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W. B. McANTIRE, attorney at law, was born in Elizabethtown, Hardin county, Ky., Oct. 14, 1848. His parents, W. S. and Elizabeth E. (Van Meter) McAntire, were natives of Virginia. His father was born Oct. 10, 1816, and died July 8, 1871; his mother was born July 13, 1823, and died April 11, 1859. In 1849 his parents came west to Missouri, locating at Memphis, Scotland county, where they engaged in agricultural pursuits for about eight years. They then sold their farm, and moving to Memphis, made that city their home until the spring of 1862. While there our subject attended the city schools, acquiring a liberal education. When about eighteen years of age he entered the Memphis High School, principal Prof. L. D. White, and attended some two years. At twenty years of age he entered the Memphis Academy, and one year thereafter the Lagrange College, Lagrange, Mo., taking a course in the latter institution. After quitting college he engaged at teaching in the Memphis graded schools for about two years, and during that time studied law. He then continued his studies in the office of Messrs. Cramer & Peters, and in September, 1872, was admitted to the bar at Memphis. He commenced the practice of his profession in that city with Mr. J. M. Knott, a nephew of the Hon. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky. He came to Joplin in May, 1873, and engaged in practice with J. W. McAntire, under the firm name of McAntire & McAntire, and continued with his partner for five years. In October, 1875, he was elected police judge for the city of Joplin, and continued in that position for six years, being re-elected in the falls of 1877-79. He then commenced practice by himself, and has since so remained, having a good business. Judge McAntire was married in Joplin, Mo., Feb. 14, 1876, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Ankrim and Marion Martin, of this city, her father a native of Ireland, and her mother of Scotland. Mrs. McA. was born in Scotland. From this union there are two children: William Edwin, born June 28, 1877, and Arthur Beuford, born Oct. 25, 1880. Our subject and Mrs. McAntire have a pleasant home on the corner of Fifth Street and Moffit’s Avenue, and are well circumstanced to enjoy the comforts of life.