Was born at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, Jan'y 28, 1790, and came to St. Louis about the commencement of the War of 1812, and was appointed a Lieut. in the Regular Army. He accompanied Gov'r Clark in his expedition to Prairie du Chien, and at the close of the war was mustered out of the service.

He then went into partnership with his brother James in St. Louis until their removal to Jefferson Barracks in 1827, where a Post-office having been established, he was appointed Jan'y 31, 1828, its Postmaster, and put on a line of two horse stages for the public accommodation.

Capt. Kennerly lived on the Barracks tract of land for about forty years, with occasional intervals, his wife having purchased about 189 acres of the tract, the Captain had improved a portion of it with a farm.

Capt. Geo. Kennerly was married on Dec. 27, 1825, to Miss Alzire, a daughter of Col. Peter Menard, of Kaskaskia, Ills.

He died on Jan'y 25, 1867, at the age of 77 years, leaving his widow and a number of sons and daughters: Mary, married to Jno. S. Bowen; Abigail, married to Wm. Haines; Eliza, married to Matthew Stephenson; Louis H., Sarnuel, Peter M., Henry.

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Was born at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, Aug. 5, 1792, son of Samuel Kennerly and Mary Hancock.

He came to St. Louis in October, 1813, in partership with John O'Fallon in a cargo of Kentucky produce," Pickled Pork, Beef, Flour, &c." Which having disposed of, he became Chief Clerk of Gov'r Clark, in the U. S. Indian Office.

He was next associated with Alexander McNair in a store for some time. In 1816 James Kennerly opened a store in Clark' s new brick house on Main Street in Block now No. 10.

In 1817-18, James and Geo. H. Kennerly went into partnership in mercantile business in the same place.

In 1820 James Kennerly, having built a new brick building and residenee, next north of their former stand, removed into it, where they carried on their business for some years, Mr. Kennerly residing with his family in the upper part of the house.

Towards the close of the year 1827, when the works at the new Military post of Jefferson Barracks were approaching completion, they were appointed the Sutlers for the Post, and removed there, where James Kennerly resided for over ten years, at the end of which time, having built a stone residence at Cote Brilliante, about five miles northwest of the City, he removed to it and died there August 26, 1840, at the age of 48 years and 3 weeks.

James Kennerly was married June 10, 1817, to Miss Eliza Maria, the second daughter of Doct. Antoine Saugrain, born in Lexington, Ky., Oct. 12, 1799.

Their three children are:
Mary Larned Kennerly, born in 1820, widow of Wm. C. Taylor.
Wm Clark Kennerly born in 1825, married Florence Brooks, of Mobile, Alabama.
Harriet Clark Kennerly, born Aug. 2, 1829, married to Ed. J. Glasgow, Oct. 29, 1856.

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Claude Kilpatrick is a successful and popular real estate agent and operator, and a member of the firm Rutledge & Kilpatrick. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama, November 11, 1840, his father being Dr. Thomas J. Kilpatrick, who was practicing medicine at that period in Huntsville. His mother was, prior to her marriage, Miss Mary Gibbins.

Young Kilpatrick was educated at private school in Memphis, Tennessee, whence he came to St. Louis and entered Prof. Wyman’s University where he took a course of study. In 1864, he returned to Memphis, and for seven months served in the Quartermaster’s Department. Just after the close of the war he returned to St. Louis, and was appointed book-keeper and cashier for Jesse Arnot, ho, at the time, owned by far the finest livery establishment in the West. Mr. Kilpatrick retained this position for fourteen years, during which time he made an immense number of friends by his strict attention to business, and his courteous and affable manner.

Having given a good deal of attention in his spare time to real estate questions, and having made a few small investments, he, in the year 1854, secured a partnership in the firs of S.T. Porter & Company, which firm, in the year 1886, changed its name to Rutledge & Kilpatrick, by which it is still known. During the phenomenal but steady rise in real estate values in St. Louis, the firm of Rutledge & Kilpatrick has taken a very active part in the large transfers of property, and the method of procedure adopted by them has been so uniformly honest and straightforward, that there has never been any hesitation about reposing in them the most absolute confidence. The firm makes a specialty of the management of the estates and of the collection of rents, and Mr. Kilpatrick gives his personal attention to many of these details.

