men, Mount Olive Saengerbund, and Central Township Farmers' Club. He is also a director of the St. Louis County Bank and president of the Clayton school board. He was married to Miss Lizzie C. Lanphier, of St. Louis County, October 25, 1869. They have had ten children-Allen F.; Almira Agnes, wife of R. Lee Mudd; Catharine, Emma Alice (deceased), William, Robert Thomas, Jacob Henry, Belle, Jessie and Cora Lee Wengler.

Wenneker, Charles F., who has achieved high distinction in St. Louis both as a business man and a public official, was born in that city October 10, 1854, son of Clemens and Henrietta (Blanke) Wenneker. He was reared in St. Louis and received his scholastic training in the public schools, later taking a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's College. After quitting school he became connected with the business of manufacturing candy, in which his maternal relatives have been largely interested in St. Louis for many years. In 1890 he became president of the corporation known as the WennekerMorris Candy Company, which has since operated one of the most noted confectionery manufacturing establishments in the West, a wide area of territory being covered by its traveling salesmen and wholesale trade. An active business man and one who has been eminently successful in his undertakings, he has not belonged to that class of merchants and manufacturers who have no time for public duties. His belief has been that, if our government is to be "a government of the people, and for the people," the people must inform themselves concerning matters of public policy and governmental problems and take an active interest in the conduct of public affairs. His views concerning economic questions and the capacity of partisan organizations of the present day to administer good government have made him a Republican in politics, and, believing in the wisdom of the policies of that party, he has at all times exerted himself to promote the thorough organization of the political forces which it controls and to contribute to its success at the polls. Having become prominent in the councils of his party and having demonstrated in the practical business of life his fitness for an official position requiring of its incumbent superior executive and financial ability, he

was in 1889 appointed by President Harrison United States collector of internal revenue for the District of St. Louis, the third largest in the United States. He served in that capacity four years and two months, handling during his official term $32,000,000, his accounts balancing to a cent when he gave way to a successor appointed by President Cleveland. He was regarded as an ideal revenue officer and, in 1897, after an interval of four years which he devoted entirely to business pursuits, he was elected city collector of St. Louis by a majority of 24,000 votes. Baptized into the Methodist Church as a child, Mr. Wenneker has adhered to that faith in his religious affiliations, and he is now a trustee of Eden Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of numerous fraternal organizations, affiliating with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Legion of Honor, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Masonic Order, being a Knight Templar of the order last named. He married, in 1875, Miss Johanna Heidbreder, and four children have been born of this union, of whom only a daughter survives.

Wenrich, Daniel Kinports, postmaster of Joplin, was born March 17, 1848, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were David and Catherine (Kinports) Wenrich, natives of Pennsylvania, descended from German ancestry. The father was a clergyman in the Church of the United Brethren, and for many years presiding elder of a district in Iowa, where he now lives in the retirement belonging to advanced years. The son was left motherless when he was about ten years of age, and he has made his own way in the world from that time. His education was limited to such as he could acquire during brief attendance upon the public schools near Burlington, Iowa, but his inquiring mind led him to diligent reading and close observation, with the result of his becoming a well informed man in all those lines which constitute what is termed the selfacquired practical education. He made his livelihood by farm work until he was twentyfour years of age, when he removed to Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri, where he taught school successfully for three years. March 17, 1872, he went to Joplin and began there as a laborer in the smelting works of Corn & Thompson, leaving this to take sim