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regard to his own interests than Dr. Harry of good citizenship. He was a consistent Hodgen."

Hoevel, August, prominently connected with one of the most important manufacturing industries of St. Louis, was born March 19, 1845, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he died February 25, 1900. His parents were August and Clementine (Gabriel) Hoevel, both of German birth. His father was a cabinetmaker and worked at his trade in St. Louis. The son, August Hoevel, received his education in the public schools of his native city. Notwithstanding his youth, being then but seventeen years of age, when the disturbed conditions presaged civil war, his patriotic instinct led him to suspend his school studies and to enlist, May 8, 1861, in Captain James C. Campbell's company, of the Fourth Regiment, United States Reserve Corps, one of the four local regiments which saved St. Louis to the Union. In this command he performed faithful service in the troublous early days, but his health unfitted him for the duties of active campaigning in the field, and he was discharged August 17th following on account of disability. Upon leaving the service he learned tinsmithing, and in 1864, when nineteen years of age, he opened a store and tinware business business in St. Louis, which he successfully conducted until about 1878, when he sold it to his brothers. He then became connected with the St. Louis Stamping Company, now incorporated with the National Enameling and Stamping Company, and was until the time of his death, a period of about twenty-two years, superintendent of the tinware department. For some years he directed the operations of manu、 facturing tin plate and galvanized iron work, and in later years, in addition to these duties, he was the company designer in tin. An accomplished mechanic and possessing executive qualities of a high order, he was an important factor in the development of the great industry with which he was so long associated. His marked traits were industry and integrity, and he enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the company management as one of their most useful and dependable assistants. In politics he was a Republican, but he was entirely devoid of personal ambition, and his political acts were altogether governed by a proper consideration of the duties

member of the Union Methodist Episcopal Church, and afforded liberal aid to its support and its benevolences. He was a well regarded member of the Lodge of Honor, the Royal Arcanum, and Ransom Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the latter named brotherhood conducted his funeral and paid a fervent tribute to his memory. He was married October 5, 1865, to Miss Louisa Niedringhaus, the daughter of Frederick Niedringhaus, one of the founders of the great enterprise which had enlisted the best of his effort during the greater part of his active life. Mrs. Hoevel died in 1877, leaving five children, all of whom occupy useful positions in life and are residents of St. Louis. Otto W. Hoevel is in charge of the shipping department of the Granite City Steel Company. Edwin L. Hoevel was for some years a member of the Blair-Hoevel Furniture Company, and is now in the employ of the Lammert Furniture Company. Amelia C. Hoevel is wife of George A. Hussman, an employe of the Moffitt-West Drug Company. Pauline Hoevel is wife of Dr. J. G. Pfaff, a practicing dentist. Arthur L. Hoevel is a pharmacist. Mr. Hoevel was again married, May 15, 1879, to Miss Mary L. Schrader, who survives. She was a daughter of William and Mary Angel (Hackmann) Schrader. Her father was an old citizen of St. Louis, and a pioneer plowmaker on Cherry Street, between Main and Second Streets, in 1837. He retired from business about 1865, and died May 5, 1885; his widow died on the same date nine years later. Born to Mr. and Mrs. August Hoevel were five children, of whom the oldest, Oliver Augustus, is deceased. Alexander W. is a student in the School of Mines, at Rolla, Missouri; Florence L. is a high school student; Charles W. is a student at Smith Academy, and Mabel L. attends the Eugene Field School, the three last named in St. Louis.

Hoffman, George, who has been prominently identified with the development of the real estate interests of Kansas City for many years, was born October 17, 1855, in Wheeling, West Virginia. From Wheeling he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1880. Three years after his removal to that western city of promise he formed a partnership with Evan A. Fussell, under the firm.

name of Hoffman & Fussell, for the transaction of a general real estate business. Under this association and in co-operation with a number of enterprising capitalists and strong companies, Mr. Hoffman had an important part in the development and improvement which attracted toward Kansas City the eyes and admiration of the world. The principal residence additions which he was instrumental in laying out were as follows: F. A. Woods' addition, 1882, ten acres; Hoff

Park, 1883, twenty acres; Boston Heights, 1884, thirty acres; Troost Park Addition, twenty acres; South Windsor, thirty-seven acres; DuQuesne Heights, ten acres; Riverview Heights, forty acres. These have all been built up, with the exception of South Windsor, which was resold in 1900. The additions named contain some of the most pleasant homes in Kansas City. In 1890 Mr. Hoffman took the preliminary steps that resulted in the erection of the Boston Building, one of the important office structures of Kansas City. He has been connected with various other large enterprises and has been a strong factor in the growth of the city and the advancement of her realty and other material interests. During the years 1890 and 1891 Mr. Hoffman built about thirty-five houses for residence purposes, and these were disposed of to good advantage. Since 1893 he has been alone in his business transactions, and his activity is unbroken, just as his faith in the future greatness of Kansas City is unfaltering.

