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MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVI EW, CONTENTS Missourians Abroad—Daniel Cowen Jacklin Grace L. Gilmore Jayhnwkers in Missouri, 1858-1863 Hildegarde R. Herklotz A Century of Missouri Music Ernst C. Krohn The New Journalism in Missouri Walter B. Stevens The Followers of Duden William G. Bek Shelby's Expedition to Mexico John N. Edwards Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri Wiley Britton Historical Notes and Comments Historical Articles in Missouri Newspapers STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of MISSOURI April, 1923 THE MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Vol. XVII April, 1923 No. 3 CONTENTS. Missourians Abroad—Daniel Cowen Jackling , 257 GBACE L. GILMORE Jayhawkers in Missouri, 1858-1863 266 HlLDEGARDE It. HERKLOTZ A Century of Missouri Music 285 ERNST C. KBOHN The New Journalism in Missouri 321 WALTER B. STEVENS The Followers of Duden 331 WILLIAM G. BEE Shelby's Expedition to Mexico 348 JOHN N. EDWARDS Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri 358 WILEY BRITTON Historical Notes and Comments 376 Historical Articles in Missouri Newspapers 405 FLOYD C. SHOEMAKER, Editor The Missouri Historical Review is published quarterly. The subscription price is $1.00 a year. A complete set of the REVIEW is still obtainable—Vols. 1-16, bound, $65.00; unbound, $32.00. Prices of separate volumes given on request. All communications should be addressed to Floyd C. Shoemaker, Secretary, The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. "Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, Missouri, under act of Congress, Oct. 3, 1917, Sec. 44%-" CONTRIBUTORS Miss GRACE L. GILMORE has been employed in The State Historical Society since June, 1922. She received her degree of A. B. from the State University of Iowa, having specialized in history. Miss Gilmore contributed in the final compilation of the Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of the State of Missouri (1820-1864, 3 vols.), recently published by The State Historical Society. Miss HILDEGARDE ROSE HERKLOTZ received her A. B. (1921) and M. A. (1922) from Washington University. She was awarded an undergraduate scholarship in that institution in 1918 in recognition of her work in the Cleve land (St. Louis) high school. In her academic studies she majored in history and is today teaching history in the Collinsville (111.) high school. Her home is in St. Louis. ERNST C. KROHN, pianist and composer, was born in New York City but has been a resident of St. Louis since 1899. He was secretary of the Musicians' Guild of St. Louis for seven years and was also a member of the International Music Society, Music Teachers' National Association, and the Missouri Music Teachers' Association. He has composed many piano pieces and has con tributed articles on piano study to the Etude and the Musician. His mono graphic study of "The Bibliography of Music" appeared in The Musical Quar terly. WALTER B. STEVENS, author and journalist, is the most popular historical writer in Missouri. Mr. Stevens has over a score of books to his credit and in 1921 published a Centennial History of Missouri. He has held several im portant public positions, including the secretaryship of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. He is president of The State Historical Society. His home is in St. Louis. WILLIAM G. BEK, a native Missourian, is head of the department of Ger manic languages in the University of North Dakota. His contributions, brochures, and translations relating to German settlements in the United States, place him among the highest authorities in this line of historical research. His translation of "Duden's Report," lately published in the Review, is regarded by scholars as one of the most important contributions to western history that has appeared in recent years. JOHN N. EDWARDS (deceased), one of the most widely known journalists of Missouri, was a member of Shelby's expedition to Mexico. He is regarded by some competent authorities as having been the greatest master of journalistic writing that the State has produced. WILEY BRITTON, author, public official, and Civil War veteran, is a native Missourian. Born in Newton county in 1842, he has spent much of his life in western and southwestern Missouri. From 1871 to 1905 he was special agent of the War Department and later special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions in investigating war claims in Missouri, where he examined fifteen thousand witnesses. Mr. Britton is the author of several valuable works on the Civil War, among which are The Civil War on the Border (2 vols.) and Memoirs of the Rebellion, 1863. (256) MISSOURIANS