Andrew County Museum

Andrew County is the Birthplace of Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman Governor of Wyoming, 1925-27, first woman Director of the U.S. Mint; Joseph K. Toole (1851-1929) first Govenor of Montana, 1935; W. Elmer Holt, Govenor of Montana, 1935 Edwin W. Toole (1839-1905) noted Mont. Lawyer; Eugene W. Caldwell (1870-1918) noted roentgenologist. In Savannah lived John P Altgeld, Govenor of Illinois, 1893-97; Henry S, Kelley (1832-1911) legal textbook writer; James P. Somerville, one of founders of Sertoma Clubs International.

Altgeld, John Peter (1847-1902) – born in Felters, near Cologne, Germany; on Dec. 30; he came to the United States when he was about 3 months old; lived in Ohio; at 16 he joined the 164th Ohio Infantry and served in the Union Army during the Civil War (1863-1865); studied law in St. Louis and Savannah; admitted to the bar in 1872; was a lawyer in Savannah and one year as Andrew County Prosecuting Attorney (1874-1878); he married Emma Ford in Chicago in 1877 and moved to Chicago (1878); superior court judge in Illinois (1886-91); 23rd Governor of Illinois (first Democrat governor since 1856, first foreign-born citizen, and first time a Chicago resident had been elected) from 1893-1897; famous for pardoning the surviving protestors of the Haymarket incident , and refused to send troops against the Pullman railway strikers (both actions not popular); after 1900 he returned to his law practice; he died in Joliet; was buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago; the State erected a monument to Governor Altgeld in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in 1915. He wrote many addresses and newspaper articles on social, political and economic questions, and wrote several books on the same subjects.

Bassham, Ike (Issac) (1835-1863) – born in Virginia, married Angeline Rucker in Kentucky, joined Quantrill’s guerillas, was killed by Federal troops Feb. 11, 1863 (some sources say near Wigginton’s house in Andrew County and others say at Younger’s Winter Camp south of Independence), also killed were oe Hardin, Doc Hale, and George Tally.

Bonham, David (1809-1870) – born in Northamptonshire, England; never attended a formal school so was completely self-educated; immigrated to America as a young man in 1830; in 1836 he and his wife Rebecca moved to the Territory of Wisconsin; in the town of Lisbon’s first election he was elected Clerk, was a school commissioner and an overseer of highways (1842); member of the Wisconsin Territorial legislature (1841-1844); pardoned for the murder of Henry Keene in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in 1847 (governor sent word one hour before he was to hang for a murder that was self-defense); moved to the Empire Prairie (he was the first to coin that phrase) in 1856 with his five sons and daughter and their families in two covered wagons; fought in the Civil War; prominent member of the Missouri State constitutional convention (1865); delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri (1868); Missouri State Senator (1867-1868) where he was most famous for sponsoring the bill for a permanent education fund.

Booher, Charles Ferris (1848-1921) – born in Livingston County, New York, January 31, to a famiy of 13 children; studied law in New York; came to St. Joseph in 1871 and worked on a farm 3 miles south of Savannah; taught two years of school in Andrew County; was a lawyer first in Rochester, Missouri, and then moved to Savannah; Prosecuting Attorney for Andrew County (1875-1877, 1883-1885); on the Board of Education, City Board of Aldermen, and was Mayor many times in the 1890s; Presidential Elector for Missouri (1880); U.S. Representative from Missouri (1889, 1907-1921— almost completed seven consecutive terms)—lived in Andrew County 50 years and in Savannah 45—had the largest funeral to date, including a delegation of no less than 22 men from Washington, D.C.; was survived by his wife (Sallie Shanks, the daughter of Andrew County Judge William Shanks) and two sons and two daughters.

Brown, Dr. W. Irving (1881-1960) – born in Rochester to Garman and Sarah Rich Brown; married Minnie Mae Genther in 1911 and had one son (Dr. Eugene Irving Brown of Savannah) and daughter Dorothy Louise; went to Western Dental College (graduated in 1905); practiced dentistry in Union Star for five years; then moved to Savannah, where he was in practice for 51 years; he invented and patented an aseptic clinical thermometer holder in 1912.

