h/o Helen Mar Halliburton
Samuel was fourth born of eight known children to a wealthy, slave owning, early north-central Missouri pioneering family, raised with his three brothers & six sisters, south side of Missouri river in Saline county, Missouri. The month before his sixteenth birthday, his father, Allen, who arrived in Missouri from his birh state of Virginia before 1840 Federal census, at age fifty-seven, was executed Christmas eve 1864 by Union troopers. His mother, Martha Amanda Cooper, was about sixteen at birth of first child, died in 1878 three years following Samuel's removal to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Samuel and future wife Helen, may have earlier attended, but were reportedly teaching at Kirksville normal school, in Adair county. He then was admitted to the bar in 1874, opened a law office in 1875 at Carthage returning north to claim his thirty-two year old bride in 1876 (in 1876 or 1877 entered into a partnership with her younger brother John), son Allen was born 1877, then next, Samuel lost his mother in 1878.
THERE IS A DISCREPANCY IN DATE OF ENTERING PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN WILLIAM HALLIBURTON,
being either 1876 or 1 MAY 1877
[Note: see tribute article below, which shows it to be 1877]
Samuel formed a partnership with his bride's brother John William Halliburton which years later was desolved when each took their son into seperate firms about 1903. He and son Allen then around 1920, joined with John H Flanigan,sr, forming law firm of McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan. After he died it became McReynolds & Flanigan, then they took in John H Flanigan,jr with firm's name McReynolds, Flanigan & Flanigan, in 1949 two more of John's sons joined the firm then 1974 youngest Flanigan, George, was appointed to the bench of Missouri Appeals Court in Springfield. Today, this law firm is one of the oldest west of the Mississippi river.
Among one of Samuel's many charitable deeds was serving as president of the Carthage Hospital association and being instrumental in the raising of the funds and construction of McCune-Brooks hospital built by Busboom Brothers Construction company, being Geo & Frank Busboom, formerly Fairbury, Nebraska, then of Carthage. He also served as president of that board. [He likewise served as president of the Park Cemetery Association, for at least two terms, 1915 & 1916].
~ 1903
PLANS OF HOSPITAL BOARD.
Held a Meeting Yesterday — Will Locate Site This Evening
The hospital board, which is composed of Sam'l McReynolds, Dr. F. W. Flower, C. O. Harrington, G. C. Howenstein and W. W. Calhoun, met yesterday afternoon to plan for the future.
They agreed to drive out to the hospital grounds in the southwest part of town this evening and select a site to which to move the cottage already on the ground. The site for the proposed hospital building will be also chosen.
The grounds are 50 feet narrower at the north end than at the south, and it is the plan to buy a sufficient strip of ground to make the land square. The money for this board expects to raise from the citizens so as to have the whole of the $10,000 for the building itself.
Joplin Globe
11 January 1923
"Central National bank of Carthage elected officers & directors: Samuel McReynolds was re-elected chairman of the board; J. E. Lang, president; John C. Guinn, vice president; H. M. Boggess, cashier and Charles A. Scott, assistant cashier; Mr. McReynolds, Mr. Guinn, Mr. Lang, Mr. Boggess, T. N. Davey, W. K. Caffee, W. J. Sewall, G. M. Calhoon, L. E. Koken, J. C. Squires, A. M. Drake and D. W. Replogle, directors."
Death: in McCune-Brooks hospital in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: Allen McReynolds b: 1807 in Virginia
Mother: Martha Amanda Cooper b: about 1824 in Virginia
Marriage: Helen Mar Halliburton b: 14 JUL 1844 in Randolph county, Missouri
Married: 1876 in Kirksville, Adair county, Missouri
Known Children
Allen McReynolds b: 7 NOV 1877 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
John Westly McReynolds b: 6 MAR 1879 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Armilda Halliburton McReynolds b: 4 FEB 1881 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Samuel Westly McReynolds b: 20 JAN 1883 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Above from research by Bill Boggess, in most part using file #C3605 (Allen McReynolds,sr's papers, 1842-1970) of The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 -PAGE FIVE
ASSOCIATES IN TRIBUTE
SAMUEL McREYNOLDS HONORED ON 80TH BIRTHDAY
100 Members of Bar Assemble for Banquet For Attorney Who Has Practiced Here 54 Years
More than 100 guests, most of whom represented the membership of the Jasper county bar, were entertained at a banquet at the Drake Hotel last night in honor of the 80th birthday anniversary of Samuel McReynolds, veteran Jasper county lawyer who has been a practicing attorney in Carthage over the long period of 54 years. His son, Allen McReynolds, and John H. Flanigan, both law partners of the guest of honor, were the hosts.
It was an elaborate turkey dinner, at the conclusion of which Allen McReynolds, who is the president of the Jasper County Bar association, welcomed the guests and in reviewing the work of the bar association suggested the appointment of a committee of seven to outline a plan of activities for the coming year.
