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479. Franklin Young⁷ Gladney (John Matthew⁶, Samuel Strong⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, William², Richard¹) was born 06 April 1877 in Auburn, Lincoln County MO, and died 28 October 1961 in St. Louis MO. He married Katherine Lewis Graves 14 November 1906 in Montgomery City MO, daughter of James Graves and ???. She was born 10 March 1882 in Montgomery City MO, and died 15 March 1938 in St. Louis MO.

Notes for Franklin Young Gladney:
Frank Young Gladney was born on a farm near Auburn MO. He received his early education in a one-room school house; his high school education by studying at home for the examinations for a state certificate; his Missouri University education with the help of student jobs and scholarship aid; and his Columbia University law degree with tuition grants from the university and a weekend job as conductor on a Coney Island trolley car.
He entered the practice of the law in St. Louis in 1902, and continued it for 58 years until illness reduced his vigor in 1960. His knowledge of patent law was prodigious and his book, Restraints of Trade in Patented Articles, clarified a confused tangle of conflicting decisions of the Supreme Court and the lower Federal Courts. He was retained by some of the largest corporations in St. Louis, Boston and New York to represent them in cases which he argued before the Supreme Court of the United States.
During the 1930's he served as chairman of the American Citizenship Committee of the Bar Association of St. Louis, and in 1937 he set up an endowment fund through the Columbia University Alumni Federation to provide a dormitory room for a needy law student each year.
In 1921 he joined with C. L. Grigg and Edmund G. Ridgway in the incorporation and capitalization of the Howdy Company, which had been started in the spring of 1920 as a co-partnership composed of Mr. Grigg and Mr. Ridgway. These three were officers and directors of the company through the 1920's and 1930's, the name being changed to The Seven-Up Company in 1936. Mr. Gladney was secretary-treasurer of the company at the time of his decease.
To 7-Uppers Mr. Gladney will perhaps be best remembered for his stirring speeches at Developers' meetings. He always fussed when he was asked to appear on the program, and for days before the meeting he would go through a ritual of complaining that there was nothing he could say that hadn't already been said. In the privacy of his study he made copious notes on blocks of the ruled yellow paper that served for the first drafts of his most famous briefs and other writings.
When he came before the meeting, free of notes or script, he disdained the lectern and strode to the center of the stage, where a microphone had been hopefully placed. It was pure happenstance if he spoke to this instrument, however. He didn't like to "talk through that little auger hole," as he termed it, and he customarily paced back and forth as he warmed to his subject, occasionally slapping the top of the hapless mike for emphasis.
His effect upon his audience was electric. He transmitted his convictions of the fundamentals for success in business, and the splendor of his vision of the future of 7-Up. The fundamentals were well set forth in the prospectus he wrote for the formation of The Howdy Company in 1921: "Success in a selling enterprise requires: 1. An article of merit; that is to say, one for which there is some real durable demand; 2. Knowledge, skill and persistent industry in pushing it; and 3. The requisite capital to make effort fruitful." These principles applied as well to the growth and progress of 7-Up through the "knowledge, skill and persistent industry" of 7-Up Developers and The Seven-Up Company.
His abiding thought of the future was a theme that ran through his speeches: "We can't know the future, and it is a wonderful thing that we can't...the reason we can't know the future is that we have TO MAKE the future. It doesn't just happen; it is a result of our activity. Your view of the future will be decisively important in determining what that future shall be. There never was a set of men better prepared, it seems to me, to take advantage of that enormous future expansion of business than the 7-Up Developers."
The vision shone forth in every speech he made to a 7-Up audience. His address to 900 men and women of the 7-Up world, at the First International Seven-Up Developers Meeting in St. Louis in 1946, concluded with these words: "If you will not permit yourselves to forget the formula for your sucess, and follow that formula regardless of your past accomplishments, then 7-Up has a greater future than any of us have foreseen. I still hope to see Mr. C. L. Grigg's great vision turned into a reality. For fifteen years I have seen it coming nearer every year. If only you Developers aree fully alive to your opportunity, 7-Up will take its place where it belongs. And that is not third place or second place. It is elsewhere, and you know where."

