HURLEY  BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HURLEY, W. H. - b: 1873 Saukville, WI
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 301
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

W. H. Hurley, president of the W. H. Hurley Grain Company of Clinton, Missouri, is 
one of the progressive business men of Henry County. He was born at Saukville, 
Wisconsin, November 8, 1873, and is a son of James and Hannah (McCarthy) 
Hurley, the former a native of New York and the latter of Massachusetts. They 
came west and settled in Wisconsin at an early day. The mother is now deceased 
and the father resides in Wisconsin. They were the parents of the following 
children: James F., Green Ridge, Missouri; Agnes, married Merton Emery, West 
Bend, Wisconsin; Catherine, a trained nurse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Robert, a 
locomotive engineer on the Northern Pacific railway, resides at Tacoma, 
Washington; Frank, employed in the city treasurer's office at Seattle, 
Washington; Anna, the wife of Lieut. J. J. Clark, who is now in France with the 
National Army, and she resides at West Bend, Wisconsin, and W. H., the subject of 
this sketch. W. H. Hurley was reared in Wisconsin and attended the public schools. 
He also took a business course in the Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin. He began his business career in a lumber yard at Rich Hill, Missouri, 
where he remained two years, and in 1897 came to Clinton, where he was 
engaged in the lumber business for ten years. In 1907 he engaged in the grain 
business at Clinton, continuing in that business under his individual name until 
1916, when the W. H. Hurley Grain Company was incorporated and Mr. Hurley 
became its president. This company is one of the important commercial 
institutions of Clinton and Henry County. They have a large storage elevator in 
Clinton which is the headquarters of the company. They have an elevator at La 
Due also, and about twelve buying stations in various parts of the country. The 
main office of the company and elevator are located on Main, Grand and River 
streets in Clinton and they employ about eight men. Mr. Hurley was united in 
marriage October 8, 1897, to Miss Winifred L. McCarty of Rich Hill, Missouri. Four 
children have been born to this union as follow: Jessie, a student at Loretta 
College, Webster Groves, Missouri; Winifred, student in the Clinton High School; 
Robert, a student in Clinton High School, and Margaret, also a student in the 
Clinton schools. Mr. Hurley is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks and the Knights of Columbus. His political affiliations are with the 
Democratic party, but he is inclined to be independent in politics. He is one of 
Clinton's substantial and progressive business men, whose contribution to the 
commercial importance of the town is no small factor.

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