Greene County Biographies


From:  Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri
Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Representative Citizens
by Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck




HENRY M. HECKART. For a period of thirty-four years the name of Henry M.
Heckart was a synonym in Springfield and this section of Missouri for
high-class jewelry, for he maintained an extensive jewelry store here
during that period, and was known as one of our leading business men and a
friend to the Queen City on every occasion, and his influence for
promoting the development of the city along material and civic lines was
most potent, yet this was done in his usual quiet, unobtrusive manner, for
he was not a man who sought the limelight of publicity, merely endeavoring
to lead a useful life as a citizen and win success along legitimate lines,
and although he was compelled to rely upon himself entirely from boyhood,
he exercised such discretion and perseverance as to bring to him a large
measure of prosperity, and he will long be missed from the commercial
circles of the city and county.

Mr. Heckart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1855. He
was a son of John and Nancy (Pool) Heckart, both natives of Pennsylvania,
of Dutch ancestry, both being old families of the Keystone state. The
father of our subject devoted his active life to the lumber business. He
and his wife grew to maturity in their native state, where they received
such educational advantages as the early-day schools afforded, and there
they were married, but the latter part of their lives was spent in
Missouri, where they died. To these parents eight children were born, five
of whom are living at this writing.

Henry M. Heckart grew to manhood in his native city and there received a
limited education in the public schools. This lack of early training,
however, was subsequently made up by contact with the business world and
by wide home reading. When but a boy he decided upon the jewelry business
as a life work, and began in this line in a modest way in Marshfield,
Webster county, Missouri, and there got a good start. Seeking a larger
field, he came to Springfield in 1878 and established a jewelry store,
which gradually grew in volume of business with advancing years until it
became one of the most extensive and best known in southwestern Missouri.
He remained on the public square all the while, and at the time of his
death his was the oldest business of its kind in Greene county. He carried
an extensive, carefully selected and up-to-date stock of everything found
in the large jewelry stores in the important cities of the country. He
also maintained a repair department in which only artisans of the highest
skill were employed.

Mr. Heckart was married, December 26, 1878, to Belle Jarrett, who was born
in Sedalia, Missouri. She is a daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Jones)
Jarrett, both parents natives of Huntsville, Alabama.

To Mr. and Mrs. Heckart two children were born, namely Bessie, born
January 8, 1880, died November 27, 1891, and Harry E., born May 29, 1884,
married Maurine McClintock, and they make their home in Los Angeles,
California, where he is engaged in business.

Henry M. Heckart was a home man and a business man, and therefore cared
little for political life. He was a-member of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, in which he was an active worker and for a number of years was a
member of the board of trustees. He was a man of honest principles and
good habits and was respected by all who knew him during the more than
three decades that he lived in Springfield and conducted his jewelry
store. His death occurred November 17, 1912.




JAMES L. HECKENLIVELY. In reviewing the various professional interests of
Greene county, the name of James L. Heckenlively cannot be ignored, for he
has long been one of the most successful and best known architects in the
Southwest. Although it is a known fact that, given the ordinary average
education and good judgment, any man may make a success in the avenues of
trade, yet in what are known as the fine arts, of which architecture is
one, he must be endowed with superior natural attributes and have gone
through years of careful study and training to be able to cope with
the-brilliant minds which do honor to this vocation.

Mr. Heckenlively was born on August 18, 1863, in Gentry county, Missouri.
He is a son of Jacob and Martha J. (Shisler) Heckenlively. The father was
born in Crawford county, Ohio, May 9, 1838, and the mother was born in
Meigs county, Ohio, in April, 1842. They grew to maturity in their native
state; they were educated in the earl day schools.

The death of Mrs. Heckenlively occurred on March 28, 1914. Mr.
Heckenlively has devoted his active life to agricultural pursuits, and is
now living in St. Joseph, Missouri. His father, John Heckenlively, was
born in April, 1799, in Germany, where he grew up, was educated and he
became a Lutheran minister. He married Margaret Leffler, who was born, in
1803 in Germany. They immigrated to America in an early day, located in
Ohio, where they spent the rest of their lives, his death occurring on May
10, 1856. She died on March 24, 1852. Their children are all now deceased
except Jacob, father of our subject, he being the youngest child. The
family name was originally spelled in Germany as Heckenlaible. Jacob
Heckenlively remained in Ohio until about he was about twenty years of
age, when he removed to Iowa, where he resided until he came to Gentry
county, Missouri, where he was married, in 1862. Barnabas Shisler, our
subject's maternal grandfather, was born in Ohio. He was an early settler
in Gentry county, Missouri. His wife, Susan Consolver, died near Warsaw,
this state, as a result of a fall, when nearly one hundred years of age.

Politically, Jacob Heckenlively is a Republican. During the Civil war he
enlisted from Gentry county in an infantry regiment, and served in the
Federal army six months. His family consisted of eight children, seven of
whom are still living, namely: James L., of this sketch; John B., born on
November 8, 1865, lives in St. Joseph, Missouri; Delila J., born on
February 2, 1868, lives in Colorado; Susan E., born on January 4, 1870,
lives in Colorado City, Colorado; Della C., born on March 4, 1872, died at
Lakin, Kansas, September 28, 1911; Lafayette H., born on October 11, 1874,
lives in Columbus, Montana; Jefferson H., born on March 14, 1878, lives in
Harrison county, Missouri; Orville, born on March 14, 1884, lives in El
Paso, Texas.

James L. Heckenlively received part of his education in Gentry county,
Missouri, and there he taught school for some time, later attending the
Normal College at Stanberry, this state. He had a decided natural bent
toward architecture, which manifested itself when he was a small boy, and
when he left school he began the study of this profession with diligence
and devotion, making rapid progress, serving an apprenticeship in an
architect's office. He also learned the practical end of the business in
Stanberry. Later he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he continued
draughting, studying and carpenter work as well. He got his training by
persistent hard work, close application, observation and practical
experience. He began life for himself in 1893 at St. Joseph and Stanberry,
and in 1894 came to Springfield and he has remained here ever since, and
during this period of over twenty years his career has been marked by a
steady growth, each year finding him further advanced than the preceding.
He began on a small scale, but worked up to a large and lucrative business
in a reasonably short time in general architecture, including not only all
lines of the business, but also included civil engineering work. He has
become widely known throughout this section of the state and his services
have long been in good demand in other cities and towns besides
Springfield. Among his more important jobs in Springfield may be mentioned
the Carnegie Public Library, the high school, Masonic Temple, Grace
Methodist Episcopal church, St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, South,
St. John's Hospital, nearly all the ward school buildings and many others;
also three buildings of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and
Indian schools and dormitories at Wagoner, Oklahoma. He has attractive
offices on the fifth floor of the Landers Building.

Mr. Heckenlively was married on June 5, 1889, in Albany, Gentry county,
Missouri, to Leanora E. Campbell, who was born in Kentucky. She is a
daughter of John P. and Amanda L. (Pelley) Campbell. This was a prominent
old Kentucky family, members of which were noted in various walks of life.
They emigrated here from the Blue Grass state in an early day and became
well established in Missouri by their thrift and industry. Mrs.
Heckenlively's father devoted his active life to general agricultural
pursuits. She was given the advantages of an excellent education and is a
lady of many admirable characteristics.

Two children have been born to our subject and wife, namely: Mepha May
died in infancy; Lura F., who is at home with her parents, Was educated in
the public schools, the high school and Drury College, all of Springfield,
and she made a fine record in all of them.

Politically, Mr. Heckenlively is a Republican, but he has never been an
office-seeker, although taking much interest in general public affairs,
especially as they affect the welfare of his county and state. His family
attends the South Street Christian church. He has long been prominent in
the Masonic order, his record in the same being as follows: He was made a
Mason in Springfield in 1901. Since then he has been worshipful master of
the lodge, high priest of the chapter for two terms, commander one term,
thrice illustrious master two terms, grand master of the grand council,
Royal and Select Masters, in 1914 and 1915; received the Shrine in
Springfield in 1903 and served in all the offices but potentate; was
deputy inspector of the Grand Commandery of the Second District in 1909;
received the honorary Red Cross of Constantine in Joplin in 1910; was
consecrated and anointed into the Order of High Priesthood in Springfield
in 1908; is grand representative of the Grand Council of Arkansas and the
Grand. Chapter of Arizona.




JAMES HARRISON HEDGES. The name at the head of this sketch is one well
known in business and construction circles in Springfield and the entire
Southwest and probably stands for more completed work in his own line than
that of any other one man in this community.

Mr. Hedges comes of a Kentucky ancestry. His father was James Ferman
Hedges, born in the old "Blue Grass State," where he married Miss. Ruth
Brown, also a native Kentuckian. While yet a young man Mr. Hedges moved to
Illinois, where his son, the subject of this sketch, was born. Later the
family removed to the state of Kansas, and afterwards to Missouri. The
father died in this state in 18995, his wife having passed away fifteen
years previously.

The family of this couple consisted of five boys and three girls, all of
whom are still living With the exception of two. James H. Hedges is the
younger of these five sons. He was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, on
the 20th day of May, 1860. He attended the common schools during boyhood
and finished his education at the Normal school at Warrensburg, Missouri,
leaving there in 1878.

In 1879, while yet lacking more than two years of being of legal age, Mr.
Hedges took up his life work by engaging in contracting work upon the
Missouri Pacific railroad. He remained in this position for six years,
thus serving a long apprenticeship and laying deep the foundations of
knowledge of his business that was to stand him in good stead in the days
to come.

In 1885 he decided to undertake contracting in a small way upon his own
responsibility. He had but small capital in money, and he asked no
financial assistance from anyone. But he had what was better than money a
thorough knowledge of his business and an iron determination to succeed.
It was inevitable with those two essentials that he should succeed and he
did.

In 1886 he took an interest in the firm of Scott, Hinkley & Hedges in the
business of quarrying and handling stone and stone contracts. This company
endured for some ten years. Four years of that time was covered by the
great financial depression from 1893 to 1897, when very little was doing
in the way of contracting or construction work, either in this field or
anywhere else in the United States, but with the revival of business, Mr.
Hedges was again actively at work in his chosen line.

About this time he formed a partnership with Napoleon Gosney, under the
firm name of Hedges & Gosney, for the business of railroad contracting and
construction work.

The new firm was a success from the first day. Work flowed in upon it and
the business prospered in every way. So much was this the case that in
1900 a corporation was formed under the title of the Hedges & Gosney
Construction Company. Of this corporation Mr. Hedges was elected the
president, which position he still holds.

A list of all the construction work which this company has done since its
organization would be too long for the space reserved for this sketch. It
is enough to say that they have done the masonry and concrete work on the
Frisco Railroad, the Missouri Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Eastern
Illinois and other roads. Their work has extended into Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Kansas and Missouri. And the quality of the
work done is attested by the fact that they have returned again and again
to do new work for the same companies. As a matter of fact this company,
organized in a quiet way, and without great capital has simply by strict
attention to business, and work of high quality, attained the position of
the heaviest contracting company in their line in this entire region.

As the business of the original company has increased other companies have
been organized, each handling some special lines of contracting and
construction work. Of these companies, Mr., Hedges is the vice-president
of the Jarrett Construction Company, also vice-president of the
Weaver-Weeks Construction Company, and of the Jarrett-Richardson Paving
Company. He also served in the same capacity in the Willier Construction
Company, until it was dissolved by the untimely death of Mr. Willier.
These various companies occupy spacious offices in the Holland building,
in Springfield, and are reckoned among the most solid and reliable
institutions of the city.

Mr. Hedges was married on the 1st of June, 1892, to Miss Edna B. Houghton,
of Springfield. Mrs. Hedges' father died in Andrew county, Missouri, while
she was still a young child, and her mother, Priscilla, removed from that
county to Springfield with her two children soon after the father's death.
Mrs. Houghton taught in the schools of Springfield for many years, and
lived to a ripe old age, passing away about 1911.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hedges have been born a family of four children, two sons
and two daughters. The oldest, Miss Rolla H. Hedges, was educated in the
Springfield high school, and finished with one year at Hollins College,
Virginia. Franklin H. Hedges is a graduate of the Western Military
Academy, of Upper Alton, Illinois, and is now a student in Drury College.
Jeannette E. Hedges, the second daughter, also attended the Springfield
high school, and is now attending Drury College. Warren B. Hedges, the
youngest son, is at present attending the Springfield high school. The
Hedges' home is at number 940 North Jefferson street, Springfield, and is
one of the finest, most home-like residences in the city.




JOHN HEGARTY. It was nearly sixty years ago when John Hegarty first saw
what was then the insignificant village of Springfield, a mere crossroads
trading point, a general store or two, blacksmith shop or so, a post
office and a small cluster of rude dwelling houses. Not all the time since
then has he spent here, but during the major portion of it he has
witnessed with satisfaction and interest the substantial growth of the
place until it is now the capital of the Ozark region in importance
commercially. He was for many years a well-known grocer here, and now
being well past his eighty-third birthday, he is living quietly in his
little cottage in the heart of the city, still preferring to remain near
his old place of business. He is Irish in blood, and having many of the
traits of that energetic and quick-witted race, has succeeded well in his
life work.

Mr. Hegarty was born in Ireland, in June, 1830. He is a son of John and
Anna (Galaspy) Hegarty, both of whom were born, reared, married and spent
their lives in the Emerald Isle, dying there many years ago, the father
passing away when our subject was a small boy, in about the year 1846. He
was a tailor by trade and he and his wife both received good educations
for that time. Their family consisted of ten children, two of the sons
still living, namely: John of this sketch, and James, who lives in St.
Louis.

John Hegarty grew to manhood in Ireland and there received a common school
education. He emigrated to the United States in 1847 and settled in Terre
Haute, Indiana, where he remained eighteen or twenty years, at different
times, during which period he was a commercial traveler, selling dry goods
for a Terre Haute house, then spent a year in different parts of Illinois.
He first came to Springfield, Missouri, in 1855, but not long thereafter
returned East, but took up his permanent residence here in 1870, following
farming near Springfield a short time, then moved into the city and for a
period of twenty years engaged in the grocery business at Boonville street
and Phelps avenue, having been in partnership with his brother James,
under the firm name of Hegarty Bros. They enjoyed an extensive trade, and
theirs was one of the oldest established grocery stores on Boonville
street, one of the principal streets of the city since its beginning.
Having accumulated a comfortable competency for his declining years, our
subject quit business in 1894, since which time he has lived retired. At
one time he was owner of a valuable farm, containing one hundred sixteen
and one-half acres at Valley Mills, Greene county. He sold this place
three years ago.

Mr. Hegarty has never married. Politically he is a Democrat, and is a
member of the Catholic church.




WALTER H. HENDERSON. Books keep us from yielding to the commonplace. They
equip us not only for more serious tasks in the daily tread-mill of
existence, but also for an appreciation of the things about us, nature in
her varied forms, for hearing the music of the spheres and for seeing the
beautiful in life. Everyone, from the poorest to the richest, may find in
literature a rich and large life. Walter H. Henderson, city treasurer of
Springfield, is a man who regards his books as among his best friends and
spends much of his spare time among them, therefore is a well-rounded man
mentally.