In addition to his arduous real estate duties, Mr. Kilpatrick is an active and busy club man, being a member of the St. Louis, Noon-Day and Jockey Clubs.

He married in June, 1873, Miss Dollie L. Liggett, daughter of Mr. James E. Liggett*, of the firm of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Mrs. And Mrs. Kilpatrick have two children, Elizabeth and Mary Lois. The family resides in a very handsome residence at 3645 Delmar avenue.

Correction: *Should read John E. Liggett

Son of Silvestre Labbadie, Sr., from France, and Pelagie Chouteau, was born in St. Louis, Oct. 15, 1779, the only son of his parents who lived to maturity. His father died in 1794, when he was a lad of fifteen years of age, and leaving him a competency he does not appear to have engaged in any business, until 1818-19, when house building materials being in great demand, Mr. Labbadie, with a view to give himself employment, erected an ox-mill for sawing joists, scantling, &c., at the upper end of the town on the river bank, the first one in the country, which he operated for near twenty years and then disposed of.

Mr. Labbadie was married to Victoire, daughter of Charles Gratiot, Sr., on June 25, 1807. They had three children, two of whom died at an early age, and one only, their daughter Virginia, grew to womanhood.

Mr. Labbadie died July 24, 1849, in his seventieth year, and Mrs. L., May 5, 1860, at the age of . seventy-five.

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Manufacturer, born in St. Louis April 4, 1858, and died at San Antonio, Texas, December 25, 1892. His father was John E. Liggett, one of the most famous of American tobacco manufacturers, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Shaw Calbreath. He grew up in St. Louis and was educated, in part, at Washington University, going from there to the Virginia Military Institute, and later to the Episcopal High School, at Alexandria, Virginia, where he completed his academic studies. Returning to St. Louis when he was eighteen years of age he became associated in business with his father and was soon afterward sent to San Francisco, California, to represent the interest in that city of the corporation of which the elder Liggett was the head. Later he was transferred to the Boston office of the company, and still later, on account of failing health, spent a year on a stock ranch in the mountainous section of Texas. In 1876 he again entered the home office of the company in St. Louis and was prominently identified with the conduct and management of the business, holding the responsible position of secretary, until with a couple of years of his death, when he sought a milder and more equable climate. He died at the age of thirty-three years, at a time when he had taken a conspicuous place among the younger business men of St. Louis and had begun to verify the promises of his youth. Although he was the only son of a man of large wealth, he was singularly free from the follies in many cases attendant upon similar good fortune, and from the enervating effects which wealth sometimes has upon its young possessors. He had the instincts of a man of affairs, rare judgement, a fondness for business pursuits, and a dispostion to apply himself closely, with which, however the delicate state of his health at times interfered. He felt pardonable pride in great commercial and manufacturing institution which had been built up under the control and direction of his father, and was ambitious to become the head of the greatest tobacco house in the world, an ambition which promised to be realized had his life been prolonged until his plans and powers had fully matured. Young as he was at the time of his death, he had become widely known not only as a capable man of affairs, but as a genial and accomplished gentleman, fond of refined society and hardly less devoted to literature and art than to his business pursuits. He had traveled extensively, both in this country and in Europe.

He married, in 1884, Miss Laura K. Colman, daughter of Honorable Norman J. Colman, who entered President Cleveland's cabinet as the first Secretary of Agriculture, and who is widely known also as editor of a leading agricultural journal. Of this marriage one child was born, a son, who bears the name of his grandfather, John E. Liggett, and who survives his father and grandfather.

Liggett, John Edmund - manufacturer, was born in St. Louis June II, 1826, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Foulks) Liggett. His father was a native of Londonderry, Ireland, who came to this city in his young manhood and married Elizabeth Foulks, daughter of Christopher Foulks, a New Jersey tobacconist, who came West in I818, located some time later in St. Louis, and became one of the pioneer tobacco manufacturers of the West.

