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J. S. Pool, agent of the Pacific Express Company, was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1843. He came with his parents to Macon in 1858, and soon after came to Kirksville, where he filled various clerkships for several years before he engaged in the photographer’s business, in 1868 and 1869. There was an old hotel called the American House, which was a part of the first brick house built in Adair County. He bought this house in 1874, and gave it its present name, the Pool House. He still owns the house and its furnishings, and has made a large number of additions to it. He was proprietor of the same from the date of its purchase until 1886, and succeeded in making it one of the most popular hotels in Northern Missouri. Its rates have always been $2 a day. Mr. Pool was married in 1863 to Anna, a daughter of Michael G. Clem, one of Adair County’s old pioneers, who was reared in Adair County from boyhood, although a native of Ohio. Our subject is identified with the following orders: the K. of P., the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Nelson Pool, the father, is a native of New York, and, after many years of residence in Macon County has become a citizen of Minnesota. His family of four children are all living.