Mr. Henderson was born on September 16, 1877, in Laclede county, Missouri.
He is a son of C. C. and Mary A. (McFarland) Henderson, natives of
Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively, but when young in years they removed
with their parents to Missouri and were married in this state, after
receiving limited educations in the common schools. C. C. Henderson has
spent his active life in general farming pursuits, making a specialty of
cattle raising, also owned a general merchandise store at Phillipsburg for
several years. He and his wife are now living on a farm near that town and
are well known throughout that locality. Politically, he is a Democrat,
and has long been active in party affairs. Fraternally, he belongs to the
Masonic Order. His family consisted of nine children, namely: Maude, the
eldest, is deceased; Walter H., of this sketch; Ethel is married and
living in Laclede county; Ona is married and lives in Laclede county;
Glynn is living at home; Rosa is married and lives at Phillipsburg,
Missouri; Freda lives at home; Byrle is also a member of the family
circle, and Mabel is with her parents.

Walter H. Henderson spent his boyhood years in Laclede county and he
received his education in the rural schools and the high school at
Lebanon, this state. He worked in his father's store at Phillipsburg for
some time when a boy. In 1904 he came to Springfield and engaged in the
grocery business, but not long thereafter he went to work for Edward V.
Williams in his clothing store on Commercial street, remaining with him
until 1909, proving to be an excellent clerk, being alert, polite and
trustworthy. Upon leaving the employ of Mr. Williams he was made manager
of the Springfield Security Company, with which he remained until August
1, 1914, giving satisfaction to all concerned. He is at this writing
vice-president of the Murry Farm Loan and Title Company. He is also
filling the position of city treasurer of Springfield, to which he was
elected in the spring of 1914 and is discharging his duties in a faithful
and capable manner.

Mr. Henderson was married on January 11, 1903, in Phillipsburg, Missouri,
to Dora Barnes, who was born in Laclede county, this state, and reared and
educated there. She is a daughter of Samuel C. Barnes, for years a well
known resident of that county.

Politically, Mr. Henderson is a Democrat and is active in the party.
Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the
World and the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to the Young Men's
Business Club, and is a member of the Central Christian church.




GEORGE W. HENDRICKSON. Faithfulness to duty, persistence in the pursuit of
a worthy object and a desire to be of service to those about him while
laboring for his own advancement have been some of the principle which
have been dominating factors in the career of George W. Hendrickson, the
present able assistant postmaster at Springfield, in which city he has
made his home for a period of twenty-five years, and where he was formerly
engaged in mercantile pursuits. Like many of our best citizens he hails
from the fine old Blue Grass state and possesses many of the winning
traits of his progenitors, who were Southerners.

Mr. Hendrickson was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, January 6, 1860. He is
a son of John T. and Jemima (Myers) Hendrickson, and was one of ten
children, an equal number of sons and daughters, all now deceased but four
sons. John T. Hendrickson, the father, was a native of Kentucky, where he
grew up, was educated in the early-day schools, married and spent his life
as a general merchant and died there in 1896. Jemima Myers, mother of our
subject, was of Pennsylvania German stock. She met and married John T.
Hendrickson in Lewis county, Kentucky, and spent the rest of her life
there, dying in 1866.

George W. Hendrickson grew to manhood on the home farm in Lewis county,
Kentucky, where he worked when a boy and there he received his education
in the common schools during the winter months, remaining on the farm
until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he secured employment with a paint company, with which he remained
for a short time, then secured a position as clerk for the Cincinnati &
Memphis Packet Company, which he retained for ten years, then, in 1889, he
came to Springfield, Missouri, and he and his brother engaged in the
grocery business for four years, after which he sold out to his brother
John F. Hendrickson, and entered the political arena. He was first
employed in the sheriff's office, where he spent two years. Then served as
deputy circuit clerk for three years, after which he accepted a position,
in 1898, as assistant postmaster, which he has retained to the present
time, his long retention being sufficient evidence of his satisfactory
service, having discharged the duties of this responsible position for a
period of eighteen years in a manner that reflected much credit upon
himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned, being accurate, alert,
painstaking and a man whose integrity has never been questioned.

In 1887, two years before Mr. Hendrickson left his position with the
Cincinnati Packet Company in Ohio, he married Mary Rittenhouse, of
Evansville, Indiana, a daughter of Thomas H. Rittenhouse, whose family
consisted of three children.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson four children have been born, namely: Alberta,
born on November 4, 1888, is librarian at the Springfield high school;
Willa died in infancy; Georgia, born on June 10, 1896, was educated in the
Springfield public and high schools, later attending Drury College; John
F., born on July 11, 1900.

Politically, Mr. Hendrickson is a Republican, and has been loyal in his
support of the party. He served for three years as a member of the local
board of education with Prof. J. Fairbanks. Fraternally, he belongs to the
Modern Woodmen of America. He and his family attend the Presbyterian
church.




JOHN E. HENSHAW. The success that has been attained by John E. Henshaw,
general superintendent of the new Frisco shops in Springfield, in the
mechanical world has been well deserved and his example is worthy of
emulation by the ambitious youth who would rise to the top of that
vocation, for it indicates that merit alone, after all, wins the prizes in
this uncertain human existence, especially is this true in our great
republic of the West, where positions of responsibility and adequate
financial reward are open to all who are worthy to fill them, regardless
of birth, rank, station or caste.

Mr. Henshaw is of English descent and has inherited many of the sterling
traits of that noble race. He was born in Port Huron, Michigan, January
27, 1867. He is a son of John and Ann (Hilton) Henshaw, both natives of
Manchester, England, the birth of the father having occurred in 1837, and
the mother was born in 1839. There they grew to maturity, were educated in
the common schools and were married in 1860. When only a little over nine
years of age the father of our subject began working in the mines in his
native land, helped to shoe horses, and finally became an expert
blacksmith which trade he followed until he left England for America in
1861. He and his wife located first in New York, and he: secured
employment in the Brooklyn navy yard, and worked on the old Alabama, which
warship was brought there for repairs during the Civil war. In 1866 he
left New York for Michigan, and went to work in a marine shop, but later
worked for George F. Pullman in the first Pullman car shops built in that
state. In 1870 he secured employment with the Chicago & Grand Trunk
Railway in Port Huron, that state as hammer man and blacksmith. In 1881 he
removed with his family to Detroit where he again secured employment with
the Pullman company, with which he remained there for about ten years,
then worked for the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad in its shops
at Detroit until 1891. In 1897 he moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he went
to work for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company as
blacksmith. In December, 1900, he came to Springfield and worked as spring
maker in the Frisco shops, and remained in charge of that department in
the north side shops until he retired from active life July 1, 1904, and
is now living in quiet in his cozy home in this city. He gave eminent
satisfaction, in all the positions he held, for he was regarded by his
employers as an expert in his trade and a man that could always be relied
upon implicitly, who was faithful and conscientious in all his work. He
became a well-read man and still keeps well up with the times on current
topics. He is one of the oldest members of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows in Missouri, if not in the United States, having joined that order
when twenty years old in 1857, in Manchester, England, the lodge being
known as the Manchester Unity. Politically he is a Democrat and has long
been active in political matters. His wife was called to her eternal rest
on August 3,1902. To these parents three children were born, namely: Jane
is deceased; Tilly is also deceased, and John E. of this review.

John E. Henshaw received a common school education in Port Huron and
Detroit, Michigan, also attended a business school in Detroit, known as
the Goldsmith, Bryant & Stratton University, later attended a school for
drawing in that city. Following in the footsteps of his father he became a
machinist by trade, and has worked in many different shops, and, being a
keen observer, has gained many new ideas in each place he has worked until
today he is one of the most highly skilled men in his line in the country
and is a man of progressive and advanced ideas. He has worked his way up
from the bottom rung of the ladder until today he stands at the top. He
came to Springfield Missouri, in 1900 as pit foreman in the north side
Frisco shops, later was gang foreman, also erecting foreman, and on June
25, 1909, was made general foreman of the Springfield shops. On October 7,
1910, he became superintendent of the new shops which position he still
holds, and is discharging his duties in a manner that is reflecting much
credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned.

Our subject studied music a number of years and is a talented musician.
Mr. Henshaw was married on January 11, 1894, in Detroit, Michigan, to
Florence Breitemeyer, who was born in that city in June, 1877, and there
reared and educated. She is a daughter of Charles and Mary (Aames)
Breitemeyer. Her grandfather was the oldest German florist in Detroit at
that time.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Henshaw, namely: Etta L., born
on July 1, 1905; and John H., born on January 3, 1909.

Politically, he is a Democrat, and fraternally belongs to the Masonic
Order, including the Chapter.




DANIEL H. HERMAN. For a period of thirty-five years the name of Daniel H.
Herman has stood for the highest grade of tailoring known in southwest
Missouri, and his business advancing with the years has long since assumed
very large proportions, and, owing to the excellent quality and style of
the work from his establishment, his prestige is such that many of his
customers come from nearby towns, and the fact that many of them have
remained with him for a quarter of a century or more is a criterion of not
only good service but courteous and honest treatment. Mr. Herman has
devoted practically his life to this line of business and no one is more
thoroughly conversant with the various phases of the same than he. As a
man of affairs and a citizen he has been one of the influential men of
Springfield for many years.

Mr. Herman was born June 2, 1857, in Syracuse, New York. He is a son of
Henry and Hannah (Stern) Herman. The father, a native of Bavaria, Germany,
emigrated to the United States about 1832 and settled in Syracuse, New
York, where he was an extensive live stock, dealer until 1868, when he
went to Chicago, where he continued the same business. In 1871 he went to
Rochester, New York, and followed the same vocation, subsequently moving
to Elmira, that state, where his death occurred in 1904, at the home of
his daughter, and he is buried in the lot adjoining that containing the
grave of Mark Twain. His wife, Hannah Stern, was also born in the province
of Bavaria, Germany. She came to America when young and married Mr. Herman
in Syracuse, New York. Her death occurred in 1894 in Rochester, that
state, but she was buried in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Herman were the
parents of five children, namely: Hannah is the wife of Albert Samuel, of
Elmira, New York; Fanny is, the widow of Henry Klopfer, the great Chicago
packer; Benjamin lives in Rahway, New Jersey; Daniel H., of this review;
and Charles, who lives in New York City. Politically, the father of these
children was a Democrat. He belonged to the Masonic order, and he was a
member of the Hebrew Reformed church.

Daniel H. Herman spent his boyhood in Rochester, New York, and there
received a good common school education. When sixteen years old he went to
Elmira, that state, and began learning the tailoring trade and clothing
business in which he seemed to have a decided natural bent and
consequently made rapid progress. He remained there until he was
twenty-two years old, 1879, in which year he came to Springfield,
Missouri, and opened a tailoring and clothing establishment on Boonville
street and has continued in this line to the present time. Successful from
the first, he managed his affairs with honesty and good judgment until in
due course of time he became one of the substantial business men of the
city, and now his establishment would be a credit to cities many times the
size of Springfield. He had the distinction of setting up and running the
first full page advertisement in a newspaper in this section of the
country, for which he paid ten dollars per month. On his opening day here
he hired a brass band to play in front of his establishment and an
orchestra on the inside. Later he opened branches in the same line at
Lamar, Joplin, St. Louis, Ft. Smith, Arkansas; and Dallas, Texas, all of
which were successful under his able management, and progressive methods.
In a few years he opened up where the Globe Clothing Company is now
located on South street and the public square. In 1885 he sold out on the
public square and devoted his business on Boonville street to tailoring
exclusively, then moved where the Union National Bank now stands. Selling
his lease there he moved on South street, where he remained four years,
and in 1912 moved to his present location on St. Louis street, where he
has a modernly appointed, neat, inviting and convenient establishment and
carries an extensive and carefully selected stock of goods and employs
several skilled tailors, including two expert cutters and about forty
other employees. Prompt and high-grade service is his aim as it has ever
been. In 1889 the company was incorporated as the Herman Tailoring
Company. Mr. Herman and family are sole owners. They handle all the best
domestic and imported cloths, which are made up for an exclusive clientele
from southwest Missouri, southeastern Kansas and northwestern Arkansas.
The firm has patrons even from New York City, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas
City, the far West and Mexico. They have also unquestionably the highest
class of haberdashery in this part of the United States. They are
exclusive agents for Crofut & Knapp, Knapp felt and the Dobbs hats, Keyser
cravats, Mark-Cross gloves, Vassar underwear, Manhattan shirts, S. Stein &
Company, importers of woolens, Burberry's of London, England; Waterhouse &
Resher Company, of New York City.

Mr. Herman was married, June 16, 1885, to Nellie Langsdorf, of St. Louis.
She was born, December 7, 1864, and is a daughter of Morris and Hannah
(Rosenstine) Langsdorf, an old and prominent family of the Mound City,
where Mrs. Herman grew to womanhood and was educated. She is a lady of
culture and has long been a favorite in the best social circles of St.
Louis and Springfield.

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Herman has been graced by the birth of four
children, namely: Hortense, wife of Nathan S. Rose, of St. Paul,
Minnesota; Edgar S., who is in business with his father, was born in
Springfield, Missouri, November 25, 1888, was graduated from the common
schools, after which he spent a year in high school and a year in Drury
College; from a mere child he has shown an aptness and interest in
cutting, fitting and designing clothes and now has full charge of that
department of the Herman Tailoring Company; at the age of twenty-one years
he took his first honors at the National Clothiers' Association in New
York City. He has refused flattering offers from large tailoring concerns
in Chicago and New York to act as their designer at a large salary. His
ideas are always in advance of others and he is indeed a genius in his
line. The third child of our subject and wife is Blanche D., who is
attending Soldon high school in St. Louis; Ruth, the youngest of the
children, is at home and attending Springfield high school.

Mr. Herman has always been a supporter of laudable movements for the
general improvement of Springfield, whose interests he has had at heart
from the be inning of his residence here, and he has ever enjoyed the good
will and confidence of his fellow citizens as a result of his industry,
public spirit and manly principles.




SAMUEL HERRICK. Not too often can be cited to the discouraged young man
starting out in life's serious battle, the lessons to be found in the
records of such self-made men as Samuel Herrick, well known transfer and
storage man of Springfield. For the life histories of such men are not
only interesting but instructive, showing what may be done in this free
land of ours despite unfavorable early environment if one has the courage,
the will and the grit to do and dare.

Mr. Herrick was born in Cole county, Missouri, June 10, 1862. He is a son
of Ebenezer and Annie (Truble) Herrick. The father was a farmer, and his
death occurred when our subject was twelve years of age. The death of the
mother occurred in 1899.

Samuel Herrick grew to manhood on the home farm in Cole county, where he
worked hard when a boy and there he received his education in the public
schools. Although but a boy when his father died, he found it necessary to
shoulder heavy responsibilities, and this early necessity for doing his
own thinking and earning his way in the world, while hard at the time, has
doubtless been responsible for his success in later life, such training
often being of more value to the youth than where they are protected in
every respect and have some one to plan and work for them, taking all
responsibility off their shoulders. He began supporting himself when
sixteen years old and has "hoed his own row" ever since. He has adapted
himself to every new condition that he has found necessary to meet and has
made a success of his business career.

