The Tom Shepherd Family
Joplin, Missouri
302 Moffet Ave. - 412 North Moffet Ave. - 816 Richmond Road
1912 to 1920 1920 to 1969 1950 to 1957
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John Abbott Benham Snyder - Mabel Darlington Mitchell Snyder - Clara Olive Snyder Blaise Shepherd - Helen Louise Mitchell
Charles Maynard Shepherd - John Snyder Blaise de Shepherd - Thomas Mitchell Blaise de Shepherd
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John Abbott Benham Snyder and his wife Mabel Darlington Mitchell Snyder, natives of Ohio, Indiana and New York, and Ira Perkins of Galena founded the Galena Harrow Plow Factory at Galena, Kansas in 1909. The Snyders founded the
J.A. Snyder Bus Company at Joplin in 1914 , serving the Ozark communities
of Southwest Missouri, Northwest Arkansas and Southeast Kansas.
John and Mabel Snyder sired one daughter, Clara Olive, born February 16, 1906.
Helen Mitchell, younger sister of Mabel by 17 years, was reared as their daughter from the age of 12 following the death of their parents, Clara Swift Mitchell and Thomas Darlington Mitchell of Wellsville, N .Y. Mabel and Helen had one brother,
Harry Darlington Mitchell
In 1934, John and Mabel's daughter, Clara Olive, married Dudley Eugene Blaise, a mining engineer connectd with the Admiralty Zinc Company of Picher, Okla., of which his own father E.F. "Gene" Blaise was president, and El Cedro Silver Company of Guanajuato, Mexico, of which Dudley was president. Bill Stewart, son-in-law of Joplin attorney Roy Coyne, also had a partnership interest in El Cedro. Clara Olive and Dudley sired two sons, John (Dudley Jr.) in 1937 and Tom in 1938.
Following a 1949 divorce from Dudley on grounds that he deserted her and their two infant sons in early 1939, Clara Olive married Charles M. Shepherd, a native of England, who was a resident of New York City for many years, where he was affiliated with Cities Service Oil Co., prior to being appointed director and treasurer of Empire District Electric Co., which was for many years a subsidiary of Cities Service. Mr. Shepherd died of a possible suicide in May 1955,
during a business trip to New York City.
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412 North Moffet Avenue ~ Joplin, Missouri ~ 1`920 - 1969
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Mabel Mitchell Snyder, John Snyder.
Helen Mitchell, Clara Olive Snyder Shepherd
Helen Mitchell is Mabel's sister
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Clara Olive (Snyder) & Dudley Blaise own El Cedro Mining Co.
Guanajuato, Mexico Tour Interior Views of House
1937-38
Charles, John and Clara Olive
[Tom Shepherd is the photographer]
Spring River, Kansas
1952
Living Room Other views Library Floor Plan
816 Richmond Road - Joplin, Missouri
1950 - 1957
Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd
Vizcaya 1964
National Park Seminary
Forest Glen, Maryland
Joplin, Missouri
1953
founded by Tom Shepherd as a gift to humanity -- to all of those that desire
a non-competitive, classical, and creative learning environment
"the pen is mightier than the sword"
The Blaise Family
The Joplin-Carthage Times
Gateway to the Ozarks
The Lead & Zinc Mining Capital
pictorial history
Tom Shepherd Center for Sane Living
The Ozark Center for Autism
a special school providing specialized education
Joplin, Missouri