Charles A. Robinson. - Through an extensive and varied experience in newspaper work Charles A. Robinson, of Joplin, acquired a knowledge of men, their methods of thought and impulses to action, and of the world in general, which qualified him well for almost any other line of productive endeavor for which he was adapted by natural endowment and inclination, and has made him successful in all his undertakings. He was a poor boy and early in life found himself at the mercy of the buffets of fate and compelled to take care of himself and work his own way to comfort and consequence among men. He accepted his destiny with cheerfulnes and entered upon the task before him with alacrity, applying all his powers to whatever he had to do and making every hour of his labor tell to his advantage.
Mr. Robinson is a native of our adjoining state of Kansas, and was born in its county of Johnson on July 9, 1875. His father, Richard C. Robinson, was born and reared in Ohio, and the mother, whose maiden name was Mary Miller, was a native of Illinois. They are not living in Neosho county, Kansas, where they are profitably engaged in farming and generally esteemed as among the most worthy and useful citizens of the prolific and progressive region in which they live.
They were the parents of nine children, of whom Charles A. was the third in order of birth, but the eldes of the six that survived. He obtained a limited education in the public school in Olathe, Kansas, attending it until he reached the age of eleven years. The exigencies of his situation then compelled him to go to work for himself, and he began his useful and progressive career as a newsboy, selling the old line newspapers of Kansas City. He was so apt and alert in his work, and so keenly on the lookout for something better, that he soon secured a more agreeable and remunerative position in the circulation department of the Kansas City Journal. His duties in this engagement were to etablish agencies and news depots in various places, and thus help to build up the circulation of the paper. He was bery energetic and successful in his efforts and won high commendation from the paper for his enterprise.
He continued in connection with newspaper work in Kansas City until 1894, then went to Chicago and secured employment in the circulation department of the Chicago Tribune, with which he was connected about three years. In 1897 he came West agian and located in Kansas City, Missouri, where he opened a retail grocery store, establishing himself at the corner of Main and Thirty-first streets. One year of mercantile life was enough for him at that time, and at the end of it he returned to the newspaper line, taking employment in the circulation department of the Joplin Globe. He remained with the Globe nine years, and made an excellent record in its service.
In 1908 he was appointed receiving teller of the Joplin Gas Company, a position in which he has given eminent satisfaction to his employer and its patrons, and extended and intensified the general esteem in which he has always been held. He is careful and correct in his work, courteous and obliging in his demeanor, constant in attention to the requirements of his position and faithful in the performance of every duty. These traits of character, together with his well known ability and his loyal service on all occasions to his political party, induced his party to appoint him city clerk under the Democratic administration of 1911.
Mr. Robinson is a firm believer in the principles of the Democratic party and an earnest and effective worker for its successs in all campaigs. He is recognized by both its leaders and its rank and file. He knows the voters and how to commend the cause he represents to their judgment and approval, and is therefore able to render great service to the organization and its candidates whenever he takes the field, as he always does.
His ancestors on his father's side of the house came to this country from the north of Ireland and located in Ohio. Members of the family have helped materially to develop and build up that great stae, and have written their record in its history in lines very creditable to themselves and deeds very serviceable to the commonwealth. Succeeding generations have lived and labored in many states, and everywhere have well sustained the traditions and inspirin examples furnished by the earlier arrivals and residents of the family connection on American soil.
Mr. Robinson was married in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 9, 1897, to Miss Nellie Norris, a daughter of Captain W.H.P. Norris, a valiant soldier in the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry during the Civil war. They have one child, Charles A. Robinson, Jr., whose life began in Joplin on June 26, 1904. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. They have an attractive home in Joplin, at 616 North Joplin street.
History of Jasper County by Joel T. Livingston, pg. 679 - 680.
