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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 697 dated Store and Manufactm-ing Company. James Harry, mentioned earlier in tliis sketch, was born in 1893. Lillie and Charles were born in 1897 and 1900 respectively. A good mixer and a man of deserved per- sonal popularity, Mr. Dale is active in sev- eral fraternal organizations. He is a mem- ber of the A. F. and A. M., of Marble Hill, and of the chapter and commandery at Cape Girardeau, in which he has taken fourteen degrees. He is also affiliated with the I. 0. 0. F., the K. 0. T. M. and with the A. 0. U. W. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are members of the Presbyterian church. In politics Mr. Dale is a Republican, and, as earlier stated, he is not without experience in public office. It was while he was serving as deputy sheriff of Wayne county that the capture of the New Madrid desperadoes was planned and executed. The leaders in this dangerous undertaking were James Hatton and John Davis. Mr. Dale, who was absent on ofScial business, was fifteen minutes late in arriving at Greenville, and Messrs. Hat- ton and Davis had already followed the des- peradoes out of town and caught up with them at the rendezvous, Jim Lee's residence, where they were eating a late breakfast. Hat- ton and Davis had held up both robbers in the dining room, but unfortunately they re- laxed vigilance and both were shot. Hatton recovered, but Davis died as the result of an operation performed in the hope of sav- ing him from the effects of the robbers' bul- lets. Altogether, Mr. Dale's career has been one of unusual interest. "William "W. Hubbard. An industrious and enterprising farmer of Dunklin county, William W. Hubbard is prosperously en- gaged in his free and independent occupa- tion on one of the pleasantest homesteads in Senath, where he has lived for nearly a dec- ade. Coming on both sides of the house from Irish ancestry, he was born September 27, ' 1858, in Brownsville, Haywood county, Ten- nessee, where his parents settled on leaving Virginia, their native state. His father, who died while yet in the prime of life, in 1861, was a stage driver until after the building of railroads throughout Tennessee, when he embarked in the grocery business, which he carried on successfully until his death. His widow married a second time, but did not live very long thereafter, passing away in 1872. After his mother's death William W. Hub- bard, who had acquired his early education in the subscription schools of Tennessee, went to live with his grandmother and two aunts, who had been left almost destitute through the ravages of the Civil war, and his grandmother subsequently lived with him until her death, in 1896, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. Selecting farming as his life occupation, Mr. Hubbard settled in White county Arkansas, about 1879, remain- ing there until 1903, being employed in agri- cultural pursuits all of the time with the exception of four yeare when he was en- gaged in railroad work, being foreman of a section gang a part of the time. For four years after locating in Dunklin county, in 1903, jMr. Hubbard rented land, but has since resided on his present farm, and in its man- agement has been quite successful, having a large part of it cleared and under cultiva- tion, much of which is now rented to tenants. He intends to clear and improve the whole of his land and fence it, a work in which he has already made rapid progress, his farm bidding fair to become one of the most desir- able pieces of property in the neighborhood. Politically Mr. Hubbard is aiSliated with the Republican party, and fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World, in which he has held various offices, and of the Woodmen 's Circle, an auxiliary of the former organization. Mr. Hubbard married, in January, 1889, in White county, Arkansas, Elizabeth Allen, who was born in Tennessee, January 24, 1867, a daughter of J. M. and Emma (Spark- man) Allen. Her father is now living in Senath, but her mother died in 1878, wbcxi Mrs. Hubbard was a girl of eleven years. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have four eliildren, namely : Russell B., born July 23. 1890 ; Wal- ter C, born January 27, 1892 ; John B., bora November 11, 1896 ; and Pauline, bom De- cember 25, 1908. James R. Romines. Missouri boasts, and with reason, of its wonderful agricultural re- sources, and that it has become such a success- ful farming country is attributable to the fact that men of acknowledged abilities have iden- tified themselves with the cultivation of the soil. James R. Romines, a farmer by nature, by inheritance and from choice, stands prom- inent in the state which he has helped to make famous. Mr. Romines was born August 2, 1870, on a farm near Vineit, and is the son of Thomas