Hogan, John, was born in Ireland and came to America in 1817. His mother died when he was about ten years old. A year later his father married again. He left home on that account, and was indentured as apprentice to a shoemaker. When twelve years old he entered a Methodist Sunday school. At fifteen he joined the church, and before he was twenty years old he was a licensed preacher. In 1825 he was received into the Illinois Conference, and in 1829 was transferred to Missouri and served in St. Louis County. He married in Missouri, but the illness of his wife induced his removal to Illinois, where he became register of lands. He afterward removed to St. Louis, and became interested in a wholesale grocery business. The excessive labor imposed by increased business brought on a palsy, from which he

did not recover. He became postmaster of St. Louis under President Buchanan, and later was in Congress. He was a member of the first and the present Centenary Church, and maintained his ministerial authority as a local elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His last sermon was preached in Centenary Church a few months before he died, in the summer of 1891. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, after funeral services in the church to which he had been so long attached. He lived to be about eighty-six years old. He was a good writer, and wrote memoirs of men in his church which were printed in the St. Louis "Christian Advocate."

Hogg, James R., was born January 4, 1863, in Jennings County, Indiana, son of Marion and Mary B. (Winslow) Hogg. His father was a native of Indiana, and his mother of South Carolina. In 1870, when their son, James R. Hogg, was seven years of age, they removed to Butler County, Missouri, where the elder Hogg engaged in farming. He was a well-to-do man of affairs and a substantial citizen, well known locally as an ardent and enthusiastic member of the Democratic party. His children were two sons and two daughters. James R. Hogg received a practical education in the common schools of Butler County, and until he was twenty-one years of age lived on a farm. He then engaged in business at Poplar Bluff as a member of the firm of Wilson & Hogg, dealers in country produce. Some time later he bought out Mr. Wilson's interest in this business, and has since continued it, having expanded it to large proportions. Reared on a farm, he has never ceased to be interested in agricultural pursuits, and in later years he has carried on a large stock farm, giving to it much of his time and attention. A member of the Democratic party, he has adhered strictly to the tenets of that political faith, and has been among those most active in promoting the interests of his party in Butler County. In 1894 he was elected sheriff of the county, and in 1896 was reelected, holding the office in all four years, and proving himself a thoroughly competent and upright public official. His excellent record and personal popularity caused him to be chosen mayor of Poplar Bluff in 1898, and he filled that office one term. He is a

member of the orders of Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, and his religious leanings are toward the Baptist Church, of which his wife is a member. In 1880 Mr. Hogg married Miss Ida Dillard, of Poplar Bluff, and they have three children.

Holcomb.-A village in Holcomb Island Township, Dunklin County, eleven miles from Kennett, on the St. Louis, Kennett & Southern Railway. It has three churches, one Methodist Episcopal, one Methodist Episcopal, South, and a Baptist; a public school, two cotton gins, a hotel and about six stores. Population, 1899 (estimated), 250.

Holden.-A city in Johnson County, on the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railways, fourteen miles southwest of Warrensburg, the county seat. It is provided with water by a local company, and is lighted by an electric light plant owned by the city. It is the seat of St. Cecilia's Academy, formerly Holden College. The public schools number nearly 500 pupils; ten teachers are employed for white children, and two for colored children. The churches are Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, German Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterian. There are one Baptist Church and two Methodist Churches for colored people. There are also two banks, a Republican newspaper, "The Globe," and a Democratic newspaper, the "Enterprise." In 1857 Isaac Jacobs bought from the original patentees 160 acres of land, for which he paid 122 cents per acre. He associated with himself Sanford Cummings, and laid off the town of Holden, which was named for Major N. B. Holden, a member of the Legislature, who was instrumental in the location of the railroad. Major Holden was a Mexican War soldier and an early school teacher in Johnson County. He was with General Price at the battle of Lexington, and after that affair was assassinated by a militiaman at Warrensburg. In 1858 Jacobs & Cummings opened the first store. The same year Joseph T. Mason & Son built a frame hotel, Horatio Cox opened a blacksmith shop, and Dr. C. L. Carter, the first physician, began practice. In 1859 a schoolhouse was built, in which E. N. Cooter taught a school, and religious services were held by William Roup, a Meth

odist, and by ministers of other denominations. In 1861 the population did not exceed 100. The growth of the city began with the restoration of peace. In 1865 Mrs. John Doran opened a hotel, and a Christian Church was organized. In 1866 Hubbard & Coventry opened a dry goods store, and H. C. Bettes a hardware store. In 1867 E. Giles began the publication of the "Enterprise" newspaper, and the Missouri Pacific Railway put up an enginehouse and turntables. In 1868 J. H. Reed and A. L. Daniels built a mill. In 1870 a two-story brick schoolhouse was erected, and the present system of education had its beginning. In 1872 I. M. Smith and Louis Cheney opened a bank. Holden was originally incorporated in 1861; the organization was revived in 1868; it is now a city of the third class. The population in 1900 was 2,126.

