Biographical Sketch of Major T.J. Chew, 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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Major T. J. Chew, was born in Columbus, Ohio, in the year 1838; he was
the oldest of a family of three children, besides a half-sister older
than himself.  Anthony S. Chew, his father, was a native of Connecticut,
a distinguished graduate of Yale College, and a lawyer by profession.
In 1836, he moved to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati, where he formed a
law partnership with the celebrated Thomas Corwin, who afterwards 
achieved a national reputation.  The style of the firm was Corwin &
Chew.  The subject of this sketch received a liberal education, first
in Heron's Seminary, and afterwards in Brooks' Preparatory Classical
School, both private institutions of high order in Cincinnati.  At the
age of sixteen he visited Iowa.  From 1858 to 1861, he was engaged in
the insurance business in the city of New York.  In the latter year he
moved his residence to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he permanently lo-
cated, pursuing, for a brief period, his old calling, the insurance
business; he then embarked in the wholesale grocery trade in partner-
ship with several others, the style of the firm being Koch, Chew & Co.
In this he continued until 1874, when he embarked in the brokerage
business.  In 1861, he married Miss K. M. Forbes, a native of New York.
The fruit of this marriage was one child, who died in infancy.  He
served during the civil war on the staff of General Hall and of twelve
other generals; he also served as quartermaster of the department of
St. Joseph, with the rank of major, from 1862 to 1865.  He has long
been recognized as an enterprising and public spirited citizen.  During
the years 1872 and 1873, he filled, to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned, the position of President of the Board of Trade of St.
Joseph, and has been uniformly identified with the best interests of
the city.

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