John E. Liggett attended, as a boy, the first public school established in St. Louis, of which David H. Armstrong – at a later date a United States Senator from Missouri - was principal. He was under Mr. Armstrong's tutorage until he was sixteen years of age, and then pursued an advanced course of study at Kemper College Grammar School. His school days ended when he was eighteen years old, at which time he entered the employ of Mess'rs Foulks & Shaw, tobacco manufacturers, the members of this firm being respectively his maternal grandfather and stepfather. About the time he attained his majority, his grandfather retired from the firm and Mr. Liggett became a partner in the business, to which he had by this time, been thoroughly trained. Hiram Shaw & ,Co. was the style of the firm which thus came into existence until a year and a half later, when Mr. Liggett's brother, W. C. L. Liggett, purchased Mr. Shaw's interest and the firm became J.E. Liggett & Brother. At the end of five years W. C. L. Liggett sold his interest in the business to Henry Dausman, and for eighteen years !thereafter the firm was Liggett & Dausman. In 1873 Mr. Dausman's interest was purchased by George S. Myers, and thus was formed the firm of Liggett & Myers, which has acquired a celebrity equaled by few of the manufacturing tobacconists of the United States. The business was incorporated as the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Manufacturing Company in 1878, and for many years thereafter Mr. Liggett continued to be actively identified with the conduct and management of that corporation. He was one of the builders of a vast manufacturing plant which has constantly furnished employment to a great number of people and sent into the markets of the world products valued at many millions of dollars every year. This plant is the legitimate successor of the plant established by Christopher Foulks during the pioneer period of the city's history, and it may be said to be the parent of the great tobacco manufacturing industry of St. Louis. To the development and up-building of this institution, to the creation of a new industry and the establishment of a tobacco market in St. Louis, Mr. Liggett gave all the more active years of his life, and the magnificent results achieved bear testimony to the effectiveness of his labors. As president of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company he wielded a vast influence in shaping and controlling the tobacco market, and that influence was always exerted in behalf of improved products and thoroughly honorable business methods. His relations with his employees - at :times numbering more than a thousand -were always of an exceedingly pleasant character, and he missed no opportunity, apparently, to aid and encourage them to promote their prosperity. Although, by reason - of the fact that his name was coupled with a product which still finds its way into markets, he became, in the broadest sense of the term, a public man, as well as a man of large wealth, he continued to be to the end of his life, the same plain, matter-of-fact man that he was in the days when his business was small and he had no fortune. Simplicity of manner, directness of speech, sterling integrity, and genuine manliness in everything were his distinguishing characteristics. As an investor he became interested in many corporate and other enterprises in St. Louis, with some of which he was officially identified. He had large realty holdings in the city and at the time of his death which occurred November 23, 1897, he was president of the Liggett Realty Company. His estate was one of the largest which has ever been accumulated by a citizen of St. Louis - being valued in the millions -and the fact that it was accumulated entirely through his own effort, not by fortunate speculation, but by the building up of 'a great manufacturing enterprise, makes his career one to be studied with profit by young men of the present generation.

Mr. Liggett married, in 1851, Miss Elizabeth J. Calbreath, of Callaway County, Missouri, and three daughters and one son were the children born of their union. The son, Hiram S. Liggett, died in 1892. The surviving members of Mr. Liggett's family are Mrs. Liggett, and her daughters, Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick, Mrs. John Fowler and Mrs. Mitchell Scott, all of St. Louis. A thoroughly domestic man, Mr. Liggett was devoted to his home, and during the later years of his life his chief concern seemed to be to provide for the happiness and enjoyment of those endeared to him by family ties.

John Edmund Liggett, manufacturer, was born in St. Louis June 11, 1826 He attended the first public school established in St. Louis, of which David H. Armstrong was principal. He then pursued an advanced course of study at Kemper School

When he was eighteen years old he entered the employ of Foulks & Shaw, tobacco manufacturers, the members of this firm being, respectively, his maternal grandfather and stepfather. About the time he attained' his majority his .grandfather retired from the firm, and he became a partner in the business. Hiram Shaw & Co. was the style of the firm which thus came into existence, until a year and a half later, when Mr. Liggett's brother, W. C. L. Liggett, purchased Mr. Shaw's interest and the firm became J.E. Liggett & Bro. W. C. L. Liggett sold his interest to Henry Dausman, and for eighteen years thereafter the firm was Liggett & Dausman. In 1873 Mr. Dausman's interest was purchased by George S. Myers, and thus was formed the firm of Liggett & Myers. The business was incorporated as the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Manufacturing Company in 1878, and for many years thereafter Mr. Liggett continued to be actively identified with the conduct and management of that great corporation. His relations with his employees - at times numbering more than a thousand - were always of an exceedingly pleasant character, and he missed no opportunity, apparently, to aid and encourage them and to promote their prosperity.