Caldwell, Eugene W., Dr. (1869-1918) – born in Savannah and graduated from Savannah High School; graduated from Kansas University; worked in the government in connection with the University in electrical engineering (wireless telegraphy, electric train line, submarine telephony); did early work in roentgenology (x-ray technology); got his M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical School and took post-graduate courses in Europe; he was Director of X-Ray at Bellevue Hospital, NYC, developed new equipment for radiology; he was one of the foremost authorities in the world on x-rays (the ARRS has an annual lecture in his honor); he died in New York from radiation burns.

Christianson, Peter (1847-1915) – of Savannah, invented the “Clipper Fire Extinguisher” in 1893; the town of Savannah bought two Clippers in 1897 or 1898, and in January 1898 successfully put out two fires, and again in January 1899 put out fires which could not be put out by conventional methods, they were used for 30 years; in the second and third decades of the 1900s two wheeled trailer pumps were used, and in 1929 an engine was purchased; married to Jennie M. (1851-1931); both are buried in the Savannah City cemetery, as well as his sons, Carl M. 1876-1950) and Clyde (1878-less than 1 month) and his brother, J. Ferdinand Christianson (1868-1907).

Cole, William Clay (1897-1965) – born on a farm near Fillmore; went to grade school in Fillmore and then moved to St. Joseph; was a mounted Army scout on the Mexican border (1916—the Mexican Expedition was a US Army operation against the forces of Pancho Villa from March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917, a retaliatory measure for Villa’s invasion of the United States and attack on the Columbus, New Mexico; was in the US Navy during WWI; graduated from law school in St. Joseph; Missouri House of Representatives (1942), US Representative from Missouri (1943-49, 1953-55); buried in Fillmore.

Duncan, Harry F. (1899-1992) – born in Savannah, the son of William Robert Duncan and Henrietta Becker Duncan; he graduated from Savannah High School in 1918; his business (The Little Tavern Shop) started first as a carry-out hamburger shop in St. Louis in 1921, then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1924, and finally to Washington, D.C., in 1928 (it grew to 50 shops by 1939); he donated to numerous groups through the Harry F. Duncan Foundation, Inc. (the Andrew County Museum, Boy Scouts of America, Habitat for Humanity, George Washington University Hospital, etc.—his wife, Anneliese H. Duncan, serves as president of the foundation)

Estes, Joel (1806-1875) and Martha Ann (or Patsy Stollings Estes, Daughter of Jacob and Sarah—born in West Virginia in 1806-1882 in Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa and is buried there)—born on the Kentucky frontier (his maternal grandparents , Germans named Hiatt, were among the first settlers in Kentucky; his father Peter Harris Estes [1774-1854] was a rich Virginia landowner who also moved to Kentucky, he died in Amazonia, Andrew County, his mother Esther Hiatt—both grandparents buried in Andrew County, is she buried in the “old cemetery near St. Joseph”?); in 1812 his father moved his family to Clinton County; worked at times as a freighter from Liberty to Joseph Robidoux’s trading post in what is now known as St. Joseph; at one time ran an outfitting store and was interested in gold prospecting; he married Patsy in Clinton County in 1826 and later became pioneers in Andrew County (1837-1852?) where he raised stock and farmed; traveled westward for a second time (struck it rich in California in 1849 with his eldest son Harden—they sold their mine for $500,000) in 1859, during the Colorado Gold rush; he and his son Milton discovered Estes Park and became the first permanent settler there, building a cabin on Fish Creek; in 1860 he moved his wife and 6 of his children and their herds of cattle there; he built a small farm there but moved in 1866, selling his farm for one yoke of oxen; he was a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in 1866 Joel went to Texas, and from there to Washington County, Arkansas, where he bought seven hundred acres of land; he sold them in 1869 and then returned to Colorado; at one time he had been a man of great wealth, but the war caused him to lose many thousand dollars; when he died , in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, on December 31, 1875, his estate was small; he is buried there, along with his son Joel; his children Lovey (1827-1854) and Harden (1828-1910, rancher in Oregon) were born in St. Joseph but were married in Savannah; daughter Martha Ann (1834-1908) was born in Clinton County but was married in Savannah; his son Newton (1835-1895, a rancher in the Washington Territory); daughter Sarah Jane (1842-1912), daughter Mary Jane (1844-1913) were all born in Andrew County; and his sons Francis (1846-1911) and Joel (1848-1927, a gold and silver miner in Colorado) were born in Savannah.

