"Dr. Andrew Walker McAlester was born in Rocheport, Boone county Missouri January 1, 1841. He is the son of B. McAlester, a lumber merchant of Columbia. Dr. McAlester was partly educated in the common schools, completing his literary studies at the State University, where he graduated in 1864. He then read medicine under Dr. Norwood and attended the St. Louis Medical College where he received his degree in 1866. He also attended Rush Medical College, Chicago, and Bellevue, New York. In 1873, he visited Europe and attended he medical colleges at London and Paris. He also visited the schools of Germany. In 1872 was given the chair of surgery and obstetrics in the State University, which position he still holds. Is president of the Linton Medical Association. Has been a member of the American Medical Association. Is a Mason. Has been twice married. First in 1869 to Miss Iza Bell, of Springfield, Missouri. She died in 1870. He was again married in 1873 to Miss Sallie McConaty, of Boone county. They have three sons; Andrew W., Berry, and an infant. Dr. McAlester is a member of the Methodist Church."
p. 598-9 - JAMES M. McCOMAS, M. D.
Dr. James M. McComas, a prominent physician of Sturgeon, Missouri, was born at Newton, Kentucky, February 29, 1844. He is the son of C. L. and Clara McComas, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of Morgan county, Kentucky. His life, from early youth, has been an eventful one. His parents removed to the west when he was an infant, stopping first at Burlington, Iowa, moving next to Nebraska, where they remained a few years, thence to Illinois, where they both died, their deaths being with a short period of each other. Young McComas, being thus left n orphan, returned to his relatives in Kentucky, and remained a short time at Louisville and Covington, attending school. He next went to Philadelphia, and, at the early age of eleven years, embarked with his uncle on a voyage to South America, where he remained for a short time. Returning from the tropics, he spent the remainder of his youth in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Having no one to guide or counsel him, and being of an inquisitive temperament, and possessing withal, an unusual amount of vitality, he naturally acquired a wandering disposition, and sought wider fields of observation than the immediate vicinity in which he was left a helpless orphan. While yet a mere youth, he attended a course of medicine at the Missouri medical college, St. Louis, in the class of 1860 and 1861. He took one degree at the Pennsylvania medical college, Philadelphia, and two at the medical department of Central university, Louisville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1875 with the degree of M.D. In 1880, he took the degree of M. D. at the Kentucky school of medicine, Louisville. Dr. McComas was married, September 26, 1867, to Miss Maggie, daughter of John and Catherine Rochford, large landholders of Sturgeon, Missouri. The Doctor has two children: Arthur Rochford and Edwin Gaillard. He belongs to no church. He is a member of the Masonic order. He is of Scotch-Irish origin. He has a large medical library, consisting of standard works and a large collection of recent publications by the most eminent authors of the profession. Notwithstanding the vast amount of medical literature constantly issuing from the press, he is a liberal purchaser of all that possess the least merit, and by this means he keeps fully abreast with all the recent discoveries made, and reported by the most eminent men in the profession. He believes in progress, and cherishes every new idea, and welcomes every new discovery calculated to benefit the race by alleviating human suffering. In addition to his medical library, he has a fine collection of literary works, including a full set of the American Cyclopedia. He has also a large electric battery of recent and most approved construction, with a fine assortment of electric attachments and appliances for use in his practice. He has been at Sturgeon for fifteen years and has built up a splendid practice. He is a member of the Linton medical association, also of the State association. He is a man of broad, liberal views, and a genial, courteous, entertaining gentleman. Mrs. McComas is a member of the Catholic church.
p. 779 - JULIUS EARNEST McGUIRE, M.D.
