of Trade, in connection with editorial duties, until January 1, 1877, when he gave up the editorial profession to give his entire attention to this position. He was, until lately, also Secretary of the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company, and is now Secretary and Treasurer of the Mining Stock Board, and of the K. C. & N. E. and K. C., N. & W. railroads; is vice-president of the Robert Raikes Association, which is interested in religious and benovelent work; and is vice-president also of the Academy of Science. As one of the editors of the Journal and as Secretary of the Board of Trade, he has given much attention to the development of Kansas City's commerce and markets, and originated the idea of barge navigation of the Missouri River. This, after several years' discussion, has finally been made a practical reality in the organization of the Missouri Valley Transportation Company. Mr. Miller was married in Nebraska City, in 1866, to Miss Geneva Linton, a native of Ohio, born August 29, 1848. They have had three children, all of whom are deceased. They attend the Congregational

church,

W. C. MILLER

Was born in Laporte county, Indiana, April 4, 1840, and was principally reared and educated in his native county. In 1870 he removed to Jackson county, Missouri, and located in Kansas City, where he has made his home ever since. Immediately after coming here, he purchased three farms in Johnson county, Kansas, one of which he traded for a livery stock and outfit in Kansas City, where he has been actively engaged, at the same time doing an extensive. business, and has built up for himself an enviable reputation. In 1867 he married Miss Phebe Pottinger, of the same county and State as himself. Their family consists of three children: Lillie T., William R., and Luetta Grace.

WILLIAM MILLER,

Liveryman, was born in Greenfield county, Michigan, in 1838, and when twenty-two years of age left his native county, and removed to Kansas City. After coming here, he worked at various avocations, and was engaged in freighting across the plains. In 1875 he embarked in the livery business, and has since continued, it being very successful. He has been prudent and economical, and has secured a nice competency to rely upon. In 1860 he married Miss Mary Ann McCracken, daughter of Judge McCracken, of this city. Their family consists of six children: Minnie A., Mary M., Jennie, Horace, George W. and Samuel.

JOHN K. MILLER

Was born near Shippingsburg, Pa., January 18, 1816. There he was raised, and served an apprenticeship in the blacksmithing business. He left his native town in 1840, and went to Mansfield, Ohio, and engaged in the manufacturing of plows, which he followed until 1855, after which time he made a tour to South America for his health. Returned in 1856, and in the spring of 1857 he came to Missouri, and settled in Kansas City, and opened a shop for shoeing horses at the junction of Main and Delaware streets, being exactly in the center of Main street, and being obliged to move his shop when the street was opened in 1868. He has been very successful in his business, and has realized much by the advance of city property. November 26, 1848, he married Miss Ellen Wise, of Mansfield, Ohio, by whom he has one son, John H., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Junction City. Himself and wife are members of the First Presbyterian church of Kansas City.

F. A. MILLER,

Of the firm of Fred. A. Miller & Son, wholesale dealers in heavy hardware and wagon material, was born in Weston, Platte county, Mo., June 12, 1855, and

there resided until 1864, when his father, on account of political differences, was compelled to move. Going to Leavenworth, Kansas, he established himself in the hardware business, and there he is at present engaged. In the year 1878, in company with his son, F. A., they started their business in this city, where they carry a large stock, and are doing a good business in Kansas and Nebraska, beside a fine local trade. Our subject was principally reared and educated in Leavenworth, and when sixteen years of age went to Europe, and attended school in Germany for four years. There he received a thorough German education. After his return, he went to Leavenworth, where he remained three years prior to coming here. Although yet a youug man, he possesses an unusual amount of business principles, and is fully competent for his position.

A. W. MILLSPAUGH,

General ticket agent Union Depot. The subject of this sketch is a native of Orange county, N. Y., and was born December 28, 1814. Was reared in his native county and there received his primary education. In January, 1834, (after having attended the Academy of Montgomery), he entered the junior class of the Union College located in New York, graduating in July, 1835, after which he went to Prince Edward county, Va. There he was engaged in teaching a classical and mathematical school for thirteen years. Then he went to Richmond, Va., where he was engaged on the James River and Kewanee Canal about four years. Then became general freight agent on the Richmond & Danville Railroad till 1856; and till 1857 was most of the time engaged traveling for his health. Was afterward employed by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad till 1860, when he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and took charge of the southern division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad till 1861. Thence went to St. Louis and was under the employ of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad a short. time. In 1864 went to Washington, D. C., and was there engaged in the Quartermaster-General's office till 1865, and returned to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was contracting agent till 1867, when he returned to St. Louis and was there general agent for the North Missouri Railroad till May and then general ticket agent till 1870-the time he located in Kansas City. First, he was ticket agent for the North Missouri Railroad till August, 1870, when he began in his present position. Mr. Millspaugh has the name of being one of the most experienced railroad men in the west. Was married in Mitchell, Ind., October 7, 1862. They have three children: Mary J., Margaret E. and Susan E.

