Biographical Sketch of Judge W.C. Toole, 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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Judge W. C. Toole, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 28, 1818.
In 1834 he moved with his father to Alton, Illinois, where he continued
to reside till the year 1838, when he went to Buchanan County, Missouri.
n 1841 he married in Weston, Missouri, Miss E. Wiglesworth, of Greenup
County, Kentucky, by whom he has had ten children: Kittie, Dickie,
Octavius, Alice, William, Lizzie, Laura, Emma, Alpha and Edwin. In
1848 Mr. Toole was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law
in St. Joseph. In 1852 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, a position which, after holding three years, he resigned. In
1856 he was poointed Register of the City of St. Joseph, and held the
office uninterruptedly for nine years. In 1864 he was elected City
Recorder. This office he shortly after resigned, and during the same
year was elected on the Republican ticket Circuit Clerk, serving in
that capacity two years. In 1871 he was elected on the Liberal ticket
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he continued to hold
till its abolishment by the Legislature of 1875. Judge Toole first
made his permanent home in St. Joseph in 1852. He has, in the years
that have since elapsed, been prominently active in all public enter-
prises calculated to advance the interests of the city and county, and
in the building of churches, school houses, and charitable institutions
has ever been among the foremost to lend a helping hand.

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