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At the age of twenty he be himself in a small til grocers, ya. h he conducted for four years. At twent, i ur years of age he founded a wholesale gro cery house, with a cash capital of $5,000, Since that time he has devote all his en ergies to the building of this business, which is now the most extensive of its kni in southwest Missouri. From the small ginning noted above he has built up, in * IA years, a business representing a present vestment of $15.00, and his annual sales amount to halt a million dollars. A splendid building of brick, with gray stope ront, was begun by him in 1867, and occupied by his business in 1898. Its cost was, approximately, $30,000, but in many cities nearly double the amount would have been necessary to defray the cost of its erection. It is said' by good judges to be one of the finest buil 1ings for the purpose for which it was designed in the United States. In addition to conducting his wholesale house, which is the pioneer of its kind in southwest Missouri, Mr. Haas is also the local agent of the famous Anheuser-Busch Brewery, of St. Louis, handling a large amount of its goods annually. A Republican in politics, he is greatly attached to his party, but has never sought or held a public office. He is unmarried.

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the name of the St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, and the management was confided to Mr. Haarstick's hands. Since that time his views and judgment have been the dominating power in the conduct of a business which has made St. Louis one of the principal export grain markets of the country. He has worthily filled the office of president of the Commercial Club, the most influential private organization of the central West; he is the vice president of the St. Louis Trust Company, president of the Compton Heights Improvement Company, president of the Compton Heights Railway Company, director in the Lindell Railway Company, and was president of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange during one of its most prosperous years. He married, in 1861, Miss Elsie Hoppe, a lady well suited in every way to become the wife of such a man, as kindly and charitable as her husband, and a most worthy and estimable

woman.

Haarstick, William T., identified with grain-trade and transportation interests of St. Louis, was born May 11, 1865, son of Henry C. and Elise (Hoppe) Haarstick. He was educated at Smith's Academy, of St. Louis, and at the Boston School of Technology. After leaving school he was taken into his father's office and was made familiar with the details of the business of the St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company. He was an apt pupil, and a born merchant, and as a result he was soon in possession of the confidence of the elder Haarstick, and became his efficient lieutenant. In 1894 he was elected vice president of the St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, and ably seconded his father, at times taking entire charge of the business. As an operator on 'Change he has been conspicuous for his sagacity. As vice president of the St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company he has represented his father in all his important business transactions for the past six years, and he is also a director of the Bank of Commerce. He is not a politician, but is one of the ardent and enthusiastic young Republicans of St. Louis.

Haas, Edward, wholesale merchant, was born December 2, 1865, in St. Louis, Mis

souri, son of Benjamin and Julia (Schulehause) Haas, both of whom were natives of Germany, the father having been born in Berlin. Both parents are still living in Neosho, Missouri, where the father is conducting an extensive hide, leather and commission business. When he was three years of age Edward Haas accompanied his parents to Neosho, and that place has ever since been his home. There he attended the public schools until he reached the age of twelve years, when he secured employment as driver of a delivery wagon for a retail grocery store, receiving for his services $1.50 a week. Three years later he began clerking in a retail grocery store, and worked for two years at a salary of $20 per month. During the three succeeding years he received $30 per month for his services as bookkeeper in the dry goods store of the McElhany Mercantile Company, of Neosho. At the age of twenty he began business for himself in a small retail grocery, which he conducted for four years. At twenty-four years of age he founded a wholesale grocery house, with a cash capital of $5,000. Since that time he has devoted all his energies to the upbuilding of this business, which is now the most extensive of its kind in southwest Missouri. From the small beginning noted above he has built up, in ten years, a business representing a present investment of $115,000, and his annual sales amount to halt a million dollars. A splendid building of brick, with gray stone front, was begun by him in 1897, and occupied by his business in 1898. Its cost was, approximately, $30,000, but in many cities nearly double the amount would have been necessary to defray the cost of its erection. It is said' by good judges to be one of the finest buildings for the purpose for which it was designed in the United States. In addition to conducting his wholesale house, which is the pioneer of its kind in southwest Missouri, Mr. Haas is also the local agent of the famous Anheuser-Busch Brewery, of St. Louis, handling a large amount of its goods annually. A Republican in politics, he is greatly attached to his party, but has never sought or held a public office. He is unmarried.

Hackemeier, Franz, who has been. known to the people of St. Louis both as a merchant and philanthropist, was born in

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