Perl D. Decker is recognized as one of he strong members of the Jasper county bar. He is undoubtedly one of the busiest, for his practical and steady application to their interests has won him scores of clients. Mr. Decker, who is yet to be counted among the younger generation of citizenship, is an Ohioan by circumstance of birth, his arrival upon this mundane sphere having been made on September, 10, 1875, in Athens county of the Buckeye state. His boyhood and youth were passed amid rural surroundings, the scene of his residence shifting from Ohio to Kansas, for in 1879 his father removed to Cloud county of the latter state. There they bought a tract of wild prairie land near Concordia and the elder people have ever since resided there. The elder Mr. Decker is an excellent farmer, who has improved his land in the most thorough manner, erecting good buildings, and, in short, made of his Jayhawker homestead an exceptionally fine property. He is still actively engaged in agriculture of a general character and in stock-raising. The maiden name of the mother was Sarah Ann Nye, who was born in Ohio and reared four sons, named Amasa, Melvin, Perl D. and William.
Mr. Decker, the immediate subject of this brief record, received his education in the schools of Cloud county, Kansas, and matriculated for his higher trianing in Park College, Missouri, where he studied for eight years and was graduated with the class of 1897. A long gathering determination to adopt the legal profession had in the meantime reached the point of crystallization and to secure his training Mr. Decker entered the State University of Kansas and was graduated with the class of 1899. Attracted by the prosperous and rapidly growing city of Joplin, shortly after his admission to the bar he came here to hang out his professional shingle and has ever since that time been engaged in the general practice of the law. During four years of this time Mr. Decker was a partner of Jedge David E. Blair. He is a strong advocate before court or jury and not only marshalls his causes with great ability, but also brings to bear the strength of a strong and upright character, so that he has gained and held the inviolable confidence and regard of his fellow practitioners and also of the general public.
Mr. Decker was married in 1904, to Bertha Greer, who is a native of the state of Illinois and a daughter of Richard Greer. They maintain a cultured and hospitable home. Mr. Decker's fraternal affiliations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of America.
Source: History of Jasper County Missouri by Joel T. Livingston pg. 1019
John W. Frey. - An essentially representative citizen and business man of Webb City, Missouri, and one who has ever been loyal to the best interests of this section of the state is John W. Frey, who has long been a prominent factor in milling, banking and mining circles in Jasper county.
A native of the find old Keystone state of the Union, John W. Frey was born at Cowan, Union county, Pennsylvania, and he is a son of Charles and Sarah Frey, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, the former in Chester county and the latter in Berks county. The father was a mechanic by trade and as a young man began to manufacture grain drills, under the old Pennocks patent, he having been about the first person to begin operations along that line. Charles Frey traced his ancestry back to stanch Welsh extraction and the maiden name of his mother was Griffith. Mrs. Charles Frey was descended from old Swiss stock and her mother's name, prior to her marriage, was Zellar. Mr. and Mrs. Frey were the parents of six children - five boys and one girl. The sister died at an early age and four of the brothers were gallant and faithful soldiers in the Union army in the Civil war, the three older ones having served throughout the whole sanguinary struggle and all four having completed their military careers withough a scratch, worth mentioning.
John W. Frey was reared to maturity in Union county, Pennsylvania, where he attended Pike school, No. 6, until he had reached his sixteenth year. In Mr. Frey's own words: "It was the commonest kind of a common school but somehow the little old school houses of that day made what little you did get stick." His first employment was in connection with railroading and for a time he worked for the private car line known in eastern Pennsylvania as Peiphers line, which ran from New York and Philadelphia to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he was in the employ of the Philadelphia & Erie Road and still later was connected with the Frisco System. Having drifted into Arkansas he organized the company that erected a mill and was vice-president and manager of the first complete roller mill built in Arkansas. While a resident of Rogers, Arkansas, he was president and manager of a company that built the water works syster in that place. He subsequently established his home at Webb City, Missouri, where he has since resided and where he was in the milling business for a number of years. In due time he became interested in banking and was actively identified with that line of enterprise in connection with the First National Bank of Webb City, of which he was vice-president for years, later becoming a heavy stockholder and a director in the First National Bank of Carterville. When lead prospecting and mining became such important fatures in the business world of Japser county he turned his attention to that field, investing considerable money therein at Webb City.
At the time of the inception of the Civil war Mr. Frey became an ardent Union sympathizer and he served for nine months as a private in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, having enlisted for service in Company E, under Captain David A. Irvin. In his political proclivities he is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies promulgated by the Socialist party, being an active memeber of the Webb City Local and doing considerable writing for publication along socialist lines. While he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description, he has been honored by his fellow citizens with election to a number of important positions of trust and responsibility. At Rogers, Arkansas, he was a member of the city council and while a resident of Pennsylvania he was incumbent of the office of justice of the peace. In 1896 he was elected mayor of Webb city, and he discharged the duties connected with the administration of the municipal affairs of this place most creditably.
