 
ployment with  the  Kansas  City,  Pitts- 
burg &  Gulf  road  as  a  member  of  the  en- 
gineering corps.  He  remained  with  that 
corporation  for  five  years,  rising  steadily 
until  at  the  time  of  his  resignation  in  1894 
he  occupied  the  position  of  assistant  gen- 
eral claim  agent. 

In  1S04  lie  went  with  the  Grand  Av- 
enue Cable  Railway  as  assistant  claim 
agent,  and  when  the  consolidation  of  the 
street-car  lines  was  brought  about  in  1896 
he  remained  with  the  Metropolitan  Street 
Railway  Company  as  general  claim  agent. 

In  1000  he  was  appointed  assistant  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Kansas  City  Electric 
Light  Company,  and  in  1902  was  made 
assistant  to  the  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Metropolitan. 

Mr.  Karnes  is  an  Elk,  a  thirty-second 
degree  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  and  a 
member  of  the  Shrine. 


JAMES  KETNER 
was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1869.  While  still  in  his  infancy 
his  family  removed  to  Junction  City,  Kas., 
where  his  father,  Major  Ketner,  early 
gained  fame  as  one  of  the  leading  practi- 
tioners at  the  bar  of  central  Kansas.  Mr. 
Ketner  passed  his  life  up  to  early  man- 
hood there,  meanwhile  acquiring  an  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  the  town,  and 
finally  graduating  from  the  High  School. 
Soon  after  his  graduation  he  went  into  the 
banking  business,  going  afterwards  to 
Minneapolis,  Kas.,  to  engage  in  the  same 
business,  holding  the  position  of  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Minneapolis. 
In  January,  1S94,  Mr.  Ketner  came  to 
Kansas  City  to  become  the  auditor  of  the 
Midland  Hotel,  and  three  years  later  was 
made  its  secretary.  He  retained  this  po- 
sition through  a  number  of  changes  of  man- 
agement, and  in  August,  1902,  formed  a 
partnership  with  Gnstave  Beraud,  and  as- 
sumed management  of  the  hotel.  In  a 
few  months  the  business  had  increased  to 
a  point  where  the  Baltimore  Hotel  Com- 
pany found  it  expedient  to  absorb  the  Mid- 
land. Mr.  Ketner,  however,  is  still  re- 
tained by  the  owners  to  look  after  their 
interests  under  the  lease. 

He  is  a  Mason,  a  Shriner,  and  a  member 
of  the  local  lodge  of  Elks. 


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CHARLES  H.   KIRSHXER 
was  born  in  Fostoria.  Ohio,  June  25,  1863. 
He  attended    the   public    schools  in  that 

town,  also  the  local  academy,  and  later 
on  took  a  classical  course  at  Oberlin  Col- 
lege. From  this  institution  he  went  to 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  receiving  his 
degree  in  1888. 

Mr.  Kirshner  first  practiced  his  profes- 
sion in  Salina,  Kansas,  remaining  in  that 
town  from  1888  to  1890,  coming  to  Kan- 
sas City  in  the  latter  year.  For  twelve 
months  he  was  connected  in  practice  with 
the  late  Thomas  Jones,  and  then  officed 
alone  until  igoo,  when  he  became  junior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Beardsley,  Gregory 
&  Kirshner,  an  affiliation  that  still  con- 
tinues. 

Mr.  Kirshner  belongs  to  the  University 
Club,  is  a  Mason,  and  also  belongs  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  In  addition,  the 
various  public  movements  have  always 
elicited  his  energy  and  received  his  sup- 
port. 

He  was  married  in  1889  to  Miss  Agnes 
Fairchild,  eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  George 
Fairchild,  president  of  the  Kansas  State 
Agri-cultural  College.  They  have  two 
children — Charlotte,  six  years  old,  and 
Robert,  aged  two. 


JACOB  L.  LORTE 
was  born  in  Xatchez,  Mississippi,  Febru- 
ary 18,  1 87  2.     He  is  practically  a  Kansas 
City  product,  however,  as  his  father,  Xath- 
an  Lorie,  came  here  in  1880. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  schools  and  then  the  Central  High 
School,  from  which  institution  he  was 
graduated  with  high  honors  in   1891. 

Mr.  Lorie  went  from  Central  to  Ann  Ar- 
bor, where  he  completed  the  six  years' 
course  in  five  years.  He  received  his  B.L. 
degree  in  1895,  and  in  1S96  had  his  law  de- 
gree conferred  upon  him. 

He  returned  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  at 
once  commenced  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. Mr.  Lorie 's  specialty  is  com- 
mercial law,  and  he  has  already  established 
himself  firmly.  He  is  a  member  of  the  lo- 
cal Bar  Association,  and  also  belongs  to 
the  Knife  and  Fork  Club. 

While  at  Ann  Arbor  Mr.  Lorie  served  as 
managing  editor  of  the  University  of  Mich- 
igan daily  paper,  and  made  it  powerful 
and  profitable. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


J'hoto  by  Strauss. 

GARDINER  LATHROP 
was  born  at  Waukesha,  Wisconsin,  Feb- 
uary  16,  1850.  His  father,  John  W.  La- 
throp,  was  the  first  president  of  the  State 
University  of  Missouri,  and  the  first  chan- 
cellor of  the  State  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin. Mr.  Lathrop  is  one  of  the  most  wide- 
ly known  lawyers  in  the  State.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  at  Madison,  Wis.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  Yale,  '69;  the  Missouri  State 
University,  '67 ;  and  received  a  law  de- 
gree at  Harvard  in  '73. 

Mr.  Lathrop  opened  his  office  in  Kan- 
sas City  September  1,  1873,  his  various 
firms  having  been  Lathrop  &  Smith;  Lath- 
rop, Smith  &  Morrow;  Lathrop,  Morrow 
&  Fox;  Lathrop,  Morrow,  Fox  &  Moore. 

He  was  president  of  the  Bar  Association 
in  1S95,  is  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  the  Southwest,  a  member 
of  the  Commercial  Club  and  Board  of  Ed- 
ucation, and  is  vice-president  of  the  Board 
of  Curators  of  the  Missouri  State  Uni- 
versity. 

Mr.  Lathrop  was  married  to  Miss  Eva 
Grant,  of  Kansas  City,  January  16,  1879. 
They  have  five  children.  He  has  been  so- 
licitor for  the  A.,  T.  &  S.  F.  Railroad  for 
Missouri  and  Iowa  many  years.  His  firm 
is  counsel  for  the  Kansas  City  Southern 
also.  Mr.  Lathrop  also  represents  the 
Pullman  and  Wells-Fargo  companies. 


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SANFORD  BURRITT  LADD, 
one  of  the  foremost  members  of  the  bar 
and  a  lawyer  of  rare  ability,  was  born  at 
Milford,  Michigan,  September  11,  1844. 
He  was  educated  at  the  University  of 
Michigan,  and  began  the  study  of  law 
under  the  Hon.  G.  V.  N.  Lothrop,  of  De- 
troit, afterwards  Minister  to  Russia. 

Mr.  Ladd  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Michigan  in  1868,  and  in  the  same  year  lo- 
cated at  Kansas  City.  The  following  year 
he   formed   a   partnership   with   John   C. 

Gage,  into  which  Chas.  E.  Small  was  ad- 
mitted in  1882,  composing  the  well-known 
firm  of  Gage,  Ladd  &  Small. 

Mr.  Ladd  was  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  Bar  Association  from  1892  to  1893, 
and  his  friends  have  urged  him  to  make 
the  raee  for  the  Supreme  Bench  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket. 

In  1870  Mr.  Ladd  was  married  to  Miss 
Clara  L.  Fuller,  the  sweetheart  of  his  col- 
lege days,  at  Ann  Arbor.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ladd  reside  in  one  of  the  handsomest  res- 
idences in  Hyde  Park. 

Mr.  Ladd  is  noted  at  the  bar  for  his 
clear,  concise  presentation  of  a  case,  dem- 
onstrating the  possession  of  an  analytical 
mind. 


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JOHN  H.  LUCAS 
was  born  in  Danville,  Kentucky,  February 
8,  1852.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
and  then  took  a  course  in  Center  College 
Deciding  upon  the  profession  of  law,  he 
entered  an  office  in  Harrodsburg,  Ky., 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Kentucky 
in  1 87 1.  The  same  year  he  came  out  to 
Missouri,  and  located  in  Osceola,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  this  State  in  1872. 

It  was  in  1879  that  Mr.  Lucas  establi- 
lished  an  office  in  Kansas  City  in  partner- 
ship with  W.  T..  Johnson,  and  the  firm  of 
Johnson  &  Lucas  has  continued  ever  since. 
While  the  majority  of  his  time  is  spent  in 
Kansas  City,  Mr.  Lucas  still  retains  his 
residence  in  Osceola. 

He  is  general  attorney  for  the  Metropol- 
itan Street  Railway,  and  attorney  for  the 
Frisco  System,  and  has  long  been  regard- 
ed as  one  of  the  leaders  at  the  Missouri 
bar. 

Mr.  Lucas  married  Miss  Nannie  Cardwell 
in  Harrodsburg,  Ky.,  in  1869,  and  they 
have  four  children,  one  boy  and  three 
girls. 

He  belongs  to  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club, 
the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association,  and  is  a 
Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  and  a  Shriner. 


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WILLIAM   EDWARD  LYONS 
was  born  November  21,  187 1,  in  Emporia, 
Kansas.     His  early  boyhood   days,    how- 
ever, were  spent  in  Niles,  Mich.,  where  his 
family  removed  in  his  infancy. 

From  Niles  the  family  returned  to  Em- 
poria, and  from  there  went  to  Osage  City, 
in  the  same  State.  In  1887  they  came  to 
Kansas  City,  where  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  has  ever  since  lived.  His  education 
was  received  in  the  public  schools,  and  it 
was  in  his  early  teens  that  he  commenced 
to  earn  his  own  living. 

His  first  employment  was  with  the  Al- 
len Investment  Company.  Entering  as  an 
office  boy,  he  worked  up  place  by  place 
until  in  1 898  he  was  made  secretary  of  the 

company,  the  place  he  now  holds. 

Mr.  Lyons  is  a  member  of  the  Commer- 
cial Club,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Knife 
and  Fork  Club,  and  the  Knights  of  Co- 
lumbus. One  of  the  moving  spirits  in  the 
organization  of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic 
Club,  he  has  held  office  after  office  in  that 
club,  and  islargely  responsible  for  its 
growth  and  prosperity. 

He  is  unmarried,  and  lives  with  his 
parents. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

HERMAN  F.  LANG 

was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  July  2,  1858. 
He  spent  his  youth  there,  and  received 
his  education  in  the  public  and  high 
schools.  In  1876,  when  eighteen  year 
old,  he  came  out  to  Leavenworth,  Kas., 
where  he  engaged  in  business.  In  1886 
he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  and  estab- 
lished the  saddlery  business  of  H.  F. 
Lang  &  Co.  In  1894  he  beccame  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  Morrill-Keitz 
Furnishing  Goods  Company,  which  does 
business   not    only    in  Kansas   City,   but 

tributary  territory. 

Since  his  advent,  Mr.  Lang  has  alway 
been  active  in  movements  tending  to 
make  for  Kansas  City's  growth  and 
prosperity.  He  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Kansas  City  Karnival  Krewe, 
and  in  1902  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  board  of  directors  of  Convention 
Hall,  and  is  now  serving  on  the  Exec- 
tive  Committee.  Mr.  Lang  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Commercial  Club,  the 
United  Commercial  Travelers,  and  the 
Manufacturers'  Association. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Kate  Dickson 
in  Leavenworth  Ka.,  December  1,  1891, 
and  they  have  three  children,  two  boys 
and  one  girl. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

CHARLES  W.  LUCAS 
was  born  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania, 
January  2,  1870.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  and  also  the  High  School  in  De- 
troit, to  which  town  his  parents  had  re- 
moved. Later  he  enrolled  himself  as  a 
student  in  the  Northwestern  University 
and  from  there  entered  the  Chicago  Col- 
lege of  Law.  He  took  his  degree  in  1895 
and  after  two  years  of  practice  associated 
himself  with  Mr.  Max  Pam.  He  remained 
with  Mr.  Pam  for  three  years,  and  in  1900 
came  to  Kansas  City  to  accept  the  position 
of  assistant  general  attorney  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Southern  Railroad,  the  office  he 
now  holds. 

Mr.  Lucas  belongs  to  the  Phi  Delta  Phi 
Fraternity,  and  since  coming  to  Kansas 
City  has  identified  himself  with  several  of 
the  local  organizations. 

Mr.  Lucas  married  Miss  Eva  Lane,  of 
Minneapolis,  and  they  have  one  boy. 


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JOHN  MARION  LANGSDALE 
was  born  June  17,  1856,  on  a  farm  in 
Monroe  County,  Missouri.  His  early  ed- 
ucation was  received  in  the  district  school 
during  the  winter  months,  and  when  fif- 
teen he  entered  a  private  school  in  Macon. 
From  there  he  went  to  the  State  Univer- 
sity at  Columbia,  and  after  completing  his 
course  entered  the  Missouri  Medical  Col- 
lege at  St.  Louis,  now  a  part  of  Washing- 
ton University.  He  was  graduated  in 
1878,  and  first  practiced  in  Independence, 
Mo.,  coming  to  Kansas  City  in  1888. 

Dr.  Langsdale  was  elected  Coroner  of 
Jackson  County  in  1890,  and  served  two 
terms.  He  is  now  City  Physician,  hav- 
ing   been    appointed    in    February,    1902. 

He  is  also  vice-president  of  the  Missouri 
Medical  Association,  and  during  the  years 
°f  '95.  '96,  '97,  published  and  edited  the 
Lancet. 

He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Scottish 
Rite  Mason,  and  a  Shriner. 
-  Dr.  Langsdale  was  married  in  1878  to 
Miss  Kate  Gibson,  of  Paris,  Mo.,  and  is  the 
father  of  five  children,  Byron,  Clifton, 
John  M.,  Jr.,  ("dbson,  and  Margaret. 


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LOUIS  AUGUSTINE  LAUGHLIN  "7 
was  born  September  n,  1857,  at  Medina, 
Ohio.  After  six  years  in  Putnam  County, 
Illinois,  he  went  to  Racine,  Wis.,  one  year, 
and  moved  to  Normal,  111.,  in  1866,  where 
he  attended  the  State  University.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Princeton  High 
School  in  1877,  and  for  a  few  years  was  a 
telegraph  operator  and  station  agent. 
He  was  graduated  from  the  Columbia 
Law  School  in  New  York  in  1882,  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  being  his  classmate.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Saginaw,  Mich., 
in  August,  1882,  and  practiced  there  five 
years,  coming  to  Kansas  City  in  1887. 
Webster  Davis  became  his  law  partner  in 
1893.  In  1895  Mr.  Laughlin  became  As- 
sistant Counselor  under  Judge  McDougal. 
He  was  again  appointed  to  the  office  in 
January  1,  1901. 

Mr.  Laughlin  was  married  to  Emma  A. 
Kendall  at  Lamville,  111.,  February  10, 
1887.  They  have  one  child,  Kendall, 
twelve  years  old. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


I'hnto  by  Strauss. 

JOSEPH  MACAULEY  LOWE 
was  horn  in  Pendleton  County,  Kentucky, 
December  13,  1844,  both  father  and  moth- 
er before  him  having  been  born  in  Ken- 
tucky. His  common  school  education 
was  interrupted  by  the  call  to  arms,  and 
he  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army. 

As  a  teacher  in  the  school  at  Greenfield, 
Ind.,  he  advanced  his  own  education,  and 
read   law   during  every   leisure   moment, 
finally   gaining  admission   to   the   bar   in 
1865.     In   1868  he  moved  to  Plattsburg, 
Mo.,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  un- 
til    1883,  winning    so    high    a    place    in 
the  esteem  of  the  community  that  he  was 
elected  four  times  to  the  office  of  Prose- 
cuting Attorney  of   Clinton   County.     In 
1883  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
ever    since    lived.     In    1889   Judge    Lowe 
was   appointed   receiver   of   the    National 
Exchange   Bank,   and   paid   depositors  in 
full    and    stockholder   as   handsome    divi- 
dend.    He  has  not  been  engaged  in  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession  for  some 
years,   devoting  most  of  his  time  to  the 
management  of  his  own  affairs.     He  is  a 
staunch,  but  progressive,   Democrat,  and 
a  remarkably  strong  speaker  and  vigorous 
writer,  his  addresses  and  articles  having 
won  him  wide  recognition  for  ability. 

He  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Mary  E. 
McWilliams,  of  Madison  County,  Ken- 
tucky, and  they  have  two  children,  John 
Roger  and  Florence  Marion,  the  latter 
now  Mrs.  Hughes  Bryant. 


GEORGE  BAKER  LONGAN 
was  born  February  26,  1848,  in  Palestine, 
Cooper  County,  Missouri.  When  five 
years  old  his  parents  removed  to  a  farm 
in  Benton  County,  where  he  spent  his  boy- 
hood. His  instruction,  received  at  the 
district  schools,  was  supplemented  by  a 
two  years'  course  in  Allen  Institute,  Far- 
mer City,  Missouri,  and  a  term  at  the  Pra- 
rie  Home  Academy.  He  then  attended 
Kentucky  University,  at  Lexington,  where 
he  remained  until  1870.  Returning  to  Mis- 
souri, he  began  to  teach  school,  and  has 
been  following  that  profession  ever  since, 
with  the  exception  of  two  years,  during 
which  he  acted  as  chief  clerk  in  the  Adju- 
tant General's  office  in  Jefferson  City.and 
later  private  secretary  for  Governor  Silas 
Woodson. 

Professor  Longan  taught  school  in  vari- 
ous Missouri  towns,  and  had  charge  of  the 
schools  at  Holden  just  prior  to  his  coming 
to  Kansas  City.  His  local  career  com 
menced  as  principal  of  the  Washington 
School  in  1880.  He  remained  there  for 
seven  years,  then  was  made  principal  of 
the  Humboldt  School,  and  in  1899  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  positton  of  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  Schools.  Professor  Longa  is 
not  only  widely  known  as  an  educator,  but 
is  a  valued  contributor  to  educational 
journals,  and  has  read  many  papers  be- 
fore the  educational  associations.  His 
"First  Lessons  in  Arithmetic"  has  also  had 
a  wide  sale. 

He  married  Miss  Emma  Lard  in  1870 
and  they  have  three  sons,  Roy,  Wood,  and 
George. 


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CHRISTOPHER  B.  LEAVEI, 
was  born  in  Newmarket,  Platte  County, 
Missouri,  March  18,  1871.  His  boyhood 
was  spent  in  Platte  County,  his  early  ed- 
cation  being  secured  in  the  public  schools 
of  Newmarket,  with  a  later  course  in  the 
Daughters'  College  in  Platte  City,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  18S8. 

Deciding  upon  dentistry  as  a  profes- 
sion, he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  entered 
the  Western  Dental  College,  taking  the  de- 
gree in  1892.  He  located  here,  and  has 
risen  to  a  position  of  enviable  prominence 
in  his  profession. 

In  addition  to  his  practice,  Mr.  Leavel 
is  secretary  of  the  Leavenworth  Construc- 
tion Company,  and  also  secretary  of  the 
Winner  Real  Estate  Company. 

A  life-long   Democrat,    Dr.    Leavel  has 

identified    himself    prominently    with    the 

local  organization,  and  in    1901    served  as 

a   member  of  the  County  Central   Com- 
mittee. 

Dr.  Leavel  was  married  June  26,  1895, 
to  Miss  Ida  Winner,  daughter  of  Willard 
E.  Winner,  and  they  have  two  children, 
a  girl  and  a  boy. 


Plioto  ly  Strauss. 

JOHN  F.  LUMPKIN 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  Decem- 
23,  1858.  He  spent  his  boyhood  there, 
absorbing  knowledge  through  attend- 
ance at  the  common  and  high  schools  of 
the  town,  and  afterwards  went  to  Stewart 
Hall  in  Baltimore  to  complete  the  classic- 
al course.  He  engaged  in  the  hat  busi- 
ness in  Baltimore  after  leaving  school,  and 
remained  at  it  for  some  time.  In  1885  he 
went  to  Xew  York  city,  and  took  employ- 
ment with  George  H.  Clark,  the  wholesale 
hatter,  with  whom  he  remained  for  four 
years.  He  came  to  this  city  in  1889,  and 
traveled  the  following  year  for  Turner  & 
Jay,  but  left  them  to  engage  in  business 
for  himself.  This  business  he  gave  up 
after  a  short  time  to  take  the  management 
of  the  local  branch  of  Xicoll,  the  large  New 
York  tailoring  company.  He  has  re- 
mained with  them  since. 

Mr.  Lumpkin  was  not  particularly  in- 
terested in  politics,  but  finding  himself 
with  a  few  grievances  which  he  thought  he 
could  remedy  as  a  member  of  the  Council, 
he  sought  and  was  given  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  Alderman  of  his  home 
ward,  the  Third.  After  a  vigorous  cam- 
paign he  was  elected  for  the  term  begin- 
ning in  April  1902. 

Mr.  Lumpkin  belongs  to  a  number  of 
clubs  whose  ends  are  devoted  to  business 
and  social  features,  among  them  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  the  Jackson  County  Demo- 
cratic Club,  the  Advertising  Men's  Club, 
the  Knife  and  Fork  Club,  and  the  Evans- 
ton  Golf  Club.     He  is  also  an  Elk. 


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FRANCIS  A.  LEACH 
was  born  at  Belfast,  New  York,  April  8, 
1854.     His  father  was  for  years  in  business 
at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Leach  prepared  for  College  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  at  New  Haven, 

and  was  graduated  from  Yale  in  1876  in 
the  same  class  with  President  Arthur  T. 
Hadley. 

For  three  years  he  was  in  the  milling 
business  in  New  York,  and  then  went  to 
the  Columbia  Law  School.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  Buffalo,  June,   1881. 

It  was  at  Lyons,  N.  Y.,that  Mr.  Leach 
first  hung  out  his  shingle,  and  it  was  there 
that  he  married  Miss  Marian  Tinsley. 
After  live  years  there,  Mr.  Leach  moved  to 
Kansas  City  in  1886,  where  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  bar  ever  since.  In  1897 
the  present  firm  of  Leach,  Day  &  Sparks 
was  organized. 

Mr.  Leach  is  secretary  of  the  Congres- 
sional Committee,  is  a  prominent  Mason, 
and  is  an  able  and  ardent  advocate  of  mu- 
nicipal ownership,  a  subject  upon  which  he 
has  delivered  numerous  addresses  from 
time  to  time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leach  have  two  children, 
Marian  and  Helen,  aged  sixteen  and  fif- 
teen. 


CHARLES  W.  LAKE 

was  born  in  Butler,  Mo.,  December  3, 
1866,  and  has  lived  in  Missouri  all  his  life, 
with  the  exception  of  the  years  from  1867 
to  1672,  when  his  parents  resided  in 
Springfield,  Illinois.  He  spent  his  boy- 
hood in  Carthage,  Mo.,  where  he  received 
his  education. 

In  18S7  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and 
accepted  the  position  of  assistant  cashier 
with  the  old  firm  of  G.  Y.  Smith  &  Co., 
where  he  remained  until  the  dissolution 
of  the  company  in  1892.  In  November, 
1893,  Mr.  Lake  entered  the  employment 
of  the  Kansas  City  Times,  then  under  the 
management  of  Witten  McDonald,  and 
during  his  eight  years  of  service  with  that 
paper  worked  under  six  different  man- 
agers and  six  different  managements. 

In  October,  1901,  Mr.  Lake  became  in- 
terested in  trade-journalism,  and  in  com- 
pany with  Mr.  Will  Stricklette  and  Mr. 
Frank  Markward  incorporated  the  Kansas 
City  Manufacturer,  owned  by  them,  under 
the  title  of  the  Manufacturing  Publishing 

Company.  He  is  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  company. 

Mr.  Lake  is  also  interested  in  mining, 
and  has  been  singularly  successful,  both 
in  the  zinc  fields  of  Missouri  and  the  gold 
fields  of  Boulder,  Colo.  He  has  lately 
become  interested  in  the  Oronogo  dis- 
district,  also  in  the  Fortuna  district,  near 
Tipton. 


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FELIX  LA  FORCE 
was  born  in  Boone  County,  Missouri,  Au- 
gust 21,  1847,  his  parents,  natives  of  Ken- 
tucky, being  pioneer  settlers  in  that  sec- 
tion. His  education  was  received  in  the 
district  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  commenced  to  earn  his  own  living,  ac- 
cepting a  position  as  clerk  in  a  dry  goods 
store  in  Columbia.  He  remained  there 
for  twenty  years,  working  up  to  a  junior 
partnership. 

In  February,  1881,  Mr.  La  Force  came 
to  Kansas  City,  and  in  partnership  with 

W.  B.  Grimes,  \V.  S.  Woods,  and  James 
H.  Dayton  founded  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  company  of  Grimes,  Woods,  La 
Force  &  Co.,  and  became  its  buyer  and 
general  manager.  In  1863  Mr.  Grimes 
bought  out  his  partners,  but  Mr.  La  Force 
remained  as  buyer  until  1885,  when  he 
joined  with  his  brother,  Mr.  W.  B.  La 
Force,  in  the  banking  and  general  broker- 
age business.  He  is  now  in  the  general 
brokerage  business  by  himself. 

Mr.  La  Force  was  one  of  the  early  mem- 
bers of  the  Kansas  City  Club,  and  has  ev- 
er given  freely  of  his  time  to  public  move- 
ments. He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Convention  Hall  Directorate  in  1901  and 
re-elected  in  1902.  He  is  also  a  charter 
member  and  director  in  the  Union  Na- 
tional Bank. 

Mr.  La  Force  married  Miss  Ella  Estill, 
of  Howard  County,  Missouri,  in  February, 
1S81. 


JOHN  E.  LACH 

was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
April  2,  1858.  All  his  schooling  was  se- 
cured in  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia. 
He  graduated  from  the  High  School  of  that 
city,  and  went  to  work  immediately  there- 
after for  his  father,  who  at  that  time  con- 
ducted a  large  carpet  manufacturing  bus- 
iness. He  remained  with  his  father  for 
years,  learning  the  carpet  business  thor- 
oughly and  acquiring  knowledge  of  its  com- 
mercial side  He  came  to  this  city  in  1882, 
and  started  a  retail  carpet  store,  the  busi- 
ness being  devoted  exclusively  to  the  sale 
of  floor  coverings,  at  the  corner  of  Tenth 
and  Walnut  streets.  The  store  at  that 
time  was  on  the  southern  edge  of  the  city 
business  limits,  and  as  the  city  grew  south- 
ward Mr.  Leach  gradually  extended  the 
business  until  he  had  for  sale  everything 
in  the  household  goods  line.  After  some 
years  at  his  first  location  he  moved  the 
business  over  on  Grand  Avenue,  where  it 
has  remained  since. 

Mr.  Lach  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  as  a  reward  for  his  zeal  in  the  party's 
welfare  was  nominated  and  elected  to  the 
upper  house  of  the  City  Council,  serving 
the  term  from  1898  to  1900. 

His  business  interests  are  not  confined 
to  his  store,  for  Mr.  Lach  is  a  director  in 
the  German-American  Bank,  the  German- 
American  Building  and  Loan  Association 
and  the  German  Hospital  Association. 

He  is  married,  having  wedded  Miss  Pris- 
cilla  Tally.  They  have  one  child,  Mar- 
guerite. 


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HUGH  J.  McGOWAN 

was  born  in  1856  on  a  farm  near  Liberty, 
in  Clay  County,  Missouri.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools,  and  worked 
in  the  fields  until  he  reached  the  age  of 
nineteen.  In  1895  there  came  the  plague 
of  grasshoppers,  and  young  Hugh  grew  dis- 
gusted with  farming  and  came  to  Kansas 
City.  His  first  job  was  raking  cinders 
from  under  a  Wabash  engine,  and  then  he 
worked  as  a  section  hand  on  that  road,  and 
after  that  he  secured  employment  from  the 
Corrigans,  who  ran  the  mule  car  lines.  He 
curried  mules  first,  then  drove  a  car,  and 
then  after  a  term  in  a  commercial  college 
acted  as  driver  for  a  furniture  wagon,  fur- 
niture packer,  car  accountant,  and  finally 
won  a  place  on  the  police  force.  In  five 
months  he  was  made  sergeant,  and  for  six 
years  served  the  city. 

In  1886  he  was  elected  County  Marshal 
by  the  Democrats,  and  refused  a  second 
term. 

In  1890  Mr.  McGowan  became  Kansas 
City  Agent  for  the  Barber  Asphalt  Com- 
pany, and  from  that  time  his  career  has 
been  meteoric.  He  is  now  general  agent 
for  the  Barber  Company  for  all  the  West 
and  Mexico,  president  of  the  Indianapolis 
car  lines,  president  of  the  company  that 
controls  the  street  car  lines  of  Cincinnati 
and  Covington,  and  the  general  executive 
man  of  the  Widener-Elkins  Syndicate, 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Gas  Company, 
and  a  director  and  officer  in  many  huge 
corporations. 

Mr.  McGowan  was  married  in  1887  to 
Miss  Katie  Burnett,  and  they  have  four 
daughters. 


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EDWARD  J.  McGOVERN 

was  born  in  South  Chicago  on  November 
18,  1875.  He  lived  there  until  1888,  when 
his  parents  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he 
has  ever  since  resided. 

His  education  was  received  in  the  public 
schools  of  Chicago  and  in  a  private  school 
here  in  Kansas  City.  At  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen he  commenced  to  work  for  his  living 
first  receiving  employment  as  a  copyist  in 
the  office  of  Probate  Judge  J.  E.  Guinotte. 

He  has  been  retained  in  that  office  ever 
since,  and  by  his  energy  and  application 
has  risen  from  place  to  place  until  he  was 
chief  deputy  clerk. 

A  strong  Democrat  since  the  attainment 
of  his  majority,  Mr.  McGovern  has  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  local  or- 
ganization for  some  years.  He  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  County  Committee, 
and  has  always  been  president  or  secretary 
of  the  Fifth  Ward  Democratic  clubs  during 
campaigns. 

At  the  last  county  convention  in  Inde- 
pendence, Mr.  McGovern  received  the 
nomination  for  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
the  Fourth  District,  which  comprises  the 
Fourth  and  Fifth  Wards,  and  was  elected 
by  a  large  majority. 

He  has  been  reading  law  at  night  for 
several  years,  and  although  he  has  never 
applied  for  admission  to  the  bar,  is  well 
able  to  pass  the  examination. 


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JOHN  \V.  McKECKNIE 

was  born  in  Clarksville,  Ohio,  October  3, 
1862.  He  remained  in  his  birthplace  un- 
til he  had  reached  the  age  of  eighteen  years. 
His  education  had  its  beginning  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Clarksville,  and  later  he  at- 
tended Wilmington  College  at  Wilmington, 
O.  He  then  took  a  classical  course  at 
Princeton,  and  graduated  in  1SS6.  After- 
wards he  went  to  the  Columbia  School  of 
Mines  in  New  York  city,  taking  the  archi- 
tectural course,  and  graduated  after  two 
years  of  study.  Mr.  McKecknie  remained 
in  New  York  city  after  his  graduation,  and 
was  employed  in  various  architects'  offices 
for  five  years.  He  then  opened  an  office 
of  his  own,  and  did  the  business  of  general 
architecture  for  three  years.  Meanwhile 
he  was  studying  painting  at  art  schools 
and  various  galleries  with  an  eye  to  adopt- 
ing that  as  a  profession,  but  finally  gave  it 
up  to  resume  architecture. 

Mr.  McKecknie  came  to  this  city  in  1 898, 
and  went  into  the  architectural  business 
immediately,  at  which  he  has  been  very 
successful.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  the  University  Club,  the 
Kansas  City  Art  Club,  the  local  chapter  of 
the  American  Institute  of  Architects,  and 
the  Kansas  City  Architectural  Club. 

Mr.  McKecknie  is  married,  having  wed- 
ed  Miss  Lucille  Jordan,  of  New  York  city, 
in  1 899.     They  have  one  child. 


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HENRY  L.  McCUNE 
was  born  in  Fulton  Countv,  Illinois,  June 
28,   1862.     His  education  was  received  in 

Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  where  he 
went  from  1877  to  1870,  and  afterwards  at 
the  University  of  Illinois,  at  Champagne, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1S83. 

Deciding  upon  the  profession  of  law, 
he  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  and 
received  his  degree  in  1886.  His  shingle 
was  first  flung  to  the  breeze  in  Oswego, 
Kas.,  but  after  four  years  of  successful 
practice  there  he  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
i8qo,  and  has  since  occupied  a  prominent 
place  in  the  town.  Until  the  death  of 
Judge  C.  L.  Dobson  in  1002  he  was  junior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Dobson  &  McCune, 
but  is  now  alone. 

Mr.  McCune  has  always  been  active  in 
the  public  life  of  Kansas  City  along  broad 
lines,  and  is  now  president  of  the  Civic 
League,  just  commencing  to  be  a  power 
in  municipal  politics.  He  belongs  to  the 
Commercial  Club,  the  University  Club, 
and  the  Sigma  Ki  Fraternity.  He  has 
also  served  a  term  as  president  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Bar  Association. 

Mr.  McCune  married  Miss  Helen  Mc- 
Crary,  daughter  of  United  States  Judge 
McCrary,  in  Colorado  Springs  September 
6,  1888,  and  they  have  one  son,  Joseph. 


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HENRY  CLAY  McDOUGAL 

was  born  December  9,  1844,  in  Marion 
County,  West  Yirginia.  His  boyhood 
days  were  spent  on  a  farm,  and  his  educa- 
tion received  in  the  district  schools.  In 
1 86 1,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  he 
enlisted  in  the  Sixth  West  Yirginia,  and 
served  throughout  the  bloody  conflict. 
After  the  surrender  at  Appomattox  he 
came  out  to  Missouri,  settling  in  Davies 
County.  He  studied  law  in  Gallatin,  and 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  1868. 

He  served  two  terms  as  Mayor  of  Gal- 
latin, and  was  also  Judge  of  the  Probate 
and  Chancery  Court,  the  youngest  in  the 
history  of  the  State,  by  the  way. 

In  1885  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
he  has  lived  ever  since. 

