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| Record Last Updated On:
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| Name: JOHN GEORGE (ASHES) SCHNEIDER |
| Death Date: JUL/21/1930 |
Interment Date:
JUL/23/1930 |
Birth Date: MAY/12/1862 |
| Age at Death: 68y2m9d |
Cause of Death:
septicaemia (streptococcus) |
| Location at Death:
St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Physical Location at Death:
St. Joseph's Hospital |
| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERICAN |
Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN |
| Occupation:Banker |
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| Child of: Ulrich Schneider & Katherine Schott |
| Spouse of: Helen Craig Garth |
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| Father of: Ulrich Schneider, Helen Schneider Walker & John George Schneider Jr. |
| Other Known Relatives: Six sisters: Miss Ada Schneider, Mrs. James Richmond, Miss Lillian Schneider, Mrs.Amanda Rainalter and Mrs. John Horning all of St. Joseph and Mrs. Snelson Chesney of Montclair, N.J. |
| Brief Biography:
Buchanan County, Mo.
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John H. Sampson, M. D.; A well-known and prominent physician and surgeon of St. Joseph, John P. Sampson, M. D., possesses in an eminent degree the skill, knowledge and ability that insure success in the medical profession, which is one of the most exacting of all the higher occupations. A son of Benjamin Sampson, he was born, January 29, 1857, in Buchanan County, Missouri, on Bloomington Township Farm. He is the descendant of an honored pioneer of Buchanan County, his grandfather, John Sampson, having been one of the earlier settlers of this part of Missouri.
John Sampson was born in Kentucky, near Danville, Boyle County, and there grew to man's estate. Learning from his father the millwright's trade, he followed it in Kentucky until about 1829, when he migrated to Indiana and thence to Knox County, Illinois, about 1834, where he remained three years. The Platte Purchase being then opened for settlement, he came to Missouri, locating in what is now Bloomington Township, Buchanan County, the removal being made across the country with ox teams. The entire Platte Purchase was then owned by the Government, and was on sale at $1.25 an acre. Settlers were at that time few and far between, and the principal market was at St. Joseph, where for several years a Mr. Robideaux had a trading post. Securing 160 acres of land, John Sampson made an opening in the underbrush and trees, and the log cabin that he therein erected was the first home of the Sampson family in Missouri.
A short time later he built a saw mill and a grist mill, both of which he operated for a time with oxen power. A few years later he built another mill, and operated that with a boiler and engine that he secured from a steamboat which had sunk in the Missouri River, near Weston. He also worked at the carpenter's trade, and had the contract to build the first courthouse in Buchanan County, it having been located at Sparta. He was very successful in his undertakings, and as his means increased he invested his accumulations in other tracts of land, acquiring title to 640 acres. He cleared a large farm, erected substantial frame buildings, and there lived until his death, in 1874, at the age of seventy-one years. His wife, whose maiden name was Ann Kays, was born near Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, a daughter of William Kays. She died in 1843, leaving seven children, namely: William, Jane, Polly, Benjamin, James, Henry and John, who died in infancy. The name of John Sampson is still well remembered in Buchanan County on account of the creek near St. Joseph, which he called Contrary Creek, because it runs through Contrary Lake, in an opposite direction from the Missouri River, into which it flows.
But an infant when brought to Missouri by his parents, Benjamin Sampson was reared in the Platte Purchase amid pioneer scenes, and as soon as old enough to be of use, he assisted in the pioneer tasks of his day. While working with his father he learned the trade of a millwright, which he followed to some extent. Subsequently inheriting 160 acres of land, he erected a good set of frame buildings, and there lived for a time. In 1881, he rented his land, and moved to Platte County, where he bought land, which he managed successfully for twenty years. Returning then to the old homestead in Bloomington Township, he has there been a resident since.
