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 PORTRAIT AND 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 RECORD 
 
 OF 
 
 Leavenworth 
 Douglas and 
 Franklin Counties 
 
 ...KANSAS... 
 
 Containing Portraits, Biographies and Genealogies 
 of well known Citizens of the Past and Present 
 
 Together with Portraits and Biographies 
 of all the Presidents of the United States 
 
 CHAPMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 1899 
 
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PREFACE) 
 
 "he greatest of English historians, Macaulay, and one of the most brilliant writers of the 
 present century, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its 
 people." In conformity with this idea, the Portrait and Biographical Record of this 
 county has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records, and taking therefrom dry statistical 
 matter that can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone to the people, the men 
 and women who have, by their enterprise and industry, brought the county to a rank second to none 
 among those comprising this great and noble state, and from their lips have the story of their life 
 struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. 
 In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming 
 generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have 
 accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have 
 become learned men and women, with an influence extending throughout the length and breadth of 
 the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and 
 whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to 
 succeed, and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very 
 many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their way," 
 content to have it said of them, as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy — ' 'They have 
 done what they could. ' ' It tells how that many in the pride and strength of young manhood left 
 the plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession, 
 and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the 
 Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every 
 woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after. 
 
 Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the 
 fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would 
 otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work, and every 
 opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and 
 the publishers flatter themselves that they give to theii readers a work with few errors of consequence. 
 In addition to the biographical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given. 
 
 The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this 
 the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give 
 the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some 
 member of the family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of 
 the interested one would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though 
 repeated calls were made at their residences or places of business. 
 
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 December, 1899. 
 
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PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES 
 
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GEORGE WASIIIXGTOX. 
 
GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 HE Father of our Country was bom in West- 
 moreland County, Va., February 22, 1732. 
 His parents were Augustine and Mary (Ball) 
 Washington. The family to which he belonged 
 has not been satisfactorily traced in England. 
 His great-grandfather, John Washington, emi- 
 grated to Virginia about 1657, ^"d became a 
 prosperous planter. He had two sons, Lawrence 
 and John. The former married Mildred Warner, 
 and had three children, John, Augustine and 
 Mildred. Augustine, the father of George, first 
 married Jane Butler, who bore him four children, 
 two of whom, Lawrence and Augustine, reached 
 maturity. Of six children by his second mar- 
 riage, George was the eldest, the others being 
 Betty, Samuel, John Augustine, Charles and 
 Mildred. 
 
 Augustine Washington, the father of George, 
 died in 1743, leaving a large landed property. 
 To his eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an 
 estate on the Potomac, afterwards known as Mt. 
 Vernon, and to George he left the parental resi- 
 dence. George received only such education as 
 the neighborhood schools afforded, save for a 
 short time after he left school, when he received 
 private instruction in mathematics. His spelling 
 was rather defective. Remarkable stories are 
 told of his great physical strength and develop- 
 ment at an early age. He was an acknowledged 
 leader among his companions, and was early 
 noted for that nobleness of character, fairness and 
 veracity which characterized his whole life. 
 
 When George was fourteen years old he had a 
 desire to go to sea, and a midshipman's warrant 
 was secured for him, but through the opposition 
 of his mother the idea was abandoned. Two 
 
 years later he was appointed surveyor to the im- 
 mense estate of Lord Fairfax. In this business 
 he spent three years in a rough frontier life, 
 gaining experience which afterwards proved very 
 essential to him. In 1751, though only nineteen 
 years of age, he was appointed Adjutant, with the 
 rank of Major, in the Virginia militia, then being 
 trained for active service against the French and 
 Indians. Soon after this he sailed to the West 
 Indies with his brother Lawrence, who went there 
 to restore his health. They soon returned, and 
 in the summer of 1752 Lawrence died, leaving a 
 large fortune to an infant daughter, who did not 
 long survive him. On her demise the estate of 
 Mt. Vernon was given to George. 
 
 Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddle as Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia 
 was reorganized, and the province divided into 
 four military districts, of which the northern was 
 assigned to Washington as Adjutant-General. 
 Shortly after this a very perilous mission, which 
 others had refused, was assigned him and ac- 
 cepted. This was to proceed to the French post 
 near Lake Erie, in northwestern Pennsylvania. 
 The distance to be traversed was about six hun- 
 dred miles. Winter was at hand, and the journey 
 was to be made without military escort, through 
 a territory occupied by Indians. The trip was a 
 perilous one, and several times he nearly lost his 
 life, but he returned in safety and furnished a full 
 and useful report of his expedition. A regiment 
 of three hundred men was raised in Virginia and 
 put in command of Col. Joshua Fry, and Maj. 
 Washington was commissioned Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel. Active war was then begun against the 
 French and Indians, in which Washington took 
 
so 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 a most important part. In the memorable event 
 of July 9, 1755, known as "Braddock's defeat," 
 Washington was almost the only oflScer of dis- 
 tinction who escaped from the calamities of the 
 day with life and honor. 
 
 Having been for five years in the military serv- 
 ice, and having vainly .sought promotion in the 
 royal army, he took advantage of the fall of Ft. Du- 
 quesne and the expulsion of the French from the 
 valley of the Ohio to resign his commission. Soon 
 after he entered the I^egislature, w^here, although 
 not a leader, he took an active and important 
 part. January 17, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha 
 (Dand^ridge) Custis, the wealthy widow of John 
 Parke Custis. 
 
 When the British ParUament had closed the 
 port of Boston, the cry went up throughout the 
 provinces, ' ' The cause ot Boston is the cause of 
 us all! " It was then, at the suggestion of Vir- 
 ginia, that a congress of all the colonies was 
 called to meet at Philadelphia September 5, 
 1774, to secure their common liberties, peaceably 
 if possible. To this congress Col. Washington 
 was sent as a delegate. On May 10, 1775, the 
 congress re-assembled, when the hostile inten- 
 tions of England were plainly apparent. The 
 battles of Concord and Lexington had been fought, 
 and among the first acts of this congress was the 
 election of a commander-in-chief of the Colonial 
 forces. This high and responsible office was con- 
 ferred upon Washington, who was still a member 
 of the congress. He accepted it on June 19, but 
 upon the express condition that he receive no sal- 
 ary. He would keep an exact account of ex- 
 penses, and expect congress to pay them and 
 nothing more. It is not the object of this sketch 
 to trace the militarj' acts of Washington, to whom 
 the fortunes and liberties of the people of this 
 country were so long confided. The war was 
 conducted by him under every possible disadvan- 
 tage; and while his forces often met wuth reverses, 
 yet he overcame every obstacle, and after seven 
 years of heroic devotion and matchless skill he 
 gained liberty for the greatest nation of earth. 
 On December 23, 1783, Washington, in a parting 
 address of .surpassing beauty, resigned his com- 
 mission as Commander-in-Chief of the army to the 
 
 Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. He 
 retired immediately to Mt. Vernon and resumed 
 his occupation as a farmer and planter, shunning 
 all coiniection with public life. 
 
 In February, 1789, Washington was unani- 
 mously elected President, and at the expiration 
 of his first term he was unanimously re-elected. 
 At the end of this term many were anxious that he 
 be re-elected, but he absolutely refused a third 
 nomination. On March 4, 1797, at the expiration 
 of his second term as President, he returned to his 
 home, hoping to pass there his few remaining 
 years free from the annoyances of public life. 
 Later in the year, however, his repose seemed 
 likely to be interrupted by war with France. At 
 the prospect of such a war he was again urged to 
 take command of the army, but he chose his sub- 
 ordinate officers and left them the charge of mat- 
 ters in the field, which he superintended from his 
 home. In accepting the command, he made the 
 reservation that he was not to be in the field until 
 it was necessary. In the midst of these prepara- 
 tions his life was suddenly cut offi December 1 2 
 he took a severe cold from a ride in the rain, 
 which, settling in his throat, produced inflamma- 
 tion, and terminated fatally on the night of the 
 14th. On the 1 8th his body was borne with mili- 
 tar>' honors to its final resting-place, and interred 
 in the family vault at Mt. Vernon. 
 
 Of the character of Washington it is impossible 
 to speak but in terms of the highest respect and 
 admiration. The more we see of the operations 
 of our government, and the more deeply we feel 
 the difficulty of uniting all opinions in a common 
 interest, the more highly we must estimate the 
 force of his talent and character, which have been 
 able to challenge the reverence of all parties, 
 and principles, and nations, and to win a fame as 
 extended as the limits of the globe, and which we 
 cannot but believe will be as lasting as the exist- 
 ence of man. 
 
 In person, Washington was unusually tall, erect 
 and well proportioned, and his muscular strength 
 was great. His features were of a beausiful sym- 
 metry. He commanded respect without any ap- 
 pearance of haughtiness, and was ever serious 
 without beiug dull. 
 
JOHN ADAMS. 
 
JOHN ADAMS. 
 
 30HN ADAMS, the second President and the 
 first Vice-President of the United States, was 
 born in Braintree (now Quincy) Mass., and 
 about ten miles from Boston, October 19, 1735. 
 His great-grandfather, Henry Adams, emigrated 
 from England about 1640, with a family of eight 
 sons, and settled at Braintree. The parents of 
 John were John and Susannah (Boylston) 
 Adams. His father, who was a farmer of limited 
 means, also engaged in the business of shoe- 
 making. He gave his eldest son, John, a classical 
 education at Harvard College. John graduated 
 in 1755, and at once took charge of the school at 
 Worcester, Mass. This he found but a ' ' school 
 of affliction," from which he endeavored to gain 
 relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the 
 study of law. For this purpose he placed himself 
 under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. 
 He had thought seriously of the clerical profes- 
 sion, but seems to have been turned from this by 
 what he termed ' ' the frightful engines of ecclesi- 
 astical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvin- 
 istic good nature, ' ' of the operations of which he 
 had been a witness in his native town. He was 
 well fitted for the legal profession, possessing a 
 clear, sonorous voice, being ready and fluent of 
 speech, and having quick perceptive powers. He 
 gradually gained a practice, and in 1764 married 
 Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister, and a 
 lady of superior intelligence. Shortly after his 
 marriage, in 1765, the attempt at parliamentary 
 taxation turned him from law to politics. He 
 took initial steps toward holding a town meeting, 
 and the resolutions he offered on the subject be- 
 came very popular throughout the province, and 
 were adopted word for word by over forty differ- 
 ent towns. He moved to Boston in 1768, and 
 became one of the most courageous and promi- 
 nent advocates of the popular cause, and was 
 chosen a member of the General Court (the I,eg- 
 islature) in 1770. 
 Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first dele- 
 
 gates from Massachusetts to the first Continent- 
 al Congress, which met in 1774. Here he dis- 
 tinguished himself by his capacity for business 
 and for debate, and advocated the movement for 
 independence against the majority of the mem- 
 bers. In May, 1776, he moved and carried a res- 
 olution in Congress that the Colonies should 
 assume the duties of self-government. He was a 
 prominent member of the committee of five ap- 
 pointed June 1 1 to prepare a declaration of inde- 
 pendence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, 
 but on Adams devolved the task of battling it 
 through Congress in a three-days debate. 
 
 On the day after the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence was passed, while his soul was yet warm 
 with the glow of excited feeling, he wrote a letter 
 to his wife, which, as we read it now, seems to 
 have been dictated by the spirit of prophecy. 
 "Yesterday," he says, "the greatest question 
 was decided that ever was debated in America; 
 and greater, perhaps, never was or will be de- 
 cided among men. A resolution was passed 
 without one dissenting colony, 'that these United 
 States are, and of right ought to be, free and in- 
 dependent states.' The day is passed. The 
 Fourth of July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch 
 in the history of America. I am apt to believe it 
 will be celebrated by succeeding generations as 
 the great anniversary festival. It ought to be 
 commemorated as the day of deliverance by 
 solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It 
 ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, 
 sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations 
 from one end of the continent to the other, from 
 this time forward forever. You will think me 
 transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I 
 am well aware of the toil and blood and treas- 
 ure that it will cost to maintain this declaration 
 and support and defend these States; yet, through 
 all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and 
 glory. I can see that the end is worth more than 
 all the means, and that posterity will triumph, 
 
24 
 
 JOHN ADAMS. 
 
 although you and I may rue, which I hope we 
 shall not." 
 
 In November, 1777, Mr. Adams was appointed 
 a delegate to France, and to co-operate with Ben- 
 jamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then 
 in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in 
 arms and money from the French government. 
 This was a severe trial to his patriotism, as it 
 separated him from his home, compelled him to 
 cross the ocean in winter, and exposed him to 
 great peril of capture by the British cruisers, who 
 were seeking him. He left France June 17, 
 1779. In September of the same year he was 
 again chosen to go to Paris, and there hold 1 im- 
 self in readiness to negotiate a treaty of peace and 
 of commerce with Great Britain, as soon as the 
 British cabinet might be found willing to listen 
 to such proposals. He sailed for France in No- 
 vemVjcr, and from there he went to Holland, where 
 he negoliatcil important loans and formed im- 
 portant commercial treaties. 
 
 Finally, a treaty of peace with England was 
 signed, Jaimary 21, 1783. The re-action from the 
 excitement, toil and anxietj' through which Mr. 
 Adams had passed threw him into a fever. After 
 suffering from a continued fever and becoming 
 feeble and emaciated, he was advised to go to 
 England to drink the waters of Bath. While in 
 England, still drooping and desponding, he re- 
 ceived dispatches from his own government urg- 
 ing the nece.s.sity of his going to Amsterdam to 
 negotiate another loan. It was winter, his health 
 was delicate, yet he inmiediately set out, and 
 through storm, on sea, on horseback and foot, he 
 made the trip. 
 
 February 24, 1785, Congress appointed Mr. 
 Adams envoy to the Court of St. James. Here 
 he met face to face the King of ICngland, who 
 had so long regarded him as a traitor. As Eng- 
 land did not condescend to appoint a minister to 
 the United States, and as Mr. Adams felt that he 
 was accomplishing but little, he sought permis- 
 sion to return to his own country, where he ar- 
 rived in June, 1788. 
 
 When Washington was first chosen President, 
 John Adams, rendered illustrious by his signal 
 services at home and abroad, was chosen Vice- 
 
 President. Again, at the second election of Wash- 
 ington as President, Adams was chosen Vice- 
 President. In 1796, Washington retired from 
 public life, and Mr. Adams was elected President, 
 though not without much opposition. Ser\-ing 
 in this ofiBce four years, he was succeeded by Mr. 
 Jefferson, his opponent in politics. 
 
 While Mr. Adams was Vice-President the 
 great French Revolution shook the continent of 
 Europe, and it was upon this point that he was 
 at issue with the majority of his countrymen, led 
 by Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Adams felt no sympathy 
 with the French people in their struggle, for he 
 had no confidence in their power of self-govern- 
 ment, and he utterly abhorred the class of atheist 
 philosophers who, he claimed, caused it. On the 
 other hand, Jefferson's sj-mpathies were strongly 
 enlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence 
 originated the alienation between these distin- 
 tingnished men, and the two powerful parties were 
 thus soon organized, with Adams at the head of 
 the one whose sj-mpathies were with England, 
 and Jefferson leading the other in sjmjjathy with 
 France. 
 
 The Fourth of July, 1826, which completed the 
 half-century since the signing of the Declaration 
 of Independence, arrived, and there were but 
 three of the signers of that immortal instrument 
 left upon the earth to hail its morning light. 
 And, as it is well known, on that day two of 
 these finished their earthly pilgrimage, a coinci- 
 dence so remarkable as to seem miraculous. For 
 a few days before Mr. Adams had been rapidly 
 failing, and on the moniing of the Fourth he 
 found himself too weak to rise from his bed. On 
 being requested to name a toast for the cus- 
 tomary celebration of the day, he exclaimed 
 "Independence forever!" When the day was 
 ushered in bj^ the ringing of bells and the firing 
 of camions, he was asked by one of his attend- 
 ants if he knew what daj' it was? He replied, 
 " O yes, it is the glorious Fourth of July — God 
 bless it — God bless you all!" In the cour.se of 
 the day he said, "It is a great and glorious 
 day. ' ' The last words he uttered were, ' ' Jeffer- 
 son survives." But he had, at one o'clock, 
 resigned his spirit into the hands of his God. 
 
THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
 "HOMAS JEFFERSON was born April 2, 
 1743, at Shadwell, Albemarle County, Va. 
 His parents were Peter and Jane (Ran- 
 dolph) Jefferson, the fonner a native of "Wales, 
 and the latter born in l,ondon. To them were 
 born six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas 
 was the elder. When fourteen years of age his 
 father died. He received a most liberal educa- 
 tion, having been kept diligently at school from 
 the time he was five years of age. In 1760 he 
 entered William and Mary College. Williams- 
 burg was then the seat of the Colonial court, and 
 it was the abode of fashion and splendor. Young 
 Jefferson, who was then seventeen years old, lived 
 somewhat expensively, keeping fine horses, and 
 going much into gay society; yet he was ear- 
 nestly devoted to his studies, and irreproachable in 
 his morals. In the second year of his college 
 course, moved by some unexplained impulse, he 
 discarded his old companions and pursuits, and 
 often devoted fifteen hours a day to hard study. 
 He thus attained very high intellectual culture, 
 and a like excellence in philosophy and the lan- 
 guages. 
 
 Immediately upon leaving college he began the 
 study of law. For the short time he continued 
 in the practice of his profession he rose rapidly, 
 and distinguished himself by his energy and 
 acuteness as a law>'er. But the times called for 
 greater action . The policy of England had awak- 
 ened the spirit of resistance in the American Col- 
 onies, and the enlarged views which Jefferson had 
 ever entertained soon led him into active politi- 
 cal life. In 1 769 he was chosen a member of the 
 Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1772 he mar- 
 
 ried Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very beautiful, 
 wealthy, and highly accomplished young widow. 
 
 In 1775 he was sent to the Colonial Congress, 
 where, though a silent member, his abilities as a 
 writer and a reason er soon become known, and he 
 was placed upon a number of important com- 
 mittees, and was chairman of the one appointed 
 for the drawing up of a declaration of independ- 
 ence. This committee consisted of Thomas Jef- 
 ferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Rogei' 
 Sherman and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson, 
 as chairman, was appointed to draw up the paper. 
 Franklin and Adams suggested a few verbal 
 changes before it was submitted to Congress. On 
 June 28, a few slight changes were made in it liy 
 Congress, and it was passed and signed July 4, 
 1776. 
 
 In 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to 
 Patrick Henry as Governor of Virginia. At one 
 time the British officer Tarleton sent a secret 
 expedition to Monticello to capture the Governor. 
 Scarcely five minutes elapsed after the hurried 
 escape of Mr. Jefferson and his family ere his 
 mansion was in possession of the British troops. 
 His wife's health, never very good, was much 
 injured by this excitement, and in the summer 
 of 1782 she died. 
 
 Mr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in 1783. 
 Two years later he was appointed Minister Pleni- 
 potentiary to France. Returning to the United 
 States in September, 1789, he became Secretary 
 of State in Washington's cabinet. This position 
 he resigned January i, 1794. In 1797, he was 
 chosen Vice-President, and four years later was 
 elected President over Mr. Adams, with Aaron 
 
28 
 
 THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
 Burr as Vice-Presideut. In 1804 he was re- 
 elected with wonderful unanimity, George Clin- 
 ton being elected Vice-President. 
 
 The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second ad- 
 ministration was disturbed by an event which 
 threatened the tranquillity and peace of the Union; 
 this was the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. Defeated 
 in the late election to the Vice-Presidency, and 
 led on by an unprincipled ambition, this extraor- 
 dinary man formed the plan of a military ex- 
 pedition into the Spanish territories on our south- 
 western frontier, for the purpose of forming there 
 a new republic. This was generally supposed 
 to have been a mere pretext; and although it has 
 not been generally known what his real plans 
 were, there is no doubt that they were of a far 
 more dangerous character. 
 
 In 1809, at the expiration of the second term 
 for which Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he de- 
 termined to retire from political life. For a period 
 of nearly forty years he had been continually be- 
 fore the public, and all that time had been em- 
 ployed in offices of the greatest trust and respon- 
 sibility. Havang thus devoted the best part of 
 his life to the service of his country, he now felt 
 desirous of that rest which his declining years re- 
 quired, and upon the organization of the new ad- 
 mini.stration, in March, 1809, he bade farewell for- 
 ever to public life and retired to Monticello, his 
 famous country home, which, next to Mt. Vernon, 
 was the most distinguished residence in the land. 
 
 The Fourth of July, 1826, being the fiftieth an- 
 niversary of the Declaration of American Inde- 
 pendence, great preparations were made in every 
 part of the Union for its celebration as the nation's 
 jubilee, and the citizens of Washington, to add to 
 the solemnity of the occasion, invited Mr. Jeffer- 
 son, as the framer and one of the few sur\'iving 
 signers of the Declaration, to participate in their 
 festivities. But an illness, which had been of 
 several weeks' duration and had been continually 
 increasing, compelled him to decline the invita- 
 tion. 
 
 On the 2d of July the disease under which he 
 was laboring left him, but in such a reduced 
 state that his medical attendants entertained no 
 hope of his recovery. From this time he was 
 
 perfectl}' sensible that his last hour was at hand. 
 On the next day, which was Monday, he asked 
 of those around him the day of the month, and 
 on being told it was the 3d of July, he ex- 
 pressed the earnest wish that he might be per- 
 mitted to breathe the air of the fiftieth anniver- 
 sary. His prayer was heard — that day whose 
 dawn was hailed with such rapture through our 
 land burst upon his eyes, and then they were 
 closed forever. And what a noble consummation 
 of a noble life! To die on that day — the birth- 
 day of a nation — the day which his own name 
 and his own act had rendered glorious, to die 
 amidst the rejoicings and festivities of a whole 
 nation, who looked up to him as the author, un- 
 der God, of their greatest blessings, was all that 
 was wanting to fill up the record of his life. 
 
 Almost at the same hour of his death, the kin- 
 dred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear 
 him company, left the scene of his earthly honors. 
 Hand in hand they had stood forth, the cham- 
 pions of freedom; hand in hand, during the dark 
 and desperate straggle of the Revolution, they 
 had cheered and animated their desponding coun- 
 trymen; for half a century they had labored to- 
 gether for the good of the country, and now hand 
 in hand they departed. In their lives they had 
 been united in the same great cause of hberty, 
 and in their deaths they were not divided. 
 
 In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather 
 above six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes 
 were light, his hair, originally red, in after life be- 
 came white and silver^'-, his complexion was fair, 
 his forehead broad, and his whole countenance 
 intelligent and thoughtful. He possessed great 
 fortitude of mind as well as personal courage, and 
 his command of temper was such that his oldest 
 and most intimate friends never recollected to 
 have seen him in a passion. His manners, though 
 dignified, were simple and unaffected, and his 
 hospitality was so unbounded that all found at 
 his house a ready welcome. In conversation he 
 was fluent, eloquent and enthusia.stic, and his 
 language was remarkably pure and correct. He 
 was a finished cla.ssical scholar, and in his writ- 
 ings is discernible the care with which he formed 
 his style upon the best models of antiquity. 
 
JAMES MADISON. 
 
JAMES MADISON. 
 
 (Tames MADISON, "Father of the Consti- 
 
 I tution, ' ' and fourth President of the United 
 Q) States, was born March i6, 1757, and died 
 at his home in Virginia June 28, 1836. The 
 name of James Madison is inseparably connected 
 with most of the important events in that heroic 
 period of our country during which the founda- 
 tions of this great repubUc were laid. He was 
 the last of the founders of the Constitution of the 
 United States to be called to his eternal reward. 
 
 The Madison family were among the early emi- 
 grants to the New World, landing upon the shores 
 of the Chesapeake but fifteen years after the settle- 
 ment of Jamestown. The father of James Madison 
 was an opulent planter, residing upon a very fine 
 estate called Montpelier, in Orange County, Va. 
 It was but twenty-five miles from the home of Jef- 
 ferson at Monticello, and the closest personal and 
 political attachment existed between these illustri- 
 ous men from their early youth until death. 
 
 The early education of Mr. Madison was con- 
 ducted mostly at home under a private tutor. At 
 the age of eighteen he was sent to Princeton Col- 
 lege, in New Jersey. Here he appUed himself to 
 study with the most imprudent zeal, allowing him- 
 self for months but three hours' sleep out of the 
 twenty-four. His health thus became so seriously 
 impaired that he never recovered any vigor of 
 constitution. He graduated in 1771, with a feeble 
 body, but with a character of utmost purity, and 
 a mind highly disciplined and richly stored with 
 learning, which embellished and gave efiiciency 
 to his subsequent career. 
 
 Returning to Virginia, he commenced the study 
 of law and a course of extensive and systematic 
 reading. This educational course, the spirit of 
 the times in which he lived, and the society with 
 which he associated, all combined to inspire him 
 with a strong love of liberty, and to train him for 
 his life-work as a .statesman. 
 
 In the spring of 1776, when twenty-six years of 
 
 age, he was elected a member of the Virginia Con- 
 vention to frame the constitution of the State. The 
 next year (1777), he was a candidate for the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. He refused to treat the whisky-lov- 
 ing voters, and consequently lost his election; but 
 those who had witnessed the talent, energy and 
 pubUc spirit of the modest young man enlisted 
 themselves in his behalf, and he was appointed to 
 the Executive Council. 
 
 Both Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were 
 Governors of Virginia while Mr. Madison re- 
 mained member of the Council, and their apprecia- 
 tion of his intellectual, social and moral worth 
 contributed not a little to his subsequent eminence. 
 In the year 1780 he was elected a member of the 
 Continental Congress. Here he met the most il- 
 lustrious men in our land, and he was immediately 
 assigned to one oi the most conspicuous positions 
 among them. For three years he continued in Con- 
 gress, one of its most active and influential mem- 
 bers. In 1784, his term having expired, he was 
 elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. 
 
 No man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison the 
 utter inefficiency of the old confederacy, with no 
 national government, and no power to form- trea- 
 ties which would be binding, or to enforce law. 
 There was not any State more prominent than 
 Virginia in the declaration that an efficient na- 
 tional government must be formed. In Januarj^ 
 1786, Mr. Madison carried a resolution through 
 the General Assembly of Virginia, inviting the 
 other States to appoint commissioners to meet in 
 convention at Annapolis to discuss this subject. 
 Five States only were represented. The conven- 
 tion, however, issued another call, drawn up by 
 Mr. Madison, urging all the States to send their 
 delegates to Philadelphia in May, 17S7, to draft 
 a Constitution for the United States, to take the 
 place of the Confederate League. The delegates 
 met at the time appointed. Every State but 
 Rhode Island was represented. George Washing- 
 
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 JAMES MADISON. 
 
 ton was chosen president of the convention, and the 
 present Constitution of tlie United States was then 
 and there formed. There was, perhaps, no mind 
 and no pen more active in framing this immortal 
 document than the mind and the pen of James 
 Madison. 
 
 The Constitution, adopted by a vote of eighty-one 
 to seventy-nine, was to be presented to the several 
 States for acceptance. But grave solicitude was 
 felt. Should it be rejected, we should be left but a 
 conglomeration of independent States, with but 
 little power at home and little respect abroad. Mr. 
 Madison was elected by the convention to draw up 
 an address to the people of the United States, ex- 
 pounding the principles of the Constitution, and 
 urging its adoption. There was great opposition 
 to it at first, but at length it triumphed over all, 
 and went into effect in 1789. 
 
 Mr. Madison was elected to the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in the first Congress, and soon became 
 the avowed leader of the Republican party. While 
 in New York attending Congress, he met Mrs. 
 Todd, a young widow of remarkable power of fas- 
 cination, whom he married. She was in person 
 and character queenly, and probaby no lady has 
 thus far occupied .so prominent a position in the 
 very peculiar society which has constituted our 
 republican court as did Mrs. Madison. 
 
 Mr. Madison served as Secretary- of State under 
 Jefferson, and at the close of his administration 
 was chosen President. At this time the encroach- 
 ments of England had brought us to the verge of 
 war. British orders in council destroyed our com- 
 merce, and our flag was exposed tocon.stant insult. 
 Mr. Madison was a man of peace. Scholarly in 
 his taste, retiring in his disposition, war had no 
 charms for him. But the meekest spirit can be 
 roused. It makes one's blood boil, even now, to 
 think of an American ship brought to upon the 
 ocean by the guns of an English cruiser. A 
 young lieutenant steps on board and orders the 
 crew to be paraded before him. With great non- 
 chalance he selects any number whom he may 
 please to designate as British subjects, orders them 
 down the ship's side into his boat, and places them 
 on the gundeck of his man-of-war, to fight, by 
 compulsion, the battles of England. This right 
 
 of search and impressment no efforts of our Gov- 
 ernment could induce the British cabinet to re- 
 linquish. 
 
 On the 1 8th of June, 1812, President Madison 
 gave his approval to an act of Congress declaring 
 war against Great Britain. Notwithstanding the 
 bitter hostility of the Federal party to the war, the 
 country in general approved; and Mr. Madison, 
 on the 4th of March, 18 13, was re-elected by a 
 large majority, and entered upon his second terra 
 of office. This is not the place to describe the 
 various adventures of this war on the land and on 
 the water. Our infant navy then laid the found- 
 ations of its renown in grappling with the most 
 formidable power which ever swept the seas. The 
 contest commenced in earnest by the appearance 
 of a Briti.sli fleet, early in February, 1813, in 
 Chesapeake Bay, declaring nearly the whole coast 
 of the United States under blockade. 
 
 The Emperor of Russia offered his services as 
 mediator. America accepted; England refused. 
 A British force of five thousand men landed on the 
 banks of the Patuxet River, near its entrance into 
 Chesapeake Bay, and marched rapidly, by way of 
 Bladensburg, upon Washington. 
 
 The straggling little city of Washington was 
 thrown into consternation. The cannon of the 
 brief conflict at Bladensburg echoed through the 
 streets of the metropolis. The whole population 
 fled from the city. The President, leaving Mrs. 
 Madison in the White House, with her carriage 
 drawn up at the door to await his speedy return, 
 hurried to meet the officers in a council of war. 
 He met our troops utterly routed, and he could not 
 go back without danger of being captured. But 
 few hours elapsed ere the Presidential Mansion, 
 the Capitol, and all the public buildings in Wash- 
 ington were in flames. 
 
 The war closed after two years of fighting, and 
 on February' 13, 181 5, the treaty of peace was 
 signed at Ghent. On the 4th of March, 18 17, his 
 second term of office expired, and he resigned the 
 Presidential chair to his friend, James Monroe. 
 He retired to his beautiful home at Montpelier, and 
 there passed the remainder of his days. On June 
 28, 1836, at the age of eighty-five years, he fell 
 asleep in death. Mrs. Madison died July 12, 1849. 
 
JAMES MCJXKOK. 
 
JAMES MONROE. 
 
 (Tames MONROE, the fifth President of the 
 I United States, was born in Westmoreland 
 C) County, Va., April 28, 1758. His early life 
 was passed at the place of his nativity. His an- 
 cestors had for many j'ears resided in the province 
 in which he was born. When he was seventeen 
 years old, and in process of completing his educa- 
 tion at William and Mary College, the Colonial 
 Congress, assembled at Philadelphia to deliberate 
 upon the unjust and manifold oppressions of Great 
 Britain, declared the separation of the Colonies, 
 and promulgated the Declaration of Independence. 
 Had he been born ten years before, it is highly 
 probable that he would have been one of the 
 signers of that celebrated instrument. At this 
 time he left school and enlisted among the pa- 
 triots. 
 
 He joined the army when everything looked 
 hopeless and gloomy. The number of deserters 
 increased from day to day. The invading armies 
 came pouring in, and the Tories not only favored 
 the cause of the mother country, but disheartened 
 the new recruits, who were sufficiently terrified 
 at the prospect of contending with an enemy 
 whom they had been taught to deem invincible. 
 To such brave spirits as James Monroe, who went 
 right onward undismayed through difiiculty and 
 danger, the United States owe their political 
 emancipation. The young cadet joined the ranks 
 and espoused the cause of his injured country, 
 with a firm determination to live or die in her 
 strife for liberty. Firmly, yet sadly, he shared in 
 the melancholy retreat from Harlem Heights 
 and White Plains, and accompanied the dispirited 
 army as it fled before its foes through New Jersey. 
 In four months after the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, the patriots had been beaten in seven 
 battles. At the battle of Trenton he led the van- 
 guard, and in the act of charging upon the enemy 
 he received a wound in the left shoulder. 
 
 As a reward for his braverj^ Mr. Monroe was 
 promoted to be captain of infantrj', and, having re- 
 covered from his wounds, he rejoined the army. 
 He, however, receded from the line of promotion 
 by becoming an officer on the staff of L,ord Ster- 
 ling. During the campaigns of 1777 and 1778, 
 in the actions of Brandywine, Germantown and 
 Monmouth, he continued aide-de-camp; but be- 
 coming desirous to regain his position in the 
 army, he exerted himself to collect a regiment for 
 the Virginia line. This scheme failed, owing to 
 the exhausted condition of the State. Upon this 
 failure he entered the office of Mr. Jefferson, at 
 that period Governor, and pursued with consid- 
 erable ardor the study of common law. He did 
 not, however, entirely lay aside the knapsack for 
 the green bag, but on the invasion of the enemy 
 served as a volunteer during the two years of his 
 legal pursuits. 
 
 In 1782 he was elected from King George 
 County a member of the Legislature of Virginia, 
 and by that body he was elevated to a seat in the 
 Executive Council. He was thus honored with 
 the confidence of his fellow-citizens at twenty- 
 three years of age, and having at this early period 
 displa3'ed some of that ability and aptitude for 
 legislation which were afterward employed with 
 unremitting energy for the public good, he was 
 in the succeeding year chosen a member of the 
 Congress of the United States. 
 
 Deeply as Mr. Monroe felt the imperfections of 
 the old Confederacy, he was opposed to the new 
 Constitution, thinking, with many others of the 
 Republican party, that it gave too much power to 
 the Central Government, and not enough to the 
 individual States. Still he retained the esteem 
 of his friends who were its warm supporters, and 
 who, notwithstanding his opposition, secured its 
 adoption. In 1789 he became a member of the 
 United States Senate, which office he held for 
 
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 JAMES MONROE. 
 
 four years. Everj' month the line of distinction 
 between the two great parties which divided the 
 nation, the Federal and the Republican, was 
 growing more distinct. The differences which 
 now separated them lay in the fact that the Repub- 
 lican party was in sympathy with France, and 
 also in favor of such a strict construction of the 
 Constitution as to give the Central Government as 
 little power, and the State Governments as much 
 power, as the Constitution would warrant; while 
 the Federalists sympathized with England, and 
 were in favor of a liberal construction of the Con- 
 stitution, which would give as much power to the 
 Central Government as that document could pos- 
 sibly authorize. 
 
 Washington was then President. England had 
 espoused the cause of the Bourbons against the 
 principles of the French Revolution. All Europe 
 was drawn into the conflict. We were feeble and 
 far away. Wa.shington issued a proclamation of 
 neutrality between these contending powers. 
 France had helped us in the struggles for our 
 liberties. All the despotisms of Europe were now 
 combined to prevent the French from escaping 
 from a tyranny a thousand-fold worse than that 
 which we had endured. Col. Monroe, more mag- 
 nanimous than prudent, was anxious that, at 
 whatever hazard, we should help our old allies in 
 their extremity. It was the impulse of a gener- 
 ous and noble nature, and Washington, who could 
 appreciate such a character, showed his calm, se- 
 rene, almost divine, greatness, by appointing that 
 very James Monroe who was denouncing the pol- 
 icy of the Government, as the minister of that 
 Government to the Republic of France. Mr. 
 Monroe was welcomed by the National Conven- 
 tion in France with the most enthusiastic dem- 
 onstration. 
 
 Shortly after his return to this countrj', Mr. 
 Monroe was elected Governor of Virginia, and 
 held the office for three j-ears. He was again 
 sent to France to co-operate with Chancellor Liv- 
 ingston in obtaining the vast territory then known 
 as the province of Louisiana, which France had 
 but shortly before obtained from Spain. Their 
 united efforts were successful. For the compara- 
 tively small sum of fifteen millions of dollars, the 
 
 entire territory of Orleans and district of Loui- 
 siana were added to the United States. This was 
 probably the largest transfer of real estate which 
 was ever made in all the history of the world. 
 
 From France Mr. Monroe went to England to 
 obtain from that country some recognition of our 
 rights as neutrals, and to remonstrate against 
 those odious impressments of our seamen. But 
 England was unrelenting. He again returned to 
 England on the same mission, but could receive 
 no redress. He returned to his home and was 
 again chosen Governor of Virginia. This he soon 
 resigned to accept the position of Secretary of 
 State under Madison. While in this office war 
 with England was declared, the Secretary of War 
 resigned, and during these trying times the 
 duties of the War Department were also put upon 
 him. He was truly the armor-bearer of President 
 Madison, and the most efficient business man in 
 his cabinet. Upon the return of peace he re- 
 signed the Department of War, but continued in 
 the office of Secretary of State until the expira- 
 tion of Mr. Madison's administration. At the 
 election held the previous autumn, Mr. Monroe 
 himself had been cho.sen President with but little 
 oppo.sition, and upon March 4, 1817, he was in- 
 augurated. Four years later he was elected for 
 a second tenn. 
 
 Among the important measures of his Presi- 
 dency were the cession of Florida to the United 
 States, the Missouri Compromise, and the famous 
 " Monroe doctrine." This doctrine was enun- 
 ciated by him in 1823, and was as follows: " That 
 we should consider any attempt on the part of 
 European powers to extend their system to any 
 portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our 
 peace and .safety," and that " we could not view 
 any interposition for the purpose of oppressing or 
 controlling American governments or provinces 
 in any other light than as a manifestation by 
 European powers of an unfriendly disposition 
 toward the United States." 
 
 At the end of his second term, Mr. Monroe re- 
 tired to his home in Virginia, where he lived un- 
 til 1830, when he went to New York to live with 
 his son-in-law. In that city he died, on the 4th 
 of July, 1831. 
 
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
 
 (John QUINCY ADAMS, the sixth President 
 
 I of the United States, was born in the rural 
 Q) home of his honored father, John Adams, in 
 Quincy, Mass., on the nth of July, 1767. His 
 mother, a woman of exalted worth, watched over 
 his childhood during the almost constant ab- 
 sence of his father. When but eight years of 
 age, he stood with his mother on an eminence, 
 listening to the booming of the great battle on 
 Bunker's Hill, and gazing out upon the smoke 
 and flames billowing up from the conflagration of 
 Charlestown. 
 
 When but eleven years old he took a tearful 
 adieu of his mother, to sail with his father for Eu- 
 rope, through a fleet of hostile British cruisers. 
 The bright, animated boy spent a year and a-half 
 in Paris, where his father was associated with 
 Franklin and I,ee as Minister Plenipotentiary. 
 His intelligence attracted the notice of these dis- 
 tinguished men, and he received from them flat- 
 tering marks of attention. 
 
 John Adams had scarcely returned to this 
 country, in 1779, ere he was again sent abroad. 
 Again John Quincy accompanied his father. At 
 Paris he applied himself to study with great dil- 
 igence for six months, and then accompanied his 
 father to Holland, where he entered first a school 
 in Amsterdam, then the University at Leyden. 
 About a year from this time, in 1781, when the 
 manly boy was but fourteen years of age, he was 
 selected by Mr. Dana, our Minister to the Rus- 
 sian court, as his private secretary. 
 
 In this school of incessant labor and of ennobl- 
 ing culture he spent fourteen months, and then 
 returned to Holland, through Sweden, Denmark, 
 Hamburg and Bremen. This long journey he 
 took alone in the winter, when in his sixteenth 
 year. Again he resumed his studies, under a pri- 
 vate tutor, at The Hague. Then, in the spring of 
 1782, he accompanied his father to Paris, travel- 
 ing leisurely, and forming acquaintances with the 
 most distinguished men on the continent, examin- 
 
 ing architectural remains, galleries of paintings, 
 and all renowned works of art. At Paris he 
 again became associated with the most illustrious 
 men of all lands in the contemplation of the 
 loftiest temporal themes which can engross the 
 human mind. After a short visit to England he 
 returned to Paris, and consecrated all his energies 
 to study until May, 1785, when he returned to 
 America to finish his education. 
 
 Upon leaving Harvard College at the age of 
 twenty, he studied law for three years. In June, 
 1 794, being then but twenty-seven years of age, 
 he was appointed by Washington Resident Min- 
 ister at the Netherlands. Sailing from Boston in 
 July, he reached London in October, where he 
 was immediately admitted to the deliberations of 
 Messrs. Jay & Pinckney, assisting them in nego- 
 tiating a commercial treaty with Great Britain. 
 After thus spending a fortnight in London, he 
 proceeded to The Hague. 
 
 In July, 1797, he left The Hague to go to Por- 
 tugal as Minister Plenipotentiary. On his way to 
 Portugal, upon arriving in London, he met with 
 despatches directing him to the court of Berlin, but 
 requesting him to remain in London until he 
 should receive his instructions. While waiting 
 he was married to an American lady, to whom he 
 had been previously engaged — Miss Louisa Cath- 
 erine Johnson, a daughter of Joshua Johnson, 
 American Consul in London, and a lady en- 
 dowed with that beauty and those accomplish- 
 ments which eminently fitted her to move in the 
 elevated sphere for which she was destined. He 
 reached Berlin with his wife in November, 1797, 
 where he remained until July, 1799, when, hav- 
 ing fulfilled all the purposes of his mission, he so- 
 licited his recall. 
 
 Soon after his return, in 1802, he was chosen 
 to the Senate of Massachusetts from Boston, and 
 then was elected Senator of the United States for 
 six years, from the 4th of March, 1804. His rep- 
 utation, his ability and his experience placed 
 
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 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
 
 him inuncdiately among the most prominent and 
 influential members of that body. 
 
 In 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the 
 Presidential chair, and he immediately nominated 
 John Quincy Adams Minister to St. Petersburgh. 
 Resigning his profes.sorship in Harvard Col- 
 lege, he embarked at Boston in August, 1809. 
 
 While in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense 
 student. He devoted his attention to the lan- 
 guage and history of Russia; to the Chinese trade; 
 to the European system of weights, measures and 
 coins; to the climate and astronomical observa- 
 tions: while he kept up a familiar acquaintance 
 with the Greek and Latin clas.sics. In all the 
 universities of Europe, a more accomplished 
 scholar could scarcely be found. All through 
 life the Bible constituted an important part of his 
 studies. It was his rule to read five chapters 
 every da}'. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 181 7, Mr. Monroe took 
 the Presidential chair, and immediately appointed 
 Mr. Adams Secretary of State. Taking leave of 
 his numerous friends in public and private life in 
 Europe, he sailed in June, 1819, for the United 
 States. On the 18th of August, he again crossed 
 the threshold of his home in Quincy. During the 
 eight years of Mr. Monroe's administration, Mr. 
 Adams continued Secretar>' of State. 
 
 Some time before the close of Mr. Monroe's 
 second term of office, new candidates began to be 
 presented for the Presidency. The friends of Mr. 
 Adams brought forward his name. It was an 
 exciting campaign, and party spirit was never 
 more bitter. Two hundred and sixty electoral 
 votes were cast. Andrew Jackson received ninety- 
 nine; John Quincy Adams eighty-four; William 
 H. Crawford forty-one; and Henry Clay thirty- 
 seven. As there was no choice by the people, 
 the question went to the House of Representa- 
 tives. Mr. Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to 
 Mr. Adams, and he was elected. 
 
 The friends of all the disappointed candidates 
 now combined in a venomous and persistent as- 
 sault upon Mr. Adams. There is nothing more 
 disgraceful in the past historj' of our countrj' than 
 the abuse which was poured in one uninterrupted 
 stream upon this high-minded, upright and pa- 
 
 triotic man. There never was an administration 
 more pure in principles, more conscientiously de- 
 voted to the be.st interests of the countrj-, than 
 that of John Quincy Adams; and never, perhaps, 
 was there an administration more unscrupulously 
 and outrageously assailed. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1829, Mr. Adams retired 
 from the Presidency, and was succeeded by An- 
 drew Jackson. John C. Calhoun was elected 
 Vice-President. The slavery question now be- 
 gan to assume portentous magnitude. Mr. Adams 
 returned to Quincy and to his studies, which he 
 pursued with unabated zeal. But he was not 
 long permitted to remain in retirement. In No- 
 vember, 1830, he was elected Representative in 
 Congress. For seventeen years, or until his death, 
 he occupied the post as Representative, towering 
 above all his peers, ever ready to do brave battle 
 for freedom, and winning the title of "the Old 
 Man Eloquent." Upon taking his seat in the 
 House, he announced that he should hold him- 
 self bound to no party. Probably there never 
 was a member more devoted to his duties. He 
 was usuallj' the first in his place in the morning, 
 and the last to leave his seat in the evening. 
 Not a measure could be brought forward and es- 
 cape his scrutiny. The battle which Mr. Adams 
 fought, almost singly, against the pro-slavery 
 party in the Government was sublime in its 
 moral daring and heroism. For persisting in 
 presenting petitions for the abolition of slaverj', 
 he was threatened with indictment b^' the grand 
 jury, with expulsion from the House, with assas- 
 sination; but no threats could intimidate him, and 
 his final triumph was complete. 
 
 On the 2ist of Februarj-, 1848, he rose on the 
 floor of Congress with a paper in his hand, to 
 address the speaker. Suddenly he fell, again 
 stricken bj' paralysis, and was caught in the anns 
 of those around him. For a time he was sense- 
 less, as he was conveyed to the sofa in the ro- 
 tunda. With reviving consciousness, he opened 
 his eyes, looked calmly around and said "This 
 is the end of earth;" then after a moment's pause 
 he added, " I am content." These were the last 
 words of the grand ' ' Old Man Eloquent. ' ' 
 
ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
 Gl NDREW JACKSON, the seventh President 
 Ll of the United States, was born in Waxhaw 
 / I settlement, N. C, March 15, 1767, a few 
 days after his father's death. His parents were 
 poor emigrants from Ireland, and took up their 
 abode in Waxhaw settlement, where they lived 
 in deepest poverty. 
 
 Andrew, or Andy, as he was universally called, 
 grew up a very rough, rude, turbulent boy. His 
 features were coarse, his form ungainly, and there 
 was but very little in his character made visible 
 which was attractive. 
 
 When only thirteen years old he joined the 
 volunteers of Carolina against the British invasion. 
 In 1 78 1, he and his brother Robert were captured 
 and imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British 
 officer ordered him to brush his mud-spattered 
 boots. "lam a prisoner of war, not your serv- 
 ant," was the reply of the dauntless boy. 
 
 Andrew supported himselfin various ways, such 
 as working at the saddler's trade, teaching school, 
 and clerking in a general store, until 1784, when 
 he entered a law office at Salisbury', N. C. He, 
 however, gave more attention to the wild amuse- 
 ments of the times than to his studies. In 1788, 
 he was appointed solicitor for the Western District 
 of North Carolina, of which Tennessee was then 
 a part. This involved many long journeys amid 
 dangers of every kind, but Andrew Jackson never 
 knew fear, and the Indians had no desire to re- 
 peat a skirmish with "Sharp Knife." 
 
 In 1 79 1, Mr. Jackson was married to a woman 
 who supposed herself divorced from her former 
 husband. Great was the surprise of both parties, 
 two years later, to find that the conditions of the 
 divorce had just been definitely settled by the 
 first husband. The marriage ceremony was per- 
 fonned a second time, but the occurrence was 
 often used by his enemies to bring Mr. Jackson 
 into disfavor. 
 
 In January, 1796, the Territory of Tennessee 
 then containing nearly eighty thousand inhabi- 
 tants, the people met in con\-ention at Knoxville 
 to frame a constitution. Five were sent from 
 each of the eleven counties. Andrew Jackson 
 was one of the delegates. The new State was 
 entitled to but one member in the National House 
 of Representatives. Andrew Jackson was chosen 
 that member. Mounting his horse, he rode to 
 Philadelphia, where Congress then held its ses- 
 sions, a distance of about eight hundred miles. 
 
 Jackson was an earnest advocate of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and Jeiferson was his idol. He ad- 
 mired Bonaparte, lo\'ed France, and hated Eng- 
 land. As Mr. Jackson took his seat. Gen. Wash- 
 ington, whose second term of office was then 
 expiring, delivered his last sfjeech to Congress. 
 A committee drew up a complimentary address in 
 replj'. Andrew Jackson did not approve of the 
 address, and was one of the twelve who voted 
 against it. He was not willing to say that Gen. 
 Washington's administration had been "wise, 
 firm and patriotic. ' ' 
 
 Mr. Jackson was elected to the United States 
 Senate in 1797, but soon resigned and returned 
 home. Soon after he was chosen Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of his State, which position he 
 held for six years. 
 
 When the War of 18 12 with Great Britain com- 
 menced, Madison occupied the Presidential chair. 
 Aaron Burr sent word to the President that there 
 was an unknown man in the West, Andrew Jack- 
 son, who would do credit to a commission if one 
 were conferred upon him. Just at that time Gen. 
 Jackson offered his services and those of twenty- 
 five hundred volunteers. His offer was accepted, 
 and the troops were assembled at Nashville. 
 
 As the British were hourly expected to make 
 an attack upon New Orleans, where Gen. Wil- 
 kinson was in commaxid, he was ordered to de- 
 
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 ANDREW JACKSON. 
 
 scend the river with fifteen hundred troops to aid 
 Wilkinson. The expedition reached Natchez, 
 and after a dehiy of several weeks there without 
 accomplishing anything, the men were ordered 
 back to their homes. But the energj' Gen. Jack- 
 son had displayed, and his entire devotion to the 
 comfort of his soldiers, won for him golden opin- 
 ions, and he became the most popular man in the 
 State. It was in this expedition that his tough- 
 ness gave him the nickname of "Old Hickory." 
 
 Soon after this, while attempting to horsewhip 
 Col. Thomas Benton for a remark that gentleman 
 made about his taking part as second in a duel 
 in which a younger brother of Benton's was en- 
 gaged, he received two severe pistol wounds. 
 While he was lingering upon a bed of suffering, 
 news came that the Indians, who had combined 
 under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes to ex- 
 terminate the white settlers, were committing the 
 most awful ravages. Decisive action became nec- 
 essary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone 
 just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and 
 unable to mount his horse without assistance, 
 gave his amazing energies to the raising of an 
 army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Ala. 
 
 The Creek Indians had established a strong 
 fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, 
 near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles be- 
 low Ft. Strother. With an army of two thousand 
 men. Gen. Jackson traversed the pathless wilder- 
 ness in a march of eleven days. He reached their 
 fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-shoe, on the 27th 
 of March, 1814. The bend of the river enclosed 
 nearly one hundred acres of tangled forest and 
 wild ravine. Across the narrow neck the Indians 
 had constructed a fonnidable breastwork of logs 
 and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, with 
 an ample suppl}' of arms, were a.ssembled. 
 
 The fort was stormed. The fight was utterly 
 desperate. Not an Indian would accept quarter. 
 When bleeding and dying, they would fight those 
 who endeavored to spare their lives. From ten 
 in the morning until dark the battle raged. The 
 carnage was awful and revolting. Some threw 
 themselves into the river; but the unerring bul- 
 lets struck their heads as they swam. Nearly 
 every one of the nine hundred warriors was 
 
 killed. A few, probably, in the night swam 
 the river and escaped. This ended the war. 
 
 This closing of the Creek War enabled us to 
 concentrate all our militia upon the British, who 
 were the allies of the Indians. No man of less 
 resolute will than Gen. Jackson could have con- 
 ducted this Indian campaign to so successful an 
 issue. Immediately he was appointed Major- 
 General. 
 
 Late in August, with an army of two thousand 
 men on a rushing march. Gen. Jackson went to 
 Mobile. A British fleet went from Pensacola, 
 landed a force upon the beach, anchored near the 
 little fort, and from both ship and shore com- 
 menced a furious assault. The battle was long 
 and doubtful. At length one of the ships was 
 blown up and the rest retired. 
 
 Garrisoning Mobile, where he had taken his 
 little army, he moved his troops to New Orleans, 
 and the battle of New Orleans, which soon ensued, 
 was in reality a very arduous campaign. This 
 won for Gen. Jack.son an imperishable name. 
 Here his troops, which mxmbered about four 
 thousand men, won a .signal victory over the 
 British army of about nine thousand. His loss 
 was but thirteen, while the loss of the British was 
 twenty-six hundred. 
 
 The name of Gen. Jackson soon began to be 
 mentioned in connection with the Presidency, 
 but in 1824 he was defeated by Mr. Adams. 
 He was, however, successful in the election of 
 1828, and was re-elected for a second term in 
 1832. In 1829, just before he as.sumed the reins 
 of government, he met with the most terrible 
 affliction of his life in the death of his wife, whom 
 he had loved with a devotion which has perhaps 
 never been surpassed. From the shock of her 
 death he never recovered. 
 
 His administration was one of the most mem- 
 orable in the annals of our country — applauded 
 by one party, condemned by the other. No man 
 had more bitter enemies or warmer friends. At 
 the expiration of his two terms of office he retired 
 to the Hermitage, where he died June 8, 1845. The 
 last years of Mr. Jackson's life were those of a de- 
 voted Christian man. 
 
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
 ( >| ARTIN VAN BUREN, the eighth Presi- 
 y dent of the United States, was born at Kin- 
 \3 derhook, N. Y., December 5, 1782. He 
 died at the same place, July 24, 1862. His body 
 rests in the cemetery at Kinderhook. Above it is 
 a plain granite shaft, fifteen feet high, bearing a 
 simple inscription about half-way up on one face. 
 The lot is unfenced, unbordered or unbounded 
 by shrub or flower. 
 
 There is but little in the life of Martin Van 
 Buren of romantic interest. He fought no battles, 
 engaged in no wild adventures. Though his life 
 was stormy in political and intellectual conflicts, 
 and he gained many signal victories, his da}rs 
 passed uneventful in those incidents which give 
 zest to biography. His ancestors, as his name indi- 
 cates, were of Dutch origin, and were among the 
 earliest emigrants from Holland to the banks of 
 the Hudson. His father was a farmer, residing 
 in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother, also 
 of Dutch lineage, was a woman of superior intel- 
 ligence and exemplar}' piety. 
 
 He was decidedlj' a precocious boy, developing 
 unusual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At 
 the age of fourteen, he had finished his academic 
 studies in his native village, and commenced the 
 study of law. As he had not a collegiate educa- 
 tion, seven years of study in a law-office were re- 
 quired of him before he could be admitted to the 
 Bar. Inspired with a lofty ambition, and con- 
 scious of his powers, he pursued his studies with 
 indefatigable industry'. After spending six years 
 in an ofiice in his native village, he went to the city 
 of New York, and prosecuted his studies for the 
 seventh year. 
 
 In 1803, Mr. Van Buren, then twenty -one years 
 
 of age, commenced the practice of law in his na- 
 tive village. The great conflict between the Fedei al 
 and Republican parties was then at its height. 
 Mr. Van Buren was from the beginning a politi- 
 cian. He had, perhaps, imbibed that spirit while 
 listening to the many discussions which had been 
 carried on in his father' s hotel. He was in cordial 
 sympathy with Jefierson, and earnestly and elo- 
 quently espoused the cause of State Rights, though 
 at that time the Federal part}' held the supremacy 
 both in his town and State. 
 
 His success and increasing reputation led him 
 after six years of practice to remove to Hudson, 
 the county seat of his county. Here he spent 
 seven years, constantly gaining strength by con- 
 tending in the courts with some of the ablest men 
 who have adorned the Bar of his State. 
 
 Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mr. 
 Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished for 
 beauty and accomplishments. After twelve short 
 years she sank into the grave, a victim of con- 
 sumption, leaving her husband and four sons to 
 weep over her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. 
 Van Buren was an earnest, successful, assiduous 
 lawyer. The record of those years is barren in 
 items of public interest. In 18 12, when thirty 
 years of age, he was chosen to the State Senate, 
 and gave his strenuous support to Mr. Madison's 
 administration. In 1815, he was appointed At- 
 torney-General, and the next year moved to Al- 
 bany, the capital of the State. 
 
 While he was acknowledged as one of the most 
 prominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had 
 the moral courage to avow that true democracy did 
 not require that ' 'universal suffrage' ' which admit.'-, 
 the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right 
 
48 
 
 MARTIN VAN BUREN. 
 
 of governing the State. In true consistency with 
 his democratic principles, he contended that, while 
 the path leading to the privilege of voting should 
 be open to everj' man without distinction, no one 
 should be invested with that sacred prerogative 
 unless he were in some degree qualified for it by 
 intelligence, virtue, and some property interests in 
 the welfare of the State. 
 
 In 1 82 1 he was elected a member of the United 
 States Senate, and in the same year he took a 
 seat in the convention to revise the Constitution of 
 his native State. His course in this convention 
 secured the approval of men of all parties. No 
 one could doubt the singleness of his endeavors to 
 promote the interests of all classes in the com- 
 munity. In the Senate of the United States, he 
 rose at once to a conspicuous position as an active 
 and useful legislator. 
 
 In 1827, John Quincy Adams being then in the 
 Presidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-elected 
 to the Senate. He had been from the beginning 
 a determined opposer of the administration, adopt- 
 ing the "State Rights" view in opposition to what 
 was deemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams. 
 
 Soon after this, in 1828, he was chosen Governor 
 of the State of New York, and accordingly re.signed 
 his seat in the Senate. Probably no one in the 
 United States contributed so much towards eject- 
 ing John Q. Adams from the Presidential chair, 
 and placing in it Andrew Jackson, as did Martin 
 Van Buren. Whether entitled to the reputation 
 or not, he certainly was regarded throughout the 
 United States as one of the most skillful, sagacious 
 and cunning of politicians. It was suppo.sed that 
 no one knew so well as he how to touch the secret 
 springs of action, how to pull all the wires to 
 put his machinery in motion, and how to organize 
 a political army which would secretly and stealth- 
 ily accomplish the most gigantic results. By these 
 powers it is .said that he outwitted Mr. Adams, Mr. 
 Clay, and Mr. Webster, and .secured results which 
 few then thought could be accomplished. 
 
 When Andrew Jackson was elected President 
 he appointed Mr. Van Buren Secretary of State. 
 This position he resigned in 1831, and was im- 
 mediately appointed Minister to England, where 
 be went the same autumn. The Senate, however, 
 
 when it met, refused to ratify the nomination, and 
 he returned home, apparently untroubled. Later 
 he was nominated Vice-President in the place of 
 Calhoun, at the re-election of President Jackson, 
 and with smiles for all and frowns for none, he 
 took his place at the head of that Senate which had 
 refused to confirm his nomination as ambassador. 
 
 His rejection by the Senate roused all the zeal 
 of President Jackson in behalf of his repudiated 
 favorite; and this, probably, more than any other 
 cause secured his elevation to the chair of the 
 Chief Executive. On the 20th of May, 1836, Mr. 
 Van Buren received the Democratic nomination 
 to succeed Gen. Jackson as President of the United 
 States. He was elected by a handsome majority, 
 to the delight of the retiring President. ' 'Leaving 
 New York out of the canva.ss," says Mr. Parton, 
 "the election of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidency 
 was as much the act of Gen. Jackson as though 
 the Constitution had conferred upon him the power 
 to appoint a successor." 
 
 His administration was filled with exciting 
 events. The insurrection in Canada, which 
 threatened to involve this country in war with 
 England, the agitation of the slaverj' question, 
 and finally the great commercial panic which 
 spread over the countrj', all were trials of his wis- 
 dom. The financial distress was attributed to 
 the management of the Democratic party, and 
 brought the President into such disfavor that he 
 failed of re-election, and on the 4th of March, 
 1841, he retired from the presidency. 
 
 With the exception of being nominated for the 
 Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats in 1848, 
 Mr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until 
 his death. He had ever been a prudent man, of 
 frugal habits, and, living within his income, had 
 now fortunately a competence for his declining 
 years. From his fine estate at Lindenwald, he 
 still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics 
 of the countrj'. From this time until his death, 
 on the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty 
 years, he resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of 
 leisure, of culture and wealth, enjoying in a 
 healthy old age probably far more happiness than 
 he had before experienced amid the stormy scenes 
 of his active life. 
 
WILLIAM HlvNRN' HARRISON. 
 
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 
 
 (DGJlLLIAM HENRY HARRISON, the ninth 
 lAl President of the United States, was born 
 YY at Berkeley, Va., February 9, 1773. His 
 father, Benjamin Harrison, was in comparatively 
 opulent circumstances, and was one of the most 
 distinguished men of his day. He was an inti- 
 mate friend of George Washington, was early 
 elected a member of the Continental Congress, 
 and was conspicuous among the patriots of Vir- 
 ginia in resisting the encroachments of the British 
 crown. In the celebrated Congress of 1775, Ben- 
 jamin Harrison and John Hancock were both 
 candidates for the office of Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Harrison was subsequently chosen Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, and was twice re-elected. His 
 son William Henrj-, of course, enjoyed in child- 
 hood all the advantages which wealth and intel- 
 lectual and cultivated society could give. Hav- 
 ing received a thorough common-school educa- 
 tion, he entered Hampden Sidney College, where 
 he graduated with honor soon after the death of 
 his father. He then repaired to Philadelphia to 
 study medicine under the instructions of Dr. Rush 
 and the guardianship of Robert Morris, both of 
 whom were, with his father, signers of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence. 
 
 Upon the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and 
 notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, 
 he abandoned his medical studies and entered the 
 army, having obtained a commission as Ensign 
 from President Washington. He was then but 
 nineteen years old. From that time he passed 
 gradually upward in rank until he became aide 
 to Gen. Wayne, after whose death he resigned 
 his commission. He was then appointed Secre- 
 tary of the Northwestern Territory. This Terri- 
 tory was then entitled to but one member in Con- 
 
 gress, and Harrison was chosen to fill that position 
 In the spring of 1800 the Northwestern Terri- 
 tory was divided by Congress into two portions. 
 The eastern portion, comprising the region now 
 embraced in the State of Ohio, was called ' ' The 
 Territory northwest of the Ohio. ' ' The western 
 portion, which included what is now called Indi- 
 ana, Illinois and Wisconsin, was called "the Indi- 
 ana Territory." William Henry Harrison, then 
 twenty-seven years of age, was appointed by John 
 Adams Governor of the Indiana Territory, and 
 immediately after also Governor of Upper Loui- 
 siana. He was thus ruler over almost as exten- 
 sive a realm as any sovereign upon the globe. 
 He was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and 
 was invested with powers nearly dictatorial over 
 the then rapidly increasing white population. The 
 ability and fidelity with which he discharged 
 these responsible duties may be inferred from the 
 fact that he was four times appointed to this 
 office — first by John Adams, twice by Thomas 
 Jefferson, and afterwards by President Madison. 
 
 When he began his administration there were 
 but three white settlements in that almost bound- 
 less region, now crowded with cities and resound- 
 ing with all the tumult of wealth and traffic. 
 One of these settlements was on the Ohio, nearly 
 opposite LouisviHe; one at Vincennes, on the 
 Wabash; and the third was a French settlement. 
 
 The vast wilderness over which Gov. Harrison 
 reigned was filled with many tribes of Indians. 
 About the year 1806, two extraordinary men, 
 twin brothers of the Shawnee tribe, rose among 
 them. One of these was called Tecumseh, or 
 "the Crouching Panther;" the other Olliwa- 
 checa, or ' ' the Prophet. ' ' Tecumseh was not 
 only an Indian warrior, but a man of great sagac- 
 
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 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 
 
 ity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perse- 
 verance in any enterprise in which he might en- 
 gage. His brother, the Prophet, was an orator, 
 who could sway the feelings of the untutored In- 
 dians as the gale tos.sed the tree-tops beneath 
 which they dwelt. With an enthusiasm unsur- 
 passed by Peter the Hermit rousing Europe to the 
 crusades, he went from tribe to tribe, assuming 
 that he was specially sent by the Great Spirit. 
 
 Gov. Harrison made many attempts to con- 
 ciliate the Indians, but at last war came, and at 
 Tippecanoe the Indians were routed with great 
 .slaughter. October 28, 1812, his army beganits 
 march. When near the Prophet's town, three 
 Indians of rank made their appearance and in- 
 quired why Gov. Harrison was approaching them 
 in so hostile an attitude. After a .short confer- 
 ence, arrangements were made for a meeting the 
 ne.Kt day to agree upon terms of peace. 
 
 But Gov. Harri-son was too well acquainted 
 with the Indian character to be deceived by such 
 protestations. Selecting a favorable spot for his 
 night's encampment, he took every precaution 
 against surjarise. His troops were posted in a 
 hollow square and .slept upon their arms. The 
 wakeful Governor, between three and four o'clock 
 in the morning, had risen, and was sitting 
 in conversation with his aides by the embers 
 of a waning fire. It was a chill, cloudy morning, 
 with a drizzling rain. In the darkness, the In- 
 dians had crept as near as pos.sible, and just then, 
 with a savage yell, rushed, with all the despera- 
 tion which super.stition and passion most highly 
 inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the 
 little army. The savages had been amply pro- 
 vided with guns and ammunition by the English, 
 and their war-whoop was accompanied by a 
 shower of bullets. 
 
 The cam]>-rires were in.stantly extinguished, as 
 the light aided the Indians in their aim, and 
 Gen. Harrison's troops .stood as inunovable as 
 the rocks around them until day dawned, when 
 they made a sinuiltaneous charge with the bayo- 
 net and swept everything before them, completely 
 routing the foe. 
 
 Gov. Harri.son now had all his energies tasked 
 to the utmost. The British, descending from the 
 
 Canadas, were of themselves a very formidable 
 force, but with their savage allies ru.shing like 
 wolves from the forest, burning, plundering, scalp- 
 ing, torturing, the wide frontier was plunged into 
 a state of consternation which even the most vivid 
 imagination can but faintly conceive. Gen. Hull 
 had made an ignominious surrender of his forces at 
 Detroit. Under the.se despairing circumstances, 
 Gov. Harrison was appointed by President Madi- 
 son Commander-in-Chief of the Northwestern 
 Army, with orders to retake Detroit and to protect 
 the frontiers. It would be diflticult to place a man 
 in a situation demancUng more energ}', sagacity 
 and courage, but he was found equal to the 
 position, and nobly and triumphantly did he meet 
 all the responsibilities. 
 
 In 1816, Gen. Harrison was chosen a member 
 of the National House of Representatives, to rep- 
 resent the District of Ohio. In Congress he proved 
 an active member, and whenever he sjx)ke it was 
 with a force of reason and power of eloquence 
 which arrested the attention of all the members. 
 
 In 1819, Harrison was elected to the Senate of 
 Ohio, and in 1824, as one of the Presidential Elec- 
 tors of that State, he gave his vote for Henry 
 Clay. The same year he was chosen to the Uni- 
 ted States Senate. In 1836 his friends brought 
 him forward as a candidate for the Presidency 
 against Van Buren, but he was defeated. At the 
 close of Mr. Van Buren's term, he was re-nom- 
 inated by his party, and Mr. Harri.son was unani- 
 mously nominated by the Whigs, with John Tyler 
 for the Vice-Presidency. The contest was very 
 animated. Gen. Jack.son gave all his influence to 
 prevent Harrison's election, but his triumph was 
 .signal. 
 
 The cabinet which he fonned, with Daniel Web- 
 ■ster at its head as Secretary of State, was one of 
 the most brilliant with which any President had 
 ever been surrounded. Never were the pro.spects 
 of an administration more flattering, or the hopes 
 of the country more sanguine. In the midst of 
 these bright and joyous prospects. Gen. Harrison 
 was seized by a pleurisy-fever, and after a few 
 days of violent sickness died, on the 4th of April, 
 just one month after his inauguration as President 
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JOHN TYLER. 
 
 (John TYLER, the tenth President of the 
 I United States, and was born in Charles 
 Q) City County, Va., March 29, 1790. He was 
 the favored child of affluence and high social po- 
 sition. At the early age of twelve, John entered 
 William and Mary College, and graduated with 
 much honor when but seventeen years old. After 
 graduating, he devoted himself with great assi- 
 duity to the study of law, partly with his father 
 and partly with Edmund Randolph, one of the 
 most distinguished lawyers of Virginia. 
 
 At nineteen years of age, he commenced the 
 practice of law. His success was rapid and as- 
 tonishing. It is said that three months had not 
 elapsed ere there was scarcely a case on the 
 docket of the court in which he was not retained. 
 When but twenty-one years of age, he was almost 
 unanimously elected to a seat in the State Legis- 
 lature. He connected himself with the Demo- 
 cratic party, and warmly advocated the measures 
 of Jefferson and Madison. For five successive 
 years he was elected to the Legislature, receiving 
 nearly the unanimous vote of his county. 
 
 When but twenty-six years of age, he was 
 elected a Member of Congress. Here he acted ear- 
 nestly and ably with the Democratic party, oppos- 
 ing a national bank, internal improvements by 
 the General Government, and a protective tariff; 
 advocating a strict construction of the Constitu- 
 tion and the most careful vigilance over State 
 rights. His labors in Congress were so arduous 
 that before the close of his second term he found 
 it necessary to resign and retire to his estate in 
 Charles City County to recruit his health. He, 
 however, soon after consented to take his seat in 
 the State Legislature, where his influence was 
 powerful in promoting public works of great 
 utility. With a reputation thus constantly in- 
 creasing, he was chosen by a very large majority 
 of votes Governor of his native State. His ad- 
 ministration was a signally successful one, and his 
 popularity secured his re-election. 
 
 John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed 
 man, then represented Virginia in the Senate of 
 the United States. A portion of the Democratic 
 party was displeased with Mr. Randolph's way- 
 ward course, and brought forward John Tyler as 
 his opponent, considering him the only man in 
 Virginia of sufiicient popularity to succeed 
 against the renowned orator of Roanoke. Mr. 
 Tjder was the victor. 
 
 In accordance with his professions, upon tak- 
 ing his seat in the Senate he joined the ranks of 
 the opposition. He opposed the tariff, and spoke 
 against and voted against the bank as unconsti- 
 tutional; he strenuously opposed all restrictions 
 upon slavery, resisting all projects of internal im- 
 provements by the General Government, and 
 avowed his sympathy with Mr. Calhoun's view 
 of nullification; he declared that Gen. Jackson, 
 by his opposition to the nullifiers, had abandoned 
 the principles of the Democratic party. Such 
 was Mr. Tyler's record in Congress^a record in 
 perfect accordance with the principles which he 
 had always avowed. 
 
 Returning to Virginia, he resumed the practice 
 of his profession. There was a split in the Demo- 
 cratic party. His friends still regarded him as a 
 true Jeffersonian, gave him a dinner, and show- 
 ered compliments upon him. He had now at- 
 tained the age of forty-six, and his career had been 
 very brilliant. In consequence of his devotion to 
 public business, his private affairs had fallen into 
 some disorder, and it was not without satisfac- 
 tion that he resumed the practice of law, and de- 
 voted himself to the cultivation of his plantation. 
 Soon after this he removed to Williamsburg, for 
 the better education of his children, and he again 
 took his seat in the Legislature of Virginia. 
 
 By the southern Whigs he was sent to the 
 national convention at Harrisburg in 1 839 to nom- 
 inate a President. The majority of votes were 
 given to Gen Harrison, a genuine Whig, much 
 to the disappointment of the South, which wished 
 
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 JOHN TYLER. 
 
 for Henry Clay. To conciliate the southern 
 Whigs and to secure their vote, the convention 
 then nominated John Tyler for Vice-President. 
 It was well known that he was not in sympathy 
 with the Whig party in the North; but the Vice- 
 President has very little power in the Govern- 
 ment, his main and almost only duty being to 
 preside over the meetings of the Senate. Thus it 
 happened that a Whig President and, in reality, 
 a Democratic Vice-President were chosen. 
 
 m 1841, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice- 
 President of the United States. In one short 
 month from that time. President Harrison died, 
 and Mr. Tyler thus found himself, to his own 
 surprise and that of the whole nation, an occu- 
 pant of the Presidential chair. Hastening from 
 Williamsburg to Washington, on the 6th of 
 April he was inaugurated to the high and re- 
 sponsible office. He was placed in a position of 
 exceeding delicacy and difficulty. All his long 
 life he had been opposed to the main principles of 
 the party which had brought him into power. 
 He had ever been a consistent, honest man, with 
 an unblemished record. Gen. Harrison had se- 
 lected a Whig cabinet. Should he retain them, 
 and thus surround himself with counselors whose 
 views were antagonistic to his own ? or, on the 
 other hand, should he turn against the party 
 which had elected him, and select a cabinet in 
 harmony with himself, and which would oppose 
 all tho.se views which the Whigs deemed essen- 
 tial to the public welfare ? This was his fearful 
 dilemma. He invited the cabinet which Presi- 
 dent Harrison had selected to retain their seats, 
 and recommended a day of fasting and prayer, 
 that God would guide and bless us. 
 
 The Whigs carried through Congress a bill for 
 the incorporation of a fiscal bank of the United 
 States. The President, after ten days' delay, re- 
 turned it with his veto. He suggested, however, 
 that he would approve of a bill drawn up upon 
 such a plan as he proposed. Such a bill was ac- 
 cordingly prepared, and privately submitted to 
 him. He gave it his approval. It was passed 
 without alteration, and he sent it back with his 
 veto. Here commenced the open rupture. It is 
 said that Mr. Tyler was provoked to this meas- 
 
 ure by a published letter from the Hon. John M. 
 Botts, a distingui.shed Virginia Whig, who se- 
 verely touched the pride of the President. 
 
 The opposition now exultingly received the 
 President into their anns. The party wliich 
 elected him denounced him bitterly. All the 
 members of his cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, 
 resigned. The Whigs of Congress, both the 
 Senate and the House, held a meeting and issued 
 an address to the people of the United States, 
 proclaiming that all political alliance between the 
 Whigs and President Tyler was at an end. 
 
 Still the President attempted to conciliate. He 
 appointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs 
 and Conservatives, carefully leaving out all strong 
 party men. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary 
 to resign, forced out by the pressure of his Whig 
 friends. Thus the four years of Mr. Tyler's un- 
 fortunate administration passed sadly away. No 
 one was satisfied. The land was filled with mur- 
 murs and vituperation. Whigs and Democrats 
 alike assailed him. More and more, however, he 
 brought himself into sympathj^ with his old 
 friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his 
 term he gave his whole influence to the .support 
 of Mr. Polk, the Democratic candidate for his 
 successor. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1845, President Tyler re- 
 tired from the harassments of office, to the regret 
 of neither part}', and probably to his own unspeak- 
 able relief The remainder of his days were 
 passed mainly in the retirement of his beautiful 
 home — Sherwood Forest, Charles City County, 
 Va. His first wife. Miss Letitia Christian, died 
 in Washington in 1842; and in June, 1844, 
 he was again married, at New York, to Miss Julia 
 Gardiner, a young lady of many personal and 
 intellectual accomplishments. 
 
 When the great Rebellion rose, which the 
 State Rights and imllifying doctrines of John C. 
 Calhoun had inaugurated. President Tyler re- 
 nounced his allegiance to the United States, and 
 joined the Confederates. He was chosen a mem- 
 ber of their Congress, and while engaged in 
 active measures to destroy, by force of arms, the 
 Go\'ernment over which he had once presided, he 
 was taken sick and soon died. 
 
JAMIvS K. POLK. 
 
JAMES K. POLK. 
 
 (Tames K. polk, the eleventh President of 
 I the United States, was born in Mecklenburgh 
 V2/ County, N. C. , November 2, 1795. His 
 parents were Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the 
 former a son of Col. Thomas Polk, who located 
 at the above place, as one of the first pioneers, in 
 1735. In 1806, with his wife and children, and 
 soon after followed by most of the members of the 
 Polk family, Samuel Polk emigrated some two or 
 three hundred miles farther west, to the rich val- 
 ley of the Duck River. Here, in the midst of the 
 wilderness, in a region which was subsequently 
 called Maurj^ Count}-, they erected their log huts 
 and established their homes. In the hard toil of 
 a new farm in the wilderness, James K. Polk 
 spent the early years of his childhood and youth. 
 His father, adding the pursuit of a surve3-or to 
 that of a farmer, gradually increased in wealth, 
 until he became one of the leading men of the 
 region. His mother was a superior woman, of 
 strong common sense and earnest piety. 
 
 Very early in life James developed a taste for 
 reading, and expressed the strongest desire to ob- 
 tain a liberal education. His mother's training 
 had made him methodical in his habits, had taught 
 him punctuality and industrj^, and had inspired 
 him with lofty principles of morality. His health 
 was frail, and his father, fearing that he might not 
 be able to endure a sedentary life, got a situation 
 for him behind the counter, hoping to fit him for 
 commercial pursuits. 
 
 This was to James a bitter disappointment. He 
 had no taste for these duties, and his daily tasks 
 were irksome in the extreme. He remained in this 
 uncongenial occupation but a few weeks, when, 
 at his earnest solicitation, his father removed 
 him and made arrangements for him to pros- 
 ecute his studies. Soon after he sent him to Mur- 
 freesboro Academy. With ardor which could 
 scarcely be surpassed, he pressed forward in his 
 
 studies, and in less than two and a-half years, in 
 the autumn of 18 15, entered the sophomore class 
 in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel 
 Hill. Here he was one of the most exemplary of 
 scholars, punctual in every exercise, never allow- 
 ing himself to be absent from a recitation or a 
 religious sen-ice. 
 
 Mr. Polk graduated in 1818, with the highest 
 honors, being deemed the best scholar of his class, 
 both in mathematics and the classics. He was 
 then twenty-three years of age. His health was 
 at this time much impaired by the assiduity with 
 which he had prosecuted his studies. After a 
 short season of relaxation, he went to Nashville, 
 and entered the office of Felix Grundy, to study 
 law. Here Mr. Polk renewed his acquaintance 
 with Andrew Jackson, who resided on his planta- 
 tion, the ' ' Hermitage, ' ' but a few miles from 
 Nashville. They had probably been slightly ac- 
 quainted before. 
 
 Mr. Polk's father was a Jeffersonian Republican 
 and James K. adhered to the same political faith. 
 He was a popular public speaker, and was con- 
 stantly called upon to address the meetings of his 
 party friends. His skill as a speaker was .such 
 that he was popularly called the Napoleon of the 
 stump. He was a man of unblemished morals, 
 genial and courteous in his bearing, and with that 
 sympathetic nature in the joys and griefs of oth- 
 ers which gave him hosts of friends. In 1823, 
 he was elected to the I,egi.slature of Tennessee, 
 and gave his strong influence toward the election 
 of his friend, Mr. Jackson, to the Presidency of 
 the United States. 
 
 In January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah 
 Childress, of Rutherford County, Tenn. His 
 bride was altogether worthy of him — a ladj- of 
 beauty and culture. In the fall of 1825 Mr. Polk 
 was chosen a member of Congress, and the satis- 
 faction he gave his constituents may be inferred 
 
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 JAMES K. POLK. 
 
 from the fact, that for fourteen successive years, 
 or until 1839, he was continued in that office. He 
 then voluntarily withdrew, only that he might 
 accept the Gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. In 
 Congress he was a laborious member, a freqiient 
 and a popular speaker. He was always in liis 
 seat, always courteous, and whenever he spoke 
 it was always to the point, without any ambitious 
 rhetorical display. 
 
 During five sessions of Congress Mr. Polk was 
 Speaker of the House. Strong passions were 
 roused and stormj' scenes were witnessed, but he 
 performed his arduous duties to a very general 
 satisfaction, and a unanimous vote of thanks to 
 him was passed by the House as he withdrew on 
 the 4th of March, 1839. 
 
 In accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, 
 as a candidate for Governor, canvassed the State. 
 He was elected by a large majority, and on Octo- 
 ber 14, 1839, took the oath of office at Nashville. 
 In 1 841 his term of office expired, and he was 
 again the candidate of the Democratic party, but 
 was defeated. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was in- 
 augurated President of the United States. The 
 verdict of the country in favor of the annexation 
 of Texas exerted its influence upon Congress, 
 and the last act of the administration of President 
 Tyler was to affix his signature to a joint resolu- 
 tion of Congress, passed on the 3d of March, ap- 
 proving of the annexation of Texas to the Union. 
 As Mexico still claimed Texas as one of her 
 provinces, the Mexican Minister, Almonte, im- 
 mediately demanded his passports and left the 
 countrj', declaring the act of the annexation to be 
 an act hostile to Mexico. 
 