He became interested in many corporate and other enterprises in St. Louis, with some of which he was officially identified. He had large realty holdings in the city, and at the time of his death, November 23, 1897, he was president of the Liggett Realty Company.

His estate was one of the largest ever accumulated by a citizen of St. Louis - being valued in the millions - and it was? accumulated entirely through his own effort, not by fortunate speculation, but by the building up of a great manufacturing enterprise.

Mr. Liggett married, in 1851, Miss Elizabeth J. Calbreath, of Callaway County, Missouri, and three daughters and one son were born of their union. The son, Hiram S. Liggett, died in' 1892. The surviving members of Mr. Liggett's family are Mrs. Liggett and her daughters, Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick, Mrs. John Fowler and Mrs. Mitchell Scott, all of St. Louis.

Son of Judge John B. C. Lucas, was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1792, and removed with his father to St. Louis in 1805, but was sent to Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, to receive his education, where he remained five years, and in 1811 returned to St. Louis and commenced the study of the law in the office of Colonel Rufus Easton.

At the commencement of the war in 1812 he joined a volunteer company in St. Louis, and afterwards organized with others a company of artillery, which was stationed near Portage des Seoux. His brother Robert was captain of the company, and upon his resignation Charles was commissioned to fill the vacancy. In 1814 he was admitted to the bar, and in the same year became a member of the Territorial Legislature, and was afterwards appointed United States attorney of the territory.

On September 27, 1817, he was killed by Colonel Benton is a duel on Bloody Island, opposite St. Louis, the particulars of which are given in the sketch of Colonel Benton's life.

Mr. Lucas could not have been over twenty-five years of age when this unfortunate event occurred, and, therefore, was sot old enough to have established a high reputation at the bar; but from an we can learn he was regarded as a promising young lawyer, and inherited much of the legal ability of his father.

It has frequently been asserted that upon the occasion of his duel with Colonel Benton he was seized on the ground with fear and trepidation, but this is not sustained by those who were present. On the contrary, there is ample evidence that he acted with much coolness and deliberation. That he knew that Colonel Benton was the better shot, and that in all probability the meeting would prove fatal to him, is clearly evidenced by the following letter, written the day before their first meeting, and which, after his death, was found among his papers:

“St. Louis, August 11, 1817

"Dear Father: Embarked as I am in a hazardous enterprise, the issue of which you will know before you see this, I am under the necessity of bidding you, my brothers, sister, friends, adieu. May my brothers and sisters procure to you that consolation which I cannot. * * * I request my brothers William and James to pursue their studies with assiduity, preserving peace and good-will with all good men. Father, sister, brothers, and friends —farewell.: Signed Charles Lucas.”

This meeting, however, resulted simply in the wounding of both, and Mr. Lucas became so weak from the loss of blood that it became necessary to postpone the fight to another day; and they again met on September 27th following, when Mr. Lucas fell at the first shot, and died within an hour. After he fell, Colonel Benton approached him and expressed his regret at what had occurred, when Mr. Lucas extended to him his hand, saying, "I forgive you, I forgive you.” The correspondence between them, and the particulars of the meeting, will be seen more at large in the sketch of Mr. Benton's life.

The death of Mr. Lucas was a serious loss to the profession, not only on account of his exalted character, but because he was rapidly rising as a lawyer.

Five of his brothers met death by violence.

Was born in the City of Metz, Loraine, France, June 18, 1767, he was the son of John Maclot de Coligny and Anne Marguerite Francoise Joly de Morney. When a yonng man about of age, he came to Paris during the troublous times preceding the breaking out of the Revolution, and soon found himself one of the hundreds that were almost daily incarcerated in the Bastile for their political views and sentiments. After a brief imprisonment he obtained his release and immediately left France and crossed over to London. Here having been always fond of jewelry, he learnt the business as a means of support, and worked at it for some years, he then crossed the Ocean to the United States and spent some years in Philadelphia.

In the year 1804 he came to St. Louis with a Stock of Goods and embarked in Mercantile business.

On August 16, 1806, Mr. Maclot was married to Miss Marie Therese, third daughter of Mr. Charles Gratiot, Sr.