ABROAD—NO. 12 DANIEL COWEN JACKLING BY GRACE L. GILMORE "Work, work, more work. That's the formula. For ten years I averaged fifteen hours a day. I've worked steadily, persistently, ever since I was old enough to know what work was. And this is my definition of work: To repeat mechanic ally the same task is not work; that is labor. The work I mean, is continuous, purposeful, constructive effort, followed by accomplishment. If you leave the engine of your auto mobile running while it stands at the curb, the motor burns fuel and oil, goes through all the motions, and in time will wear itself out; but the car performs no work. Thousands of men are running the car of their life with the throttle wide open, without noticing that the wheels are spinning deeper and deeper into the sand. Effort alone won't do it. It must be definite, constructive effort; it must be continuous, and it must produce results. Whenever I found that my best efforts failed to produce the expected results, I chose another road and went at it again until I got there."—D. C. Jackling. Daniel Cowen Jackling was left an orphan before he was two years old. At twenty, he began to work his way through college. At forty Mr. Jackling was a millionaire and work was his motto. Genius, a handsome name frequently given to hard working men after they have finished a tough job, is the name that has been given to Mr. Jackling, and it is one which he justly deserves since his amazing achievements in the copper industry. Sixteen years ago several mines in the Oquirrh Moun tains in Utah were abandoned. They had been worked for twenty-five years and gold, silver and lead could no longer be had in paying quantities. It was well known that these mines contained enormous quantities of copper ore, but it was of such low grade that it would not repay the cost of mining. (257) 258 MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW. D. C. Jackling, who had been an engineer in one of these mines, had studied this low-grade ore. Men that knew some thing about the mines laughed at him for wasting his time on ore in which only two parts in a hundred were worth anything. But when the mines closed down, Mr. Jackling raised a little capital, went East and interested capitalists in New York and Boston. Then he went back to the mines, bought the old equipment at a low price and the Utah Copper Company started operations. In 1917, this company with Jackling at its head, produced the greatest copper tonnage of any mine in the world. It has, from the beginning, paid handsome profits on perhaps the lowest grade ore ever carried to a smelter. It handles every day a far greater tonnage of raw materials, minerals and metal than any other mine in operation. In 1916, six tons of explosives were used every day, shattering fifty thousand tons of surface waste and porphyry ore. At the smelter, the results were 200 ounces of gold, 2,000 ounces of silver and 400,000 pounds of copper every day, an aggregate value of $75,000. That was the daily average for a year. Jackling's father and mother lived in Bates county, Missouri, before there were any railroads west of St. Louis. The father, Daniel Jackling, was born in England in 1822. He came to the United States while a young man and was naturalized in this country. Following the rush of settlers in the early fifties he was engaged in a small way in the ship ping business of the Pacific. Later, he moved to Bates county, Missouri, and engaged in the trading and forwarding business, on the Santa Fe trail at the old town of Hudson, near what is now Appleton City. Here Daniel Cowen Jackling was born August 14, 1869. Jackling's father died in December, 1869, and his mother died before he was two years old. His mother's sister, Abigail Duhn, with whom he was taken to live, married and they lived on a farm during all the early part of Jackling's life. Young Jackling's first ambition was to be a school teacher. When he was eighteen, he was working as a farm hand for a salary of fifteen dollars a month. The district school teacher at the time was making thirty dollars a month. M -v>Jl^H I 1 ^%;*.\.v' ffi^^^^^^^^H 1 DANIEL COWAN JACKLING MISSOURIANS ABROAD—NO. 12. 259 This looked like a big salary to Jackling. He decided to be come a teacher in order to save money to buy land, and at tended the normal school at Warrensburg, Missouri, the next winter with this definite purpose in mind. During his first winter at the W7arrensburg normal school, the district teacher left his school, and went to St. Joseph to clerk in a hardware store with a salary of $75 a month. Jack ling heard of this and immediately changed his plans. He decided that if he could become a country school teacher, he might also become a clerk and make $75 a month.