Coming to Springfield when but a boy, Mr. Herrick here worked at a number
of different things, including nearly two years in the employ of the G. D.
Milligan wholesale grocery house, then worked for eighteen months with the
Hadley Wholesale Grocery Company as order clerk, which was also his
position with the former firm. He then went with the Keet-Rountree Dry
Goods Company, where he worked as packing and shipping clerk for a period
of eight and one-half years. He was an alert, capable, wide awake and
trustworthy employee, and gave all these firms eminent satisfaction. While
working for the last named he purchased a span of three-year-old horses
and gave a man half what the horses earned by hauling on the streets. He
saved his earnings from both sources until 1904, when he began a transfer
and storage business in a very small way. He managed his affairs
judiciously and his business grew steadily until it has now reached very
large proportions, and in addition he sells automobiles, being agent for
the well-known Hudson, the Regal and Grant pleasure cars and in trucks he
is agent for the General Motor Truck and Dart Trucks. In connection with
being agent for above named cars he has a general repair shop and sells
tires and sundries. He now owns an attractive and modernly appointed home,
also three good storage buildings and other properties and is in
independent circumstances. One of his rules is to pay cash for everything
he buys and for all labor performed for him.

Mr. Herrick was married on March 4, 1888, to Mary E. Philpott, a daughter
of David A. Philpott, a resident of Servis Point, Webster county,
Missouri. He is a veteran of the Civil war. The union of Mr. and Mrs.
Herrick has resulted in the birth of the following children: Ira Manley,
born in Webster county, April 26, 1889, was educated in the Springfield
ward and high schools, also a business college here; he married a Miss
Wood. Maude, born in Springfield, March 11, 1891, died in 1899; Nona, born
in Springfield, March, 4, 1895, was educated in the Springfield ward and
high schools, and business college; she is single and living at home.
Samuel, Jr., born in Springfield, January 21, 1897, was educated in the
ward, high schools, and the State Normal of this city. Neoma, born in
Springfield, December 5, 1898, was educated in the ward schools and is now
attending business college; Otto, born on August 15, 1900; Everett, born
May 7, 1907.

While Mr. Herrick realizes the fact that he has made splendid advancement
in life's affairs, he does not take all the credit to himself, admitting
that the counsel and sympathy of his good wife has been of great
assistance to him, and his children have also aided him in many ways; in
fact, here is a mutually helpful and happy family. He has built a nice
home for his eldest son, costing three thousand five hundred dollars and
gave it to him. He has never neglected to do all possible for the welfare
of his children and he is a great lover of his home.

Politically, Mr. Herrick is a Democrat. He belongs to the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen, and religiously the
family are members of the Baptist church.




REUBEN J. HIATT. While such men as the late Reuben J. Hiatt are not landed
in the public press as the leaders of world's workers, yet they perform
their roles in life's drama quite as successfully and are just as
necessary in the general scheme of things as their more famous compeers,
for it was Longfellow who wrote that "each thing in its place is best,"
and might as well have said that each person in his place is best, for
mother Nature designed each of us for a specific niche in the world and it
is our fault if we do not fill it properly and faithfully. Mr. Hiatt was a
man of many strong natural characteristics and he tried to do his best in
whatever capacity he was placed, and his life, which has been closed by
the common fate awaiting all that is mortal; was a useful and successful
one.

Mr. Hiatt was born, March 27, 1860, in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, where the
Hiatts had long been well established. He was a son of Ormstrom and
Elizabeth (Roberts) Hiatt, both natives of Kentucky also, where they grew
to maturity, were educated in the old-time schools and were married and
established their home. Ormstrom Hiatt has been engaged in active farming
from his boyhood until the present time, and is still living near the town
of Crab Orchard, Kentucky. His family consisted of twelve children, four
of whom are still living. He is now advanced in years.

Reuben J. Hiatt grew to manhood on the home farm in Lincoln county,
Kentucky, near crab Orchard, and there assisted his father with the
general work during the summer months, when he became of proper age, and
in the winter time he attended the district schools, receiving the usual
education of farmer boys of that period. He remained in his native
community engaged in farming and stock raising until he was about
twenty-six years of age, then came to Missouri, first locating at Liberty,
Clay county, where he remained until his removal to Springfield, this
being his home until 1901, when he went to Dallas, Texas, where he spent
five or six years, then returned to Springfield, where he spent the rest
of his life.

In his earlier career he was engaged in the sewing machine business, and
was very successful in the same; later he traveled for a well-known piano
house. He gave his employers eminent satisfaction in every respect and was
regarded as one of their most faithful, efficient and trustworthy
employees, and he remained a traveling salesman the rest of his life. He
was widely known over the territory which he made and was popular with the
trade, being a genial, obliging and friendly gentleman who made friends
easily.

Mr. Hiatt was married to Minnie Cravens, who was born in Daviess county,
Missouri, October 6, 1857. She is a daughter of William and Rebecea
(Bryan) Cravens. The father was born in 1835, died in 1883, and the mother
was born in 1838 and died in 1888. These parents spent their active lives
on a farm. They removed with their only child, Minnie Cravens, who became
the wife of our subject, to Springfield, Missouri, about forty-six years
ago, when the town was small. Here Mrs. Hiatt grew to womanhood and
received her education in the common schools.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt, named as follows: Emma,
born December 31, 1886, married Jerry Cravens, and they live in Chicago;
Homer, born December 17, 1890; Thelma, born September 11, 1894, and
Wilbur, born September 4, 1895; the last three children live with their
mother at the family home on St. Louis street.

Politically, Mr. Hiatt was a Democrat. He was a member of the Woodmen of
the World and the Christian church.

The death of Mr. Hiatt occurred in 1906, at the early age of forty-six years.




ELIHU HIBLER. Referring to agriculture, one of the earliest bards of the
English-speaking race wrote the following: "In ancient times the sacred
plow was employed by the kings and fathers of mankind; and some, with whom
compared your insect tribes are but the beings of a summer's day. Have
held the scale of empire, ruled the storm of mighty war with unwearied
hand, disdaining little delicacies, seized the plow and greatly
independent lived." He might also have added that agriculture has been
from the days of Cain, the greatest of all the arts of man, for it is the
first in supplying his necessities. As an agricultural region, Missouri
has no superiors. No state has a more natural system of natural drainage,
or a more abundant supply of pure, limpid water than this state. Both man
and beast may slake their thirst from a thousand perennial fountains that
form our "blue, rejoicing streams that catch the azure of the skies." And
here Nature has also generously bestowed her attractions of climate, soil
and scenery to please and gratify man while earning his bread by the sweat
of his brow. Being thus munificently endowed, Missouri offers superior
inducements to the farmer, and bids him reap varied harvests from her
broad domain and avail himself of her varied resources. One of the men of
a past generation who wisely decided to devote career to tilling the soil
in this, his native state, was the late Elihu Hibler, and he was not only
amply repaid for his toil, but found comfort in his close communing with
Nature, and this in turn made him a peaceable and kind-hearted citizen who
always had the good will and respect of his neighbors and acquaintances.

Mr. Hibler was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, July 26, 1846. He was a
son of Alton and Mary A. (Baxter) Hibler and was one of a family of six
children, an equal number of sons and daughters, namely: Leora, Isadore
and William are both deceased; Elihu, subject of this memoir; Pamella is
the wife of J. W. Hoggs, of Springfield, and George, who lives in Kansas
City. The father of the above named children devoted his active life to
general farming in St. Louis county, this state, and there his death
occurred many years ago.

Elihu Hibler grew to manhood in his native community and assisted his
father with the work on the farm and there laid the foundation for his
future success as a husbandman. He received his early education in the
common schools of his district, and he remained in St. Louis county until
the death of his father, when he removed to Bates county, Missouri, and in
the year 1884 he purchased a farm there, which he operated successfully
many years, finally moving to Liberal, Barton county, this state, where he
purchased a farm, on which he spent the rest of his life, and was known as
one of the leading general farmers and stock raisers of that locality.

Mr. Hibler was married on July 25, 1889 in Bates county, to Frances J.
Maxwell, a daughter of Edley C. and Rebecca J. (Park) Maxwell. The father
was a native of Virginia, where he spent his early life, finally removing
to Bates county, Missouri, where he purchased a farm, and there he and his
wife still reside, highly respected citizens. Their family consisted of
seven children, five daughters and two sons, namely: John Beauregard lives
in Ft. Scott, Kansas; William P. died in infancy; Frances J., widow of Mr.
Hibler, subject of this memoir; Mrs. Lucy Coon, of Ft. Scott, Kansas, is
the mother of seven sons and one daughter; Betty lived with her parents on
the farm; and Della May, who died when twenty-seven years of age.

Three children were born to Elihu Hibler and wife, namely: Edith Pamella,
born October 29, 1890, was graduated from the State Normal; she is married
and has one son, William Elihu, named after his grandfather, our subject,
he being the tenth William in the family line of descent, and his birth
occurred June 14, 1913; she has made herself proficient in music,
especially in voice culture, and she has for some time been a successful
instructor in music. Jessie Gladys, second child of our subject and wife,
was born October 15, 1894, was graduated from the State Normal at
Springfield, specializing in domestic science and music. Mary Rebecca, the
youngest child, was born July 25, 1897, is now a student in the
Springfield schools and expects to take the course in the State Normal.
These daughters have all been given excellent educational advantages,
which they have duly appreciated and properly improved. Their father, our
subject, was a great advocate of education, and himself a great reader and
student all his life.

Religiously, Mr. Hibler belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. He was
summoned to his eternal rest on January 11, 1906.




ISAAC M. HICKMAN. Among the men who were instrumental in advancing
business interests in Springfield and after a useful and honorable career
passed on to other planes of action on the "outmost banks and shoals of
time" was the late Isaac M. Hickman. Time and prolific enterprise have,
wrought wonderful changes in Greene county since he took up his residence
here, through which period he kept well abreast of the times and his
activities benefited alike himself and the general public, his well
directed efforts gaining for him a position of desirable prominence in
commercial circles. His chief characteristics seemed to be keenness of
perception, a tireless energy, honesty of purpose and motive and every-day
common sense. He was successful in business, respected in social life and
as a neighbor discharged his duties in a manner becoming a liberal-minded,
intelligent citizen of the state where he spent his entire life and where
the essential qualities of manhood have ever been duly recognized and
prized at their true value. To write in detail a full account of his
useful life would require a much more elaborate article than the nature of
the work admits or requires. Sufficient will be said, however, to form a
correct conception of the man and his career, a career affording many
valuable lessons to the young of the rising generation.

Mr. Hickman was born in Miller county, Missouri, August 9, 1860, on a
farm. He was a son of Aaron and Caroline (Rowden) Hickman, both natives of
Kentucky, the father born in 1836 and the mother in 1837. These parents
grew to maturity in their native state, were educated in the rural schools
and were married there. Mr. Hickman was a farmer. He was a soldier in the
Civil war and died during the service. He had but the one child, Isaac M.,
of this sketch. The mother remarried and died in Crawford county,
Missouri, in 1897. She married a brother of her first husband, and by that
union six children were born, two of whom are living at this writing.

Isaac M. Hickman grew to manhood on the farm in his native county and
there assisted with the general work when a boy. He received a limited
education in the district schools. He was a self-made man, and received
his business education by practical experience, partly by clerking in a
store when a boy. He devoted his active life to merchandising, which he
continued with gratifying results up to within two years of his death,
however, he occasionally traveled on the road. Many years ago he operated
a store at Willow Springs, and from there went to Joplin where he
conducted a store for six years, then was a traveling salesman for awhile.
He removed and opened a grocery with his family to Springfield in the
spring of 1905 and opened a store on West Walnut and Evans street. In 1912
he moved to North Campbell street, where he owned a grocery store. He
always enjoyed a good trade owing to his courteous and fair dealings with
his customers and he carried well selected stocks of goods. A criterion of
his high standing among Springfield business men is seen in that he was
president of the Missouri Retail Merchants Association of this state from
October, 1911 until October, 1912, performing the duties of the same in a
manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of
all concerned.

Mr. Hickman was married October 1, 1883, in Cuba, Missouri, to Lena Parks,
who was born near that city on November 2, 1863. She is a daughter of
David and Elizabeth (Farrar) Parks. The father was born in Tennessee, in
1828, and died in Cuba, Missouri, in 1897. The mother was, born in this
state in 1837 and is still living in the town of Cuba. These parents were
married in Crawford county, Missouri. Mr. Parks devoted his active life
principally to merchandising, also to the hotel business in Cuba. He was a
well known and influential citizen of Crawford county. His family
consisted of ten children, all now deceased but three. Mrs. Hickman grew
to womanhood in Crawford county, and received a common school education
there.

Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hickman, named as follows:
Maybelle, born August 14, 1884, is living at home; Harry P., born May 18,
1887, lives in St. Louis; Lillian M., born November 16, 1889, died October
4, 1895; David A., born January 7, 1892; Karl R., born April 29, 1897;
Relfe V., born November 22, 1899.

Politically, Mr. Hickman was a Republican, and he was a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Mr. Hickman met a tragic death on June 29, 1914, regarding which we quote
the following from the Springfield Leader in its issue of that date:

"Isaac M. Hickman, of 533 East Harrison street, a former president of the
Missouri Merchants Association and a veteran groceryman of this city, was
fatally injured at 7:30 o'clock this morning when he was struck by Frisco
passenger train No. 15 near Benton and Phelps avenues. Mr. Hickman lived
only ten minutes after being struck. The victim of the accident was
fifty-three years old and was employed as a salesman for the Detroit
Automatic Scales Company, which firm maintains offices at 516 College
street.

The accident occurred while Mr. Hickman was walking west on the 'Y,' the
sharp curve in the Frisco tracks which connects the Mill street
right-of-way with the one on Phelps avenue. The spot where Mr. Hickman was
struck is about ten feet northeast of the bridge which spans the Jordan
creek. The approaching train was hidden by the warehouse of the S. G.
McCracken Wholesale Flour Company, at Benton and Phelps avenues. J. L.
Woods, of 636 North Main street, the only eye witness to the tragedy says
that apparently Mr. Hickman made no effort to escape death under the
wheels of the train as so far as can be determined, the pedestrian was not
aware of his danger until too late to act. The body was catapulted through
the air for a distance of twenty feet, the unconscious form alighting in
the middle of the tracks. The right foot fell across the south rail and it
was severed. The train passed over the body without inflicting other
injuries. Mr. Hickman never regained consciousness. The injuries which
caused death were a dislocation of the spine in two places and three deep
wounds in the skull. The left foot was badly crushed. Large contusions
about the body evidence the fact that many of the vital organs were
dislodged by the impact of the collision.

Justice of the Peace, R. H. Trevathan, acting coroner in the absence of
Coroner Will H. Lohmeyer, was notified and he was taken to the scene,
where he begin an investigation of the accident. He ordered an inquest at
10 o'clock this morning in his office on College street. His list of
witnesses included J. L. Woods, 636 North Main street, and S. G.
McCracken, 621 North Campbell street, both of whom arrived upon the scene
immediately afterward. The coroner's jury is composed of J. S. McConnell,
B. F. Snider, J. O. Odom, R. C. Schroeder, W. H. Dignum and W. H.
Scarbrough. The body was removed to the morgue of the Lohmeyer undertaking
establishment at 305 West Walnut street, where it is being prepared for
burial. The body will be shipped to Cuba, Missouri, tomorrow morning,
where interment will be made beside a deceased child.