At Rolla, Missouri, on the 3d of February, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Frey to Miss Jane S. Hagar, who was reared and educated at Rolla and who is a daughter of John S. Hagar. Mrs. Frey was born in the state of New York. Of the two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Frey, Georgia is the widow of A.M. Wagner and Nell has been summoned to the life eternal and is buried in the Rogers cemetery, at Rogers, Arkansas.
In a fraternal way Mr. Frey is a prominent member of the time-honored Masonic order, having become affiliated therewith in 1867. He was high priest of Webb City Chapter, No. 119, Royal Arch Masons, in 1905-6, and has since been principal sojourner thereof. For three years prior to January, 1910, he was secretary of the Webb City Commercial Club, of which he is a most valued and appreciative member. Mr. Frey is a man of unusual executive ability, fine mental caliber and tremendous vitality. He carries to successful completion everything he undertakes and all his business dealings are characterized by those fair and honorable methods which command to him the unqualified confidence and esteem of all with whom he comes in contact.
ource: History of Jasper County by Joel T. Livingston pg.1017 - 1019
Fred L. WILLIAMS is a prominent practicing lawyer of Joplin, Missouri, where he is numbered among the representative legal minds of the state, enjoying a fair share of public patronage and its entire confidence and favor, and likewise the high esteem of his fellow citizens in all stations of life. He has been a popular resident of Joplin since 1903, is a co-operant factor in all matters projected for the public welfare and his loyalty and public spirit in all affairs affecting Jasper county and the state at large have ever been of the most insistent order.
In Putnam county, on the 31st of May, 1879, occurred the birth of Fred L. WILLIAMS. He is a son of James C. WILLIAMS, who was born in Kentucky and removed to Indiana as a boy. The parents of James C. were farmers and thus he was reared to adult age under the invigorating influences of rural life, himself engaging in that line of enterprise after he had reached manhood. He married Miss Mary Alice Bridges, who was born and reared in Indiana, and they are both still living, their home being in Putnam county, Indiana. After completing the curriculum of the public schools of Putnam county, Mr. Williams, of this review, was matriculated as a student in DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, in which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, duly receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then attended the Indiana Law School, at Indianapolis, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1903. In that year he came to Joplin, where he inaugurated the active practice of his profession and where he has succeeded in building up a large and representative clientage, the same including some of the largest firms and corporations in Jasper county. Immediately after his advent in this city he began to work in connection with the firm of Cole & Burnett and six months later he was admitted as a partner of that well known law firm, the name thereof becoming Cole, Burnett & Williams. This mutually agreeable partnership alliance continued until the 1st of January, 1909, when the partnership was mutually dissolved and Mr. Williams has since conducted an individual practice. He controls an extensive and lucrative clientage and is widely renowned as a lawyer of experience and marked ability.
At Shelbyville, Indiana, in June, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Williams to Miss Ethel Jones, who is a native of Indiana and who was a class-mate of her husband’s at Depauw University. Mrs. Williams is a daughter of Dr. Jones, who died in 1903, who has long been a resident of Shelbyville, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have no children.
In his political proclivities Mr. Williams is an active Democrat. While he is not an office seeker he is ever alert for opportunities to help along progress and improvement. He was an interested factor in the fight for a commission form of government for the city of Joplin in 1910. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in connection with the business affairs of Joplin he is a valued member of the Commercial Club.
Source: A History of Jasper County; By Joel T. Livingston; Pg. 820 – 821
George W. Taylor. – Farming, the oldest of industries, has in recent years presented one of the richest fields for scientific investigation and one of the progressive representatives of the cause is George W. Taylor, who has profited very materially by the use of the latest methods in the cultivation of his own land, bringing his acres to the highest possible point of productiveness. This gentleman is a native son of the state, his first identification with Jasper county, however, dating from the year 1899, when he secured a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on Spring River. In 1901 he disposed of that and became the owner of a fine eighty-acre farm in the vicinity of Sarcoxie. He is a man of sound civic principles and has the best interests of the community at heart.
