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. - the pen is mightier than the sword  ~  violence breeds violence - violent people are weak people - only the calm and gentle are truly strong words of wisdom from The Shepherd Center for Sane Living .

Hon. John Abbott Benham Snyder - 1876 -1931 Missouri Bus Line Founder - Plow Manufacturer - Scottish Rite Mason Biography of J. A. Snyder     Rotary Club Tribute to John Snyder .

A Tribute to First Lady Clara Olive Shepherd      A Tribute to Lady Veroa Goodwin Actor Tom Blaise de Shepherd        Justice Bayard Taylor Hainer      The Egalitarian Times Man Seeks $50 Million From City of Joplin       Milestones in Missouri History .

John Shepherd Obituary          Tom Shepherd Architecture         Blaise Estate $1.8 Million A Special Tribute to Clara Olive Shepherd       Notable Hungarian-Americans .

Biographical Sketch of Educator Thomas Mitchell Shepherd Biography of Joplin Finance Wizard Joseph Newman +  Son of Helen and Sol Newman  + Spouse of Sara Van Fleet George A. Spiva ~ Spiva Arts Center Charles Maynard Shepherd Empire District Electric Company Director & Treasurer Shepherds Entertain Women of Empire District - 1950 Garden Party Mabel Darlington Mitchell Snyder Memorial Clara Olive Snyder Shepherd (1906 - 1976)  Civic Leader National Park Seminary - Forest Glen - Class of '26 .

V View of Joplin's Main Street 1945 .

Joplin Altar Boy Abducted

In Memorium Captain John Snyder Blaise Shepherd [Private Dudley E. Blaise Jr.] 1937 -2002 click here .

Joplin's Good Ole Days: memoirs of a native son .

Supreme Court Justice Bayard Taylor Hainer biography here    more bio here .

Editorial The Artifiicial Man: Existentialism, Schizophrenia & Psychiatry by Thomas Blaise Shepherd .

Tom Blaise de Shepherd, Architectural Craftsman

The Shepherd Chronicle of Psychiatry & Veteran Affairs How the Veteran's Administration short changes veterans Issues in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD Published by Thomas M. Shepherd Featuring Day Dreams, Lost Dreams: A Long Day's Journey into Schizophrenia, the autobiography of Tom Blaise Shepherd, an inquisitive, creative child, who was abandoned by his father, neglected by his well-connected paternal grandfather, and grew up witnessing his gifted brother being stabbed in the head and tortured by other children Read Online

The Blaise Family

Congressman Eugene Jerome Hainer (1851 - 1929) Born in Hungary. Son of University of Missouri Professor Ignace Hainer Educated at Simpson College and Iowa State College. Elected to Congress in 1893 Congressional Biography      Personal Biography .

Thomas Hart Benton Gallery Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889. Like is father, a Missouri senator, he claimed to detest the rich and powerful and viewed himself as a champion of the common people. A world-celebrated artist, his paintings reflect his spirit. He died at his Victorian studio-home in Kansas City in 1975. Enter

Professor Ignace Hainer (1818-1900) Biographical Sketch of a Missouri Abolitionist Ignace Hainer, an Hungarian emigre to America, was a military officer, lawyer and journalist. He served meritoriously in the Hungarian War of Independence in 1848, and was resultantly imprisoned by the Austrians. Among the reforms Mr. Hainer achieved as secretry to the premier of Hungary were freedom of the press and the freeing of the serfs. Following his exile to America, he was appointed a delegate to the National Convention and a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri. At the beginning of the Civil War, Professor Hainer lost his professorship because of his belief in democracy and in the abolition of slavery.  He removed his family to Iowa, where his son Julius Hainer beame a professor of physics at Iowa State College. His son Eugene attended Simpson College and Iowa State College and was elected to Congress. His son Bayard Taylor Hainer was appointed by President McKinley to serve as Associate Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory in 1898 Chief Counsel to Federal Trade Commission - Coolidge & Harding Administrations read more  Milestones in Missouri History biography To read 1887 biography of Ignace Hainer  click here   or here Hon. Ignace Hainer Biography Hungarian Americans .

Botanist-Chemist-Inventor George Washington Carver (1864-1943) Born in Diamond, Missouri - Educated in Iowa at Simpson College and Iowa State College The George Washington Carver Memorial was established at Diamond in 1960. The Memorial was the first in America to honor a Negro American. Biography of Carver .

James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ~ American Poet Born in Joplin, Missouri   Langston Hughes Biography

Club Woman Rebekah Blair Hughes (1917-2004) Daughter of Joplin Globe Publisher Clay Cowgill Blair Descendant of Missouri Confederate Governor Clayborne Fox Jackson more biography Milestones in Missouri History   more biography .

