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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 585 In the year of the great struggle between the states he was captiired at Franklin and was put a prisoner on board a boat which was landed at Scott's Landing. He escaped by jumping off the boat with four messmates, and while a fugitive he met Mr. Lusk, his father-in-law to be, and, both being Masons, a firm friendship was cemented. The elder gentleman took him to his home and there he met the daughter of the house, the two young people falling immediately in love. They were married in May, 1862. Three sons were born to bless this union, they being: Horatio L., editor of the F est lis News at Festus, ]Iissouri ; Ben.janiin H. ; and Dr. Alex- ander B., a dentist at Charleston. Dr. iIar- bury was a prominent and talented physician and well merited that term which has come to mean all of good, "a Soutliern gentleman." Benjamin II. Marbury received his early education in the public schools of Mississippi county and later matriculated at Bellevue College, located at Caledonia, Missouri, and was graduated from the same in 1887, with the degree of B. S. Like so many of our successful men he taught school for several years and became president of St. Charles College, at St. Charles, Missouri. He com- pleted his literary and legal education in Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar at Petosi, Mis- souri, in 1895. In 1897 he came to Farming- ton and here success has awaited him. He was elected prosecuting attorney in Novem- ber, 1903, and served until 1905. Generally recognized as a proper man for public office, he was made a candidate for judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals in September, 1910, but was beaten by Charles Bates. At the present time he is attorney for the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company and also for the Farmers Bank, the Flat River Ice & Cold Storage Company, and the Peoples' Bank of Delose. As a member of the firm of Marbury & Hensley he conducts a very suc- cessful general practice, ^Ir. W. L. Hensley, his partner, being United States congressman from the Thirteenth Missouri district. jMr. Marbury has won considerable fame in this loealit.y as a gifted criminal lawyer. During the one term in which he was prosecuting at- torne.y he convicted over forty men, one for the death penalty. The aggregate sentenoe of the remaining thirty-nine amounted to over one thousand years. He proved a stanch and strenuous judge, — the friend of good gov- ernment. ilr. Marbury laid the foundation of a liappy home and ideally congenial life ^com- panionship when on September 3, 1895, he was united in marriage to Annie Eversole, of Caledonia, Missouri, daughter of William G. and Rebecca A. Eversole. Mr. and Mrs. Mar- bury share their hospitable and attractive honie with three children— Virginia. Leonard Rutledge and Anna. Mrs. Marbury is a di- rect descendant of Chief Justice John Rut- ledge, of South Carolina. The subject is in direct descent from Felix Grundy, the cele- brated Southern statesman. United States senator from Tennessee in 1829-1838 and at- torney general from 1838 to 1840. "Sir. jIar- bury is a gifted orator and possibly inherits his silver tongue from his distinguished foi-ebear. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Cristal Lodge, No. 50, of Farmington; politically is a Democrat; and he and his family are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. South. George Kkone, formerly of the firm of Hooper & Krone, now serving his second term as mayor of Senath, has public official, his achievements in develop- ing and advancing the material interests of the comiiiunitv bringing to the people a re- alization that the aflairs of the city are their affairs, and at all times entitled to their con- sideration. A native of Kentucky, he was born August 13, 1878, in Calloway county, where he resided until eighteen years of age. In 1896 Ml-. Krone came to Senath, jIis- souri, arriving here four months later than his mother, and where he also had a lirother living, J. W. Hall, who is still a resident of this city, and one of its earliest pioneer citi- zens, he having come here before there were any "railways in this section of the country. Forced by circumstances to earn his own liv- ing, he worked by the montli as a farm hand for two years, and the next two years found employment in a shop. Ambitious then to embark in business on his own account, Mr. Krone bought a team on credit, and began draying, an industry in which he was pros- l>crusly engaged for eight years, doing al- most the entire draying for the town. Dur- ing the last two years in which he was thus engaged he also dealt in feed, ice and coal, Iniilding up a trade which demanded eo much of liis time that he gave up the draying in its favor, since September. 1910, being junior member of the firm of Hooper & Ki-one. IMr.