John Flanigan Presides
In announcing the principal purpose of the dinner last night, he paid a becoming tribute to his father and then asked John H. Flanigan performed with rare good taste and skill. He spoke eloquently of Mr. McReynolds' long career and in legal profession, looking back to the events in history which marked the year of his birth and later to the period in which he located in Carthage for the practice of his profession.
Mr. Flanigan maintained a constant flow of wit as he introduced the various speakers, all members of the legal fraternity, were heard.
Many of the talks dealt with old times in Jasper county, some very interesting reminiscences being brought to light, touching especially the period before the coming of the railroads to the county, when the principal method of transportation between Joplin and Carthage was the daily hack line, which made the rounds of the square each morning before starting westward for the then developing mining camp, where a division of the terms of circuit court had been established; of the day when stenographers were unknown and lawyers wrote out their court papers in long hand -and incidentally, it was said, wrote briefer and more pointed documents than are now produced, with the service of typists available; of the period when law libraries were small in size and possessed only by the favored few; of the period when the ethics of the profession were not up to the standard of later years -when it was no uncommon thing for the papers in a case to be stolen by the attorneys involved, thus preventing procedure; of the intellectual giants of the earlier period, men who had to rely on logic and their own knowledge of the law without the aid of voluminous reference books, precedents and other methods of procedure open to the practitioner of today; of the later periods when train service became available when the Frisco railroad was built through the county, the electric railroad came and trolley car service was available and of the present period when paved highways and rapid motor car service have almost eliminated time and distance.
All Praise Veteran Attorney
All expressed high appreciation of Mr. McReynolds' legal attainments, of his high character and of his long and exemplary record as an attorney.
One of the speakers heard was Stephen H. Claycomb, of Joplin, former lieutenant governor of the state, who located in Jasper county in 1869, and after four years of lead and zinc mining, began the practice of law in 1875, the same year that Mr. McReynolds came to the county and engaged in practice. Other speakers were Arthur Spencer, W. J. Owen, Stanley Clay, B. F. Hackney, Mercer Arnold, Perl Decker, Russell Mallett, Judge Walter Bailey, Judge C. L. Henson, the latter of Springfield and Judge Howard Gray, who in addition to delivering an impressive eulogy of Mr. McReynolds as a lawyer, told of his life long work in behalf of Carthage, of the importance of his efforts for the present Carthage High School building, the Jasper county almshouse, the Jasper county courthouse, the Carthage public library and last but not least the Carthage hospital.
Judge Gray concluded his eulogy by presenting Mr. McReynolds on behalf of the Jasper County Bar association a handsome easy chair and foot rest.
As Mr. McReynolds stood up to respond the diners arose and gave him a standing greeting. Mr. McReynolds recalled a number of interesting experiences of early day legal practice in the county, many of them humorous and all recounting the difficulties and primitive conditions of that early day. He spoke with warm appreciation of the honors heaped upon him by the entertainment of the evening, by the gift and the eulogies so generously pronounced, but declared that his friends had dealt in exaggeration. Nevertheless he was pleased and grateful. At the conclusion of his remarks Allen McReynolds bid the guests good night and the banquet was at an end, the hour being 11 o'clock.
Came Here in 1875
It was in January, 1875 that the young law school graduate came to Carthage to begin his practice and opened an office. He has practiced his profession continuously here since. One year after locating here, Mr. McReynolds returned to Milan, in Sullivan county, to claim his bride, Miss Helen Mar Halliburton, they returning to Carthage to reside. Mrs. McReynolds died a few years ago. Judge McReynolds has three living children, Attorney Allen McReynolds and Samuel McReynolds, Jr., and Miss Armilda McReynolds, all of Carthage.
In 1877, the late John W. Halliburton, brother of the late Mrs. McReynolds, came to Carthage entering into a law partnership with his brother-in-law. This partnership continued for 35 years, when it was dissolved in order that each might take his son into partnership, Allen McReynolds going into partnership with his father and Westley Halliburton and his father forming the other firm.
Six years ago the McReynolds & McReynolds firm added a third member, John H. Flanigan, the firm name becoming McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan, as it is today.
A Civic Worker
The senior Mr. McReynolds, who generally is known as "Judge" McReynolds although he never was elected to a judgeship, has been identified with many public activities. He has been resident of the Carthage hospital board since the hospital's conception, also is president of the library board and of Park Cemetery association, having held these offices, too, for many terms. He formerly was a member of the board of education and served as president of that body.
The nearest he ever came to being a candidate for a remunerative public office was when he once unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination as circuit judge in this district in the old party nominating convention days.
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Samuel McReynolds was born Jan 11, 1849 in Saline County, Missouri. His parents were Allen McReynolds and [Martha] Amanda Cooper (both born in Virginia).
He was married to Helen Mar McReynolds. They lived at 631 S McGregor in Carthage, MO. He was an Attorney by profession.
