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Submitted: 7/27/19 • Approved: 7/27/19 • Last Updated: 7/30/19 • R820259-G0-S3
Dr. Albert W Chenoweth, son of Henry S Chenoweth, was born in Chillcothe, Ohio on 15 October 1835.
Dr. Chenoweth was liberally educated in Circleville University, Ohio. Albert graduated from the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis in 1858, and from the St. Louis College in March, 1865. He gained a thorough knowledge of his profession, which he afterward practiced successfully. He came with his parents to Springfield, Missouri in 1851. They resided in Springfield for six years before moving to Newton County for 1 year before going on to Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri in 1858.
Dr. Albert Chenoweth married Thursey Harmon, daughter of Mark Harmon, on 17 January 1861. Thursey Harmon Chenoweth died on 9 February 1880, leaving six children: L. Curtis, Emma, Charles, Lillie, Albert and Stella.
On 9 January 1881, Dr. Chenoweth married Laura V. Yance, daughter of James E. Yance. To this union were born two children, Wallace and Henry.
Dr. Chenoweth was one of the most prominent and useful citizens of Pineville, always taking deep interest in anything that was for the public welfare. He was a devout Christian, an earnest temperance worker and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. For many years, he was a Mason.
Prior to the Civil War he was a Democrat in politics, but afterwards acted with the liberal Republicans. During the war, 1863-1865, he served in the Federal Army, as a surgeon of the Fourteen Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He served as County and Circuit Clerk for McDonald County, from 1866 to 1870. The county elected him to 13th General Assembly of Missouri in 1878.
His zeal for temperance cost him his life. A saloon-keeper, whose nefarious business had been injured by the aggressive warfare on the whiskey cause, which the Doctor took against the evil and for the good of humanity, brutally murdered him on 12 September 1883. Dr. Chenoweth was on his way home from his office, when from ambush he was shot from his buggy. The horse continued home, this alerting his family. The body was found by his son, Curtis, who ran down the road to see what had occurred. Garland A. Mann was arrested on the findings of the coroner's jury. In April, 1884, the trial of Garland A. Mann for the murder of Dr. Chenoweth was begun. In August, 1884, he was sentenced to be hanged on October 17. In October, A. M. Dillin was arrested as accessory in this murder. In May, 1885, the case, on remand from the Supreme Court, was brought before the Newton County Circuit Court. A jury was sworn, tried the case and reported on 4 June, to be hopelessly deadlocked. The fourth trial of Mann commenced on 3 August 1885 and continued until the 6th, when the enraged citizens, seeing that the murderer was about to escape the punishment he deserved through some technicality, organized a company, which went to the jail at Neosho, Missouri. At one o'clock in the morning, a group ten or twelve men entered the jail and demanded the keys from one of the guards, Sam H. Cotter. After it was decided that neither of the guards had the key, they burst in the door and then battered down the cell door. Seven or eight pistol shots were fired, then a shotgun was brought forward and fired twice. Dr. Lewis Wills and Dr. Lee Wills found six bullet wounds, any one of which was mortal. Witnesses reported from 100 to 150 men around the jail. Garland A. Mann was buried in an undisclosed grave which is still unknown today.
A. M. Dillin was tried tried and acquitted by a jury, for lack of evidence.
Dr. L. Curtis Chenoweth, the eldest of the family married America McNatt, and to this union was born a son and a daughter. Dr. Chinoweth practiced in Pineville and then moved to Joplin, Missouri, where he practiced for many years.
Emma Chenoweth married John A. Price on 15 December 1884. They had eight children.
Lillian married J. B. Robinson and they had two children.
Dr. Albert W. Chenoweth married Ethel Ball and this union was born one daughter, Mary Curtis. Dr. Albert spent most of his practice in Joplin.
Stella Chenoweth married Joe Pritchard and they had no children. They owned the Neosho Bottling Cold Drink Plant in Neosho, Missouri until his death.
Wallace Chenoweth married Genevera Suncan and to this union were born three daughters
and one son. Wallace had a stone in Wheaton, Missouri for years.
Henry Chenoweth married Minnie Jane Holt and two children were born.
(Text taken from Chenoweth Family History, compiled by A. Wilson Chenoweth, Goodspeed's McDonald County History, History of McDonald County, by Judge J. A. Sturges 1897.)
Contributed on 7/27/19 by tslundberg
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