Early in the year 1809, after the Town of Herculaneum, thirty-two miles below St. Louis, in Jefferson County, had been laid out by Austin and Bates and had gotten a start, Mr. M. commenced the erection on the high cliff at the south end of the village, of a tower for the manufacture of patent shot and bar lead, the first shot works west of the Alleghany mountains. The works were sufficiently advanced to commence making shot in November of the same year 1809

In 1811, his works being? completed and in successful operation, Mr. Maclot purchased a farm adjoining his lead works, built a good residence on it, and removed with his wife and young children to that place so as to oversee his business. He remained here nearly four years. In the winter of 1814-15, his wife being extremely i11, to obtain better service and attention, he took her down to St. Genevieve by water, then the only means of conveyance: Mrs. M. died there Feb. 26, 1815, aged 27 years, leaving two little daughters, one Julia Zelina, born April 13, 1808, then nearly 7 years of age; the other, Virginia Elizabeth, born July 23, 1814, about seven months.

After the death of Mrs. M., Mr. Maclot left the? two children with their grandparents, the Gratiots, in St. Louis, and descended to New Orleans on his way around to Philadelphia.

The oldest child, when at a suitable age, was married to Henry A. Thomson, U.S. Army, at Baltimore, both deceased, leaving a number of children.

The youngest, Virginia, married Jan'y 31, 1837, to Peter A. Berthold, St. Louis.

In 1819 Mr. John N. Maclot married a second wife in Phil'a, Emelie Mathieu, born Feb. 15, 1791, then 28 years of age.

Their only son, Louis A., born Nov. 16, 1821, died Dec. 16, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa, aged 44, unmarried.*

John N. died April 16, 1849, at Davenport, Iowa, aged 83 years.

Mrs. Jno. N. died Jan'y 26, 1872, at St. Louis, aged 81.

They raised two daughters to become married ladies, both now deceased, Mrs . Wallace and Mrs. Weston.

* With the death of Louis A., the name of Maclot became extinct, his uncles in Europe having died without male heirs.

Charles Chouteau Maffitt, one of the chief representatives of the iron mining and manufacturing interests of Missouri, and who has been prominent also in the politics of the State, was born in St. Louis February 17, 1852, son of Dr. William and Julia (Chouteau) Maffitt. His father was Dr. William Maffitt, who belonged to an old Virginia family, and came to St. Louis as a Surgeon of the United States Army, to which he was attached for many years, serving with distinction on the staff of General Winfield S. Scott, and also on the staff of General William J. Worth. The mother of Charles C. Maffitt was Miss Julia Chouteau before her marriage, and through this maternal lineage he is descended from the oldest of St. Louis families and the founder of the city. His father died in St. Louis in 1864, and his mother, who lived to a ripe, old age, and was universally revered for her many acts of beneficence, died in 1897.

Mr. Maffitt was educated at Seton Hall College, of South Orange, New Jersey, and at Washington University, of St. Louis. After completing his academic studies, he turned his attention at once to business pursuits, becoming identified first with the Chouteau, Harrison & Valle Iron Company, in which his family was largely interested. Evidencing his capacity for the conduct of affairs in this connection, he became vice-president of the corporation, and later succeeded to the presidency of one of the largest iron manufacturing establishments in the West, a position which he still retains. Closely allied with this enterprise is the Iron Mountain Company, and of this corporation he is also president. Having large resources at his command, and, having both the ability and the disposition to utilize these resources for the advancement of the interests of St. Louis, he has been and still is a man of numerous and varied activities. As president of the Forest Park, Laclede Avenue and Fourth Street railroad, he contributed to the development of the present street railway facilities of the city, and other important enterprises with which he has been connected are the St. Louis Union Stock Yards Company, of which he was formerly president; the Helena & New Orleans Transportation Company, of which he was also president for a time; the Merchants' Terminal Company, in which he was a director; the Columbian Excursion Company, of which he is now president; the St. Louis Land and Improvement Company, of which the is treasurer; and the State Bank of St. Louis and the Bell Telephone Company, in both of which corporations he is a director. An important trust devolved upon him at the death of his mother, and, in company with his brother, P. C. Maffitt, he is now charged with the care and conservation of her large estate. He has always taken a warm interest in promoting the welfare of the St. Louis Fair Association, and has served as president of the association, an office which he resigned in 1896. A natural fondness for horses has made him one of the chief promoters of race meetings at the fair grounds, and he is recognized as one of the best informed men in the State concerning the lineage and records of race horses, the rules of racing associations and everything pertaining to what has been aptly termed "the sport of kings."