He passed away on Dec 19, 1931 at 10:20 am. at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 8 days. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Burial was at Park Cemetery, Carthage, on Dec 21st under the direction of Knell Mortuary. For more information:
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Samuel was fourth born of eight known children to a wealthy, slave owning, early north-central Missouri pioneering family, raised with his three brothers & six sisters, south side of Missouri river in Saline county, Missouri. The month before his sixteenth birthday, his father, Allen, who arrived in Missouri from his birh state of Virginia before 1840 Federal census, at age fifty-seven, was executed Christmas eve 1864 by Union troopers. His mother, Martha Amanda Cooper, was about sixteen at birth of first child, died in 1878 three years following Samuel's removal to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Samuel and future wife Helen, may have earlier attended, but were reportedly teaching at Kirksville normal school, in Adair county. He then was admitted to the bar in 1874, opened a law office in 1875 at Carthage returning north to claim his thirty-two year old bride in 1876 (in 1876 or 1877 entered into a partnership with her younger brother John), son Allen was born 1877, then next, Samuel lost his mother in 1878.
THERE IS A DISCREPANCY IN DATE OF ENTERING PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN WILLIAM HALLIBURTON,
being either 1876 or 1 MAY 1877
[Note: see tribute article below, which shows it to be 1877]
Samuel formed a partnership with his bride's brother John William Halliburton which years later was desolved when each took their son into seperate firms about 1903. He and son Allen then around 1920, joined with John H Flanigan,sr, forming law firm of McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan. After he died it became McReynolds & Flanigan, then they took in John H Flanigan,jr with firm's name McReynolds, Flanigan & Flanigan, in 1949 two more of John's sons joined the firm then 1974 youngest Flanigan, George, was appointed to the bench of Missouri Appeals Court in Springfield. Today, this law firm is one of the oldest west of the Mississippi river.
Among one of Samuel's many charitable deeds was serving as president of the Carthage Hospital association and being instrumental in the raising of the funds and construction of McCune-Brooks hospital built by Busboom Brothers Construction company, being Geo & Frank Busboom, formerly Fairbury, Nebraska, then of Carthage. He also served as president of that board. [He likewise served as president of the Park Cemetery Association, for at least two terms, 1915 & 1916].
~ 1903
PLANS OF HOSPITAL BOARD.
Held a Meeting Yesterday — Will Locate Site This Evening
The hospital board, which is composed of Sam'l McReynolds, Dr. F. W. Flower, C. O. Harrington, G. C. Howenstein and W. W. Calhoun, met yesterday afternoon to plan for the future.
They agreed to drive out to the hospital grounds in the southwest part of town this evening and select a site to which to move the cottage already on the ground. The site for the proposed hospital building will be also chosen.
The grounds are 50 feet narrower at the north end than at the south, and it is the plan to buy a sufficient strip of ground to make the land square. The money for this board expects to raise from the citizens so as to have the whole of the $10,000 for the building itself.
Joplin Globe
11 January 1923
"Central National bank of Carthage elected officers & directors: Samuel McReynolds was re-elected chairman of the board; J. E. Lang, president; John C. Guinn, vice president; H. M. Boggess, cashier and Charles A. Scott, assistant cashier; Mr. McReynolds, Mr. Guinn, Mr. Lang, Mr. Boggess, T. N. Davey, W. K. Caffee, W. J. Sewall, G. M. Calhoon, L. E. Koken, J. C. Squires, A. M. Drake and D. W. Replogle, directors."
Death: in McCune-Brooks hospital in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: Allen McReynolds b: 1807 in Virginia
Mother: Martha Amanda Cooper b: about 1824 in Virginia
Marriage: Helen Mar Halliburton b: 14 JUL 1844 in Randolph county, Missouri
Married: 1876 in Kirksville, Adair county, Missouri
Known Children
Allen McReynolds b: 7 NOV 1877 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
John Westly McReynolds b: 6 MAR 1879 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Armilda Halliburton McReynolds b: 4 FEB 1881 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Samuel Westly McReynolds b: 20 JAN 1883 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Above from research by Bill Boggess, in most part using file #C3605 (Allen McReynolds,sr's papers, 1842-1970) of The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 -PAGE FIVE
ASSOCIATES IN TRIBUTE
SAMUEL McREYNOLDS HONORED ON 80TH BIRTHDAY
100 Members of Bar Assemble for Banquet For Attorney Who Has Practiced Here 54 Years
More than 100 guests, most of whom represented the membership of the Jasper county bar, were entertained at a banquet at the Drake Hotel last night in honor of the 80th birthday anniversary of Samuel McReynolds, veteran Jasper county lawyer who has been a practicing attorney in Carthage over the long period of 54 years. His son, Allen McReynolds, and John H. Flanigan, both law partners of the guest of honor, were the hosts.
It was an elaborate turkey dinner, at the conclusion of which Allen McReynolds, who is the president of the Jasper County Bar association, welcomed the guests and in reviewing the work of the bar association suggested the appointment of a committee of seven to outline a plan of activities for the coming year.
