Chariton County, Missouri Biographical Sketch - JOHN G. WAYLAND
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A native Missourian, was born in Randolph county, July 7, 1870, his early
life was spent upon the farm, here through careful training he was by his
father, Jos. H. Wayland, taught to regard as a fundamental truth that all
honest labor is honorable.  At the age of 19, feeling, the need of better
school advantages in order to prepare him for life's duties, he entered
the Salisbury Academy, where by diligence, perseverance and honest
'application to his duties, won distinguished honors in the class of '91.
Choosing, as his profession, that of pharmacy, he served his
apprenticeship during, the vacations of '91-2-3 in the store of his
brother, Dr.  Wayland, of Texas, returning in the spring of each year to
pursue his studies at the Academy, laboring, as diligently and is
successfully as before. Realizing the importance of the old proverb that
"anything, worth doing at all is worth doing well" he entered the St.
Louis College of Pharmacy in the autumn of 1894. Immediately upon the
completion of his junior course, he went before the Missouri State Board
of Pharmacy at Kansas City, where after a rigid examination passed with
the possible percentage of 100. At this time the Board of directors of
Salisbury Academy recognizing his ability as a student fully tendered him
the chair of Natural Sciences in that institution which was very
reluctantly accepted.  In this capacity the same ruling, motto of his life
that "nothing is impossible to industry" was applied, and the ability
evidenced by him as an educator, although young may be comparatively
estimated from the fact that the management of the school unanimously
tendered him the same position for the ensuing year. He is a conscientious
christian gentleman, identifying himself with the Methodist church; a
staunch democrat and an enthusiastic member of the fraternal order,
Knights of Pythias.









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