. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. o is thesjiecial agent of the Missouri Mutual Insur-ance Com])anics: Henry I., of this review;Louise, the wife of William Graf, of Cin-cinnati, Ohio; .na. who is living in Indian-apolis: Rosa, now the wife of Jojm Munich,of Cincinnati: William, whose home is inIndianapolis: and lunest H., the generalagent and assistant adjuster of the MutualInsurance Companies. Henry F. Stapel may truly be calletl aself-made man. He is tlie architect of hisown fortune and has l)uilded wisely and on
. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. o is thesjiecial agent of the Missouri Mutual Insur-ance Com])anics: Henry I., of this review;Louise, the wife of William Graf, of Cin-cinnati, Ohio; .na. who is living in Indian-apolis: Rosa, now the wife of Jojm Munich,of Cincinnati: William, whose home is inIndianapolis: and lunest H., the generalagent and assistant adjuster of the MutualInsurance Companies. Henry F. Stapel may truly be calletl aself-made man. He is tlie architect of hisown fortune and has l)uilded wisely and only fourteen years of age lie starteilout in life to provide for his own mainte-nance, and, leaving home, made his way toWest Lnit^n, Iowa, where he worked on afarm and at herding cattle, receiving four-teen ilollars per month in compensation forhis .services. In i^73 he removed to .\tclii-son county, Missouri, where he entered theservice of William Hunter, who ])aiil himat first fifteen dollars per mouth, later in-creasing liis salary to eighteen dollars permonth. He was empl()ycd in that way for. MR. AND MRS. H. F. STAPEL. Aslor, Lenox and TJden jFoundations, BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 557 a lialf year, wlien, actuated with a desire toobtain a better education than he thenpossessed and thereby gain a hveliliood byother than manual labor, he entereil theState Normal School, at Peru, Nebraska, inthat year—1875. ^s capital was not suffi-cient to meet the expenses of an uninter-rupted course in that institution, but hejiossessed a strong determination and be-lieved that a way would be open wherebyhe might earn the amount necessary to de-fray his expenses. He spent three Yearsin the normal school and was graduated inthe class of 1878. He then came to Rock-port, making the journey on fo(>t. and onreaching his destination he had but threecents in his pocket. During the summer oftliat year he worked in the harvest fieldsand in the autumn he began teaching school,a profession which he
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