John Flanigan Presides
In announcing the principal purpose of the dinner last night, he paid a becoming tribute to his father and then asked John H. Flanigan performed with rare good taste and skill. He spoke eloquently of Mr. McReynolds' long career and in legal profession, looking back to the events in history which marked the year of his birth and later to the period in which he located in Carthage for the practice of his profession.
Mr. Flanigan maintained a constant flow of wit as he introduced the various speakers, all members of the legal fraternity, were heard.
Many of the talks dealt with old times in Jasper county, some very interesting reminiscences being brought to light, touching especially the period before the coming of the railroads to the county, when the principal method of transportation between Joplin and Carthage was the daily hack line, which made the rounds of the square each morning before starting westward for the then developing mining camp, where a division of the terms of circuit court had been established; of the day when stenographers were unknown and lawyers wrote out their court papers in long hand -and incidentally, it was said, wrote briefer and more pointed documents than are now produced, with the service of typists available; of the period when law libraries were small in size and possessed only by the favored few; of the period when the ethics of the profession were not up to the standard of later years -when it was no uncommon thing for the papers in a case to be stolen by the attorneys involved, thus preventing procedure; of the intellectual giants of the earlier period, men who had to rely on logic and their own knowledge of the law without the aid of voluminous reference books, precedents and other methods of procedure open to the practitioner of today; of the later periods when train service became available when the Frisco railroad was built through the county, the electric railroad came and trolley car service was available and of the present period when paved highways and rapid motor car service have almost eliminated time and distance.
All Praise Veteran Attorney
All expressed high appreciation of Mr. McReynolds' legal attainments, of his high character and of his long and exemplary record as an attorney.
One of the speakers heard was Stephen H. Claycomb, of Joplin, former lieutenant governor of the state, who located in Jasper county in 1869, and after four years of lead and zinc mining, began the practice of law in 1875, the same year that Mr. McReynolds came to the county and engaged in practice. Other speakers were Arthur Spencer, W. J. Owen, Stanley Clay, B. F. Hackney, Mercer Arnold, Perl Decker, Russell Mallett, Judge Walter Bailey, Judge C. L. Henson, the latter of Springfield and Judge Howard Gray, who in addition to delivering an impressive eulogy of Mr. McReynolds as a lawyer, told of his life long work in behalf of Carthage, of the importance of his efforts for the present Carthage High School building, the Jasper county almshouse, the Jasper county courthouse, the Carthage public library and last but not least the Carthage hospital.
Judge Gray concluded his eulogy by presenting Mr. McReynolds on behalf of the Jasper County Bar association a handsome easy chair and foot rest.
As Mr. McReynolds stood up to respond the diners arose and gave him a standing greeting. Mr. McReynolds recalled a number of interesting experiences of early day legal practice in the county, many of them humorous and all recounting the difficulties and primitive conditions of that early day. He spoke with warm appreciation of the honors heaped upon him by the entertainment of the evening, by the gift and the eulogies so generously pronounced, but declared that his friends had dealt in exaggeration. Nevertheless he was pleased and grateful. At the conclusion of his remarks Allen McReynolds bid the guests good night and the banquet was at an end, the hour being 11 o'clock.
Came Here in 1875
It was in January, 1875 that the young law school graduate came to Carthage to begin his practice and opened an office. He has practiced his profession continuously here since. One year after locating here, Mr. McReynolds returned to Milan, in Sullivan county, to claim his bride, Miss Helen Mar Halliburton, they returning to Carthage to reside. Mrs. McReynolds died a few years ago. Judge McReynolds has three living children, Attorney Allen McReynolds and Samuel McReynolds, Jr., and Miss Armilda McReynolds, all of Carthage.
In 1877, the late John W. Halliburton, brother of the late Mrs. McReynolds, came to Carthage entering into a law partnership with his brother-in-law. This partnership continued for 35 years, when it was dissolved in order that each might take his son into partnership, Allen McReynolds going into partnership with his father and Westley Halliburton and his father forming the other firm.
Six years ago the McReynolds & McReynolds firm added a third member, John H. Flanigan, the firm name becoming McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan, as it is today.
A Civic Worker
The senior Mr. McReynolds, who generally is known as "Judge" McReynolds although he never was elected to a judgeship, has been identified with many public activities. He has been resident of the Carthage hospital board since the hospital's conception, also is president of the library board and of Park Cemetery association, having held these offices, too, for many terms. He formerly was a member of the board of education and served as president of that body.
The nearest he ever came to being a candidate for a remunerative public office was when he once unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination as circuit judge in this district in the old party nominating convention days.
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Samuel McReynolds was born Jan 11, 1849 in Saline County, Missouri. His parents were Allen McReynolds and [Martha] Amanda Cooper (both born in Virginia).
He was married to Helen Mar McReynolds. They lived at 631 S McGregor in Carthage, MO. He was an Attorney by profession.