Mr. Taylor was born March 5, 1855, in Osage county, Missouri, and is the son of Thomas and Susan (Haskins) Taylor, pioneer settlers of Osage county, who cast their fortunes with that part of the state in the early ‘30s of the Nineteenth century. The mother was born in eastern Tennessee, in 1821, and died in 1879, aged fifty-eight years. The father, who claimed Virginia as his birthplace, died in November, 1859, aged sixty-five years. The elder Taylor owned considerable land in Osage county and he became the father of a family of ten children, six of whom are now living. He died when most of them were small and the plucky mother kept the family together and reared the boys and girls to manhood and womanhood.
When Mr. Taylor reached the age of twenty-one years he married and began farming for himself in Osage county. He was successful from the start and accumulated property until he became the owner of one hundred acres in Osage county. He disposed of this in 1899 and, as previously mentioned, removed to Jasper county and purchased one hundred and twenty acres on Spring River. He disposed of this farm in 1901 and purchased eighty acres near Sarcoxie, his present home. In his residence of a decade here he has prospered and, like his neighbors, has had the pleasure of seeing his property increase greatly in value.
Mr. Taylor was married, March 9, 1876, to Eliza Roux, daughter of Andrew and Virginia Roux, natives of France. They came to America when young and located in this state at an early date. Mrs. Taylor died September 27, 1900, and her obsequies were held in the Missionary Baptist church, of which the family are members. The remains of this worthy woman are interred in the Harvey Cemetery on Spring River. To the subject and his wife were born the following six children: George Walter, born September 25, 1885, married and farming in Jasper county; Florence Ann, born April 7, 1888, wife of George Palmer; Laura May, born December 7, 1890; Sophie Pearl, born January 26, 1893; Charles Every, born January 28, 1896; and Harvey Andrew, born October 2, 1898.
Source: A History of Jasper County; By Joel T. Livingston; Pg 885 – 886
John A. Peterson, late of Union township, Jasper county, was for many years well known throughout this vicinity as an industrious and enterprising farmer, failing health finally compelling him to go further west. Born in Sweden in 1851, he lived there until seventeen years old, when he immigrated to the United States, locating first in Portage county, Ohio, near Ravenna.
Coming to Missouri in 1877, Mr. Peterson purchased one hundred and forty acres of land in Union township, Jasper county, on section thirty, about eight miles from Carthage, and immediately began the improvement of a farm. He succeeded well in his undertakings, placing a large part of his land under cultivation and making improvements of an excellent character, having a good house, a large barn and a finely-bearing orchard, his estate becoming one of the more desirable pieces of property of the neighborhood.
Mr. Peterson married, in Ohio, Leah Bauer, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, a daughter of Dr. Jacob Bauer. Dr. Bauer was born in Germany, and after his marriage to Christiana Holzworth, of Germany, located in Ohio, where he and his wife spent their remaining years, he being prosperously engaged in farming. Nine children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Bauer, one of whom, S.J. Bauer, M.D., for many years a prominent physician and surgeon in Ohio, died at the age of fifty-six years. Another son, Jacob W. Bauer, held a high Government position in North Carolina for a number of years. Dr. Jacob Bauer, who lived to the advanced age of four score and four years, was for thirty or more years a deacon in the Presbyterian church. His wife preceded him to the better world, passing away at the age of sixty-nine years.
Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson five children were born, namely: Henry Earl, of Wyoming; Edith, wife of Rev. W.T. Ferguson, of Gregory, South Dakota; Nellie May, a successful and popular teacher in Gregory, South Dakota, where she has taken up a homestead claim; Thomas Fred, of Montana; and Deo Alfred, who resides on the home farm, of which he is the manager. Mrs. Peterson, with the able assistance of her son Deo Alfred, has continued the improvements previously inaugurated on the home estate, which bears evidence of the thrift and enterprise which first established it and by which it has since been carried on. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has reared her children to useful and honored men and women.
