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ville, Missouri, to which place his father removed when his two sons, Harry and Herwere about eight years old. For a while he attended the high school of the town, but when thirteen years old had to leave his studies at school and help to earn money to support the family, as at that time. his father had just brought before the world his new science of healing, now known as osteopathy, and was meeting the opposition and discouragements thrown in his way, not alone by physicians, but by some members of his own family, who a few years later were proud to acknowledge the science as being brought before the world by a member of their family. For six years Harry M. Still was a clerk in a grocery store, but his education was not neglected by his mother, who was even a more capable teacher than the average in the schools. To him, also, his father taught the principles of osteopathy, and he was the first student in the science, and for six years before the American School of Osteopathy was organized he was his father's assistant, and was the first to be graduated from the school after it

started. To equip himself for practice he took a course of study and graduated from the Physiological and Anatomical School of Chicago, under the direction of the noted Dr. Eckley. The first office he opened up for osteopathic practice was at Hannibal, Missouri, in May, 1886. In 1888 he went to Nevada, Missouri, and for the greater part of 1889-90 was located at Independence and Rich Hill, Missouri. In 1892 he went to Minneapolis, where he opened an office, and in 1893 was at Kansas City. From the latter place he returned to Kirksville, where he spent two years at the American School; then he went to Chicago, where he opened an office and remained three years, practicing in that city and at Evanston, Illinois. Disposing of his practice in Chicago he returned to Kirksville and took an active part in the conduct of the American School, of which he was one of the incorporators and trustees, vice president and president of the faculty. In the school he was, in clinics, instructor of osteopathic practices, and had charge of the A. T. Still Infirmary, conducted in connection with the school. His work in osteopathy from the first has been of the missionary kind. While at Hannibal, in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other places, he was arrested re

peatedly at the instigation of the old school doctors, for no other reason than that he was curing people without the use of medicine, and for alleged breaches of the medical laws. The cures he made were the means of securing for him firm friends and supporters of osteopathy, and resulted in making known to the world many of the good results of the science. Not a single field he opened to osteopathy has been abandoned, and in each place the profession of osteopathy maintains a high standard. Dr. Still is prominent in the business affairs of Kirksville, is president of the Real Estate Exchange, and a director of the National Bank, and is an extensive property owner. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, and was urged to become the candidate for Representative from Adair County in the State Legislature in 1900, but refused to accept the nomination, as it would interfere with his extensive practice. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belonging to the Kirksville lodge. On October 7, 1892, Dr. Still was married to Miss Nannie Miller, daughter of Lighter and Fanny Miller, of Schell City, Missouri, and a grandniece of General Scott, of Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Still are the parents of one child, Fred M. Still, born July 25, 1898.

Still, Charles Edward, osteopathist, was born in Centropolis, Franklin County, Kansas, January 7, 1865. He is the first son of Andrew Taylor Still, the noted discoverer and originator of the science of osteopathy, and founder of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Charles E. Still received his early educational training at the public schools of Baldwin, Kansas, and later on at the schools of Kirksville, Missouri, when the family had finally located in that city. This general scholastic training was supplemented by a full commercial course at the Kirksville Mercantile College, from which institution he was graduated. Arriving at manhood's state, Dr. Still was attracted to military life, and in April, 1887, he enlisted in the United States Army, in the Fourteenth Infantry, under Captain George Davis, who, since the termination of our war with Spain, was appointed and served as Military Governor of Puerto Rico. Dr. Still spent three years and three months in active military service, and when the Oklahoma

lands were opened for settlement he had command of the guard of United States troops which was dispatched there to preserve law and order during the inrush of prospective settlers. He was a non-commissioned officer at the time he received an honorable discharge from military service, and might readily have held rank as a commissioned officer had he chosen to subject himself to the red tape process necessary to such promotion. This, however, was distasteful to him and he did not value the honor sufficiently to go to the trouble of obtaining it. After his retirement to civil life he qualified himself thoroughly, under the immediate instruction of his father, for the practice of the new science of osteopathy, and after having been located for a time at Red Wing, Minnesota, connected himself with his father and brothers in the management and conduct of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, the parent institution of this modern and common sense method for the cure and treatment of disease which, notwithstanding the bitter, almost malignant, opposition encountered from the devotees and adherents of all the various "schools" of medicine, has spread throughout the length and breadth of the land, and in a few short years has gained a footing everywhere. It is impossible to intelligently predict the future of osteopathy, but one thing is absolutely sure, it has come to stay, and all of its converts are enthusiastic in its advocacy. Dr. Still has taken an active interest in the furtherance and promotion of all movements leading to the building up or improvement of Kirksville, and is especially interested in educational matters. He is at the present time (1900) a member of the school board of Kirksville. He is a Methodist Episcopal churchman, and his fraternal affiliations are with the orders of Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; he is a beginner also in the mysteries of Ancient Free and Accepted Masonry. He was married to Miss Annie Florence Rider, daughter of an early settler and pioneer of Shelby County, Missouri. To this union four children have been born, three of whom are living.