He passed away on Dec 19, 1931 at 10:20 am. at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 8 days. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Burial was at Park Cemetery, Carthage, on Dec 21st under the direction of Knell Mortuary. For more information:
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
h/o Helen Mar Halliburton
Samuel was fourth born of eight known children to a wealthy, slave owning, early north-central Missouri pioneering family, raised with his three brothers & six sisters, south side of Missouri river in Saline county, Missouri. The month before his sixteenth birthday, his father, Allen, who arrived in Missouri from his birh state of Virginia before 1840 Federal census, at age fifty-seven, was executed Christmas eve 1864 by Union troopers. His mother, Martha Amanda Cooper, was about sixteen at birth of first child, died in 1878 three years following Samuel's removal to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Samuel and future wife Helen, may have earlier attended, but were reportedly teaching at Kirksville normal school, in Adair county. He then was admitted to the bar in 1874, opened a law office in 1875 at Carthage returning north to claim his thirty-two year old bride in 1876 (in 1876 or 1877 entered into a partnership with her younger brother John), son Allen was born 1877, then next, Samuel lost his mother in 1878.
THERE IS A DISCREPANCY IN DATE OF ENTERING PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN WILLIAM HALLIBURTON,
being either 1876 or 1 MAY 1877
[Note: see tribute article below, which shows it to be 1877]
Samuel formed a partnership with his bride's brother John William Halliburton which years later was desolved when each took their son into seperate firms about 1903. He and son Allen then around 1920, joined with John H Flanigan,sr, forming law firm of McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan. After he died it became McReynolds & Flanigan, then they took in John H Flanigan,jr with firm's name McReynolds, Flanigan & Flanigan, in 1949 two more of John's sons joined the firm then 1974 youngest Flanigan, George, was appointed to the bench of Missouri Appeals Court in Springfield. Today, this law firm is one of the oldest west of the Mississippi river.
Among one of Samuel's many charitable deeds was serving as president of the Carthage Hospital association and being instrumental in the raising of the funds and construction of McCune-Brooks hospital built by Busboom Brothers Construction company, being Geo & Frank Busboom, formerly Fairbury, Nebraska, then of Carthage. He also served as president of that board. [He likewise served as president of the Park Cemetery Association, for at least two terms, 1915 & 1916].
~ 1903
PLANS OF HOSPITAL BOARD.
Held a Meeting Yesterday — Will Locate Site This Evening
The hospital board, which is composed of Sam'l McReynolds, Dr. F. W. Flower, C. O. Harrington, G. C. Howenstein and W. W. Calhoun, met yesterday afternoon to plan for the future.
They agreed to drive out to the hospital grounds in the southwest part of town this evening and select a site to which to move the cottage already on the ground. The site for the proposed hospital building will be also chosen.
The grounds are 50 feet narrower at the north end than at the south, and it is the plan to buy a sufficient strip of ground to make the land square. The money for this board expects to raise from the citizens so as to have the whole of the $10,000 for the building itself.
Joplin Globe
11 January 1923
"Central National bank of Carthage elected officers & directors: Samuel McReynolds was re-elected chairman of the board; J. E. Lang, president; John C. Guinn, vice president; H. M. Boggess, cashier and Charles A. Scott, assistant cashier; Mr. McReynolds, Mr. Guinn, Mr. Lang, Mr. Boggess, T. N. Davey, W. K. Caffee, W. J. Sewall, G. M. Calhoon, L. E. Koken, J. C. Squires, A. M. Drake and D. W. Replogle, directors."
Death: in McCune-Brooks hospital in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: Allen McReynolds b: 1807 in Virginia
Mother: Martha Amanda Cooper b: about 1824 in Virginia
Marriage: Helen Mar Halliburton b: 14 JUL 1844 in Randolph county, Missouri
Married: 1876 in Kirksville, Adair county, Missouri
Known Children
Allen McReynolds b: 7 NOV 1877 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
John Westly McReynolds b: 6 MAR 1879 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Armilda Halliburton McReynolds b: 4 FEB 1881 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Samuel Westly McReynolds b: 20 JAN 1883 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Above from research by Bill Boggess, in most part using file #C3605 (Allen McReynolds,sr's papers, 1842-1970) of The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 -PAGE FIVE
ASSOCIATES IN TRIBUTE
SAMUEL McREYNOLDS HONORED ON 80TH BIRTHDAY
100 Members of Bar Assemble for Banquet For Attorney Who Has Practiced Here 54 Years
More than 100 guests, most of whom represented the membership of the Jasper county bar, were entertained at a banquet at the Drake Hotel last night in honor of the 80th birthday anniversary of Samuel McReynolds, veteran Jasper county lawyer who has been a practicing attorney in Carthage over the long period of 54 years. His son, Allen McReynolds, and John H. Flanigan, both law partners of the guest of honor, were the hosts.
It was an elaborate turkey dinner, at the conclusion of which Allen McReynolds, who is the president of the Jasper County Bar association, welcomed the guests and in reviewing the work of the bar association suggested the appointment of a committee of seven to outline a plan of activities for the coming year.