Judge  McDougal  has  served  a  term  as 
City  Counselor,  and  as  a  Republican  has 
been  conspicuously  honored  by  Demo- 
cratic governors.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Asylum 
for  the  Feeble  Minded  and  Epileptic,  a 
member  of  the  Missouri  World's  Fair 
Commission,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Election  Commissioners.  He 
has  also  served  as  president  of  the  Mis- 
souri Bar  Association,  and  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  local  Bar  Association.  Out- 
side of  his  profession  he  is  president  of  the 
Gallinas  Mining  and  Smelting  Company  of 
New  Mexico  . 

He  married  Miss  Emma  Chapdu,  of  Gal- 
lipolis,  O.,  in  1S69,  and  they  have  five 
children,    only  three  of  whom  are  living;. 


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LOUIS  S.  McCLELLAN 
was  born  June  5,  1861,  in  Pittsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  that  town, 
and  at  an  early  age  began  to  earn  his  own 
living.  His  first  employment  was  with  a 
civil  engineering  corps  on  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad,  but  in  1881  he  secured  a 
position  with  the  Wabash  Railroad,  and 
has  been  with  that  corporation  ever  since. 

He  started  in  as  a  clerk  in  the  New  York 
office,  and  in  1884  was  made  southwestern 
passenger  agent,  which  position  he  held 
until  1895,  when  he  was  removed  to  Louis- 
ville, where  he  held  the  office  of  district 
passenger  agent.  In  1899  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  St.  Louis  in  a  similar  capacity, 
and  upon  the  resignation  of  Henry  N.  Gar- 
land as  western  passenger  agent  in  1902, 
Mr.  McClellan  came  to  Kansas  City  to 
succeed  him. 

He  has  already  taken  his  place  in  the 
public  life  of  the  town,  and  has  identified 
himself  with  many  of  the  public  organiza- 
tions. 

Mr.  McClellan  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason, 
a  Knight  Templar,  and  a  member  of  the 
Shrine. 


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WALTER  GALLATIN  MELLIER 
was  born  in  St.  Louis  January  12,  1859. 
His  father,  A.  A.  Mellier,  was  one  of  the 
early  merchants  of  St.  Louis,  and  shipped 
goods  to  Westport  Landing  before  Kansas 
City  had  an  existence.  Mr.  Mellier  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover.  Mass.,  and  finished  his  education 
at  Princeton.  In  1S79  he  removed  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  engaged  in  the  cat- 
tle industry  with  his  father-in-law,  Major 
Seth  Mabry,  but  finding  the  real  estate 
business  more  congenial  concentrated  all 
his  energy  and  interest  in  Kansas  City 
property. 

The  following  additions  have  been  laid 
out  by  Mr.  Mellier:  Llewellyn  Park,  127 
acres,  1886;  Kenwood  &  Kenwood  Annex , 
60  acres,  1886;  Murray  Hill,  10  acres, 
1886;  Mellier  Place,  66  acres,  1887;  Dick- 
inson Place,  10  acres,  1887;  Mellier  Place 
Annex,  22  acres,  1880;  Bonfils  Place,  10 
acres,  1887  Bonfils  Heights,  10  acres, 
1897;  Mellier  Park,  10  acres,  1900;  Cor- 
bin  Place,  27  acres,  1902,  etc.,  etc 

Mr.  Mellier  projected  and  built  the  Mel- 
lier Place  electric  line  to  develop  the 
southwestern  part  of  the  city,  and  has  ac- 
complished the  promotion  of  many  great 
establishments  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Mellier  was  the  first  president  of  the 
Princeton  Alumni  Association  of  the 
west,  and  has  also  been  connected  in  an 
official  capacity  with  the  Kansas  City  Club, 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  Univer- 
sity Club. 


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WILLIAM  CLOPTON  MICHAELS 
was  born  January  25,  i87i,at  Alton,  Illi- 
nois. His  boyhood  was  spent  at  Ft. 
Dodge,  Iowa.  When  sixteen  years  old  he 
left  the  High  School  at  Fort  Dodge,  and 
railroaded  for  several  years.  In  1892  he 
entered  the  University  of  Virginia.  The 
next  year  he  went  to  the  Lniversity  of 
Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  law  school  there  in  1895. 

Mr.  Michaels  came  to  Kansas  City,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  liar  November  25, 
1895,  entering  the  law  office  of  Haff  &  Van 
Valkenburgh.  Mr.  Van  Valkenburgh  was 
subsequently  appointed  Assistant  United 
States  District  Attorney,  and  the  firm  lie- 
came,  January  1,   1902,  Haff  &  Michaels. 

Mr.  Michaels  was  married  April  19, 
1899,  to  Miss  Nannie  Stone  Wilson,  of  In- 
dependence, Mo.  They  have  one  child. 
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ROBERT  McCLINTOCK 
was  born  in  Westchester,  Chester  County, 
Pennsylvania,  January  31,  1849.  His  fam- 
lly  took  up  residence  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
when  he  was  three  years  of  age,  and  two 
years  later  moved  to  Catassaqua,  Lehigh 
County,  Pa.  The  family  moved  later  to 
( )hio  and  finally  to  California,  Mo.  Mr. 
McClintock  managed  to  secure  an  educa- 
tion amid  all  these  changes  among  the 
common  schools  of  his  various  places  of 
residence. 

He  came  to  this  town  in  1865  by  steamer 
from  St.  Louis.  For  eleven  years  he  wras 
employed  by  a  local  mercantile  firm,  and 
in  1876  he  started  in  the  restaurant  busi- 
ness. He  has  been  engaged  in  that  busi- 
ness continuously  since  that  time  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  city,  and  is  now  located 
near  the  intersection  of  Walnut  and 
Twelfth  Streets. 

Mr.  McClintock  was  married  in  Warrens- 
burg,  Mo.,  in  1875,  his  wife  being  Miss  Mary 
H.  Sharp,  of  Warrensburg.  They  have 
two  children,  Robert  S.  and  Mary  Agnes, 
the  former  having  been  established  in  the 
restaurant  business  by  his  father  on  Wal- 
nut Near  Ninth. 

Despite  the  demands  of  his  large  busi- 
ness, Mr.  McClintock  has  always  taken  an 
active  interest  in  all  movements  tending 
to  the  city's  welfare  and  advancement, 
and  has  done  much  to  make  the  town. 


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JAMES  McKINNEY 
was  born  in  Farmington,  Illinois,  Febru- 
ary 14,   1864.     When  he  was  eight  years 

old,  however,  his  parents  removed  to  Kan- 
sas, where  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
worked  on  a  farm  and  attended  the  dis- 
trict school.  His  later  education  was  ob- 
tained in  the  High  School  of  Girard,  Kas. 

After  leaving  school  he  entered  the  mer- 
cantile business  in  Parsons,  where  he  re- 
mained for  six  years.  From  Parsons  he 
removed  to  Walnut,  Kas.,  engaging  in  the 
same  business,  and  adding  rapidly  to  his 
original  capital. 

In  1887  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  in 
company  with  his  brother  formed  the  pro- 
duce commission  firm  of  McKinney  Bros. 
&  Co.  His  originality  of  conception  and 
boldness  of  execution  have  made  him  a 
power  in  his  line,  and  at  different  times  he 
has  "cornered"  the  market  in  potatoes, 
onions,  and  water-melons. 

Mr.  McKinney  is  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Produce  Exchange,  and  is  also  vice- 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Potato  Com- 
pany. 

The  only  order  to  which  he  belongs  is 
the  Elks. 

He  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Lily 
Ramage,  of  Kansas  City. 


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HOMER  B.  MANN 
was  born  at  Chester,  Illinois,  June  16, 
1869.  His  father  was  a  Presbyterian  mis- 
sionary, and  the  family  came  to  Missouri. 
Mr.  Mann  was  a  pupil  at  the  public  schools 
and  afterwads  attended  the  academy  at 
Parkville,  Mo.  Mr.  Mann  went  up  to 
North  Dakota  and  settled.  He  became 
the  editor  of  the  Minot  Journal. 

His  residence  in  this  city  began  in  1894, 
at  which  time  he  became  connected  with 
the  Drovers'  Telegram.  Two  years  later 
Mayor  James  M.  Jones  made  him  Super- 
intendent of  Sidewalks  and  Curbing,  be- 
cause of  his  activity  in  local  politics.  Dur- 
ing his  term  of  office  he  became  the  Re- 
publican nominee  for  Representative. 
He  was  elected,  and  occupied  a  seat  in  the 
Fortieth  General  Assembly.  After  the 
expiration  of  his  term  as  Representative 
in  1898,  he  was  re-appointed  Superintend- 
ent of  Sidewalks  and  Curbing.  In  the 
spring  of  1900  he  became  connected  with 
the  \Y.  S.  Dickey  Clay  Company,  and  a 
year  later  helped  organize  and  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Trout  &  Mann  in 
the  fire  and  accident  insurance  business. 

Mr.  Mann  is  secretary  of  the  Republican 
City  Committee,  is  affiliated  with  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  Ven- 
erable Counsel  of  the  Modern  Woodmen 
of  Ameiica. 

Mr.  Mann  married  Miss  Sallie  Campbell 
October  15,  1892.  They  have  two  chil- 
dern,  Fred  and  Robert  Mann. 


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JOHN  S.  MOTT 
was  born  in  St.  Mary's,  Ohio,  May  2,  1846, 
and  spent  his  boyhood  there,  receiving  his 
early  education  in  the  local  academy.  He 
then  secured  admission  to  West  Point, 
but  the  civil  war  intervened,  and  in  1863 
he  went  out  of  the  military  school  as  a 
first  lieutenant,  and  until  Lee's  surrender 
fought  for  the  Union. 

After  the  war  he  resigned  from  the  army, 
and  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  in 
the  University  of  Michigan,  and  was  grad- 
uated in  1867.  He  came  straightway  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  remained  until 
1878,  when  he  removed  to  Independence. 
Few  men  were  more  prominently  connect- 
ed with  the  building  of  Independence 
than  Mr.  Mott,  who  played  a  prominent 
part  in  the  mercantile  as  well  as  the  pro- 
fessional life  of  the  town.  He  practically 
built  the  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of  In- 
dependence, and  put  it  on  its  feet. 

In  1894  Dr.  Mott  came  to  Kansas  City, 
where  he  has  ever  since  been.  He  has 
specialized  on  the  eye,  nose,  and  throat 
jn  New  York,  London,  and  Paris,  and  de- 
votes his  time  exclusively  to  that  work. 
He   belongs   to   the   local   medical   bodies, 

and  the  American  Academy  1  >f  Medicine. 
He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Knight  Templar, 
and  also  belongs  to  the  Loyal  Legion  and 
theG.  A.  R. 


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COLONEL  MILTON  MOORE 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Jackson  County, 
January  22,  1846.  His  early  education 
was  acquired  at  Chapel  Hill  College  and 
Wellington  Academy.  He  studied  law 
with  Judge  John  S.  Blackwell.  When  he 
came  to  Kansas  City  in  March,  1872,  he 
began  the  practice  of  law  with  Blake  L. 
Woodson.  This  partnership  was  dissolved 
in  1S77,  and  in  1881  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  R.  O.  Boggess  until  January, 
1S90.  E.  O.  Vaughan  was  a  member  of 
the  firm,  1S96-97,  and  in  1899  Colonel 
Moore  took  in  George  H.  Kelly. 

Colonel  Moore  was  president  of  the  Bar 
Association  1898-99. 

He  was  colonel  of  the  Fifth  Missouri 
Regiment  in  the  Spanish-American  war, 
and  as  such  commanded  the  Second  Brig- 
ade, Second  Division,  Third  Army  Corps. 
He  organized  the  First  Battalion  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard  in  1886,  and  was  appointed 
major.  In  the  same  year  he  organized 
the  Third  Regiment,  National  Guard,  and 
March  24,  1S91,  was  appointed  brigadier- 
general  in  command  of  the  National  Guard 
of  the  State.  He  resigned  in  February, 
1S99. 

.He  married  Mary  E.  Burns,  of  St.  Jo- 
seph, February  25,  18S0,  and  has  four 
children. 


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CLIFFORD  REID  MURRAY 
was  born  in  South  Charleston,  Ohio,  Au- 
gust  7,   1867.     He  lived  there  until  nine 

years  old,  when  his  parents  removed  to 
Chicago.  In  that  town  Mr.  Murray  spent 
his  boyhood,  and  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools. 

In  18S0  his  family  came  to  Kansas  City, 
and  shortly  after  their  arrival  Mr.  Mur- 
ray entered  the  Central  High  School, 
and  took  a  three  years'  course,  quitting 
before  graduation,  however,  to  enter  upon 
a  business  career. 

In  18S6  the  firm  of  Guernsey  &  Murray 
was  formed,  succeeding  the  firm  of  Guern- 
sey &  Murray,  and  by  virtue  of  energy, 
ability,  and  progressiveness,  the  partner- 
ship to-day  enjoys  one  of  the  largest  high- 
class  grocery  businesses  in  the  West. 

In  addition  to  his  regular  business,  Mr. 
Murray  is  interested  in  several  other  ven- 
tures. He  is  president  of  the  Tobasco 
Planters'  Company,  a  corporation  con- 
trolling a  large  amount  of  land  in  Mexico, 
on  which  rubber,  vanilla,  and  kindred  pro- 
ducts are  raised. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
and  active  in  the  public  movements  that 
make  Kansas  City  famous  the  world  over. 

He  married  Miss  Nannie  Washburn,  of 
Chicago,  in  1896. 


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SAMUEL  WALLACE  MOORE 
was  horn  January  24,  1662,  in  Geauga 
County,  Ohio.  His  parents  removed  to 
Cleveland  O.,  when  he  was  nine  years 
old,  and  after  going  through  the  ward 
schools  he  entered  the  High  School,  from 
which  lie  was  graduated  in  1S79.  He 
then  went  to  Mexico  and  Arizona,  and  by 
clerical  and  other  work  earned  money 
enough  to  take  himself  through  college. 
He  attended  Adelbert  College  in  Cleveland, 

and  was  graduated  in  1884.  He  completed 
the  three-year  course  in  two  years  by 
means  of  taking  extra  studies. 

He  studied  law  at  the  Kansas  Univer- 
sity, taking  his  degree  in  1877,  and  imme- 
diately afterwards  came  to  Kansas  City, 
and  entered  the  law  office  of  Lathrop  & 
Smith.  In  1S92  the  firm  of  Lathrop, 
Morrow,  Fox  &  Moore  was  organized,  and 
continues  still. 

Mr.  Moore  has  served  as  president  of 
the  Knife  and  Fork  Club,  and  was  elected 
president  of  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Associa- 
tion in  1 901.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  Country  Club  and  Kansas 
City  Club. 

He  married  Miss  Harriet  Cooke  in  Kan- 
sas City  September  30,  1S96. 


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GUY  BATEMAN  MITCHELL, 
the  well-known  young  physician,  was  born 
in  Baltimore,  Maryland.  His  father, 
John  T  Mitchell,  was  the  head  of  the  larg- 
est fruit-packing  and  canning  company  in 
the  country  at  that  time. 

The  senior  Mitchell  died  when  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  still  in  his  infancy. 
A  few  years  later  the  family  removed  to 
Abilene,  Kansas,  where  the  young  Guy 
went  to  the  public  schools,  and  later  had 
the  advantage  of  a  high  school  course. 
After  quitting  the  High  School,  he  de- 
cided upon  the  profession  of  medicine,  and, 
coming  to  Kansas  City,  entered  the  Uni- 
versity Medical  College.  He  was  gradu- 
ated with  high  honors,  and  received  his  de- 
gree, and  has  ever  since  practiced  here. 

Dr.  Mitchell's  success  has  been  due  to 
ability  more  than  anything  else,  but  also 
to  high-mindedness,  honesty,  and  loyaltv 
to  the  highest  standards  of  his  profession. 
Dr.  Mitchell  is  examining  physician  for 
a  number  of  secret  societies,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Jackson  County  Medical 
Society  and  the  Missouri  Medical  Associa- 
tion. His  one  hobby  is  athletics,  and  for 
a  year  or  so  now  he  has  been  a  star  member 
of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club. 


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MEN  MHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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GEORGE  MATHEWS 
was  horn  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  May  24, 
i860.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
puhlic  schools,  and  then  entered  an  archi- 
tect 's  office  in  Levviston,  Me.  He  then 
spent  five  years  in  various  offices  in  Bos- 
ton, perfecting  himself  in  his  profession, 
and  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1887.  He 
accepted  a  position  with  Adriance  Van 
Brunt,  where  he  remained  for  three  years, 
and  then  went  with  the  M.,  K.  &  T.  Trust 
Company  as  superintendent  of  its  building 
department.  He  held  that  place  until 
[898,  and  under  his  supervision  all  build- 
ings for  the  trust  company  and  along  the 
line  of  the  Pittsburg  &  Gulf  Railroad  be- 
tween Siloam  Springs  and  the  Gulf  of  Mex- 
ico were  erected. 

Since  1 888  he  has  practiced  architecture 
in  Kansas  City.  Some  of  Mr.  Mathews' 
principal  work  has  been  the  Christian 
Science  Church  at  Ninth  and  Forest,  the 
Burnham,  Hanna  &  Munger  building, 
the  Union  Station  at  Shreveport,  and  the 
depot  and  hotel  at  Port  Arthur. 

He  has  served  terms  as  president  of  the 
Evanston  Golf  Club,  and  Secretary  of  Kan- 
sas City  Chapter  American  Institute  of 
Architects,  and  is  president  of  the  Kansas 
City  Athletic  Club. 

He  married  Miss  Eunice  E.  Stanwood 
at  Brunswick,  Maine,  in  1889. 


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STEPHEN  A.  MITCHELL, 
a  civil  engineer  who  has  been  connected 
with  most  of  Kansas  City's  recent  public 
works  of  importance,  was  born  at  Point 
Pleasant,  Ohio,  April  30,  1863.  He  was 
still  a  small  boy  when  his  parents  came 
with  him  to  Kansas  City,  in  whose  excel- 
lent public  schools  he  laid  the  foundation 
of  his  learning.  In  1878  he  was  gradua- 
ted from  the  High  School,  and  in  1883  re- 
ceived his  diploma  from  the  Missouri  Uni- 
versity. 

His  first  important  piece  of  work  after 
graduation  was  in  the  construction  of 
the  Kansas  City  Belt  Line.  He  was  in 
the  City  Engineer's  office  from  1884  to 
1885,  when  he  resumed  private  practice 
until  1892,  again  accepting  the  position 
of  Assistant  City  Engineer.  In  1900  he 
resigned  and  went  into  private  business. 

He  was  one  of  the  experts  who  exam- 
ined the  waterworks  plant  for  Kansas  City, 
and  has  supervised  the  construction  of 
twenty  different  plants. 


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PATRICK  H.  MADDEN 
was  born  in  Ireland  February  24,  1843. 
He  came  to  this  country  in  1851,  locating 
at  Madison,  Indiana,  where  he  received 
his  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
later,  when  his  parents  removed  to  a  farm 
in  Wisconsin,  he  attended  the  district 
schools. 

His  first  employment  was  as  a  clerk  in 
Keokuk,  la.,  and  then  in  1859  he  located 

in  Leavenworth,  Kas.  He  served  two 
terms  as  City  Clerk,  one  term  as  City 
Treasurer,  and  a  term  as  Deputy  County 
Clerk. 

In  1878  he  came  to  Kansas  City.  For 
a  while  he  was  in  the  Auditor's  office  of 
the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad,  but  in  1880 
he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business,  in 
which  he  still  remains.  He  was  in  part- 
nership with  Colonel  Charles  R.  Kearney 
for  nine  years,  and  has  done  much  to  de- 
velop the  resources  of  Kansas  City. 

He  has  served  terms  as  president  and 
vice-president  of  the  Kansas  City  Real  Es- 
tate Exchange,  and  has  been  a  director 
continuously. 

He  married  Miss  Annie  Bannon  in  Leav- 
enworth in  1875,  and  is  the  father  of  two 
children. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

G.  VAN  MILLETT 
was  born  April  5,  1864,  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  and  has  lived  his  whole  life  in 
the  town.  He  went  to  the  public  schools, 
and  after  working  a  year  in  his  father's 
printing  establishment  entered  Kansas 
University.  Returning,  he  again  worked 
in  his  father's  office,  but  all  his  ambitions 
were  centered  upon  art.  He  went  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  began  to  draw  for  litho- 
graphers and  engravers,  setting  type  in  be- 
tween times,  and  this  courage  and  deter- 
mination at  last  decided  the  Elder  Millet 
to  give  him  his  wish.  The  young  man 
was  sent  to  Europe  in  i88fi,  and  studied 
in  the  Royal  Academy  at  Munich  under 
masters  like  Carl  Raupp,  Nikolas  Gysis, 
and  Ludwig  Von  Lceffts.  He  remained 
there  five  years,  and  his  pictures  secured 
honorable  mention  in  the  Royal  Academy 
exhibitions. 

After  a  short  stav  in  Paris,  he  returned 
to  Kansas  City  in  1S91,  and  established  a 
studio  here.  He  spent  the  year  of  1893  in 
Holland,  and  returning  to  Kansas  City  ac- 
cepted a  professorship  with  the  Kansas 
City  Art  Association.  He  soon  resigned, 
however,  preferring  to  work  for  himself 
and  in  his  own  way.  Mr.  Millet  exhibits 
at  all  the  great  exhibitions  in  this  country, 
and  in  1896  helped  to  organize  the  Kansas 
City  Art  Club.  He  has  served  three  terms 
as  its  president,  and  has  done  much  to 
make     the  annual  exhibitions  successful. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  McKee,  of  Kan- 
sas City,  in  1899,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Elizabeth. 


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GEORGE  J.  MILLER 
was  born  in  Pleasant  Mill,  Missouri,  Octo- 
ber 21,  1868.  The  son  of  a  Presbyterian 
divine,  compelled  by  his  calling  to  often 
change  his  place  of  residence,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  divided  his  boyhood  among 
the  towns  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Oregon,  St. 
Joseph,  and  Nevada. 

After  being  graduated  from  the  High 
School  in  Nevada  he  entered  Westminster 
College  at  Fulton,  from  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1800.  During  his  course  there 
Mr.  Miller  won  the  oratorical  prize,  and 
had  the  honor  of  representing  his  college 
in  the  State  oratorical  contest. 

After  leaving  college  Mr.  Miller  came  to 
Kansas  City,  and  entered  the  office  of 
Gates  &  Wallace,  where  he  studied  law. 
In  1893  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  at 
once  commenced  the  practice  of  his  f>ro- 
fession. 

In  1899  Mr.  Miller  decided  to  quit  the 
law,  and  became  a  financial  agent,  and  has 
built  himself  up  a  large  general  brokerage 
business. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  while 
never  a  seeker  after  office  has  taken  the 
stump  in  several  campaigns. 

He  is  unmarried,  and  belongs  to  the 
Kansas  City  Athletic  Club  and  the  Phi 
Delta  Theta  Fraternitv. 


CHAS.  H.  MOORE, 

assistant  cashier  of  the  National  Bank  of 
Commerce,  was  born  at  Bloomington,  Ill- 
inois, on  July  7,  1857.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  in  El  Paso,  111.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  began  his  banking  career 
with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Athens,  O. 

In  1887  he  became  associated  with  the 
National  Bank  of  Kansas  City  and  in  1890 
with  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce, 
being  appointed  assistant  cashier  in  1896, 
which  position  he  now  holds. 

His  twenty-eight  years'  experience  with 
city  and  country  banking  has  made  him 
familiar  with  all  the  details  of  banking, 
and  especially  qualified  him  for  the  impor- 
tant position  he  now  holds  with  this  great 
banking  house. 


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WILLIAM  MOORE 
was  born  in  Bloomington,  Illinois,  April  3, 
1867.  He  received  his  early  education 
in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  after  completing  the  latter 
course  entered  St.  Vincent's  College  at 
Cape  Girardeau,  Missouri. 

Deciding  upon  the  profession  of  law, Mr. 
Moore  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
Illinois  Western  University  at  Blooming- 
ton  in  1 89 1,  and  was  given  his  degree  in 
1894. 

Soon  after  receiving  his  sheepskin,  Mr. 
Moore  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and  where  he  has  ev- 
er since  remained.  Unlike  the  majority 
of  young  lawyers,  Mr.  Moore  has  never 
made  himself  part  of  a  firm,  or  identified 
himself  with  any  corporation  or  large  office, 
but  has  practiced  his  profession  alone. 

He  has  had  a  very  successful  career, 
and  has  thoroughly  identified  himself  with 
the  public  life  of  Kansas  City.  He  is  ac- 
tive in  all  movements  tending  to  the  gen- 
eral good,  and  has  likewise  interested  him- 
self actively  in  Democratic  politics,  al- 
though he  has  never  been  a  seeker  after 
office. 

Mr.  Moore  is  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus,  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
local  body,  in  fact.  He  is  also  a  leading 
spirit  in  the  Marquette  Club,  and  belongs 
to  the  Kansas  City  Bar  Association. 


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EDWARD  P.  MORI  ARTY 
was  born   March    17,    1868,   on  a  farm  in 
Olmstead  County,  Minnesota,  but  is  prac- 
tically a  Kansas  City  product,  as  his  par. 
ents  removed  to  this  town  in  1871. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  schools,  and  then  entered  Central 
High  School,  after  which  he  secured  a  po-  ! 
sition  with  the  old  Citizens'  National  Bank. 
In  1895  Mr-  Moriarty  left  the  bank  and 
went   with  the  Whipple  Loan  and  Trust 
Company.     His  first  place  was  in  a  mere 
clerical  capacity,  but  he  gave  evidence  of 
ability  straightway,  so  that  when  he  finally 
resigned  it  was  from  the  office  of  treasurer. 
After  leaving  that  company  he  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  E.  P.  Moriarty  &  Co.,  asso- 
ciating his  brother,  James  F.,   with  him, 
and  doing  a  business  in  sporting  goods. 

Mr.  Moriarty  is  an  enthusiast  over  auto- 
mobiles, and  has  done  more  than  any  other 
man  to  popularize  the  •'horseless  carriages" 
in  Kansas  City.  He  was  one  of  the  «>r- 
sanizers  of  the  Automobile  Club,  and  is  a 
director.  He  was  the  winner,  by  the  way, 
of  the  blue  ribbon  in  the  100-mile  endur- 
ance contest,  given  under  the  club's  di- 
rection. 


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JEAN  ROBERT  MOEXHEL 
was  born  in  Dresden,  Germany,  March  2, 
1856.  He  secured  his  education  in  the 
local  gymnasiums  through  private  tutor- 
ing and  later  by  a  course  in  the  Dresden 
Polytechnic  School  in  natural  sciences, 
graduating  in  1872.  He  was  then  appren- 
ticed, being  a  German  custom,  for  two 
years  in  a  laboratory,  after  which  he  was 
for  a  half  year  each  in  the  establishments 
of  Weppen  and  Leuders,  manufacturing 
chemists,  of  Dresden.  He  then  went  to 
Hcrlin,  and  worked  at  the  chemical  man- 
ufacturing plant  of  Schering.  In  1875 
he  entered  the  I  niversity  of  Leipsig, 
taking  the  courses  of  chemistry  and  nat- 
ural sciences,  and  graduating  in  1878. 
After  his  graduation  he  worked  in  various 
towns  in  Switzerland,  and  in  Paris,  and  in 
London  at  his  profession  for  five  years, 
coining  to  America  in  1883.  He  located 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  remained  for 
seven  months,  and  then  went  to  Philadel- 
phia, opening  in  that  city  a  commercial 
laboratory.  In  1881  he  entered  another 
commercial  laboratory  in  New  York  city, 
which  he  operated  in  conjunction  with  the 
one  in  Philadelphia.  In  1894  he  assumed 
charge  of  the  chemical  laboratory  of  the 
New  York  Post-Graduate  College,  Med- 
ical School  and  hospital,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years. 

He  came  to  this  city  in  1896,  and  has 
been  here  since,  conducting  the  Kansas 
City  Chemic-Technie  laboratories. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  German  Chemical 
Society,  of  Berlin,  the  American  Chemical 
Society,  and  other  bodies  devoted  to  nat- 
ural sciences. 


CLAUDE  C.  MAY, 
the  assistant  business  manager  of  the  Jones 
Dry  Goods  Company,  was  born  at  Whalley 
Range,  Manchester,  England,  on  April  10, 
1864. 

Mr.  Mav  received  his  education  in  the 
grammar  schools  of  Manchester  and  round- 
ed out  his  education  in  Owen's  College,  a 
branch  of  Victoria  University. 

After  completing  his  studies,  Mr.  May 
entered  upon  his  successful  mercantile  ca- 
reer, starting  in  business  with  his  father. 
A  few  years  later  his  father  died,  but  not 
before  Mr.  May  had  learned  those  rigid 
lmsiness  principles  which  have  unfalter- 
ingly forced  him  to  the  front.  After  his 
father's  death,  he  decided  to  come  to 
America,  where  he  hoped  to  attain  the 
high  pinnacle  of  success  to  which  his  bud- 
ding ambition  pointed. 

Mr.  May  came  to  America,  and  finally, 
in  1890,  settled  in  Chicago,  where  for  a 
number  of  years  he  was  connected  with 
the  Fair  in  the  role  of  assistant  superin- 
tendent, to  the  duties  of  which  office  he 
rose    from    the    ranks    of    subordinates. 

While  with  the  Fair,  Mr.  May  married, 
and  when  in  January,  1901,  he  came  to 
Kansas  City,  he  brought  his  wife  and  one 
child,  a  boy,  with  him. 


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FRANK   MARKWARD 

was  born  in  Mechanicshurg,  Pennsylvania 
October  19,  1869,  but  as  his  parents  moved 
to  Warrensburg,  Mo.,  in  1S70,  he  is  really 
a  Missouri  product.  Mr.  Markwood  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  schools  of  War- 
rensburg, and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  came 
to  Kansas  City. 

Always  fond  of  literary  work,  his  fancy 
turned  inevitably  to  journalism,  and  in 
1888  he  secured  a  position  with  the  Kansas 
City  Times,  where  he  remained  until  1898, 
when,  in  company  with  Will  T.  Stricklette, 
he  founded  the  Kansas  City  Manufacturer, 
a  paper  devoted  to  the  manufacturing  in- 
terests of  Kansas  City.  Mr.  Stricklette 
took  charge  of  the  business  end,  and  Mr. 
Markward  assumed  the  editorship,  and 
his  work  has  not  only  been  responsible  for 
the  paper's  success,  but  has  also  given  im- 
petus to  local  manufacturing  interests. 

In  1901  the  business  was  incorporated, 

and  the  name  of  the  paper  changed  to  the 
Manufacturer  and  Merchant,  with  a  con- 
sequent broadening  of  its  field  of  work. 

Mr.  Markward  belongs  to  the  Manufac- 
turers' Association,  and  has  been  a  prom- 
inent figure  in  the  movement  tending  to 
the  erection  of  a  club-house. 


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EDWIN  CLEMENT  MESERVEY 
was  born  in  Hallowell,  Maine,  March  4, 
1861.  He  stayed  there  until  the  age  of 
fifteen,  when  his  parents  removed  to  Kan- 
sas. He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools,and  entered  Kansas  Uni- 
versity in  1 S77,  and  was  graduated  in  [882 
He  spent  a  year  as  a  surveyor  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott  &  Mem- 
phis Railroad,  and  in  1883  decided  to  study 
law.  He  entered  the  St.  Louis  Law  School 
and  was  graduated  in  1885.  He  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  the  same  year,  and  was  a- 
mitted  to  the  bar  shortly  after  his  arrival 
Mr.  Mescrvey  is  now  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Meservey,  Pearce  &  German. 

He  married  Miss  Besie  McDonald  Har- 
ris August  1?,  1 89 1,  at  Independence,  and 
is  now  the  father  of  three  children,  Frances, 
H.,  Edwin  C,  Jr.,  and  Mary  Re- 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club 
and  the  Phi  Psi  Fraternitv. 


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JAMES  HENRY  MANNING 
was  born  in  Fall  River,  Wisconsin,  March 
i,  1862.  He  lived  in  that  town  until  the 
attainment  of  his  majority,  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  afterwards 
took  a  course  at  the  Massachusetts  College 
of  Pharmacy  in  Boston. 

Always  interested  in  athletic  sports,  he 
early  showed  marvelous  skill  in  base  ball. 
He  began  to  play  professional  ball  in  the 
summer  of  1883,  working  as  a  pharmacist 
during  the  winter,  and  in  iSSS  became  a 
manager  as  well  as  a  player. 

Some  time  afterwards  he  became  the 
owner  of  the  Savannah,  Ga.,  franchise  in 
the  Southern  League,  and  then  became 
owner  of  the  Kansas  City  franchise. 

He  has  ever  since  been  identified  with 
local  base  ball,  with  the  exception  of  the 
season  of  1901,  spent  in  Washington,  and 
is  now  interested  with  Charles  Nichols  in 
the  local  team  of  the  Western  League. 

Mr.  Manning  married  Miss  Mayme  Den- 
nis, of  this  city,  in  1896.  He  is  an  Elk, 
and  has  always  identified  himself  with  pub- 
lic movements. 


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HUNTER  M.  MERIWETHER 

was  born  in  Crittenden  County,  Arkansas, 

July  21,    1 86 1.     His  early  education  was 

in  Kentucky,  but  he  was  graduated  from 

Yanderbilt    University,    Nashville,    Tenn., 

both  literary  and  law  departments,  in  18S3 
and  1885. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1885,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  same  year. 
Mr.  Meriwether  is  perhaps  best  known  as 
the  man  who  reclaimed  the  river  front 
land  in  the  West  Bottoms. 

He  is  president  of  the  Federal  Invest- 
ment Company,  which  has  this  work  in 
hand. 

Mr.  Meriwether  was  appointed  by  the 
County  Court,  attorney  for  the  Collector 
of  Revenue,  serving  from  1890- 1900. 

In  1887,  in  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  he  was 
married  to  Lucy  Underwood  Western. 
Thev  have  two  children. 


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ALEXANDER  NEW 
was  born  in  Wabash,  Indiana,  his  parents 
having  been  natives  of  Germany.  As  a 
boy  he  leared  the  saddler's  trade,  and 
saved  up  enough  money  to  pay  his  expen- 
ses at  Washington  and  Jefferson  College, 
at  Washington,  Penn.,  where  he  took 
a  thorough  literary  course.  Returning 
home,  he  read  law  in  Wabash  and  then  in 
Indianapolis,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
before  the  late  Walter  Q.  Gresham. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1888,  and  for 
nine  vears  was  associated  with  Henry 
Wollman.  He  then  formed  the  firm  of 
New  &  Palmer,  and  later  the  firm  of  New 
&  Krauthoff,  but  in  1899  the  existing  firm 
of  Karnes,  New  &  Krauthoff  was  formed. 