The maiden name of the wife of Benjamin Sampson was Eliza J. Ewell. She was born in Elkhorn, Ray County, Missouri, January 18, 1839, a daughter of Layton Ewell, and a niece of Gen. Richard Stoddard Ewell, a noted officer of the Confederate Army. Layton Ewell, a native of Virginia, was a pioneer of Ray County, Missouri, and one of its earliest merchants. Retiring from mercantile pursuits, he bought a farm near Rushville, and operated it with slave labor, living there until his death, in 1845. His wife, whose maiden name was Arfanna Fox, died in 1842. On February 21, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sampson celebrated their golden wedding, the occasion being one of much joy and pleasure. Among the guests were two daughters, ten sons, twenty nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. The combined weight of the twelve children and father and mother was 2,626 pounds, an average weight of 186 pounds each. Fourteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sampson, namely: John H.; Maggie M., now Mrs. Finch; James M., ex-sheriff; Belle M., now Mrs. Gaunt, who is postmaster at Inza, Mo.; Richard M.; George Thomas; P. H. Grant; Benjamin F.; Albert D.; Lewis C.; William H.; Charles C.; Jesse C.; and Nellie M.
Obtaining a practical education in the public schools, John H. Sampson began teaching at the age of twenty-one years, and while thus employed turned his attention to the study of medicine, and later attended lectures at the Missouri Medical College, in St. Louis, where he was graduated March 2, 1881. He has always been a close student, keeping up with the times in regard to everything pertaining to medicine and surgery, and in 1891 took a post graduate course at his alma mater. Commencing the practice of medicine at New Market, Platte County, Doctor Sampson remained there until 1885, and the following year was located in De Kalb, Buchanan County. From there he came to St. Joseph, in February, 1896, where he has met with unquestioned success in his chosen work. From 1895 until 1913 the doctor was professor of children's diseases at the Ensworth Medical College, with which he is still connected, being now, in 1914, professor of medical diseases. The doctor belongs to various medical organizations, being a member of the St. Joseph, the Buchanan County, the Andrew County, the Missouri State, and the Missouri Valley medical societies, and is a fellow of the American Medical Association. He is likewise a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 232, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Doctor Sampson married, August 7th, 1878, Mary Josephine Parnell. She was born in Bloomington Township, a daughter of James M. and Parmelia Emeline (Hall) Parnell, and granddaughter of James Hall, a pioneer of Buchanan County. The doctor and Mrs. Sampson are the parents of seven children, namely: Myrtle V., deceased, Chris. M., Eliza E., Laura C, Elsie J., Mary L., and Maude P. Chris M., a graduate of the St. Joseph High School, and of Ensworth Medical College, and now associated with his father, married Ora D. La Verne. Eliza is the wife of George Keith Kennard, and has two sons; Ralph Kennard and George M. Laura married Frank M. Welch. Mary L., wife of R. W. Spurlock, has one son, Royal Jack Spurlock. Elsie J., married James E. Smith and they have one son, Darrell Smith.
[A History of Northwest Missouri, Volume 2; edited by Walter Williams; Publ. 1918; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]
GEORGE WARREN SAMUEL is one of the oldest settlers of the "Platte Purchase" and has been one of the most prominent merchants in the state. He is one of the wealthy citizens of St. Joseph, with the prosperity of which he has been most intimately connected from the early days. He is a director in the Commercial Bank, of which he was one of the organizers, and is also a stockholder in the Nebraska National Bank at Omaha.
Mr. Samuel's birth occurred June 4, 1810, at Newcastle, Henry County, Ky. His father, Reuben Samuel, of Carolina County, Va., was a son of Judge William Samuel, an early settler of Carolina County, Va. The family is of Welsh descent, and numerous members have been prominent in different parts of the Union. Our subject's father is one of nine children: William, Jr., Reuben, John, Robert, Nancy, Elizabeth, Agnes, Fanny and Phoebe. These children all married well. The oldest son became a wealthy farmer; John was both prominent and rich, and often served his county in the Legislature; and the third son settled in Newcastle, Ky., where he owned a valuable farm. A son of the last-named was High Sheriff of Henry County, Ky., before his eighteenth year.
