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W. S. PAUL, dealer in agricultural implements. He was born in Andrew county, Mo., Dec. 2, 1846. His father, Samuel Paul, was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1813. He now resides at Leavenworth, Kan. His mother, Elmina (Mitchell) Paul, was born July 4, 1820, in Indiana, and died in August, 1868, in Leavenworth. When subject was two years of age his parents moved to St. Joseph, Mo., and about seven years later to Kansas, locating near Ft. Leavenworth. He was raised on a farm and during his early years attended the common schools. At the age of sixteen he entered the Ohio State University at Athens, and pursued his studies until the end of the junior year. He then returned to Kansas and soon after engaged in freighting from Ft. Leavenworth to Sante Fe and Ft. Union, New Mexico, and continued two years; he then engaged with a government surveying party with which he remained nearly twelve years. He came to Joplin in 1875 and mined for a half decade. He embarked in his present business in 1880, with J. P. Newell, under firm name of Paul & Newell. In February, 1883, subject purchased his partner’s interest and has since conducted the business alone. Mr. Paul was married in Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 31, 1877, to Miss Julia, daughter of J. W. and Eliza (Stryker) English, of that city. Mrs. Paul was born in Jackson county, Ill., Aug. 2, 1854. They have two children, Clara Louisa, born Dec. 3, 1878, and Jennie May, born March 31, 1879. Mrs. Paul is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. P. is a Knight of Honor. His business is on corner of Main and Sixth streets, and he keeps a full line of agricultural implements, wagons, plows, harrows, planters, mills, etc.