Until  recently,  Mr.  New  was  widely 
famed  for  his  activity  and  ability  as  a  trial 
lawyer,  but  of  late  years  his  work  has  been 
chiefly  confined  to  the  office,  his  corpora- 
tion clientele  being  very  large. 

Mr.  New's  one  dissipation  is  the  mani- 
festation of  public  spirit.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  Commercial  Club's  Committee  on 
Municipal  Legislation,  and  has  given  free- 
ly of  his  time  to  that  important  work.  He 
is  also  attorney  for  the  board  of  directors 
of  Convention  Hall.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  local  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, a  member  of  the  State  Council  of 
the  vState  Bar  Association,  and  a  member 
of  the  American  Bar  Association. 


STEPHEN  A.  NORTHROP 
the  distinguished  divine,  was  born  in  Gran- 
ville, Ohio,  April  7,  1852,  a  son  of  the  Rev. 
W.  R.  Northrop,  a  Baptist  clergyman. 
When  he  was  ten  years  old  his  parents 
removed  to  Michigan,  where  he  received 
his  preliminary  education.  When  twenty 
years  old  he  returned  to  Granville,  taking 
a  three  years'  classical  course  in  Denison 
University,  and  then  went  to  Colgate  Uni- 
versity, Hazilton,  N.  Y.,  where  he  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  A.B.  in  1876.  In 
the  same  year  he  entered  the  Rochester 
Theological  Seminary,  meanwhile  supply- 
ing the  pulpit  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
at  Fenton,  Mich.,  and  in  1882  he  went  to 

the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Fort  Wayne, 
Ind.  In  1885  he  was  called  1o  Cincinnati, 
and  in  i8g6  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  has 
ever  since  been  the  pastor  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church.  The  congregation  called 
him  on  the  strength  of  his  record  alone. 

Dr.  Northrop  had  the  degree  of  A.M. 
conferred  upon  him  by  Hazilton  College, 
and  the  degree  of  D.D.  by  Franklin  Col- 
lege. 

Dr.  Northrup  is  a  splendid  speaker,  and 
has  twice  offered  prayer  at  Republican 
National  Conventions.  He  has  also  been 
a  tireless  contributor  to  both  secular  and 
religious  magazines,  and  his  book,  ' '  A 
Cloud  of  Witnesses,"  is  now  in  its  fifth  edi- 
tion. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Celestine  Joslin 
August  16,  1877,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Laura  May. 


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JAMES  R.  NOLAND 

was  born  on  the  farm  of  his  illustrious 
grandfather,  the  late  Judge  James  K. 
Sheley,  near  Independence,  Missouri,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1873,  the  second  son  of  Elizabeth 
and  H.  H.  Noland.  He  was  educated  at 
the  ward  and  high  schools  at  Independ- 
ence, and  took  a  special  English  course  at 
Woodland  College  and  at  Westminster 
College,  Fulton,  Mo.,  where  he  became  a 
Phi  Delta  Theta..  In  1880  his  schooling 
was  interrupted  for  six  months,  during 
which  period  he  acted  as  a  Senate  page  at 
Jefferson  City,  there  gaining  an  acquaint- 
anceship with  public  men  and  public  af- 
fairs which  has  since  been  invaluable  to 
him. 

During  a  year's  residence  in  New  York 
as  a  protege  of  the  late  author  and  poet, 
Arthur  Orissom,  Mr.  Noland  developed 
his  latent  literary  talent,  and  since  then 
has  met  with  no  little  success  as  a  news- 
paper writer,  versifier,  song-writer,  short- 
story  writer,  and  authority  on  things  the- 
atrical, his  specialty,  however,  being  short 
stories  for  children  and  for  boys  and  girls. 

September  28,  1897,  he  and  Miss  Ida  B. 
Matthews,  the  well-known  vocalist,  were 
united  in  what  has  proved  to  be  a  pe- 
culiarly happy  marriage,  they  being  insep- 
arable companions.  They  have  one  child, 
Jim,  Jr.,  two  and  a  half  years  old. 

Mr.  Noland  was  appointed  Marshal  of 
the  Kansas  City  Court  of  Appeals,  a  State 
office,  January  1,  1897,  which  position  he 
now  holds. 


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GEORGE  B.  NORBERG 
was  born  at  Galva,  Illinois,  July  11,  1872. 
Mr.  Norberg's  family  left  Illinois  when  he 
was  thirteen  years  old  and  located  in  Smith 
Centre,  Kas.  He  went  to  the  public 
schools  of  both  Illinois  and  Kansas  during 
his  residence  in  those  States,  and  went  to 
work  in  a  drug  store  in  Smith  Centre  while 
a  pupil  in  the  High  School  of  the  town" 
He  started  to  the  Kansas  University  in 
1889,  and  left  that  institution  with  the 
title  of  Ph.  G.  in  1893.  He  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  immediately  upon  his  graduation, 
and  returned  to  work  in  the  drug  business. 
While  employed  at  this  business  he  took 
up  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  University- 
Medical  College.  He  graduated  from  the 
medical  college  March  20,  1897,  and  at  once 
entered  into  practice  as  a  physician. 

He  was  appointed  Assistant  Police  Sur- 
geon for  a  term  of  one  year,  and  at  its  ex- 
piration Was  made  House  Surgeon  at  the 
Missouri   Pacific   Hospital.     He   held   the 

place  two  years,  and  then  returned  to  gen- 
eral practice. 

Dr.  Norberg  is  a  fellow  of  the  Kansas 
City  Academy  of  Medicine,  and  adjunct 
to  chair  of  gynecology  at  the  University 
Medical  College.  He  is  also  affiiliated 
with  the  Maccabees,  and  holds  member- 
ship in  the  Evanston  Golf  Club. 

Dr.  Norberg  was  married  December  11, 
1 901,  to  Miss  Jeanette  Lockwood. 


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MILTON  JACKSON  OLDHAM 
was  born  in  Keytesville,  Missouri.  Much 
of  his  early  life  was  spent  upon  his  father's 
farm,  and  after  attendance  at  the  district 
school  he  entered  the  high  school  at 
Keytesville.  He  completed  the  course 
there,  and  then  finished  his  education  in 
the  college  at  Stansbury,  Mo. 

Upon  the  completion  of  his  academic 
studies,  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  com- 
menced the  study  of  law  in  the  offices  of 
Gates  &  Wallace.  In  1892  he  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar,  and  shortly  after  his  ad- 
mission he  accepted  a  position  in  the 
City  Counselor's  office,  where  he  remained 
until  a  change  in  the  administration.  In 
1896  Mr.  Oldham  became  connected  with 
the  legal  department  of  the  Metropolitan 
Street  Railway,  which  position  he  still 
holds. 

Mr.  Oldham  was  attorney  for  the  Retail 
Grocers'  Association  for  many  years,  and 
is  now  attorney  for  the  Depot  Carriage  and 
Raggage  Company,  and  several  other  cor- 
porations. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Bar  Association 
and  of  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club.  As  might 
be  guessed  from  his  name,  Mr.  Oldham  is 
closely  related  to  the  great  "Stonewall" 
Jackson,  a  family  connection  of  which  any 
man  might  be  justly  proud. 


CHARLES  CLEMMENS  ORTHWEIN 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  February 
13,    1869.     His   father,    Charles    F.    Orth- 
wein,  was   a    pioneer  of  St.  Louis,  and  the 
first  grain  exporter  in  that  city. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
later  entered  Washington  University,. 
from  which  institution  he  was  graduated  in 
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After  leaving  school  he  went  into  busi- 
ness with  his  father,  and  in  1893  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership,  the  firm  name 
changing  to  C.  F.  Orthwein  &  Sons. 

In  1897  Mr.  Orthwein  came  to  Kansas 
City,  and  took  charge  of  the  local  manage- 
ment and  the  business,  under  his  manage- 
ment, has  grown  and  trebled.  The  oper- 
ations are  principally  confined  to  grain  ex- 
porting, exclusively  via  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,. 

Mr.  Orthwein  is  a  member  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Cluh,  the  Driving  Club,  and  since 
coming  to  Kansas  City  has  identified  him- 
self actively  with  all  the  organizations 
and  movements  tending  to  aid  the  city's 
growth  and  progress.     He  is  a  Mason. 

He  married  Miss  Edith  Hall,  of  St.  Louis, 
in  1897,  and  the  permanency  of  his  loca- 
tion in  Kansas  City  is  attested  by  the 
erection  of  one  of  the  finest  homes  in  the 
city. 


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DANIEL  O' FLAHERTY, 
one  of  the  city's  pioneer  civil  engineers, 
was  born  at  Martinsburg,  West  Virginia, 
July  24,  1841.  As  a  boy,  he  lived  in  Cin- 
cinnati, and  went  to  the  public  schools 
there.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1857, 
and  studied  civil  engineering  with  Edmond 
O'Flaherty.  In  1886  he  was  Assistant 
City  Engineer,  having  then  formed  a  part- 
nership with  John  Donnelly,  and  in  1868 
was  elected  County  Surveyor,  and  filled 
both  places  until  1872.  From  1872  to 
r88o  he  practiced  his  profession,  when  he 
was  re-elected  County  Surveyor  for  four 
years. 

Mr.  O'Flaherty  made  the  first  map  of 
Ft.  Worth,  Tex.,  and  superintended  the 
building  of  the  court-house  there  in   1877. 

He  had  charge  of  the  construction  of  the 
East  Fifth  Street  road  in  1874  and  was 
chief  engineer  of  the  Kansas  City  & 
Eastern. 

He  married  Miss  Ella  A.  Ward,  of  Clin- 
ton County,  Missouri,  in  1869.  They  have 
three  children,  Dr.  E.  A.  O'Flaherty, 
Joseph  O'Flaherty,  and  Leo.  J.  O'Flah- 
erty, all  of  Kansas  City. 


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CHARLES  J.  O'MALLEV 
was  born  at  Newport,  County  Mayo,  Ire- 
land, in  1859.  He  derived  his  education 
at  his  native  place  and  at  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land. He  ran  away  from  college  at  the 
age  of  fourteen,  and  came  to  this  country. 
After  a  short  time  in  New  York  city,  he 
went  to  Manistee,  Mich.,  where  a  brother 
was  running  a  weekly  paper,  and  learned 
the  business  in  all  its  branches.  In  1885 
he  became  a  reporter  on  the  Milwaukee 
Evening  Wisconsin  and  later  on  the  Chi- 
cago Times.  He  then  started  a  weekly 
paper  in  Scranton,  Pa.  Afterwards  he  re- 
turned to  Manistee,  and  ran  the  Advocate 
there  for  a  year;  then  went  to  work  for 
the  Rocky  Mountain  News  at  Denver.  In 
1890  he  went  to  Europe  for  the  News,  and 
on  his  return  became  traveling  corre- 
spondent for  the  Detroit  Evening  News, 
and  three  years  later  was  made  business 
manager  of  the  Free  Press.  In  1895  he 
left  to  take  charge  of  a  department  in  the 
New  Orage  Industrial  association,  which 
built  an  industrial  town  in  New  Jersey. 

In  February,  1897,  Mr.  O'Malley  came 
to  Kansas  City  for  the  Scripps-McRea 
League,  and  had  charge  of  the  Pure  Food 
Exposition,  afterwards  devoting  his  en- 
ergy to  building  up  the  Kansas  City  World 
and  other  papers  owned  by  the  League. 

In  1899  ne  started  the  Land  Owner's 
Security  Company. 

He  is  prominent  in  local  Catholic  and 
Irish  affairs,  being  a  charter  member  and 
recorder  of  the  Kansas  City  Council  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  and  is  also  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Karnival  Krewe. 


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JOHN  O'GRADY 

was  born  in  County  Wexford,  Ireland, 
October  14,  1850,  and  was  educated  in  the 
city  of  Wexford,  where  he  subsequently 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

In  1870  he  came  to  this  country,  and 
after  a  brief  stay  in  New  York  located  in 
Osage  Mission,  Kas.,  where  he  practiced 
law  for  four  years.  Soon  after  his  arrival 
there  the  boy  of  twenty  was  elected  May- 
or of  the  town,  and  what  is  more  he  made 
a  good  mayor.  From  Osage  Mission  he 
went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  practice  with  Joseph  Robinson. 

In  1888  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  has 
ever  since  been  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
public  and  professional  life  of  the  town. 

Upon  his  arrival  here  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Robinson,  O'  Grady  & 
Harkless,  but  is  now  and  has  been  for 
some  time  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hark- 
less,  O 'Grady  &  Crysler. 

He  was  for  several  years  captain  and 
judge  advocate  of  the  Third  Regiment, 
and  has  long  been  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Commercial  Club.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  various  other  organizations,  and 
while  never  an  office-seeker  has  always 
been  a  staunch  Democrat. 


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VINCENT  J.  O'FLAHERTY 

was  born  in  Yicksburg,  Mississippi,  Au- 
gust 28,  1873,  hut  as  his  parents  removed 
to  Kansas  City  when  he  was  only  five  years 
old  he  may  be  considered  a  Kansas  City 
product. 

His  early  education  was  received  in  the 
public  schools  of  the  town,  and  later  he 
entered  St.  Mary's  Academy  at  St.  Mary's 
Kas.,  where  he  remained  for  four  years. 

Returning  from  school,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  M.,  K.  &  T.  Railroad,  where 
he  stayed  until  1896,  when  the  position  of 
deputy  was  offered  him  by  Sheriff  Robert 
S.  Stone.  Mr.  O' Flaherty  was  in  the  Sher- 
iff's office  until  1900,  when  he  was  made  a 
deputy  circuit  clerk,  which  position  he 
now  holds. 

He  has  always  been  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  local  Democracy,  and  has 
played  no  small  part  in  its  victories. 

Mr.  O'  Flaherty  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  is  Treasurer  of  the 
Marquette  Club,  and  is  a  director  in  the 
Kansas  City  Athletic  Club. 

He  married  Miss  Emily  Marie  r,erard 
in  1S97,  and  they  have  one  son,  Vincent, 
Jr. 


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FREEMAN  E.  OVIATT 

was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  November 
2,  1858.  He  spent  his  entire  boyhood 
there.  He  entered  the  public  schools  of 
the  city,  and  after  acquiring  the  rudi- 
ments of  an  education  left  to  enter  the 
Spencerian  Business  College,  from  which 
institution   he   graduated. 

He  went  into  the  retail  shoe  business 
soon  after  his  graduation  from  the  busi-t 
ness  College,  and  has  remined  in  that 
business  ever  since,  except  for  a  few  years 
spent  in  the  general  railroad  contracting 
business  with  an  elder  brother  in  New 
spent  in  the  general  railroad  contracting 
business   with   an   elder    brother   in  New 

York  State. 

Mr.  Oviatt  came  to  this  city  in  1895, 
and  engaged  in  retailing  shoes  soon  after 
he  arrived  at  the  place  he  still  occupies  at 
1 105  Main  Street.  His  long  experience 
in  the  business,  united  with  an  aptitude 
for  mercantile  affairs,  have  placed  him  in 
the  front  rank  among  the  local  dealerrs, 
many  of  whom  have  passed  half  their 
lives  in  the  business  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Oviatt  is  a  member  of  a  numberof 
secret  and  benevolent  societies, among 
them  the  Royal  Aranum  and  the  Mod- 
ern Woodmen,  and  also  holds  memb 
ship  in  the  load  Retail  Merchants'  Asso 
ciation. 

He  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Ada  R. 
Fish,  in  Cleveland,  ().,  They  have  fiv 
children. 


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EDWARD  C.  OREAR 
was  born  in  Mount  Sterling,  Kentucky, 
February  14,  1856.  His  parents  came  to 
Missouri  in  1872,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Bates  County.  Here  the  young  Orear 
passed  all  his  boyhood  alternately  work- 
ing on  his  parent's  furm,  and  taking  ad- 
vantage of  the  scant  schooling  afforded  in 
the  district  schools  of  the  county.  It  was 
in  1890  that  Mr.  Orear  came  to  Kansas 
City.  He  went  to  work  by  the  day  as  a 
painter,  and  he  remained  in  the  business 
as  an  employe  until  1897,  when  he  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  E.  E.  Agin  as 
the  junior  member,  the  firm  style  being 
Agin  &  Orear.  While  an  employe,  Mr. 
Orear  joined  the  Painters'  Union  No.  4, 
the  members  of  which  elected  him  record- 
ing secretary  soon  after  his  admission, and 
later  he  was  sent  to  the  Industrial  Council 
by  the  union,  as  its  representative  in  that 
body.     This  place  he  held  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Orear,  while  not  at  any  time  con- 
nected with  political  parties  in  an  official 
capacity,  took  more  than  a  passing  inter- 
est in  the  welfare  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  as  a  reward  for  his  zeal  and  earnest- 
ness was  placed  in  nomination  by  that 
party  for  the  position  of  Judge  of  the 
Western  District  in  1902. 

He  is  a  member  of  a  number  of  secret 
and  benevolent  societies,  among  them  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Pyramids,  and 
the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  being  treasurer  of  No. 
303  of  the  latter  organization. 

He  was  married  in  1895  to  Miss  Sloan, 
of  this  city. 


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WILLIAM  H.  OTTO 
began  his  strenuous  career  at  Harmony, 
Pennsylvania,  September  10,  1862,  where 
his  father  was  engaged  in  a  general  mer- 
chandise business.  When  the  young  man 
grew  up  he  entered  the  Harmony  Collegi- 
ate Institute,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1882. 

Mr.  Otto  first  ventured  into  business 
for  himself  at  Junction  City,  Kas.,  coming 
from  that  place  to  Kansas  City  in  1885. 
He  first  associated  himself  with  the  Kan- 
sas City  Elevator  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, and  in  1894  organized  the  Moline 
Elevator  Company  and  started  into  busi- 
ness for  himself. 

The  rapid  growth  of  the  city,  and  the 
erection  of  many  large  buildings  since 
then  have  helped  to  make  Mr.  Otto  pros- 
perous. 

He   was  a   member  of      the  examining 

board  of  engineers  under  Mayor  Davis 
three  years,  and  served  six  years  in  the 
lower  house  of  the  Council,  beginning  in 
1898. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Kittie  Shaefer, 
of  Buffalo,  X.  V.,  January  1,  1891. 


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FRANK  PHILLIPS 

was  born  near  Independence,  Missouri, 
May  2,  1862.  He  lived  in  that  town  un- 
til he  had  reached  early  manhood, passing 
his  school  days  as  a  pupil  in  the  public 
schools  there.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
came  to  this  town,  and  went  to  work  for 
the  street  railway  company  as  a  conduct- 
or. At  that  time  the  railways  were  under 
the  owership  of  the  Corrigans,  mules  being 
the  motive  power  used.  In  1888  he  was 
made  superintendent  of  the  Tenth  Street 
and  Brooklyn  Avenue  line,  the  motive 
power  of  which  was  by  cable.  The  line 
at  that  time  was  an  independent  one,  and 
was  operated  through  a  sparsely  settled 
neighborhood.  Its  service,  however,  was 
maintained  at  a  high  standard  of  efficien- 
cv,  and  encouraged  by  this,  homes  were 
built  along  it,  with  the  result  that  when 
the  line  was  sold  by  its  owners  it  had 
reached  the  stage  of  a  valuable  property. 

Mr.  Phillips  was  always  a  Democrat, 
and  was  honored  three  times  with  nom- 
inations to  elective  offices.  He  was  nom- 
inated and  elected  to  the  City  Council  for 
two  consecutive  terms,  and  was  afterwards 
nominated  by  the  party  as  a  Represent- 
ative. He  was  elected,  and  sat  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Fortieth  General  Assembly. 
vSince  that  time  he  has  always  been  identi- 
fied as  an  active  worker  for  the  party's 
welfare. 

He  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  mining 
business. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Jackson  County 
Club  and  also  of  the  Order  of  Elks. 

Mr.  Phillips  is  married,  and  has  one 
child. 


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ARCHIBALD  ALLEN  PEARSON 
was  born  in  Lincoln  County,  Tennessee, 
October  21,  1847,  and  spent  his  boyhood 
days  on  a  farm.  In  1856  his  parents 
moved  to  Florida,  but  in  the  early  60 's 
returned  to  the  Lincoln  County  farm. 
There  the  young  Archibald  resumed  his 
studies,  but  not  for  very  long. 

In  1864,  when  the  armies  of  the  South 
showed  great  gaps  and  the  end  was  com- 
ing into  sight,  the  seventeen-year-old  boy 
dropped  his  books  and  joined  General 
Forest's  Cavalry.  He  saw  much  service 
with  that  celebrated  company,  and  fought 
on  many  a  bloody  field,  for  Forest  was  nev- 
er the  man  to  avoid  trouble. 

In  May,  1865,  Mr.  Pearson  was  paroled 
at  Greenville,  Illinois,  General  Canby, 
U.  S.  A.,  signing  his  parole.  After  that 
he  clerked  for  eight  years  in  a  store  in  Bed- 
ford, Ind.,  and  then  ran  a  store  of  his  own 
in  Mitchell,  Ind.  From  there  he  went  to 
New  York,  where  he  went  into  the  cloak 
business,  and  it  was  in  1883  that  he  came 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has  ever  since 
been  engaged  in  the.  millinery  business. 

He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  a  thirty-second  degree  Ma- 
son, a  Shriner,  and  a  Knight  Templar. 

Mr.  Pearson  married  Miss  Anna  Stillson, 
in  Bedford,  Ind.,  in  1869.  They  have 
three  children. 


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EDWARD  EVERETT  PORTERFIELD 

was  born  March  28,  1861,  in  Berkeley 
County,  Virginia,  and  spent  his  boyhood 
days  on  a  farm.  He  attended  a  country 
school,  and  was  graduated  from  Franklyn 
and  Marshall  College  in  1883,  having  the 
degree  of  A.B.  conferred  upon  him.  After 
leaving  college,  he  decided  upon  the  law 
for  his  profession,  and  entered  the  office  of. 
Henry  Clay  Douglas  in  Hagerstown,  Md. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885,  but 
did  not  hang  out  his  shingle  just  then.first 
accepting  a  position  as  principal  of  the 
public  schools  in  Hancock,  Md.  He 
taught  here  for  a  year,  and  then  came 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law. 

Mr.  Porterfield  married  Miss  Julia 
Chick,  daughter  of  Joseph  S.  Chick,  a  pi- 
oneer citizen  of  Kansas  City,  and  is  the 
father  of  two  children,  Edward  E.,  Jr., 
and  Joseph  Chick  Porterfield. 

He  is  a  Mason,  an  Odd-fellow,  and  be- 
longs to  the  Legion  of  Honor  and  the 
Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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WILLIAM  COULLING  PERRY 
was  born  in  Essex  County,  England,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1854.     He  grew  to  manhood  on 
the  farm  where  he  was  born,  receiving  his 

education  in  the  country  schools. 

In  1873  he  came  to  America  and  located 
in  Ft.  Scott,  Kas.  Deciding  upon  the  pro- 
fession of  law,  he  entered  the  offices  of 
General  Charles  W.  Blair,  and  after  two 
years  of  study  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1875.  He  was  afterwards  admitted  to 
partnership  with  General  Blair. 

Mr.  Perry  took  an  active  interest  in 
Kansas  politics  from  the  commencement 
of  his  residence  in  Ft.  Scott,  and 
identified  himself  prominently  with  the 
Democratic  party,  and  was  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  State  Committee  during 
several  important  campaigns. 

In  1884  he  was  appointed  United  States 
District  Attorney  by  President  Cleveland, 
and  in  1892,  when  Mr.  Cleveland  was 
elected  again,  he  appointed  Mr.  Perry  a 
second  time  to  that  important  office. 

Mr.  Perry  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1899, 
and  is  now  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Holmes  &  Perry. 

He  married  Miss  Massey,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  in  1887,  and  they  have  two 
children,  W.  C,  Jr.,  and  Katherine. 


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JOHN  PUNTON 
was  born  in  London,  England,  July  12, 
1855.  He  came  to  this  country  in  1S72, 
and  received  his  early  education  in  the 
schools  of  Jacksonville,  111.,  His  first 
employment  was  in  the  druggist's  depart- 
ment in  the  asylum  there,  in  which  place 
he  remained  for  ten  years.  He  studied 
medicine  every  spare  moment,  and  saved 
enough  to  take  a  year's  course  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  and  also  a  course  in 
the  Miami  Medical  College  in  Cincinnati. 
Returning  to  Jacksonville,  he  only  re- 
mained for  a  short  time,  and  then  moved 
to  Lawrence,  Kas.,  where  he  was  soon  ap- 
pointed City  Physician.  During  the  sec- 
ond year  his  ability  recommended  him  to 
the  president  of  the  State  Board  of  Chari- 
ties, and  he  was  appointed  Assistant  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Kansas  State  Insane 
Asylum  at  Topeka,  where  he  remained  for 
three  years.  Resigning  in  18S7,  he  took 
a  course  in  neurology  at  the  Northwestern 
Medical  College,  and  in  1S88  came  to  Kan- 
sas City. 

Dr.  Punton  has  served  as  president  of 
the  Academy  of  Medicine,  and  as  vice- 
president  of  the  State  Association,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  American  Neurological 
Association.  He  has  also  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  and  secretary  of 
the  University  Medical  College,  and  oc- 
cupies the  chair  of  nervous  and  mental 
diseases. 

Dr.  Punton  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  a  Shriner,  and  is  editor  of  the  In- 
dex-Lancet. 


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THOMAS  J.  PENDERGAST 
was  born  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  July  22, 
1872.  He  attened  the  public  schools  of 
his  birthplace  until  his  graduation  in  1886, 
after  which  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Burlington  Railroad  in  a  clerical  posi- 
tion. He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1888, 
while  in  the  employ  of  the  Burlington, 
and  remained  with  the  road  for  eight 
years,  advancing  meanwhile  to  better  po- 
sitions. 

In  1896  Marshal  Chiles  tendered  him 
the  position  of  Deputy  County  Marshal, 
which  he  accepted.  He  held  the  place 
until  the  conclusion  of  County  Marshal 
Chiles'  term  of  office  in  1900,  when  he  was 
appointed  Superintendent  of  City  Streets 
by  Mayor  James  A.  Reed,  which  place  he 
now  holds. 

All  during  his  residence  in  this  city  he 
has  been  actively  identified  with  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  and  has  been  a  prominent 
figure  in  the  party  councils.  As  a  mem- 
ber of  various  City,  County,  and  Congres- 
sional Commisional  committees,  he  has 
forwarded  the  interests  of  the  partv,  where 
shrewdness  and  intelligence,  combined 
with  a  broad  grasp  of  political  affairs, 
could  be  used  to  advantage.  These  qual- 
ities, combined  with  the  experience  gained 
in  the  office  of  the  County  Marshal  while 
a  deputy,  made  him  the  ideal  candidate 
for  the  office.  His  name  was  presented 
for  consideration  before  a  convention  of 
the  delegates  of  his  party  in  1002,  and  he 
was  nominated  for  the  office  by  acclama- 
tion. 

Mr.  Pendergast  is  an  Elk. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JAMES  L.  PHELPS 
was  born  in  Ottawa,  Illinois,  January  i, 
1865.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Ottawa,  where  he  gained  the  rudiments 
of  an  education,  which  had  been  destined 
to  be  complete,  but  the  failure  of  his. 
father  in  business  necessitated  his  quit- 
ting school  and  taking  employment.  He 
taught  school  for  a  time,  reading  law  at 
night,  and  qualified  for  the  bar,  being  ad- 
mitted in  Illinois  in  1878.  He  took  up  its 
practice  in  Newport,  Ark.,  first,  but  poor 
health  compelled  him  to  seek  another  cli- 
mate, so  Mr..  Phelps  came  north  and  set- 
tled in  Atchison,  Kas.,  where  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  became 
rather  prominent  in  the  Democratic  pol- 
itics of  the  district. 

In  1 88 1  he  removed  to  Independence, 
this  county,  where  he  first  became  en- 
gaged in  the  abstract  business,  giving  it  up 
after  a  time  to  take  a  place  with  the  Kan- 
sas City  Times,  remaining  with  the  paper 
for  several  years.  After  his  newspaper 
experience,  Mr.  Phelps  was  appointed 
Deputy  County  Clerk,  and  given  charge 
of  the  Independence  office.  His  careful- 
ness of  the  responsibility  entrusted  to  his 
hands,  together  with  the  experience  and 
friendships  gained  while  in  the  office,  made 
him  available  timber  for  the  nomination 
for  the  office,  and  he  was  nominated  by 
the  Democratic  party  in  1902. 

Mr.  Phelps  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  a 
Woodman,  a  Heptosaph,  and  is  identified 
with  the  Christian  Church. 

He  was  married  in  1883  to  Miss  Nellie 
Gregg. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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WALTER  ANDERSON  POWELL 
was  born  June  16,  1855,  near  Farmington, 
Delaware.  His  early  life  was  spent  there, 
and  he  attended  the  Wilmington  Confer- 
ence Academy  at  Dover,  Del.  He  was 
graduated  from  Dickinson  College,  Car- 
lisle, Penn.,  in  1878,  and  went  to  Denton, 
Md.,  to  read  law.  He  came  to  Kansas 
City  in  October,  1879,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  here  in  1S81.  C.  W.  Chase  was 
his  first  partner.  With  him  he  continued 
ten  years,  was  alone  for  a  few  years,  and 
then  Elmer  X.  Powell,  a  younger  brother, 
was  admitted  to  the  firm  of  Powell  &  Pow- 
ell in  1894. 

Mr.    Powell  was  married  September  4, 
[888,  to  Miss  Jennie  Knowles,  of  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y. 

He  was  nominated  for  Circuit  Judge  in 
1898,  and  ran  at  the  head  of  his  ticket. 
His  father  was  James  B.  R.  Powell,  a  well- 
known  eastern  merchant. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ELMER    NATHANIEL    POWELL, 

a  prominent  figure  among  the  vounger 
members  of  the  bar,  was  born  at  Farming- 
ton,  Delaware,  September  19,  1869.  His 
parents  moved  to  Dover,  Del.,  when  he 
was  seven  years  old.  He  was  graduated 
from  Wilmington  Academy  at  Dover  in 
1886,  and  then  took  a  post-graduate 
course  of  three  years  at  Johns  Hopkins 
University.  After  leaving  the  univer- 
sity he  took  up  educational  work,  and  was 
principal  of  an  Academv  at  Hillsboro, 
Md. 

In  1890  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
his  elder  brother  was  a  well-established 
lawyer.  He  took  the  law  course  at  the 
University  of  Kansas,  graduating  in  1895 
with  the  highest  honors  of  the  class.  Re- 
turning to  Kansas  City,  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  with  his  brother,  under  the 
present  firm  name  of  Powell  &  Powell. 

Mr.  Powell  was  married  October  ig, 
1879,  to  Miss  Illga  Herbel,  of  Jacksonville, 
111.  They  have  one  child,  Dorothy,  three 
years  old. 

In  iSq5  Mr.  Powell  was  made  secretary 
of  the  Kansas  City  Law  School,  which  he 
helped  to  found,  and  served  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  1 901.  He  was  treasurer  of 
the  Bar  Association  one  term.  At  the 
university  Mr.  Powell  was  a  member  of 
the  Beta  Theta  Psi  Fraternitv. 


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JOSEPH  M.  PATTERSON 
was  born  June  15,  1865,  in  Cynthiana, 
Harrison  County,  Kentucky.  He  spent 
his  boyhood  there,  receiving  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  and  in  Georgetown 
Academv,  after  which  he  entered  the  Ohio 
Medical  College  in  18S4.  He  took  his  de- 
gree in  1886,  and  then  spent  a  year  in  the 
Pulte  Medical  College,  after  which  he  be- 
gan practice  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  remaining 
there  for  three  years. 

After  four  years  in  Champagne,  111., 
where  he  removed  from  Augusta,  Dr.  Pat- 
terson decided  to  specialize,  and  in  1894 
entered  the  Illinois  Eye  and  Ear  Infirm- 
ary at  Chicago,  after  which  he  took  courses 
in  the  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
the  Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
the  Knapp  Opthalmic  and  Aural  Insti- 
tute, and  the  New  York  Opthalmic  Hos- 
pital College.  It  was  from  the  latter  in- 
stitution that  he  received  the  degree  of 
Eye  and  Ear  Surgeon. 

In  1898  he  came  to  Kansas  City. 

Dr.  Patterson  is  a  member  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Club,  the  Evanston  Golf  Club, 
the  Kansas  City  Driving  Club,  is  vice- 
president  of  the  October  Ball  Association, 
and  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a 
Knight  Templar,  and  a  Shriner. 

He  married  Miss  Bowman,  of  Kentucky, 
in  1887,  and  they  have  one  boy. 


WIN  FRED  S.  PONTIUS 
was  born  in  Fulton,   Indiana,    December 
15,  1859,  of  a  family  that  has  been  rooted 
in  American  soil  for  one  hundred  and  fifty 
years. 

He  received  a  good  education,  but  went 
to  work  at  a  comparatively  early  age,  as 
American   boys   have   a    habit   of    doing. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1886,  attract- 
ed by  the  possibilities  of  the  growing 
town,  and  has  remained  here  ever  since. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  here  he  embarked 
in  the  grain  business,  in  which  he  achieved 
a  most  substantial  success.  He  later  went 
into  the  coal  and  ice  business,  and  was  so 
engaged  when  honored  with  the  nomina- 
tion for  Sheriff  in  1900. 

Mr.  Pontius  has  always  been  a  staunch 

and  active  Republican,  "but  was  never 
anything  of  an  office-seeker,  and  the  nom- 
ination came  to  him  as  a  surprise.  He 
was  elected — the  first  Republican  Sheriff 
in  Jackson  County  for  thirty  years — and 
made  an  admirable  officer. 

Without  any  effort  on  his  part,  Mr. 
Pontius  was  given  a  re-nomination  in  1902, 
but  went  down  with  the  rest  of  his  ticket 
in  the  Democratic  landslide. 

He  is  a  married  man,  and  a  member  of 
several  secret  societies. 