Independent Nordic Episcopal Church Online The Shepherd - Widmark Life Center

Elizabeth Wise Blair, Educator-Parent Born: Jan. 2, 1903 Joplin, Missouri - Died: Jan. 21, 2003 Hampton, Virginia Known throughout her life as Betty Belle   Pupil at Our Lady of Mercy Convent - Valedictorian of Joplin High School Graduate of Smith College, Northampton, Mass. - Journalist - Teacher - Parent Daughter of Jean Scott Gregg Wise and Delmar Clark Wise Wife of Joplin Globe Manager Charles A. Blair- ~  Mother of Jean Gregg Blair Bowerman ~ To read State of Virgnia  obituary click here.

Humanitarian Barry M. Goldwater Jr. .

Mabel Darlington Mitchell Snyder                                               Century Club - Rotary Ann - Homemaker                                                                     1880 - 1962         Mabel Darlington Mitchell Snyder was born in Wellsville, New York August 28, 1880. She was the daughter of Clara Swift Mitchell and Thomas Darlington Mitchell. She was a granddaughter of Rachel Ormerod Swift and James Swift, Caudersport, Pennsylvania and a niece of Judge John Ormerod, Caudersport.        She attended Salem College in Salem, West Virginia.        In 1905 she married John Abbott Snyder, the son of Andrew Griffin Snyder and Olive Merriman Snyder, in an Methodist-Episcopal ring ceremony at the Mitchell home in Piqua, Ohio.              Prior to her marriage, she taught piano and worked at the Piqua Savings & Loan Bank in Piqua, which was owned by the Snyder family.          She was a member of Women of Rotary, the Joplin Century Club, the Joplin Woman's Club and the First Presbyterian Church.          She helped to rear her two grandsons, John and Tom, who were abandoned by their father. Her closest and most loyal friends in her later years included Elizabeth (Bess) Dolan, Minnie Playter, Alma Martin and Virginia Quisenberry.          She died at the age of 82, following a stroke.          She was survived by her sister, Helen L. Mitchell (Monterey, California), her daughter, Clara Olive Snyder Shepherd, and her two grandsons, John Shepherd and Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd. Her brother Harry Mitchell preceeded her in death.           She was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Clara Olive Snyder Blaise Shepherd  ~  1906-1976                       Civic Leader ~ Musical Producer  ~ Director      Clara Olive Snyder Shepherd was born in Piqua, Ohio February 16, 1906. She was the daughter of Mabel Mitchell Snyder and John Abbott Snyder. The famlily moved to Galena, Kansas in 1909 and to Joplin in 1912.        Clara Olive Shepherd was a victim of gross negligence by an orthopedic surgeon who operated on her at St. John's Hospital in 1962 to replace an arthritic hip, yet left her without any hip. She was also a victim of gross negligence by three politically ambitious Joplin attorneys, to include Edward Farmer, Lloyd Roberts and Jack Fleischaker, who failed to properly represent her interests in a $25,000 malpractice lawsuit.  Unable to return to work, she received an out-of-court settlement of $400 and resultantly lost her home. . . Spencer, Scott & Dwyer was general counsel for St. John's Hospital.   learn more                                                                         .

John Abbott Snyder                                                         Missouri Bus Line Founder                                                                       1876 -1931       John Abbott Snyder founded the Snyder Transportation Company in 1914. Beginning with a bus line connecting Joplin, Missouri  with Fort Smith, Arkansas, the company gradually expanded to serve a large segment of the Missouri Ozarks. The company  was purchased in 1931 by Charles and Clyde Brown, owners of the Crown Coach Company. . . more.

Charles Maynard Shepherd                                    Empire Distrist Electric Company                                                                         1895 - 1955

