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William Thomas
Baird
19
Aug 1835 – 3 Mar 1912 |
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Kirksville banker WT
Baird, a native of Carroll County, KY, came to Kirksville in March 1857.
He met Martha C Hannah not long after his arrival and couple married in 1858. William
taught school and clerked in a store for a time then was Clerk of the
local branch of the Bank of St Louis, 1859-1865, before beginning his 41
year association with
“Baird’s Bank”.
He held numerous public offices over the years including Kirksville
Board of Education, City Treasurer, County Treasurer and Treasurer of
the First District Normal School. [Violette; KDE Obit] |
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Conrad Bornemann
9
Aug 1829 – 21 Mar 1908 |
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Conrad Bornemann, a
native of Pattensen, Hanover, immigrated to the United States prior to
the Civil War and served with the 26th Wisconsin Infantry during that
conflict. He moved to Kirksville in 1870 and opened a merchant tailor
shop which was located for many years on the north side of the square.
Conrad married Mrs Arthusia (Sloan) Cail in 1871 and the couple had one
son, Julius Conrad, who followed his father into the tailoring trade. [GAR
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John Calvin Carothers
23
Feb 1849 – 6 Jan 1929 |
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Businessman and
long-time public official, John C Carothers, came to Kirksville from
Canton, MO to attend the First District Normal School in 1870 - and
stayed. His various business interests included Parcels & Carothers
Mercantile in the 1870s, Carothers & Greene Hardware in the 1880s and an
abstract/loan/insurance agency in the 1890s. He also held the positions
of Adair County Clerk, 1879-82, Kirksville City Clerk at various times
for terms totaling 20 years and Public Administrator, 1923-28. He left
this office Dec 31, just a few days before his death. He and Mary
Elizabeth Parcels were married in 1872. [Goodspeed; KDE obit] |
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Michael G Clem
22
Oct 1813 – 23 Feb 1906 |
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Michael Clem, a
native of Hocking County, OH, moved to a farm on the Chariton River in
Adair County in 1841. He operated one of the first grist mills on the
river until 1885 when he retired and moved to Kirksville. He was
elected County Judge in 1878 and served one term. Mr Clem and his wife,
Malinda Ellen Pullens, also from Hocking County, were the parents of
three sons and seven daughters. [note: Mr Clem’s YOB is variously
reported as 1813 & 1814 and his place of birth as Hocking & Licking
County.] [Violette; Graphic obit] |
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Solomon Conder
18 Jan 1843 - 19 July 1936 |
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Farmer Solomon Conder, originally from Owen County, IN,
moved to Novelty, Knox County, MO in 1870. He had served 3 years
in the 97th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War and was active in both
the Novelty and Kirksville posts of the
Grand Army
of the Republic. He was Post Commander at Novelty before
living in Kirksville for a few years in the 1890s. Solomon and his first
wife, Mary E Rawley, were the parents of two children, John & Nancy.
After Mary's death, he married widow Martha (Childress) Long. He died of
heatstroke at age 93 at home in Novelty. [Directories; MO Death
Certf; GAR; Find-a-Grave.com] |
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Josiah W Davis
5
Oct 1840 – 24 Feb 1920 |
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JW Davis, originally
from Clay County, IN, was a Schuyler County, MO farmer & teacher who
enlisted in Company B, 21st Missouri Infantry during the
Civil War and fought at the Battle of Shiloh. He began his ministry
with the Disciples of Christ in 1868, and moved to Kirksville in 1884 as
pastor of First Christian Church, 1884-85. He was later elected Adair
County’s Representative to the Missouri House for two terms, 1886-89.
He and Catharine M Vanhoutin of Edgar County, IL married about the time
he left the Army in 1866. [1stCC History] |
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James Montgomery DeFrance
12
Sept 1826 – 28 Aug 1900 |
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Between the ages 20
and 40, James M DeFrance, of Mercer County, PA, attended college in
Pennsylvania, worked as a logger in Wisconsin, was a land agent in
Missouri, and ranched in Colorado before settling in Kirksville. He
arrived here in 1866 and opened a law practice, from which he retired in
1880. He also purchased several blocks of houses in the southeast
quarter of the city and an undeveloped square block used by the public
and known as
DeFrance Park. James and his first wife, Mary E Halliburton
of Milan, MO, were the parents of a son and daughter.