 In his first message. President Polk urged that 
 Texas should immediately, by act of Congress, be 
 received into the Union on the same footing with 
 the other States. In the mean time. Gen. Taylor 
 was sent with an army into Texas to hold the 
 countrj'. He was first sent to Nueces, which the 
 Mexicans said was the western boundary of Tex- 
 as. Then he was sent nearly two hundred miles 
 further we.st, to the Rio Grande, where he erected 
 batteries which commanded the Mexican city of 
 Matamoras, which was situated on the western 
 
 banks. The anticipated collision soon took place, 
 and war was declared against Mexico by President 
 Polk. The war was pushed fonvard by his ad- 
 ministration with great vigor. Gen. Taylor, 
 whose armj' was first called one of ' ' observation, ' ' 
 then of "occupation," then of "invasion," was 
 sent forward to Monterey. The feeble Mexicans 
 in every encounter were hopelessly slaughtered. 
 The day of judgment alone can reveal the misery 
 which this war caused. It was by the ingenuity 
 of Mr. Polk's administration that the war was 
 brought on. 
 
 "To the victors belong the spoils." Mexico 
 was prostrate before us. Her capital was in our 
 hands. We now consented to peace upon the 
 condition that Mexico should surrender to us, in 
 addition to Texas, all of New Mexico, and all of 
 Upper and lyOwer California. This new demand 
 embraced, exclusive of Texas, eight hundred 
 thousand square miles. This was an extent of 
 territory equal to nine States of the size of New 
 York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen ma- 
 jestic States to be added to the Union. There 
 w-ere some Americans who thought it all right; 
 there were others who thought it all wrong. In 
 the prosecution of this war we expended twenty 
 thousand lives and more than $100,000,000. Of 
 this money $15,000,000 were paid to Mexico. 
 
 On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired 
 from office, having ser\'ed one term. The next 
 day was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was 
 inaugurated as his successor. Mr. Polk rode to 
 the Capitol in the same carriage with Gen. Taj'- 
 lor, and the same evening, with Mrs. Polk, he 
 commenced his return to Tennessee. He wa.*-, 
 then but fifty-four years of age. He had always 
 been strictly temperate in all his habits, and his 
 health was good. With an ample fortune, a 
 choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic 
 ties of the dearest nature, it seemed as though 
 long years of tranquillity and happiness were be- 
 fore him. But the cholera — that fearful scourge 
 — was then sweeping up the Valley of the Missis- 
 sippi, and he contracted the disease, dying on the 
 15th of June, 1849, in the fiftj'-fourth year of his 
 age, greatly mourned by his countrjmen. 
 
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ZACHARV TAYLOR. 
 
ZACHARY TAYLOR. 
 
 WACHARY TAYLOR, twelfth President of 
 1. the United States, was born on the 24th of 
 /^ November, 1784, in Orange County, Va. 
 His father. Col. Taylor, was a Virginian of 
 note, and a distinguished patriot and soldier of 
 the Revolution. When Zachary was an infant, 
 his father, with his wife and two children, emi- 
 grated to Kentucky, where he settled in the path- 
 less wilderness, a few miles from Louisville. In 
 this frontier home, away from civilization and all 
 its refinements, young Zachary could enjoy but 
 few social and educational advantages. When 
 six years of age he attended a common school, 
 and was then regarded as a bright, active boy, 
 rather remarkable for bluntness and decision of 
 character. He was strong, fearless and self-reli- 
 ant, and manifested a strong desire to enter the 
 army to fight the Indians, who were ravaging the 
 frontiers. There is little to be recorded of the 
 uneventful years of his childhood on his father's 
 large but lonely plantation. 
 
 In 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining for 
 him a commission as Lieutenant in the United 
 States armj^ and he joined the troops which were 
 stationed at New Orleans under Gen. Wilkinson. 
 Soon after this he married Miss Margaret Smith, 
 a young lady from one of the first families of 
 Marj'land. 
 
 Immediately after the declaration of war with 
 England, in 181 2, Capt. Taylor (for he had then 
 been promoted to that rank) was put in command 
 of Ft. Harrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles 
 above Vincennes. This fort had been built in the 
 wilderness by Gen. Harrison, on his march to 
 Tippecanoe. It was one of the first points of at- 
 tack by the Indians, led by Tecumseh. Its garri- 
 son consisted of a broken company of infantry, 
 numbering fifty men, many of whom were sick. 
 
 Early in the autumn of 1812, the Indians, 
 stealthily, and in large nnmbers, moved upon the 
 
 fort. Their approach was first indicated by he 
 murder of two soldiers just outside of the stockade. 
 Capt. Taylor made every possible preparation to 
 meet the anticipated assault. On the 4th of Sep- 
 tember, a band of forty painted and plumed sav- 
 ages came to the fort, waving a white flag, and 
 informed Capt. Taylor that in the morning their 
 chief would come to have a talk with him. It 
 was evident that their object was merely to a.scer- 
 tain the state of things at the fort, and Capt. 
 Taylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, 
 kept them at a distance. 
 
 The sun went down; the savages disappeared; 
 the garrison slept upon their arms. One hour 
 before midnight the war-whoop burst from a 
 thousand lips in the forest around, followed by 
 the discharge of musketry and the rush of the 
 foe. Every man, sick and well, sprang to hir. 
 post. Every man knew that defeat was not 
 merely death, but, in the case of capture, death by 
 the most agonizing and prolonged torture. No 
 pen can describe, no imagination can conceive, the 
 scenes which ensued. The savages succeeded in 
 setting fire to one of the block-houses. Until six 
 o'clock in the morning this awful conflict con- 
 tinued, when the savages, baffled at every point 
 and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. 
 Capt. Taylor, for this gallant defense, was pro- 
 moted to the rank of Major by brevet. 
 
 Until the close of the war, Maj. Taylor was 
 placed in such situations that he saw but little 
 more of active service. He was sent far away 
 into the depths of the wilderness to Ft. Craw- 
 ford, on Fox River, which empties into Green 
 Bay. Here there was Httle to be done but to 
 wear away the tedious hours as one best could. 
 There were no books, no society, no intellectual 
 stimulus. Thus with him the uneventful years 
 rolled on. Gradually he rose to the rank of 
 Colonel. In the Black Hawk War, which re- 
 
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 ZACHARY TAYLOR. 
 
 suited in the capture of that renowned chieftain, 
 Col. Taylor took a subordinate, but a brave and 
 efficient, part. 
 
 For twenty-four years Col. Taylor was engaged 
 in the defense of the frontiers, in scenes so re- 
 mote, and in eniplojinents so obscure, that his 
 name was unknown beyond the limits of his own 
 immediate acquaintance. In the year 1836, he 
 was sent to Florida to compel the Seminole Indi- 
 ans to vacate that region, and retire beyond the 
 Mis.sissippi, as their chiefs by treaty had prom- 
 ised they should do. The services rendered here 
 secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of 
 the Government, and as a reward he was ele- 
 vated to the high rank of Brigadier-General by 
 brevet, and soon after, in May, 1838, was ap- 
 pointed to the chief command of the United 
 States troops in Florida. 
 
 After two years of wearisome employment 
 amidst the everglades of the Peninsula, Gen. Tay- 
 lor obtained, at his own request, a change of 
 command, and was stationed over the Department 
 of the Southwest. This field embraced Louisiana, 
 Mi.ssissippi, Alabama and Georgia. E.stablishing 
 his headquarters at Ft. Jessup, in Louisiana, he 
 removed his family to a plantation which he pur- 
 chased near Baton Rouge. Here he remained 
 for five years, buried, as it were, from the world, 
 but faithfully discharging every duty imposed 
 upon him. 
 
 In 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the 
 land between the Nueces and Rio Grande, the 
 latter river being the boundary of Texas, which 
 was then claimed by the United States. Soon 
 the war with Mexico was brought on, and at Palo 
 Alto and Resaca de la Palnia, Gen. Taylor won 
 brilliant victories over the Mexicans. The rank 
 of Major-General by brevet was then conferred 
 upon Gen. Taylor, and his name was received 
 with enthu.siasm almost everywhere in the na- 
 tion. Then came the battles of Monterey and 
 Buena Vista, in which he won signal victories 
 over forces much larger than he commanded. 
 
 The tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena 
 Vi.sta spread the wildest enthusia.sm over the 
 country. The name of Gen. Taylor was on 
 every one's lips. The Whig party decided to 
 
 take advantage of this wonderful popularity in 
 bringing forward the unpolished, unlettered, hon- 
 est soldier as their candidate for the Presidency. 
 Gen. Taylor was astonished at the announce- 
 ment, and for a time would not listen to it, de- 
 claring that he was not at all qualified for such 
 an office. So little interest had he taken in poli- 
 tics, that for forty years he had not cast a vote. 
 It was not without chagrin that several distin- 
 guished statesmen, who had been long years in 
 the public ser\-ice, found their claims set aside in 
 behalf of one whose name had never been heard 
 of, save in connection with Palo Alto, Resaca de 
 la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista. It is said 
 that Daniel Webster, in his haste, remarked, " It 
 is a nomination not fit to be made." 
 
 Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a 
 fine writer. His friends took possession of him, 
 and prepared such few communications as it was 
 needful should be presented to the public. The 
 popularity of the successful warrior swept the 
 land. He was triumphantly elected over two 
 opposing candidates, — Gen. Cass and Ex-Presi- 
 dent Martin Van Buren. Though he selected an 
 excellent cabinet, the good old man found himself 
 in a very uncongenial position, and was at times 
 sorely perplexed and harassed. His mental suf- 
 ferings were very severe, and probably tended to 
 hasten his death. The pro-slavery party was 
 pushing its claims with tireless energy; expedi- 
 tions were fitting out to capture Cuba; California 
 was pleading for admi.ssion to the Union, while 
 slavery stood at the door to bar her out. Gen. 
 Taylor found the political conflicts in Washington 
 to be far more trying to the nerves than battles 
 with Mexicans or Indians. 
 
 In the midst of all these troubles. Gen. Taylor, 
 after he had occupied the Presidential chair but 
 little over a year, took cold, and after a brief 
 sickness of but little over five days, died, on the 
 gth of July, 1850. His last words were, "I am 
 not afraid to die. I am ready. I have endeav- 
 ored to do my duty." He died universally re- 
 spected and beloved. An honest, unpretending 
 man, he had been steadilj- growing in the affec- 
 tions of the people, and the Nation bitterly la- 
 mented his death. 
 
MILLARD LILLMORL 
 
MILLARD FILLMORE. 
 
 yyilLIvARD FILLMORE, thirteenth President 
 y of the United States, was born at Summer 
 Hill, Cayuga County, N. Y., on the yth of 
 January , 1 800. His father was a farmer, and, owing 
 to misfortune, in humble circumstances. Of his 
 mother, the daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, of 
 Pittsfield, Mass., it has been said that she pos- 
 sessed an intellect of a high order, united with 
 much personal loveliness, sweetness of disposi- 
 tion, graceful maimers and exquisite sensibilities. 
 She died in 1831, having lived to see her son a 
 young man of distinguished promise, though she 
 was not permitted to witness the high dignity 
 which he finally attained. 
 
 In consequence of the secluded home and limited 
 means of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender 
 advantages for education in his early years. The 
 common schools, which he occasionally attended, 
 were very imperfect institutions, and books were 
 scarce and expensive. There was nothing then 
 in his character to indicate the brilliant career 
 upon which he was about to enter. He was a 
 plain farmer's boy — intelligent, good-looking, 
 kind-hearted. The sacred influences of home 
 had taught him to revere the Bible, and had laid 
 the foundations of an upright character. When 
 fourteen years of age, his father sent him some 
 hundred miles from home to the then wilds of 
 Livingston County, to learn the trade of a clothier. 
 Near the mill there was a small village, where 
 some enterprising man had commenced the col- 
 lection of a village library. This proved an in- 
 estimable blessing to young Fillmore. His even- 
 ings were spent in reading. Soon every leisure 
 moment was occupied with books. His thirst for 
 knowledge became insatiate, and the selections 
 which he made were continually more elevating 
 and instnictive. He read history, biography, 
 oratory, and thus gradually there was enkindled 
 
 in his heart a desire to be something more than a 
 mere worker with his hands. 
 
 The young clothier had now attained the age 
 of nineteen years, and was of fine personal appear- 
 ance and of gentlemanly demeanor. It so hap- 
 pened that there was a gentleman in the neigh- 
 borhood of ample pecuniary means and of benev- 
 olence, — ^Judge Walter Wood, — who was struck 
 with the prepossessing appearance of young Fill- 
 more. He made his acquaintance, and was so 
 much impressed with his ability and attainments 
 that he advised him to abandon his trade and de- 
 vote himself to the study of the law. The young 
 man replied that he had no means of his own, 
 no friends to help him, and that his previous edu- 
 cation had been very imperfect. But Judge Wood 
 had so much confidence in him that he kindly 
 offered to take him into his own office, and to 
 lend him such money as he needed. Most grate- 
 fully the generous offer was accepted. 
 
 There is in many minds a strange delusion 
 about a collegiate education. A young man is 
 supposed to be liberally educated if he has gradu- 
 ated at some college. But many a boy who loi- 
 ters through university halls and then enters a 
 law office is by no means as well prepared to 
 prosecute his legal studies as was Millard Fill- 
 more when he graduated at the clothing-mill at 
 the end of four years of manual labor, during 
 which every leisure moment had been devoted to 
 intense mental culture. 
 
 In 1823, when twenty- three 3'ears of age, he 
 was admitted to the Court of Common Pleas. 
 He then went to the village of Aurora, and com- 
 menced the practice of law. In this secluded, 
 quiet region, his practice, of course, was limited, 
 and there was no opportunity for a sudden rise in 
 fortune or in fame. Here, in 1826, he married a 
 lady of great moral worth, and one capable of 
 
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 MILLARD FILLMORE. 
 
 adorning anj- station she might be called to fill, — 
 Miss Abigail Powers. 
 
 His elevation of character, his untiring industry, 
 his legal acquirements, and his skill as an advo- 
 cate, gradually attracted attention, and he was 
 invited to enter into partnership, under highly ad- 
 vantageous circumstances, with an elder member 
 of the Bar in Buffalo. Just before removing to 
 Bufifalo, in 1829, he took his seat in the House of 
 Assemlily of the vState of New York, as a Repre- 
 sentative from Erie County. Though he had 
 never taken a very active part in politics, his vote 
 and sympatliies were with the Whig party. The 
 State was then Democratic, and he found himself 
 in a helpless minority in the Legislature; still the 
 testimony comes from all parties that his courtcs)', 
 ability and integrity won, to a verj- unusual de- 
 gree, the respect of his associates. 
 
 In the autumn of 1S32, he was elected to a 
 seat in the United States Congress. He entered 
 that troubled arena in the most tumultuous hours 
 of our national history, when the great conflict 
 respecting the national bank and the removal of 
 the deposits was raging. 
 
 His term of two 3'ears closed, and he returned 
 to his profession, which he pursued with increas- 
 ing reputation and success. After a lapse of two 
 years he again became a candidate for Congress; 
 was re-elected, and took his seat in 1837. His 
 past experience as a Representative gave him 
 strength and confidence. The first term of ser\'ice 
 in Congress to any man can be but little more 
 than an introduction. He was now prepared for 
 active duty. All his energies were brought to 
 bear upon the public good. Everj' measure re- 
 ceived his impress. 
 
 Mr. Fillmore was now a man of wide repute, 
 and his popularity filled the State. In the year 
 1847, when he had attained the age of forty- 
 .seven j'cars, he was elected Comptroller of the 
 State. His labors at the Bar, in the Legisla- 
 ture, in Congress and as Comptroller, had given 
 him verj' considerable fame. The Whigs were 
 ca.sting about to find suitable candidates for Presi- 
 dent and Vice-President at the approaching elec- 
 tion. Far away on the waters of the Rio Grande, 
 there was a rough old soldier, who had fought 
 
 one or two successful battles with the Mexicans, 
 which had caused his name to be proclaimed in 
 trumpet-tones all over the land as a candidate for 
 the presidency. But it was neces.sarj- to a.ssociate 
 with him on the same ticket some man of repu- 
 tation as a statesman. 
 
 Under the influence of these considerations, the 
 names of Zacharj' Ta)lor and Millard Fillmore 
 became the rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their 
 candidates for President and Vice-President. The 
 Whig ticket was signally triumphant. On the 
 4th of March, 1849, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated 
 President, and Millard Fillmore Vice-President, 
 of the United States. 
 
 On the yth of July, 1850, President Taylor, 
 about one year and four months after his inaugura- 
 tion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By the 
 Constitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus be- 
 came President. He ajipointed a verj- able cabi- 
 net, of which the illustrious Daniel Webster was 
 Secretary of State; nevertheless, he had serious 
 difficulties to contend with, .since the opposition 
 had a majoritj- in both Houses. He did all in his 
 power to conciliate the South; but the pro-slavery 
 party in the South felt the inadequacy of all 
 measures of transient conciliation. The jiopula- 
 tion of the free States was so rapidly increasing 
 over that of the .slave States, tliat it was inevitable 
 that the power of the Government should soon 
 pass into the hands of the free States. The fa- 
 mous compromise measures were adopted under 
 Mr. Fillmore's admini.stration, and the Japan ex- 
 pedition was sent out. On the 4th of March, 
 1853, he, having served one term, retired. 
 
 In 1856, Mr. P^illmore was nominated for the 
 Presidency by the "Know-Nothing" party, but 
 was beaten by Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. 
 Fillmore lived in retirement. During the terri- 
 ble conflict of civil war, he was mostly silent. It 
 was generally supposed that his sympathies were 
 rather with those who were endeavoring to over- 
 throw our institutions. President Fillmore kept 
 aloof from the conflict, without any cordial words 
 of cheer to one party or the other. He was thus 
 forgotten by both. He lived to a ripe old age, 
 and died in Buffalo, N. Y. , March 8, 1 874. 
 
FRANKLIX PIERCE. 
 
FRANKLIN PIERCE. 
 
 r"RANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth Presi- 
 r^ dent of the United States, was born in Hills- 
 I * borough, N. H., November 23, 1804. His 
 father was a Revolutionary soldier, who with his 
 own strong arm hewed out a home in the wilder- 
 ness. He was a man of inflexible integrity, of 
 strong, though uncultivated, mind, and was an un- 
 compromising Democrat. The mother of Frank- 
 lin Pierce was all that a son could desire— an in- 
 telligent, prudent, affectionate. Christian woman. 
 Franklin, who was the sixth of eight children, 
 was a remarkably bright and handsome boy, 
 generous, warm-hearted and brave. He won 
 alike the love of old and young. The boys on 
 the play-ground loved him. His teachers loved 
 him. The neighbors looked upon him with pride 
 and affection. He was by instinct a gentleman, 
 always speaking kind words, and doing kind 
 deeds, with a peculiar, unstudied tact which 
 taught him what was agreeable. Without de- 
 veloping any precocity of genius, or any unnatural 
 devotion to books, he was a good scholar, and in 
 body and mind a finely developed boy. 
 
 When sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, 
 he entered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me. 
 He was one of the most popular young men in 
 the college. The purity of his moral character, 
 the unvarying courtesy of his demeanor, his rank 
 as a scholar, and genial nature, rendered him a 
 universal favorite.- There was something pe- 
 culiarly winning in his address, and it was evi- 
 dently not in the slightest degree studied — it was 
 the simple out'gushing of his own magnanimous 
 and loving nature. 
 
 Upon graduating, in the year 1824, Franklin 
 Pierce commenced the study of law in the office 
 of Judge Woodbury, one of the most distinguished 
 
 lawyers of the State, and a man of great private 
 worth. The eminent social qualities of the young 
 lawyer, his father's prominence as a public man, 
 and the brilliant political career into which Judge 
 Woodbury was entering, all tended to entice Mr. 
 Pierce into the fascinating yet perilous path of 
 political life. With all the ardor of his nature he 
 espoused the cause of Gen. Jackson for the Presi- 
 dency. He commenced the practice of law in 
 Hillsborough, and was soon elected to represent 
 the town in the State Legislature. Here he 
 served for four years. The last two years he was 
 chosen Speaker of the House by a very large 
 vote. 
 
 In 1833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was 
 elected a member of Congress. In 1837, being 
 then but thirty-three years old, he was elected to 
 the Senate, taking his seat just as Mr. Van Buren 
 commenced his administration. He was the 
 youngest member in the Senate. In the year 
 1834, he married Miss Jane Means Appleton, a 
 lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, and one 
 admirably fitted to adorn every station with which 
 her husband was honored. Of the three sons who 
 were born to them, all now sleep with their par- 
 ents in the grave. 
 
 In the year 1838, Mr. Pierce, with growing 
 fame and increasing business as a lawyer, took up 
 his residence in Concord, the capital of New 
 Hampshire. President Polk, upon his accession 
 to office, appointed Mr. Pierce Attorney-General 
 of the United States; but the offer was declined 
 in consequence of numerous professional engage- 
 ments at home, and the precarious state of Mrs. 
 Pierce's health. He also, about the same time, 
 declined the nomination for Governor by the 
 Democratic party. The war with Mexico called 
 
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 FRANKUN PIERCE. 
 
 Mr. Pierce into tlie arinj-. Receiving the appoint- 
 ment of Brigadier-General, he embarked with a 
 portion of his troops at Newport, R I., on the 
 27th of May, 1847. He took an important part 
 in this war, proving himself a brave and true sol- 
 dier. 
 
 When Gen. Pierce reached his home in his na- 
 tive State, he was received enthusiastically by the 
 advocates of the Mexican War, and coldly by his 
 opponents. He resumed the practice of his pro- 
 fession, verj- frequently taking an active part in 
 political questions, giving his cordial support to 
 the pro-slavery wing of the Democratic party. 
 The compromise measures met cordially with his 
 approval, and he strenuously advocated the en- 
 forcement of the infamous Fugitive Slave Law, 
 which so shocked the religious sensibilities of the 
 North. He thus became distinguished as a 
 " Northern man with Southern principles." The 
 strong partisans of slavery- in the South conse- 
 quently regarded him as a man whom they could 
 safely trust in office to carry out their plans. 
 
 On the 12th of June, 1852, tlie Democratic con- 
 vention met ill Baltimore to nominate a candidate 
 for the Presidency. For four days they contin- 
 ued in se.s.sion, and in thirty-five ballotings no one 
 had obtained a two-thirds vote. Not a vote thus 
 far had been thrown for Gen. Pierce. Then the 
 Virginia delegation brought forward his name. 
 There were fourteen more ballotings, during which 
 Gen. Pierce constantly gained strength, until, at 
 the forty-ninth ballot, he received two hundred 
 and eighty-two votes, and all other candidates 
 eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was the Whig can- 
 didate. Gen. Pierce was cho.sen with great una- 
 nimity. Only four States — Vermont, Massachu- 
 setts, Kentucky and Tennessee — ca.st their elec- 
 toral votes against him. Gen. Franklin Pierce 
 was therefore inaugurated President of the United 
 States on the 4th of March, 1853. 
 
 His administration proved one of the most 
 stormy our country had ever experienced. The 
 contro\-ersy between .slaver\- and freedom was 
 then approaching its culminating point. It be- 
 came evident that there was to be an irrepressible 
 conflict between them, and that this nation 
 could not long exist " hhlf slave and half free." 
 
 President Pierce, during the whole of his admin- 
 istration, did everjthiug he could to conciliate the 
 South; but it was all in vain. The conflict ever> 
 year grew more violent, and threats of the disso- 
 lution of the Union were borne to the North on 
 every Southern breeze. 
 
 Such was the condition of affairs when Presi- 
 dent Pierce approached the close of his four- 
 years term of office. The North had become 
 thoroughly alienated from him. The anti-slavery 
 sentiment, goaded by great outrages, had been 
 rapidly increasing; all the intellectual ability and 
 social worth of President Pierce were forgotten in 
 deep reprehension of his administrative acts. The 
 slaveholders of the South also, unmindful of the 
 fidelity' with which he had advocated those meas- 
 ures of Government which the)- approved, and 
 perhaps feeling that he had rendered himself 
 .so unpopular as no longer to be able to accepta- 
 bly ser\-e them, ungratefully dropped him, and 
 nominated James Buchanan to succeed him. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1857, President Pierce re- 
 turned to his home in Concord. His three chil- 
 dren were all dead, his last sur\-iving child hav- 
 ing been killed before his eyes in a railroad acci- 
 dent; and his wife, one of the most estimableand 
 accomplished of ladies, was rapidly sinking in 
 consumption. The hour of dreadful gloom soon 
 came, and he was left alone in the world without 
 wife or child. 
 
 When the terrible Rebellion burst forth which 
 divided our country into two parties, and two 
 only, Mr. Pierce remained steadfast in the prin- 
 ciples which he had always cherished, and gave 
 his sympathies to that pro-slavery party with 
 which he had ever been allied. He declined to 
 do anything, either by voice or pen, to strengthen 
 the hand of the National Government. He con- 
 tinued to reside in Concord until the time of his 
 death, which occurred in October, 1869. He was 
 one of the most genial and social of men, an hon- 
 ored communicant of the Episcopal Church, and 
 one of the kindest of neighbors. Generous to a 
 fault, he contributed liberally toward the allevia- 
 tion of suffering and want, and many of his 
 towns-people were often gladdened bj- his material 
 bounty. 
 
JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
 (Tames BUCHANAN, the fifteenth President 
 I of the United States, was born in a small 
 C2? frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge 
 of the Alleghanies, in Franklin County, Pa., on 
 the 23d of April, 1791. The place where the 
 humble cabin home stood was called Stony Bat- 
 ter. His father was a native of the north of Ire- 
 land, who had emigrated in 1783, with little prop- 
 erty save his own strong arms. Five years after- 
 ward he married Elizabeth Spear, the daughter 
 of a respectable farmer, and, with his young bride, 
 plunged into the wilderness, staked his claim, 
 reared his log hut, opened a clearing with his 
 axe, and settled down there to perform his obscure 
 part in the drama of life. When James was eight 
 years of age, his father removed to the village of 
 Mercersburg, where his son was placed at school, 
 and commenced a course of study in English, 
 Latin and Greek. His progress was rapid, and 
 at the age of fourteen he entered Dickinson Col- 
 lege, at Carlisle. Here he developed remarkable 
 talent, and took his stand among the first scholars 
 in the institution. 
 
 In the year 1809, he graduated with the high- 
 est honors of his class. He was then eighteen 
 years of age; tall and graceful, vigorous in health, 
 fond of athletic sports, an unerring shot, and en- 
 livened with an exuberant flow of animal spirits, 
 lie immediately commenced the study of law in 
 the city of Lancaster, and was admitted to the 
 Bar in 1812, when he was but twenty-one years 
 of age. 
 
 In 1820, he reluctantly consented to run as a 
 candidate for Congress. He was elected, and for 
 ten years he remained a member of the Lower 
 House. During the vacations of Congress, he 
 
 occasionally tried some important case. In 1831 
 he retired altogether from the toils of his profes- 
 sion, having acquired an ample fortune. 
 
 Gen. Jack.son, upon his elevation to the Presi- 
 dency, appointed Mr. Buchanan Minister to Rus- 
 sia. The duties of his mission he performed 
 with ability, and gave satisfaction to all parties. 
 Upon his return, in 1833, h^ was elected to a seat 
 in the United States Senate. He there met as 
 his associates Webster, Clay, Wright and Cal- 
 houn. He advocated the measures proposed by 
 President Jackson, of making reprisals against 
 France to enforce the payment of our claims 
 against that country, and defended the course of 
 the President in his unprecedented and wholesale 
 removal from office of those who were not the 
 supporters of his administration. Upon this 
 question he was brought into direct collision with 
 Henry Clay. He also, with voice and vote, ad- 
 vocated expunging from the journal of the Senate 
 the vote of censure against Gen. Jackson for re- 
 moving the deposits. Earnestly he opposed the 
 abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 
 and urged the prohibition of the circulation of 
 anti-slavery documents by the United States 
 mails. As to petitions on the subject of slavery, 
 he advocated that they should be re.spectfully re- 
 ceived, and that the reply should be returned 
 that Congress had no power to legislate upon the 
 subject. "Congress," said he, "might as well 
 undertake to interfere with slavery under a for- 
 eign government as in any of the States where it 
 now exists." 
 
 Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the Pre.sidency, 
 Mr. Buchanan became Secretary of State, and a? 
 such took his share of the responsibility in the 
 
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 JAMES BUCHANAN. 
 
 conduct of the Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed 
 that crossing the Nueces by the American 
 troops iuto the disputed territorj- was not wrong, 
 but for the Mexicans to cross the Rio Grande 
 iuto Texas was a declaration of war. No candid 
 man can read with pleasure the account of the 
 cour.se our Govennnent pursued in that movement. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly 
 with the party devoted to the perpetuation and 
 extension of .slavery, and brought all the energies 
 of his mind to bear against the Wilmot Proviso. 
 He gave his cordial approval to the compromise 
 mca.sures of 1850, which included the Fugitive 
 Slave Law. Mr. Pierce, upon his election to the 
 Presidency, honored Mr. Buchanan with the mis- 
 sion to England. 
 
 In the year 1856, a national Democratic Con- 
 vention nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presi- 
 dency. The political conflict was one of the most 
 severe in which our countrj' has ever engaged. 
 All the friends of slavery were on one side; all 
 the advocates of its restriction and final abolition 
 on the other. Mr. Fremont, the candidate of the 
 enemies of slavery, received one hundred and 
 fourteen electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan received 
 one hundred and seventy-four, and was elected. 
 The popular vote stood 1,340,618 for Fremont, 
 1,224,750 for Buchanan. On March 4, 1857, 
 the latter was inaugurated. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only 
 four years were wanting to fill up his three-score 
 years and ten. His own friends, those with 
 whom he had been allied in political principles 
 and action for j-ears, were .seeking the de.struc- 
 tion of the Government, that they might rear 
 upon the ruins of our free institutions a nation 
 who.se corner-stone .should be human slavery. In 
 this emergency, Mr. Blichanan was hopelessly 
 bewildered. He could not, with his long-avowed 
 principles, con.sistently oppose the State Rights 
 party in their assumjitions. As President of the 
 United States, bound by his oath faithfully to 
 administer the laws, he could not, without per- 
 jury of the gro.ssest kind, luiite with those en- 
 deavoring to overthrow the Republic. He there- 
 fore did nothing. 
 
 The opponents of Mr. Bucnauan's administra- 
 
 tion nominated Abraham Lincoln as their stand- 
 ard-bearer in the next Presidential canvass. 
 The pro-slavery party declared that if he were 
 elected and the control of the Government were 
 thus taken from their hands, they would .secede 
 from the Union, taking with them as they retired 
 the National Capitol at Washington and the 
 lion's share of the territorj- of the United States. 
 
 As the storm increased in violence, the slave- 
 holders claiming the right to secede, and Mr. 
 Buchanan avowing that Congress had no power 
 to prevent it, one of the most pitiable exhibitions 
 of governmental imbecility was exhibited that the 
 world has ever seen. He declared that Congress 
 had no power to enforce its laws in any State 
 which had withdrawn, or which was attempting 
 to withdraw, from the Union. This was not the 
 doctrine of Andrew Jackson, when, with his hand 
 upon his sword-hilt, he exclaimed: "The LTuion 
 must and shall be preser\-ed!" 
 
 South Carolina seceded in December, i860, 
 nearly three months before the inauguration of 
 President Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in 
 listless despair. The rebel flag was raised in 
 Charleston; Ft. Sumter was besieged; our forts, 
 navj'-yards and arsenals were seized; our depots 
 of military stores were plundered, and our cus- 
 tom-houses and post-offices were appropriated by 
 the rebels. 
 
 The energy of the rebels and the imbecility of 
 our Executive were alike marvelous. The na- 
 tion looked on iu agony, waiting for the slow 
 weeks to glide away and close the administration, 
 .so terrible in its weakness. At length the long- 
 looked-for hour of deliverance came, when Abra- 
 ham Lincoln was to receive the scepter. 
 
 The administration of President Buchanan was 
 certainly the most calamitous our country has ex- 
 perienced. His best friends can not recall it with 
 pleasure. And .still more deplorable it is for his 
 fame, that in that dreadful conflict which rolled 
 its billows of flame and blood over our whole 
 land, no word came from his lips to indicate his 
 wish that our country's banner should triumph 
 over the flag of the Rebellion. He died at his 
 Wheatland retreat, June i, 1868. 
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'. 
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 Gl BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth Presi- 
 Ll dent of the United States, was born in Hardin 
 I I County, Ky. , February 12, 1809. About 
 the year 1780, a man by the name of Abraham 
 Lincohi left Virginia with his familj' and moved 
 into the then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years 
 after this emigration, and while still a young man, 
 he was working one day in a field, when an Indian 
 stealthily approached and killed him. His widow 
 was left in extreme poverty with five little chil- 
 dren, three boys and two girls. Thomas, the 
 youngest of the boys, and the father of President 
 Abraham Lincoln, was four years of age at his 
 father's death. 
 
 When twenty-eight years old, Thomas Lincoln 
 built a log cabin, and married Nancy Hanks, the 
 daughter of another family of poor Kentucky 
 emigrants, who had also come from Virginia. 
 Their second child was Abraham Lincoln, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was 
 a noble woman, gentle, loving, pensive, created 
 to adorn a palace, but doomed to toil and pine, and 
 die in a hovel. " All that I am, or hope to be," 
 exclaimed the grateful son, " I owe to my angel- 
 mother." When he was eight years of age, his 
 father sold his cabin and small farm and moved 
 to Indiana, where two years later his mother died. 
 
 As the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly 
 family was the usual lot of humanity. There 
 were joys and griefs, weddings and funerals. 
 Abraham's sister Sarah, to whom he was tenderly 
 attached, was married when a child of but four- 
 teen years of age, and soon died. The family 
 was gradually scattered, and Thomas Lincoln 
 sold out his squatter's claim in 1830, and emi- 
 grated to Macon County, 111. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was then twentj'-one years 
 of age. With vigorous hands he aided his father 
 in rearing another log cabin, and worked quite 
 diligently at this until he saw the family com- 
 fortably settled, and their small lot of enclosed 
 prairie planted with corn, when he announced to 
 
 his father his intention to leave home, and to go 
 
 out into the world and seek his fortune. Little 
 did he or his friends imagine how brilliant that 
 fortune was to be. He saw the value of educa- 
 tion and was intensely earnest to improve his 
 mind to the utmost of his power. Religion he 
 revered. His morals were pure, and he was un- 
 contaminated by a single vice. 
 
 Youug Abraham worked for a time as a hired 
 laborer among the farmers. Then he went to 
 Springfield, where he was employed in building 
 a large flat-boat. In this he took a herd of swine, 
 floated them down the Sangamon to Illinois, and 
 thence by the Mississippi to New Orleans. What- 
 ever Abraham Lincoln undertook, he performed 
 so faithfully as to give great satisfaction to his 
 emploj'ers. In this adventure the latter were 
 so well pleased, that upon his return they placed 
 a store and mill under his care. 
 
 In 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk 
 War, he enlisted and was chosen Captain of a 
 company. He returned to Sangamon County, 
 and, although only twenty-three years of age, was 
 a candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated. 
 He soon after received from Andrew Jackson the 
 appointment of Postmaster of New Salem. His 
 only post-office was his hat. All the letters he 
 received he carried there, ready to deliver to those 
 he chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and 
 .soon made this his business. In 1834 he again 
 became a candidate for the Legislature and was 
 elected. Mr. Stuart, of Springfield, advised him 
 to study law. He walked from New Salem to 
 Springfield, borrowed of Mr. Stuart a load of 
 books, carried them back, and began his legal 
 studies. When the Legislature assembled, he 
 trudged on foot with his pack on his back one 
 hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In 
 1836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here 
 it was he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1839 
 he removed to Springfield and began the practice 
 of law. His success with the jury was so great 
 
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 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 that he was soon engaged in almost every noted 
 case in the circuit. 
 
 In 1S54 the great discussion began between Mr. 
 Lincohi and Mr. Douglas on the slavery ques- 
 tion. In the organization of the Republican party 
 in Illinois, in 1856, he took an active part, and at 
 once became one of the leaders in that party. 
 Mr. Lincoln's speeches in opposition to Senator 
 Douglas in the contest in 1858 for a seat in the 
 Senate, form a most notable part of his history. 
 The issue was on the .slavery question, and he 
 took the broad ground of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence, that all men are created equal. Mr. 
 Lincoln was defeated in this contest, but won a 
 far higher prize. 
 
 The great Republican Convention met at Chi- 
 cago on the 1 6th of June, 1S60. The delegates 
 and strangers who crowded the city amounted to 
 twentj'-five thousand. An immense building 
 called " The Wigwam," was reared to accommo- 
 date the convention. There were eleven candi- 
 dates for whom votes were thrown. William H. 
 Seward, a man whose fame as a statesman had 
 long filled the land, was the most prominent. It 
 was generally supposed he would be the nomi- 
 nee. Abraham Lincoln, however, received the 
 nomination on the third ballot. 
 
 Election day came, and Mr. Lincoln received 
 one hundred and eighty electoral votes out of two 
 hundred and three cast, and was, therefore, con- 
 stitutionally elected President of the United States. 
 The tirade of abuse that was poured upon this 
 good and merciful man, especially by the slave- 
 faolders, was greater than upon any other man 
 ever elected to this high position. In February, 
 1861, Mr. Lincoln .started for Washington, .stop- 
 ping in all the large cities on his way, making 
 speeches. The whole journey was fraught with 
 much danger. Many of the Southern States had 
 already seceded, and several attempts at a,ssassi- 
 nation were afterward brought to light. A gang 
 in lialtiuiore had arranged upon his arrival to 
 "get up a row," and in the confusion to make 
 sure of his death with revolvers and hand-gren- 
 ades. A detective unravelled the plot. A secret 
 and .special train was provided to take him from 
 Harrisburg, through Baltimore, at an unexpected 
 
 hour of the night. The tram started at half- past 
 ten, and to prevent any possible connnunicalion 
 on the part of the Sece.s.sionists with their Con- 
 federate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train 
 had .started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. 
 Lincoln reached Washington in safetj- and was 
 inaugurated, although great anxiety was felt by 
 all loyal people. 
 
 In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave 
 to Mr. Seward the Department of State, and to 
 other prominent opponents before the convention 
 he gave important positions; but during no other 
 administration had the duties devolving upon the 
 President been so manifold, and the responsibilities 
 .so great, as those which fell to his lot. Knowing 
 this, and feeling his own weakness and inability 
 to meet, and in his own strength to cope with, 
 the difficulties, he learned early to seek Divine 
 wisdom and guidance in detenuining his plans, 
 and Divine comfort in all his trials, both personal 
 and national. Contrary to his own estimate of 
 himself, Mr. Lincoln was one of the most cour- 
 ageous of men. He went directly into the rebel 
 capital just as the retreating foe was leaving, with 
 no guard but a few sailors. From the time he 
 had left Springfield, in 1861, however, plans had 
 been made for his assassination, and he at last 
 fell a victim to one of them. April 14, 1865, he, 
 with Gen. Grant, was urgently invited to attend 
 Ford's Theatre. It was aimounced that they 
 would be present. Gen. Grant, however, left the 
 cit}'. Pre.sident Lincoln, feeling, with his char- 
 acteristic kindliness of heart, that it would be a 
 disappointment if he should fail them, very re- 
 luctantly consented to go. While listening to 
 the play, an actor by the name of John Wilkes 
 Booth entered the box where the President and 
 family were .seated, and fired a bullet into his 
 brain. He died the next morning at seven 
 o'clock. 
 
 Never before in the history of the world was 
 a nation plunged into such deep grief by the death 
 of its ruler. Strong men met in the streets and 
 wept in speechless anguish. His was a life which 
 will fitly become a model. His name as the 
 Savior of his countrj- will live with that of Wash- 
 ington's, its Father. 
 
ANDREW JOHNvSON. 
 
ANDREW JOHNSON. 
 
 (p\ NDREW JOHNSON, seventeenth President 
 lJ of the United States. The early life of An- 
 I I drew Johnson contains but the record of pov- 
 erty, destitution and friendlessness. He was born 
 December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, N. C. His par- 
 ents, belonging to the class of "poor whites" 
 of the South, were in such circumstances that they 
 could not confer even the slightest advantages of 
 education upon their child. When Andrew was 
 five years of age, his father accidentally lost his 
 life, while heroically endeavoring to save a friend 
 from drowning. Until ten j^ears of age, Andrew 
 was a ragged boy about the streets, supported by 
 the labor of his mother, who obtained her living 
 with her own hands. 
 
 He then, having never attended a school one 
 day, and behig unable either to read or write, was 
 apprenticed to a tailor in his native town. A gen- 
 tleman was in the habit of going to the tailor's 
 shop occasionally, and reading to the boys at 
 work there. He often read from the speeches of 
 distinguished British statesmen. Andrew, who 
 was endowed with a mind of more than ordinary 
 ability, became much interested in these speeches; 
 his ambition was roused, and he was inspired with 
 a strong desire to learn to read. 
 
 He accordingly applied himself to the alphabet, 
 and with the assistance of some of his fellow- 
 workmen learned his letters. He then called upon 
 the gentleman to borrow the book of speeches. 
 The owner, pleased with his zeal, not only gave 
 him the book, but assisted him in learning to com- 
 bine the letters into words. Under such difficul- 
 ties he pressed onward laboriously, spending usu- 
 ally ten or twelve hours at work in the shop, and 
 then robbing himself of rest and recreation to de- 
 vote such time as he could to reading. 
 
 He went to Tennessee in 1826, and located at 
 
 Greenville, where he married a young lady who 
 possessed some education. Under her instructions 
 he learned to write and cipher. He became 
 prominent in the village debating society, and a 
 favorite with the students of Greenville College. 
 In 1828, he organized a working man's party, 
 which elected him Alderman, and in 1830 elected 
 him Mayor, which position he held three years. 
 
 He now began to take a lively interest in 
 political affairs, identifying himself with the work- 
 ing-class, to which he belonged. In 1835, he 
 was elected a member of the House of Represent- 
 atives of Tennessee. He was then just twenty- 
 seven years of age. He became a very active 
 member of the Legislature, gave his support to 
 the Democratic party, and in 1840 "stumped the 
 State," advocating Martin Van Buren's claims to 
 the Presidency, in opposition to those of Gen. 
 Harrison. In this campaign he acquired much 
 readiness as a speaker, and extended and increased 
 his reputation. 
 
 In 1 84 1, he was elected State Senator; in 1843, 
 he was elected a Member of Congress, and by suc- 
 cessive elections held that important post for ten 
 years. In 1853, he was elected Governor of Tenn- 
 essee, and was re-elected in 1855. In all these 
 responsible positions, he discharged his duties 
 with distinguished ability, and proved himself the 
 warm friend of the working classes. In 1857, Mr. 
 Johnson was elected United States Senator. 
 
 Years before, in 1845, he had warmly advocated 
 the annexation of Texas, stating, however, as his 
 reason, that he thought this annexation would 
 probably prove ' 'to be the gateway out of which 
 the sable sons of Africa are to pass from bondage 
 to freedom, and become merged in a population 
 congenial to themselves." In 1850, he also sup- 
 ported the compromise measures, the two essen- 
 
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 ANDREW JOHNSON. 
 
 tial features of which were, that the white people 
 of the Territories should be permitted to decide 
 for themselves whether they would enslave the 
 colored people or not, and that the free States of 
 the North shoidd return to the South persons who 
 attempted to escape from slavery. 
 
 Mr. Johnson was never ashamed of his lowly 
 origin: on the cont^arJ^ he oflen took pride in 
 avowing that he owed his distinction to his own 
 exertions. "Sir," said he on the floor of the 
 Senate, "I do not forget that I am a mechanic; 
 neither do I forget that Adam was a tailor and 
 sewed fig-leaves, and that our Savior was the son 
 of a carpenter. ' ' 
 
 In the Charleston-Baltimore convention of i860, 
 he was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for 
 the Presidency. In 1861, when the purpose of 
 the Southern Democracy became apparent, he took 
 a decided stand in favor of the Union, and held 
 that ".slavery "must be held subordinate to the 
 Union at whatever cost." He returned to Tenn- 
 essee, and repeatedly imperiled his own life to 
 protect the Unionists of that State. Tennessee 
 having seceded from the Union, President Lincoln, 
 on March 4, 1862, appointed him Military Gov- 
 ernor of the State, and he established the most 
 stringent militarj' rule. His numerous proclama- 
 tions attracted wide attention. In 1864, he was 
 elected Vice-President of the United States, and 
 upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, 1865, 
 became President. In a speech two days later he 
 said, "The American people must be taught, if 
 they do not already feel, that treason is a crime 
 and must be punished; that the Government will 
 not always bear with its enemies; that it is strong 
 not only to protect, but to punish. * * The 
 people must understand that it (treason) is the 
 blackest of crimes, and will surely be punished." 
 Yet his whole administration, the history of which 
 is so well known, was in utter inconsistency with, 
 and in the most violent opposition to, the princi- 
 ples laid down in that speech. 
 
 In his loose policy of reconstruction and general 
 amnesty, he was opposed by Congress, and he 
 characterized Congress as a new rebellion, and 
 lawlessly defied it in everything possible to the ut- 
 most. In the beginning of 1868, on account of 
 
 "High crimes and misdemeanors," the principal 
 of which was the removal of Secretarj^ Stanton in 
 violation of the Tenure of Office Act, articles of 
 impeachment were preferred against him, and the 
 trial began March 23. 
 
 It was very tedious, continuing for nearly three 
 months. A test article of the impeachment was 
 at length submitted to the court for its action. It 
 was certain that as the court voted upon that ar- 
 ticle so would it vote upon all. Thirty-four voices 
 pronounced the President guilty. As a two-thirds 
 vote was necessary to his condenniation, he was 
 pronounced acquitted, notwithstanding the great 
 majority against him. The change of one vote 
 from the 710 1 guilty side would have sustained the 
 impeachment. 
 
 The President, for the remainder of his term, 
 was but little regarded. He continued, though 
 impoteutly, his conflict with Congress. His own 
 party did not think it expedient to renominate 
 him for the Presidency. The Nation rallied with 
 enthusiasm, unparalleled since the days of Wash- 
 ington, around the name of Gen. Grant. Andrew 
 Johnson was forgotten. The bullet of the assassin 
 introduced him to the President's chair. Not- 
 withstanding this, never was there presented to a 
 man a better opportunity to immortalize his name, 
 and to win the gratitude of a nation. He failed 
 utterly. He retired to his home in Greenville, 
 Tenn., taking no verj- active part in politics until 
 1875. On January 26, after an exciting struggle, 
 he was chosen by the Legislature of Tennessee 
 United States Senator in the Fort3'-fourth Congess, 
 and took his seat in that body, at the special ses- 
 sion convened by President Grant, on the 5th of 
 March. On the 27tliof July, 1875, the ex-Presi- 
 dent made a visit to his daughter's home, near 
 Carter Station, Tenn. When he started on his 
 journey, he was apparently in his usual vigorous 
 health, but on reaching the residence of his child 
 the following day, he was .stricken with paralysis, 
 which rendered him unconscious. He rallied oc- 
 casionally, but finally passed away at 2 A. m., 
 July 31 , aged sixty-.seven years. His funeral was 
 held at Greenville, on the 3d of August, with 
 every demonstration of respect. 
 
ULYSSES S. GRANT 
 
ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
 HLYSSES S. GRANT, the eighteenth Presi- 
 deut of the United States, was born on the 
 29th of April, 1822, of Christian parents, in 
 a humble home at Point Pleasant, on the banks 
 of the Ohio. Shortly after, his father moved to 
 Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio. In this re- 
 mote frontier hamlet, Ulysses received a common- 
 school education. At the age of seventeen, in 
 the year 1839, he' entered the Military Academy 
 at West Point. Here he was regarded as a solid, 
 sensible young man, of fair ability, and of sturdy, 
 honest character. He took respectable rank as a 
 scholar. In June, 1843, he. graduated about the 
 middle in his class, and was sent as I^ieutenant of 
 Infantry to one of the distant miUtary posts in the 
 Missouri Territory. Two years he passed in these 
 dreary solitudes, watching the vagabond Indians. 
 
 The war with Mexico came. Lieut. Grant was 
 sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi. His 
 first battle was at Palo Alto. There was no 
 chance here for the exhibition of either skill or 
 heroism, nor at Resaca de la Palma, his second 
 battle. At the battle of Monterey, his third en- 
 gagement, it is said that he performed a signal 
 service of daring and skillful horsemanship. 
 
 At the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant 
 returned with his regiment to New York, and 
 was again sent to one of the military posts on the 
 frontier. The discovery of gold in California 
 causing an immense tide of emigration to flow to 
 the Pacific shores, Capt. Grant was sent with a 
 battalion to Ft. Dallas, in Oregon, for the protec- 
 tion of the interests of the immigrants. But life 
 was wearisome in those wilds, and he resigned 
 his commission and returned to the States. Hav- 
 ing married, he entered upon the cultivation of a 
 small farm near St. I^ouis, Mo., but having little 
 
 skill as a farmer, and finding his toil not re- 
 munerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering 
 into the leather business, with a younger brother 
 at Galena, 111. This was in the year i860. As 
 the tidings of the rebels firing on Ft. Sumter 
 reached the ears of Capt. Grant in his counting- 
 room, he said: "Uncle Sam has educated me 
 for the army; though I have served him through 
 one war, I do not feel that I have yet repaid the 
 debt. I am still ready to discharge my obliga- 
 tions. I shall therefore buckle on my sword and 
 see Uncle Sam through this war too. ' ' 
 
 He went into the streets, raised a company of 
 volunteers, and led them as their Captain to 
 Springfield, the capital of the State, where their 
 services were oflfered to Gov. Yates. The Gov- 
 ernor, impressed by the zeal and straightforward 
 executive ability of Capt. Grant, gave him a desk 
 in his ofiice to assist in the volunteer organiza- 
 tion that was being formed in the State in behalf 
 of the Government. On the 15th of June, 186 1, 
 Capt. Grant received a commission as Colonel of 
 the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. 
 His merits as a West Point graduate, who had 
 served for fifteen years in the regular army, were 
 such that he was soon promoted to the rank of 
 Brigadier- General, and was placed in command at 
 Cairo. The rebels raised their banner at Padu- 
 cah, near the mouth of the Tennessee River. 
 Scarcely had its folds appeared in the breeze ere 
 Gen. Grant was there. The rebels fled, their 
 banner fell, and the Stars and Stripes were un- 
 furled in its stead. 
 
 He entered the service with great determina- 
 tion and immediately began active duty. This 
 was the beginning, and until the surrender of 
 Lee at Richmond he was ever pushing the enemy 
 
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 ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
 
 with great vigor and effectiveness. At Belmont, 
 a few days later, he surprised and routed the 
 rebels, then at Ft. Henry won another victory. 
 Then came the brilliant fight at Ft. Donelson. 
 The nation was electrified by the victorj-, and the 
 brave leader of the boys in blue was immediately 
 made a Major-General, and the military district 
 of Tennessee was "assigned to him. 
 
 Like all great captains, Gen. Grant knew well 
 how to secure the results of victory. He imme- 
 diately pushed on to the enemies' lines. Then 
 came the terrible battles of Pittsburg Landing, 
 Corinth, and the siege of Vicksburg, where Gen. 
 Pemberton made an unconditional surrender of 
 the city with over thirty thousand men and one 
 hinidred and seventy-two cannon. The fall of 
 Vicksburg was by far the most severe blow which 
 the rebels had thus far encountered, and opened 
 up the Mississippi from Cairo to the Gulf 
 
 Gen. Grant was next ordered to co-operate with 
 Gen. Banks in a movement upon Texas, and pro- 
 ceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown 
 from his hor.se, and received severe injuries, from 
 which he was laid up for months. He then 
 rushed to the aid of Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas 
 at Chattanooga, and by a wonderful series of 
 strategic and technical measures put the Union 
 army in fighting condition. Then followed the 
 bloody battles at Chattanooga, Lookout Moun- 
 tain and Missionarj' Ridge, in which the rebels 
 were routed with g^eat loss. This won for him 
 unlxninded praise in the North. On the 4th of 
 February, 1^64, Congress revived the grade of 
 lieutenant-general, and the rank was conferred 
 on Gen. Grant. He repaired to Washington to 
 receive his credentials and enter upon the duties 
 of his new office. 
 
 Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge 
 of the army to concentrate the widely-di.sper.sed 
 National troops for an attack upon Richmond, 
 the nominal capital of the rebellion, and endeavor 
 there to destroy the rebel armies which would be 
 promptly assembled hum all cjuarters for its de- 
 fense. The whole continent .seemed to tremble 
 under the tramp ofthe.se majestic armies, rushing 
 to the decisive battle-field. Steamers were crowd- 
 ed with troops. Railway trains were burdened 
 
 with closely-packed thousands. His plans were 
 
 comprehensive, and involved a series of cam- 
 paigns, which were executed With remarkable 
 energy^ and ability, and were consummated at the 
 surrender of Lee, April 9, 1865. 
 
 The war was ended. The Union was saved. 
 The almost unanimous voice of the nation de- 
 clared Gen. Grant to be the most prominent in- 
 strument in its salvation. The eminent services 
 he had thus rendered the country brought him 
 conspicuously forward as the Republican candi- 
 date for the Presidential chair. 
 
 At the Republican Convention held at Chicago, 
 May 21, 1868, he was unanimously nominated 
 for the Presidency, and at the autumn election 
 received a majority of the popular vote, and two 
 hundred and fourteen out of two hundred and 
 ninety-four electoral votes. 
 
 The National Convention of the Republican 
 party, which met at Philadelphia on the 5th ot 
 June, 1872, placed Gen. Grant in nomination for 
 a second term by a unanimous vote. The selec- 
 tion was eniphaticallj' indorsed by the people five 
 months later, two hundred and ninety-two elect- 
 oral votes being cast for him. 
 
 Soon after the close of his second term. Gen. 
 Grant started upon his famous trip around the 
 world. He visited almost every country of the 
 civilized world, and was everywhere received 
 with such ovations and demonstrations of respect 
 and honor, private as well as public and official, 
 as were never before bestowed upon any citizen 
 of the United States. 
 
 He was the most prominent candidate before 
 the Rejiublican National Convention in 1880 for 
 a renomination for President. He went to New 
 York and embarked in the brokerage business 
 under the firm name of Grant & Ward. The 
 latter proved a villain, wrecked Grant's fortune, 
 and for larceny was sent to the penitentiary. 
 The General was attacked with cancer in the 
 throat, but suffered in his stoic-like manner, never 
 complaining. He was re-instated as General of 
 the Army, and retired by Congress. The cancer 
 soon finished its deadly work, and July 23, 1885, 
 the nation went in mourning over the death 01 
 the illustrious General. 
 
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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 
 
 QUTHERFORD B. HAYES, the nineteenth 
 U^ President of the United States, was born in 
 p\ Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822, almost 
 three months after the death of his father, Ruther- 
 ford Hayes. His ancestry on both the paternal and 
 maternal sides was of the most honorable char- 
 acter. It can be traced, it is said, as far back as 
 1280, when Hayes and Rutherford were two 
 Scottish chieftains, fighting side by side with 
 Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Both 
 families belonged to the nobility, owned extensive 
 estates, and had a large following. Misfortune 
 overtaking the family, George Hayes left Scotland 
 in 1680, and settled in Windsor, Conn. His son 
 George was born in Windsor, and remained there 
 during his life. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, 
 married Sarah Lee, and lived from the time of 
 his marriage until his death in Simsbury, Conn. 
 Ezekiel, son of Daniel, was born in 1724, and was 
 a manufacturer of scythes at Bradford, Conn. 
 Rutherford Hayes, son of Ezekiel and grandfather 
 of President Hayes, was born in New Haven, in 
 August, 1756. He was a farmer, blacksmith and 
 tavern-keeper. He emigrated to Vermont at an 
 unknown date, settling in Brattleboro, where he 
 established a hotel. Here his son, Rutherford 
 Hayes, the father of President Hayes, was born. 
 He was married, in September, 181 3, to Sophia 
 Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors 
 emigrated thither from Connecticut, they having 
 been among the wealthiest and best families of 
 Norwich. Her ancestry on the male side is 
 traced back to 1635, to John Birchard, one of the 
 principal founders of Norwich. Both of her grand- 
 fathers were soldiers in the Revolution arj' War. 
 
 The father of President Hayes was an industri- 
 ous, frugal, yet open-hearted man. He was of a 
 
 mechanical turn of mind, and could mend a plow, 
 knit a stocking, or do almost anything else that 
 he chose to undertake. He was a member of the 
 church, active in all the benevolent enterprises 
 of the town, and conducted his business on Chris- 
 tian principles. After the close of the War of 
 18 1 2, for reasons inexplicable to his neighbors, he 
 resolved to emigrate to Ohio. 
 
 The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day, 
 when there were no canals, steamers, or rail- 
 ways, was a very serious affair. A tour of in- 
 spection was first made, occupying four months. 
 Mr. Hayes decided to move to Delaware, where 
 the family arrived in 181 7. He died Julj' 22, 
 1822, a victim of malarial fever, less than three 
 months before the birth of the son of whom we 
 write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore bereavement, 
 found the support she so much needed in her 
 brother Sardis, who had been a member of the 
 household from the day of its departure from 
 Vermont, and in an orphan girl, whom she had 
 adopted some time before as an act of charity. 
 
 Rutherford was seven years old before he went 
 to school. His education, however, was not neg- 
 lected. He probably learned as much from his 
 mother and sister as he would have done at 
 school. His sports were almost wholly within 
 doors, his playmates being his sister and her asso- 
 ciates. These circumstances tended, no doubt, to 
 foster that gentleness of disposition and that del- 
 icate consideration for the feelings of others which 
 were marked traits of his character. 
 
 His uncle, Sardis Birchard, took the deepest 
 interest in his education; and as the boy's health 
 had improved, and he was making good progress 
 in his studies, he proposed to send him to college. 
 His preparation commenced with a tutor at home; 
 
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 RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 
 
 but he was afterwards sent for one j-ear to a pro- 
 fessor in the Wesleyau University in Middletown, 
 Conn. He entered Kenyon College in 1838, at 
 the age of sixteen, and was graduated at the head 
 of his class in 1842. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation he began the 
 study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, 
 Esq., in Columbus. Finding his opportunities 
 for study in Columbus somewhat limited, he de- 
 termined to enter the Law School at Cambridge, 
 Mass., where he remained two years. 
 
 In 1S45, after graduating at the Law School, he 
 was admitted to the Bar at Marietta, Ohio, and 
 shortly afterward went into practice as an at- 
 torney-at-law with Ralph P. Buckland, of Fre- 
 mont. Here he remained three years, acquiring 
 but a limited practice, and apparently unambitious 
 of distinction in his profession. 
 
 In 1849 he moved to Cincinnati, where his am- 
 bition found a new stimulus. For several years, 
 however, his progress was slow. Two events 
 occurring at this period had a powerful influence 
 upon his subsequent life. One of these was his 
 marriage with Miss Lucy Ware Webb, daughter 
 of Dr. James Webb, of Chillicothe; the other was 
 his introduction to the Cincinnati Literary Club, 
 a body embracing among its members such men 
 as Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Gen. John 
 Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many others 
 hardly less distinguished in after life. The mar- 
 riage was a fortunate one in every respect, as 
 everybody knows. Not one of all the wives of 
 our Presidents was more universally admired, 
 reverenced and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and 
 no one did more than she to reflect honor upon 
 American womanhood. The LiteraryClub brought 
 Mr. Hayes into constant association with young 
 men of high character and noble aims, and lured 
 him to display the qualities so long hidden by his 
 bashfulness and modesty. 
 
 In 1856 he was nominated to the office of Judge 
 of the Court of Common Pleas, but he declined to 
 accept the nomination. Two years later, the of- 
 fice of City Solicitor becoming vacant, the City 
 Council elected him for the unexpired term. 
 
 In 1 86 1, when the Rebellion broke out, he was 
 at the zenith of his professional life. His rank at 
 
 the Bar was among the first. But the news of 
 the attack on Ft. Sumter found him eager to 
 take up arms for the defense of his country. 
 
 His mihtary record was bright and illustrious. 
 In October, 1861, he was made Lieutenant- Colo- 
 nel, and in August, 1862, promoted Colonel of 
 the Seventj'-ninth Ohio Regiment, but he refused 
 to leave his old comrades and go among strangers. 
 Subsequently, however, he was made Colonel of 
 his old regiment. At the battle of South Moun- 
 tain he received a wound, and while faint and 
 bleeding displayed courage and fortitude that 
 won admiration from all. 
 
 Col. Hayes was detached from his regimenti 
 after his recover}', to act as Brigadier-General, 
 and placed in command of the celebrated Kanawha 
 division, and for gallant and meritorious services 
 in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and 
 Cedar Creek, he was promoted Brigadier-General. 
 He was also breveted Major- General, ' 'for gallant 
 and distinguished services during the campaigns 
 of 1864, in West Virginia." In the course of his 
 arduous services, four horses were shot from un- 
 der him, and he was wounded four times. 
 
 In 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress 
 from the Second Ohio District, which had long 
 been Democratic. He was not present during the 
 campaign, and after the election was importuned 
 to resign his commission in the army; but he fi- 
 nally declared, " I shall never come to Washing- 
 ton until I can come by way of Richmond." He 
 was re-elected in 1866. 
 
 In 1867, Gen. Haj'es was elected Governor of 
 Ohio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a popular 
 Democrat, and in 1869 was re-elected over George 
 H. Pendleton. He was elected Governor for the 
 third term in 1875. 
 
 In 1876 he was the standard-bearer of the Re- 
 publican part}' in the Presidential contest, and 
 after a hard, long contest was chosen President, 
 and was inaugurated Monday, March 5, 1877. 
 He served his full tenn, not, however, with satis- 
 faction to his part}', but his administration was an 
 average one. The remaining years of his life 
 were passed quietly in his Ohio home, where he 
 passed away January 17, 1893. 
 
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JAMES A. GARFIELD. 
 
 (Tames a. GARFIELD, twentieth President 
 I of the United States, was born November 1 9, 
 (2/ 1 83 1, in the woods of Orange, Cuyahoga 
 County, Ohio. His parents were Abram and 
 EHza (Ballou) Garfield, both of New England 
 ancestry, and from families well known in the 
 early history of that section of our country, but 
 who had moved to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, 
 early in its settlement. 
 
 The house in which James A. was born was 
 not unlike the houses of poor Ohio fanners of 
 that day. It was about 20 x 30 feet, built of logs, 
 with the spaces between the logs filled with clay. 
 His father was a hard-working farmer, and he 
 soon had his fields cleared, an orchard planted, 
 and a log barn built. The household comprised 
 the father and mother and their four children, 
 Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and James. In May, 
 1823, the father died from a cold contracted in 
 helping to put out a forest fire. At this time 
 James was about eighteen months old, and 
 Thomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps, 
 can tell how much James was indebted to his 
 brother's toil and self-sacrifice during the twenty 
 years succeeding his father's death. He now 
 lives in Michigan, and the two sisters live in Solon, 
 Ohio, near their birthplace. 
 
 The early educational advantages young Gar- 
 field enjoyed were very limited, yet he made the 
 most of them. He labored at farm work for 
 others, did carpenter work, chopped wood, or did 
 anything that would bring in a few dollars to aid 
 his widowed mother in her struggles to keep the 
 little family together. Nor was Gen. Garfield 
 ever ashamed of his origin, and he never forgot 
 the friends of his struggling childhood, youth and 
 manhood; neither did they ever forget him. 
 When in the highest seats of honor, the humblest 
 friend of his boyhood was as kindly greeted as 
 ever. The poorest laborer was sure of the sym- 
 pathy of one who had known aU the bitterness of 
 
 want and the sweetness of bread earned by the 
 sweat of the brow. He was ever the simple, 
 plain, modest gentleman. 
 
 The highest ambition of young Garfield until 
 he was about sixteen years old was to be cap- 
 tain of a vessel on Lake Erie. He was anxious 
 to go aboard a vessel, but this his mother strongly 
 opposed. She finally consented to his going to 
 Cleveland, with the understanding, however, that 
 he should try to obtain some other kind of em- 
 ployment. He walked all the way to Cleveland. 
 This was his first visit to the city. After making 
 many applications for work, and trying to get 
 aboard a lake vessel and not meeting with suc- 
 cess, he engaged as a driver for his cousin, Amos 
 Eetcher, on the Ohio & Pennsylvania Canal. 
 He remained at this work but a short time, when 
 he went home, and attended the seminary at 
 Chester for about three years. He then entered 
 Hiram and the Eclectic Institute, teaching a few 
 terms of school in the mean time, and doing other 
 work. This school was started by the Disciples 
 of Christ in 1850, of which body he was then a 
 member. He became janitor and bell-ringer in 
 order to help pay his way. He then became both 
 teacher and pupil. Soon "exhausting Hiram," 
 and needing a higher education, in the fall of 1854 
 he entered Williams College, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1856, taking one of the highest honors of 
 his class. He afterwards returned to Hiram Col- 
 lege as its President. As above stated, he early 
 united with the Christian, or Disciples, Church at 
 Hiram, and was ever after a devoted, zealous 
 member, often preaching in its pulpit and places 
 where he happened to be. 
 
 Mr. Garfield was united in marriage, Novem- 
 ber II, 185S, with Miss Lucretia Rudolph, who 
 proved herself worthy as the wife of one whom 
 all the world loved. To them were born seven 
 children, five of whom are still living, four boys 
 and one girl. 
 
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 JAMES A. GARFIELD. 
 
 Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 
 1856, in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and 
 three years later he began to speak at county 
 mass-meetings, and became the favorite speaker 
 wherever he was. During this year he was 
 elected to the Ohio Senate. He also began to 
 study law at Cleveland, and in 1861 was admitted 
 to the Bar. The great Rebellion broke out in the 
 early part of this year, and Mr. Garfield at once 
 resolved to fight as he had talked, and enlisted to 
 defend the Old Flag. He received his commission 
 as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-second Regi- 
 ment of Ohio Infantry August 14, 1861. He 
 was immediately put into active ser\'ice, and be- 
 fore he had ever seen a gun fired in action, was 
 placed in command of four regiments of infantry 
 and eight companies of cavalrj-, charged with the 
 work of driving out of his native State the able 
 rebel officer, Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky. 
 This work was bravely and speedily accomplished, 
 although against great odds, and President Lin- 
 coln commissioned him Brigadier-General, Janu- 
 ary 10, 1862; and "as he had been the youngest 
 man in the Ohio Senate two years before, so now 
 he was the youngest General in the army." He 
 was with Gen. Buell's anny at Shiloh, in its 
 operations around Corinth and its march through 
 Alabama. He was then detailed as a member of 
 the general court martial for the trial of Gen. 
 Fitz-Johu Porter. He was next ordered to re- 
 port to Gen. Rosecrans, and was assigned to the 
 " Cliief of Staff." The military historj- of Gen. 
 Garfield closed with his brilliant sen-ices at Chick- 
 amauga, where he won the rank of Major-General. 
 
 Without an effort on his part. Gen. Garfield 
 was elected to Congress in the fall of 1862, from 
 the Nineteenth District of Ohio. This section of 
 Ohio had been represented in Congress for sixt)' 
 years mainly bj' two men — Elisha Whittlesey and 
 Joshua R. Giddings. It was not without a strug- 
 gle that he resigned his place in the army. At 
 the time he entered Congress he was the youngest 
 member in that body. There he remained by 
 successive re-elections until he was elected Presi- 
 dent, in i88c. Of his labors in Congress, Senator 
 Hoar says: "Since the year 1864 you cannot 
 think of a question which has been debated in 
 
 Congress, or discussed before a tribunal of the 
 American people, in regard to which you will not 
 find, if you wish instruction, the argument on 
 one side stated, in almost every instance better 
 than by anybody else, in some speech made in 
 the House of Representatives or on the hustings 
 by Mr. Garfield." 
 
 Upon January 14, 1880, Gen. Garfield was elect- 
 ed to the United States Senate, and on the 8th of 
 June, of the same year, was nominated as the 
 candidate of his party for President at the great 
 Chicago Convention. He was elected in the fol- 
 lowing November, and on March 4, 1881, was 
 inaugurated. Probably no administration ever 
 opened its existence under brighter auspices than 
 that of President Garfield, and every day it grew 
 in favor with the people. By the ist of July 
 he had completed all the initiatory and prehnii- 
 nary work of his administration, and was prepar- 
 ing to leave the city to meet his friends at Will- 
 iams College. While on his way and at the 
 depot, in company with Secretary Blaine, a man 
 stepped behind him, drew a revolver, and fired 
 directly at his back. The President tottered and 
 fell, and as he did so the assassin fired a second 
 shot, the bullet cutting the left coat sleeve of his 
 victim, but inflicting no further injurj% It has 
 been very truthfully said that this was ' ' the shot 
 that was heard around the world." Never before 
 in the history of the nation had anything occur- 
 red which so nearly froze the blood of the people 
 for the moment as this awful deed. He was 
 smitten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his 
 life, at the summit of his power and hope. For 
 eightj- days, all during the hot months of July 
 and August, he lingered and suffered. He, how- 
 ever, remained master of himself till the last, and 
 by his magnificent bearing taught the country 
 and the world one of the noblest of human les- 
 sons — how to live grandly in the very clutch of 
 death. Great in life, he was surpassingly great 
 in death. He passed serenely away September 
 19, 1883, ^t Elberon, N. J., on the very bank of 
 the ocean, where he had been taken shortly be- 
 fore. The world wept at his death, as it rarely 
 ever had done on the death of any other great 
 and noble man. 
 
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
 E HESTER A. ARTHUR, twenty-first Presi- 
 dent of the United States, was born in Frank- 
 lin County, Vt., on the 5th day of October, 
 1830, and was the eldest of a family of two sons 
 and five daughters. His father was the Rev. Dr. 
 William Arthur, a Baptist clergyman, who emi- 
 grated to this country from County Antrim, Ire- 
 land, in his eighteenth year, and died in 1875, in 
 Newtonville, near Albany, after a long and suc- 
 cessful ministry. 
 
 Young Arthur was educated at Union College, 
 Schenectady, where he excelled in all his studies. 
 After his graduation he taught school in Ver- 
 mont for two years, and at the expiration of that 
 time came to New York, with $500 in his pocket, 
 and entered the office of ex -Judge E. D. Culver 
 as a student. After being admitted to the Bar, he 
 formed a partnership with his intimate friend and 
 room-mate, Henry D. Gardiner, with the inten- 
 tion of practicing in the West, and for three 
 months they roamed about in the Western States 
 in search of an eligible site, but in the end re- 
 turned to New York, where they hung out their 
 shingle, and entered upon a successful career al- 
 mo!5t from the start. Gen. Arthur soon after mar- 
 ried the daughter of Lieut. Herndon, of the 
 United States Navy, who was lost at sea. Con- 
 gress voted a gold medal to his widow in recog- 
 nition of the braver>' he displayed on that occa- 
 sion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. 
 Arthur's nomination to the Vice-Presidency, leav- 
 ing two children. 
 
 Gen. Arthur obtained considerable legal celeb- 
 rity in his first great case, the famous Eemmon 
 suit, brought to recover possession of eight slaves 
 who had been declared free by Judge Paine, of 
 the Superior Court of New York City. It was in 
 
 1852 that Jonathan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to 
 New York with his slaves, intending to ship them 
 to Texas, when they were discovered and freed. 
 The Judge decided that they could not be held by 
 the owner under the Fugitive Slave Law. A howl 
 of rage went up from the South, and the Virginia 
 Legislature authorized the Attorney-General of 
 that State to assist in an appeal. W^illiam M. 
 Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were employed to 
 represent the people, and they won their case, 
 which then went to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. Charles O' Conor here espoused 
 the cause of the slaveholders, but he, too, was 
 beaten by Messrs. Evarts and Arthur, and a long 
 step was taken toward the emancipation of the 
 black race. 
 
 Another great ser\dce was rendered by Gen. 
 Arthur in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jen- 
 nings, a respectable colored woman, was put off 
 a Fourth Avenue car with violence after she had 
 paid her fare. Gen. Arthur sued on her behalf, 
 and secured a verdict of $500 damages. The next 
 day the company issued an order to admit colored 
 persons to ride on their cars, and the other car 
 companies quickly followed their example. Be- 
 fore that the Sixth Avenue Company ran a few 
 special cars for colored persons, and the other lines 
 refused to let them ride at all. 
 
 Gen. Arthur was a delegate to the convention 
 at Saratoga that founded the Republican party. 
 Previous to the war he was Judge-Advocate of 
 the Second Brigade of the State of New York, 
 and Gov. Morgan, of that State, appointed him 
 Engineer-in-Chief of his staff. In 1861, he was 
 made Inspector-General, and soon afterward be- 
 came Quartermaster-General. In each of these 
 offices he rendered great service to the Govern- 
 
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 CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 
 
 ment during the war. At the end of Gov. Mor- 
 gan's term he resumed the practice of law, form- 
 ing a partnership with Mr. Ransom, and then 
 Mr. Phelps, the District Attornej' of New York, 
 was added to the firm. The legal practice of this 
 well-known firm was verj- large and lucrative, 
 as each of the gentlemen composing it was an able 
 lawyer, and possessed a splendid local reputa- 
 tion, if not, indeed, one of national extent. 
 
 Mr. Arthur always took a leading part in State 
 and city politics. He was appointed Collector of 
 the Port of New York by President Grant, No- 
 vember 21, 1872, to succeed Thomas Murphy, 
 and he held the office until July 20, 1878, when 
 he was succeeded by Collector Merritt. 
 
 Mr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential 
 ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the 
 famous National Republican Convention held at 
 Chicago in June, 1880. This was perhaps the 
 greatest political convention that ever assembled 
 on the continent. It was composed of the lead- 
 ing politicians of the Republican party, all able 
 men, and each stood firm and fought vigorously 
 and with signal tenacity for his respective can- 
 didate that was before the convention for the 
 nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield received the 
 nomination for President, and Gen. Arthur for 
 Vice-President. The campaign which followed 
 was one of the most animated known in the his- 
 tory of our country. Gen. Hancock, the .stand- 
 ard-bearer of the Democratic party, was a popular 
 man, and his party made a valiant fight for his 
 election. 
 
 p-inally the election came, and the country's 
 choice was Garfield and Arthur. They were in- 
 augiirated March 4, 1881, as President and Vice- 
 President. A few months only had passed ere 
 the newly-chosen President was the victim of the 
 a.ssassin's bullet. Then came terrible weeks of 
 suffering — those moments of anxious suspense, 
 when the hearts of all civilized nations were 
 throbbing in unison, longing for the recoverj- of 
 the noble, the good President. The remarkable 
 patience that he manifested during those hours 
 and weeks, and even months, of the most terrible 
 suffering man has ever been called upon to en- 
 dure, was seemingly more than human. It was 
 
 certainly godlike. During all this period of 
 deepest anxiety Mr. Arthur's every move was 
 watched, and, be it said to his credit, that his every 
 action displaj'ed only an earnest desire that the 
 suffering Garfield might recover to serve the re- 
 mainder of the term he had so auspiciouslj* be- 
 gun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested in 
 deed or look of this man, even though the most 
 honored position in the world was at any moment 
 likely to fall to him. 
 
 At last God in his mercy relieved President 
 Garfield from further suffering, and the world, as 
 never before in its historj- over the death of any 
 other man, wept at his bier. Then it became the 
 duty of the Vice-President to assume the respon- 
 sibilities of the high office, and he took the oath 
 in New York, September 20, 1881. The position 
 was an embarrassing one to him, made doubly so 
 from the fact that all eyes were on him, anxious 
 to know what he would do, what policy he would 
 pursue, and whom he would select as advisers. 
 The duties of the office had been greatly neglected 
 during the President's long illness, and many im- 
 portant measures were to be immediately decided 
 by him; and to still further embara.ss him he did 
 not fail to realize under what circumstances he 
 became President, and knew the feelings of many 
 on this point. Under the.se trying circumstances. 
 President Arthur took the reins of the Govern- 
 ment in his own hands, and, as embarrassing as 
 was the condition of affairs, he happily surprised 
 the nation, acting so wisely that but few criticized 
 his administration. He served the nation well 
 and faithfull}^ until the close of his administra- 
 tion, March 4, 1885, and was a popular candidate 
 before his part}' for a second term. His name 
 was ablj- presented before the convention at Chi- 
 cago, and was received with great favor, and 
 doubtless but for the personal popularity of one 
 of the opposing candidates, he would have been 
 selected as the standard-bearer of his party for 
 another campaign. He retired to private life, car- 
 rying with him the best wi.shes of the American 
 people, whom he had served in a manner satisfac- 
 tory' to them and with credit to himself. One 
 year later he was called to his final rest. 
 

 
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BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 
 
 ITEPHEN GROVER CLEVElvAND, the 
 twenty -second President of the United States, 
 was born in 1837, in the obscure town of 
 Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., and in a little 
 two-and-a-half-story white house, which is still 
 standing to characteristically mark the humble 
 birthplace of one of America's great men, in 
 striking contrast with the Old World, where all 
 men high in office must be high in origin and 
 bom in the cradle of wealth. When the subject 
 of this sketch was three years of age, his father, 
 who was a Presbyterian minister with a large 
 family and a small salary, moved, by way of the 
 Hudson River and Erie Canal, to Fayetteville, N. 
 Y. , in search of an increased income and a larger 
 field of work. Fayetteville was then the most 
 straggling of country villages, about five miles 
 from Pompey Hill, where Governor Seymour 
 was born. 
 
 At the last-mentioned place young Grover com- 
 menced going to school in the good, old-fashioned 
 way, and presumably distinguished himself after 
 the manner of all village boys — in doing the 
 things he ought not to do. Such is the dis- 
 tinguishing trait of all geniuses and independent 
 thinkers. When he arrived at the age of four- 
 teen years, he had outgrown the capacity of the 
 village school, and expressed a most emphatic de- 
 sire to be sent to an academy. To this his fa- 
 ther decidedly objected. Academies in those 
 days cost money; besides, his father wanted him 
 to become self-supporting by the quickest pos- 
 sible means, and this at that time in Fayetteville 
 seemed to be a position in a country store, where 
 his father and the large family on his hands had 
 
 considerable influence. Grover was to be paid 
 $50 for his services the first year, and if he proved 
 trustworthy he was to receive $100 the second 
 year. Here the lad commenced his career as 
 salesman, and in two years he had earned so good 
 a reputation for trustworthiness that his employ- 
 ers desired to retain him for an indefinite length 
 of time. 
 
 But instead of remaining with this firm in 
 Fayetteville, he went with the family in their re- 
 moval to Clinton, where he had an opportunity 
 of attending a High School. Here he industri- 
 ously pursued his studies until the family re- 
 moved with him to a point on Black River known 
 as the "Holland Patent," a village of five or six 
 hundred people, fifteen miles north of Utica, N. Y. 
 At this place his father died, after preaching but 
 three Sundays. This event broke up the family, 
 and Grover set out for New York City to accept, 
 at a small salary, the position of under-teacher 
 in an asylum for the blind. He taught faithfully 
 for two years, and although he obtained a good 
 reputation in this capacity, he concluded that 
 teaching was not his calling in life, and, revers- 
 ing the traditional order, he left the city to seek 
 his fortune, instead of going to the city. He first 
 thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as there was some 
 charm in that name for him; but before proceed- 
 ing to that place he went to Bufialo to ask advice 
 of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted stock- 
 breeder of that place. The latter did not speak 
 enthusiastically. "What is it you want to do, 
 my boy?" he asked. "Well, sir, I want to study 
 law," was the reply "Good gracious!" remarked 
 the old gentleman; "do you, indeed? Whatever 
 
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 STEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND. 
 
 put that into your head? How much money 
 have you got?" "Well, sir, to tell the truth, I 
 haven't got any." 
 
