Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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Porteus Muir, an equally promising brother of W. D. Muir, killed at bat- tle of Mine Creek, near Pleasanton, Kansas, in 1864. Leonidas M. Lawson, already noticed among the teachers. James A. Quarles, afterward a prominent Presbyterian minister, doctor of divinity, and now professor in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. J. W. Draffen, long senior member of the law firm of Draffen and Wil-P liams, the strongest law firm of Central Missouri. Henry L. McPherson, a prominent steamboat captain during that era, now a successful railroad contractor. Henry C. Gibson, till his death a leading physician of Boonville. joseph C. Terrell, attorney and capitalist of Fort Worth, Texas. . William Brown, of jacksonville, Illinois, principal attorney of the Wabash Railroad, orator and man of letters. Edward R. Taylor, physician and lawyer of San Francisco, and a poet of marked ability. William W. Trigg, one of nature's noblemen and one of Boonville's best business men. Phil. E. Chappell, now a banker and capitalist of Kansas City. Lewis C. Nelson, a St. Louis millionaire. Uncas McCluer, now a Presbyterian minister of Southern Missouri. James Gibson, lawyer and statesman, now a Circuit Judge in Kansas City. M. B. Irvine, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, now at St. Joseph. james H. Johnston, a successful lawyer, now dead. john R. Walker, lawyer and statesman, United States District Attorney at Kansas City under Cleveland, recently deceased. Willis H. Bocock, a remarkable linguist, now professor of Greek in the University of Georgia. Washington Adams, a leading attorney of Kansas City. William M. Williams, ex-justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri and one of the foremost attorneys of the State. Lambert Ott, one of the prominent physicians of the city of physicians, Philadelphia. J. P. Huston, of Marshall, an influential banker and capitalist. Rev. J. H. Gauss, a Presbyterian minister of St. Louis. Lon V. Stephens, ex-treasurer and ex-governor of Missouri, capitalist and financier. l0

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W. A. Annin, graduate of Princeton University, eleven years teacher in Kemper and now Superintendent of the Boonville Public School. Frank J. Sagendorph, graduate of Rutgers College, three years professor in Kemper, now Superintendent of the Public Schools of Hudson, New York. The Military department of the School was established in 1885. It was approved by the President of the United States for detail of an army officer as instructor in Military Science and Tactics, in 1897. In 1899 the School was recognized by statute as a post of the National Guard of Missouri, and its Superintendent and members of the Faculty were given military rank therein. i Since the establishment of the Military department, the following officers have held the position of Commandant: Major F. W. Pralle, ex-officer of the German Army, now a resident of Boonville. I Capt. Samuel D. Rockenback, graduate of Virginia Military Institute, now First Lieutenant and Adjutant in Tenth United States Infantry and stationed at Santiago, Cuba. Capt. T. W. Lewis, graduate of Virginia Military Institute, now practic- ing physician in Virginia. Capt. W. H. Cocke, graduate of Virginia Military Institute, now attorney at law, St. Louis, Missouri. First Lieutenant Geo. D. Moore, Twenty-third United States Infantry, detailed by President, Major in Fifth Missouri Volunteers during the Spanish War, now Captain in Twentieth United States Infantry, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Capt. E. H. Marsteller, graduate of Virginia Military Institute. First Lieutenant W. R. Dunton, United States Army, retired, and brevet Major, detailed by President, present incumbent. Kemper feels a justifiable pride when she reads over the long roll of her sons. Here are some of the noteworthy. Horace A. Hutchison, a student of the opening session, ever since a prom- inent lawyer and official of Cooper county and now its Probate judge. William M. Quarles, a promising physician, killed in the opening battle of the Civil War in Missouri, near Boonville. John R. Lionberger, a capitalist, one of the makers of St. Louis, now dead. William D. Muir, the leading lawyer of central Missouri till his death in the sixties. fl '

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Geo. P. Vest, son of Senator Geo. G. Vest, of Missouri. Wm. T. Pigott, justice of the Supreme Court of 'lVIontana. W. A. Dallmeyer, banker and capitalist, Jefferson City. Wm. H. Elliott, extensive manufacturer of railroad supplies, East St. Louis. W. P. Waggener, attorney and railroad official of Atchison, Kansas. Allen F. Wright, attorney and United States Commissioner, South McAlester, Indian Territory. Horace W. Craig, member of a commercial firm of Chicago. William E. Hailey, attorney at law, South McAlester, Indian Territory. Lanier Cravens, First Lieutenant, United States Volunteers, Philippine Islands, recently appointed to lieutenantcy in Regular Army. Warren W. Whitside, son of Colonel Whitside, of the Regular Army, himself Second Lieutenant, Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Santiago, Cuba. Edward G. Pringle, attorney at law, New York City. David C. McCurtain, son of Gov. Green McCurtain, of the Choctow Nation, himself a prominent tribal statesman. Preston B. Moss, a capitalist and banker of Billings, Montana. And besides these, many, many others, who have helped in shaping the destinies of the great west and have their names imperishably enrolled among its heroes and men of affairs. Though space is lacking for their names, their memory is green in the old halls, and those who still linger there give them herewith words of greeting and good cheer, and ask them to keep fresh their memories of, and affection for the old School. ' . N. , I t , , I ' I Q . , I X QQ Y ' V 1, s vi lame' ll