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Edward T. Noland
1889-1890
 Edward T. Noland (Democrat), the seventeenth state treasurer, was born in Hickman Mills, Missouri on March 24, 1847.
He was educated in
the common schools and later in a business college. He was a clerk in the offices of the county assessor and county collector of Jackson
County, and for several years was connected with the Kansas City Times. He was appointed chief clerk of the state treasury
department during the terms of Treasurers Mercer, Gates and Seibert. He was elected state treasurer in 1888 but resigned on March 12, 1890,
amid scandal. Afterwards he became a resident of St. Louis, engaged in various businesses, one of which took him to England for a short
time. He then became an agent for Equitable Life Insurance Company, moving to Farmington, Missouri about 1901.
He married Bessie E. Vaughn of Independence, Missouri, in 1870 and they had seven children. His health failed about 1925, and he
died in Farmington on June 20, 1926.
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