The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-20
SOLID SEDALlANS.
Half a Dozen Gentlemen Who
Are Pretty Well Fixed
Financially.

A few weeks ago the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat forwarded to its cor
respondents in sixty towns in Mis-.
souri, circulars requesting the names
of the six wealthiest citizens in the re-
spective places, latest assessed valua.
ton OF their property, taxes paid in
1885, in what their wealth consists of,
parties nativity, political utilization, etc
To this circular the Sedalia correspond.
emit replied as f lows:
Sedalia was laid out i'm 1859, and
was originally named Sedville after
Miss "Sed" Smith, daughter of Gen.
George r. Smith. Its six wealthiest
citizens are:
Cyrus Newkirk; president Of the
First National Bank of Sedalia; esti.
mated wealth, 5000, 600.
Assessed at $50, 900; taxes, $3.50 ;
has bank stock, real estate in city and
country. bonds, mortgages, etc.; con-
Quoted an iron mill in Ohio for sever.
al years and accumulated considerable
money native of Ohio; republican /;
silver dollar man; in city twenty-One
years.
Col. A. ID. Jaynes; retired banker
estimated wealth, s150,000.
Assessed at S27 600; taxes, $500 ;
has money invested in stocks, bonds,
real estate, ETC.; inherited large por-
ton Of h S wealth; native of Ohio; re-
publican; was for several years Treas
urer of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company; also, President
and cashier, respectively, of the First
National Bank; farors the silver dol
lar; twenty-one wears in city.
DIR. H. w Wood; druggist and
manufacturing chemist; estimated
wealth, s150,000.
Assessed at $4,000, taxes, $3.50 /;
wealth consists of drugs, medicines and
real estate, including Woods Opera
House, the construction of which cost
$4,000, without the furnishings !;
made his money out of drugs and med
icines, and at present has agents sell
ing the latter in all the Southern and
Western States; volume of business
from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum
native of Virginia; democrat; OPP
posed to further coinage of the silver
dollar !: in city eight years.
Albert Parker; President of the
Third National Bank of Sedalia,
wealth estimated at $50, 1000.
Assessed at 81, 800; taxes, 1886;
has money invested in cattle, lands,
city real estate, stocks, bonds, etc.,
several years engaged in agricultural
pursuits and stock-raising in Illinois;
born in Ohio, has been Mayor and
Postmaster of Sedalia; republican
in favor of the silver dollar; in city
nineteen years
w. III. Powell retired farmer and
stock-raiser estimated wealth, sl10,-
900.
Assessment on personal property,
$4,000; taxes, 81 200; has Govern
ment bonds, bank stocks. notes, ETC.;
wealth was accumulated in farming,
stock-raising and leaning money :;
democrat; favors the sill
yer dollar; in this city two years, and
is vice president Citizens National
Bank.
ID. III. Smith; wholesale hardware
dealer; estimated wealth, 100000.
Assessed at $50, 900; taxes, $500;
money is invested in stock of hard
ware, real estate, stocks, etc., and
was made principally out of the hard
ware business born in Ohio; Repub-
lean; says he has not given the silver
question sufficient study to express an
opinion; in city twenty years.
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