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 682 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI That same year the Bank of Washingtou was organized, its promoters being V. W. Stumpe, Leopold Wattenberg, F. A. Hendrich, John B. Busch and H. D. Kibbler, the two lat- ter gentlemen having but one share each. The capital of the institution was ten thousand dollars, and Leopold Wattenberg was chosen president, while Mr. Stumpe was appointed assistant cashier. In 1890 Mr. Stumpe was promoted to cashier, and in 1901 he was elected president to succeed Mr. Wattenberg. The success of its managements can best be grasped from its present condition, the capital stock having been increased to fifty thousand dollars, while its surplus is double its present capital. Mr. Stinnpe has other business inter- ests, being one of the directors of the Wash- ington Building and Loan Association, a con- cern which has made a phenomenal record as a fiduciary institution, and he is also a director of the Washington Water Company. In polities Frederick W. Stumpe gives his prefei'ence to the Repulilican party, his fellow- citizens having shown their trust in him liy electing him to the offices of city clerk and city treasurer, respectively. He is a member of that old established fraternity. Ancient Free and Accepted ilasons, and is a past mas- ter of Washington Lodge, No. 25. On October 9. 1878, a marriage ceremony was performed uniting Frederick W. Stumpe and Amelia Willielmi in the holy bonds of wedlock. ]Irs. Stumpe was the daughter of Julius Wilhelmi, a native of Mannlieim, Ger- many, who came to this country- in early life. He was a Union refugee from Arkansas dur- ing the period of the Civil war, and was later sheriff and collector of Franklin county, JMis- souri. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Stumpe were the parents of the following children : Earna, the wife of Ja.sper N. Tankersly. of Chicago, manager of the interests of the Mc- Millan Company, of New York; Miss Adele. of Washington ; Robert W., who is in business in St. Louis; and Miss Elsie, of Washington. Mrs. Stumpe was called to her eternal home July 25, 1899. She was a devoted wife and mother and beloved by all who knew her. The two daughters, IMisses Adele and Elsie, preside gracionsly over the home of oiir sub- ject, which is a gathering place for the social activities of Washington. D. J. CoNKAD. It was "the embattled farmers" who "fired the shot heard round the world" at Concord Bridge and ever since America has drawn her best soldiers from her farms. Patriotism flourishes in the country. The life of D. J. Conrad is an instance of the response that the call to arms evokes from the man who owns and works his fields. His father, J. J. Conrad, was a veteran of the Civil war, whose military career in no way in- terfered with his being a successful agricul- turist, and the son, born in 1872, emulates his i:)arent in zeal for the two pursuits. Reared on his father's large farm, D. J. Conrad attended the schools of the county. At the outbreak of the Cuban war he enlisted, .ioined the Sixteenth U. S. Infantry and served eight months in Cuba. He was mus- tered out of the Cuban army Januaiy 17, 1899. Eight months later he again enlisted in the Philippine war. His regiment was the Thirty-eighth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, in whose ranks he served seventeen months in the Philippine Islands. He returned to Bol- linger county after his dischai'ge and took up his woi-k of farming again. Upon his father's death in 1903 he became possessed of one hundred and fifty acres of land, mostly in timber, though he has added eighty acres of timber. The father owned at one time some four thousand acres, which is still owned in the family. Like most of his neighbors, Mr. Conrad raises stock besides doing general farming. He spent one year in the west, leaving Missouri in March, 1903. From 1905 to 1907 he was sheriff of Bollinger county, an office whose duties he discharged with characteristic thoroughness. At the time of the disturbance in iIexico, in 1911, Mr. Conrad was sent to Texas and served in the camp of instiiictions. He was called out by the Adjutant General of Missouri. The marriage of Mr. Conrad and Miss Ida Kinder took place December 30, 1908. Ida Kinder was the daughter of A. A. and Mary Kinder, both natives of Missouri. Mar>' Burns Conrad, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Conrad, was Iwrn November 9, 1909. Mr. Conrad belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of the lodge at Marble Hill, IMissouri. He is also actively connected with the Army and Navy Union at St. Louis, Mis- souri. Mr. Conrad's church preference is the Presbyterian, where he regularly attends. Politically he is known as a thorough-going Republican. Rev. Elisha Calvin Butler. One of the most necessary characteristics for a man to be possessed of in order to make a success of his own life and of those things which he under-