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CLARENCE  STEUBEN  PALMER 
the  well-known  lawyer,  was  born  in  Sted- 
man,  Chautauqua  county,  New  York, 
January,  27,  1857.  He  went  to  the  dis- 
trict schools,  and  then  attended  the  high 
schools  in  Mayville  and  Westfield,  two 
New  York  towns  in  which  he  subse- 
quently lived. 

He  was  graduated  from  Hamilton  col- 
lege in  1879  with  high  honors,  after  which 
he  read  law  under  Hon.  W.  L.  Sessions, 
of  Panama,  New  York.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1881,  and  immediately 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  distin- 
guished teacher,  which  continued  until 
1885,  when  Mr.  Palmer  came  to  Kansas 
City,   winning  recognition  from  the  start. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  appointed  assistant 
city  counselor  in  1894  by  Frank  Rozzelle, 
and  continued  in  office  by  Judge  H.  C. 
McDougal,  Rozelle's  Republican  suc- 
cessor. During  his  two  terms  he  played 
an  important  part  in  the  park  and  boule- 
vard litigation,  helping  to  win  for  the  city 
in  both  circuit  and  supreme  courts. 

Mr.  Palmer  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  local  Bar  Association,  a  Mason,  a 
member  of  the  local  chapter  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,  and  belongs  to  the 
Theta  Delta  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  frater- 
nities. 

He  married  Miss  Julia  St.  John,  of  Sa- 
lem, Indiana,  in  1886.  Their  living  chil- 
dren are  Clarence  and  Edward. 


ISAAC  M.  RIDGE, 
the  pioneer  physician,  was  born  July  9, 
1825,  in  Adair  county,  Kentucky,  but 
transferred  his  residence  to  Lafayette 
county,  Mo.,  in  1833.  He  was  educated 
in  a  private  school  and  in  an  academy  at 
Dover,  and  also  read  medicine  in  that 
town. 

He  afterwards  entered  the  Transylvania 
University,  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  was 
graduated  in  1S4S.  He  returned  to  Kan- 
sas City,  then  YVestport  landing,  and 
opened  an  office  on  the  levee.  He  was 
the  only  physician  then,  and  for  some 
time  afterwards,  and  his  journeys  covered 
deep  into  Missouri  and  out  into  Kansas. 
The  cholera  epidemic  in  1849  found  a 
worthy  foe  in  Dr.  Ridge,  although  his  her- 
culean labors  finally  led  to  an  attack  of 
the  disease.  He  recovered  by  a  miracle 
almost. 

In  1875,  Dr.  Ridge  retired  from  active 
practice,  and  has  sinee  devoted  his  time 
to  his  immense  property  interests.  The 
Ridge  building  and  Masonic  building, 
built  and  owned  by  him  are  monuments 
that  will  endure.  Public-spirited  to  the 
last  degree  he  has  given  freely  of  land  and 
money  to  the  city,  with  no  other  hope 
than  to  see  it  grow  in  greatness.  Dr. 
Ridge  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  1849, 
the  first  in  Kansas  City,  and  is  a  Shriner. 
He  was  martied  in  1850  to  Miss  Eliza 
Smart,  long  since  deceased.  Five  children 
were  born  of  this  marriage,  three  of  wh<  mi 
are  living.  In  1882,  he  married  Miss  May 
D.  Campbell,  noted  for  her  charm,  beauty 
and  wonderful  musical  talent. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


JOHN  M.  ROOD 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Quincy,  Illinois, 
May  14,  1858.  All  of  his  earlier  life  was 
passed  at  his  birthplace,  and  he  acquired 
an  education  in  the  district  schools  of  his 
home  county.  He  taught  school  three 
years  at  Pavson,  111.,  after  leaving  school, 
after  which  he  took  the  commercial  course 
at  the  Gem  City  Business  College  in  Quin- 
cy. When  he  had  completed  his  course 
of  study  he'went  into  the  lumber  business 
as  a  book-keeper.  He  left  Quincy  in  1880, 
going  to  Carrollton,  Mo.,  where  he  engaged 
in  geneial  merchandizing  in  the  employ  of 

a  firm  there.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
the  spring  of  1S67,  and  soon  after  his  ar- 
rival here  helped  organize  and  became 
secretary  of  the  Midland  Lumber  Com- 
pany. He  sold  his  stock,  but  retained  his 
employment  with  the  linn  for  several 
years,  when  he  went  with  the  Deardorff 
Lumber  Company  in  1893  in  charge  of  the 
linn's  local  business.  In  April,  1902,  Mr 
Rood  left  the  Deardorff  company  to  be- 
come the  vice-president  and  local  man- 
ager of  the  Current  River  Lumber  Com- 
pany, in  which  he  is  a  large  stockholder. 

Mr.  Rood  is  active  in  politics,  having 
been  elected  a  member  of  the  upper  house 
of  the  Council  in  1900  for  a  term  of  four 
years,  and  in  1902  was  the  unanimous 
choice  of  the  Jackson  County  Democratic 
Club  for  its  president. 

Mr.  Rood  married  Miss  Sarah  Atwood  of 
Carrollton.  They  have  four  childreen, 
Mary  L.,  Wilhelmina,  Florence,  and  Jo- 
sephine. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

JOHN   EMERSON  ROBERTS 

was  born  in  1853  in  Fredonia,  Ohio,  the 
son  of  a  Baptist  minister.  His  principal 
and  most  important  education  was  re- 
ceived at  Shurtleff  College  in  LTpper  Alton, 
111  ,  from  which  institution  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1878  with  the  degree  of  D.D.  His 
reputation  for  eloquence  and  ability,  al- 
ready won,  soon  secured  him  a  position 
with  the  Baptist  Church  in  Carrollton, 
111.,  where  he  remained  until  1881.  He 
then  accepted  a  call  from  the  First  Bap- 
tist Church  of  Kansas  City,  and  here  he 
gained  new  laurels  by  his  eloquence.  In 
1884  he  found  that  he  could  no  longer 
reconcile  himself  to  orthodox  teachings, 
and  resigning  his  pastorate,  accepted  a 
call  from  a  Unitarian  Church  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

In  1887  he  returned  to  Kansas  City  to 
take  charge  of  All  Souls'  Unitarian 
Church,' and  in  this  position  it  seemed  that 
he  had  reached  the  zenith  of  his  fame. 

But  even  the  Unitarian  Church  was  too 
narrow  for  his  soaring  thought,  and  in  1897 
he  resigned,  and,  launching  forth  on  bold 
new  lines,  organized  the  Church  of  This 
World.  It  has  been  said  "there  is  no 
other  church  like  it  in  this  world.  "  It  has 
no  organization,  no  officers,  and  he  lec- 
tures, rather  than  sermonizes. 

Dr.  Roberts  married  Miss  Edith  Wilson 
and  thev  have  two  children. 


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WILLIAM  ASHLRY  RULE 
was  born  in  St.  Louis  September  3,   1859. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 


He  received  his  education  at  the  St.  Louis 
public  and  high  schools,  and  after  his  grad- 
uation took  a  position  with  the  St.  Louis 
Transfer  Company,  of  which  R.  P.  Tansey 
was  president.  Mr.  Tansey  was  interested 
in  the  old  Hibernian  Bank,  and  soon  placed 
Mr.  Rule  there.  He  afterwards  went  to 
the  Third  National  Bank,  and  in  1S87 
came  to  Kansas  City. 

He  accepted  a  position  with  the  National 
Bank  of  Commerce,  then  at  Sixth  and 
Delaware  streets,  and  from  a  clerkship 
rose  to  the  position  of  assistant  cashier. 
In  1895  he  was  made  cashier,  which  posi- 
tion he  now  holds. 

He  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Lizzie 
Harrison,  of  St.  Louis,  and  is  the  father 
of  three  children,  Bernard,  Ashley,  and 
Katherine. 

A  domestic  man  and  a  very  busy  man, 
Mr.  Rule  has  never  failed  to  identify  him- 
self with  public  movements,  and  has  been 
a  power  in  the  development  of  the  town. 
He  is  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Horse 
Show  Association,  treasurer  of  the  United 
States  and  Mexican  Trust  Company,  one 
of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  Orient  Rail- 
way, and  a  director  in  many  other  com- 
panies. 

He  belongs  to  the  Commercial  Club  and 
the  Driving  Club,  and  is  associated  with  C. 
C.  Christie  in  the  promotion  of  a  race- 
track south  of  the  citv 


LOUIS  R.  RIDDLE 
was  born  in  Porestville,  Minnesota,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1S70,  but  spent  his  boyhood 
in  the  neighboring  town  of  Rxcelsior,  where 
he  received  his  early  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools. 

When  it  came  time  for  him  to  decide 
upon  a  career,  Mr.  Riddle  journeyed  to 
Chicago,  and  entered  the  steam-heatim; 
business.  He  began  at  the  very  bottom, 
working  in  the  shops,  and  secured  a  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  heating  mechanics. 

His  firm  finally  sent  him  to  New  Orleans 
as  an  agent,  and  in  1898  he  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  as  western  agent  for  the  Western 
Paul  Steam  Heating  Company.  His  suc- 
cess was  such  that  he  decided  to  go  into 
business  for  himself,  and  in  1901  he  did  so. 
He  handles  a  line  of  steam  specialties,  and 
has  worked  up  a  splendid  business 

Mr.    Riddle   is  an   enthusiastic   member 
of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  ami  is 
one  of  the  Blue  Diamond's  crack  athlete- 
He  is  also  a   Mason,   and  belongs  to  the 
k  Commercial  Club. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 
ROBERT  EATON  RICHARDSON 
was  born  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania, 
July  28,  1 86 1.  While  still  a  child  his 
parents  moved  to  Concord,  Mass.,  where 
he  spent  his  boyhood.  At  fifteen  he 
took  a  position  in  Pittsburg,  but  re- 
turned to  Concord  after  three  years 
and  entered  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology.  After  graduating 
from  there  in  1885,  he  accepted  a  pro- 
fessorship in  a  military  school  in  Mor- 
gan Park,  111.,  where  he  taught  mathe- 
matics and  mechanical  drawing. 

Quitting  pedagogy,  he  resumed  en- 
gineering, and  went  with  the  Western 
Electrical  Company  for  five  years,  and 
then  formed  an  engineering  company  in 
Chicago  with  R.  H.  Pierce.  In  1891 
Mr.  Pierce  was  made  chief  engineer  of 
the  World's  Fair,  and  Mr.  Richardson 
was  appointed  assistant.  He  laid  out 
the  lighting  of  the  grounds  and  had 
charge  of  the  underground  work.  When 
his  work  was  finished,  he  accepted  the 
position  of  assistant  manager  of  the  An- 
sonia  Electric  Company,  of  Chicago,  and 
when  the  World's  Fair  was  over  re- 
sumed partnership  with  Mr.  Pierce.  The 
firm  is  now  Pierce,  Richardson  &  Neiler. 

In  1899  Mr.  Richardson  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  to  report  upon  the  Kansas  City 
Electric  Light  Company  for  the  Armour 
interests,  and  was  induced  to  remain  as 
genneral  manager. 

He  was  married  January  9,  1894,  to 
Miss  Maude  A.  Richardson  (no  relation.) 


FRANK  FINLEY  ROZZELLE, 
the  sixth  son  of  Wesley  and  Maria  Roz- 
velle,  was  born  near  Georgetown,  Ken- 
tucky. Three  months  later  the  family 
removed  to  Caldwell  County,  Missouri. 
His  father  died  when  he  was  about  eight 
years  old,  leaving  him  to  the  care  of  his 
mother  and  oldest  brother.  He  spent 
his  boyhood  on  the  farm,  attending 
school  in  the  winter,  and  at  fifteen  en- 
tered Missouri  University.  After  grad- 
uation, he  went  through  the  law  school 
at  Ann  Arbor,  and  then  located  in  Kan- 
sas City. 

Mr.  Rozzelle  has  always  been  deeply 
interested  in  matters  pertaining  to  mu- 
nicipal government.  In  1890  he  was 
appointed  Police  Commissioner  by  Gov- 
ernor Francis,  resigning  the  position 
after  a  year  to  accept  the  office  of  City 
Counselor  under  Mayor  Holmes.  He 
held  this  office  four  years,  having  been  re- 
appointed by  Mayor  Cowherd.  During 
Mr.  Rozzelle 's  tenure  of  office,  the  most 
important  litigation  in  which  the  city 
has  ever  been  engaged  devolved  upon 
that  office.  The  greater  part  of  the  wa- 
terworks litigation,  resulting  in  city  own- 
ership, was  waged  by  him.  Another 
victory  he  won  for  the  city  was  in  the 
fight  against  the  gas  company,  which  had 


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JUDGE  ELIJAH  ROBINSON 
was  born  in  Lincoln  County,  Missouri, 
February  9,  i860.  Like  most  other  well- 
known  lawyers,  he  spent  his  boyhood  on  a 
farm  and  attended  district  school  His 
later  education  was  gained  at  Watson 
Seminary,  which  he  left  in  1S69.  He 
studied  law  at  Troy,  Mo.,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1870,  practicing  first 
at  Bowling  Green  and  then  at  Louisiana, 
Mo. 

It  was  in  1889  that  he  left  the  latter 
place  to  come  to  Kansas  City.  In  that 
year  the  firm  of  McDougal  &  Robinson 
was  formed,  the  partnership  continuing 
until  July,  1891.  Since  then  Judge  Rob- 
inson has  been  associated  with  Stuart 
Carkener. 

January  1,  1891,  he  became  attorney 
for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad  at  Kansas 
City. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Lelia  Harris  at 
BowlingGreen,  Missouri,  in  October,  1876, 
and  has  one  son,  Harris  Robinson,  a  grad- 
uate of  Princeton,  now  in  his  father's  law 
office. 

Before  coming  to  Kansas  City,  Judge 
Robinson  figured  extensively  in  politics. 
He  was  appointed  County  Attorney  of 
Pike  County  in  February,  1871,  was  elect- 
ed Prosecuting  Attorney  in  November, 
1S72,  re-elected  in  1874  and  then  was  elect- 
ed Judge  of  the  Third  Judicial  Circuit, 
serving  six  years,  from  1880  to  1886.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State 
Central  Committee  from  1874  to  1876. 
Since  July,  1891,  Judge  Robinson  has  been 
attorney  for  the  National  Bank  of  Com- 
merce, and  stands  in  the  front  rank  of 
corporation  lawyers  in  the  State. 


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EMMETT  MONTGOMERY  REILY 
was  born  in  Sedalia,  Mo.,  October  21,  1S66. 
Until  the  age  of  fifteen  he  lived  in  Callo- 
way County,  when  he  moved  to  Ft.  Worth, 
Tex. 

He  was  engaged  in  Ft.  Worth  in  the 
newspaper  and  real  estate  business,  and 
was  prominent  in  the  political  affairs  of 
the  State  as  a  Republican,  being  chairman 
of  that  party's  City  and  County  Commit- 
tees in  Ft.  Worth,  besides  being  twice 
nominated  by  his  party  for  County  Clerk. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  City  Com- 
mittee for  eight  years. 

Mr.  Reily  came  to  this  city  in  1892. 
Former  Mayor  James  A.  Jones  made  him 
his  secretary  in  1896,  which  place  he  held 
through  two  terms.  He  went  into  the 
printing  business  after  Mr.  Jones'  term  of 
office  expired,  and  remained  there  until  ap- 
pointed Chief  Deputy  by  County  Assessor 
Nofsinger. 

Mr.  Reily  holds  the  distinction  of  being 
the  man  who  organized  the  first  Roose- 
velt Club.  The  club  came  into  being 
Tuly  18,  1 90 1,  and  the  membership  made 
such  prodigious  strides  that  it  soon 
reached  3,000.  The  death  of  President 
McKinley  soon  after  made  the  club  use- 
less for  the  purpose  of  its  organization 
that  of  making  President  Roosevelt  the 
Republican  nominee  for  President  in 
1904 — and  it  dissolved. 

Mr.  Reily  was  made  Assistant  Postmas- 
ter by  Postmaster  J.  H.  Harris  soon  after 
his  appointment  in  1902. 

Mr.  Reily  married  Miss  Minnie  Mount  - 
fortt  at  Ft.  Worth  in  1902.  They  have 
one  child,  Gilliam,  born  in  1896. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  A.  REPP 
was  born  in  Kunkstown, Washington  Coun- 
ty, Maryland,  August  8,  1856.  In  1S62 
the  family  moved  to  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
for  a  while,  returning  East  at  the  close  of 
the  civil  war,  and  located  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  Here  Mr.  Repp  lived  until  he  had 
attained  his  majority,  meanwhile  acquir- 
ing an  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  city.  In  1877  he  went  to  Indianap- 
olis, and  engaged  in  the  baking  business 
with  a  brother,  the  firm  name  being  the 
Repp  Bros.  Vienna  Baking  Company. 
Mr.  Repp  remained  three  years  in  Indian- 
apolis, and  then  went  out  in  Kansas,  en- 
gaging in  the  cattle  business  at  Spring- 
vale  as  a  member  of  the  Goodrich  Cattle 
Company.  Immigration  was  heavy  to 
this  section,  and  the  consequent  increase 
in  land  values  made  ranging  too  costly 
to  yield  a  profit,  so  in  1884  Mr.  Repp 
went  to  Pratt,  Kas.,  and  opened  a  furni- 
ture store.  He  stayed  there  six  years, 
then  went  to  Arkansas  City,  where  he  and 
his  brother  conducted  a  business.  In  all, 
Mr.  Repp  lived  in  Arkansas  City  ten 
years,  the  latter  portion  of  his  business  life 
there  beint;"  in  connection  with  Mr.  Charles 
P.  Duff,  who  is  now  associated  with  him 
in  the  Duff  &  Repp  Company  here. 

Mr.  Repp  came  to  Kansas  City  two  years 
ago  to  become  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  J.  H.  North  Furniture  and  Carpet 
Company,  which,  in  a  reorganization,  was 
merged  into  and  swallowed  up  by  the 
Duff  &  Repp  Furniture  Companv.  Mr. 
Repp  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  this 
firm. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WALTER  CLARKE  ROOT 
was  born  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  December  8,  1859 
but  his  parents  removed  to  New  York  city 
when  he  was  six  years  old.  He  went  to  the 
New  York  public  schools,  and  finished  his 
education  in  the  College  of  the  City  of 
Xew  York.  He  then  went  to  Chicago, 
and  entered  the  office  of  Burnham  &  Root, 
architects,  where  he  remained  for  six  years, 
working  and  studying.  In  1886  he  came 
to  Kansas  City,  started  the  practice  of  his 
profession  alone,  and  is  now  ranked  as  one 
of   the    great    architects   of    the    country. 

In  1896  the  present  firm  of  Root  &  Sie- 
mens was  formed. 

In    addition    to    many    fine    residences, 

warehouses,    and    business   buildings,    Mr. 

Root    designed    Science    Hall    at    Central 

College,  Fayette,  Mo.,  the  Scarritt  Bible 
and    Training    School,    the    W.    J.    Smith 

warehouse,  and  the  Thayer  building. 
The  firm  of  Root  &  Siemens  is  responsible 
for  the  Museum  at  Kansas  LTniversity, 
the  Cupples  Dormitory,  Central  College, 
the  Fowler  shops,  the  Postal  Telegraph 
building,  the  W.  J.  Smith  plant,  the  River 
side  power-house,  and  many  other  large 
structures. 

Mr.  Root  married  Miss  Lora  Bullene  in 
1 89 1,  and  they  have  three  children,  two 
boys  and  a  girl. 

He  belongs  to  the  Country  Club,  the 
Commercial  Club,  the  American  Institute 
of  Architects   and  is  a  Mason. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

MOSES  THURSTON  RUNNELS 
a  physician  who  has  acquired  a  large  prac- 
tice in  Kansas  City,  and  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  attainments,  was  born  De- 
cember 26,  1S49,  in  Licking  County,  Ohio. 
He  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and  was  edu- 
cated at  Oberlin,  where  he  attended  four 
years. 

He  began  the  study  of  medicine  under 
his  brother,  Dr.  O.  S.  Runnels,  of  Indian- 
apolis, Ind.,  and  in  1S74  completed  a 
course  in  the  Cleveland  Homeopathic 
Hospital  College,  which  distinguished  him 
with  several  prizes  and  positions  of  honor. 
His  practice  of  medicine  was  begun  at 
Franklin,  Ind.  After  eighteen  months 
he  took  post-graduate  courses  in  New- 
York  city,  and  returned  to  become  the 
partner  of  his  brother  at  Indianapolis, 
with  whom  he  was  associated  until  1884. 

In  June,  1885,  he  came  to  Kansas  City, 
where,  besides  attending  to  his  practice, 
he  occupies  chairs  in  several  medical  col- 
leges, and  has  contributed  largely  to  the 
literature  of  medicine. 

Dr.  Runnels  was  married  in  Indianapo- 
lis, to  Miss  Emily  Lamb  Johnson.  Three 
children  were  born  to  them,  two  of  whom 
are  living. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ISAAC  PALMER  RYLAND 
was  born  October  6,  1861,  in  Lexington, 
Missouri.  He  went  through  the  public 
schools  of  Lexington,  and  then  attended 
Central  College  at  Fayette,  Mo.,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1 88 1 . 

Returning  to  Lexington,  he  read  law  in 
the  office  of  his  father,  Judge  John  E.  Ry- 
land,  and  after  gaining  admittance  to  the 
bar  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
there  in  Lexington. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1888. 

The  law  firm  of  Ryland  &  Taylor  was 
formed,  and  after  the  dissolution  of  this 
partnership  Mr.  Ryland  allied  himself  with 
Mr.  Lyon.  For  some  years,  however,  he 
has  been  practicing  alone. 

Mr.  Ryland  is  a  member  of  the  Bar  As- 
sociation and  a  member  of  the  Commer- 
cial Club.  He  is  also  a  Mason  of  high  de- 
gree. 

Mr.  Ryland  married  Miss  Bessie  Knick 
erbocker  April  14,   1886,  in  Fayette,  Mo., 
and  is  the  father  of  four  children,  John, 
Louise,  Jeannette,  and  Robert. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

JULES  C.  ROSENBERGER 
was  born  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  December 
14,  1873.  His  parents  removed  to  Kan- 
sas City  when  he  was  but  six  years  old, 
and  his  early  education  was  received  here 
at  the  public  and  high  schools  .  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Central  High 
School  in  1891,  and  then  entered  the  law 
department  at  Ann  Arbor.  He  was  grad- 
uated from  there  in  1893,  but,  in  view  of  his 
youth,  decided  to  defer  the  practice  of  law. 
He  accepted  a  position  as  court  reporter 
for  the  Kansas  City  Star,  and  remained  in 
that  capacity  for  two  years.  He  then  en- 
tered the  law  office  of  C.  O.  Tichenor, 
where  he  resumed  his  legal  studies.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1895,  and  soon 
afterwards  formed  an  association  with  the 
late  Francis  M.  Black,  former  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court. 

Mr.  Rosenberger  is  general  attorney  for 
the  United  States  Casualty  Company  of 
New  York,  and  has  specialized  on  the 
company's    side    of    insurance    litigation. 

He  also  represented  the  wholesale  liquor 
dealers  in  a  test  case  involving  the  consti- 
tutionality of  that  feature  of  the  prohibi- 
tion act  in  Kansas  which  prevents  sales- 
men from  taking  orders  for  liquor,  and  suc- 
ceeded in  having  the  section  declared  un- 
constitutional. 

He  married  Miss  Blanche  J.  Hess,  of 
New  York  city,  March  19,  1902. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

GRANT  I.  ROSENZWEIG 
was  born  September  15,  1856,  in  Erie, 
Pennsylvania.  He  lived  there  through 
the  days  of  his  boyhood,  attending  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  afterwards 
prepared  for  Yale.  He  was  graduated 
from  the  great  New  Haven  institution  in 
1887,  and  soon  afterwards  came  out  to 
Kansas  City. 

While  in  Yale,  Mr.  Rosenzweig  took  a 
partial  law  course,  and  completed  this  by 
study  in  a  local  office.  He  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  1889,  and  refusing  to  ally 
himself  with  anyone,  the  young  lawyer 
flung  his  shingle  to  the  breeze. 

He  continued  to  practice  alone  until 
1892,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Fred  Doggett  under  the  firm  name  of 
Doggett'  &  Rosenzweig,  which  continued 
until  1894,  when  it  was  dissolved  by  the 
death  of  Mr.  Doggett.  Since  that  time 
Mr.  Rosenzweig  has  been  practicing  alone. 

He  married  Miss  Mathilde  Rosenberger 
October  19,  1S93. 

Mr.  Rosenzweig  is  a  member  of  the 
Progress  Club,  is  a  Mason,  and  also  belongs 
to  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  leading  spirits  in  the  organization  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association. 


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FRANKLIN  EVERETT  REED, 
of  the  well-known  law  firm  of  Reed  & 
Reed,  was  born  in  Beaver  County 
Pennsylvania,  January  8,  1S67.  From 
1869  to  1878  his  family  resided  at  Ot- 
tawa, Kas.,  and  from  1879  to  1890  Mr. 
Reed  made  his  home  at  Newton,  Kas. 
Since  1890  he  has  practiced  law  in  Kan- 
sas City. 

Mr.  Reed  was  graduated  from  the 
Newton,  Kas.,  High  School  in  1882, 
and  entered  the  Kansas  State  Univers- 
sity  in  1884,  where  he  was  graduat- 
with  the  class  of  1889,  and  had  the  hon- 
or to  be  elected  valedictorian. 

Until  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  Mr. 
Reed  taught  school  in  Harvey  County, 
Kansas.  At  the  University  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  Frater- 
nity. He  represented  the  University 
in  the  State  oratorical  contest  in  1889. 
Mr.  Reed's  success  in  college  presaged 
the  success  he  should  have  in  later  life, 
his  firm  being  among  the  most  eagerly 
sought  by  clients. 

Mr.  Reed  was  married  in  Kansas  City 
in  1896  to  Miss  Pearlena  Kroh.  They 
have  one  son,  Cameron  K.,  five  years 
old. 


Photo  hy  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  T.  REED, 
senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Reed 
&  Reed,  was  born  near  Pittsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, April  4,  1864.  When  he  was 
still  a  child  of  four  his  father  went  to 
Kansas,  living  first  at  Ottawa  and  then 
at  Newton. 

Mr.  Reed  was  graduated  from  the 
State  University  of  Kansas  with  the 
class  of  '88,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the 
following  year,  and  practiced  first  at 
Newton.  But  this  was  too  small  a  town 
to  hold  a  man  of  Mr.  Reed's  abilities. 
In  January,  1890,  seeking  a  wider  field, 
he  moved  to  Kansas  City  Kas.,  where, 
with  his  brother,  he  built  up  a  splendid 
reputation  for  the  firm  of  Reed  &  Reed. 
After  five  years  across  the  river  the  firm 
was  moved  to  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Mr.  Reed  was  married  in  April,  1S92, 
to  Miss  Grace  Peterson,  of  Akron,  0. 
There  are  two  children,  Marian  and 
Grace. 

Mr.  Reed  recently  attracted  atten- 
tion to  his  firm  by  an  attack  upon  the 
packers'  combine,  a  case  that  is  still 
pending  in  the  court. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

LOUIS  P.  ROTHSCHILD 

was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  July  8, 
1864,  and  lived  there  until  his  removal  to 
Kansas  City  in  1901.  He  received  his  ed- 
ucation in  the  public  and  high  schools, 
and  after  completing  the  latter  course  en- 
tered the  store  of  his  father,  Philip  Roth- 
schild, the  pioneer  merchant  of  the  West. 

In  1901  the  business  was  removed  to  Kan- 
sas City,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
and  his  brother,  Alfred,  at  once  began  a 
campaign  of  energy  and  idea,  which  has  re- 
sulted in  victorv  and  success. 

In  Leavenworth,  Mr.  Rothschild  built 
the  first  independent  telephone  in  that 
town,  and  was  also  the  moving  spirit  in  the 
organization  of  the  Merchants'  Electric 
Light  Company. 

Since  coming  to  Kansas  City  he  has 
identified  himself  with  the  public  life  of 
the  town,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  has  also  actively  parti- 
cipated in  the  Priests  of  Pallas  movement 
and  the  Flower  Show. 

He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason, 
Scottish  Rite,  a  Shriner,  an  Klk,  and  a 
Knight  of  Pythias. 

Mr.  Rothschild  was  married  in  1899  to 
Miss  Westheimer,  of  Si.  Joseph,  and  they 
have  one  son. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ALFRED  P.  ROTHSCHILD 

was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,   April 

24,    186S,    the    son   of    Philip   Rothschild, 

who,  as  early  as  1853,  opened  a  store  on 

on  the  present  site  of  Kansas  City,  and 

then  in  1 855  moved  to  Leavenworth,  then  a 
town  six  months  old.  He  opened  a  store 
there,  and  the  business  is  still  in  existence, 
tin  mgh  now  carried  on  by  his  sons. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  went  through 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  Leaven- 
worth, and  after  completing  his  education 
entered  the  store  of  his  father,  as  his  broth- 
er, Louis,  had  done  before  him. 

As  the  father  grew  older,  the  business 
more  and  more  devolved  upon  the  sons, 
and  un.Ier  their  management  it  grew  and 
grew.  In  1901  a  removal  to  Kansas  City 
was  decided  upon. 

Like .  his  brother,  Mr.  Rothschild  was 
prominent  in  the  civic  affairs  of  Leaven- 
worth, and  has  also  actively  interested 
himself  in  local  affairs  and  public  move- 
ments. He  belongs  to  the  Commercial 
Club,  and  is  identified  with  the  other  kin- 
dred public  institutions. 

Mr.  Rothschild  was  married  in  1902  to 
Miss  Alice  Gumbel,  of  Kansas  City. 

He  belongs  to  no  societies  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  Elks. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

CHARLES  RENICK 
was  born  out  in  Sni-a-bar  Township  in  this 
County  (Jackson),  May  5,  1867.  He  conies 
from  a  line  of  Jackson  Countyans. 
His  grandfather  first  settled  here  in  1828, 
and  both  his  father  and  mother  were  born 
in  this  county,  the  former  in  1832  and  the 
latter  in  1839.  His  father,  John  T.  Ren- 
ick,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  citizens 
of  the  county,  and  it  was  on  his  farm  that 
Charles  was  born.  Mr.  Renick  received 
his  first  schooling  in  the  district  schools 
of  the  county,  and  finished  a  course  at  the 
College  at  Odessa.  He  left  school  life  at 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  entered  mer- 
cantile life  in  Independence.  He  re- 
mained in  the  store  for  three  years,  leaving 
it  to  go  on  the  road  as  a  commercial  trav- 
eler for  Burnham,  Hanna,  Munger  &  Co., 
and  later  for  Swofford  Bros.  In  1895  he 
went  into  mercantile  business  for  himself 
down  in  Oak  Grove,  and  achieved  a  suc- 
cess. 

In  189S  he  was  given  the  nomination  for 
Clerk  of  the  Criminal  Court  by  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  was  elected  by  a  flatter- 
ing majority.  His  ability  and  integrity 
in"  office,  together  with  native  energy, 
made  him  the  logical  nominee  of  the  party 
to  succeed  himself,  and  in  1902  he  was  nom- 
inated by  acclamation. 

He  was  married  Christmas  day,  1900, 
to  Mrs.  Almeda  K.  Humphrey,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Willis  P.  King. 

He  is  an  enthusiastic  Elk,  and  holds 
membership  in  several  other  secret  organi- 
zations. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

I.  J.  RINGOLSKY, 
lawyer,  was  born  September  24,  1S64,  in 
Leavenworth,  Kas.,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Rachael  Ringolsky.  He  was  graduated 
from  the  Leavenworth  High  .School  in 
18S2  and  from  the  Ann  Arbor  Law  School 
in  1884.  Two  years  later  he  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  department  of  political 
science  in  the  University  of  Michigan. 

In  1884  Mr.  Ringolsky  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  since  achieved  promi- 
nence at  the  bar. 

He  is  a  Mason,  an  Elk,  a  K.  of  P.,  and  a 
member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Phi  College  Fra- 
ternity. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  but  has 
never  sought  political  preferment. 

Mr.  Ringolsky  was  married  December 
18,  1889,  to  Miss  Josie  Loewen,  daughter 
of  David  Loewen,  of  St,  Louis.  Mrs. 
Ringolsky  died  October  24,  1896,  after 
having  been  an  invalid  for  five  years 
She  left  one  son,  Sidney  I.,  now  eight  years 
old. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JAMES  CHADWICK  RIEGER, 
the  well  known  lawyer,  was  horn  Septem- 
ber 30,  1855,  in  Beaufort,  North  Carolina. 
His  parents  moved  to  Kansas  City  in  1 87 1 . 
In  the  Kansas  City  High  School  and  the 
University  of  Michigan  Mr.  Rieger  derived 
his  education.  He  began  the  study  of 
law  in  the  office  of  Brumback  &  Traber, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876. 

For  several  years  he  was  attorney  for 
the  Bank  of  Commerce  and  for  the  Chica- 
go, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  Com- 
pany. 

From  1 89 1  to  1894  he  was  Mayor  of 
Westport,  having  been  elected  to  that 
place  of  honor  during  his  absence  in  Flor- 
ida and  without  his  knowledge.  As  May- 
or of  Westport,  he  was  instrumental  in  en- 
gineering a  great  part  of  the  public  im- 
provements  of   that    aristocratic    suburb. 

Mr.    Rieger    was    married  August    27, 
1876,    to    Miss   Lillian    A.    Nierly.     They 
have  four  children. 

Both  Mr.  Rieger  and  his  wife  are  of  Ger- 
man extraction,. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

BOWMAN  D.   RANSON 

was  born  in  Kansas  City  August  18,  1874, 
and  with  the  exception  ot  a  year,  has 
lived  his  whole  life  here.  His  father, 
Joseph  C.  Ranson,  came  here  in  1845, 
and  his  mother  in  1844,  an<^  played  im- 
portant parts  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
community. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  then  entered 
the  Wentworth  Military  College  in  Lex- 
ington, Missouri.  After  completing  his 
course  there,  Mr.  Ranson  entered  the 
office  of  Probate  Judge  Guinotte,  then  in 
the  old  court-house  at  Second  and  Main 
streets,  and  remained  there  for  a  couple 
of  years. 