Fritzsche, Bertha Maude(1901-1990) – daughter of Edward Frederick and Alice Jobst Fritzsche, was born on April 24, in Primghar, Iowa; she had three siblings (Carl, Ernest, and Jessie); she earned a B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1922; she taught home economics first in Humboldt, Iowa (1922-1925), then in Savannah, Missouri (1925-1928); in 1928, she left Savannah to become head of the Department of Home Economics at Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa; in 1929 she was awarded her M.S. in Home Economics from Iowa State, and joined the home economics faculty at State Teachers College (now the University of Southern Mississippi); from 1937-1966 she was the head of the Department of Home Economics; she received her Ph.D. from Ohio State in 1950; she received many honors during her years at USM; she continued to teach graduate courses after she retired; she traveled until her health made her unable to care for herself; she entered a nursing home in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1987, where she remained until her death.

Fly, Camillus Sidney “Buck” (1849-1901) – born in Andrew County and headed toward California with his family when only 3 weeks old; lived in the Napa Valley until 1879, when he married and moved to Tombstone; opened his photography studio (and boarding house) there in 1880; he disarmed the mortally wounded Billy Clanton during the gunfight at the OK Corral (which actually took place in the vacant lot between the corral and the Fly Gallery); took historical shots of Gen. Crook, Geronimo, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and many of Tombstone in its heyday; was sheriff of Cochise County for two years, then ranched in the Chiricahua Mountains; became ill from years of alcohol abuse; died in Bisbee, Arizona, and buried in the Tombstone city (not Boothill) cemetery; the business was run by his wife Mollie (a well known photographer herself) until 1912.

Ford, William Franklin (1825-1915) – son of James and Lucy Weaver Ford of Pulaski County, KY; lived on a farm in Wayne County, KY, and was educated in frontier schools; in 1846 he married Elizabeth Sarah Payne (died in 1896) and had nine children, all of whom preceded him in death; moved to Savannah in 1848 and farmed just east of town; became a plasterer and a blacksmith; moved to St. Joseph in 1858, where he worked on the old Patee Hotel and also worked for Joseph Robidoux; he was present when the first Pony Express rider left St. Joseph in 1861; superintended the Overland stage in Colorado during the Civil War; returned to Savannah in 1864, and again took up plastering, as well as selling insurance.

Getz, Robert L. Jr. (1910-1973) – farmer from Bolckow; chair of the Andrew County Republican Party (1965); buried in Savannah.

Glazier, John L. (1855-1943) – inventor, publisher, printer, lived most of his life in Andrew Co, buried in the Savannah cemetery, invented the first auto in Savannah but didn’t have the funds to manufacture it (about 1906); had a printing office in Savannah; was editor and publisher of the Bolckow Herald (first issue was 1877).

Giddings, Napoleon Bonaparte (1816-1897) – born in Ohio where he taught school; he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1828; in 1836 he went to Texas to help the patriots there win their independence from Mexico (he was the Auditor under Sam Houston); he was admitted to the bar in 1841; he served as a captain in the Mexican War; he helped organize the Territory of Nebraska and was a member of the 33rd Congress (he was seated in January of 1855); was a resident of Savannah from 1855 to his death, and practiced law in there; he was a lieutenant colonel in the 51st Missouri during the Civil War.

