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Born 1850
From History of Harrison and Mercer Counties, Missouri : from the earliest times to the present : together with sundry personal, business, and professional sketches and family records : besides a condensed (1888), A history of northwest Missouri (1914)
George W. Wanamaker, senior member of the firm of Wanamaker & Barlow, attorneys at law at Bethany, was born October 8, 1850, in Belleville, Ontario. His parents, Isaac and Mary (Way) Wanamaker, were both natives of the same place. The father immigrated to the United States in 1869, and located in Chariton County, Mo., where he still lives. George W. was reared in his native country, and educated at the Albert University, at Belleville, Ontario. After graduating from the law department at Ann Arbor, Mich., he went to Kirksville, Mo., and began the practice of his profession. In 1878 he came to Bethany, where he is now successfully engaged in business as above stated. The firm is well-known in the town, and does quite an extensive abstract of title business. Mr. Wanamaker is a Bepublican, and for three years served as city attorney, but has never aspired to political office. December 23, 1879, he married Bessie Templeman, a native of Bethany, and daughter of William A. Templeman. This union has been blessed with two children — Ernest and Hazel. Mr. Wanamaker is a Master Mason, a member of the A. O. U. W., and is united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an influential man, and is greatly in sympathy with the Prohibition movement. George W. Barlow, the junior member of the above mentioned firm, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, August 14, 1855, and is a son of James and Lucinda (Nally) Barlow, natives of Virginia and Ohio, respectively. The family came to Missouri in 1865, and in March, 1870, removed to Cypress Township, from Chillicothe, where the father is well known and respected. George W. was educated at the State University, at Columbia, Mo., and graduated from both the normal and law departments of that institute. He began to practice law in Bethany in 1879, and for one year was a partner of T. D. Neal. For the past six years he has contributed largely to the success of the firm he is now a member of, and is recognized as one of the prosperous attorneys of the town. October 9, 1879, he married Miss Lizzie, daughter of Nelson A. Hockridge, and a native of Bethany, by whom he has had one child — Ina Mabel. In politics he is a stanch Bepublican, and served one year as city attorney. He is a Master Mason, a member of the Sons of Veterans, and himself and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
As printed in History of Harrison and Mercer Counties, Missouri : from the earliest times to the present : together with sunday personal, business, and professional sketches and family records : besides a condensed (1888). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Judge George W. Wanamaker. Among the members of the Northwest Missouri bench who have risen to eminence during the past several years, George W. Wanamaker, judge of the Third Judicial District, has won approval of the bar and of litigants for the able and dignified manner in which he has upheld the best traditions of his high official position. Judge Wanamaker has been a member of the Harrison County bar for more than thirty-five years, and as both lawyer and jurist has deserved the high regard and esteem in which he is universally held.
Aside from the intrinsic value and instructiveness of his individual career, few men in Northwest Missouri have so interesting a family record as Judge Wanamaker. He was born under a foreign flag in Prince Edward County, Ontario, October 8, 1850. The founder of the Wanamaker family in America was Johann Wanamaker, who was a native of Holland, and in 1668 came to America and settled in Rockland County, New York, having permission from the Palatinate of Holland to settle in that section. The old Wanamaker family Bible printed in 1637 and brought from Holland by the original settlers, is now the prized possession of Judge Wanamaker at Bethany. The great-grandfather of Judge Wanamaker was Peter Wanamaker, a Revolutionary soldier. He was one of two Peter Wanamakers who served from Orange County, New York, one of them being a private in Captain Aurie Blauvelt's Company in Colonel Hawk Hay's regiment, while the other Peter served in Colonel Gilbert Cooper's regiment. Both of these soldiers lived on almost adjoining farms in Orange County. Grandfather Andrew P. Wanamaker, who was born near Haverstraw Landing in Rockland County, New York, moved across the line to Canada in 1810, settled on the Bay of Quinte and engaged in farming. He was born in 1784, and when an old man, in 1869, came to the western United States with his son Isaac, and died in 1881 at the age of ninety-seven in Chariton County, Missouri.
Judge Wanamaker's father was Isaac Wanamaker, who was born in Prince Edward County, Ontario, August 14, 1818, and spent all his active career as a farmer. He had a fair education, and was a liberal supporter of public schools. In Canada he was a liberal in politics and in the United States a republican. In Chariton County where he settled in 1869, he became one of the large farmers, and died on his country estate in 1890. Isaac Wanamaker married Miss Mary Ann Way, daughter of John and Mary (Casey) Way. Her father was a native of Rhode Island and a farmer. Mrs. Wanamaker died in 1888, being then sixty-seven years of age, having been born in 1821. Her children were: Norman, who died in Brookfield, Missouri, in February, 1914; George W.; Louisa J., who married J. W. Kaye, of Sumner, Missouri; and Frank, who is a merchant at Sumner.
Judge George W. Wanamaker has been a citizen of Missouri since 1870 and a resident of Bethany since 1878. The first nineteen years of his life were spent near Belleville, Ontario, and his literary training came from the public schools and the Collegiate Institute of that place. In 1869 he accompanied his parents to the United States, and became of age in Chariton County, Missouri. Choosing the law as his profession he entered the University of Michigan, and was graduated there with the degree LL. B. Judge Wanamaker began his practice at Kirksyille, but after his powers had been tried out by several years of experience in that locality he moved to Bethany in 1878, and has since been actively identified with his profession and with his duties as judge. In the early part of his career he served as city attorney. For twenty-three years he was head of the well known law firm of Wanamaker & Barlow, and their relationship was only dissolved when Judge Wanamaker took up his duties on the bench in 1905. The firm had an extensive general practice, and at times were employed in litigation which attracted attention beyond the confines of Harrison County. Judge Wanamaker has always been a republican, but hardly a politician, and his activities in politics have been directed to the support of good government! and the aspirations of his friends, and he has served in a public capacity only within the strict lines of his profession. Judge Wanamaker consented to become a candidate for the office of district judge in 1904, and had no opposition in the general election of that year. In 1910 he was renominated and reelected without competition for the second term of six years. The third district, -over which he has jurisdiction, comprises the counties of Harrison, Mercer, Grundy and Putnam. At one time Judge Wanamaker also served as assistant prosecuting attorney under his law partner. In 1902 he was a delegate to the republican judicial state convention.
Judge Wanamaker is a Knight Templar Mason and is past eminent commander of Bethany Commandery No. 44, and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Methodist Church, has been a trustee for many years, while his wife and family belong to the Christian Church.
Judge Wanamaker was married December 23, 1879, to Miss Bessie Templeman, daughter of William A. and Emeline (Allen) Templeman. Her mother was a daughter of Rev. John S. Allen, one of the pioneers in Northwest Missouri and in 1846 the founder of the Christian Church at Bethany, which he served as its first pastor. Judge Wanamaker 's children are: Ernest, a civil engineer and chief electrical engineer of the Rock Island Railway, Illinois, married Marie Wright, daughter of George Wright; Mrs. Hazel Allen, who lives at Bethany and has a son, Temple Allen.
As printed in A history of northwest Missouri (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: George W. Barlow (b. 1855)
Their biographies name George W. Wanamaker: Oscar Butler
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