He   then   went  down  into  Texas,    and 

for  a  year  was  engaged  in  the   insurance 

business   in   Denison,    but    soon  tired   of 

Texas,  and  returned  to  Kansas  City.     He 

worked  as  a  clerk  for  awhile,  embarked  in 
the  brokerage  business,  and  in  1899  was 
offered  a  position  in  the  office  of  County 
Clerk  Crittenden,  where  he  stayed  until 
1900. 

In  that  year  he  was  the  moving  spirit 
in  the  formation  of  a  company  to  buy 
out  the  Faultless  Laundry,  and  operate 
it  on  a  large  scale.  Mr.  Ranson  is  vice- 
president  and  general  manager. 

He  married  Miss  Blanche  Edgecomb 
October  23,  1901. 


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JAMES  J.  SWOFFORD 
was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Illinois, 
August  25,  1S52.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  on  a  farm,  and  what  educa- 
tion he  received  was  in  the  district 
schools  and  in  the  public  schools  of  Ben- 
ton, 111.,  where  the  family  moved  from 
the  country.  His  father  died  when 
the  boy  was  only  eight  years  old, 
leaving  a  wife  and  four  children.  The 
young  John  went  to  work  in  a  dry  goods 
store  when  thirteen,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  that  business  ever  since.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-three,  having  saved 
up  what  money  he  could,  he  and  his 
brother,  B.  S.  Swofford,  went  into  busi- 
ness for  themselves  in  Shawneetown, 
111.,  $1,600  being  the  amount  of  their 
capital.  Ten  years  they  remained  there, 
and  then  thev  came  to  Kansas  City. 
In  1897  the  Swofford  Bros.  Dry  Goods 
Company  was  incorporated,  and  to-day 
the    capitalization    is    for    $1,000,000, 

Mr.  Swofford  was  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Park  Board  in  April,  1901, 
is  chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  to 
erect  a  home  for  the  Manufacturers' 
Association,  and  was  chairman  of  the 
committee  that  secured  the  Democrat 
ic  National  Convention.  He  is  a  di- 
rector in  the  Commercial  Club,  belongs 
to  the  Evanston  Golf  Club,  is  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Bank  .of  Commerce,  and  is  also 
a  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  and  a  Shri- 
ner. 

He  married  Miss  Fay  R.  Powell  in 
Shawneetown  October  2,  1S77.  They 
have  three  children,  Ralph  P.,  Helen, 
and  J.  J.  Jr. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

ROBERT  T.  SWOFFORD 
was  born  in  Benton,  Illinois,  August  2, 
i860.  He  lived  in  his  native  place  until 
he  was  thirteen  years  of  age,  and  gained 
an  education  in  the  public  schools  of  the 
town.  He  took  a  clerical  situation  in  a 
commercial  establishment  soon  after  leav- 
ing school,  where  he  remained  until  he  re- 
moved to  Shawneetown,  111. 

There  he  was  also  employed  by  a  mer- 
cantile firm,  and  gained  the  experience 
which  fitted  him  for  better  things.  Tir- 
ing of  the  East,  Mr.  Swofford  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  in  1887,  and  entered  into  the  em- 
ploy of  the  old  W.  B.  Grimes  Dry  Goods 
Co.,  with  which  he  remained  until  1891, 
when  the  Swofford  Bros  Dry  Goods  Com- 
pany was  incorporated  with  him  as  its  vice- 
president. 

The  company's  first  place  of  business 
was  at  707,  709,  711  Wyandotte  Street. 
In  1900  the  business  was  removed  to  the 
block  facing  Eighth  Street  between  Broad- 
wav  and  May  Streets,  its  present  location. 

Mr.  Swofford,  among  other  organiza- 
tions, belongs  to  the  Masons,  is  a  Shriner, 
and  holds  membership  in  the  Commercial 

Club. 

He  married  Miss  Bertrees  in  Illinois  in 
1SS6,  and  they  have  two  children,  a  boy 
and  a  girl. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


GEORGE  MADISON  SHELLEY 
was  born  in  Calloway  County,  Ken- 
tucky, in  1850.  His  parents  removed 
to  Keokuk,  la.,  shortly  after  his  birth, 
and  it  was  there  he  spent  his  boyhood. 
After  going  through  the  schools  of  Keo- 
kuk he  attended  a  business  college  in 
Chicago,    and    then    entered    Princeton. 

After  leaving  the  university,  Mr. 
Shelley  spent  two  years  in  foreign  trav- 
el, visiting  China,  Japan,  Central  Amer- 
ica,  the  West  Indies,   and  toher  places. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1870,  and 
after  a  short  experience  with  the  gro- 
cery business,  changed  his  faith  to 
wholesale  dry  goods.  He  went  into  the 
wholesale  dry  goods  business  in  1870, 
and   has  been   so  engaged   ever   since. 

Mr.  Shelley  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  al- 
ways taken  an  active  and  leading  part 
in  politics.  During  his  residence  here 
in  Kansas  City  he  has  been  nominated 
for  Mayor  five  times.  In  1878  he  was 
elected  Mayor,  and  then  re-elected. 
He  has  served  three  terms  as  Police 
Commissioner,  having  been  succesively 
appointed  by  Crittenden,  Marmaduke, 
and  Stone,  and  was  postmaster  of  Kan- 
sas City  during  Cleveland's  first  term. 
In  1 90 1  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Uppper  House  and  Board  of  Public 
Works,   which  position  he  now  holds. 

Mr.  Shelley  was  married  in  1872,  and 
has  one  son,  James. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

FRANK  PAYNE  SEBREE 
was  born  in  Fayette,  Missouri,  October 
25,  1854.  His  education  was  received 
first  at  Central  College  in  Fayette,  then  at 
Pritchett  College  in  Glasgow,  Mo.,  and 
then  he  entered  the  law  department  of 
the  Missouri  State  University.  After 
being  graduated  and  duly  admitted  to  the 
bar  he  located  in  Marshall,  where  he  prac- 
ticed law  until  1889,  when  he  came  to 
Kansas  City  for  a  permanent  residence. 
The  year  prior  to  his  removal  to  Kansas 
City  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from 
Saline  County,  and  during  his  term  served 
with  conspicuous  ability  as  chairman  of 
the  Judiciary  Committee. 

Mr.  Sebree  is  a  life-long  Democrat,  and 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  pol- 
itics. He  served  as  chairman  of  the 
County  Committee  in  the  campaign  of 
1898.,  In  1902  Mr.  Sebree  was  appoint- 
ed Police  Commissioner  by  Governor 
Dockery,  and  in  August  resigned  that  po- 
sition to  accept  the  more  important  place 
of  chairman  of  the  Election  Board.  Mr. 
Sebree  has  also  served  as  County  Coun- 
selor, in  fact,  resigned  that  well-salaried 
office  to  accept  the  appointment  of  Po- 
lice Commissioner,  which  pays  practically 
nothing. 

In  1883  Mr.  Sebree  married  Miss  Russie 
Boyd,  daughter  of  Colonel  Sam  Boyd,  of 
Marshall.  They  have  one  son,  Sam,  born 
in  1887. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

HENRY  P.  STEWART 
was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
September  25,  1858.  He  received  his 
education  at  the  public  schools  and  the 
Christian  Brothers'  College.  He  came 
to  Kansas  City  at  the  age  of  nineteen, 
and  his  first  commercial  venture  was  in 
the  coal  and  wood  business  on  the  levee. 
He  remained  in  it  for  five  years,  but  at 
the  end  of  that  time  engaged  exclusive- 
ly in  the  sand  business,  in  which  he  had 
become  interested  some  years  before. 
A  pioneer  in  the  industry,  he  brought 
new  ideas  into  vogue,  so  that  pontoon 
bridges  gave  way  to  the  more  modern 
plan  of  bucket  dredges,  invented  by  the 
late  Robert  Gilham,  and  the  bucket 
dredges  to  steam  dredges  and  centrifu- 
gal pumps. 

In  1897  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Frank  Peck  under  the  name  of  the 
Stewart-Peck  Sand  Company,  and  they 
now  own  their  own  cars,  switch  prop- 
erties, steamboats,  and  dredges,  and 
yards. 

Mr.  Stewart  has  always  been  a  Dem- 
ocrat and  active  politically.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Council  from  the  Seventh 
Ward  in  1888,  and  in  1890  resigned  to 
make  the  race  for  Marshall.  He  was 
elected,  and  his  record  was  such  as  to 
secure  his  re-election  in  1892. 

Since  1892  he  has  devoted  himself 
to  his  business,  and  it  was  only  at  the 
solicitation  of  friends  that  he  accepted 
the  office  of  Police  Commissioner  in  Au- 
gust,  1902. 

He  married  Miss  Minnie  Duke  in  1880 
and  is  the  father  of  five  children,  three 
boys  and  two  girls 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

B.  HOWARD  SMITH 
was  l)i  >rn  near  Vienna,  Scott  County,  Ohio, 
February   5,    1848.     The  family  removed 
in  1 86 1  to  Seymour,  Ind.,  and  four  years 
later  again,  locating  on  a  farm  in  Hamil- 
ton County,   Ohio,   near  Cincinnati.     Mr. 
Smith  received  a  common  school  educa- 
tion  in   the   schoools  of   the   three   towns 
mentioned.     He  removed  later  to  Miami, 
O.,  where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E. 
Stellie.     In    1873    Mr.    Smith    left    Miami 
for  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  where  he  went  into 
the    baking    business    three    years    later. 
After  fourteen  years'  residence  in  Indian- 
apolis, he  came  West,  starting  a  cracker 
and    sweet    goods  factory  in  Springfield, 
Mo.     The  factory  was  the  most  complete 
of  any  among  the  interior   cities  of  the 
State,  but  burned  down  a  trifle  over  a  year 
after    it    was    started  with  complete  loss. 
Mr.    Smith    then    came    to    Kansas    City. 
He  went  into  the  baking  business  at  Ninth 
and  Oak  Streets,  where  he  remained  five 
years.     His  growing  business  necessitated 
more  room  after  that  time,  so  he  was  com- 
pelled   to    seek   larger   quarters.     He   re- 
moved   to    911      East     Twelfth     Street. 
There  he  remained  for  five    years    more, 
when  lack  of  space  again  caused  him  to  find 
a  new  location.     His  business  was  moved 
306-08-10    East    Sixteenth,  where  it   1 
since  been.     The  bakery  is  much  the  larg 
est  in  the  city,  and  is  continuously  growing 
Mr.   and   Mrs.   Smith  had   five  children, 
Walter  L.,  Earl  H,  Lillian  M..  Harry  E., 
and  Rice  B. 


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MEN  WHO  ABE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  oy  Thomson. 

EDWARD  FLETCHER  SWINNEY, 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank, 
was  born  near  Lynchburg,  Pennsylvania, 
August  i,  1857.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  in  the 
State  school  at  Blacksburg.  In  1S75  he 
came  to  Missouri,  accepting  a  position 
as  cashier  of  a  bank  at  Fayette.  In  1882 
he  accepted  a  similar  position  in  Color- 
ado City,  Tex.  ,and  in  January,  1887 
came  to  Kansas  City  to  be  cashier  of 
the  First  National  Bank.  He  was  elect- 
ed its  president  in  1890,  and  has  made 
a  brilliant  reputation  for  himself  in  the 
financial  world.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  directorate, 
a  director  of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Com- 
pany and  of  the  Missouri  Savings  As- 
sociation, and  is  a  member  of  the  exec- 
utive council  of  the  American  Bankers' 
Association. 

Something  that  speaks  volumes  for 
Mr.  Swinney  is  that  he  has  served  as 
treasurer  of  the  Kansas  City  School 
Board  since  1894,  having  just  been  re- 
elected for  another  term.  He  is  also 
serving  his  third  term  as  director  and 
treasurer  of  the  Commercial  Club,  a  long- 
er time  than  any  man  has  ever  retained 
the  position  before. 

Mr.  Swinney  is  an  enthusiastic  sports- 
man and  a  crack  wing-shot.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Country  Club. 

In  1892  he  married  Miss  Ida  Lee,  of 
Old  Franklin,  Howard  County,  Mo. 


Photo  oy  Strauss. 

CHESTER  ALLYN  SNIDER 
was  born  August  9,  i860,  on  a  farm  in 
Platte  County,  Missouri.  His  father  was 
a  Government  contractor,  and  took  his 
family  with  him  from  Missouri  to  Colorado 
and  then  to  Montana,  and  back  again  to 
Missouri,  locating  in  Kansas  City  in  1870. 
The  boy  Chester  went  to  the  public  school 
and  to  the  Central  High  School,  and  then 
entered  Bethany  College  in  West  Virginia. 
Returning  home,  he  embarked  in  the  cat- 
tle business,  helping  to  form  the  firm  of 
Evans,  Snider,  Buell,  in  which  he  was  for 
many  years  vice-president  and  manager 
of  the  Kansas  City  office.  He  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  company,  and  is  also  a 
director  in  the  Fidelity  Trust  Company 
and  in  the  Bolen-Darnall  Coal  Company. 
He  is  rapidly  closing  up  his  business  affairs, 
it  being  his  intention  to  spend  some  time 
in  foreign  travel. 

Mr.  Snider  belongs  to  the  Commercial 
Club,  the  Kansas  City  Club,  and  the  Uni- 
versity Club. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Lillian  Hyatt  in 
1882,  and  they  had  one  daughter.  Mrs. 
Snider  died  in  1883,  and  in  1888  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Olive  Oglesby. 

Few  men  have  played  a  more  prominent 
part  in  the  upbuilding  of  Kansas  City 
than  Mr.  Snider,  for  he  has  been  an  active 
figure  in  all  public  movements. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

EDWARD  LUCKY  SCARRITT, 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Dr.  Nathan  Scarritt, 
was  born  August  30,  1853,  near  his  pres- 
ent residence  in  Kansas  City.  As  a  boy, 
he  went  to  the  Kansas  City  public  schools 
and  to  Pritchett  Institute,  Glasgow,  Mo. 
For  a  year,  he  was  a  student  in  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  at  Kansas  City  in  September,  1873. 
Two  years  later  he  began  the  practice  of 
law  at  Glasgow,  Mo.,  as  junior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Caples  &  Scarritt,  and  in  Janu- 
ary, 1778  opened  an  office  in  Kansas 
City.  In"  1S82  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  his  brother,  William  C.  Scarritt,  El- 
liott H.  Jones  and  Colonel  J.  K.  Griffith 
being  added  to  the  firm  later. 

He  was  made  City  Counselor  in  1885, 
and  in  1892,  when  only  thirty-eight  years 
old,  was  elected  to  the  circuit  bench. 

Judge  Scarritt  is  one  of  the  wealthiest 

and  most  erudite  of  the  members  of  the 
Missouri  bar. 

Together  with  his  father,  he  founded 
the  Scarritt  Bible  and  Training  School, 
one  of  the  city's  chief  institutions.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  also  of  the  Kan- 
sas City  Law  School. 

Judge  Scarritt  was  married  to  Miss  Mar- 
garet Morris,  daughter  of  Dr.  Joel  T.  Mor- 
ris, a  pioneer  physician  of  Westport.  A 
daughter,  Berenice,  is  the  wife  of  W.  E. 
Royster. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WILLIAM  CHICK  SCARRITT 
was  born  March  31,  1867,  in  Kansas  City, 
Missouri,  his  being  a  pioneer  family.  He 
went  to  the  public  schools  of  the  town, 
for  it  was  not  then  a  city,  and  then  en- 
tered Central  College  at  Fayette,  Mo., 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  18S1. 
He  decided  upon  law  as  a  profession,  and 
accordingly  enrolled  as  a  student  in  Bos- 
ton University,  and  took  his  degree  there 

in  1883.  He  also  studied  law  for  a  while 
in  the  office  of  his  brother,  Judge  Edward 
L.  Scarritt,  with  whom  he  was  afterwards 
associated  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
He  is  now  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Scarritt,  Griffith  &  Jones. 

Mr.  Scarritt  has  always  been  interested 
in  public  matters,  and  in  1897  was  appoint- 
ed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Police  Com- 
missioners by  Governor  Stephens,  hut  re- 
signed before  the  expiration  of  his  term. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
the  local  Bar  Association,  and  also  be- 
longs to  the  Evanston  Golf  Club. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Francis  Davis, 
of  Hannibal,  Mo.,  in  1S84,  and  they 
have  five  children,  William  H.,  Frances 
M.,  Arthur  Davis,  Dorothy  Anne,  and 
Virginia. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

SETH  SWIFT  SERAT 

was  born  in  the  town  of  Dunkirk,  New 
York,  November  14,  1863.  His  parents 
removed  to  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  during  his 
youth,  and  there  he  grew  to  manhood. 
His  education  was  received  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  Elmira,  and  the  finish- 
ing touch  was  provided  by  a  course  in 
Cornell  University. 

In  1882  he  returned  to  Elmira  and  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business,  in  which  he 
has  continuously  been  ever  since. 

Mr.  Serat  left  Elmira  in  1888  and  came 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  established  him- 
self in  the  wholesale  coal  business,  and  has 
been  a  prominent  figure  in  the  commer- 
cial, social,  and  club  life  of  the  town. 

He  is  now  president  of  the  Star  Coal 
Company,  which  owns  and  operates  mines 
near  Lexington,  Mo. 

Mr.  Serat  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas 
City  Club,  the  University  Club,  the  Kan- 
sas City  Driving  Club,  and  also  belongs  to 
the  Psi  Ipsilon  Fraternity. 

He  married  Miss  Marion  Hall,  of  Loek- 
port,  N.  Y.,  in  rqoi. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

EDWARD    HOLCOMB    STILES, 
lawyer  and  legal  author,  was  born  October 
8,    1836,   in   Granby,   Connecticut,   of   an 
Anglo-Saxon     ancestry     that     has    been 
traced  back  to  the  time  of  the  Conquest. 

Before  the  war  Judge  Stiles,  a  young 
man  just  beginning  his  career,  located  at 
Ottumwa,  la.  He  was  twenty  years  old 
when  he  landed  there  by  stage  in  1856. 
The  following  year  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  preceptor,  Colonel  S.  W.  Summers,  of 
Ottumwa.  In  1864  he  was  elected  to  the 
Iowa  Legislature  and  the  following  year  to 
the  State  Senate,  resigning  his  seat  there 
to  accept  the  position  of  reporter  of  de- 
cisions of  the  Iowa  Supreme  Court.  In 
[883  Mr.  Stiles  was  the  Republican  can- 
didate for  Congress  in  his  district.  As  a 
law-writer  and  compiler,  Mr.  Stiles  has  an 
established  reputation. 

In  1886  Mr.  Stiles  moved  to  Kansas 
City,  and  in  1892  was  appointed  Master 
in  Chancery  of  the  United  States  Circuit 
Court  for  the  Western  District  of  Missouri, 
a  position  he  still  holds. 

Mr.  Stiles  was  married  September  19, 
i86i,toMiss  Emma  M.  Vernon,  of  Ches- 
ter County,  Pennsylvania.  Six  children 
were  born  to  them,  four  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing. 


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BAYLIS  STEELE 
was  born  December  4,  1862,  in  Henry 
County,  Missouri.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
district  schools  and  afterwadrs  in  the  High 
School  at  Sedalia,  where  his  parents 
moved.  He  traveled  for  a  book  and  sta- 
tionary house  after  leaving  school,  but 
came  to  Kansas  City  in  1884,  and  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  has 
ever  since   been  continuously  engaged. 

Mr.  Steele  was  elected  to  the  Upper 
House  in  the  spring  election  of  1902,  and 
is  making  a  splendid  official  record. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Kansas  City  Club, 
and  an  Elk. 

Few  men  have  more  right  to  be  proud  of^ 
their  ancestry  than  Mr.  Steele.  His  great 
grandmother  was  George  Washington's  sis- 
ter, and  his  great  grandfather,  William 
Baylis,  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  and  was  on  General  Washington's  staff 
at  Yoktown   when  Cornwallis  surrendered 


LUTHER  CLAY  SLAVENS 
was  born  August  13,  1836,  in  Putnam 
County,  Indiana.  His  parents  were 
Hiram  B.  and  Sarah  Holland  Slavens, 
of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  Mr.  Slavens' 
boyhood  was  spent  upon  a  farm  in  Put- 
nam County.  He  was  educated  at  De 
Pauw  University,  Greencastle,  Ind., 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1858, 
completing:  both  the  law  and  classical 
courses.  January  8,  1861,  he  married 
Miss  Sallie  Boggs  Shelby  and  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  Covington,  Ind.,  mov- 
ing thence  to  Kansas  City  in  1865,  where  " 
he  has  ever  since  remained. 

As  City  Counselor  and  member  of  the 
Board  of  Public  Works,  he  served  the 
city  with  great  efficiency,  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  services  being  in  connection 
with  the  transfer  of  the  waterworks  s\  - 
tern  from  private  to  municipal  owner- 
ship. He  is  one  of  the  ablest  members 
of  an  able  bar  unswerving  in  his  devo- 
tion to  principle. 

The  exacting  demands  of  a  busy  pro- 
fessional career  have  not  engrossed  Mr. 
Slavens'  attention  to  the  exclusion  oi 
matters  of  public  and  political  moment. 
In  1880  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Nation- 
al Republican  Convention  winch  nom- 
inated Garfield,  and  he  lias  actively 
identified  himself  with  the  politics 
movements  of  more  recent  year- 
Mr  and  Mrs.  Slavens  have  tnre 
daughters,  Lulu,  Mat  tie.  and  Dade,  all 
married. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN    BESTER   STONE, 

one  of  the  city's  best -known  men,  was 
born  December  5,  1842,  in  Marion,  Ala- 
bama. When  but  nineteen  years  old  he 
enlisted  in  the  Fourth  Alabama  Infantry, 
and  was  in  some  of  the  fiercest  engage- 
ments of  the  civil  war,  having  been  wound- 
ed four  times.  At  the  close  of  the  war  Mr. 
Stone  settled  at  Selma,  Ala.,  and  was 
elected  City  Clerk  and  Tax  Collector. 
In  1878  he  went  to  Dallas,  Tex.,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  real  estate  business.  There 
he  erected  a  Government  building  and 
gave  the  United  States  the  free  use  of  it 
for  ten  years. 

For  several  years  he  was  engaged  in 
mining  at  Leadville,  Colo. 

In  1885  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and 
invested  largely  in  acre  property  on  Pros- 
pect Avenue.  It  was  through  his  efforts 
chiefly  that  the  Prospect  Avenue  and 
Brooklyn  Avenue  car  lines  were  estab- 
lished. 

In  1894  he  was  elected  Presiding  Judge 
of  the  County  Court.  During  his  term  he 
was  put  forward  by  his  friends  as  a  can- 
didate for  the  Governorship. 

Judge  Stone  was  married  June  18,  18S1, 
at  Boulder,  Colo.,  to  Miss  Mary  M.  Kester. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Calla  G.  Stone. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WALTER  SANFORD 
was  born  January  21,  1873,  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
there,  and  upon  coming  to  Kansas  City 
in  1888  entered  the  Central  High  School 
He  fairly  earned  his  education,  for  dur- 
ing his  vacations  and  even  through  the 
school  year  he  held  positions,  and  ranked 

as  a  wage-earner  early  in  life.  He  was 
with  the  Midland  National  Bank  for  a 
while,  and  then  with  the  old  Northeast 
line,  but  after  completing  his  school 
course  he  went  back  to  the  bank.  After 
some  time,  however,  he  accepted  a  po- 
sition with  the  Great  Western  Type 
Foundry,  where  he  remained  for  three 
years.  Having  accumulated  a  small 
printing  office  by  this  time,  he  started 
in  the  publishing  business  for  himself. 
A  bright  weekly,  The  Passing  Show, 
was  the  first  output,  and  then  Poster 
Lore,  but  he  decided  to  take  a  course  in 
the  Kansas  University,  and  so  quietly 
and  sadly  extinguished  the  two  publica- 
tions. Entered  in  the  University,  he 
started  the  Lotus,  which  had  a  brilliant 
career,  and  it  was  this  success  that  de- 
cided Mr.  Sanford  upon  journalism  as 
a  profession.  Quitting  Kansas  Univer- 
sity in  1893,  he  accepted  a  position  with 
the  Star,  where  he  remained  until  of- 
fered the  position  of  assistant  manager 
of  the  Orpheum  in  1901.  In  1902  he 
was  offered  the  management  of  the  new 
Willis  Wood,  where  he  now  is. 

Mr.  Sanford  was  married  to  Miss  Nel- 
lie Crandall  October  30,  1901. 


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JAMES  FRANKLIN  SPALDING 
was  born  at  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  July  28, 
1835.  When  he  was  six  years  old  his  par- 
ents moved  to  Ann  Arbor,  where  he  was 
reared.  In  i860  he  was  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Michigan,  and  three 
years  later  received  the  degree  of  A.M. 
After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  in 
the  Union  High  .School  of  Ann  Arbor,  and 
then  three  years  in  Bryant  &  Strat ton's 
Detroit  Business  College. 

Professor  Spalding  came  to  Kansas 
City  in  1865,  and  on  October  25  of  that 
year  he  and  his  father,  E.  H.  Spalding 
founded  Spalding's  Commercial  College, 
now  one  of  the  largest  institutions  of  the 
kind  in  the  West. 

Professor  Spalding  is  the  author  of  sev- 
eral works  on  book-keeping,  and  is  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  thorough  and 
painstaking  instructors  in  the  country. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

FRANK  CARR  SPALDING 
was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1869,  and  has  lived  his  whole  life  here 
in  the  place  of  his  birth.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  received  in  the  ward  schools, 
after  which  he  attended  the  Central  High 
School,  and  from  there  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan. 

Returning  to  Kansas  City,  he  identified 
himself  with  Spalding's  Commercial  Col- 
lege, conducted  by  his  father,  where  he 
has  ever  since  remained.  Commencing 
at  the  bottom,  he  taught  in  all  the  vari- 
ouurious  commercial  departments,  and  is 
now  assistant  superintendent,  and  is  in 
charge  of  the  office.  He  is  also  manager 
of  the  printing  and  publishing  establish- 
ment operated  in  connection  with  the  col- 
lege. 

Mr.  .Spalding  married  Miss  Clara  Salis- 
bury October  19,   1895. 

He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  the  Modern  Woodmen,  having  served 
as  Venerable  Consul  in  the  latter  organi- 
zation for  three  years.  He  is  aslo  secre- 
tary of  the  Kansas  City  Chapter,  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution,  being  the  great- 
great-grandson  of  Oliver  Spalding,  who 
fought  with  Washington,  and  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  in  New 
York  in  1900. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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THOMAS  JEFFERSON  SEEHORN 
was  born  April  19,  1863,  in  Fall  Creek 
Illinois.  He  spent  his  boyhood  on  the 
farm,  attending  the  district  schools  in 
wintei,  and  finished  his  academic  educa- 
tion at  Chaddock  College,  Ouincy,  111. 

He  then  accepted  a  position  as  teacher 
in  the  college,  then  being  but  twenty-two 
years  old.  For  two  years  he  studied  law, 
and  after  his  admittance  to  the  bar,  first 
practiced  in  Ouincy. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1887,  and 
allied  himself  with  the  late  Blake  Wood- 
son, the  partnership  continuing  until  1897. 

In  1892  Mr.  Seehorn  was  elected  Pub- 
lic Administrator,  and  re-elected  in 
1896.  His  record  stands  as  a  marvel  of 
honesty  and  efficiency. 

He  has  always  been  an  active  worker 
in  the  Democratic  ranks,  and  has  at 
various  times  served  as  secretary  of  the 
County  and  City  Committees. 

Hejs  an  Elk  and  a  Knight  of  Pythias. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 
WILLIAM 


THOMAS    STARK 


was  born  in  Independence,  Missouri 
September  18,  1857.  The  family  re- 
moved to  this  city  while  Mr.  Stark  was 
a  bov,  and  he  became  a  student  at  the 
local  public  schools.  He  afterwards  at- 
tended the  Jesuit's  school  at  St.  Mary's 
Kansas.  After  leaving  there  he  took  a 
course  in  medicine  at  the  Kansas  City 
Medical  School  with  a  post-graduate 
course  in  the  medical  department  of 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis.  Mr. 
Stark  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  this  city  in  1879,  since  which  time 
he  has  been  continuously  engaged  at  his 
profession. 

He  had  been  identified  with  the  State 
Militia  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish 
American  war,  and  at  the  time  of  the  war 
helped  raise  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  Mis- 
souri Volunteers,  afterwards  being  elect- 
ed one  of  its  majors. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  State  Dental 
Association,  and  is  also  president  of  the 
Odontographic  Association,  a  local  or- 
ganization. He  is  besides  an  associ- 
ate member  of  the  Association  of  Mili- 
tary Surgeons,  and  was  connected  with 
the  experiments  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment made  in  1896  and  the  follow- 
ing years  with  the  Krag-Jorgensen  and 
the  Mauser  service  rifles. 

Mr.  Stark  married  Miss  Alice  Vincil, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  D.  Vincil,  of 
St.  Louis,  in  1886,  and  has  one  child,  a 
boy,  John  Vincil  Stark. 


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JAMES  RAY  SAMUEL 
was  born  March  21,  1861,  in  Jefferson 
City,  Missouri.  He  spent  his  boyhood 
in  Calloway  County,  however,  attend- 
ing the  district  school,  and  in  1880  en- 
tered Chaddock  College  at  Quincy,  111., 
where  he  remained  for  a  couple  of  years. 

After  coming  out  of  college,  he  en- 
tered the  mercantile  business.  In  1889, 
he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of 
chief  clerk  in  the  street  department  of 
the  City  Hall,  where  his  efficiency  was 
such  as  to  earn  his  retention  until  1895. 
In  that  year  he  was  offered  a  deputy 
ship  in  the  County  Clerk's  office  and  ac- 
cepted it,   which  place  he   still  holds. 

Mr.  Samuel  has  attended  to  business  in 
the  County  Clerk's  office  with  snch  fidel- 
ity and  with  so  much  courtesy  to  the 
public,  that  he  has  become  one  of  the 
most  popular  officials  at  the  Court  House. 
He  will  in  all  probability  be  the  next 
County  Clerk  of  Jackson  County. 

Mr.  Samuel  married  Miss  May  Small, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Andrew  V.  Small, 
surgeon  in  the  Confederate  army,  in 
Sedalia  in  1902. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

BENJAMIN*  STRAUSS 

was  born  January  27,  1871,  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  He  spent  his  boyhood  there, 
attending  the  public  and  high  schools, 
and  after  securing  his  education  went 
to  work  in  the  photographic  studio  of 
his  brother,  J.  C.  Strauss,  in  St.  Louis. 

He  began  to  learn  the  photographic 
art  at  the  bottom,  performing  the  hum- 
blest duties  at  first,  but  finally  rose  to 
the  position  of  understudy  to  his  fam- 
ous brother. 

In  1900  he  decided  to  launch  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  coming  to  Kan- 
sas City  bought  a  share  in  the  business 
of  George  Curtiss.  A  year  later  he 
bought  Mr.  Curtiss  out,  and  is  now  sole 
owner. 

He  has  come  to  be  in  Kansas  City 
what  his  brother  has  been  for  thirty 
years  in  St.  Louis,  and  by  example  and 
with  the  spur  of  competition  has  done 
much  to  establish  a  higher  standard  of 
photographic  art  in  Kansas  City. 

At  the  recent  convention  of  the  Mis- 
souri photographers'  Association  in 
Pertle  Springs,  Mr.  Strauss  was  given 
the  highest  award   for  portraitures. 

He  is  an  Elk  and  also  belongs  to  the 
Knisrhts  of  Pythias 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


GUSTAV  SCHOETTLE 

was  born  in   Stuttgart,  Germany,  March 

2,     1873.     He    remained    in    his    native 

land  F until  he  had  reached  the  age  of 
twenty  years,  when  he  came  to  this 
country,  and  after  living  in  various  East- 
ern cities  for  a  short  time  came  to  Kan- 
sas City.  His  education  was  secured  at 
the  gymnasiums  of  Stuttgart,  and  after 
a  thorough  classical  training  in  those 
schoois  took  up  the  study  of  music,  for 
which  he  had  shown  a  passionate  love 
and  great  talent  since  infancy.  He 
studied  at  the  conservatory  of  Stutt- 
gart for  ten  years,  about  half  of  the 
course  being  devoted  to  the  study  of 
harmonics  and  composition,  with  a  most 
thorough   drill  in  instrumental  work. 

Mr.  Schoettle  came  to  this  city  in 
1893,  but  did  not  take  up  a  permanent 
residence  here  until  two  years  later, 
the  time  intervening  being  given  up  to 
concert  tours.  He  has  met  with  con- 
siderable success  in  that  short  time 
having  placed  himself  in  the  front  rank 
of  local  musicians.  He  was  selected  as 
accompanist  of  the  Orotorio  Society  at 
its  organization  in  1896,  and  has  been 
retained  in  the  position  since.  He  is 
also  conductor  of  the  Schubert  Club,  a 
male  chorus  of  thirty-five  voices,  which 
he  organized  in  1899.  The  club  has  won 
two  prizes  under  his  direction. 

Mr.  Schoettle  was  married  in  1898  to 
Miss  May  Stearns,  the  well-known  elo- 
cutionist.    They  have  one  child,  a    boy. 


CLARENCE  I.  SPELLMAN 
was  born  in  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1874,  and  lived  there  until  the  re- 
moval of  his  parents  to  Kansas  City  in 
1886.  His  father  was  a  Yankee,  and  his 
mother  a  Tenneseean,  and  to  use  his  own 
happy  phrasing  he  combines  "the  warmth 
and  aggressiveness  of  the  South,  with  the 
conservatism  of  the  North."  Mr.  Spell- 
man  was  a  pupil  at  the  Woodland  school, 
and  from  there  went  to  the  Central  high 
school.  He  was  graduated  from  the  latter 
institution  in  1893,  and  then  entered  the 
University  of  Kansas.  He  first  took  the 
classical  course,  and  then  switched  to  the 
law  department,  taking  his  degree  in  1897. 
He  cam  eto  Kansas  City,  and  after  some 
further  preparation,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1898. 

Mr.  Spellman  is  generally  regarded  as 
one  of  the  best  of  the  younger  lawyers, 
and  has  made  himself  a  well-known  figure 
by  his  activity  in  Republican  politics.  In 
every  campaign  he  has  taken  the  stump, 
and  is  an  attractive  and  forceful  public 
speaker.  Until  recently  he  has  been  alone 
in  the  practice  of  law,  but  is  now  officing 
witli  Mr.  Edward  Wright  Taylor.  He  is 
unmarried,  and  lives  with  his"  mother. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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Photo  by  Thomson. 