 After a long consultation, his uncle offered him 
 a place temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at 
 $$o a year, while he could look around. One 
 day soon afterward he boldly walked into the of- 
 fice of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, of Buffalo, and 
 told them what he wanted. A number of young 
 men were already engaged in the office, but Gro- 
 ver's persistency won, and he was finally per- 
 mitted to come as an office boy and have the use 
 of the law library, receiving as wages the sum of 
 $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for his 
 board and washing. The walk to and from his 
 uncle's was a long and rugged one; and although 
 the first winter was a memorably severe one, his 
 shoes were out of repair, and as for his overcoat he 
 had none; yet he was, nevertheless, prompt and 
 regular. On the first day of his service there, his 
 senior employer threw down a copy of Black- 
 stone before him, with a bang that made the dust 
 fly, saying "That's where they all begin." A 
 titter ran around the little circle of clerks and 
 students, as they thought that was enough to 
 scare young Grover out of his plans; but in due 
 time he mastered that cumbersome volume. 
 Then, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleve- 
 land exhibited a talent for executiveness rather 
 than for chasing principles through all their 
 metaphysical po.ssibilities. "Let us quit talking 
 and go and do it," was practically his motto. 
 
 The first public office to which Mr. Cleveland 
 was elected was that of Sheriff of Erie County, 
 N. Y., in which Buffalo is situated; and in such 
 capacity it fell to his dut>- to inflict capital punish- 
 ment upon two criminals. In 1881 he was 
 elected Mayor of the City of Buffalo, on the 
 Democratic ticket, with especial reference to bring- 
 ing about certain reforms in the admini.stration 
 of the municipal affairs of that city. In this of- 
 fice, as well as in that of Sheriff, his performance 
 of duty has generally been considered fair, with 
 possibly a few exceptions, which were ferreted 
 out and magnified during his Presidential cam- 
 paign. As a specimen of his plain language in 
 a veto message, we quote from one vetoing an 
 
 iniquitous street-cleaning contract: "This is a 
 time for plain speech, and my objection to jour 
 action shall be plainlj- stated. I regard it as the 
 culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent and 
 shameless scheme to betray the interests of the 
 people and to worse than squander the people's 
 money." The New York Sun afterward very 
 highly commended Mr. Cleveland's administra- 
 tion as Mayor of Buffalo, and thereupon recom- 
 mended him for Governor of the Empire State. 
 To the latter office he was elected in 1882, and 
 his administration of the affairs of State was 
 generally satisfactorj-. The mistakes he made, 
 if any, were made verj- public throughout the na- 
 tion after he was nominated for President of the 
 United States. For this high office he was 
 nominated July 11, 18S4, by the National Demo- 
 cratic Convention at Chicago, when other com- 
 petitors were Thomas F. Bayard, Roswell P. 
 Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks, Benjamin F. 
 Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he was 
 elected by the people, by a majority of about a 
 thousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Re- 
 publican .statesman, James G. Blaine. President 
 Cleveland resigned his office as Governor of New 
 York in January, 1885, in order to prepare for 
 his duties as the Chief Executive of the United 
 States, in which capacity his term commenced at 
 noon on the 4th of March, 1885. 
 
 The silver question precipitated a controversy 
 between those who were in favor of the continu- 
 ance of silver coinage and those who were op- 
 po.sed, Mr. Cleveland answering for the latter, 
 even before his inauguration. 
 
 Ou June 2, 1886, President Cleveland married 
 Frances, daughter of his deceased friend and part- 
 ner, Oscar Folsom, of the Buffalo Bar. In the 
 campaign of 1888, President Cleveland was re- 
 nominated by his party, but the Republican candi- 
 date. Gen. Benjamin Harri.son, was victorious. 
 In the nomination of 1892 these two candidates 
 for the highest position in the gift of the people 
 were again pitted against each other, and in the 
 ensuing election President Cleveland was victori- 
 ous by an overwhelming majority. Since the 
 close of his second term, he has resided in Prince- 
 ton, N. J. 
 
BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
 Benjamin HARRISON, the twenty-third 
 \\ President, is the descendant of one of the 
 ^ historical families of this country. The first 
 known head of the faniil}- was Maj.-Gen. Harrison, 
 one of Oliver Cromwell's trusted followers and 
 fighters. In the zenith of Cromwell's power it be- 
 came the duty of this Harrison to participate in 
 the trial of Charles I. , and afterward to sign the 
 death warrant of the king. He subsequently 
 paid for this with his life, being hung October 13, 
 1660. His descendants came to America, and 
 the next of the family that appears in historj' is 
 Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, great-grandfa- 
 ther of the subject of this sketch, and after whom 
 he was named. Benjamin Harrison was a mem- 
 ber of the Continental Congress during the years 
 1774, 1775 and 1776, and was one of the original 
 signers of the Declaration of Independence. He 
 was three times elected Governor of Virginia. 
 
 Gen. William Henry Harrison, the son of the 
 distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a 
 successful career as a soldier during the War of 
 18 12, and with a clean record as Governor of the 
 Northwestern Territory, was elected President of 
 the United States in 1840. His career was cut 
 short by death within one month after his in- 
 auguration. 
 
 President Harrison was born at North Bend, 
 
 Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833. His 
 life up to the time of his graduation from Miami 
 University, at Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventfiil 
 one of a country lad of a family of small means. 
 His father was able to give him a good education, 
 and nothing more. He became engaged while at 
 college to the daughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of 
 a female school at Oxford. After graduating, he 
 determined to enter upon the study of law. He 
 went to Cincinnati and there read law for two 
 years. At the expiration of that time young Har- 
 rison received the only inheritance of his life — his 
 aunt, dying, left him a lot valued at $800. He 
 regarded this legacy as a fortune, and decided to 
 get married at once, take this money and go to 
 some Eastern town and begin the practice of law. 
 He sold his lot, and, with the money in his pocket, 
 he started out with his young wife to fight for a 
 place in the world. He decided to go to Indian- 
 apolis, which was even at that time a town of 
 promise. He met with slight encouragement at 
 first, making scarcely anything the first year. 
 He worked diligentlj', applying himself closely to 
 his calling, built up an extensive practice and 
 took a leading rank in the legal profession. 
 
 In i860, Mr. Harrison was nominated for the 
 position of Supreme Court Reporter, and then be- 
 gan his experience as a stump speaker. He can- 
 
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 BENJAMIN HARRISON. 
 
 vassed the State thoroughly, and was elected by 
 a handsome majority. In 1862 he raised the 
 Seventeenth Indiana Infantry, and was chosen its 
 Colonel. His regiment was composed of the raw- 
 est material, but Col. Harrison employed all his 
 time at first in mastering militar>' tactics and drill- 
 ing his men, and when he came to move toward 
 the East with Sherman, his regiment was one of 
 the best drilled and organized in the army. At 
 Resaca he especially distinguished himself, and 
 for his bravery at Peachtree Creek he was made 
 a Brigadier-General, Gen. Hooker speaking of 
 him in the most complimentarj- terms. 
 
 During the absence of Gen. Harrison in the 
 field, the Supreme Court declared the office of 
 Supreme Court Reporter vacant, and another 
 person was elected to the position. From the 
 time of leaving Indiana with his regiment until 
 the fall of 1 864 he had taken no leave of absence, 
 but having been nominated that year for the same 
 office, he got a thirty-day leave of absence, and 
 during that time made a brilliant canvass of the 
 State, and was elected for another term. He then 
 started to rejoin Sherman, but on the way was 
 stricken down with scarlet fever, and after a most 
 trying attack made his way to the front in time to 
 participate in the closing incidents of the war. 
 
 In 1868 Gen. Harrison declined a re-election 
 as Reporter, and resumed the practice of law. In 
 1876 he was a candidate for Governor. Although 
 defeated, the brilliant campaign he made won for 
 him a national reputation, and he was much sought 
 after, especially in the East, to make speeches. 
 In 18S0, as usual, he took an active part in the 
 campaign, and was elected to the United States 
 Senate. Here he served for six years, and was 
 known as one of the ablest men, best lawj-ers and 
 strongest debaters in that body. With the ex- 
 piration of his senatorial term he returned to the 
 practice of his profession, becoming the head of 
 one of the strongest firms in the State. 
 
 The political campaign of 188S was one of the 
 most memorable in the hi.story of our country. 
 The convention which assembled in Chicago in 
 June and named Mr. Harrison as the chief stand- 
 ard-bearer of the Republican party was great in 
 every particular, and on this account, and the at- 
 
 titude it assumed upon the vital questions of the 
 day, chief among which was the tarifif, awoke a 
 deep interest in the campaign throughout the 
 nation. Shortly after the nomination, delegations 
 began to visit Mr. Harrison at Indianapolis, his 
 home. This movement became popular, and from 
 all sections of the country societies, clubs and 
 delegations journeyed thither to pay their re- 
 spects to the distinguished statesman. 
 
 Mr. Harrison spoke daily all through the sum- 
 mer and autumn to these visiting delegations, 
 and so varied, masterly, and eloquent were his 
 speeches that they at once placed him in the fore- 
 most rank of American orators and statesmen. 
 Elected by a handsome majority, he ser\-ed his 
 countr>' faithfully and well, and in 1892 was nom- 
 inated for re-election; but the people demanded a 
 change and he was defeated by his predecessor 
 in office, Grover Cleveland. 
 
 On account of his eloquence as a speaker and 
 his power as a debater. Gen. Harrison was called 
 upon at an early age to take part in the dis- 
 cussion of the great questions that then began to 
 agitate the country. He was an uncompromising 
 anti-slaver>' man, and was matched against some 
 of the most eminent Democratic speakers of his 
 State. No man who felt the touch of his blade 
 desired to be pitted with him again. With all 
 his eloquence as an orator he never spoke for ora- 
 torical effect, but his words always went like bul- 
 lets to the mark. He is purely American in his 
 ideas, and is a splendid tj'pe of the American 
 statesman. Gifted with quick perception, a logi- 
 cal mind and a ready tongue, he is one of the 
 most distinguished impromptu speakers in the 
 nation. Many of these .speeches sparkled with the 
 rarest eloquence and contained arguments of great 
 weight, and many of his terse statements have 
 already become aphorisms. Original in thought, 
 precise in logic, terse in statement, yet withal 
 faultless in eloquence, he is recognized as the 
 sound statesman and brilliant orator of the day. 
 By his first wife, Caroline (Scott) Harrison, he 
 had a son and daughter. In 1896 he married 
 Mrs. Mary (Scott) Dimmick, and they, with their 
 daughter, reside in Indianapolis, Ind., where he 
 has made his home since early manhood. 
 
WILLIAM McKIXI.KV 
 
WILLIAM McKINLEY. 
 
 WILIvIAM McKINLEY, who was inaugu- 
 rated President of the United States in 1897, 
 was born in Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843. 
 The family of which he is a member originated 
 in the west of Scotland, and from there removed 
 to the north of Ireland. According to the fam- 
 ily tradition, James and William McKinley emi- 
 grated to this country from Ireland and founded 
 the two branches of the family in the United 
 States, one settling in the north, the other in the 
 south. At the time of their arrival, James was 
 twelve years of age. He settled in York County, 
 Pa., where he married and spent his remaining 
 years. 
 
 David, son of James, and the great-grandfather 
 of William McKinley, was born May 16, 1755, 
 and three times enlisted in the service of the 
 colonies during the Revolutionary War, serving 
 seven months after his first enlistment in June, 
 1776, spending six months at the front in 1777, 
 and again in the following year serving eight 
 months. December 19, 1780, he married Sarah 
 Gray, who was born May 10, 1760, and died 
 October 6, 1814. For fifteen years he lived in 
 Westmoreland County, Pa., and thence removed 
 to Mercer County. One year after the death 
 of his first wife he married Eleanor McLean 
 and about the same time settled in Colum- 
 biana County, Ohio, but afterward made his home 
 in Crawford County, where he died August 8, 
 1840. 
 
 James, grandfather of William McKinley, was 
 born September 19, 1783, married Mary (or 
 "Polly") Rose, and with his family moved to New 
 Lisbon, Ohio, in 1809. Their eldest son, Will- 
 iam, Sr. , was born in Mercer County, Pa., 
 November 15, 1807, and in 1827 married 
 Nancy Allison, a woman of noble and strong 
 character and consistent Christian life. For some 
 years he was engaged as manager of iron fur- 
 naces at difierent places. From Niles he re- 
 
 moved to Poland, because of the educational ad- 
 vantages offered by Poland Academy. In 1869 
 he established his home in Canton, and here he 
 died November 24, 1892. His widow lives at 
 the family residence in Canton, and with her are 
 her daughter, Miss Helen, and two orphan 
 grandchildren. 
 
 Of the family of nine children, William, Jr. , who 
 was seventh in order of birth, was born during 
 the residence of his parents at Niles, Ohio, Jan- 
 uary 29, 1843. His boyhood years were spent 
 in that place and Poland, where he studied in the 
 academy. At the age of seventeen he entered 
 Allegheny College, but illness caused his return 
 to Poland, and on his recovery he did not return 
 to college, but taught a country school. At the 
 opening of the Civil War, though only eighteen 
 years of age, he immediately wanted to enlist. 
 As soon as he could overcome the objections of 
 his mother, he enlisted, in May of 1861, as a 
 private in Company E, Twenty-third Ohio In- 
 fantry. The regiment was commanded by Col. 
 W. S. Rosecrans, who afterward, as general, led 
 his forces on many a bloody battle field, and the 
 first major was Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward 
 President of the United States. As a gallant 
 soldier Mr. McKinley soon won promotion, serving 
 for a time as commissary sergeant, later was pro- 
 moted to the rank of second lieutenant for gal- 
 lantry at Antietam, and then won his way up- 
 ward until, at the close of the war, he was pro- 
 moted to major by brevet. July 26, 1865, after 
 more than four years of hard service, he was 
 mustered out with his regiment. 
 
 With Judge Charles E. Glidden, of Mahoning 
 County, Mr. McKinley began the study of law, 
 which he afterward carried on in the Albany 
 (N. Y.) Law School, and in 1867 was admitted 
 to the bar. Beginning the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Canton, he soon became prominently 
 known among the able attorneys of the city. His 
 
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 WILLIAM Mckinley. 
 
 first connection with political affairs was in 1869, 
 when he was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark 
 County, and this office he held for two years. 
 In 1876 he was nominated for Congressional 
 honors and was elected to the Forty-fifth Con- 
 gress, afterward by successive re-elections serv- 
 ing for fourteen years. In March of 1890 he in- 
 troduced the celebrated McKiuley tariff bill, 
 which was passed and became a law. In the fol- 
 lowing year, 1891, he was elected governor of 
 Ohio, and two years afterward was re-elected to 
 that high office, which he filled in such a manner 
 as to command the respect not only of his own 
 party — ^the Republican — but his political op- 
 ponents as well. The connection of his name 
 with the tariff bill and his prominence in the Re- 
 publican party, together with his force and elo- 
 quence as a speaker, brought him into national 
 fame. In the campaign of 1892, for a period of 
 more than three months, he traveled over a 
 territory extending from New York to Nebraska, 
 making speeches in the interest of the Republi- 
 can platform. Those who heard him speak, 
 whether friends or opponents of his political 
 opinions, cannot but have admired his logical 
 reasoning, breadth of intellect, eloquence of speech 
 and modesty of demeanor. During the campaign 
 of 1S94 he made three hundred and seventy -one 
 speeches and visited over three hundred towns, 
 within a period of two months, addressing perhaps 
 two million people. 
 
 The tariff issue and all the intricate questions 
 of public revenue that are interwoven with it, 
 constitute the most complicated problems with 
 which a statesman has to deal. To master them 
 in every detail requires an intellect of the high- 
 est order. That Major McKinley thoroughly un- 
 derstands these questions is admitted by all who 
 have investigated his official utterances o;i the 
 subject, beginning with the speech on the Wood 
 tariff bill, delivered in the house of representatives 
 April 15, 1878, and closing with his speech in 
 favor of the tariff bill of 1890, which as chairman 
 of the ways and means committee he reported to 
 the house and which was subsequently passed and 
 is known throughout the world as the McKinley 
 tariff bill of 1890. He opposed the Wood bill be- 
 cause of a conviction that the proposed measure 
 
 would, if enacted, prove a public calamity. For 
 the same reason, in 1882, he advocated a friendly 
 revision of the tariff by a tariff commission, to be 
 authorized by congress and appointed by the 
 president. In 1884 he opposed the Morrison 
 horizontal bill, which he denounced as ambiguous 
 for a great public statute, and in 1888 he led the 
 forces in the fight against the Mills tariff bill. 
 
 As governor of Ohio, his policy was conserva- 
 tive. He aimed to give to the public institutions 
 the benefit of the service of the best man of the 
 state, and at all times upheld the legitimate rights 
 of the workiiigmen. Recognizing the fact that 
 the problem of taxation needed regulation, in 
 his messages of 1892, 1893 and 1894, he urged 
 the legislature that a remedy be applied. In 
 1892 he recommended legislation for the safety 
 and comfort of steam railroad employes, and the 
 following year urged the furnishing of automatic 
 couplers and air-brakes for all railroad cars used 
 in the state. 
 
 When, in 1896, the Republican party, in con- 
 vention assembled at St. Louis, selected a man to 
 represent their principles in the highest office 
 within the gift of the American people, it was not 
 a surprise to the public that the choice fell upon 
 Major McKinley. The campaign that followed 
 was one of the most exciting in the history of 
 the country since the period of reconstruction. 
 Especial interest centered in the fact that the 
 point at issue seemed, not, as in former days, 
 free trade or protection, but whether or not the 
 govenmient should declare for the free coinage of 
 silver. This question divided the voters of the 
 country upon somewhat different lines than theold- 
 time principles of the Republican and Democratic 
 parties and thus made the campaign a memorable 
 one. The supporters of the gold standard main- 
 tained that silver monometallism would precipi- 
 tate a panic and permanentlj' injure the business 
 interests of the country, and the people, by a 
 large majority, supported these principles. 
 
 January 25, 1871, Major McKinlej' was united 
 in marriage with Miss Ida Saxton, who was born 
 in June, 1847, the daughter of James A. Saxton. 
 Their two children died in 1874, within a short 
 time of each other, one at the age of three years 
 and the other in infancy. 
 
LEAVENWORTH 
 
 DOUGLAS and 
 
 FRANKLIN COUNTIES 
 
 ..KANSAS... 
 
INTRODUCTORY 
 
 glOGRAPHY alone can justly represent the progress of local history and portray with accuracy 
 the relation of men to events. It is the only means of perpetuating the lives and deeds of 
 those men to whom the advancement of a city or county and the enlightenment of its people 
 are due. The compilers of this work have striven to honor, not only men of present prominence, 
 but also, as far as possible, those who in years gone by labored to promote the welfare of their com- 
 munity. The following sketches have been prepared from the standpoint of no man's prejudice, 
 but with an impartial aim to render justice to progressive and public-spirited citizens and to collect 
 personal records that will be of value to generations yet to come. 
 
 To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind from remotest ages. All will be forgotten 
 soon enough, in spite of their best works and the most earnest efforts of their friends to preserve the 
 memory of their lives. The means employed to prevent oblivion and to perpetuate their memory 
 have been in proportion to the amount of intelligence they possessed. The pyramids of Egypt were 
 built to perpetuate the names and deeds of their great rulers. The exhumations made by the 
 archaeologists of Egypt from buried Memphis indicate a desire of those people to perpetuate the 
 memory of their achievements. The erection of the great obelisks was for the same purpose. 
 Coming down to a later period, we find the Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and 
 monuments, and carving out statues to chronicle their great achievements and carry them down the 
 ages. It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling up their great mounds of earth, had but 
 this idea — to leave something to show that they had lived. All these works, though many of them 
 costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and character of those whose memory they 
 were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The 
 great pyramids and some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, 
 monuments and statues are crumbling into dust. 
 
 It was left to modern ages to establish an intelligent, undecaying, immutable method of 
 perpetuating a full history — immutable in that it is almost unlimited in extent and perpetual in its 
 action; and this is through the art of printing. 
 
 To the present generation, however, we are indebted for the introduction of the admirable 
 system of local biography. By this system every man, though he has not achieved what the world 
 calls greatness, has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, through the coming ages. 
 
 The scythe of Time cuts down all; nothing of the physical man is left. The monument which 
 his children or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass 
 away; but his life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, which otherwise would be 
 forgotten, is perpetuated by a record of this kind. 
 
 To preserve the lineaments of our companions we engrave their portraits; for the same reason 
 we collect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we think it necessary, as we speak only 
 truth of them, to wait until they are dead, or until those who know them are gone; to do this we 
 are ashamed only to publish to the world the history of those whose lives are unworthy of public 
 record. 
 
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 NON. CHARLES ROBINSON, M. D., first 
 governor of Kansas. Of the many men 
 who were attracted to Kansas during the 
 days of its early struggles, there is none whose 
 name is more indissolubly associated with its his- 
 tory than that of Charles Robinson, and certainly 
 there is none whose memory is more worthy of 
 perpetuation in the annals of the state. He was 
 born in Hardwick, Mass., July 21, 18 18, a de- 
 scendant of Rev. John Robinson, the illustrious 
 pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers. From his parents, 
 Jonathan and Huldah (Woodward) Robinson, he 
 inherited superior intelligence and originalit)' of 
 thought. The opposition to slavery, which was 
 one of his marked characteristics, came to him 
 from his father, who as early as 1840 broke off 
 from party affiliations and became associated with 
 the champions of liberty, who gathered under the 
 standard of James G. Birney. Ever afterward 
 he was outspoken in his belief that the institution 
 of slavery was in violation to all of God's laws. 
 He was not spared to see the colored race made 
 free (for he died in i860), but his life was one of 
 the many that lent its iniluence toward securing 
 that great end. The mother, too, possessed great 
 force of character, combined with a gentle, mild 
 disposition, and while the care for the physical 
 well-being of her six sons and four daughters 
 consumed much of her time, she gave careful 
 thought also to their mental training and im- 
 planted in their hearts principles of honor and 
 integrity. She was spared to an advanced age, 
 dying in 1869, surrounded by and ministered to 
 by her family, in whose success her happiness 
 was consummated. 
 
 When a boy Charles Robinson was a student 
 
 in select and private schools, and Hopkins and 
 Amherst Academies, and subsequently attended 
 Amherst College for two years. He was obliged 
 to leave college on account of trouble with his 
 eyes, and he walked forty miles to Keene, N. H., 
 to consult a celebrated oculist. Dr. Twichell. 
 While his ej^es were being treated he became so 
 impressed with the greatness of the medical pro- 
 fession that he determined to take it for his life 
 work. Accordingly he entered Dr. Twichell's 
 office as a student, and after a year with him en- 
 tered the office of Dr. Gridley, of Amherst, with 
 whom he gained considerable practical expe- 
 rience. He attended medical lectures at Wood- 
 stock, Vt., and Pittsfield, Mass., receiving the 
 degree of M. D. from the latter place in 1843. 
 During the same year he succeeded Dr. Garrett 
 at Belchertown, Mass., which at that time was a 
 prosperous and aristocratic town. From'the first 
 he was successful in his profession, butconstant 
 attention to his professional duties undermined 
 his health and forced him to relinquish his prac- 
 tice. In 1S45 he removed to Springfield, where 
 he and the famous author. Dr. J. G. Holland, 
 opened a hospital. While residing in that city, 
 January 17, 1846, his first wife, Sarah (Adams) 
 Robinson, died; the two children born of their 
 marriage died in infancy. At the solicitation of 
 his brother Cyrus he removed to Fitchburg, 
 Mass. , and continued to practice there until fail- 
 ing health demanded a complete change of cli- 
 mate. 
 
 When the first news was received of the dis- 
 covery of gold in California, a party of fifty men 
 from Boston and Roxbury (the first from Massa- 
 chusetts) decided to seek the far west. He ac- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 companied them as physician for a colony. They 
 arrived in Kansas City April lo, 1849, and on 
 the loth of May started from that town, with ox 
 and mule teams, following the Kansas River 
 route. On the next day, while he was riding 
 ahead of his party, he ascended Mount Oread 
 (named after Oread school in the east). There 
 he paused, viewing with liveliest interest and 
 admiration the beautiful landscape that lay 
 stretched before him, forming what is now the 
 southwestern part of the city of Lawrence. In 
 his journal he wrote that if the land were open 
 to settlement he would go no further. However, 
 he pursued his way toward the setting sun, little 
 dreaming that, in later years, the reading of the 
 journal in which this sentiment was written 
 should have caused the Emigrant Aid Society to 
 select him as its leader, to return to this very 
 spot and labor for the success of the free-state 
 party here. 
 
 After a weary but uneventful journey the party 
 reached Sacramento August 17, 1849. After ex- 
 perimenting as a miner for two weeks Dr. Rob- 
 inson became interested in a restaurant, in which 
 business he was successful until he lost all by the 
 Sacramento River flood. He also published the 
 Miners' and Settlers' Tribune until elected to the 
 legislature. During the controversy between the 
 speculators and squatters on the Sutter claim he 
 upheld the rights of the squatters, and this 
 brought upon him the revengeful enmity of the 
 speculators, by whom he was shot through the 
 body a little below the heart, but owing to his 
 vigorous constitution he soon recovered and was 
 thrown into a prison ship. While there he was 
 elected to the legislature, in which he served for 
 one term, meantime forming the acquaintance of 
 John C. Fremont, whose election to the United 
 States senate he favored, but which was not ac- 
 complished. July I, 1851, he left San Francisco 
 for the east. Qn the night of the 4th the ship 
 "Union" was wrecked after being out three days. 
 The passengers, provisions and gold dust were 
 saved by means of the life boats, in which they 
 were taken to a barren rock, on the coast eighty 
 miles south of San Diego. There they remained 
 two weeks, then went to San Diego, where they 
 
 embarked on board ship. They landed on the 
 shore at the mouth of a dr}' ravine. They formed 
 a company of forty men, of which the doctor was 
 second in command, and they guarded the gold 
 dust in relays often. Captain Day and Dr. Rob- 
 inson stopped at Acapulco for the purpose of 
 seeing the American consul and arranging to get 
 the proper papers for salvage in New York and 
 Philadelphia. The ship proceeded on its course 
 and left Captain Day and the doctor to take an- 
 other ship two weeks later. He was also delayed 
 two weeks at Aspinwall, on the east side of the 
 isthmus, making nearly two months on the way. 
 At the isthmus Dr. Robinson was employed as 
 physician by the steamer "Crescent," which had 
 on board a large number of sick laborers from 
 the Panama Railroad, then in process of construc- 
 tion. The .steamer reached Havana on the day 
 of the execution of Lopez. Arriving at Belcher- 
 town, September 9, 1851, the next year he began 
 the publication of the Fitchburg AVrr.f, an anti- 
 slavery paper, which he conducted for two years, 
 but, having frequent calls for professional service, 
 he sold his paper and re-entered the profession. 
 
 On the repeal of the Missouri compromise Dr. 
 Robinson was sent to Kansas, June 28, 1854, to 
 prepare the waj- for northern settlers. For this 
 work his experience in California admirablj- qual- 
 ified him. The subsequent portion of his life was 
 a part of the history of Kansas. He became the 
 real leader of the free-state forces. His position 
 made his life in daily peril from pro-slavery men, 
 and more than once he narrowly escaped. At 
 one time when going east on a boat he became 
 involved in a controversy with Gens. Joe Shelby 
 and Donald.son, but he was so determined in the 
 stand he took, the men had not the courage to kill 
 him, as they had planned. In 1855 the free-state 
 men were driven from the polls. He was one of 
 the first to repudiate the authoritj- of the bogus 
 laws and was chosen delegate to the convention 
 which met at Topeka to formulate new laws and 
 a state government. From May 1 1 to Septem- 
 ber II, 1856, he was held a prisoner near Le- 
 compton, charged with treason. During what 
 was known as the Wakarusa war, in November, 
 1855, when Lawrence was besieged by eleven 
 
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 hundred pro-slaverj' men and there were only six 
 hundred men to defend it, he was chosen major- 
 general of the forces and assisted in the defense 
 of the city. 
 
 On the adoption of the free-state constitution 
 Dr. Robinson was chosen governor of the pro- 
 posed state. The legislature met twice in 1856. 
 On the adoption of the Wyandotte constitution 
 he was elected governor of Kansas, and when 
 the state was admitted to the Union, January 29, 
 1861, he assumed the duties of office, holding the 
 position until January, 1863. The position was 
 a most trying one. The progress of the Civil 
 war, the hostility of Indians, the strife between 
 diflFerent elements of the citizenship, made the 
 governor's office no sinecure. It would have 
 been impossible for a man to fill the position 
 without making enemies; in fact, any man of 
 force of character and great will power always 
 meets with opposition, and Governor Robinson 
 was no exception to the rule. But he allowed 
 no criticism to deter him, when once his mind 
 was resolved upon a certain course of action he 
 believed to be just and right. To his faithful 
 work amidst the most trying circinnstances, and 
 in the face of greatest danger to life, he pursued 
 his wa}', undaunted by threats, undismayed by 
 hardships. His retirement from the gubernato- 
 rial chair did not mean his retirement from public 
 life. The people appreciated his worth as an offi- 
 cial. In 1864 he was elected to the state senate, 
 and two years later was honored by re-election. 
 Later he was made a member of the house of rep- 
 resentatives. 
 
 Throughout his entire life Governor Robinson 
 was interested in educational matters. On com- 
 ing to Kansas he organized the first free school 
 and paid the teacher, Edward Fitch, who opened 
 a school in January, 1855, in the rear room of 
 the Emigrant Aid Building on the banks of the 
 Kansas River, at the north end of Massachusetts 
 street, Lawrence. The next teacher was Miss 
 Kate Kellogg, who came as one of the family in 
 March, 1855, remaining here until she returned 
 east in September of that year to marrj' Dr. 
 Temple. Shortly after his arrival here Governor 
 Robinson pre-emjjted a claim to the tract where 
 
 he had stood, some years before, en route to Cal- 
 ifornia. From that unimproved stretch of ground 
 he evolved a beautiful homestead "Oak Ridge," 
 comprising sixteen hundred acres. He located 
 the first site of a college where the original 
 structure of the Kansas State University stands. 
 To the founding of the college he gave nineteen 
 acres and his wife twenty-one acres, and after- 
 ward they donated gifts of money, besides assist- 
 ing in other ways. For years before his death 
 he was a regent of the university, and his will 
 provided that, at the death of his wife, their 
 beautiful homestead should become the property 
 of the institution in which they were so deeply 
 interested. 
 
 For some years Governor Robinson was inter- 
 ested in railroad enterprises, and was a director 
 of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail- 
 road. During the latter part of his life he gave 
 some time to literary work, and wrote a complete 
 account of the condition of Kansas during the 
 '50s, which he published under the title of "The 
 Kansas Conflict." It is a work replete with facts 
 and showing a thorough knowledge of the con- 
 dition of the state during the most troubled period 
 of its history. As an addition to the history of 
 that period it is invaluable. While he was a 
 Whig and Republican in early manhood, in later 
 life he became independent, and during the fa- 
 mous campaign of 1872 supported Horace Gree- 
 ley, of whom he was a warm admirer. His life 
 was prolonged to an advanced age. He died 
 August 17, 1894, having lived to see the wonder- 
 ful progress of the state and its advancement of 
 material wealth and educational resources. His 
 life is ended, its record complete. He who reads 
 it may emulate with eagerness the strict integrity, 
 the force of will, the adherence to principle and 
 the lofty honor that leaves the pages of the life 
 record untarnished and undimmed. 
 
 yyiRS. SARA T. D. LAWRENCE ROBINSON 
 
 y is a member of a family that has furnished 
 
 (^ many distingui.shed men to our country. 
 
 Among the.se may be mentioned Hon. Abbott 
 
 Lawrence, minister to England; Hon. Amos 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 A. Lawreiicf , in whose honor the citj- of Law- 
 rence, Kans., was named, and who donated 
 $10,000 to the State University at its opening; 
 and Hon. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale 
 College, and one of the most prominent educators 
 in the land. Benjamin Lawrence, a native of 
 Windsor, Conn., became a pioneer of Middle- 
 bury, Vt. , where his subsequent life was spent. 
 His two sons, Myron and Edwin, were successful 
 attorneys, the latter being for thirteen years 
 judge of the district court in Washtenaw County, 
 Mich. The former, who was born in Middle- 
 bury May 18, 1799, graduated from the college 
 in that city, and then studied law with M. A. K. 
 Doolittle, a graduate of Yale. He made his 
 home in the residence of Mr. Doolittle, and there 
 met Miss Clarissa Dwight, a teacher, who was 
 boarding with Mr. Doolittle's famil)-, and whom 
 he married in 1824. On his admission to the bar 
 he began to practice at Northampton, Mass., 
 where his ability soon placed him in the front 
 rank of attorneys. Recognizing his fitness for 
 public oflSce, his fellow-citizens frequently chose 
 him to represent them in offices of trust and 
 honor. For several terms he was a member of 
 the Massachusetts state senate, of which body he 
 was president from 1838 to 1840. During twenty- 
 seven years of his life he was either representa- 
 tive or senator. His career in the lower and 
 upper house was one that reflected the highest 
 credit upon his moral worth and his extensive 
 knowledge. With the broad vision of a states- 
 man he looked forward to the future, and 'advo- 
 cated measures that would have not merelj- a 
 present, but a future, bearing on the welfare of 
 the state. In his advocacy of temperance prin- 
 ciples he was steadfast. Both by precept and by 
 example he gave his influence for prohibition. 
 In 1852, when the temperance issue was in the 
 ascendency, he was nominated for governor, but, 
 his health being poor, he declined the nomina- 
 tion. Had he been able to make the race there 
 is every reason to believe that he would have 
 been elected. He was a member of the Congre- 
 gational Church, adhering to the religion of his 
 forefathers. Fraternally he was connected witli 
 the Masons. In political belief he favored the 
 
 Whig party. He was a warm personal friend 
 and great admirer of Daniel Webster, and two 
 weeks after that great statesman passed away he 
 answered his death summons, November 7, 1852. 
 
 The wife of Senator Lawrence was bom in 
 Belchertown, Mass., a daughter of Col. Henry 
 Dwight, and a descendant of the old family of 
 that name, for years prominent among the Pil- 
 grims at Dedham, Mass. Colonel Dwight, a 
 native of Warren, Mass., was a man of great 
 prominence and blameless life, and during the 
 Revolutionary war commanded a regiment as 
 colonel. Mrs. Lawrence was educated in Hop- 
 kins and Deerfield Academies, and a ladies' 
 boarding school at Hartford, Conn. Not only 
 was she a woman of splendid education, but of 
 great executive force as well, and in the town 
 where she made her home her position was very 
 high. She was born November 25, 1799, and 
 died August 21, 1869, leaving a son and two 
 daughters. The son, Mark D. , who was a mer- 
 chant, died in Philadelphia August 23, 1884. 
 One of the daughters, Sophia Dwight, became 
 the wife of Samuel Goddard, and died in Massa- 
 chusetts March 15, 1893. 
 
 The only surviving member of the family is 
 Mrs. Robinson. She bore the maiden name of 
 Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence. Her educa- 
 tion, which was thorough, she acquired in the 
 Belchertown classical school. Miss Smith's pri- 
 vate school and New Salem Academy. At her 
 father's home in Belchertown, October 30, 1851, 
 she was united in marriage to Dr. Charles Rob- 
 inson, whose helpmate and companion she re- 
 mained until his death. Like him, she was 
 brave and fearless, hence was fitted for life in the 
 west during its dark days. When her husband 
 was arrested at Lexington, Mo., and taken to 
 Lecompton to be tried for treason by the pro- 
 slavery party, she went east, carrying the official 
 proceedings of the congressional committee of 
 investigation, and safely delivered them to the 
 proper parties. From there she joined her hus- 
 band in prison, and remained with him until he 
 was released. Her knowledge of early life in 
 Kansas and her literary ability qualify her for 
 work as an author, and her work, " Kansas, Its 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 123 
 
 Exterior and Interior," is one of the most com- 
 plete of its kind ever published. It was pub- 
 lished in 1856, with nine editions of one thou- 
 sand each, and a revised edition was published 
 in 1899, with appendix. As a descriptive work 
 it is unsurpassed, and the detailed accounts of 
 the character of the new territory and the strug- 
 gles of the free-state men possess an undying in- 
 terest for all who love the state. 
 
 pQELLINGTON Y. LEONARD, M. D., a 
 \ A / leading physician of Lawrence and coro- 
 V V ner of Douglas County, was born in Tro)% 
 Miami County, Ohio, October 5, 1834, a son of 
 James W. and Julia (Renshaw) Leonard, natives 
 respectively of Rutland, Vt., and Philadelphia, 
 Pa. His grandfather, Joseph Leonard, who was 
 a member of a pioneer family of New England, 
 spent his entire life in Vermont, with the excep- 
 tion of the period of his service in the Revolu- 
 tionary war; his wife passed away in Massachu- 
 setts when within six months of one hundred years 
 old. For some years James W. Leonard was 
 foreman of large iron works in Phoenixville, Pa., 
 but in 1834 settled in Troy, Ohio, and for some 
 time cultivated a farm near that village. In 
 1S51 he removed to Albion, Ind., where he con- 
 tinued farm pursuits until his death, at the age of 
 seventy-five years. His wife, who was of Scotch 
 descent and a woman of estimable character, died 
 at sixty-four years. They were the parents of 
 seven children, four of whom attained mature 
 years and two are now living. 
 
 The education of Dr. Leonard was begun in 
 Troy public schools and further prosecuted in 
 the college of Xenia, Ohio, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1856. Later he taught two terms of 
 school and in 1858 began to study medicine under 
 Dr. D. W. C. Denney, of Albion, Ind. The fol- 
 lowing year he entered Jefferson Medical College, 
 *vhere he carried on his studies for two years. 
 Returning to Albion, he formed a partnership 
 with Dr. Denney, with whom he remained until 
 the latter entered the arm)'. In 1862 he ma- 
 triculated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine 
 
 and Surgery, from which he graduated in 1863, 
 with the degree of M. D. In 1865 he entered 
 Rush Medical College in Chicago, and the fol- 
 lowing year was given the degree of M. D. by 
 that institution. Afterward he frequently re- 
 turned to Rush for the purpose of conducting 
 post-graduate work. The continuous practice of 
 his profession in Albion in the course of time 
 undermined his health and he felt the need of a 
 change of climate and surroundings. For this 
 reason in 18^3 he came to Lawrence and here he 
 carried on a drug business, starting the City 
 drug store, as a member of the firm of Leonard 
 & Hamlin. At the same time he also gave some 
 attention to practice. In April, 1898, he sold 
 the store in order that he might devote himself 
 exclusively to professional work. 
 
 In Phoenixville, Pa., Dr. Leonard married 
 Miss Sarah A. Place, who was born there and re- 
 ceived an academic education. They are the 
 parents of four children, namely: E. W., who is 
 a business man in Kansas City; J. R., editor of 
 the Strong City Derrick, at Strong, Kans. ; O. P. , 
 a merchant tailor in Lawrence; and Ella M. , at 
 home. 
 
 During his residence in Indiana Dr. Leonard 
 was for eight years surgeon for the Baltimore & 
 Ohio Railroad. Politically he has always been a 
 Republican. Ou that ticket, in 1893, he was 
 nominated for countj- coroner and received a good 
 majority at the election. In 1895 and 1S97 he 
 was re-elected, his third term to expire in Jan- 
 uarj^ 1900. Fraternally he is a Mason, identified 
 with Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. 
 He is identified with the Lawrence Medical So- 
 ciety, and prior to his removal west was active 
 in the work of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion. In religion he is a member of the Baptist 
 Church, and is serving upon the board of trus- 
 tees of the same. 
 
 HON. H. MILES MOORE. The life of 
 General Moore has been inseparably asso- 
 ciated with the history of Kansas. Full of 
 incidents, stirring and exciting, it possesses that 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 interest which attaches to all lives presenting the 
 spectacle of a man who stands for a principle, 
 and who, alike in prosperous and in adverse 
 environments, preserves the independence of 
 thought and action and the patriotic spirit char- 
 acteristic of a true son of the land of the free. 
 From bojhood a believer in the Declaration of 
 Independence, and firm in his adherence to the 
 truth that "all men are created free and equal," 
 he saw that the system of slavery was a menace 
 to our country, and therefore gave his whole be- 
 ing to secure its overthrow. When Kansas was 
 the theater of deepest interest and the fate of the 
 state regarding slavery was at a critical point, 
 he came here, and from that time afterward he 
 was vitally comiected with the free-state move- 
 ment. In politics, fir.st an ardent Whig and 
 later a Democrat, he held to the maxim that 
 "He serves his party best who serves his country 
 best," and with him partyism was absorbed in 
 patriotism. More than once his close connection 
 with the anti-slavery cause brought him in peril 
 of his life. Often he was shot at by those who 
 realized that his death would be of advantage to 
 the pro. slavery movement. Three times, during 
 the days of border warfare, he was taken by ene- 
 mies and led out to be hanged, but each time his 
 connection with the Masonic fraternity saved his 
 life. Those were perilous days for the prominent 
 men of Kansas, and none perhaps was in greater 
 danger than he. Through perils, seen and un- 
 seen, he walked from day to daj', until finally 
 the crisis was passed, and Kansas, no longer the 
 "bleeding .state," could turn its attention to the 
 development of farms and fields, to the improve- 
 ment of cities and towns. 
 
 The Moore family was first represented in 
 America by several brothers from Ireland. Miles 
 Moore, a grandson of one of these original emi- 
 grants, was the son of a colonel in the war of 
 1812, and was himself a man of patriotic spirit. 
 He engaged in the mercantile business at Brock- 
 port, N. Y., where he died at thirty-one years of 
 age. In Monroe County, that state, he married 
 Irene Smith, who was born in Connecticut, and 
 who, like himself, died in the prime of life. 
 There were only two children born of the union. 
 
 and one of these died in infancy. The other, who 
 forms the subject of this article, was born in 
 Brockport September 2, 1826, and was reared in 
 the home of his grandfather, Deacon Levi Smith, 
 a veteran of the war of 1S12 and the son of a 
 Revolutionary soldier. 
 
 When nineteen years of age H. Miles Moore 
 graduated from Union College, Schenectady, 
 N. Y. , with the degree of A. B. He then trav- 
 eled for a year, after which he .studied law with 
 Selden & Jewett, of Clarkson, N. Y., and later 
 with C. M. Lee and L. Farrar, of Rochester, that 
 state. While in the latter city he was a member 
 of the Rochester Union Graj^s, nearlj' all of 
 whom attempted to enlist in the Mexican war, 
 but, the desired quota having been obtained, 
 they were rejected. In 1848 he was admitted to 
 the bar, and soon afterward went south, where 
 he owned interests. In a previous trip in the 
 south he had purchased land in Louisiana, and re- 
 turning to that state he engaged in the practice 
 of law, and also took charge of his plantation. 
 After having made a visit to Weston, Mo., in 
 the fall of 1S49 he decided to locate in that 
 place, and the spring of the following year found 
 him a resident there. He opened a law office, 
 engaged in practice, and also had charge of the 
 editorial work of the Weston Reporter. 
 
 The excitement incident to the passage of the 
 Kansas-Nebraska Bill spread throughout the 
 country, and both slavery supporters and op- 
 ponents were induced to come to Kansas. In 
 June, 1854, Mr. Moore came to the then terri- 
 tory. He belonged to what might be termed the 
 "fighting" element of his party, hence he 
 brought upon himself the enmity of southern 
 sympathizers, but, on the other hand, he won 
 the esteem of anti-.slavery men, among whom he 
 soon wielded great influence. Three times he 
 was elected attornej'- general of Kansas condi- 
 tional upon its admission to the Union as a state. 
 He was a member of the first territorial legisla- 
 ture in 1S57, and was afterward again chosen tec 
 serve in this position, besides one term later in 
 the state legislature. He also served as city at- 
 torney for six years, and as United States com- 
 missioner and assistant United States attorney. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 General Moore was a member of the original 
 town company of lyCaven worth, and, as its secre- 
 tary, he drew up the first paper organizing the 
 same. This he still has in his possession, to- 
 gether with many other relics of those pioneer 
 days. The company consisted of thirty mem- 
 bers, three of whom (himself one of the three) 
 were chosen to select a name for the new town. 
 He selected the name L,eavenworth, in honor of 
 the fort near by. The others preferred the name 
 of Douglas, but he was successful in securing the 
 name he desired. The lots comprising the origi- 
 nal plat of the town were bought at a cost of 
 $24,000, each of these lots having a government 
 patent. Adjacent property was sold in blocks, 
 after which the town company was disbanded 
 and the partnership dissolved. The first gov- 
 ernor, A. J. Reeder, promised to locate the capi- 
 tal here, but failed to keep his promise. The 
 neighboring towns in the county were settled by 
 hard-working, persevering men, who gave this 
 section the high reputation it has since retained. 
 
 With that typical western man. General Lane, 
 our subject was always in deepest sympathy. In 
 1 86 1 he served as judge advocate, with the rank 
 of lieutenant-colonel, on General Lane's staff, 
 after which he was transferred to the Fifth Kan- 
 sas Regiment as acting colonel. During a part 
 of the war he was appointed and served as com- 
 missary of subsistence, with the rank of captain, 
 his commission coming from Abraham Lincoln. 
 Prior to the Rebelliou he served as colonel, and 
 later was general, of the free state army organi- 
 zation. Since the close of the war he has engaged 
 in the practice of law, and held various offices. 
 He has maintained a deep interest in every move- 
 ment for the upbuilding of Leavenworth, which he 
 has seen grow from a few inhabitants to its present 
 large population. Active in educational work 
 he served as a member of the school board for 
 many years, and did all within his power to pro- 
 mote the interests of the public schools. He has 
 also been generous in contributions to religious 
 enterprises and philanthropic movements, and is 
 active in the work of the Episcopal Church, to 
 which he belongs. In the early days he became 
 identified with the State Historical Society, and 
 
 has since acted as one of its trustees. During 
 his residence in Weston he was made a Mason, 
 and is now connected with Leavenworth Lodge 
 No. 2, A. F. & A. M. He is a member of Kan- 
 sas Commandery of the Military Order of Loyal 
 Legion, and Custer Post No. 2, G. A. R., in 
 which he has served as a department aide. 
 
 In Madison, Wis., General Moore married 
 Harriet E. Van Valkenburg, of New York, a 
 descendant of Dutch ancestry. While visiting 
 in Lockport, N. Y., she was thrown from a car- 
 riage and fatally injured, dying soon afterward. 
 His second marriage took place in Leavenworth 
 September 15, 1857, and united him with Miss 
 Linnie F. Kehoe, who was born at Laurel Hill, 
 Fairfax County, Va., and was reared in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, graduating from Georgetown 
 Convent. The two children born of the first 
 marriage are deceased. Of the second marriage 
 one child is now living, Harry Miles Moore, who 
 is engaged in the drug business at Galena, Kans. 
 
 As one of the pioneers of Leavenworth, the 
 name of General Moore deserves to be placed in 
 the archives of history ; but still more is he de- 
 serving of remembrance when we consider his 
 long and active connection with movements for 
 the development of the city. Personally he is a 
 man of decided and inflexible traits of mind, as 
 his past history proves. Possessing a strong 
 mind and determined will, he has, under every 
 circumstance, had the courage of his convictions, 
 and has never deviated from the course his con- 
 science mapped out for him. He is a fine con- 
 versationalist, with the courtesy and agreeable 
 manners that make him popular with all. Well 
 informed along all lines, he is especially familiar 
 with local history, and whenever questions arise 
 regarding facts in the history of early days, he is 
 always referred to as an authority. With the 
 thoughtfulness of a man who looks into the 
 future he has carefully preserved letters, jour- 
 nals, papers, etc., together with his personal 
 recollections in writing, concerning those event- 
 ful days when the fate of Kansas trembled in the 
 balance. These data, if compiled and published, 
 would fill a volume, and would form an import- 
 ant addition to the history of that period. 
 
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 HON. THOMAS CARNEY, second governor 
 of Kansas, was intimately identified with 
 the historj' of this commonwealth during the 
 exciting days prior to and during the Civil war. 
 In fact, for some years his life history was the 
 history of the state itself, so inseparably was he 
 associated with public measures. An ardent sup- 
 porter of Republican principles and a man of great 
 patriotism, he did all within his power to pro- 
 mote the interests of his party, his state and his 
 comitry, in each of which he attained distinction. 
 
 In Delaware County, Ohio, Mr. Carney was 
 born August, 20, 1824. When he was four j'ears 
 of age his father, James Carney, died, leavingthe 
 widowed mother, poor, and with four small chil- 
 dren. For this reason, his opportunities were 
 meagre; in fact, he had none except such as he 
 made for himself. His early life was spent in 
 the hardest kind of work, after he was old enough 
 to be of assistance on the farm. .From the time 
 he was eleven until he left home, he was the 
 teamster of the family, and conveyed the prod- 
 ucts of the farm to Newark, thirty-six miles dis- 
 tant, using as a means of transportation a yoke 
 of oxen. When nineteen years of age, with $3. 50 
 in his possession and buoyed by the hope of youth, 
 he left the home farm. He attended school in 
 Berkshire, Ohio, for six months, meantime work- 
 ing for his board. Afterward he secured employ- 
 ment in a retail dry-goods house in Columbus, 
 where he remained for two years, then became 
 clerk in a wholesale dry-goods house in Cincin- 
 nati. While with the retail firm he received $50 
 and his board the first year and $100 and board 
 the second year. He remained in Cincinnati for 
 twelve years, but his health became impaired by 
 his clo.se attention to busine.ss, his success as a 
 member of the firm of Carney, Swift & Co., hav- 
 ing been secured only at the expense of his phy- 
 sical strength. 
 
 Realizing that he must seek another climate, 
 in 1857 Mr. Carney visited the west. In the 
 spring of 1858 he commenced busine.ss in Leaven- 
 worth, Kans. , where, in partnership with Thomas 
 C. Stevens, he opened the first exclusively whole- 
 sale house in the city and founded a business that 
 for years was of immense value to local interests. 
 
 On the retirement of Mr. Stevens in 1866, the firm 
 name was changed to Carney, Fenlon & Co. 
 Two 3'ears later the firm established the house of 
 E. Fenlon & Co., in St. Louis, which business 
 later merged into the house of Carnej', Garrett, 
 Fenlon & Co., and later was changed to Carney, 
 Fenlon & Co. The subsequent retirement of Mr. 
 Fenlon cau.sed another change in the business, 
 which was afterward conducted bj- Mr. Carnej- 
 alone until it was sold. He also started the 
 wholesale shoe house of Carney, Storer & Co., 
 which firm in 1873 was dissolved, and succeeded 
 by Thomas Carney & Co. In 1875 the business 
 was .sold and the one to whom its success was 
 due retired, in a measure, from participation in 
 business affairs. 
 
 The connection of Mr. Carney with affairs ot 
 state dates from the fall of 1861, when he was elec- 
 ted to the lower house of the legislature. Sep- 
 tember 17, 1862, when the Republicans met in 
 state convention, he was nominated for governor, 
 and on the 4th of November was elected, receiv- 
 ing ten thousand and ninety votes, about twice 
 the number received by his opponent. January 
 12, 1863, he took his seat as governor, and from 
 that time until the close of his term he gave his 
 undivided attention to public affairs. He found 
 the state in a discouraging condition. It was 
 utterly without credit, and without means to carry 
 on its government or protect its citizens from 
 guerillas, Indians and the calamities incident to 
 war. Along the eastern and southern borders 
 the confederates hovered, while on the west were 
 murderous bands of Indians. The life of everj' 
 settler was in peril. The general government, 
 immersed in civil war, had no time to devote to 
 the welfare of a remote state. Hence, the wel- 
 fare of the people devolved entirely upon the gov- 
 ernor. Finding that he would be obliged to de- 
 pend upon his own resources, he investigated the 
 situation thoroughly. The state had no money, 
 no arms and no ammmiition, but this did not dis- 
 courage him. On visiting the menaced regions 
 he found that the people were beginning to 
 seek places of greater safety, and he foresaw 
 the probability that the region would become a 
 desert, unless decisive steps were immediately 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 taken. He raised a force of one hundred and 
 fifty men and emplgyed them as a patrol along 
 the border, so that no hostile movement could be 
 made without detection and the people would 
 thus have time to rally to the necessary points for 
 defense. The patrol was hired by the governor 
 and paid out of his private means, he giving $1 
 a day for a man and horse, the United States gov- 
 ernment furnishing the rations. He put the men 
 in the field and kept them there, at a cost to him- 
 self of more than $10,000. At the same time he 
 was a captain in the home guard and often on 
 duty in that capacity. Through his patrol he 
 preserved the border from invasion, but, at a later 
 period, he was notified bj' the commander of the 
 federal forces to abolish the patrol, as the regu- 
 lar troops would be able to care for the safety of 
 the state. He carried out the order, and within 
 three days Quantrell made his raid into Kansas, 
 Lawrence was in ashes and one hundred and 
 eighty persons were foully murdered. During 
 the existence of the patrol, the arrangements 
 were such that the different members could speak 
 with each other ever}' hour, but the militia were 
 scattered in squads over a distance of twenty-five 
 miles, and when Quantrell marched into Kansas, 
 he easily escaped their notice. He moved stealth- 
 ily. No one knew of his approach except one 
 man who lived along the line of march. He saw 
 the guerillas, mounted a horse and hurried to- 
 ward Lawrence to warn the inhabitants, but his 
 horse fell and the rider's neck was broken. Thus 
 the sole witness of the invasion was silenced. It 
 is worthy of mention, as showing the governor's 
 generous disposition, that he made a gift of $500 
 to the widow of this man, and he also gave $1,000 
 for the relief of the people of Lawrence. 
 
 The entire official career of Governor Carney 
 was a stormy one. Occurring, as it did, at a 
 time when the nation was rent asunder by inter- 
 nal strife, when the state itself was a financial 
 and political wreck, the situation called for a man 
 of great discretion, foresight, energy and force of 
 character. That he met the demands of the sit- 
 uation is recognized by all. Through his in- 
 strumentality the state was placed upon a firm 
 basis financially. He sacrificed himself for the 
 
 interests of the state, and gave generously of 
 time, of means and of influence, to promote the 
 prosperity of the commonwealth. During the 
 first year of his administration, the house ac- 
 cepted the grant of congress giving land for the 
 agricultural college and located said college at 
 Manhattan, Riley County; also provided for the 
 establishment of an asylum for insane at Osa- 
 watomie, for the building of a penitentiary at 
 Leavenworth, the establishment of a state normal 
 school at Emporia, and the Kansas State Univer- 
 sity at Lawrence (to which he made a personal 
 contribution of $5,000). December 10, 1863,3 
 brick building on Kansas avenue, Topeka, was 
 leased to the state for a temporary capitol. Dur- 
 ing 1864 the house appointed commissioners to 
 locate a blind asylum in Wyandotte County, and 
 a deaf and dumb asylum in Olathe; grand juries 
 were abolished and a bureau of immigration es- 
 tablished. 
 
 January 9, 1865, Governor Carney retired from 
 the chair of chief executive, in which he was suc- 
 ceeded by Samuel J. Crawford. June 4, 1866, 
 he was elected a director in the Kansas City, 
 Lawrence & Fort Gibson Railroad Company, of 
 which James H. Lane was first, and William 
 Sturges the second president. In 1865 and 1866 
 he served as mayor of Leavenworth, during which 
 time he was interested in and contributed toward 
 the building of the railroads here. He was inter- 
 ested in the organization of the First National 
 Bank of Leavenworth, of which he ofiiciated as 
 a director for several years. With other enter- 
 prises, both local and state, he continued to be 
 identified, and, while giving much time and 
 thought to private business affairs, nevertheless 
 found opportunity to identify himself with every 
 project for the public welfare and advancement. 
 His death, the result of apoplexy, occurred July 
 28, 1888, in the town of which he had long been 
 an honored citizen and to whose development he 
 had contributed perhaps as much as any of its 
 prominent pioneers. His name is inseparably as- 
 sociated with the history of the state he loved so 
 well. Those who watched his official career, 
 amid all the perplexities of war times, when great 
 responsibilities were thrust upon him, under the 
 
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 most adverse and trying circumstances, agreed 
 that he proved himself to be equal to every emer- 
 gency, the man for the place; and, whatever may 
 have been individual opinions as to his decisions 
 and actions, it was the verdict of all that his ad- 
 ministration was the means of establishing the 
 credit of the state upon a sound financial basis and 
 advancing its educational and general interests 
 in a manner most gratifying to every loyal cit- 
 izen. 
 
 During his residence in Ohio, Governor Carney 
 married Miss Rebecca Ann Canaday, who was 
 born in Kenton, that state, and died in Leaven- 
 worth, September 25, 1895. They were the par- 
 ents of five sons, namely : Edwin L. ; William 
 W., both of Leavenworth; Harry C, of Butte, 
 Mont. ; Charles T. , of Meeker, Colo. ; and Frank, 
 who died in infancy. 
 
 SEN. EDWARD RUSSELL. The life his- 
 tory of General Russell was clo.sely con- 
 nected with the history of Kansas from a 
 very early period of its development and progress. 
 Of stanch patriotic principles, he was ever loyal 
 to the Union, and during the exciting days prior 
 to the war he stood firm in his allegiance to the 
 government. Every reformatory movement en- 
 listed his sympathies and his co-operation; he 
 was a stalwart friend of civil service and other re- 
 forms, to all of which he gave his firm allegiance. 
 Descended from Puritan ancestors (one of who.se 
 descendants, ex-Governor Russell of Massa- 
 chusetts, was his own cousin), he inherited 
 qualities that contributed to his success in life. 
 Hislife was brought to a close August 14, 1898, 
 with a rounded completeness that comes to few 
 lives, and he was followed to his grave by the 
 esteem of hosts of friends and personal associates. 
 Capt. Daniel Russell, who was of English and 
 Scotch descent, served as a captain in the Revo- 
 lutionary war and was disabled while at the 
 front. Returning to Massachusetts, he settled 
 on a farm near Boston and there remained until 
 death. His son, David Moore Russell, was born 
 in New Hampshire, and there married Mary 
 Flint, who was born in the suburbs of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Russell was a son of Moore Russell and 
 grandson of Peltier Russell, both of whom served 
 in the Revolution, the latter as an officer. While 
 David M. Ru.ssell was living at Plymouth, N. H., 
 his son, Edward, was born, February 9, 1833. 
 Two years later the family settled in Gainesville, 
 Sumter County, Ala., prior to the removal of the 
 Choctaw Indians to their present reservation in the 
 Indian Territory. The father became a large 
 land owner in Alabama and Mississippi, and gave 
 his attention to the management of his vast es- 
 tates. He also owned large interests in copper 
 mines in Michigan. The war coming on he lost 
 all of his fortune, and the cares and excitement 
 occasioned by the distressing condition of affairs 
 caused his death in 1864. His wife died in Ala- 
 bama in 1875. They had only two children, 
 both sons, the younger of whom, David Moore 
 Rus.sell, is now a planter in Mississippi. 
 
 When eleven years of age Edward Russell was 
 placed ill an academy at Meriden, N. H., and 
 there prepared for college. He entered Yale at 
 .seventeen years of age and studied there for a 
 year, after which he was a student in Williams 
 College in Massachusetts for a year. An attack 
 of measles so injured his eyesight as to render the 
 completion of his education impossible. For a 
 time afterward his winters were spent in the 
 south, and his summers in the north and west. 
 During this time he was a close observer of the 
 relative advantages of slave and free labor, and a 
 close student of the slavery question. The re- 
 sult was that, in 1856, upon coming to Kan.sas, 
 he placed himself 011 the side of the Union, as 
 against slavery. In the spring of 1857 he set- 
 tled at Elwood, Doniphan County, Kans., where 
 he afterward had charge of the Advertiser, 
 which was published in the interests of the town 
 company. September 25, 1S59, he married Miss 
 Ionia Blackstone, great-great-great-granddaugh- 
 ter of William Blackstone, the famous author of 
 Blackstone's commentary on law; also of George 
 Fox, the famous leader of the Quakers; and a 
 third cou.sin of ex-President Rutherford B. 
 Hayes. Her father, Ebenezer Blackstone, was 
 born in Smithfield, Ohio, and was a son of Will- 
 iam Blackstone, a dry-goods merchant of Phila- 
 
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 delphia, and later a resident of Smithfield; he 
 married Miss Ann Price, whose mother was a 
 daughter of George Fox. William's father, Eb- 
 enezer, was born in England, where his father, 
 William Blackstone, was a leading attorney and 
 writer upon law. The various branches of the 
 family were allied with the Society of Friends. 
 Ebenezer Blackstone, Jr., engaged in the dry- 
 goods business in Middletown, Guernsey County, 
 Ohio, where his daughter, Ionia, was born. 
 About 1854 he removed to St. Joe, Mo., where 
 he built and operated the first steam ferry on the 
 then upper Missouri, the charter for which he 
 held for thirty years, meantime running the 
 ferry between St. Joe and Elwood. During the 
 Civil war the government chartered two of his 
 boats and converted them into iron-clads, using 
 them at St. Louis until the war closed. Of 
 one of these boats he was commissioned captain. 
 At the close of the war he returned to St. Joe, 
 where he engaged in dealing in farm lands and 
 city real estate. He adhered to the Republican 
 party and in religion upheld the doctrines of the 
 Quaker Church. When he died, January 10, 
 1888, he was seventy-five years of age. His 
 was a bu.sy life. During the Pike's Peak excite- 
 ment the tide of emigration westward was so 
 great that he ran three ferries and several flat 
 boats, and employed one hundred men, besides 
 forty men who got out timber in the woods: 
 
 The marriage of Ebenezer Blackstone united 
 him with Mary A. Hayes, a native of Middle- 
 town, Ohio, and a daughter of Thomas Hayes, 
 who removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio in a 
 very early day. His father, Thomas, Sr., was a 
 soldier of the Revolution, and a pioneer of Ohio, 
 where he cleared large tracts of land. Mrs. 
 Blackstone died at St. Joe, April 12, 1893, when 
 seventy-five years of age. She was a woman of 
 deeply religious character and an earnest member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In her fam- 
 ily were five children, viz.: Mrs. Annie E. Ells- 
 worth, of Cripple Creek, Colo.; Ionia; Rebecca 
 Susan, wife of Benjamin Fleming, of St. Joe, Mo.; 
 Frank T., a farmer in Howell County, Mo. ; and 
 Ella, wife of B. F. Saunders, of Salt Lake City, 
 who is known as the ' ' cattle king ' ' of the west. 
 
 At the time her parents came west, Mrs. Rus- 
 sell accompanied them. She was educated in 
 the Sacred Heart Convent and the Presbyterian 
 Female College in St. Joseph. Educated in the 
 Quaker faith, she has always adhered to its doc- 
 trines, though not a member of the society. 
 During the Civil war she experienced all the 
 perils common to the times, and stood guard over 
 her own fireside. Having befriended a jaw- 
 hawking captain, the latter was the means of 
 saving her considerable loss. To her marriage 
 four children were born. The eldest, Percy 
 Blackstone, was educated in Williams College and 
 the University of Kansas, and is now pro- 
 prietor of a plantation in Mississippi, his home 
 being in Memphis, Tenn. Formerly he had 
 charge of the building of the Great Eastern irri- 
 gation canal, which his father projected and 
 which rendered possible the opening to settle- 
 ment of thousands of acres on the Arkansas 
 River between Deerfield and Hartland. The 
 second son, Edward Flint Russell, is a farmer in 
 Jefferson County, Kans. The older daughter, 
 Mary R. , was educated inElmira College in New 
 York and became the wife of Arthur Peabody, 
 late of Lawrence, now deceased. The youngest 
 child, Ella, is a student in the high school of 
 Lawrence. 
 
 In the contest over the Lecompton constitution, 
 pending the vote, August 3, 1858, by order of 
 congress, it was then that Mr. Russell made his 
 first canvass in the interests of the abolition of 
 slavery. At that time his county (Doniphan) was 
 almost equally divided between the free state and 
 slavery advocates. In the spring of 1859, with 
 A. L. Lee and D. Webster Wilder, he began the 
 publication of the Elwood Free Press, which he 
 assisted in publishing for a year. In the spring 
 of 1 86 1 he moved his family on the bluffs of the 
 Missouri, one mile west of Wathena, and there 
 planted an orchard. In 1862 he served as a 
 member of the legislature, and as chairman of 
 the committee on ways and means he spent 
 much time in endeavoring to place the state upon 
 a safe financial basis by means of better laws of 
 taxation. He was re-elected to the legislature of 
 1863 and again served as chairman of the ways 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and means committee. While a member he cast 
 the deciding vote in favor of Lawrence as the 
 place to establish the State University. In the 
 spring of 1863 he was appointed quartermaster- 
 general of Kansas, and this position, with 
 the rank of colonel, he held until the close of the 
 war. He was called upon to provide for the mi- 
 litia secured to protect the border counties from 
 sudden invasion by Confederates or Indians. As 
 acting paymaster, he reluctantly paid off the de- 
 tachments at Olathe and Paola, in accordance 
 with the instructions of the government. Im- 
 mediately afterward, through the neglect of some 
 one at General Ewing's headquarters in Kan.sas 
 City, Quantrell's raid was rendered possible. He 
 paid off the men and the latter dispersed. A few 
 days later, in August, 1864, Quantrell secretly 
 approached Lawrence and in a short time many 
 lives were lost and the city in ruins. General 
 Russell was returning to Lawrence when he saw 
 some soldiers leaving. He succeeded in escaping 
 observation and, by taking another road, entered 
 the city unobserved, just after the raid. From 
 1863 to 1 864 he was a member of the board of en- 
 rollment, and in 1864 was chairman of the state 
 Republican central committee. He was a mem- 
 ber of the legislature in 1865 and voted against 
 the re-election of United States Senator Lane. 
 
 In April, 1865, General Russell removed to 
 Leavenworth, where he embarked in the real- 
 estate and conveyancing business, and in this he 
 continued until 1874. He was one of the pro- 
 jectors of the Leavenworth Coal Company, that 
 has since become one of the most prosperous con- 
 cerns of Kansas. In 1872 he was elected auditor 
 of Leavenworth County. The following year 
 Gov. Thomas A. Osborn appointed him superin- 
 tendent of insurance, and this position he held 
 until December, 1874. After ten or more years 
 in Leavenworth he moved to Lawrence, and con- 
 tinued in the building and real-estate business 
 until his death, although during the last nine 
 years of his life his health was so poor that he 
 was unable to engage actively in business. His 
 connection with public affairs extended over 
 many years, and brought him into intimacy with 
 all the prominent men of Kansas. He served as 
 
 a member of the legislature from Doniphan, 
 Douglas and Leavenworth Counties, and in each 
 instance his service was most satisfactory. He 
 belonged to the first territorial legislature, and 
 hence was identified with Kansas history from its 
 territorial days. A man of broad knowledge and 
 deep insight into national issues, their causes, 
 and their results, he was a frequent contributor 
 to newspapers and periodicals and kept posted 
 concerning every problem brought before the 
 people. From boyhood he held membership in 
 the Presbyterian Church, of which for many 
 years he was a ruling elder. He died August 
 14, 1898, and his remains were interred in Mount 
 Muncie Cemetery at Leavenworth. 
 
 SEN. JAMES H. LANE. The life of this 
 remarkable man was inseparabl}' associated 
 with the history of Kansas during the crit- 
 ical period when its fate, as a free or slave state, 
 hung in the balance. Whatever may be said of 
 his faults and mistakes, it cannot be denied that 
 he was for years the leading free-state advocate 
 in the territory-, and to his influence, more than 
 to that of an}- other man, the success of the free- 
 state movement was due. He was a man of 
 powerful ambitions, and, like Cardinal Woolsey, 
 he might have justly attributed much of the dis- 
 appointment and sorrow of his last days to that 
 attribute of mind which had been his guiding 
 star during all the active years of his tempestu- 
 ous life. At the same time he was a man of great 
 personal courage, undaunted in the face of any 
 foe, and one to whom the word "fear" had no 
 e.Kistence. He was also a remarkable orator, 
 perhaps the most eloquent man in the west dur- 
 ing the early days, and his stirring, eloquent 
 speeches won, both in the east and west, thou- 
 sands of converts to the free-state cause. Many 
 men who for j-ears have been among the best 
 citizens of Kansas were led to ca.st in their fort- 
 unes with the people here, through hearing him 
 describe the condition of affairs in the territory. 
 The passing of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 through the state w-as almost wholly the result 
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 to his country, he was especially devoted to the 
 state of his adoption, and in seeking its glory his 
 own happiness was to be found. 
 
 General Lane was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., 
 June 22, 1814. He was of Scotch-Irish descent 
 on his father's side, and through his mother was 
 connected with the Foote family of Connecticut. 
 At the time of the Mexican war he was engaged 
 in the practice of law. He enlisted as a private 
 in the Third Indiana Infantry and raised a com- 
 pan)^ of which he was made captain. Later he 
 was chosen colonel of the regiment, which he 
 commanded in the brilliant campaign of General 
 Taylor. 
 
 After the close of the war he was chosen lieu- 
 tenant-governor of Indiana, and in 1852 was 
 elected to congress, also during the same year 
 was an elector-at-large on the Democratic ticket. 
 He supported the Nebraska bill, the passage of 
 which, rendered the re-election of its northern 
 Democratic supporters very doubtful. Realizing 
 that his political future in Indiana was hazardous, 
 he decided to cast his lot with the territory whose 
 interests he had warmly espoused. In April, 1855, 
 he settled on a claim adjoining Lawrence, which 
 continued to be his home until his death. Dur- 
 ing that year he was chairman of the executive 
 committee of the Topeka convention, which in- 
 stituted the first state government in Kansas, and 
 subsequently he was president of the Topeka con- 
 stitutional convention, also was elected major- 
 general of the free-state troops. In 1856 he was 
 elected to the United States senate by the legisla- 
 ture, which met under the Topeka constitution, 
 but the election was not recognized by congress. 
 In 1857 he was president of the Leavenworth 
 constitutional convention, and was also elected 
 major-general of the Kansas troops by the terri- 
 torial legislature. The legislature of 1861, which 
 convened in pursuance of the constitution under 
 which Kansas was admitted to the Union, elected 
 him to the United States senate. In June, 1S61, 
 he was made brigadier-general of volunteers and 
 commanded the Kansas brigade in the field for 
 four months. Again, in December, he was nomi- 
 nated brigadier-general, with a view to com- 
 manding an expedition in the southwest, but the 
 
 plan was abandoned and he resigned. After the 
 adjournment of congress, in July, 1862, he was 
 commissioned to superintend the enlistment of 
 troops in the west. 
 
 Upon first coming to Kansas, General Lane 
 hoped to organize a national Democratic party 
 within the borders of the territory, and with this 
 object in view he and others of similar faith 
 met in Lawrence July 27, 1855. He was made 
 president of the meeting, which passed resolu- 
 tions indorsing the Kansas-Nebraska bill and the 
 platform of the national Democratic convention 
 held in Baltimore in 1852. This movement, 
 from which he had hoped so much, touched no 
 responsive chord in the hearts of the people, and 
 came to naught. Realizing that he could hope 
 for no change in that party, he allied himself 
 with the free-state anti-slaverj' Republican forces, 
 and from that time forward adhered with the zeal 
 of an enthusiast to these principles. When the 
 Lecompton constitution was about to be thrust 
 upon the people against their will, he called a 
 public meeting almost at the very doors of the 
 convention and denounced the authors of the 
 constitution as tyrants. With all of his energy 
 he opposed the admission of the state under slav- 
 ery rule, and created such a sentiment that the 
 secretary of the territory, in the absence of the 
 governor, was forced to accede to his demands. 
 He persevered until the legislature was convened 
 and the threatened disaster was averted. 
 
 In 1864-65 General Lane was re-elected to the 
 United States senate. In that body he sided with 
 President Johnson regarding the freedman's bu- 
 reau and civil rights bill. This action on his 
 part disappointed his constituents and caused 
 many of them to oppose him strongly. In June, 
 1866, he returned to his home in Lawrence, but 
 found that those who had formerly yielded him 
 homage no longer looked up to him as the ac- 
 knowledged leader in public affairs. Ill and dis- 
 heartened, he started to return to Washington, 
 but his illness became so serious that at St. Louis 
 his physician advised his return home, as he 
 was threatened with softening of the brain. June 
 29 he reached the farm of his brother-in-law, 
 Captain McCall, near Leavenworth. On the ist 
 
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 of July, while riding with his brother-in-law and 
 another gentleman, he alighted atone of the farm 
 gates and, exclaiming, "Good-bye, gentlemen," 
 discharged a revolver in his mouth. The ball 
 passed out near the center of the cranium. He 
 lingered until the nth, when he passed into the 
 great beyond. 
 
 General Lane's wife, who died in Lawrence in 
 1883, was a granddaughter of General Arthur 
 St. Clair, who was born in Roslyn Castle, a 
 grandson of the earl of Roslyn, and studied medi- 
 cine in Edinburgh, coming to America before the 
 Revolutionary war, in which he took a promi- 
 nent part. Of the children of General Lane and 
 his wife, a son and daughter died in Lawrence; 
 Mrs. Anna Johnson resides iu Kansas City, and 
 Thomas is living in St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 HON. JUSTIN D. BOWERSOCK. Not 
 alone through his prominence in the politi- 
 cal life of Lawrence, but also by reason of his 
 identification with its commercial interests, Mr. 
 Bowersock is recognized as one of the most influ- 
 ential citizens of the city. Many of the most im- 
 portant business enterprises of the town owe their 
 origin or their subsequent growth to his energy-. 
 At this writing he is president of the Lawrence 
 National Bank, president of the Bowersock Mil- 
 ling Company (which owns one of the largest mills 
 in Kansas), president of the Griffin Ice Company 
 (which is engaged in the manufacture of artificial 
 ice and sells that product as well as natural ice), 
 president of the Kansas Water Power Company, 
 president of the Lawrence Gas and Electric Light 
 Company, and vice-president of the Lawrence 
 Consolidated Barb Wire Company. He was in- 
 strumental in the organizing of the Commercial 
 Club and served as its president for many years. 
 Born in Columbiana County, Ohio, September 
 19, 1842, the subject of this article is a son of I. 
 Bowersock and Adaline (McDonald) Bowersock, 
 natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New 
 York. The former, who was of Holland- Dutch 
 and Scotch descent, accompanied his parents to 
 Columbiana County, Ohio, in boyhood and set 
 tied upon a farm. About 1850 he removed, over- 
 land, to Iowa, settling in Iowa City, where for 
 
 years he engaged in the mercantile business. He 
 is now living retired, in Iowa. By his marriage 
 to Miss McDonald, who was a member of a New 
 York family of Revolutionary stock, he had two 
 children, Justin D. and Mrs. F. R. Stewart, of 
 Fostoria, Ohio. The family lived for some time 
 in Wood County, Ohio, where our subject atten- 
 ded school. In 1863 he began in the mercantile 
 business in Iowa City, where he continued until 
 his removal to Kansas in 1877. During his res- 
 idence in Iowa he was engaged in farming and 
 was a large shipper of stock and grain to Chicago 
 and the east. For several years he was an officer 
 in the local and state lodges of the Good Temp- 
 lars, and assisted in the organization of many 
 lodges of this order. After coming to Lawrence 
 he built the Lawrence paper mills, rebuilt the 
 water power, built the elevators and organized 
 all of the companies that utilize the water power. 
 At the same time he became interested in bank- 
 ing and organized the Douglas County (now the 
 Lawrence National) Bank, of which he has since 
 been president. 
 
 •While the extensive business interests of Mr. 
 Bowersock have necessarily consumed much of 
 his time, he has never neglected his duties as a 
 citizen, but has kept in touch with national prog- 
 ress and has ever been ready to aid in public af- 
 fairs. The people have signified their apprecia- 
 tion of his worth by electing him to offices of re- 
 sponsibility, in all of which he has endeavored to 
 promote the welfare of his constituents. In pol- 
 itics he has allied himself with the Republican 
 party, the principles of which he upholds. In 
 1 88 1 and 1883 he was elected mayor of Lawrence. 
 Under his administration the city was released 
 from an indebtedness of $100, coo to the state. In 
 1887 he became a member of the house of repre- 
 sentatives, and during his term was instrumental 
 in securing the passage of the Quantrell raid re- 
 lief bill. His service in the lower house was em- 
 inently satisfactory to his constituents and 
 brought him into prominence among the public 
 men of the state. In 1S95 he was elected to the 
 state senate to succeed Judge Thatcher, deceased. 
 Three years later he was elected, by a majority of 
 two thousand, to represent the second di.strict of 
 
HON. JOHN PAI..MKR USHER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 135 
 
 Kansas in the United States congress. By his 
 ability and courtesy in the administration of his 
 official duties he has made himself deservedly 
 popular with the people, and is regarded by all 
 as an able officer, as well as a genial friend and 
 honorable gentleman. He finds time, a.side from 
 his various interests, to superintend his farming 
 property, and to serve as president of the Mer- 
 chants' Athletic Club. He is also president of 
 the board of trustees of Plymouth Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bowersock took place in 
 Iowa City in September, 1866, and united him 
 with Miss Mary C. Gower, whose father, James 
 H. Gower, was an early settler of that city, a 
 leading banker and merchant there, and one of 
 the most active in the establishment of the Uni- 
 ver.sity of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Bowersock are 
 parents of four daughters and two sons. The lat- 
 ter are graduates of the law department of the 
 University of Kansas and one also graduated 
 from Harvard College. Both are now engaged 
 in active professional practice, one being in Kan- 
 sas City, the other in Lawrence. 
 
 HON. JOHN PALMER USHER. In pre- 
 senting to the readers "of this volume the 
 biography of Judge Usher, we are perpetuat- 
 ing the life record of one who was once prominent 
 in the public affairs of our country and who 
 occupied many positions of honor and trust. 
 Throughout his long and eventful career he main- 
 tained the integrity of character and firmness of 
 convictions that were among his mo.st conspicuous 
 traits. At a time when our nation was passing 
 through the darkest crisis of its existence, when 
 the perpetuity of the Union was threatened and 
 gloom shrouded the future like a heavy pall, he 
 stood by the side of President Lincoln as a mem- 
 ber- of his cabinet and upheld him in every 
 decision, supported him in every crisis. To that 
 great statesman and leader he remained faithful 
 to the last, and when the assassin's bullet termi- 
 nated the remarkable career of the martyred 
 president, he stood by his side as the tide of life 
 ebbed slowly out into eternity. 
 
 Judge Usher was born in New York . the son of 
 Nathaniel Usher, M. D., a practicing physician 
 in that state. He received an excellent education 
 in youth and was admitted to the bar at Albany. 
 Desiring to seek a western location, he went to 
 Indiana, where he opened an office in Terre 
 Haute. There and in Illinois he often met Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, of whom he was ever a warm friend 
 and admirer. He took a prominent part in politics 
 and upon the organization of the Republican 
 party became an advocate of its principles. For 
 a time he served in the Indiana legislature, later 
 was a candidate for congress, and under Gov- 
 ernor Morton held office as attorney -general of 
 Indiana. When Mr. Lincoln became president 
 he chose Judge Usher as first assistant secretary 
 of the interior, and when Secretary Smith re- 
 signed. Judge Usher was chosen to occupy his 
 seat in the cabinet. He continued to serve as 
 secretary of the interior until after the death of 
 Lincoln, but resigned under President Johnson. 
 
 After leaving Wa,shington, Judge Usher came 
 to Kansas and established his home in Lawrence, 
 where he erected a beautiful residence on Ten- 
 nessee street. From the time of his removal to 
 Kansas until his death he held the position of 
 general solicitor for the Union Pacific Railroad, 
 an office of the greatest responsibility, but one 
 which he filled with recognized efficiency. Dur- 
 ing the latter part of his life he spent his winters 
 in Florida, where he had a winter home on the 
 Indian River at Sharp's Landing. He died in a 
 hospital at Philadelphia, April 13, 1889, at the 
 age of seventy-six years. His death removed 
 from earth one who had posse.ssed the confidence of 
 the people, and whose integrity of character, both 
 during and after our great national conflict, and 
 whose fidelity to duty, private and public, was 
 never questioned. 
 