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George W Denniston
1
May 1844 – 11 Dec 1918 |
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GW “Doc” Denniston,
moved to Adair County from New Bethleham, PA around 1875. He was the
proprietor of Denniston Agricultural Implements just north of the
Kirksville square during the 1890s but moved to Neosho, MO in the early
years of the 20th Century. Doc and his wife Mary, who died before he
left Kirksville, are buried in the city’s Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery.
[KDE Obit; F-L] |
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Andrew Ellison
6
Nov 1846 – 27 Jun 1902 |
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Andrew Ellison was
born in Monticello, MO and raised in nearby Canton. After reading law
with his father, he moved to Kirksville in 1867 and opened a law office
with his brother, James. In 1876, he was appointed Circuit Judge of 27th
Judicial District to fill an unexpired term and was subsequently elected
for four additional terms, retiring in 1899. He also served on the
Normal School Board of Regents, 1875-91. “Meadow View”, the home of Judge Ellison and his
wife Julia M Hatch at
1107 E Illinois,
was one of the many houses destroyed by the
tornado of April 1899.
[Violette; Regents] |
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George E Englehart
18 Dec
1868 - Mar 1963 |
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George Englehart
moved to Adair County from Lee County, IA with his parents, Frederick & Mary
Jane (Reesman) Englehart when he was
about 4 years of age. In the 1890s, George and his brother
William were partners in Englehart Bros Real Estate &
Insurance agency and George sang tenor with a group known as the Lyric
Quartet. He moved to Texas with his wife Georgianna (Imbler) and
their two young daughters after the turn of the ceuntry then
settled in Portland, OR by 1920.
[Federal Census; Directories; SSDI] |
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William Fred Englehart
22
Aug 1866 - April 1963 |
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WF Englehart came to
Adair County from Lee County, IA with parents Frederick & Mary
Jane (Reesman) Englehart as a young boy. He was in partnership with
his brother
George as Englehart
Bros Real Estate & Insurance in the 1890s, during which time he also
served first as Deputy then, for 4 years, as County Tax Collector.
After leaving office, he earned a Doctor of Osteopathy degree
and moved to St Louis in 1903 to begin his practice. William married Mrs Fannie Shackelford after the death of his first wife, Viola Eliza
Wilcox. [Who’s What; Missourians; SSDI] |
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William Henry Foncanon
22 Feb 1842 – 8
Dec 1905 |
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WH Foncanon, a
native of Logan, OH, was a Corporal in Company D, 17th Ohio Volunteer
Infantry during the Civil War. He and his wife Mary M Seward moved to
Missouri in 1867 and purchased a stock farm in the southern part of
Adair County near Millard. They left the farm in 1891 and moved to Kirksville
to build
their retirement home. [GAR Application; KDE Obit] |
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John W Gill
12 Feb 1830 – 31 Jul 1915
Sarah M
(Samuels) Gill
5
Aug 1846 – 28 Jul 1911 |
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John, a farmer from
Ohio, and his wife Sarah, a native of Indiana, moved to Adair County
around 1857. They were retired and living in Kirksville by 1892 and
both were buried at Kirksville’s Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery. We have no
further information on them at this time. [F-L; City Directories] |
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Peyton Foster
Greenwood
12 Feb 1840 – 6 Apr 1918 |
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PF Greenwood came to
Adair County with his family from Sangamon County, IL, as a 12 year old
boy. He grew up on his father’s farm in Salt River Township and began
teaching in the rural schools at about age 17. He also began reading
law on his own and was admitted to the Bar in 1866. In 1872 he moved to
Kirksville and practiced his profession until 1901 when he retired and
moved to a farm just north of town. For many years, his office was above First National Bank, south side of the square. He and Julia Ann
Bryan married in 1864 and were the parents of eight children.
[Violette; KDE Obit] |
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Charles A Hamilton
1 Jan 1861 - 7 July 1944 |
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Charles Hamilton was
a Knox County, MO farmer and school teacher until he moved to Kirksville
in 1893. For the next four years, he owned a building & loan/insurance
agency then, in Oct 1897, was appointed Kirksville Postmaster. He
reopened the agency when he left the Post Office in Mar 1901 and continued
in the business until he moved in Dec 1913. He later settled in Joplin. Charles
and Julia Chadwick married in 1888 and were the parents of five. After
her death he married Maggie Englehart. His brother
Warren was also a Kirksville
resident. [Violette; Journal; MO Death Certf] |
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Warren Burton
Hamilton
15 July 1869 – 2 Aug 1911 |
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Warren B Hamilton,
younger brother of Postmaster
Charles
Hamilton, was a traveling salesman for the Frey
Stationary Co of St Louis for several years before organizing
Kirksville’s State Building and Loan Association in the early 1890s.