Eugene Frank Blaise                                                            Oil Man - Banker - Miner                                                                      1878 - 1958        Eugene Frank Blaise was born November 21, 1878 at Memphis, Tennessee. He was the son of Ada Hainer Blaise and John Theodore Blaise, a Memphis furniture merchant.         Blaise was the grandson of Hungarian Statesman Ignace Hainer, who was appointed a University of Missouri professor of modern languages following his exile to America in 1854. He was a nephew of Congressman Eugene Hainer and of Judge Bayard T. Hainer.              As a young man, Blaise was superintendent of the Koken Iron Works at St. Louis.       When his uncle Bayard T. Hainer was appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory in 1898, Blaise relocated to Perry, Oklahoma, where he worked as a court reporter for the Fourth District Court. He began wildcatting for oil with jurist Charles J. Wrightsman in his spare time.          Blaise and Wrightsman became associated with  Harry Sinclair and William Connelly in a partnership called The Chaser Oil Company. In 1908 the four men purchased Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa, of which Blaise was selected to be president until it was reorganized as the Exchange National Bank in 1910, when Sinclair became president. The bank is today known as the Bank of Oklahoma.        In 1914 Blaise and F. Martin Aiken founded the Inland Refining Company and the United Producers Pipeline Company of Fort Worth, Texas, building the first pipeline from the heart of the Rangers oil field to their refinery at Fort Worth. In 1928 Blaise succeeded Aiken as president of the Admiralty Zinc Company at Picher, Oklahoma. Blaise was also vice president of the Inland Refining Company at Drumright, Oklahoma.        Blaise was associated with his son, Dudley Blaise, in the operation of the El Cedro Mining Company at Guanajuato, Mexico during the 1930s. At the time of his retirement, he was chairman and  president of the Cushing Refining and Gasoline Company, which was purchased by Mid-Continent Oil Company, then reorganized as Sunray DX, then as Sun Oil Company.        Blaise was married twice. He married Greek Miller, daughter of Col. George W. Miller in 1905, by whom he sired one son, Dudley E. Blaise. He married Marie Howard in 1924.        He was a member of the Tulsa Club, Trinity Episcopal Church and the Masonic Temple. He died at his home, The Sophian Plaza, 1500 South Frisco Ave., Tulsa, October 12, 1958.        Blaise was survived by his widow, Marie, who died in 1976 at Houston, Texas, and his grandsons, John Snyder Blaise Shepherd and Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd.

Cushing Refining & Gasoline Company Cushing, Oklahoma "producers of America's first chemically safe unleaded gasoline, since 1936" E. F. Blaise, President Cushing's "Missouri Road Map" - a collector's item .

John Snyder Blaise Shepherd  1937 ~ 2002                           Radio Newscaster - Counselor - Lifeguard                                   John Snyder Blaise Shepherd was born on October 3, 1937 at the American Hospital in Mexico City.        He was the son of Clara Olive Snyder Blaise and Dudley Eugene Blaise, who were then residents of Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico, where they owned and operated El Cedro Mining Company. Following a Mexican nationalist upheaval in 1938, El Cedro was liquidated.        He was a grandson of John Abbott Snyder, Joplin bus line owner, and of Eugene Frank Blaise, Tulsa banker, oil man and miner.        Mr. Shepherd was o a great great grandson of General Ignace Hainer, lawyer, journalist and secretary to Hungarian Premier Lajos Batthyani in 1848, who was later appointed a  professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri.  He was a great great nephew of Bayard Hainer, Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court Justice, and of U. S. Congressman Eugene Hainer (Republican, Nebraska).         Mr. Shepherd was reared in the home of his maternal grandmother, Mrs. John (Mabel Mitchell) Snyder, 412 North Moffet Ave. in Joplin, and in the home of his mother and stepfather, Charles M. Shepherd, 816 Richmond Road, Joplin.         He was baptized at the First Presbyterian Church in Joplin, where he served as assistant scout master during his youth. He also served as an altar boy and member of the Young Peoples Service League at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.         He attended Columbia elementary school and in 1955 he was graduated from Joplin Senior High, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, editor of the Spyglass and a captain in the ROTC.        During the summertime he was employed as a counselor at Boy Scout Camp Ni-Ka-Ga-Ha, where he taught canoeing and archery. He was also employed as a counselor at a dude ranch in Michigan. During high school he worked part time as a photographer for Tom Korn Studio.        An expert archer, he placed second in a regional archery tournament in Southwest Missouri when he was 18 years old.         He attended Missouri Southern College, Kansas State College in Pittsburgh, Southwest Misssouri State College and the University of Oklahoma, from where he awarded a B.S. degree in business administration.             He was employed as a lifeguard by Southwest Missouri State College, as a counselor and an accountant by the University of Oklahoma and as a newscaster by a Springfield radio station.        He served with the U.S. Army at Fort Bliss, Texas from 1962 tp 1964/        Mr. Shepherd was operated for a brain tumor at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa and at the Mayo Clinic in 1966.  He disappeared from Norman, Oklahoma in 1973 and had not been seen since by any family member. He was admitted to Cox Medical Center on March 22, 2002, following a brain seizure. He died there on April 2, 2002, of another brain seizure, complicated by multiple brain abscesses and pneumonia. His ashes reportedly were placed at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Springfield.                 He  was a stepson of Charles Maynard Shepherd, director and treasurer of the Empire District Electric Company, whom his mother married in 1949 and who died in 1955.        He is survived by a brother, Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd.

