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Frank C McAfee.—The
McAfee Mill and Commission Company of
Moberly of which Frank
C. McAfee is owner and proprietor, began busi-
ness in this city in 1896
and has been at its present location, the corner
of Clark and Rollins
streets since 1908. There are ten men employed
in connection with this
business which consists of dealing in grain and
grinding wheat, corn and
feed cereals and also the manufacture of patent
stock foods. The mill has
a capacity of about 25 barrels of flour and 100
barrels of meal daily.
Besides the grinding and manufacturing a gen-
eral wholesale business is
also carried on in flour, feed, hay and grain.
Frank C. McAfee,
proprietor of the McAfee Mill and Commission
Company, was born in
Lafayette County, April 11, 1875. He is the son
of George L. and Julia A.
(Smith) McAfee, both of whom are now de-
ceased. George L.
McAfee was born in Mercer County, Ky., in 1852
and came to Missouri in
1872, locating near Holliday, Monroe County.
There he was married to
Julia A. Smith and moved to Lafayette County
when he returned to
Monroe County where he died and is buried at
Paris. After his death his
wife married Thomas E. Crow of Monroe
County and later came to
Moberly where she died in 1917 and her remains
are buried in Oakland
Cemetery. The children born to her second mar-
riage are William B. and
Thomas E. junior both of whom are connected
with the McAfee Mill and
Commission Company; Nellie E. married Ray
Coons of Houston, Texas
and Isabell married Roy Prather of Kansas
City, who is with the
Fidelity Trust Company of Kansas City.
Frank C. McAfee was
educated in the public schools and the Moberly
High School and in 1896
organized the McAfee Mill and Commiasion Com-
pany and has conducted
that business till the present time, This busi-
ness has expanded under
his management until there are now eight
branches of the business
located in various sections of the state. One
at Brunswick has an
elevator capacity of 30,000 bushels. Their elevator
at Huntsville, which was
completed in the fall of 1919, is strictly modern
and one of the best in the
country, has a capacity of 10,000 bushels. The
Randolph Milling
Company, a corporation owned by the McAfee family
has a daily capacity of 50
barrels of flour. The Holliday elevator was
completed in 1919 and has
a capacity of 6,000 bushels. Frank C. McAfee's
father, George L. McAfee,
began farming in Monroe County years ago,
within a 100 yards of
where this elevator now stands. The City Feed
Store of Paris, Mo., is a
branch of the McAfee business and they also have
a store at Madison, Mo,
and one at Jacksonville, F. C. McAfee also con-
ducts an automobile sales
agency at 112 Rollins street, Moberly and
handles the Studebaker,
'Cadillac and Brisco automobiles and also trucks
and tractors, This
business was started in 1917 and in 1919, 63 cars
were sold. Mr. McAfee
also owns valuable real estate interests in
Moberly and vicinity.
Mr. McAfee was maried
April 21, 1898 to Miss Letha G. Smothers,
of Randolph County, a
daughter of Daniel Smothers who is now deceased
and his widow resides in
Moberly. To Mr. and Mrs. McAfee have been
born two children: Louise
and Gertrude who reside at home with their
parents.
Mr. McAfee and his family
are members of the Central Christian
church.
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