Source: A History of Jasper County By Joel T. Livingston; Pg 896
Robert Henry Shelton. – Among the venerable and highly esteemed citizens of Jasper county must be numbered Robert Henry Shelton, a retired farmer, now residing at Avilla. Although a native of Kentucky, he has been identified with the county for thirty-five years and has ever proved very loyal to its interests. He is widely known in the locality and enjoys the respect of his neighbors. Mr. Shelton was born September 22, 1838, in Russellville, Logan county, Kentucky, the son of Mayberry and Elizabeth (Henry) Shelton, natives of the Blue Grass state, and grandson of Hall and Elizabeth Shelton. His maternal grandparents were Robert and Nancy Henry, the grandfather was born in Scotland and his wife in Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. He grew to manhood on a farm in his native county and there acquired those habits of industry and thrift which were later to stand him in good stead. He had the misfortune to be bereft of his mother’s care when a child and his father died in 1862, when he was a young man. He was the oldest of two children born to his mother. His brother Ashur lives in Washington county, Illinois. The following children were born of the second marriage of the father: Charles, Jane, Nancy, Lewis, Parena, Martha, Alice and George.
In the year 1853 Mr. Shelton removed to the state of Illinois with his father, and the residence there was of one year duration. He then returned to Illinois and lived there until 1875, when he returned to Missouri and located in McDonald township, Jasper county. For several years he farmed on rented land, but in 1884, being favorably impressed with the charms and advantages of this section, he purchased one hundred and twenty-two acres on White Oak Creek, making the purchase of D.R. Milton. Here he resided throughout the remainder of his active agricultural career, and in 1905 retired, leaving his son, Henry Shelton, in charge of the farm. In the year mentioned he removed to La Russell and there erected a handsome residence, but in May, 1911, he disposed of the same and took up his home in Avilla, where he purposes to reside permanently. His home is situated upon an acre and a fourth of desirable ground and this tiny farm Mr. Shelton finds much pleasure in bringing to the highest state of cultivation.
Mr. Shelton was married on the 26th day of March, 1861, the young woman to become his wife and helpmeet being Miss Susan Neighbors, daughter of Joel and Mary (Stanley) Neighbors, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Holcomb) Neighbors. John Holcomb, Mrs. Shelton’s great-grandfather, was one of the first settlers of the territory of Illinois and assisted in laying out the town of Belleville. Joel Neighbors was a native of Virginia and his wife of Kentucky. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Shelton was blessed by the birth of five sons and three daughters, as follows: Monroe, born July 6, 1862, died in 1884; Gilum, born August 24, 1865; Dellah, born April 23, 1868; Emma, born January 1, 1870; Harry, born February 23, 1873; Robert, born November 4, 1875; Hattie, born October 4, 1877; and Henry, born December 27, 1879. The family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church of LaRussell and are valued members of the congregation. The head of the house is a member of the Masonic order and exemplifies in his living the principles of moral and social justice and brotherly love of the great fraternity.
Source: A History of Jasper County; By Joel T. Livingston; Pg 897 - 898
Ira J. Martin, post-office Maple Grove. Among the rising young men of Jasper county is the subject of this sketch. His birthplace is Cass county, Ind., and the date Oct. 4, 1858, and he was reared on a farm and educated in Cass county and in Jasper county, Mo., to which place he moved with his parents in 1869. He worked out by the month on a farm until 1874, and then commenced to farm for himself. Oct. 4, 1881, he was married to Miss Erassmy, daughter of Erasmus and Elizabeth Chedester, natives of Indiana. She was born May 15, 1866, and was married in New Buffalo, Mich., in 1881. By this union they have one child, Mabel M. Mr. Martin now has a fine farm of 120 acres, all under cultivation, good orchard, and good house, and fair out-buildings, the farm being well watered. Mr. Martin is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and a good farmer.
