The Missouri State Board of Agriculture. 



NEW MEMBERS AND OFFICERS. 



In the forty-fourth annual report of this Board brief sketches 

 of the corporate and ex officio members and of the various offi- 

 cers and employes were given. Last year sketches of the new 

 members of the Board were published. Following that plan 

 and in order that the people may know more of those who 

 serve them as members or officers of the Board, something con- 

 cerning the new members, officers and employes is given this 

 year. 



Jewell Mayes (Democrat), Secretary of the Missouri State 

 Board of Agriculture. — Born on February 15, 1873, at the 

 Mayes farm near Knoxville, Ray county, Missouri, son of Wiley 



Mayes, Jr., and 

 Sina Stephenson 

 Mayes. His grand- 

 father, Wiley 

 Mayes, Sr., came 

 from Tennessee 

 and settled in 

 Knoxville town- 

 ship in 1829. His 

 mother's people 

 came from Ken- 

 tucky to Clay 

 county in 1815. 

 His father died in 

 1880, and the 

 widow lives with 

 the subject of this 

 sketch, her only 

 son. On August 

 10, 1904, he mar- 

 ried Miss Edith 

 Frances Martin, 

 daughter of John 

 and Stella Mar- 



JEWELL MAYES, Secretary. 



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