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Born 1838, Henry County
From History of Saint Louis city and county from the earliest periods to the present day [microform] : including biographical sketches of representative men (1883), Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 1) (1899)
David Patterson Dyer was born in Henry County, Va, Feb, 12, 1838. In 1841 his parents migrated to Missouri and settled near Troy, in Lincoln County, where Mr. Dyer labored on his father’s farm till eighteen years of age, and enjoyed only the educational advantages afforded by the common schools of his neighborhood. In these, however, he acquired sufficient education to enter college at St. Charles, where he remained a yéar. At the age of twenty, or in 1858, he commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. James 0. Broadhead, of Bowling Green, in Pike County, and at the end of 1859 he was admitted to the bar of Missouri. In 1862 he removed to Louisiana, Mo., and formed with Hon. John B. Henderson a partnership which continued til 1870. In 1875 he removed to St. Louis, which has ever since been his residence, In 1881 he entered into his present partnership with B.D. Lee and John P, Eiis, under the firm-name of Dyer, Lee & Ellis,
In 1860 he was elected circuit attorney in the Third Judicial District of Missouri. In 1862 he was chosen to represent Pike County in the Legislature of Missouri, and though but twenty-four years of age was made chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1866 he was made secretary of the State Senate, and in 1868 was elected to the Congress of the United States. 1n 1875 he was appointed United States attorney for ‘he Eastern District of Missouri, and by his able management of the celebrated “ whiskey ring trials” achieved a national reputation.
In 1860 he was a Douglas Democrat, and on the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 he took an active part in the organization of the First Regiment of Home Guards. In 1864 he left his seat in the Legislature to raise and organize the Forty-ninth Regiment of Missouri Militia, and was made its colonel. He served with the regiment in 1864 and 1865, under Gens. Rosecrans and Canby, and took an active part in the siege of Mobile.
The honorable positions which he has held, and the important duties he has been called to discharge, are the best evidences which can be offered of his ability, and of the esteem in which he is held by his fellow-citizens,
In 186\: he was married to Miss Lizzie Chambers Hunt, dav ster of Judge Ezra Hunt, of Pike County, Mo., and his domestic relations have been exceedingly happy.
The son of Dr. Bernard G. Farrar, one of the earliest and most famous of St. Louis physicians, was.educated as a lawyer, and became one of the most efficient members of the county court. James S. Farrar was born in St. Louis in 1839, and educated at the old college which stood on the corner of Ninth Street and Washington Avenue. In 1861 he raised a company at his own expense, was made captain, and assigned to the Thirtieth Missouri Volunteers, and was with Gen. Francis P. Blair's brigade in the hard service of 1862 and 1863. He was commissioned major about this time, In 1865, Governor Fletcher appointed him justice of the county court of St. Louis, and the people at subsequent elections signified their approval, so that he served in that office until 1876. When Judge Farrar assumed this office he was a rich man, but he gave lavishly of his means to the sick and poor, sacrificing much time and money te che public service. Largely to his exertions was it due that the county recovered its seven hundred thousand dollars loan to the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1875, after it had been given up as lost. Frank J. Bowman, county counsel, proposed action, and with Judge Farrar carried the case to a successful close,
It has been said that class valedictorians never amounted to much afterwards. Josiah G. McClellan is evidence to the contrary. Born in 1824, in Wheeling, W. Va., of New England stock, he took the highest honors in 1847 at Witliams College, began the study of law, wrote articles for the journals, and being admitted started for St. Louis in 1850, with fifty dollars in his pocket. He entered the office of Peter A. Ladue, assessor of the county, and as chief clerk familiarized himself with the land and land-owners of the city. In 1851 he began practice, associating himself with Judge Moody, afterwards of the Circuit Court, and Col. Hilyer, afterwards Gen. Hilyer, of Gen. Grant’s staff, Capt. U. S. Grant at that time occupying a desk in the same office. 1856, Mr. McClellan married the daughter of F. C. Sharpe, a renowned Kentucky lawyer. disrupted the firm. Mr. McCiellan removed to Kentucky, and returned in 1863, the disasters of the war having ruined him financially, and he had to begin over again. His practice grew, and turning his attention to land titles, he decided to make an index of titles to all the real estate in the county of St. Louis. This was a gigantic task. There are over
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In years, during which period his business sagacity was widely recognized, and his commercial honesty was without blemish or question. Mr. Bailey left a large estate for equal distribution among his surviving heirs, five sons and one daughter. Most of the sons are prominent business men of St. Louis. Mrs., Mary Bailey, the mother of these surviving children, was a native of Bridgeport, Conn. Her mother was a Palmer, hence her children are members of the cele. brated Palmer family,” whose reunions bring together so many thousands from all parts of the country, George W. Bailey, the second son, who was ad. ministrator of his father’s estate, was educated in the best schools afforded by New England, finishing his course at the New York Conference Seminary and Collegiate Institute, of Charlotteville, N. Y., after which, entertaining an ambition to follow his father's example to success in the carriage business, he voluntarily acquired, as indispensable to success, a know six hundred books of records of deeds in the recorder’s office, averaging five hundred pages to a volume. The various concessions, grants, and charges under French, Spanish, and English law immeasurably increased the difficulty of this task, but its value to the public needs no comment. It is one of those works which remain as monuments of industry long after their projectors are dead.
