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15, 1868. Mr. Haines was born July 5, 1843, at Xenia, Ohio, son of David T. and Deborah (Sever) Haines. He was educated at Muncie, Indiana, to which place his parents had removed. When he first moved to western Missouri and located in the city where he now resides, and where his interests have been for so many years, the metropolis of that part of the State was but a promising infant, with little to indicate that it would assume its present great proportions. The Kansas City Board of Trade was organized in 1872, and was an institution entirely distinct from the Merchants' Exchange, which it absorbed. Mr. Haines, a commission merchant of Kansas City, was the prime mover in the effort looking toward the organization of a board that should hold daily meetings and promote the growth of the city as a commercial and grain center. The call for the first meeting, with the end in view of establishing a board of trade, was issued by Mr. Haines, after he had consulted with other leading business men, and the initial meeting was at the City Hotel, corner of Fifth and May Streets. On the following day, at the old city hall, an adjourned meeting was held at Fourth and Main Streets, and an organization was perfected. General W. H. Powell was elected president; A. S. Haines, secretary, and Junius Chaffee, treasurer. From that time to the present, daily meetings have been held. Up to the date of the organization of the board, a number of grain firms had been established, and a board of trade was considered an essential feature in the building up of what has grown to be one of the important grain centers of the country. Among the first members of the board were Michael Flynn, Junius Chaffee, A. L. Charles, W. C. Brannum, A. S. Haines, James Marsh, W. H. Powell, R. C. Crowell, S. B. Armour, H. J. Latshaw, Robert Quade, J. A. Dewar and F. B. Nofsinger. The board occupied various locations during the early days of its existence. The present handsome structure at Eighth and Wyandotte Streets was completed in 1888. Mr. Haines was a pioneer in the produce commission business of Kansas City, being located at the foot of Grand Avenue and the levee. He was married June 15, 1865, to Miss Emma J. Winton, daughter of Dr. Robert Winton, of Muncie, Indiana. The surviving children born of this union are Robert T. Haines, the well known

actor; Charles G. Haines, partner with his father, and Maude, wife of J. M. Bernardin, of Kansas City. Mrs. Haines died August 22, 1893, and Mr. Haines married, September 26, 1894, Mrs. Carrie C. Hanna, of Kansas City. Mr. Haines was reared a Quaker. Politically he has always been a Republican. His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln.

Hale.—An incorporated village in Hurricane Township, Carroll County, twenty-three miles northeast of Carrollton, on the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Railroad. It was laid out in 1833. It has four churches, a good public school, two banks, a creamery, brick works, two hotels, a gristmill, a newspaper, the "Hale Hustler," and about thirty business houses. Population, 1899 (estimated), 1,000.

Hale, George C., chief of the Kansas City fire department, and inventor, was born in Colton, St. Lawrence County, New York, October 28, 1849. The name of Hale is illustrious in both English and American history. Every schoolboy knows of Sir Matthew Hale, the foe of corrupt practice and the great light of English law, and of Nathan Hale, who gave his young life for his country. George C. Hale is reflecting luster upon the name, and has an international reputation. He went to Kansas City when he was fourteen years old, having acquired the elements of a common school education in his native State. He obtained a situation with the manufacturing firm of Lloyd & Leland, where, by his devotion to the tasks assigned to him, he was raised from the position of shop boy and put in charge of the engine that furnished motive power for the shops. His ready mind soon made him master of every detail. He is a natural mechanic, able to duplicate any machinery he sees. In 1866 he took charge of the machinery used in building the great bridge that spans the Missouri River at Kansas City, and remained until the ceremonial over its completion, July 4, 1869. He then went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and for four years was in the employ of the Great Western Manufacturing Co., at that place. He returned to Kansas City in 1873, and since then has been connected with the fire department of that city. What Edison has done for light and communication, Hale has