 In Rockville, Ind. , Judge Usher married Miss 
 Margaret A. Patterson, sister of Judge Chambers 
 Patterson, who at the time of his death had for 
 eighteen years held the office of judge of courts 
 in Indiana. Besides this brother, she had two 
 sisters, one of whom died in Terre Haute, Ind., 
 the other in New York, so that of the family she 
 alone survives. She was a daughter of Gen. 
 
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 Arthur and Margaret (Chambers) Patterson, na- 
 tives respectively of Ireland and western Virginia. 
 Her grandfather, James Patterson, brought the 
 family to America and some years afterward 
 settled near Washington, Pa., where he became 
 an extensive farmer. General Patterson, who 
 commanded a body of troops in the American 
 army during the war of 18 12, winning distinction 
 as a general, settled at old Fort Vincennes, and 
 after that post was abandoned he laid out Rock- 
 ville, the county seat of Park County, Ind. He 
 was a very prominent Democrat. At one time 
 he came within one vote of being elected to the 
 United States senate, and it is said that the vote 
 he lacked had been bought by his opponent. He 
 was a warm friend of President Madison and 
 other notable men of his day. While visiting in 
 Saratoga, N. Y., he died there. His wife was a 
 daughter of Col. David Chambers, a colonel in 
 the Revolutionary war and afterward the owner 
 of a large plantation in Virginia, where he died. 
 He had a brother, Maj. Benjamin Chambers, 
 who served under General Braddock at the time 
 of the French and Indian war, and was killed at 
 Braddock' s defeat. 
 
 Mrs. Usher was born in a log house at \'in- 
 cennes, Ind., April 15, 18 18. The home of her 
 infancy was a primitive structure, built more for 
 defen.se than for comfort, and was surrounded by 
 a huge stockade intended as a protection against 
 the Indians. When quite young .she was taken 
 by her parents to Rockville. At twelve years of 
 age she entered a school in Louisville, Ky., and 
 after two years there became a pupil in a Catholic 
 school at Bardstown, Ky. She is a woman of 
 charitable disposition, and has always been kind 
 to the needy and a friend to the suffering. Since 
 the death of her husband she has continued these 
 helpful charities. Her heart is especially tender 
 toward friendless children, and many a poor waif 
 or orphan has been clothed and educated by her, 
 and given a start in the world through her timely- 
 aid. She attends the Presbyterian Church and 
 contributes toward its maintenance. Since her 
 husband's demise she has continued to occupy 
 their home in Lawrence and has maintained a 
 supervision over their property interests. Of her 
 
 four sons, Arthur died in Lawrence; John P. 
 lives in Kansas City; Linton is a cattleman in 
 New Mexico; and Samuel C, a graduate of the 
 Lawrence schools, is with his mother. 
 
 QEV. RICHARD CORDLEY, A. M., D. D. 
 Ia To this gentleman, often alluded to as the 
 r \ "father" of the Congregational Church in 
 Lawrence, belongs the distinction of being the 
 oldest minister, in point of years of active service, 
 in the entire state of Kansas. To write his 
 biography is to write a history of the Plymouth 
 Church. This congregation was organized in 
 September, 1854, under the supervision of the 
 Home Missionary Societj' of New York, who 
 .sent Rev. S. Y. Lum as missionary. Services 
 for some time were held in private houses or 
 stores and in the St. Nicholas Hotel. In the 
 spring of 1856 a church building was commenced 
 (40 X 65) of limestone, but this was not com- 
 pleted until 1862. It was situated on Louisiana 
 and Piiickney streets, and cost $8,000. 
 
 Meantime four young gentlemen had been 
 studying theology in Andover Seminary in 
 Massachusetts, from which they graduated in 
 1857 with the degree of B. D. It had been their 
 custom to meet regularly in their rooms and plan 
 for their future work in the west. They were 
 pledged to take up work in a new and difficult 
 field, and were known as the Andover-Kansas 
 band. They carried out their plans, one going to 
 Leavenworth, another to Emporia and the third 
 to what is now Kansas City. The fourth young 
 man, who forms the subject of this sketch, came 
 to Lawrence, arriving here December 2, 1857. 
 He found an uncompleted church, with a mem- 
 bership of twenty-two. Immediately taking up 
 the work here, under his efficient ministrations 
 the congregation grew and met with continuous 
 prosperity until the time of the Quantrell raid. 
 He had been so outspoken in his denunciation of 
 slavery that he was a marked man among pro- 
 slavery sympathizers. When the mob entered 
 the city they first passed along Massachusetts 
 street, and as his home was on New York street, 
 four blocks away, he was warned in time to 
 
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 escape and fled to the river, thus saving his life. 
 The church, however, was not so fortunate; six- 
 teen of the members were killed and all suffered 
 heavy losses financially. This proved a serious 
 blow to the little flock, and when the survivors 
 met in the church, the second day after the raid, 
 they were a sorrowful band and faced a gloomy 
 future. However, the period of depression in 
 time gave way to a period of hope and prosperitj-, 
 which has continued to the present. In 1868, 
 the congregation having grown rapidly, a new 
 edifice was begun. The structure that was 
 erected was, at the time of building, one of the 
 largest and finest of its kind in the state, costing, 
 with pipe organ, about $45,000. It occupies a 
 splendid location on Vermont street, between 
 Warren and Berkeley, and is the home of an 
 earnest, busy congregation, numbering more 
 than five hundred members. 
 
 The Cordley family is of English origin. The 
 doctor's father, James, and grandfather, Richard, 
 were natives of Lincolnshire. The former was 
 engaged in business in Nottingham, but in 1833 
 brought his familj' to America, spending ten 
 weeks in the voyage from Hull to Quebec, thence 
 going to Whitehall and Utica, and by canal, 
 after two weeks, to Buffalo, from there to 
 Detroit, and thence by ox-teams and wagons to 
 the frontier, settling near Hamburg, Livingston 
 County, Mich. Bj' care and constant toil he im- 
 proved one of the finest estates in his section, 
 the property being made more valuable by the 
 Cordley lake. He died in 1868, at the age of 
 eighty years, having spent his last days with his 
 son in Lawrence. He was a firm believer in 
 abolition and became identified with the Repub- 
 lican party on its organization. In his native 
 land he had been connected with the Church of 
 England, but after settling in Michigan he 
 became a member of the Congregational Church. 
 He built the first schoolhouse in his vicinity and 
 was interested in educational work. The farm 
 which he owned is now the property of de- 
 scendants. 
 
 The wife of James Cordley was Ann Minta, 
 who was born in Ropsley, Lincolnshire, where 
 her father, Thomas Minta, was proprietor of a 
 
 farm of six hundred acres and was a ver}' pros- 
 perous and prominent man. The history of the 
 Minta family in England dates back to about 
 1700, when an Italian family of that name was 
 forced to flee from Italy for political reasons and 
 sought a home in England. All who bore the 
 name were fespected and honorable. Thomas 
 Minta died in 1816. His daughter, Ann, was 
 educated in the Grantham boarding school and 
 was a woman of fine mind. She died in 1886, 
 when nearly ninety years of age. Of her ten 
 children six sons attained manhood. Christopher 
 M., the eldest, graduated from Andover Theo- 
 logical Seminary and entered the Congregational 
 ministry in Massachusetts, dying while pastor at 
 Lawrence, that state. James, who is a manu- 
 facturer of organs, resides in Crawford Countj^ 
 Pa. John died in Ann Arbor. William, a 
 teacher, died in Michigan, and Charles died at 
 the old homestead. 
 
 Dr. Cordley was born in Nottingham, England, 
 September 6, 1829. He was a child of four years 
 when the family came to America. From boy- 
 hood he was ambitious to acquire knowledge, 
 and, by his personal efforts, he secured the 
 money necessary for his college education. In 
 1850 he entered the University of Michigan, from 
 which he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 
 1854. Three years later he received the degree 
 of A. M. Immediately after leaving the univer- 
 sit3' he entered Andover, where he took the com- 
 plete course, graduating in 1857. From that 
 time until 1875 he was in charge of the church in 
 Lawrence, Kan. In 1875, being overworked 
 here and feeling the need of a change, he 
 accepted a call to Flint, Mich., where he 
 remained for three years. He then spent six 
 years as pastor of the church at Emporia, Kans. , 
 and while there superintended the building of 
 a handsome stone edifice. From Emporia he 
 returned to Lawrence, it being understood that it 
 was to be only a vacation, but he has continued 
 here to the present. Since his return here the 
 parsonage was built, at a cost of almost $5,000. 
 In 1873 he received the degree of D. D. from the 
 University of Kansas. 
 
 May 19, 1859, in Hamburg, Mich., Dr. Cordley 
 
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 married Mary Minta Cox, who was born in Not- 
 tingham, England, a daughter of John and Eliza- 
 beth (Minta) Cox. Her father was a business 
 man of Nottingham, where he died. He had 
 ten children, of whom two daughters alone sur- 
 vive. When fourteen years of age Mrs. Cordley 
 came to the United States with relatives. She 
 was educated in the Ypsilanti Ladies' Seminary, 
 where she completed the course. In all the work 
 started by her husband she lias been ready to 
 assist and her counsel and sympathy have been of 
 the greatest encouragement to him. They had 
 an adopted daughter, who married \V. E. GrifiSth 
 and died at Lawrence when thirty years of age, 
 leaving two sons, Richard Cordley and Alfred 
 M., who were left by their mother with their 
 grandparents. 
 
 For twenty years Dr. Cordley was a member of 
 the school board of Lawrence, and from 1885 to 
 1891 he served as its president. He was a mem- 
 ber of the building committee at the time of the 
 erection of the high school and Central school, 
 and has always been interested in educational 
 work. The University of Kansas, too, received 
 the impetus of his support in the early days, when 
 its friends were far less numerous than now. Pie 
 was one of the founders of Washburn College, 
 Topeka, he and the three other young men of the 
 Andover- Kansas band having conceived the idea 
 of such a school and aiding in starting it in 1858. 
 From that time to this he has been a trustee. In 
 1 87 1 he was elected president of the college, but 
 declined, preferring to remain in the ministry. 
 From 1867 to 1872 he was a regent of the State 
 Agricultural College at Manhattan. He was also 
 president of the board of trustees of Dunlap 
 Academy, and a member of theboard of directors 
 of Chicago Theological Seminary. During the 
 war he was mustered into the Third Kansas 
 Militia and served at the time of Price's raid, 
 after which he was mu.stered out. He is now a 
 member of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., 
 of which he held the office of chaplain for many 
 years. His wife is a charter member of the 
 Ladies' Circle, G. A. R. Several times he has 
 been moderator of the Congregational Association 
 in Kansas, of which he is the oldest member now 
 
 living. During 1891 he was one of six hundred 
 delegates to the International Council of the Con- 
 gregational Church in London, where he read a 
 paper on the liquor traffic. His wife accompanied 
 him on this trip and they spent three months 
 abroad, visiting Great Britain, France and Bel- 
 gium, and returning via Antwerp to New York. 
 
 "3 EN. JOHN N. ROBERTS, a resident of 
 — Lawrence for the past thirty j-ears, was born 
 ^ at Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio, July 3, 
 1838, of parents who in early life moved from 
 near Hartford, Conn., to Trumbull County, 
 Ohio. He is of Scotch descent, and traces his lin- 
 eage to a Scotch Highlander, Major Roberts, an 
 officer in the British army, who came to this 
 country in the seventeenth century. His grand- 
 father served in the Revolutionary war as a mem- 
 ber of a body of dragoons known as the Scotch 
 Highlanders. Mr. Roberts is skilled in the man- 
 ufacture of engines and machinery, having learned 
 his trade in his father's factory in Ohio. This 
 knowledge of machinery he has turned to good 
 account as a manufacturer, to which occupation 
 he has given his entire business life, and in which 
 he has met with gratifying success. 
 
 In April, 1861, in response to Lincoln's first 
 call for troops, he enlisted as a private in the 
 Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and with this regi- 
 ment was mustered into the army at Columbus, 
 Ohio, for ninety days. This regiment was as- 
 signed to the army under command of General 
 McClellan, and served in western A'irginia, taking 
 part in the battles of Rich Mountain and Beverly 
 Ford, where the Confederate General Garnett was 
 killed and his army captured. Upon being mus- 
 tered out by reason of expiration of term of serv- 
 ice he assisted in organizing the Sixth Ohio Cav- 
 alry, which in October, 1861, was mustered into 
 service for three years. In this regiment he was 
 commissioned first lieutenant of Company G. In 
 August, 1S63, he was transferred and promoted 
 to be captain of Company D, same regiment, and 
 in November, 1864, was commissioned major of 
 the regiment. 
 
 Upon the organization of the Cavalry Corps, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 139 
 
 Army of the Potomac, commanded first by Gen- 
 eral Stoneman, then by General Pleasanton, and 
 during the last eighteen months of the war, by 
 the matchless Phil Sheridan, the Sixth Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry was assigned to that organi- 
 zation and served therein until the close of the 
 war, taking part in the many battles and raids 
 which have made that organization famous and 
 the name of Phil Sheridan immortal. June 21, 
 1863, Mr. Roberts was very severely wounded 
 while taking part in a cavalrj^ charge at Upper- 
 ville, Va. , but remained in the army until the 
 winter of 1864-65, when, by reason of the expira- 
 tion of his term of service, and on account of the 
 trouble he was having with his wound, he retired 
 from the arm3^ 
 
 About two years after leaving the army he was 
 married at Warren, Ohio, to Miss Emily S. Sut- 
 liff, the daughter of an attorney. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Roberts have one child, a daughter, Belle Bran- 
 don, now the wife of H. 1,. Armstrong, who re- 
 sides at Topeka, Kans. 
 
 Mr. Roberts was elected as the candidate of the 
 Republican party to the legislature and served 
 during the regular session of 1885 and the special 
 session of 1886. In 1889 he was appointed adju- 
 tant-general of Kansas and held that oflSce for four 
 years. He is a member of the Masonic order, a 
 charter member and first commander of Washing- 
 ton Post No. 12, G. A. R., Department of Kan- 
 sas, and a companion of the first class of the mil- 
 itary order of the Eoyal Legion of the United 
 States. 
 
 HON. DUDLEY C. HASKELL, deceased, 
 was long one of the most conspicuous figures 
 in the public life of Kansas. Thoroughly 
 conversant with political economy and the social 
 problems of his age, his recognition as a political 
 leader was a tribute to his intelligence and ability. 
 In 1872, 1875 and 1876 he was elected to the 
 Kansas house of representatives, and during the 
 last session served as speaker, for which difficult 
 position he was peculiarly adapted. While always 
 adhering with steadfastness to the fundamental 
 principles of the Republican party, he never dis- 
 played narrow partisanship, but was broad and 
 
 liberal in his views, and impartial in his rulings. 
 In the fall of 1876 he was elected to congress 
 from the second congressional district, receiving 
 a majority of forty-six hundred and eighty. In 
 1878 he was re-elected by a larger majority than 
 before. Again in 1880 and 1882 he was returned 
 to his seat in congress, in which body he was 
 serving at the time of his death, December 16, 
 1883. Though participating in general legisla- 
 tion, his most lasting service as congressman was 
 in connection with his work as a member of the 
 committee on Indian affairs. It was due to his 
 efforts that an Indian school was established in 
 Lawrence. This school, known as Haskell In- 
 stitute, bears his name and is a permanent monu- 
 ment to the forethought of its projector. 
 
 Born in Springfield, Vt., March 23, 1842, Dud- 
 ley C. Haskell was a sou of Franklin Haskell 
 and a brother of John G. Haskell, of Lawrence. 
 At the age o£ thirteen he came to Kansas with 
 his mother. He was of heroic mould, showing 
 from earliest boyhood a fearless spirit and a love 
 for his country, and hence he was fitted for life 
 on the frontier, during the period days of border 
 warfare. In Lawrence he could have few advan- 
 tages, for the town was new and its schools poor, 
 being provided with none of the facilities of the 
 present day. He first studied in a building where 
 Miller's hall now stands and afterward attended 
 the first public school in Lawrence, held in the 
 basement of the Unitarian Church. His father 
 died in January, 1857, and in the fall of that year 
 he entered school in Springfield, Vt., but re- 
 turned in 1858 and began in business. In the 
 spring of 1859 he went to Colorado, where he 
 prospected and rained, meeting with many rough 
 experiences, and finding but little gold. At the 
 opening of the Civil war he returned to Kansas 
 and enlisted in the service, being for a year 
 master of transportation in the quartermaster's 
 department and spending most of the time in 
 southwestern Missouri, western Arkansas, south- 
 eastern Kansas and the Indian Territory. Owing 
 to the presence of bushwhackers, for whom the 
 timbered regions afforded excellent protection, 
 the most constant vigilance was required, and as 
 master of transportation his position was a most 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 responsible one. He was also chief of forage 
 parties whose duty it was to scour the countrj^ 
 for supplies, a very hazardous service. He was 
 present in the battles of Newtonia, Mo., Cane 
 Hill and Prairie Grove, Ark. In positions of 
 danger he was as calm and collected as when at 
 home. 
 
 Upon the completion of a long campaign, in 
 January, 1863, Mr. Haskell left the service and 
 entered Williston Seminary, at East Hampton, 
 Mass., where he completed his education. Later 
 he entered Yale College, where he completed the 
 scientific cour.se in November, 1865. On his re- 
 turn to Lawrence he engaged in the mercantile 
 business, continuing until the fall of 1876, when 
 he began his life as a public official in the lower 
 house of congress. He was a man possessing 
 many attractive traits of character. His sym- 
 pathies were always on the side of the people, 
 hence he was popular with them. ' Nor did he 
 ever betray a confidence reposed in him or prove 
 himself unworthy of his high office. When the 
 occasion demanded public speech it proved him 
 the possessor of eloquence, that "gift of the gods" 
 so desirable to one in public life. As a speaker, 
 he was strong, forcible and convincing, and the 
 effect of his logical arguments was heightened bj' 
 his commanding presence and fine physique. 
 
 At Stockbridge, Mass., in December, 1865, 
 Mr. Haskell married Miss Hattie M. Kelsey, 
 who, with their two daughters, survives him. 
 
 P^ELSON O. STE\'ENS. Among those who 
 yj have acted in the capacity of traveling audi- 
 I Isi tor of the southern Kansas division of the 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad system, 
 few have filled the position so efficiently and none 
 has held it so long as did Mr. Stevens. It was 
 in 1884 that he became connected with the com- 
 pany in this office, which he held for eight years 
 and four months, a much longer period than it 
 has ever been held by any other man. The posi- 
 tion was one of great responsibility, and taxed 
 both the mental and physical powers of a man. 
 The division included, at the time he resigned, 
 eleven hundred miles, and during the entire time 
 
 of his service there were three days and three 
 nights of every week that he never took his 
 clothes off, but had to snatch a little rest and sleep 
 now and then as he had a moment's leisure. 
 Four times he presented his resignation to the 
 company, feeling that the work was a heavier 
 burden than he could bear, but each time they 
 refused to part with him, believing him to be too 
 valuable an officer to lose. Finally, however, 
 his fifth resignation was accepted, January i ,1893, 
 since which time there have been four traveling 
 auditors in his former division. 
 
 A son of Capt. James T. Stevens, late of Law- 
 rence, the subject of this .sketch was born in 
 Princeton, 111., May 11, 1854. He was thirteen 
 years of age at the time the family left Illinois for 
 Kansas, settling in the city of Lawrence. He 
 graduated from the high school in 1873 and later 
 from McCauley's Commercial College. After- 
 ward he became local editor and business man- 
 ager of the Spirit of Kansas, which position he 
 held until he was elected county clerk in 1879. 
 He filled this office with such efficiency that, in 
 1881, he was re-elected by double the majorit}^ • 
 he had ever received, and continued in office until 
 January, 1884. Just prior to his election as 
 county clerk, in September, 1879, ^^ ^^'^s elected 
 secretarj' of the Kansas Valley Fair, and filled the 
 position until after the fair held that fall, when he 
 resigned. Shortly after he retired from the 
 county clerk's office he became traveling auditor 
 of the Santa Fe road. Since his retirement from 
 the latter position he has given his attention to the 
 supervision of his various propertj- and moneyed 
 interests, and has recently been devoting consid- 
 erable attention to the oversight of the building 
 of his elegant residence, a fine structure with 
 modern appointments, on the corner of Louisiana 
 and Pinckne}' streets. At this writing he is treas- 
 urer of the Lawrence Commercial Club, and sec- 
 retary and treasurer of the Lawrence Vitrified 
 Brick and Tile Companj'. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stevens has alwaj's been a mem- 
 ber of the Republican party, and believing in its 
 principles, he has always zealously advocated 
 them. He is identified with the Plj-mouth Con- 
 gregational Church and a member of its choir. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 141 
 
 His marriage, in Lawrence, March 22, 1882, 
 united him with Miss Lucetta Duncan, who was 
 born in this city, daughter of Wesley H. Duncan, 
 a poineer of 1855 in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Stev- 
 ens have two children, Lois E. and Myra. 
 
 HON. G. R. GOULD, mayor of Lawrence, 
 was born in Kenosha, near Racine, Wis., 
 September 10, 1843, and was the only son 
 among three children, whose father died when 
 the son was three years of age. Left an orphan 
 at a very early age he was obliged to become 
 self-supporting at a time when most boys are at- 
 tending school. He was reared on a farm near 
 Brighton, Rock County, and began to work as 
 soon as he was large enough to push a plow. 
 During two winters he attended school, but with 
 that exception he had no educational advantages 
 whatever, and the broad knowledge he has ac- 
 quired is the result of self-culture. 
 
 In 1861, at Janesville, he enlisted as a private 
 in Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, 
 and was at once ordered west, going to Fort 
 Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Lawrence and Fort 
 Riley. In 1862 he joined the army of the Cum- 
 berland, and served successivel}- under Sherman, 
 Logan, McPherson and Thomas. He took part 
 in the battle of Lookout Mountain and the sec- 
 ond engagement at Fort Donelson, and, being 
 sent to head off Hood, fought in the three daj's' 
 battle at Decatur, Ala. , where the regiment saw 
 some hard service. Later he took part in various 
 campaigns. Finally he was sent to Indianola, 
 Tex., and remained there until 1865. He was 
 mustered out in January, 1866, after a service of 
 four and one-half years. 
 
 Returning to Lawrence in the spring of 1866, 
 Mr. Gould became identified with this growing 
 town. At first he was a member of the firm of 
 Wilson & Gould, which set out a nurser>' west 
 of town. After two years he was employed as 
 manager of Fish Brothers' wagons, and in time 
 became a partner of A. C. Fish in the wholesale 
 and retail wagon business, which he conducted 
 prosperously for six years. He then embarked 
 in the agricultural implement business, at the 
 
 same time handling wagons and carriages, and 
 representing the Mitchell & Lewis Wagon Com- 
 pany, the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Com- 
 pany, and also carrying Moline plows and Janes- 
 ville machines. At Nos. 924-926 Massachusetts 
 street he erected a two-story building, 50x117, 
 which he now occupies. In point of years of 
 business experience he is the oldest implement 
 and wagon dealer in the city. 
 
 In Rock County, Wis., in November, 1866, Mr. 
 Gould married Miss Mary A. Macomber, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania, but was reared in 
 Wisconsin. They have three children, G. R., 
 Jr. , who is engaged in the agricultural implement 
 business at Baxter Springs, Kans. ; Ada S., wife 
 of E. S. Meade, of Lawrence; and Grace, who is 
 with her parents. 
 
 Politically Mr. Gould has always been a Re- 
 publican. For four terms he represented the 
 third ward in the common council, for four years 
 served as a member of the school board, and for 
 a similar period was city treasurer. In 1897 he 
 was elected mayor by seven hundred majority, 
 taking the oath of office in May, 1897, for two 
 years. He was re-elected in April, 1899. Dur- 
 ing his administrations many improvements, es- 
 pecialh' in curbing, have been made. In the fall 
 of 1S66 he became a member of Lodge No. 4, 
 I. O. O. F., with which he is still connected, and 
 he is also a past officer in the encampment. He 
 is a member of Washington Post No. 1 2, G. A. R. 
 His wife is identified with the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, and he is a Sunday-school teacher 
 in the Lutheran Church, toward which denom- 
 ination he inclines. 
 
 HENRY JANSEN, a resident of Leavenworth 
 since 1866, is in charge of an insurance and 
 steamship agency at No. 210 South Fourth 
 street, and represents the North American, Com- 
 mercial Union, New Hampshire and Manchester 
 insurance companies. He was born November 
 29, 1839, under the Danish flag, in Schleswig- 
 Holstein, now a part of the German empire. He 
 was the younger of two children born to the 
 union of Hans J. and Tepke (Pahl) Jansen, the 
 
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 former a native of Schleswig-Holstein and a 
 farmer and gardener there, where he died at sev- 
 enty-two years of age. In religion he was of the 
 Lutheran faith. His older son, Prof. Christian 
 H. Jansen, was a school teacher in the old coun- 
 try and died there. 
 
 At si.Kteen years of age Henry Jansen began to 
 teach school and continued teaching until 1862, 
 when he enlisted in the Second Company, Fif- 
 teenth Danish Infantry, and continued to serve 
 in it for two years, when he was honorably dis- 
 charged. In the fall of 1865 he came to America 
 and settled in Scott County, Iowa, where he re- 
 mained until the following year. The year 1866 
 found him in Leavenworth, his present home. 
 He became manager of the Turner Hall, which 
 position he held for five years, and then turned 
 his attention to the insurance business, in which 
 he has since engaged. In national politics he is 
 a Democrat. From 1889 to 1893 ^^ served as 
 city treasurer, and in 1S94 he was president of 
 the board of police commissioners of Leaven- 
 worth. Since 1866 he has been identified with 
 the Turn Verein, and for a time was its secretary. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias. 
 
 In Leavenworth Mr. Jansen married Mi.ss 
 Emily Kumm, who was born in Germany and 
 died in this city in 1888. Afterward he was mar- 
 ried in Fort Worth, Tex., to Mrs. Mary F. Joyce, 
 of Toledo. By his first marriage he has two 
 daughters and a son, viz.: Mrs. Augusta Feller, 
 of Leavenworth; Mrs. Mamie Cerletti, also of 
 this city; and Harry, who in 1898 enlisted in 
 Company C, Twentieth Kansas Infantry, and has 
 since served as corporal, being now stationed at 
 Manila, in the Philippine Islands. 
 
 EOL. THOMAS MOONLIGHT. During 
 the Civil war, when Kansas, by virtue of its 
 position and previous history, became the 
 centre of an exciting train of incidents, simultane- 
 ous, yet not directly connected, with the con- 
 flicts in the east, one of the principal figures in 
 military circles was Colonel Moonlight, who, 
 through his valor and mastery of the art of war. 
 
 rose to the rank of colonel and was made a brevet 
 brigadier-general. His name is inseparably as- 
 sociated with the war hi.story of Kansas, and he 
 did much to secure for the Union a success in 
 arms that contributed toward the fall of the con- 
 federac}'. 
 
 A Scotchman b)- birth (born in Forfarshire, 
 near Arbroath), the subject of this sketch was 
 early thrown upon his own resources, and, being 
 obliged to earn his own livelihood, he developed 
 qualities of self-reliance and determination that 
 were noticeable in his subsequent militarj" career. 
 At the age of fourteen he came to America, where 
 he worked for his board while he attended school. 
 In 1854 he enlisted in the Fourth Artillery and 
 served as an orderly sergeant in the Florida war. 
 He fought Indians in Florida, Texas and Kansas, 
 and was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth in 
 1858. Afterward he engaged in farming in 
 Kickapoo Township. When the Civil war began 
 he raised a battery and was assigned to Lane's 
 brigade. In time he was commissioned colonel. 
 
 The name of Colonel Moonlight is written on 
 nearly every page of the histor}- of the war in 
 Kansas, Missouri and the trans-Mississippi coun- 
 try. One incident, which shows his bravery in 
 battle, is as follows: When Price, with about 
 fifteen thousand men, made his last raid in south- 
 western Missouri in 1864, Colonel Moonlight, 
 with one regiment, marched to Mound City, Lynn 
 County, just within the Kansas border. Early 
 one morning he hastened out of Mound City and 
 found Price and his army stretched out in line. 
 Forming his regiment on a mound, disobej'ing 
 orders, he launched it at the enemy, himself at 
 the head of his men. It was apparently a reck- 
 less thing to do, yet it accomplished its object and 
 proved his wisdom and foresight. Price's army 
 was cut in two and was so demoralized that it 
 lost heart and soon became disintegrated. 
 
 After the war was over Colonel Moonlight be- 
 came prominent in the politics of Kansas. In 
 1868 he was elected secretary of state. He had 
 hitherto been a Republican, but, dissatisfied with 
 the action of the Republican part}' in the impeach- 
 ment of Andrew Johnson, he transferred his al- 
 legiance to the Democracy. However, the Demo- 
 
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 crats were in the minority in Kansas, and he was 
 therefore defeated in his candidacy for offices on 
 that ticket, with the exception of an occasional 
 election to the legislature. He was the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for governor and was defeated 
 when John A. Martin ran for a second term. He 
 was also defeated for congress in the first district 
 by Case Broderick. He was offered the candida- 
 cy for governor in 1882 but refused, and George 
 Glick was nominated. At the election Glick was 
 successful, being the first Democrat who was ever 
 elected governor of Kansas. Colonel Moonlight 
 was appointed adjutant-general under that ad- 
 ministration. When Cleveland became president 
 in 1884 he was appointed governor of Wyoming, 
 and under the second administration of Cleveland 
 he was chosen minister to Bolivia. On his return 
 from South America, in March, 1898, he settled 
 upon a ranch near Leavenworth. He passed away 
 February 7, 1899, at Leavenworth. His wife 
 died March 7, 1894. They left three daughters 
 and a son. The oldest daughter is the wife of 
 Bennett Brown, of Huntington, Ark., superin- 
 tendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal 
 Company there. Another daughter is the wife 
 of E. E. Murphy, of Leavenworth; and the third 
 is the wife of J. C. Haussermann, first lieutenant 
 in the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, now at 
 Manila. The son, Walter Moonlight, is also a 
 member of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, in 
 service in Manila, during the Spanish- American 
 war. 
 
 ipOL. D. R. ANTHONY. From the time of 
 I C his settlement in Leavenworth, in June, 
 \J 1857, to the present day. Colonel Anthony 
 has been inseparably connected with the history 
 of the city. In fact, it would be impossible to 
 give an accurate account of the one without fre- 
 quent allusion to the other. As mayor during 
 the exciting days of the war, he was placed in a 
 peculiarly trying position, and one which called 
 for courage, determination, thorough familiarity 
 with state and city laws, and a wise judgment. 
 These qualities he has possessed in an unusual 
 degree. Of later years (since May, 1871,) he 
 
 has been best known as the owner and editor of 
 the Leavenworth Times, which is one of the most 
 influential dailies in the state. 
 
 Daniel Read Anthony was born in Adams, 
 Mass., August 22, 1824, a sou of Daniel and 
 Lucy (Read) Anthony, and a brother of Susan 
 B. Anthony, widely known through her connec- 
 tion with the cause of woman's suffrage. His 
 paternal grandfather, Humphrey Anthony, was 
 a Quaker, and a descendant of John Anthony, 
 who came from Wales to Massachusetts in 1646. 
 The maternal grandfather, Daniel Read, was a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving in the 
 division that, under Arnold, marched in midwin- 
 ter from New England to Quebec, suffering 
 untold hardships. He also fought under Stark 
 at Bennington, Vt.,where Burg oyne was defeated. 
 
 At thirteen years of age the subject of this 
 sketch attended an academy at Union village in 
 New York. Afterward he worked in his father's 
 cotton mill and store at Battenville, and later in 
 his flour mill. When twenty-three years of age 
 he removed with the family to Rochester, N. Y., 
 where he taught for two winters and then en- 
 gaged in the insurance business. In July, 1854, 
 he visited Kansas with the first colony sent out 
 by the New England Emigrant Society, under 
 the leadership of Eli Thayer. During that visit 
 he assisted in founding the city of Lawrence, 
 which at that time contained only one house. 
 Returning to Rochester in the fall of 1854, he 
 remained there until his removal to and settle- 
 ment in the new and growing town of Leaven- 
 worth. 
 
 When the Civil war began he was commissioned 
 lieutenant-colonel of the First Kansas Cavalry, 
 and commanded his troops at the battle of the 
 Little Blue, in November, 1S61, in which he won 
 a victory over a force of guerillas of four times 
 his number. During the following year he was 
 principally on duty in Tennessee, Kentucky, 
 Mississippi and Alabama. On resigning his com- 
 mission he resumed the duties of his office as 
 postmaster at Leavenworth, to which he had 
 been appointed by President Lincoln in April, 
 1 86 1, and which he filled for five years. In 1863 
 he was elected mayor by a large majority. His 
 
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 rule was characterized by a vigorous policy that 
 brought him both friends and enemies. Many 
 of the most permanent improvements in the city 
 were made during his term, and the growth in 
 population was never so marked as then. 
 
 At Edgartown, Mass., January 21, 1864, oc- 
 curred the marriage of Colonel Anthony to Miss 
 Annie E. Osborn, daughter of one of the leading 
 whaling merchants of Massachusetts. They 
 have two children living: Maude, wife of Capt. 
 L. M. Koehler, U. S. A., now stationed at Fort 
 Grant, Ariz.; and Daniel R., Jr., postmaster at 
 Leavenworth, having been appointed to the office 
 by President McKinlej'. 
 
 In 1868 Colonel Anthonj' was president of the 
 Republican state convention and served as presi- 
 dential elector, casting one of the three votes of 
 Kansas for General Grant. In 1870 he was 
 elected to the city council by a large majoritj-, 
 and during 1870 and 1871 was chairman of the 
 Republican state central committee. In 1871 he 
 was re-elected to the council and took a very 
 prominent part in the "railroad war," which 
 finally was compromised by the agreement of the 
 railroad to build a union depot in Leavenworth 
 and make certain improvements on the levee. 
 From 1872 to 1874 he served as mayor of Leaven- 
 worth, and in the fall of 1873 was elected to the 
 legislature. April 3, 1874, President Grant 
 appointed him postmaster at Leavenworth, which 
 office he held under that administration, and also 
 under President Hayes, having been again ap- 
 pointed March 22, 1878. 
 
 Perhaps it is as a journalist that Colonel An- 
 thony is best known to the people of Kansas. In 
 January, 1861, he established the Leavenworth 
 Coiisen'aliic, the first issue of which contained 
 the news of the admission of Kansas into the 
 Union, and with these papers he rode on horse- 
 back to Lawrence, where (that citj' having uo 
 telegraph lines then) he was the first to bring the 
 great news to the members of the legislature in 
 session. He sold the paper in Jul}-, 1862, and in 
 March, 1864, purchased the Bullelhi, which he 
 sold in 1868. In May, 1S71, he bought the 
 Times, with which the Coiisc>i.'ativf had previously 
 been united, and in November of that year he 
 
 again purchased the Bulletin, which he merged 
 into the Times. In Januar}', 1876, he purchased 
 the Commercial, which he united with the Times, 
 thus acquiring complete control of all the morn- 
 ing papers of Leavenworth. He has since given 
 his attention principallj- to journalistic work, a 
 field in which his vigorous mind finds abundant 
 scope for activity. 
 
 For the last thirty years Colonel Anthony has 
 been one of the leaders of the Republican partj- 
 of Kansas, and it is said of him that he has exer- 
 cised a more potential influence in the ranks of 
 his party than any other man in the state. Prob- 
 ably the strongest point in his character is his 
 intrepid courage, in both public and private 
 integrity. He has never truckled to anything he 
 believed to be wrong, and therefore stands to-day 
 in a unique position among the great men of 
 Kansas. In the various political whirlwinds that 
 swept over the state he was among the very few 
 men who .stood firm and steadfast for the princi- 
 ples of the Republican partj- and sound money. 
 
 NGN. THOMAS J. STERNBERGH. The 
 life history of this citizen of Lawrence is 
 one of interest. Full of incidents, it pos- 
 sesses the fascination which attaches to all lives 
 that present the spectacle of small beginnings 
 and large achievements, of success wrested from 
 adverse circumstances, and of a high and noble 
 character maintained both in peace and in war. 
 He has always been strong jn his attachment to 
 the Republican party, yet he has never shown 
 any partisan narrowness, and has endeavored in 
 every official position to exemplify the maxim, 
 ' ' He serves his party best who serves his coun- 
 try best." 
 
 Born near Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y., 
 October 25, 1836, the subject of this review is a 
 son of William and Margaret (Schuyler) Stern- 
 bergh, both natives of New York state. His 
 mother was a granddaughter of Gen. Philip 
 Schuyler, who served as one of the colonial gov- 
 ernors of New York, and also gained fame in the 
 Revolutionary war. William Sternbergh was a 
 farmer and also a large contractor on the Erie 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 canal, and died in 1863. Twice married, by his 
 first wife he had five children, all deceased, while 
 by his second marriage he had twelve children, 
 four of whom are living, viz. : Anna S. , who is 
 eighty-nine j^ears of age, and resides near Roch- 
 ester; Mrs. Maria Quinby, of Rochester; James 
 H., a wealthy manufacturer of Reading, Pa.; 
 and Thomas J., the youngest of the entire fam- 
 ily. The last-named was reared in Saratoga 
 Springs from the age of nine years, and attended 
 the common schools and academy there. His 
 studies were directed toward civil engineering, 
 and he was fortunate in having excellent pre- 
 ceptors in this occupation. When he was nine- 
 teen years of age he had charge of the laying of 
 the plans for the Hoosac tunnel, which he built 
 at North Adams, Mass. About the same time 
 he did the engineering for the Troy & Boston 
 road, and ran the Saratoga & Sacket's Harbor 
 Railroad. 
 
 During the year 1857 Mr. Sternbergh arrived 
 in Lawrence, Kans. , and here he engaged in the 
 surveying of the town site, after which he became 
 cashier of Ed Thompson's bank. At the opening 
 of the Civil war he balanced up all the accounts in 
 the bank and closed the books. Then, having 
 adjusted his business affairs, he prepared for 
 service in the army of the Union. He assisted in 
 raising Company D, Second Kansas Infantry, 
 and was offered the captaincy, but refused it, ac- 
 cepting, however, a commission as first lieutenant. 
 At the expiration of four and a-half months the 
 regiment was honorably discharged, and he then 
 became an aide on General Mitchell's staff, with 
 the rank of captain of engineers. He was pres- 
 ent at the battle of Springfield, Mo., as a member 
 of the Second Kansas Regiment. In June, 1863, 
 he resigned and returned home, where he bought 
 a one-half interest in the hardware store of A. 
 Storm & Co. Shortly after his return occurred 
 the memorable massacre by QuantreU's men. 
 His store was burned and he suffered heavy 
 losses. He had rooms at the Eldredge house 
 and surrendered to Quantrell, whom he knew 
 personally. With Mr. Sternbergh were former 
 acting governor Hugh Walsh, Messrs. Spicer, 
 Babcock, Horton and R. S. Stevens, the latter 
 
 afterward a member of congre.ss from New York. 
 Ouantrell told them to keep together and he 
 would put a guard around them. This he did, 
 marching them to the City hotel. While on 
 the way Bill Anderson rode up and shot twice at 
 Mr. Sternbergh, but missed him both times. On 
 reaching the City hotel the party were in safety, 
 as that hotel was not burned. 
 
 After the raid Mr. Sternbergh rebuilt the store 
 and resumed business. At the time of the Price 
 raid he was captain of the rifle company that 
 aided in protecting Lawrence. In 1863 he was 
 elected to the state legislature, and during 1864 
 received an appointment as United States assessor 
 of internal revenue for the entire state of Kansas, 
 which position he held until 1869. In 1868 he 
 was elected mayor of Lawrence, and during his 
 term instituted a number of important improve- 
 ments. He also served for one term as council- 
 man from the third ward. On selling out his 
 business in Lawrence he opened in northern 
 Franklin County some of the first coal mines in 
 the state, and also opened mines in the Indian 
 Territory. In 1872 he was on the plains engaged 
 in government surveying. In 1873 he went to 
 Texas, where he helped to build fifty miles of the 
 Sunset route. Later he was a contractor for 
 public works in Galveston, where he remained 
 until 1876, and then returned to Lawrence. 
 From 1878 to 1880 he served as county surveyor, 
 and from 1880 to 1882 was deputy county clerk. 
 In 1880 he had charge of the engineering work 
 on the Central Kansas Railroad from Leaven- 
 worth to the Jefferson County line. From 1882 
 to 1886 he acted as general manager of the plant 
 in Reading, Pa., owned by his brother. On his 
 return to Lawrence he resumed contract survey- 
 ing and engineering, and at the same time held 
 the ofiSce of city engineer. The latter position 
 he still holds, having filled it for some years with 
 efficiency, and he also served as street commis- 
 sioner for two years. He is the owner of consid- 
 erable property in Lawrence, including the resi- 
 dence which he built in 1866 and has since 
 occupied. At one time he owned Oak Hill, but 
 disposed of it to the city for a cemetery. In ad- 
 dition to his other positions, he served as justice 
 
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 of the peace for two terms. Fraternally he is 
 identified with the blue lodge, chapter, command- 
 ery and Scottish Rite degrees of Masonry. He 
 is a charter member of Washington Post No. 12, 
 G. A. R., and his wife is connected with the 
 Ladies of the G. A. R. 
 
 November 16, 1864, in Lawrence, occurred the 
 marriage of Mr. Sternberg]! to Miss Emma R. 
 Enos, who was born in Middlebury, Vt., a 
 daughter of Horace and Mary (Conant) Enos, 
 natives respectively of Leicester and Brandon, 
 Vt. Her father, who was a son of Perley Enos, 
 a tanner in Addi.son County, himself engaged in 
 tanning for some years. In March, 1855, he be- 
 came one of the fir.st settlers in Lawrence and en- 
 gaged in farming, also in dealing in furs, etc. 
 He died in 1870. His wife, who was a daughter 
 of Luther Conant, a farmer of Brandon, died in 
 1879, at the age of sixty-three. They had two 
 children, Mrs. Emma R. Sternbergh and Mrs. 
 Helen Marsh, of Omaha. Mrs. Sternbergh was 
 reared in Lawrence and is identified with the 
 Episcopal Church of this city. By her marriage 
 to our subject one son was born, Horace Enos 
 Sternbergh, a student in Lafayette College at 
 Easton, Pa., class of 1901. 
 
 HON. HENRY M. GREENE. The record 
 of this family in America is a most honora- 
 ble one, and the present representatives have 
 done much to add to the prestige of the name. 
 The subject of this sketch is a direct descendant 
 of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary re- 
 nown, and Roger Williams, the founder of Prov- 
 idence, R. I., and is in the seventh generation in 
 collateral descent from Nathaniel Greene, one of 
 the most distinguished representatives of the fam- 
 ily in America. His grandfather, Rowland 
 Greene, who was a Quaker preacher, about 1806 
 began making itinerant journeys to the wilder- 
 ness of Ohio, and afterward aided in establishing 
 Quaker churches and missions on the frontier. 
 His ministerial and missionary work was done 
 without thought of recompense or remuneration; 
 he supported himself by the practice of medicine, 
 in which he was more than ordinarily successful. 
 
 Elisha Harris Greene, our subject's father, 
 was born in Scituate, R. I., in 1800, and devoted 
 a large part of his life to the cause of religion, 
 working particularly as a colporteur and lecturer, 
 meantime supporting himself and family by the 
 cultivation of his farm. In 1837 he became a 
 pioneer of Illinois. Twenty years later he came 
 to Kansas, having been led by his devotion to 
 the anti-slavery cause to ally himself with the 
 free-state movement in Kansas. He settled near 
 Twin Mounds, Douglas County, and took an 
 active part in the exciting events connected with 
 border warfare days. While in Illinois he was asso- 
 ciated with such men as Owen Lovejoj- and Levi 
 Spencer, and after settling in the west he became 
 identified with other leading Abolition workers. 
 His enthusiasm in the cause brought upon him 
 hardships and persecution, but his ardor never 
 diminished. Even in peril of his life he main- 
 tained his firmness of principles. He took stock 
 in the underground railroad, and in other ways 
 endeavored to aid the cause of liberty. His life 
 was spared to witness the triumph of the princi- 
 ples he had espoused with such earnestness. He 
 died at Lecompton in 1884. 
 
 The ladj' who became the wife of Elisha Harris 
 Greene was Lucy, daughter of John Stacey, who 
 was a builder of ships engaged in the West Indies 
 trade. She was born in Saco, York County, Me., 
 and was given a good education, afterward teach- 
 ing for several years in the schools of Providence, 
 R. I. She possessed not only an amiable dispo- 
 sition, but also great force of character and Chris- 
 tian earnestness, and was a cultured vocalist, 
 having studied under that eminent composer, 
 Lowell Mason. The impress of her teachings 
 has been felt in the lives of her children. She 
 died in May, 1877. Of her sous, Henry M. was 
 the oldest. The second, William W., a young 
 man of great promise, died while serving as 
 county clerk of Livingston County, 111. Thomas 
 W., who graduated with honors from Shurtleff 
 College, Upper Alton, 111., in 1857, and from 
 Rochester Theological Seminary, held pastorates 
 in Baptist churches at Litchfield and Bunker 
 Hill, 111.; Fort Scott and Junction City, Kans.; 
 and Denver, Colo. In 1876 he removed to Cali- 
 
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 fornia and soon afterward was elected president 
 of California College, but was obliged to resign 
 the position on account of ill health, and died 
 suddenly at a mountain resort in that state. 
 Throughout the west he was known as an elo- 
 quent speaker, able man and devoted minister. 
 Albert R., who possesses ability as a writer, has 
 written much for the press, and his articles have 
 a general interest. Under President Harrison he 
 was appointed United States in.spector of land 
 offices, and when Cleveland was elected he was 
 urged to remain, but resigned. On the inaugura- 
 tion of President McKinley he was immediatelj^ 
 re-appointed to the position, in which he is serv- 
 ing with great credit, making his home at Le- 
 compton. During the Rebellion he was a soldier 
 in the Ninth Kansas Infantry. Three daughters 
 and one son died in childhood and another daugh- 
 ter, Anna, died in Lecorapton when a young lady. 
 Born in Norwich, Conn., October 14, 1833, the 
 subject of this sketch was only four years of age 
 when the family removed to Illinois. In 1850 
 thej' settled near Metamora, Woodford Count}^ 
 that state, where he attended a few terms of com- 
 mon school. His education, however, was mainly 
 self- acquired. He was a diligent, ambitious and 
 clever student. When eight years of age he was 
 reading RoUin's history. In 1854 he went to 
 Wisconsin and entered land on the site now occu- 
 pied bj- West Eau Claire, surveying pine woods 
 on the Eau Claire and Black Rivers, but return- 
 ing to Illinois in 1856. During that year he 
 canvassed his county for Fremont. He was .sec- 
 retary of the first Republican organization in 
 Woodford County and was active in local affairs. 
 From the time of his immigration to Kansas, in 
 1857, he has been prominent and interested in 
 politics. During the Civil war he was lieutenant- 
 colonel of the ill-fated Second Kansas Militia, 
 which was overpowered by Shelby's advance near 
 Westport, Mo., at the battle of the Big Blue. 
 During the retreat of the command, while at- 
 tempting to form a line to check the pursuers, 
 he was severely wounded in the head and right 
 hip, from the effects of which he never recovered. 
 For seventy-two hours he lay on the field. Mean- 
 time it was reported that he was dead and funeral 
 
 services were held for him in Wyandotte. He 
 finally, bj^ crawling slowly, managed to reach a 
 farmhouse a mile distant, and there he asked for 
 something to eat. He presented a melancholy 
 sight, with face covered with blood and dust and 
 hair matted with blood from the wound in his 
 head. It happened that the farmer was a Union 
 man, and he gave him the kindest treatment, 
 conveying him to Westport, where he was taken 
 to a .surgeon. On telling the surgeon who he 
 was, he was told that Colonel Greene had just 
 been buried, but he succeeded in convincing the 
 man of his identity after a time. His wounds 
 were treated, the balls extracted, and he was 
 given the best attention possible. It was, how- 
 ever, some time before he was able to resume his 
 former activity in public affairs, and eventually 
 the wound in the hip resulted in paralysis. 
 
 In the spring of 1865 Colonel Greene was in- 
 terested in the establishment of the Lane ITniver- 
 sity, named in honor of General Lane, and situ- 
 ated on the site of the old territorial capitol. He 
 was a member of the first board of trustees and 
 Rev. Solomon Weaver acted as the first president. 
 He took an active part in promoting the welfare 
 of the college and served as its financial agent for 
 a time. For some years he was a minister in the 
 United Brethren Church and one of the leading 
 men of the denomination. In 1869 and 1873 he 
 was a delegate to the general conferences of the 
 denomination. At the latter meeting a discussion 
 arose regarding secret societies. Believing that 
 the members of the convention displayed a spirit 
 entirel}" too narrow to be in harmony with the 
 broad spirit of the Lord, he and others withdrew 
 from the church. In the spring of 1880 he was 
 admitted to the Topeka pre.sbytery, and during 
 the same year accepted a pastorate at Lacj-gne, 
 Kans., but resigned in July, 1881, in order to 
 accept the appointment, tendered by Governor 
 St. John, as superintendent of the asylum for 
 imbecile children, recently started in Lawrence. 
 Under his able supervision the school was estab- 
 lished upon a firm basis. In 1886 it was removed 
 to Winfield and a large building erected. He 
 remained at its head until the fall of 1888, when 
 he resigned, desiring to return to Lawrence in 
 
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 order that his children might liave better school 
 advantages. The institution had been made a 
 success. A large addition had been built, but 
 even with it there was scarcelj' room to accom- 
 modate the children who were patients there. 
 
 On returning to Lawrence Colonel Greene took 
 editorial charge of the Daily Journal &\\A contin- 
 ued at its head for eighteen months. At the 
 same time he also preached in the Presbyterian 
 Church at Perry for a year and the church at 
 Media for six months. On resigning from the 
 Journal he became editor of the Daily Record. As 
 a journalist he has had few superiors. His keen, 
 forcible and clear articles always attracted atten- 
 tion. He brought the paper into prominence 
 and made it a literary success. It was said of 
 him that he was one of the most brilliant writers 
 in Kansas. When the paper was sold in 1892 he 
 retired from the field of journalism. 
 
 In 1876 Colonel Greene was elected to the state 
 senate, where he was chairman of the committee 
 on education, and in 1879 cast the deciding vote 
 for Ingalls as United States .senator. Much of his 
 time in the senate was given to the upbuilding of 
 the schools. As at that time there existed some 
 schools-vvhere German only was used, he secured 
 the passage of a bill making it compulsory to 
 teach English in all district schools, thus forcing 
 all the new settlers of the state to gain familiarity 
 with the luiglish language. He became inter- 
 ested in the free silver movement and stumped 
 the county in its interests. Owing to the failure 
 of the Republican party to declare for it, he 
 identified himself with the People's party, and 
 became active upon its committees. As a speaker 
 he was one of the most prominent Populi.sts in 
 the state and did much to arouse an interest in 
 the currency question. In June, 1898, he at- 
 tended the second congressional convention held 
 in Olathe. At the Douglas County convention 
 his name had been presented as a candidate for 
 congress, and when the congressional convention 
 met he and St. John were candidates, either one 
 being willing to withdraw in favor of the other, 
 and against Peters. St. John made a speech and 
 was followed by Colonel Greene. The latter, at 
 the close of his address, was seized by a paralytic 
 
 stroke and sank to the floor. He was carried 
 out of the hall and conveyed to his home, but 
 many weeks elapsed before he recovered suf- 
 ficiently to sit up. He is still an invalid, but 
 passes his time cheerfully and quietly, and may 
 be seen, on pleasant days, sitting on his porch 
 overlooking the Kaw River and enjoying the 
 society of his family and his friends. He is a 
 member of Washington Po.st No. 12, G. A. R., 
 and served on the national commander's staff 
 one term. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Halcyon Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F.; Lawrence 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M.; and Lawrence 
 Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. 
 
 January 24, i860, in Osage County, Kans. , 
 Colonel Greene married Miss Margaret Monogue, 
 a native of New York. The^- became the parents 
 of nine children, but suffered a deep bereavement 
 in the death of their daughters, Lucy Harris, 
 Caroline Harris, Florence and Henrietta B., 
 within two months of one another. The sons 
 are living and all but the j^oungest are engaged 
 in business in Lawrence. They are named as 
 follows: Edward E., Henry M., Jr.; Hiel B., 
 Frederick H. and Charles K. 
 
 HOMER CLIFTONOATMAN, Ph. G.,M.D., 
 who holds the chair of diagnosis in the 
 homeopathic medical department of the 
 Kansas City University, is a talented and suc- 
 cessful physician and surgeon of Lawrence, 
 where he has been engaged in professional work 
 since 1895. In 1896 he became connected with 
 the Kansas City University as instructor of bac- 
 teriology and histology in the medical depart- 
 ment, but has since been transferred to the chair 
 of physical diagnosis. For the purpose of broad- 
 ening his professional knowledge and therebj' 
 rendering his advice more valuable to his pa- 
 tients, he went abroad in October, 1898, spending 
 seven months in the University of Edinburgh 
 and (at the same time) six months in the Royal 
 Infirmary, where he did special clinical work, 
 devoting himself principally to surgery and diag- 
 nosis. Prior to his return to the United States 
 he spent some time in the ho.spitals of London. 
 
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 He is in touch with the latest developments of the 
 science of medicine and few are better prepared 
 for professional work than he. Under appoint- 
 ment by Mayor Gould he served as city physi- 
 cian of Lawrence in 1897 and 1898. He is a 
 member of the Douglas County Medical Society 
 and has been very active in the work of the Kan- 
 sas State Homeopathic Medical Society, of which 
 he was secretary in 1898. 
 
 Dr. Oatman was born in Benton County, Mo., 
 April 9, 1870. His father, Adolphus G. Oatman, 
 a native of Dundee, 111., was first lieutenant in a 
 company in the One Hundred and Eighth Illinois 
 Infantry during the Civil war. Afterward he en- 
 gaged in the cattle business in Benton County, 
 Mo. In 1876 he removed to Denver, Colo., 
 where he engaged in the manufacture of .soap. 
 In 1880 he came to Lawrence and has since en- 
 gaged in growing fruits, owning land that adjoins 
 the city. He married Mary A. Ransom, who 
 was born in Tecumseh, Mich., and was a daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Halsey Ransom, a Methodist Episco- 
 pal minister, who died in Bennington, Vt., in 
 1867, aged fifty-six years. Dr. Oatman's pater- 
 nal grandfather, James R. Oatman, was born in 
 Indiana and became a pioneer lumber merchant 
 of Dundee, 111., but after some years removed to 
 Missouri, where he carried on a lumber and real- 
 estate business. Later he followed mercantile 
 pursuits in Denver, Colo. His death occurred in 
 Lawrence in 1899, at eighty-four years of age. 
 
 The next to the oldest of five children, our 
 subject was educated in the schools of Denver 
 and Lawrence. In 1886 he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, where he first took a course in 
 the arts and afterward in pharmacy, graduating 
 in 1 891 with the degree of Ph. G. One year 
 was devoted to special work, after which he was 
 employed as a registered pharmacist. From 
 boyhood it had been his ambition to become a 
 physician, and in 1893 he entered the junior 
 class in Hahnemann Medical College, from which 
 he graduated in 1895, with the degree of M.D. 
 During both years of his study at Hahnemann, 
 he also acted as tutor in bacteriology and his- 
 tology. After graduating he returned to Law- 
 rence. Fraternally he is a member of Lawrence 
 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A M., the Modern Wood- 
 men and Fraternal Aid, and is examining physi- 
 cian for the two latter orders. In politics he is a 
 Republican and in religion is identified with the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 HON. MATTHEW RYAN, SR., who long 
 held a position among Leavenworth's most 
 honored and influential citizens, was a 
 pioneer of 1857. His life was a very active one, 
 filled with experiences of an exciting nature on 
 the plains of the great west. Identified with the 
 cattle industry, his business required his frequent 
 presence at frontier posts, and in his long trips 
 across the plains he encountered Indians, some of 
 whom were hostile. He began life in the west 
 under very difi'erent circumstances and conditions 
 from those of the present day, but bravely over- 
 came every obstacle that he encountered, and in 
 time became independent and prosperous. Every- 
 one who knew him at all intimately admired him 
 for his many good qualities. He was especially 
 helpful to struggling and penniless young men, 
 and many a youth owed his start in life to him. 
 Personally he was considerate, conscientious, 
 trustworthy, and possessed a keen sense of honor. 
 Born in Johnstown, County Kilkenny, Ire- 
 land, August 30, 1S19, the subject of this memoir 
 was a son of Michael Ryan, a merchant of Johns- 
 town, who brought his family to America in 
 1832, and settled in Maryland, but a few years 
 later located in Cincinnati, Ohio. His active life 
 was devoted to the mercantile business. When 
 advanced in years he joined his son in Leaven- 
 worth, and here his death occurred in 1872, at 
 eighty-two years of age. Besides his son, he had 
 a daughter, Mrs. Mary Draper, now living in 
 Leavenworth. At the time the family came to 
 the United States, Matthew Ryan was a boy of 
 thirteen. From that time he was self-supporting, 
 and had no opportunity to attend school; how- 
 ever, in the great school of experience he gained 
 a broad education, thereby becoming a well-in- 
 formed man. When a youth he learned the 
 butcher's trade in Cincinnati. At eighteen 
 years of age he became a member of the firm of 
 King & Ryan, butchers and stockmen, which 
 
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 connection continued almost tliree years. After- 
 ward he engaged in the same hne of business for 
 himself, shipping to southern ports. In 1856 
 the death of his son, Richard, a bright boy of 
 seven years, caused him to grow discontented 
 with Cincinnati, and to desire a change of loca- 
 tion. As soon as he could sell out his interests 
 there he removed to Kansas. Here he started 
 the first packing house in Leavenworth and was 
 given the government contracts for supplying 
 the forts with beef. He continued engaged in 
 the packing business until 1876. Meantime, as 
 a member of the firm of Ru.ssell, Ryan & Hens- 
 ley, he carried on a wholesale mercantile busi- 
 ness in Leavenworth for .several years. 
 
 When the Pike's Peak excitement drew large 
 crowds of emigrants to the mountain regions in 
 1859, the firm of Rus.sell, Morehead, Ryan & 
 Hensley opened a wholesale business in Denver, 
 with which Mr. Ryan was connected for a num- 
 ber of years. In early days he made several 
 trips across the plains with oxen. At one time 
 he went west as far as Salt Lake City, and during 
 the journey encountered hostile Indians, but 
 avoided a conflict. In 1S70 he bought several 
 hundred acres in Leavenworth County, but this 
 property he afterward sold. 
 
 Accompanied by his sons, Matt and Jepp, in 
 1876 Mr. Ryan went to the Pacific coast and en- 
 gaged in trailing cattle extensively from Oregon 
 and Washington to Cheyenne, Wyo., handling as 
 many as thirty thousand head in a season. In 
 this enterprise he was very successful. With his 
 .sons, in 1883, he started a cattle ranch on the 
 north side of the Yellowstone River in Montana, 
 about seventy miles north of the Custer battle- 
 field. Of the cattle company formed he served 
 as the president, but the active management of 
 the business devolved mainly upon his sons, who 
 remained in Montana to superintend the work. 
 
 Almost every enterprise for the benefit of 
 Leavenworth and the development of its resources 
 received the sympathy and active assistance of 
 Mr. Ryan. His influence was felt in the 
 development of the city's industries. He con- 
 structed the Ryan and Richardson cold stor- 
 age plant on Cherokee street, which was the 
 
 first and is still the largest ice plant in the 
 city. His last work was in 1892, when he built 
 the Ryan block, on the corner of Fourth and 
 Cherokee streets; this is the largest and one of 
 the finest business buildings in the place. For 
 some years he acted as president of the German 
 National Bank, and after it was consolidated 
 with the First National Bank he became a di- 
 rector of the latter institution, with which he 
 was connected until his death, and since then one 
 of his sons has represented the family in the bank. 
 He was one of the organizers and promoters of 
 the Leavenworth Coal Company, and in time 
 became the largest stockholder and president of 
 the company, with which he was connected as 
 such until his death. His family still own and 
 operate the coal mine. An active promoter of the 
 Leavenworth Glucose Company, he was its presi- 
 dent for some years. 
 
 Having been so intimately identified with 
 business affairs, Mr. Ryan had little time for 
 participation in public affairs, and, while he served 
 for one term in the state legislature, he refused 
 further nomination, preferring to give his atten- 
 tion wholly to private pursuits. However, he 
 did not lack in public spirit. No one was more 
 desirous than he to promote the welfare of his 
 city and state, but his method of doing this was 
 by the advancement of business interests, rather 
 than by the formulation of laws or participation 
 in politics. During the war he was a member of 
 a company of militia that was called into service 
 at the time of the Price raid in Kansas. From 
 the organization of the Catholic Church in 
 Leavenworth he was identified with it, and took 
 a leading part in its work, remaining one of its 
 most liberal and prominent members until he 
 passed from earth, in its faith, June 20, 1893. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Ryan was solemnized in 
 Cincinnati in 1844 and united him with Miss 
 Mary Beresford, who was born and educated in 
 that city, and is an estimable lady, and a faithful 
 member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. 
 The family of which she is a member is connected 
 with that of Lord Beresford, of England. Her 
 grandfather, Richard Beresford, emigrated from 
 England to America in 18 19 and settled in Cin- 
 
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 cinnati, where he became owner of a large shoe 
 store. Her father, Samuel Beresford, had one of 
 the largest packing houses in Cincinnati and was 
 a leading business man of that city, where he 
 died in 1876, aged eighty-two; his wife was 
 Elizabeth Bestwick, born in Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, and died in Cincinnati in 1849, at fifty-four 
 years of age. Of their eleven children, only three 
 are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan became the 
 parents of the following-named children : Samuel, 
 who died in Leavenworth, in 1859, when thir- 
 teen years of age; Richard, who died in 1856, at 
 seven years; Matthew, Jr., decea.sed; Kate, Mrs. 
 Dennis Sheedy, who died in Denver in 1895; 
 Jephtha; Alexander, who died at twenty-four 
 years; Mrs. Mary Loftus, of New York City; 
 Thomas and Ethan, of Leavenworth. 
 
 HON. ALEXANDER CALDWELL. In 
 presenting to the readers of this volume the 
 biography of Mr. Caldwell, we are perpetu- 
 ating the life work of one of the most honored 
 and influential residents of Kansas. Throughout 
 a long and honorable career, both in public life 
 and private business affairs, he has maintained 
 the energy and integrit}- characteristic of him 
 from earlj' years. Alike in every office he has 
 held, from a local position of minor responsibility 
 to the important ofiice of United States senator, 
 he has sacrificed personal interests for the general 
 welfare and has ever striven to promote the pros- 
 perity of the people of his state. In business 
 circles, too, he has wielded an important influ- 
 ence, and, as president and manager of the Kan- 
 sas Manufacturing Company, for years stood at 
 the head of one of the most important enterprises 
 of the west. Upon the organization of the First 
 National Bank of Leavenworth he became a de- 
 positor of the new institution and later was inter- 
 ested as a stockholder. In January, 1897, he 
 was chosen president of the bank, and this oSice 
 he has since efficiently filled, his business ability 
 and conservative spirit fitting him for its man- 
 agement. As a financial institution, this bank is 
 one of the oldest and largest in the countrj", 
 ranking as the one hundred and eighty-second in 
 
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 the list of national banks in the United States, 
 and as the first among those west of the Missouri 
 River. 
 
 The Caldwell family was founded in America 
 by Alexander Caldwell, Sr. , a native of Ireland, 
 who brought his family to New Jersey, where he 
 cultivated a farm and operated a stone quarry. 
 He was accidentally killed in his quarry. His 
 son, James, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, 
 and settled in Huntingdon County, Pa., where 
 for years after 1830 he was proprietor of the 
 "Matilda" furnace, a charcoal furnace named in 
 honor of his wife. During the Mexican war he 
 enlisted, and became captain of Company M, 
 Second Pennsylvania Volunteers. During the 
 battle in front of the City of Mexico, in Septem- 
 ber, 1847, he was mortally wounded and died 
 five days after the city was captured. He was 
 forty or more years of age. His wife, who had 
 died in 1842, was Jane Matilda Drake, a native 
 of Huntingdon County, Pa., and daughter of 
 James Drake, who was proprietor of Drake's 
 Ferry across the Juniata River, ten miles below 
 Huntingdon. The family descended, in collat- 
 eral line, from Sir Francis Drake, of England. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the oldest of 
 four children, of whom he and one sister alone 
 survive. He was born in Huntingdon County, 
 Pa., March i, 1830, and had only limited ad- 
 vantages in his boyhood. When his father en- 
 listed in the Mexican war he was a boy of 
 seventeen, living in Columbia, Lancaster Count}-, 
 Pa. He left his position in the store where he 
 was clerking and, overtaking his father at Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., prevailed upon him to take him into 
 Company M as a private. With the other sol- 
 diers he marched to the front, and participated 
 in various battles with the Mexicans, among 
 them those of National Bridge, Pueblo, Contreras, 
 Cherubusco and Castle of Chapultepec, and skir- 
 mishes adjoining the City of Mexico. For a 
 time he was a clerk in the commissary depart- 
 ment. On his return to Pennsylvania he was 
 employed in a bank in Columbia. During the 
 years that followed he gained a thorough knowl- 
 edge of the banking business and rose to a posi- 
 tion of influence in local financial circles. 
 
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 The spring of 1861 found Mr. Caldwell in 
 Leavenworth, Kans., where he took contracts for 
 the transporting of arinj' supplies to the military 
 posts west of the Missouri River. His business 
 was very large and was conducted under the 
 name of A. Caldwell & Co. To carry on the 
 work he employed five thousand teams, sixty 
 thousand head of oxen, and gave employment to 
 more than five thousand men. He continued in 
 the transportation of military supplies until 1870, 
 after which, the railroads having been built, the 
 teaming business declined. Meantime, he had 
 become interested in railroad building. In 1866 
 he had the contract for the building of the Mis- 
 souri Pacific from Kansas City to Leavenworth. 
 In 1869 he extended the line to Atchison, and 
 afterward served as president of the road until it 
 was .sold. He and his associates organized the 
 Kansas Central Railroad Company and built its 
 line from Leavenworth to Miltonvale, Kans. 
 Afterward he served as vice-president of the com- 
 pany. The road was originally narrow gauge, 
 but was afterward changed to the standard 
 gauge, and was one hundred and seventy miles 
 long. It was sold to Commodore Garrison, who 
 in turn sold it to the Missouri Pacific Railroad 
 Company, by whom it was sold to Jay Gould, and 
 finally to the Union Pacific. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Caldwell was elected to the United 
 States senate to succeed Senator Ross, the suc- 
 cessor of Senator Lane. He served in the ses- 
 sions of 1872 and 1873, but resigned his seat in 
 1874. In politics he was originally an old-line 
 Whig, and upon the disintegration of that party, 
 became a Republican. It was through his influ- 
 ence that a bill was passed requiring that one 
 term annually of the United States court should 
 be held in Leavenworth. He was also instrumen- 
 tal in securing an appropriation for the estab- 
 lishment of the United States military prison 
 (now the United States penitentiary) at Fort 
 Leavenworth. 
 
 From 1874 to 188S the Kansas Manufacturing 
 Company, with Mr. Caldwell as its president and 
 manager, ranked among the most important 
 business establishments in the west, and furnished 
 employment constantly to almost four hundred 
 
 men. The annual products of the factory aggre- 
 gated nearly seven thousand wagons, and these, 
 known as the Caldwell wagons, were sold over 
 the entire western country, from the Mississippi 
 River to the Pacific coast. After 1888 the busi- 
 ness was gradually closed down, although the 
 company is still in existence, its affairs not hav- 
 ing been entirely settled. 
 
 During his residence in Columbia, Pa., Mr. 
 Caldwell married Miss Pace Heise, member of a 
 family that has been identified with the history of 
 that city since 1728. They are the parents of 
 two children, Mrs. Minnie Taylor, of Leaven- 
 worth, widow of Dr. S. F. Taylor; and Emily, 
 wife of H. C. Graef, of New York City. Mr. 
 Caldwell is still a stockholder in the Columbia 
 (Pa.) National Bank. He is identified with the 
 Aztec Association that was organized in the City 
 of Mexico in 1847 and whose few surviving mem- 
 bers, in their meetings, dwell with pleasure and 
 pride upon those days long ago, when they 
 assisted in protecting the interests of the United 
 States from the encroachments of Mexico. 
 
 Mr. Caldwell has spent almost his entire active 
 life in Kansas and is imbued with the spirit of 
 western push and progress. The success with 
 which he has met may be attributed to his wise 
 judgment and force of character that has never 
 been daunted by obstacles. Withal, he has been 
 essentially a progressive, loyal jcitizen, stanch in 
 his support of movements for the benefit of his 
 fellow-citizens or for the development of his 
 home citj', in whose growth and progress he 
 has taken just pride. 
 
 EOL. FRANKLIN EYRE HUNT. The life 
 which this narrative sketches began at 
 Hunt's Mills, N. J., January i, 1809, and 
 closed at Leavenworth, Kans., February 2, 1881. 
 The intervening years were filled with experi- 
 ences that fall to the lot of an army oificer, some 
 of which (especially incidents during the Civil 
 war) were exciting and thrilling, and proved that 
 he possessed the mettle of a soldier. During his 
 long and active life he met many of the greatest 
 men of our country. Appointed to the United 
 
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 States Military Academj' at West Point from New 
 Jersey, he was a student in that school from July 
 I, 1824, to July I, 1829, and was a classmate of 
 Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Joseph E. John- 
 ston, while in the class of 1828 was Jefferson 
 Davis. Upon graduating he was breveted second 
 lieutenant of the Fourth Artillery. He served in 
 the garrison at Fort Columbus, N. Y., in 1830- 
 31; at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., 1831-32; in the 
 Black Hawk expedition in 1S32; again at Fort 
 Columbus 1832-33; Fortress Monroe, Va., 1833; 
 in Creek Nation, 1833-34; back at Fortress Mon- 
 roe, 1834; upon engineer's duty from September 
 I, 1834, to June 8, 1836; again in the Creek Na- 
 tion, in 1836; commissioned first lieutenant of the 
 Fourth Artillery August 15, 1836; in the Florida 
 war 1836-38; in the Cherokee Nation, 1838, 
 while the Indians were being removed west; in 
 garrison at Fort Columbus, 1838; again in the 
 Florida war, 1838-39; back to Fort Columbus 
 and then in the Camp of Instruction near Tren- 
 ton, N. J.; in northern territory during the Can- 
 adian border disturbances of 1839-41; at Buffalo, 
 N. Y., in 1841-42; at Fort McHenry, Md., 1842- 
 44; Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1844-45; Fort Mc- 
 Henry, 1845-46; at Fortress Monroe, in 1846, 
 and then in the Mexican war, 1846-48. 
 
 From January 18, 1846, to March 2, 1855, he 
 was captain of the Fourth Artiller)'. • Meantime, 
 from 1848 to 1850, he engaged in frontier duty at 
 Fort Brown, Tex. The year 1850 found him at 
 Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he remained 
 until 1855. March 2, 1855, he was commissioned 
 major and paymaster in the army. About the 
 same time he was transferred to Fort Snelling, 
 Minn. , where he remained for two years. Re- 
 turning to Fort Leavenworth in 1857 ^^ took 
 part in the Utah expedition, and was in the de- 
 partment of Utah until 1861 as chief paymaster. 
 During the Civil war he was chief of the pay dis- 
 trict embracing Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and 
 the Indian Territorj', and was aide-de-camp to 
 Major-General Curtis, in charge of the artillery 
 and defense of Fort Leavenworth during the 
 Price raid in 1864. For faithful and meritorious 
 service during the war he was breveted lieutenant- 
 colonel March 13, 1865. In 1877 he was pro- 
 
 moted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and dep- 
 utj^ paymaster-general and was serving as chief 
 paymaster of the department when, in 1879, he 
 was placed on the retired list of the army, after a 
 service of fifty years. 
 
 From the time of the first sale of lots in Leav- 
 enworth, Colonel Hunt was interested in this city, 
 buying land here and improving real estate. His 
 residence on Twenty-first and Shawnee streets 
 stood on a ten-acre tract. At Cambridgeport, 
 Mass., August 23, 1830, he married Ann Maria 
 Noble, who was born in Boston, Mass., October 
 14, 1809, a daughter of George Noble, and a 
 descendant of George Noble, an Englishman, 
 who was an ofiicer in the British army during the 
 Revolutionary war. In 1843 Colonel Hunt and 
 his wife embraced the Catholic faith. He was 
 baptized in the archbishop's home, March 8, 1843, 
 by Rev. H. B. Coskery, and was confirmed in 
 the Baltimore Cathedral June 8, by Archbishop 
 Eccleston. His wife was baptized in the same 
 faith at Fort McHenry, June 27 of that year. 
 She died in Leavenworth, June 7, 1889, and was 
 buried in Mount Muncie Cemetery. 
 
 Of the children of Colonel Hunt we note the 
 following: Franklin Eyre, Jr., in 1859 became 
 connected with his father as paymaster's clerk of 
 the Utah department. Two years later he re- 
 turned to Leavenworth, where he was similarly 
 employed until the retirement of his father in 
 1879; he is now engaged in the real-estate 
 business in Leavenworth. Mary Ellen married 
 Edward Carroll and died in this city September 
 8, 1892. Frederick Ralph, who was a business 
 man of Leavenworth, died here December 15, 
 1891. James John McCown, the youngest of 
 the family, is represented on another page. 
 
 In recognition of his long and honorable con- 
 nection with the United States Army, when Col- 
 onel Hunt passed away it was ordered that he 
 should be given a military funeral and that 
 military honors should be paid to him, as the 
 last tribute of respect to his memor}-. The 
 funeral services were held in the family resi- 
 dence Sunday morning, February 5, 1881. The 
 handsome casket was draped with national flags, 
 while floral decorations in profuse abundance 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 proved the affectionate esteem in which the dead 
 officer had been held. The services were con- 
 ducted bj' Lieutenant Dodge, and were attended 
 by General Pope and several others who were 
 high in the army, 'while the honorary pall- 
 bearers were Majors J. D. Bingham, D. L. 
 Magruder, George Bell, William R. Gibson, J. J. 
 Coppingerand Charles McClure. From the fam- 
 ily home the remains were conveyed to Mount 
 Muncie Cemetery for interment, where the last 
 rites were performed and the last bugle-call 
 sounded over the new-made grave. 
 
 RIPLEY W. SPARR. It would be impossi- 
 ble to write a complete history of Lawrence 
 and omit mention of Mr. Sparr, whose con- 
 nection with the city commenced in the early 
 period of its settlement. His long life of useful- 
 ness and industry has had a direct bearing upon 
 the progress of his citj', and his voice has been 
 heard, directly or indirectly, upon many of the 
 questions affecting the administration of local and 
 national affairs, while his unflinching integrity 
 has secured for him the full and complete confi- 
 dence of all who know him. He is a man of 
 broad information and intelligence, possessing 
 clear and concise opinions upon all important 
 questions, and having, under all circumstances, 
 the courage of his convictions. 
 
 A resident of Kansas since March 25, 1857, 
 and of Lawrence since 1859, Mr. Sparr was born 
 in Rush County, Ind., July 6, 1832, a son of John 
 and Mary Ann (Guthrie) Sparr, natives of Bote- 
 tourt County, Va. His paternal grandfather, 
 John Sparr, was born in Baden, Germany, in 
 1748, and on coming to America first settled in 
 Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to Virginia, 
 where he engaged in farming. In 1778 he en- 
 listed in the American army, and continued in 
 service until the close of the Revolution. The 
 Guthrie family was founded in America in 1775 
 by William Guthrie, a native of Scotland, born 
 in 1752, who, after crossing the ocean, settled 
 upon a farm in Maryland. From there he went 
 to Virginia. He, too, was a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier, serving from 1779 to 1783. His son, John 
 
 Guthrie, who was a farmer in Virginia, also ren- 
 dered valiant service in defense of his country. 
 Mary Ann Sparr, the daughter of John Guthrie, 
 was a woman of noble character and gentle dis- 
 position, a faithful member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and exemplifying in her life 
 the depth of her religious experiences. Her death 
 occurred in November, 1872, when she was 
 eighty -two. Of her eleven children all but two 
 attained maturity, and one son and two daugh- 
 ters are now living. 
 
 During his residence in Virginia the father of 
 our subject was sherifif of his county, and also 
 proved himself a true patriot by his valor in the 
 war of 1812. In 1829 he removed to Indiana and 
 began to clear a farm in Rush County. In addi- 
 tion to agricultural pursuits he had the contract 
 for building a part of the national road from 
 Columbus to Indianapolis. In 1833 he traveled 
 on horseback through the southwestern territo- 
 ries into Texas, then a province of Mexico, and, 
 without a single companion, explored those re- 
 mote wilderness regions, occupying one year in 
 the trip. In 1837 he moved to Delaware Coun- 
 ty, Ind., settling seven miles from Muncie, where 
 he died March 21, 1843, at fifty-eight years of 
 age. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this sketch had few 
 advantages. His attendance at the public school 
 did not exceed one year altogether. In 1854 he 
 entered the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount 
 Pleasant, where he was a student for eight 
 months, and later taught school during one 
 winter term. Afterward he engaged in the manu- 
 facture of brick in Iowa. On coming to Kansas 
 he took up a claim in Franklin County and gave 
 his attention to its improvement for two years. 
 May, 1859, found him in Lawrence, where he 
 engaged in the maimfacture of brick until 1867, 
 meantime manufacturing almost all of the brick 
 used in the early building of the town, and hav- 
 ing the largest and most important plant here. 
 During the war, at the time of Price's raid, he 
 .served in the Third Kansas Militia. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Sparr turned his attention to rail- 
 road contracting, and continued mostly in that 
 business until 1887 — making it a financial sue- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 cess. During 1887 he retired, to a large extent, 
 from the contracting business. The following 
 year he started the Douglas County State Bank 
 with a capital of $50,000, of which he continued 
 to be president until 1896, when it was merged 
 into the Lawrence National Bank. On the con- 
 solidation of the two banks he was made vice- 
 president and manager of the consolidated inter- 
 ests, and has since given his attention largely to 
 the financial interests of the bank. As vice- 
 president and manager of the Lawrence National 
 Bank, he is closely identified with one of the 
 strongest financial institutions in the state, a bank 
 that has a capital stock of $100,000, with depos- 
 its aggregating more than $700,000. 
 
 In politics Mr. Sparr is a free-coinage Demo- 
 crat, believes in tariff for revenue only, is opposed 
 to trusts of all kinds, condemns the oppression of 
 the masses by the greed of ambitious capitalists, 
 and holds mankind to be superior to money. He 
 is a consistent member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, with which he has been identified 
 for many years. He is connected with Washing- 
 ton Post No. 12, G. A. R. , of Lawrence, also the 
 orders of Masons and Odd Fellows in this city. 
 From 1864 to 1866 he served as a member of the 
 town council. However, the nature of the busi- 
 ness in which he so long engaged required his 
 presence in different points and prevented him 
 from accepting local offices in his home town. 
 He is vice-president of the board of trustees of 
 Baker University in the town of Baldwin, and a 
 member of the executive committee of the board. 
 
 The fir,st marriage of Mr. Sparr united him 
 with Mary, daughter of Jesse Critchfield, of 
 Leavenworth, Kans. , in April, 1862. She was 
 born in Fulton County, 111., January 25, 1840, 
 was a woman of culture, a faithful member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in Law- 
 rence, April 19, 1877. Her parents were Jesse 
 and Elizabeth (Bass) Critchfield, the latter' s 
 mother being a member of the celebrated Spen- 
 cer family in Harrison Couutj^ Ind. Jesse 
 Critchfield was born in Sono County, N. C, 
 April II, 1793, and was a son of Richard Critch- 
 field, whose father was John Critchfield, of Berk- 
 shire, England. The only child born of Mr. 
 