Dr. McGuire is a son of Levi and Susan (Martinie) McGuire and was born March 22, 1826, in Boone county, Missouri, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Sarah Stewart, eight miles east of Columbia, and a mile and a half south of St. Charles road. He lived upon the place until he was about ten years of age when his father bought the place where he is now living and removing his family thereto. He was educated principally in Boone county, beginning at the age of six at Roberts school house on the gravel road. His teacher there was a man named Beatty. Afterwards he went to school at Boonsboro, then on the eastern border of the county. He resided at home with his parents until 1851, when he went to Columbia and studied medicine with Drs. Lee and Spotswood. After reading with them two years, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and took two courses of lectures. In 1869-70 he attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. In 1861 he took sides with the South in her struggle against the North, and joined Prices army. He was at the battles of Dry Wood and Lexington. After the fight at Lexington he came back to Boone to recruit and was in all the little engagements in Boone county. In 1864 he went to Kentucky and joined Morgans command and stayed there until peace was declared and the flag he loved was forever furled. He began the practice of his profession at his old home and has lived there to the present time. He has a fine practice in a good neighborhood and is esteemed by all as a thorough gentleman. He is a Mason and his wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
The subject of this sketch is a native of Ireland, having been born in County Donegal about the year 1832. He came to this country in 1841 and settled in Newark, Delaware, where he grew to manhood and received most of his education. In 1852 he was surveyor for several counties in Maryland. He was also engaged in teaching at the same time. In the summer of 1854 he came West and visited the States of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Studied medicine under Dr. Alrich, at Fort Penn, Delaware, for about three years and took several courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Travelled [sic] for sometime as correspondent of several Eastern papers. In the winter of 1855 he taught school in Iowa. The spring following came o Missouri and spent about one year in St. Louis county. In 1857 went to Bowling Green, Pike county, where he taught in a private school for one year. He was then engaged as principal of Bowling Green Academy and has charge of the institution from 1858 to 1860. Enlisted as a surgeon in the Federal army, April 24th, 1863, and served with the Gulf Department in 1864-5. Officiated as surgeon at Forts Livingston and Jackson. He quit the Federal service in 1866 and came to Marshall, Saline county, Missouri, where he practiced medicine for several months. In November 1866, he sold his property at Marshall and went to Malta Bend, in the western part of Saline county. The spring following he, with the assistance of J. R. Lunbeck, laid out the town of Malta Band, the doctor being the leading spirit in this enterprise and he recognized founder of this town. He remained at Malta Bend for two years, then bought a farm two miles south of that place. He lived on this farm until the fall of 1874, when he founded the town of Salt Springs, now on the line of the C. & A. railroad. This was in the summer of 1874. He and his brother-in-law, Arthur S. Lawrence, started a store containing a general assortment of dry goods and groceries. Remained at Salt Springs until 1876 when he came to Columbia, Missouri, but soon after returned to Saline. In 1877 he came to Rocheport, Boone county, and in the spring of 1878 came to Columbia and practiced his profession until 1880, when he bought a farm of 280 acres seven miles northeast of Columbia, on the old Mexico road, and 200 acres south of the Fulton road. In June, 1882, he was appointed United States examining surgeon by W. W. Dudley, commissioner. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He is also a Mason. Was married August 16th, 1866, to a daughter of Solomon L. and Harriet S. (Morgan) Lawrence, of Wilton, Iowa. They have had three sons and two daughters: Fannie, Sophia D., Bernard, Stewart (deceased) and Lawrence. The father of Dr. McNutt died in Ireland in 1836 and his mother in Iowa in 1873. Dr. McNutt was the third child of a family of seven, all of whom, save the youngest, are living. The doctor, in addition to his medical education, is a fine literary scholar and a writer of considerable ability. At one time he was editor of the Dubuque HERALD, his brother, Samuel McNutt, being chief editor.
p. 1091 - WILLIAM F. McQUITTY, M. D.
"Dr. McQuitty is a young man of fine attainments, having both a classical and medical education, and withal the confidence and esteem of all who know him. He was born in Boone county, Missouri, January 15th, 1852. His faher, Andrew J. McQuitty, was born in 1825, being the son of David McQuitty, one of the early pioneers of Missouri. The grandfather of Dr. McQuitty emigrated from Kentucky in 1811, settling first in St. Louis county. In 1813 he was an inmate of Pond's Fort. David, at this time, was with his father, Andrew, who subsequently entered the lands upon which Fielding W. Smith now resides. Andrew J. McQuitty, his grandson, settled part of the old Sexton farm. Dr. McQuitty is one of three children, two sons and one daughter. His brother, James, married Miss Annie Dysart, of Boone county. Since graduating at the Missouri State University, Dr. McQuitty has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. The first year of his professional life was spent at Burlington, Boone county. Returning to his own neighborhood, in 1882, he formed a partnership with Dr. Lewis, at Woodlandville, at which place he now resides. He has acquired some nice property at this place and is prospering in his profession. Dr. McQuitty is firm and devoted to his principles, resolute and determined in all that he undertakes. He is a member of the Baptist church at New Providence, and has been earnest and devoted in his religious duties from early youth."