Reuben Samuel and his four sons may be justly claimed as among the early settlers of Randolph County. The former was a carpenter, builder and contractor. He once was prevailed upon to ask of the Elective Magistrates, of which he was one, the office of Recording Clerk of the Circuit and County Court.. His opponent's father had held the office for forty years. The result of the election was a tie, and Mr. Samuel himself held the deciding vote, and cast it for his opponent, Edmond P. Thomas. With his large family, Mr. Samuel sought a home in Missouri and seeing the prospective greatness of St. Louis, invested his limited means in lots. The value increased rapidly and after selling the properly he bought a cargo of flour and chartered a boat, which was the second or third that had ever ascended the Missouri river, but the boat was sunk and his fortune with it. His life was saved only by swimming ashore. After these reverses he returned to Kentucky and was given a good official position.
Our subject's mother, Martha Bartlett before her marriage, was born in Newcastle, Ky. Her father was a farmer and a colonel in the War of 1812. Mrs. Samuel was the mother of eight children, two of whom died in infancy. They were Thomas J., Ed. Madison, Sarah, our subject, Clinton (who died from the effects of his service during the Mexican War), and William R. The eldest son, Thomas J., was a noble and most dutiful son, and cared for his aged parents with filial care until their death. Sarah, the only sister, was noted for her energy and perseverance. She was charitable to the degree that she robbed herself of the very comforts of life. Edward Madison, the second son, was most closely connected with the history of Missouri, shaping its policy when the state was in its infancy. He was an able writer and a good speaker. He was one of the most wealthy and extensive merchants of northwestern Missouri. He established the Commercial Bank of St. Louis of which he was president at the time of his death. Hon. William R., the youngest of the family, engaged in the merchandising business in Huntsville. He afterward carried on a tobacco business and later turned his attention to real estate. In 1852 he was elected to the State Legislature by the Whigs, and four years later was elected Circuit Clerk and County Recorder, serving as such for ten years.
We will now take up more specially the history of George Warren Samuel, of this sketch. At the age of seventeen, he left school, not being able for want of means to obtain a collegiate course. Though not in robust health he started out to seek his fortune in the west, and in November, 1828, reached Howard County, Mo., with only fifty cents in his pocket. He entered the mercantile house of Harrison, Glasgow & Ross, then the largest dealers in the west above St. Louis. After remaining with them for two years he gained the implicit confidence of his employers and with their aid embarked in business for himself in Chariton, Mo. On account of the unhealthiness of the locality he removed to Huntsville, Randolph County, but that sparsely settled region not affording sufficient trade, he removed to Columbia in 1834, forming a partnership with the Lammes, and erecting a mill which was the first paper-mill west of the Ohio. This was unfortunately consumed by fire.
To add to the discouragement of Mr. Samuel at this time, his health was constantly declining and it seemed necessary for him to take a sea voyage. He accordingly did so, but the fates still pursued him for the vessel was wrecked near Bernini Island and though Mr. Samuel managed to get back to Missouri, he was a mere skeleton and penniless. He erected the first house ever erected in the Platte Purchase by a mechanic. This house was afterward occupied by David R. Atchison, who was President pro tern of the United States for one day.
Thomas Smith, of Kentucky, assisted him to embark in the packing business, but the experiment was unfavorable. Another venture seeming necessary and 8 team boating promising to be remunerative, he built a steamboat, but this speculation proved disastrous. In 1838 our subject removed to Platte City. Seeing the place where St. Joseph now stands he at once believed a city would be there founded. He was eager to possess the tract and was one of a company formed to buy the preemption right for $1,600. A trivial thing, however, prevented the consummation of this plan.
