Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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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

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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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The Gallery. -rf , J mu ii? l w ul XA' T414 OME months ago Mrs. T. A. Johnston began making a collec- r y-f' tion of portraits ofiprominent men who were formerly stu- - dents at the Kemper Family School, now known as the 3 Kemper Military' School. The latest portrait received by her I J is that of Alonzo Lawson, who was reared in Boonville, but mm' K ' for many years past has been one of the most successful and distinguished citizens of New York City. This portrait is magnificently framed, and of great value. Mrs. Johnston has collected about twenty portraits, which are hung in the hallway at the main entrance of the school. They furnish an interest- ing study and represent nearly all geographical sections of the United States. From the Atlantic Seaboard comes the picture of Mr. Lawson. From the Pacific coast comes the picture of the distinguished Dr. Edward Taylor, poet and translator. To the northwest Montana is rep resented, and then the sunny south is represented by the Rev. J. A. Quarles, D. D., LL. D., of Washington and Lee University. I Accompanying these portraits are letters, in which the writers congrat- ulate Mrs. Johnston upon her novel enterprise and in which, also, they re- vive memories of their school days under the late F. T. Kemper and Col. T. A. Jahns-ton.--Boonville Advertiser. js 'a . .-.-W! r kg 4 iv 3