Harlan, Andrew Jackson (1815-1907) – born in Ohio where he taught school before entering the bar in 1839; Indiana legislature (1847-1849); U.S. Representative from Indiana (1849-51, 1853-55); in 1854 he was read out of the Democratic Party for voting against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise (the Missouri Compromise prohibited the spread of slavery north—he was very much an anti-slavery Democrat but when he left the party, he helped to form the Republican Party); he was the last surviving member of the 31st Congress which included Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Calhoun, William H. Seward, David R. Atchison, Andrew Johnson, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, Horace Mann, Henry Clay, John C. Fremont, Salmon P. Chase, Thaddeus Stevens, Jefferson Davis, and Sam Houston; moved to the Dakota Territory in 1861; was a member of the territorial house of representatives in the Dakota Territory in 1861; moved to Missouri in 1863 and practiced law in Savannah; was a Missouri State Representative (1864-1868, Speaker of the House the last 3 years); was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri (1868); in 1885 he moved to Kansas but returned around 1891; he married Delilah Hendrix of Marion, Indiana in 1839; both children, son David R. B. Harlan and his daughter (married Judge H. S. Kelley of Savannah) preceded him in death.

Holt, W. Elmer (Oct 14,1882 or Oct 14, 1884-Mar 1, 1945) – born in Savannah; moved to his family’s eastern Montana cattle ranch in 1884; worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad; was a Montana State Representative (1912); was the Montana State Senator from Miles City (1932) and chosen President of the Senate; assumed the governorship as a result of Gov. Cooney’s death (Montana, 1935-1937); was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention (1936); he moved to Seattle in 1937 and died in his office (one source has that he died in Seattle, another said in Butte); is buried in Portland, Oregon.

Hoshor, John (1909-1989) – born on July 31 in Rosendale (his father was John Calvin Hoshor and his mother was Gladys Kent Hoshor) and graduated from Savannah High School; received his pharmacy training at the Bowen School of Pharmacy and was licensed in four states; was a Savannah druggist (1937-48); was a member of the Missouri State Senate (1949-1953); was Savannah Postmaster and Mayor of Savannah 1947-1949 and again in 1959-1964; Savannah Postmaster; serve in the armed forces from 1944-46 as a pharmacist in the Army in the South Pacific; was married to Iola Dysart Hoshor.

Howard, Rev. Lincoln (1864-1938) – had the Howard Stove Company in Savannah, married to Ollie Jacobs Howard; invented the Howard Heater (pyramid shaped cast iron stove); moved to St. Joseph in 1908, then moved to Nebraska; he died in Denver, where he retired and was survived by his wife and his daughter Veora and his son William.

Kelley, Henry S. (1832-1911) – born in Cincinnati, Ohio, son of Samuel and Mary Kelley; went to law school in Marion, Indiana; admitted to the bar in 1854, and was elected prosecuting attorney that same year; he married Adelia Harlan (daughter of A. J. Harlan, she died in 1900) in 1855; in 1856 he was elected as judge, the youngest in the United States, and served four years; in 1861 he moved to South Dakota where he was a member of the militia, but returned to Indiana two years later because of the Indian massacres; during the Civil War he was the Wabash Tribune editor; in August of 1866 he moved to Savannah, where he practiced law; he was elected judge and served 1872-1887; moved to St. Joseph; he lectured at the University of Missouri and was a legal textbook writer (3 books), buried in Savannah; four children survived him; a daughter and son Dr. Henry Kelley (-1906) preceded him in death.

Kinley, Joseph M. (1844-1911) – practiced law in Savannah; married Charlotte Frodsham (daughter of William Frodsham) in 1869, and had five children; moved to San Francisco, CA, in 1872; authored many law books; lost his manuscripts and extensive library in the fire which followed the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Maughmer, Fred H. Jr. (1927-) – born in Savannah; was in the Air Force during the Korean War; he was a lawyer; was a Missouri State Representative (1965-66)—Fred Jr. was alive as of his father’s death in 1972.

