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 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 703 removal to Missouri. Mr. Barger was killed by the guerillas during the Civil war, as they were believed to be in sympathy with the South. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have had three children. The eldest is Audrey, who was ed- ucated in the state normal school at Cape Girardeau and has been a teacher for the past seven years, now teaching in the Kennett school with great success. Thomas, the elder boy, also attended the state normal and died, October 30, 1909, when he was twenty years old. The youngest child is Ra.y, who is at present a high school student. Mr. Roger.s is not a member of any church, but his family attend the Baptist church. He is interested in education, perhaps all the more because his own schooling was of ne- cessity rather meagre and what he knows he has had to gather from reading and observa- tion as he went along. He has made a point of giving his children the best education that he could, realizing the advantages that it would be to them, no matter what line they might follow in after years. Mr. Rogers is very devoted to the county where he has lived practically all of his life, and the county is fully appreciative of Mr. Rogers and all that he has done in a quiet way for its improvement ; he is widely known and as uni- versally respected. Moses Burette Barber, M. D., of Flat River, is one of the foremost professional and business men of southeastern Missouri, Dur- ing his career as a physician and surgeon his practice has grown to the extent of his ability to care for it, and in addition many important business interests require his attention, Dr, Barber was born at Frohne, Perry county, Missouri, August 30, 1869, and spent his early life on a farm in that county and in Wayne county. His early education was secured in the public schools and at the Carl- ton Institute and Farmington Baptist Col- lege, and thus equipped he entered educa- tional work and for seven years taught school, during the last two years lieiug prin- cipal of the Mine La Motte public schools. For two succeeding years he was engaged in the drug business at Bonne Terre, Having in the meantime taken up the study of medi- cine, he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Barnes Medical College on April 12. 1899. His entrance in this profession was at Flat River, where he has resided for the past twelve years, Dr, Barber was the organizer of the Flat River Ice & Cold Storage Company and is its president. This company, which is capital- ized at fifty thousand dollars, has two plants, one at Bonne Terre and one at Flat River. He also was one of the organizers and is a stockholder in the Central Steam Laundry at Flat River. For two years he was president of the Miners and Merchants Bank, of which he is still a director. His real estate holdings include property in Flat River and extensive interests in New Mexico. Dr. Barber belongs to one of the old fam- ilies of southeastern Missouri. His father, Richard H. Barber, who is still a resident of Madison county, was born at Brazean, Perry county, January 4, 1845, and has enjoyed a career of prosperity, being the owner of lai-ge amounts of real estate. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a Democrat. He married, October 23, 1868, Surena Cline. of Frohne, Missouri, daughter of Moses and Caroline Cline, farmers and early settlers of Perry county. Her mother, Mrs. Cline, was one of the first members of the Baptist church in this state, and lived to the age of eighty-six, Mrs, Barber died July 22. 1909, having been the mother of seven children, of wliom Dr. Barber is the oldest. In politics Dr. Barber is Democratic, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, and affiliates with the ^Modern Wood- men of America and the Modern Americans, He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Missouri State Medical Asso- ciation, the Southeastern Missouri Med- ical Society and the St, Francois County Medical Association. He was married, Au- gust 29. 1895, to Miss Mollie E. Turley, She taught in the public schools of St. Francois county for ten years before her marriage. Her parents are Wesley and Emeline Turley, her father being one of the pioneer farmers in tlie lead belt. Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Barber. The two liv- ing are Anson B. and Virginia E. Luther Henry Williams. Among the most prominent and able financiers of Saint Francois county is Luther Henry Williams, cashier of the Farmers' Bank, a monetary institution in whose organization he partic- ipated: a director of the Mines' Supply Com- pany at Flat River; and interested in the National Bank of Commerce of the city of St. Louis and the Bankers Trust Company of St. Louis. The Farmers' Bank is one of