Source: The History of Jasper County, Missouri; Mills & Company
John Messick was born in Jessamine county, Ky., Jan. 9, 1846, and was reared and educated in the town of Nicholasville until May, 1862, and then he moved with his parents to Putnam county, Ind., and there attended school until 1865. He then went to Crawford county, Ill., in the latter part of the winter of 1865, and engaged in farming until the spring of 1869; then returned to Indiana and lived there until the spring of 1870. Then he came to southwest Missouri and visited northwest Arkansas, Cherokee Nation, and southern Kansas, and made his way to Jasper county, Mo., in the following July. In the spring of 1871 he went to Dade county, and bought a piece of raw prairie-land and improved it, but did not remain long on account of poor health. He then went to Hickory county, where he engaged in the drug business until the spring of 1875; he then came back to Dade county and farmed one season; then came back to Jasper county, where he rented and cultivated J.M. Richardson’s farm for two seasons. He then bought the northwest quarter of section 26, in the spring of 1879, and began to improve it. On June 26th, 1879, he married Florella Anna Sheldon, daughter of Abel and Sofronia Sheldon, of Ohio. Mrs. Messick’s father was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, and at the age of twelve years went to Kentucky. In the fall of 1882 John Messick bought the south half of the northwest quarter of section 26. He farm has an excellent spring, and Mr. Messick has a very nice and pleasant home. He is a good neighbor, and is held in high esteem by all who know him.
Source: The History of Jasper County, Missouri; Mills & Company
William D. Mitchell, farmer, section 23, post-office Dudenville, was born in Johnson county, Ind., June 18, 1839, and was reared and educated in Johnson county. He is the son of Benjamin and Bernetha Mitchell, natives of Kentucky. Our subject was the third of eleven children. On Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served his country three years. He was mustered in at Indianapolis and went to Louisville, Ky., and joined the Army of the Cumberland. The principal battles he was engaged in were Berryville, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, and was mustered out June 7, 1865. He was married to Miss Delphia Shoemaker, June 23, 1861, the daughter of Washington and Eliza Shoemaker. His father was born in Ohio and his mother in Kentucky. Mrs. Mitchell was the third of eight children, being born Feb. 1, 1841. Mr. Mitchell moved to Guthrie county, Iowa, and farmed four years; then moved to Kansas, living there three years, and moved and located on his present farm of 160 acres, in 1873. It is well fenced and watered. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Mitchell’s well-earned reputation for fair and honorable dealing has won him many warm and true-hearted friends and neighbors. They had their house burned in 1882, and had no insurance, but their kind neighbors have aided them so that he hardly feels his loss, for which he hold them in grateful remembrance.
Source: The History of Jasper County Missouri; Mills & Company
Willis Mills, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Dudenville. Prominent among the successful farmers and stock-raisers of Lincoln township is the subject of this sketch, who was born in Marion county, Ind., Sept. 30, 1838, where he was reared and educated. He is the son of Mark and Charity Mills, who had nine children, our subject being the seventh child. When he was twenty-one years of age he went to work on a farm for himself, and in 1866 he moved to Muscatine county, Iowa, and engaged in farming. He was married in Marion county, Ind., to Mary, daughter of Isaac and Ann Hawkins, who are natives of Ohio. Our subject moved to Carthage, Jasper county, Oct. 2, 1875, and rented a farm near Carthage and lived on it two years, when he moved to his present farm of 160 acres. He also has 40 acres in McDonald township, and 160 acres in Lawrence county. He has a fine two-story residence on his farm, also a splendid barn, granary, and out-buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have five children, named Rolina A., Arthur L., Cora B., Chester H., and Lester E. Mr. and Mrs. Mills are both members of the Society of Friends, and are greatly respected by all who know them.
Source: The History of Jasper County Missouri; Mills & Company
George Williams. – A splendid representative of the younger generation of thriving agriculturists of Union township, George Williams proprietor of the Fallis Stock Farm, is prominently identified with the industrial interests of his community and is conducting his farming operations with marked success. Wide-awake and industrious, he possesses much energy and excellent executive ability, and is held in high regard by his fellow-associates. A son of George Williams, Sr., he was born October 22, 1881, in Twin Grove township, Jasper county, and was there reared and educated.
George Williams, Sr., was born near Dayton, Ohio, and while yet a young man served his country as a soldier during the Civil war, enlisting in an Ohio regiment. Becoming one of the early settlers of Jasper county, Missouri, he purchased a tract of land that was practically in its original wildness, and having improved a good farm in Twin Grove township, was engaged as a tiller of the soil until his death, at the age of seventy-three years. He was a man of sterling integrity and honesty; a stanch Republican in politics; a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and belonged to the Christian church. He married Catherine Wardson, who was born in Barton county, Missouri, a daughter of John Wardson. She died when her son George was but six years old, leaving six children, of whom five now survive, as follows: Frank, Mrs. Lucy Baker, George, Fred and Mrs. Dolly Flenner.
