No young citizen of Joplin who has honored the community through productive activity and civic loyalty is more worthy of recognition in this volume than Joseph R. Pile, member of the real estate firm of Pile & Perry. Although young in years he stands as one of the most enterprising factors in the city development, Mr. Pile is a native son of the state, his birth having occurred in Memphis, Missouri, July 2, 1880. Glancing over his ancestral history it is discovered that his forebears on...