Biographical Sketch of Charles H. Orchard, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Charles H. Orchard, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the
Clark Mercantile Company, at Salem, Mo., of which he is also a member,
was born in Salem, Mo., in 1869, and is the son of J. M. and Martha E.
(Mitchell) Orchard.  Charles H. Orchard was educated in the Salem
public schools, and at the age of sixteen began clerking in a store at
that place.  At the age of nineteen he began as bookkeeper and assist-
ant manager at West Plains, in the branch store of H. B. Clark & Bro.
at that place, where he remained for two years.  Then for two years he
was salesman at Salem for the same firm.  For about two years he was 
manager of their branch store at Cuba, and then returned to West Plains
where he became a partner of Hill & Co., successors to H. B. Clark &
Bro.  He remained there for a short time, or until he began for the
present firm, which was organized September 1, 1888, as successors to
A. H. & H. B. Clark.  They are carrying a general stock of merchandise,
with a capital stock of $15,000.  Mr. Orchard was married in 1887 to
Miss Alice M., daughter of Capt. F. L. and E. E. Withaup, and who was
born near Richland, Mo.  Her parents are now living in Salem, Mo., and
her father was captain in the United States army during the late war.
Mrs. Orchard is a member of the Episcopal Church, and by her marriage
became the mother of one child.  Mr. Orchard is a Democrat in his
political principles, and his first presidential vote was for Grover
Cleveland in 1884.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W., West Plains 
Lodge, and is a member of the Baptist Church.

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