Maughmer, Fred H. Sr. (1899-1972) – born in Savannah November 22; graduated from Savannah High School in 1917; graduated from University of Missouri school of law in 1922, and was admitted to the bar the same year; Andrew County Prosecuting Attorney 1923-26; served six years as an attorney for the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; Republican nominee for U.S. Representative in 1938 and 1940; in 1946 was elected judge (5th Circuit, now the 6th); 1957-1972 commissioner of the Kansas City Court of Appeals; married Ruth Hine of Savannah in 1923 (she died suddenly in 1964); remarried and was survived by his wife Fay, son Frederic and two grandchildren.

McCord, James (1826 -) – born in Randolph County, Virginia, one of four children (and only son) of William and Sally Moss Field McCord; he married Mary E. Hallick and they had ten children; started partnership with Abram Nave in 1846 (a partnership which lasted 52 years); branched out to Texas and Kansas; died in St. Joseph, buried in the Mt. Mora cemetery.

McCorkle, John (1838-1918) – born 2 miles east of Savannah on Dec 12; moved to Westport when he was 8; he married Martha Liggett; son of Jabez and Nancy Fristo; he joined Quantrill Aug. 11 1862 at the battle of Independence. Because he was one of the few men who had a rifle, he was made scout and sniper. Most often, he rode with the Todd group. He was at the battles of Baxter Springs, Centralia, and Fayette among others. He was also at Lawrence Aug. 21, 1863. He went to Kentucky with Quantrill and was at the home of Mr. Thurman when Quantrill was ambushed and murdered. He surrendered with George Wigginton and another at Newcastle, Ky. After the war, he returned to his home county and worked on the farm of a relative. His memories , “Three Years With Quantrill”, were dictated to a writer (O.S. Barton), who took the information as it was given. McCorkle died Jan. 14, 1918, age 79, and was buried on a bluff over looking the Missouri River at Lisbon, Missouri.

Nave, Abram (1815-1898) – was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, a son of Henry Nave (a veteran of the War of 1812, he came to Saline County, MO in 1816, son of John Nave Jr.) and Mary Brooks; Abram married Lucy Jane McCord (1822-1853 and buried in the Savannah City cemetery) of Virginia, daughter of William McCord and Sally Moss Field McCord (d. of John and Sally Fields of Albemarle Co, VA, born 1798 and died 1850 and is buried in the Savannah cemetery); Abram had four children three of which were born in Savannah: William Henry Nave (1843 in Savannah-1910 or 1920 WV—his children were born in Saline o, MO), James McCord Nave (1844 in Savannah—c, 1910—his children were born in Kansas City), Emma Nave (born in 1847 in MO but not sure where), Samuel Miller Nave (1849 in Savannah-1901 in St. Joseph, where his children were born); must have had two other children who died as babies because there is a Lucy Jane, d. of Abram and Lucy who died in 1854 and buried in Savannah and Mildred, infant daughter of Abram and Lucy who died in 1852 and buried in Savannah. Abram later married two other ladies Mary B. and Augusta Bagnell; he started a general store on Shinbone Alley in Savannah (1841); in 1846 he opened a store in Oregon, Missouri, with his brother-in-law James McCord (the partnership lasted 52 years); 1850-1857 his cattle company delivered livestock to Sacramento, California; in 1857 they formed a wholesale grocery company in St. Joseph; he diversified (dry goods, meat packing, drug store; formed the Square and Compass Ranch in Texas in 1881 (sold out in 1901); died in St. Joseph and is buried in the Mt. Mora cemetery.

Neely, Edward (1809-1857) – from Savannah, Missouri; he was an inventor of patent number 7888, a Grass Harvester (January 7, 1851); was an Oregon pioneer.

