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Name: Charles A Buddy
Age in 1870: 13
Birth Year: abt 1857
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: St Joesph Ward 2, Buchanan, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Saint Joseph
- [S38] 1880 US Federal Census.
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- [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com).
Charles Allen Buddy
Birth: Nov. 1, 1856
Gettysburg
Adams County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Aug. 1, 1928
Saint Joseph
Buchanan County
Missouri, USA
From the book "Centennial History of Missouri (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921, Volume 3" by Walter B. Stevens, published 1921, p. 713-715
CHARLES A. BUDDY.
No history of the business development and substantial progress of St. Joseph would be complete without extended reference to Charles Allen Buddy, a most alert and energetic man, whose forcefulness and resourcefulness have not only been a source of most substantial success but also an element in the advancement of the city in which he has long resided.
Mr. Buddy was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland line and about five miles from the famous battlefield of Gettysburg, on the 1st of November, 1856, and when but a boy he visited the battlefield three days after the engagement. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Buddy, the former one of the pioneer general contractors ot northwestern Missouri. He built the old Kansas City shops and the old Buell Woolen Mills and contributed in large measure to the material development of the district in which he operated. Born in the United States, he is of English, French and German descent.
Charles A. Buddy was but a boy when his parents removed to Frederick City,
Maryland, where he attended St. John's Jesuit College. In the spring of 1867 the family removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they remained for a year. In 1868 they took passage on the river boat, City of Virginia, and thus made the trip from Cincinnati to St. Joseph, Missouri. Here Charles A. Buddy entered the Christian Brothers College and pursued the English-scientific-commercial course through a period of five years. His excellent training was broad in its scope and thorough and gave him a sound, comprehensive and liberal education. In 1873 Mr. Buddy was graduated with the first class after the college had been empowered to confer degrees and he was awarded a gold medal for his proficiency in higher mathematics. His education, however, did
not stop with the college course, but has continued with every day of a busy career, in which he has always found time after business hours to read and study and inform himself on the great questions of the day and become acquainted with the great masterpieces of literature.
After two years' spent as chief clerk with the old St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad Company, he engaged in the retail grocery business and in 1881 established a wholesale fruit and produce business at No. 108 North Second street, where for years success marked its growth and progress with each succeeding month. His activities in this connection alone would entitle him to representation with the most prominent and progressive business men of St. Joseph, but at different times he has been identified with various other concerns. He was at one time the president of the Malvern Fruit Company of Malvern, Iowa, and also of the St. Joseph Fruit Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. For several years he was the president and general manager of the St. Joseph Cooperage Company and the president of the Altoona-Portland Cement Company, with general offices at Kansas City, Missouri. At the present time he is a stockholder in the Muscatine-Burlington Railroad Company. In all things he has displayed sound judgment and keen sagacity and has readily discriminated between the essential and the non-essential in all business interests.
On the 4th of November, 1879, in St. Joseph's cathedral, Mr. Buddy was married to Miss Annie Elizabeth Farrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Farrell, Sr. She is a graduate ot the Sacred Heart convent at Twelfth and Messanie streets in St. Joseph and is the possessor of marked musical and literary talent. Her father and mother were natives of County Cavan, Ireland, and emigrated to this country, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of St. Joseph, where Mr. Farrell and his son engaged in the manufacture of carriages and buggies. It was in this city that Mrs. Buddy was born. By her marriage she has become the mother of seven children; Marie Josephine, Edward Phillip, Helen Margaret, Cecile Agnes, Lillian Ethel, Charles Francis and Eileen Claudia. The eldest daughter, Marie, was educated at the Sacred Heart convent at St. Joseph and in St. Mary's College and Academy at Notre Dame, Indiana. Five years after her graduation she entered as a religious of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame and received the name in religion of Sister Mary Loretto on the 6th of May, 1904. The oldest son, Edward Phillip, attended the Christian Brothers College at St. Joseph and St. Benedict's College at Atchison, Kansas, at which institution he received the Bachelor of Arts degree. He first engaged in the banking business as receiving teller and later as assistant cashier of the Burnes National Bank of St. Joseph. In September, 1906, he entered the St. Louis University and took a course in medicine. After being graduated from that institution he entered upon the practice of his profession in St. Louis and has been most successful in his chosen career, winning distinction, especially in the field of diagnosis and internal medicine. Another daughter, Cecile Agnes, was a pupil in the Sacred Heart convent at St. Joseph and later completed the college course in St. Mary's College at Notre Dame, Indiana. On the 4th of October, 1910, she was united in marriage to Dr. Louis Joseph Dandurant, F. A. C. S., a prominent and successful surgeon of St. Joseph. The second eldest son. Rev. Charles F. Buddy. Ph. D., S. T. L., is mentioned at length on another page of this work. Another daughter, Lillian Ethel, was educated at the Sacred Heart convent at St. Joseph and at St. Mary's College at Notre Dame. In September, 1917, she entered the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame, Indiana, and is known in religion as Sister Mary Magdalen. The other two children, Helen and Eileen, were like their sisters, educated at the Sacred Heart convent at St. Joseph and completed their studies at St. Mary's College at Notre Dame, Indiana. At present they live at the family home with their parents. The great interest ot Mr. Buddy's life has been the education of his children and he has given to them splendid advantages, believing that this was the highest legacy that he could bequeath to them.
Born of Catholic parentage, Charles A. Buddy first became associated with the St. Joseph cathedral and later with the Immaculate Conception parish, of which he is still a member. He is a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus and a charter member of St. Joseph's Council, No. 571. He has always taken an active interest and has held various local and state offices in that organization. He is a charter member and was the first chief ranger of the Catholic Order of Foresters of the Immaculate Conception parish. He likewise belongs to the Commerce Club of St. Joseph and in politics is a democrat who has always taken an active interest in the success of the party but has never aspired to nor allowed his name to be used for any political office. Throughout his career he has turned his advantages to excellent account. The wisdom, energy and success with which he has pushed his way along is a study for the American youth. He belongs to the little group of distinctively representative business men who have been the pioneers in inaugurating and building up the chief industries of this section of the state and he has garnered in the fullness of time a generous harvest which is the just recompense of indomitable industry, unswerving integrity and marvelous enterprise.
Family links:
Spouse:
Annie Elizabeth Farrell Buddy (1859 - 1936)
Children:
Eileen Claudia Buddy Redmond (1892 - 1975)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Saint Joseph
Buchanan County
Missouri, USA
Plot: St. Anne section, south half of #50, grave #2
Created by: L. Redmond
Record added: Aug 13, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57019831
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