 Sparr's first marriage, C. W. Sparr, was born in 
 Lawrence August 5, 1864, and is employed in 
 the Lawrence National Bank; in 1886 he married 
 Alice Miller, of Wisconsin, by whom he has one 
 child, Helen, born August 5, 1890. 
 
 December 20, 1883, Mr. Sparr married Mrs. 
 B. W. Milton, daughter of Mortimer and Mary 
 A. (Washington) Mcllhany. Her father was a 
 son of Maj. James Mcllhany, of Loudoun County, 
 Va., a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Her 
 mother, a woman of fine culture and noble bear- 
 ing, was a daughter of Edward Washington, of 
 Fairfax County, Va., who was a cousin of Gen. 
 George Washington. Mrs. Sparr was born in 
 Loudoun County, Va., January 10, 1839, and in 
 girlhood accompanied her parents to Montgom- 
 erjr County, Mo., where she became the wife of 
 Dr. George R. Milton, of Winchester, Va. Dr. 
 Milton joined the Confederate army with the 
 rank of major, and was promoted to be colonel 
 after the battle of Lexington, Mo., but was soon 
 afterward obliged to resign his commission on 
 account of poor health; he died in 1865, leaving 
 two sons, Herbert and Fairfax Milton. After 
 the death of Dr. Milton his widow taught music 
 in several colleges in Missouri. A sincere Chris- 
 tian, she is actively identified with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and has always been foremost 
 in works of charity. Refined and cultured, gen- 
 erous and kind-hearted, she is respected and loved 
 by all who know her, and shares with her hus- 
 band in the esteem of the people among whom 
 they have so long made their home. 
 
 (TASON POWERS RICHARDSON. The 
 I life record of this pioneer of 1855 in Leaven- 
 worth is full of interest. He was born in 
 Woodstock, Vt., February 22, 1822, and de- 
 scended from the Powers and Richardson fami- 
 lies who crossed the ocean in the "Mayflower," 
 and was also related to Israel Putnam, of Revo- 
 lutionary fame. The first of the Richardson 
 family to settle in America were Thomas and 
 Samuel Richardson, and their older brother, 
 Ezekiel, the last-named having come with Gov- 
 ernor Winthrop, while the others crossed in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1635. Lots were assigned them in Maiden in 
 1638, and in 1642 they were among the seven 
 who settled Woburn. Thomas died in Woburn 
 in 1650. He and his wife, Mary, had a son, 
 Nathaniel, who was born in Woburn in 1650 
 and died there in 17 14. He fought in King 
 Philip's war and was wounded in the great 
 swamp fight in 1675. His son, Nathaniel, Jr., 
 was born in Woburn in 1673 and died there in 
 1728. By his wife, Abigail, daughter of Israel 
 Reed, he had a son, Israel, who was born in 
 Woburn in 1710 and died in Brookfield, Mass., 
 in 1740. Capt. Israel Richardson, a son of 
 Israel, St., was born in Brookfield (Spencer), 
 Mass., in 1736, and was a gunsmith and black- 
 smith by trade. In 1781 he moved from New 
 Salem, near Hard wick, to Vermont, and bought 
 si.x hundred acres near the present site of Wood- 
 stock. It is said that he was a captain in the 
 Revolution and fought at White Plains and 
 Monmouth. He died near Woodstock in 1800. 
 By his marriage, in 1759, to Susanna Forbush, 
 he had a son, Ja.son, who was born at New 
 Salem in 1761, and removed in 1781 to Vermont, 
 where he had a blacksmith's shop, hotel and 
 large farm. In 1784 he married Mary, daughter 
 of Dr. Stephen Powers, who moved from Middle- 
 boro, Mass., to Wood.stock, Vt., in 1774. Jason 
 Richardson died in Woodstock in 1805. His 
 wife died in Pontiac, Mich. Their oldest child, 
 Susanna, born in 1785, became the wife of a 
 cousin, Israel Putnam Richardson, and they had 
 three daughters and one son, the latter of whom. 
 Gen. Israel Bush Richardson, was killed during 
 the Civil war. The second daughter, Lydia 
 Drew Richardson, was born in 1786, married Dr. 
 Lyman Paddock, of Barre, \'t., and died in 1867. 
 The third child and eldest son was Noah F. 
 Richardson, born in 1788. The other sons were 
 John Drew (born 1790), John Powers (1792), 
 Origen Drew (1795) and Israel Bush (1800). 
 Origen Drew was the most prominent member of 
 the familj'. Settling in Michigan when young, 
 he became one of its earlj' lieutenant-governors. 
 In 1854 he removed to Nebraska, where he was 
 a successful attorney and the compiler of the 
 statutes of the state. By his marriage to Sarah 
 
 P. Hill, of Rhode Island, he had .six children, 
 viz.: George, who died at two years; Sarah, 
 who married Z. B. Knight, of Pontiac, and now 
 lives in Omaha; Lyman, who lives in Omaha; 
 Origen and Julia, who died in Pontiac; and Cor- 
 nelia, wife of George Ingersoll Gilbert, a lawyer 
 of Omaha. 
 
 The children of Noah F. and Polly Richard- 
 .son were Mary, Jason Powers, George, Ann, 
 Jane, Charles, Ellen, Lyman, Edward, Susan 
 Annette, Lydia, Ellen and Marcella. Of these 
 Charles was drowned in Lake Superior, and 
 Lyman was shot and burned to death by rebel 
 raiders. Jason Powers, who was the oldest son, 
 forms the subject of this article. When he was 
 nineteen years of age, in 1841, he accompanied 
 his parents to Michigan and settled with them 
 on a farm, where they remained until their death. 
 At an early age he studied civil engineering and 
 assisted in surveying the copper regions of Lake 
 Superior. In 1849 he went to California via 
 Cape Horn, and from San Francisco proceeded 
 up the American, Feather and Yuba Rivers, 
 where he engaged in mining for a number of 
 years. He also carried on a general store in 
 San Francisco, but a disastrous fire caused the 
 loss of his entire stock of goods and left him with 
 only $5.00. However, his mining enterprises 
 were more successful. In 1853 he returned to 
 Michigan via Panama and New York City, and, 
 settling in Pontiac, engaged in the agricultural 
 implement business with H. W. Lord. 
 
 In Pontiac, August 2, 1855, occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Richardson to Miss Mary King, 
 who was born in Hinckley, Medina County, 
 Ohio, August 5, 1832. The wedding trip of the 
 young couple was made, via St. Louis, on the 
 steamer "New Lucy," to the city of Leaven- 
 worth, Kans. In this then frontier town Mr. 
 Richardson opened a wholesale grocery, on 
 Main street, between Delaware and Cherokee, 
 where he carried on general jobbing until he 
 .sold out in 1861. During the perilous times of 
 border warfare, he, while being conservative, 
 believed thoroughly in the free-state cause. His 
 support of these principles brought upon him the 
 wrath of .some of the pro-slavery advocates, who 
 
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 took him from Leavenworth to Weston in a boat 
 in chains; however, he had influential friends 
 among the pro-slavery men, and through their 
 assistance he was released and afterwards left 
 unmolested. While he was held bj' southern 
 sympathizers, his wife remained in Leavenworth, 
 in spite of threats, and took care of their 
 property. 
 
 After 1 86 1 Mr. Richardson engaged in farm- 
 ing. He owned a section of land near Lawrence, 
 which he operated for some years and then sold 
 at a good profit. Afterward he bought and im- 
 proved a farm of three hundred and twenty 
 acres in Salt Creek Valley. In 1872 he pur- 
 chased two hundred and fort}' acres six miles 
 south of Leavenworth and upon this place he set- 
 tled, afterward giving his attention to its im- 
 provement and cultivation. He identified him- 
 self with local interests and held a prominent 
 position among the agriculturists of Leaven- 
 worth County. In the various enterprises in 
 which he engaged he was unusually successful; 
 this, too, in spite of hardships and obstacles of 
 many kinds. His early life in the far west and 
 his pioneer experiences in Leavenworth were of 
 a stirring nature, but his later years were quietly 
 spent, in the enjoj'ment of the comforts his in- 
 dustry rendered possible. Prior to the war he 
 identified himself with the Democrats, but after- 
 ward adhered to Republican principles. In re- 
 ligion he was a Universalist. His death occurred 
 June 23, 1882, from the effects of sunstroke. 
 
 Mrs. Richardson is a daughter of Henry and 
 Jane (Dunlap) King, natives respectively of 
 Wyoming Count}^ N. Y., and Connecticut. 
 Her grandfather King, a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, married a sister of Hon. Stephen 
 Hopkins, the famous Quaker who signed the 
 Declaration of Independence. He was a pioneer 
 in the western part of New York and planted the 
 first orchard there. Later he went to Ohio and 
 then to Indiana, where he entered land for all of 
 his fourteen sons. Henry King, who served in 
 the war of 18 12, afterward engaged in farming 
 in Medina County, Ohio, and from there moved 
 to Milford, Mich., where he died at fifty-seven 
 years. His wife, whose parents died soon after 
 
 they settled in Ohio, died in Fulton, Stark 
 County, when forty-three years of age. They 
 were the parents of five daughters and one son, 
 of whom all are dead except two daughters. 
 
 After the death of her husband, Mrs. Richard- 
 son left the farm in the care of one of her sons 
 and established her home in Leavenworth, where 
 she resides on Walnut street, between Sixth and 
 Seventh. She is a member of the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Leavenworth and a contributor 
 to charitable enterprises, one who is kind and 
 helpful to the poor and needy. Nine children 
 were born of her marriage to Mr. Richardson, 
 namely: George C, who is engaged in the fruit 
 and cold storage business in Leavenworth ; Mrs. 
 Anna R. Davis, of Saginaw, Mich. ; William K. 
 and Frederick H., who are now in Alaska; 
 Helen, who died at three months of age; Charles 
 L., who has charge of the old homestead near 
 Leavenworth; Jason Powers, Jr., who resides 
 upon and cultivates- the farm in Salt Creek Val- 
 ley; Martha L. and Mary (twins), the former 
 residing with her mother, the latter deceased. 
 
 (lESSECONNELL PETHERBRIDGE. The 
 I record of the Petherbridge family, both in 
 Q) America and in England, is one that is re- 
 markable for the honesty, uprightness and 
 ability of its members. The first to settle in the 
 new world was John Petherbridge, who came 
 from Nottingham, Devonshire, about 1787 and 
 established his home in Philadelphia, Pa., where 
 for many years he carried on a large and prosper- 
 ous business as ship-builder. He was noted for 
 his large-hearted generosity. He gave the lot on 
 which old Ebenezer Church in Philadelphia was 
 built and contributed liberally to the erection of 
 the edifice. The deed specified that the lot must 
 always be used for church purposes, and if at any 
 time it was perverted to other uses, it should be- 
 come the property of his heirs. In time the lot 
 was utilized for other purposes, but the then head 
 of the family, his son Richard, never claimed it. 
 The records also show that he collected almost 
 all the funds used in the building of the First 
 Methodist Church in Camden, N. J. 
 
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 Twice married, the eldest son of John Pether- 
 bridge was John, Jr., the first dentist in Balti- 
 more. Md., where he built up a large practice. 
 He was well known, not only as a successful 
 dentist, but also as an active worker in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. He had four sons 
 and two daughters. The oldest son, John (3d), 
 as a prominent phj-sician of Trappe, Md., was 
 known throughout his entire section of the state, 
 not only for his skill in ministering to the sick 
 and suffering, but also for his earnest labors 
 as a local preacher. He was a man of brilliant 
 intellect and deep piety, and left a son who fol- 
 lows in his father's footsteps. One son, Richard, 
 died in early manhood; another, Edward, who 
 was major in an artillery regiment during the 
 Civil war, died in Baltimore, Md. ; Charles, who 
 carried on a boarding school in Richmond, was a 
 man of cosmopolitan knowledge and a local 
 preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 The Petherbridge family have been identified 
 with the Methodist Church ever since it was 
 .started by John Wesley, and an Englishman 
 once remarked that "You cannot find a Pether- 
 bridge in England who is not a Methodist." 
 
 John Petherbridge (ist) had two sons. Of the 
 older, John, mention has been made. The 
 younger, Richard Whatcoat Petherbridge, was 
 born in Philadelphia, and named for one of the 
 first bishops in the Methodist denomination. He 
 was a man of broad culture and deeply interested 
 in eastern educational institutions, especially 
 that of Pennington Seminary. In his family 
 there were three sons and six daughters: Odell, 
 Annie, John, R.E., Emily, vSarah, Mary, Hen- 
 rietta and Helen. Odell, Annie and Helen died in 
 early childhood. John was a surgeon in the 
 Civil war with the rank of brigadier-general, 
 but died soon after its close. Emily is the wife 
 of Dr. A. M. Cory, of New Providence, N. J., 
 who as acting assistant surgeon during the Civil 
 war, rendered heroic service on the general medi- 
 cal staff; Sarah resides in Trenton, N. J., with 
 Henrietta (now Mrs. Caminade) ; and Mary (now 
 Mrs. A. G. Cox) lives in Middletown, Del. 
 
 The younger son of Rev. R. \V. Petherbridge,. 
 and the father of our subject, R. E. Petherbridge, 
 
 was born in Pemberton, N. J., and educated at 
 Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J., and 
 Fort Edward Institute, N.J.; he chose farming 
 as an occupation, and after i860 became a resi- 
 dent of Kansas. For some time he made his 
 home in Atchison County, but after a few years 
 moved to Leavenworth County and bought land 
 in High Prairie Township, where he continued 
 to reside until his death in November, 1895, at 
 the age of fifty-eight years. Politically he was 
 a Republican. He married Theodosia Connell, 
 who was born near Lexington, Ky., the oldest 
 daughter of Hon. Jesse Connell, a native of Ken- 
 tucky. Coming to Leavenworth Countj' in the 
 early '50s Mr. Connell was one of the first to im- 
 prove a farm here; he took an active interest in 
 political affairs and for several terms was a mem- 
 ber of the state legislature. He was a stanch 
 Democrat and fraternallj' a member of the 
 Masonic order. His death occurred in Bates 
 County, Mo., in February, 1892. His daughter, 
 Mrs. Petherbridge, is living near Boling, Leaven- 
 worth County. Of her five children, Mary is the 
 wife of John F. Hull, of Winchester, Kans. ; 
 Jesse Connell, the subject of this sketch, is the 
 oldest son;L- C. is engaged in mining in Boze- 
 man, Mont.; R. M. is a farmer and school 
 teacher at Boling; and Nellie R. is the wife of 
 Louis P. Jennins, of High Prairie. 
 
 In Kansas, where he was born March, 30, 
 1866, the subject of this sketch received a com- 
 mon-school education. At the age of eighteen 
 he began to teach school, and spent five years 
 teaching in Leavenworth and Jefferson Counties. 
 In 1889 he entered the law department of the 
 Universitj' of Michigan, from which he gradu- 
 ated June 25, 1 891, with the degree of LL.B. 
 Locating for practice in Leavenworth, Kans., he 
 was for one year deputy county attorney under 
 Hon. John H. Atwood, after which he served 
 as police judge of Leavenworth City for six 
 months. Since then he has given his attention 
 closely to the practice of law. Within the past 
 few years he has made remarkable progress in 
 his profession. He is recognized as one of the 
 most scholarlj^ men and best lawyers in his town. 
 At the Leavenworth bar he is rapidlj' taking a 
 
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 front rank. Gifted by nature with energy, 
 ability and keen perceptive faculties, coupled 
 with an excellent constitution and fine physique, 
 he has added to these gifts by diligent study, and 
 hence his success has been constant. In all of 
 his professional work he is keenly alive to the in- 
 terests of the people, and has been a stanch 
 friend to them in every movement affecting their 
 welfare. 
 
 In Tonganoxie, this county, Mr. Petherbridge 
 was made a Mason and is now a member of 
 Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M.; 
 he also belongs to Ivauhoe Lodge No. 14, K. P., 
 and the Turn Verein. In the Democratic party he 
 is a favorite campaign speaker and does much in 
 behalf of his party and its candidates throughout 
 the state. He is connected with the alumni of 
 his alma mater, the University of Michigan. 
 
 HON. HORACE J. SMITH. It would be 
 impossible to write a history of Ottawa and 
 omit prominent mention of the name of 
 Smith. Not without justice he holds an influential 
 position among the business men and financiers 
 of his city. To his discrimination in business is 
 added a high character as a man, a progressive 
 spirit as a citizen, and a philanthropy that has 
 stamped his life indelibly upon the pages of the 
 history of his home town. Necessarily, a man 
 of such attributes will be a power for good in his 
 community and will stand foremost among his 
 fellow-citizens. 
 
 Of Scotch-Irish descent, the family of our sub- 
 ject has long been connected with American his- 
 tory, and his grandfather, on his mother's side, 
 Jeremiah Meacham, a native of Connecticut, re- 
 moved to Susquehanna County, Pa., in 1800, 
 where he died. Horace, son of Silas Smith, was 
 born in Cooperstown, N. Y., and engaged in the 
 practice of the dental profession in Montrose, 
 Pa., where he died; he married Marilla Meacham, 
 a daughter of Jeremiah Meacham. She was born 
 in Litchfield, Conn., and died in Montrose, Pa. 
 
 The youngest of five children who attained 
 mature years, our subject was born near Mont- 
 rose, Pa., January 27, 1838. His boyhood years 
 
 were spent in Susquehanna County. In 1856 he 
 settled in Oregon, Ogle County, 111., where he 
 took one course of study in Mount Morris Semin- 
 ary. For four years he served as deputy circuit 
 clerk under his brother, Mortimer W. Smith. In 
 i860 he was elected county treasurer, assuming 
 the duties of the ofl&ce in January, 1861. The 
 following year he raised a company for the war 
 and was made first lieutenant of Company K, 
 Ninety-second Illinois InfantrJ^ Later the regi- 
 ment was mounted and after six months he was 
 made captain of Company B, serving under Gen. 
 Smith D. Atkins, of Freeport, 111. Among the 
 battles in which he bore a part were Chickamau- 
 ga. Mission Ridge, the campaign from Resaca 
 to Atlanta, including the battles of Macon and 
 Waynesboro, Ga. , and with Sherman to the sea; 
 thence north to Bentonville and Greensboro, wit- 
 nessing the surrender of Johnston. During the 
 'Georgia campaign and the march to the sea he 
 served as assistant-adjutant-geueral on the staff of 
 Gen. Smith D. Atkins. After the surrender he re- 
 turned to his company and with them proceeded 
 to Concord, N. C, remaining there until ordered 
 home at the close of the war. He was mustered 
 out July 4, 1865, and honorably discharged in 
 Chicago, 111. After a short visit in Ogle Countj' 
 he went to Chicago and for six months was em- 
 ployed there. 
 
 In the spring of 1866 Captain Smith came to 
 Kansas, settling in the then new town of Ottawa 
 and opening the first hardware store in Franklin 
 County. He continued in this business for four 
 years. In 1872 he organized the Ottawa sav- 
 ings institution, of which he was cashier for 
 three years. In 1S75 Mr. Smith and A. M. Blair 
 bought the stock of the First National Bank and 
 he was chosen cashier of the institution, and in 
 1884 was promoted to the presidency, which po- 
 sition he has since held. The bank is on the 
 corner of Second and Main streets, and is not 
 onl}"^ the oldest, but also the largest capitalized 
 bank in the county. The conservative policy 
 adopted by its president has added much to its 
 strength and its reputation as a safe and solid 
 financial institution. 
 
 On the Republican ticket, in 1889, Captain 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Smith was elected a member of the lower house 
 of the legislature, in which he served as a mem- 
 ber of the banking committee and as chairman of 
 the committee on cities of the second class. Sev- 
 eral times he has been a member of the city 
 council and once held the office of mayor. He 
 is a member of the Kansas Commandery of Loyal 
 Legion and George H. Thomas Post No. i8, 
 G. A.R. In Ma.sonry he belongs to Ottawa Lodge 
 No. 128, A. F.' & A. M.; Franklin Chapter, 
 R. A. M., and Tancred Commandery No. 11, 
 K. T. , in which he served as eminent commander 
 for four terras. 
 
 In Ottawa, in 1867, occurred the marriage of 
 Captain Smith to Miss Mary F. Ward, who was 
 born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and came to 
 Franklin County, Kans., in 1859. They are the 
 parents of five children: Minnie E.; Ella W., 
 wife of Charles B. Voorhis; Grace L. ; Jay 
 Ward, a student in Phillips Academy at An- 
 dover, Mass.; and Horace Eugene, all of whom 
 are now living in Ottawa. 
 
 EOL. JOHN GIDEON HASKELL. The 
 Haskell family, which has been represented 
 in Douglas County ever since the days of 
 the free-state colonization, was founded in Amer- 
 ica by Roger Haskell, who was born in England 
 in 1813, and settled at Beverly, Mass., in 1632. 
 From that place his son, Roger (2d), removed to 
 Norwich, Conn., in 1708, accompanied by Roger 
 (3d), who at the time was a small boy. Elijah, 
 son of Roger (3d), removed from Norwich to 
 Tolland, Conn., in 1781, and there died, leaving 
 his widow, Sarah (Read) Haskell, with the care 
 of thirteen children, the youngest only four years 
 of age. During the Revolutionary war four of 
 her sons enlisted in the colonial service, and two 
 died in defending our country. After the close 
 of the war she removed from Tolland to Weth- 
 ersfield, Windsor County, Vt. , accompanied by 
 five sons and three daughters. In that place her 
 son, Gideon, resided at the time our subject's 
 father, Franklin, was born. The latter married 
 Almira Chase, daughter of John Chase, of 
 Wethersfield, a soldier in the Revolution, and 
 
 originally from Sutton, Mass. He descended 
 
 from Aquilla Chase, who settled in Newbury- 
 port, Ma.ss., with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
 about the time that the Ha.skells came to Ameri- 
 ca, and whose descendants have .since been 
 prominent in public affairs. 
 
 When the city of Lawrence, Kans., was found- 
 ed in September, 1854, by the first free-state 
 company, one of the party who came west was 
 Franklin Haskell. He settled upon a quarter- 
 section of land adjoining the citj', and there he 
 died January 27, 1857. His wife continued to 
 make the place her home until she passed from 
 earth in 1876. Of their children. Charles A., 
 who was master of transportation in the quarter- 
 master's department during the Civil war, died 
 in Lawrence in 1868: Elizabeth P., Mrs. French, 
 al.so died in Lawrence; and Hon. Dudlej- C, 
 who was a member of congress and a man of 
 great influence in public life, died in December, 
 1883. 
 
 In Milton, Chittenden County, Vt., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was born February 5, 1832. 
 His education was begun in the common schools 
 of\'ermont. In 1849 he entered the Wesleyan 
 Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., where he con- 
 tinued (with the exception of the period devoted 
 to labor for his support) until 1854. Afterward 
 he was a student in Brown University at Provi- 
 dence, R. I. In 1855 he entered an architect's 
 office at Boston, Mass., where he remained for 
 two years, meantime preparing himself for his 
 chosen profession, architecture. The death of 
 his father made it necessary for him to come 
 west. At the time his necessitated change of 
 plans seemed fatal to his prospects, as a prosper- 
 ous career was opening up to him in the east, 
 and Kansas, a new and undeveloped country, 
 could, he thought, offer but little to one in his 
 line of work. Contrary to his expectations, he 
 was successful from the first. For a time he had 
 the only office in the then territory of Kansas, 
 and from that date to this, excepting during the 
 Civil war, he has practiced his profession, first 
 in Lawrence, later in Topeka. During this en- 
 tire period his connection has been close with all 
 work of an important public nature. The major- 
 
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 ity of the state buildings have been constructed 
 under his oversight and from his plans, and more 
 than once he has been called to neighboring 
 states upon work of a responsible nature. The 
 original plans for the state capital were drawn bj- 
 him, and he has since been in charge of changes 
 made in the building, including the construction 
 of the senate chamber in 1885. He was also en- 
 gaged as architect of the State Universit}' of 
 Kansas, the insane asylums at Topeka and Osa- 
 watomie, the reform school at Topeka and the 
 reformatory at Hutchinson. Besides these, he 
 has been architect for, and connected with the 
 construction of, schools, colleges, churches, 
 court-houses, hotels, opera houses and business 
 buildings in this and other states; also has exe- 
 cuted a large number of commissions for the 
 government, mainly schools and agency build- 
 ings in Indian reservations. The United States 
 court-house and postofiice at Topeka, which was 
 planned at Washington, was erected under his 
 supervision. In 1874 and 1875 he had charge of 
 the building of agency and public buildings at 
 Tallequah and Grand Saline for the Cherokee 
 nation. 
 
 When the Civil war began Mr. Haskell was 
 made deputy quartermaster-general of Kansas, 
 under Gen. G. W. Collamore, and in this capac- 
 ity outfitted the First, Second and Third Kansas 
 Regiments with such supplies as the state fur- 
 nished, until ready to be mustered into the 
 United States service._ He was commissioned 
 first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of 
 the Third Regiment. In the spring of 1862 the 
 Third and Fourth were consolidated and called 
 the Tenth Regiment, of which he was retained as 
 quartermaster. In June, 1862, he was made 
 captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers 
 under commission of President Lincoln, and was 
 assigned to duty on the staff of Brigadier-General 
 James G. Blount. As chief quartermaster of the 
 army of the frontier he was with Gen. James H. 
 Lane, General Blount and Gen. John McNeil, 
 ending his field service on the frontier at Fort 
 Smith, Ark., December 31, 1863, by an order 
 from General Schofield to report for duty at St. 
 Louis. In February, 1864, he was assigned to 
 
 duty at Little Rock, Ark., as chief purchasing 
 agent of the department of Arkansas and the 
 Fifteenth army corps, at the same time being 
 given charge of the supplies at Little Rock. In 
 addition to his other duties, while at Little Rock 
 he built a hospital with accommodations for one 
 thousand beds, also erected recuperating stables, 
 army repair shops, warehouses, and a pontoon 
 bridge acro.ss the Arkansas River at Little Rock. 
 After having been in service, without furlough, 
 for four jears and five months, he was honorablj' 
 discharged in November, 1865. In June, 1866, 
 he was commissioned by President Johnson 
 brevet major and quartermaster United States 
 volunteers, for ' ' efficient service during the 
 war," the rank dating from March, 1865. Dur- 
 ing the administration of Governor S. J. Craw- 
 ford he was quartermaster-general of Kansas, 
 with the rank of colonel. In 1866 he was 
 elected architect of the state house, and in this 
 capacity designed the capitol, and during the 
 next four years erected the east wing. When 
 the office of state architect was created in 1891 
 he was elected to the position, and continued in 
 charge during the existence of the board with 
 whom he served. In 1895 he was appointed 
 architect of the board of trustees of the state 
 charitable institutions, and held the office during 
 the period of the then existing board. By reason 
 of long-continued membership in the American 
 Institute of Architects, he will, after 1900, be- 
 come a life member of the organization. He is 
 a member of the board of directors of the State 
 Historical Society. 
 
 In the work of the Plymouth Congregational 
 Church of Lawrence Colonel Haskell has been 
 deeply interested, and its various organizations 
 receive his assistance. For many years he has 
 been a member and secretary of the executive 
 committee of the State Home Missionary Society 
 of the Congregational denomination, and has 
 frequently served as delegate to its state and na- 
 tional conventions. Three times he was elected 
 president of the State Sunday-school Association, 
 and for many years served upon its executive 
 committee. 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Haskell, December 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 22, 1859, united him with Mary Elizabeth Bliss, 
 daughter of Luther Burt Bliss, of Wilbrahani, 
 Mass., a descendant, through her mother, of 
 John Adams, of Wilbraham, and Aseph King, 
 who was a Revolutionary soldier from Enfield, 
 Conn. The two daughters born of this union 
 are Harriet Bliss, wife of William McDonald, 
 professor of history in Bowdoin College, Me., 
 and Mabel Bliss, who resides with her parents. 
 
 All enterprises having for their object the good 
 of Lawrence or Douglas County find in Colonel 
 Haskell an advocate and friend, ready to give 
 .substantial aid and influence to the movement. 
 His entire life has been marked by the deeds of a 
 patriotic, public-spirited citizen; and, not only as 
 an early settler of the county and a man whosc 
 energies were devoted to its development, but 
 •Still more as a leader in public affairs and the 
 promoter of large business projects, his name is 
 entitled to remembrance in history. 
 
 HON. JOHN P. HARRIS, president of the 
 People's National Bank of Ottawa and post- 
 master of this city, was born in Marietta, 
 Ohio, July 24, 1839, being a .son of Asa and 
 Eliza (Fulcher) Harris, natives respectively of 
 Dutchess County, N. Y., and Pennsylvania. 
 His grandfather, George Harris, a native of York 
 state, and a cooper by trade, removed with his 
 family to Ohio, settling near Marietta in 18 17, 
 and followed his chosen occupation there until 
 his death. At the time of the removal of the fam- 
 ily to Ohio, Asa Harris, who was born in 181 1, 
 was a child of six 3'ears. In boyhood he learned 
 the wagon-maker's trade, and this occupation he 
 followed in Marietta. Coming west to Iowa in 
 1853 he established his home on an unimproved 
 farm near Centreville, Appanoose County, where 
 he remained for six years. In 1859 he came to 
 Kansas, and located a claim near Centropolis, 
 Franklin County, where for many subsequent 
 years he carried on farm pursuits. Finally retir- 
 ing to Ottawa, he died in this city in 1884. He 
 was a Republican and an Abolitionist, and dur- 
 ing the days of the underground railroad he had 
 a station at his place in the village of Marietta. 
 
 His sympathies were on the side of the Union, 
 and no one was more gratified than he at the 
 downfall of slaverj-. After coming to Kansas he 
 identified himself with the growing interests of 
 this state, and always lent substantial assistance 
 to enterprises for the benefit of his county. He 
 was chosen to occupy the offices of county treas- 
 urer and count}' superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion, in both of which positions he di.scharged 
 every duty with promptness and fidelit}-. In 
 religious connections he was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. By his marriage 
 to Miss Eliza Fulcher, who died in Marietta, 
 Ohio, he had three sons: John P.; Milo R., who 
 was a soldier in the Civil war and is now engaged 
 in the lumber business in Ottawa; and Asa, who 
 died in boyhood. 
 
 When a boy our subject became familiar with 
 frontier life in the west. His life iu Iowa gave 
 him a taste of existence in newly settled locali- 
 ties, where comforts were few and harships many. 
 In May, 1859, he accompanied the family to 
 Kansas, and has since made his home in Frank- 
 lin County, of which he is a pioneer. Two years 
 after his arrival here the Civil war began, and 
 the entire nation was darkened by the cloud of 
 strife. Nowhere was there more excitement than 
 in Kan.sas, which had for years been one of the 
 centres of the struggle between the north and the 
 .south. With the zeal of youth and the ardor of 
 a patriot, Mr. Harris resolved to offer himself to 
 his country's cause. In November, 1861, his 
 name was enrolled in the First Kansas Battery, 
 and for eighteen months he engaged in duty on 
 the frontier, taking part in numerous engage- 
 ments in the west. In 1863 he was transferred 
 to Tennessee, where much of his subsequent 
 service was spent. With General Thomas he 
 took part in the battle of Nashville in the fall of 
 1864. At the expiration of his term he was 
 mustered out, as a non-commissioned officer, at 
 Nashville, in December, 1864. 
 
 At the time of entering the army Mr. Harris 
 had no thought that on his return he would find 
 a city had sprung up on the present site of Otta- 
 wa; but so he found it, and iu 1866 he settled 
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 ing business, but the completion of the railroad 
 to the west in 1868 rendered freighting unprofit- 
 able, and he abandoned it. When his father re- 
 tired from the county treasurer's office he suc- 
 ceeded him, serving from 1868 to 1872. In 1874 
 he settled on a farm ten miles southwest of Otta- 
 wa, where, with his brother, M. R., he owned 
 thirteen hundred and twenty acres, and engaged 
 in the stock business for three years. Returning 
 to Ottawa in 1877 he became president of the 
 People's National Bank, and he has since been 
 at the head of this institution. The bank was 
 organized in 1874, and has since been one of the 
 solid financial institutions in the county. Much 
 of his success is due to his business judgment 
 and the conservative policy he has pursued in the 
 matter of investments, etc. 
 
 A man of versatile ability, Mr. Harris is not 
 only able to engage in the banking business suc- 
 cessfully, but he has also wielded an iniiuencein 
 public affairs. Few Republicans in Franklin 
 County have been more prominent than he, and 
 his services to his party have been invaluable. 
 In 1876 he was elected to the state senate, and 
 during the four years that he served he repre- 
 sented the interests of his constituents with abil- 
 ity, at the same time taking a deep interest in 
 general state legislation. He was not a candidate 
 for re-election, but retired at the close of his first 
 term. He has several times been a member of 
 ihe city council of Ottawa, and once served as its 
 mayor. In 1896 he was the Republican candi- 
 date for congress, but, owing to the fusion of 
 the free silver tickets, he was defeated (as was 
 also the state ticket), though he lest by only 
 three hundred votes. As a partial return for his 
 services to his party he was tendered the office 
 of postmaster in December, 1898, and accepted 
 the position, his son, Ralph A., being deputy 
 postmaster. Public-spirited and progressive, he 
 is disposed at all times to aid worth}' enterprises. 
 By his intelligence and force of character he has 
 not only advanced his personal success, but has 
 aided in the progress of the city with whose 
 progress his own life has been inseparably con- 
 nected. 
 
 Mr. Harris is a charter member of George H. 
 
 Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R., and in 1895 was 
 department commander of Kansas, with the rank 
 of general. He is a member of Franklin Lodge 
 No. 18, A. F. & A. M., Ottawa Chapter, 
 R. A. M., and Tancred Commandery No. 11, 
 K. T. His marriage took place in Farmington, 
 111., and united him with Sarah E. Zook, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania, and removed to Illi- 
 nois with her father, David Zook. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Harris are the parents of two sons. The older, 
 Ralph A., who was educated at the Northwestern 
 University at Evanston, 111., was for ten years 
 teller of the People's National Bank. The other 
 son, Fred M., is a graduate of the University of 
 Kansas, and is a practicing attorney at Ottawa, 
 this state. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM CYRUS HOWARD has 
 made his home upon a farm in Palmyra 
 Township, Douglas County, since 1868, 
 and is the owner of four hundred and forty acres 
 of valuable, well-improved land here, besides 
 three hundred and twenty acres in Miami Coun- 
 ty, Kans. He is a man of prominence in public 
 affairs, wielding an influence in behalf of meas- 
 ures for the public good. While he has been 
 active in the Republican party he has displayed 
 no narrow partisanship, but has been inclined 
 toward liberal views. From 1888 to 1892 he 
 represented his district in the state senate, dur- 
 ing which time he drafted and presented the bill 
 providing for the present interest laws of the 
 state; also the law authorizing Chancellor Snow 
 to distribute the material necessary to kill the 
 pest known as the chinch bug; the primary elec- 
 tion laws of the state, and laws relative to official 
 bonds for a given sum opposite the name of the 
 signer. 
 
 Near Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, Mr. How- 
 ard was born July 24, 1840. His father, Cyrus, 
 was born in the same place December 9, 1812, 
 and in early life was a boatman, but from middle 
 age devoted himself to farm pursuits. Though 
 he started in the world for himself without means, 
 and had not even the assistance of a good educa- 
 tion, yet such was his energy and ability that 
 at the time of his death he left property worth 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 $60,000. In politics he was first a Whig, later 
 a Republican, and was active in local affairs, al- 
 though he never desired office for himself. When 
 he was sixty-four years of age he was clubbed to 
 death near his home bj' robbers who wanted to 
 secure his money. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Mary Stephenson, was born in 
 Brown County, Ohio, in 1814, and died there at 
 seventy-two years of age. Both were members 
 of the New Light or Christian Church. They 
 were the parents of four children, one of whom 
 died in infancj', Alfred at fifty years of age, and 
 Louisa when twenty-three. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Abner 
 Howard, was born at Briar Ridge, Va. , and 
 migrated to Kentucky about 1800. During the 
 war of 1812 he served under General Harrison. 
 Though he had no education, he was a shrewd, 
 smart, capable man, quick to avail himself of 
 favorable opportunities. He owned the first 
 horse-tread mill in his section of country. His 
 occupation was farming, in which he met with 
 success. In religion he was a Methodist, and 
 politically voted with the Democrats until the 
 formation of the Republican party. His death 
 took place at eighty -three years of age. Our 
 subject's mother was a daughter of James and 
 Isabelle (Kirkpatrick) Stephenson. The latter 
 was born in \'irginia, and was one of two daugh- 
 ters, whose father was killed by the Indians in 
 1791, while on his way from Wheeling, W. Va., 
 to Kentucky. James Stephen.son was born in 
 Delaware, of English descent. Fort Stephenson 
 was named in honor of his brother, Col. Mills 
 Stephenson, who was colonel of a regiment. The 
 latter was a brave soldier, and served in the war 
 of 1812; also was present at the defeat of St. 
 Clair in 1791, when he was only eighteen years 
 old. His father, a native of Delaware, served as 
 a captain in Washington's army during the 
 Revolutionary war, and some years afterward, 
 about 1790, settled in Kentucky. James Ste- 
 phenson's father, a captain in Washington's 
 army, witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at 
 Yorktowu. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 country schools and Ripley high school. The 
 
 descendant of patriotic soldiers, it was but natural 
 that the opening of the Civil war should find him 
 fired with enthusiasm in behalf of the LTnion. 
 July 9, 186 1, he enli.sted in the Fourth Inde- 
 pendent Ohio Cavalry, and was with McPherson 
 as body guard for two years, remaining in the 
 service for three years. He was slightly wound- 
 ed at Utica, Miss., May 12, 1863, during the ad- 
 vance on Vicksburg. Shortly after his return 
 home he was elected sheriff, being the first Re- 
 publican that ever held the office in his native 
 county. He had never been in court until he 
 went as sheriff, consequently had a very dim 
 conception of the duties of his office, but, al- 
 though he lacked experience, he soon proved 
 himself a capable officer. At the expiration of 
 his term, in 1867, became to Kansas and bought 
 the farm where he has resided since 1868. 
 
 May 12, 1866, Mr. Howard married Miss 
 Lizzie M. King, of Brown County, Ohio. She 
 died in 1883, leaving two sons, James Harvey, a 
 farmer in Miami Countj', Kans. , and Alfred Ste- 
 phen.son, a student in the Kansas law school in 
 Lawrence. In 1890 Mr. Howard married Mi.ss 
 Katie Grow, of Brown County, Ohio. To this 
 union three children were born, one of whom 
 died in infancy, the others being William Te- 
 cumseh and Lannes Dassaix. Fraternally Mr. 
 Howard is connected with the Masons and Odd 
 Fellows. He is a public-spirited citizen, and has 
 done much to promote the welfare of the people 
 of his community, where he rightly ranks as an 
 honorable and able man. 
 
 30HN W. PARCELS, president of the Jewett 
 Milling Company of Eudora, Douglas Coun- 
 ty, was born in Wabash County, Ind., May 
 13, 1843, ^ ^'On of Rev. James and Lucj' (East- 
 man) Parcels, natives respectively of Virginia and 
 Vermont. His father settled in Indiana in 1842, 
 and continued to make his home in that state 
 until 1863, when he moved toFairbury, Living- 
 ston Countj', 111., spending the remainder of his 
 life there. While he supported himself and fam- 
 ily by means of farming, he gave much of his 
 time to ministerial and missionary work in the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 171 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was a 
 licensed preacher. However, while he traveled 
 considerably and labored with the greatest self- 
 sacrifice for the cause of Christ, he never asked 
 any remuneration for his services, but was con- 
 stantly giving from his private means for the sup- 
 port of churches in which he was interested. He 
 died at eighty j^ears of age and his wife when 
 seventy-six. They were the parents of eight 
 children, of whom five are living, namely: John 
 W.; Martha, wife of William H. H. DeLong; 
 Julia, Mrs. Clark Cozzens; Frank, ofTopeka, 
 Kans. ; and Edward M., of Littleton, Colo. 
 
 When a boy our subject became familiar with 
 milling. While working at his trade in Mont- 
 gomery County, Ind., in 1863, he enlisted in 
 Conipan)' B, One Hundred and Sixteenth In- 
 diana Infantry, in which he served for nine 
 months, meantime receiving promotion to the 
 rank of sergeant. His regiment was assigned to 
 the Fourteenth Army Corps and served under 
 General Thomas in the army of the Cumberland. 
 At the expiration of his term of service, in 1864, 
 he went to Fairbury, 111., where he followed his 
 trade for six years. In 1870 he came to Kansas 
 and accepted a situation as head miller with the 
 Smucker Milling Company of Lawrence, and later 
 with the Pierson Milling Company. Associated 
 with S. S. Jewett, in 1894, they purchased the 
 property of the Kaw Valley Milling Company 
 and organized the Jewett Milling Company, of 
 which he is president and general manager. Hav- 
 ing made a thorough study of the milling busi- 
 ness from his youth, he is familiar with all of its 
 details and is equipped with the scientific and 
 practical knowledge so indispensable to success 
 in his occupation. 
 
 On the Republican ticket Mr. Parcels was elec- 
 ted to the city council of Eudora, in which capa- 
 city he was a supporter of all measures for the 
 public good. For six years he was a member of 
 the board of education , during which time he took 
 an active part in the management of the schools 
 of his home town. Fraternally he is past grand of 
 Halcyon Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of Lawrence, and 
 is connected with Washington Post No. 112, 
 G. A. R. He is a member of the English Luth- 
 
 eran Church of Lawrence. December 24, 1881, 
 he was united in marriage with Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Miles, of Indiana. One child blesses 
 their union, a son, Byron M. 
 
 cjEORGE W. KAUFMANN. The prosperity 
 — of a place is dependent upon the growth and 
 ^ development of its business interests, and it 
 is consequently a matter of the highest impor- 
 tance that these should be in the hands of reli- 
 able, efficient business men, who will use their 
 influence, not alone for their personal advantage, 
 but also for the benefit of the city. It may safely 
 be said of the subject of this sketch that he has 
 acted his part as a citizen of Leavenworth and 
 has done all within his power to promote local 
 interests. While much of his time is given to 
 the management of his grocery, he has found 
 time, as a member of the city council, to aid in 
 enterprises that will promote Leavenworth's 
 progress. 
 
 The entire life of Mr. Kaufmann has been 
 spent in Leavenworth and he is now engaged in 
 business at No. 222 West Seventh street, on the 
 site where stood the house in which he was born 
 in 1867. His father, William Kaufmann, emi- 
 grated from German}' to America and settled in 
 Joliet, 111., but after a short time, in 1858, came 
 to Leavenworth, Kans., where several years later 
 he opened a grocery. He was the incorporator 
 of the National Soap Company, which he carried 
 on for seven years. From the time of his re- 
 moval to this city until his retirement a few years 
 ago, he was actively identified with the interests 
 of the place, and took a leading part, not only 
 in business matters, but also in politics. He 
 married Mary Kauffmann, a native of Germany, 
 but a resident of Leavenworth from girlhood. 
 They are still living in this city, and are now 
 advanced in years. They have but two children, 
 Anna and George W. 
 
 When a young man, our subject served an ap- 
 prenticeship to the machinist's trade, but did not 
 follow the occupation. For several years he was 
 a partner in the National Soap Company. In 
 1891 he opened a grocery business, which he has 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 since successfully carried on. Besides his store, 
 he is the owner of considerable real estate, in- 
 cluding a residence on Chestnut street. In 1887 
 he married Ida, daughter of J. H. Rothenberger. 
 They have two children, Henry William and 
 Edith. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. Kaufmann was 
 elected on this ticket in 1897 to represent the 
 third ward in the city council and two years later 
 he was re-elected for another term. He has 
 taken an active part in the work of the council 
 and has served as chairman of the fire and 
 market committees and a member of other com- 
 mittees. His service in the council has been en- 
 tirely satisfactory to the people of the third ward. 
 Every matter for the benefit of the city receives 
 his aid, and all public-spirited projects find him 
 at the front. Fraternally he is connected with 
 King Solomon Lodge No. 10, A. F. & A. M., 
 and Leavenworth Court No. 10, F. of A., in 
 both of which lodges he has held offices. 
 
 pQlLLIAM HUGHES. During the entire 
 I A / pc^'io'l since the earliest settlement of Kan- 
 YY sas, Mr. Hughes has been identified with 
 its history. Fond of the stirring and adventurous 
 scenes of pioneer life, he was fitted to aid in the 
 task of transforming the uninhabited prairie with 
 its raw, undeveloped land, into the home of a 
 busy, industrious and contented people. When, 
 in 1855, he came to Kansas, he secured employ- 
 ment in Lawrence. The next year he bought a 
 team and began freighting over the plains to 
 Fort Union, N. M., but after having made two 
 trips he turned his attention to other work. In 
 1858 he rented forty acres from Captain Parks, 
 chief of the Shawnee Indians, and four years later 
 he commenced to buy land from Indians, his first 
 purchase being two hundred acres of raw land. 
 Afterward he continued to add to his property 
 until at one time he was the owner of eleven hun- 
 dred acres, but he has disposed of six hundred 
 acres, and now owns five hundred, on which he 
 has for years engaged in raising stock and feed- 
 ing cattle for the market. He is a lover of good 
 horses and has several head on his place. In 1867 
 
 he built a substantial brick residence, which was 
 the finest farm house built up to that time in 
 Douglas County, and which is still one of the 
 best in Eudora Township. 
 
 Born in Wales, April 9, 1833, our subject is a 
 .son of Samuel Hughes, a native of Wales, who 
 crossed the ocean in 1839 and settled near Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., there engaging in farm pursuits. He 
 met with an accident in 1844 and died from its 
 effects at the age of sixty years. His wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Edwards, was 
 born in Wales and died in Pittsburg in 1S44. 
 They were the parents of ten children, seven of 
 whom are living, viz.: Samuel, of Arizona; Will- 
 iam; Sallie, widow of Charles Taylor; Elizabeth; 
 Annie; Lewis C, who was governor of Arizona 
 under President^Cleveland and is now editor of the 
 Arizona S/a^; and Thomas, also of Arizona. 
 
 At the time the family emigrated to America 
 our subject was six years of age. Left an orphan 
 at an early age, he became a w^ard of the wife of 
 Gen. William Robinson, a wealthy citizen of 
 Pittsburg. He remained in the east until after 
 attaining his majority, when, at the opening of 
 Kansas for settlement, he cast in his lot with the 
 pioneers of this then territory. He arrived in 
 Lawrence March 15, 1855, with fifty cents in his 
 pocket; but, though lacking money, he did not 
 lack perseverance and determination, and subse- 
 quent j'ears brought him a large degree of pros- 
 perity, -as well as considerable prominence. Dur- 
 ing the border wars he was associated with John 
 Brown in the battles of Black Jack and Osawato- 
 mie and was also with Captain Vigerrton at Fort 
 Saunders and Titus. At the time oftheQuan- 
 trell raid he was one of the party that captured 
 Skeggs, one of the most daring of the raiders. 
 His sympathies were strongly on the side of the 
 Union and he never hesitated to declare his opin- 
 ions openly without fear of consequences. Ac- 
 tive in Republican local politics, he a.ssists the 
 campaigns in Eudora Township and works for 
 the party candidates. Believing firmly in the 
 advantages of a good education, he has given his 
 family liberal advantages, besides helping several 
 orphans, and has also aided the schools of his 
 township. 
 
FRANCIS HrNTINGTON SNOW, Ph. D., LL. D. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 175 
 
 August 28, 1858, Mr. Hughes married Ellen J. , 
 daughter of Alexander and Jane (McWilliams) 
 Robinson, of Sharpsburg, Pa. They have two 
 .sons: William R., ex-count}' clerk of Custer 
 Count}', Okla., and now clerk of the district 
 court; and Thomas J. , a stock-raiser of that county. 
 Fraternally Mr. Hughes is connected with Law- 
 rence Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F. He has been 
 prominent in connection with fairs, aiding the 
 Bismarck and the Kansas state fairs, and he has 
 also given liberal contributions to other worthy 
 enterprises. He organized the first Sunday- 
 school in the Kaw Valley and maintained it per- 
 sonally for ten years. 
 
 ^RANCIS HUNTINGTON SNOW, Ph. D., LL. D., 
 yis chancellor of the University of Kansas, 
 I » has been connected with this institution 
 during the entire period of its history, and 
 the record of his life is, in its vital points, a his- 
 tory of the university. No one has labored more 
 untiringly than he to promote its advancement 
 and broaden the scope of its influence. When, 
 in 1 866, he was elected a member of the faculty 
 and came west to accept the chair of mathematics 
 and natural science, he found himself one of a 
 faculty of three, in charge of a school of fifty-five 
 students. As the years passed by he contributed 
 to the rapid growth of the school, to the success 
 of which his reputation as an instructor added 
 not a little. In 1870 he was transferred to the 
 chair of natural history, the university having 
 increased by that time to an attendance of two 
 hundred and twenty-seven, while the faculty had 
 nine members. He occupied three rooms in the 
 main building, soon after its erection in 1872, 
 continuing there until 1886, when Snow Hall 
 was completed, and for four years he had charge 
 of recitations in that building. When, in 1889, 
 he was elected president of the facultj' and placed 
 in charge of the educational work, there was an 
 attendance of five hundred and eight students, 
 with thirty-three instructors. In 1890 he was 
 made chancellor, which responsible position he 
 has since filled with the greatest efficiency. The 
 subsequent growth has been most gratifying. In 
 
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 1891 the preparatory department was cut off, 
 since which time the number of accredited high 
 schools has increased from sixty- four to one 
 hundred and forty-seven. During the last term 
 C 1 898-99) there was an attendance of one 
 thousand and eighty-seven students, and the 
 faculty now numbers .sixty-nine members, 
 among whom are many instructors of national 
 reputation. 
 
 The work of Chancellor Snow has been not 
 onlj' in the direction of increasing the attendance 
 at the university, but he has endeavored to en- 
 large the facilities and broaden the advantages 
 offered to the students. Realizing the need of 
 suitable buildings for various purposes, he has 
 striven to secure the funds necessary for their 
 erection, and in this work he has been remark- 
 ably successful, having enlisted the sympathy of 
 manj' men of large means and philanthropic 
 spirit. In 1895 the Physics building was erected 
 by a state appropriation, and three years later 
 the Fowler building, with every facility for in- 
 struction in engineering, was erected, a gift from 
 George A. Fowler, of Kansas City. The most 
 valuable private endowment was one of $95,000, 
 given by an uncle of Chancellor Snow, William 
 B. Spooner.a wealthy merchant of Boston, whose 
 wife was Lucy Huntington. This generous gift 
 rendered po.ssible the magnificent Spooner library, 
 a modern, fire-proof building, provided with 
 every facility and containing a fine collection of 
 books. 
 
 For a period of twenty-five years Dr. Snow 
 devoted his vacations to the collection of material 
 for the museum of natural history which is now 
 a part of the university. In 1885 the state leg- 
 islature, in appreciation of his labors, appropri- 
 ated the sum of $50,000 to be expended in the 
 erection of a building in which this splendid col- 
 lection might be preserved. This building was 
 completed in 1886 at an expense of $50,000 and 
 named Snow Hall, in honor of Chancellor Snow. 
 
 As many as eighty lineal ancestors of Chancel- 
 lor Snow came to America between 1620 and 
 1640. Three ancestors took part in the Revolu- 
 tion and many participated in the colonial wars. 
 His father, Benjamin Snow, was born in West- 
 
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 moreland, N. H., and became a merchant and 
 manufacturer of paper at Fitchburg, Mass., also 
 president of a savings bank there and a director 
 in the Rollstone National Bank. He died in that 
 town when seventy-five j-ears of age. His 
 father, Benjamin Snow, .Sr., was a native of 
 Lunenburg, Mass., and for some years engaged 
 in the mercantile business at Westmoreland, 
 N. H., but, when his son was eleven years old, 
 removed to Fitchburg, Mass. , where he died in 
 his eighty-ninth year. He married Alfreda Hall, 
 a descendant of Richard Warren, who came in 
 the "Mayflower," and also of George Hall, who 
 came from Devonshire, England, in 1636, settled 
 in Taunton, Mass., was one of the proprietors of 
 the first iron works in this country, served as 
 chairman of the board of selectmen and was one 
 of the founders of the Pilgrim Congregational 
 Church. The father of Benjamin Snow, Sr., was 
 Lieut. Silas Snow, who was born in Lunenburg, 
 Mass. , and became an early settler of Fitchburg. 
 His father, William, was asonof Zerubabel, who 
 was the son of John, and grandson of Richard 
 Snow, who emigrated from England in 1640 and 
 three years later settled in Woburn, Mass. 
 
 The mother of Chancellor Snow was Mary, 
 daughter of David and Ruth Baldwin (Hunting- 
 ton) Boutelle, and a member of the family to 
 which belonged ex-Governor Boutwell, of Massa- 
 chusetts. David Boutelle, who died at ninety- 
 three years, was a son of David, Sr., whose father, 
 James, was a son of James (4th). The latter' s 
 father, James (3d), was a son of James (2d), the 
 son of James Boutelle (ist), the founder of the 
 family in America, and one of the original set- 
 tlers of Reading, Mass. David Boutelle, Sr., en- 
 listed from Leominster, Mass., in the Revolu- 
 tionary war; he married a daughter, of Lieut. 
 Luke Richardson, who enlisted in the colonial 
 army as a private and was promoted to the rank 
 of lieutenant. 
 
 Dr. Christopher Huntington, father of Ruth 
 Baldwin Huntington, was a descendant of Simon 
 Huntington, who was born in Norwich, Eng- 
 land, and started with his wife and three children 
 to America, but died on the ocean. His wife, 
 Margaret (Baret) Huntington, came on with the 
 
 children and settled at Norwich, Conn., where 
 their homestead is in the hands of their descend- 
 ants. Her son, Christopher (ist), was the first 
 town clerk of Norwich, Conn., and, with the ex- 
 ception of two terms, the ofBce has since been 
 held by descendants. Deacon Christopher Hunt- 
 ington (2d) was the first white male child born 
 in Norwich, Conn. His son, Christopher (3d), 
 was the father of Christopher (4th), a physician, 
 whose son, Christopher (5th), also a physician, 
 was the great-grandfather of Chancellor Snow. 
 Christopher Huntington (ist) married Ruth 
 Rockwell, from whom Gen. U. S. Grant was a 
 direct descendant. 
 
 Chancellor Snow also traces his lineage to 
 Capt. James Leonard, of Pontypool, Wales, who 
 settled in Taunton, Mass., in 1652 and died in 
 1691. His descendants were iron workers, and 
 also took an active part in the Indian wars. 
 One of the ancestors was John Prescott, a native 
 of Yorkshire, England, a noted Indian fighter, 
 of Lancaster, Mass. Other ancestors were Capt. 
 Nathaniel Wilder, who was killed by Indians at 
 Lancaster; Capt. Peter Joslin, whose first wife 
 and four children were massacred by savages; 
 and Rev. Thomas Carter, who came from Eng- 
 land in 1635, and was the first minister at Wo- 
 burn, Mass.; his son, Samuel Carter, graduated 
 from Harvard College in i66o. 
 
 Of the family of Benjamin Snow, Jr., compris- 
 ing six children, only two are living. One son, 
 Benjamin, died in Lawrence when twenty-eight 
 years of age. Francis Huntington Snow was 
 bom in Fitchburg, Mass., June 29, 1840, and 
 graduated from the high school of his native 
 town. In 1858 he matriculated in Williams Col- 
 lege, from which he graduated, as valedictorian 
 of the class of 1862, with the degree of 
 A. B. While in college he was president 
 of the Lyceum of natural history and the 
 Philologian Literary Society. In 1865 the 
 degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by 
 his alma mater. In 1862 he accepted the 
 principal-ship of the Fitchburg high school, and 
 later was his father's chief clerk for a year. In 
 1864 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, 
 at Andover, Mass. , from which he graduated in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 177 
 
 1866, and was licensed to preach in the Congre- 
 gational denomination. Immediately afterward 
 he accepted a chair in the University of Kansas, 
 then being established, and at once began his 
 long and honorable connection with one of the 
 greatest institutions of the west. 
 
 At Andover, Mass., July 8, 1868, Chancellor 
 Snow married Miss Jane Appleton Aiken, who 
 was born in Lowell, Mass., and was a namesake 
 of her aunt, the wife of President Franklin Pierce. 
 Her father, John Aiken, descended from Edward 
 Aiken, who was born in the north of Ireland, of 
 Scotch lineage, and settled in Londonderry, 
 N. H. Her mother, Mary M., was a daughter of 
 Jesse Appleton, D.D., president of Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, whose ancestry can be traced to 1414 
 in England. The first of the Appletons in this 
 country was Samuel Appleton, who came from 
 Waddingfield, England, in a very early day. 
 The family took an honorable part in the Revo- 
 lutionary and Indian wars. One of the ancestors 
 was Samuel Symonds, an early governor of 
 Massachusetts colony. Mrs. Snow received an 
 excellent education, attending Abbot Female 
 Academy in Andover. Of her marriage six 
 children were born, five of whom are living. The 
 eldest, William Appleton Snow, graduated from 
 the University of Kansas with the degree of B. S. , 
 later received the degree of M. S., and is now an 
 instructor in Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 
 California. The oldest daughter, Martha Boutelle 
 Snow, graduated from the University of Kansas 
 in 1898, and is the wife of William Harvey 
 Brown, a graduate of the University of Kansas, 
 class of 1888, a pioneer of Salisbury, South 
 Africa, and a participant in many of the exciting 
 events in Rhodesia, concerning which he has 
 written in his "On the South African Frontier," 
 published by Scribner in 1899. The second 
 daughter, Mary Margaret, who was educated in 
 the University of Kansas, is the wife of Ermine 
 C. Case, a professor in the Wisconsin State Nor- 
 mal at Milwaukee. The youngest children are 
 Edith Huntington and Frank Lawrence Snow. 
 The former is a student in the university, and 
 the latter is now in South Africa with his sister, 
 Mrs. Brown. 
 
 Since 1889 Chancellor Snow has been an ex- 
 officio member of the state board of education. His 
 interest in educational work is broad and endur- 
 ing, and the high standing of Kansas as an educa- 
 tional centre is not a little due to his wise efforts. 
 Frequently he has contributed to scientific jour- 
 nals, about one hundred articles from his pen hav- 
 ing been published, mainly in Kansas. He is a 
 member of the Cambridge Entomological Society 
 and has acted as an editor of "Psyche," the organ 
 of that societ)-. The university educational exhibit 
 at the World's Fair, which attracted considerable 
 notice and revealed the high standing of Kansas 
 in educational work, was made under his super- 
 vision. He is a director of the Museum of Natu- 
 ral History and a director of the University Ex- 
 perimental Station established for the destruction 
 of chinch bugs. He was one of the founders of 
 the Kansas Academy of Science, of which he is 
 a life member. The National Educational Asso- 
 ciation numbers him among its members, and he 
 is also connected with the North Central Asso- 
 ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools. He 
 is a fellow of the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science, and a member of the 
 Delta Ypsilon, of the national society of which 
 he was recently president. 
 
 In 188 1 the degree of Ph. D. was conferred 
 upon Chancellor Snow by Williams College. At 
 the time of his inauguration as chancellor, in 
 1890, announcement was made that the degree 
 of D. D. had been conferred upon him by Prince- 
 ton College. While he was ordained to the 
 ministry, his work has been mainly in the line of 
 educational effort, although during the first two 
 years of his residence in Lawrence he preached 
 every Sunday for Congregational Churches 
 in Lawrence and vicinity. For twenty-five years 
 he has been the teacher of a Bible class in Ply- 
 mouth Congregational Church, and during much 
 of the time he has served as a trustee and dea- 
 con. He is in sympathy with the principles of 
 the Republican party and usually votes that 
 ticket. His descent from pioneer fighting stock 
 entitles him to admission in the Society of 
 American Wars and he is a prominent member 
 of the same. 
 
178 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In summing up the life and character of Chan- 
 cellor Snow, it may be said that he is one of the 
 best-known educators in the United States. His 
 mental powers are of an unusually strong and 
 vigorous order. His wide experience, his habits 
 of comprehensive reading, his insight into human 
 nature and his love for the young, qualify him to 
 stand at the head of an institution that is accom- 
 plishing -SO much in the moulding of the charac- 
 ters of the 3'oung men and women of Kansas. 
 
 (lOHN H. JOHNS, chief engineer and super- 
 I intendent of construction at the National 
 (2/ Military Home, Leavenworth, was born in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 1847, a son of James 
 H. and Elizabeth (Fetters) Johns. His father, 
 who was born in Philadelphia, removed from 
 there to Cincinnati in 1838, and in the latter city 
 he began carpentering and building. After a 
 time he was recognized as one of the leading 
 architects of the place and was employed in the 
 construction of many important buildings. His 
 death occurred in Cincinnati in 1876, when he 
 was seventy-four years of age, having survived 
 his wife eight years. He was a son of David 
 Johns, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and 
 whose father served in the colonial army during 
 the Revolution. In the family of James H. 
 Johns there were eight children, but only four 
 of these are now living, one, William H., being 
 a civil engineer in Silver Star City, Mont., and 
 Samuel F. , a builder and contractor in Cincin- 
 nati, while the only daughter living is the wife 
 of Maj. William Thompson, of the National 
 Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va. 
 
 For years, during his early manhood, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was engaged in civil and me- 
 chanical engineering in Cincinnati, and he con- 
 tinued to reside in that city until 1885, when he 
 accepted his present position as chief engineer 
 and superintendent of construction at the Na- 
 tional Military Home in Leavenworth. When 
 he was seventeen years of age he enlisted in 
 Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Ohio 
 Infantry, and served on detached duty until the 
 close of the Civil war, having charge of the guard 
 
 of prisoners in southern Marj'land. He has al- 
 ways been a patriotic, public-spirited citizen, and 
 in politics has been identified with the Republican 
 party. By his marriage, in 1869, to Miss Mary 
 Porter, of Cincinnati, he has three children, viz.: 
 Elizabeth, wife of George Williams, of Kansas 
 Citj'; Ruth and Grace. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Johns is a member of Leaven- 
 worth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and is past 
 grand of Cincinnati Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. F. 
 For years he has been connected with the Grand 
 Army and interested in its welfare and reunions. 
 He is, in point of years of active connection with 
 the Soldiers' Home, the oldest employe here, 
 having accepted his present position when the 
 Home was first established, and has since had 
 charge of the construction of all the buildings. 
 
 (Joseph H. HARRISON, a retired farmer of 
 I Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, 
 (2/ w-as born in Alabama, December 22, 1828. 
 He is descended from one of five brothers who 
 came to America prior to the Revolutionary' war 
 and settled in different parts of the country, his an- 
 cestor going to the south. His father, Jesse, who 
 was a millwright and for some years worked in 
 cotton mills, removed to Missouri in 1829 and 
 engaged in carpentering. As the locality in 
 which the family settled was on the frontier, 
 whither as yet few pioneers had made their way, 
 the advantages for obtaining an education were 
 very meagre, and hence our subject had few op- 
 portunities to attend school. Most of his time 
 was given to assisting in the clearing of the farm. 
 At the time of the Mexican war he volunteered 
 under Col. N. B. Holden, but he was so young 
 that the officers refused to accept him. For a 
 time he was employed in freighting for the gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Harrison came to Kansas and 
 took up one hundred and sixty acres where he 
 now resides, and he has a government patent for 
 the land. When he arrived in Lawrence June 4, 
 the first cabin in the town was being built, and 
 this building stood until very recently. He has 
 witnessed the growth of the place from a hamlet 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 with one house to a large, prosperous city, the 
 seat of the state university, the home of an intel- 
 ligent people, and the center of wide commercial 
 interests. After building a log house on his 
 land he began to improve the place, and engaged 
 in general farming here. With a few colts and 
 cattle he embarked in the stock business, and in 
 time became the owner of valuable stock. After 
 he had accumulated some means he bought an 
 eighty-acre tract south of his original quarter- 
 section, and built a neat farm house, which, 
 standing on an elevation, occupies a fine location. 
 The land is improved with all the accessories of 
 a modern farm, and he has a garden and vine- 
 yard, in addition to other improvements. 
 
 Prior to the war Mr. Harrison was a stanch 
 free-state man. He incurred the dislike of pro- 
 slavery advocates and twice his horses were 
 stolen from him, but each time he recovered 
 them. Formerly a Democrat, he now votes 
 with the Populists. He has filled the offices of 
 road overseer and school director. During the 
 Civil war he engaged in freighting for the gov- 
 ernment between Kansas and New Mexico. 
 At one time he was a member of the Grange. 
 By his marriage to Mrs. Martha A. Randolph 
 eight children were born, but only two are now 
 living, viz.: Joseph M., who since his father's 
 retirement has had charge of a portion of the 
 home farm; and Lucy J., who married Seigel 
 Rose, and lives on a part of the old homestead. 
 
 ^USTAV A. GRABBER, member of the firm 
 I— of Graeber Brothers, of Lawrence, is a man 
 \^ of striking and original personality, and for 
 years has been a conspicuous figure in his home 
 town. A resident of Lawrence from boyhood he 
 started the first boat house here, and continued 
 its keeper for fourteen years, during which time 
 not a single accident occurred. During the ex- 
 istence of the Lawrence Boat Club he was also 
 employed as its keeper. He was instrumental in 
 getting the first racing shell on the river. As a 
 swimmer and diver he has no superior, and in 
 boating he is also an expert. On three after- 
 noons in succession he shot over the dam in a 
 
 boat, a most hazardous undertaking, and one 
 which no one else has ever attempted. Often he 
 dived for the large fish that came up to the foot 
 of the mill race, and in this he soon excelled. 
 He constructed a hook attached to a short line, 
 and with this he would dive and feel his way to 
 the place he knew the large fish to be. When 
 he touched the fish, he would, quick as a flash, 
 with a downward stroke, hook it usually down 
 from the top of the back; then would come the 
 struggle, which always ended fortunately for 
 him, although he had some narrow escapes. In 
 this way he caught fish weighing from twenty- 
 five to eighty pounds each, his best record as to 
 number being nine fish in twelve minutes. His 
 boat house was a fine one, furnished with an 
 equipment of row boats and sail boats. In addi- 
 tion to this work he started the first mandolin 
 club and the second skating rink in Lawrence. 
 In his rink he employed steam power for grind- 
 ing the skates, and had other improvements of a 
 modern nature. Upon selling out his boat busi- 
 ness, in June, 1895, he engaged with his broth- 
 ers, Albert and Carl, in the plumbing, heating 
 and gas-fitting business, under the firm name of 
 Graeber Brothers. They have their office and shop 
 at No. 728 Massachusetts street, and are prepared 
 to do thorough work in their line, the two broth- 
 ers being practical plumbers (while our subject 
 gives his attention to the general management of 
 the business). The firm had the contract for the 
 plumbing system at Haskell Institute, the Fow- 
 ler building in the University of Kansas, as well 
 as some of the finest residences in the city. 
 
 Carl Graeber, our subject's father, was a son 
 of Johan Graeber, a shoemaker, who served in the 
 war of 1812-15, taking part of the battles of Leip- 
 sic and Waterloo, and died in Germany May 5, 
 1866, at the age of seventy-four. The latter's 
 father was a soldier under Frederick the Great. 
 In Bartenstein, East Prussia, Germany, where 
 he was born in 1825, Carl Graeber learned the 
 trade of a shoemaker. For three and one-half 
 years he was a member of the Thirty -fifth Regu- 
 lar Infantry, serving his time mostly on the 
 French line. May 19, 1852, he set sail from 
 Hamburg for America, landing on the loth of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 July. He proceeded via Chicago to LaSalle, 111. , 
 where he followed his trade. In 1857 he came 
 to Kansa.s and secured a claim, after which he 
 returned for his family. His first home in Kan- 
 sas was eight miles south of Clinton. In 1861 
 became to Lawrence to work at his trade, leaving 
 his family at Franklin. August 20, 1863, cir- 
 cumstances arose which made it necessarj' for 
 him to return home for a short time. Thus he 
 fortunately escaped the Quantrell massacre of 
 the next day, in which his employer was shot. 
 Shortlj' afterward he brought his family to Law- 
 rence, and here he has since followed his trade. 
 While in Illinois he was married, at Chicago, to 
 Miss Apolonia Braun, who was born in Hesse- 
 Darmstadt, and came with her mother to Ameri- 
 ca. They became the parents of six children: 
 Gustav A., who was born in Illinois February 
 27, 1855; Otto, of Pueblo, Colo.: Albert and Carl, 
 of Lawrence; Laura and Minna, at home. Dur- 
 ing the Price raid the father served as a member 
 of Company B, Seventeenth Kansas Militia. 
 
 Our subject is a charter member of the Frater- 
 nal Aid As.sociation. He was married in St. 
 Joe, Mo., to Miss Margaret Eyre, who was born 
 in England, and by whom he has one son, 
 Arling. 
 
 QROF. GEORGE B. PENNY. There is no 
 L/^ department connected with the University of 
 fS Kansas more popular than the school of fine 
 arts, which was organized under the immediate 
 supervision of Professor Penny, and of which he 
 is the dean. He was called to the university in 
 1890, having been elected dean of the school of 
 music, a department for which his long and thor- 
 ough course of preparation, as well as natural 
 gifts, admirably qualified him. Two years after 
 taking this chair he organized the school of fine 
 arts, which now has an attendance of two hun- 
 dred and twenty-five students. This school is 
 not the result of a spasmodic effort, but of calm, 
 deliberate and intelligent thought. Teachers 
 have been selected with the greatest care, differ- 
 ent courses have been established and made self- 
 sustaining, and the work placed upon a practical 
 and .systematic basis. Instruction is given in 
 
 pianoforte, pipe organ, voice and violin, drawing 
 and painting, elocution and oratorj-. Besides his 
 other work, he gives lectures on the history of 
 the fine arts, acts as instructor on the pipe organ, 
 and superintends the four years' theoretical 
 course in harmony and composition. Concerts 
 are frequentl}' given in the city of Lawrence, the 
 high character of which shows the advance made 
 by the pupils. 
 
 At Haverstraw on the Hudson, N. Y. , the 
 subject of this sketch was born June 30, 1861, a 
 son of Rev. Joshua and Sarah Janet (Barlow) 
 Penny. His father was born at Moriches, L. L, 
 March 17, 1815, the oldest of the ten children of 
 Joseph and Sally (Moore) Penny, the latter 
 the daughter of a prominent merchant of River- 
 head, L. I. In a very early day the Penny fami- 
 ly settled in Connecticut and later removed from 
 thereto Long Island. Rev. Joshua Penny, who 
 was a Protestant Methodist minister, continued 
 active in the work of his profession until his 
 voice failed, while he was filling a pastorate at 
 Tompkins Cove, N. Y. He then engaged in the 
 lumber business at Haverstraw, after which he 
 was interested, successively, in general merchan- 
 dising and the manufacture of brick. At the 
 time of his death, in 1890, he was residing in 
 New York City. During his entire life he con- 
 tinued prominent in his denomination, and at 
 Garnerville, near his home, he erected a Method- 
 ist Episcopal hou.se of worship from his private 
 funds and supplied the pulpit. 
 
 The mother of Professor Penny was born in 
 Haverstraw, N. Y., in 1840, and was the third 
 child of Jonathan and Melissa (Gumee) Barlow, 
 the latter a daughter of Hon. Abraham Gumee, 
 who served his state as representative and sena- 
 tor. Jonathan Barlow was born in Delaware 
 County, N. Y., in 1811, became a manufacturer of 
 the Es.sex sewing needle, and died at Haver- 
 straw. His father, William Barlow, was born at 
 Sackville, N. B., in 1782, but spent his life 
 principally as a farmer in New York state. He 
 was a man of splendid physique and attained a 
 great age. His wife bore the maiden name of 
 Abigail Robertson. The genealogy of the Bar- 
 low familj' is traced to Jonathan Barlow, who 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 i8i 
 
 crossed the ocean in the ship, ' ' Thomas and 
 William," to Halifax, settling in New Bruns- 
 wick in 1774. He was closely related to Rev. 
 Samuel Rogers, of Rhode Island. During the 
 Revolution or shortlj' afterward he moved to 
 Walton, Delaware County, N. Y., his sympathy 
 with the colonial cause having led him to remove 
 from a British province; for, although he was of 
 English birth, born twenty miles from York, he 
 did not side with England in the war, but was a 
 stanch patriot and a believer in independence. 
 He became the owner of one of the finest farms 
 in Delaware County and a prominent man in its 
 early history. Mrs. Sarah J. Penny is still liv- 
 ing and makes her home in New York. She is 
 the mother of five children, viz.: George B.; 
 Alice, wife of Gustav Oberlander, of Indianapo- 
 lis, Ind.; Laura, of New York; William, who is 
 connected with the Shoe and Leather Bank in 
 New York; and Charles, a lumber merchant of 
 that city. 
 
 The education of our subject was begun in the 
 private school of Lavalette Wilson, A. M., at Hav- 
 erstraw and the Hackettstown (N. J.) Collegiate 
 Institute. He entered Cornell with the class of 
 1884, remaining until the sophomore year, when 
 he left school for a year and devoted himself to the 
 study of music, which he had previously pursued 
 for several years. From boj'hood he had 
 evinced musical talent and had made rapid prog- 
 ress in the art. When nineteen years of age he 
 began to give concerts, in which much of the 
 best work was done by himself. In 1885 he 
 graduated from Cornell with the degree of B. S., 
 and was one of the commencement orators. 
 After graduating he became professor of music in 
 Girton College and Dalhousie University, Hali- 
 fax, N. S. , but after two years resigned and re- 
 turned to New York City, becoming a member 
 of the faculty of Metropolitan College of Music 
 on Fourteenth street. Soon he was called from 
 there to the chair of music in the State Normal 
 School at Emporia, Kans., and in 1890 he re- 
 signed this position in order to become a profes- 
 sor in the University of Kansas. He has had the 
 advantage of study abroad, as well as under the 
 best masters in tliis country. In 1886 he studied 
 
 in England and France, and again in 1888. In 
 April, i8g6, accompanied by his wife, he sailed 
 for Europe, where he studied Greek and Roman 
 art, and in Greece and Italy, archaeology, and 
 made a special study of the galleries of Europe. 
 His visit to the Island of Sicily, rich in its speci- 
 mens of Greek art, was especially interesting and 
 profitable. During the winter of 1899-1900, 
 Professor Penny will conduct the Egyptian sec- 
 tion of an oriental party of about three hundred 
 persons, principally from New England. The 
 tour will include all of the Mediterranean coun- 
 tries. He is identified with the National Educa- 
 tional Association, holds membership with the 
 Psi Ypsilon of Cornell, also with the Knights of 
 Pythias, and is a vestryman in Trinity Episcopal 
 Church of Lawrence. 
 
 In Tarrytown, N. Y., January 6, 1891, Profes- 
 sor Penny married Miss Beulah Ray White, who 
 was born in that city and educated in the Ladies' 
 Institute there. Her father was Judge Robert 
 F. White, of Tarrytown, and her mother was a 
 member of the old and prominent family of 
 Dixons there. Professor and Mrs. Pennj- have 
 two sons, Carl and Vernon. 
 
 EAPT. THOMAS L. JOHNSON. As a rep- 
 resentative of the intelligence and integrity 
 of the people of Leavenworth, the subject of 
 this sketch occupies no ordinary position. He 
 is favorably known in his home city, and is 
 especially prominent among the pioneers, of 
 whom he is one. In recognition of his ability 
 and trustworthiness, he has frequently been 
 called upon to fill local positions of trust and re- 
 sponsibility, and the duties of these positions he 
 has discharged with fidelity and to the satisfac- 
 tion of all. In politics a Republican, he has for 
 many years been a strong believer in, and advo- 
 cate of, the course adopted by his party, and 
 among its members in Leavenworth he has long 
 wielded an important influence. 
 
 Born in Somerset County, Pa., February 15, 
 1834, the subject of this sketch is a sou of James 
 and Julia Ann (Graham) Johnson, natives of 
 Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he was taken to Illinois by his parents, and his 
 father was afterward engaged extensively in the 
 shipment of merchandise bj' flat boats to St. Louis 
 and New Orleans. The family of which he is a 
 member consisted of seven children, namely: 
 Isabella G. , now the widow of Martin Eichelber- 
 ger, and a resident of Pennsylvania; Robert, de- 
 ceased; Catherine, Mrs. Shafer, who died in 
 Illinois; George G., an artist, who died in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio; Thomas L.; James J., amajorofthe 
 First Arkansas Cavalry in the Civil war and now 
 a resident of Lewiston, Fulton County, 111.; and 
 Capt. W. S. , who was wounded seriously during 
 his service in the First Arkansas Cavalry and is 
 now living in Washington, D. C. 
 
 The education acquired by our subject was 
 such as the common schools of Illinois afforded. 
 After leaving school he learned the printer's 
 trade, which he followed for some years. March 
 20, 1857, found him in Kansas, with whose sub- 
 sequent history he has been identified. He wit- 
 nessed the struggle for supremacj* between the 
 free-state party and the pro-slavery men, and 
 aided the former in its efforts to gain the victory. 
 For a long time he was connected with the press, 
 being for years local editor of the Herald in 
 Leavenworth, as well as local editor of the paper 
 started by United States Senator Ross. After- 
 ward he was employed as mail agent from Kansas 
 City to Ellis on the Union Pacific and from 
 Leavenworth to Miltondale on the narrow gauge. 
 
 The Republican party has always had in 
 Captain Johnson a stanch advocate and friend. 
 Upon the ticket he was three times elected to 
 represent the third ward in the council, and for 
 four years he held the office of clerk of the 
 criminal court, also served as deputy clerk of 
 the district court for two years. Recognizing his 
 ability to fill positions of responsibilitj-, his part}- 
 in 1872 elected him to the state senate of Kansas 
 and for two years he held the office, which he 
 filled with credit to himself and to the satisfaction 
 of his constituents. At one time he was a can- 
 didate for probate judge. For two terms he was 
 president of the town council and acting mayor 
 of the cit)-. In 1897 he was nominated unani- 
 mously for mayor by the Republican party in its 
 
 convention, but, owing to an independent Repub- 
 lican running, he failed to be elected. Since 
 1893 he has been justice of the peace. Governor 
 Humphrey appointed him police commissioner, 
 but he returned the commi.ssion, not desiring the 
 office. The same governor appointed him notarj' 
 public August 26, 1892, and Governor Morrill 
 re-appointed him to the office four years later. 
 January 9, 1897, he was chosen to succeed to the 
 office of police judge upon the death of Judge 
 AUer, and this office he held until the Populists 
 came into power. He usually attends the county 
 and state conventions of his party, and his influ- 
 ence is felt among its leaders throughout the 
 state. It is doubtful if there are manj^ citizens 
 who take a keener interest in public affairs than 
 does he, and certainly no one is more deeply in- 
 terested in the success of Republican principles. 
 
 For more than thirt}- j'ears he has been identi- 
 fied with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and has been presented with the veteran's badge 
 in recognition of his many years of membership 
 in the order. He is the sole survivor in Leaven- 
 worth of those who organized the Leavenworth 
 Typographical Union No. 45 in 1858. By de- 
 scent and education, he is a believer in the Pres- 
 byterian faith. During the Civil war he was in 
 Illinois. With an intense desire to assist the 
 government, he at once threw his energies into 
 securing the enlistment of men. He raised a 
 company of one hundred and fifteen men and re- 
 ceived from Governor Oglesby the commission 
 as captain of Company B, One Hundred and 
 Fift3'-.sixth Illinois Infantry, also acted as ranking 
 captain of the regiment. From Chicago, where 
 he was mustered in, the command was ordered 
 to the south, and served principally in Missouri, 
 Arkansas and Tennessee. During his term of 
 service he was once wounded; this, however, was 
 but a slight wound. Since the estabUshment of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic he has been 
 one of its members and interested in its work. 
 