In Savannah, Mo., Mr. Samuel next embarked in the mercantile business, continuing until 1860, when he found his fortune again restored. He was obliged to stop on account of the war, being crippled financially, and removed to St. Joseph, where in 1868 he organized the St. Joseph Fire & Marine Insurance Company, of which he was for a time President. In the course of time he became interested in stores in six or eight different counties, and for over half a century success has crowned his efforts.
In 1838 Mr. Samuel married Rebecca T. Todd, daughter of the late Judge Todd, who was a captain under Gen. Harrison in the War of 1812. He was a leading member of the bar in St. Joseph for forty years. On July 26, 1865, our subject was bereft of his wife and just one month later his only son, Col. D. Todd Samuel, was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and buried with the honors of war at Atlanta, Ga. His father had his remains brought to St. Joseph and placed by the side of his little brother and sister.
The young colonel was only a youth when he was captured at Camp Jackson and was a major under Col. Sanders. He returned home but could not stay on account of the excitement of the hour. The last words spoken to his father were: "Father, I would rather fall in battle than forsake my comrades with whom I have enlisted." As major, assisted by Col. Jeff Patton, he raised a small regiment, with which he fought at Blue Mills, Lexington, Pea Ridge, Corinth, Vick-burg, Eenesaw, Iuka, Atlanta and Jonesville. At the time of his death he was colonel of the Third Confederate States Army and was the youngest officer in rank west of the line of the southern states. Our subject's oldest daughter is Eliza B., Mrs. H. W. Yates, of Omaha, her husband being President of the Nebraska National Bank. His other children, Florence T. and Insley J., are residents of St. Joseph. The former is the wife of J. T. Johnson and the latter is Mrs. John S. Lemon, her husband being a banker. His biography may be found in another part of this work.
Mr. Samuel was interested in building the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway and also the Kansas City line. He is a stockholder and director in the Rock Island Road, and was a stockholder and helped to build the first railroad west of the Alleghany Mountains. This line was run by horsepower between Booneville and Franklin. Mr. Samuel was at one time a partner of ex-Gov. Clay Jackson. Peter Birney, who became Governor of California later, and ex-Gov. Conways and ex-Gov. Elias of Arkansas were all his employes. Mr. Samuel has had the pleasure of seeing all of the Presidents from John Quincy Adams down to the present time, with the exception of five. He built the library building on the corner of Sixth and Charles streets, and has backed up the enterprise with generous contributions. Our subject was trained in business under John T. Cleveland, an uncle of President Cleveland. It was during this period that our subject wrote a petition to Congress asking the protection of Santa Fe traders, and a company of soldiers was sent out and threw up mounds or hills by means of which the teams could follow one course and keep together.
(Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri. Publ. 1893. Transcribed by Charlotte Slater)
OLIVER A. SANDUSKY is the proprietor of the oldest commission house in St. Joseph. This, with the exception of the one belonging to A. L. Charles of Kansas City, is the oldest of the kind on the river. Our subject is also engaged in general merchandising at Hamlin, Brown County, Kans., and is a stockholder in the Llano Live Stock and Land Company, an extensive concern owning thirty thousand acres in Texas. He is considered one of the most enterprising and prosperous business men of the county and has been blessed with great success in whatever business he has turned his hand to.
Oliver A. Sandusky was born near Lexington, Ky., on February 7, 1832, and is a son of Jacob E., who was born in the same locality in 1808. Our subject's paternal grandfather, who bore the Christian name of Ephraim, was also a pioneer in Kentucky, while his father, in turn, had emigrated from the Old Dominion with Daniel Boone, settling in the Blue Grass region, where he improved a farm. The country was extremely wild and unsettled, and while with a surveying party at a place called Salt Licks he was attacked by Indians. The party believing that "discretion was the better part of valor" made for the woods, hiding in bushes and finally making their escape. He was truly one of the pioneers of the coming civilization, and his services were of inestimable value. He helped survey the country and in after years, indeed, when he was over eighty years of age, he was called upon to testify in a suit as to the surveys and location of old lines, made so many years previously. His memory was clear and decisive and his opinions were held with marked respect. Our subject's paternal grandfather participated in the War of 1812 and was the owner of seven hundred acres of fine farming land, only ten miles from Lexington.
