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William C. Devol is a son of Hiram and Matilda (Anderson) Devol, natives, respectively, of Morgan County, Ohio, and Missouri. Hiram Devol was a fanning-mill manufacturer by trade and came to Crawford County, Mo., in 1835; he also carried on farming, and died in 1849. Mrs. Matilda Devol afterward married David E. Dunlap, and is still living at the age of sixty-six years. Both parents were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. William C. was born four miles south of Steelville, December 12, 1846, was reared on a farm and received a common-school education. Having farmed and clerked until 1872 he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued twelve years. He has been a very active business man, having now been in business in Steelville for the past fifteen years, and is accounted one of its most successful financiers. He is a director in the Bank of Steelville, and in the Cuba & Steelville Telephone Company, being president of the Riverside Roller Milling Company. He is also interested in the Lead Mountain Mining Company. In early life he was deputy sheriff and deputy collector some five years. In 1876 Mr. Devol married Mary B. Ellis, a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio. They have three children, Alpha P., William A. and Daphna. Mr. and Mrs. Devol are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Politically, he is a Democrat.