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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 631 decided to make his home in this new coun- try. Henry Haley was a valued and appre- ciative member of the time-honored Masonic order. He was called to eternal rest in 1879, at the age of sixty years. The mother of the Doctor was a daughter of Oba Key, a pio- neer ilissourian and a native of Kentucky. Mrs. Henry Haley passed to the great be- yond in 1879, at the age of fifty years. Dr. Haley was the first born in a family of eight children — six boys and two girls, of whom all the sous are living. William M. Haley is a prominent real-estate man in St. Louis, Mis- souri, where he has resided for the past thirty years ; John and Wilson Haley are en- gaged in the general merchandise business at Steeleville, Missouri; Basil conducts a meat market at West Plains, Missouri ; Jerry maintains his home in Texas; and Oba is the immediate subject of this review. Concern- ing the two sisters, — Mary died at the age of eighteen years, in 1880 ; and Delia, who be- came the wife of Reuben Summers, resided for a number of years in East St. Louis, where her death occurred in 1893 ; she is sur- vived by her husband and two daughters. Dr. Haley, of this notice, was reared to adult age at Steeleville, his preliminary edu- cational training having been completed with a course in the Steeleville Academy. For three years thereafter, from 1864 to 1867, he was employed as a clerk in the gen- eral store of the Merrimac Iron Works. Prom 1864 to 1867 he attended school in Phelps county, ilissouri, and in 1869 he began to read medicine under a noted physi- cian at Steeleville, Missouri. In 1872 he was matriculated as a student in the old St. Louis IMedieal College, in which excellent institu- tion he was graduated as a member of the class of 1873, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Subsequently he at- tended the medical department of the Uni- versity of Missouri, in which he was gradu- ated in 1879. He initiated the active prac- tice of his profession at Bellevue, IMissouri, where he remained for the ensuing ten years, coming thence to Fredericktown, in 1886. During the period of his residence at Fred- ericktown he has achieved unusual success as a skilled physician and surgeon and he holds pi-estige as one of the finest doctors in Southeastern Missouri. Dr. Haley has been twice married, his first union having been to iliss IMartha A. Brooks, who died in June, 1904. To this marriage were born three children, — Claude B., who is engaged in the newspaper business at Cin- cinnati, Ohio; Henry L., who is a civil engi- neer at Los Angeles, California; and Lucy, who is the wife of Dr. Keller, of Willisville, Illinois. In 1908 Dr. Haley wedded Mrs. Birdie Law, nee Nifong, who had one child by her first marriage, namely, — Jamie, who died at the age of six yars. In connection with the work of his profes- sion Dr. Haley is affiliated with the iMadison County Medical Society; the Southeastern Missouri Medical Society, the Missouri State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has served as president of the Southeastern Missouri Medical Society. He was local surgeon for the Iron ilountain Railroad from 1886 to 1896, and was also Secretary for ten years of the United States Pension Board. In a fraternal way he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics he accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and poli- cies promulgated by the Democratic party. Dr. Haley commands the hearty admiration and esteem of his fellow practitioners by reason of his strict adherence to the unwrit- ten code of professional ethics and as a citi- zen he is essentially loyal and public spirited, doing all in his power to advance the general progress and improvement. Louis Krueger. The present able and popular incumbent of the office of clerk of the common pleas court at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is Louis Krueger, who has resided in this city during all of his life and who is here honored and esteemed by all with whom he has come in contact by reason of his fair and. straightforward business dealings. Mr. Krueger was born at Cape Girardeau, on the 11th of September. 1874, and he is a son of William and Elizabeth (Schrader) Krueger, both born in Brunswick, Germany. Both parents came to the United States in early youth, settling at Cape Girardeau, Avhere they became acquainted and eventually mar- ried. As a young man Mr. William Krueger turned his attention to the meat-market busi- ness, stock buying and farming, and he was identified with those lines of enterprise dur- ing the major part of his active career. He died November 4, 1880, his wife, now Mrs. Hitt, living in Cape Girardeau. Mr. and Mrs. Krueger became the parents of six children, of whom the three daughters are deceased.