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done for the subjugation of fires. He believes in the homely adage, “A stitch in time saves nine," and has devoted all the energies of his highly practical mind to facilitating speed in arriving at the point of danger. He is the genius of fire chiefs, and is intelligent, active, energetic, fearless and thoroughly self-possessed in emergencies. methods of fighting fires are scientific. He is firm and considerate, but his subordinates love to obey his commands. The Hale rotary engine is one of his inventions and is highly recommended by the United States Navy. His devices for hitching horses quickly have wrought revolution in all fire departments, and the Hale swinging harness reduces the time of hitching to two seconds. The Hale horse cover shields the horse from the weather, dirt and pestiferous flies, and is removed instantly by automatic means. This device keeps the horse clean and preserves his strength and spirit. Hale's cellar pipe is a device for throwing water into the unexposed parts of buildings, such as cellars, basements, between floors and ceilings, distributing a sheet of water sixty feet wide through a small opening. It is effectual in lumber yard fires, since it forces a sheet of water through the lumber. He has also invented a tin roof cutter and an electric wire cutter. His improved telephone fire alarm system is of immense utility. His water tower, so simple that one man can operate it, carries water to the upper stories of buildings, and concentrates several streams which it sends against the flames with crashing force. His latest invention is an apparatus to give an instant alarm of fire in any part of of a large building. It is an apparatus by which the graphophone is combined with a telephone, by which the knowledge of an incipient fire is immediately announced at Wires headquarters by the human voice. connect the ceiling with a graphophone charged previously with the message. A rise of temperature causes the apparatus to act automatically, and the message is instantly communicated through the telephone to the engine houses, and in a few seconds the proper means of subduing the fire is speeding toward the point of danger. Space and time are overcome, and a sleepless eye is watching over our lives and property like a universal guardian. Mr. Hale is in the prime of life, and the possibilities of the good

work he may yet accomplish lie beyond our conceptions. conceptions. When one analyzes what such a man as George C. Hale has accomplished for the good of the race, the fabled deeds of the Argonauts sink into insignificance, and Shakespeare's words have a deeper meaning: "How wonderful is man!" Mr. Hale's friends presented him with one of the finest firemen's badges in the world. It consists of a shield of dark blue enamel caught in the claws of an eagle, suspended from a gold fire ladder, between the rungs of which is the name of G. C. Hale. In the edge of the shield are sixtytwo diamonds, and in the center is a revolving star studded with twenty-six diamonds. From the upper corner of the shield two firemen's trumpets are suspended, and on the ground work of the shield is inscribed "Chief K. C. F. D." The star is made to revolve by means of a Swiss movement, running four hours. In 1893, with a company of twelve firemen, with horses and apparatus, Mr. Hale participated in an international fireman's tournament in London, winning all first prizes. In 1900 the same crew achieved especial distinction in the international tournament at Paris. Mr. Hale married, June 8, 1880, Miss Lucretia Cannady, daughter of William Cannady, of Muncie, Indiana. They have one child, a daughter, Minnie Hale.

Hale, John Blackwell, lawyer, soldier and member of Congress, was born in what is now Hancock County, West Virginia, February 27, 1831. He received a common school education, and after studying law came to Missouri and made Carrollton his home. In 1856 he was elected to the Legislature and served two years. In 1860 he was a presidential elector on the Douglas ticket, and on the outbreak of the Civil War, the following year, he entered the Union service and served as colonel in the Missouri militia.

In 1864 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and again in 1868; and in 1872 he was an elector on the Greeley and Brown ticket. In 1875 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1884 was elected to Congress from the Second Missouri District, as a Democrat, by a vote of 20,204 to 15,749 for Norville, Republican.

Hales, John Ross, lawyer, was born in Clayton County, Iowa, July 17, 1856, son of John and Jane (Moody) Hales, both natives

of Ohio. His father is a son of John Hales, also a native of Ohio and a descendant of English ancestry. His mother is a daughter of James Moody, a native of New Jersey, who removed to Ohio early in the nineteenth century. Our subject's father, who was a farmer by occupation, removed to McGregor, Iowa, in 1850, and fifteen years later removed to the farm in Van Buren County, Iowa, where he still resides. The education of John R. Hales was begun in the public schools of Clayton County, Iowa, and continued in Van Buren County, in the same. State. After teaching school for several terms in the last named county, he pursued a three years' course in the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1877. After teaching a year or two longer, he began the study of law in the office of Knapp & Beaman, at Keosauqua, Iowa. While thus engaged failing health compelled him to go West, and for two years he remained in Nevada. Upon his return to Iowa he spent one year as a clerk in a store, after which he entered the law department of the Iowa State University at Iowa City, from which he was graduated in the class of 1888. In the same year he was admitted to the bar in Iowa City. In 1889 he located in Rich Hill, Missouri, where he has since remained in the practice of his profession. His first partnership was with C. A. Clark, but since 1890 he has been associated with George Templeton. Mr. Hales has always been a staunch Republican, and that party has frequently nominated him for office. In 1894 he was the nominee for the State Senate, and though the district gives a normal Democratic plurality of 2,000, he was defeated by the very narrow margin of 185 votes. Mr. Hales was married October 9, 1899, to Harriet Reed, of Nevada, Missouri, formerly of Henry Township, Vernon County. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The firm of Templeton & Hales is the acknowledged head of the bar of Rich Hill. They are the attorneys for the Farmers' and Manufacturers' Bank, of Rich Hill, and other large corporations, and their success has given them. a rank among the leaders of the legal profession in southwest Missouri.

