OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 109 
A PATRIARCH OF THE CATTLE MART 
38. One of the real veterans of the livestock commission busi- 
ness is Monson PaRKER BUEL of the EvaANns-SNIDER-BUEL Co., 
of Chicago. Mr. BUEL was born at Croton, Licking Co., Ohio, 
October 14, 1845. He was educated in public schools and 
attended Granville College, Granville, Ohio, for one term. Mr. 
BUEL was reared on his father’s farm and for four years was a 
clerk in a general merchandise store at Croton. In 1865 he 
went west to California and Nevada where he was cashier in 
the National Bank at Austin, Nevada, for two and a half years. 
The confinement proved too much for him and his health was 
seriously affected. He therefore severed his connection with the 
bank and removed to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he engaged 
in the buying and handling of livestock. 
On May 1, 1876, he became a member of the livestock com- 
mission firm of Hunter, Evans & Co. at St. Louis, Mo., and 
nine years later removed to Chicago to continue the commis- 
sion game under the same firm name. Two years later the 
business was incorporated as the EvaNns-SNIDER-BUEL Co., and 
he was elected vice president of the corporation. In 1894 he 
was made president, and has retained that position ever 
since, a period of over a quarter century. Under his experi- 
enced direction, the firm has grown rapidly and now has offices 
in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Fort Worth and Oklahoma 
City. During his years in Chicago he has become identified 
with a number of firms throughout the southwest, engaging in 
buying and feeding cattle. Most of the stock handled has been 
secured in Texas, being fed in transit in feed lots throughout 