 February 18, 1864, occurred the marriage of 
 Captain Johnson to Miss Mary Margaret Piper, 
 of Canton, Fulton County, 111. Seven children 
 were born of their union, four of whom are living, 
 viz. : Paul B., proprietor of the Bell steam laundry 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in Leavenworth; Thomas Lee, a graduate of the 
 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, now 
 an ensign in the navy and on the "Massachu- 
 setts" during the siege of Santiago in 1898; 
 Edith E., a teacher in the Oak street school; and 
 Ortha Belle, who is librarian in the high school. 
 All are graduates of the Leavenworth high 
 school. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL A. RIGGS, judge of the 
 fourth district of Kansas, has resided in 
 Lawrence since the spring of 1859, and has 
 been one of the influential attorneys and public 
 men of this city. He traces his aucestry to Miles 
 Riggs, who came from Wales to America, and 
 settled at Plymouth, Mass., crossing the ocean 
 in the "Mayflower," or one of the boats that fol- 
 lowed shortly afterward. He died at Roxbury, 
 Mass. His sons removed to Connecticut, and 
 later one of them, Edward, settled in what is now 
 New Jersey. From him the line is traced through 
 Miles, Edward and Joseph, to Joseph (2d), who 
 located in Washington County, Pa., prior to 
 1790. His son, Stephen, in 1795 married Annie 
 Baird, of Fayette County, Pa., and in 1799 
 moved to Mercer County, Pa., thence in 1806 to 
 Franklin County, Pa., and in 1809 settled on a 
 farm four miles west of Steubenville, Jefierson 
 County, Ohio. 
 
 Of the eleven children of Stephen Riggs, 
 Joseph was born in Washington County, Pa., 
 July 2, 1796. He went to Ohio in 1809, when 
 Jefferson County was a wilderness and the sur- 
 rounding country was wholly unimproved. 
 Pittsburg, Pa, (then called Fort Pitt), had a 
 population of only one thousand, including 
 suburbs. After returning from service in the 
 war of 18 1 2 he started out for himself. In 18 17 
 he went down the Ohio on a flat boat as far as 
 Manchester, Adams County, then walked to 
 West Union, the county seat, where he secured 
 employment as clerk in a bank. In 1824 he was 
 elected auditor of the count}', to which he was 
 three times re-elected. In 1831 he was elected 
 state senator. In 1833, immediately after the 
 close of the session of the senate, he removed to 
 Hanging Rock, Lawrence County, Ohio, where 
 
 he was engaged in manufacturing iron, and built 
 the first rolling mill there. In 1835 he removed 
 to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was interested in 
 rolling mills at first, but later engaged in the 
 mercantile business, continuing the latter until he 
 died, July 28, 1877. He had served as a member 
 of the city council for many years, and also as 
 surveyor of that city. He was a ruling elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church more than thirty 
 years. 
 
 Decembers, 1819, Joseph Riggs married Re- 
 becca G., daughter of Rev. William Baldridge. 
 She was born near the Natural Bridge in Vir- 
 ginia, February 18, 1801. Her father was the 
 third son of Alexander Baldridge, who migrated 
 from the north of Ireland to North Carolina. 
 William was born March 6, 1763, and graduated 
 with honors from Dickinson College at Carlisle, 
 Pa. In 1 791 he was licensed to preach, and be- 
 came pastor of two congregations in Rockbridge 
 County, Va. In 1809 he took charge of congre- 
 gations in Adams County, Ohio. He was one 
 of the pioneer ministers in the Associate Re- 
 formed (now the United Presbyterian) Church, 
 which he assisted in founding. He died suddenly 
 in 1830. His daughter, Mrs. Riggs, died April 
 3, 1862. Of her twelve children, Mrs. Rebecca 
 A. Kendall resides in San Francisco, Cal.; Mary 
 died in infancy; Eliza, deceased, was the wife of 
 L. N. Robinson, who commanded Battery L of 
 the First Ohio Light Artillery; Mrs. Robert 
 Dunlap, Jr., died in Pittsburg, Pa.; Martha, 
 who resides in Florida, is the wife of Maj. J. V. 
 Robinson, who was major of the Thirty-third 
 Ohio Infantry during the Civil war; James W. 
 was killed in a railroad accident in 1857; S. B. 
 is engaged in the real-estate business in Emporia, 
 Kans.; Samuel A. is the subject of this sketch; 
 Joseph E. is also a resident of Kansas; Charles 
 H. makes his home in Pittsburg, Pa. ; Alexander 
 Brown, a highly cultured man, is a professor in 
 Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 and pastor of a Presbyterian Church there; 
 Emma, the youngest of the family, died at three 
 years of age. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Law- 
 rence County, Ohio, March i, 1835. I" 1851 
 
I.S6 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he entered an academy at Marietta, where he 
 prepared for Marietta College, and in the latter 
 institution remained until the second term of the 
 junior year. Next he studied in Washington 
 and Jefferson College, from which he graduated 
 in 1856 with the degree of A. B., later receiving 
 the degree of A. M. Afterward he studied law, 
 and in 1858 graduated from the Cincinnati Law 
 School, and was admitted to the Hamilton Coun- 
 ty bar. In the spring of 1859 he came to Kan- 
 sas, where for twenty-five years he was a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Riggs & Nevison. From 1859 
 to 1 86 1 he was county attorney; from 1861 to 
 1866 served as district attorney in a district of 
 eight counties containing one-fourth of the entire 
 population of the state. In 1866 he was elected 
 to the state senate on the Republican ticket, 
 where he was one of a committee of three that 
 revised the statutes of the state, reporting what 
 was called the general statutes of 1868, the same 
 being adopted as reported. For one term he was 
 a member of the house, and was the author of 
 the Riggs railroad bill, placing railroads under a 
 board of commissioners. In 1868 he was ap- 
 pointed United States district attorney, which 
 ofiice he held for three years. In 1870 he left 
 the Republican party. Two years later he was 
 a candidate for congress on the liberal Republican 
 ticket, and in 1885 was the Democratic candidate 
 to succeed Hon. Dudley Haskell, deceased. 
 During the Greeley campaign he was a member 
 of the liberal Republican national committee, 
 and served as delegate to the convention that 
 nominated Greeley for president. In 1896 he 
 was a delegate to the convention in Chicago that 
 nominated Brj^an for president, and during that 
 convention he was a member of the committee 
 on organization. In the fall of 1896 he was 
 elected, on the Democratic ticket, judge of the 
 fourth district of Kansas, embracing Douglas, 
 Franklin and Anderson Counties. His election 
 was remarkable, as the district usually gives a 
 Republican majority of one thousand. In Janu- 
 ary, 1897, he took the oath of ofiBce to serve for 
 four years. He has been a member of the state 
 Democratic central committee, and in various 
 ways has promoted the success of his party. For 
 
 some years he has been connected with the 
 University of Kansas as a lecturer in the law 
 department. 
 
 In Pittsburg, Pa., December 31, 1861, Judge 
 Riggs married Kate Doane Earle, daughter of 
 Henry and Jane (Kirkpatrick) Earle. Her 
 grandfather, William Earle, a native of New 
 Jersey, was a merchant in Pittsburg. His 
 father, Richard Earle, was a descendant of a 
 nobleman of England. Her father, who was 
 born in Pittsburg, was a wholesale and retail 
 merchant, and a prominent citizen of Pittsburg. 
 His wife was a daughter of David Kirkpatrick, 
 who was born near Belfa.st, Ireland, of Scotch 
 descent, and settled in Pennsylvania. Mrs. 
 Riggs was one of ten children, four of whom are 
 living. Three of her brothers, William, James 
 and Albert, .served with distinction in a Pennsyl- 
 vania regiment during the Civil war. She was 
 educated in Pittsburg and Patapsco Institute at 
 Ellicott's Mills, Md., from which she graduated. 
 By her marriage to Judge Riggs, one child was 
 born, Henrj' Earle Riggs, who graduated from 
 the University of Kansas in 18S6, then for six 
 years was chief engineer of the Toledo, Ann Ar- 
 bor & North Michigan Railroad, and is now a 
 successful sanitary engineer in Toledo. Judge 
 Riggs is a Congregationalist, while his wife is 
 identified with the Episcopal Church. They 
 occupy a residence on Union avenue, which he 
 built in 1864. 
 
 ~ LMORE W. SNYDER. Those public-spir- 
 'e) ited citizens whose sound judgment has 
 ^ promoted the industrial gB»wth of their 
 community and whose energy has brought an in- 
 creased pro.sperity to every line of local activity 
 deservedly occupy positions of prominence among 
 their associates. Among the men to whom Leav- 
 enworth is indebted for its high standing in the 
 galaxy of western cities, mention especially be- 
 longs to Mr. Snyder, who is president of the 
 Manufacturers' National Bank and also president 
 of the Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge 
 Company. While there are many reasons for 
 which he is entitled to distinctive mention, doubt- 
 less the greatest work of his life has been his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 187 
 
 connection with the planning and building of the 
 bridge immediatelj' across the river from the cit}^ 
 of Leavenworth. The building of such a struc- 
 ture had long been realized to be a necessity, but 
 it remained for him and Vinton Stillings, together 
 with a few other progressive citizens, to project 
 the plans and carry forward the movement to a 
 successful completion, by which means new ter- 
 ritory for commerce was opened up to Leaven- 
 worth, and the importance of the city, from a 
 business standpoint, greatl}' increased. 
 
 A resident of Leavenworth since 1883, Mr. 
 Snyder was born in Wayne County, N. Y., No- 
 vember 23, 1850, and is the older of the two sur- 
 viving sons of Col. James W. and Sarah A. 
 (O'Neill) Snyder, natives of Wayne County, 
 where they still reside. His only brother, Ches- 
 ter W., is president of the Clifton State Bank at 
 Clifton, Kans., but makes his home in Topeka, 
 Kans. His father, a farmer by occupation, raised 
 a company during the summer of 1862 and was 
 mustered into the army as its captain, it being 
 Company A, Ninth New York Artillery. He 
 took part in various battles, among them those 
 of Cedar Creek and Winchester, and served until 
 the close of the war, retiring with a colonel's 
 commission. Afterward he gave his attention 
 to farming and the grain business. He is con- 
 nected with the Masons and the Grand Army of 
 the Republic. 
 
 Mr. Snyder was educated in Union Seminary. 
 His first position was that of bookkeeper for a 
 manufacturing firm in Rochester, N. Y., where 
 he remained for five years. The year 1878 found 
 him in Kansas, where, with his brother, he en- 
 gaged in the banking and grain business at Clif- 
 ton, the firm being Snyder Brothers. In 1879 the 
 firm established the Clifton State Bank, of which 
 our subject became president and with which he 
 remained identified until his Leavenworth inter- 
 ests absorbed his entire attention. His first 
 business enterprise in Leavenworth was as a 
 member of the firm of Snyder & Denton, grain 
 dealers. 
 
 The Manufacturers' National Bank of Leaven- 
 worth was organized in August, 1888, with J. C. 
 Lysle as its first president. In December of the 
 
 same year Mr. Snyder became connected with the 
 bank, and at the same time he was made its pres- 
 ident, which position he has since filled. Under 
 his judicious and conservative management the 
 institution has been placed upon a solid financial 
 footing and has gained prestige among the banks 
 of the state, as well as the confidence of its large 
 list of depositors. The capital stock of the bank 
 is $150,000, the surplus $30,000, and the depos- 
 its average about $300,000; semi-annual divi- 
 dends have been declared regularly since his 
 presidency began. Under his supervision the 
 Manufacturers' National Bank building was 
 planned and erected in 1889; this is considered 
 the finest office building in Leavenworth, and is 
 as large as any in the cit}'. 
 
 Through the efforts of Mr. Snyder the oft- 
 discussed plan of building a bridge across the 
 Missouri at Leavenworth was again taken up and 
 agitated. In 1892 he interested Vinton Stillings 
 in the movement, and a company was formed 
 with a capital stock of $600,000, of which he was 
 the president from the first, and in which he and 
 Mr. Stillings were the principal stockholders. 
 The bridge was completed and opened to the 
 public January i, 1894. It is of steel, with two 
 fixed spans and one draw span, and has a total 
 length of eleven hundred and ten feet. Over it 
 threeroadsenter the city, viz.: Chicago, Burling- 
 ton & Qui ncy; Rock Island; and Great Western. 
 There are also adequate accommodations for foot 
 pa.ssengers and vehicles. In addition to the 
 bridge itself, the company built a terminal depot 
 and storehouses. The enterprise was one of great 
 magnitude and required judgment, energy and 
 ability on the part of its projectors. The capital 
 stock proved none too large for so vast an under- 
 taking, involving large expenditures of money in 
 the pvtrchase of material and employing of men. 
 The successful completion of the bridge speaks 
 volumes for the ability of the men to whom its 
 building was due. 
 
 In Brandon, Vt., in 1877, Mr. Snyder married 
 Miss Fannie M. Benson, daughter of Lafayette 
 Benson, a merchant of Brandon, where she was 
 born; but subsequently a merchant at Gardner, 
 111., where he died. Mrs. Snyder was educated 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in the Evanston Female Seminary at Evanston, 
 111. She is a refiued and cultured lady, and is 
 popular in Leavenworth's social circles. She 
 assisted in the organization of the Leavenworth 
 Public Library Association, of which she was 
 chosen the fir.st president. She is an active mem- 
 ber and treasurer of the Art League. The two 
 sons of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are; Charles E., who 
 is connected with the Manufacturers' National 
 Bank; and Ira B. 
 
 The business interests of Mr. Snyder have been 
 of such a nature that he has had little leisure for 
 participation in politics. He has always been a 
 Republican in party principle and has served as 
 chairman of the county central committee. For 
 four years he represented the first ward in the 
 city council, and was president of the council one 
 year. The nomination for mayor, which has 
 been offered him, he declined. He is interested 
 in educational matters and has been a member of 
 the school board. In 1896 he was his party's 
 nominee for the state senate, and, although op- 
 posed by a fusion ticket in which the opposing 
 parties had combined, he came within one hun- 
 dred and thirty votes of being elected. He is a 
 member of the State Bankers' Association and 
 was its vice-president in 1898. While living in 
 Rochester, N. Y. , he was made a Ma.son, and he 
 is now connected with Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, 
 A. F. & A. M.; Leavenworth Chapter, R. A. M.; 
 Leavenworth Commandery No. i, K. T. ; and 
 Abdallah Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 V yi ICHAEL D. GREENLEE, general secre- 
 y tary of the Fraternal Aid Association, is 
 (3 one of the most popular citizens of Law- 
 rence, and has a host of friends throughout the 
 west. He was born near Springboro, Crawford 
 County, Pa., October 27, 1850, a son of Michael 
 and Rebecca Howard (Couover) Greenlee, na- 
 tives respectively of Crawford County, Pa., and 
 Cayuga County, N. "V. His paternal ancestors 
 were of Scotch lineage and were driven from 
 their native land by the Catholics, five brothers 
 coming to America and settling in different lo- 
 calities. Robert Greenlee married a Miss Cham- 
 
 berlain and they made their home on a farm in 
 Spring Township, Crawford County, where he 
 died at seventy-four years of age. His son, 
 Michael, died October 11, 1850. Of his two 
 children, the older, George W., died at fourteen 
 years of age. The younger is the subject of this 
 article. The mother was a second time married, 
 by which union she had four children; of these 
 two are living, both in California. She makes 
 her home with her oldest son in Lawrence. She 
 was a daughter of David Conover, who was born 
 in New Jersey in April, 1797, and descended 
 from Holland-Dutch ancestors, whose name was 
 orginally Schoenhoven. David was a son of 
 Andrew Conover, of New Jersey, whose wife, 
 after his death, married a man who served as 
 paymaster of the Colonial army during the Revo- 
 lution, being .stationed at Philadelphia, where he 
 died. David Conover settled in New York, 
 thence moved to Crawford County, Pa., and later 
 to the vicinity of Jack.son, Mich., but the malaria 
 was so prevalent at the latter place that he re- 
 turned to Pennsylvania. His trade was that of a 
 coverlet weaver, but much of his time was given 
 to farming. 
 
 When a lad of sixteen, the care of his mother 
 and her four small children devolved upon Mr. 
 Greenlee. He reluctantly gave up his cherished 
 hope of securing an education, and turned his 
 attention to the support of the family. In No- 
 vember, 1 87 1, he was forced by failing health to 
 seek a change of climate, and came to Eudora, 
 Kans. The first day the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
 road Company opened its office there, January i , 
 1872, he entered as a clerk, and as such contin- 
 ued until the fall, when he was made agent at 
 Eudora. During the years that followed his 
 duties increased greatly. The Santa Fe coming 
 through the town doubled his labors, while he 
 was also appointed to act as agent for two ex- 
 press companies and the Western Union Tele- 
 graph Company. The work proved too heavy 
 for him and his health became undermined by 
 the strain. January i, 1878, he resigned his po- 
 sition, and traveled for a time, visiting Colorado 
 and his old home in Pennsylvania. Afterward 
 he was employed as manager for a grain firm, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 later was bookkeeper and assistant postmaster at 
 Eudora until March, 1884. His next position 
 was that of deputy- county clerk, which he held 
 for four years. In 1887, on the Republican 
 ticket, he was elected county clerk by a majority 
 of eleven hundred. At the expiration of his 
 term, in 1889, he was again elected, ou an inde- 
 pendent ticket, by a majority of about one 
 thousand. He held the office from January, 
 1888, to January, 1892, after which, not wishing 
 to again become a candidate, he began to travel 
 for the Fraternal Aid Association in Nebraska, 
 remaining with the association at that time for 
 eighteen months. Later he traveled in Oregon 
 and Washington, in the interests of the Order of 
 Knights and Ladies of Security, establishing so- 
 cieties there, also in Kansas, Missouri, and the 
 Indian Territory, and opening the work for the 
 association in Illinois, where he established the 
 first lodges of the order in the state. 
 
 In 1897 ^^- Greenlee renewed his connection 
 with the Fraternal Aid Association, becoming 
 adjuster and organizer, and traveling in the in- 
 terests of the order wherever needed. On the 
 resignation of the general secretary, May i, 1898, 
 he was tendered this position by the advisory 
 board, without any solicitation on his part, a fact 
 which proves that his promotion was due en- 
 tirely to merit. In February, 1899, at the bien- 
 nial session of the order, he was elected to the 
 position, by acclamation, for two years, with an 
 increase of salary. He has reorganized the entire 
 system of keeping reports and cash accounts, and 
 during the year 1S98 wrote more business, with 
 less per capita cost to members, than had been 
 secured any preceding year. Eleven states and 
 two territories are now represented in the asso- 
 ciation, namely: Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, 
 Colorado, Iowa, California, Washington, Ore- 
 gon, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma and 
 Indian Territory; of all of which field Mr. Green- 
 lee, by virtue of his position as superintendent of 
 organization, has charge. The number of mem- 
 bers was more than doubled in 1898, the aggre- 
 gate membership, January i, 1899, being twenty 
 thousand five hundred and fifty-nine. At the 
 beginning of 1898 there were but thirteen thou- 
 
 sand three hundred and fifty-seven members. 
 The order is beneficiary, with a graded assess- 
 ment; $31,219,000 protection in force, January 
 
 1, 1899; $132,500 paid losses in 1898; while the 
 death rate showed a reduction from 4.29 to 2.74 
 in 1S97. The office of the association is iu the 
 Merchants' Bank building. 
 
 The general officers of the association are: 
 Lewis A. Ryder, M. D., North Topeka, general 
 president, and M. T. Shearer, Abilene, Kans., 
 general past president; S. H. Enyeart, Tulare, 
 Cal., general vice-president; M. D. Greenlee, 
 general secretary; C. O. Anderson, Arcadia, 
 Kans., general treasurer; A. J. Anderson, M. D., 
 Lawrence, general medical examiner; W. B. 
 Wood, M. D., Orange, Cal., a.ssistant general 
 medical examiner; Emily Mobley, Grand Island, 
 Neb., general chaplain; Mrs. Cora Hoyer, Den- 
 ver, Colo., general guide; C. F. Young, Los 
 Angeles, Cal., general observer; and Duval 
 Jackson, Newkirk, Okla., general sentinel. The 
 trustees are: John Sullivan, Kansas City, Mo., 
 J. R. Craig, Beatrice, Neb.; and Hon. H. E. 
 Don Carlos, Vinita, I. T. The special features 
 recommending the association are reliability, 
 simplicity, reserve fund, restricted territory, and 
 refusal to admit persons engaged in hazardous 
 occupations. In addition to the death benefits, 
 there are also sick and total disability benefits, 
 which features recommend the order to many 
 persons. 
 
 As general secretary, Mr. Greenlee supervises 
 the publication of the Fraternal Aid, the official 
 paper of the organization, which is mailed to 
 every member free of charge and is one of the 
 most complete papers of its kind published. He 
 assisted in instituting Athens Council No. 3, in 
 Lawrence, which was the first council instituted; 
 although on the reorganization at Topeka, the 
 councils in that city were recorded as Nos. i and 
 
 2, while the one in Lawrence was recorded as 
 No. 3. Besides his connection with this order, 
 Mr. Greenlee is identified with the Court of 
 Honor, Knights and Ladies of Security, Modern 
 Woodmen of America, Doric Lodge No. 83, A. 
 F. & A. M., of Eudora, in which he is past 
 master, Adah Chapter No. 7, Eastern Star, in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 which he is past patron, and Zerbal Lodge of Per- 
 fection No. 5, A. A. S. R. In national politics 
 he is independent, supporting such principles as, 
 after thoughtful consideration, seem for the best 
 welfare of the country, rather than following 
 blindly whatever doctrines may be promulgated 
 by any party. He is a member of the Baptist 
 Church, in which he serves as a deacon. En- 
 dowed by nature with many winning attributes, 
 with tact, a genial disposition, frank manner and 
 sympathetic qualities, he has the faculty of gain- 
 ing the friend.ship of all with whom he has busi- 
 ness or social relations. Of polite and compan- 
 ionable manners, he is the life of every social 
 circle he enters. He is a man of generous im- 
 pulses, sanguine in temperament, whole-souled 
 and open-hearted. The confidence that he wins 
 at the first is never abused by him. In action he 
 has ever been honorable, in life upright. His 
 integrity and worth as a man have won for him 
 the respect of the people of his city and the mem- 
 bers of the order with which his name is insepar- 
 ably identified. 
 
 <ySAAC L. HOOVER, a farmer and stock- 
 I raiser of Marion Township, Douglas County, 
 X was born in Willow Springs Township, this 
 county, March 19, 1859, a son of Isaac B. and 
 Mary Ann (Longnecker) Hoover, natives of Penn- 
 sylvania. His paternal grandfather, John Hoover, 
 who was born in Bedford County, Pa., was 
 for years engaged in the ministry of the German 
 Baptist (Dunkard) Church, and spent his active 
 life in what was known as Morrison's Cove be- 
 tween the mountains. In early days our sub- 
 ject's father moved to Wayne County, Ind., 
 where he took up a tract of unimproved land. 
 From there, in 1855, he came overland to Kansas, 
 settling on Cottonwood River in Lyon County, 
 where he took up government land. Holding 
 his claim there, the next year he moved to 
 Douglas County and settled on Chicken Creek, 
 in what is now Willow Springs Township. 
 There he took up a claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, which he cleared and improved, be- 
 coming in time a successful farmer. He also 
 purchased eighty acres in Marion Township, 
 
 where he engaged in stock-dealing and farming. 
 At the time of the slaverj' struggle he was in- 
 tensely strong in his abolition sentiments. At 
 the time of Quantrell's raid he saved his horses 
 by hiding them in the woods, so that he incurred 
 no heavy losses. Besides the management of his 
 farm, he owned an interest in a threshing outfit, 
 which he superintended. All during his life he 
 was active in the work of the German Baptist 
 Church, in. which for some years he officiated as 
 a deacon. His death occurred August 21, 1866, 
 and resulted from cholera, a disease that, then 
 as now, was verj- uncommon in Kansas. His 
 wife died of the same disease August 24, three 
 days after his death. Thej^ had six children, 
 viz.: Joseph C. ; Henry, of Ottawa; Isaac L. ; 
 John L., a farmer of Douglas County; Benjamin, 
 a merchant of Lawrence; and Anna Mary, wife 
 of R. A. Willis. 
 
 A life-long resident of Douglas County, our 
 subject early became familiar with the work of 
 farming in this part of the west. When seven 
 years of age he was taken into the home of J. C. 
 Metsker, with whom he remained until attaining 
 his majority. In 1879 he purchased his present 
 farm, which by degrees he has transformed into 
 one of the best farms in the township, making 
 desirable improvements and adding to the estate 
 which now comprises three hundred and twenty- 
 five acres. In addition to general farming he 
 raises hogs and feeds cattle for the market. In 
 1880 he donated land for School District No. 4, on 
 which to build a new school building. Not only in 
 educational, but in other matters, he has done his 
 part. Kor several years he has been a deacon in 
 the German Baptist Church and is now officiating 
 as an elder, besides which he has for some time 
 been superintendent of the Sunday-school. He 
 has also been president of the Missionary board 
 of the Northeastern District of Kansas for several 
 years, and is .still serving in that capacity. In 
 1879 he married Mary E. Stutsman, by whom he 
 has eight children : Charles O. , Bert Onier, Wegie 
 Malinda, Clarence Martin, Lloyd Emerson, Otis, 
 Earl, Jesse Jason and CliiTord Carroll. 
 
 Mrs. Hoover's father, John W. Stutsman, was 
 born in Ohio in 1830 and in a very early day 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 191 
 
 came to Kansas, but after a few years removed to 
 Elkhart County, Ind. , where he remained for 
 seven years. In 1870 he returned to Kansas, 
 settling in Marion Township, Douglas County, 
 where he followed farm pursuits. In religion he 
 was a Dunkard. His ancestors were Germans, 
 who settled in Pennsylvania at an early day and 
 later migrated to Ohio. He died in Douglas 
 County in 1898, aged sixty-seven. By his mar- 
 riage to Malinda Weybright, who was born in 
 Indiana, he had eight children, viz.: IdaL., wife 
 of Samuel M. Miller; Mary E., Mrs. Hoover; 
 William M., who carries on the home place; 
 Sabina C; Elijah A.; Sarah E., wife of Edward 
 Shively; Lucy M., who married Edward Brunk; 
 and Zora Lucretia, wife of J. F. Metsker. 
 
 Gl MOS G. HONNOLD is one of the veterans 
 U of the Civil war now residing in Lawrence. 
 I I He was born near Adamsville, Muskingum 
 County, Ohio, in 1837, a son of John E. and 
 Mary (Fell) Honnold, natives respectively of 
 Loudoun County, Va., and Pennsylvania. His 
 grandfather, Jacob Honnold, who was the son of 
 a German, was born in Virginia, and removed to 
 Ohio when his son, John E., was three years of 
 age. Settling in Muskingum County he re- 
 mained there until his death at an advanced age. 
 John E. Honnold cleared a farm from the woods, 
 and continued to reside on it until his death, dur- 
 ing the Civil war. He was held in high respect, 
 and held numerous local offices of trust. His 
 wife, who was a daughter of Amos Fell, died 
 in Lawrence, Kans. They were the parents of 
 four children, of whom Gilbert died in boyhood. 
 S. H., who served in the One Hundred and Six- 
 tieth Ohio National Guard during the Civil war, 
 is now living in Olathe, Kans. H. F. , who was a 
 member of Company E, Ninety-seventh Ohio 
 Infantry, was wounded, November 25, 1863, in 
 the battle of Missionary Ridge, and was afterward 
 transferred to the signal corps. He died at the 
 hospital in Chattanooga in the spring of 1865. 
 
 In September, 1862, the subject of this .sketch 
 enlisted in Company E, Ninety-seventh Ohio In- 
 fantry, to which his brother, H. F., belonged. 
 
 Enlisting at Zanesville, Ohio, he was ordered to 
 Covington, Ky., and was assigned to the army of 
 the Cumberland. After the battle of Perryville 
 his regiment followed Grant through Kentucky 
 to Nashville, and participated in the battle of 
 Murfreesboro, then crossed the mountains to the 
 front of Chattanooga, and unfurled the first col- 
 ors over Chattanooga. After the fight at Orchard 
 Knob its proceeded to Missionarj' Ridge, where 
 the division broke the line and crossed the ridge 
 at Bragg' s headquarters, making a heroic dash 
 some distance beyond. It was a desperate at- 
 tempt. Bullets were hurled thick and fast in 
 their midst. Mr. Honnold was wounded in the 
 hip and the left arm, and while several other 
 bullets passed through his clothing one shot 
 penetrated his canteen, another his haversack, 
 and still another struck his gun. His brother 
 was with him at the time and was also wounded. 
 About one o'clock that night Mr. Honnold 
 was removed from the battlefield and taken to an 
 unfinished church, but it was not until the fourth 
 day after the engagement that his wounds were 
 dressed. About a month later he was given a 
 furlough of thirty days. His father came down 
 for him and his brother and took our subject 
 home, but the father contracted a cold on the 
 journey and died from pneumonia soon after- 
 ward. After his father's death Mr. Honnold 
 rejoined his regiment at Charleston, Tenn., and 
 soon entered upon the Atlanta campaign, although 
 he was still disabled and really unfit for militar}' 
 service. Under Sherman's orders those who 
 were weak were sent to the rear, and he was 
 therefore detailed as clerk and orderly for the 
 ordnance officer of the division. He participated 
 in the march through Georgia, where he was 
 often in the thickest of the fights. From Atlanta 
 he returned to Pulaski to hold Hood back while 
 Thomas prepared to hold Nashville. He took 
 part in the battle at Spring Hill and was at 
 Franklin, where a fierce battle was fought from 
 3:30 p. m. until dark. Later he was in the three 
 days' battle at Nashville, where Hood's army 
 was crushed and driven back to Alabama. Next 
 he was ordered to Knoxville, then to Camp 
 Nashville, and was mustered out June 10, 1865. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 During his service he had manj' hair-breadth 
 escapes and was often in the hottest places of the 
 battles. At Huntsville he was offered the rank 
 of ordnance sergeant of the regiment, but de- 
 clined, as he carried about an ounce of rebel 
 lead and was hardlj* able to ride, much less per- 
 form the duties of the office tendered him. 
 
 After some j-ears on a farm in Ohio Mr. Hon- 
 nold came to Kansas, in October, 1869, seeking a 
 suitable location. January i, 1870, he located 
 in Lawrence, where he engaged in the insurance 
 business, then became clerk in the count)' treas- 
 urer's office, serving for six years. In 1879 he 
 was elected register of deeds, and bj- re-election 
 served until 1886. For two j'ears he was deputy 
 clerk of the district court. In 1887 he was ap- 
 pointed city clerk by the mayor and council, and 
 has held the office since, serving by appointment 
 until it was made an elective office. In 1898 and 
 1899 he was elected to the position. For some 
 years he was a member of the school board. He 
 assisted in organizing the Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation, to which he still belongs, as he does to 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., in which he 
 has been an aide on the staff of the department 
 commander. In 1866 he married Miss Mary J. 
 Domer, who was born in Ohio, and died in Law- 
 rence in 1894. He has three children living. 
 Arri B., Edna M. and Rosa B., the eldest of 
 whom is a graduate of the Lawrence high school. 
 
 (TUDGE JOHN CHARLTON, deceased, for- 
 I merly a resident of Lawrence, was born in 
 Q) Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, 
 January 20, 1827, a .son of Joseph and Jane 
 (Winter) Charlton, also natives of that country. 
 His father, who was a weaver of Brussels carpets, 
 brought the family to America and .settled at 
 West Farms, N. Y., where he followed his trade. 
 Later he removed to Princeton, 111., and there 
 carried on a grocery business until he retired. 
 The last eleven years of his life were passed in 
 the home of his son, John, at Lawrence, and he 
 died, at eighty-four years of age, while visiting in 
 Topeka. Of his five children, John was next to 
 
 the oldest. He received in England an educa- 
 tion that fitted him for the general business pur- 
 suits of life. When he was eleven he began to 
 assist his father, and thus became familiar with 
 the weaving of Brus.sels carpets. At the time 
 the family came to America he was seventeen 
 years of age. He resided for a time in Phila- 
 delphia. Later he took charge of a bank note 
 establishment for the firm of Toppan, Carpenter 
 & Co. (now the American Bank Note Company) 
 in the Trinity building. New York City. 
 
 In 1857 he went to Princeton, 111., where he 
 successfully carried on a drug business for ten 
 years. In 1867 he established his home in Law- 
 rence, Kans., and engaged in the fire and life in- 
 surance business, and from 1889 until his death 
 served as justice of the peace. For eleven years 
 he was president of the school board, but finally 
 refused to serve longer and retired. In politics 
 he was a Republican, and in religion an active 
 member of the Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 A lover of good books, much of his leisure time 
 was spent in reading, and he was particularly 
 fond of Charles Dickens, whom he considered in- 
 imitable as a delineator of character. In Odd 
 Fellowship he was prominent. He was one of 
 the leaders in Lodge No. 4, at Lawrence, served 
 as grand representative to the sovereign grand 
 lodge several times, and at Wichita, in October, 
 1876, was elected grand master of the Grand 
 Lodge of Kansas, in which responsible position he 
 won the confidence of the entire state member- 
 ship. He was also connected with the encamp- 
 ment. In Masonry he served as master and sec- 
 retary of Acacia Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., 
 was past officer in Lawrence Lodge No. 4, 
 R. A. M., and past eminent commander in 
 DeMolay Coramandery No. 4, K. T. 
 
 In Philadelphia, Pa., May 18, 1847, occurred 
 the marriage of Judge Charlton to Miss Martha 
 Curtiss, and fifty years later. May 18, 1897, they 
 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their mar- 
 riage, at their pleasant home in Lawrence, where 
 they were the recipients of the congratulations 
 of relatives and friends. Less than two years 
 after this memorable celebration, he pa.ssed away 
 from earth, February 27, 1899. Mrs. Charlton 
 
HON. GEORGE T. ANTIIONV. 
 
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 was born in Worcestershire, England, a daughter 
 of Daniel and Ann (Allen) Curtiss. Her father, 
 who was a weaver of Brussels carpets, settled in 
 Philadelphia in 1831 and followed his trade 
 there. His last years were spent in Connecti- 
 cut, where he died at fifty years of age. His 
 wife died in New York City. In religious be- 
 lief they were Methodists, conscientious in the 
 observance of all denominational doctrines. They 
 were the parents of four children, two of whom 
 are living. One son, Theodore, who enlisted in 
 an Illinois regiment during the Civil war, died 
 from the effects of the hardships and exposure 
 of the campaign. Mrs. Charlton was the oldest 
 of the four children and was reared in Phila- 
 delphia, where she resided until her marriage. 
 Like her husband, she is a devoted Christian and 
 a member of Plymouth Church. She is a mem- 
 ber of the Eastern Star and Rebekah Lodge, and 
 is interested in various movements for the aid of 
 the city and the welfare of the people. In her 
 family there are seven children: Mrs. Emma J. 
 Meade, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Mrs. Mary Stewart, 
 of Lawrence; Mrs. Ada Good, of Topeka, Kans. ; 
 Harry Curtiss, of Minneapolis, Kans. ; Mrs. Kate 
 Ewing, of Decatur, 111.; Edwin L. , who is his 
 father's successor in business; and Mrs. Margaret 
 Forsythe, of Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 HON. GEORGE T. ANTHONY. There 
 are very few citizens of Kansas, either of 
 the present or the past, whose names are 
 more indissolubly associated with the history of 
 the state than is that of Governor Anthony. In 
 presenting to the readers of this volume a sketch 
 of his life we are perpetuating the memory of 
 one of the most noted men the state has ever 
 had; and one who accomplished much in the ad- 
 vancing of progressive measures and the devel- 
 oping of agricultural resources. There are many 
 reasons for which he is deserving of mention in 
 the annals of the state. He was the first man in 
 Kansas who ever dared to declare prohibition 
 doctrines from a political ro.strum, his work in 
 this direction antedating that of the famous tem- 
 perance advocate, Governor St. John. While he 
 
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 was a Republican in politics and a stanch sup- 
 porter of party principles, he at the same time 
 believed in the prohibition amendment and did 
 all in his power to promote its success. Largely 
 through his instrumentality the National Mili- 
 tary Home at Leavenworth was established; he 
 continued to agitate the measure until it was 
 finally pas,sed. His connection with the Centen- 
 nial Exposition at Philadelphia proved most 
 helpful to the interests of his state. For about 
 six months he gave almost his entire time to se- 
 curing an adequate representation for Kansas at 
 the Exposition; and, as president of the board of 
 centennial managers, he succeeded in drawing 
 the attention of people, not only of our own 
 country, but of others as well, to the magnificent 
 and diversified opportunities offered by our great 
 western state, to the end that the population of 
 the state was greatl}' swelled and its importance 
 augmented. Then was begun that era of growth 
 concerning which Senator Hoar of Massachu- 
 setts, in a speech in the United States senate, 
 said: "There is no other instance on the face of 
 the earth, unless it be some neighboring state, 
 where a territory has grown up in forty-two 
 years containing such a population, such wealth, 
 such value of agricultural lands, such vast agri- 
 cultural products." 
 
 The life herein sketched began at May field, 
 Fulton County, N. Y., June 9, 1824, and closed 
 at Topeka, Kans., August 5, 1896. Governor 
 Anthony was a son of Benjamin and Anna An- 
 thony, who were earnest members of the ortho- 
 dox Quaker societj-. He was the youngest of 
 five children and was only five years of age when 
 his father died, leaving his family in straightened 
 circumstances. Four years later he accompanied 
 his mother to Greenfield, N. Y., where he at- 
 tended school in the winter and worked for 
 farmers in the summer. At the age of sixteen 
 he began an apprenticeship to the tinner's trade 
 under his uncle, who lived in Union Springs, 
 N. Y. On the completion of his time he opened 
 a small hardware store in Medina, N. Y., where, 
 working from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, 
 he laid the foundation of those industrious, self- 
 reliant and determined traits so noticeable in his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 character in later 3'ears. In Park Church, Syra- 
 cuse, N. Y., December 14, 1852, he married Miss 
 Rosa Lyon, who was born in Perryville, Madison 
 County, that state. Her father, Andrew J. Lyon, 
 was a member of a Puritan family of Massachu- 
 setts, and a nephew of Mary Lj'ou, the founder 
 of Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts. 
 He was born in New York, but in middle life re- 
 moved to Madison, Wis., where he died. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Abbie Lamb, 
 was the daughter of a Frenchman, who accom- 
 panied Lafayette to America and served in the 
 Revolutionarj- war. 
 
 At the beginning of the Civil war Mr. An- 
 thony was engaged in the commission business 
 in New York state. When the call was made, 
 July 2, 1862, for three hundred thousand more 
 soldiers the governor of New York organized 
 the state and placed the subdivisions in charge 
 of committees, Mr. Anthony, Ex-Governor 
 Church and Noah Davis, Jr., being the commit- 
 tees of Orleans, Niagara and Genesee Counties. 
 Mr. Anthony organized the Seventeenth New 
 York Independent Battery of Light Artillery and 
 at once became its captain. His. military historj- 
 is presented in the records of the Loyal Legion, 
 as follows: "Reported at Camp Barry, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, September, 1862; assigned to the 
 army for the defense of Washington, December, 
 1862; attached to King's division at Centerville 
 in the summer of 1863; later attached to Second 
 Corps; July 4, 1864, reported to General Grant 
 at City Point, and assigned to Eighteenth Army 
 Corps of the James; later assigned to Twenty - 
 fourth Army Corps, and took part in the Appo- 
 mattox campaign; participated in assault and 
 capture of Petersburg; thence to Appomattox, 
 remaining until after surrender; returned to 
 Richmond April 29, 1865." 
 
 After the close of the Civil war Mr. Anthony 
 closed out his business interests in the east. In 
 November, 1865, he settled in Leavenworth, 
 Kans. His remaining years were intimately as- 
 sociated with the progress of this state. He was 
 editor of the Leavenworth Daily Bulletin and the 
 Leavenworth Daily Conservative for two and one- 
 
 half years, and editor and publisher of the Kan- 
 sas Farmer for six years. In the latter position 
 it was his aim to teach diversified farming, econ- 
 omy in management, improvement in live stock 
 and higher regard for home and social life; es- 
 pecially criticising the carelessness of those who 
 at the end of the season left the plow in the fur- 
 row and the mowing machine at the fence corner. 
 His work in this direction was most helpful, and 
 now no farmers stand higher than do those of 
 Kansas. 
 
 In December, 1867, Mr. Anthony was appointed 
 assistant assessor of internal revenue, and was 
 made collector of internal revenue July 11, 1868. 
 At the close of his term as collector his accounts, 
 when balanced, showed a variation of only three 
 cents, a fact which shows his methodical and sys- 
 tematic manner of keeping his books. For three 
 years he was president of the state board of agri- 
 culture. At the close of the Centennial, in No- 
 vember, 1876, he was elected governor of Kansas, 
 a position which he filled with great credit to 
 himself. Meantime he had become well known 
 throughout the countrj- and his ability as a 
 speaker caused him to be in frequent demand. 
 In 1877 the governors of thirty states visited 
 New York. At a banquet given at that time the 
 most prominent of these governors responded to 
 toasts. Of all the addresses given none was ap- 
 plauded so much as that of Governor Anthon}' 
 and none was so complimented by the public 
 press. As a speaker he was unsurpassed for 
 strong, logical argument. Those who heard him 
 when in his prime pronounce him the strongest 
 speaker of his state. As a writer, too, he was 
 forceful and logical. While his education had 
 been very limited, by self-culture he had acquired 
 a broad fund of valuable knowledge, and was a 
 thorough student of ancient and modern classics. 
 
 A man possessing firm convictions and the 
 courage to proclaim them naturally has enemies. 
 The public actions of Governor Anthony, though 
 guided by the loftiest and most patriotic motives, 
 were sometimes misunderstood, and brought upon 
 him the enmity of those whose opinions were dif- 
 ferent. But, even when he knew the frank ex- 
 
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 pression of his opinions would react adversely to 
 himself, he stood firm to his views. As an illus- 
 tration of this it may be said that when he was a 
 candidate for congress he was asked by the old 
 soldiers if he would work for service pensions. 
 He was bitterly opposed to service pensions, and, 
 of course, would not make the promise. The 
 consequence was that he met with defeat in his 
 candidacy. 
 
 In 1 88 1 he was appointed general superintend- 
 ent of the Mexican Central Railroad and served 
 for two years. In 1885 he represented Leaven- 
 worth County in the legislature. In 1889 he was 
 appointed a member of the board of railroad com- 
 missioners, and in 1892 was re-elected, serving 
 until the Populists came into power the next 
 year. May 5, 1892, he was the Republican nom- 
 inee for congress, but was defeated by W. A. 
 Harris. In 1895 Governor Morrill appointed 
 him superintendent of insurance, an office which 
 he was holding at the time of his death, August 
 
 5, 1896. In April, 1890, he established his home 
 in Ottawa, where his widow is still living. Their 
 .son, George H., who is a graduate of the Chester 
 (Pa.) Military Institute, is now traveling freight 
 agent for the Wisconsin Central Railroad; he is 
 married and has two daughters. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Anthonj' joined Custer Post No. 
 
 6, of Leavenworth, and was afterward prominent 
 in that post of the Grand Army. He was a char- 
 ter member of the Kansas Commandery of the 
 Loyal Legion ; member of council of Kansas Com- 
 mandery, 1887-88; and commander of Kansas 
 Commandery, 1893-94. I" a^ the years of his 
 life in Kansas his voice was heard at the camp 
 fires and on the rostrum in behalf of the survivors 
 of the war. His parentage and early education 
 made him a Republican; later years but intensi- 
 fied his devotion to his party. He took an active 
 part in every campaign in Kansas, and not his 
 voice only, but his pen as well, was consecrated 
 to the cause in which he believed. During the 
 long period of his public service no criticism was 
 ever uttered touching his integrity and his honor; 
 both were unassailed and unimpeachable. Nor 
 was his loyalty to his country and his state ever 
 questioned; by every act, in every address, in all 
 
 his writings, he emphasized loyalty and aimed to 
 draw together, in service as patriots, all those 
 who owned Kansas as their home and the star- 
 spangled banner as their flag. 
 
 HON. JOEL GROVER, deceased, who was 
 one of Douglas County's most prominent 
 pioneers, was born at Springwater, Living- 
 ston County, N. Y. , August 5, 1825. He was 
 educated in the Temple Hill Academy, at Gene- 
 seo, N. Y. , under Horatio N. Robinson, the cel- 
 ebrated mathematician, and graduated with hon- 
 ors from that institution. His tastes inclined 
 him toward agriculture, and on leaving the acad- 
 emy he turned his attention to farming, first in 
 New York and afterward in Iowa. In 1851 he 
 went to California, where he engaged in the pur- 
 chase of stock and in running pack trains from 
 Sacramento to the mines. After two years on 
 the Pacific coast he returned to New York, vis- 
 ited relatives there for a short time, and then 
 came to Kansas. The passage of the Kansas and 
 Nebraska bill awoke his anti-slaverj' instincts 
 and prompted him to fall in with the tide of free- 
 state men moving to Kansas. He came with 
 what is known as the second party and arrived on 
 the present site of Lawrence September 13, 1854. 
 One of the first outbreaks in Kansas was the 
 removal of a tent by some pro-slaverj' men. This 
 Mr. Grover and others resi,sted and took the tent 
 from a wagon, setting it up on the spot it had 
 occupied before, and at the same time preparing 
 for its defense. On the next evening, as the out- 
 come of this little affair, the first militarj' com- 
 pany of Lawrence was organized, and Mr. Grover 
 was made its captain. He was one of the most 
 active free-state men and participated in all of the 
 conflicts of those daj^s. He was one of those who 
 volunteered to go to Shawnee Mission to defend 
 Governor Reeder in canvassing the vote on the 
 election of March 30, 1855, and was in the pro- 
 slavery caucus until they passed a resolution ex- 
 cluding all who did not sympathize with their 
 principles. Although alone among a large party 
 of bitter political opponents he made a strong 
 speech, denouncing their action in the face of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 such men as Dr. Stringfellow, B. F. Stringfellow, 
 Messrs. Atchison, Richardson, and all the noted 
 southern leaders of that place and period. On 
 the conclusion of his speech the caucus adjourned 
 informallj' in the midst of great excitement. 
 With his companj' he aided to defend Lawrence 
 during the Wakarusa war of 1855, at which time 
 he was promoted to the rank of colonel and placed 
 in command of one of the forts. His commission 
 as colonel of the Sixth Regiment of the First Bri- 
 gade of the Kansas State Militia bears date of 
 November 27, 1855, and is signed by James H. 
 Lane, then general, commanding theFirst Brigade. 
 In 1856 he was a member of the safetj- committee. 
 After the raid of Lawrence, May 21, 1856, he 
 rode to Kansas City in the night, took a steamer 
 from there and carried to St. Louis the first in- 
 telligence of the burning and sacking of Law- 
 rence, which brought out an extra issue of the 
 Miasoun Donocrai. Pursuing his way he brought 
 the first news to Alton and also to Chicago, where 
 his report preceded the pro-slavery reports. He 
 spent two weeks organizing a company in Chicago 
 and returned via the Mis.souri River to Leaven- 
 worth. All of the company but him were dis- 
 armed at Lexington and afterward turned back 
 at Leavenworth, being refused the liberty to land. 
 However, on the return of the boat from We.ston 
 with the men on board, Mr. Grover, having se- 
 cured the pledge of some Leavenworth men to 
 protect the company, was on the wharf to assist 
 in the work, but the Leavenworth men failed to 
 keep their promises. He was overpowered and 
 driven to the boat, but was allowed by the cap- 
 tain to get off at Kansas City, from which point 
 he escaped to Kansas. He commanded his com- 
 pany and participated in the battles of Franklin, 
 Fort Saunders, Fort Titus, and others of the free- 
 state engagements. During the Price raid he 
 also had command of a company. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Grover located a claim three miles 
 southwest of Lawrence and afterward he im- 
 proved it. In 1858 he was elected a county com- 
 missioner and served in that position for four 
 years. He also held office as school director, 
 trustee, etc. In 1867 he was elected a member 
 of the legislature, and the following year was re- 
 
 elected, making one of the most eflScient members 
 of that body. In 1869 he was chosen county 
 commissioner and was made chairman of the 
 board, to which he was re-elected in 1871. For 
 years he was a director of the St. Louis, Law- 
 rence & Western Railroad Company. 
 
 October 13, 1857, ^^ married Miss Emily J. 
 Hunt, by whom he had seven children : Frank 
 G., Helen A., Charles R., Cora E., Ernest J., 
 Lillie F. and Jay G. His death occurred July 
 28, 1879, and brought forth many testimonials as 
 to his worth as a citizen and his value as a friend. 
 With other pioneers of Kansas, his name deserves 
 to be perpetuated in the annals of his state. 
 
 Mrs. Grover was born in Medway, Mass., Sep- 
 tember I, 1839, a daughter of George W. and 
 Nanc3' (Adams) Hunt. She was one of six chil- 
 dren, of whom four survive: Charles W., of To- 
 peka, Kans. ; Emily J.; George, of Lawrence; 
 and Augusta, wife of George B. Hall, of Solomon, 
 Kans. Her grandfather, Joel Hunt, was born in 
 Holliston, Mass., November 25, 1782, and was a 
 prominent and successful business man. George 
 W. Hunt, a native of Mil ford, Mass., born March 
 14, 1808, was a cabinet-maker by trade, and after 
 he married his father established him in business 
 in Lowell, Mass., where he became an influential 
 citizen and a deacon in the Congregational Church. 
 About 1844 he moved to Fitchburg, Mass., where 
 he was proprietor of two extensive furniture ware- 
 houses. In 1S54 he was a member of what was 
 known as the third party to settle in Kansas. 
 Returning east in the fall he spent the winter 
 there, and in the spring came to Kansas again. 
 He had the contract for the woodwork of the free- 
 state hotel. In the spring of 1856 he w-ent east 
 and brought his family to Kansas, arriving in 
 Kansas City May 21, the day of the sacking of 
 Lawrence. Coining through on the stage coach, 
 the stage was overhauled, the trunks of the party 
 ransacked and valuables taken, after which the 
 travelers were allowed to proceed. He was a 
 friend of Eli Thayer, one of the prominent workers 
 in the Emigrant Aid Society. In 1854, and again 
 in 1855, he conducted parties to Kansas. He 
 continued to reside in this state until his death, 
 which took place March 25, 1870. His mother. 
 
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 Clara (Metcalt) Hunt, was a daughter of Major 
 Metcalf, who is supposed to have been a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war. The mother of Mrs. 
 Grover was born March 17, 1813, and died April 
 II, 1896. When Mrs. Grover was a girl she 
 came west with Governor Robinson and his wife 
 in 1855, ^'i'^ remained with them until her mother 
 and other members of the family made the journey 
 west. During the troublesome days in Kansas 
 she retained her courage and cheered others by 
 her spirit. When I,awrence was burned in 1856, 
 all of the wearing apparel of the family, except 
 such as was in use at the time, was destroyed in 
 the burning of Governor Robinson's house. 
 More than once she was in peril, but in the midst 
 of every adversity she retained her calmness of 
 spirit and brave demeanor, thus inspiring others 
 to greater courage. She has witnessed the many 
 changes in Lawrence in the past forty-five years 
 and is devoted to the welfare of the city in which 
 the entire active part of her life has been passed. 
 
 I EMUEL HERBERT MURLIN, D. D. To 
 It assume the duties of president of a univer- 
 U sity, to be responsible for its upward growth, 
 for the welfare of its students and its influence 
 upon their lives, is to accept a position calling 
 for more than ordinary powers of mind and heart. 
 But far greater ability is required of the man who 
 becomes the head of an institution burdened by 
 debt, distressed by obligations, with diminishing 
 attendance and discouraged trustees and faculty. 
 To such a position as this Dr. Murlin was called 
 when he was elected to the presidency of Baker 
 University in Baldwin. Fortunately, he was by 
 nature and education adapted for his responsible 
 office, and he entered upon its duties with enthu- 
 siasm and that ardor which anticipates success. 
 For such a man as he success could be the only 
 outcome. It has been his privilege to see the 
 debt wiped out, the institution brought to a high 
 position among western universities, and the last 
 year (1898-1899) close with an attendance of 
 five hundred and sixty-eight, the largest in the 
 history of the school. 
 
 Dr. Murlin was born near Neptune, Mercer 
 
 County, Ohio, November 16, 1861. His father, 
 Orlando Murlin, was born in Ohio and was of 
 English and Scotch-Irish descent. He remained 
 on a farm until forty years of age, when he en- 
 tered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, and con- 
 tinued to preach the Gospel until he died, at 
 sixty-two years. During the Civil war he served 
 for three years as a private. He married Esther 
 Hankins, who is descended from the Bigelow 
 family of New England, and is still living in 
 Ohio. Of the five children born to their union, 
 Lemuel Herbert was next to the youngest. The 
 father being a preacher in pioneer districts, the 
 problem of educating the children on his meagre 
 salary became a perplexing one to the parents. 
 Desiring to relieve them of the burden of his 
 education, our subject determined to earn the 
 necessar}' money himself. At the age of fourteen 
 he entered a drug store as clerk, continuing his 
 studies by night. Two years later he graduated 
 from the Convoy public school, after which he 
 was engaged as instructor in the same school. 
 Later he took charge of the boys' department of 
 the Fort Wayne (Ind. ) College, and by means 
 of this, together with such other work as he could 
 find to do, he worked his way through college, 
 graduating in 1886. After serving for one year 
 as pastor of Trinity Church in Fort Wayne and 
 as a teacher in the college, he entered De Pauw 
 University, where he took the regular four years' 
 course, at the same time having charge of the 
 Knightsville church. From the college of liberal 
 arts he was graduated in 1891 and from the 
 theological school the next year. 
 
 Upon the completion of his literary course he 
 was selected, over many competitors, as instruc- 
 tor in his alma mater, but at the close of the first 
 session he resigned his position in order to accept 
 an appointment as pastor of the Methodist Church 
 at Vincennes, Ind. While filling that pastorate 
 he married Miss Ermina Fallass, Ph. D., precep- 
 tress and professor of modern languages in Cor- 
 nell College, Iowa. At the close of his third 
 year in Vincennes, in August, 1894, he was 
 elected to the presidency of Baker University. 
 This came as a complete surprise to him, as he 
 was not even aware there was a vacancy in the 
 
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 office or that his name was before the board for 
 consideration until he received by wire the news 
 of his election. 
 
 During his administration Dr. Murlin has 
 shown himself to be genial and courteous as a 
 man; careful, conservative j'et progressive as 
 president; and scholarly and helpful as an in- 
 structor. However, it is perhaps his executive 
 ability that is his most noticeable trait of charac- 
 ter. When he began as president, in September, 
 1894, the university was struggling beneath an 
 indebtedness of $16,000. Efforts had been made 
 to meet the debt, but had always resulted in fail- 
 ure, the amount raised being only sufficient to 
 meet the interest and make needed repairs upon 
 buildings. In March, 1898, the conference re- 
 quested Dr. Murlin to devote all of his time to 
 the raising of $13,000 to wipe out the interest- 
 bearing indebtedness. He did as requested, and 
 in June began the work. Five months after the 
 campaign was begun, on the 15th of November, 
 the total amount had been raised. It was a glo- 
 rious victor}- for him and the institution. On 
 the 2d of December Judge Case placed in his 
 hands interest-bearing securities aggregating 
 $6, 152, to form the nucleus of the library fund, and 
 since that time two wills have been drawn up in 
 favor of the university, and other gifts are being 
 contemplated. 
 
 Both as pastor and president Dr. Murlin has 
 had many duties, but he has yet found time for 
 study, and has devoted his summer months to 
 .special and professional re.searches. He has 
 studied Hebrew under Dr. Harper, of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, and •psychology and philoso- 
 phy under Dr. William Romaine Newbold, of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Hall of 
 Clark University. In 1891 he was elected to 
 membership in the American Institute of Chris- 
 tian Philo.sophy. In 1895 he was made a member 
 of the American Branch of the Society for Psychi- 
 cal Research, composed of the leading psycholo- 
 gists in the world. At this writing he is presi- 
 dent of the Kansas Association of College Presi- 
 dents. In 1897 the University of Denver conferred 
 upon him the degree of S. T. D., and Cornell 
 College tendered the degree of D. D. Believing 
 
 that the mind is capable of its greatest achieve- 
 ments only as the result of constant culture, he 
 has continued to be a student and has availed 
 himself of the best advantages offered both by 
 America and by Europe in those studies which 
 he has made his specialties. During the summer 
 of 1899 Dr. Murlin, accompanied bj' his wife, 
 vi.sited Europe for the purpose of continuing the 
 study and research which he had mapped out for 
 himself, returning to his dijties as president of the 
 university in September. 
 
 EOIv. S. J. CHURCHILL, assistant adjutant- 
 general of the department of Kan.sas,G. A. R., 
 was one of the brave men who fought for the 
 extinction of slavery and the freedom of a race. 
 He wears a medal of honor which was volun- 
 tarily awarded by congress for most distinguished 
 gallantry in the battle of Nashville, Tenn., 
 December 15, 1864. In that engagement he 
 commanded one gun (a twelve-pound Napoleon) 
 and a gun detachment of eight men. When the 
 enemy's batteries opened fire upon his gun, com- 
 pelling the men of his detachment to seek shelter, 
 he stood at his post alone, and amid a perfect 
 rain of shot and shell, loaded and fired eleven 
 shots before relief came. The rebel batteries 
 were silenced and beaten back and the Union 
 •forces took an advanced position, thus assisting 
 in the final victory at that battle. 
 
 Born in Rutland, Vt., November i, 1842, our 
 subject is a .son of vSamuel Sumner and Polly 
 (Richardson) Churchill, natives of Vermont, and 
 members of old and prominent families there. 
 His grandfather, Amos Churchill, who lived to 
 be ninety-seven years old, was a descendant of 
 English ancestors who settled in Massachusetts. 
 Samuels. Churchill died on a Vermont farm at 
 forty-four years, and his wife when fifty-six. 
 They were the parents of eight daughters and 
 two sons who attained mature years, of whom 
 three daughters and one son survive. Our subject 
 was two years of age when his father and only 
 brother died. He was the youngest of the family 
 and was reared on the home farm, attending com- 
 mon schools and an academy. In the spring of 
 
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 1 861 he went to Illinois, intending to teach school, 
 but, instead, at the first call for three hundred 
 thousand soldiers, he enlisted, August 6, i85i, 
 as a private in Battery G, Second Illinois 
 Light Artiller)', and was mustered in at Camp 
 Butler, after which he was sent to Kentucky. 
 He took part in the battle of Fort Donelson and 
 was with the first troops that entered Columbus, 
 Ky. Thence he marched to Hickman, Ky., and 
 Union City, Tenn. , where the Union force sur- 
 prised the Confederates, captured the guns and 
 then proceeded to Trenton, Tenn. He joined 
 Grant's expedition at Lagrange and marched 
 further south, going as far as CofFeyville, where 
 the Confederates in the rear cut off supplies. 
 
 Returning to Memphis, the regiment after- 
 ward took part in the Vicksburg campaign and 
 the battles of Champion Hills, Jackson and 
 Black Water Bridge, thence went to Jefferson Bar- 
 racks, Mo., and from there pursued Price, serving 
 under Gen. A.J.Smith. Their next engagements 
 were at Franklin and Nashville, where they 
 assisted in securing the annihilation of Hood's 
 forces. In January, 1864, our subject veteran- 
 ized and was promoted to the rank of corporal. 
 He then went to New Orleans, thence to Mobile 
 and took part in the siege of that city, later was 
 at Forts Spanish and Blakely, then went to 
 Montgomery, Ala., remaining there until mus- 
 tered out. He was honorably discharged at 
 Springfield, 111., September 5, 1865. Though 
 he had borne an active part in nineteen battles, 
 he was never seriously wounded. His principal 
 engagements were as follows: Fort Donelson, 
 February 16, 1862; Union City, March 31, 1862; 
 Coffey ville, Miss., December 5, 1862; Siege of 
 Vicksburg, 1863; Brownsville, Miss., October 
 14, 1863; Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1864; Oldtown 
 Greek, Miss., July 15, 1864; Hurricane Creek, 
 August 14, 1864; Nashville, Tenn., December 
 15-16, 1864; Siege of Fort Spanish, Mobile and 
 Fort Blakely from March 27 to April 12,1865. 
 His last promotion was to be quartermaster-ser- 
 geant, but at the captain's request he retained 
 his place at the gun and left others to distribute 
 rations. 
 
 While at home on a furlough our subject was 
 
 married, in Rutland County, Vt., May 4, 1864, to 
 Miss Adelia A. Holmes, daughter of Pliny and 
 Vesta (Caldwell) Holmes. Soon after the war was 
 over he settled in Jackson County, Mo., twenty 
 miles southeast of Kansas City, settling in 1866 
 upon property he had purchased in December 
 1865. He was the first Union man in his town 
 and at first naturally had considerable prejudice 
 to overcome. He assisted in building up a school 
 and aided other local enterprises. In 1879 he 
 came to Lawrence, Kans. From 1878 to 1881 he 
 represented, in Missouri and Kansas, the H. B. 
 Scott & Co. Barb Wire Manufacturing Company 
 of Joliet, 111. In 188 1 he began as a wholesale 
 dealer in barb wire and nails, with ofiBce and 
 storerooms on Massachusetts street. He built up 
 a large trade and continued until 1887. He also 
 assisted in organizing the Organ Mountain Min- 
 ing and Smelting Company, of which he was 
 vice-president and treasurer, but the enterprise 
 was not a success. Later for several years he 
 carried on a wholesale and retail grocery busi- 
 ness, but finally traded the business for real 
 estate and retired. For two years he was deputy 
 clerk of the district court, since which time he 
 has engaged in assessing property for the city 
 and has also done considerable official clerical 
 work. In 1890 he took the census. For one 
 term he served in the city council from the first 
 ward, and has been active on county committees 
 and in conventions of the Republican party. 
 
 The first wife of our subject died in Missouri, 
 leaving four children, namely; May, wife of A. 
 L. Sloan, who is a civil engineer at San Bernar- 
 dino, Cal. ; Frank H., who died January 8, 
 1 891; Winnifred G., wife of James Owen, an 
 attorney at Cripple Creek, Colo.; and Lena 
 Blanche, who died July 8, 1898. The second 
 marriage of Colonel Churchill occurred at Coun- 
 cil Grove, Kans., uniting him with Miss Louana 
 Grant, who was born near Cooperstown, Otsego 
 County, N. Y., and received her education in 
 Starkey Seminary and Albion (Mich.) College. 
 She was the youngest of three children, one of 
 whom, Solon E. Grant, was a captain in a Michi- 
 gan regiment during the Civil war and died about 
 1879. Among her relatives were several who 
 
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 attained national fame during the war of the re- 
 bellion. Her father, Rev. Jacob Grant, a native 
 of Herkimer County, N. Y.. graduated from 
 Hamilton College and entered the Baptist minis- 
 try, in which he continued until he died, at Lodi, 
 N. Y. He was the son of a Revolutionary hero, 
 who received a medal for bravery in that conflict. 
 Her mother, Louana, was a daughter of Major 
 Cloughandwas born in Madison, N. Y., but died 
 when her daughter and namesake was only three 
 weeks old. Both Colonel and Mrs. Churchill 
 are members of the official board of the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church, and he has also officiated 
 as class-leader, chorister and Sunday-school su- 
 perintendent. Fraternally he is identified with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern 
 Woodmen of America and Washington Post No. 
 12, G. A. R., in which he is past commander. 
 Several times he has been aide on the staff of the 
 department commander. In 1898, at the Wichita 
 encampment, he was appointed assistant adjutant- 
 general of the department of Kansas, G. A. R. 
 In this position he has discharged every duty 
 with efficiency. 
 
 It is said that Colonel Churchill is one of the 
 finest penmen in Kansas. When he was in the 
 army he did the writing for his company, making 
 out the muster and pay rolls and the monthly 
 reports. He took great pains with his work and 
 thus acquired a precision and accuracy of pen- 
 manship that is universally admired. On ac- 
 count of his skill as a writer he has been em- 
 ployed by the state to write commissions for the 
 officers of the Kansas regiments. 
 
 Department- Commander, D. W. Eastman, in 
 his report to the department encampment at 
 Hutchinson, April 26, 1899, said, in referring to 
 Colonel Churchill: "I would especially call at- 
 tention to the report of Assistant Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral Churchill, and of his work during the year. 
 The books under his charge are models of neat- 
 ness and correctness. He has been faithful and 
 painstaking in all his work. Not an unpleas- 
 ant word has passed between us, and we part 
 with the ties of comradeship firmly welded." 
 
 The committee to whom the report of Colonel 
 Churchill to the Hutchinson Encampment was re- 
 
 ferred made the following report: "To the De- 
 partment of Kansas, G. A. R.: We the under- 
 signed committee on report of Assistant Adju- 
 tant-General Churchill, do most respectfully re- 
 port that, after giving said report a careful con- 
 sideration, and because of the faultless and thor- 
 ough manner of its preparation and the methodi- 
 cal arrangement of the valuable information it 
 contains, do unhesitatingly approve the same. 
 It contains all that a painstaking mind can sug- 
 gest and, because of its completeness, furnishes a 
 model for all future officers occupying this impor- 
 tant station. We recommend this Department 
 pass a vote of thanks to our gallant Assistant 
 Adjutant-General for the efficiency he has shown. 
 "Respectfully submitted in F. C. & L." 
 (Signed) 
 
 W. H. Fletcher, ^ 
 
 F. P. Cochran, [■ Committee. 
 
 W. F. Hendry,) 
 
 yyiAJ. DANIEL C. JONES, M. D., sur- 
 Y geon of the western branch of the National 
 Soldiers' Home, at Leavenworth, is a de- 
 scendant of colonial settlers of Virginia, whose 
 names were intimately associated with the earlj- 
 history of the Old Dominion. His father, Eph- 
 raim B. Jones, removed from Virginia to Ohio 
 and later to Illinois, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising until his death, in 1876. 
 He was a man of intelligence and upright charac- 
 ter and was a leader in his community. His 
 father, Hon. John Jones, went from Virginia to 
 Ohio, where he became an influential attornej' 
 and judge of the courts, attaining a success that 
 made his name influential throughout his county. 
 By the marriage of Ephraim B. Jones to Martha 
 Clark, who was bom in Virginia and died in Illi- 
 nois in 1875, seven children were born, of whom 
 four are living, namely: Daniel C. ; O. S., of 
 Paris, 111.; Sarah, wife of J. H. Shawhan; and 
 Helen, widow of Joseph Johnson, of Indianapolis, 
 Ind. Major Jones was born in Athens County, 
 Ohio, January 5, 1838, and was reared near Paris, 
 111., where he studied in the public schools and 
 academy. He began to read medicine under a 
 
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 physician of Paris, and later matriculated in Rush 
 Medical College, where he took the complete 
 course of study, graduating in 1862. Before 
 graduating he had enlisted in the Union army, 
 his name being enrolled August 10, 1861, as a 
 member of Company A, Seventh Illinois Cavalry, 
 in which he was first sergeant. In 1862, after 
 having received his degree of M. D., he was ap- 
 pointed assistant surgeon of the Second Illinois 
 Cavalry, and in 1864 was made surgeon, with 
 the rank of major. As such he served until the 
 close of the war, and afterward was stationed at 
 the post in San Antonio, Tex., for six months. 
 He was present in all of the engagements of the 
 army of the Mississippi, under General Grant, 
 the most important of these battles being Vicks- 
 burg and Corinth, and remained with the regi- 
 ment at the front without furlough or change. 
 In one battle he was slightly wounded. 
 
 After receiving his honorable discharge from 
 the army, in 1866, Major Jones entered the Ohio 
 Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he 
 graduated in 1867. Returning to Paris, 111., he 
 opened an office and began a general practice. In 
 1868 he came to Kansas, settling in Junction City, 
 where he carried on practice until 1875. He then 
 moved to Topeka, where he built up a reputation 
 as a skillful physician and surgeon, continuing 
 in that city until he accepted the position of sur- 
 geon at the Soldiers' Home in Leavenworth in 
 1895. In the Home he has full charge of the 
 surgical and medical department, with three as- 
 sistants under him. His thorough acquaintance 
 with his profession and his success in its practice 
 admirably qualify him for the responsibilities of 
 his position and enable him to satisfactorily dis- 
 charge every duty. 
 
 Active as a member of the Republican party, 
 Major Jones has given his influence to party 
 principles in the various cities where he has made 
 his home. In 1893 he was elected mayor of To- 
 peka, which office he filled to the satisfaction of 
 all. It has been his custom to attend such con- 
 ventions of the party as his professional duties 
 will allow, and he has been an interested specta- 
 tor in a number of national, as well as manj' state 
 and local, conventions. He is connected with 
 
 the American Public Health Association, the 
 Eastern District Medical Society and the Kansas 
 State Medical Society, and has officiated as 
 president of the two last-named. Fraternally he 
 holds membership in Topeka Lodge No. 17, 
 A. F. & A. M., Topeka Chapter, R. A. M., and 
 Palestine Commandery, K. T., at Paris, 111. 
 While in the army, in 1864, he was united in 
 marriage with Miss Jane E. Austin, of Illinois, 
 who died in 1885, leaving two daughters: Mar- 
 tha; and Adelia, wife of William F. Hixon, of 
 Leavenworth. 
 
 30HN W. SPRATLEY. In reviewing the 
 history of any community there are always a 
 few names that stand out pre-eminently 
 among others, because those who bear them are 
 men of superior ability, energy, judgment and 
 intelligence. Such men add to the prosperity of 
 a town and increa.se its commercial importance. 
 To this class belongs J. W. Spratley, president 
 of the Union Savings Bank of Leavenworth, and 
 one of the large cattle-dealers of the west. Stand- 
 ing, as he does, at the head of a large financial 
 institution, he wields an influence that is by no 
 means limited to his home town. The success of 
 the bank is, in a large measure, due to his saga- 
 cious judgment and the sound business policy he 
 has adopted in its management. Since its or- 
 ganization in January, 1890, he has held the of- 
 fice of president, and has also been a member of 
 the board of directors. During the nine years 
 that the bank has been in existence it has earned, 
 besides paying dividends, a large surplus, 
 amounting at the present time, to $11,000, and 
 is one of the substantial concerns of Kansas. The 
 recipient of the patronage of many of the busi- 
 ness men, as well as large numbers of private 
 citizens of Leavenworth, its deposits on the last 
 day of June, 1899, were $410,111.34, with a capi- 
 tal stock of $30,000, and undivided profits $10,- 
 000, surplus $11,500, while its loans and dis- 
 counts reached the gratifying figure of almost 
 $300,000. 
 
 The life which this narrative sketches began 
 in Surry County, Va., Jamxary 23, 1834, upon 
 the plantation of Junius Nicholas Spratley, of 
 
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 whose six children only two are living. One son, 
 who was his father's namesake, took part in the 
 Civil war, and afterward settled in Leavenworth, 
 Kans. , where he died. The subject of this arti- 
 cle was left fatherless at an earlj- age. At fifteen 
 he went to Alabama and remained in the vicinitj- 
 of Mobile until May, 1856, when he came to the 
 then new town of Leavenworth. In the fall he 
 returned to the south, not, however, with the in- 
 tention of remaining, for the spring of 1857 found 
 him once more in Kansas. Securing employment 
 as clerk he entered at once into western activi- 
 ties. During the winter of 1860-61 he visited at 
 his old Virginia home, and after his return 
 started a flour mill and also embarked in the 
 manufacture of lumber. His sawmill adjoined 
 the government reservation, and during the war 
 he was kept constantly bu.sy in filling govern- 
 ment contracts, but at the close of the conflict he 
 turned the business over to his brother. 
 
 The industry with which Mr. Spratley has 
 been most intimately identified, and in which he 
 has been very successful, is that of dealing in cat- 
 tle. Shortly after the clo.se of the Civil war he 
 purchased and began to improve large tracts of 
 land. Some of this he sold at handsome profits. 
 A portion he retained in his po.ssession, in order 
 to furnish range for his cattle. He now owns 
 farms in different parts of the county, where he 
 feeds cattle, which from time to time he ships to 
 eastern markets. His specialty has been the 
 Shorthorns and Herefords, with both of which he 
 has been successful. Besides his land in Kansas, 
 he is the owner of a farm near Smithville, Clay 
 County, Mo., where he raises fancy cattle. 
 
 It would be impossible for one so long identi- 
 fied with a city to feel no interest in its welfare, 
 and we find that Mr. Spratley has, during more 
 than forty years of his residence in Leavenworth, 
 done all within his power to advance its material 
 welfare. He has been especially helpful in broad- 
 ening its power as a financial center. The bank 
 he helped to organize has been an important 
 agency in the growing prosperity of the place. 
 During the panic of 1893 it maintained its credit 
 unimpaired and retained then, as it has ever 
 done, the confidence of its patrons. Giving his 
 
 attention to his cattle business and banking in- 
 terests, Mr. Spratley has little time to participate 
 in public affairs, but he keeps posted concerning 
 the national problems, and in politics is a Demo- 
 crat. In fraternal relations he is connected with 
 the Endowment Rank, Knights of Pythias. 
 
 In Platte County, Mo., Mr. Spratley was 
 united in marriage with Miss Emma Cockrill, 
 who was born in that county, a member of the 
 family to which Platte County owed not a little 
 of its progress. She was reared in the home of 
 her parents, Clinton and Mary (Coates) Cockrill, 
 and in girlhood became connected with the Chris- 
 tian Church, of which she has since been a mem- 
 ber. The onlj' son of Mr. and Mrs. Spratley is 
 J. W. Spratley, Jr., who is teller of and a director 
 in the Union Savings Bank. In 1S86 Mr. Sprat- 
 ley was elected treasurer of Leavenworth Count}' 
 on the Democratic ticket, and at the expiration 
 of the term was re-elected, serving until rSgo. 
 
 PI ILLWYN PARKER, cashier and paymaster 
 1^1 at the National Military Home in Leaven- 
 \q} worth, was born in Parkersville, Chester 
 County, Pa., in 1840, a son of Wistarand Abigail 
 rjackson) Parker, both of Quaker descent and 
 faith. His grandfather, John Parker, was a 
 Quaker preacher and the ancestors, who came 
 from England, were also prominent in that so- 
 ciety. The history of the family in this country 
 dates back to 1710, when William and John Penn 
 deeded to John Parker a tract of land now em- 
 braced in the town of Parkersville. Mrs. Abigail 
 Parker died in Harford County, Md., in 1873, at 
 the age of seventy-two. She had long survived 
 her husband, who was a lifelong resident of 
 Chester County, Pa., and died there at forty- 
 nine years. They were the parents of eight chil- 
 dren, but only three of these are now living, the 
 two daughters being Mary, wife of Dr. S. T. 
 Brown, of Germantown, Pa., and Ellen, who 
 married Dallas Reeve, of Trenton, N. J. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were passed 
 principally in Westchester, Pa., and his educa- 
 tion was largely acquired in a boarding school. 
 For several years he was deputy recorder of deeds 
 
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 of Chester County, later became recorder. In 
 1 86 1 he enlisted in Companj' A, First Pennsyl- 
 vania Reserve Infantr}', and was detailed as 
 .secretary to Generals Reynolds, Sykes and Craw- 
 ford, serving in a clerical capacity, and as an 
 orderly on General Reynolds' staff. He was with 
 the regiment at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and 
 in the seven days battle before Richmond, and 
 was slightly wounded in the first-named engage- 
 ment and for a few hours was a prisoner. His 
 regiment was a part of the third division, fifth 
 army corps, under Generals Reynolds, Meade, 
 Sykes and Warren. In July, 1864, he became a 
 clerk in the war department at Washington, 
 where he remained for two years. During that 
 time he was called upon by President Lincoln and 
 Secretary Stanton to write out three proclama- 
 tions of great importance. The last of these was 
 drafted just before the election of 1864 and called 
 for three hundred thousand volunteers, but was 
 not issued until after the election. He also drew 
 up the proclamation granting amnesty to any 
 Confederates who wished to enter the Union 
 lines. 
 
 After leaving the war department Mr. Parker 
 spent a short time in southern Texas, returning 
 to Westchester in 1866. In a convention pre- 
 sided over by Gen. John R. Brooke he was nomi- 
 nated for recorder of deeds, and was later elected, 
 filling the ofBce until he removed to Harford 
 County, Md., in 1870. For six years he was 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising there, after 
 which he returned to Westchester, Pa., and 
 shortly afterward was appointed appraiser in the 
 United States custom house at the Centennial 
 Exposition. Coming to Kansas in 1877 he en- 
 gaged in the loan business at Paola, representing 
 Smedley Darlington. He remained in Paola un- 
 til 1888, when he was appointed chief clerk, 
 cashier and paymaster at the National Military 
 Home, which appointment he still holds. In 
 politics he has always supported the Republican 
 party and has been active in local and state 
 affairs; however, he is not a partisan, but inclined 
 to be independent in principle and favors any 
 measure for the benefit of the people. While re- 
 siding in Maryland he took a leading part in the 
 
 campaign of 1875 and was a delegate to the state 
 convention which nominated J. Morrison Harris 
 for governor. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Parker married Carrie L. , daugh- 
 ter of Henry Taylor McClellan, who was for forty- 
 eight years superintendent of the Allegheny iron 
 furnace at Altoona, Pa. They are the parents of 
 two children: Henry W., who is assistant to 
 Colonel Ayleshire, chief quartermaster, with the 
 rank of first lieutenant, on General Wilson's 
 staff at Matanzas, Cuba; and Sylvester C. Fra- 
 ternally Mr. Parker is connected with the 
 Knights of Honor. He has served as quarter- 
 master of the Union Veterans' Legion and for 
 some time held office as senior vice and acting 
 commander of McCasslan Post No. 117, G. A. R. 
 He has full charge of all financial matters in the 
 treasurer's office at the Soldiers' Home and dis- 
 charges his responsible duties with accuracy and 
 fidelity. 
 
 WIGHT BYINGTON, who at the time of 
 his death was past grand commander and 
 grand recorder of the grand commandery 
 of Knights Templar of Kansas, was a man who.se 
 aim in life was to do good, and in his demise, 
 which occurred October 11, 1894, his wife lost a 
 devoted companion, and the community a citizen 
 who could illy be spared. Born in Norwich, 
 Chenango County, N. Y., February 20, 1831, he 
 was a lineal descendant of Puritan stock. His 
 father, Frederick, was a native of Connecticut, 
 and his mother of Massachusetts. About 1816 
 they removed to Norwich, N. Y., where they 
 were married April 27, 1827. When Dwight 
 was four years of age his father died. He was 
 reared under the care of his mother, and was 
 educated in Norwich and Oxford Academy. In 
 early life he engaged in various pursuits and ac- 
 quired a knowledge of telegraphy, which he 
 afterward followed in the west. Believing that 
 there were better chances for a young man in the 
 growing west, he went to Terre Haute, Ind., 
 where he was employed as operator by the Terre 
 Haute & Alton Railroad. Later he was made 
 agent at Charleston, 111., and in 1861 promoted 
 to train dispatcher. In 1862 he was called to 
 
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 Jefferson Barracks, Mo., by Major Smith, and 
 placed in charge of the military telegraph service 
 during the remainder of the war. Two years 
 after he went to Jefferson Barracks he was trans- 
 ferred to Pilot Knob, then to Helena and Little 
 Rock, Ark., and in 1864 was made manager, 
 with headquarters in Leavenworth. He was the 
 last man mustered out of the service in this de- 
 partment in 1866. 
 