Haley, Thomas Preston, an eminent divine and author, was born April 19, 1832,

near Lexington, Kentucky. His parents were Benjamin and Eliza (Carver) Haley, both born near the birthplace of their son, the father being of Irish parentage, and the mother descended from a Pilgrim family of New England. Thomas Preston Haley began his education in the country schools of Randolph County, Missouri, and was prepared for college at Huntsville, Missouri, under the tuition of Barton W. Anderson, a distinguished Baptist minister, and Professor Asa N. Grant, a graduate of the Missouri State University. He entered the last named institution under the presidency of Dr. James Shannon, and completed the academic course in 1854. He was not graduated from the university, but completed the greater part of the course, with the exception of mathematics, then the standard. While acquiring his education he was at intervals engaged in teaching in order to defray his expenses. At the age of seventeen years he began to teach in a public school, and for nearly two years he was an assistant in the preparatory academy in Huntsville, Missouri. In his twenty-second year he was ordained to the ministry of the Christian Church, and for two years following he was a missionary pastor in northwest Missouri. In 1857 he was settled as pastor at Richmond, Missouri, at the same. time acting as president of the Richmond Female Academy. Late in 1858 he was settled as pastor at Lexington, Missouri, where he remained until nearly the end of the Civil War, without suffering serious molestation from either of the parties to the strife. While residing there he held meetings in various portions of the State, and made a wide reputation as a successful evangelist. In the fall of 1864 he became pastor of the Second Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and for five years performed an eminently successful work, and attracted national attention. In 1869 he was obliged to resign his charge on account of a throat ailment, and he bought a farm near Platte City, Missouri, and there made his home. Having soon derived improvement from the change he became pastor of the Christian Church at Platte City, and also accepted the position of agent of the church in Missouri for the establishment of the Missouri Female Orphan School of the Christian Church, an institution in which hundreds of the class for whom it was founded have been educated and

prepared for usefulness. On the completion of this work he was called to California to establish a church of his denomination in San Francisco, and another in the neighboring city of Oakland. Returning to Missouri, he located at St. Joseph, and while there built the First Christian Church, one of the handsomest and most commodious religious edifices in that city. After a ministry of three years he was called to the pastorate of the First Christian Church in St. Louis, where he labored successfully for five years. Late in 1881 he was called to the First Christian Church in Kansas City, and occupied the pastorate until 1894, when he resigned, and in the same year made a second extensive tour of central and southern Europe. Soon after his return home he became pastor of the Springfield Avenue Christian Church, of Kansas City, to which he continues to minister, serving without salary, and with little compensation beyond the consciousness of doing good. While well advanced in years, a superb physique and a well-ordered life have preserved to him unimpaired physical and mental vigor, and his work is at once useful and honorable in various ministerial and kindred lines. In all his long ministerial life of more than forty-six years, he has enjoyed the unusual privilege of being continuously employed, save during a brief illness, and that, too, without seeking place in a single instance. As pulpiteer and author he is recognized throughout the country as one of the most eloquent and able exponents of Bible truths, and of the tenets of his denomination. At various times leading institutions have proferred him degrees in recognition of his scholarly abilities, but these he has persistently declined, out of deference to the repugnance of this church to such titles. Notwithstanding, the title of "Doctor" is habitually applied to him throughout the State. His literary work began but little later than did his ministerial labors. In 1858 he published a small volume, "The Communion Question." While stationed at Louisville, Kentucky, he contributed a sermon to a volume entitled "The Living Pulpit," published by W. T. Moore, of Cincinnati, Ohio. His sermon on "The One Foundation" attracted wide attention, and gave to its author a place among the prominent ministers of the church. He also frequently contributed articles to leading denominational

journals. While in San Francisco he published a weekly magazine called "The Evangelist," which was circulated gratuitously through the generosity of a friend. During his St. Louis pastorate he contributed a portion of a volume on the "Catholic Question," published published by the Chambers Publishing House. He was one of the founders of the "Christian," a denominational journal at Kansas City, and the first Christian weekly published in the State. After its consolidation with the "Evangelist," the organ of the church in Missouri, he continued to make frequent contributions. In 1888 he published a volume entitled "The Dawn of the Reformation," which has had extensive sale, and is yet in steady demand. Somewhat later he published another volume, "Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Churches and Deceased Ministers of Missouri." His last work for the press is his article on the "Christian Church," in the "Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri." All his literary work is marked by clearness and forcefulness, and on occasion his passages abound in real eloquence. In his church his abilities have been recognized by appointment to various positions of honor, as well as of usefulness. He has presided over several national conventions of the Christian Church. He was president of the State Board of Missions for twenty-five consecutive years, ending with the last convention, when he resigned, and he is yet a member of the Board of Church Extension, and of the General Ministers' Alliance, of Kansas City, and in the latter body has held every position which could be conferred. His active interest in charity work is attested by his long connection with the Humane Society, of Kansas City, with the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and with the National Prison Association. In 1897 he was appointed by Governor Lon V. Stephens to membership on the State Board of Charities, a position which he yet occupies. In politics he is a Democrat, but was unable to accept Mr. Bryan's financial theories, and supported Mr. McKinley for the presidency. He was married in 1855, at Fayette, Missouri, to Miss Mary Louise McGarvey, youngest sister of the Rev. J. W. McGarvey, president of the Bible College, Lexington, Kentucky. Five children born of this marriage are yet living, liberally educated and occupying useful

