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Submitted by: Clifford J OCHELTREE
Email address: mbcjo@cox.net
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Husband: Elmer Edgar Ellsworth McJIMSEY
Birthdate: 23 February 1862
Birthplace: Montgomery Co IN
Death date: 8 February 1943
Place of death: Greene Co MO
Father: Joseph McJIMSEY
Mother: Isabella BALES

Marriage date: 24 August 1901
Marriage place: Missouri

Wife: Caroline M "Carrie" WEBB
Birthdate: 5 September 1879
Birthplace: Missouri
Death date: August 1973
Place of death: Greene Co MO
Father: Herbert Nelson WEBB
Mother: Mary [?]
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CHILDREN
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Child No. 1: Mary Caroline McJIMSEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11 July 1903
Birthplace: Nodaway Co MO
Death date: June 1983
Place of death: Greene Co MO
Marriage date: @ 1926
Marriage place: Missouri
Spouse's name: Lawrence A FALLIN

Child No. 2: Josephine McJIMSEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: @ 1909
Birthplace: Greene Co MO
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: F. E. RIGGS

Child No. 3: Ralph McJIMSEY
Sex: M
Birthdate: 30 April 1911
Birthplace: Greene Co MO
Death date: June 1976
Place of death: Garland Co AR
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Roberta Mae JAENKE
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Documentation:
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Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri
ELMER E. E. McJimsey. Elmer E. E. McJimsey is the editor and owner of The
Springfield (Missouri) Republican. His brother
editors declare that to think of the city of Springfield or of the
beautiful Ozark country is to think in the same moment of Editor
McJimsey, so closely has the fame of the region and of the Missouri
journalist, politician and orator become interwoven.
Mr. McJimsey is not a native of the Ozark country, nor even of Missouri.
This information frequently surprises his most intimate friends. He was
born in the little Indiana town once known as Pleasant Hill, but now
called Wingate, in Montgomery county, February 23, 1862. His father,
Joseph McJimsey, a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, was a merchant of
Pleasant Hill before and during the Civil war and for some years
afterward. In 1875, however, the family came to Missouri, locating at
Maryville, Nodaway county, where Joseph McJimsey engaged in the livery
business, conducting this establishment for years. Joseph McJimsey died
at the age of eighty-two years in Chillicothe, Missouri, March 9, 1906.
His wife, nee Isabel Bales, was born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1837, and is now
a resident of Long Beach, California.
Elmer E. E. McJimsey was educated in the public schools of his native
town in Indiana and those of Maryville. He was from his
earliest boyhood a lover of horses, and at fourteen years of age rode as
a jockey with such success that he continued in this calling for two
years. At the age of sixteen he was made a full partner with his father
in the Maryville livery business, the first name becoming McJimsey & Son.
It was while pushing the interests of this business that the young man,
always a lover of books, began to show a fondness for
writing and later for public speaking.
Mr. McJimsey purchased in 1895 a half interest in the Maryville Tribune
and became at once its editor. Almost as soon as he had fully entered
upon his new duties he realized that he had found his life work, and
during the succeeding eight years the vigor of his writings making
possible in a short time the issuance of The Tribune as a daily instead
of a weekly newspaper attracted wide attention.
Mr. McJimsey was deeply interested in politics and scarcely did his
success as a journalist become assured when he also began to win fame on
the public platform. An enthusiastic believer in and supporter of the
principles of the Republican party, he defended that faith in state
campaigns and became one of a company of earnest young men who took for
their slogan, "Win Missouri for Republicanism." But he was not permitted
to confine his campaign efforts to his own state. Mr. McJimsey's fame as
speaker reached the national Republican headquarters in Washington and he
was called upon to visit the East and participate in the great battles
being waged there for the predominance of Republican principles. One of
his memorable oratorical efforts was when, the day of the death of
President McKinley, he spoke in a pouring rain to a great concourse of
people on the public square of his home town, Maryville, the address
being such a tribute to the martyred executive as stirred his hearers
profoundly.
Calls to more extensive fields came constantly to the Maryville editor as
his reputation grew, and in 1903 he disposed of his
holdings in the Maryville Tribune to his business associate, Curtis Wray,
and associated himself with Charles D. Morris in the
purchase of the St. Joseph (Missouri) Gazette. Mr. McJimsey became at
once editor-in-chief of this paper and soon the journal took front rank
with the best daily papers of the country. In 1906 Mr. McJimsey severed
his connection with the Gazette in order to enter a yet more promising
field. With John E. Swanger he bought The Springfield Missouri Republican
on March 1st of that year, and at once Mr. McJimsey assumed editorial and
managerial control. He has seen this paper grow to one of the influential
and valuable properties in the Middle West, and is not only its editor
now, but also principal owner and president of The Republican Company, as
well as a stockholder in the St. Joseph Gazette Company.
The Republican has wielded, from the moment Mr. McJimsey took up the
direction of its policies, a potent influence in the
development of Springfield and southwestern Missouri. The Republican has
stood firmly for public improvement in city and
country. The paper originated the good roads movement in southern
Missouri, and by persistent and wise effort built up an
enthusiasm for highway improvement which has resulted in that section
equalling other portions of the state in the extent and permanency of its
road building. The Republican set about making known to the world the
richness of the natural resources of the Ozarks, the salubrity of the
climate of that region, the beauty of the scenery and the charm of year
around life there. More than to any other factor, it is admitted far and
wide, the ensuing wonderful growth and development of this section of
country is due partly to The Republican's work of loyalty and love toward
this end.
Among the recognitions of his service which have come to Editor McJimsey
have been offers of posts of honor and of opportunity for yet additional
achievements for the public weal. Owing to the extent of his own business
affairs, not all of these responsibilities could be undertaken by Mr.
McJimsey. He accepted the supervisorship of the census in the fourth
Missouri district under President McKinley. He declined the appointment
to the consul-generalship of Peru, South America, offered him by
President Roosevelt. Mr. McJimsey was named by Governor Folk as a member
of the Missouri commission to the Portland Fair in 1905, and by Governor
Hadley as a member of the board of regents of the Springfield State
Normal for six years, beginning with 1909. After serving as president of
the board from 1911 to 1913, Mr. McJimsey was compelled to resign because
of other growing duties. He was appointed by President Taft as postmaster
of Springfield, April 11, 1910, and also as custodian of the Federal
building of that city, resigning both positions in January, 1914. He was
named to the Springfield library board by Mayor Ernst in 1910 resigning
in 1913, in which year he was appointed by Mayor Culler as a member of
the Springfield public park board and was made the first president of
that board, which was created by vote of the people largely as the result
of the tireless work of The Republican to inaugurate a park and boulevard
system in Springfield. Mr. McJimsey was a member of the Republican state
committee of Missouri for two terms, beginning with 1898, was chosen as
both temporary and permanent chairman of the Republican state convention
held at Jefferson City in 1902 and was president of the Young Men's
Republican Association of Missouri, 1911-12. He is a member of the
Masonic, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen and Elks fraternal orders. He
is a member of the Springfield Club and served as its president from 1909
to 1910, and belongs to the Country Club and the Springfield Club. His
family is Methodist in religious affiliations.
Mr. McJimsey was married at Maryville, August 24, 1901, to Caroline M.
Webb, daughter of H. N. Webb, at the time of his death editor of the
Unionville (Missouri) Republican, and at one time secretary of the
Republican state committee.