J. P. MITCHENER,

Weigh master at Kansas City Stock-yards, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was born October 12, 1848. When he attained the age of five years, he, with his parents moved to Warren county, Ill., where they remained till 1859; then moved to Kansas City and in 1862 moved to Chicago. In 1866 he accepted the position. of weigh master at the Union Stock-yards of Division C. In 1869 removed to Kansas City, and was, till 1871, engaged in buying and shipping live stock. June 1, 1871, he accepted the position of weigh master for the Kansas City Stockyards, which he retained till the spring of 1873. Then, with his father, J. L. Mitchener, engaged in the live stock commission trade for one year as the firm of J. L. Mitchener & Son. From May 1, 1874, to Feb., 1878 was engaged as bookkeeper for Hunter, Evans & Co., when he then again embarked in the commission trade as one of the firm of Saulsbury & Mitchener. January 1, 1880, he began work as book-keeper for A. J. Gillespie & Co., remaining till November 1, 1880. December 1, 1880, he accepted his present position.

B. F. MITCHELL,

Dealer in grain and mill feeds, was born March 1, 1836, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. He spent his boyhood days on a farm, and at the age of twentyone engaged in the mercantile business at Mount Ida. Immigrated to Platte City, Mo., in 1850, thence to Bloomington, Ill., in 1862, and to Jackson county, Mo., in 1866. He engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1877, when he came to Kansas City and engaged in his present business. Has been identified with the school board for quite a number of years, and at present holds the office of notary public. He married Miss Ella Whaley in 1857. She is a native of Kentucky and was born in 1838. Their family consists of four children: C. W., Emma L., Susan S. and Claude W. They are members of the Christian church. WILLIAM H. MORGAN, (Deceased),

Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Piqua, Ohio, March 13, 1834, and was the son of Dr. S. B. Morgan, a physician and druggist of that place. In 1845 the family removed to Crawfordsville, Indiana, where our subject entered Wabash College, and when eighteen years of age, unaided by his father, he secured an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1856. He resigned immediately after on account of what appeared to him an unjust preferment of a class-mate. He returned home and read medicine with his father, attending lectures at the Medical College at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1861 he went to Kansas to locate some land warrants, and during this trip Fort Sumter was fired upon. On his return, while going down the Missouri River, he witnessed such exhibitions of sectional strife among the passengers that he enlisted as a private in a Crawfordsville company immediately after arriving there, much to the disapproval of his parents. He was offered the captaincy of a company, but Governor Morton required his services in the military camp to organize and drill recruits as they came in. He was afterward commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 25th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and ordered to the department of Missouri, participating in the severe service of that campaign. Charmed with the natural beauty and climate of the State, he resolved at the close of the war to locate in Missouri. During the war his most active service was in the Army of the Tennessee, and was engaged in the battles of Fort Donelson, Hatchie, Pittsburg Landing and Davis' Mills, distinguishing himself for conspicuous bravery and courage at Fort Donelson. Soon after he was promoted colonel of the regiment. At Pittsburg Landing he was wounded, carried off the field and sent home; he was afterward placed at Davis' Mills, Mississippi, to guard that part of the line, and, with a small detachment of a few hundred men, defeated Colonel Vandorn with 6,000 men. He was afterward placed in command of a brigade, and General Grant sent his name to Washington urging his speedy promotion. This mail was captured and the request never came before the senate. Near the close of the war he was-by way of reparation-made brigadier-general by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services. He then was retained on a committee for examining applicants for the regular army, not being mustered out until March 6, 1866. On the 7th of April following he arrived in Kansas City. In July he opened the first wholesale drug house in Kansas City; his capital being insufficient to meet the demands of trade, he associated with himself Joseph Parders and J. W. L. Slavens in 1867. The latter shortly retired, and Mr. Parders sold his interest to A. W. Bidwell, who proved to be an unprofitable partner, and who committed suicide in 1871. In order that the stock should not be sacrificed at public sale to satisfy eastern indebtedness, thus throwing a heavy debt on the heirs, General Morgan, with the promise of liberal time, bought the interest, but at the end of the second year a forced final settlement was made, and the stock passed into other hands. This misfortune, taken with others, resulting from the financial crisis, accelerated the incipient disease engendered

in the army, causing death by bronchial affection in 1878. He proved himself one of Kansas City's most public spirited citizens; was a stockholder in the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad, and was one of the originators of the Kansan City & Santa Fe Railroad, and a member of the first board of directors. He married a daughter of the late John Binford, of Indiana, in December, 1862. General John Love, of Indiana, left this tribute of our adopted citizen: "General Morgan has the confidence of the people of our State for all the qualities that adorn the gentleman and the soldier." And General Grant, in recommending him to the Secretary of State for a foreign appointment in 1875 said of him: "General Morgan is personally known to me as a brave and gallant soldier, and in my opinion is worthy and capable of filling any position in the government to which he may aspire."

WILLIAM MULKEY.