Nichols, Dr. Perry Lewis (1863-1925) – physician who developed his own formula for the escharotic treatment of skin cancer. Started practice in Iowa in 1896 (his first patient was Mrs. Bartley Elliott of Gosport); went to medical school (1897) and graduated (1901); he first married Annie Dunning Nichols (-1906, died in Hot Springs, SD, monument in Savannah cemetery) and had two sons, Jack and George Dunning Nichols (1895-1916, born in Pierson Iowa, George went to High School in Savannah graduating in 1915, student at the University of Southern California, buried in Savannah cemetery) and one daughter; Dr. Nichols moved his practice from Iowa to South Dakota (first hospital built in Hot Springs in 1907), then to Excelsior Springs (1911-1912), and on to Savannah in 1912 where he built his Sanatorium; he remarried in 1921 (Amanda Paepke Nichols, who had their son George Phillip in 1923); the Sanatorium had treated 3300 patients by 1918 and over 70,000 by 1956, with a 75% success rate, according to their own records (it passed into the hands of his daughter, Mrs. Helen Nichols Poston, at his death, and she kept it running until 1956—it was then sold to the Sisters of St. Francis and later named La Verna Heights); Dr. Nichols is buried in Savannah City cemetery; the athletic field north of the Jr. High School was built in 1928 with funds donated by Dr. Perry Nichols.

Powell, Virgil S. (1890-1989) – born in Savannah; was educated in St. Joseph; moved to Iowa and joined the army in WWI (1918); became the first black police officer in Cedar Rapids (he developed a new method of fingerprinting), retiring in 1946; wrote music in the 1940s; wrote four books (The Black imp: A mystery story with intricate race-relations, 1964, Adeline: A child of Yani, 1979, From the Slave Cabin of Yani, 1977, Fury of Passions, 1984, Notable Black Americans, 1971); his brother Paul Leonard Powell (Jessie) Sr. of Independence (1906-1989) was buried in Savannah, also his father Jefferson D. (18861-1937), his mother Hester Ann (1861-1946), and his grandmother Adeline Wakefield Warren (1839-1936) are all buried in Savannah.

Price, Edward Valentine (1854-1929) – born in Savannah on May 9, son of William A. Price (1814-1887 buried in Savannah—he owned the land that Minnie Cline Elementary School was built on) and 1st wife Elizabeth Earls Price (1823-1859 buried in Savannah—William’s 2nd wife Elizabeth Hobson Price 1833-1917 also buried in Savannah); sister Amelia Ann died in 1843, brother William H. Clay Price died at 1852, brother James Webster Price (1852-1860), brother Eliphalet (1855-1856), and brother Charles S. Price (1864-1929) (according to his obituary, Edward also had a brother, A.C. Price of Raton, NM, and a sister Mrs. Julius Smith of Baldwin, KS); educated at the common school in Savannah until 14 (1868); was a grocery clerk as a boy, a cowboy on a cattle ranch in California in 1873, mined silver in Nevada, drove a stagecoach for Western Overland Stage, was a Wells Fargo messenger and later a road agent, then became a traveling salesman for wholesale clothing firm (1882-1896); married in Pueblo, CO 1884 to Emma J. Sharp (born in Pennsylvania in 1854, she was buried in Savannah in November of 1934); after 1896 he was a clothing manufacturer in Chicago, president of Ed. V. Price and Co. wholesale tailors and several clothing and shoe companies; he lived at Hotel Kenwood in Chicago; he died in 1929, cremated and his remains were shipped to Savannah; the day of his funeral the Mayor of Savannah proclaimed businesses closed for 1 hour; Edward endowed the Savannah library $17,000 in 1910 “Old Ed. V. Price Library” (the library east of the school building, it was built by the town and dedicated in 1912, later it was used for classrooms); later he gave another $5000 for books.

