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A. H. WAITE, cashier Miners Bank, Joplin, is a native of the Buckeye State, born in Licking county, Jan. 11, 1854. About the year 1864, the family came west, locating at Brownville, Neb., where the father engaged as a mechanic, and subject attended the city schools. After the death of his father young Waite moved with his mother and other members of the family upon a large tract of land situated near Brownville, which the father had purchased previous to his demise, and improved a fine farm. In the fall of 1870 he entered the Nebraska State Normal, at Peru, and attended several terms. He then returned to his home in Nemaha county, and shortly after engaged as teller and book-keeper in the State Bank of Nebraska, at Brownville, which position he held for two years. In October, 1877, he went to St. Joe, Mo., and accepted a position as book-keeper and collector for the Merchants’ Bank. He came to Joplin in April, 1880, and in July following accepted the position of cashier of the Miners Bank, and has since continued in that capacity. Mr. Waite is a member of the Presbyterian Church, also is connected with the order of Knights of Pythias. Although a young man, he possesses excellent business qualifications as is evident by his rapid promotion and the general esteem in which he is held by those with whom he is engaged, socially and otherwise.