Stilwell, Arthur E., conspicuous in the financial world for originality in the conception of great enterprises and skill in effect

ing their establishment, was born October 21, 1859, at Rochester, New York. His parents were Charles H. and Mary (Pierson) Stilwell. His educational advantages were meager, for at the age of fourteen years he began an apprenticeship in a printing office. In 1879, when twenty years of age, he went with the tide of emigration seeking what was then the West, a region just entering upon a period of wonderful development. Arriving in Kansas City, he leased a small printing office on Union Avenue, in the West Bottoms, which he managed with fair success for a few months, when he was taken ill and returned to the East. Upon recovering he engaged in the insurance business, which he prosecuted so successfully that he was advanced in turn to responsible positions as special agent for the Travellers' Insurance Company, and State agent of the same company for the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island. He was well regarded by his employers, and manifested a real aptitude for the business, yet his continuance in it was but brief. Desire for a life of greater activity, an inclination due to heredity, soon moved him to return to the West. His paternal grandfather, Hamblin Stilwell, had been active among the builders of the New York Central Railway, and of the Erie Canal, and had been interested in other great enterprises. His achievements had impressed themselves upon the mind of young Stilwell, and he determined to return to Kansas City, there to organize a great financial corporation and build a great railway, as his grandparent had done. It is not probable that these purposes were self-announced before the ambitious young man had entered upon the tasks which he had assigned to himself, else opposition and discouragement might have dissuaded him. He has, however, since success has crowned his efforts, confided to friends the hopes and desires of his earlier years, and the confession is valuable as establishing the fact that his accomplishments were due to industry and persistency, and not to fortuitous circumstance. In 1889 he effected the organization of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Company, at Kansas City. Under his management, with a capital of $1,250,000, in ten years the surplus and undivided profits amounted to $1,300,000, and the amount of Eastern and foreign capital invested through the mediumship of the

house was estimated at $30,000,000. This phenomenal success was not the consummation of his purpose, but simply a means to a greater and more important end. He became identified with the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway Company, and was elected to the vice presidency. This system was extended until it comprised over forty miles of track connecting with Kansas City all the outlying towns and all the many railroads reaching them, together with entirely adequate depot, yardage and switching facilities in Kansas City, affording ready access to all the packing houses, elevators, wholesale houses, and the great smelting works at Argentine. An extension of the same line afforded connection with Independence, and brought within reach Fairmount Park, one of the most beautiful pleasure resorts in the country. With the acquisition of the comprehensive terminal facilities provided by the Belt Railway, Mr. Stilwell entered upon his cherished purpose, that of the organization of a great railway system. Succeeding to the financial management of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad Company, the mileage of which did not exceed that of the former named road, he determined upon northern and southern extensions which should make Kansas City the entrepot for both the upper Missouri and Gulf regions. At the time, capital was timid, and the building project was derided and maligned. Through persistent effort Mr. Stilwell aroused interest and even created enthusiasm, and finally succeeded in interesting foreign capital through the mediumship of the trust company. September 11, 1897, the last spike was driven, and train service was opened from Kansas City to Port Arthur, on Sabine Lake, Texas, a distance of 767 miles. In March following the northern portions of the system were completed, giving connection with St. Joseph, Des Moines, Omaha and Quincy. In this great accomplishment Mr. Stilwell was at once projector and executor. Intolerant of want of spirit and time service, he was the directing and executive power at whatever point effort lagged, whether in providing means or in actual work of construction. What John W. Garrett was to the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, or James J. Hill to the Great Northern Railway, that was Arthur E. Stilwell to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway. During the building