Jacob E. Sandusky, our subject's father, was also an extensive farmer near Lexington, where he engaged in extensive agriculture. He purchased land in 1838 in Clarke County, Mo., with the intention of locating upon it, but gave up that plan, settling in Shelby County, which is still his place of residence, though he is past eighty-five years of age. The family are originally from Virginia and in the early days the name was spelled Sodowsky, the cognomen being of Polish origin. Our subject's mother, who was also a native of Kentucky, was before her marriage Miss Hannah Middleton. Her father, Joseph, was born in Maryland and was an early and respected settler in Kentucky, locating on the old Shelby Pike in Shelby County, between Franklin and Louisville. Both parents of our subject were personal friends of Henry Clay and were old Line Whigs back to the early days. The mother, who died in Shelby County, Ky., had a family of three children, two of whom are living. After her death her husband was again married, Miss Nancy Bladyes becoming his wife. Of their union five children were born, all of whom are living. James M., our subject's own brother, is in his employ as a salesman and during the late war was in the Confederate Army.
The boyhood days of Oliver Sandusky wore passed in his birth-place ten miles from Lexington. He removed with his parents when seven years of age to a farm in Shelby County, near Shelbyville, and from the age of eight years was reared to hard farm labor. At that time he was set at plowing and until the age of twenty-three he worked faithfully and untiringly on his father's homestead. Such education as he acquired was obtained during the three months' winter term in the old fashioned log school-house with its accompanying conveniences. In 1855 he came by way of boat to this state on the "Polar Star" and landed at St. Joseph, near which city he took charge of a two-hundred-acre farm, fifteen miles north in Andrew County.
In that county in the year 1857 occurred the marriage of Mr. Sandusky and Serelda Potter, who was born in Caldwell County, Mo., and whose father, John Potter, was an early settler in this state. Our subject located on a farm of eighty acres in Andrew County, which he purchased and operated until the war. He then enlisted in the Ninth Missouri Cavalry, Company M, being mustered in at St. Joseph and campaigning in this state under Gen. Odin Guitar. In 1864 he did considerable skirmishing and fighting and was captured at Glasgow by Shelby of Price's Army, was paroled and sent to the barracks at St. Louis and afterward to Macon City, where he remained until the war closed, when he was discharged. He then returned to his farm, which he soon sold, and in the fall of 1805 engaged in the grocery business at the corner of Sixth and Edmond streets, St. Joseph, for about eight years. He gradually worked into the general produce business and was very successful.
In 1873 Mr. Sandusky located on Market Square and handled as a specialty certain lines of fruit, particularly apples. He now buys and sells from two hundred to two hundred and fifty cars of apples a season, shipping to various points in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, doing all business from this office. He has his men begin packing the fruit in August, and has expert workers in that line, as in order to have the fruit keep perfectly it must be exceedingly carefully dealt with. This firm also deals extensively in eggs and butter, of the former commodity sending as many as twenty cars east in a season. They deal in potatoes in carload lots and general farm produce, berries, onions and various small fruits. They have large sales in all parts of the country and are among the most enterprising firms in the county. They occupy a brick store 20 by 140 feet on North Market Square, which is admirably fitted in every way for their special line of trade.
In 1891 Mr. Sandusky started a general merchandising store in Hamlin, Kans., and has placed a nephew in charge of it. He has erected a pleasant residence at No. 720 South Tenth street. Politically he is a Democrat and personally he is very popular, as he is of a jovial and friendly disposition, being very fond of good jokes or flashes of wit and humor.
(Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of Buchanan & Clinton Counties Missouri, Publ. 1893. Transcribed by Linda Rodriguez)
John G. Schneider. The City of St. Joseph has in John G. Schneider, vice president of the German-American National Bank, one of her ablest financiers, and one who has been active in the affairs of the city, both in business and in public life, continuously since 1879. He was born in St. Joseph on May 12, 1862, and is the eldest son of Ulrich and Katherine (Schott) Schneider.
Ulrich Schneider was a man who was prominent in this city for a good many years, and it is fitting that at least a brief space be devoted in this sketch to a recital of the more prominent activities of his life. He was a native German, born at Wurtemberg, Germany, on March 30, 1837, and he died in this city on November 10, 1902. He came to the United States with his parents in 1852, arriving at Baltimore, Maryland, and until he came to St. Joseph, in 1861, lived for the most part in Ohio. He came to this city and state at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, and he served three years in the enrolled militia of the state, during his service being promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, Company B. In August, 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-third Missouri Volunteer Regiment and was wounded and made a prisoner in the latter days of the conflict, though he saw much hard service and participated in some of the severest struggles of the war. On the close of the war, when he secured his release, he came to St. Joseph, later moving to DeKalb, where he engaged in the boot and shoe business and was so occupied for four years.
In 1871 Mr. Schneider returned to St. Joseph and was soon thereafter appointed deputy county clerk of Buchanan County, a position he filled with all of satisfaction to the public for four years. Then, in 1875, he became secretary of the Home Loan and Building Association. Two years later he engaged in insurance and real estate activities in St. Joseph, and he continued to be active in that enterprise until he died in 1902.
Mr. Schneider was a man, who was prominent in Masonic circles, and he was past eminent commander of St. Joseph Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, and he was also a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and other fraternal bodies of the city, and at the time of his death he was a director in the German-American National Bank, of which his son is now vice president. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children. The mother died in 1880.
John G. Schneider was educated in the St. Joseph Public Schools and when he was fifteen years of age became associated with his father in the real estate and insurance, business, continuing so from 1877 to 1887. In the year last named he was one of the organizers of the German American Bank of St. Joseph, now the German-American National Bank and he began then to serve the bank as assistant cashier. In 1892 he became vice president, and he has continued in that office ever since.
Mr. Schneider is a member of the directorate of the St. Joseph Stock Yards Company, of the Buchanan Hotel Company, of the St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway Company, of the Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway Company, and a number of other business enterprises of similar importance.
Like his father, Mr. Schneider has become identified with the leading fraternal societies, including the A. F. & A. M., St. Joseph's Lodge No. 78; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, the Court of Honor, and the Independent Order of Red Men. He is a member of the St. Joseph Turnverein, St. Joseph Swaben Verein, a director of the St. Joseph Country Club, a member of the Benton Club of St. Joseph, of the Lotus Club of St. Joseph, and of the St. Joseph Commerce Club. In all of these he is active and prominent.
On October 12, 1887, Mr. Schneider was married to Miss Helen Garth, a daughter of Maj. Samuel Garth, of St. Joseph, and a member of one of the pioneer families of Buchanan County. Major Garth served in the Union Army during the Civil War and was long a prominent citizen in St. Joseph.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schneider—Ulrich Schneider; Helen, married to Henry Walker, and John G. Schneider, Jr.
The family have a comfortable residence at No. 1125 Krug Park Place, and they are prominent in social activities in the city, where they have a wide circle of stanch friends.
[A History of Northwest Missouri, Volume 2; edited by Walter Williams; Publ. 1918; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack] |
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Burial Number: 10698 |
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| Other Relatives in Plot: John George Schneider Jr., Helen Craig Garth Schneider |
| Lot Owner: J G SCHNEIDER |
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| Block Location: 9 |
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| Funeral Home: Newcomers Crematory & Heaton Begole & Bowman |
| Funeral Home City/State: Kansas City, MO, St. Joseph, MO |
| Cost of Interment: 5.00 |
Date Paid: 08/31/30 |
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