Mr. Hickman is survived by the widow, four sons and one daughter, Harry
Hickman, St. Louis, and Miss Maybelle, Karl, Relfe and David, all of whom
reside at the family residence on East Harrison street.

No member of the train crew was aware of the fact that a man had been
struck until after the incoming train had arrived at the Mill street
pasenger station, that a passenger had informed him dead man was lying
beside the track at Benton and Phelps avenues. The officer rushed to the
spot and assisted in caring for the remains. Engineer George T. McKenna,
1613 Sherman street, was unaware of the accident when the train left the
station to continue the journey to Monett. Engineer McKenna runs from
Monett to Newburg.

The spot where Mr. Hickman was hit is especially dangerous, owing to the
fact that the tracks to the east are obstructed by the building formerly
occupied by the R. C. Stone Milling Company. According to F. E. Townley of
1345 Texas avenue, district manager of the corporation which Mr. Hickman
represented, his salesman was returning from a business trip when he was
struck by the train. Mr. Townley had been informed by Mr. Hickman on last
Friday that he would visit a new grocery store in the vicinity of the
United Iron Works on Monday morning, with a view to selling a set of
scales.

Mr. Hickman was born August 9, 1860, in Miller county, Missouri, where he
gained his early education. His parents conducted a country store and in
his association with his father he became familiar with the business. He
came to Springfield about twenty years ago. At one time Mr. Hickman
conducted a grocery store at West Walnut and Evans streets. Later he
opened a similar business at North Campbell and Olive streets. He was
president of the Missouri Retail Merchants Association in the year 1906.
He had been in the employ of the Detroit Automatic Scales Company for the
last year."




JAMES N. HILDERBRAND. The late James N. Hilderbrand was for many years one
of the successful and scientific farmers of Greene county and a citizen
against whom no word of blame was ever uttered by his neighbors, so far as
the biographer can learn. He was a man given to right thinking and was a
man who believed in helping those with whom he came into contact on the
highway of life and, therefore, he had a good conscience and a host of
friends. He was public-spirited and was known as a good citizen in every
respect.

Mr. Hilderbrand was born in Jefferson county, Missouri, in 1852. He was a
son of Peter and Martha (Peppers) Hilderbrand. The father was reared in
Jefferson county, and there received a common school education. He worked
on a farm when a boy and devoted his active life to agricultural pursuits,
becoming owner of an extensive landed estate and considerable wealth. He
moved to Dallas county, this state, where his death occurred on his farm
there a number of years ago. He was a prominent man and influential in
public affairs in both Jefferson and Dallas counties. Politically, he was
a Republican. After the death of her husband, the mother of our subject
moved to Greene county and died here. She was a member of the Holiness
church.

James N. Hilderbrand was a boy when he accompanied his parents to Dallas
county, and there grew to manhood on the home farm where he worked hard
when a boy, and he received a limited education in the common schools of
that county. When twenty-one years of age he came to Greene county and
bought forty acres, later added one hundred and twenty acres. He cleared
most of his land, developed a fine farm by hard work and good management
and made all the modern improvements necessary, including a comfortable
home and several large barns. He took a delight in keeping his place in as
good condition in every way as any of his neighbors. In connection with
general farming he devoted considerable attention to raising live stock,
mostly mules, and was regarded as one of the most successful stockmen in
Washington township.

Mr. Hilderbrand married May 4, 1882, Mary M. Kelley, who was born in
Greene county, January 11, 1864. She is a daughter of Hugh and Martha
(Rhoden) Kelley. The father was born in Tennessee, and there he spent his
childhood, being about sixteen years of age when he immigrated with his
parents to Missouri, locating in Greene county. He was reared on a farm
and educated in the early-day schools. He worked for his father until
reaching maturity and finally bought a farm of his own, consisting of one
hundred and sixty acres, which he brought up to a fine state of
improvement and cultivation. In his earlier years he taught school for
awhile in Missouri. His death occurred on his farm about the year 1896; He
was married in this county. His wife was a native of Indiana, and she was
a child when she accompanied her parents to Missouri, the family locating
on a farm, where, she grew to womanhood, and she was educated in the
common schools. She was a hard-worker, and spun and wove the cloth with
which to make clothing for her family. She was a member of the
Presbyterian church. Her death, occurred on the old home place in 1890,
prior to the death of her husband.

Mrs. Hilderbrand grew to womanhood on the home farm and she received a
good public school education. She is a woman of tact and business ability
and with her boys, is successfully operating the home farm.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hilderbrand, namely: Charles,
born February 14, 1883, died in infancy; Mabel, born February 19, 1885,
died July 5, 1906, married Conrad Malonee; Mrs. Annie Bowers, born
February 2, 1888, has one child, Harold; she lives in Greene county;
Arlie, born July 31, 1898, lives at home; Fred, born September 30, 1900,
is also at home; Mrs. Viva Humble, born February 2, 1891, lives in Greene
county, and has one child, Arlina.

Politically, Mr. Hilderbrand was a Democrat and fraternally, he belonged
to the Loyal Order of Moose. His death occurred September 3, 1911, at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, where he had gone on account of declining health. He is
remembered as a good neighbor, kind husband and indulgent father, a man
who stood high in his community.




J. H. HINERMAN. The success which J. H. Hinerman, well known contractor of
Springfield, has achieved in a varied career, has been well deserved.
Faithfulness to duty and a strict adherence to a fixed purpose, which
always do more to advance a man's interests than wealth or advantageous
circumstances, have been dominating factors in his life, which has been
replete with honor and success worthily attained, and he has become an
important factor in the business world of his adopted city and stands in
the foremost rank of those in his vocation in this section of the state.

Mr. Hinerman was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1869. He is
a son of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Sloniker) Hinerman, both natives of
Pennsylvania, the father born in 1822 and the mother in 1825. They grew to
maturity in the old Keystone state and there attended the schools of the
early days, receiving limited educations. There they established their
home and were well known in their vicinity. The father and mother are
still living at the advanced age of ninety-three and ninety years,
respectively. Lindsey Hinerman devoted his active life to general farming
pursuits. His family consisted of eight children, all still living but
one, namely: M. S., Martha, David, Mary, Sarah, Emma is deceased, T. H.,
of this sketch, and Elsworth.

J. H. Hinerman grew to manhood in his native state and there attended the
public schools, later took a business course in Delaware, Ohio. He began
his career by engaging in the furniture and undertaking business in
Cameron, West Virginia, and in 1891 he came to Springfield, Missouri, and
went to work in the construction department of the Iron Mountain railroad,
remaining in this service twelve years, during which he not only gave the
road eminent satisfaction in every respect, but also mastered the various
phases of this line of endeavor. Upon severing his connection with the
road he went into the general contracting business for himself in
Springfield, and has continued the same to the present time, having been
successful from the start. He does general contracting and construction
work promptly and in an honest and modern manner that never fails to give
general satisfaction. He had the contract for erecting the Southwest
Hospital in this city and has built many beautiful residences and
substantial buildings of various kinds, all of which will long remain a
credit to him,--monuments to his skill as a builder. Of recent years he
has made a specialty of good residences and modern bungalows, and at this
writing he is completing a handsome and modernly appointed home for
himself on Pickwick Place, which would be known to the building trades as
a "Swiss shelay" type of architecture.

Mr. Hinerman was married on April 6, 1889, in Bigtree, Pennsylvania, to
Cassie L. Howard, who was born in Virginia. She is a daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Darr) Howard, natives of Virginia, where they grew up, were
educated and married and established the permanent home of the family, but
eventually removed to Pennsylvania, locating at Bigtree. During the Civil
war Mr. Howard served in the Union army in an Ohio regiment, a full term
of enlistment, and participated in many engagements of importance. He was
mustered out of service in 1864. His death occurred in Springfield in
1908, having reached the advanced age of eighty-four years.

Mrs. Hinerman was born in Cameron, West Virginia, on October 8, 1873, and
grew to womanhood at Cameron and was educated in the public schools there
and was married. The union of our subject and wife has been without issue.

Politically, Mr. Hinerman is a Republican. Fraternally, he is a member of
the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, and the Improved Order of Red
Men. He belongs to the Springfield Club and to the South Street Christian
church. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association.




JOHN J. HOBBS. Illustrative of the evidence that the bitterness and
malevolence resulting from the war between the states is rapidly passing
away are the frequent reunions between the veterans of the North and the
South, when they clasp hands across what was once a "bloody chasm" but is
now filled and flower grown; and the frequent return of battle flags, torn
from dying hands on the fields of conflict are a further evidence of a
finer feeling and a more sincere regard each for the other. The children
of the blue and the gray have intermarried and their sires sit together
amid the falling shadows of life's evening, respecting each other yet the
more because they have tried and learned to honor the dauntless spirit,
each of the other, on the field of deadly ,strife.

One of the Civil war veterans of Greene county is John J. Hobbs, who after
a successful career as general farmer, is living retired at Walnut Grove,
being now past his three-score and ten. He has spent his long life in this
section of the Ozarks, which he has seen grow from a country of wild-woods
to a thriving farming community. He was born in Dade county, Missouri,
which adjoins this county, on March 11, 1843. He is a son of Silas and
Polly Ann (Fanning) Hobbs, each representing two of the early families of
Greene county. His parents were both natives of Tennessee, from which
state they came to this county about 1837 and settled on Grand Prairie,
north of Springfield, both having made the journey with their parents. The
paternal grandfather settled in Dade county, while the maternal
grandfather located in Greene county. After their marriage the parents of
our subject engaged in farming in Dade county. The father died in 1887,
and the mother's death occurred in 1874. They were the parents of the
following children: James W., John J., of this sketch; Elizabeth, Jane,
William, Louisa, Rebecca, Vinson G., Oliver P., Mary Ann and Silas A.

John J. Hobbs was reared on the farm in Dade county and there attended the
common schools, and remained with his parents until July, 1861, when he
enlisted in Company D, Sixth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers, sometimes called
the Dade County Home Guards. It was not long until he had a chance to
ascertain what war really meant, for on the 10th of August of that year he
fought at Wilson's Creek, not very far from his home, but which proved to
be one of the two greatest and most important battles of the first year of
the war. Here he conducted himself like a veteran, despite his youth and
lack of military experience. He retreated with the Federal forces from
that field to Springfield and on to Rolla, Phelps county, and his next
engagement was at Wet Glaize, near Lebanon, Missouri. From there he was
with the troops that went to Linn Creek, Camden county, where they
captured Capt. Bill Roberts and his company. He was later in the battle at
Prairie Grove, also Newtonia, then went to southeastern Missouri and
fought an engagement with Gen. John S. Marmaduke's forces, driving them
front the state. He and a comrade, E. Woodrow, were sent with a dispatch
from Bloomfield to General Davidson's headquarters at Witsburg, Arkansas.
While on the way they were captured by the enemy and held as prisoners at
Little Rock for over two weeks, when they were exchanged, and soon
thereafter rejoined their own company. Mr. Hobbs was on guard duty at the
bridge of the Iron Mountain railroad for awhile. He took part in numerous
other engagements, and was mustered out of the service on July 16, 1864,
and honorably discharged, having been in the army three years. After
returning home, where he remained several months, he re-enlisted on March
15, 1865, in the Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry, in which he served eight
months, and was mustered out by general orders from the war department.

After the war Mr. Hobbs turned his attention to general farming in Dade
and Polk counties and this continued to claim his attention up to a few
years ago, when he retired from active life. He became owner of a good
farm and devoted much attention to stock raising. He located in Greene
county in 1912, and he is now living at Walnut Grove, where he has a
pleasant home.

Mr. Hobbs was married on February 15, 1866, to Martha E. Messick, a
daughter of Elihu and Sarah (Jeffries) Messick, each of whom came with
their families to Greene county in the early days and located near
Springfield when that place was a small frontier village.

Nine children have been born to our subject and wife, namely: Sarah L. is
the wife of J. C. Routh, who lives in Montrose, Colorado; Benjamin L.
lives in Hiattville, Kansas; John F. is farming in Polk county, Missouri
Thomas W. lives in Pompey Pillar, Montana; Mary M. became the wife of O.
E. Hargrave, who died in 1901, leaving three children; four of our
subject's children died in infancy.

Politically Mr. Hobbs is an Independent Republican. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He belongs to the Free Will Baptist church,
and his wife is a member of the Methodist church.




HARRY CLYDE HOLDEN. One of the young men of Springfield who has found it
to his advantage to remain in his native city rather than seek
opportunities in other places is Harry Clyde Holden, foreman of the mill
shop at the new Frisco shops in this city, where, by persistency and
prompt and faithful service, he has climbed up from the bottom of the
ladder.

Mr. Holden was born in Springfield, Missouri, March 23, 1871. He is a son
of George and Elizabeth (O'Bannon) Holden. His mother was born in
Charlestown West Virginia, in 1841, and her death occurred in Springfield,
1893. George Holden, the father, was born in England, near London, the
world's greatest city, in 1839, and his death occurred in Springfield,
Missouri, April 12, 1908. He spent his early life in his native land and
there received his education, emigrating to the United States when, a
young man and locating in Charlestown, West Virginia, where he was
married. He remained in the East until the close of the Civil war, when,
in the year 1865, he moved to this city, after spending some time in Union
City, Missouri. He participated in this war by serving in the Union army,
taking part in in many important battles, proving to be an excellent
soldier in every respect. He learned the carpenter's trade when a young
man, and this he followed the rest of his active life, being a very
skilled workman. Politically, he was a Republican. His family consisted of
six children, all of whom are still living, namely: Emily, George, Hannah,
Harry C. and Dwight.

Holden grew to manhood in his native city and received his education in
the local public schools. When a boy he went to work in the box care
department of the Frisco shops, being only sixteen years of age at that
time. After working in that department for some time he went to the
pattern shops in the old North Side shops of this road, where he remained
until 1892, when he went to St. Louis, where he secured employment in the
St. Louis Care and Wheel Company's works, in the pattern department.
Returning to Springfield in 1893, he-resumed work in the pattern
department at the old shops, where he remained about a year, then went to
Cincinnati, Ohio, remaining in that city until 1909, when he returned to
Springfield, at the opening of the new Frisco shops, where he has since
been employed as mill and cabinet foreman, the duties of which important
position he is discharging in an eminently satisfactory manner, having a
large number of men under him, whom he directs in such a manner as to get
the best possible results and at the same time retain their good will. He
understands most thoroughly every phase of the work in his department.

Mr. Holden was married July 2, 1901, to Anna Moeller, in Dayton, Ohio. She
was born in Cincinnati, that state, and is a daughter of August and Louisa
(Bradermyer) Moeller. To our subject and wife one child has been born,
Harry William Holden, whose birth occurred March 19, 1905.

Politically, Mr. Holden is a Republican. Fraternally, he belongs to the
Masonic blue lodge and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. He is a
member of the Baptist church.




HOLLAND DAIRY FARM. During the past few years it has been demonstrated
beyond a question of a doubt that the best paying dairy is the one that is
most sanitary and managed under scientific methods, although the expense
of proper equipment and maintenance may be large, in the end the outlay is
not regretted. Those who own dairies nowadays pay more attention to the
comfort of their stock than in former years. Barns are kept clean and
filled with light and air, are built with cement floors, windows for
ventilation, much attention paid to an adequate supply of fresh water and
high-grade food; in fact, there has been as much progress made in dairying
as in most other lines of industry during the past decade.