In politics he has been conspicuous among the leading manufacturers of the country for his consistent advocacy of a tariff for revenue only, and his opposition to the high protection views formerly entertained by nearly all the iron manufacturers of the United States. A believer in tariff reform, as well as in other cardinal principles of the Democratic party, he has taken a prominent part in politics and political campaigns of Missouri, and for several years prior to I896 served as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of this State. In 1884 he sat in the convention which nominated President Cleveland, at Chicago, as one of the district delegates from Missouri and in 1892 he was one of the delegates-at-large from this State to the Democratic National Convention. In 1896 he condemned the plank in the Democratic national platform, adopted at Chicago, which favored the free and unlimited coinage of silver and, not being in harmony with his party in that campaign, declined to act longer as chairman of its State’s Campaign Committee in Missouri. As a political manger, however, he had previously achieved marked distinction, his executive ability, tact and sagacity being no less clearly demonstrated in that field of business enterprise. He has seemed, however, to have no fondness for either the honors or emoluments of office, and has in the past, declined numerous offers of political preferment.

Alvah Mansur, manufacturer, was born December 5, 1833, in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died at Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1898. His parents were Alvah and Elizabeth (Wood) Mansur, and his father, who went from the little town of Wilton, New Hampshire, to the city of Lowell, was a manufacturer of woolens in that city, and prominent in many enterprises in its early history. William Mansur, his great-grandfather, was one, of the pioneer settlers at Wilton, where he purchased land some time prior to 1772, in what was then a wilderness. This William Mansur was a native of Massachusetts, born in what was then an English colony in 1742, and married there to Isabelle Harvey. In the town minutes of Wilton, bearing date of April 19, 1775, his name appears as one of fifty-six men who marched from Wilton to Cambridge on the occasion of the Lexington alarm. He served in the Revolutionary War, and at its close returned to Wilton, where he died in 1814. His son, Stephen Mansur, born at Wilton in 1773, married Hannah Felt, and died in Wilton in 1865. Alvah Mansur, the son of this Stephen, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Wilton, March 25, 1801, married Elizabeth Wood in 1829, and died in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1840. The mother of our subject was a native of Massachusetts, and belonged to a family which has been represented in that State through several generations. Reared in Lowell, Alvah Mansur, so well known to the people of St. Louis, obtained his rudimentary education in the public schools, and was fitted for Harvard University at Phillips Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, under the preceptorship of the noted educator, Samuel H.Taylor. The bent of his mind being toward a business career, he did not enter college, but leaving his native city while still a youth, he accepted a clerkship in a wholesale hardware house in New York City. After remaining in the employ of this house for three years he came west, and embarked in the wholesale hardware trade at Moline, Illinois, and was engaged in that business until 1859. The financial panic of 1857 had the effect of demoralizing his business somewhat, and as a result he concluded to go further west, and in 1859 crossed the plains and went to Pike's Peak in search of gold. The result of this trip was disappointing, and before the close of the year he returned to Moline, enriched by nothing save his experience. He then entered the employ of John Deere, the pioneer steel, plow manufacturer of the West, and was connected with that establishment when the Civil War began. In response to President Lincoln's call for troops for the suppression of the rebellion, he raised a company, which was enlisted for the three months' service, and later was mustered into the three-years' service, as a member of Company H of the Nineteenth Illinois Regiment. He served with this regiment in the Army of the Cumberland, and at the end of the first year was commissioned first lieutenant of his company. He was also on General Negley's staff for a time, and as a soldier had a record no less enviable than was his business record in later years.

