William Henry Fields Dulany was born in Howard County, Missouri, January 9, 1818. He was the son of Joseph Stanton and Sarah (Maupin) Dulany who had migrated to Missouri from Madison, Kentucky, in 1816. William attended school until he was nine at the local one-room school under the tutelage of John Treadwell Cleveland (the older brother of Grover Cleveland's father). In 1834, William's mother died. His father remarried in 1836. William and his older brother, Daniel, left home after a disagreement with their stepmother. For the next four years, he contracted with W.P. Stephenson for $100 a year as a handy man to clear farm land. He worked several more years at odd jobs: splitting rails, hewing logs, and building log cabins (at $25 each). He was frugal and invested his money in land. He acquired part interest in a tobacco factory in Paris, Missouri, with his brother Daniel in 1848. On November 14, 1848, he married Susan Vanzant of Jacksonville, Illinois. Shortly thereafter, in 1850-1852, he joined the gold rush to California, leaving his wife and infant daughter, Mary Thomas Dulany, in Jacksonville. He panned for gold on the Middle Fork of the American River, returning to Missouri via Panama with $11,800. Susan died in 1861. William remarried November 20, 1862. During the Civil War, he moved his tobacco business to Quincy, Illinois, because he could not insure it in Missouri. In 1867, William and Daniel joined J.H. McVeigh in the lumber business at Hannibal. The lumber business expanded until it included interests in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, Louisiana, and Minnesota. William Henry Fields Dulany died in Hannibal, March 4, 1914. Thomas Epps Gates Dulany was born July 4, 1841, in Middle Grove, Missouri. Both his parents died before 1846, and he was raised by his uncle, Jefferson Gates. His early childhood was that of a poor orphan relation and not very happy. In 1860, he left his uncle's home and learned the carpentry trade. He also did farm work for $12.50 a month. On August 21, 1861, Thomas enlisted in the Confederate Army. In the summer of 1862, after mustering out, he farmed for shares in Randolph County, Missouri. By the fall of 1862, times were difficult for Southern sympathizers so Thomas went to Paris to work for his uncle, William Henry Fields Dulany, in the tobacco factory. In 1864, Thomas fled to Canada to avoid the first Union Army Draft. By 1866, he was back in Missouri trading tobacco. He established a lumber and hardware business in Salisbury, Missouri in 1867. On October 20, 1868, he married his cousin, Mary Thomas Dulany, daughter of William Henry Fields Dulany. There were three children that lived to adulthood from this marriage: William Henry Dulany, Jr.; Edith Mary Dulany Schofield Klein; and Vivian Duncan Dulany Murphy. The family moved to Hannibal in 1888 where Thomas joined the Empire Lumber Company. Thomas Epps Gates Dulany died in Hannibal, February 2, 1923. William Henry Dulany, Jr. was born in Salisbury, Missouri, July 16, 1874. He attended school at Missouri Military Academy, graduating in 1892. He attended the University of Virginia, 1892-1893, and the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1893, graduating in 1896. He joined the family lumber business in Hannibal in 1896. In 1906, he moved to St. Louis, continuing in the lumber business until his death on March 9, 1948. Vivian Duncan Dulany Murphy was born in Salisbury, Missouri, on September 21, 1885. She was educated at Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, where she graduated in 1903 as class valedictorian. She continued her education at Fairmount Seminary in Washington, D.C. On January 24, 1911, she married George Thomas Murphy. Vivian Duncan Dulany Murphy died in St. Louis on May 20, 1965. George Thomas Murphy was born on December 29, 1877, in St. Louis, and was active in urban development and real estate. He died on March 29, 1959, in St. Louis.