SAM  B.  STROTHER 
was  born  June  16,  1871,  and  was  reared 
near  Lee's  Summit.  He  attended  the 
schools  there  and  the  Kansas  City  High 
School,  afterwards  going  to  the  Missouri 
State  University,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1893  m  the  law  department. 
When  he  finished  school,  Congressman  W. 
S.  Cowherd  was  Mayor  of  Kansas  City, 
and  Mr.  Strother  became  his  private  sec- 
retary in  place  of  James  Black,  who  en- 
tered the  law  firm  of  Pratt,  Dana  &  Black 
at  that  time.  At  the  close  of  Mayor  Cow- 
herd's  term  of  office,  Mr.  Strother  went 
into  the  law  office  of  Teasdale,  Ingraham 
&  Cowherd,  where  he  remained  until  his 
present  firm  was  formed. 

Mr.  Strother  was  married  to  Miss  Maud 
Davenport  at  Lee's  Summit.  They  have 
one  child,  Isabelle,  two  years  old. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

JOHN  M.  SURFACE 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Indiana  in  1847,  he 
resided  there  until  the  advent  of  the  civil 
war,  when  at  the  age  of  16  he  enlisted  in 
the  7th  Indiana  Regiment  and  served  un- 
til hostilities  ceased.  He  took  part  in 
many  notable  engagements,  among  them 
being  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,  at 
which  he  was  severely  wounded,  and  Ap- 
pomattox, where  Lee  surrendered  to 
Grant.  Mr.  Surface  located  in  Eastern 
Jackson  county  in  1878  and  practiced 
medicine  there  until  20  years  ago.  He 
has  since  engaged  in  the  drug  business, 
having  stores  at  18th  and  Lydia  ave.  and 
19th  and  Grand  ave.  Mr.  Surface  became 
the  Republican  candidate  for  Judge  of  the 
Western  District  in  1900  and  was  elected 
by  over  3500  majority.  As  a  judge  of  the 
County  Court  he  has  always  stood  for  the 
interests  of  the  taxpayers  he  represents. 
His  defeat  for  re-election  was  due  to  the 
Democratic  landslide. 


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MEN   WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 


CHARLES  J.  SCHMELZER 
was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
[uly  23,  1856.  His  parents  removed 
to  Leavenworth,  Kas.,  in  1857,  howev- 
er, where  his  father  started  the  pioneer 
sporting  goods  house  of  the  West. 

After  going  through  the  public  schools, 
Charles  went  into  his  father's  store,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  business 
ever  since.  In  1887  the  house  was 
moved  to  Kansas  City,  where  it  has 
grown  to  be  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the 
world.  Mr.  Schmelzer  is  president  and 
treasurer  of  the  company. 

As  a  public  man,  Mr.  Schmelzer 's  ca- 
reer is  worthy  of  emulation.  He  has 
served  as  director,  second  vice-president 
first  vice-president,  and  president  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  and  in  these  capaci- 
ties launched  many  movements  of  mo- 
ment. He  has  been  a  director  in  the 
Provident  Association  since  1S87,  and 
was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Karnival 
Krewe.  During  his  term  as  president 
of  the  Krewe,  the  first  great  flower  par- 
ade was  given.  He  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Park  Board  in  1901,  and 
has  given  largely  of  his  time  and  thought 
to  the  work.  He  is  a  director  in  the 
Union  National  Bank,  and  a  member 
of  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  Club,  the 
Driving  Club,  the  Waterloo  Hunting 
and  Fishing  Club,  the  Minnezoura  Ang- 
ling Club,  and  the  Evanston  Golf  Club. 

He  married  Miss  Alice  Ide,  daughter 
of  Judge  H.  W.  Ide,  of  Leavenworth, 
January  12,  1887,  and  they  have  a  son, 
Harvey,  born  in  1891,  and  a  daughter, 
Alice,  born  in  1900. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

HERMAN  F.  SCHMELZER 
was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  in 
January  22,  1866.  His  life,  until  he  at- 
tained his  majority  was  spent  in  that 
town,  then  a  great  commercial  center, 
and  where  his  father  had  established  a 
sporting  goods  business  in  1857.  It 
was  the  pioneer  venture  of  its  kind  in 
the  West. 

The  boy  Herman  went  to  the  public 
schools  in  Leavenworth,  and  then  en- 
tered a  local  business  college,  where  he 
prepared  himself  for  entering  his  fath- 
er's store,  and  assuming  a  share  in  its 
management. 

In  1886  the  business  was  removed  to 
Kansas  City,  where  it  thrived  on  com- 
petition to  such  an  extent  that  the 
Schmelzer  Arms  Company  is  now  the 
greatest  exclusive  sporting  goods  house 
in  the  whole  world,  and  a  standing  ad- 
vertisement for  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Schmelzer  is  vice-president  and 
secretary  of  the  company.  His  busi- 
ness interests  have  never  prevented  him 
from  taking  an  active  part  in  all  public 
movements. 

He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Commercial  Club,  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Knife  and  Fork  Club,  and  the 
Kansas  City  Athletic  Club. 

It  was  in  1892  that  he  married  Miss 
Emma  Stubinger,  of  Leavenworth. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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Pholo  by  Strauss. 

HENRY  C.  SOLOMON 
was  born  in  Georgia  in  1857,  but  spen  this 
boyhood   in    Kansas,    his    parents   having 
removed  to  that  State  when  he  was  still  an 
infant. 

After  completing  courses  in  the  public 
and  high  schools,  he  attended  college  at 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where  he  took  a  thorough 
four  years'  course.  He  then  entered 
Washington  University  at  St.  Louis,  and 
was  graduated  from  the  law  and  literary  de 
partment  in  1877. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Missouri 
but  first  swung  his  shingle  to  the  breeze  in 
Atchison,  Kas. 

Carrying  his  Democracy  with  him  from 
Georgia,  Mr.  Solomon  flew  his  colors  boldly 
in  Republican  Kansas,  and  served  terms 
as  City  Attorney  of  Atchison  and  then 
Prosecuting  Attorney. 

In  1894  he  was  nominated  for  Congress 
by  the  Democrats  of  that  District,  and 
came  within  a  few  votes  of  overcoming 
the  large  Republican  majority. 

Mr.  Solomon  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
1898,  and  became  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Wollman,  Solomon  &  Cooper 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  SULLIVAN, 
lawyer,  Woodman,  and  Democrat,  was 
born  February  10,  1864,  at  Louisville, 
Kas.  His  father,  who  was  of  Irish  birth, 
was  a  prominent  farmer  and  stock-raisei 
in  Central  Kansas,  removing  to  that  State 
from  Connecticut  in  1S57.  His  mother, 
a  native  of  Wisconsin,  was  of  German  par- 
entage. His  education  was  obtained  in 
the  common  schools  of  Potawatomie 
County,  Kansas,  and  later  at  the 
State  University  at  Lawrence,  where  he 
graduated  in  law  in  June,  1887.  He  i-  a 
member  of  the  alumni  of  the  Kansas  State 
University. 

In  1887  Mr.  Sullivan  came  to  Kansas 
City  to  practice  law,  and  he  has  occupied 
the  same  office  for  fourteen  years,  ten 
years  of  that  period  having  been  associ- 
ated with  Thomas  M.  Spofford.  Mr.  Sul- 
livan has  always  taken  a  great  interest  in 
politics,  having  campaigned  the  State 
several  times,  but  lie  has  never  been  a  can 
didate  for  any  political  office.  He  was 
appointed  as  a  representative  of  tin  United 
States  Treasury  Department  in  the  con 
struction  of  the  Kansas  City  Federal 
building,  and  he  is  proud  of  the  distinction 
of  having  been  the  first  man  to  be  removed 
on  the  day  following  the  election  of  Wil- 
liam McKinlev  in  1896.  His  offense  in 
the  eves  of  the  Cleveland  administration 
was  too  great  activity  in  campaigning  in 
behalf  of  William  Jennings  Bryan 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  HENRY  SMITH 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Hayworth,  Mc- 
Lean County,  Illinois.  He  grew  to  man- 
hood, however,  in  Nevada,  la.,  where  his 
parents  removed  when  he  was  still  a  mere 
child. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his 
education  in  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  Nevada,  and  after  completing  his  edu- 
cation he  went  into  the  offices  of  his  father, 
who  was  engaged  in  the  abstract  business 
That  was  in  1885,  and  in  1889  Mr.  Smith 
came  to  Kansas  City. 

He  accepted  employment  with  the  ab- 
stract firm  of  A.  O.  L.  Schueler,  where  he 
worked  for  ten  years.  In  1889,  in  com- 
pany with  his  brother  Charles  E.  Smith, 
he  bought  the  controlling  interest  in  the 
Union  Abstract  Company,  at  that  time 
a  concern  of  comparatively  small  impor- 
tance. 

Energy  and  ability,  however,  has  so 
built  up  the  business  that  its  present  cap- 
italization is  for  $75,000.  Mr.  Smith  is 
vice-president  of  the  company. 

He  is  unmarried. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

WILLIAM  EDMUND  SULLIVAN 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  May  14, 
1869.  His  parents  removed  to  Kansas 
City  when  he  was  still  a  child  in  arms, 
so  that  he  is  a  born  and  bred  Kansas 
Cityan  to  all  intents  and  purposes. 

He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
this  city,  and  after  attending  the  high 
school  entered  the  Notre  Dame  Univer- 
sity, from  which  institution  he  was  gradu- 
ated in   1887. 

Upon  his  return  to  Kansas  City  he 
was  appointed  to  a  deputyship  in  the 
City  Clerk's  office.  Such  was  his  effi- 
ciency that  he  retained  his  political  po- 
sition from  1883  to  1896,  watching  May- 
ors come  and  go. 

In  1896  he  formed  the  Globe  Storage 
and  Transfer  Company,  of  which  he  is 
the   president    and   general   manager. 

So  greatly  has  the  firm  prospered 
under  his  management  that  it  has  been 
found  necessary  to  erect,  a  large  brick 
building  at  the  corner  of  Seventeenth 
and  Main  Streets. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

ROBERT  S.  STONE 
was  born  in  Independence,  Missouri,  Au- 
gust 12,  1857.  His  father  was  the  village 
blacksmith,  and  the  young  Stone's  boy- 
hood was  passed  going  to  school  and  assist- 
ing at  odd  hours  in  the  heavy  duties  of 
the  shop.  When,  at  the  age  of  fourteen, 
his  father's  health  failed  and  hewasforced 
to  cease  work,  the  maintenance  of  the  fam- 
ily fell  on  the  boy's  young  shoulders. 
They  moved  out  on  a  farm  and  for  ten 
years  they  lived  there,  moving  back  to 
Independence  in  1SS1. 

Mr.  Stone  started  a  grocery  store,  which 
he  ran  for  some  time,  finally  giving  it  up 
in  order  to  accept  the  tender  of  a  deputy- 
ship  from  Sheriff  W .  S.  Sitlington.  He  re- 
mained in  the  office  for  some  years,  hav- 
ing received  a  reappointment  by  the  suc- 
eeding  Sheriff,  John  P.  O'Neill. 

In  1896  he  was  placed  in  nomination 
and  elected  tothe  office  of  Sheriff  by  the 
Democratic  party,  and  led  his  ticket. 
Two  years  later  he  was  again  nominated 
and  elected,  his  majority  being  added  to. 
After  leaving  the  office  in  1900  he  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  for  two  years, 
and  was  nominated  and  elected  County 
Collector  in  1902. 

Mr.  Stone  is  affiliated  with  the  Knight 
Templar,  the  Elks,  the  Modern  Woodmen, 
the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  holds  membership  with  the  Scottish 
Rite  Masons  and  the  Shriners. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  Cooper,  of  Lee's 
Summit,  Mo.,  June  11,  1879. 


WILL  T.  STRICKLETTE 
was  born  January  22,  1867,  in  Vance- 
burg,  Kentucky,  where  he  spent  his 
boyhood.  After  attending  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  his  native  town,  Mr. 
Stricklette  entered  the  college  at  Au- 
gusta, where  he  took  the  classical  course. 

In  1886  he  removed  to  Burlingame, 
Kas.,  where  he  lived  for  two  years, 
coming  to  Kansas  City  in  1888,  and  liv- 
ing here  ever  since.  From  the  time  of 
his  arrival  until  1894,  Mr.  Stricklette 
worked  in  the  various  large  dry  goods 
houses  of  Kansas  City,  but  in  1894  de- 
cided upon  the  newspaper  business  as 
better  fitted  to  his  tastes  and  temper- 
ments.  His  first  work  was  on  the  ad- 
vertising staff  of  the  Kansas  City  Tinu  r, 
and  there  he  remained  until  1898,  when, 
in  company  with  Frank  Markward,  he 
launched  the  Kansas  City  Manufactur- 
er. In  1901  the  business  was  incor- 
porated under  the  name  of  the  Manu- 
facturing Publishing  Company,  of  which 
he  is  president. 

Mr.  Stricklette 's  work  has  always 
been  in  the  advertising  department, 
and  his  energy  and  popularity  have  been 
potent  factors  in  the  paper's  phenom- 
enal success.  He  has  also  been  a  mov- 
ing force  in  the  Manufacturers'  Associ- 
ation and  other  public  movements 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


Photo  hi/  Thomson. 

EDWARD  STINE, 

the  well-known  undertaker  and  early  resi- 
dent of  Kansas  City,  was  born  injonestown 
Pennsylvania,  January  2,  1833.  Between 
the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen  he  lived  on  a 
farm,  and  acquired  a  common  school  edu" 
ucatio  nin  the  district  school.  He  was  ap- 
prenticed, when  six-teen  years  old,  to  a 
cabinet-maker  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.  After 
serving  four  years,  he  accumulated  his 
first  capital,  and  was  married  October  2, 
1856,  to  Emma  L.  Coleman. 

In  March,  1858,  Mr.  Stine  came  to  Kan- 
sas City.  For  thirty-three  years  he  was 
with  Henning  &  Co.,  furniture  dealers. 
He  began  business  for  himself  in  December, 
ber,  1 86 1,  doing  cabinet-work  and  under- 
taking. In  1878  his  son  William  F.  Stine, 
was  admitted  as  a  partner  under  the  name 
of  E.  Stine  &  Son.  For  the  last  twelve 
years  they  have  been  located  at  408  East 
Ninth  vStreet. 


Photo  lij  Strauss. 

CHARLES  N.  SEIDLITZ 

was  born  February  10,  i860,  in  Port  Gib- 
son, Mississippi,  but  his  boyhood  was  spent 
in  Keokuk,  la.,  where  his  parents  removed 
when  he  was  five  years  old.  After  going 
through  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Keokuk  he  sailed  for  Europe,  and  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  Berlin.  He  later 
entered  the  great  mining  school  at  Claus- 
thal,  and  studied  mining  engineering. 
For  five  years  he  remained  abroad,  study- 
ing in  Germany,  and  spending  his  vaca- 
tions in  touring  the  other  European  coun- 
tries, and  then  returned  to  Keokuk  in 
1880.  He  at  once  left  for  Colorado, 
where  he  engaged  in  mining  for  three  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  came  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  has  ever  since  lived.  He 
was  for  some  time  connected  with  the  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Commerce  as  a  teller, 
then  with  the  First  National  in  a  similar 
capacity,  and  from  there  went  into  the 
City  Treasurer's  office  as  chief  deputy. 
He  was  also  appointed  City  Treasurer  to 
fill  put  an  unexpired  term.  From  1892 
to  1806,  under  the  Cleveland  administra- 
tion, Mr.  Seidlitz  filled  the  position  of 
Assistant  Postmaster,  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  he  went  into  the  the  insur- 
ance business.  He  has  held  several  im- 
portant positions,  but  is  now  with  the  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York 
as  manager  for  Northwestern  Missouri 
and   Eastern  Kansas. 

Mr.  Seidlit/.  married  Miss  Cora  Riggs, 
of  Covington,  Ky.,  in  1884,  and  they  have 
one  bov. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  G.  SCHAICH,  Jr., 
was  born  in  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  May  23, 
1874.  His  parents  removed  to  Kansas 
when  he  was  but  five  years  old,  however, 
and  it  was  in  that  State  that  he  grew  to 
manhood.  His  education  was  not  very  ex- 
tensive, for  he  had  to  work  for  his  living, 
but  what  he  lacked  in  opportunity  he  made 
up  in  ambition.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  in  Lawrence,  Kas.,  and  worked  as 
a  messenger  boy. 

He  also  worked  on  a  farm,  but  always 
he  kept  the  idea  of  an  education  and  a 
profession  belore  him.  In  1895  he  had 
saved  up  enough  to  enter  a  law  office  in 
Kansas  City,  Kas.,  where  he  studied  early 
and  late  for  two  years,  and  at  the  end  of 
that  time  passed  a  splendid  examination, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

He  crossed  the  river  and  identified  him- 
self with  the  late  John  W.  Beebe,  and  re- 
mained with  him  until  that  celebrated 
lawyer's  death  in  1899. 

He  is  now  senior  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Schaich  &  Fairman. 

Mr.  Schaich  is  a  member  of  the  local 
Bar  Association,  and  also  belongs  to  the 
Modern  Woodmen. 

He  married  Miss  Smallwood,  of  Kan- 
sas City,  Kas.,  in  1895. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

FRANK  J.  SHINNICK 
was  born  in  Cincinnati,  (  Ihio,  fuly  1  j, 
1859.  He  went  to  the  public  schools, 
and  received  a  good  elementary  edu< 
tion,  but  at  the  age  of  fifteen  circum- 
stances compelled  him  to  earn  his  own 
living. 

He  commenced  to  learn  the  brick- 
making  trade,  and  completed  his  ap- 
prensiceship  in  St.  Louis.  He  came  to 
Kansas  City  in  1878,  and  by  exercise  of 
energy  and  ability  soon  quit  the  plying 
of  his  trade  and  went  into  the  contract- 
ing and  manufacturing  business,  in 
which  he  has  ever  since  been  engaged. 
Since  1894  he  has  been  senior  member 
of  the  firm  of  Shinnick  &  Massman, 
which  does  one  of  the  largest  contract- 
ing and  brick  manufacturing  busine-- 
se  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Shinnick  is  now  serving  a  term  as 
president  of  the  Master  Builders'  Ex- 
change, and  is  a  member  of  the  Manu- 
facturers' Association.  He  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Upper  House,  and 
might  have  gone  farther  had  he  chosen 
to  give  more  time  to  politic- 
Mr.  Shinnick  married  Miss  Anna 
Buske  in  1886,  and  they  have  three 
children,  one  boy  and  two  ^irls. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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JAMES  CARROLL  SWIFT 
was  born  February  7,  1869,  in  Litchfield 
County,  Connecticut.  His  early  boyhood 
was  spent  on  a  farm,  but  his  parents  later 
removed  to  the  town  of  Binghampton, 
N.  Y.  He  attended  the  public  and  high 
schools,  and  then,  deciding  upon  law  as 
professsion,  entered  the  law  department  of 
Cornell  University. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1S93,  and 
for  two  years  was  identified  with  various 
law  firms.  In  1895  he  commenced  the 
practice  of  law  alone.  It  was  in  1899  that 
the  Chicago  Live  Stock  Commission  Com- 
pany, for  which  he  had  long  been  attorney, 
made  him  a  flattering  offer  for  his  sole 
services,  which  he  accepted. 

Mr.  Swift  is  now  vice-president  and  as- 
sistant general  manager  of  the  company, 
and  also  occupies  a  similar  position  with  the 
Lee  Live  Stock  Company  of  Chicago  and 
St.  Louis. 

The  only  society  to  which  Mr.  Swift  be 
longs  is  the   Knights  of  Columbus. 

He  was  married  in  October,  1898,  to 
Miss  Laura  Laing.  They  have  one  child, 
J.  C,  Jr.,  born  in  1901. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

JOHN  W.  SPEAS 
was  born  on  a  farm  in  Jackson  County 
October  18,  1862.  His  parents  removed 
to  Kansas  City  in  1872,  and  Mr.  Speas, 
despite  his  age,  is  therefore  something  of  a 
pioneer.  He  went  to  the  local  schools, 
and  at  an  early  age  began  to  earn  his  own 
living,  and  at  the  same  time  advance  the 
interests  of  Kansas  City. 

Few  men  have  been  more  indefatigable 
in  working  for  the  good  of  the  town  than 
Mr.  Speas.  Every  public  movement  has 
enlisted  his  best  efforts — Commercial  Club, 
Priests  of  Pallas,  Convention  Hall  in 
everything  he  has  spared  neither  time  nor 
trouble.  One  of  the  first  to  realize  the 
importance  of  a  great  public  building,  Mr. 
Speas  is  now  serving  his  third  term  as  a 
director  of  Convention  Hall,  and  also 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Building  Com- 
mittee in  that  trying  time  of  reconstruc- 
tion. 

He  is  also  a  director  in  the  Priests  of 
Pallas,  and  is  now  and  has  been  for  some 
time  vice-chairman  of  the  Commercial 
Club's  Entertainment  Committee,  in  ad- 
dition to  being  a  director  in  the  Club. 

Mr.  Speas  is  an  Elk,  a  Mason  and  a 
Shriner,  and  is  president  of  the  Monarch 
Vinegar  Company,  besides  representing 
other  interests. 

He  is  married,  and  is  the  father  of  a  boy. 


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WILLIAM  MARSHALL  SLOAN 
was  born  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  January  29, 
1859.  His  parents,  however,  soon  re- 
moved to  Woodford  County,  Kentucky, 
where  he  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools.  After  a  course  in 
Chickering  Institute  in  Cincinnati  he  re- 
turned to  the  farm  in  Woodford  County, 
but  deciding  upon  law  as  a  profession  en- 
tered the  Cincinnati  Law  School.  He  did 
not  complete  the  prescribed  course,how- 
ever,  but  journeyed  to  Santa  Fe,  N.  M., 
where  he  gained  admission  to  the  office  of 
the  Attorney-General,  and  there  it  was  he 
finished  his  legal  studies,  and  gained  ad- 
mission to  the  bar. 

Mr.  Sloan  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1885, 
a  time  when  the  town  was  in  the  throes  of 
its  great  "boom."  Quitting  the  law,he 
entered  the  real  estate  business,  and  has 
continued  in  it  ever  since. 

Always  a  strong  Republican  and  an  ac- 
ive  party  worker,  Mr.  Sloan  soon  began  to 
play  a  prominent  part  in  local  politics. 
Mayor  Webster  Davis  appointed  him 
Commissioner  of  Streets,  and  his  record 
in  office  was  so  good  that  the  Republicans 
nominated  him  for  County  Marshal  in 
1894.  He  was  elected  fairly,  but  the 
famous  election  frauds  of  1894  kept  him 
out  of  office.  In  1901,  upon  the  death  of 
W.  A.  Kelly,  Mr.  Sloan  was  elected  to  the 
Upper  House. 

He  is  a  married  man,  having  wedded 
Miss  Lulu  Waldo,  of  Independence,  in 
1885.  They  have  four  children,  two  boys 
and  two  girls. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

WILLIAM  P.  TRICKKTT 

was  born  in  this  city  Jauary  9,  [873 
He  passed  all  his  life  here  with  the  ex- 
ception of  three  years,  and  accmired  his 
education  in  the  public  schoools  of  this 
city.  Immediately  after  leaving 
school  he  went  into  railroad  wurk  out 
of  town  for  various  roads  in  theSouth, 
and  returned  here  in  the  employ  of  the 
Kansas  City,  Ft.  Scott  &  Memphis  Rail- 
road. After  he  had  worked  there  for  a 
time,  he  went  with  the  Kansas  City 
Transportation  Bureau  in  1892,  being 
its  chief  clerk.  He  has  remained  with 
the  Bureau  since.  In  April,  1897,  he 
was  made  secretary  of  the  Bureau,  and 
in  the  following  July  was  made  com- 
missioner. Probably  no  other  person  in 
the  city  was  situated  so  well  as  he  to  gain 
intimate  knowledge  of  railroad  affairs  of 
the  city.  This  knowledge  Mr.  Trickett 
gathered  together  and  published  as  a 
"Railroad  History  of  Kansas  City," 
which  is  recognized  as  the  standard  au- 
thentic story  of  the  railroad  and  com- 
mercial development  of  the  town. 
Aside  from  this,  his  position  at  the  head 
of  the  Bureau  has  given  him  opportu- 
nity to  become  a  considerable  factor  in 
forwarding  the  intercrsts  of  the  city 
and  that  he  has  done  so  is  testified  to  by 
the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by  t lie- 
business    men    of    the    town    generally. 

Mr.  Trickett  is  an  ative  member  of 
the  Commercial  Club  and  is  affiliated 
with  the  Elks. 

He  was  married  June  26,  1895,  te 
Miss  Lillian  May  Miller.  They  havo 
one  child. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


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BRUNO  L.  SULZBACHER 
was  born  in  Las  Vegas,  New  Mexico.  His 
father,  Judge  Louis  Sulzbacher,  was  then  a 
prominent  lawyer  of  the  Territory,  and  is 
now  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Porto  Rico.  Mr.  Sulzbacher  was  forced 
to  content  himself  with  instruction  at  a 
Presbyterian  mission  school  there,  though 
this  was  supplemented  by  a  classical  course 
at  the  Jesuit  College  in  Las  Vegas.  He 
went  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  entered 
Swarthmore  College  and  later  Rugby  Acad- 
emy, from  which  he  graduated.  His  fam- 
ily had  moved  to  Kansas  City  during  his 
collegiate  life,  so  Mr.  Sulzbacher  took  up 
residence  here  on  graduating.  He  took  a 
preparatory  medical  course  in  the  Kansas 
State  University  and  at  the  University 
Medical  College  in  this  city.  He  gradu- 
ated in  1894,  receiving  second  prize  in 
the  class.  Mr.  Sulzbacher  went  to  Eu- 
rope, and  for  two  years  studied  in  the 
great  universities  at  Berlin,  Goettingen, 
and  Vienna.  He  returned  to  Kansas  City 
in  1898,  and  has  practiced  here  since. 

Dr.  Sulzbacher  has  occupied  chairs  in 
the  University  Medical  College,  in  the 
Womens'  Medical  College,  and  is  a  lec- 
turer at  Agnew  Hospital.  He  belongs  to 
the  New  Mexico  Territorial  Medical  So- 
ciety, the  American  Medical  Association, 
and  a  number  of  other  kindred  societies. 
He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a 
Shriner,  and  an  Elk.  He  also  has  mem- 
bership in  the  Kansas  City  Athletic  and 
Kansas  City  Driving  Clubs. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

LOUIS  W.  SHOUSE 
has  practically  been  an  inmate  of  Kan- 
sas City  all  his  life.  He  was  born  here 
in  1867,  attended  the  local  public 
schools,  and  then  entered  William  Jew- 
ell College  at  Liberty,  quitting  that  in- 
stitution with  an  M.A.  degree  tucked 
under  his  arm.  He  worked  for  a  while 
in  the  bank  of  H.  S.  Mills,  then  served 
for  two  years  with  the  National  Bank 
of  Kansas  City,  after  which  he  set  sail 
for  Old  Mexico,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
arduous  pastimes  of  coffee  and  sugar 
planting.  While  in  that  country  he 
also  filled  the  position  of  U.  S.  Vice- 
Consul  at  Vera  Cruz,  and  might  have 
gone  higher  in  the  consular  service  had 
he  chosen  to  remain  in  it. 

In  1896  he  returned  to  Kansas  City, 
and  accepted  a  position  with  the  Times 
where  his  brilliant  pen  advanced  him 
steadily.  In  1900  he  resigned  to  ac- 
cept the  assistant  managership  of  the 
Orpheum.  So  finely  did  he  perform 
his  duties  that  upon  the  death  of  John 
Loomas  in  1901  he  was  unanimously 
chosen  secretary  and  manager  of  Con- 
vention Hall. 

Mr.  Shouse  is  a  Phi  Gamma  Delta 
and  a  Mason. 

He  married  Miss  Nora  Petty,  of  Lib- 
erty, in  1SS7,  and  has  two  children. 


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WILLIAM  B.  TEASDALE 
was  born  in  Potosi,  Missouri,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1856.  His  education  was  se- 
cured at  the  public  schools  in  Potosi, 
and  afterwards  he  attended  the  St 
Louis  University,  from  which  institu- 
tion he  was  graduated.  He  took  up  the 
study  of  law,  and  obtained  a  degree  from 
the  St.  Louis  Law  School  in  1887.  He 
returned  to  Potosi  after  being  admitted 
to  the  bar,  and  practiced  there  for  two 
years,  coming  to  this  town  in  1879, 
Two  years  later,  William  H.  Wallace, 
then  "Prosecuting  Attorney,  made  him 
Assistant  Prosecutor,  and  he  served 
throughout  Mr.  Wallace's  terms  of  of- 
fice. Mr.  Teasedale  is  a  Democrat,  yet 
when  he  was  made  the  nominee  of  his 
party  for  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  a  stong- 
hold  of  Republicanism,  because  of  his 
work  as  Assistant  Prosecutor  he  was 
elected  by  a  flattering  majority. 

He  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate 
in  1888,  and  served  throughout  his  term 
as  a  member  of  the  Judiciary  Commit- 
tee. 

In  1889  Mr.  Teasdale,  R.  J.Ingraham 
and  William  S.  Cowherd  formed  a  law 
partnership  under  the  firm  name  of 
Teasdale,  Ingraham  &  Cowherd,  which 
continued  for  ten  years. 

In  March,  1901,  a  fifth  division  was 
added  to  the  Jackson  County  Circuit 
Court,  and  Mr.  Teasdale,  who  was  al- 
most the  unanimous  choice  of  the  Bar 
Association,  was  appointed  to  the  bench. 
He  was  nominated  for  the  place  by  the 
Democratic  party  in  1902. 

Mr.  Teasdale  was  married  to  Mis 
Lydia  Guinotte  in  1883. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

FREDERICK    K.  TURNER. 
was  born  in  London,  England,   April    1, 
1866,    but    as    he  came  to  this   country 
when    only    six    years    old    he   ispractic- 
ally     an     American     product.     His  boy 
hood  was  spent  in  Chicago,  where  he  at- 
tended the  public  and  parochial  schools, 
after  which  he  went  to  work  for  his  lath 
er,     who     was    engaged   in   the   elevator 
business. 

The  elder  Turner  came  to  Kansas  City 
in  1887,  and  formed  the  Kansas  City 
Elevator  and  Construction  Company 
of  which  his  son  became  secretary.  He- 
was  also  elevator  inspector  during  1888 
and  1889. 

In  1902,  upon  the  death  of  his  father. 
Mr.  Turner  became  president  and  man- 
ager of  the  company,  now  one  of  the 
largest  of  local  institutions. 

Mr.    Turner  is  a  member  of  the  Man 
ufacturers'    Association,    and    was   oneof 
the  organizers  of  the  Kansas  City   Ath- 
letic  Club,    a    thirty-second    degree    Ma 
son,  he  is  Illustrious  Potentate  of  Arar- 
at Temple,    A     A     0.    X.  M.  S.,  and   had 
charge  of  the  convention  of  the   Shrine 
temples    of    North    America    and    Hono 
lulu,  which  met  in  Kansas  City  in   1901. 
He   was  also   representative   to   the   Im- 
perial Council  in  1902. 

Mr.    Turner    was    graduated    from    the 
Kansas  City  School  of   Law    in    [897, and 
has  been  admitted  to  the  l>ar,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Bar  Association,  but  de- 
votes himself   to   the   elevator   business 

He  is  unmarried,  and  lives  with  hi> 
widowed  mother. 


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WILLIAM  B.  THAYER 
was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  Sep- 
tember ii,  1852,  but  spent  his  boyhood 
in  Danville,  where  he  went  to  the  pub- 
lic schools,  and  later  took  the  academic 
course  at  Centre  College. 

In  1 87 1  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  land- 
ing here  with  fifty  cents  in  his  pocket, 
but  a  heart  full  of  courage.  He  imme- 
diately secured  a  position  in  the  office  of 
Bullene,  Moore  &  Emery,  and  from  the 
very  start  made  himself  indispensable. 
The  business  increased,  and  there  were 
changes  in  the  firm,  but  Mr.  Thayer's 
ability  and  fidelity  retained  him  in  his 
position  as  general  office  man,  and  in 
1884  earned  him  admission  to  the  firm. 
On  November  1,  1895,  the  style  of  the 
firm  was  changed  from  Bullene,  Moore 
Emery  &  Co.  to  Emery,  Bird,  Thayer 
Dry  Goods  Company,  and  the  store  is 
now  the  greatest  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Thayer  has  always  been  an  active 
public  man,  despite  his  business  cares, 
and  has  served  as  second  and  first  vice- 
president  of  the  Commercial  Club,  and 
as  its  president  during  1901-02.  He  is 
also  a  Convention  Hall  Director  and  its 
treasurer,  this  during  the  rebuilding  of 
the  great  edifice. 

Mr.  Thayer  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  Scottish  Rite,  and  is  president 
of  the  Kansas  City  Club. 

He  married  Miss  Sally  Casey,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  James  B.  Casey,  of  Coving- 
ton, Ky.,  November  23,  1880,  and  they 
have  one  son,  W.  B.,  Jr.,  aged  21. 


Photo  by  Thomson. 

FRANK  J.  TAGGART 

was  born  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  but 
spent  his  boyhood  in  the  town  of  Jones- 
ville,  Mich.  After  leaving  school  at  an 
age  when  more  favored  youths  begin  to 
think  of  college,  he  began  clerking  in  a 
dry  goods  store. 

From  Jacksonville  he  progressed  to 
Hudson,  then  to  Jackson,  then  to  Adri- 
an, each  time  getting  something  better. 
He  finally  turned  his  face  to  the  East, 
traveling  out  of  New  York  for  three 
years,  and  then  in  1890  he  came  out 
West,  locating  in  Omaha  as  manager  for 
the  Nebraska  Clothing  Company. 

In  1893  he  came  to  Kansas  City  to 
take  charge  of  the  local  store  as  man- 
ager and  partner,  and  soon  made  the 
Nebraska  famous  the  world  over  by  his 
clever  advertisements.  In  1902  Mr. 
Taggart  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  Ne- 
braska, rather  than  return  to  Omaha, 
and  bought  out  R.  H.  Williams  and 
Emory  Street,  the  wholesale  and  retail 
grocers. 

