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D. W. Pollock, president of the National Bank of Unionville, was born in Adams County, Penn., October 10, 1841. Part of his childhood days were spent in Westmoreland County, Penn., and in 1851 he accompanied his parents to Missouri, locating in Putnam County June 20. He remained at home until June 17, 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth Missouri Infantry, of which he was made second lieutenant, and afterward promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and in 1865 was mustered out in South Carolina, holding a captain’s commission at the time. He then returned to Putnam County, and on October 5 of the same year was united in marriage to Anna E. Daniels, a native of Ohio, and soon after embarked in the general mercantile and fine stock trade, which he has since continued with phenomenal success at St. John. Upon the organization of the National Bank at Unionville, he took the second largest share of the stock, and has since officiated as president. Besides giving his attention to his mercantile and banking interests in Putnam County he buys and ships grain from several points in Iowa. His marriage has been blessed by the birth of five sons and two daughters: Mary I., Ira O., Orin O., William H., David W., Anna O., Thomas H. - one of each now deceased. Mr. Pollock is a member of the I. O. O. F. Thomas L., the father of our subject, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, June 20, 1805, and there married Isabella Wilson, June 20, 1833, and in 1839 immigrated to America, his wife and two eldest sons, James and Thomas, who were born in Glasgow, Scotland, joining him two years later. He was a sailor for nine years after coming to America, but in 1851 located in Putnam County, Mo., near St. John, with his family, and there resided until his death, which occurred May 31, 1879. During the late war he was a Union man, and served as wagon-master three years in the Eighteenth Missouri Volunteers. Politically he was a Republican, and served for several years as judge of Putnam County Court. His wife still resides upon the old homestead near St. John, and of the five sons and four daughters born to her and her husband all grew to maturity, although two of the sons and one daughter are now deceased.