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Dr. W. H. MEANS was born at Warsaw, Mo., in the year 1845. His parents, Mark L. and Mary E. (RITCHEY) MEANS, were Kentuckians, who came to Missouri in 1841, and located in Benton County, where he practiced law. He was prosecuting attorney of that county for some years prior to the war, and at the outbreaking of the Rebellion was land register for the Fifth District. He was also editor of the Southwestern Democrat for a number of years, and died in 1864. His son, W. H. Means, was educated in the common schools of Benton County, and then entered a drugstore, where he remained until 1866,
at which time he opened a branch drug store, at Marionville, the first one in the town, owned by N. P. MURPHEY & Co., of Springfield, and then he took a course of lectures at the St. Louis Medical College. He soon after began practicing his profession, at which he has been successfully engaged up to the present time. He was married in 1869 to Miss Sarah F. LOGAN, of Logan, Mo., and by her is the father of five living children: Emma, Glenn, Charley, Ella and Ida. Dr. Means is a Mason, and also belongs to the I.O.O.F. and A.O.U.W. He and wife are members of the Christian Church, and
he owns a one-half interest in the drug store of CANNADY & MEANS, besides the house and lot where he lives, and a good home in Warsaw, Mo.
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