Brought up on the home farm and educated in the district school, George Williams took kindly to agricultural labor in the days of his youth and has made farming his chief occupation in life. His estate, Fallis Stock Farm, is pleasantly located in section two, Union township, six miles southeast of Carthage, and contains one hundred and sixty acres of land, one hundred acres of it being rich bottom land. The farm is well watered, and is stocked with thoroughbred Short-Horn cattle, his herd containing some of the finest cattle in the county, and with Poland China hogs. He has a substantial residence, surrounded by shade trees of all kinds, and a large barn and a finely-bearing orchard.
At the age of nineteen years Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Ada Mottel, who was born in Brown county, Kansas, a daughter of Edward Mottel, who was of French parentage. Her parents resided in Jasper county ten years, but are now living in Alberta, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are the parents of five children, namely: Catherine, George W., Glenn, Everett and Fay.
Source: A History of Jasper County; By Joel T. Livingston; Pg 1014 – 1015
John Hinamon, farmer, post-office Jasper, son of George Hinamon, who was born in Germany in 1792, and moved to America in 1832, landing in New York City, and from there moved to Pennsylvania; then to Monroe county, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was born June 27, 1837. He was raised on a farm and worked at home until twenty-one years of age; then worked out by the month. After that enlisted in Company D, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went South; followed Price when he made his raid through Kentucky. The seige of Vickburg was the first battle he was in; was at the battle of Grand Gulf, where they captured 800 men, and Mr. Hinamon was detailed to guard the prisoners and went with them to Alton, Illinois, where they were put in the old prison. In returning to his regiment he had his leg broken, and was put upon a hospital boat, and from there was taken to the hospital at Jefferson Barracks. From there was discharged and sent back to his home in Ohio. He next engaged in farming. Was married March 15, 1866, to Amanda Farris. They have six children, named Charles M., Maud C., Guy W., Orrin G., Hattie B., and Mary M. They moved to Jasper county in 1873 and lived a few months in Carthage; then bought his present farm of eighty acres and moved upon it; has a good orchard and one good spring. Mr. Hinamon went into the stock business, before he left Ohio, and lost all that he had and came here a poor man. He now has a good farm and is comfortably situated; has made it honestly by hard work and is very highly respected by all who know him.
Source: The History of Jasper County Missouri; Mills & Company; Pg. 1002
Jonathan Hauck, post-office Jasper, farmer, was born Nov. 8, 1828, in Lebanon county, Pennsylvinia; son of Jacob Hauck, a native of the same state; his parents were born in Germany. Jonathan worked at home until twenty-five years of age, then went to Ohio. Was married to Mary Lichty; her parents were Pennsylvania Dutch. Mr. Hauck worked at coopering until 1861, and then enlisted in the Union army for about nine months; was taken sick and soon after discharged. In 1870 bought his present farm of eighty acres, which is all under cultivation; has a good orchard and fair out-buildings. His children are Anna B., born July 3, 1857, in Ohio; Anson L., born July 15, 1859, in Ohio; Catharine E., born March 26, 1862, in Ohio; Andrew J., born Feb. 17, 1866, in Illinois; and Sarah J., born Dec. 27, 1867, in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Hauck are members of the Dunkard Church, and are well liked. Mr. Hauck takes quite a prominent part in home affairs; is school director and road master.
Source: The History of Jasper County Missouri; Mills & Company; Pg. 1002 - 1003
George W. Jenkins, the leading business man of Jasper, hardware dealer, and engaged in several other enterprises; born Aug. 11, 1854. His father and mother are natives of Kentucky. When the war broke out they moved to Illinois, remaining until it closed; then removed to Kentucky; and in 1880 came to Jasper county, Mo. George staid with his parents and worked on the farm until he was twenty-two. He came to Jasper county, Mo., and farmed four years; then came to Jasper and engaged in the hardware business with H.C. Hefley. Is also buying grain and keeps a butcher shop; also trades in stock. Was married April 15, 1875, to Miss Isabel Howard. Has three children, named Mary, Rosy, and Willie.
Source: The History of Jasper County Missouri; Mills & Company; Pg. 1003
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