Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 5: July 1927
For more than twenty years he was a trustee of Will iam Jewel College, at Liberty, Missouri, and at the time of his death, was one of the oldest members of the Board of Regents of that institution, of. Which he was a generous benefactor. He was also one of the chief supporters of the Baptist Church of Westport, of which he and his fam ily were members, and he was also a contributor to some of the other churches in his Vicinity.
He was very active in helping to promote the develop ment of property adjacent to the magnificent farm region in which he lived, and he is credited with doing a great deal toward the introduction of Durham cattle. During the time of these developments he became heavily interested, and subsequently President of the Mastin Bank of Kansas City, which at that time had the reputation of being the largest banking house in the Missouri Valley. He was president of this institution for eight years. Politically Mr. Ward was a staunch Democrat, and he was a member of the Masonic order and also an Odd Fellow.
Mrs. Ward was a woman of domestic tastes and an earnest worker. Born of this marriage were three chil dren. The first was John Edmund, now deceased, who married Mary Octavia Jones. Their children are Seth E. And Robert Campbell, both residents of Lees Summit, Mis souri, and Helen, who is now the wife of David T. Beals, Vice-president of the inter-state National Bank, at Kan sas City. The second was Hugh Campbell (also deceased), who was a well known lawyer at Kansas City, who mar ried Vassie James, of Kansas City, and from which union there was born Hugh C., James C., and Frances, all living. A fourth child died in infancy.
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