A history of northwest Missouri

"JAMES H. McCoRD. The growth of a great enterprise in a city is a compendium of the expansion and development of the city itself, for the latter is but a gathering of men and their families, who are in some way identified with the furthering of these transactions. The great City of St. Joseph, with its heterogeneous industries and far-reaching trade and commerce, owes its marvelous growth and prosperity to its position as a distributing center of the products of a vast country, and its concentration of production; but it is no less indebted to the great business houses, and the enterprising men who have developed them from modest beginnings to phenomenal. size. One of the largest and most important commercial concerns of St. Joseph is the wholesale grocery house of Nave-McCord Mercantile Company, which under the directing head and hand of its president, James H. McCord, continues to meet with the prosperity which it enjoyed under its founder, the late James McCord."