John Flanigan Presides
In announcing the principal purpose of the dinner last night, he paid a becoming tribute to his father and then asked John H. Flanigan performed with rare good taste and skill. He spoke eloquently of Mr. McReynolds' long career and in legal profession, looking back to the events in history which marked the year of his birth and later to the period in which he located in Carthage for the practice of his profession.
Mr. Flanigan maintained a constant flow of wit as he introduced the various speakers, all members of the legal fraternity, were heard.
Many of the talks dealt with old times in Jasper county, some very interesting reminiscences being brought to light, touching especially the period before the coming of the railroads to the county, when the principal method of transportation between Joplin and Carthage was the daily hack line, which made the rounds of the square each morning before starting westward for the then developing mining camp, where a division of the terms of circuit court had been established; of the day when stenographers were unknown and lawyers wrote out their court papers in long hand -and incidentally, it was said, wrote briefer and more pointed documents than are now produced, with the service of typists available; of the period when law libraries were small in size and possessed only by the favored few; of the period when the ethics of the profession were not up to the standard of later years -when it was no uncommon thing for the papers in a case to be stolen by the attorneys involved, thus preventing procedure; of the intellectual giants of the earlier period, men who had to rely on logic and their own knowledge of the law without the aid of voluminous reference books, precedents and other methods of procedure open to the practitioner of today; of the later periods when train service became available when the Frisco railroad was built through the county, the electric railroad came and trolley car service was available and of the present period when paved highways and rapid motor car service have almost eliminated time and distance.
All Praise Veteran Attorney
All expressed high appreciation of Mr. McReynolds' legal attainments, of his high character and of his long and exemplary record as an attorney.
One of the speakers heard was Stephen H. Claycomb, of Joplin, former lieutenant governor of the state, who located in Jasper county in 1869, and after four years of lead and zinc mining, began the practice of law in 1875, the same year that Mr. McReynolds came to the county and engaged in practice. Other speakers were Arthur Spencer, W. J. Owen, Stanley Clay, B. F. Hackney, Mercer Arnold, Perl Decker, Russell Mallett, Judge Walter Bailey, Judge C. L. Henson, the latter of Springfield and Judge Howard Gray, who in addition to delivering an impressive eulogy of Mr. McReynolds as a lawyer, told of his life long work in behalf of Carthage, of the importance of his efforts for the present Carthage High School building, the Jasper county almshouse, the Jasper county courthouse, the Carthage public library and last but not least the Carthage hospital.
Judge Gray concluded his eulogy by presenting Mr. McReynolds on behalf of the Jasper County Bar association a handsome easy chair and foot rest.
As Mr. McReynolds stood up to respond the diners arose and gave him a standing greeting. Mr. McReynolds recalled a number of interesting experiences of early day legal practice in the county, many of them humorous and all recounting the difficulties and primitive conditions of that early day. He spoke with warm appreciation of the honors heaped upon him by the entertainment of the evening, by the gift and the eulogies so generously pronounced, but declared that his friends had dealt in exaggeration. Nevertheless he was pleased and grateful. At the conclusion of his remarks Allen McReynolds bid the guests good night and the banquet was at an end, the hour being 11 o'clock.
Came Here in 1875
It was in January, 1875 that the young law school graduate came to Carthage to begin his practice and opened an office. He has practiced his profession continuously here since. One year after locating here, Mr. McReynolds returned to Milan, in Sullivan county, to claim his bride, Miss Helen Mar Halliburton, they returning to Carthage to reside. Mrs. McReynolds died a few years ago. Judge McReynolds has three living children, Attorney Allen McReynolds and Samuel McReynolds, Jr., and Miss Armilda McReynolds, all of Carthage.
In 1877, the late John W. Halliburton, brother of the late Mrs. McReynolds, came to Carthage entering into a law partnership with his brother-in-law. This partnership continued for 35 years, when it was dissolved in order that each might take his son into partnership, Allen McReynolds going into partnership with his father and Westley Halliburton and his father forming the other firm.
Six years ago the McReynolds & McReynolds firm added a third member, John H. Flanigan, the firm name becoming McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan, as it is today.
A Civic Worker
The senior Mr. McReynolds, who generally is known as "Judge" McReynolds although he never was elected to a judgeship, has been identified with many public activities. He has been resident of the Carthage hospital board since the hospital's conception, also is president of the library board and of Park Cemetery association, having held these offices, too, for many terms. He formerly was a member of the board of education and served as president of that body.
The nearest he ever came to being a candidate for a remunerative public office was when he once unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination as circuit judge in this district in the old party nominating convention days.
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Samuel McReynolds was born Jan 11, 1849 in Saline County, Missouri. His parents were Allen McReynolds and [Martha] Amanda Cooper (both born in Virginia).
He was married to Helen Mar McReynolds. They lived at 631 S McGregor in Carthage, MO. He was an Attorney by profession.