From  the  time  of  his  coming  here 
Mr.  Taggart  has  played  an  important 
part  in  the  public  life  of  Kansas  City. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Conven- 
tion Hall  directorate,  was  the  originator 
and  director-general  of  the  first  flower 
show,  and  is  prominently  identified 
with  every  public  movement. 

Mr  Taggart  was  married  in  August, 
1 90 1,  to  Miss  Jennie  Murphy,  of  Pine- 
ville,  Ky. 


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Photo  by  Strauss. 

EDWARD    WRIGHT    TAYLOR 

was  born  in  St.  Cloud,  Minnesota,  June 
4,  1863.  After  attendance  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  St.  Cloud,  his  parents  sent 
him  to  a  Catholic  seminary  at  Three 
Rivers,  Canada,  where  he  remained  dur- 
ing the  years  of  1877  and  1878. 

In  the  latter  part  of  1878  he  went  to 
Germany,  entering  the  gymnasium  at 
Stuttgart,  where  he  stayed  until  1881. 
He  then  studied  at  Leipsic,  Goettingen, 
and  Berlin,  taking  the  degree  of  J.U.D. 
at  Leipsic  in  1894.  He  then  spent  a 
year  at  the  University  of  Paris,  and  re- 
turned to  this  country  in  1885. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  St. 
Cloud  in  1885,  but  did  not  remain  there 
for  any  length  of  time,  coming  to  Kan- 
sas City  in  1886.  He  was  first  in  the  of- 
fice of  Warner,  Dean,  Gibson  &  McLeod, 
but  later  formed  a  partnership  with  I. 
P.  Ryland.  He  is  now,  however,  prac- 
ticing alone. 

An  active  Democrat,  he  has  ever  taken 
an  interest  in  political  affairs,  and  de- 
spite his  youth  has  been  prominently 
mentioned  in  connection  with  the  high 
office  of  Circuit  Judge. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

JOHN  HAMILTON  THACHKR 
was  born  in  Kansas  City  October  12, 
1872.  His  early  education  was  de- 
rived from  the  Kansas  City  public 
schools,  and  he  was  gradtiated  from 
Princeton  in  1895.  For  two  years  In- 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Karnes, 
Holmes  &  Krauthoff,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  1897.  Two  years  later 
he  took  the  M.A.  degree  at  Harvard  for 
law  work,  and  in  1899  formed  a  part- 
nership  with   J.   J.   Vineyard. 

Mr.  Thacher  has  devoted  some  at 
tentionto  litreature  as  well  as  to  law.  In 
1898  he  was  correspondent  for  the 
Washington  Post  in  Cuba,  and  wrote 
several  magazine  articles  about  the 
Spanish-American  war  there. 

Mr.  Thacher  is  vice-president  of  the 
University  Club  and  secretary  of  the 
Country  Club. 


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DUDLEY  THOMAS 
was  born  on  a  farm   in  Carroll  County, 
Missouri,      September        12,      1867.      He 
worked   in  the  fields  in  summer,   and  in 
winter    attended    the    district    school. 

In  1890  he  left  the  farm  and  moved 
into  Carrollton.  Engaging  in  the  loan 
and  real  estate  business,  he  scored  a 
success  from  the  very  first.  In  1890  he 
closed  up  his  affairs  in  Calrrollton,  and, 
coming  to  Kansas  City,' accepted  apo- 
sjtion  with  a  prominent  life  insurance 
company. 

His  energy  and  address  made  his  rec- 
ord something  to  be  proud  of.  He  is 
the  only  life  insurance  agent  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  town  to  write  two  $100,000 
policies. 

It  was  not  long  until  Mr.  Thomas  was 
offered  the  general  agency  of  the  John 
Hancock  Life  Insurance  Company  at 
this  point,  and,  accepting  the  place, he 
procedeeded  to  run  their  business  up 
from  almost  nothing  to  a  decidedly 
large  amount. 

Finally  deciding  to  work  for  himself 
rather  than  for  others,  he  resigned  his 
position  in  the  summer  of  1902  and 
formed  the  Security  Trust  ^Company, 
of  which  he  is  the  president. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

A.  S.  VAN  YALKENBURGH 
Assistant  LTnited  States  Attorney  for 
the  Western  District  of  Missouri,  was 
born  August  22,  1862,  at  Syracuse,  Xew 
York.  When  he  was  seven  years  old 
his  parents  moved  to  Illinois  for  four 
years  and  then  to  Michigan,  where  Mr. 
Van  Yalkenburgh  was  graduated  from 
the  State  University  in  1884  with  the 
degree  of  B.A. 

Mr.  Van  Yalkenburgh  came  to  Kan- 
sas City  October  25,  1885,  and  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Dobson  &  Douglass. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1888,  and 
soon  afterward  formed  a  law  partner- 
ship with  D.  J.  Haff.  He  continued  in 
the  firm  of  Haff  &  Yan  Yalkenburgh 
until  June,  1898,  when  he  was  appointed 
to  the  place  of  Assistant  in  the  U"nited 
States  Attorney's  office. 

Mr.  Yan  Yalkenburgh  is  a  leading 
member  of  the  Bar  Association,  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  LTniverstity  Club, 
and  an  active  Republican. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Grace  Ingold, 
of  Kansas  City,  noted  as  a  singer,  Sep- 
tember 25,   1889. 


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WALTER  VROOMAN 

was  born  at  Macon,  Missouri.  January  S, 
1869,  one  of  the  six  sons  of  Judge  H.  P. 
Vrooman.  When  Walter  was  five  years 
of  age  the  family  moved  to  Topeka 
Kas.,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools.  At  thirteen  he  ran  away  from 
home  and  travelled  extensively  over  the 
Western  States,  keeping  up  his  studies, 
however,  so  that  he  entered  Harvard 
University  in  1888. 

In  1895  he  married  Mary  L.  Grafnin, 
of  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  came  to  settle  in 
Missouri. 

In  1898  he  went  to  England,  remain- 
ing there  two  years,  and  founding  Rus- 
kin  Hall  in  Oxford. 

He  returned  to  Missouri,  selected 
Trenton  as  the  point  to  estabilsh  Ruskin 
College,  the  American  counterpart  of  the 
English  institution;  and  in  Trenton  or- 
ganized the  first  stores  of  the  Western 
Cooperative  Association. 

1902  saw  the  headquarters  of  the 
movement  in  Kansas  City,  whence  the 
branches  were  organized  in  the  various 
States.  In  1902,  also,  he  presented  and 
expounded  his  Purposive  Philosophy, 
an  application  of  the  thought-power  of 
the  past  to  the  conditions  of  the  present, 
and  the  evolution  of  the  race.  In  a  series 
of  free  lectures  in  Athenaeum  Hall  he  ex- 
plained the  social  standpoint,  a  new 
system  of  ethics,  whereby  the  determin- 
ation of  right  and  wrong  is  dependent 
on  the  promotion  or  hindrance  of  the  at- 
tainment of  the  Hierarchy  of  Life  for 
this  planet. 


JESSE  J.  VINEYARD 
was  born  in  Platte  County,  Missouri, 
March  13,  1870.  His  early  days  were 
spent  in  Weston,  Mo.,  and  in  1883  his 
parents  removed  to  Kansas  City,  where 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  has  ever  since 
resided. 

He  attended  the  pubic  and  high 
schools  of  Kansas  City,  and  after  com- 
pleting his  courses  entered  Washington 
and  Lee  University  in  Lexington,  Va., 
from  which  institution  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1 89 1. 

Upon  his  return  to  Kansas  City  he 
taught  in  the  Central  High  School,  oc 
cupying  the  chair  of  mat  hematic-,  and 
in  his  leisure  hours  studied  law.  He 
finally  gave  up  teaching,  and  entered 
the  law  offices  of  Warner,  Dean.  Gibson 
&  McLeod. 

He  was  admitted  to  practice,  and  be 
came  senior  member  of  the  firm  oi  Vine- 
yard &  Thacher,  but  in  1902  the  firm  of 
Rozzelle,  Vineyard  &  Thacher  was  formed. 


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FRANK  P.  WALSH 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  July  20, 
1864,  and   came   to    Kansas   City  to   re- 
side upon  attaining  his  majority. 

He  left  school  at  the  age  of  ten  years, 
beginning  the  struggle  for  existence  as 
a  telegraph  messenger  boy  in  his  native 
city.  He  educated  himself  as  a  stenog- 
rapher, and  was  an  expert  in  that  line 
when  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889. 

His  study  of  law,  by  the  way,  was  car- 
ried on  in  the  office  of  Gardiner  Lathrop 
and  as  a  lawyer  he  sprang  at  once  into 
prominence,  and  now  ranks  at  the  very 
head  of  the  Missouri  bar.  He  is  an  at- 
tracitve    and    forcible    public    speaker. 

Mr.  Walsh  was  married  in  1891  to 
Miss  Katherine  O 'Flaherty,  of  Kansas 
City.  They  have  five  children,  Kathe- 
erine  Marie,  Sarah  Louise,  Cecelia,  Frank 
P.,  Jr.,  and  John  Frederick. 

Mr.  Walsh  is  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  and  has  always  been  act- 
ive in  every  movement  for  the  advance- 
ment of  municipal  interests. 


JOHN  W.  WOFFORD, 
Tudge  of  the  Criminal  Court  of  Jackson 
County,  was  born  August  14,  1837,  in 
the  State  of  Georgia.  He  served  in  the 
House  and  Senate  of  Georgia,  and  was 
presidential  elector  in  1876.  He  fought 
in  the  Confederate  army  from  the  begin- 
ning to  the  end  of  the  war.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Judge  of  the  Jackson  County 
Criminal  Court  in  July,  1892,  by  Gov- 
ernor Francis,  and  was  elected  to  that 
position  in  November,  1892,  and  re- 
elected in  1898. 

Judge  Wofford  is  one  of  the  unique 
figures  in  Kansas  City  He  is  like  no 
one  else.  A  just  and  inflexible  judge, 
strict  in  his  construction  and  enforce- 
ment of  the  law,  feared  and  respected 
by  attorneys,  he  is  yet  as  tender-heart- 
ed as  a  child  in  his  treatment  of  crim- 
inals. He  has  inaugurated  a  system  of 
paroling  convicted  criminals,  which  puts 
them  -on  their  honor,  releasing  them 
during  good  behavior,  which  has  done 
more  to  reform  them  than  all  the  pris- 
ons in  Christendom  could  do. 

Some  of  the  most  celebrated  murder 
cases  in  the  history  of  Missouri  have  been 
tried  by  Judge  Wofford. 

So  j"us"t  and  careful  are  his  rulings 
that  it  is  seldom,  indeed,  the  Supreme 
Court  has  found  occasion  to  reverse 
them. 


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WILLIAM  H.  WALLACE 
was  born  in  Clark  County,  Kentucky, 
October  11,  1848.  His  parents  were 
farmers,  and  it  was  on  their  place  Mr. 
Wallace  was  born.  The  family  removed 
to  a  farm  near  Lee's  Summit,  Mo.,  and 
Mr.  Wallace  attended  the  district  schools. 
After  his  schooling  in  his  home  county, 
Mr.  Wallace  went  to  Westminster  Col- 
lege in  Fulton,  Mo.,  where  he  took  the 
classical  course.  He  graduated  from  the 
college  in  1871  with  the  title  of  A.B.  af- 
fixed to  his  name,  and  soon  after  took  up 
school-teaching  as  an  occupation  in  Jack- 
son County.  He  afterwards  w-ent  into 
the  newspaper  business,  working  on  the 
Sentinel  at  Independence,  Mo.,  and  as 
correspondent  for  the  Kansas  City  Times. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  former 
Attorney-General  lohn  A.  Hockaday  at 
Fulton  Mo.,  and 'was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in'  1873.  He  practiced  the  profes- 
sion in  Independence  for  five  years  after 
being  admitted  to  the  bar,  then  came  to 
this  city  to  continue  it. 

He  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney 
of  this  county  in  1880  and  was  re-elected 
at  the  expiration  of  his   first  term. 

He  gained  national  fame  through  his 
fearless  prosecution  of  the  James  boys, 
and  at  all  times  during  the  strenuous 
period  carried  his  life  in  his  hands. 

Mr.  Wallace  is  a  Mason  and  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

He  was  married  in  1887  to  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Chiles,  daughter  of  Mr.  C.  C. 
Chiles,  of  Independence.  They  have  two 
children,  W.  H.,  Jr.,  aged  fourteen,  and 
May,  aged  twelve. 


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THEODORIC  BOULWARE  WALLACE 
was  born  in  Jackson  County,  Missouri 
April  1 6,  i860,  the  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  \V. 
Wallace,  a  Presbyterian  minister.  He 
spent  his  boyhood  days  on  a  farm,  and 
received  his  early  education  in  the  district 
schools,  later  entering  Westminster  Col- 
lege, Fulton,  Mo.  He  was  graduated 
from  there  in  1880,  and  deciding  upon 
law  as  a  profession  enrolled  himselt  as  a 
student  in  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  re- 
ceiving his  degree  in  1883.  He  taught 
school  for  a  while  in  the  St.  Louis  Univer- 
sity, and  then  went  to  Madison,  Wis.,  to 
take  a  place  as  digester  in  a  legal  pub- 
lishing house. 

Mr.  Wallace  came  to  Kansas  City  in 
1886,  where  he  has  ever  since  practiced 
his  profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Wallace,  Wallace  &  Culbertson. 
In  1896  he  was  appointed  receiver  of 
the  Missouri  National  Bank,  a  very  com- 
plete failure.  Within  five  years  Ins  en- 
ergy and  ability  brought  order  out  oi 
chaos,  and  where  nothing  was  expected 
at  the  outset,  dollar  for  dollar  was  paid 

back. 

Mr  Wallace  belongs  to  no  clubs  or  or- 
ders but  is  a  member  of  the  Beta  1  hi  1 1 
and  Phi  Delta  Thi  Fraternities 

He  was  married  in  [893  to  Miss  Myra 
Gates,  of  Independence,  and  they  have 
two  children,  John  and   Helen. 


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WILLIAM  STONE  WOODS, 
president  of  the  National  Bank  of  Com- 
merce, and  one  of  the  wealthiest  finan- 
ciers of  Missouri,  was  born  November  i, 
1S40,  in  Columbia,  Missouri. 

After  a  common  school  education, 
the  young  man  entered  the  Missouri 
State  University,  and  was  graduated  in 
1 86 1.  He  at  once  became  a  student  at 
the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  and  after 
completing  a  course  located  as  a  physi- 
cian in  Middle  Grove,  Mo.  He  prac- 
ticed medicine  until  1867,  when  he  lo- 
cated at  Paris,  Mo.,  and  entered  upon  a 
mercantile  business.  Two  years  later 
he  went  to  Rocheport,  Mo.,  and  estab- 
lished the  Rocheport  Savings  Bank. 
From  that  time  on  is  but  the  record  of 
the  constant  ascent  of  one  of  the  most 
powerful  financiers  of  the  State. 

Dr.    WToods    came    to    Kansas    City    in 
1SS0,    and    became    a   member    of    the 
wholesale     dry    goods    firm     of    Grimes, 
Woods,  La  Force  &  Co. 

A  controlling  interest  in  the  Kansas 
Citv  Savings  Association  was  purchased 
by  Dr.  Woods,  which  he  reorganized 
into  the  bank  of  which  he  is  now  the 
head.  With  a  capital  of  Si, 000,0000 
and  stock  worth  $350  a  share,  it  is  the 
second  largest  financial  concern  west  of 
the  Mississippi. 

Dr.  Woods  was  married  July  10,  1866, 
to  Miss  Albina  M.  McBride.  They  have 
one  daghter,  Julia. 


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WILLIAM  HARVEY  WINANTS 
was  born  October  16,  1845,  in  Penn  Van 
New  York.  When  thirteen  years  old 
his  parents  moved  to  Cincinnati,  where 
he  received  his  education.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  war  in  1861  he  entered  the 
Second  Ohio,  and  served  throughout  the 
war. 

In  1865  he  came  to  Kansas  City  and 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  but 
sold  out  in  1867,  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  old  First  National  Bank  as  a  clerk. 
He  has  been  continuously  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  ever  since.  In  1878 
he  had  risen  to  the  position  of  assistant 
cashier,  and  when  the  Armour  Bros. 
Banking  Company  was  organized  he 
went  to  it  as  teller.  When  it  changed  to 
the  Midland  National  he  became  cashier 
and  afterwards  vice-president.  In  1897 
he  became  vice-president  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Commerce,  which  position  he 
now  holds. 

Few  men  give  more  time  and  energy 
to  public  movements  than  Mr.  Winants. 
He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Board  of 
Trade  for  seventeen  years,  president  of 
the  Kansas  City  Clearing-house  for  nine 
years,  director  and  treasurer  of  Conven- 
tion Hall,  and  vice-president  of  the 
Priests  of  Pallas  Association. 


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JAMES  CLARENCE  WILLIAMS 
was  born  February  12,  1867,  in  Ray 
Couty,  Missouri,  and  spent  his  boyhood 
days  on  a  farm.  He  went  to  school  in 
the  winter  and  worked  the  rest  of  the 
time. 

After  eight  years  spent  in  Richmond, 
Mo.,  he  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1888,  and 
started  in  to  prepare  himself  for  ad- 
admission  to  the  bar,  having  commenced 
the  study  of  law  some  time  before.  He 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  1889,  and  for 
a  while  was  connected  with  the  office  of 
Young  &  Lewis,  the  junior  member  of 
the  firm,  Alfred  Henry  Lewis,  having 
since  attained  fame  as  an  author  and  pol- 
ished political  writer. 

Mr.  Williams'  specialty  is  commercial 
and  corporation  law. 

He  is  chairman  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees for  the  Church  of  This  World,  and  is 
a  leading  thinker  along  economical  and  re- 
ligious lines. 

He  is  a  Democrat,  and  stands  high  in 
the  councils  of  his  party,  but  has  never 
asked  for  office. 

He  is  a  Mason,  Elk,  Knight  of  Pythias, 
and  a  Woodman. 


I.  N.  WATSON 
was  born  in  Clark  County,  Missouri 
September  24,  1857.  His  boyhood  v 
spent  there  on  a  farm,  and  he  attended 
Craddock  College  at  Quincy,  111.  Sub- 
sequently he  took  a  two  years'  course 
at  the  Kirksville,  Mo.,  Normal  School, 
frow  which  he  was  graduated  in  [881. 
He  went  to  a  law  school  in  Keokuk,  la., 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  there  in 
1883.  Mr.  Watson  then  went  to  Em- 
poria, Kas.,  as  a  stenographer,  and  be- 
came court  reporter  for  Judge  Graves. 

In  September,  1885,  Mr.  Watson  came 
to  Kansas  City,  and  two  years  later 
formed  a  partnership  with  the  late  John 
W.  Beebe,  which  was  dissolved  in    1898. 

He  was  married  January  1,  1885,  to 
Miss  Frances  B.  Etheridge  in  Clark 
County,  Missouri  They  have  two  chil- 
dren. 


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SAMUEL  JACKSON  WHITTEMORE 
was  born  October  29,  1865,  in  the  beau- 
tiful Shenandoah  Valley  of  Virginia. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Martinsburg,  W.  V., 
and  later  took  an  academic  course. 
After  graduation  he  taught  school  for 
three  years,  but  came  to  see  that  the 
"West  was  the  place  for  the  young  man. 
He  left  the  Virginias  in  1886,  and  lo- 
cated in  Lincoln,  Neb.,  accepting  a  po- 
sition with  the  leading  hotel  of  that  city, 
and  has  been  in  the  hotel  business  ever 
since. 

From  Lincoln  he  went  out  to  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  to  accept  a  similar  but 
more  lucrative  position.  In  1896  the 
Midland  Hotel,  of  this  city,  made  him 
an  attractive  offer,  and  he  came  here 
to  accept  it.  He  was  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  Midland  for  six  years 
making  largely  for  its  success  by  reason 
of  his  widespread  popularity. 

In  1902  he  resigned  his  position  at  the 
Midland,  and  became  one  of  the  vice- 
presidents  and  general  managers  of  the 
Baltimore  Hotel  Company,  the  place  he 
now  fills.  He  has  been  largely  instru- 
mental in  elevating  the  Baltimore  to 
its  high  rank  as  the  peer  of  any  hotel  in 
the  country. 

In  1S84,  in  Jackson,  Mich.,  Mr.  Whit- 
temore  was  married  to  Miss  Evelyn 
Madden. 


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JOHN  LEE  WHEELER 

was  born  at  Parkville,  Missouri,  October 
8,  1862,  and  his  boyhood  was  spent  in 
Platte  and  Jackson  Counties.  He  at- 
tended the  Kansas  City  public  schools, 
a  boarding  school  at  Platte  City,  and 
then  Central  College  at  Fayette. 

Judge  Wheeler  came  to  Kansas  City 
in  18S4,  and  went  into  the  law  office  of 
D.  B.  Holmes.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in- 1886,  and  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  alone. 

He  was  Police  Judge  from  1890  to 
1892. 

Judge  Wheeler  is  a  Mason,  a  Forester, 
and  a  Woodman,  and  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing Democrats  of  the  city. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  M. 
Henson,  of  Emporia,  Kas.,  January  1, 
1899. 


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HUGH   CAMPBELL  WARD 
was  born  March   io,   1864,  at  Westport, 
Missouri,    and    has    resided    here   all  his 
life.     He    has    attained     prominence     in 
both  law  and  politics. 

A  graduate  of  Harvard  University, 
he  started  in  life  with  the  best  advant- 
ages. 

Mr.  Ward  was  a  member  of  the  Leg- 
islature in  1893,  and  was  Police  Com- 
missioner from  1898  to  1902. 

He  was  appointed  receiver  of  the  Mas- 
tin  estate  in  1894  by  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court,  and  was  also  receiver  of 
the  Metropolitan  National  Bank  from 
1897  to  1899,  managing  these  large  in- 
terests in  a  most  satisfactory  manner. 

Mr.  Ward  was  married  to  Miss  Yassie 
James  October  26,  1898,  and  has  two 
sons,  Hugh  C.  Ward,  Jr.,  and  James 
Crawford  Ward,  four  and  two  years  old. 
Mrs.  Ward  was  graduated  from  Vassar 
in  the  class  of  1879. 


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JOHN  DAVID  WENDORF 
was  born  in  Jefferson  County,  Kansas, 
September  27,  1864.  His  boyhood  was 
spent  upon  the  farm,  where  he  laid  the 
foundation  for  the  physical  and  intel- 
lectual vigor  that  place  him  easily  in  a 
class  with  the  best  of  the  younger  law- 
yers of  Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Wendorff  was  educated  at  the 
State  University  of  Kansas  at  Law- 
rence. He  left  there  in  1886,  and  taught 
school  for  three  years  in  Leavenworth 
County.  During  the  years  1889  and 
1890  he  attended  the  law  school  at  Ann 
Arbor,  Mich.,  and  in  February,  1891, 
he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and  entered  the 
law  office  of  McDougal  &  Robinson. 
Later  he  became  associated  with  the 
firm  of  McDougal  &  Sebree,  where  he 
now  is. 

For  two  years  Mr.  Wendorff  was  an 
Assistant  Prosecuting  Attorney  under 
Frank  M.  Lowe. 

He  is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the 
Bar  Association. 


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THOMAS  ADAMS  WITTEN 
was  born  in  Beckly,  West  Virginia,  July 
4,  1858,  but  is  practically  a  Missourian 
as  his  parents  removed  to  this  State 
when  he  was  eight  years  of  age.  His 
boyhood  days  were  spent  in  Trenton,  and 
his  early  education  was  received  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  town. 

After  the  public  schools,  Mr.  Witten 
entered  the  Grand  River  College  at  Ed- 
inburgh, Mo.,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  1879.  After  gradua- 
tion he  went  back  to  Guyandotte,  W. 
Va.,  where  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
his  uncle,  Judge  Evermont  Ward,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1881.  He 
first  commenced  practice  in  Trenton,  but 
in  1887  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he 
has  ever  since  remained.  For  some  years 
he  was  alone,  but  in  1893  formed  the 
firm  of  Witten  &  Hughes,  which  contin- 
ued until  1902,  the  occasion  of  dissolu- 
tion being  Mr.  Hughe'  candidacy  for  of- 
fice. 

Mr.  Witten  is  a  member  of  the  local 
Bar  Association,  and  has  always  occu- 
pied a  prominent  place  in  the  public  life 
of  the  city. 

He  married  Miss  Carrie  Bailey  in  1888 
in  Delavan,  111.,  and  they  had  two  chil- 
dren, Francis  Donald  and  Hazel  C.  B. 
His  wife  died  in  1892,  and  in  October 
1 90 1,  he  married  Miss  Belle  G.  Steele,  of 
Marshall,  Mo. 


GEORGE  LOGAN  WALLS 

was  born  in  Warsaw,  Missouri,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1858.  He  was  educated  at  the 
public  schools  of  Warsaw  and  at  the 
Ohio  University.  He  then  took  a  course 
in  the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  and  close 
application  to  his  studies  brought  on  a 
pulmonary  complaint.  He  went  out 
to  California,  where  he  remained  for 
four  years,  returning  to  Warsaw  with 
his  old-time  health  and  vigor. 

He  hung  out  his  shingle,  and  practiced 
law  there  in  Warsaw  until  1888,  when 
he  came  to  Kansas  City.  He  practiced 
here  until  1894,  when  he  was  nomin- 
ated for  Justice  of  the  Peace  by  the  Re- 
publicans,  and  triumphantly  elected. 

Such  has  been  his  record  that  Demo- 
crats and  Republicans  have  united  to 
continue  him  in  office  ever  since. 

One  of  his  best  deeds  has  been  to 
straighten  out  the  tough  North  End  el- 
ement, and  bring  law  and  order  into  that 
portion  of  the  community  where  be- 
fore was  chaos. 

Mr.  Walls  has  always  been  a  strong 
Republican,  and  has  been  prominently 
mentioned  in  connection  with  the  party 
nomination  for  Mayor. 

He  married  Miss  Annetta  Jones,  of  Kan- 
sas City,  in  1887,  and  is  the  father  of  two 
children,   Katherine  and  Hildegrade. 


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HARRY  HOWARD  WATTS 
was  born  May  9,  1871,  in  Ann  Arbor, 
Michigan,  where  he  remained  until  he  at- 
tained his  majority.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  in  Ann  Arbor,  and  was  grad 
uated  from  the  Ann  Arbor  High  School) 
after  which  he  entered  the  University  of 
Michigan. 

He  spent  a  year  in  the  literary  depart- 
ment, and  a  year  and  a  half  in  the  med- 
ical department  under  the  tutelage  of  Dr. 
Fleming  Carrow,  who  occupies  the  chair 
of  opthalmology  in  the  university. 

After  emerging  from  the  university,  he 
identified  himself  with  a  prominent  op- 
tical firm  in  Minneapolis,  where  he  re- 
mined  for  four  years. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1896,  and 
was  for  four  years  with  a  local  optical 
firm.  In  1900  he  started  in  business  for 
himself,  and  has  done  more  than  well. 

Mr.  Watts  is  a  Mason,  and  has  also 
been  honored  with  the  members  of  his 
profession  with  an  election  to  the  pos- 
ition of  vice-president  of  the  Missouri 
Optical  Association. 


Photo  by  Strauss. 

MORTON  WOLLMAN 

was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  Jan- 
uary 1,  1863,  the  son  of  Jonas  Wollman, 
a  pioneer  merchant  of  that  ancient  town. 
He  went  to  the  public  and  high  schools 
of  Leavenworth,  and  deciding  against 
a  college  education  entered  the  employ 
of  his  father. 

He  remained  in  business  in  Leaven- 
worth for  five  years,  and  then,  antici- 
pating the  exodus  to  Kansas  City,  the 
Wollmans  came  to  this  place  in  1888, 
where  the  family  has  ever  since  played 
a  prominent  part  in  the  professional  and 
business  life  of  the  town. 

Mr.  Wollman  went  into  business  for 
himself  soon  after  coming  to  Kansas 
City,  dealing  in  wholesale  general  mer. 
chandise,  and  from  a  small  beginning 
has  built  up  a  large  and  profitable  busi- 
ness. 

Mr.  Wollman  is  unmarried,  and  lives 
with  his  parents  in  a  stately  old  house 
on  the  West  Side. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  is  also  an  Elk  and  a  Mason. 

He  has  ever  been  a  believer  in  the  fu- 
ture of  Kansas  City,  and  has  denied 
neither  time  nor  trouble  in  bringing 
about  the  growth  and  greatness  of  the 
town. 


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HENRY  WOLLMAN 
was  born  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and 
his  early  education  was  received  in  the 
public  and  high  schools  of  that  town. 
He  then  studied  the  classics  under  tu- 
tors, and,  entering  the  law  department 
at  Ann  Arbor,  was  graduated  with  high 
honors.  Returning  to  Leavenworth,  he 
served  as  First  Assistant  City  Counselor 
for  nearly  a  year  before  attaining  his  ma- 
jority. 

In  1 88 1  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  and 
at  once  took  his  place  in  the  first  rank  in 
his  profession.  He  was  appointed  U.  S. 
Commissioner,  and  for  a  short  time  act- 
ed as  Circuit  Judge  under  a  temporary 
election  of  the  bar. 

In  1899  Mr.  Wollman  removed  to  New- 
York,  where  he  has  won  fame  and  for- 
tune, but  he  still  retains  a  home  interest 
in  Kansas  City,  where  his  parents  still 
live. 

Mr.  Wollman  not  only  enjoys  repute 
as  a  lawyer,  but  as  a  writer  and  lecturer 
He  has  contributed  articles  on  economic 
questions  to  all  the  leading  reviews  and 
New  York  papers,  and  while  in  Kansas 
City  lectured  before  the  universities  of 
Kansas,  Missouri,  and  Nebraska. 

For  three  years  Mr.  Wollman  was  pres- 
ident of  the  Southwestern  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  the  University  of  Michigan, 
and  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Phi 
Delta  Phi  Fraternity.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  Missouri  Club  in  New  York,  the 
American  Bar  Association,  the  Lawyers' 
Club,  the  Medico-Legal  Society,  and  the 
Society    of    Medical    Jurisprudence. 


Photo  oy  Strauss. 

BENJAMIN  F.  WOLLMAN 
was  born  January  20,  1872,  in  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas,  and  lived  there  until  his 
parents  moved  to  Kansas  City  in  1888. 
He  went  to  the  public  schools  of  Leav- 
enworth, was  graduated  from  the  Cen- 
tral High  School,  in  1890,  and  then  en- 
tered Ann  Arbor.  He  took  a  classical 
course,  and  was  graduated  from  the  law 
department  in  1894.  He  returned  to 
Kansas  City,  and  was  junior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Wollman  &  Wollman  until 
the  departure  of  his  brother  Henry  to 
New  York,  when  the  firm  of  'Wollman,. 
Solomon  &  Cooper  was  formed    in    1899. 

Few  young  men  lead  busier  lives,  and 
have  greater  and  more  diversified  inter- 
ests than  Mr.   Wollman. 

He  is  a  Mason,  and  holds  the  record 
for  quick  work  in  that  organization,  hav- 
ing gone  from  the  first  to  the  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  in  six  weeks.  He  is  an  officer 
in  the  Shrine,  an  Elk,  a  trustee  in  the 
Progress  Club,  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  president  of  the  Royal 
Brewing  Company  of  Weston,  Mo.,  and 
of  the  Egbert  Tobacco  Company,  direc- 
tor and  general  attorney  of  the  Manufac- 
turers' Coal  and  Coke  Co.,  director  of  Ar- 
kansas, Springfield  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
road, general  attorney  of  Iowa  &  St, 
Louis  Railroad,  the  Iowa  &  Dakota  Cen- 
tral, and  the  Iowa  &  Missouri    Railroad. 

Mr.  Wollman  is  unmarried,  and  makes 
his  home  with  his  parents. 


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CASSIMER  JOSEPH  WELCH 
was  born  in  Jackson,  Michigan,  March  4, 
1866.  When  three  years  old  his  family 
removed  to  Sedalia,  Mo.,  and  after  three 
years  of  residence  there  they  came  to 
Kansas  City. 

Mr.  Welch  had  his  schooling  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  this  city,  and  after  his 
school-life  went  to  work  as  a  messenger 
boy.  He  afterwards  became  a  plumb- 
er's apprentice  and,  after  serving  the  re- 
quired time,  became  a  journeyman 
plumber.  He  worked  at  the  trade  for 
eight  years,  and  through  his  sympathy 
with  trade-unionism  was  made  secretary 
of  the  local  plumbers'  union.  After  his 
term  of  office  there  had  expired  he  was 
elected  by  the  union  to  represent  it  in 
the  Industrial  Council  for  a  term  of  two 
years. 

He  was  appointed  desk  sergeant-at- 
arms  of  the  Thirty-ninth  General  As- 
sembly, and  held  the  place  for  four  years, 
from  1892  to  1896.  He  was  appointed  a 
Deputy  County  Marshal  by  former 
County  Marshal  Chiles,  serving  through- 
out that  officer's  term.  Soon  after  leav- 
ing this  political  place,  Mr.  Welch  start- 
ed a  messenger  business,  in  which  he  is 
still  engaged,  being  half-owner  of  the 
Hurry  Messenger  Company. 

He  has  always  been  very  active  in  pol- 
itics, and  has  been  a  life-long  Demo- 
crat. He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic County  Committee  from  his  home 
ward,  the  ninth. 

Mr.  Welch's  affiliations  with  secret  so- 
cieties is  limited  to  membership  in  the 
Ragles. 


EDWARD  WINSTANLEY 
was  born  in  London,  England,  April  14, 
1849.  He  went  to  the  public  schools  of 
London,  but  received  his  later  and  finish- 
ing education  at  Nutgrove  College  in 
Dublin.  When  only  sixteen  years  old 
he  emigrated  to  Canada,  locating  in  Mon- 
treal, where  he  remained  until  1874. 

In  the  spring  of  that  year  he  came  to 
Jackson  County,  where  he  has  ever  since 
resided. 

Settling  in  Independence,  Mr.  Winstan- 
ley  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  the 
mercanntile  business. 

In  1896  he  was  appointed  superintend- 
ent of  the  Court-house,  which  position 
he  now  holds.  The  court-houses  here 
and  at  Independence  and  the  jail  build- 
ings are  all  under  his  care,  and  to  his  en- 
ergy is   due   their  splendid   maintenance. 