One of the most up-to-date, sanitary and successful dairies in Greene and
surrounding counties is the Holland Dairy, owned and operated by Charles
Holland, on his fine farm of four hundred and forty acres just west of
Springfield, and the fame of this model dairy is far-reaching. It is often
visited by people from other parts of Missouri and other states for the
purpose of getting ideas for the establishment of dairies or improving
those already established.

Here is to be seen a one-story concrete housing barn, thirty-six by one
hundred and ten feet, complete with "Star" equipment; three silos with a
capacity of five hundred tons. He keeps an average of fifty head of
high-grade Holstein cows, the best that the market affords, and his herd
is given the tuberculosis test twice a year. The cows are milked by
Sharpies milkers. The milk is never exposed to the air, going direct from
the machine -to the cooler, where the temperature is reduced from one
hundred and one degrees to forty-four degrees, and from there to the
bottling machine. All this machinery is thoroughly cleaned by steam and
hand. One hundred and fifty gallons of milk are produced daily in this
dairy. The tubular coolers are made of one and one-half inch copper tubes,
which are tinned on the inside as well as on the outside. The tubes are
made of sufficient gauge to withstand high pressure. Heavy tinned brass
strips fill up the spaces between the tubes. The cooler represents a
continuous surface on both sides, which facilitates the cleaning. Brass
plugs are provided so as to be able to clean the inside of the tubes and
free them from any sediment. All coolers are made with double waterway
connections. They are figured on a basis of twenty square feet of cooling
surface to each one thousand pounds of milk or cream cooled. A double end
milk bottle filler is used, quarts at one end; pints, half pints or
quarter pints at the other. It is installed in a regular bottling house,
where four hundred and fifty bottles are prepared daily for the trade and
sent to the Springfield market in attractive delivery wagons, especially
designed for the purpose. The most approved stanchions are to be seen in
the milking barn.

The Holland Dairy has been frequently praised by leading dairymen of the
country and much, written of in dairy publications.

Charles Holland, owner and manager of this dairy and surrounding farm, was
born on November 9, 1879, in Springfield, Missouri. He is a son of T. B.
and Bertonia (Hamilton) Holland, for a long lapse of years one of the
prominent families of this locality, and of whom extended mention is made
on other pages of this work.

Charles Holland grew to manhood in his native city, and after attending
the common schools, entered Drury College, where he spent three years,
later was a student for four years in the Webb School at Bellbuckle,
Tennessee, and was graduated from that institution in 1902. He then spent
a year in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, after which he
entered the employ of the Holland Banking Company in his native city, and
continued in the same until 1907, when he went into the live stock
business, importing Coach and Percheron horses from France. He continued
successfully in this business until January 1, 1914, when he sold out and
has discontinued this line of endeavor. In 1912, he began operating the
Holland Dairy Farms, and this is now claiming his chief attention and it
has been a most successful venture in every respect.

Mr. Holland was married April 18, 1900, to Louise Massey, a daughter of
Frank R. and Sallie (Jones) Massey, one of the best known and influential
families of Springfield, in which city Mrs. Holland was born on April 25,
1879, and here she grew to womanhood and was educated. She has long been
popular with the best clubs and social circles and is a lady of many
pleasing attributes.

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Holland has resulted in the birth of four
children, named as follows: Colley B., born on July 7, 1901; Charles, Jr.,
born in March, 1903; R. Massey, born on May 7, 1905; Richard H., born on
May 9, 1907. They are all attending school, and are lads of much promise.

Politically, Mr. Holland is a Democrat. He is a member of the Springfield
Club, and fraternally belongs to the Masonic order, in which he has
attained the thirty-second degree, and he also belongs to the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.




GENERAL COLLEY B. HOLLAND. No name in the annals of Springfield and of
Greene county, occupies a more enviable position than that of Colley B.
Holland; and no history of either city or county would be complete without
a sketch of his life and work.

Mr. Holland, like a large majority of the pioneers of this region, was a
native of Tennessee, being born in Robertson, county in that state on the
24th of August, 1816. While yet a mere lad he was left fatherless, and,
boy as he was, being the eldest of four children, found himself with the
responsibility of the support of his widowed mother, and the younger
children. Evidently the industry and business acumen that were to prove
his strong characteristics all through life, were even at that early age
strongly developed. For we find that not only was the family kept in
comfort, but that before he left home to seek his own fortune, he had
bought for his mother a home for her old age, and when he started in life
for himself she was left well provided for.

The educational advantages in Tennessee in those early times were of the
scantiest, and the young man owed but little to their aid. However, he was
gifted with an active and retentive mind, and few indeed of those who have
had a regular collegiate training could compete in their store of
practical information with this self-taught, and self-made man.

Early in life he had determined to learn some good trade, and having
chosen that of tailoring he applied himself to it with earnestness until
he had mastered it in all its details. With his occupation as his only
capital, he felt himself justified in establishing a home for himself, and
he was married to his boyhood's sweetheart, Miss Emeline H. Bigbee,
daughter of a neighbor in his Tennessee home, and with whom he had been
acquainted from their mutual childhood. At the age of twenty-five, in the
year 1841, with his mother provided for, and seeking a wider field for his
own efforts, Mr. Holland emigrated from Tennessee to southwest Missouri.

With his young wife, and his brother, John L. Holland, he reached
Springfield, and at once, with his brother as a partner, opened a tailor
shop. It is interesting to look back for a moment to the little frontier
town to which the young man had come, and in the future of which he was to
have so important a part. It was then but little over ten years since the
Indians had been sent out of the region, and it was less than three years
since the town had been incorporated. The record says that when thus made
into an incorporation Springfield had "About two hundred and fifty
people." The place was then, as it has always been, the commercial center
of a vast region, but in 1841 that region was but thinly populated, and it
is probable that the entire trade of the little town did not exceed fifty
thousand dollars per annum. In the census of 1840 Greene county is
credited with a population of five thousand three hundred and seventy-two,
and this small number, it must be remembered, was scattered over an area
out of which more than a score of counties were afterward carved.

There is little to tell of Mr. Holland's life for the next few years.
Certain it is that he was busy and successful, for the records in the
office of the recorder of deeds for Greene county, show that from time to
time he was putting his earnings into Springfield realty, a habit which
was laying strong, wide and deep the foundations of the success the future
was to bring him. General Holland was indeed gifted with that faculty,
possessed by few men, and not to be acquired, but is born in, its
possessor, of knowing at a glance the right piece of real estate in which
to invest. It would be wholly safe to wager that Colley B. Holland never
bought a piece of realty on which he lost money.

With all his other interests we find that he found time for doing his part
in public matters. In 1845 the Springfield branch of the Missouri State
Bank was established, and Mr. Holland was one of the directors. Here he
soon showed those qualifications of business integrity and sagacity that
were to lead him in later years, to such a high place in the banking
business. In 1852 he was appointed postmaster at Springfield, but resigned
at the end of a year. Having felt the deprivation of a school training
himself, he was always glad to lend a hand to the promotion of educational
advantages for others. Thus we find that he was one of the incorporators,
in 1859, of the Springfield Male Academy, and was a liberal contributor
toward its establishment, and a member of the building committee. This
school at once took a front rank in the Southwest, but was destined to but
a short life, for it died never to be resurrected, when the Civil war
broke out.

In the spring of 1861 the storm of war between the states struck the land,
and Springfield, holding a position that was strategic in war as it was in
commerce, became at once a center of strife. During the four bloody years
that were to follow Colley B. Holland was to show a new and surprising
side of his strong character. Looking over his previous life one would
hardly consider it as the training school for a soldier. Those who had
known the man all his life would hardly have selected him as the
successful leader in desperate battle; but this man proved himself both.

Quiet, unobtrusive, attending strictly to his own affairs, there was.
nevertheless a strain of iron in his blood; a stalwart determination to
stand for those, things which he believed to be right, a calm personal
courage that never failed him, even when men were falling on every side,
and when the battle seemed lost to all but himself. He, had as a young
man, served as-a non-commissioned officer in the Seminole war in the
swamps of Florida, in 1836-37, and the experience then gained proved
invaluable to him in the great conflict now pending. From the first
whisper of secession Mr. Holland had openly declared himself an
uncompromising Union man; and when Sumter was fired upon, and Lincoln
issued his call for seventy-five thousand men, he was one of the first to
volunteer.

In gathering data for this sketch the writer naturally turned to a former
history of Greene county published in 1883, and which contains much
valuable information compiled from county and other records. To his
surprise he found that the name of Colley B. Holland is not to be found in
the book! Such an omission can only have been intentional on the part of
those responsible for the publication, and tends to lessen the confidence
of future writers, in the correctness of the whole work.

In this connection it is recalled that the late Dr. E. T. Robberson,
himself a resident of Springfield before, during, and after the war, once
said to me: "General Holland has never received half the credit due him
for his war record. Especially for the part he played in the defense of
Springfield at the time of the Marmaduke raid." Doctor Robberson was the
very soul of probity and honor and such words from him carry weight with
all who knew him in life.

In this short sketch the only desire of the writer is to "Give honor to
whom honor is due," and that the story of the part General Holland acted
in those stormy years may receive truthful and permanent record. In that
sterling and authoritative work, "The Encyclopedia of Missouri History,"
printed in 1901, is an outline sketch of General Holland's life, and from
it and local sources have been drawn the statements herein made, of his
part in the Civil war.

The work above named states that Mr. Holland was made captain of Company
D, in the famous Phelps Regiment, organized in the summer of 1861. Whether
General Holland took part in the battle of Wilson's Creek or not, we are
unable to state, but he was in the great engagement at Pea Ridge,
Arkansas, the heaviest battle west of the Mississippi during the entire
war.

General Holland was promoted to the position of lieutenant colonel of the
reorganized Phelps Regiment, and in the fall of 1862 he aided in
recruiting the Seventy-second Regiment, of Missouri State Militia, and was
commissioned colonel of that organization, his commission bearing date of
September 9, 1862. In about six weeks from that date he received a
commission from Governor Gamble, as brigadier general of Missouri Militia,
bearing date of October 29, 1862.

After this he made his headquarters at Springfield, and held the
responsible office until the end of the war. His district included all of
southwest Missouri, and all the militia in that region were under his
command.

It was while acting in this capacity that General Holland was called upon
to take part in the defense of Springfield against the attack of a
Confederate force under Gen. John S. Marmaduke, on the 8th day of January,
1863. The forces defending the town were officially stated to number one
thousand five hundred and sixty-six men, while the Confederates were said
to number "about two thousand."

It is not the province of this sketch to describe the battle of
Springfield, except so far as to give the part taken by General Holland in
that fight. In the Missouri history mentioned above, we are told: "He
acquitted himself as a true soldier, and at critical times restored
confidence when the fight was well nigh hopeless." Surely no higher
tribute need be asked than those words. The same authority continues:
"Particularly was this the case when about three o'clock in the afternoon
Gen. E. B. Brown (ranking officer, and in chief command) was wounded, and
he (Holland) became the commander."

So the battle was fought and won, and Springfield with its vast stores for
the Federal army was saved to the Union. And to no one man was the result
more attributable than to Colley B. Holland. He was never the man to sound
his own praises, and he had no publicity bureau, then or since, to publish
abroad his fame, thus it is only simple fairness that at this late day,
more than half a century after the event justice be done the quiet,
efficient man who commanded the Missouri Militia on that fateful day.

At last the war was ended, and to General Holland it ended at once and
forever. He was not the man to exult over a defeated and despairing foe.
Rather was it now his part to help in building up the waste places, to
bind up the wounds left by the conflict, and to give his potent aid to
rehabilitate the little city that was his home, and which he had so well
defended.

He entered actively into the financial and manufacturing interests of this
place. He was one of the men who organized the Springfield Cotton Mills,
and he served as president of that enterprise for several years. In 1875
he, with his two sons, T. B. and W. C. Holland, established the Holland
Banking Company, an institution which was to prove the greatest of all his
successful ventures. In the panic of 1893 six out of the ten banks of
Springfield failed, and meanwhile the deposits of the Holland Banking
Company more than doubled. Comment is needless.

And so, known and honored of all men, Colley B. Holland drew near the end
of his long and useful life. He had helped to organize the First
Cumberland Presbyterian church of Springfield, and had served as its
stated clerk for nearly forty years; he had reached a helping hand to
struggling educational institutions; he had served his country at the risk
of his own life upon the battlefield. He had "acted well his part," and on
the fifth day of May, 1901, when nearly eighty-five years of age, "an old
man and full of years," he closed his eyes upon earthly scenes, to open
them upon a fairer world.




T. BLONDVILLE HOLLAND. True biography has a more noble purpose than mere
fulsome eulogy. The historic spirit, faithful to the record; the
discerning judgment, unmoved by prejudice and uncolored by enthusiasm, are
as essential in giving the life of the individual as in writing the
history of a people. Indeed, the ingenuousness of the former picture is
even more vital, because the individual is the national unit, and if the
unit be justly estimated the complex organism will become correspondingly
intelligible. The world today is what the leading men of the past
generation have made it, and this rule must ever hold good. From the past
comes the legacy of the present. Art, science, statesmanship and
government are accumulations. They constitute an inheritance upon which
the present generation have entered, and the advantages secured from so
vast a bequeathment depend entirely upon the fidelity with which is
conducted the study of the lives of the principal actors who have
transmitted the legacy. This is especially true of those whose influence
has passed beyond the confines of locality and permeated the larger life
of the state. To such a careful study are the life, character and service
of the late T. Blondville Holland pre-eminently entitled, not only on the
part of the student of biography, but also of every citizen who, guided by
example, would in the present build wisely for the future. In studying a
clean-cut, sane, distinct character like that of the subject,
interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation. There is
small use for indirection or puzzling. His character is the positive
expression of a strong nature. As has been said of him, "he was
distinctively one of the notable man of his day and generation, and as
such is entitled to a conspicuous place in the annals of his city, county
and state." Mr. Holland was a member of one of the oldest, best-known and
most influential families of Greene county, Missouri, and in his lifetime
had engaged widely in various business pursuits, and as head of the great
banking company which has long borne his name, he wielded a potent
influence in financial circles of the Southwest. Despite the fact that his
father was a wealthy man, he began early to make his own way. He traveled
by horse long distance in his youth in live stock deals and by exceptional
ability in his efforts became wealthy in his own right. His name had
become a household synonym of conservativeness, as trustworthy as a gold
bond.

Mr. Holland was a son of Gen. C. B. and Emiline H. (Bigbee) Holland, the
latter a daughter of Capt. John S. Bigbee. T. Blondville Holland born in
Robertson county, Tennessee, January 1, 1836. .He immigrated Springfield,
Missouri, with his, parents in the spring of 1841, and here the rest of
his life. The family made the tedious journey from across Tennessee plains
and the rugged range of -the Ozark mountains. At time Springfield had only
a few small log huts, one of which the father of our subject rented. As no
furniture could be bought, the elder Holland made his own furniture out of
walnut rails from a fence nearby which he purchased from John P. Campbell,
who donated the original townsite where now stands. With General Holland
and family also came John L. Holland, his brother, who still lives in
Springfield at the advanced age of ninety-five years. He and the General
were among the first merchants in this city. The two brothers married
sisters. Lee Holland, a. son of J. L. Holland, was a double cousin to T.
B. Holland.