He passed away on Dec 19, 1931 at 10:20 am. at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 8 days. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Burial was at Park Cemetery, Carthage, on Dec 21st under the direction of Knell Mortuary. For more information:
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Samuel was fourth born of eight known children to a wealthy, slave owning, early north-central Missouri pioneering family, raised with his three brothers & six sisters, south side of Missouri river in Saline county, Missouri. The month before his sixteenth birthday, his father, Allen, who arrived in Missouri from his birh state of Virginia before 1840 Federal census, at age fifty-seven, was executed Christmas eve 1864 by Union troopers. His mother, Martha Amanda Cooper, was about sixteen at birth of first child, died in 1878 three years following Samuel's removal to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Samuel and future wife Helen, may have earlier attended, but were reportedly teaching at Kirksville normal school, in Adair county. He then was admitted to the bar in 1874, opened a law office in 1875 at Carthage returning north to claim his thirty-two year old bride in 1876 (in 1876 or 1877 entered into a partnership with her younger brother John), son Allen was born 1877, then next, Samuel lost his mother in 1878.
THERE IS A DISCREPANCY IN DATE OF ENTERING PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN WILLIAM HALLIBURTON,
being either 1876 or 1 MAY 1877
[Note: see tribute article below, which shows it to be 1877]
Samuel formed a partnership with his bride's brother John William Halliburton which years later was desolved when each took their son into seperate firms about 1903. He and son Allen then around 1920, joined with John H Flanigan,sr, forming law firm of McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan. After he died it became McReynolds & Flanigan, then they took in John H Flanigan,jr with firm's name McReynolds, Flanigan & Flanigan, in 1949 two more of John's sons joined the firm then 1974 youngest Flanigan, George, was appointed to the bench of Missouri Appeals Court in Springfield. Today, this law firm is one of the oldest west of the Mississippi river.
Among one of Samuel's many charitable deeds was serving as president of the Carthage Hospital association and being instrumental in the raising of the funds and construction of McCune-Brooks hospital built by Busboom Brothers Construction company, being Geo & Frank Busboom, formerly Fairbury, Nebraska, then of Carthage. He also served as president of that board. [He likewise served as president of the Park Cemetery Association, for at least two terms, 1915 & 1916].
~ 1903
PLANS OF HOSPITAL BOARD.
Held a Meeting Yesterday — Will Locate Site This Evening
The hospital board, which is composed of Sam'l McReynolds, Dr. F. W. Flower, C. O. Harrington, G. C. Howenstein and W. W. Calhoun, met yesterday afternoon to plan for the future.
They agreed to drive out to the hospital grounds in the southwest part of town this evening and select a site to which to move the cottage already on the ground. The site for the proposed hospital building will be also chosen.
The grounds are 50 feet narrower at the north end than at the south, and it is the plan to buy a sufficient strip of ground to make the land square. The money for this board expects to raise from the citizens so as to have the whole of the $10,000 for the building itself.
Joplin Globe
11 January 1923
"Central National bank of Carthage elected officers & directors: Samuel McReynolds was re-elected chairman of the board; J. E. Lang, president; John C. Guinn, vice president; H. M. Boggess, cashier and Charles A. Scott, assistant cashier; Mr. McReynolds, Mr. Guinn, Mr. Lang, Mr. Boggess, T. N. Davey, W. K. Caffee, W. J. Sewall, G. M. Calhoon, L. E. Koken, J. C. Squires, A. M. Drake and D. W. Replogle, directors."
Death: in McCune-Brooks hospital in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: Allen McReynolds b: 1807 in Virginia
Mother: Martha Amanda Cooper b: about 1824 in Virginia
Marriage: Helen Mar Halliburton b: 14 JUL 1844 in Randolph county, Missouri
Married: 1876 in Kirksville, Adair county, Missouri
Known Children
Allen McReynolds b: 7 NOV 1877 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
John Westly McReynolds b: 6 MAR 1879 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Armilda Halliburton McReynolds b: 4 FEB 1881 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Samuel Westly McReynolds b: 20 JAN 1883 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Above from research by Bill Boggess, in most part using file #C3605 (Allen McReynolds,sr's papers, 1842-1970) of The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929 -PAGE FIVE
ASSOCIATES IN TRIBUTE
SAMUEL McREYNOLDS HONORED ON 80TH BIRTHDAY
100 Members of Bar Assemble for Banquet For Attorney Who Has Practiced Here 54 Years
More than 100 guests, most of whom represented the membership of the Jasper county bar, were entertained at a banquet at the Drake Hotel last night in honor of the 80th birthday anniversary of Samuel McReynolds, veteran Jasper county lawyer who has been a practicing attorney in Carthage over the long period of 54 years. His son, Allen McReynolds, and John H. Flanigan, both law partners of the guest of honor, were the hosts.
It was an elaborate turkey dinner, at the conclusion of which Allen McReynolds, who is the president of the Jasper County Bar association, welcomed the guests and in reviewing the work of the bar association suggested the appointment of a committee of seven to outline a plan of activities for the coming year.
John Flanigan Presides
In announcing the principal purpose of the dinner last night, he paid a becoming tribute to his father and then asked John H. Flanigan performed with rare good taste and skill. He spoke eloquently of Mr. McReynolds' long career and in legal profession, looking back to the events in history which marked the year of his birth and later to the period in which he located in Carthage for the practice of his profession.