Holden College.-A non-sectarian coeducational academical school at Holden, founded in 1881, through the generosity of citizens, who built for its occupancy a substantial three-story brick edifice. This was destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt, and the school placed in charge of a minister and teacher of the Christian denomination. In 1890 the building was purchased by a Catholic sisterhood, who maintain in it a school for both sexes, under the name of St. Cecilia's Seminary. In 1899 the property was valued at $20,000; there were seven teachers and 120 pupils.

Holden, Howard M., conspicuously identified with the establishment of the most important financial and commercial enterprises in Kansas City immediately after the Civil War period, was born August 28, 1837, at Malden, Massachusetts. His parents were Eli and Phoebe (Shute) Holden, both natives of Massachusetts, descended from families. prominent in the history of their native State; immediate paternal ancestors on both sides performed military service during the Revolutionary War. Howard M. Holden was educated in the high school in his native town. In 1855, when eighteen years of age, he removed to Muscatine, Iowa, where he was engaged for three years in the banking house of Green & Stone. He developed marked ability in his chosen work, and was called to a position with the American Ex

change Bank, of New York. His ideas of the larger opportunities in the West for men. of small capital led him to return to Iowa after the expiration of one year. In 1859 he established a branch of the Iowa State Bank at Washington, of which he was the first cashier and then president. He successfully managed the affairs of that institution until 1866, when he removed to Kansas City, Missouri. His capital then amounted to $110,000, which he had accumulated in its entirety in the eleven years following his leaving his native State. This sum, the largest yet brought to the embryo city by any new resident, he at once put into active use. He bought the controlling interest in the First National Bank of Kansas City, subscribing for $80,000 of its capital stock, fourfifths of the entire amount. Under his management as cashier the bank made a record of rare usefulness and prosperity, and was for many years the leading financial institution west of St. Louis. Theretofore the local banks had been little more than collecting agencies, affording little encouragement or assistance to cattle traders or industrial enterprises. Combining a feeling of public spirit with business sagacity, he instituted a policy which aided largely in attracting cattle dealers to the city and in fostering the packing and grain interests, if, indeed, it did not afford the very foundations for those great interests. The first important innovation made by the bank was the liberal discounting of commercial paper, commission houses being specially favored on cattle and grain in warehouse or in transit. In 1868 this liberality was extended to the beef-packing industry, then just opening up. Aided in large degree by this liberal dealing, business rapidly increased, and in 1870 it was found necessary to increase the bank capital to $250,000, an amount which was speedily subscribed, out of confidence in the management and in conviction of its usefulness to the mercantile community. During the great financial panic of 1873 the bank was compelled to suspend for a time, owing to the bankruptcy or embarrassment of many of its debtors. Such, however, was the popular confidence in the wise management of Mr. Holden, that the bank was soon enabled to resume business, with additional stock subscriptions amounting to $250,000, increasing the capital to $500,000. In 1878, during a period of finan

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cial disaster, the bank finally closed its doors. In the general depression which followed, public sentiment was tempered with a strong feeling of sympathy for Mr. Holden, who was held blameless morally, and whose ability in management stood unimpeached. For several years afterward he devoted his attention to the work of liquidation, finally fulfilling his pledge that the creditors should receive payment in full. During his connection with the bank, and in the years following, he was variously occupied with semipublic concerns, and he was an habitual and influential participant in all meetings having for their purpose the fostering of movements intended to advance the commercial interests of the city. He also occupied various important positions in which his services were advantageous to his fellows, to the city and to its tributary region. In 1868 he was a principal colleague with C. J. White, Colonel Bucklin and others, in the organization of a Live Stock and Drovers' Association. 1869 he aided in the organization of the Kansas City Board of Trade, of which he was the first treasurer and afterward the president. The best possible evidence of his high standing and unimpeachable integrity is afforded by the action of this body in 1878, immediately following the suspension of the First National Bank, of which he was manager. Moved by a sense of delicacy he tendered his resignation as president of the Board of Trade, which was returned to him by a chosen committee of five, representing the entire membership of the body, accompanied with sincere assurances of sympathy, respect and confidence, and asking his continued service in his high position. During the period between 1867 and 1870 he was instrumental in the establishment of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf, now a part of the system known as the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway. He was among the organizers of the first waterworks company, and was its first secretary and treasurer. He was also president of the Standard Mining Company, of Colorado, and was a director of the Excelsior Springs Company. In 1893 he was appointed assignee of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, and the liquidation of its affairs still partially engages his attention. The per

sonal affairs which principally occupy his time are the management of a farm of nearly

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