In the beginning of the Civil war our subject enlisted in the Union Army
under his father, Gen. C. B. Holland, and served with distinction
throughout the war. He was at one time offered and refused an officer's
commission. He took much pride in the military history of his ancestors
and was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. His father being
a self-made man, he believed in boys assuming responsibilities in early
life and at the age of eighteen years, T. B. Holland started in a small
mercantile business for himself at a point which at that time was in Taney
now near the town of Rome, Douglas county, Missouri. Although the business
proved successful, after two years he disposed of same and returned to
Springfield where he later entered into a partnership business with his
father under the firm name of C. B.- Holland & Son, which proved
successful. Both dealt in live stock also, and later added the banking
business. The partnership was continued until the death of the father in
1901. During the early partnership before the war our subject several
times drove horses and-mules overland clear through from Springfield to
New Orleans. After the war a general mercantile business was conducted in
Springfield by C. B. Holland & Son which was continued until 1870. In the
year 1875 the banking business was established as a private bank, which
was likewise conducted under the firm name of C. B. Holland & Son and
continued until 1896, when it was incorporated as the Holland Banking
Company and has been conducted under that name ever since. Our subject was
associated with the bank until his death and was president of the same the
latter years of his life. Mr. Holland was a strong character of sterling
worth whose integrity and honor was his religion, and it was largely these
characteristics injected into the business that won the Holland Banking
Company the high standing in the community which it enjoys today. Mr.
Holland was the first president of the Springfield Clearing House
Association.

The domestic life of T. B. Holland began in 186o when he was united in
marriage with Matilda Dade, a young lady of St. Louis and a sister to the
late Dabne C. Dade,. of Springfield, and a daughter of Judge John Dade.
She died in 1875. This union resulted in the birth of five children two of
whom died in infancy, and two sons, T. D. and W. C., died after reaching
manhood. The eldest daughter, Cora B., died in 1901. She was the wife of
William B. Sanford, now president of the Holland Banking Company. To Mr.
and Mrs. Sanford one child was born, Grady H. Sanford. T. B. Holland was
remarried in 1877 to Miss B. A. Hamilton, who survives him, with four
children, all living and married; they are: Charles proprietor of the
Holland Stock and Dairy Farm near Springfield; Mrs. Will Darby, who
resides with her mother in Springfield; Mrs. Manney Simmons, and Mrs.
Clifford Jarrett.

In 1911 Mr. Holland sold a controlling interest of stock of the Holland
Banking Company to William B. Sanford.

Mr. Holland was prominently identified with the making of Springfield,
doing as much as any other man for the material upbuilding of the city in
which he always had implicit faith and took so great a delight. He was a
large contributor to all public enterprises and charities but avoided
publicity therewith. He was a member of the first board of trustees of
Drury College and remained a close friend of this institution throughout
his life, especially through its early struggles until it was well on the
road to success. In the big fire that visited the heart of the business
district of Springfield in the spring of 1913, Mr. Holland was the
heaviest property loser, he having accumulated considerable property in
this section of the city.

After a period of ill health T. Blondville Holland was summoned to close
his earthly career at the Holland home on St. Louis street, Springfield,
on July 30, 1913, in his seventy-eighth year, after a long, useful,
successful and honorable life, fraught with much good to his county, city,
himself, family and the world, and the young man of today might well
emulate his example, not only in a business way but in all walks of life,
for his career presents to the contemplative mind many lessons of value.




JAMES D. HOOD. Although many believe to the contrary, luck plays a very
unimportant part in the average man's career. We generally like to excuse
our own shortcomings and account for the success of other men on the
grounds of luck. A fertilized soil, rotation of crops, well fenced land,
intelligently tilled fields, well kept machinery, painted houses and
convenient outbuildings and blooded live stock are not the result of luck,
unless hard work persistently and intelligently directed can be
characterized as luck. One of the farmers of western Greene county who
evidently put greater stress on industry and vigilance than on the
vicissitudes of luck is James D. Hood, who has been content to spend his
life in his native locality which he has helped to develop into what it is
to today--a prosperous and desirable farming country.

Mr. Hood, was born in Greene county, Missouri, December 31, 1848. He is a
son of Duncan and Nancy (Blades) Hood. The father was a native of Germany,
where he spent his boyhood, finally emigrating to the United States, and
after spending some time in the state of Tennessee came on to Missouri and
located on a farm in Greene county, where he spent the rest of his life,
dying when a young man, at the age of twenty-eight years, in 1849, when
our subject was an infant.

James D. Hood grew to manhood on the farm in his native community and he
worked hard when a boy helping support the family. His education was
limited to the rural schools, which he attended a few months each winter
for a few years. He had always followed general farming and stock raising
pursuits and he has met with very gratifying results all along the line.
He was twenty-nine years of age when he purchased his first farm in Pond
Creek township. He has bought, occupied and sold a number of farms since,
and is now the owner of a valuable and well improved place consisting of
three hundred and fifty-nine acres, known as "The Sunrise Stock Farm," on
which he carries on general farming and stock raising on a large scale,
and is deserving of ranking with our best farmers in every respect. He
keeps an excellent grade of live stock, has a pleasant home and numerous
outbuildings for the proper housing of his stock, grains, grasses and
machinery.

Mr. Hood was married, October 24, 1872, to Mary E. Clack. She received a
common school education. She is a daughter of Robert Clack, a carpenter
and builder, who, When the war between the states began, enlisted in the
Confederate army and fought in the great battle of Wilson's Creek. He was
a native of Tennessee and married Racheal Bonham, who was born in Blount
county, East Tennessee, September 10, 1835. She grew up and was married in
her native state, and when twenty-one years of age, in 1857, came to
Missouri to make her future home. To Mr. and Mrs. Clack two daughters were
born, namely: Mary E., wife of our subject; and Tennessee, now deceased.

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hood, named as follows:
Maggie, born July 31, 1873, married Henry O'Bryant, who is in post office
service, and they have six children; Edward, born May 29, 1876, died in
February, 1878; Eva, died in infancy; Clyde, born March 16, 1883, is
farming near the home place, married May Hughes and they have two
children; Nora, born September 25, 1885, died in infancy; Knox, born
September 15, 1888, travels for the International Harvester Company. Mr.
and Mrs. Hood also reared Mary Elizabeth Hicklin, who is living with them
now. She was born in Lawrence county, May 7, 1882.

Politically, Mr. Hood is a Republican. Fraternally he is a member of the
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he attends the Methodist Episcopal
church.




SAMUEL A. HOOPER. Nearly eighty-nine years have dissolved in the mists of
the irrevocable past since Samuel A. Hooper, one of the oldest citizens in
Greene county, a well-known and venerable farmer of Clay township, first
saw the light of day. He has lived through one of the most remarkable, and
in many respects the most wonderful, epochs in the world's history. There
will never be another like it, for it embraced the period when the
strong-armed home seekers from the Eastern states invaded the great West
(he being among the number) and redeemed it from the wilds, bringing it up
through various stages to the present high state of civilization. It was
nearly sixty-four years ago that our subject took up his abode in this
locality, which he has helped develop and where he has seen wonderful
changes take place, of which he talks interestingly, for the pioneer days
were altogether different from those of the present; and, we agree with
him, that they were in some respect better than these advanced times. It
seems at least that people were then happier; they neither wanted nor
needed so much; they were more helpful, neighborly and less selfish.

Mr. Hooper was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, February 28, 1826.
He is a son of Samuel and Susan (Alford) Hooper. The father was born in
Virginia in 1769, and was reared and educated about eight miles from the
city of Richmond, and he spent most of his life in that locality. Finally
he moved to North Carolina, where our subject was born, and from there to
Tennessee, in 1833. After remaining in that state until 1851, he moved to
Missouri, and settled in Greene county, where our subject rented a farm on
which he and his father lived until the latter's death, in 1862. The
mother of our subject was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, where
she was reared and educated. She spent her declining years at the home of
our subject, dying at the advanced age of eighty-eight.

Samuel A. Hooper grew to manhood in Robertson county, Tennessee, and he
received such educational advantages as those early times afforded. He
made the overland trip from that state, with his parents, in 1851, in ox
wagons, locating in Greene county, Missouri, on one hundred and twenty
acres, most of which he cleared and put under cultivation, in Washington
township, and there engaged successfully in general farming until fourteen
years ago, when he sold out. For some time he has been living in Clay
township in retirement.

Mr. Hooper was married November 18, 1852, to Martha Jane Smith. She was
born in Washington township, Greene county, Missouri, August 29, 1837, and
was here reared on a farm and educated in the country schools She was a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Her death occurred in 1877.
After this event our subject went to live with one of his, children, and
at this writing makes his home with one of his sons. Before coming to
Missouri, he made a trip to Texas in 1847, returning to Tennessee the
following year. Since coming to Greene county he has made a trip to
California. He is one of five children, namely: Henry, who is far advanced
in years, lives in Texas; Pleasant, Allen and Dabner are all deceased;
Samuel A., our subject, is the youngest.

Thirteen children were born to Mr. Hooper and wife, namely: William lives
in Greene county; Milton lives on a farm in Clay township, and our subject
is living with him; Mrs. Mary Jane Kinser lives in this county; Thomas
makes his home in Springfield; Mrs. Deniza McDaniel, Robert, John and
David all live in Greene county; Donald is living with his father, our
subject; Albert lives on the adjoining farm; Mrs. Margaret Ann Snyder
lives in Kansas City; Abner Morris is deceased.

Politically Mr. Hooper is a Republican, and has always been loyal in the
support of the party. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church.




JOHN W. HOOVER. Many young men nowadays make a mistake by looking for
positions that do not require much physical exertion, seemingly forgetting
that there is much work to be done in the world which requires brawn as
well as brain. Hard work has never hurt very many people. It is wrong
living and wrong thinking that play the mischief, but some labor under the
old illusion that they can't "stand" certain kinds of work. John W.
Hoover, now living in honorable retirement in Springfield after a busy
life, is not of that type.

He preferred to earn his living by the "sweat of his brow," which Holy
Writ indicates is the most commendable way to earn it, and having been a
man of good habits, he has lived already past the Psalmist's three score
and ten.

Mr. Hoover was born on July 4, 1843, at Reading, Pennsylvania. He is a son
of David and Lydia (Trump) Hoover, both natives of Pennsylvania, where
they grew to maturity, received a limited education and were married and
spent their lives, both dying in that state, both dying many years ago.
The father was a stone contractor by profession and put in locks in
canals, which were numerous in his day. His family consisted of four
children, namely: Caroline, Laura and Henry, all deceased; John W., of
this sketch.

John W. Hoover grew to manhood in the old Keystone state, and he received
a limited education in the schools of Reading, Pennsylvania. After leaving
school he learned the boilermaker's trade, beginning as an apprentice in
Philadelphia, in 1861, and served four years. Leaving the City of
Brotherly Love on October 15, 1866, he started west, and stopped at
Indianapolis, Indiana, and worked at the Eagle Machine works there, as
boilermaker, and later for the Big Four railroad in their shops there, the
road then being known as the Bellefontaine railroad. After working there
three years he went to Peru, Indiana, where he secured a better position
with the Chicago, Indianapolis & Peru railroad, and worked there in their
shops twelve years. He was then offered a still better position at
Moberly, Missouri, to take charge of the boiler shops there of the Wabash
railroad, and he spent ten years there, then came to Springfield,
Missouri, where he had charge of the south side shops, the old Gulf shops,
later owned by the Frisco, from 1890 until 1911, then was transferred to
Memphis, Tennessee, to the Frisco's shops there, of which he remained in
charge until July, 1913, when he reached the age limit of employees of
this system, and was given a pension, and, although yet able to work, did
not seek further employment, returning to Springfield and retiring, and is
living quietly at his home at 1004 West Walnut street.

Mr. Hoover was married in Reading, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1862, to
Nancy Mast, who was born near that city on February 22, 1844. She is a
daughter of George and Mary (Smith) Mast. Mr. Mast was a native of
Germany, from which country he came to the United States when ten years of
age. The mother of our subject was born in Pennsylvania, of Quaker
parents.

Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, named as follows:
Henry J., born on May 2, 1864, died in 1866; J. W., born on August 3,
1866, received his education in Indiana and Columbia Universities, and is
now making his home in Fort Worth, Texas; David, born on March 16, 1869,
died when three months old; Caroline, born on July 11, 1872, was educated
in Indiana and in Moberly, Missouri, married Victor Winnburg, who is
division foreman of the Missouri Pacific shops in Sedalia, and they are
the parents of one child, a daughter, Selma, born on June 18, 1899;
Nellie, born on August 4, 1877, died on May 25, 1891; Harry, born on
August 26, 1882, married Martha Bohana, who is with the Griffen H. Deeves
Lumber Company, Railway Exchange, Chicago; Walter, born on May 5, 1891,
married Opal Smith, of Kansas City; they live in Chicago; he is a
traveling salesman.

Politically, Mr. Hoover is a Republican. He cast his second vote for
Abraham Lincoln for his second term as president. Religiously, he belongs
to the Presbyterian church. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic
Order, including the Blue Lodge, the Royal Arch Masons, the Commandery and
the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.




MERTON CLEANTHUS HOUSE. Although Merton Cleanthus House is a young man, at
the age when most boys are just getting started in life, he is holding a
responsible position, that of foreman of the O. K. Weld plant in the north
side Frisco shops, Springfield. This position was secured not through any
streak of luck or by the aid of influential friends but through his own
merit, because he was prepared and had the right ideas of what an employe
should do, namely: that he should strive to do high-grade, honest,
conscientious work promptly. Such a course, where there is good judgment
and average ability to begin with, always leads to gratifying results.

Mr. House hails from a section of the Union that has not sent many
citizens to Greene county, having been born on a farm in Steele county,
Minnesota, December 24, 1887. He is a son of Lorenzo Jackson House, a
native of the state of New York where his earlier years were spent,
finally removing to St. Paul, Minnesota, later to a farm near Meriden,
that state. Finally selling his farm there he came to Conway, Missouri,
where he continued farming five years, then engaged in the butcher
business for awhile. As a result of an accident while thus engaged which
incapacitated him for further physical work, he removed to Springfield in
1901 and worked for the Van Noy News Company until 1911 in which year his
health failed completely and he was bedfast until his death in December,
1913, at the age of fifty-eight years. Politically he was a Republican. He
belonged to the Woodmen of the World and the Methodist Episcopal church.

The mother of our subject was known in her maidenhood as Lizzie Ross. She
is now sixty-four years of age, and is living with her daughter Sadie at
Caney, Kansas.

To Lorenzo J. House and wife four children were born, namely: Merton C. of
this sketch; Sadie married S. A. Badgley, a painter by trade, of Caney,
Kansas; Annie B., married O. M. Martin, died in November, 1913; Raymond is
a barber in Springfield.

Merton C. House was reared on the farm where he worked when a boy, and he
received his education in the public schools of Conway, Missouri, but left
school when only fourteen years of age to begin life for himself. He came
to Springfield and went to work in the Eagle Pencil Factory, where he
remained two years, then learned the tailor's trade, working at the same
with a number of Springfield tailors for a period of eight years, and
became quite expert in this line, especially as presser and bushelman, but
owing to failing health was finally compelled to give up the work. His
next employment was in the tin department of the Frisco's north side
shops, under G. A. Holder; where he spent one year, then, on November 4,
1913, he was placed in charge of the O. K. Weld plant there, which
position he has since held to the satisfaction of his employers, being
regarded as one of the most efficient foremen this department has ever
had.

