Biographical Sketch of William M. Wyeth, 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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William M. Wyeth was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 17,
1832, and received his education at the Harrisburg Military Academy,
where he pursued an academical course.  After graduating, he removed 
to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he commenced his mercantile experience in
a dry goods store.  After remaining in this house four years the firm 
went out of business, and he entered a hardware store in 1852.  In
1856, Mr. Wyeth and a capitalist of the place purchased the stock and 
continued the business until 1859, when Mr. Wyeth sold his interest and
started in search of a better location.  After traveling through Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri, he decided to make his home
in St. Joseph, satisfied that it was destined to be the important
place it has become.  In 1860, he opned a hardware store of very mod-
erate character, in Corby's Block, where he remained until 1865, when 
the block was burned.  After the fire he removed to the building
adjoining the Herald Office, on Second Street, where he remained until
his new store on Third Street, was completed.  In addition to their
extensive hardware business, they have manufactured largely of saddles,
harness and collars, which like their hardware, sold only at wholesale.
The retail hardware business was made a separate branch in 1869.  The
business has been constantly enlarged, and at the present time is the
most extensive of the kind in St. Joseph, and occupies more floor space
than any other mercantile establishment in the city.  Mr Wyeth has 
spent two years traveling in Europe.  Nature and his extended travel
has bestowed on him that polished and attractive manner which has
readily gained him so many firends, while he is noted for his unassum-
ing manners, the modesty of his demeanor, and the simplicity of his
habits.  As a business man he is prompt, energetic and painstaking, 
and of the strictest honesty and integrity.  By his carefulness and
long experience, he is enabled to carry on with ease his large and
extensive business, and add to it from year to year.  He was married
September 28, 1858, to Miss Renick, of Ross County, Ohio.

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