Rea, David (1831-1901) – born in Ripley County, Indiana, on January 19; he moved to a farm in Andrew County with parents in 1842; he taught school at 18 (for 5 years) then studied law, starting his practice in Savannah in 1863; he married Nancy E. Beattie in 1852 and they had six children; had a farm of 80 acres near Rea; he served in the Union Army during the Civil War; returned to Savannah to practice law; was a member of the Board of Education; was a U.S. Representative from Missouri (1875-1879); was a lawyer in Savannah until his death.

Reece, Charles Simone (1871-) – born in Andrew County to Alvis Franklin Reece and Huda Mackie Reece March 12; in 1889 was an employee on ranches in Wyoming and the Dakotas; 1890-96 he was a teacher in Cherry County; 1898-1902 he was a deputy county clerk; married to Harriet Thackery in 1902 in Manhattan, KS; was the Cherry County Clerk (1902); owned ranch lands in Cherry County, Nebraska; 1917 was the secretary and treasurer of the Garden Velley National Farm Loan Assoc.; was in the Nebraska State House of Representatives (1923-25, 1931); 1924- was feed inspector for Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha; 1939- was a member of the state advisory counsel U of N extension service; past chairman of the Republican Central Committee; as of 1940 lived in Simeon; his burial date and location are unknown.

Roach, Criss W. (1923-2005) – from Bolckow, Chair of Andrew County Democratic Party (1967), buried in Savannah

Ross, Nellie Tayloe (1876-1977) – born near Amazonia, first woman Gov. Wyoming (1925-1927) and first woman director of the U.S.Mint (1933-1953); active in the Democratic Party, received 31 votes from 10 states at the 1928 Convention for vice president on the first ballot (Al Smith was the Presidential nominee)

Sanders, Julius A. (1834-1915) – born in Vermont and received his education there; in 1854 he moved to Jacksonville, IL, where he accepted a professorship (until 1869) and also studied law; he was Captain of Company K, 28th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War; in 1871 he moved to Savannah where he was admitted to the Bar; he was appointed sheriff and collector; he was elected Prosecuting Attorney 1881-82, 1885-90, and 1908-10; in 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventionin Chicago where he supported Benjamin Harrison; he was a member of the school board; in 1871 he married Mary Ardery, who survived him.

Schuyler, W. S. [also known as W.C. Schuyler] (-1949) – from a family of inventors (his father, grandfather and uncles); he was the inventor of a gas jet, gas jet heater, and a power washing machine that had 2 tubs and 3 wringers, was connected to plumbing, and could be run by any motor (electric, gas, windmill power or horse power); that year or early the next the washer was advertised by the Nave-McCord mercantile in the Savannah Reporter and the Mar. 22, 1912 the Reporter announced that he was getting ready to install two more washers, and that he recently installed one in the house of Dr. W. I. Brown; also made copper funnels and fiber filters in his factory in Savannah; in June of 1915 he attached a fire alarm to the clock inside the clock tower; he moved his manufacturing firm to Springfield, Ohio, where he died.

Somerville, James Playfair [also spelled Summerville] (April 18, 1864-1935) – born in Ontario, Canada; came to Savannah with his family when just a baby; his family was from Savannah (his parents—mother Mrs. Mary Woodcock Somerville, was the daughter of pioneers and was born just south of Savannah and father C. C. Somerville was a beloved Savannah citizen, in hardware business with T. H. C. Hyde, and was secretary of the school board for 20 years, brother—Egbert M.—and sister are all buried in the city cemetery); moved to Kansas City about 1905 after first going to Des Moines for three years; was an insurance underwriter in Kansas City; was a founder of the Co-operative International, and was known as “Daddy Jim”; was the first president of the Co-operative Club (later known as Sertoma Club) of Kansas City in 1912; in 1919 he co-founded the Co-operative International (he was its second international president in 1921); he was married to Midi A. and had three daughters; in 1937 the Savannah Club recommended that the Cooperative Club International erect four pillars at the northwest entrance to the Savannah city cemetery in memory of James Playfair Somerville, a Savannah native.