He married Mae DeWitt of Kirksville in 1893. Although he earned
degrees in law and osteopathy he never actively practiced either
profession; he did, however, use both in his position as Business
Manager and Secretary/Treasurer of the American School of Osteopathy.
[Violette; Walter] |
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Arthur G Hildreth
13 Jun 1863 – 21 Feb 1941 |
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Dr Hildreth, an
Adair County native, was a member of the first graduating class of the
American School of Osteopathy
in 1894, and from that time until his death, was affiliated with the
school in some way or another. Over the years he was instructor & Dean,
a legislative lobbyist for legal recognition of the discipline and
founder/director of the AT Still Surgical Sanitarium in St Louis and the
Still-Hildreth Sanitarium in Macon. He was also the Adair County
Representative to the Missouri Legislature for two terms, 1900-04, and
State Senator for the 9th District two terms in the 1920s.
[Walter; KDE obit] |
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Samuel M Link
28 Apr 1837 – 1 Sep 1904 |
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Samuel Link was born
in Carrolton, IL and moved to Colorado for several years as a young
adult. He came to Kirksville in 1867 and was a retail merchant for a
while before becoming Clerk, then President of
First National Bank, a position he
held from 1884 until his death. Link married his cousin Mary Agnes Link
in Illinois in 1861. [Violette; Citizens] |
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John M McCall
16 Dec 1844 – 21 June 1924 |
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Attorney John McCall
was born in Brown County, OH and came to Missouri a few months before
enlisting in Company F, 39th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the fall of
1864. After his discharge, he farmed a few years in Knox County then
studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1875. He moved to Kirksville
in 1883 where he practiced law until forced into semi-retirement after a
stroke in 1916. He was elected Knox County Prosecuting Attorney for two
terms, 1879-81, and Mayor of Kirksville for one term, 1909-10. McCall
was married first to Mary J Hickman of Knox County; after her death he
married Mrs Mary (Gilmore) Greiner of Kirksville. [Violette; KDE
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John H Morris
11 Dec 1836 - 2 Feb 1909 |
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JH
Morris, Kirksville’s first photographer, moved here from his native
Orange County, VA in 1862. He married Frances
“Fannie” Tull of Kirksville in 1868 and the couple had two children, Emery & Zena.
After selling his
photography studio to his brother-in-law, he owned a dry goods store
at Queen City in Schuyler County until he retired in the late 1890s. He
then returned to Kirksville and dabbled in several businesses including
real estate and sewing machines. [Journal & Graphic obits,
directories;
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William S Murphy
4
Sept 1858 – 9 May 1925 |
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William Murphy came
to Adair County from Taylor County, WV with his first wife and young
family when he was about 30 years of age. A carpenter by trade, he was
a building contractor and owner/operator of the Kirksville Planing Mill
at the corner of Washington & Main, near the
Wabash Depot. He was married
three times, to Mary E Waldron, Lucy O Gardner & Marvin Wilhelmenia
Quattlebaum, and was the father of at least nine children.
[Violette; KDE obit] |
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Arthur Patterson
29 Oct 1869 -
27 May 1937 |
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Arthur Patterson was
a Kirksville native and son of Swedish immigrants Charles & Christianna
(Lovell) Patterson. As a young man, he was owner/manager of
Patterson Fruit Farm, the business started by his father at the south
edge of town in the 1850s. (The family home and a great deal of the orchard were destroyed in
the
Kirksville tornado
of April 1899.) After completing a degree at the American School
of Osteopathy in the 1890s, Arthur left Kirksville and at the end of his
life was living and working in Wilmington, DE. He suffered a fatal heart
attack while traveling by train to a church meeting in Columbus, OH.