Retired farmer and capitalist, was born in Ash county, North Carolina, September 22, 1824, and when young was taken by his parents to Jackson county, Mo., in the fall of 1828, locating at Westport, as it was then known. His early education was given him by the noted Joe Smith, for a period of six months. At the end of this time the Mormons, becoming troublesome, were driven out of the county, and they went to Clay county, Mo. Our subject afterward attended the common schools, and at the age of eleven years commenced business for himself with the Indians, continuing until grown to manhood. In 1844-'45 he commenced in Westport, being engaged in running a little steamer, and was here for a number of years. He has frequently visited John C. Fremont, when he was camping near this place, and assisted in preparing the outfit for his great trip across the plains. Mr. M. well remembers the prediction made by Thomas H. Benton, in a letter to a friend, an early settler here, that the time would come when railroads would run across the plains in all directions, the river be dredged and roads run across the plains and mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Mr. M. has lived to see this realized to the fullest extent. He was married to Miss Catharine Dripps, in 1852. She is a native of Oregon, and a daughter of Major Dripps, one of the American fur traders, who died in 1860.

FREDERICK MULLETT,

Of the firm of Mullett Brothers, wholesale dealers in photographic goods and instruments, was born in Taunton, England, in 1840, leaving there with his parents when he was very young. They came to the United States and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was reared. When nineteen, in 1857, he went into the wholesale house of Tyler Davidson & Co. as a clerk, and was in their employ until 1865. In July of that year he went to Vicksburg, Miss., and was employed as manager in the hardware department of the retail house of Louis Hoffman & Brother, being with them until 1866. Then he came to Kansas City and became a partner with S. Gardner in the hardware business, they being together for eight years. Dissolving the co-partnership in 1875 he went east and was employed as traveling salesman for Gatchel & Hyatt, of Cincinnati, and other firms, until January, 1877, when he returned to Kansas City and established himself in the business in which he is now engaged, with his brother Richard B. Mullett, who became a member of the firm in 1881. In 1878 he married Miss Martha Campbell, of Ottumwa, Iowa.

CORNELIUS MURPHY,

County Marshal, was born in Cork, Ireland, August 1, 1849, and when quite a small boy came with his parents to the United States, landing at New York City. His father immediately went to Virginia, where he was engaged for some time as contractor on a railroad. His family continued to live

in different parts of the state for several years, when he removed to Jackson county, Missouri, in 1857. Settled in what is now known as McGee's Addition, lived here for a short time, after which he went onto a farm with his father. Spent several years, then returned to Kansas City and accepted a clerkship in the clothing store of Kahn & Schloss; continued with these parties for a period of five years, during which time he purchased a scholarship in the commercial college; there prosecuted his studies vigorously, graduating from this institution in 1869'70. Subsequently was appointed deputy collector of Jackson county, Mo., which office he filled with much credit to himself and satisfaction to the citizens. In 1880 was elected to the office of marshal of Jackson county.

JOHN MURRAY,

Dealer in real estate, was born in the County Galway, on the River Shannon, June 15, 1831, where he lived with his parents until he was sixteen. He had fair opportunities for education up to that age, attending two years at the Irish National University at Woodford, a neighboring town. When he left home he was apprenticed three years to the dry goods business, at Portumnd, the residence of Lord Clanricker. In 1848 he came to the United States, landing in New Orleans in November of that year and there he lay some weeks, sick in the Sisters' Hospital. His first employment was as a waiter in the St. Charles Hotel, serving as such for six months, when he was employed as book-keeper by Patrick Walch, a heavy manufacturer of harness. Was with him until 1850, when he left New Orleans with his parents, who had arrived from the old country, for St. Louis, and while on the trip had the misfortune to meet with an accident, by which they lost all their clothing and baggage, and nearly lost their lives, caused by the explosion of the boiler of the boat on which they were traveling, near Memphis, on the Mississippi River. There they were obliged to lay up until they had recovered from their injuries. When sufficiently recovered they again started for St. Louis, arriving there in due time, and soon after their arrival there, he was employed as steward on board the steamer Connecticut. Soon after he was employed as second clerk on the steamer Pacific, plying between St. Louis and New Orleans, continuing as such until March, 1852. Then he came to Jackson county, Mo., settling at Independence, where he was employed as a clerk by Thomas Gilchrist and Isaac Campbell, until 1854, when he went to Blue Springs and did a general mercantile business for himself, and was also post-master until 1859. Then returned to Independence and was employed in the forwarding and commission business until 1860, when he kept the Excelsior saloon for six months. Then sold out and returned to Blue Springs, and soon after entered the Confederate army as a private and served as such until the fall of Vicksburg, afterward being promoted through various grades up to Provost Marshal. After being mustered out at the close of the war he went to St. Louis, where he accepted a position long enough to earn money to return to Independence, and also to have his family return, which had been banished from the State by Order No. 11, in his absence. He began life again by clerking, which he followed until May, 1867, when he ventured in business again for himself. He held the position of county treasurer from 1874 to 1878. Beside being burned out in 1874, he lost heavily in the suspension of the First National and Mastin banks of Kansas City, from which he has not fully recovered. After his reverse he went to Leadville, Col., where he endeavored to retrieve his losses. Returned to Kansas City in 1881, and engaged in the real estate business with William S. Carter, late of Denver, Col. September 6, 1855, he married Miss Mary F. Smith, of Blue Springs, by whom he had one child: William F., of Independence. Mrs. Murray died in September, 1866.