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 700 HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI December, he was murdered by a band of gnerrilas, who entered the home on Sun- day evening, saying: "You d black Re- publican, ain't you ashamed of yourself?" The mother of the Doctor was Arzula Phillips in her girlhood days and she was born and reared in the vicinity of New Madrid. Alex- ander C. Tarlton was twice married and by his first marriage he became the father of four children, of whom the Doctor is the only survivor at the present time, his two sis- ters and one brother having died in infancy. The second marriage was prolific of six chil- dren, of whom three are now living. Dr. Tarlton attended school in his native place until he had reached the age of fifteen years when he left home and came to Cape Girardeau, which city has continued to rep- resent his place of residence during the long intervening years to the present time, with the exception of a period of two years, from 1881 to 1883, during which time he lived in Wajme county. For three years he was a stu- dent in the state normal school, at Cape Girardeau. In 1871, at the age of twenty- one years, he engaged in the drug business, continuing to follow that line of enterprise until 1879, in which year he was matriculated as a student in the St. Louis Medical College. in which excellent institution he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1881, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after graduation he entered up- on the active practice of his profession at Pocahontas, later removing to Oak Ridge. In 1890 he returned to Cape Girardeau, where he now controls a large and lucrative patron- age and where he is also engaged in the drug business. In connection with his life work he is a valued and ap- preciative member of the Southeastern Medical Society and of the Cape Girardeau Medical Society. In the time-honored Ma- sonic order he is affiliated with the Scottish Rite branch and he is also a valued member of the local lodge of the Woodmen of the "World. His religious faith is in harmony with the tenets of the Baptist church and in politics he accoi'ds an unswerving allegiance to the principles promulgated by the Dem- ocratic party. Dr. Tarlton has been twice married, his first union having been to Miss Addie Penny, the ceremony having been performed on the 18th of Marcii, 1880. Mrs. Tarlton was called to eternal rest four and a half months after her marriage and on the 29th of November, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of the Doctor to Miss Maggie Morton, who was born and reared at Pocahontas, Missoiu'i. To this union have been born four children, concerning whom the following brief data are here in- corporated, — David W. P. Tarlton is a den- tist by profession and he is engaged in that work at Marshall, Arkansas; Lou B. is a teacher at Cape Girardeau ; Ann, who is the wife of George Cochran, resides at Hoxie, Arkansas; and Mary Katrina, fourteen years of age, is a student in the local high school. Guy F. Kahmann. It is to be doubted whether a man in a position of great trust realizes the confidence and esteem thus ex- hibited by his friends and fellow citizens. Guy F. Kahmann of this review holds just such a position, but he is deeply conscious of the trust reposed in him as cashier of the Fir.st National Bank of Washington, and la- bors valiantly and well to uphold that con- fidence. Oiir subject came from good old German stock, thrifty, alert and honest, his father, Christopher H. Kahmann, having been born in Hanover, Germany, in 1828. He came to the United States when but a small boy of eleven years, but there is no record of where his youth was passed or what were his edu- cational advantages, but his later business success marked him as a man of unusual and extraordinary acumen, being endowed with a capacity for affairs of broad scope. Mr. Kahmann was a leading citizen of Wash- ington for many years, being the pro- prietor of the pork-packing business in that city, instituted in 1856 and con- tinued until his death in 1883 and then until 1887 under his successor, Gxiy F. Kahmann, when it yielded to the pressure of the great packing interests of St. Louis and Kansas City and became extinct. Christopher H. Kahmann married Anna Mense, a daughter of Gerhard Uhlenbrock Mense, who was en- gaged in the saw and grist-mill business in Franklin county for many years, coming to that county in 1833. The children born to this union were as follows: George H., who died in Kansas City in February, 1911, a prominent contractor of that city; William, who was a lawyer and a publisher, and passed away in Washington in October, 1893; Guy F.. "the immediate subject of this review; Annie, the wife of Charles Wynne, of New York city; Cassilda, who married John B. Busch, of Washington; and Joseph P., of