Mr. House was married on Easter Sunday, 1911, to Mamie A. Molen, a
daughter of John Molen, a farmer in Arkansas. Mrs. House grew up on the
farm and received a common school education. The union of our subject and
wife has been without issue.

Mr. House is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security, and he
belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South.




JEROME A. HOUSTON. It was fifty years ago that Jerome A. Houston, foreman
of the air department at the reclamation plant of the Frisco's South Side
shops, in Springfield, began his career as machinist, and he has been
active in railroad service ever since, having held many positions of
responsibility with a number of different companies. His long and close
devotion to one line of endeavor has made him an expert to be envied by
the young machinist apprentice, but his advice to all such would doubtless
be that there is no royal road to the goal of those with ambitions to
become an expert in his line. It can only be won by earnest, hard,
conscientious and long continued work.

Mr. Houston was born in Loudonville, Ashland county, Ohio, January 20,
1845. He is a son of James E. and Ann (Prutzman) Houston, the latter
having died in 1865 at the age of forty-eight years. The father was born
near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood and attended
school. When a young man he started out as a cabinet maker in Lancaster,
later took up the railroad business at Lancaster, Ohio, with the
Cincinnati, Wellington & Zanesville railroad as foreman of the paint shop,
which position he held ten or twelve years, then went to Logan, Ohio, and
formed a stock company known as the Logan Cabinet Manufacturing Company
for the manufacture of cabinets, and his death occurred in that city at
the age of sixty-six years. As a Republican, he took a lively interest in
political affairs and was elected Mayor of Lancaster, Ohio, two terms. He
belonged to the Masonic order, including the Royal Arch and all chapters.
He was a member of the Lutheran church. His family consisted of the
following named children: Jerome A., of this sketch, is the eldest; Sarah
is deceased; Margaret, widow of Alonzo Belt, deceased, now lives at
Winnipeg, Canada; George, deceased, was a locomotive engineer on the
Frisco Lines, and met an accidental death; Ellen, who is married and lives
at Galesburg, Illinois; Lelia married Homer Wright, who is an ex-judge and
is now representative from Logan county in the Ohio legislature; Mrs. Mary
Johnson lives in Danville, Illinois, where her husband is engaged in the
coal business; Hattie, who has remained unmarried, lives at Columbus,
Ohio; Ida and Frank are both deceased.

Jerome A. Houston attended the public schools in his native state until he
was fifteen years of age, when he left school and began learning the
machinist's trade in the shops of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville
railroad at Lancaster, Ohio, and there completed his apprenticeship. From
there he went to Vincennes, Indiana, as machinist for the old Ohio &
Mississippi railroad (now the Baltimore & Ohio). Remaining there eighteen
months, he went to Lancaster, Ohio, and worked six months for his former
employers at his trade, then went to Columbus, Ohio, with the Piqua
railroad, known as The Columbus, Cleveland & Indiana Central railroad, and
worked there as machinist for three years; then came to St. Charles
Missouri, as machinist for the North Missouri railroad with which he
remained for eighteen months; then returned to Columbus and continued his
trade with his former employers there, but in time returned to Missouri
and worked at the town of Pacific for the South Pacific Railroad Company
from 1869 until 1871, in which year he came to Springfield as machinist
for the old Atlantic-Pacific railroad, now the Frisco, and after working
at his usual trade for six months, he was transferred to St. James,
Missouri, as roundhouse foreman, which position he held two years; then
worked at Dixon, this state, as roundhouse foreman; then held the same
position at Newburg two years, after which he came back to Springfield and
began working as machinist in the North Side shops. A few months later he
was promoted to erecting foreman in this department, which position he
held twelve or fifteen years, then was transferred to Sapulpa, Indian
Territory, as master mechanic on the Frisco's Red River & Western
division, and was there four or five years, when he was sent to Hugo,
Oklahoma, as general foreman, then was ordered back to Springfield as
foreman of the air department of the reclamation plant, South Side shops,
which position he has held since 1912. He has twenty-two men under his
direction. He has given honest and high grade service in all the above
named positions and has been regarded very highly by all the roads for
which he has worked, both as to his skill as a machinist and a man of
executive ability and as a trustworthy gentleman.

Mr. Houston was married in 1872 to Julia Hufschmidt, a native of Pacific,
Missouri, and a daughter of Frederick and Julia Hufschmidt, of Pacific,
Missouri, and to this union one child was born, Archie. Mrs. Hous ton died
in 1876, and our subject later married Martha Harris, a native of Dixon,
Missouri, and a daughter of William Harris and wife. To this union six
children were born, named as following: Mary married George Bailey,
superintendent of the Western division of the Frisco; George is with the
Long Belt Lumber Company at Cleveland, Ohio; Frank died when twenty years
of age; Earl is with the Long Belt Lumber Company in Louisiana; Homer
lives in St. Louis; Helen also lives in that city; the last two children
are twins.

Mr. Houston resides on Washington avenue, Springfield, but his family is
making their home at Newburg, Missouri. Politically, he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Lutheran church. Fraternally, he belongs to the
Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, and the Ancient Order of United
Workmen.




HARVEY W. HOWARD. Although Americans do not take nearly so much, interest
in their family trees as do the Europeans or better classes of Orientals,
yet it should be a matter of pride with us, who like the subject of this
sketch, is able to refer to a long line of honorable progenitors-men and
women who have left behind them records of which their descendants may not
be ashamed but proud. Records of this fine old family may be traced back
to William the Conqueror of England, to the year 1066, and their record in
America goes back to our first settlers, when the original of this name
landed either in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, it is believed in the year
1628, not so very long after the memorable arrival of the Mayflower.

Harvey W. Howard, pit foreman in the new shops of the Frisco at
Springfield, a direct descendant of this old family, was born in Peabody,
Kansas, September 27, 1877. He is a son of Albert S. and Charlotte E.
(Trimble) Howard, the mother now a resident of the state of Idaho, being
at this writing seventy-six years of age. The father was born in
Wisconsin, from which state he came to Kansas in an early day. In his
earlier life he followed the trade of millwright, later devoting his
attention to carpentering and contracting, and although he is now
seventy-seven years of age he is still active. He makes his home at Boise,
Idaho. Politically, he is a Republican, and he is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. His family consisted of four children; namely:
Clinton, Who was killed some years ago in a railroad accident; Samuel, who
is a brass-maker, lives in Denver, Colorado: Hattie married Rev. P. B.
Knepp, minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now stationed at
Axtell, Kansas; and Harvey W. of this sketch.

Mr. Howard of this review received his education in the common schools at
Council Grove, Kansas, but left school when sixteen years of age, and
began learning the machinist's trade in that town, working under his
father in a contract shop; after serving his apprenticeship he worked for
ten years at his trade in Osawatomie, Kansas, then worked there in the
Missouri Pacific shops at his trade. For two years he worked in Colorado
City as machinist for the Hassell Iron Company. His next position was with
the Colorado Midland railroad, continuing his trade, part of the time in
Colorado City, then went to La Junta, Colorado, for the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, working in their shops there until in 1903, when he
came to Springfield, Missouri, and took a position in the south side
Frisco shops, working as machinist a year, then went to Leadville,
Colorado, and was division foreman for the Colorado Midland a year, after
which he went back to the Hassell Iron Works at Colorado City for five
months, then came back to the south side shops in Springfield, and after
working here as machinist for three months he was promoted to the position
of erecting foreman, which he held over three years, then went to the new
shops in 1911, working as machinist for six months, then was promoted to
the position which he now holds, that of pit foreman in the erecting
department. He has about twenty hands under his direction and is giving
eminent satisfaction in this important position. He is regarded as one of
the most expert machinists the Frisco has ever employed from a Western
road.

Mr. Howard was married on March 15, 1899, to Hattie Stickney, a daughter
of John and Jane (Helm) Stickney, of Springfield, and to this union one
child has, been born, Helen Charlotte Howard, born January 15, 1905. John
Stickney, father of Mrs. Howard, served in the Union Army. The maternal
grandparents of our subject's wife were born in Germany.

Politically, Mr. Howard is a Republican. He belongs to the Methodist
Episcopal church. He holds membership in Orient Lodge No. 86, Knights of
Pythias, of which he was elected chancellor commander for the year 1915,
and is also a member of the Machinist's Union No. 363.




WILLIAM HOWELL. The late William Howell was one of the sterling pioneer
characters of Greene county, there remaining today but very few of his
type. He came here when the country was comparatively little developed. He
was also an adventurer of the great plains of the Southwest, in the days
of the hostile red man. He also served his country as a soldier. All this
indicates that he was a man of courage, hardihood and strong
characteristics. It is the names of such as he that the biographer likes
to write of in a volume of the nature of the one in hand.

Mr. Howell was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1838. His father died
when our subject-was about three months old and at the age of about one
year his mother also died, he was then taken by his uncle, James Freeman,
to raise, who was a resident of Ray county, Missouri. Mr. Howell lived
here, receiving his early education in the district school and doing what
work fell to him on the farm. When the war of the rebellion broke out our
subject enlisted in Company C, Sixth Missouri Cavalry, serving his full
term. He took part in many important engagements, including the battle of
Pea Ridge, also the battle of Springfield, January 8, 1863. He remained in
this city during the spring of that year, and while here met and married
Lettie J. Gardner, who was born in 1840, in Tennessee, and was a daughter
of James D. and Matilda Gardner, both Tennessee people. During his life he
made two trips overland to New Mexico, which were hazardous in various
ways and in later life he told many interesting incidents of the same.

Mrs. Howell is still living. She remained in Springfield during the time
our subject was with his troops in the field during the Civil war, and at
the close of the war he was honorably discharged as first lieutenant and
located in this city where he spent the rest of his life, dying on August
30, 1901. His family consisted of three children, namely: John C.,
deceased; Charles A., who lives on South Florence street; and James
Edward, living on Monroe street, this city.

Charles A. Howell was born on November 1, 1866, in Ray county, Missouri.
He received a high school education in Springfield, in the early period of
Professor Fairbank's superintendency. He has lived in the vicinity of
Springfield since 1873, followed farming for awhile, and kept books for
seven years. On June 10, 1896, he went into the feed business for himself
in the old "elevator corner" at St. Louis and Jefferson streets which soon
afterwards was destroyed by fire. He remained in this business, also
carrying a line of wood and coal until January 1, 1909, since which time
he has retained the last two lines, discarding the feed business, at the
corner of Lena and Hayden streets, having been in business alone, and he
has enjoyed a good trade which is all the while increasing. He was married
on January 22, 1891, in Springfield., to Katherine C. Blackman, who was
born on the old Blackman homestead a few miles south of Springfield and
here she grew to womanhood and was educated. She is a daughter of J. M.
and Fanny C. (Deupree) Blackman. Mr. Blackman was born in this city, March
4, 1840, and here his death occurred on November 22, 1904. He spent his
life as a farmer. His family settled in Greene county in pioneer days. He
became an influential citizen. He was a nephew of the well-known John P.
(Jack) Campbell, who founded the city, donating ground for the public
square and other important places in the heart of the city.

To Charles A. Howell and wife three children have been born, namely:
Junius B., born August 22, 1893, is single and is employed in the McDaniel
National Bank of Springfield; Mary E., born on September 25, 1895, is at
home; Katherine F., born on November 8, 1900, is also with her parents.

Politically, Mr. Howell is a Republican. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum
lodge, and is a member of the Christian church in which he is a deacon and
active in the affairs of the same.




LUCIUS W. HUBBELL. When a man can command his own self-respect he will
have no cause to worry about what the world thinks of him. Lucius W.
Hubbell, well-known real estate and insurance dealer of Springfield has
always looked well to his self-respect and thus the world has respected
and trusted him and since coming to Greene county, some forty years ago,
he has built up a reputation that is inviolable, having the good will of
all with whom he has come in contact. Like many of the best citizens of
the Ozark region he hails from the old Buckeye state, a commonwealth that
has produced more presidents, great generals and famous statesmen than any
other except Virginia, and the natives of that state are always welcomed
into the newer sections of the Union, for they have proven themselves to
be people who do things and can be relied upon in all emergencies.

Mr. Hubbell was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, May 16, 1841. He is a son
of William S. and Eliza (Case) Hubbell, both natives of Connecticut, the
father's birth having occurred in the town of Birmingham in 1812, and his
death occurred in 1899. The mother was born in 1809 at Canton, and her
death occurred in 1877. These parents grew up in the old Nutmeg state, and
there attended the common schools, and they both emigrated to Ohio when
young where they were married. William S. Hubbell was a woolen
manufacturer, having served his apprenticeship in Orange, Connecticut,
going from there direct to Ohio, and was married about 1835. He built the
first woolen mill in that part of the United States. In later life he and
his wife removed to Benzonia, Michigan, where they both died. Politically,
Mr. Hubbell was a Republican in his later life. He belonged to the
Congregational church. His family consisted of seven children, only two of
whom are living at this writing. They were named as follows: Harriett,
deceased; Helen, deceased; Lucius, of this sketch; John, deceased; Buel;
Nelson, deceased; Lizzie, deceased.

Lucius W. Hubbell grew to manhood in his native state and was educated at
the town of Kingsville, and graduated from the old Spencer commercial
school at Oberlin, Ohio, having taken a commercial course. Later he taught
penmanship in the Kingsville Academy. He was teaching there when the Civil
war broke out, and he enlisted for service in the Union army when Lincoln
issued his first call for seventy-five thousand volunteers, but was
rejected as physically unfit for service. He then went to northern
Michigan and took up land in 1862, and after remaining there about a year,
he started a school at Traverse City, Michigan, teaching penmanship. He
was in the employ of Hannah Lay & Company, of Traverse City, Michigan, in
1863, continuing for five years in this large mercantile and lumber firm,
then was in active business for himself for many years in Traverse City.
In 1874 Mr. Hubbell came to Springfield, Missouri, where he has since made
his home. He first engaged in the drug business, under the firm name of L.
W. Hubbell & Company, continuing about ten years, later took up real
estate and insurance which he still carries on successfully, having built
up a large business through his industry and fair dealings. He maintains
an office in the Holland Building. For a period of ten years he was
interested in mining at Aurora, Missouri, and in Colorado. He has been
very successful in a business way. He has a pleasant home on East Walnut
street.

Mr. Hubbell has been twice married, first, in Kingsville, Ohio, on July 4,
1862, to Jennie Peck, whose death occurred on April 27, 1872. To this
union four children were born, namely: May, who married William L. Case;
Nellie, who married Walter N. Case; Agnes has remained single, and
Bernice, deceased. On April 8, 1873, Mr.:Hubbell was married in Traverse
City, Michigan, to Mina Leach, a daughter of Dewitt C. and Abigail
(Comfort) Leach. To this second union were also born four children,
namely: Lucius C. who married Clara Gage; Hattie H. is the wife of David
H. Frazer; Ruth S. is unmarried, and Alfred W. is also single. The sons of
our subject are all members of the Sons of the American Revolution, and
Mr. Hubbell's daughters belong to the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

Politically, Mr. Hubbell is a Republican, and has been more or less active
in party affairs. He served for some time as a member of the city council.
Fraternally, he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.