 After the expiration of his army service Mr. 
 Byington was employed in Leavenworth by the 
 Missouri Pacific Railroad as operator and agent. 
 The road at that time was uncompleted, and he 
 had his office in a box car. During those days 
 he had many interesting experiences. He once 
 took a ride in the steamer "Hensley," Capt. W. 
 S. Burke, from Leavenworth down to the mouth 
 of the Kaw and up to Lawrence. When the first 
 engine was brought by boat to the Kaw River, 
 he went down to see it tried. The track had 
 been laid to the river bank, and when the engine 
 .started it was run up a short distance and back, 
 then was taken out of sight. Returning, it got 
 out of the control of the engineer, plunged over 
 the bank of the river and was imbedded in the 
 quicksand, where it remains to this day. 
 
 For twenty years Mr. Byington was in the 
 employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Dur- 
 ing eighteen and one-half years he was ticket 
 agent and in all of that time he was absent from 
 duty only three and one-half weeks. Nor was 
 there, in the entire period, a discrepancy of a 
 penny in his accounts. Owing to poor health, 
 he was finally obliged to give up active employ- 
 ment. From Major Smith he received the gift 
 of a very fine pocket telegraph instrument, and 
 this he often used when on his trips in charge of 
 government lines during the war; it is now in 
 the possession of Mrs. Byington, who highly 
 prizes it as a token of the esteem in which he 
 was held. 
 
 In the Masonic order Mr. Byington took high 
 rank. He became a member of the fraternity in 
 Leavenworth, in June, 1864, belonging to King 
 Solomon Lodge No. 10, A. F. & A. M. In 
 1866 he served as junior warden, in 1868 as 
 senior warden, and in 1869 as worshipful master. 
 
 From 1873 to 1876 he was deputy grand master. 
 In 1865 he became a member of Leavenworth 
 Chapter No. 2, and vi'as high priest in 1868 and 
 1869. In 1866 he assisted in organizing the 
 Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Kansas and was 
 elected grand king in 1876 and grand high priest 
 in 1877. I" 1865 he received the degrees of 
 royal, select and super-excellent master in Leav- 
 enworth Council No. i, and was honored with 
 the office of illustrious master in 1877 and 1878. 
 He also assisted in organizing the Grand Council 
 of Kansas, and was afterward grand master in 
 1880 and 1881, and was a delegate from the 
 Grand Council of Kansas to the convention at 
 Detroit, Mich., and took a deep interest in the 
 organization of the General Grand Council. In 
 1868 he helped to organize the Grand Command- 
 erj' of Knights Templar of Kansas, and was 
 chosen eminent commander in 1874. He was 
 elected grand captain general at the annual con- 
 clave in 1877, and deputy grand commander in 
 1879. In 1880 he repre.sented the Grand Com- 
 mandery in the grand encampment in Chicago, 
 the largest assembly of Knights Templar that 
 was ever gathered in any city or country. 
 
 Among Masons throughout the country Mr. 
 Byington was well known and held in the high- 
 est esteem. When lie died there were many 
 tributes paid to his memory by his host of 
 friends. He was buried with Masonic honors 
 and his funeral brought together the largest con- 
 cour.se of people ever seen at a similar service in 
 Leavenworth. In the hearts of those to whom 
 he was known, his memor}' is honored for his 
 upright life and noble character. 
 
 <A RS. EMILY J. BYINGTON, who is en- 
 y gaged in the real-estate business in Leaven- 
 (3 worth, was born in Oxford, N. Y., in 1835, 
 a daughter of Levi and Laura (Humphrey) 
 Eggleston. Her father was an expert machinist 
 and at the time of his death was a member of the 
 oldest firm of hardware merchants in Chenango 
 County. Through her mother she is of English 
 descent, but the family has been identified with 
 American history for many generations. Her 
 
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 education was obtained in Oxford Academj-, with 
 the alumni association of which she has since 
 been identified. She was given the benefit of the 
 best advantages of the day and locality. Prior to 
 the origin of the Morse system of telegraphy, she 
 attended a lecture, in which was demonstrated 
 the result of electricity when put under control 
 by wire and keys. 
 
 When twenty years of age Miss Eggleston be- 
 came the wife of Dwight Byington. They had 
 an only child, a son, deceased, who was buried 
 at Litchfield, 111. 
 
 In 1865, being desirous of getting a home, Mrs. 
 Byington began to clerk. She succeeded in ac- 
 complishing her aim, and at the same time dis- 
 played the possession of so much business ability 
 that she has since continued identified with the 
 business interests of Leavenworth. In 1873 she 
 bought a small house, which she has since en- 
 larged to its present commodious size. In 1883 
 she embarked in the real-estate business, in which 
 she has since successfully engaged. During the 
 boom of 1887 and its subsequent collapse, others 
 were more or less injured financially, but by the 
 exercise of good judgment she came out ahead. 
 It has always been one of her principles that all 
 should live within their incomes, and in her ad- 
 dress before the students of Leavenworth College, 
 in February, 1899, she made that thought one of 
 her principal points. She is fond of literary work 
 and shows a decided talent for it. She delivered 
 an address at the memorial .service held in honor 
 of Mrs. Harriet C. Gushing, founder of Gushing 
 hospital and one of the founders of the Home for 
 the Friendless, in Leavenworth. 
 
 In 1896 Mrs. Byington was a delegate to the 
 biennial convention of Women's Clubs held in 
 Louisville and two j^ears later she attended as a 
 delegate a similar gathering in Denver. She was 
 one of the originators of the Saturday Club, with 
 which she has been identified for twenty j-ears. 
 In the Alantean Club of Topeka she is an hon- 
 orary member, and is also a life member of the 
 Art League of Leavenworth. Identified with By- 
 ington Chapter No. 177, Order of Eastern Star, 
 she holds office as past worthy matron of the 
 chapter. Her various fraternal and social con- 
 
 nections afford her an outlet for her energies and 
 an agreeable relaxation after the cares of busi- 
 ness. She laid out the Byington subdivision to 
 Leavenworth and now owns a number of resi- 
 dences in the city. Matters calculated to pro- 
 mote the welfare of the people, either morally or 
 intellectually, receive her sympathy and support. 
 The public library is one of the worthy causes in 
 which she is interested. She has also taken a 
 warm interest in the work of the Home for the 
 Friendless, and has been a member of the home 
 board. 
 
 3EPP RYAN, president of the Ryan Brothers 
 Cattle Company, president of the Leaven- 
 worth Coal Company, and a director of the 
 First National Bank of Leavenworth, was born 
 in the city of Leavenworth, November 24, 1858, 
 a son of Matthew Ryan, Sr. His education was 
 obtained principally in St. Mary's College in 
 Kansas. From an early age he has been inter- 
 ested in the cattle business. Associated with his 
 older brother and their father, in 1876 he began 
 trailing cattle from Oregon, Idaho and Washing- 
 ton to Cheyenne, Wyo., and this business they 
 conducted upon an extensive scale, handling as 
 many as thirty thousand cattle in a single season. 
 
 The Ryan Brothers Cattle Company, organized 
 in 1883, located a ranch on the Musselshell 
 River, one hundred and ten miles northwest of 
 Miles City, Mont. , and seventy miles from Cus- 
 ter's battlefield. From that time until 1897 the 
 subject of this sketch spent almost his entire time 
 in Montana, where he was extensively engaged 
 in the cattle bu.siness. While he conducted the 
 business upon a large scale, and was prosperous, 
 yet he had his share of misfortunes. During the 
 severe winter of 1886- 1887 the firm lost more 
 than fifteen thousand head of cattle. However, 
 thej' continued the business upon as large a scale 
 as before, and in addition to the raising of cattle, 
 also engaged in the breeding of saddle and thor- 
 oughbred horses, being the largest producers of 
 saddle horses in Montana. 
 
 During all the years that Mr. Ryan had the 
 superintendence of the ranch he made his home 
 in Miles City, Mont. In 1891 he opened a hard- 
 
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 ware store in that place, where he built up an 
 extensive business and continued at the head of 
 the establishment until 1898, when he sold out. 
 In 1894 he was elected maj'or of Miles Citj-, 
 which position he held one term. He was very 
 popular among the people of Miles City and his 
 departure was greatly regretted: the local paper 
 alluded to him in terms of the highest praise and 
 the people united in testifying to his worth as a 
 citizen. In November, 1897, his brother, Mat- 
 thew Ryan, Jr., died. The two had always been 
 engaged in business together, Matthew having 
 charge of their Leavenworth interests, while our 
 subject superintended the cattle business in 
 Montana. The latter' s plans were changed by 
 the death of his brother and his return to Leav- 
 enworth was rendered necessary. Here he has 
 since had the supervision of the Ryan estate, 
 while his brother, Ethan, has acted as vice- 
 president of the company and manager of the 
 Montana ranch. 
 
 Besides their interests in Montana, Ryan 
 Brothers are also extensively engaged in cattle 
 raising near Tombstone, Cochise County, Ariz., 
 Eldorado, Kans. , and Chickasaw Nation, I. T. 
 Ryan Brothers Cattle Company also own a farm 
 of one thousand acres, stocked with cattle, and 
 situated seven miles south of Leavenworth. Mr. 
 Ryan is vice-president of the Lost Horse Mining 
 and Milling Company, operating a gold mine in 
 San Bernardino County, Cal., of which company 
 his brother, Thomas, is the president. The 
 Leavenworth Coal Company, of which he is 
 president, are the oldest coal operators in the 
 state, and have a .shaft seven hundred and ten 
 feet deep, mining a twenty-three inch vein, with 
 a capacity of thirtj' thousand. In addition to his 
 other enterprises he is president of the Ryan 
 Brothers Cattle Company and a director in the 
 First National Bank. During his residence in 
 Montana he was actively identified with the Mon- 
 tana Cattle Growers' Association. 
 
 On South Broadway, Leavenworth, stands the 
 beautiful and elegantly furnished home of Mr. 
 Ryan. He was married in Leavenworth, in Jan- 
 uary, 1883, to Miss Addie Carr, daughter of E. 
 T. and Margaret Carr; she was born in Leaven- 
 
 worth and received excellent advantages in girl- 
 hood. Her charming manners and tact enable 
 her to preside graciously over her elegant home. 
 The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ryan are Lee M. 
 and Samuel. 
 
 A great deal of credit is due Mr. Ryan for the 
 energy he has displayed in business matters and 
 for the liberal manner in which he has supported 
 all enterprises calculated to develop and add to 
 the progress of his native town. He is a man of 
 enterprise, joined with sound common sense, and 
 in his stock-raising projects has exhibited excel- 
 lent judgment. In fact, it is doubtful if any citi- 
 zen of Leavenworth is better versed than he in 
 the details of the stock business. 
 
 EAPT. JAMES T. STEVENS was born 
 in Leaksville, Rockingham County, N. C, 
 a son of William C. and Caroline Frances 
 (Barnett) Stevens, and a descendant, on the pa- 
 ternal side, of a pioneer family of New Hamp- 
 shire, while the Barnetts were early residents of 
 Virginia and many of their members took part in 
 the Revolutionary war. In 1834 the family re- 
 moved to Peoria County, 111. , and soon afterward 
 the mother died, after which the father married 
 again. He became one of the most extensive 
 and prosperous farmers of his section and lived to 
 be a very aged man. 
 
 In a private school our subject obtained a good 
 knowledge of the English language and laid the 
 foundation of the education which was afterward 
 broadened by travel and self-culture. August 
 25, 1850, at the age of twenty years and two 
 months, he married Miss Lizzie Flint. Soon 
 afterward he rented a farm at Princeton, but a 
 year later sold his property and purchased an in- 
 terest in a furniture store in the town, which 
 business he conducted for several years, making 
 money rapidly, but losing through unfortunate 
 investments. In 1857 he di.sposed of the store 
 and resumed farming, and soon had three farms 
 well improved and stocked. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war he determined 
 to enlist in defense of the Union. October, 1861, 
 found his name enrolled as a member of Company 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 C, Fifty-seventh Illinois Infantrj'. A short time 
 afterward he was made sergeant-major, and 
 served in the Army of the Tennessee, participa- 
 ting in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth 
 and Stone River. He was always to be found in 
 the thickest of the fights, leading others on to 
 victory. In 1863 he was transferred to the One 
 Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry and 
 commissioned captain; serving as such, mostly in 
 Tennessee and Alabama, until the close of the 
 war, when he was mustered out, July 5, 1865, at 
 Springfield, 111. 
 
 Returning home, Captain Stevens found farm- 
 ing in a stagnant condition, owing to the influ- 
 ence of the war. Believing conditions would be 
 more favorable in the west, he sold his Illinois 
 property and came to Kansas in November, 
 1867. Settling in Lawrence, he first built a 
 tannery and engaged in tanning, but lost all he 
 had invested. His next venture was in the real- 
 estate and insurance business, in which he was 
 so successful that within three years he had re- 
 trieved his losses to some extent. In January, 
 1872, he and I. S. Kalloch issued the first num- 
 ber of the Spirit of Kansas, a paper devoted to the 
 general interests of the farming people. After 
 a year he bought out his partner and ran a few 
 months alone, when he took Hon. E. G. Ross into 
 partnership, but after a year he again became 
 editor and sole proprietor. Under his manage- 
 ment the paper increased in circulation and popu- 
 larity, and was generally conceded to have no 
 superior of its kind. He continued its editor for 
 years, but finally sold the paper. 
 
 Politically Captain Stevens was always a 
 stanch Republican. He was connected with the 
 Masons, Odd Fellows and Grand Army. In 
 1873 he became identified with the Grange move- 
 ment and for several terms he served as master 
 of his Grange. In 1877 ^^^ 1878 he was lecturer 
 of the Kansas State Grange. In this capacity he 
 made a general canvass of the state, organizing 
 granges, strengthening old organizations and ad- 
 vancing the movement. Through his pointed, 
 logical and practical lectures he did much to 
 awaken the people to a realization of their op- 
 portunities and the state's needs as an agricult- 
 
 ural community. For two hundred days he 
 engaged in lecturing, without asking for any 
 remuneration whatever. In religion he was a 
 Congregationalist. His wife died in 1887, and two 
 years later, while he was serving as justice of the 
 peace, he also passed away. They were the pa- 
 rents of five children: Mrs. Eva Griesa, of Law- 
 rence; Nelson O., of this city; James B., profes- 
 sor of vocal music in Boston, Mass.; Carrie F., a 
 teacher in the public schools of Lawrence; and 
 William C, professor of botany in the University 
 of Kansas. 
 
 HON. MARTIN SMITH. The pioneers of 
 Leavenworth will be held in grateful re- 
 membrance long after they shall have 
 passed from earth. The hardships and priva- 
 tions which they endured during the early days 
 of the settlement of Kansas entitle them to spe- 
 cial recognition. Among these early settlers 
 mention belongs to Mr. Smith, who came to 
 Leavenworth June 8, 1857, and is still an active 
 business man of this city. During the entire 
 period of his residence here he has maintained a 
 deep interest in the welfare of his city and state, 
 and has contributed his quota toward the devel- 
 opment of each. Through his service as a mem- 
 ber of the state senate he has also had a connec- 
 tion with the making of the laws of the state and 
 the sustaining of its broad educational and phil- 
 anthropic institutions. 
 
 At iSTo. 305 Delaware street Mr. Smith is en- 
 gaged in the real-estate and insurance business. 
 As an underwriter he draws up policies ensuring 
 against fire and tornado, also against the destruc- 
 tion of plate glass by accident. The companies 
 he represents are as follows: Liverpool, London 
 & Globe; Firemen's Fund of San Francisco; 
 German-American of New York; North British 
 & Mercantile; Orient of Hartford; Glens Falls of 
 Glens Falls, N. Y. ; Hamburg-Bremen; Sun of 
 London (the oldest insurance company in tlie 
 world); American- Central of St. Louis and Mil- 
 waukee. He owns residence property in Leaven- 
 worth, and al-so a farm of one hundred and forty 
 acres in Platte County, Mo. He has acted as 
 president of a number of building and loan asso- 
 
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 ciations until their shares matured and were paid 
 off. Other enterprises have received his attention 
 from time to time. 
 
 On New Year's day of 1832 Mr. Smith was 
 born in Rhenish Prussia, Germany, a .son of 
 John and Mary (Wagner) Smith, also natives of 
 that vicinity. His paternal grandfather, a farmer, 
 was seventy-one years of age at the time of his 
 death, and his wife was ninety-seven. When a 
 young man John Smith entered the Prussian 
 army and served in the Napoleonic wars, up to 
 and including the battle of Waterloo. He was 
 second lieutenant of his company, and received, 
 for bravery, the order of the iron cross. Before 
 Frederick William died he issued an order that 
 each and every one who was a participant in 
 these wars, who was qualified for office, should 
 be given the preference. In this way John Smith 
 was given the office of general superintendent of 
 public roads, his territory covering a very large 
 area. He continued in the office mitil he died at 
 eighty-seven years, and retaining his mental and 
 physical faculties was able to attend to every 
 duty up to the last. He death resulted from an 
 attack by a mad bull. His wife died at sixty- 
 six years. Of their six children three are living, 
 Martin being next to the youngest, and the only 
 one in America. One of the sons, John, was a 
 lieutenant in the revolution in Baden and was a 
 man of splendid qualities, whose rise from the 
 ranks was merited. 
 
 When fourteen the subject of this sketch en- 
 tered a college at Bern-Kassel. Afterward he 
 became superintendent of twenty-five men in the 
 building of a twelve-mile macadam road, which 
 work occupied one j-ear. He then .served a two 
 years' apprenticeship to the machinist's trade in 
 Burkenfeld, after which he traveled in Germany 
 for eight months. He was drafted into the army 
 and accepted, but, before regularly entering the 
 army, came to America in order to escape mili- 
 tary oppression. In 1852 he took pa.ssage on the 
 sailing vessel " Fitzpatrick," at Hamburg, and 
 after a voyage of six weeks arrived in New 
 York, friendless, and with only $32. He found 
 employment as a machinist, and during the two 
 years he remained in New York he saved $800, 
 
 by working overtime, in addition to his regular 
 salary. With this money he started west. He 
 traveled through different parts of the country, 
 and for eighteen months worked in New Orleans. 
 While there he and seventeen others joined 
 Walker's second expedition to Honduras, where 
 he had many thrilling experiences. While he 
 was in prison. Walker was taken out and shot. 
 During the night he and four comrades made 
 their escape, and traveled inland to a smalltown, 
 where they secured employment in the building 
 of four iron houses. With the money thus 
 earned they were able to pay their way back to 
 New Orleans. From there he proceeded to St. 
 Louis and thence to Leavenworth. His early 
 life here was no less perilous than had been his 
 experiences in Honduras. Border warfare made 
 existence a constant menace. He was a free- 
 state man, and consequently encountered the 
 dislike of southern sympathizers. For a time he 
 worked in a blacksmith shop on Second street. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Smith was made chief of the vol- 
 unteer fire department, which position he held 
 for eight years. Prior to this he had organized 
 the Leavenworth Hook and Ladder Company 
 No. I, of which he was foreman. While acting 
 as chief he organized the paid fire department, 
 and bought the first and second steamers in the 
 town. During the war he was captain of Com- 
 pany G, First Kan.sas Militia. In 1863 he start- 
 ed in the fire insurance business, and now has 
 the oldest business of the kind in Leavenworth, 
 if not, indeed, in the entire state. In this city 
 he married Lizzie, daughter of George Galloway, 
 wlio removed from Kentucky to Platte County, 
 Mo., in 1854. They are the parents of four 
 children, namely: Mrs. Mary Oliver; Florence; 
 Jessie; and Martin J., a graduate of the high 
 .school, and now connected with his father in 
 business. 
 
 Formerly a Republican, upon the passage of 
 the prohibitory bill Mr. Smith transferred his 
 allegiance to the Democratic party. He has 
 been active in county and state conventions and 
 upon committees. For ten years he was a mem- 
 ber of the .school board, and for six years repre- 
 sented the fourth ward in the city council, dur- 
 

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 ing which time he served as president of the 
 council. In spite of being frequentl)' urged to 
 become a candidate for mayor, he has always 
 declined. In 1869 and 1870 he served as a mem- 
 ber of the state senate, to which he was elected 
 by a large majority, and in the work of which 
 he bore an honorable part. Since then, however, 
 he has invariably refused nominations for senate 
 and legislature. For several years he was presi- 
 dent of all of the sixty-three Personal Liberty 
 Clubs in the state of Kansas, through the in- 
 fluence of which Click was elected. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, and 
 has served officially in the lodge and encampment 
 of Odd Fellows, besides being a member of the 
 grand lodge and the grand encampment. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM A. HARRIS. Whoever 
 labors to secure the progress of his country, 
 striving to bring out its latent resources; 
 who seeks to promote the cause of justice and 
 morality; and who, both as a public official and 
 as a private citizen, is interested in the advance- 
 ment of commerce and education, such a man be- 
 comes a public benefactor, and his name should 
 be inseparably linked with that of his county and 
 state. Tliis, in brief, is the character and this 
 the reputation of United States Senator Harris, 
 who is known far beyond the limits of his home 
 county of Leavenworth, having, by his close 
 identification with public affairs, gained for him- 
 self a name as a progressive, public-spirited citi- 
 zen. 
 
 The life of any man may be better understood 
 when his ancestral history is presented. In 
 studying the ancestry of the Harris family, it 
 becomes evident to all that the talents possessed 
 by Senator Harris are his by inheritance. The 
 family has for generations been honorably and 
 actively identified with public affairs in America, 
 among their most prominent representatives of 
 the nineteenth century having been United States 
 Senator Ishani G. Harris of Tennessee and Judge 
 Iverson L. Harris of Georgia. After the revoca- 
 tion of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. of 
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 France, and during the religious persecutions of 
 Charles and James II. of England, large numbers 
 of Protestants sought refuge from persecution in 
 America. Among these was Henry Harris, a 
 Baptist preacher, who in 1691 came from Gla- 
 morgan, Wales, to Virginia, obtaining, with 
 others, from William and Mary of England, a 
 grant of ten miles square of crown lands, on the 
 south bank of the James River, some miles above 
 the great falls, now Richmond, Va. His only 
 son, Edward, had eight .sons and five daughters. 
 The tenth child, Nathan, born in 1716, married 
 Catherine Walton, of Brunswick County, Va., 
 in 1737, and they became the parents of fourteen 
 children, viz.: Walton, Nathan, Isaac, David, 
 Elias, Rowland, Herbert, Gideon, Howell, John 
 Henry, Catherine, Martha, Elizabeth and Ann. 
 The oldest child, Walton, was born in Brunswick 
 Count}', Va., in 1739. He married Rebecca 
 Lanier, a granddaughter of Elizabeth Washing- 
 ton, a first cousin of Gen. George Wa.shington. 
 Their children were: Buckner, Sampson, Joel, 
 Augustine, Edwin, Nathan, Simeon, Walton, 
 Elizabeth, Littleton and Jephtha V. Of these chil- 
 dren, Augustine became the father of Judge Iver- 
 son L. Harris, of the United States district court. 
 Senator Harris of Tennessee descended from 
 West, the twelfth child of Edward Harris. The 
 honorable position held b}' the many representa- 
 tives of the family shows that the old saying 
 "blood will tell," is true. The members of the 
 family have .sought the frontier, pushing south 
 to Georgia and Mississippi, and west to the 
 regions beyond the Mississippi. They have 
 served in both houses of congre,ss, have served as 
 governors of states, have sat on the bench and 
 reached eminence at the bar, and in every posi- 
 tion have left the impress of their individualitj' 
 upon their states. 
 
 The father of Senator Harris was William A. 
 Harris, a descendant of Augustine Harris. He 
 was born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1805, and 
 was giveu a classical education. He became a 
 prominent attorney and for ten years practiced 
 law in Page County, Va. Twice he was elected 
 to the state legislature of Virginia. In 1S41 he 
 was made a presidential elector. At the same 
 
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 time he was elected to congress, and served as a 
 member of the twenty seventh and twentj--eighlh 
 congresses. For several years he was editor of 
 the Washington Spcclalor, afterward known as 
 the Conslihition . In 1S45 he was appointed by 
 President Polk as charge d'affaires at Bnenos 
 Ay res, which position he held until 1851. After 
 the election of James Buchanan to the presi- 
 dent's chair he became editor and proprietor of 
 the Washington Union, a daily newspaper. He 
 resigned the editorship to accept the position of 
 printer to the senate, in which capacity he con- 
 tinued for two years. In 1854 he moved to Pike 
 County, Mo., where he bought a farm two miles 
 south of Bowling Green. During the Civil war 
 he was appointed judge advocate general of the 
 Trans- Mississippi department of the Confederate 
 army. His death occurred while the war was 
 still in progress, March 28, 1864. He was a man 
 of vigorous mind, and was admirably versed in 
 the principles of wi.se statesmanship and public 
 policy, while as a diplomat his tact and con- 
 servativejudgmeut were at the service of his fel- 
 low-citizens. The prominence to which he rose 
 illustrated the laws of heredity and of merit. 
 
 In 1840 he married Frances Murray, who died 
 in Missouri at si.\ty-four years of age. Of their 
 six children, all but two are now living. Mur- 
 ray Harris, the .second son, is a graduate of the 
 Kansas Slate University and is now a civil en- 
 gineer connected with the Texas Pacific Rail- 
 road; Charles Harris, the third son, is a farmer 
 and stock-raiser in Missouri; and Ivlla H. is the 
 wife of William H. Abranis, land commissioner 
 for the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. The 
 eldest son is he whose name introduces this article. 
 He was born in Loudoun County, Va., October 
 29, 1841, and was reared in the Old Dominion, 
 remaining with his parents until he entered 
 Columbia College at Washington, D. C, from 
 which he graduated with the class of 1859. Two 
 years later he graduated from the Virginia Mil- 
 itary Institute at Lexington, where he had been 
 under the military training of "Stonewall" Jack- 
 son. At the opening of the Civil war he became 
 a lieutenant under Jackson, and afterward was 
 promoted to the rank of captain, and adjutant- 
 
 general of Wilcox's brigade, Longstreet's divi- 
 sion, and chief ordnance officer of Gen. D. H. 
 Hill's division. 
 
 At the close of the war Mr. Harris came to 
 Kansas, and was employed as a civil engineer in 
 the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 from Leavenworth to Lawrence. After the com- 
 pletion of the road he was made resident en- 
 gineer, with headquarters at Wyandotte (now 
 Kansas City), Kans., and remained in that posi- 
 tion until the road reached the Colorado line. In 
 1868 he was appointed land agent for the rail- 
 road companies, having charge of and selling the 
 Delaware and other Indian reservations, which 
 were purchased from the Indians bj- the railroad 
 companies. He continued in that capacity until 
 the land was disposed of, meantime making his 
 home in Lawrence, where he resided until 1884. 
 During the intervening years he had purchased a 
 tract of three hundred and seveutj'-five acres of 
 the reservation land, and this he developed into 
 a fine stock farm, erecting on the property a 
 mansion, where he has resided since 1884. The 
 place is one of the best-improved and most valu- 
 able in Leavenworth County, and is stocked with 
 thoroughbred Shorthorn and imported cattle, 
 brought from Scotland and Canada. 
 
 During the period of his residence in Lawrence, 
 Mr. Harris was acting mayor of the city and for 
 several years president of the city council. He 
 was elected congressinan-at-large to the Fifty- 
 third Congress and served for one term. In 1896 
 he was chosen to represent the third senatorial 
 district in the state senate, and his. splendid record 
 in that position led to his election to the United 
 States senate the following year. In the state 
 senate he took an active part in promoting meas- 
 ures for the benefit of his constituents and also 
 served as chairman of the railroad committee. 
 Since taking his seat in the United States senate 
 he has been influential in bringing about a settle- 
 ment between the Union Pacific and Central 
 Pacific Railroads and the national government, 
 by which the government obtained the full amount 
 of the railroad indelHedncss. He has also served 
 on the Nicaragua canal committee. He ad- 
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 canal by the United States goveninieiit at the 
 earliest possible date, in preference to private cor- 
 porations. 
 
 In 1863 Senator Harris married Miss Mary A. 
 Lionberger, daughter of John Lionberger, of 
 I.,uray, Page County, Va. She died in 1894, 
 leaving five children. The eldest, Page Harris, 
 is assistant general manager of the Texas Pacific 
 Railroad at Dallas, Tex. Frances is the wife of 
 H. L. Patteson, of Kansas City. Isabella mar- 
 ried William M. Byrne, of New York City. Bessie 
 is the wife of Hughes F. Findley, of Dallas, Tex. 
 The youngest child, Craig Harris, when but fif- 
 teen years of age, enlisted in the First District of 
 Columbia Regiment during the Spanish-Ameri- 
 can war and was made sergeant of his company, 
 with which he served during the memorable 
 Santiago campaign. Afterward he received an 
 appointment to the United States Military Acad- 
 emy at West Point. The present wife of Senator 
 Harris was Mrs. Cora M. Mackey, of Pittsburgh, 
 Pa. 
 
 EHARLES WESLEY ALLENDORPH, of 
 Lawrence, the owner of large tracts of ranch 
 land in Kansas, was born on Vesey street. 
 New York City, March 26, 1837, a son of Philip 
 C. and Cornelia T. (Wiley) Allendorph. His 
 grandfather, Henry, was born near Red Hook, 
 Dutchess Count}', N. Y., and engaged in farm 
 pursuits in that county. The family was estab- 
 lished in America by the great-grandfather Allen- 
 dorf (as the name was then spelled) , who crossed 
 the ocean from Holland and settled near the Hud- 
 son. During the Revolutionary war he took up 
 arms in the cause of independence. Born near 
 Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, Philip Allendorph 
 was a young man when he went to New York 
 City, and there he became interested in a furni- 
 ture business on Canal street. Upon selling the 
 business he returned to his old home and engaged 
 in farming. In 1855 he settled in Buffalo, Scott 
 County, Iowa, where he bought a tract of land 
 and improved a farm. Eight years later he went 
 to Dayton, N. J., and afterwards spent three 
 years at Elizabeth City, the same state. For 
 four years he was employed in the naval depart- 
 
 ment of the custom house in New York Citj'. 
 His last days were spent in the home of his son, 
 Charles Weslej', with whom he remained until a 
 year before his death, when he removed to his 
 daughter's, Mrs. Dr. Merry, in Iowa City, where 
 he died in 1880. His wife, who died in her son's 
 home, in 1895, was born on Dye street, New 
 York City, and was the daughter of a Scotchman, 
 who settled in New York and had contracts there 
 for the stone cutting on the custom house. Mer- 
 chants' Exchange and other public buildings. 
 
 Isabella, who married H. S. Merry, M. D., and 
 died in Iowa City, Iowa; Philipine Augusta, 
 wife of J. B. Gruman, of W^estwood, Bergen 
 County, N. J.; and Charles Wesley, of Lawrence, 
 comprised the family of Philip C. Allendorph. 
 The son, who was the youngest of the family, 
 graduated in 1855, with the degree of A. B., 
 from the New York Free Academy, now the Uni- 
 versity' of the Citj' of New York. Afterward he 
 began civil engineering. For six months he 
 assisted the county surveyor of Westchester 
 County, N. Y. Late in 1855 he went to Rock 
 Island, 111., and secured employment on the 
 Rock Island & Peoria Railroad, which he helped 
 to survey, the present General Wheaton at the 
 same time working as rodman. In 1856 he was 
 rodman in the survey of the Sheffield & Savan- 
 nah Railroad in Illinois. The next year he was 
 employed on the Peoria & Hannibal Railroad 
 survey, the Illinois River Railroad (later the 
 Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville road), and from 
 April, 1857, to April, i85r, was rodman, division 
 engineer and first assistant engineer on the Jack- 
 sonville, Alton & St. Louis road. From i860 
 until the outbreak of the war he was connected 
 with the survey of the Tonica & Petersburg Rail- 
 road. When the war began he recruited twenty 
 men, expecting to form a company and enter the 
 .service, but family reasons caused him to change 
 his plans. Froin March, 1863, to May 15, 1864, 
 he was divi.sion engineer on the Morris & Essex 
 Railroad in New Jersey, and from the latter date 
 to December 15, 1865, he was with the St. Louis, 
 Jacksonville & Chicago Railroad as assistant en- 
 gineer. 
 
 Going to [Missouri, Mr. Allendorph was ap- 
 
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 pointed chief engineer of the Osage \'alley & 
 Southern Kansas Railroad, which position he 
 held from t'ebruary i, 1866, to August, 1868. 
 The construction work was completed from Boon- 
 ville to Tipton, Mo., but the survey was made 
 through to Kansas. The road is now incorpor- 
 ated in the Missouri Pacific. From October i , 
 1868, to the ist of December of the same year, 
 he was division engineer on the Peoria, Pekiti & 
 Jacksonville Railroad, then held a similar posi- 
 tion on the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington & 
 Pekin Railroad until July, 1870. His next posi- 
 tion was as first assistant engineer on the Indian- 
 apolis, Bloomington & Western road. In 187 1, 
 as chief engineer, he made the preliminary sur- 
 vey of the Pekin & Mississippi Railroad, which, 
 however, was never built. He then was elected 
 chief engineer of the Chicago, Pekin & South- 
 western Railroad, which position he held until 
 April, 1873. In 1872 he was appointed chief en- 
 gineer of the Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville 
 road, after which he held a similar po.sition in the 
 survey and construction of the Peoria & Spring- 
 field Railroad. At the same time he was chief 
 engineer of the Dakota Southern road, locating 
 and constructing from Sioux City to Yankton. 
 On the suspension of railroad work in 1873 
 Mr. AUcndorph went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
 bought a one-half interest in the wholesale and 
 retail tea and coffee business owned by his 
 brolherinlaw, J. B. Gruman, with whom he 
 continued for five years. At the same time he 
 also carried on a wholesale hou.se on Water street, 
 New York. During this period he had his resi- 
 dence in Elizabeth, N. J. In 1878 he disposed 
 of his interests in the east and came to Kansas, 
 where for six years he carried on a mercantile 
 business in Lawrence. He built the Allendorph 
 block, and was the owner of five .stores in a row. 
 Much of his time since coming to Kan.sas has 
 been devoted to the cattle business. He had 
 traded for four thousand acres in the south-east- 
 ern part of Riley County, Kans. This he 
 fenced and has used for a cattle ranch, leasing 
 additional land until the ranch comprised twelve 
 thousand acres, but some years since he turned 
 the four thousand acres over to his son. Near 
 
 Winfield, Cowley County, he now owns a ranch 
 of sixteen hundred acres in a body, two hundred 
 of which are planted in corn, while the remainder 
 is devoted to the pasturage of his five hundred 
 head of steers. In addition he owns four hun- 
 dred and eighty acres of irrigated land (with an 
 unlimited free rangeof buffalo grass land) in Kear- 
 ney County, near Lakin, where he has four hun- 
 dred head of cattle and raises alfalfa for feed, oper- 
 ating the place him.self. He also owns farms in 
 Pratt and Riley Counties, Kans., land in Texas 
 and valuable property in Lawrence. Since com- 
 ing west he has given some attention to civil 
 engineering. He was assistant engineer of the 
 branch of the Missouri Pacific, from Butler, Mo. 
 to Emporia, Kans. He was assi.stant engineer 
 from Kansas City to the Piatt River in Nebraska, 
 in the location and construction of the Kansas 
 City, Wyandotte & Northwestern Railroad, and 
 is now engineer in charge of the Winner Electric 
 Railway from Lawrence to Topeka. In politics 
 he is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to the 
 Select Friends and Fraternal Aid Association. 
 
 In Jerseyville, 111., September 6, 1865, Mr. 
 Allendorph married Miss Martha Stelle, a mem- 
 ber of a New Jersey family that removed to Illi- 
 nois during pioneer days. They have three sons 
 and one daughter, namely: Arthur, a cattle- 
 man at Alma, Kans.; Eugene W., who gradu- 
 ated from the Kansas Citj- Dental College, and is 
 now proprietor of the Western dental depot, in 
 that city; DeWitt, who is at home; and Cornelia, 
 wife of Rev. George D. Rogers, pastor of the 
 Baptist Church of Lawrence. Mrs. Allendorph 
 was one of four children, the others being Mrs. 
 Mary A. Randolph, of Jerseyville, 111.; Moore, 
 on the old homestead; and Cretie, of Jersejville. 
 Her father, Jacob K. vStelle, a nati%'e of Somerset 
 Countj", N. J., settled in Jersey County, 111., in 
 1837, and there he engaged in farming until he 
 was advanced in years. He was a deacon in the 
 Baptist Church for forty years. His death oc- 
 curred in Jerseyville in 1878. His father, John, 
 who was born in New Jersey, died in Illinois 
 while visiting his son, Jacol). The Stelle family 
 is of French lineage but has been represented in 
 America from an early period. The wife of 
 
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 Jacob K. Stelle was Eliza J. Conipton, who was 
 born in Somerset County, N. J. , daughter of Moore 
 Conipton, a farmer there. She is still living and 
 makes her home in Jerseyville. In religion she 
 has long been a faithful adherent of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 V /lARSHAIvL M. JEWETT. A resume of 
 y the life of Mr. Jewett shows that he is a 
 (S representative type of a western man, thor- 
 oughly imbued with the spirit of western push and 
 enterprise. He has led the adventurous life of a 
 frontiersman, and has experienced not only the 
 usual hardships of the pioneer, but during earl}- 
 days was often in the greatest danger from the In- 
 dians of the plains and from the pro-slavery men, 
 whose hatred he aroused by his open espousal of 
 the free-state movement. Much of his time was 
 spent on the plains between Leavenworth and 
 Denver, and, including the trips made in wagons, 
 he rode across the country forty-six times. Some- 
 times when alone, and sometimes when with 
 others, he was attacked by the red men, and more 
 than once he was wounded by their arrows and 
 narrowly escaped with his life. He has lived and 
 braved the hardships of a frontier existence until 
 he has seen the old method of transportation by 
 ox-teams replaced by the swift steam cars; he 
 has seen the Indians gradually drifting further 
 westward before the approaching wave of immi- 
 gration and civilization; he has seen the country 
 dotted over with ranch houses and herds of cat- 
 tle and sheep replace those of buffalo and deer. 
 The smoke from factories rises where once he 
 could discern only the camp fires of Indians or 
 white immigrants. In all of this wonderful trans- 
 formation that has been wrought he has borne a 
 part, and, as a pioneer, his name deserves to be 
 perpetuated in the annals of the west. 
 
 In a very earl}- daj' the Jewett family was es- 
 tablished in Rowley, Mass., and later generations 
 founded Jewett City, Conn. One of the name, 
 Charles Jewett, was a very prominent temper- 
 ance worker and wrote many works upon that 
 subject. Eleazer, a brother of Charles, was born 
 in Jewett Citj-, and became a pioneer manufactur- 
 er of cut nails, operating a large plant at Nor- 
 
 wich, Conn., and employing several hundred 
 men. He was employed by the government of 
 Portugal to superintend the erection of mills, but 
 lost his health while in that country and died 
 shortly after his return home, in 1839. His wife, 
 Mrs. Mary Ann (Russell) Mount, was a daugh- 
 ter of Capt. Laban Russell, of Rye, N. Y., and a 
 descendant of early settlers of Nantucket, Mass. 
 By her first husband, Captain Mount, she had 
 two children, Caroline, who married Henrj' 
 Spring, of Olney, II!., and Mary, wife of Capt. 
 Peter E. Le Fevre. The latter was a prominent 
 ocean captain, and commanded the "North Star," 
 "Ariel," "Magnolia" and "Vanderbilt," owned 
 by Commodore Vanderbilt. Our subject was the 
 second of three sons born to his parents, his 
 brothers being: Washington, who died in boyhood, 
 and Laban Russell Jewett, of Norwich, Conn., 
 who at one time was first officer on the steamship 
 "Vanderbilt," later for fourteen years was a 
 commander in the English merchant marine serv- 
 ice between London and the East Indies, and is 
 now engaged in the coal and mercantile business. 
 Mrs. Mary A. Jewett died at the home of her 
 daughter, Mrs. Le Fevre. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Jewett 
 City," Conn., in 1831. When eight years of age 
 he was taken by his mother to Rye, N. Y., his 
 father having died recently. Afterward he was 
 given a home with his grandmother, but at the 
 age of fourteen he went to Olney, 111., and from 
 that time he was practically self-supporting. He 
 was employed as clerk in a store and later be- 
 came a partner of his brother-in-law, Henry 
 Spring. Wishing to try his fortune in the new 
 west, lie came to Leavenworth, October 20, 1855, 
 in company with James L. Byers, bringing a 
 stock of groceries and hardware from St. Louis 
 on the boat "Ben Bolt." The firm of Byers & 
 Jewett opened a store in Leavenworth, which 
 they carried on until 1857, and then turned their 
 attention to the real-estate business. 
 
 The first trip across the plains that Mr. Jewett 
 made was in October, 185S, when he formed a 
 company of six men and traveled to the point 
 where Denver now stands. Building a cabin, 
 the men spent the winter on Cherry Creek. He 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was captain of the company, which consisted be- 
 sides himself, of Richard H. Whitsett, Gen. Will- 
 iam H. H. Larimer, of Pittsburgh, Pa., William 
 H. H. Larimer, Jr., now of Kansas City, Charles 
 Lawrence and his nephew, Fulsom Dar-sett. 
 They were among the first white men to build a 
 cabin on the present site of Denver, and they 
 laid out and incorporated the town of Denver, Mr. 
 Jewett becoming the owner of a share in the com- 
 pany . Indians were numerous and the remoteness 
 of the few white men from others made their situ- 
 ation not a little dangerous. In the spring of 1859 
 Mr. Jewett left the party and traveled, on horse- 
 back, seven hundred miles to Leavenworth, mak 
 ing the distance in twenty-two days. In May of 
 the same year he returned to Colorado with a 
 freighting outfit, loaded with provisions and mer- 
 chandise, and arrived safely in Denver, where he 
 .sold his goods, wagons and horses. Buying fresh 
 horses he rode back to Leavenworth. In the fall 
 of 1859 he went back to Denver, with an outfit of 
 eighteen wagons, loaded with merchandise and 
 provisions, which he sold to prospectors, realiz- 
 ing a handsome sum. Returning to Leavenworth 
 the third time on horseback, he spent the winter 
 here and in the spring of i860 went across the 
 plains with twenty six wagons and three hundred 
 and twelve oxen. Afterward he followed freight- 
 ing between the Missouri River and Colorado, 
 Salt Lake, Santa Feand other points. During the 
 Civil war he was employed by the government in 
 providing provisions for the western forts. In 
 the winter of 1863-64 he killed sixteen hundred 
 and thirty-seven head of buffalo on the plains of 
 northwestern Kansas; and the skins of the.se he 
 sold in Leavenworth. 
 
 As has already been intimated, Mr. Jewett had 
 frequent encounters with the Indians and was 
 wounded several times. The most troublesome 
 were the Kiowas, Cheyennes and Sioux. During 
 1865, while riding from Valverde to Leaven- 
 worth, alone, he was attacked by seventeen In- 
 dians known as "dog" soldiers, and he had a hard 
 fight with them, but made his escape. When on 
 a return trip from the west, with one hundred 
 and four wagons and only forty-one men, he was 
 attacked in the Platte River bottom bv Indians, 
 
 and was corraled for several hours, but finally 
 drove the red men away. An Indian shot him 
 in the arm, but he had the satisfaction of killing 
 the one that wounded him. In 1869 he settled 
 down to farm life in Leavenworth County, and 
 afterward engaged in stock-raising. In 1896 he 
 bought a farm near Leavenworth from John W. 
 Loar, and upon the one hundred and si.xty acres 
 comprising this place he has since made his home, 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 In the summer of 1898 his residence was destroyed 
 by fire. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Jewett made the trip across the 
 plains from Valverde to Leavenworth and here 
 married Sarah Burr, a sister of H. S. and E. 
 Burr. She died in 1S97, leaving two .sons, Ed- 
 mond R. and Harry S. During the border war- 
 fare days Mr. Jewett was an outspoken Union 
 man. In 1857 he was one of the party who cap- 
 tured the Kickapoo cannon at Kickapoo which 
 had been stolen by the pro-slavery party from the 
 government arsenal at Liberty. He was with 
 John Brown in his camp at Tabor, Iowa. So 
 pronounced was he in his defense of the free- 
 state cause that he brought upon himself the en- 
 mity of these of different views and at one time a 
 reward was offered for his scalp by the pro-slav- 
 ery party. In spite of all these, and other dan- 
 gers, he continued his fearless defense of prin- 
 ciples he believed to be right. He has always 
 been a man of patriotic character, progressive 
 and public spirited motives, and has cherished a 
 warm affection for the country where the active 
 years of his life have been passed. 
 
 (lOHN ALBERT HERNING, proprietor of 
 I the Lawrence canning factory, is at the head 
 Q) of one of the important industries of Doug- 
 las County. The material used in the canning 
 business is of the choicest grade, much of it be- 
 ing rai.sed on his farm of three hundred and fifty 
 acres in the Kaw River bottom, but in addition 
 to this he also buys from gardeners and growers. 
 The Kaw \''alley brand is known throughout the 
 west and shipments are made, in carload lots, to 
 points between the Missouri River and the coast. 
 
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 In the factory there is floor space of an acre. 
 The plant is operated by steam, modern improve- 
 ments have been introduced, and there is a ca- 
 pacity of fifty thousand cans a day. The prod- 
 ucts are tomatoes, peas, sweet corn, beans and 
 also various kinds of fruits. During the busy 
 season more than two hundred hands are 
 employed. In the winter months he devotes his 
 attention to feeding cattle and usually has about 
 one hundred head on his place, where he has a 
 silo with a capacity of six to eight hundred tons. 
 
 Mr. Herning was born at Vinland, Palmyra 
 Township, Douglas County, April 2, 1868, a son 
 of Michael and Sarah A. (Eberhart) Herning, 
 natives respectively of Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 and Butler County, Pa. His father, who was 
 third among five children, was a son of Joseph 
 Herning, who brought the family from German}' 
 to Holmes County, Ohio. In youth he learned 
 the builder's trade. Coming to Kansas in 1S59, 
 he settled near Vinland, where he improved a 
 farm of one hundred acres. He was a free-state 
 man and in politics voted with the Republican 
 party. He died on his farm March 20, 1873, at 
 the age of thirty -five, and was the first man 
 buried in Stony Point Cemetery, which he had 
 laid out and platted in lots. During the Civil 
 war he took part in the campaign against Price 
 and fought at the Big Blue. 
 
 In Douglas Count}', January 21, 1864, Michael 
 Herning married Miss Sarah A. Eberhart, 
 daughter of Joseph Eberhart, a native of West- 
 moreland County, Pa., and granddaughter of 
 Christian Eberhart, who was born in Lehigh 
 County March 9, 1772, thence was taken by his 
 parents to Westmoreland County in 1773 and 
 died there upon a farm. He was a son of Paul 
 Eberhart, who was born on the ocean in 1727, 
 when the family were en route to America. Paul's 
 father, Michael, a native of Wurtemberg, crossed 
 on the ship, "Friendship," and in March, 1727, 
 settled in what is now Lehigh County, where he 
 became a large farmer and active worker in the 
 German Reformed Church. Joseph Eberhart, 
 who was a tailor in youth, became a local preacher 
 in the Lutheran Church and a colporteur in the 
 employ of the American Tract Society. In 1825 
 
 he settled in Mercer County, Pa., twenty years 
 later went to Armstrong County, and in order to 
 secure a home for his sons finally decided to lo- 
 cate in Kansas. April 13, 1854, he brought his 
 family as far west as Kansas City, where they re- 
 mained until July. He then proceeded to Doug- 
 las County, Kans., and took up a claim three 
 miles east of the present site of Lawrence, later 
 removing to a claim at what is now Willow 
 Springs. There he built a log house and began 
 the task of improving a farm. Later he bought 
 a farm in Palmyra Township, where his last days 
 were spent. During the early days of his resi- 
 dence here he preached very frequently, there 
 being a scarcity of ministers at that time, but he 
 never sought any renumeration for his services. 
 Being himself a stanch free-state man, he en- 
 deavored to secure eastern immigrants to Kansas, 
 hoping their presence might aid the anti-slavery 
 movement. For his activity in this direction he 
 incurred the hatred of the pro-slavery party, who 
 resolved to hang him. A night was set for the 
 deed, but he learned of it and managed to escape. 
 He died in November, 1882, when almost eighty- 
 three years of age. 
 
 The marriage of Joseph Eberhart united him 
 with Catherine Kistler, who was born in West- 
 moreland County, Pa., in 1805, and died in Kan- 
 sas December 21, 1885. She was a faithful, in- 
 dustrious woman, whose sole aim was to promote 
 the happiness and welfare of her husband and 
 children. She was a daughter of Jacob Kistler, 
 a farmer of Pennsylvania. In her family there 
 were thirteen children, namely: Mary Ann, who 
 was first married to a Mr. Hemphill and later 
 became the wife of William Bierly, and died in 
 Vinland, in February, 1898; Obadiah, formerly 
 a farmer, now living in Baldwin City, Kans.; 
 Mrs. Priscilla Barnhart, who died near Ottawa, 
 in February, 1899; John, who died in Pennsyl- 
 vania; Joseph, who was accidentally killed at 
 eighteen years of age; Henry S., who served in 
 Company C, Tenth Kansas Infantry, and is now 
 living in Willow Springs Township, Douglas 
 County; Lewis J., who was in the Kansas militia 
 during the Price raid and now lives near Vinland ; 
 Andrew, who enlisted in a Kansas regiment, was 
 
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 taken prisoner at Independence, Mo., finally re- 
 ceived an exchange and returned to lii.s regiment, 
 and is now living near Vinland; Paul C, of 
 Lawrence, who was captured while serving in 
 the Union army, but later was paroled and dis- 
 charged; Catherine Elizabeth, who died at the 
 old homestead; Sarah A.; Susannah Lydia, who 
 was twice married and died at the old home; and 
 Mrs. Rebecca L. Hemphill, who lives near Vin- 
 land. 
 
 Three years after the death of her husband, 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Herning settled in Lawrence. 
 She was a .second time married, becoming the 
 wife of John Lagerquist, a native of Sweden, who 
 died in 18S5. Of this union one sou was born, 
 Frank Abraham, now at home. To her first mar- 
 riage the following-named children were born: 
 Joseph Edwin, of Wellington, Kans., an engineer 
 on the Santa Fe road; John Albert, of this .sketch; 
 Grace Elizabeth, who married Eben Baldwin, 
 owner of a large farm near Lawrence; Rebecca 
 Lucinda, wife of Frank Charles Endacott, of 
 Lawrence; and Mary Catherine, wife of William 
 Endacott, who is foreman in the Lawrence collar 
 factory. The Endacott brothers were born in 
 England and are members of an old family of 
 Devonshire. Their father, John Endacott, was a 
 son of James Endacott, a farmer of Devonshire. 
 For three hundred years back there has been a 
 John Endacott in every generation. Belonging 
 to the same family was John Endacott, who came 
 to America in the "Mayflower," and was the 
 first governor of Ma.ssachusetts. The father of 
 the Endacott brothers was born in Moreton, Eng- 
 land, and became heir to Gidley Mill castle, 
 which he still holds. He has two brothers in 
 the United States, one of whom is a Methodist 
 Episcopal minister in Leavenworth County, 
 Kans. He married Marie Pedlar, a native of 
 Devonshire. 
 
 The ancestry of the Eberhart family is traced 
 to Eberhard the Noble, a Wurtemberger, whose 
 parents belonged to the royal family. A man of 
 remarkable ability, he established the still flour- 
 i.shing kingdom of Wurtemberg, where he 
 reigned forty-six years, and died June 5, 1325. 
 From him descended a long line of rulers and 
 
 dukes, the last ruler of Wurtemberg being Leo- 
 pold Eberhard, who was deposed from the throne 
 in a struggle between Catholics and Protestants, 
 and was succeeded by Duke Charles Augen. 
 
 For fourteen years our subject was connected 
 with the Watkins Mortgage Company-, after 
 which he turned his attention to the canning 
 business, and since 1894 has been proprietor of 
 the Lawrence canning factory. From January, 
 1895, to January, 1899, he was a director in the 
 Watkins Bank, in which he is still a stockholder. 
 Politically he is a Republican. He is connected 
 with the lodge and Rebekah degree of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and is a member of the English Lutheran 
 Church, in which he is a deacon. 
 
 inXIAM DURHAM MARTIN, M. D. 
 Few of the residents of Baldwin were more 
 closely identified with its early history 
 than was Dr. Martin, who is remembered as a 
 public-spirited, enterprising man, and one to 
 whom the village owed not a little of its early 
 growth. Every project for its improvement re- 
 ceived his assistance, and not a few plans that 
 aided its development originated in his fertile 
 brain. From the time that he began in professional 
 practice here in 1857, until the date of his death 
 forty-one years afterward, the place had no citi- 
 zen more devoted to its welfare than he. For 
 two years he officiated as mayor of Baldwin. He 
 was one of the organizers of the Baldwin Bank, 
 in which he afterward held stock. Other local 
 industries and interests received the impetus of 
 his timely encouragement. 
 
 Dr. Martin was born in New York state March 
 29, 1822, a son of Agrippa and Rhoda (Durham) 
 Martin, the latter of Spanish extraction. He 
 was the youngest of six children, four of whom 
 became farmers and two physicians. His father, 
 who was a farmer, removed to Illinois in an early 
 day and settled near Freeport, in what was after- 
 ward known as Martin's settlement. After hav- 
 ing completed the common school studies, in 
 1849 our subject began to read medicine with his 
 brother in Freeport, and later he attended Rush 
 Medical College in Chicago, from which he 
 

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 graduated in 1S51. Opening an office in Nora, 
 Jo Daviess County, III., he remained there for 
 two years, and then returned to Freeport to en- 
 gage in practice with his brother. From Free- 
 port he came to Kansas in 1856, and the follow- 
 ing year opened an office in Baldwin, where for 
 nearly forty years he carried on a large general 
 practice, covering the entire section of surround- 
 ing country. In 1895 he was thrown from his 
 buggy and crippled to such an extent that gen- 
 eral practice was no longer possible, but he con- 
 tinued his office practice until he died, Septem- 
 ber 10, 1898. He was prominent in the blue 
 lodge of the Masonic fraternity, and aided other or- 
 ganizations having for their object the ameliora- 
 tion of the sufferings of mankind and the eleva- 
 tion of the race. 
 
 August 5, i860, Dr. Martin married Miss Cor- 
 nelia J. Clayton, daughter of William and Alice 
 Clayton, who were pioneers of Kansas. Mrs. 
 Martin died August i, 1895, a few years prior to 
 her husband's death. They were the parents of 
 four daughters, namely: Alice, who married 
 W. H. Robinson, of Arkansas City, Kans. ; Jen- 
 nie, wife of J. W. Jenkins, a farmer of Douglas 
 County; Josephine and Maude. At the time of 
 his death Dr. Martin left to his daughters a com- 
 fortable residence in Baldwin and one hundred 
 and sixt)' acres of improved land near the town. 
 
 HON. JOHN D. EDMOND, who was mayor 
 of the city of Leavenworth, 1897-99, was 
 born in Vergennes, Addison County, Vt., 
 August 29, 1S38, a son of William and Eliza Ann 
 (Vail) Edmond. His paternal grandfather, Hon. 
 David Edmond, a native of Newtown, Conn., and 
 a graduate of Yale College, was one of the most 
 famous lawyers of New England and was espe- 
 cially influential in the'}>ublic life of Vermont, of 
 which state he served as attorney -general for 
 fourteen years. As selectman, member of the state 
 legislature, and for manj^ years the mayor of 
 Vergennes, he proved himself a most progressive, 
 public-spirited citizen, and did much to advance 
 the welfare of his fellow-citizens. At the time 
 President Monroe visited Vermont he gave the 
 address of welcome. He stood at the head of the 
 
 Vermont bar and was connected with Daniel Web- 
 ster in the management of several cases. To 
 great natural ability he added a broad education, 
 thorough knowledge of mankind, and tact, re- 
 .sources and energy. He was active in the 
 Masonic fraternity and a member of the Congre- 
 gational Church. He was a brother of Hon. 
 William Edmond, the first judge of the supreme 
 court of Connecticut, and a brave soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, in which other members of 
 the family also bore a part. Their father, Robert 
 Edmond, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, of 
 Scotch descent, and emigrated to America, set- 
 tling in Newtown, where he reared a large family. 
 His great-grandson. Judge William Edmond 
 Curtis, of New York City, was the father of Hon. 
 William Edmond Curtis, Jr., who held office as 
 assistant treasurer under President Cleveland's 
 second administration. 
 
 The marriage of Hon. David Edmond united 
 him with Harriet Lavergne Ducasse, of West- 
 field, Conn., daughter of John and Mary (Whit- 
 ing) Ducasse, and a lineal descendant of Admiral 
 Ducasse, who defeated Admiral Benbow, of the 
 English navy, in the seventeenth century, this 
 being the only instance of the defeat of the Eng- 
 lish fleet by the French navy. Her father, Capt. 
 John Ducasse, was a captain in the French artil- 
 lery of Louis XVI's life guard, but resigned his 
 commission and came to America to assist the 
 colonies in gaining their freedom, with the un- 
 derstanding that, should he ever return to France, 
 his commission would be given back to him. He 
 accompanied General Lafayette to America, 
 where he was commissioned major of artillery, 
 and was in command at the battles of Saratoga 
 and other engagements. Until the close of the 
 Revolution he continued a brave officer of the 
 colonial army, and at its close retired as colonel 
 of artillery in the continental line. When the war 
 ended he went to the West Indies to visit an 
 uncle. Governor Ducasse, who was at the head 
 of one of the islands, and while there he died of 
 yellow fever. While in America he had marritd 
 a daughter of Capt. William Whiting, a lintal 
 descendant of Rose Standish. He left only one 
 child, Harriet Lavergne Ducasse. 
 
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 Reared in Vermont, the father of our siiljject 
 was sixteen when he went south. He engaged 
 in the cotton brokerage business with Judge Will- 
 iam Henry Hitchcock, of Mobile, Ala., until the 
 failure of his health forced him to return to the 
 north. His death occurred in Vermont when he 
 was thirtj'-eight years of age. He had not taken 
 an active part in public affairs, but he was a pub- 
 lic-spirited citizen and a man of business ability. 
 In politics he was a Whig. His wife was a 
 daughter of James and Harriet (Thomas) Vail, 
 of Troy, N. Y. James Vail acted as private sec- 
 retary to his uncle, Aaron Vail, the first Ameri- 
 can consul to Bordeaux, France, and a wealthy 
 shipowner and merchant, who finally lost all of 
 his property and died in France, his family later 
 returning to the United vStates. While James 
 Vail was on a vacation trip to England the war 
 of 1812 broke out and he was taken prisoner. 
 Afterward he was put on parole, but could not 
 leave the country. While there he met and mar- 
 ried Mi.ss Thomas. After the war closed he re- 
 turned to the United States and settled in Troy, 
 N. v., where he engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness until his death. His brothers, George and 
 Henry, were also successful dry-goods merchants. 
 Our subject's mother died in Norwich, Conn., at 
 seventy-six years of age, and was buried at her 
 old home in Vermont. She had two sons: Henry 
 Vail, who died in New Hamp.shire in 1S91; and 
 John D., of this sketch. 
 
 When an infant of three months our subject 
 was taken to Mobile, Ala., and when six years 
 old he was brought back to Vergennes, where his 
 father died three years later. At thirteen years 
 of age he entered Williston Seminary, in Ea.st- 
 hampton, Mass., and afterward clerked in a store 
 in Vergennes for eighteen months, then went to 
 Washington, D. C, where he was engaged as 
 clerk in a hardware store for twelve years. Dur- 
 ing this time he aLso carried on business for him- 
 self under the firm name of John D. Edmond & 
 Co. At the close of the war he went to Norwich, 
 Conn., but one year later went to Chicago, and 
 in 1870 settled in Leavenworth, Kans. For eleven 
 years he was traveling salesman for J. F. Rich- 
 ards & Co., and for eight years he traveled for 
 
 the Wjeth Hardware Company, of St. Jo.seph, 
 Mo., making a total of eighteen years and ten 
 months as traveling salesman. His territory in- 
 cluded northern Kansas, southwestern Nebras^ka 
 and northwestern Missouri. Upon quitting the 
 road he became interested with a nephew, John 
 D. Edmond, 2d, and under the firm title of John 
 D. Edmond, ist and 2d, the two carried on a 
 hardware business in Logan, Phillips County, 
 Kans., for three years. 
 
 May 25, 1876, in Leavenworth, occurred the 
 marriage of Mr. Edmond to Miss Mary Johnston 
 Thompson, who was born in Harrisonburg, Va. , 
 a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Ann ( Yount) 
 Thompson, both natives of the Shenandoah Val- 
 ley. About 1855 Mr. Thompson brought his 
 family to the territory of Kansas and settled in 
 Leavenworth, but during the war he returned to 
 \'irginia, joined Lee's army, and served with the 
 Confederates until he was killed. His wife reared 
 their children in Leavenworth, and now makes 
 her home with her son-in-law, Mr. Edmond. 
 
 In the progress of his home town Mr. Edmond 
 has always shown a deep interest. For one term 
 he represented the second ward in the city coun- 
 cil, and for four years he was a member of the 
 board of education. In 1897 he was elected 
 mayor on the Democratic ticket by a plurality of 
 more than six hundred. He filled the office eflS- 
 ciently, giving his entire attention to the dis- 
 charge of official duties, but at the end of his term 
 of office declined a renomination. In 1859 he 
 assisted in the organization of the National Ri- 
 fles at Washington, D. C, which afterward be- 
 came famous. During the Civil war he served 
 as orderly sergeant of Company C, District of 
 Columbia Militia. He is a member of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution of the State of Con- 
 necticut. He was a Mason in St. John's Lodge 
 No. II, A. F. & A. M., of Washington, D. C, 
 and joined by dimit King Solomon Lodge No. 
 10, A. F. & A. M., of Leavenworth, in which he 
 is past master; is a member of Leavenworth 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. ; Leavenworth Council 
 No. I, R. & S. M.; Leavenworth Commandery 
 No. I, K. T.; Abdallah Temple, N. M. S.; and 
 for six terms served as a member of the Masonic 
 
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 board of trustees, during all of which time he 
 was president of the board. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the thirt5'-secoiid degree Consistory at To- 
 peka. The United Commercial Travelers number 
 him among their members. He is a member of 
 the Episcopal Church. 
 
 (TONATHAN AKERS, yardmaster at the 
 I state penitentiary of Kansas, and a respected 
 \Z) citizen of Lawrence, was born in Putnam 
 County, Ind., August 16, 1839, a son of Jonathan 
 and Catherine (Mead) Akers. Of a family of 
 eleven children, only three besides himself are 
 now living, viz.: John M., a retired farmer liv- 
 ing in Bluffton, Iowa; Mrs. Grace Elza, also of 
 Bluffton; and Matilda, widow of John Kirkpatrick, 
 of Lawrence, Kans. The father, a native of Craw- 
 ford County, Ky., engaged in farming there and 
 acquired a number of slaves in connection with 
 other property. However, Iseing opposed to the 
 institution of slaver3', in 1836, prior to his re- 
 moval from the state, he gave all of the negroes 
 their freedom. On his arrival in Indiana he 
 settled in Owen Count)', on the Eel River, but 
 after a very short time he removed to Putnam 
 County, and there made his home until he died, 
 in 1843. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was only four years of age. He was taken into 
 the home of his sister, Elizabeth, wife of Hiram 
 Anthis, of Madison County, 111., and there he re- 
 mained until sixteen years of age, when he started 
 out in the world for himself. For four years he 
 found employment as a farm hand, after which 
 he engaged in lumbering on the Mississippi from 
 Stillwater, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo., and wa)' 
 points. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company 
 D, Second Illinois Cavalry, which rendezvoused 
 at Camp Butler, and was sent from there to the 
 front, afterward participating in the battle of Bel- 
 mont, the taking of New Madrid, and numerous 
 skirmishes. On account of disability, in Jan- 
 uarj', 1863, he was mustered out of the service. 
 After his health had been regained Mr. Akers 
 resumed lumbering on the river, which he con- 
 tinued for three years. In 1866 he was united 
 
 in marriage with Miss Amanda J. Lawrence, a 
 native of Madison County, 111., and the daughter 
 of Thomas Lawrence, who was a prominent 
 farmer there. After his marriage he was elected 
 to the office of constable, which he filled for four 
 years, at the same time acting as deputy sheriff. 
 Following this he operated a rented farm in 
 Madison County for two years. In 1871 he came 
 to Lawrence, Kans., where he secured employ- 
 ment with the Union Pacific Railroad, and for the 
 next thirteen years he was employed as foreman 
 in the construction work of the Union Pacific and 
 Santa Fe Railroad systems, from Kansas City to 
 Denver. In 1885 he was appointed guard at the 
 state penitentiary, which position he held until 
 the spring of 1893. During the following two 
 years he was street commissioner of Lawrence. 
 February i, 1897, he was appointed yardmaster 
 of the state penitentiarj', in which capacity he 
 has since been retained. In politics he was a Re- 
 publican until 1896. In 1885 he was elected a 
 member of the city council of Lawrence, but after 
 one year resigned, because the duties of his po- 
 sition at the penitentiar\- required his entire time. 
 In 1S95 he was again elected to the board, where 
 he served for two years. 
 
 Of the .seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Akers 
 four are living, namely: Oliver, who is a con- 
 ductor of the Denver & Gulf Railroad, and re- 
 sides in Denver; Warren E., who is connected 
 with the Missouri Pacific Railroad and is stationed 
 at Leavenworth; Neva Maude and Jessie, both at 
 home. 
 
 HON. E. F. CALDWELL, A. B., LL. B., 
 postmaster of Lawrence and one of the most 
 prominent citizens of this city, is a member 
 of an old family of which John Caldwell Calhoun 
 was an illustrious representative — a family that 
 had several members in the Revolutionary war 
 and that descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors. 
 His father, James Allen Caldwell, whose father, 
 John, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and a 
 large stock farmer in Kentucky, was born near 
 Danville in 1818 and removed to Indiana in 1850, 
 his intense hatred of slavery impelling him to 
 refuse to take any slaves or ally himself in any 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 way with a movemeiit he believed to be unjust. 
 During the Civil war he attempted three times to 
 enlist in the Union army, but on account of a 
 broken leg he was rejected each time. He gave 
 his attention to the management of a farm and 
 also owned a blacksmith's shop and wagon works 
 near Rockville. In 1870 he settled on a farm 
 near Carlj-le, Allen County, Kans., where he was 
 e.\tensively engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 until his death, in 1S96, at seventy-eight years of 
 age. In politics he was a Republican and in re- 
 ligion a Presbyterian. His wife, who was born 
 near Danville, Ky., was a daughter of Godhart 
 Smick, of German descent, a soldier in the war 
 of 181 2 and an extensive farmer and stockman of 
 Kentucky, where he died at the advanced age of 
 ninety-three. His daughter, Mrs. Mary Cald- 
 well, died in 18S1, when sixty-four years of age. 
 She was the mother of six sons and two daugh- 
 ters, of whom the oldest son, John G., enlisted 
 at eighteen years in an Indiana regiment and 
 served as a non-commissioned officer during the 
 Civil war; he now makes his home in Albu- 
 querque, X. M. Belle F. lives in Carl> le, Kans.; 
 Delilah died at eighteen years; David Knox is 
 living near Carlyle; Thomas Jefferson is a Meth- 
 odist Episcopal minister in Kansas; Henry Clar- 
 is a merchant and deputy postmaster at Carlyle; 
 Eldie Franklin, the subject of this sketch, was 
 next in order of birth; and the j-oungest is Mor- 
 ton, who is farming near the old Kansas home- 
 stead. 
 
 The subject of this article was born in Parke 
 County, Ind., near Rockville, September 6, 1859. 
 When a boy he assisted on the ranch in Kansas, 
 breaking prairie, herding cattle, etc. Owing to 
 losses of cattle, his father met with heavy re- 
 verses, and wlien he was ready to start out in 
 life he had no money nor means to secure a col- 
 lege education. He, however, was not discour- 
 aged, and came to Lawrence September 8, 1879, 
 with $10 in his pocket. Possessing considerable 
 literary ability he turned this talent to financial 
 account and by means of it worked his way 
 through college, where he spent six years, during 
 four of which he was manager of the Univcrsi/y 
 Revietc, a college publication. In June, 18S5, he 
 
 graduated, with the degree of A. B., as valedic- 
 torian of his class, which had been his ambition 
 vi'hen he left the farm. Before graduating he had 
 contracted for the Lawrence Daily Journal and at 
 once assumed charge. After conducting it for a 
 short time the Lawrence Journal Company was 
 organized and he became solicitor for the new 
 company. He continued as such until the istof 
 November, when he was appointed advertising 
 agent for the Southern Kansas Railroad, with 
 headquarters in Lawrence. He filled this posi- 
 tion for two j-ears, when the office was removed 
 to Topeka. He then resigned and returned to 
 the. Journal as solicitor. His next enterprise was 
 to assist in raising funds to take the Cyclone 
 Flambeau Club to Washington, D. C. He ac- 
 companied the club to Washington as one of the 
 managers and attended the Harrison inaugura- 
 tion ceremonies, where the club won first prize 
 for its displa}- of fireworks. After their return 
 the captain of the club, E. F. Goodrich, was 
 postmaster, and Mr. Caldwell became deputy 
 May 21, 1889, serving until May i, 1894. Mean- 
 time he read law evenings and in 1890 entered 
 law .school, from which he graduated in 1892, 
 with the degree of LL. B., delivering the law 
 oration at the commencement exercises of the 
 university. 
 
 On the Republican ticket, in June, 1894, Mr. 
 Caldwell was nominated for the legislature and 
 was elected by a good majority. During the 
 session of 1895 he was chairman of the committee 
 on state affairs, and was frequently called to the 
 chair to preside over the house as a committee of 
 whole. He championed the universitj' appro- 
 priation raising the income of the institution 
 from $75,000 to $100,000 a year; also the irriga- 
 tion bill appropriating funds for the development 
 of western Kansas, and other important legisla- 
 tion that session. After his retirement from the 
 House he engaged in the practice of law until 
 July, 1898, when he became postmaster at Law- 
 rence. Much of his time has been given to lit- 
 erary work. He has published a number of 
 illustrated papers and pamphlets on Kansas and 
 the west, among them a history of Lawrence in 
 the early days, from the pen of Dr. Richard Cord- 
 
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 ley. His latest undertaking was the compiling 
 and publication of an illustrated edition of Law- 
 rence that was greatl\- admired for artistic work. 
 His attention is now wholly given to his duties 
 as postmaster and the superintendance of that 
 office. 
 
 At Lawrence, in October, 1885, Mr. Caldwell 
 married Miss Mary Viola McFarland, who was 
 born in Ohio and died in Lawrence in 18S7, 
 leaving a daughter, Kate May. 
 
 Since the organization of the Commercial Club 
 Mr. Caldwell has been one of its members, and 
 since 1893 has served as secretary. He is iden- 
 tified with the University Extension Club and 
 has been chairman of the executive committee of 
 the Alumni Association. He assisted in organ- 
 izing the Republican League of Kansas and was 
 its president in 1897. In the Presbyterian Church 
 he is an active worker and has served as. a trustee. 
 A charter member of the Phi Delta Theta Col- 
 lege Fraternity, he has been its president and 
 representative. In the Knights of Pythias he is 
 past chancellor and its representative in Grand 
 Lodges. He is connected with the Odd Fellows 
 and Daughters of Rebekah. He was one of the 
 founders of the Fraternal Aid Association and 
 has been prominent in its work. As a citizen he 
 is influential and popular among the people of 
 Lawrence, and is actively identified with many 
 enterprises in the building up of that city. 
 
 EAPT. RICHARD L. IGEL, who has made 
 his home in Leavenworth since 1872, and is 
 now druggist at the western branch of the 
 National Military Home, was born in the king- 
 dom of Wurtemberg, Germany, March 29, 1839. 
 His father, Louis F. Igel, who was a pharmacist 
 by occupation, was one of the highly respected 
 citizens of his native place. Accumulating a 
 handsome propertj' he retired from business 
 while still comparatively young, but subsequent 
 misfortunes, involving the loss of a large amount 
 of capital, led him to come to America in 1851 
 and open a drug store in Madison, Ind. After a 
 number of years in that city, in 1858 he moved his 
 stock of drugs to Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he 
 
 was successfully engaged in business until his 
 death in 1863. He was the son of a successful 
 druggist, so that our subject represents the third 
 generation who have followed the same line of 
 business. 
 
 When the family came to the United States 
 Captain Igel was a boy of twelve years. He 
 learned the druggist's trade under his father and 
 continued in Madison until the outbreak of the 
 Civil war. He then enlisted for ninety days in 
 the Sixth Indiana Infantry, of which he was 
 chosen hospital steward. After he had been hon- 
 orably discharged from that regiment he joined 
 the Thirty second Indiana Infantrj^ and was 
 chosen corporal of his company. For one year 
 he served on detached duty under the surgeon- 
 general, after which he was returned to his regi- 
 ment as second lieutenant. The death of his 
 father in 1863 caused him to resign his commis- 
 sion and return home. He took charge of his 
 father's store at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where he 
 made his home until he came to Kansas in 1872. 
 His first position in this city was as clerk in a 
 wholesale drug house, where he continued until 
 1879. Later he engaged in the drug business 
 for himself. In May, 1890, he was appointed 
 druggist at the National Soldiers' Home, which 
 position he has since efficiently filled. He has 
 engaged in the drug business for forty years and 
 is familiar with its every detail, while his knowl- 
 edge of medicine and surgery is also broad and 
 thorough. He is a registered pharmacist, and a 
 member of the Kansas State Pharmaceutical As- 
 sociation. The Kansas Commandery of the Loyal 
 Legion and Custer Post No. 120, G. A. R., num- 
 ber him among their members and enable him to 
 frequently renew his associations with those who, 
 like him, fought for the preservation of the Union 
 during the dark days of the '60s. Fraternally he 
 is connected with Concordia Lodge No. 8, K. P. 
 He has in his possession a thirty pound mortar 
 made of brass in Germany, which bears the date 
 of 1516, and has been in the family for several 
 hundred years. Tradition says that this mortar 
 was the possession of the alchemist at the mon- 
 astery Kaltenbrunn in Wurtemberg, whose ro- 
 mantic career was investigated by the immortal 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Goethe, and employed by him as the subject for 
 his famous character in the celebrated drama of 
 "Faust." 
 
 The marriage of Captain Igel took place in 
 1863, and united him with Emma, daughter of 
 Charles F. Schuessler, M. D., surgeon of the 
 Sixth Indiana Infantry from Madison, Ind., dur- 
 ing the Civil war. They are the parents of five 
 children, namely: Leonora, wife of Frederick 
 Harper, United States assayer at Helena, Mont.; 
 Carl, who is connected with the United States 
 mail service; Richard L., Jr., who is hospital 
 steward of the United States penitentiary at Fort 
 Leavenworth; Louisa, a teacher in the public 
 schools of Helena, Mont.; and Lena. 
 
 GlDOLPH C. GRIESA. There is no finer 
 I 1 land for nursery purposes than that wliich 
 / 1 lies in eastern Kansas. Hence a large num- 
 ber of men have been able to secure a success in 
 the business that would have been impossible 
 el.sewliere. Among the prosperous nurserymen 
 of Lawrence is the subject of this sketch, who 
 with his brother, Theodore E., started Mount 
 Hope nursery in 1878. For five years they oc- 
 cupied a location three miles west of the city, but 
 in 1883 bought their present site, where they 
 have seventy acres in one body, besides eighty 
 acres adjoining the city, using, with tlieir rented 
 land, about two hundred acres for nur.sery pur- 
 poses. Shipments of their nursery stock are 
 made to all points in the Missouri Vallej' and the 
 west, and one hundred and fifty salesmen are 
 employed in different parts of this territory. The 
 packing house, 40x80, two stories, has twelve 
 thousand square feet of space. A two-inch pipe 
 line brings water from the city water works. The 
 office is on the corner of Mi.ssouri and Elliott 
 streets. 
 
 The father of our subject, Charles Henry, .son 
 of Charles Henry Griesa, was born in Prussia, 
 Germany, and in youth learned the cabinet-mak- 
 er's trade. In 1853 he came to America and set- 
 tled in Lima, N. Y. Two years later the family 
 joined him. He resided for a time in Naples, 
 N. v., then in North Cohoctoii, where he en- 
 
 gaged in the furniture and undertaking business 
 until his <leath in 1879, at seventy-two years. 
 The business which he established is conducted 
 by his sou, Charles A. The mother of our sub- 
 ject bore the maiden name of Henrietta Scholl; 
 she was born in Leubeke, in the province of 
 Westphalia, Germany, and died in New York 
 in 1889, aged .seventy-two. Her father, Charles 
 Scholl, was a saddler and harness-maker. In the 
 family of Henry and Henrietta Griesa, there were 
 seven children who attained mature years, viz. : 
 William F., a commission merchant in Naples, 
 N. Y.; August H., a nurseryman and fruit- 
 grower of Lawrence; Adolph C; Mrs. Rachael 
 Boone, of Lawrence; Charles A.; Mrs. Augusta 
 Lyon, of Naples; and Theodore E. , of Lawrence. 
 
 A native of Bielefeldt, Prussia, born March 
 29, 1847, our subject was a boy of eight years 
 when his mother brought him to this country, 
 making the trip in seven weeks from Bremen to 
 New York via the sailer "Atlanta." He attended 
 the public schools and academy of Naples, N.Y. , 
 and for some j-ears worked on a farm in the sum- 
 mer and attended school during the winter. In 
 1869 he joined his brother, August H., in Law- 
 rence, and for nine years the two continued in 
 the nursery business together, after which their 
 partnership was dissolved, and our subject be- 
 came connected with his younger brother. In 
 everything pertaining to his chosen business he 
 maintains a deep interest. He always attends the 
 meetings of the American Association of Nurs- 
 erymen, and has frequently served on commit- 
 tees in connection with the same. He has also 
 been actively identified with the Western As.so- 
 ciation of Wholesale Nurserymen, and is a life 
 member of the Kansas State Horticultural So- 
 ciety. 
 
 Since coming to Lawrence Mr. Griesa has been 
 a member of Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & 
 A. M. He is al.so connected with the Knights 
 and Ladies of Security. In the Plymouth Con- 
 gregational Church he is a member of the board 
 of trustees. Politically he votes with the Repub- 
 lican party. He was married in this city to Miss 
 liva Stevens, who was born in Princeton, 111., a 
 daughter of Capt. James Stevens, who served as 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 a captain of an Illinois regiment during the Civil 
 war, and in 1867 settled in Lawrence. Mr. and 
 Mr.s. Griesa have four children: Mabel C, a 
 graduate of the Lawrence high school, and now 
 a student in the University of Kansas; OraN., 
 who will graduate from the high school class of 
 1900; William Stevens and Edna E. 
 
 "HEODORE GRIESA was born in Naples, 
 Ontario County, N. Y., January 7, 1859, °- 
 son of Charles Henry and Henrietta (Scholl) 
 Griesa. When he was an infant his father re- 
 moved with the family to North Cohocton, Steu- 
 ben County, the same state, and there he was 
 educated in the public schools. After the death 
 of his father in 1879 he engaged in building in 
 his hometown, but in the fall of 1880 joined his 
 older brothers in Kansas. For four years he was 
 engaged as traveling salesman for his brother, 
 A. C, after which the two formed a partnership 
 under the firm title of A. C. Griesa & Bro. , es- 
 tablishing the Mount Hope nursery, of which 
 they have since been the proprietors, and which 
 is one of the largest and finest in the entire state. 
 While he maintains the general supervision of 
 the entire business, he has several foremen to 
 assi-st him. During the busy season employment 
 is furnished to more than one hundred men. 
 Agents represent the company in Tennessee, 
 Kentucky, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, 
 Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, and shipments 
 are made of the nursery stock through the entire 
 western countr3\ Being connected with the city 
 water works, twenty-five acres of the nursery are 
 irrigated by this means. Every modern improve- 
 ment is to be found here, and the brothers are 
 quick to seize upon every advantage in order to 
 promote the growth of the business. 
 
 The marriage of our subject took place in Bos- 
 ton, Ma.ss., and united him with Miss Myra P. 
 Scott, of Dorchester, that state, who was born in 
 Kennebunk, Me., and graduated from the high 
 school of Dorchester. They are the parents of 
 three children, Scott, Charles and Murray. 
 