places in life. Mrs. Haley died in 1887. In July, 1892, Mr. Haley married Mrs. Mary Stewart Campbell, of Kirksville, Missouri, widow of T. C. Campbell, founder and president of the Kirksville Savings Bank. Mr. Haley was fortunate in both marriages; he has ever lived an ideal home life, is in comfortable financial circumstances, and has promise of a happy, contented old age.

Hall, C. Lester, a leading physician of Kansas City, is a native of Missouri, born at Arrow Rock, Saline County, March 10, 1845. His ancestry is Scotch and English, and the American branch of either side was planted in Colonial days. His parents were Dr. Matthew W. and Agnes J. (Lester) Hall. The father was a son of Rev. Nathan H. Hall, a native of Kentucky, a Presbyterian clergyman of striking personality and great ability, who preached in Lexington, Kentucky, for a quarter century, and for some years afterward in St. Louis, Missouri; he died in Columbia, Missouri, at the age of seventy-six years. Matthew W., born in Kentucky, became a physician of much ability; he practiced in Salem, Illinois, from 1837 to 1845; in the latter year he removed to Arrow Rock, Missouri, where he practiced for twelve years, afterward removing to his farm near Marshall, where he passed the remainder of his life. During the Civil War he served as surgeon in the Confederate Army; he twice represented his district in the Legislature, both previous to the Civil War and subsequently. He was an earnest Presbyterian, and an elder in that church for many years. He married Miss Agnes J. Lester, a native of Virginia, daughter of Bryan Lester, a farmer, a man of strong character, yet amiable and benevolent, traits which found expression in all his relations with his fellows, a marked instance appearing in his gift of freedom to many of his slaves. Mrs. Hall, a woman of lovely character, died in 1883. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom four are deceased, among them William Ewing Hall, a lawyer and capitalist of Kansas City, whose death occurred July 6, 1900. Those living are Dr. C. Lester Hall, of Kansas City, Missouri: Dr. John R. Hall, a practicing physician at Marshall, Missouri: Louisa F., wife of W. W. Trigg, banker, of Boonville, Missouri; Matthew W., a farmer, and member of the Legislature from Saline

County; Florida L., wife of Judge D. W. Shackelford, now a member of Congress, of Boonville; Dr. Thomas B. Hall, a practicing physician, residing on the parental homestead near Marshall, Missouri, and Effie B., wife of Fred B. Glover, a stockman at Parkville, Missouri. C. Lester Hall, the oldest son, derived his second name from his mother, largely out of regard for her brother, Dr. Thomas B. Lester, an eminent practitioner and author. He was brought up on the home farm, and attended schools in the neighborhood and at Boonville. In 1862, when seventeen years of age, he attached himself to the army of General Sterling Price, but after the affair at Lexington he was invalided home. He rejoined the army in December following, but was subsequently captured with Colonel Robertson's command at Milford, Missouri, and after being held as a prisoner for three months, took the oath of allegiance to the United States and returned home. Through association with his talented father, who was bosom companion as well as parent, he had already made considerable progress in medical study, and he now engaged to complete what he had begun. After devoting some months to study in Boonville he was a student in the St. Louis Medical College in the season of 1864-5, and in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the session of 1866-7, graduating in the latter year. For six years following he was associated in country practice with his father at the family home. In 1873 he removed to Marshall, where for seventeen years he was engaged in a large and remunerative practice. Desirous of engaging in a field where was greater opportunity for usefulness and advancement in professional knowledge, in September, 1890, he took up his residence in Kansas City. Here his success has been conspicuous, and he has recognition in the profession and by the laity as pre-eminently a leader in the various departments of general practice, with a special talent for treatment of the diseases of women. He is a highly regarded member of the American Medical Association, the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association, the Missouri State Medical Society, of which he has been president; the Jackson County Medical Society, and the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, which he has served as president. He is also president of the faculty of the Medico

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