In Memoriam Mary Aspoas Watson Beverly Bass Etelka Barthos-Hainer Emil & Joyce Baxter Jack & Carolyn Bartlett Margaret Barton Margaret & Charles Benham Thomas Hart Benton Van Lear Black III Helen Mitchell Black Betty Belle Blair Carolyn & Cowgill  Blair Jr. Charles A. Blair Carol Bormaster Cindy and Missy Hayes Fred & Rebekah Blair-Hughes Eugene Frank Blaise Ada Hainer Blaise Dudley E. Blaise Jr. a/k/a John Snyder Shepherd Frank, Paul & Carl Childress Ray & Suzanne [Childress] Sharp Lisa Commager Georgia Marshall Cragin Clara Frampton Crary Jane Cunningham Charles Strout Davis Grace Johnson Davis David & Marty Doane Marjorie Frampton Dobbs Elizabeth (Bess) Dolan Louise Dutcher Samuel Candler Dobbs III Peggy Eden Nancy Ettinger Xandra Faust Michael Goldberg Albert & Veroa Goodwin Neville Sue Graham Hon. Bayard Taylor Hainer Professor Ignace Hainer Congressmn Eugene Hainer Cora and Rhetia Hesselberg Samuel Knox Hillhouse Langston Hughes Carolyn Johnson rev. E. Weldon Keckley Shirley Coombs & Bill Lee Mike Levinson Congressman Joe Manlove Judy McCrea Helen Mitchell Ann Nathan Steele Ruby Garrison Nathan Alma Martin Lois Morgan Albert Newman Jr. Elsa & John Newman Judy Newman Sol & Helen Newman Toody Osterloh Aiton Clarence and Minnie Playter Winfred &  Elizabeth Post Eleanor Post Helen and Nell Redding Rev. Robert Stone Virginia Quisenberry John Abbott Snyder Clara Olive Snyder Shepherd John Snyder Blaise Shepherd Mabel Mitchell Snyder Olive Merriman Snyder Edward F. Stegen Clara Swift Mitchell Thomas Darlington Mitchell Susan Smith Ditty Von Till                St. Philip's          Episcopal  Church   Young PeoplesService League                  1952-56 Thomas Mitchell.Blaise Shepherd                  President members: Jean Gregg Blair-Bowerman Wm. F. T. "Tom" Burch Jr. Sally Burress Vicki Butterfield-Staley Robert Breckenridge Caldwell III Martin Casey William (Bill) Curl Norman Curl   Judy Harvey Dee Foulke-Meyer Anne Friedheim Steven Friedheim Ralph & Mark Henderson Amy Hobart Jack Kennedy Arthur Kingsbury Judy Legg-Goswick Saundra Marx Terry Mills Lynn Sarah Newcomb* John Snyder Blaise Shepherd Dean and Neal Tuggle Robert Clark Wallace Tom Shepherd Architecture Thomas M. Shepherd Publisher

Photo Album, Scrapbook Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd's 12th birthday party Shepherd home:  816 Richmond Road (1950) Back row from left to right: Jim Dailey, Bob Thornhill, Breck Caldwell, Virgil Jeans Jr., Bill Thurston, Ross Roberts, Bill Wieda, Bill Christman. Front row: Paul Kingsborough, Clark Wallace, Tom Shepherd and Terry Lee Mills. Charles M. Shepherd, John Snyder Shepherd  and Clara Olive Shepherd (1952)  Spring River, Kansas Blaise family: Dudley Blaise Sr., E. F. Blaise, Clara Olive and Marie (1938) The Gardens of Xochimilco, Mexico, D. F. Brothers John (holding rifle) and Tom, circa 1944; World War II uniforms were hand-me-downs from Tom and Keith Nolan. Snyder family: Clara Olive Snyder Blaise, Tommy, Mabel Snyder (1945) Tom Shepherd and Lynn Newcomb, Christmas 1953 Xandra Faust (1931-2011) a friend Tom Shepherd's Architecture The Shepherd Home, 816 Richmond Road, Joplin  -  1950

The Conscience of an Existentialist by Tom Blaise de Shepherd  read online

The Shepherds of the World Nordic Nation Tom & His Wife               Clara Olive

Native Missourian ~   Artist Lynn Newcomb   ~   Vermont Resident Education: Mount Holyoke College - Class of 1960 - Boston Museum School of Art New England Designer - Metal Sculptor - Mt. Holyoak Swimming Performer - Madenoiselle Cover Girl Lynn Newcomb's Forged Steel Sculpture Exhibit       Lynn Newcomb - 1953 - age 14 - Missouri .

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The Tom Blaise Shepherd Memorial Library Joplin, Missouri entrance to memorial  library     tom blaise shepherd gallery tom shepherd architecture exhibit