Attended the University of Missouri and Columbia, for his law degree, and went on to become a foremost patent attorney of his time.
He made sacrifices in his early career. He didn't want to be a police court lawyer, even if it would mean some immediate comforts for his family. He followed his specialty and won his first big case in contention with General Electric.
Lawyer Gladney sued GE in behalf of his client, H. G. Ferguson Incandescent Lamp Company, charging infringement of patent. GE offered to settle for $20,000 but Gladney turned it down. He finally settled for a quarter of a million dollars, his first substantial law fee, and the wolf fled from the door. This was 1913.

He wrote patent articles for Outlook and the Saturday Evening Post and published a book, "Restraint of Trade in Patent Articles." His son, Graves Gladney has a letter written by President Taft congratulating Franklin Gladney on the book.

Taft, as a judge, had ruled contrary to the Gladney contention in the suit against GE. In his letter Taft said Gladney was right, he Taft wrong in that decision.

Gladney retained his respect for learning, endowed scholarships at Columbia. When he died he left great wealth, and when his son Graves, as executor, opened the safety deposit box he was startled by a cool million dollars in cash, and other securities, placed there by his father whose foresight warned him that a big estate meant big taxes. Meanwhile Uncle Sam had increased estate taxes.
Estate taxes ran to three million dollars. The million in cash and the securities made it possible to save a substantial part of the estate.

OBIT
Mr. Frank Y. Gladney, secretary-treasurer and member of the board of directors of The Seven-Up Company, died at his home in St. Louis, Oct. 28,1961. Mr. Gladney was 84 years old and had continued his law practice and his daily visits to the 7-Up offices until 1960, when declining health forced him to restrict his activities. The immediate cause of death was aplastic anemia. Funeral services were held Oct. 30 in Central Presbyterian Church, where he had taught the men's Bible class for several years. With Mr. C. L. Grigg and Mr. Edmund G. Ridgeway, Mr. Gladney formed The Howdy Company which became The Seven-Up Company in 1935. His profound legal knowledge and wide experience in corporate management and finance served always in the guidance of the affairs of The Seven-Up Company. His addresses at 7-Up meetings were warmly acclaimed and long remembered for the sound and uncompromising principles he set forth, for the abiding confidence in 7-Up developers he exemplified, and for the stirring vision of the 7-Up destiny which he made to fill the minds and the imagination of his listeners. His belief and his vision are engraved in the memories of all who know him and drew strength from him. (obit from The Seven-Up Company)