Mr.  Winstanley  was  married  in  1879  to 
Miss  Sallie  Dunn,  of  Independence. 
They  have  four  children,  William,  Ed- 
ward, Edith,  and  Emma. 

Mr.  Winstanley  has  always  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Democratic  party,  and  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  active  and 
ablest  workers  in  Jackson  County. 

He  is  an  Elk,  holding  a  life  member- 
ship in  that  organization. 


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WILLARD  E.  WINNER 
was  born  in  Fairfield,  Iowa,  May  4,  1849. 
In    1852   his   parents   moved   to   Kansas 
City,  Kas.,  and  in  1863  crossed  the  river 
nto  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Mr.  Winner  was  robbed  of  an  educa- 
tion by  early  responsibilities,  for  at  the 
age  of  eleven  he  was  compelled  to  seek 
employment.  He  worked  as  a  clerk 
until  1866,  when  he  was  given  a  posi- 
tion in  the  postofhce,  where  he  remained 
for  eleven  years,  and  working  up  to  the 
position  of  assistant  postmaster.  He 
resigned  in  1877  to  open  a  real  estate 
office,  and  in  1883  organized  the  Winner 
Investment  Company,  and  then  com- 
menced to  write  with  virile  hand  some 
of  the  most  splendid  chapters  in  the  his- 
tory of  Kansas  City's  growth  and  great- 
ness. He  did  a  business  of  millions, 
turned  barren  tracts  into  residence  dis- 
tricts, and  originated  the  plan  of  selling 
houses  on  the  installment  plan.  He 
built  the  Kansas  City,  Independence 
Park  Railway,  the  Vine  Street  line,  and 
started  to  build  a  bridge  at  the  foot  of 
Cherry  Street,  which  should  connect  his 
immense  properties  in  Clay  County  with 
this  city,  making  that  the  Brooklyn  to 
Kansas  City's  New  York.  The  great 
"boom"  burst  in  1882.  The  immensity 
of  Mr.  Winner's  enterprises  made  them 
hard  to  carry,  yet  so  well  were  they 
planned  that  not  until  four  years  later, 
at  the  height  of  the  depression,  was  it 
found  impossible  to  secure  money  for 
their  completion. 

He  is  now  president  of  the  Industrial 
Development  Company  and  the  Leaven- 
worth Construction  Company. 


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JAMES  B.  WELSH, 
one  of  the  most  successful  real  estate 
men  of  the  city,  was  born  March  15, 
1852,  at  Danville,  Kentucky,  where,  in 
1872,  he  was  graduated  from  Centre 
College.  For  ten  years  after  gradua- 
tion, Mr.  Welsh  was  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile business  in  Danville.  In  1882  he 
moved  to  Kansas  City,  and  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  notion  and  millinery  busi- 
ness, but  after  four  years  of  it  he  en 
tered  the  real  estate  business,  which  has 
engaged  his  attention  ever  since.  Mr. 
Wesh  formed  his  present  partnership 
with  E.  R.  Crutcher  in  1892,  and  to 
gether  they  have  transacted  much  of 
the  most  important  real  estate  business 
of  the  city.  To  their  own  business  they 
have  added  by  purchase  the  real  estate 
and  rental  business  of  A.  A.  Whipple  in 
1897,  of  Harrison  &  Jones  in  1898,  and 
of  Tribble  &  Pratt  in  1899. 
'  Mr.  Welsh  was  married  in  1878  to 
Miss  Mary  McKee,  daughter  of  Prof- 
James  Lapsley  McKee,  vice-president 
of  Centre  College.  They  have  two  sons, 
McKee  and  George  Winston  Welsh. 


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JOHN  W.  WAGNER 
was  born  in  Hamilton,  Ohio,  August  iS, 
1861.  His  parents  came  to  Kansas  City 
in  1869,  so  that  he  was  really  reared  in 
Kansas  City.  He  went  through  the 
public  schools,  and  at  the  conclusion  of 

his  school  days  embarked  in  the  uphol- 
stering  trade. 

In  1883  Mr.  Wagner  moved  to  Cen- 
tral City,  Colorado,  where  he  went  into 
the  undertaking  business,  and  has  ever 
since  followed  the  profession  of  under- 
taker. 

In  1 887  he  returned  to  Kansas  City, 
and  has  always  played  a  prominent 
part  in  the  life  of  the  town.  In  recog- 
nition of  Mr.  Wagner's  popularity  and 
high  standing,  he  was  appointed  presi- 
dent of  the  State  Board  of  Embalming 
ing  by  Governor  Stephens,  and  has  also 
served  a  term  as  president  of  the  Mis- 
souri State  Funeral  Directors'  Associa- 
tion. 

He  is  prominent  in  Democratic  poli- 
tics, belongs  to  the  Elks,  and  is  presi- 
dent of  the  German-American  Bank, 
and  a  director  of  the  German  Hospital. 

Mr.  Wagner  was  married  in  1888  to 
Miss  Ella  Doyle,  of  Cheyenne,  Wyo. 
and  they  have  one  daughter,  Mildred. 


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MARSHAL  VICTOR  WATSON 
was  born  in  Delaware  County,  Ohio,  on 
a  farm,  but  his  early  boyhood  was  di- 
vided between  the  towns  of  Richwood 
O.,  and  Monticello,  Ind.,  where  he  went 
to  the  public  schools. 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  went  into  the 
photographic  business,  and  later  em 
barked  in   the  mercantile   business. 

He  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1891,  and 
for  a  term  of  the  Legislature  was  journal 
clerk  at  Jefferson  City,  where  he  earned 
a  wide  reputation  for  speed  and  efficien- 
cy. In  1 891  he  became  secretary  of  the 
Kansas  City  Paper  House,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1902,  when  he  sold  out  his 
interests,  and  soon  after  accepted  the  po- 
sition of  third  vice-president  of  the  Uni- 
ted States  and  Mexican  Trust  Company. 

Mr.  Watson's  career  has  always  been 
marked  by  public  spirit.  He  was  a  di- 
rector in  the  Commercial  Club,  then  vice- 
president  and  was  president  in  1896-97, 
and  during  his  term  the  Convention  Hall 
idea  was  given  form.  He  is  now  chair- 
man of  the  Transportation  Committee  of 
the  Club. 

From  1898  to  1900  Mr.  Watson  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Public 
Works,  making  a  fine  record.  He  has 
also  been  connected  with  the  Priests  of 
Pallas  in  an  executive  capacity,  and  with 
every    other    notable    public    movement. 

He  was  married  in.1891  to  Miss  Mary 
E.  Hutchinson,  of  Indianapolis. 

Mr.  Watson  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  a  Shriner,  and 
a  member  of  the  Kansas  Citv  Club. 


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ELISHA  WINTER 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Oc- 
tober 13,  1849.  At  an  early  age  he  en- 
tered journalism  in  1884,  starting  a  pub- 
lication for  the  New  York  retail  grocers. 
Mr.  Winter  was  secretary  of  the  first 
and  second  national  conventions  held 
by  the  retail  merchants  in  1886  and 
1887  in  Washington,  and  was  the  first 
State  Secretary  in  New  York  of  the  Na- 
tional Association.  He  continued  in 
this  capacity  until  1891,  when  he  went 
to  Boston  and  organized  the  first  Food 
Fair.  From  that  time  on  his  efforts 
have  been  to  federate  merchant dom,  to 
secure  harmonious  action  among  all  re- 
tail merchants,  to  obtain  better  laws, 
improve  bankruptcy  laws,  oppose  trad- 
ing stamps,  and  all  similar  devices  that 
violate   the    code   of   commercial   ethics. 

Mr.  Winter  started  the  international 
congress  that  will  meet  at  the  World's 
Fair  in  1904,  and  has  probably  organized 
more  associations  than  any  other  man. 

Mr.  Winter  was  married  to  Estella 
Ralph  at  Brooklyn  May  28,  1879,  and 
has  one  daughter,  twenty-one  years  old. 


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SAMUEL  SUMNER  WINN 
was  born  in  Liberty  County,  Georgia, 
July  25,  1858.  His  father,  a  Presby- 
terian minister,  moved  from  Georgia  to 
Illinois  early  in  the  career  of  Mr.  Winn 
in  order  to  escape  the  evil  surroundings 
of  slavery. 

At  Knox  and  Lake  Forest  Academies 
and  at  Boston  University  Mr.  Winn  ac- 
quired his  education. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Chi- 
cago in  in  1877,  and  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Peoria.  From  Peoria 
he  came  to  Kansa  City  in  1881. 

As  Assistant  City  Counselor  under 
Slavens  and  Middlebrook,  Mr.  Winn 
made  an  enviable  record  for  himself 
gaining  a  knowledge  of  municipal  law 
which  few  possess. 

Mr.  Winn  was  married  to  Miss  Helen 
O'Hara,  of  Cincinnati. 


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ROBERT  L.  YEAGER 
was  born  in  Shelby  County,  Kentucky, 
August  26,  1843.  When  he  was  nine 
years  old  his  parents  moved  to  to  Pal- 
myra, Mo.,  and  shortly  afterwards  both 
of  them  died  within  ten  days  of  each  oth- 
er, leaving  the  boy  to  fight  his  way  alone 
in  the  world. 

He  worked  his  way  through  St.  Paul's 
College,  graduating  in  i860,  and  serving 
under  General  Price  in  the  civil  war. 

It  was  in  April,  1868,  that  Mr.Yeager 
came  to  Kansas  City,  after  studying  law 
at  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  having  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  at  Palmyra,  Mo. 

The  young  man  was  elected  County 
Attorney  in  1871,  Prosecuting  Attorney 
from  1872-76,  City  Counselor  under  May- 
or Holmes;  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  twenty-  two  years  and  its  presi- 
dent twenty-one  years. 

The  firms  he  formed  were  Yeager  & 
Campbell,  Peak  &  Yeager,  Peak,  Yeager 
&  Ball,  and  Yeager,  Strother  &  Yeager. 

He  was  married  in  May,  1870,  to  Miss 
Leonora  Forbis,  of  Independence,  Mo. 
There  are  five  children  living. 


FRANK  TITUS, 
for  many  years  a  prominent  figure  among 
the  lawyers  of  Kansas  City,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia  in  1844.  He  received  a  good 
classical  education,  and  then  selected  the 
law  as  a  profession. 

His  studies  were  interrupted  by  the 
trumpet  call,  and  enlisting  as  a  soldier  of 
the  North,  he  fought  for  three  years  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac 

Continuing  his  studies  after  his  return 
from  the  battle  field  and  camping  ground, 
he  soon  qualified  for  admission  to  the  bar. 
Soon  after  his  admission,  Mr.  Titus  came 
out  to  Missouri,  and  located  in  St.  Louis, 
for  at  that  time  St.  Louis  was  "the"  city 
of  the  State. 

He  soon  perceived  the  error  of  his  ways, 
and  moved  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  has 
ever  since  lived,  a  helpful  figure  in  the 
public  life  of  the  town,  and  a  popular  one 
personally.  He  belongs  to  both  the  local 
and  State  Bar  Associations,  and  also  to 
several  clubs  and  public  organizations. 

He  is  affiliated  with  one  or  two  secret 
societies,  and  is  a  married  man  with  a 
family. 


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MEN  WHO  MADE  KANSAS  CITY. 


Biographical  Sketches. 


HENRY  S.  BURGIN 

was  born  in  Lee  County,  Va.,  March  31, 
1845.  When  he  was  eight  years  old 
his  father  moved  to  Harrison  County, 
Missouri,  where  the  lad  attended  school. 
In  1870  the  lad  was  graduated  from 
Grand  River  College,  Edinburg,  Mo.  For 
awhile  he  was  interested  in  short-horn  cat- 
tle, but  soon  went  to  teaching.  He  es- 
tablished the  High  School  at  Ridgeway 
and  Lorraine,  Mo.,  and  was  Principal  of 
several  High  Schools. 

In  1886  he  moved  his  family  to  Inde- 
pendence, Mo.,  for  educational  advan- 
tages, and  was  offered  the  Principalship 
of  the  Independence  High  Schools,  but 
that  same  year  he  engaged  in  the  real  es- 
tate business  in  Kansas  City,  and  has 
been  at  it  ever  since. 

Mr.  Burgin  was  married  July  2,  1871, 
at  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  to  Miss  Ettie  Mc- 
Cannon,  and  has  three  children,  all  mar- 
ried: the  Rev.  S.  H.  C.  Burgin,  Eliza  Bur- 
gin,  and  Willa  L.  Burgin. 


JAMES  S.  CHASE, 

in  point  of  service  the  oldest,  and  in  his 
knowledge  of  court  records  the  most  accu- 
rate, of  the  clerks  of  the  Superior  Court, 
was  born  November  15,1 847,  in  Starkboro, 
Vermont.  He  spent  his  boyhood  days 
on  a  farm,  attending  district  school  in  the 
winter.  His  education  was  completed 
by  a  course  at  the  Upper  Iowa  University 
at  Fayette,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1866.  He  came  to  Kansas  City  at  once 
and  went  into  the  insurance  business. 
He  also  taught  school  for  a  while  in  Clay 
County.  Mr.  Chase  became  connected 
with  the  Circuit  Clerk's  office  in  1S71,  be- 
ing appointed  first  deputy.  He  served 
as  Division  Clerk  under  Judges  Jenkins, 
Woodson,  Sawyer,  Gill,  and  Henry. 
When  the  intricate  park  condemnation 
proceedings  were  begun  Mr.  Chase  was 
given  charge  of  the  park  land  records, 
with  the  title  of  Condemnation  Clerk. 
He  was  never  known  to  make  an  errone- 
ous entry.  Mr.  Chase  often  saved  the 
judges  themselves  from  mistakes. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


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THOMAS  F.  CALLAHAN 
was  born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  April 
11,  1868.  His  father,  John  P.  Callahan, 
came  here  in  1845,  and  was  a  pioneer 
merchant  and  the  first  secretary  of  the 
old  Merchants'  Exchange. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  then  studied 
surveying  under  the  late  Robert  Gilham 
and  under  John  Donnelly. 

Always  an  active  Democrat  and  an 
earnest  party  worker,  he  was  appointed 
Superintendent  of  Streets  in  1889,  and 
served  two  years  with  great  credit. 

In  1896  he  was  nominated  for  County 
Surveyor  by  the  Democrats,  and  elected 
by  a  large  majority.  On  the  strength  of 
his  fine  record,  Mr.  Callahan  was  renom- 
inated in  1900,  but  the  unfortunate  split 
in  the  party  defeated  him  of  election. 

During  his  term  as  Surveyor  he  attend- 
ed the  Kansas  City  School  of  Law  at 
night,  and  was  graduated  in  1898.  After 
quitting  the  office  of  Surveyor  he  formed 
the  law  firm  of  Jameson  &  Callahan. 

Mr.  Callahan  is  a  Woodman,  and  be- 
longs to  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  A.  O. 
U.  W.,  and  the  Hetasophs.  He  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Effie  Winram  in  1894. 


LOUIS  F.  DAVISON, 
junior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Williams 
&  Davison,  was  born  at  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.,  May  29,  1S73.  His  first  schooling 
was  in  the  public  schools  of  Grand  Rapids. 
In  1886  he  went  with  his  parents  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  continued  to  live  until 
1S99,  completing  his  education  in  that 
city. 

Soon  after  arriving  in  Kansas  City  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  formed  a 
partnership  with  J.  C.  Williams. 

Mr.  Davison  is  a  Mason  and  a  Wood- 
man. His  father  is  Samuel  Davison,  a 
banker  at  Colorado  Springs. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS   CITY. 


SAMUEL  EPPSTEIN 

was  born  at  New  York  City  July  6,  1862. 
At  the  age  of  seven  he  went  to  Milwaukee, 
where  he  was  educated.  At  the  Spen- 
cerian  College  at  Milwaukee  he  became  an 
accountant.  In  1S79  he  came  to  Kansas 
City  and  worked  for  a  wholesale  clothing 
company,  finally  becoming  its  credit  and 
confidential  man.  Fourteen  years  ago 
he  started  as  an  accountant,  and  was  coun- 
ty accountant  in  1895-96.  The  law  firm 
of  Neal  &  Eppstein  was  organized  in  1898. 
Mr.  Eppstein  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Home  Cooperative  Company, 
which  was  started  at  Kansas  City,  May 
11,  1 90 1,  and  was  the  first  successful  com- 
pany of  its  kind  in  the  West.  In  1887 
Mr.  Eppstein  was  married  to  Miss  Isabel 
V.  Goldsmith  at  Lexington,  Ky. 


ROBERT  BRINSMADE  MIDDLE- 
BROOK 

was  born  at  Trumbull,  Connecticut,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1855.  He  went  to  school  at 
Brookfield,  Connecticut,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  Yale  law  department  in 
1878.  It  was  in  that  year  that  Mr.  Mid- 
dlebrook  came  to  Kansas  City  and  formed 
the  law  partnership  of  Strong  &  Middle- 
brook.  Strong  was  elected  City  Attorney, 
and  the  firm  then  became  Hatch  &  Mid- 
dlebrbok.  In  1888  Mr.  Middlebrook  was 
appointed  Assistant  City  Attorney  and 
served  one  term.  In  April,  1897,  he  was 
appointed  City  Counselor,  and  served  two 
terms. 

Mr.  Middlebrook 's  Republicanism  dates 
far  back,  his  ancestors  having  allied  them- 
selves successively  with  Federalist,  Whig, 
and  Republican  parties. 

Mr.  Middlebrook  was  married  to  Miss 
Louise  Rutter  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  in  1884, 
They  have  five  children. 


MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSA&   CITY. 


175 


GEORGE  A.  NEAL, 
a  leading  member  of  the  Kansas  City  bar, 
was  born  December  17,  1856,  at  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky.  He  was  educated  at 
Smithfield  College,  Ky.,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  March,  1S81.  He  began 
practicing  law  at  Osceola,  Mo.,  and  after 
nine  years  there  moved  to  Kansas  City. 

In  1894  Mr.  Neal  was  chairman  of  the 
committee  that  prosecuted  election  frauds. 
He  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Repub- 
lican Convention  in  Chicago  in  1888  and 
to  the  Minneapolis  convention  in  1892, 
serving  on  the  same  committee  with  Sen- 
ator Depew. 

At  Osceola  in  1889  he  was  appointed 
United  States  District  Attorney. 

Mr.  Neal  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
A.  0.  U.  W.,  and  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist Church. 

He  was  married  in  December,  1881,  to 
Miss  Lily  B.  High,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 
They  have  three  children. 


JAMES  B.  McGOWAN 
was  born  in  Clay  County,  Missouri,  June 
8,  1864.  He  lived  on  a  farm  until  he  was 
nineteen,  attending  the  district  school  in 
winter,  and  working  all  the  rest  of  the 
time. 

When  nineteen  years  old  he  came  to 
Kansas  City,  and  after  attending  the  High 
School  here  accepted  employment  with 
the  Abernathy  Furniture  Company.  He 
remained  there  for  a  year,  then  went  to 
another  clerical  position. 

In  1888  he  was  appointed  to  a  position 
on  the  police  force,  and  in  1888  was  made 
a  deputy  in  the  office  of  the  County  Mar- 
shal. In  1890  he  was  made  Jury  Com- 
missioner, and  in  that  office,  as  in  all  other 
employments,  he  won  success  by  ability 
and  industry. 

After  leaving  the  office  of  Jury  Com- 
missioner, he  accepted  a  position  as  clerk 
in  the  office  of  his  brother,  Hugh  McGow- 
an,  then  western  agent  for  the  Barber  As- 
phalt Company.  When  Mr.  Hugh  McGow- 
an  removed  to  Indianapolis  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  succeeded  him,  and  has  car- 
ried on  the  work  in  the  same  successful 
manner. 

Mr.  McGowan  is  an  active  Democrat,  a 
member  of  the  County  Committee,  belongs 
to  the  Jackson  County  Democratic  Club, 
the  Kansas  City  Club,  the  Elks,  and  the 
Knights  of  Columbus. 

He  is  unmarried. 


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MEN  WHO  ARE  MAKING  KANSAS  CITY. 


PERRY  A.  SCHULL 
was  born  in  Cedarville,  Ohio,  March  16, 
1867,  and  spent  his  boyhood  in  that  town. 
His  early  education  was  secured  in  the 
public  and  high  schools,  and  he  also  had 
the  advantage  of  a  classical  course  in  An- 
tioch  College. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  commenced 
to  work  for  a  living,  and  his  first  employ- 
ment was  in  a  clothing  store  in  Xenia,  O. 

In  1886  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where 
he  has  ever  since  remained.  For  ten  years 
he  was  identified  with  prominent  mercan- 
tile establishments,  and  built  up  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance. 

In  1896  the  firm  of  Wolf  &  Schull  was  or- 
ganized, and  a  tailoring  business  carried 
on.  In  1898  Mr.  Wolf  sold  out  to  Arthur 
Jelley,  and  the  present  firm  of  Schull  & 
Jelley  was  organized.  The  business  has 
since  been  incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $35,  00,  all  paid  in. 

In  addition  to  their  mercantile  business, 
Mr.  Schull  and  Mr.  Jelley  are  also  largely 
interested  in  local  realty  and  building, 
and  have  prospered  amazingly,  besides 
doing  much  to  aid  in  Kansas  City's  growth. 

Mr.  Schull  belongs  to  the  Commercial 
Club,  and  is  an  Elk  a  Mason,  and  an  Odd 
Fellow.     He  is  a  married  man. 


CLYDE  TAYLOR 
was  born  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  October 
11,  1S77,  where  he  resided  until  1888, 
when  he  came  with  his  father's  family 
to  Kansas  City.  At  once,  on  his  ar- 
rival at  the  age  of  eleven  years,  he  be- 
gan going  to  the  public  schools,  attend- 
ing first  the  Jefferson  School  and 
later  graduating  from  the  Central 
High  School.  In  1900  his  education 
was  completed  by  his  graduation  from 
the  University  of  Michigan.  The  same 
year  of  his  graduation  he  returned  to 
Kansas  City  and  entered  the  law  office 
of  Ben  T.  Hardin.  A  year  later,  or  in 
January,  1901,  Mr.  Taylor  formed  a 
partnership  with  Mr.  Hardin. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
made  several  speeches  in  the  recent 
campaign. 


h 


NDEX. 


A 

Page. 

kbernathy.  F.  T 6 

Adams,  Washington 5 

Allen,  Ethelbert  F 5 

Allen.  H.  H 6 

Anderson,   H.   II 7 

Ashley,  Henry  D 8 

Atwill,  W.  W S 

Avery,  Walter  W 7 

B 

Baldwin,  C.  Marshall 11 

Beattie,  T.  J 16 

Bohr,  John 16 

Bell,  W.  L 18 

Benson,  W.  E IS 

Blood,  W.  H 11 

Borland,  W.  P 10 

Boucher,  Francois 11 

Boyle,   L.  C 12 

Bracken,  J.   B 13 

Brady,  H.  C 15 

Brady,  J.  E 15 

Brent,   Kelly 10 

Brown,  John  A 11 

Brown,   W.   B.   C 9 

Brims,   Oscar 17 

Brims,   Rudolph 17 

Bullene,  Fred  S 13 

Burgin,   H.   S 172 

Busch,  Carl 9 

Byers.  C.  C 12 

C 

Callahan.  Thomas 173 

Carkener.   Stuart 21 

Carter,  C.  J 28 

Carter,  Rev.  William 26 

Chamberlain,  S.  E 26 

Chapman,  A.  1 22 

Chapman,  Arthur 22 

Chase,  James 172 

Chick,  J.  S 27 

Chrisman,  G.  1 21 

Clarke,  W.  B 19 

Cleary,  John  M 2S 

Clendening,  E.  M 20 

Coates.  A.  C 29 

Coffin.  Dr.  CO 27 

Collins,  George  R 20 

Collum,  D.  P 29 

Cooper.  A.  D 25 


Page. 

Cornish,   Arthur 24 

Courtney,  C.  C 24 

Crittenden,  T.  T.,  Jr 25 

Crutcher,  E.  R 19 

Curry,   C.   S 23 

Curtin,  E.  J 28 

D 

Balton.  Rev.  W.J 30 

Darnall,  Ora 36 

Dart,  E.  M 33 

Dayis,  Webster 34 

Davison,  L.  F 173 

Dean,  A.  J 35 

Dickey,  W.  S 31 

Boggett,  Fred  S 35 

Dominick,  J.  R 31 

Donohue,   James 33 

Douglass,  S.  C 30 

Downing,  J.  F 32 

Buff,  C.  P 32 

Dunn,  Denton 31 

E 

Ellis,  E.  C 37 

Ellison,  E.  D 38 

Ellison,  James Zd 

English,  George  H 30 

Epperson;  U.  S 3S 

Eppstein,  Samuel 174 

Eubank,  J.  D 3ft 

Evans,  A.  F 37 

F 

Faxon,  F.  A 41 

Field,  R.  H 44 

Finlay,  C.  E 43 

Flahive,  Captain  Philip 10 

Fontron,  Joseph  P 42 

Foster,  J.  J 43 

Frick,  Dr.  W.  J 41 

Friedberg,  Harry 40 

Fulton,  S.  T 42 

G 

Gage,  J.  C !•> 

Gallagher,  A.  E 51 

Garland,  H.  N •  4ft 

Gates,  E.  P 52 

Gentry.  O.  H.,  Jr 49 

Gilday,  John  P 49 


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Index. 


Page. 

Godard,  Porter 53 

Goffe,  W.  C 44 

Gossett,  A.  N 48 

Gossett,   M.   R 45 

Green,  John  J 47 

Green,  T.  J 47 

Greenlee,  R.  P 18 

Greenman,  J.  C 45 

Greenwood,  J.   M .  .      54 

Gregory,  R.  L 51 

Griffith,  .1.  K 52 

Groff,  W.  N 54 

Gnettel,  Henry 53 

Cuinotte,  J.   E 50 

Gunn,  F.  C 50 


H 

Hadley,  H.  S 56 

Hagerman.  Frank 56 

Hall,  Dr.  C.  Lester 61 

Hamilton,  A.  D.  L 61 

Haney,  Lee 70 

Hardin,  B.  T 64 

Harding,   John  T 58 

Harmon.  H.  L 57 

Harrison,  G.  B.,  Jr 58 

Harzfeld,  J.  A 55 

Harzfeld,    Sigmund 65 

Hayde.  W..P 55 

Hayes,  E.  W 69 

Heitman,  N.  F 61 

Henley,  Harry 60 

Hoffman,  Carl 50 

Holden,   Hale 63 

Holmes,   E.   E f>0 

Holmes,   D.   B 66 

Holmes,  Walton 68 

Holmes,   C.   F 68 

Houston,  Francis 5? 

Howe,  F.  M 57 

Howell,  CM 63 

Hughes,   Roland 62 

Hull,  J.  W 62 

Huppert,  A.  E 65 

Huttig,  Frederick,  Sr 66 

Huttig,   William 67 

Huttig,  Frederick,  Jr 67 

Hughes.  Rev.  Matt.  S 69 

I 

Ingraham.  R.  J 70 


Pagp. 

Jones,   Elliott  H 77 

Jones,  Garland 75 

Jones,  Dr.  H.  S 75 

Jones,  J.  Logan 71 

Jones,  L.  M 71 

Jones,  Thomas 74 

Julian,  H.  S 73 

Jurden,   S.  W 7.2 

K 

Karnes,  J.  V.  C 77 

Karnes,  Lathrop 82 

Kellogg,  F.  W 80 

Kemper,  W.  T ■  ....  78 

Kessler,  George 7S 

Ketner,  James 82 

Kimbrell.  I.  B 79 

Kirshner,  Charles  H.  . 83 

Knight,  Lucius 81 

Knoche,   Dr.  J.  P SI 

Kuhn,  W.  F 79 

Kyle.  H.  G 80 


T  ach,  John  E 91 

Ladd,  S.  B 84 

La  Force,  Felix 91 

Lake,  C.  W 90 

Lang,  LI.  F 86 

Langsdale.   Dr.  J.   M 87 

T  athrop,  Gardiner S4 

L  aughlin,  I  .  A .  Q~ 

Leach,  Francis  A 90 

Leavel,  C.  B 89 

T  ongan,  G.  B 88 

Lorie,  J.  L 83 

Lowe,  J.  M 88 

Lucas,  Charles  W S6 

Lucas,  W.  H 85 

I  umpkin,  John  L 89 

Lyons,  W.  E 85 

Me 

McClellan.  I.  S 94 

McClintock,  Robert 96 

McCune,  H.  1 93 

McDougal,  H.  C 91 

McGowan,   James  B 175 

McGowan.   Hugh 92 

McGovern,  E.  J 92 

McKecknie,  J.  W 93 

McKinnev.  James 96 


Jacques,  H.  W 73 

Jamison,  W.  T 76 

Jelley,  Arthur 76 

Jenney,  Kittredge 74 

Jobes,  C.  S 72 


M 

Madden.  P.  H 101 

Mann,  Homer  B 97 

Manning,  J.  H 106 

Markward.  Frank 105 


Index. 


179 


Page. 

Mathews,  George lftO 

May,  C.  C 1"! 

Mellier,  W.  G 95 

Meriwether,  H.  M 106. 

Meservey,  E.  C 105 

Middlebrook,  R.  B 174 

Michaels,  W.  C 95 

Millett,  G.  Van 101 

Miller,  George  J 102 

Mitchell    S.  A 100 

Mitchell,  Dr.  G.  B 99 

Moechel,   Jean 104 

Moriarty,  E.  P 103 

Mott,  Dr.  J.  S 97 

Moore.  C.  H 102 

Moore,  Milton 98 

Moore,   S.   W 99 

Moore,  William 103 

Murray,  Reid 98 


Page. 

Reed,  F.  E 127 

Reed,  W.  T 127 

Richardson,  R.  E 122 

Ridge,  Dr.  I.  M .  .    ..119 

Riddle,  L.   E 121 

Rieger,  J.  C 130 

Ringolsky,  I.  J 129 

Roberts,  Dr.  J.  E 120 

Robinson,   Elijah 123 

Rosenberger,  J.  C 126 

Rosenzweig,  Grant 126 

Rothschild,  L.   P 128 

Rothschild,  A.  P 128 

Rozzelle,  F.  F 122 

Root,  Walter 124 

Rood,  J.  M 120 

Rule.  W.  A 121 

Runnels,  Dr.  M.  T 125 

Ryland,  LP 125 


N 

Neale.   George  A 175 

New.  Alexander 107 

Xoland,  J.  R 108 

Norberg,  Dr.  G.  B 108 

Northrop,  S.  A 107 


O 

O'Flaherty,  Daniel 110 

O'Flaherty,   V.   J Ill 

O'Grady,  John Ill 

Oldham,   M.  J 109 

O'Malley,  Charles 110 

Orear,  E.  C * 112 

Orthwein,  C.  C 109 

Otto.  W.  H 113 

Oviatt,  F.  E 112 


Palmer,  C.  S 119 

Patterson,  Dr.  J.  M 118 

Pearson,  A    A 114 

Pendergast,  Thomas 116 

Perry,  W.  C 115 

Phelps,  James  L 116 

Phillips,  Frank 113 

Pontius,  W.   S 118 

Porterfield,   E.   E 114 

Powell.  W.  A 117 

Powell,  E.  N 117 

Pur.ton,  Dr.  John 115 

R 

Ranson,  B.  D 130 

Reily,  E.  M 123 

Renick,  Charles 129 

Repp,  W.  A 124 


Samuel,  J.  Ray 141 

Sanford,  Walter 138 

Scarritt,  E.   L 135 

Scarritt,  W.  C 135 

Schaich,  J.  G.  Jr 149 

Schmelzer,  C.  J 144 

Schmelzer,  H.  F 144 

Schoettle.  Gustav 142 

Schull,   Perry 176 

Sebree,  Frank  P 132 

Seidlitz,   Charles  N 148 

Seehorn,  T.  J 140 

Serat.  Seth 136 

Shelley,  George  M 132 

Shinnick,  F.  J 149 

Shouse,  Louis 152 

Slavens,  L.  C 137 

Sloan,  W.  M 151 

Smith,  B.  H 133 

Smith,  John  H 146 

Snider,  C.  A 134 

Solomon,  H.  C 145 

Spalding,  F.  C 139 

Spalding,  J.  F 139 

Spellman,   Clarence 142 

Speas,  John  W 150 

Stark,  W.  T 140 

Steele,  Baylis 137 

Stewart,  H.   P 133 

Stiles.  E.  H 136 

Stine,  Edward 14S 

Stone,  R.  S 147 

Stone,  J.  B 138 

Strauss,  B.  J HI 

Stricklette,  W.  T .147 

Strother,  Sam  B 113 

Swofford,  J.  J 131 

Swofford,  R    T 131 

Swinney,  E.  F 1 


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Swift,  J.  C 150 

Sullivan,  John 14-5 

Sullivan,  W.  E 146 

Surface,  John  M 143 

Snlzbacher,  Dr.  B.  L 152 

T 

Taggart,  F.  J 1-4 

Taylor,  Clyde 176 

Tavlor,  E.  W 155 

Teasdale,  W.  B 153 

Thacher,  John  H 155 

Thomas,  Dudley 156 

Thayer,  W.  B 15* 

Titus,  Frank 171 

Trickett,  W.  P 151 

Turner,  F.  E 153 

V 

Van  Valkenburgh,  A.  S 156 

Vineyard,  J.  J 157 

Vrooman,  Walter 157 

W 

Wagner,  J.  W 169 

Wallace,  T.  B 159 


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Wallace,  W.  H 159 

Walls,  George  L 16-1 

Walsh,  F.  P 158 

Ward,  H.  C 163 

Watson,  I.  N 161 

Watson,  M    V 169 

Watts,  H.  H 165 

Welch,  C    J 167 

Welsh,  J.  B 16S 

Wendorf,  John 163 

Wheeler,  J.  L 162 

Whittemore,  S.  J 162 

Williams,  J.  C 161 

Winants,  W.  H 160 

Winn,  S.  S 170 

Winner,  W.  E 168 

Winstanley,  Edward 167 

Winter,  Elisha 170 

Witten,  Thomas 164 

Woods,  W.  S 1 60 

Wofford,  John  W 158 

Wollman,  B.  F 166 

Wollman,  Henry 166 

Wollman,  Morton 165 

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Yeager,  R.  1 171