At the close of the war he went to Colorado, and for four years thereafter engaged in mining in the Rocky Mountain region, meeting with fair success in that field of enterprise. In 1869 he returned to Moline, and forming a co-partnership with his old employer, Mr. Deere, arranged to open an agricultural implement house in Kansas City, Missouri. The business of this firm was conducted with great success under the name of Deere, Mansur & Co., and in 1874 the house was opened under the same name, and with the same parties at interest, in St. Louis. Both these establishments were conducted under the supervision of Mr. Mansur until 1890, when he sold his interest in the Kansas City house and purchased Mr. Deere's' interest in the St. Louis house, in the conduct and management of which he associated with himself Mr. L. B. Tebbetts, his brother-in-law. Thus was brought into existence the Mansur & Tebbetts Implement Company, of which Mr. Mansur became president, and which became one of the most famous commercial institutions of its kind in the West. While conducting these mercantile establishments, he had also been interested in one of the greatest manufactories in the country, having associated himself with Charles H. Deere in 1877, at Moline, Illinois, in the manufacture of agricultural implements. This business had been conducted under the name of the Deere & Mansur Company, Mr. Mansur being vice president of the corporation and a very large owner of its stock. Both his manufacturing and merchandising operations were phenomenally successful, and as his fortune increased he became interested in many other enterprises, among them being the American Exchange Bank of St. Louis, the St. Louis Trust Company, and the Crystal Plate Glass Company, with all of which he was officially connected. He was also a director in the St. Louis Fair Association, was an active member of the Commercial Club of this city, which he served as vice-president, a member of the St. Louis Club and of the Noonday Club, and president of the Forest Park Improvement Association. He had always a warm feeling of comradeship for those with whom he served in the Civil War, and was a member of Ransom Post of the Grand Army of the Republic of St. Louis, and of the Missouri Commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion.

October 1, 1863, he married Miss Angeline P. Blackington, of Pennsylvania, who died March 17, 1870, leaving one child, Nellie Blackington Mansur, born July 15, 1864. November 20,1889, his daughter married George J. Kaime, of St. Louis, and the children born of their union were Catharine Mansur Kaime, born October 5, 1890; Laura Sherburne Kaime, born January 8, 1893, and Alvah Mansur Kaime, born August 27, 1897. Mrs. Kaime died November 10, 1897, at her home in St. Louis .

Son of Andrew Michau, master saddler, and wife, Marie Louise Baiileul, born in Cross Street, of Little Fields, Paris, Friday, March 27, 1739, and Jeanne Genevieve Rosalie, daughter of Jean Francois Chevallier, master painter, and wife Genevieve Francoise Chavard, born in Baiileul Street, Paris, Sunday, July 16, 1752, were married in that city in 1775, where they continued to reside for the next fifteen years, and where all their children but one wore born.

In the year 1790 Mr. Michau, with his family of wife, two sons and three daughters, came over to the United States with the emigration from that city to establish themselves at Galliopolis, Ohio, where they arrived in the fall of that year and located themselves. Here they resided for the next ten years, during which a third son was born to them, and the eldest daughter, Rosalie, was married.

In May, 1791, Mr. Michau, being a well educated man, was appointed by Winthrop Sargeant, the secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory, a justice of the peace. His commission is dated at Galliopolis May 7 of that year. In the year 1800 the two families, Michau and Saugrain, came together to St. Louis and became permanent residents of the place. Their children were :

1. Genevieve Rosalie, born July 23, 1776 ; married March 20, 1793, at Galliopolis, to Doct. Antoine F. Saugrain.
2. Marie Eleonore, born November 20, 1777; died September 1, 1818, at St. Louis.
5. Sophia Mary, born February 22, 1786 ; married Decembcr 24, 1805, at St. Louis, to Dr. John Hamilton Robinson ;
3. John Alexander, born July 4, 1781.
4. Melchior Ainand Fidele, born July 4, 1783. 6. Antoiue Aristide, born July 17, 1792.

Mr. John Michau, Sr., died in St. Louis, June 29, 1819, aged eighty-one years. His wife, Mrs. John Michau, Sr.*, had died at Galliopolis, date not preserved.

Thomas Anthony, Moore Jr.*, lumber merchant; born St. Louis, Oct. 15, 1867; son of Thomas A. and Clara (Pilcher) Moore; educated in St. Louis public schools; married, St. Louis, Apr. 10, 1895, Rebecca Tebbetts. Began business career in 1882, as cash boy, with William Barr Dry Goods Co., later was press room boy with Woodward, Tieman & Hale, printers, office boy for Fullerton & Post, lawyers, and collector for A. Judlin & Co., real estate, until 1885; secretary to H. W. Gays, general manager Wiggins Ferry Co., 1885-93; then in claim department, St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. and bookkeeper for Swift & Co., St. Louis and Chicago, 1893-95; city agent, Ætna Life Insurance Co., and part of time with DeCamp & Yule, St. Louis, 1895-99; proprietor of the Moore Lumber and Mill Co., from May, 1899, to Dec., 1902; vice-president Colonial Lumber & Timber Co. from Dec., 1902, to Dec., 1904; since then, proprietor The Moore Co., wholesale hardwoods, cypress, yellow pine and coast lumber and shingles. Republican. Christian Scientist. Member Hoo Hoo (vice gerent Snark for two years, commencing Sept., 1903) ; secretary of the Yellow Piners. Clubs: Mercantile, St. Louis Athletic Assn. Favorite recreation: golf. Office: Fullerton Bldg. Residence: 3700 Lindell Boul.