Buried in Valhalla Cemetery in St Louis MO.
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Frank Young Gladney was born on a farm near Auburn MO. He received his early education in a one-room school house; his high school education by studying at home for the examinations for a state certificate; his Missouri University education with the help of student jobs and scholarship aid; and his Columbia University law degree with tuition grants from the university and a weekend job as conductor on a Coney Island trolley car.
He entered the practice of the law in St. Louis in 1902, and continued it for 58 years until illness reduced his vigor in 1960. His knowledge of patent law was prodigious and his book, Restraints of Trade in Patented Articles, clarified a confused tangle of conflicting decisions of the Supreme Court and the lower Federal Courts. He was retained by some of the largest corporations in St. Louis, Boston and New York to represent them in cases which he argued before the Supreme Court of the United States.
During the 1930's he served as chairman of the American Citizenship Committee of the Bar Association of St. Louis, and in 1937 he set up an endowment fund through the Columbia University Alumni Federation to provide a dormitory room for a needy law student each year.
In 1921 he joined with C. L. Grigg and Edmund G. Ridgway in the incorporation and capitalization of the Howdy Company, which had been started in the spring of 1920 as a co-partnership composed of Mr. Grigg and Mr. Ridgway. These three were officers and directors of the company through the 1920's and 1930's, the name being changed to The Seven-Up Company in 1936. Mr. Gladney was secretary-treasurer of the company at the time of his decease.
To 7-Uppers Mr. Gladney will perhaps be best remembered for his stirring speeches at Developers' meetings. He always fussed when he was asked to appear on the program, and for days before the meeting he would go through a ritual of complaining that there was nothing he could say that hadn't already been said. In the privacy of his study he made copious notes on blocks of the ruled yellow paper that served for the first drafts of his most famous briefs and other writings.
When he came before the meeting, free of notes or script, he disdained the lectern and strode to the center of the stage, where a microphone had been hopefully placed. It was pure happenstance if he spoke to this instrument, however. He didn't like to "talk through that little auger hole," as he termed it, and he customarily paced back and forth as he warmed to his subject, occasionally slapping the top of the hapless mike for emphasis.
His effect upon his audience was electric. He transmitted his convictions of the fundamentals for success in business, and the splendor of his vision of the future of 7-Up. The fundamentals were well set forth in the prospectus he wrote for the formation of The Howdy Company in 1921: "Success in a selling enterprise requires: 1. An article of merit; that is to say, one for which there is some real durable demand; 2. Knowledge, skill and persistent industry in pushing it; and 3. The requisite capital to make effort fruitful." These principles applied as well to the growth and progress of 7-Up through the "knowledge, skill and persistent industry" of 7-Up Developers and The Seven-Up Company.
His abiding thought of the future was a theme that ran through his speeches: "We can't know the future, and it is a wonderful thing that we can't...the reason we can't know the future is that we have TO MAKE the future. It doesn't just happen; it is a result of our activity. Your view of the future will be decisively important in determining what that future shall be. There never was a set of men better prepared, it seems to me, to take advantage of that enormous future expansion of business than the 7-Up Developers."
The vision shone forth in every speech he made to a 7-Up audience. His address to 900 men and women of the 7-Up world, at the First International Seven-Up Developers Meeting in St. Louis in 1946, concluded with these words: "If you will not permit yourselves to forget the formula for your sucess, and follow that formula regardless of your past accomplishments, then 7-Up has a greater future than any of us have foreseen. I still hope to see Mr. C. L. Grigg's great vision turned into a reality. For fifteen years I have seen it coming nearer every year. If only you Developers aree fully alive to your opportunity, 7-Up will take its place where it belongs. And that is not third place or second place. It is elsewhere, and you know where."

Attended the University of Missouri and Columbia, for his law degree, and went on to become a foremost patent attorney of his time.
He made sacrifices in his early career. He didn't want to be a police court lawyer, even if it would mean some immediate comforts for his family. He followed his specialty and won his first big case in contention with General Electric.
Lawyer Gladney sued GE in behalf of his client, H. G. Ferguson Incandescent Lamp Company, charging infringement of patent. GE offered to settle for $20,000 but Gladney turned it down. He finally settled for a quarter of a million dollars, his first substantial law fee, and the wolf fled from the door. This was 1913.

He wrote patent articles for Outlook and the Saturday Evening Post and published a book, "Restraint of Trade in Patent Articles." His son, Graves Gladney has a letter written by President Taft congratulating Franklin Gladney on the book.

Taft, as a judge, had ruled contrary to the Gladney contention in the suit against GE. In his letter Taft said Gladney was right, he Taft wrong in that decision.

Gladney retained his respect for learning, endowed scholarships at Columbia. When he died he left great wealth, and when his son Graves, as executor, opened the safety deposit box he was startled by a cool million dollars in cash, and other securities, placed there by his father whose foresight warned him that a big estate meant big taxes. Meanwhile Uncle Sam had increased estate taxes.
Estate taxes ran to three million dollars. The million in cash and the securities made it possible to save a substantial part of the estate.