[Federal Census; KDE obit; OH Death Certf] |
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John L Porter
14 Sep 1834 – 6 Feb 1924 |
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John L Porter, a
native of Gettysburg, PA, was raised in Jefferson City, MO and came to
Kirksville as a young man. Although primarily a real estate agent and
developer, he was also involved in numerous business enterprises,
including a telegraph line construction company, a freight line, retail
clothing and grocery stores, as well as being founding President of the
Porter Coal & Mining Co and the Pennsylvania & Missouri Coal & Mining
Co. His business properties in Kirksville included the Porter & Ivie
blocks (the latter named for his wife Mary E Ivie) at each end of the
south side of the Square and the Porter Flats at Main & Harrison. [Violette;
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Philip Joseph
Rieger
10 Feb 1859 – 29 May 1925 |
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PJ Rieger moved to
Adair County from Peoria County, IL with his parents in 1880. He
attended the Normal School for a while then taught school several years
before running for County Court Clerk. He was elected and served
1891-95, during which time he read law with Judge Andrew Ellison. He was
admitted to the Bar in January ’95, and was almost immediately elected
to serve a term as City Attorney before entering private practice. He
stepped into that position again in 1909 to complete his predecessor’s
unfinished term. PJ and his wife, Nevada McCoy, lost their home in the
April 1899 tornado.
[Violette; KDE obit] |
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Richard Major
Ringo
5 Feb 1834 – 29 Jan 1909 |
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Richard Ringo came
to Adair County from Clay County, IN as a child and was raised on a farm
near Kirksville. He was elected County Clerk in 1859 and after
completing six years in that office, opened a mercantile store which he
operated for about eight years. He organized the Kirksville Savings
Bank in 1873 and remained an officer until his death, serving first as
Cashier then President. Richard and Quintilla Tennessee Haynes married
in 1869; they built a beautiful home where Cumberland Academy once stood
(later the site of Veterans Memorial Park). [Violette; KDE obit;
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Clarence A
Robinson
28 Jun 1858 - 2 Mar 1923 |
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CA Robinson, a
native of Winchester, VA, was a successful dry goods merchant in
Kirksville for over forty years. The Steer, Robinson & Co Mercantile,
later Clarence A Robinson & Co, was located on the west side of the
Square from the early 1880s until his death from injuries received in a
gardening accident in 1924. Clarence and his wife Grace Caldwell were
the parents of three sons. [KDE obit] |
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Andrew Taylor
Still
6 Aug 1828 – 12 Dec 1917 |
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Andrew Taylor Still,
the father of Osteopathy, was born in Lee County, VA and moved to Kansas
in 1853. He studied medicine under his father and became a practicing
physician. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted and served as
hospital steward and officer in three Kansas units. In the early 1870s
he developed the concept of osteopathic healing and moved to Kirksville,
MO in 1875 to open a practice. He founded the
American School of Osteopathy here
in 1892. Still was married twice, first to Mary Margaret Vaughan who
died in Kansas, then to Mary Elvira Turner. Four of his children,
including son
Harry M, trained
as osteopaths under his instruction. [Still
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Harry Mix Still
26 May 1867 – 28 Jul 1942 |
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Harry, son of
Andrew Taylor Still and a native
of Baldwin, KS, was in the first graduating class of the
American School of Osteopathy
in 1894. He was Vice President of ASO for a time then practiced
in numerous cities around the country before retiring due to ill health
in 1907. He then returned to Kirksville where he was President of the
Citizens National Bank, 1907-42, and was a co-founder of numerous area
businesses, including Kirksville Power & Electric Light Co, the
Travelers Hotel, Kirksville College of Osteopathy & Surgery (successor
to ASO), and the Still-Hildreth Sanitarium in Macon. Harry was married
to Nannie Miller of Kirksville. [Violette; Regents] |
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Thomas E Sublette
9 Dec 1853 – 7 Sep 1931 |
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Thomas Sublette, a
resident of Adair County from the age of one, grew up on the family farm
near Sublette, the town named for his father. After graduating from the
First District Normal School in 1878, he moved to his native St Louis
County for five years to teach school. He returned home in June 1883
intending to farm but purchased the Kirksville Weekly Graphic
instead and went into the newspaper business. He remained
publisher/editor of the Graphic until his death. Thomas and Kate
Florence Funk married in 1893 and were the parents of four daughters.
[Violette; KDE obit] |
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Jesse Coleman
Thatcher
21
Dec 1820 – 23 May 1899 |
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JC Thatcher, a
native of Bourbon County, KY, was raised in Calloway County, MO then
moved to Adair County in 1846, making him one of Kirksville’s earliest
residents. He owned and operated a mercantile store for nearly 30 years
then, after retiring from that business around 1873, ran a successful
insurance agency until his death. Thatcher was first married to Mary
Baker Griffith of Calloway County and after her death to Mrs Eliza
(Sappington) Carter. [Review; Democrat obit] |
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