Note:Thomas was not a junior. His father was Thomas Anderson Moore. It is believed that his middle name Anthony was given him in honor of his mother's great grandmother Elizabeth Anthony (1769-1826); wife of William Ballard.

Note: See Marriage Notice "Married & Parted"

Born in Scotland, December 25, 1790, lived for some time in Pittsburgh, Penn'a. He married Miss Margaret Morrison, in Allegheny City, and came to St. Louis with his family in 1818, and entered into partnership with Philip Rocheblave, as Carpenters and Builders. About the year 1823 he formed a connection with Joseph C. Laveille in the same line which continued for some ten years until 1834, from which period Mr. Morton' s business was speculating in Town lots, of which he purchased and sold a large number.

Their five daughters were:
Ellen, married first to Alfred Tracy, and secondly to Doct. Meredith Martin.
Margaret M. married to Wm. P. Harrison, of Hannibal, Missouri; died Feb'y 27, 1852, aged 33 years.
Mary Smith, married to Edwin C. Sloan, St. Louis.
Christiana, married to Joseph S. Sloan, St. Louis.
Sophia, married to Charles F. Tracy, St. Louis.
And one son, Peter G., who died unmarried in New Orleans, Sept. 9, 1853, aged 26 years.

George Morton, died in St. Louis Jan'y 9, 1865, aged 74 years.
Mrs. Margaret Morton, died Aug't 21, 1859, aged 65 years.

Born at Mulberry Grove, near Louisville, Kentucky, the residence of his uncle, Jonathan Clark, on Nov'r 17, 1791. His father, Doct. James O'Fallon, born at Athlone, Ireland, of a very ancient family, had served under Washington as a surgeon in the Continental Army; his mother was Francis Clark, the youngest sister of Gen'ls Geo. Rogers and William Clark, born at Mulberry Hill near Louisville, the residence of her father, John Clark, Sen'r. They were married in 1790. Doct. O'Fallon died in Louisville in 1793, leaving two sons, John, two years of age, and Benjamin, an infant.

Mrs. O'Fallon's second husband ,was Cha's M. Thruston, of Louisville, by whom she had two sons and two daughters; and her third, Judge Dennis Fitzhugh, of Virginia, by whom she had one daughter. She survived the three for several years.

When of a proper age John was sent to school at an Academy at Danville, Kentucky. In 1810 he went to Louisville to complete his education, and his brother Benjamin came to St. Louis to stay with his guardian, his uncle Gen'l ,William Clark, and went to school in St. Louis.

In the fall of 1811 Jno. O'Fallon, then 20 years of age, marched with the mounted Kentucky Volunteers, under Col. Jos. Davies, to the Indian Towns on the Wabash River, and was severely wounded at the battle of Tippecanoe, where Col. Davies was killed. After the battle he went to St. Louis, remaining with his uncle until well.

In Sept., 1812, he was appointed an Ensign in the first U. S. Infantry. In January, 1813, he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. In May, Aid-de-camp and acting Adjutant-General at the siege of Fort Meigs. In August, 1813, to 1st Lieut. 24th U. S. Infantry. March, 1814, Captain in the 2d U. S. Rifle Regiment. And resigned July 31, 1818, at Mackinaw.

After he left the army he settled in St. Louis and commenced business as a contractor for army supplies, &c., &c.

He was twice married, first, in 1821, to Miss Harriet Stokes, an English lady, who died Feb. 14, 1826, and secondly, on March 15, 1827, to Miss Caroline Sheets, from Baltimore.

During his long residence in our community Col. O'Fallon was one of our most prominent and public spirited men, filling many positions of trust, and exercising great influence with the people.

He died Dec. 17, 1865, at the age of 74 years, leaving four sons and an only daughter, Caroline, who was the wife of the late Doct. Chas. Pope.

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