Toole, Edwin Warren (1839-1905) – son of Edwin Toole, Andrew County’s first Circuit Clerk; left Andrew County when he was 14; in 1879 with his brother Joseph started the oldest surviving law firm in Montana, Toole and Toole (now Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman) during the Last Chance Gulch Gold Rush (1898 lawyer for plaintiff Andrew L. Davis, argued in US Supreme Court in 1904, Helena Water Works against the city of Helena, Montana); was a democratic candidate for delegate to U.S. Congress from the Montana Territory (1871); died in Helena, Montana.

Toole, Joseph Kemp (1851-1929) – born in Savannah, son of Edwin Toole, the first Circuit Clerk of Andrew County, and Lucinda Porter; he attended school in St. Joseph; studied law under his uncle William C. Toole; moved to Montana in 1870; admitted to the Bar in 1871; was a judge (1872-1876); was in the Montana territorial House of Representatives (1879-81); was a member and president of the territorial convention (1879-83); was a member of the Montana territorial council (1881-83); was a delegate to the Montana state constitutional convention (1884, 1889); was a delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Montana Territory (1885-1889); was the first Governor of Montana (1889-93, 1901-05); married Lilly Rosecrans of Washington, D.C., daughter of famous Civil War General William Rosecrans, and had two sons; is buried in Resurrection Cemetery in Helena.

Wilkerson, James Herbert (1869-1948) – born in Savannah, Missouri on December 11, 1869; his father was John W. Wilkerson, superintendent of schools in Savannah for many years, and his wife Libbie; graduated from Savannah High School at the age of 14; graduated from De Paw University in 1889; he taught school a number of years before entering the bar; he started his private practice in Chicago in 1893 (until 1922); member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1902); County attorney, Cook County (1903-1904); Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1906-1911); U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1911-1914); chairman of the Public Utilities Commission in the State of Illinois (1919-1921); Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (was nominated by Warren G. Harding on July 11, 1922, to a seat vacated by Kennesaw M. Landis (he became Commissioner of Baseball); confirmed by the Senate on July 18, 1922, and received commission on July 18, 1922; assumed senior status in 1940); died in Evanston, Illinois (September 30, 1948); burial location unknown; during his judgeship he is famous for sentencing Al Capone to 11 years (and a fine of $80,000) for income tax evasion in 1931 (when he wouldn’t accept a bribe, Capone changed his plea to not guilty and tried to bribe the jury, but Wilkerson switched the jury panel at the last minute), he issued a sweeping injunction against striking, assembling, picketing, and a variety of other union activities, colloquially known as the “Daugherty Injunction” as a result of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922, and he made rulings upholding the Federal authority of the FCC (1928). Earlier in his career as U.S. District Attorney he secured the famous $29,240,000 fine assessed on the Standard Oil Company by the then Federal Judge Kenesaw M. Landis.

The Zbyszka Brothers Stanislaus (Stanley) Jan Cyganiewicz (April 1, 1879-Sept. 23, 1967) and Wladek (Wally or Walter) Cyganiewicz (1891-1968) – world wrestling champions, born in Poland in the late 1800s, graduated from the University in Vienna and became linguists; Wally fought in the Spanish Revolution, served in the US. Army in WWI until he got a physical discharge, and he served as an interpreter for the US during WWII; Stanley was a professional wrestler popular in the US in the 1920s, one of the most influential European grapplers and one of the sport’s great pioneer champions, held the Greco-Roman wrestling championship belt in 1925, 1921 and 1922 World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship and the dynamometer world hand grip record in 1909, strength was measured on a Regnier dynamometer at 275 pounds, tremendous physical power; Wally held the European Championship Golden Belt in 1938 and had a match with a jujitsu champion, and was one of four wrestlers who dominated pro-wrestling in North America in the teens; Wally purchased 240 acres near Savannah and both retired to there in 1942; they trained future legends Johnny Valentine and Harley Race at their farm. Wally was married to Maria Orzelska (1902-1969) who came to Savannah with him and is also buried in the Savannah cemetery.