Biographical Sketch of William O. Bartholomew, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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William O. Bartholomew, miller, and who is also engaged in the loan
business, is a native of Scotland, and was born at Inverkeithing, 
Fifeshire, June 14, 1860, being the son of Robert and Mina O. (Suther-
land) Bartholomew.  The father was a physician and surgeon in the old
Edinburgh School of Medicine, and a F. R. C. S. E.  He had a large
practice, and spent about forty years in professional work at Inver-
keithing.  His son, William O., received a liberal training in the
schools of his home, and at the age of fourteen he became an appren-
ticed clerk in a wholesale warehousing and grocery trade, completing
a thorough apprenticeship at it.  He held afterward, with this firm
(Traill & Fletcher), a traveling position for three years.  Leaving
this business and his native land in 1881, he journeyed to British
Guiana, where he was engaged in the raising and manufacture of sugar,
which he prosecuted actively for fourteen months, abandoning it re-
luctently in consequence of ill health, and returned to his native
heath, whence, after spending a few months with his old firm (Traill
& Fletcher), he again departed, this time for America, and landed in
New York.  He then started out immediately for Kansas City, MO., and
spent some time in traveling from that point through Kansas, Texas and
the Indian Territory, finally selecting as a location Texas County, MO.
in the early part of 1883.  Here he engaged in the hog breeding, which
he followed for about a year, and then embarked in the saw-mill busi-
ness, with which he has been identified ever since, in the meantime
adding loan business, representing Eastern capital.  He was married,
in Texas County, to Miss Norma Kendall, daughter of Nathaniel Kendall,
of White Hall, Ill.  Mr. Bartholomew is a member of the Ancient Order
of the Scottish Clans, and in affiliation with Clan McGregor, of 
Springfield, MO.  He is a notary public of Cabool, through the comm-
ision of Gov. Morehouse.

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