Biographical Sketch of J. W. Atwill, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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The subject of this sketch was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 
February, 1844.  He here received the advantages of an excellent 
education and entered on the active duties of life, a thoroughly
qualified business man.  On the breaking out of the civil war,
though a very young man, Mr. Atwill determined to enter the service
of his country, and enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts
volunteers.  For his soldierly bearing and generally meritorious
conduct he was promoted to a lieutenancy and transferred to the 
N. C. Union volunteer regiment.  He was afterward advanced to the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, with which he remained
till it was mustered out of the service in 1865.  He then went to
St. Louis, where he remained, engaged in mercantile pursuits, till
the year 1870, when he sold out and went to St. Joseph, Missouri,
where he received the appointment of General Freight and Ticket
Agent for the St. Joseph and Denver City, now the St. Joseph and
Western Railroad, which position he held till the fall of 1878.
He is now President of the Oakdale Coal Company, and is an influ-
ential member of the City Council of St. Joseph.

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