As printed in History of Saint Louis city and county from the earliest periods to the present day [microform] : including biographical sketches of representative men (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Dyer, David P., prominent in public life and as a member of the Missouri bar, was born in Henry County, Virginia, February 12,
1838, son of David and Nancy (Salmon) Dver. Of English origin, the family to which he belongs came early to Virginia, and his grandfather, George Dver, participated in the struggle for American independence as a soldier of the Revolutionary Army. David Dyer. the father of David Р. Dyer, was a soldier in the second war with Great Britain, serving in the \ virginia line. He was conspicuous also as a legislator in Virginia and served with distinction in both the upper and lower branches of the Legislature, his entire term of service covering a period of sixteen years, In a841 he came to Missouri and settled among the pioneers of Lincoln County, He died three years later, but his widow survived many years thereafter, reveling the advanced age of ninety-five. veers Reared on а Lincoln County farm, David P. Dyer led the uneventful life of a оганот boy in a new country until he began the course of study which was to tit him fee the practice of law, Па his early youth he attended the common schools af Lincoln County and his seholastie: training was completed at St. Charles College, Atter teaching school а year. he went te Howling Green, Pike Connty, Missoni, and there renl law under James O, Broadlieiul, Kiting ilt self for admission to the bar in 19), M the outset of his professional career fe impressed himself upon the bar nnd pen eral public as a young ian ob. fie панни! ability and superior дироти, and ln (on was elected circuit attorney for the third judicial cirenit, which embraced the enuntles af Vike, Lincoln, Warren, Montgomery and Cal away. [n 1HO2 he became Апи with John B. Henderson in the. praetlee at шу, this partnership continuing bout twa years, їп 1862 he was elected to the The of Representatives of the Missourl Legislature and re-elected a member of that body in 1804 as the representative of Vike County, During one of these sessions, zlthougdi Hien but twenty-eight years old, Пе wits made chairman of the judiciary comtnittee, and his services in that capacity received the commendation of the most accomplished lawyers of the day. Warmiy espousing the cause of the Union at the beginning of the Civil War, his infhitence and ability were brought to bear in favor of measures des ипе to promote the national interests, and especially to save Missouri lo the Union. He recruited the Forty-ninth Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry, assembling in that command many men who had known him as a Douglas Democrat prior to the war, who were willing to follow his leadership, where one of more radical antecedents would have been disregarded. Аз colonel of this regiment he commanded it in the interior of Missouri during the momentous operations of the summer of 1864. When this emergency was passed he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf, taking an active part in the battles about Mobile, where his regiment sustained a large loss in killed and wounded. In August, 1865, three months after open hostilities had ceased, Colonel Dyer and his regiment were mustered out of service. Immediatelv after the war he resumed the practice of law and at cnce-began¢ a.conspicuous figure in the politics of ‘the, State, and one of the recognized leaders of. the. Republican party in Missouri. In 1868 fierwas elected to Congress and served one terms а member of that body. In 1875 he was appointed by President Grant United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, and while serving in that capacity was called upon to prosecute the famous “whisky fraud” cases, discharging his duties in this connection with zealand ability, and with a fidelity to the interests of the government which won the commendation of the higher authorities at Washington, and made him widely known to the bar and the people of the country generally. In 1880 he was the candidate of his party for Governor of Missouri, and received a flattering vote, although his party was then largely in the minority in this State. He became a member of the St. Louis bar in 1875, at which time he removed to this city, and since then he has occupied a leading place among the more distinguished members of his profession, While his practice has been large and he has given to it the attention of a conscientious lawyer, he has also continued to take an active interest in politics and public affairs, and has become widely known as a campaign orator and а forcible and polished speaker on all occasions. He holds memberships in the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the military order of the Loyal Legion. In gatherings of these bodies he enjoys a national reputation, not only as а delightful raconteur, but ава philosophical reasoner upon the topics discussed in such assemblage. In these addresses he has contributed largely toward allaving the asperities growing out of a civil war. It is not unusual for him to introduce to his hearers those who have borne arms against him, who are received as welcome guests and listened to with respectful attention and warm sympathy. In this is shown not only his breadth of views and generosity, but good reason for the popularity he enjoys with many who are antagonistic to him in a political way. He married, in 1860, in Pike County, Missouri, Miss Lizzie Chambers Hunt, second daughter of Judge Ezra Hunt, and granddaughter of Judge Ruius Pettibone, the last named of whom was one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference (v. 1) (1899). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Bernard G. Farrar
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