began, the growth was rapid and substantial, in spite of frequent disaster. The history of the wonderful development of its zinc and lead mining interests and of the industries incident thereto, is given in a special article published in this work, under the caption "Zinc and Lead Mining in Southwest Missouri," (which see.) August 20, 1877, the first railway reached the city, the St. Louis & San Francisco, the last spike driven being one of lead, in acknowledgement of the source of wealth which made the enterprise possible. For three years previous, in anticipation of this result, which was to give fresh impetus to development, the utmost energy was displayed in the advancement of all public interests. Various additions were laid out, banks established, and attention was given to educational and religious concerns, which more than all else proclaim stability and steadfastness of purpose in the upbuilding of a city. These results were only attained after great effort, and in spite of repeated disasters, costly and discouraging. April 23, 1872, many buildings were destroyed by a tornado. July 20, 1874, the Hannibal Smelting Works were burned by incendiaries, and November 4th fire destroyed a business block, the loss amounting to $75,000. March 20, 1875, the McCosker Smelting Works were burned, supposedly by incendiaries. About August 1st, Joplin Creek overflowed its banks, resulting in two deaths (Mr. Hartinan and wife) and loss of property to the value of $200,000. October 5, 1876, $50,000 worth of business property was destroyed by fire. April 3, 1880, Moffett & Sergeant's White Lead Works burned, the loss amounting to $300,000.

The corporate history of Joplin began July 28, 1871, when a town plat was filed with the county recorder by John C. Cox. July 12th Davis & Murphy, with Moffett & Sergeant, had filed a town plat of Murphysburg, on the opposite side of Joplin Creek. The latter was the more important place, having the Moffet & Sergeant smelting furnaces, and a newspaper. There were no courts or law officers in either town, and great disorder prevailed. Representative residents of both agreed upon a plan for the institution of law and order, and upon this petition, March 19. 1872, the county court united the two towns under the name of Union City, naming as temporary trustees Jesse Shortess, W. H.

Fallis, Charles A. Underwood, E. R. Moffett and John S. Workizer. Jesse Shortess was elected president, with J. S. Workizer as clerk, P. Murphy as treasurer and J. W. Lupton as marshal. Later, I. W. Davis was appointed police justice. This establishment gave confidence; a better class of population. began to arrive, and schools and churches. were projected. April 1st M. W. Stafford was appointed postmaster of Union City, and the Blytheville office was discontinued. Rivalries sprang now up between the two portions of the town, mass meetings were held in each, and questions as to the legality of the organization were carried into the courts, going to Shannon County on change of venue, where the case was finally dismissed. In 1872 I. W. Davis drafted a charter act, constituting the united towns known as Union City, a city, under the name of Joplin, and the General Assembly passed the same, with unimportant changes, March 23, 1873, the act also naming the following temporary officers: E. R. Moffett, mayor; J. A. C. Thompson, Lee Taylor, J. H. McCoy and J. C. Gaston, councilmen. The mayor appointed the following officers: J. W. Lupton, marshal; I. W. Davis, police justice; G. D. Order, city attorney; Philo Thompson, treasurer; T. A. McClelland, assessor and collector. At the election following, Lee Taylor was chosen mayor, and, upon his resignation of the office, was succeeded by J. H. McCoy. J. W. Reed became city clerk. In 1877 the office of city physician was created, and the offices of assessor and collector became distinct. In 1888 organization was effected as a city of the third class. During the last ten years there has been a phenomenal increase in the population of the city, owing in large measure to increased activity in mining operations. In 1890 the population was 9,943; January 1, 1900, the number of inhabitants was 26,023. In 1899 $1,461,460 were expended in business house and residence building. Adjoining the city on the southwest is a large park, as yet unimproved, the gift of T. W. Cunningham, and the city also owns a cemetery of forty acres outside the western limits. The mines in and about Joplin are the most productive in the Missouri-Kansas district. In 1899 the output was 87,196,190 pounds of zinc and 13.025.790 pounds of lead, amounting in value to $2,106,323.

Joplin, Harris G., pioneer and minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Tennessee about 1810, and died in Greene County, Missouri, in 1847. Diligent research fails to bring to light but little regarding the man after whom Joplin, in Jasper County, is named. While young his father died, leaving his widow with little means. Her son, by hard work and study acquired a liberal education. He studied for the ministry and was ordained in western Tennessee. He then removed to Missouri and settled in Greene County, where he was married to Miss Simms. In 1840 he moved into Jasper County territory and settled on a tract of land now just outside of the city limits, near the cemetery. There he built a log cabin and tilled his eighty-acre farm and labored in ministerial work. He organized the first Methodist Church in Joplin at his log cabin, and soon had a large congregation for a pioneer territory. He was ambitious and employed a number of slaves on his. small farm. He was extremely liberal and spent his small earnings in building up his church and assisting members of his flock. Being financially embarrassed, at the solicitation of his friends, he took up his residence in Greene County in 1844, and until his death preached in the neighboring counties. Near his cabin and on his farm was a spring from which a small stream flowed, to which the name Joplin Creek was given, and after this the city of Joplin was named.

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Jorndt, Albert A., manufacturer and farmer, was born August 11, 1849, near Berlin, Germany, son of John and Sophia (Carson) Jorndt. His parents, parents, who were both of European nativity, came the United States. in 1854 and tablished their home in Chicago, where the elder Jorndt worked at his trade, which was that of wagonmaker. His wife died in 1874, and he removed to Stoddard County, Missouri, in which county he resided until his death, which occurred in 1882. Five of the eight children of John and Sophia Jorndt were living in 1900. After receiving a limited education, Albert A. Jorndt went to work in early life to earn a living, his first employment being in a tobacco factory in Chicago. He worked there until 1869, quitting this employment when he was in his twentieth year to go to California. He

reached the Pacific Coast in 1869 and spent the next two and a half years there in search of wealth, devoting most of the time to mining. He made some money in this venture, but lost most of it in speculation, and returned to Chicago with little more means than he had when he left that place. He remained at Chicago until 1873, when he came to Missouri and turned his attention to the operation of a sawmill in Stoddard County. For several years thereafter he was engaged in lumber manufacturing operations and therein laid the foundation of a prosperous business. In 1885 he became a member of the firm of Cooper & Jorndt and built the Dexter Elevator Steam Roller Mills. These mills the firm continued to operate for some time thereafter and then Mr. Jorndt obtained full control of the plant. Since that time it has been under his exclusive management, and his care in selecting grain for milling purposes and the high character of the output as a consequence have made the product of these mills widely known and readily marketable at the best prices. Prosperous in his manufacturing operations, Mr. Jorndt has extended his enterprise into other fields, and is one of the largest land owners and farmers in Stoddard County, and one of the wealthiest citizens of that region. While he has taken no active part in politics, he affiliates with the Republican party and is a firm believer in the wisdom of its principles and policies. His only connection with fraternal organizations is with the order of Free Masons. In 1885 he married Miss Olivia A. Renner, who died some years later, leaving one child. In 1893 Mr. Jorndt married Miss Emma Renner, a sister of his first wife, and two children have been born of this marriage.

Jourdan, Morton, a prominent and successful St. Louis lawyer, was born December 19, 1864, at Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, son of William D. and Catherine M. (Savage) Jourdan, natives respectively of South Carolina and Kentucky. The father was actively engaged in the ministry of the Christian Church for the long period of sixty years, and he is well remembered throughout the States of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri for his eminently useful services. some years of his most active ministerial work he was intimately associated with Alexander Campbell, the revered founder of the

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