OBIT
Mr. Frank Y. Gladney, secretary-treasurer and member of the board of directors of The Seven-Up Company, died at his home in St. Louis, Oct. 28,1961. Mr. Gladney was 84 years old and had continued his law practice and his daily visits to the 7-Up offices until 1960, when declining health forced him to restrict his activities. The immediate cause of death was aplastic anemia. Funeral services were held Oct. 30 in Central Presbyterian Church, where he had taught the men's Bible class for several years. With Mr. C. L. Grigg and Mr. Edmund G. Ridgeway, Mr. Gladney formed The Howdy Company which became The Seven-Up Company in 1935. His profound legal knowledge and wide experience in corporate management and finance served always in the guidance of the affairs of The Seven-Up Company. His addresses at 7-Up meetings were warmly acclaimed and long remembered for the sound and uncompromising principles he set forth, for the abiding confidence in 7-Up developers he exemplified, and for the stirring vision of the 7-Up destiny which he made to fill the minds and the imagination of his listeners. His belief and his vision are engraved in the memories of all who know him and drew strength from him. (obit from The Seven-Up Company)

Buried in Valhalla Cemetery in St Louis MO.

More About Franklin Young Gladney:
Burial: Valhalla Cemetery, St. Louis MO

More About Katherine Lewis Graves:
Burial: Valhalla Cemetery, St. Louis MO

More About Franklin Gladney and Katherine Graves:
Marriage: 14 November 1906, Montgomery City MO

Children of Franklin Gladney and Katherine Graves are:

+	1065	i.	James Francis Graves⁸ Gladney, born 11 December 1907 in St. Louis MO; died 24 March 1976.
	1066	ii.	John Franklin Gladney, born 14 July 1910 in St. Louis MO; died 12 May 1922 in St. Louis MO.
+	1067	iii.	Lucianna Gladney, born 21 March 1915 in St. Louis MO.
+	1068	iv.	Katherine Emma Gladney, born 08 December 1918.

480. Steel Simonton (Strong?)⁷ Gladney (John Matthew⁶, Samuel Strong⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, William², Richard¹) was born 06 April 1880 in Lincoln County MO, and died Bef. 1962 in IL. He married Florence (Magruder?) McGruder 29 August 1905. She was born Unknown.

More About Steel Gladney and Florence McGruder:
Marriage: 29 August 1905

Children of Steel Gladney and Florence McGruder are:

1069	i.	John Matthew⁸ Gladney, born 13 July 1906.
1070	ii.	Charles Alloway Gladney, born 12 January 1908.
1071	iii.	Elizabeth Gladney, born 09 February 1912. She married Thomas Joseph Mudd Unknown; born Unknown.

More About Elizabeth Gladney:
Residence: Wentzville MO

More About Thomas Mudd and Elizabeth Gladney:
Marriage: Unknown

481. Eugene Malcolm⁷ Gladney (John Matthew⁶, Samuel Strong⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, William², Richard¹) was born 13 January 1885 in Lincoln County MO, and died 28 August 1936 in Tuskahoma OK. He married Gertrude Collins 1914. She was born Unknown.

More About Eugene Gladney and Gertrude Collins:
Marriage: 1914

Child of Eugene Gladney and Gertrude Collins is:

1072

Eugene Malcolm⁸ Gladney, Jr., born Unknown.

482. William⁷ Chandler (Margaret Ann⁶ Gladney, Samuel Strong⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, William², Richard¹) was born Unknown. He married Edna Shuck 08 November 1887. She was born Unknown.

More About William Chandler and Edna Shuck:
Marriage: 08 November 1887

Children of William Chandler and Edna Shuck are:

1073

David⁸ Chandler, born Abt. 1874; died 20 September 1890.

More About David Chandler:
Cause of Death: Died at age 16 of suffocation when caught under a drag

+	1074	ii.		A. B. Chandler, born Unknown.
	1075	iii.		Eldridge Chandler, born Unknown; died 28 October 1954. He married Velma Canter Unknown; born Unknown.

More About Eldridge Chandler and Velma Canter:
Marriage: Unknown

+	1076	iv.	Lois Chandler, born 24 December 1890; died 30 August 1970.
+	1077	v.	Andrew Chandler, born 04 March 1892; died 04 February 1965.
+	1078	vi.	Leslie Chandler, born 04 March 1894 in Lincoln County MO.

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