HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

Biographical Appendix

JOSEPH T. MONELL

Joseph T. Monell was born in St. Louis in September 1859, and is the son of Archibald and Hester (Tarrigan) Monell, who were of English extraction. Joseph T. was reared and received his education in St. Louis where he graduated from the Washington University in 1880, in mining engineering. He then went to the B. & C. Railroad coal region of Illinois, where he remained one year. He was then chemist of the Kansas City Silver Works. Later he was manager of the smelting works at Desloge Lead Company for four years, and lastly came here to Mine La Motte, for miles from Fredericktown, Mo. For a year past he has been manager of the smelting works, and is a first-class business man and very highly respected by all connected with the mines. In 1881 he married Miss Nellie Gifhorn, of St. Louis, who bore him two children a daughter and a son - Ida and Harry. Mr. Monell is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and also of other engineering and scientific societies.