Pittsfield, and later went to Chicago, where he was a student under Professor Liebling for a year. He then went to Wichita, Kansas, where he studied under Professor Metcalf, and during the succeeding two years was a pupil of Professor E. M. Bowman in New York. He next established a conservatory of music in Penfield, which he conducted for six years, doing a fine business, and on the expiration of that period he went to New York, where he is now preparing for special work. He possesses superior talent that has already gained wide recognition, and he is making constant progress in his art. He married Miss Anna Barton, a daughter of Isaac Barton, on the 6th of September, 1892, and on the 27th of February, 1895, she departed this life. Professor SHASTID was again married November 3, 1897, to Miss Mary Barton, a daughter of John Barton and a native of this county. Joseph Calvin Shastid, born April 13, 1877, was educated in the Pittsfield schools, studied the foreign languages under private teachers and took up the study of music under his brother Jon at the Conservatory of Music in Pittsfield, where he was graduated on the 31st of November, 1895. He afterward became a student in the College of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was under the private instruction of Albino Gorno and John Brockhoeven, studying the violin. He spent three years in that city, after which he went to St. Louis, where he studied under Professor Kroeger, director of music at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, remaining in that city for one year. He then returned home and established the Pittsfield Piano School, which he has since conducted. He has classes in both piano and harmony. In the spring of 1905 he returned to Cincinnati and was married to Miss Mabel Bradley, a daughter of H. C. Bradley, a large manufacturer of that city.      Dr. Shastid is a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity, while he and his family are all members of the Christian church. He has been medical examiner for several societies, and since the early days of the residence in Pittsfield has maintained a prominent position as a foremost representative of the medical fraternity of Pike county. Moreover, he is honored for his genuine personal worth and his prominence is none the less the result of professional skill than an irreproachable private life. He takes special delight in the study of philology, music, sculpture and painting.                                               ____________________                                         ROBERT  E.  CUNNINGHAM                Robert E. Cunningham, living on section 25, Hardin township, is one of the active and thrifty farmers and stock-raisers of the community, in which he has long made his home, and in the control of his farm of two hundred acres he shows thorough familiarity with modern methods and their practical utilization in the every-day affairs of business life. His birth occurred in Pike county, June 17, 1865. His father, Thomas Cunningham, was one of the early settlers of the county and assisted in the material development of this section of the state at a time when progress and improvement had scarcely been begun. He married Miss Sarah Edmondson, a native of Ireland. He owned and operated land near Griggsville for several years and after selling that property, bought two hundred and eighty acres where he now resides, continuing to devote his entire life to agricultural pursuits. He passed away upon this farm in February, 1902. His wife survives him, and now resides in Baylis.      Robert E. Cunningham is the third in order of birth in a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, and with the exception of one of the daughters all are yet living. He spent his youth in the usual manner of farmer lads, attending the common schools and working in the fields through the summer months. His father was given the benefit of his services until he attained his majority when he started out in life on his own account, and made arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Margaret Hunter, whom he wedded in Pittsfield on the 10th of February, 1904. She was born and reared in Newburg township near Pittsfield and was a daughter of Robert Hunter, one of the early settlers and substantial farmers of the county, who came from Ireland to the new world when a lad of nine years. Prior to his marriage Mr.