Dr. Martin was born February 7, 1835. He received a good common school education in the schools of his neighborhood. In 1854 he began the study of medicine, with his uncle, DR. Meredith Martin, of ST. Louis, and graduated from the St. Louis Medical College four years later, or in 1858. After his graduation, he practiced in Boone county for about five years. He spent the winter of 1863-64 in Bellevue Medical College, New York, from which noted institution he received a diploma in the spring of 1864. He then returned to Ashland, where, and in the county generally, he practiced his profession extensively until 1881, when he became president and superintendent of the Ashland Mill Company, and this position he still holds [1882]. May 11, 1859, Dr. Martin was married at Providence, Boone county, to Miss Annie Tuttle, a daughter of Judge Gilpin S. Tuttle. Of this union two children a son and a daughter, have been born. The doctor has been a member of North [sic] Salem Baptist church for about thirty years. [Children: Charles P. Martin and Eula Gay Martin]
p. 666 - Robert Sidney Martin, M.D.
The professional gentleman whose name heads this sketch is the son of Lincoln R. and Isabella Martin, and grandson of Wayne Martin, who came from Madison County, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1816, and to Boone county in 1818. His grandfather was, therefore, one of the earliest settlers of the county and was one of the founders of the Bonne Femme Baptist church, who left it to found the New Salem church. Dr. Martins mother was a daughter of Abner Nichols, who came to Boone County in 1825, and he (R. S.) was born on a farm one-half mile from Ashland, this county, July 18, 1833. He was the second of a family of eight boys and two girls, five of the former and one of the latter still surviving [1882], and all residing in this county. Dr. Martin attended the district schools in his boyhood, and thus acquired the elementary part of his education. In 1856, he began the study of medicine with his uncle, Meredith Martin, of St. Louis, and also attended the St. Louis Medical College, from which he graduated in 1858. In the winter of 1859-60, he took a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1860. He had begun the practice of medicine in Ashland, in 1858, and returning there, after finishing his course, he resumed the practice, which he has built up to be both extensive and lucrative. He had not practiced to any extent, however, when the war came on and he entered the Confederate service as surgeon of the 6th Missouri regiment of infantry, Clarks division of Gen. Prices army. He was in the battles of Boonville and Pea Ridge, and after the latter, was assigned to the hospital service until May following, when he returned home. Dr. Martin was married, October 3d, 1860, to Mary L. Blanton, of Kentucky. Three sons and four daughters have been born to bless this union, all of whom survive at this writing. The doctor is a member of the New Salem Baptist church, and also of the Ashland lodge of A. F. and A. M.
p. 905-6 - W. T. MAUPIN, M. D.
Dr. Maupin is a native of Boone county, born April 17, 1839. His father, Wm. Maupin, was one of the first settlers of Missouri, coming here from Madison county, Kentucky, in 1816, settling first at Old Franklin, in Howard county. In 1819 he removed to Boone, when there were but a very few habitations or inhabitants either. He settled in Columbia, and was a wheelwright and housebuilder. W. T. Maupin was educated in the common schools of Boone county, and at William Jewell College, Liberty. In the summer of 1861 he joined Captain Peachers company, Col. M. G. Singletons battalion. He was in the engagements at Boonville, Drywood and Lexington. After the capture of Lexington, while General Prices army was retreating toward Southwest Missouri, he was taken sick in Johnson county and lay ill for about two months. Upon his recovery he returned to this county and spent the remainder of the fall of 1861, and the winter of 1861-2 in dodging Merrills Horse and other detachments of Federal troops. March 6, 1862, while on his way to Prices army, he was captured in Cooper county by some soldiers belonging to the command of Col. Eppstein, of Boonville. He was held a prisoner for thirteen months, the greater portion of the time in McDowell College, St. Louis, and at Alton, Ill. Upon his release on parole, his weight was reduced to eighty-seven and a half pounds. He returned home and took no further part in the war. Previous to his service with the Missouri army under General Price he took part in the affair at Fulton, known as the Fulton races. His brother, Robert L. Maupin, a graduate of the law school at Lebanon, Tenn., was a gallant Confederate officer, and served on the staff of General (now U.S. Senator) Cockerill, although he had but one arm, the other having been lost before the war. In 1863-4 Dr. Maupin attended the St. Louis Medical College. In 1864-5 he was at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and graduated from that famed institution in the class of 1865. He located in the practice of his profession at Columbia, where he has since resided, making occasional trips to the far West for recreation, etc. The doctor has been very successful as a practitioner. He has devoted considerable attention to gynaecology [sic], and is renowned for his skill in and knowledge of that particular branch of Medical science. He is medical examiner of all the insurance organizations connected