JOHN RANDOLPH HUDNALL. Four score years is a long time to live, in view of
the fact that the average life of mankind is only thirty-three years. One
can accomplish much and do a vast amount of good in the course of eighty
years or on the other hand one can idle the time away or spend it in a
manner that is harmful to himself and to those with whom he comes in
contact. Human life is at once a serious and a powerful thing. It is often
said to be what we make it. Others believe that environment and fate,
which is another name for luck, shapes our destiny and often prevents us
from doing noble things even if we have the desire to do them. Those
familiar with the life record of John Randolph Hudnall, for many years a
widely known traveling salesman out of Springfield, who is now living on a
small farm in Clay township, Greene county, passing his declining years in
serenity, are unanimous in their opinion that he has lived to good purpose
and has accomplished a great deal of good.

Mr. Hudnall was born in Litchfield, Illinois, September 16, 1834. He is a
son of Dr. Moses L. and Minerva (Henderson) Hudnall. The father was born
in Lee county Virginia, in 1808, was reared on a plantation there and
received a good education in the schools of that state. When nineteen
years of age he began the study of medicine and when twenty-one years old
moved to Tennessee, later locating in Kentucky, where he practiced
medicine for two years, then moved to Pike county, Illinois, where he
practiced about ten years, and from there came to Scotland county,
Missouri, locating in the town of Memphis in 1845 where he continued the
practice of his profession until the breaking out of the Civil war. In
1863 he went to Arkansas to work for the Federal army as surgeon, but not
long afterwards he died in that state. He was a prominent man in the
communities where he lived and was a skilled physician, enjoying large
practice wherever he located. He was among the first settlers in Scotland
county, Missouri. He married while in Tennessee. Politically, he was a
Whig and for some time a Democrat. He was a member of the Masonic order
and prominent in the work of the same. His wife was born in Claiborne
county, Tennessee, and she was reared on a farm in Powell's Valley. She
received a common school education. She was noted for her piety and
hospitality as well as industry. To her parents five children were born,
namely: Rhoda, who married John Hunt of Polk county, Missouri, which
county he represented in the state Legislature for some time; he died at
Jefferson City, Missouri, while a member of the Legislature. Preston and
Calvin are both deceased; Minerva (mother of our subject); Paul, deceased.
Mrs. Minerva Hudnall, died at Memphis, Missouri, several years after the
war.

To Dr. Moses L. Hudnall and wife eight children were born, namely: Mrs.
Ermina E. Blackburn, deceased; Mrs. Emily Gorin, deceased; Mrs. Mary,
Martin, deceased, was the wife of Charles Martin, who was deputy secretary
of the state of Nevada for some time, and he and his wife were friends of
Mark Twain, the humorist; Mrs. Lena Bridges lives in Long Beach,
California; Mr. Bridges was sheriff of Greene county two terms, also a
state senator for two terms; John R. of this review was next in order of
birth; Mrs. Venitia Hamilton, deceased; Mrs. Helen Seaman lives in Iowa;
Theodore F., youngest of the children, lives in Memphis, Missouri.

John R. Hudnall was reared in Memphis, Scotland county, Missouri and
educated in the common schools. At the age of sixteen he went to St. Louis
where he worked in a broker's office as cashier for a time, remaining in
that city four years, then went back to Memphis where he engaged in the
general mercantile business until 1857 when he engaged in the livery
business.

Mr. Hudnall was married November, 1856 to Ann M. Knott, a sister of
Governor Knott, of Kentucky. Our subject's wife lived only fifteen months
after her marriage. Mr. Hudnall remained in Memphis until the breaking out
of the Civil war when he enlisted in the Confederate army as secret
service agent in which he remained until the close of the conflict,
performing much meritorious work of a dangerous and exciting character.
After the war he went to St. Louis and worked for the Appleton & Noyes
Company, a wholesale boot and shoe house, as traveling salesman. Remaining
in that capacity about two years he then went to work for the Frisco
railroad, having charge of the store department at the time of the
construction work in this state. In 1870 he went into the produce business
at Marshfield, Webster county and remained there until the great cyclone
of the spring of 1880 which destroyed the town. He was secretary of the
Marshfield Relief Committee after the storm. Leaving there soon afterwards
he came to Springfield and took a position as salesman for the McGregor,
Noe & Keet Hardware Company, later traveled for the Crenshaw Hardware
Company here, then traveled for Rogers & Baldwin in the same line for
several years. Mr. Hudnall is now living retired at 427 South Market
street where he and his daughter occupy a fine residence in the very heart
of the city.

Mr. Hudnall was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth Harold, who
came from Mt. Vernon, Ohio. She was a daughter of Isaac and Alice Harold.
She was a member of the Episcopal church. Her death occurred October 22,
1913 in Springfield, at the age of seventy-nine years. One child was born
to Mr. Hudnall's first marriage, Anne, who is chief clerk at the mint at
Carson City, Nevada. Three children were born to his second marriage,
namely: Bruce M., deceased; Retta Lee Hudnall lives in Springfield; and
Isaac R. who makes his home with our subject.

Mr. Hudnall is a Democrat and has always been faithful in his support of
the party. He is a member of the Christian church. Miss Hudnall is a
member of the Episcopal church.




LYNN HUMMEL. The late Lynn Hummel was for many years one of the best-known
lumber dealers in southern Missouri and had extensive interests in this
line, and was one of Springfield's most progressive men of affairs, a
citizen worthy of conspicuous mention in a volume of the nature of the one
in hand. He placed true values on men and events, so that he was
essentially democratic and unassuming and showed the intrinsic strength
and loyalty of his character. His benevolences were large and were ever
unostentatious and admirably placed. He knew the spring of human motive
and action, so that he was kindly and tolerant in his judgment and ever
ready to lend a helping hand to any worthy movement.

Mr. Hummel was born in Pennsylvania, August 28, 1852, and was a son of
David and Ellen Hummel, both also natives of the Keystone state where they
spent their earlier years, were married and established their home, but
finally came to Jasper county, Missouri, after living awhile at Freeport,
Illinois. It was in the early seventies that they located in Missouri.
David Hummel devoted his life to general farming. Politically, he was a
Republican. His death occurred about 1899, and the death of his widow
occurred in September, 1901. They were the parents of seven children,
namely: Alpheus is the oldest; Emma, deceased; Lynn, of this review; Perry
is deceased; Mrs. Eliza Shaffer, Nelson, and Ellis are the three youngest.

Lynn Hummel was about seventeen years of age when the family removed from
Pennsylvania to Freeport, Illinois. He received a good education in the
schools of Freeport, Illinois, and Carthage, Missouri; was especially apt
in mathematics, an excellent bookkeeper and a splendid musician. He
cultivated his decided natural taste for music, and when he began life for
himself he went into the piano and organ business at Carthage, Missouri,
in which he remained a year, then became expert accountant for S. A. Brown
& Company of that city, lumber dealers, and our subject spent his time as
auditor at the various yards of the firm. In February, 1884, he located at
Springfield, Missouri, and here spent the rest of his life. He was placed
in charge of the general office here of the Home Lumber Company of
Carthage. He was auditor of a chain of yards of that company for about
five years, then went into business with W. R. Pickering, now of Kansas
City, Missouri, and they established in Springfield the Hummel Lumber
Company, with large yards on Mill street, and in 1901 built the extensive
yards on Olive street, the first lumber yards to be located uptown, and
about five years later our subject bought out his partner, remaining the
sole owner until his death. This business grew to large proportions under
his able management and wise foresight and became one of the largest of
its kind in southern Missouri, in fact, was not equaled by any of its
competitors either in magnitude or business, and it was he who blazed the
trail in many new innovations for the arrangement of lumber yards and was
a pioneer of many new ideas of advertising, etc., which are universally
used today. Mr. Hummell handled great consignments of lumber of all kinds
annually, shipping to all parts of the country, doing a wholesale business
and at different times was largely interested in mills in the South. At
the time of his death he was the oldest lumber man in the Queen City. He
thoroughly understood every phase of this line of business and, being both
a student and close observer, kept fully abreast of the times in his
vocation. By close application, honest dealings and the exercise of sound
judgment he accumulated a handsome competence and was one of the
substantial men financially of Greene county, and yet he remained a plain,
modest, retiring gentleman who was admired and trusted implicitly by
everybody.

Mr. Hummel was married July 25, 1883, to Emma C. Stevenson, who was born
in Boone county, Indiana, and when three months old her parents removed
with her to Wisconsin. Her father was a mechanic. Soon after the close of
the Civil war the Stevenson family moved to Missouri. Mrs. Hummel's
parents were Elijah C. and Caroline (Farlin) Stevenson, the father born in
Ohio in 1832, and the mother's birth occurred in New York in 1836. They
lived to advanced ages, the father dying in April, 1910, and the mother in
July, 1908. Mr. Stevenson was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting from
Monroe county, Wisconsin, in Company D, Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, at the second call of President Lincoln for volunteers. He made
a faithful and gallant soldier, and for meritorious conduct was promoted
to sergeant. During his service of three years he was in a number of
important engagements, including the battle of Bull Run Cumberland Gap and
others. He was mustered out at Madison, Wisconsin, and was honorably
discharged in the fall of 1865, and soon thereafter moved to Carthage,
Missouri, where he continued working at his trade at which he was highly
skilled. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Politically,
he was a Republican. His family consisted of seven children, five of whom
are still living, namely: Charles, is deceased; Emma, who married Mr.
Hummel, of this sketch; Colbert is living; May is deceased; Rue, George,
and the youngest, Clement, reside in Springfield. Mrs. Hummel received a
common school education in Jasper county, Missouri, after which she taught
school for a period of seven years. She was a most successful teacher and
her services were in great demand. She taught two terms in Wisconsin, and
she continued her profession until her marriage and has done newspaper
work to some extent. She is a lady 6f education, culture and many
praiseworthy characteristics. The union of our subject and wife was
without issue.

Politically, Mr. Hummel was a Republican, but never a seeker of political
office, being a home man and preferring a quiet life. He was a worthy
member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church, to which church Mrs.
Hummel belongs. Fraternally, he belonged to the Woodmen of the World, and
was a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Florence Lodge of Springfield. He was actively interested in the work of
the Young Men's Christian Association, and always paid the membership of
at least one deserving boy, a plan which Mrs. Hummel has continued to
pursue.

Mr. Hummel was a strong advocate of temperance and the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union always received his willing support.

The death of Lynn Hummel occurred May 18, 1908, at the age of fifty-six
years. He was buried in Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri, the family
burying grounds. He left behind him the record of a life well spent, a
record against which no one could say one word of blame, and his memory
will long be kept green by his hosts of warm friends wherever he was
known.




REV. FAYETTE HURD. The life of a man like Rev. Fayette Hurd is worthy of
emulation by the youth of the land whose"destinies are yet to be
determined, for it has been led along high planes of endeavor, inculcating
right thinking and therefore right living, for the world is rapidly coming
to understand the Biblical phrase, "As a man thinketh so is he." Rev. Hurd
is a scion of a sterling old family of Michigan, but the latter part of
his long and useful life has been spent in the Southwest, in teaching and
in the ministry of the gospel, and while he is now living retired from
active work, making his home in Springfield, he still "goes about doing
good."

Reverend. Hurd was born at Burlington, Michigan, August 12, 1835. He is a
son of Homer C. and Sarah Jane (McGee) Hurd. The father was born in
Connecticut August 23, 1808, and his death occurred at Burlington,
Michigan, February 12, 1873. The mother of our subject was born in Warren
county, New York, October 24, 1811, and her death occurred on September 17
1888. These parents grew up in their respective states and received common
school educations, as good as could be procured in those early days. They
were married in Spring Arbor, Michigan, December 4, 1833, and locating on
a farm in the township of Burlington, devoted their active lives to
general farming. Politically, Homer C. Hurd was a Republican, and was
twice a member of the lower house of the Michigan Legislature, besides
serving several years as supervisor of Burlington township. He led a
quiet, honest home life. His family consisted of five children, two of
whom are still living, namely: Rev. Fayette Hurd, of this review; Mary
Elizabeth is deceased, as is Sarah Janette; Edward H. is living in Union
City, Michigan; George F., deceased.

Rev. Fayette Hurd grew to manhood on the home farm in Michigan, where he
worked when a boy, and in the winter time he attended the public schools
of Union City, Michigan, after which he entered the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor from which institution he was graduated in 1859. From this
institution, after a course of special graduate studies, he secured, in
1891, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He then studied theology at
Andover Seminary in Massachusetts, in preparation for the ministry of the
Congregational church, and he was graduated there in 1863, having made an
excellent record in both the above named schools. Returning to Michigan he
was pastor of a number of churches of his denomination, then went to Iowa
and filled the pulpits of Montour and Cherokee, in that state,
subsequently returning to his native state, continuing the work of the
ministry there until 1891, when he went to Vinita, Oklahoma, where he
taught three years in an academy and in 1894 came to Springfield,
Missouri, where he has since lived practically retired from active work,
although continuing a prominent worker in church affairs. In all his
charges he built up the church and strengthened the congregation and was
popular wherever his work took him, for he was regarded from the first as
an earnest, conscientious worker for the general good of the church, and
as a scholarly, logical, forceful and eloquent pulpit orator.

Reverend Hurd was married on June 19, 1886 to Julia T. Robinson, at
Ascutneyville, Vermont. She was born in New Hampshire, and is a daughter
of Williams D. and Mary Z. (Clement) Robinson, a highly esteemed family
who spent their lives in New Hampshire, where she grew to womanhood and
received a good education, completing her schooling at Mary Sharp's
College in Tennessee.

To our subject and wife one child was born, a son, Carlos F. Hurd, a
distinguished journalist whose birth occurred in Iowa, September 22, 1876
After passing through the public schools he entered Drury College at
Springfield, Missouri, from which institution he was graduated in 1897,
and soon, thereafter began his career as a newspaper man, and most of his
work has been in St. Louis. He has for some time been a member of the
editorial staff of the Post Dispatch. He was abroad with his wife in the
spring of 1912 and he was the only newspaper man on board the Carpathia,
which rescued part of the passengers of the ill-fated Titanic, and had the
distinction of being the first to report to the world that great disaster,
perhaps the greatest news from the newspaper man's standpoint of modern
times. He was married on November 29, 1906, to Catherine Stewart Cordell,
a native of Missouri, and the daughter of John H. Cordell, of Marshall,
Missouri, where she was educated. To Carlos F. Hurd two children have been
born, namely: Clement R., and Emily V. Hurd. This family has for some time
resided in St. Louis, while the immediate subject of this sketch has a
home on Summit avenue, Springfield, though planning on early removal to
St. Louis.

Reverend Hurd is a Republican politically. He holds membership with the
First Congregational church of this city and has been for some years and
till quite recently, clerk of the same, and active in the general work of
the church. He is one of the charter members of the Springfield chapter of
the Sons of the Revolution and has been for some years an active and
enthusiastic member of the Trinity Tyrants, a local literary and social
club of men and women which is organized and conducted on somewhat
original lines. When in the university he was a member of the Zeta Psi
fraternity.






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