operations his payments were always promptly made. During the panic year, 1893, his monthly pay roll of $200,000, which was met without a day's delay, was practically the only money expended in the city. Mr. Stilwell was afterward elected to the presidency of the company. Other enterprises in which he was a leader and received the hearty support of the trust company's interests, through the prestige he had achieved in the Gulf Railway project, were the absorption of various lines which have become profitable feeders for that line, contributing largely to making Kansas City a railroad center second to but one in the world. He also projected the West Side Electric Railroad, now a part of the Metropolitan Street Railway System, whose line on Wyandotte Street connects the business portion of Kansas City with the terminals of the Stilwell lines. Originating with the trust company of which he is the head, and under his directing management, have grown more than forty separate corporations, which have established and control railroads, terminals, grain elevators, street railways and various great enterprises along the line of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway, including the Central Coal and Coke Company, the largest coal and lumber corporation in the Southwest, hotels at Pittsburg, Port Arthur and elsewhere, sawmills in Arkansas, coal mines in the Indian Territory, and various other enterprises. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Company, through which had been effected so many large financial transactions, and which had been so efficient an ally in fostering and developing great enterprises, was reorganized as the Guardian Trust Company. Mr. Stilwell was retained in the presidency, and a capable directory was formed, with ample capital for further operations. Recently Mr. Stilwell has effected the incorporation of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad. As president of the company he has secured valuable concessions from the Mexican government in aid of the road, and the authorities in that republic have shown their appreciation of his services in providing means for its internal development by changing the name of the seaport town which is to be the western terminus to that of Port Stilwell, in his honor. The road will connect Kansas City with the Pacific Ocean, giving direct communication with steamship lines to China, Japan and all

Oriental ports. Aside from his far-seeing sagacity, and ambition to extend the lines of commercial activity and influence, Mr. Stilwell cherishes what may be regarded as a sentimental interest in Kansas City, the point which attracted his earliest effort and has become the scene of his most conspicuous successes. Notwithstanding the exactions of the numerous great enterprises which have necessitated his absence from the city for considerable periods upon repeated occasions, he has ever maintained a deep interest in its concerns, and has warmly co-operated in many movements conducive to its welfare. He was a prime mover in the organization of effort for the construction of the great convention hall, and he originated various of the most successful plans for the creation of the building fund.

Stock Law. -The Missouri stock law, restraining farm animals from running at large, is a curious statute. It peremptorily It peremptorily forbids these animals to run at large outside the inclosure of their owners, and provides that no person shall be bound to fence against the stock of others. If a farm animal is found at large, any person may take it up, giving notice to the owners, and holding it subject to the owner's claim, on payment of compensation and damages. But, while the law is thus definite and complete, and intended to save cost in fencing, by making it necessary for farmers to fence against their own animals and not against other animals, the enforcement is suspended in all counties except those where the people desire it and vote to have it enforced. On petition signed by 100 householders of a county, the county court shall order the question of restraining animals to be submitted to vote-and the proposition submitted may apply to one kind of animals, as swine, or several kinds, or to all farm animals-and if the vote is in favor of it, then the county authorities shall enforce the law as it stands, as to the animals designated. It may be applied and enforced, also, in a district of five or more townships in one body, on petition of householders supported by a popular vote of the townships.

Stockton.-The county seat of Cedar County, a city of the fourth class, on the Greenfield branch of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway, 290 miles south

west of St. Louis. It lies on the northwestern slope of the Ozark Range, in the midst of a region producing great quantities of grain, tobacco, live stock, hides, coal and building stone. It stands in part upon broken hills, and the streets are necessarily narrow. There are separate schools for white and colored children. The churches are Christian, Methodist and Union. Two newspapers are published, the "Journal," Democratic, and the ""Republican," Republican. The Cedar County Bank and the Stockton Exchange Bank are the financial institutions. Fraternal bodies are a lodge and a chapter of Masons, a lodge of Odd Fellows, a lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and a Grand Army Post. In 1899 the population was 750. The first settler was Zimri Crabtree, who located on the site on account of the fine spring at the foot of the bluff. The first general store was opened in 1846 by Richard Huston, for Tilton & Sanders, of Polk County. Other merchants somewhat later were Sherrill & Hartley. Business was practically suspended during the Civil War. In 1865 Owen & Jackson opened a store, and Wells, Coffee & Co. began the publication of the "Southwest Tribune," Republican in politics, and for some years the only paper in the county. In 1870 an Agricultural and Mechanical Society was organized, which held several annual fairs. The town is a busy supply and shipping mart for a large region. Stockton was made the permanent seat of justice of Cedar County February 11, 1846, under the name of Lancaster. In 1847 the name was changed to Fremont, in honor of General Fremont, then popular on account of his Rocky Mountain explorations. In 1856, when he became Republican candidate for President, on petition of the people, the General Assembly changed the name to Stockton, in honor of Commodore Stockton, of the United States Navy, who arrested Fremont during the Mexican War. February 11, 1846, David Hunter, as commissioner, platted the town. William Blake was appointed to superintend the construction of a frame courthouse; $210 were paid for a lot and $350 were appropriated for the building. The building orders were not complied with, and in 1852 $5,500 were appropriated for a brick edifice, which was not completed until 1855. Shelby made a raid upon the town in 1863 and burned the courthouse. The records had been removed