Mr. Flanigan maintained a constant flow of wit as he introduced the various speakers, all members of the legal fraternity, were heard.
Many of the talks dealt with old times in Jasper county, some very interesting reminiscences being brought to light, touching especially the period before the coming of the railroads to the county, when the principal method of transportation between Joplin and Carthage was the daily hack line, which made the rounds of the square each morning before starting westward for the then developing mining camp, where a division of the terms of circuit court had been established; of the day when stenographers were unknown and lawyers wrote out their court papers in long hand -and incidentally, it was said, wrote briefer and more pointed documents than are now produced, with the service of typists available; of the period when law libraries were small in size and possessed only by the favored few; of the period when the ethics of the profession were not up to the standard of later years -when it was no uncommon thing for the papers in a case to be stolen by the attorneys involved, thus preventing procedure; of the intellectual giants of the earlier period, men who had to rely on logic and their own knowledge of the law without the aid of voluminous reference books, precedents and other methods of procedure open to the practitioner of today; of the later periods when train service became available when the Frisco railroad was built through the county, the electric railroad came and trolley car service was available and of the present period when paved highways and rapid motor car service have almost eliminated time and distance.
All Praise Veteran Attorney
All expressed high appreciation of Mr. McReynolds' legal attainments, of his high character and of his long and exemplary record as an attorney.
One of the speakers heard was Stephen H. Claycomb, of Joplin, former lieutenant governor of the state, who located in Jasper county in 1869, and after four years of lead and zinc mining, began the practice of law in 1875, the same year that Mr. McReynolds came to the county and engaged in practice. Other speakers were Arthur Spencer, W. J. Owen, Stanley Clay, B. F. Hackney, Mercer Arnold, Perl Decker, Russell Mallett, Judge Walter Bailey, Judge C. L. Henson, the latter of Springfield and Judge Howard Gray, who in addition to delivering an impressive eulogy of Mr. McReynolds as a lawyer, told of his life long work in behalf of Carthage, of the importance of his efforts for the present Carthage High School building, the Jasper county almshouse, the Jasper county courthouse, the Carthage public library and last but not least the Carthage hospital.
Judge Gray concluded his eulogy by presenting Mr. McReynolds on behalf of the Jasper County Bar association a handsome easy chair and foot rest.
As Mr. McReynolds stood up to respond the diners arose and gave him a standing greeting. Mr. McReynolds recalled a number of interesting experiences of early day legal practice in the county, many of them humorous and all recounting the difficulties and primitive conditions of that early day. He spoke with warm appreciation of the honors heaped upon him by the entertainment of the evening, by the gift and the eulogies so generously pronounced, but declared that his friends had dealt in exaggeration. Nevertheless he was pleased and grateful. At the conclusion of his remarks Allen McReynolds bid the guests good night and the banquet was at an end, the hour being 11 o'clock.
Came Here in 1875
It was in January, 1875 that the young law school graduate came to Carthage to begin his practice and opened an office. He has practiced his profession continuously here since. One year after locating here, Mr. McReynolds returned to Milan, in Sullivan county, to claim his bride, Miss Helen Mar Halliburton, they returning to Carthage to reside. Mrs. McReynolds died a few years ago. Judge McReynolds has three living children, Attorney Allen McReynolds and Samuel McReynolds, Jr., and Miss Armilda McReynolds, all of Carthage.
In 1877, the late John W. Halliburton, brother of the late Mrs. McReynolds, came to Carthage entering into a law partnership with his brother-in-law. This partnership continued for 35 years, when it was dissolved in order that each might take his son into partnership, Allen McReynolds going into partnership with his father and Westley Halliburton and his father forming the other firm.
Six years ago the McReynolds & McReynolds firm added a third member, John H. Flanigan, the firm name becoming McReynolds, McReynolds & Flanigan, as it is today.
A Civic Worker
The senior Mr. McReynolds, who generally is known as "Judge" McReynolds although he never was elected to a judgeship, has been identified with many public activities. He has been resident of the Carthage hospital board since the hospital's conception, also is president of the library board and of Park Cemetery association, having held these offices, too, for many terms. He formerly was a member of the board of education and served as president of that body.
The nearest he ever came to being a candidate for a remunerative public office was when he once unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination as circuit judge in this district in the old party nominating convention days.
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Samuel McReynolds was born Jan 11, 1849 in Saline County, Missouri. His parents were Allen McReynolds and [Martha] Amanda Cooper (both born in Virginia).
He was married to Helen Mar McReynolds. They lived at 631 S McGregor in Carthage, MO. He was an Attorney by profession.
He passed away on Dec 19, 1931 at 10:20 am. at the age of 82 years, 11 months, and 8 days. He was preceded in death by his wife.
Burial was at Park Cemetery, Carthage, on Dec 21st under the direction of Knell Mortuary. For more information:
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
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