 In politics Mr. Griesa is a Republican, and on 
 that ticket he was elected treasurer of Wakarusa 
 
 Township, an office which he filled for two terms. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Knights and 
 Ladies of Security. His wife is an active mem- 
 ber of the Plymouth Congregational Church and 
 the Fraternal Aid. He is a member of the Doug- 
 las County Horticultural Society, the State, 
 American and Western Associations of Nursery- 
 men, and endeavors to keep in touch with the 
 latest developments made in horticulture and 
 floriculture. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM R. GREEN. In the eastern part 
 \A/ of Grant Township lies one of the valua- 
 Y V ble farms of Douglas County. It is owned 
 and occupied by Mr. Green. At the time he pur- 
 chased the property the land was partly under 
 cultivation, and he completed its improvement, 
 and now farms one hundred and forty-three acres 
 of the finest bottom land, on which he raises corn, 
 wheat and potatoes. In the early days, when 
 traveling was done by stage, his house waii used 
 as one of the hotels on the stage route. As a 
 farmer he has been successful. In addition to 
 the raising of cereals and vegetables he gives 
 considerable attention to the raising of Poland- 
 China hogs, and in former years, when horses 
 brought good prices, he had a number on his 
 place, but the subsequent depreciation in price 
 caused him to give up this branch of agriculture. 
 The first of our subject's ancestors in America 
 was his great-grandfather, James, whose son, 
 Thomas, was the father of Robert Green. The 
 last-named was born in New York, where he fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits until his death at 
 forty years of age. By his marriage to Margaret 
 Woods, of Washington County, N. Y., he had 
 four sons and two daughters, of whom the follow- 
 ing survive: J. W. , who has been dean of the law 
 department of the University of Kansas ever since 
 that department was established; Anne, wife of 
 C. D. Warner, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and 
 William R., who was born in Cambridge, Wash- 
 ington County, N. Y. The education of our sub- 
 ject was such as to prepare him for the responsi- 
 bilities of life. He attended Williston Seminary 
 at East Hampton, Ma,ss., for two years, after 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 which he spent a year in Eastman's Business Col- 
 lege at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For eight years 
 after completing his education he engaged in 
 farming on the home place, but later sold the 
 property and turned his attention to the manage- 
 ment of a foundry and machine shop, which he 
 conducted for five years. After a year in Cali- 
 fornia he came to Kansas and purchased the farm 
 where he has since made his home. Here he gives 
 his attention to farming, dairying and stock-rais- 
 ing. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Green is a Republican, 
 but in local affairs he is independent, favoring 
 such measures as will best conduce to the welfare 
 of the people. While he has not sought office for 
 himself, at the solicitation of his friends he has 
 con.sented to .serve as member of the school board 
 and township treasurer, and holds the latter of- 
 fice at this writing. When twenty-one years of 
 age he joined the Masonic order at Cambridge, 
 N. Y. He is now identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Knights and Ladies of Security. 
 March 10, 1886, he married Sallie J. Altee, who 
 was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Both he and his 
 wife attend the United Presbyterian Church and 
 contribute to its maintenance. 
 
 UjICIIOLAS S. CLARKE, proprietor of a liv- 
 I / ery and sales stable at Lawrence and a resi- 
 1/3 dent of this city since 1869, was born in 
 Rushville, Schuyler County, 111., April 14, 1845, 
 a son of Rev. John and Ann (O'Hearn) Clarke. 
 His grandparents, John and Eleanor Clarke, 
 were natives of Ireland, and settled in Lanca.ster, 
 Pa., where he followed the tanning business; his 
 wife was ninety-nine at the time of her death. 
 Rev. John Clarke was born in Lancaster and re- 
 ceived his education at Pittsburgh, after which, as 
 a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 he labored in Ohio and Indiana, and in 1S43 ac- 
 cepted a pastorate at Rushville, 111., where he 
 became the owner of a large farm. Later he was 
 stationed at Quincy, Adams County, and War- 
 saw, Hancock County. He was prominent in 
 public affairs and was one of the men who met 
 
 at Bloomington, 111., and organized the Republi- 
 can party. He represented vScluiyler County, 
 while Abraham Lincoln represented Sangamon 
 County. He was a personal friend of the latter, 
 who frequently visited him in his home, and he 
 was also a cotemporary of Bishop Simpson and 
 other noted divines of his denomination. Pos- 
 sessing broad knowledge and an extraordinary 
 command of language, he was in demand as a 
 writer of articles for journals, religious and secu- 
 lar. The last years of his life were spent in De- 
 troit, Mich., where he died Maj- 18, 1S96. His 
 wife, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was born 
 in 18 13 and died in Illinois in 1891, aged seventy- 
 eight years. Of their twelve children who at- 
 tained maturity four are now living. One son, 
 Thomas, who was a member of the One Hundred 
 and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, died during the 
 Red River expedition. Another sou, Albert, 
 enlisted in a cavalry company, and was captured 
 by Quantrell's men near Independence, Mo., but 
 was soon paroled and afterward entered the Tenth 
 Missouri Infantry, in which he rose to the rank 
 of major; he died in Kearney, Neb. A third 
 brother, James F., lives in Portland, Ore., while 
 Ancil H. is in Rushville, 111. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the .seventh 
 among nine sons. He received his education in 
 public schools and We.sleyan University , at Bloom- 
 ington, 111. His first work was in connection 
 with railroad contracting on the Chicago, Bur- 
 lington & Ouincj' Railroad. In 1869 he came to 
 Kansas, and for three years farmed in Douglas 
 County, after which he .settled in Lawrence, buy- 
 ing a lot that had an old frame building on it. 
 Here he began the transfer business, and later he 
 opened a livery stable and dealt in horses. After 
 some years he built a two story barn, 50x1 17, 
 which he .still utilizes for his fine horses. Since 
 the organization of the Lawrence Building and 
 Loan Association he has been one of its directors. 
 Reared in the faith of the Republican party, 
 when that political organization was in its infancy, 
 it is natural that he should be a stanch adherent 
 of its principles. He served for two terms as 
 councilman from the first ward, then refused fur- 
 ther nomination initil the spring of 1899, when 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 233 
 
 he was again elected to the council. He is now 
 doing excellent work as chairman of the com- 
 mittee on streets and alle3^s. The Commercial 
 Club numbers him among its members. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Modern Wood- 
 men, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 the lodge of Odd Fellows, in which he is past 
 grand; and also a member of the Lodge of Re- 
 bekahs, as is also his wife. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Clarke, in Lawrence, 
 united him with Miss Lucy J. Patterson, who was 
 born in Findlay, Ohio, and in 1S55 accompanied 
 her father, William, to Lawrence, where Mr. Pat- 
 terson became one of the foremost attorneys of 
 the city; he was injured at the blowing up of 
 Hunt's Mills, and after lingering in poor health 
 for a year he died in 1858. His wife died in 
 Lawrence in 1890. During the Quantrell raid 
 they were burned out and suffered the loss of all 
 their personal property. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke 
 became the parents of three children (triplets), 
 one of whom died at the age of twelve months. 
 The others, Mary P. and Helen M., were among 
 the honor students in the high school graduating 
 class of 1899, and are now students in the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas. They are unusually bright 
 and capable, and have hosts of warm friends 
 among the young people of Lawrence. The 
 family are connected with the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. 
 
 HON. JAMES S. EMERY. The life of Judge 
 Emery was so intimatelj' connected with 
 the early history of Lawrence that it would 
 be impossible to present the record of one without 
 frequentlj' alluding to the other. He belonged 
 to that large and intellectual class of eastern citi- 
 zens who, coming to Kansas in territorial days, 
 assisted in laying the foundations of the common- 
 wealth broad, deep and solid. Reared under the 
 beneficent influences of New England schools 
 and religious institutions, these men were fitted 
 to go forth and open up a new colony in a ter- 
 ritory that, largely through their influence, was 
 made to stand for the abolition of slavery. 
 
 In January, 1854, a year after his admission 
 to the bar of New York City, Judge Emery was 
 
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 in Boston and, attending a citizens' meeting 
 held to protest against the admission of Kansas 
 as a slave state, he became deeply interested in 
 the matter. A party was being organized to set- 
 tle in Kansas, with Governor Robinson as the 
 leader. He joined the company, and from that 
 time until his death was associated with the 
 history of this part of the great west. Governor 
 Robinson, by reason of having crossed the plains 
 in 1848 with JohnC. Fremont, was familiar with 
 the west and was a safe leader for the party of 
 one hundred and twenty-three who put them- 
 selves under his guidance. Of the company, the 
 majority were from Massachusetts, although 
 some were from Rochester, N. Y., and other 
 points along the route westward. 
 
 September 14, 1854, Judge Emery arrived at 
 what is now Lawrence. He entered a claim to 
 one hundred and sixty acres adjoining the pres- 
 ent site of the university. His first home in 
 Kansas cost him $25 and was built on government 
 land for which he paid $1.25 an acre. For a time 
 his attention was given to the improvement of 
 his claim and to surveying and drawing up con- 
 tracts. The political conditions of Kansas were at 
 that time most unsettled. Villages and counties 
 were operated under bogus laws, which he and 
 other free settlers refused to acknowledge, and 
 kence never brought suits under them. In No- 
 vember, 1855, he served in the defense of Law- 
 rence in one of the four forts around the town. 
 It was at this time that John Brown and his 
 four .sons made their first appearance in Law- 
 rence, and Mr. Emery served in the same fort 
 with them. Under the ".squatter" sovereignty, 
 he was superintendent of the first .school started 
 in Lawrence. He built the first permanent build- 
 ing in the town, and subsequently erected others. 
 After he had been here little more than a year 
 he was appointed magistrate or justice of the 
 peace under the Kansas and Nebraska bill, bis 
 commission as such, November 8, 1854, being 
 the first of the kind issued by Governor Reeder, 
 and it is now in the hands of the State Historical 
 Society of Topeka. 
 
 Shortly after the opening of the Civil war, 
 October 5, 1861, our subject was commissioned 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a colonel in the Kansas militia by Governor Rob- 
 inson. The following year he was elected to 
 represent his district (then known as the thirty- 
 sixth) in the state legislature, and November 3, 
 1863, was re-elected to that bodj'. During his 
 terra of office a contest arose between Lawrence 
 and Ivmporia respecting the location of the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas. Governor Eskridge led the 
 Emporia faction and Judge Emery the Lawrence 
 party. The matter was finally settled by the lo- 
 cation of the university in Lawrence, bj- a vote 
 of fifty-one to fifty. The university received an 
 endowment of $:o,ooo from Amos Lawrence, in 
 whose honor the city of Lawrence was named. 
 March i, 1864, Judge Emery received from Gov- 
 ernor Carney appointment as regent of the uni- 
 versity, and filled the position for four years. In 
 March, 1874, Governor Osborn again appointed 
 him regent, and he .served for three years. From 
 President Lincoln, March 18, 1864, he received 
 the appointment of United States district attorney 
 for Kansas. 
 
 During the service of Senator Henry M. Teller 
 as secretary of the interior, Judge Emery was ap- 
 pointed, March 3, 1885, chairman ofthe board of 
 visitors to the Indian Indu.strial school (now the 
 Haskell In.stitute). In August, 1888, he was 
 appointed by Governor Martin a delegate to the 
 first convention of the Inter-state Deep Water 
 Association. This meeting, which convened in 
 Denver, was the first in the interests of a deep 
 water harbor on the Gulf. To the cau.se of irri- 
 gation he devoted the best efforts of his life, 
 traveling thousands of miles to deliver lectures 
 in support of the plan. He heartily believed in 
 irrigation, and, could his wi.shes be consulted, 
 without doubt he would rather be remembered 
 for his work in behalf of irrigation than for any- 
 thing else he accomplished in his life. In his 
 opinion the opening up of vast areas of unpro- 
 ductive land through the medium of irrigation 
 would not only be of especial benefit to the 
 poorer classes, but would react to the advance- 
 ment of all interests and peoples. In 1893 he 
 was appointed a delegate to the International Ir- 
 rigation Convention held in Los Angeles, and 
 was afterward appointed every year until his 
 
 death. In everything pertaining to that move- 
 ment he was considered an authority and his 
 advice was often sought in matters bearing upon 
 the subject. In 1899 Governor Stanley ap- 
 pointed him a member of the Trans Mississippi 
 Congress, held in Wichita, Kans. 
 
 The characteristics noticeable in the life of 
 Judge Emery were his by inheritance. He came 
 of an old Maine famil)-, and was a son of Ira and 
 Sarah (Stanley) Emery, natives of York Count\-, 
 that state. Through his mother he was a 
 descendant of English ancestors. As earlj' as 
 1800 his father became a pioneer at Industry, 
 Me., where he continued to reside until his 
 death at an advanced age: his wife died when 
 more than eighty years of age. Of their twelve 
 children all but two attained maturity and five 
 are now living, three daughters being residents 
 of Lawrence. Judge Emery was born at Indus- 
 try, Me. , on the 3d of July, 1826. He graduated 
 from Colby University in 185 1, with the degree 
 of A. B., and later received the degree of A. M. 
 He paid his own expenses while in college 
 by teaching and engaging in manual labor. 
 Afterward he studied law in Troy and New York 
 City, and was admitted to the bar in January, 
 1853. In Brandon, Vt., November 6, 1851, he 
 married Miss Mary Rice, onh* child of Pliny and 
 Maria (Whitcomb) Rice. Ira, the only son 
 of Judge and Mrs. Ivnery, died at the age of 
 fourteen. The daughters, Agnes and Sarah, are 
 graduates of the University of Kansas. The- 
 family are members of the Congregational Church 
 of Lawrence. 
 
 Judge Emery was a fluent speaker, and ex- 
 pressed his thouglits clearly and forcibly. His 
 logical reasoning and eloquence rendered him an 
 interesting orator. Throughout the roughening 
 influences of pioneer life he never lost his love for 
 books and his interest in education. He was fre- 
 quently called ujion to deliver addresses before 
 various universities and before the Kansas His- 
 torical Society (of which he was a member), as 
 well as otlier historical societies. As a pioneer 
 of Lawrence he is one of those to whom the 
 present generation owes a large debt of gratitude, 
 owing, as it does, all its advantages for a higher 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 235 
 
 degree of culture and for the refinements of life 
 to the brave men who endured privations and 
 hardships, and opened the way for a high civili- 
 zation in the west. He died June 8, 1899, after 
 an illness of four mouths. To the last his mind 
 was unimpaired by the flight of time, and he was 
 able to look back over his busy and useful life, 
 and rejoice, not only in the success he had at- 
 tained, but also in the high position he held as 
 a man and a citizen. 
 
 ""DWARD JAMESON. No man has done 
 ^ more for the advancement of the real estate 
 ,^ of Eeavenworth than has Mr. Jameson. His 
 prompt business habits, superior financial talent 
 and tact in the management of affairs have brought 
 him into prominence, not onlj' in his cit)-, but 
 also in the state. His efforts have not been solely 
 for personal aggrandizement, but also for the bene- 
 fit of others and for the development of local re- 
 sources. At a time when real estate was low 
 and values depreciated, he never lost his belief 
 in a "prosperous future; and the fact that better 
 times dawned for Kansas was due not a little to 
 his energy, sagacity and wise judgment. 
 
 Mr. Jameson was born in Hunsenworth, near 
 Blanchland, County Durham, England, April 21, 
 1849, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clennell) 
 Jame.son. His grandfather, Thomas Jameson, 
 Sr., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved 
 with his family to Blanchland, County of Durham, 
 England, and developed the Jameson lead mines. 
 He was a member of the family to which belonged 
 Jameson, the celebrated artist. Thomas Jame- 
 son, Jr., was engaged in farming until his death, 
 at thirty-two years. In religion he was identi- 
 fied with the Church of England. He married a 
 daughter of Alexander Clennell, a mine operator 
 and farmer, whose father, Alexander, Sr., was a 
 native of Glasgow. Mrs. Elizabeth Jameson died 
 in England in 1895, leaving a son, Edward, and 
 a daughter, Mrs. Mary Bamboro, of County Dur- 
 ham, England. The son, our subject, studied 
 architecture under Mr. Harrison, of Houghton- 
 ou Spring, County of Durham. In 1883 he came 
 to the United States and settled in Leavenworth, 
 
 where, as architect and superintendent, he made 
 plans for many of the principal buildings erected 
 in the city. After two years he drifted into the 
 real-estate business, in which he has since suc- 
 cessfully engaged. 
 
 Under the personal direction of Mr. Jameson 
 the following additions have been laid out to 
 Leavenworth: Fenn's Broadway addition; Fenn's 
 fair ground addition; Morris addition; Cleveland 
 Park addition; Evans' addition, and others. He 
 has also bought and sold farms in every part of 
 Kansasand in other states. In 1894 he with others 
 organized the Kansas State Real Estate Associa- 
 tion, of which he has since been the president and 
 which was the means of starting better times in 
 Kansas. With the organization of the Kansas 
 Million Club he was al.so actively connected and 
 served as its secretary. This club shipped a train- 
 load of farm produce and fruit to Chicago during 
 the fall of 1895, and exhibited the same along the 
 entire route eastward, afterward giving the mayor 
 of Chicago a carload of apples to be distributed 
 among the poor people of that cit)'. This proved 
 a splendid advertisement for the state and attract- 
 ed considerable immigration. 
 
 The various property enterprises originated by 
 Mr. Jameson engross his attention, totheexclu- 
 sion of all other interests. He has never been a 
 politician, although he is a pronounced Republi- 
 can and has served as chairman of the county Re- 
 publican committee. However, while not a pol- 
 itician, he is a very progressive citizen, and no 
 enterprise for the advancement of the city is pro- 
 posed that fails to meet with his hearty approval. 
 While in Durham, England, he was made a Ma- 
 son. The close attention which he gives to his 
 business affairs, however, has prevented him from 
 identifying himself with fraternal associations in 
 the United States. 
 
 In Sunderland, Durham, England, Mr. Jame- 
 son married Miss Jane A. Stephenson, a member 
 of the family to which belonged George Stephen- 
 son, the inventor of locomotives. They are the 
 parents of three children: Arthur E., Frederick 
 W. and Louise. The elder son, a graduate of the 
 Art Students' League of New York City, has 
 since 1895 been an artist on the New York S//>/- 
 
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 day Jonnial. The younger son graduated from 
 high school in 1S99, and was captain of the high 
 school cadet conipan\'. 
 
 (TjAMUKL H. CARMEAN, who held the office 
 /\ of sheriff of Douglas County for four terms 
 \~) and was recognized as one of the most vigil- 
 ant and fearless men ever in the office, was first 
 elected to the position in 1871, and his term was 
 so satisfactory that he was re-elected in 1873, 
 without opposition. At the beginning of his 
 first term he established his home in Lawrence 
 and here he has since resided. After the close of 
 his second term lie returned to the cattle busi- 
 ness, in which he had previously engaged. In 
 1883 he was nominated for sheriff by acclamation 
 and was elected. Again, in 1885, he received 
 the nomination by acclamation, ard gained the 
 election, serving until Januar}', 1888, when he 
 retired. While he held the office a train was 
 held up at Muncie, on the Union Pacific road. 
 One of the desperadoes, McDaniels, was caught 
 in Kansas City and brought to the Lawrence jail 
 for safe keeping; but, during the absence of Mr. 
 Carmean, he and three others knocked the jailer 
 down and succeeded in effecting an escape. Pur- 
 suit was at once instituted, and after two day.s' 
 hunt McDaniels was found, but was wounded in 
 the capture and died in jail soon afterward. 
 
 Mr. Carmean was born near Chillicothe, Ross 
 County, Ohio, March 2, 1832, and was next to 
 the oldest of .seventeen children, fourteen of whom 
 attained mature years and seven are now living. 
 Three of the sons took part in the Civil war. 
 Pierson, who was a noncommissioned officer in 
 the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry and was wounded 
 at Pittsburg Landing, first came to Kansas in 1856 
 and is now living in Miami County. Joshua, 
 who was also a member of the Fourteenth Iowa, 
 is living at Leon, that state. David enlisted in 
 Iowa and was wounded in the battle of Atlanta; 
 he now resides at Mediapolis, Iowa. 
 
 Foster Carmean, our .subject's father, was a 
 son of Pierson Carmean, who was born in Marj-- 
 land, probably of French descent. The former 
 accompanied the family to Ross County, Ohio, 
 
 and engaged in farming and raising stock on 
 Paint Creek. Removing to Iowa in 1S42, he 
 settled fifteen miles north of Burlington, and en- 
 gaged extensively in farming there until his 
 death at sixty-two years. He married Elvine 
 Heizer, who was born in Ross County, and 
 died in Iowa at seventy- two years. Her father, 
 who was born in \'irginia, of German ancestry, 
 settled in Ross County, Ohio, and married a 
 Miss Ware, whose father was a Revolutionary 
 soldier and an early settler of Ohio from Virginia. 
 
 When ten years of age our subject accom- 
 panied his parents to Iowa. His education was 
 begun in the public school and continued in Yel- 
 low Springs College, after which he taught two 
 terms of school. At Xortlifield, Iowa, April 17, 
 1856, he married Miss Lydia Jane Gray, who was 
 born in New Milford, Pa., a daughter of Elisha 
 Perkins Gray, and a granddaughter of Thomas 
 Gray, both natives of Connecticut. Her father 
 from New London, Conn., removed to New 
 Milford, Pa., where he engaged in merchandis- 
 ing, but after some time settled on a farm near 
 Portage, Kalamazoo County, Mich., where he 
 died at fifty years. He married Hannah Belknap, 
 who was born near Batavia, N. Y., and died 
 in Michigan. Her father, John Belknap, was 
 a native of New York, of English descent, and in 
 an early day removed to Pennsylvania, where he 
 owned and operated a sawmill. Mrs. Carmean 
 was one of four children, of whom she and her 
 sister, Mrs. Charlotte Gray, of Lawrence, alone 
 survive. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Carmean settled at Baldwin, 
 Douglas County, Kans. , where he opened a gen- 
 eral store and al.so became interested in the stock 
 business. During the war he had the contract to 
 furnish beef for the Sac and Fox Indians. Early 
 in the war Governor Robinson commissioned him 
 captain of a company of militia, but it was dis- 
 banded before the Price raid. He was quarter- 
 ma.ster of the Third Kansas Regiment of militia, 
 which was mustered into .service to defend the 
 state against Price. After the war he gave his 
 attention to the cattle business until he was elected 
 sheriff and after his retirement from that office he 
 resumed dealing in .stock. For one term he served 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 as city marshal. In politics he is a Republican 
 and has been a member of the county committee 
 of his party. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Palmyra Lodge No. 33, A. F. & A. M., at Bald- 
 win City; the Knights of Honor; Select Friends; 
 Eastern Star (to which his wife also belongs); 
 and Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., his wife 
 being a member of the Ladies of the G. A. R. In 
 religion he is a Presbyterian and has officiated as 
 an elder in his church. He and his wife have 
 four children, namely: Charles K., who is en- 
 gaged in the live- stock commis.sion business in 
 St. Joe, Mo. ; Cyrene, wife of F. D. Connor, of 
 Clifton, Ariz.; Fannie, who married C. M. 
 Spaulding, of Sacramento, Cal.; and Arthur W., 
 who graduated from the Lawrence Business Col- 
 lege and is interested in business with his brother 
 at St. Joe. Besides caring for and educating 
 their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Carmean took 
 into their home a boy, Emerson E. McClure, who 
 is now in Kansas City. 
 
 QOSIAH S. FLETCHER was one of the 
 I highly respected residents of Willow Springs 
 \Z) Township, Douglas Count}^ where he owned 
 an improved farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres. He was born in Bethel , Me. , February 2 1 , 
 1833, and was a member of one of the pioneer 
 families of New England, dating the ancestry 
 back to one of two brothers who came from Eng- 
 land one hundred and fifty years ago. His father, 
 Ephraim Fletcher, a native of Massachusetts, 
 was reared on a farm in Worcester County and 
 there engaged in agricultural pursuits during 
 the greater part of his life. He was well informed 
 concerning the national problems of his day and 
 in politics coincided with Whig principles. 
 
 Reared and educated in Massachusetts, our 
 subject had only such advantages as, in the early 
 part of the century, fell to the lot of a farmer's 
 son. Being studious, he gained considerable 
 knowledge in a brief attendance at an academ}', 
 where, though unable to complete the regular 
 course of study, he nevertheless laid a solid 
 foundation upon which he built in later years by 
 self-culture. In early manhood he went to 
 
 McLean County, 111., where he secured employ- 
 ment on a farm, remaining there for two years. 
 At that time public attention was being drawn 
 toward Kansas, owing to the conflict between the 
 pro- slavery and free-state parties. In the spring 
 of 1857 he came west, joining his fortunes with 
 the northern element here. He pre-empted a 
 claim, began its improvement, and by persever- 
 ance acquired a valuable homestead. During his 
 last years, however, he was so crippled by rheu- 
 matism that he delegated to others the task of 
 planting, plowing and harvesting, although he 
 maintained a supervision of the place until a 
 short time before his death. 
 
 By his marriage, April 14, 1858, to Miss Mary 
 Crosby, who died October 21, 1891, Mr. Fletcher 
 had five children, namely: Frank L., a farmer of 
 Coffey County, Kans. ; George F. , who is engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising in Colorado; John, 
 who died at twenty years; James, who resides 
 with his parents; and Clara, who lives in Ford 
 County, this state. March 28, 1893, he married 
 Mrs. Eliza J. Cantrell, of Baldwin. From i860 
 until his death Mr. Fletcher was a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church and for many years 
 served as an officer of the same. His interest in 
 school matters continued during the entire period 
 of his residence in Kansas. Recognizing the 
 value of public schools, in which even the poorest 
 child may hope to obtain a good education, he 
 did all within his power to promote the welfare 
 of the schools within his district, and after 1859 
 was a member of the board of directors. For two 
 terms he held office as justice of the peace, having 
 been elected to that office on the ticket of the 
 Republican party. 
 
 Mr. Fletcher had been in ill health for about 
 three months, but his death, which occurred 
 August 20, 1899, was quite unexpected by his 
 family. 
 
 pkATRICK CUMMINGS. one of the earliest 
 ly of the pioneers of Lecompton, was born in 
 P County Tipperary, Ireland, August 10, 
 1834, a son of Patrick and Nora (Horan) Cum- 
 mings, and the only one of their six children to 
 come to America. He passed the years of youth 
 
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 on his father's farm and acquired his education in 
 the national schools. 1111851 he determined to 
 come to America, and the 27th daj- of December 
 found him in New Orleans, a stranger, without 
 monej-. He hired out to work on the Polk 
 plantation, twenty-five miles up the river, where 
 he was employed in digging ditches. After 
 three months he returned to New Orleans and 
 for nine months was employed in driving a 
 truck, nfter which for six months he was em- 
 ployed at corporation work. Afterward he came 
 up the river to St. Louis, but not liking that city, 
 he proceeded, by water, to Louisville, Ky., where 
 he was engaged in teaming for four months. 
 Later he engaged in railroad work and in build- 
 ing plank roads on the Indiana side of the river 
 at New Albany. He remained at New Albany 
 about one year, after which he worked on the 
 Albany & Salem road from New Albany to 
 Michigan City, his work being grading and 
 track laying. From Michigan City he went to 
 Dubuque, Iowa, and afterward to Lansing, the 
 same state, where he worked for a month. On 
 account of his employer getting into trouble 
 through killing a man, he failed to be paid for 
 his work. He then went to Peoria, 111., where 
 he freighted between that place and Elmwood. 
 This occupied his attention for six months, after 
 which he returned to St. Louis. From there he 
 worked his way west to Kansas City, and in com- 
 pany with two other men, went to Leavenworth, 
 intending to drive a government team across the 
 plains to California. 
 
 While at Leavenworth waiting for a team Mr. 
 Cummings found the town so rough that he con- 
 cluded to return to Kansas City. A short time 
 later the territorial capital was located at Le- 
 compton, and he and his comrades decided to 
 come to this place. He walked the entire dis- 
 tance from Kansas Cit}', and on his arrival was 
 given work by Wilson Shannon on the capitol 
 building. After seven months' work he asked 
 for his wages, intending to take a trip to Cali- 
 fornia, but beitig unalsle to collect the amount 
 due him he was obliged to remain in Lecompton. 
 Here he worked at various occupations for some 
 time. Afterward for seven years he and his wife 
 
 lived on a farm owned by Lyman Kvans, a bach- 
 elor, his wife keeping house for Mr. Evans, while 
 he assisted in the cultivation of the farm, situated 
 on the river east of Lecompton. In return for 
 his .services he was given half of all the stock 
 and all of the produce raised on the place. In 
 1870 he bought his present farm, three and one- 
 half miles south of Lecompton, on the southwest 
 quarter of .section 15, township 12, range 18. 
 He built a house, made other improvements and 
 brought the one hundred and twenty acres under 
 e.Kcellent cultivation, making of the tract a fine 
 farm. With his wife, he now owns two hundred 
 and eighty acres of valuable land. 
 
 November 15, 1862, Mr. Cummings married 
 Miss Bridget Anderson. They became the par- 
 ents often children, nine of whom are living, all 
 at home, viz.: James, Joseph, William, Thomas, 
 John, Nora, Maggie, Mary and Ellen. The 
 family are identified with the Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 yyiOSES C. HARVEY. While Leavenworth 
 y County is the center of an important busi- 
 (S uess in the raising and feeding of stock, 
 there is probably no one in the entire county 
 who has engaged in the industrj^ more extensive- 
 ly than has Mr. Harvey, of Fairmount Town- 
 ship. He has been exceptionally fortunate in 
 hi.'j undertakings, but his good fortune is not 
 simply the result of "luck"; it comes from his 
 energy, perseverance, determination and sound 
 judgment. There is no department of the stock 
 business with which he is not familiar; hence his 
 judgment in matters pertaining to the same is 
 regarded as sound and sagacious. 
 
 Mr. Harvey was born in Pettis County, Mo., 
 October 12, 1855, and spent the years of boyhood 
 and j^oulh upon the home farm in that county, 
 his education being obtained in common schools. 
 Upon gaining his majority he came to Kansas 
 and for a half year worked on the large stock 
 farm in Leavenworth County which he now 
 manages. Next he went to Colorado, where, he 
 was employed on ranches for more than two 
 years. As a cowboy on the range he later 
 worked in Wyoming and Dakota for four years. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Returning finally to Leavenworth County, he 
 engaged in buying and shipping stock to Denver, 
 Colo., having as partner Mr. U.sher, the owner of 
 the ranch on which Mr. Harvey now lives. In 
 the spring of 1884 he rented the ranch and has 
 since engaged in the stock business here. The 
 place consists of more than two thousand acres, 
 and is devoted to the pasturage of stock. Besides 
 his interests here he is the owner of a ranch near 
 Pomona, Franklin County, Kans. , consisting of 
 two thousand acres, which his nephew manages 
 for him. 
 
 December 5, 1883, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Harvey to Miss Alice A. Brantner, of 
 Arapahoe County, Colo. They have three 
 children, Nancy Grace, Ada Jennie and Moses 
 C, Jr. The family spend the greater part of 
 each year in Lawrence, in order that the children 
 may have the excellent educational advantages 
 of that city. Though not a partisan nor in- 
 terested in politics, Mr. Harvey recognizes his 
 duty as a citizen and takes an interest in local 
 and national elections. In politics he is a stanch 
 Democrat. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World; King Solomon Lodge 
 No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of Leavenworth, and has 
 attained the thirty -second degree of Scottish Rite. 
 
 REV. RUDOLPH B. GROENER, pastor of 
 St. John the Evangelist Church of Law- 
 rence, was born in Zistersdorf, Lower Aus- 
 tria, a son of Frederick W. and Theresa (Schredl) 
 Groener, and a descendant, through his paternal 
 ancestors, of an old family of Holland. His fa- 
 ther, who was born on the Rhine in Germany, 
 learned the baker's trade and worked as a jour- 
 neyman in Germany, France and Switzerland. 
 After his marriage he settled in Zistersdorf, where 
 he carried on a bakery until the time of the 
 Austro-German war, in 1866. The hatred be- 
 tween the two races was so great that he felt it 
 expedient to leave home. He came to America 
 in 1880, accompanied by all of his family except 
 Rudolph. Locating in Alton, 111., he began 
 gardening, and in that city he remained until his 
 death. His wife, who was a daughter of Frank 
 
 and Mary Schredl, who were members of old 
 Austrian families, was born in Russbach, Austria, 
 and is now living in the home of her son in 
 Lawrence, Kans. Of her fourteen children, two 
 daughters and one son are living, one daughter 
 being in Illinois, while the other resides with her 
 mother. 
 
 In the town where he was born September 10, 
 1864, Father Groener was reared until ten years 
 of age. He then entered a gymnasium in Moravia, 
 where he took an eight years' course in classics, 
 graduating in the spring of 188 1. He then came 
 to America and entered a college at Teutopolis, 
 111., where he remained until the completion of 
 his English course. Next he matriculated in St. 
 Meinrad (Ind.) Seminary, where he spent two 
 years in the study of philosophy and four years 
 in the study of theology, receiving the minor 
 orders in 1886, and in 1887 those of sub-deacon 
 and deacon. February 26, 1888, he was ordained 
 to the priesthood in Vinceinies, Bishop Chataid 
 officiating, and was assigned to the Leavenworth 
 diocese. He was secretary of this diocese, chap- 
 lain in St. John's ho.spital and second assistant at 
 the cathedral. From there, in 1891, he was 
 transferred to the pastorate of the Holy Family 
 Church in Eudora, Kans. , where he remained for 
 eighteen months. In September, 1892, he was 
 assigned to his present pastorate and has since 
 devoted himself assiduously to his responsible 
 position as rector of the Catholic Church. The 
 congregation in Lawrence was organized prior to 
 the war, the first services being held at the house 
 of B. Donnelly, in October, 1857, by Father 
 Magee. In i860 a building, 25x50, was erected 
 on Vermont street, and this was occupied for 
 church purposes until 1871, when an edifice, 
 45x90, was completed on Kentucky street at a 
 cost of $10,000. At the time of the Quantrell 
 raid Bishop Miege was in the city for the pur- 
 pose of confirming a number of members, and he 
 remained to perform the last rites over the bodies 
 of twelve or more of the members who had been 
 killed in the raid. 
 
 The congregation is large, enthusiastic and act- 
 ive, and the various societies are doing excellent 
 work. In addition to the resident membership 
 
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 tlie services are allended bj^ the Catholic Indians 
 from Haskell Institute and b^' Catholic students 
 in the uiiiversitj-. Under the supervision of the 
 rector everj- department of work is making prog- 
 ress and the church is alive to the needs of the 
 hour. Father Groener is a thoughtful, earnest 
 student of the most profound authors, and the in- 
 fluence which he wields over his congregation is 
 that of a noble, cultured, Christian gentleman. 
 
 EAPT. A. JACKSON JENNINGS, one ot 
 the first settlers on the Shawnee Indian 
 reservation in Douglas County, was born in 
 Washington County, Pa., December 8, 1829, a 
 son of DeGras and Anne (Jackson) Jennings, 
 natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New 
 Jersey. The maternal grandfather, Richard 
 Jack.son, came to this countrj- from England and 
 served for seven years in the American army 
 during the Revolutionarj' war. The paternal 
 grandfather, William Jennings, was also a native 
 of England, and for years was captain of a mer- 
 chant vessel ; one of his sons was Israel Jeiniings, 
 of whom William Jennings Bryan is a lineal de- 
 scendant. De Gras Jennings was a practicing 
 physician, also a large farmer and sheep-raiser; 
 he died in Washington County, Pa., in 1838, and 
 his wife died in the .same place. They had eleven 
 children, but only the following survive: Mrs. 
 Ann Silcox; A. Jackson; and Thomas S., of 
 Washington County, Pa. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our Subject began 
 to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed 
 for four years. Later he attended Oberlin Col- 
 lege, Ohio, and also engaged in teaching school. 
 In the spring of 1856 Samuel Wood came from 
 Kansas to Oberlin, in search of young men who 
 would volunteer to assist the free-state movement 
 in the west, and among the si.xty who responded 
 to the call our subject was one. In March, 
 1857, he came to Kansas, and after a few days in 
 Lawrence aud Franklin he took up a claim in 
 Johnson County, settling on the land known as the 
 George Rogers farm. The next year he .sold the 
 place and took up his present farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres of raw land, on the Shawnee In- 
 
 dian reservation, in Eudora Township. He built 
 his first house on the re.servation in Johnson 
 County. When he settled at his present place 
 there were few in the neighborhood, and lie has 
 witnessed the gradual development of this region 
 made since he came in 1857. Though he began 
 without means, he has been a very successful 
 farmer and .stock-raiser. 
 
 In 1862, at Fort Leavenworth, our subject en- 
 listed and was mustered into the service as second 
 lieutenant, with authority to recruit a company 
 for the Twelfth Kansas Infantry. After the com- 
 pany was recruited he was mustered in at Paoli, 
 Kans., as first lieutenant of Company E Twelfth 
 Kansas Infantry, and commissioned by Governor 
 Robinson. 
 
 At the time of the Quantrell raid in 1863 the 
 mob surrounded our subject's house and called 
 for him, but his wife told them he was in the 
 army, and they then departed. Had he been at 
 home, undoubtedly he would not have escaped 
 with his life. In 1864 he was elected captain of 
 his companj' and as such served until the close 
 of the war, being connected with the western 
 division of the arnij'. On the 30th of May, 1864, 
 at the battle of Jinkins Ferry, Saline River, Ark., 
 the brigade, consisting of the Twelfth Kansas 
 Infantry (in which Captain Jennings commanded 
 Company E,) and one other regiment, charged 
 and took a rebel balterj-, in which action the 
 colonel was wounded and lost the use of an arm, 
 and the lieutenant-colonel lost a leg. Upon being 
 honorably discharged from the volunteer service 
 the captain passed the required examination for 
 an assignment in the regular armj-, but his wife 
 oppo.sed his enlistment with such earnestness that 
 he abandoned the plan and returned to farm life. 
 
 Formerly a Republican, Captain Jennings is 
 now a Populist. In 1870 he was elected to the 
 legislature on the Republican ticket, and served 
 with efficiency in that body. He was at other 
 times a candidate for .senator and sheriff. He 
 has been chairman of the county convention and 
 a delegate to state conventions. At the time of 
 the starting of the Farmers' Alliance in John.son 
 and Wyandotte Counties he acted as organizer. 
 He is a .stockholder in and vice-president of the 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 243 
 
 Eudora State Bank. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Eudora Lodge No. 42, I. O. O. F. , in which 
 he holds the jewel of twent) -five 5'ears of con- 
 tinuous membership. At this writing he is a 
 member of the Johnson County Grange. Inter- 
 ested in educational matters, he contributed to 
 the erection of Hesper Acadeni}-, and took a part 
 in the organization of Hesper school district No. 
 5, which was the fifth school district organized in 
 the county; Hesper Social Lyceum, connected 
 with it, was organized in 1857. It has been 
 transferred to the Hesper Academy and is still 
 in active operation. Captain Jennings was one 
 of the organizers and wrote the constitution and 
 by-laws. He has also given to religious enter- 
 prises, especially to the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, with which his family are identified. In 
 Eudora Post No. 333, G. A. R., he is the senior 
 commander of the post. In 1857 ^^^ married 
 Rose A. McCartney, by whom he has a daughter. 
 Belle T., now the wife of C. H. Daughert^^ The}' 
 also reside at the old homestead. 
 
 3 AMES A. LANE, M. D. There are few of 
 the physicians and surgeons of Leavenworth 
 who have attained a distinction so merited 
 as that which years of successful practice have 
 brought to Dr. Lane. Not alone in his home 
 citj', but in other towns as well he is known as a 
 skillful physician, whose accurac}- in diagnosis 
 and skill in treatment bring him the confidence 
 of his patients. By stud}', observation and ex- 
 perience he has acquired a thorough knowledge 
 of his profession, and his services as an instructor 
 have been utilized by medical colleges. In mi- 
 croscopy, bacteriology, and in sanitary measures 
 he has for years been a leader, as in other de- 
 partments of thought related to his profession. 
 
 Dr. Lane was born in Rio, Columbia County, 
 Wis., November 20, 1853, a son of Henry and 
 Mary (Rutherford) Lane, natives respectively of 
 western Pennsylvania and Ireland. The former 
 grew to manhood near Pittsburgh and from there 
 removed to Stark County, Ohio, where he mar- 
 ried Miss Rutherford, whose parents v^-ere from 
 the north of Ireland and of the Presbyterian faith. 
 
 After his marriage he settled in Wisconsin , where 
 he improved a stock farm. In 1S68 he removed 
 to Mirabile, Caldwell County, Mo., where he 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising and was 
 also prominent in local affairs. When seventy 
 years of age he went on a hunting expedition to 
 Idaho, where he was taken sick and died. The 
 family of which he was a member originally set- 
 tled in Virginia and were well-known Indian 
 fighters. His wife died in Wisconsin in 1S66, 
 leaving five children, of whom James was the 
 third. 
 
 When the family settled in Mi.ssouri the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was about thirteen years of 
 age. His high-school course was completed at 
 Cameron, Mo. In 1874 he came to Leaven- 
 worth and entered the State Normal School, from 
 which he graduated in 1S76. He had previously 
 taught in Missouri and after the close of his nor- 
 mal course he resumed teaching, which he fol- 
 lowed in Kansas. For one year he was principal 
 of the North Leavenworth colored school, then 
 for one year principal of the Morris school, and 
 for a similar period he held the chair of natural 
 .science and mathematics in the Kansas State 
 Normal at Paola. Taking up the study of med- 
 icine, he took the course in one of the most 
 famous institutions in our country, Jefferson 
 Medical College, in Philadelphia, from which he 
 was graduated in 1881, with the degree of M. D. 
 Soon after graduating he returned to the west, 
 and since 1881 has engaged in practice in Leaven- 
 worth, where he has his office in the Manufactur- ■ 
 er's National Bank block. For three years he 
 was in partnership with his former preceptor. 
 Dr. S. F. Neeley, and since then has practiced 
 alone. 
 
 During his course in Jefferson Medical College 
 Dr. Lane was assistant demonstrator of anatomy, 
 and he also took a special course of study. For 
 ten years he was professor of histology and mi- 
 croscopy in the Kansas City Medical College at 
 Kansas City, Mo. When the Medico-Chirurgical 
 College was established in Kansas City he was 
 elected to the chair of the principles of surgery, 
 which position he still fills. His influence has 
 done much toward placing this institution upon 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a solid basis and giving it a reputation through- 
 out the west. He was also active in the estab- 
 lishment of the Leavenworth Hospital Associa- 
 tion, with which he has since been connected. 
 For years he has been surgeon for the Missouri 
 Pacific and the Kansas Northwestern railroads. 
 For several terms he has been county physician, 
 also served as city physician and as a member of 
 the board of health. 
 
 The various medical organizations of the west 
 have enlisted the interest of Dr. Lane. He has 
 been president of the Eastern Kansas Medical 
 Society and is now president of the Leavenworth 
 City and County Medical Society and the Kansas 
 State Medical Society. In the American Med- 
 ical Association, of which he is a member, he 
 has served as chairman of the judicial council. 
 He is connected with the International Associa- 
 tion of Railway Surgeons, the Mi.ssouri Vallej- 
 Medical Society, the Western Surgical and 
 Gynecological Association; the State Sanitary 
 Association, of which he is vice-president; the 
 Leavenworth Academy of Science, of which he is 
 president; is an associate fellow of the Kansas 
 City Academy of Medicine, and an honorary 
 member of the Tri-State Medical Association, 
 Jackson County Medical Society, Missouri State 
 Medical Society, and the Illinois State Medical 
 Society. He is also vice-president of the Com- 
 mercial Club of Leavenworth. 
 
 Recreation is a necessity with all active minds. 
 Dr. Lane finds his recreation in hunting and in 
 athletic .sports. He is an active member of the 
 different gun clubs, is one of the state team, and 
 holds a number of first medals for rifle, shotgun 
 and revolver. He is also a member of a fishing 
 club. By his connection with these clubs he 
 finds a needed relaxation from the heavy respon- 
 sibilities of professional work. 
 
 In Paola, Kans. , Dr. Lane married Miss Hat- 
 tie Kennedy, of Buffalo, who was his cla.ssmate 
 in the Kansas State Normal School and who 
 came to Leavenworth with her brother-in-law, 
 Prof. John Wherrell, then the president of the 
 school, and now a practicing physician in Kansas 
 City. Mrs. Lane graduated from the normal 
 school, and is a lady of splendid education and 
 
 culture, with literary tastes. She is prominent 
 in society and in local organizations, and is now 
 president of the Library A.ssociation, the Art 
 League and the Leavenworth Federation of 
 Clubs. The three children of Dr. and Mrs. 
 Lane are Lillian May, Jennie B. and James A. 
 Jr. , all of whom are students in the Leavenworth 
 schools. 
 
 V yiOSES SHAW THOMAS, M. D. The an- 
 y cestry of the Thomas family is traced to 
 y Lewis Walker Thomas, a native of York- 
 shire, England, and an officer in the armj- of 
 William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. While 
 engaged in his oflicial duties he went to Wales 
 and there he became a member of the Society of 
 Friends. About 1700 he emigrated to America 
 and settled upon a valuable tract of land in 
 Chester County, Pa., within twenty miles of Phil- 
 adelphia. His grandson, Daniel Walker Thomas, 
 born about 1757, was a barrister and married 
 Sarah Ellis, daughter of an English naval officer 
 in the Revolutionary war, who was taken pris- 
 oner during one of the battles of that war, but 
 continued faithful to the British government. 
 His fate is uncertain. Some traditions represent 
 him as dying in prison, while others state that he 
 returned to England and died there. 
 
 During the early life of Daniel Walker Thomas 
 he was verj' prosperous and accumulated a for- 
 tune in the practice of his profession at Winches- 
 ter, Va., where he located shortly after his mar- 
 riage. When advanced in years he was made 
 liable for a security debt of $40,000, which he 
 paid. Immediately afterward he was a severe 
 sufferer by an extensive fire, which destroyed his 
 library, papers, etc., and left him a poor man. 
 He took up his abode in the home of his eldest 
 son, Jacob R., father of M. ShawThomas, M. D. 
 Jacob R. Thomas was born in Winchester 
 in 1783 and was educated for the law, but pos- 
 sessed a peculiar faculty of mind toward mechan- 
 ics and a genius for invention. He was the 
 inventor of a flax spring machine and reel attach- 
 ment, which is still in use in portions of Maryland. 
 After his marriage he removed to Baltimore, 
 where he was proprietor of the Globe Inn, then 
 
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 the leading hotel of that cit)-. During the build- 
 ing of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad he erected 
 a hotel at Ellicott Mills, the then terminus of 
 the road. Still later, when Frederick became the 
 terminus, he kept a hotel at that place, and after- 
 ward, when it reached Point of Rocks, he in- 
 vented a packet to run by horse power (the 
 horses being placed in the vessel), and this packet 
 made successful trips on the Chesapeake & Ohio 
 canal. He was in the midst of a most useful 
 career when he died, at Point of Rocks, in 1835. 
 
 The marriage of Jacob R. Thomas united him 
 with Miss Shaw, who was a ladj' of remarkable 
 beauty and accomplishments, as well as of noble 
 Christian character and an earnest member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. She was a descendant 
 of ancestors who were strict members of the 
 Presbyterian Church in the north of Ireland. 
 Among the eight children of this union was 
 Moses Shaw Thomas, who was born in Baltimore, 
 Md., January 3, 1830. He was educated in Vir- 
 ginia, where he went after the death of his father. 
 His medical studies were carried on in the Uni- 
 versitj' of Maryland, at Baltimore, from which 
 he graduated. For two 3'ears he practiced his 
 profession in the Shenandoah Valley, of Virginia. 
 In 1856 he came to Kansas and settled in Leaven- 
 worth, where he built up a good practice. Just 
 prior to the Civil war he was employed by the 
 United States government as a surgeon at Fort 
 Leavenworth. In the fall of 1861, being a Vir- 
 ginian and sympathizing with the southern cause, 
 he went to Richmond and enlisted in the Confed- 
 erate army as a surgeon (with rank of major), 
 in which capacity he served in Virginia until the 
 close of the war, being attached to Lee's army. 
 At the end of the war he returned to Leavenworth 
 and afterward engaged in practice, becoming 
 known as a skilled surgeon and reliable physician. 
 
 Dr. Thomas was a man of fine character, and, 
 though reserved and dignified, won innumerable 
 friends in all of his dealings, for he was the soul of 
 honor. In his professional work no mercenary 
 consideration was ever allowed to enter. His aim 
 was to do all that could be done for his patient, 
 whether that patient lived in a palatial residence 
 or in a cabin. Regardless of race or creed, re- 
 
 gardless of heat or cold, sun.shine or rain, night 
 or day, he answered everj- summons for his assist- 
 ance. Added to his great surgical skill, trained 
 by long experience, and his profound medical 
 knowledge, were personal qualities of gentleness, 
 sympathy and painstaking care. 
 
 Originally a whig, about 1853 Dr. Thomas 
 allied himself with the Democratic party, to 
 whose principles he ever afterward adhered. He 
 became a Roman Catholic at the age of eighteen 
 and continued in that faith until his death. In 
 Leavenworth, April 22, 1869, he married Alice 
 A., daughter of Malcolm Clark, and a graduate 
 of the Academy of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart 
 at St. Joseph, Mo. The four children born of 
 this union are: F. Miege Thomas, M. D. ; Moses 
 Shaw, a member of the First Arizona Territorial 
 Regiment, stationed at Albany, Ga.; Theodore 
 C.,' of Atchison, Kans.; and Genevieve. 
 
 The death of Dr. Thomas occurred July 9, 1896, 
 and two days later his body was laid to rest, after 
 appropriate services in the Cathedral, which was 
 crowded with friends desirous of paying the last 
 tribute of respect to his memory. The Leaven- 
 worth County Medical Society, of which he was 
 a member, passed resolutions, bearing testimony 
 to his skill as a physician, his patriotism as a citi- 
 zen, his high sense of honor as a man, and his 
 high character as a friend, husband and father. 
 Not onl)' members of his own church, but peo- 
 ple of ever}' religious faith, united in lauding the 
 character of the man who for so many years had 
 been one of Leavenworth's most respected citi- 
 zens. 
 
 f" MIEGE THOMAS, M.D., of Leavenworth, 
 r^ was born in this city March 22, 1870, the 
 I ^ eldest son of M. Shaw Thomas, M. D. In 
 youth he was given the best educational ad- 
 vantages which the state afforded. After having 
 studied in the high school for three years, in 1890 
 he entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Louisville, Ky., and continued the 
 studies of the regular course in that institution, 
 from which he graduated in 1893, with the de- 
 gree of M. D. In September of the same year 
 he entered the New York Polyclinic, where he 
 
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 took a post-graduate course of nine months, and 
 at the same time acted as house surgeon in the 
 New York Polyclinic Hospital. 
 
 Returning to Leavenworth iu June, 1894, Dr. 
 Thomas began the practice of his profession, 
 which he has since conducted in this city. His 
 medical studies did not cease with the awarding 
 of his degree. He has ever been a student, de- 
 sirous of keeping thoroughly posted concerning 
 every advance made in therapeutics, and by ob- 
 servation, experience and the reading of the best 
 medical journals, is in constant touch with the 
 latest developments iu the science. In the diag- 
 nosis of di.sease he has proved himself to be very 
 skillful, thus being enabled intelligently to sug- 
 gest and apply the most effective remedial agen- 
 cies. In August, 1895, he was appointed sur- 
 geon of the new United States penitentiar}' at 
 Leavenworth, and this position he has since filTed. 
 He is a member of the Leavenworth County Med- 
 ical Society. 
 
 "HEODORE C. THOMAS, who was one of 
 the soldiers of the Spanish-American war, 
 was born in Leavenworth in 1873, a son of 
 Dr. M. Shaw Thomas. After graduating from 
 the high school of this city in 1892 he entered the 
 employ of Fred Harvey, becoming manager of 
 an' eating house in Leadville, on the Colorado 
 Short Line. Afterward he was for more than 
 three years connected with the Santa Fe eating 
 house at Topeka. Upon the organization of 
 Troop H, First United States Cavalry (known 
 throughout the world as Roosevelt's Rough 
 Riders) he enlisted and was mustered into the ser- 
 vice at Tampa, Fla., June 15, 1898. 
 
 When it was seen that not all of the troops 
 would be needed in Cuba, a division of forces was 
 effected, and some were ordered to remain in 
 Florida, while others had the coveted privilege 
 of going to the front and seeing active service. 
 Six hundred of the Rough Riders were ordered to 
 Cuba, the remainder were held at Tampa. Mr. 
 Thomas was one of those who were retained in 
 Florida. How well and bravely those fought who 
 went to the front is a matter of history; but few 
 realize that tho.se who were kept behind and 
 
 who were obliged, in keen disappointment, to 
 witness the departure of their comrades for the 
 .seat of war, also had hardships to endure, with 
 none of that glory which came to their comrades 
 at the front. 
 
 After honorable service Mr. Thomas was mus- 
 tered out at Montauk Point, September 15, 1898. 
 He returned to Kansas and has since been sec- 
 retary and treasurer of the Thomas Fuel and 
 Ice Company, of Atchison, which is engaged in 
 jobbing Santa Fe coal and also in manufactur- 
 ing ice. 
 
 y yi ALCOLM CLARK, one of the original pro- 
 y prietors of Leavenworth, was born in Ed- 
 y inburgh, Scotland. When a young man 
 he accompanied relatives to Toronto, Canada, 
 and from there about 184S removed to Missouri, 
 becoming a pioneer farmer of Weston. During 
 his residence there he married Mrs. Elizabeth 
 (Hampton) Owens, formerlj* of South Carolina, 
 but then of Missouri. They became the parents, 
 among other children, of a daughter, Alice, who 
 is now the widow of Moses Shaw Thomas, M. D., 
 of Leavenworth. Mr. Clark was one of the orig- 
 inal proprietors of Leavenworth and it was at his 
 suggestion the town was named in honor of his 
 friend. Colonel Leavenworth. 
 
 Intimately identified with the early history of 
 Kansas, of which he was a pioneer, it was the fate 
 of Mr. Clark, as of all stanch free-soilers, to en- 
 counter opposition and arouse enmity on the part 
 of slavery advocates. He was a man of kind 
 heart, but nevertheless very determined in char- 
 acter, and when once convinced of the justice of 
 a cause steadily maintained allegiance to it, in 
 spite of threats and danger. Among his fellow- 
 citizens he was prominent and influential. At a 
 meeting in Leavenworth, April 30, 1855, of the 
 Delaware Squatters' Association, he was chosen 
 moderator. Among those present was a Scotch- 
 man, Mr. McCrea, whom Mr. Clark had be- 
 friended in former years in Missouri, but who 
 repaid that kindness with basest treachery. 
 
 During the course of the meeting Mr. McCrea 
 repeatedly interfered with the proceedings. He 
 was justly reprimanded by the moderator and 
 
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 was respectfully requested either to leave the meet- 
 ing or to desist from his unjust interference. 
 However, he refused to do as requested, although, 
 not being a squatter on the Delaware trust lands, 
 the matters before the convention did not affect 
 his personal interests. Finall}-, when a resolu- 
 tion was passed, he pronounced it a gross fraud. 
 Mr. Clark denied the assertion, but was inter- 
 rupted by the most violent language from Mr. 
 McCrea. The moderator, becoming exasperated, 
 started towards his opponent, who at once fired 
 upon him and killed him. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Clark aided the early growth 
 of Leavenworth. Largely through his efforts 
 Bishop Meige was induced to remain here, Mr. 
 Clark deeding to him lands that lie opposite the 
 Cathedral. Not only religious, but educational 
 and commercial enterprises received his encour- 
 agement and assistance. As one of the first 
 settlers of Leavenworth, and as one of the martyrs 
 of the free-state agitation, his name should be 
 perpetuated in the annals of the city. 
 
 iA ARSHALL G. LAHUE, one of the repre- 
 y sentative ranchmen of Lecompton Town- 
 (9 ship, Douglas County, was born in Christian 
 County, 111., June 6, 1862, a son of Carrington 
 and Catherine (Bruebeck) Lahue. He was one 
 of seven children, five of whom survive, viz.: 
 Margaret, wife of Wesley Kitchin, of Washing- 
 ton, D. C; Sabrina, who married A. B. Morlan, 
 of Geary County, Kaus.; Charles P., a prominent 
 farmer of Lecompton Township; Angle, wife of 
 W. H, Nace, of Geary County; and Marshall G. 
 The father, who was born in Harrison County, 
 Ind., February 2, 1825, removed, three years 
 after his marriage, to Missouri, settling in Mer- 
 cer County, but after two years he went to Chris- 
 tian County, 111. During the fourteen years of 
 his residence there he became one of the well- 
 known farmers of his section. In 1868 he re- 
 moved to Kansas, and settled three miles south 
 of the village of Lecompton, where he spent the 
 remainder of his life, with the exception of two 
 5'ears in western Kansas, he having moved there 
 with the intention of making his home, but the 
 
 scarcity of rain determined him to return to Le- 
 compton. His death occurred March 22, iSSg. 
 He was a regular contributor to and supporter of 
 the Christian Church, and aided in charitable 
 movements. For many 5'ears he acted as a mem- 
 ber of the school board. His wife, who was a 
 member of an old Virginia family, was born in 
 Augusta County August 15, 1826, and removed 
 to Indiana with her parents in 1842; she now 
 makes her home with our subject on the old 
 homestead in Lecompton Township. 
 
 After having completed the studies of the com- 
 mon schools our subject began for himself as a 
 farmer, and for two years cultivated rented land. 
 When his younger brother had attained his ma- 
 jority the two were given charge of the home 
 farm, the father retiring from active work. The 
 brother met his death through an accident, and 
 soon afterward the father died, after which our 
 subject took entire charge of the farm, which he 
 has since superintended. He is a progressive 
 farmer and one of the substantial men of his 
 township. In politics he is a stanch supporter 
 of the Republican party. Fraternally he is a 
 member of Lecompton Lodge No. 413, I. O. O. F., 
 and Lecompton Lodge No. 155, Fraternal Aid 
 Association. He is one of the rising young 
 farmers of the county and has many friends 
 among his acquaintances here. 
 
 RUFUS KLINKENBERG. The farm owned 
 and cultivated by this gentleman lies in the 
 northern part of Stranger Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, and consists of one hundred and 
 seventy acres of improved land. In addition to 
 the raising of cereals he has given attention to 
 the stock business, and on his farm has a number 
 of Short-horn cattle. At the time of his mar- 
 riage, when twenty-three years of age, he pur- 
 chased this property and here he has since made 
 his home. 
 
 Born in Holland July 19, 1855, our subject 
 is a son of Nicholas Klinkenberg, who was born 
 and reared in Hanover, Germany, and thence 
 removed to Holland and secured employment at 
 the carpenter's trade. For thirty years he made 
 
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 his home in that countrj\ In the spring of 1871 
 he came to the Ihiited States and settled in 
 Leavenworth County, Kans., purchasing a small 
 farm that is now occupied by his widow. Here 
 he died March 5, 1889, at sixty eight years of 
 age. In politics he was a Democrat, but never 
 took an active part in public affairs. During his 
 residence in Holland he became a member of the 
 Dutch Reformed Church, and to its doctrines 
 ever afterward adhered. For twelve years he 
 served as an elder of his congregation. At the time 
 of his death he left eighty acres in land and a 
 number of head of fine stock. 
 
 The mother of our subject, a native of Holland, 
 bore the maiden name of Klasina Walters, and 
 from childhood has been a faithful member of the 
 Dutch Reformed Church. She is now li,ving on 
 the homestead and is seventy-five years of age. Of 
 her seven children (all born in Holland) we note 
 the following; Hebo is a farmer of this county: 
 Jennie is the widow of Charles Haug; Rufus was 
 third in order of birth; Gertrude, John \V. H., 
 Walter and Henry complete the family. The 
 children were brought to America in 187 1 and 
 have since lived in this county. 
 
 Our subject takes an active interest in educa- 
 tional affairs. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
 has represented the local lodge, Knights of 
 Pythias, in the grand lodge and has served as 
 district grand chancellor. He married Augusta 
 Kaiser, who was born in Germany. They have 
 eleven children, viz. : Ferdinand, Henry, Amelia, 
 Paulina, Bertha, William, Walter, Loui.sa, Ed- 
 ward, Ruth and Carlton (twins.) 
 
 y yilCHAEL T. FITZPATRICK, deceased, a 
 y pioneer of Douglas County and for years 
 (^ one of the well-known railroad men in the 
 state, was born in Albany, N. Y., November 15, 
 1841,3 son of William and Margaret (Culliton) 
 Fitzpatrick. He was one oif a large family, of 
 whom only three survive, viz.: James, of Willow 
 Springs, Mo.; Thomas, who.se home is in Boul- 
 der, Colo.; and Catherine, wife of Gilbert B. 
 Kirk, of Topeka, Kans. His father, who was 
 birn, reared and married in Queens County, Ire- 
 
 land, brought his wife to America immediately 
 after their marriage, and settled in Albanj-, N. Y., 
 where heengaged in railroad work. Some years 
 later he removed to Tioga County, Pa., remain- 
 ing there until 1867, when he migrated to Kan- 
 sas and settled in Kanwaka Township, Douglas 
 County, on the farm now occupied by our sub- 
 ject's widow. Here he, in connection with his 
 sons, followed farming up to the time of his 
 death, July 23, 1S97. 
 
 At the outljreak of the Civil war our subject 
 enlisted in the engineering department of the 
 service and was engaged in bridge building and 
 railroad construction during the entire period of 
 hostilities. After the war he engaged in railroad 
 work in Tioga County, Pa. In 1866 he married 
 Miss Jane Mooney, who was born in County 
 Meath, Ireland, a daughter of Andrew and Julia 
 (Lamb) Mooney. Her father, who was a native 
 of County Meath, came to x\merica with his 
 family in 1852, and settled in Corning, N. Y., 
 where he died two years later. After his death 
 his widow removed to Tioga County, Pa., and 
 there resided until her death, which occurred in 
 1888. 
 
 The year after his marriage our subject brought 
 his wife to Kansas and .settled on his father's 
 farm, in which he owned an interest. However, 
 he did not engage in agricultural pursuits, but 
 gave his attention almost wholly to railroad 
 work. He was employed in the construction of 
 the Kansas Pacific Railroad, having charge of 
 the laying of the track, and completing it into 
 Denver, Colo. Afterward he was made road- 
 master on the division of the road running into 
 Denver, in which city he had his headquarters. 
 Shortly afterward he took charge of track con- 
 struction of a railroad in Illinois, where he was 
 employed for fifteen months. His next position 
 was that of roadmaster on the Northern Pacific 
 Railroad, with headquarters at Fargo, N. Dak., 
 where he remained for three years. He then 
 accepted a position with the Missouri, Kansas & 
 Texas Railroad, at Fort Scott, Kans., where he 
 was retained as roadmaster for one year. Later 
 he went to Atchison, Kans., where he served in 
 the same capacity for the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
 
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 road. With the latter road he continued for ten 
 years, during four of which he was located at 
 Concordia, Kans. In 1895 he accepted a position 
 as general roadmaster on the Kansas City, Fort 
 Scott & Memphis Railroad, with headquarters at 
 Kansas City, where he remained for two years. 
 He then accepted the position of roadmaster 
 with the Denver & Gulf Railroad, having his 
 headquarters in Trinidad, Colo., which position 
 he continued to hold for fifteen months, until his 
 death, March 3, i8g8. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Fitzpatrick was a member of 
 Lawrence Lodge No. 7, A. O. U. W. ; Camp No. 
 798, Woodmen of the World, the blue lodge and 
 chapter of Masonry, having a short time before 
 his death withdrawn from Chapter No. 45, 
 R. A. M., in Concordia, intending to place 
 his membership either in the Lawrence or Kansas 
 City chapter, but his death prevented. In re- 
 ligion he was of the Roman Catholic faith. Suc- 
 cessful in his business ventures, at the time of his 
 death he left his family the home farm of nine 
 hundred and sixty-five acres, besides other pos- 
 sessions of value. He and his wife were the 
 parents of seven children, namely: Margaret, 
 wife of H. M. Barber, who assists in the man- 
 agement of the home farm; Mary, who married 
 Dr. W. R. Priest, a prominent physician and 
 surgeon of Concordia, Kans.; William, who as- 
 sists in taking charge of the homestead; James, 
 who is connected with the Fort Scott & Memphis 
 Railroad; Charles and Francis, who are pursuing 
 their studies in St. Mary's College, at St. Mary's, 
 Kans. , and Kirk, who is a pupil in the district 
 school. 
 
 0ANIEL MARK HILL owns and occupies a 
 farm of two hundred acres at Big Springs, 
 one of the most delightful locations, not 
 only of Douglas County, but of ea.stern Kansas 
 as well. On the land are thirty-one mineral 
 springs possessing health-restoring mineral prop- 
 erties that will at some future day without 
 doubt make the place a noted health resort. 
 Nor is the presence of the springs the only claim 
 which the place has to public notice. Those 
 interested in the early history of the state regard 
 
 it as an historic landmark, for it was the site of 
 the first territorial convention and served as the 
 headquarters of "Jim" Lane during the exciting 
 days of border ruffian warfare. 
 
 Mark Hill (for by his middle name our sub- 
 ject is best known) was born in Bedford County, 
 Pa., August 4, 1836, a son of Jacob and Rosina 
 E. (Byer) Hill. He was one of eleven children, 
 five now living, viz.: Margaret, wife of Louis 
 Kellerraan, a retired stockman of Burlington, 
 Kans.; William, who is with the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company and resides at Bard, Pa., 
 where he is an extensive holder of farming lands; 
 Daniel Mark; Anna, wife of Ellis Miner, who is 
 engaged in the wholesale dr}--goods business 
 at Heppner, Ore.; and Kate, wife of Samuel 
 Zike, who is engaged in the hotel and livery 
 business in Nebraska. Jacob Hill was born in 
 Bedford County, Pa., where he early became 
 prominent in political life, although he was 
 educated for the Lutheran ministry. He was a 
 power in his party and filled many offices in his 
 section of the country. 
 
 When our subject was nine years of age his 
 father died and he was taken into the home of an 
 older brother, a farmer and business man of Bed- 
 ford Count)', who owned a farm of four hundred 
 acres, also a sawmill, blacksmith's and shoe- 
 maker's shop. He was fourteen when he began 
 teaming for his brother and became so expert in 
 his work that he could drive six horses with a 
 single line; his skill as a driver caused his asso- 
 ciates to say: "Show Hill a knot hole and he 
 will drive the team through." In 1854 ^^ mar- 
 ried Miss Delilah, daughter of John Boone, who 
 was a great-nephew of Daniel Boone. After his 
 marriage he continued teaming and also engaged 
 in farming. In 1862 he left the business in the 
 care of his brother and visited Iowa with a view 
 to locating there. After a year he came to Kan- 
 sas and spent some months, then returned to 
 Iowa. His brother sold out in the east and lo- 
 cated in Anderson, while our subject, settling at 
 Weston, Iowa, became the leading business man 
 of the town, where he operated a brick yard, a 
 shoe store, a meat market and a general con- 
 tracting business. In 1867 he disposed of his 
 
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 business there and came to Kansas, settling at 
 Cherry Mound, Anderson County, where he em- 
 Iiarked in fanning and the stock business. On 
 account of his wife's ill health he came to Doug- 
 las County in 1869 and settled in Lecompton 
 Township, two miles south of the village of Le- 
 compton, where he planted and carried on a fruit 
 farm, also engaged in raising sheep and cattle. 
 Some ten years later he removed to Jefferson 
 County and for four years was foreman of the 
 Ivlliott farm of nine hundred and sixty acres, 
 meantime clearing the farm of mortgage. From 
 there he returned to Douglas County and bought 
 his present farm in Lecomiiton Township. 
 
 By his marriage Mr. Hill had seven children, 
 namely: William, a prominent business man of 
 Oklahoma City; Charles, who is with the Poehler 
 Mercantile Company in Lawrence; George, a ris- 
 ing young business man of Kelso, Wash.; Je.sse 
 B., who is a partner of his brother in Kelso; 
 Frederick, who is in the Klondike; Anna, wife of 
 C. T. Spencer, a farmer of Douglas County; 
 and Lulu, who married E. M. Duncan and re- 
 sides upon a farm in this county. The wife and 
 mother died in July, 1897. She was an earnest 
 worker in the United Brethren Church and was 
 highly esteemed by all who knew her. Mr. Hill 
 has contributed to the support of the church and 
 also to other worthy movements. He is a sup- 
 porter of the Republican party and, had he so 
 desired, might have been elected to any of the 
 local offices, but he prefers to devote himself to 
 his private interests. 
 
 PJI-:rV rev. T. J. DOWNEY, pastor of the 
 \ / Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church of 
 V Leavenworth, has held his present pastorate 
 since August, 1885, when he organized the parish 
 and congregation and at first held services in the 
 school building. In 1SS6 work was begun upon 
 the church building, which was constructed of 
 brick, with two floors and basement, the first 
 floor being u.sed for the .school and the second for 
 the church. The parsonage, a substantial build- 
 ing, was erected in 1895. The membership of 
 the church comprises about one hundred families. 
 
 while the school has an attendance of one hun- 
 dred and fourteen pupils, who, under the direc- 
 tion of Sisters of Charity from the Cathedral, are 
 instructed in the various branches up to and in- 
 cluding the sixth grade. The church has the 
 various societies to be found in all progressive 
 congregations, and these have proved of great 
 assistance to the pastor. 
 
 Father Downej- was born in Paris, Ky., No- 
 vember 17, 1 85 1, the third among eleven chil- 
 dren, all but one of whom are living, eight of 
 these being in Clinton County, Mo., while one is 
 engaged in the lumber business in Kansas City, 
 Kans. John Downey, father of the family, was a 
 native of Ireland, a son of Michael Downey, a 
 farmer. In 1848 he and four brothers, having 
 lost everything in the famine of those years in 
 their countrj', sought a new home in America. 
 They landed in New Orleans and settled in Ken- 
 tuck}', where they learned the stonemason's trade 
 and worked together as contractors. In 1857 
 John migrated to Plattsburg, Clinton County, 
 Mo., where the others later joined him. Each 
 .settled upon farm land and with the aid of oxen 
 broke the prairie soil and improved the land. 
 All but one are now dead. John, who was a 
 county official and a man of influence in his lo- 
 cality, was a stanch free-stale man and during 
 the war was a non-commissioned officer in a Mis- 
 souri Federal regiment of Home Guard. He 
 died September 13, 1898, when .seventj'-three 
 years of age. His wife, Johanna, was a daugh- 
 ter of John McQuinn, a farmer in Ireland, and is 
 now living on the old homestead in Clinton Coun- 
 ty, Mo. 
 
 In 1870 the subject of this sketch, having pre- 
 viously gained a country-school education, en- 
 tered the Seminary of Assumption in Topeka, 
 Kans., where he was a student for two and one- 
 half years, during which time he was also a 
 teacher of mathematics in the same institution. 
 Next he spent eighteen months as a student in 
 •St. Benedict's College, AtchLson, and while there 
 taught private classes. Afterward he spent five 
 years in Salesianum Seminary in Milwaukee, 
 Wis., where he took a complete course in philos- 
 ophy and theology. During that time he as- 
 
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 sisted in defrajing his expenses by teaching the 
 classics. In the cathedral in Leavenworth, July 
 5, 1879, he was ordained to the priesthood by 
 Bishop L. M. Fink, O. S. B. He was appointed 
 chaplain at St. Mary's Academy, where he re- 
 mained for three months. Afterward he was made 
 pastor of St. Ignatius' Church in Fort Leaven- 
 worth, and at the same time had charge of a mis- 
 .sion at Delaware for almost three and one half 
 years; also attended the state penitentiary, the 
 military prison and the county poor farm, where 
 he gratuitously ministered to the spiritual needs of 
 the inmates. The pressure of so much work, 
 with its attending responsibilities, broke down 
 his health, and he was obliged to seek a field 
 where duties would be lighter. He was trans- 
 ferred to Holy Cross Church in Pottawatomie 
 Count}', where he remained for two years and 
 three months, meantime regaining his health. 
 From Holy Cross he returned to Leavenworth, 
 where he has established and built up the Sacred 
 Heart Church. He is also dean of Leavenworth 
 and president of the diocesan .school board. He 
 has done much toward maintaining the schools at 
 a high standard and has been deeply interested in 
 educational work, realizing the importance of a 
 good education in preparing for the responsi- 
 bilities of life. 
 
 EHARLES PILLA. Among our German- 
 American citizens who have been success- 
 ful since settling in Kansas mention be- 
 longs to Mr. Pilla, the well-known business man 
 of Eudora. Mr. Pilla was born in Rhenish Ba- 
 varia, Germany, February 19, 1830, and received 
 a good education in the German language. At 
 nineteen years of age he came to the United 
 States, arriving in New York March 26, 1849. 
 For fourteen years he remained in the vicinity of 
 thatcitj', and during ten years of the time he was 
 employed as clerk and bookkeeper for the pub- 
 lishing house of E. Walker & Sons. In 1865 
 he came to Kansas for the purpose of entering 
 into partnership with his brother F. L-, who had 
 started a small store in Eudora. The title of the 
 firm became Pilla Brothers, which contiiuicd 
 until his brother's death in 1871. 
 8 
 
 Being thus left sole proprietor of the store Mr. 
 Pilla continued the business alone. In 1872 he 
 enlarged the building and increased the quantity 
 of stock carried. His store is now the largest of 
 its kind in Eudora. In connection with the 
 mercantile department, for some years he carried 
 a stock of drugs, but this is now discontinued. 
 Besides his mercantile interests he has engaged 
 in farming in Douglas and Johnson Counties, 
 where he owns large tracts of farm lands; and, 
 while these places are operated by tenants, he 
 nevertheless maintains an active supervision of 
 the land and directs its management. 
 
 Upon the organization of the State Bank of 
 Eudora, in which he was interested, Mr. Pilla 
 was elected its president in 1893 a position 
 which he has filled with the greatest efficiency. 
 As a member of the firm of Pilla & Statler he 
 also carries on a brick manufacturing business. 
 In 1894 he erected a beautiful residence on a hill 
 overlooking the village and commanding a fine 
 view. At the time of the erection of the sweet 
 corn factory, in 1883, he was one of the principal 
 contributors to the same and became a stock- 
 holder in the company. He is a stockholder and 
 director of the Eudora Creamery Company, and 
 was a stockholder in the Leis chemical works, of 
 Lawrence, Kans. When the Kimball plow fac- 
 tory was started in Lawrence he assisted in the 
 organization of the company controlling the 
 plant, but the enterprise did not prove successful. 
 All movements of a progressive character where 
 the benefit accruing to the people is unquestion- 
 able have received the impetus of his encour- 
 agement and practical aid. 
 
 Since attaining his majority Mr. Pilla has al- 
 ways been a stanch Republican. As mayor of 
 Eudora, and as a member of the city council, also 
 as a school director, he has been able to greatly 
 promote local projects, and has given an impetus 
 to the welfare of his town and fellow- townsmen. 
 In 1S71 he received appointment as postmaster, 
 and continued to fill the office until 18S5. Prior 
 to this, from 1S65 to 1S71, he served as assistant 
 po.stmaster, having practically the entire charge 
 of the office. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Doric Lodge No. 83, A. F. & A. M; Lawrence 
 
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 Commander}' No. 4, K. T. ; and Eudora Lodge 
 No. 28, I. O. O. F. , in which he is past grand. 
 In religion he worships with the German Evan- 
 gelical Church. He was married September 10, 
 1865, to Alice B. Smith, daughter of Paul and 
 Catherine Smith. She was born on Staten Is- 
 land and died in Eudora, January 15, 1899, 
 leaving three daughters: Alvena E., wife of 
 John E. Dolisi; Louisa P., wife of Spencer J. 
 Lawson; and Molvie E. , who has had charge of 
 the home since her mother's death. 
 
 HON. HARVEY W. IDE. Since coming to 
 Leavenworth in 1857 Judge Ide has occu- 
 pied a position of prominence among the 
 people of this city. Both at the bar and on the 
 bench, he has proven himself to be a man of 
 sound judgment, keen intuition, close discrimina- 
 tion and clear reasoning faculties, which quali- 
 ties, joined with determination of character, al- 
 most invariably bring success. He is interested 
 in all enterprises for the benefit of Leavenworth, 
 with whose progress he has been identified from 
 its early days, and to whose growth he has been 
 a contributor. 
 
 Judge Ide was born in Saratoga County, 
 N.Y., April 19, 1833, a son of Rodman and Elvira 
 (Herrick) Ide, also natives of Saratoga County. 
 His paternal grandfather migrated from New 
 England to that county and engaged in farming 
 there for years, but finally removed to James- 
 town, N. Y., and there died. The maternal 
 grandfather, Thomas Herrick, served in the 
 Revolutionary war, and afterward engaged in 
 farming in New York. He lacked but little of 
 having rounded out a full century when death 
 removed him from the sphere of his activity. 
 
 While engaged in farming in York state Rod- 
 man Ide served as justice of the peace and town- 
 ship trustee for some years. In 1847 he removed 
 to Wi-sconsin and settled upon a raw tract of land 
 near Janesville, Rock County, where he improved 
 a farm. After settling there he held numerous 
 minor offices. Fraternally he was a Mason and 
 in religion a Methodist. At the time of his 
 death, in 1872, he was sixty-eight years of age. 
 
 His wife, who was born in 181 1, died inWiscon- 
 sin in 1886. Of their eleven children all but one 
 attained years of maturity and five are living. 
 The brothers and sisters are named as follows; 
 Sarah J., widow of Isaac Howe, of northern 
 Wisconsin; Harvey W. ; Thomas H., v^'ho died 
 in Janesville, Wis.; Polly, wife of G. W. Cox- 
 head, living near Edgerton, Wis. ; Stephen C, 
 who died near Janesville; Frances, who was a 
 school teacher, but died in young womanhood; 
 Plinj', a mechanic, of Janesville; Elvira, Mrs. 
 Fessenden, who lives in Wisconsin; Lsaac, who 
 graduated from Rush Medical College, and after- 
 ward engaged in practice at Stevens Point, Wis., 
 where he died in 1887; and Fremont, who resides 
 in Edgerton, Wis. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was educated prin 
 cipally in New York, although after coming 
 west he had the advantage of a cour.se of study 
 in Milton Academy (now Milton College). 
 When seventeen years of age he began to teach 
 near Rockford, 111., and in that occupation he 
 continued for some years, meantime giving his 
 leisure hours to the studj' of law. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar at Janesville in 1856, when 
 United States Senator J. R. Doolittle was judge. 
 After practicing for one year in Wisconsin, the 
 Kansas excitement began and many northern 
 men removed to this state in order to cast their 
 fortunes in with the free-state movement. April 
 16, 1857, he arrived in the then frontier town of 
 Leavenworth. Here he at once began the prac- 
 tice of law, and from the start met with gratify- 
 ing success in his profession. 
 
 The first office held by Judge Ide in his new 
 home was that of city attorney, to which he was 
 elected in 1861 and which he filled for one term. 
 In 1863 he was elected a member of the state 
 legislature, and his service of one term in that 
 body was characterized by fidelity to the inter- 
 ests of his constituents and his party. \\'hen 
 Leavenworth and Wyandotte Counties were the 
 first judicial district he was elected district attor- 
 ney and at the close of a term was re-elected, 
 when the district was divided and an attorney 
 elected for each county. While he was filling 
 this position the present Justice Brewer was dis- 
 
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 trict judge. When Judge Ide was elected dis- 
 trict judge, in 1868, Justice Brewer was chosen 
 prosecuting attornej'. In 1872 he was re-elected 
 district judge, serving until January 1877. 
 
 On his retirement from the bench, Judge Ide 
 resumed the practice of law, to which he gave 
 his attention exclusive!)' for some time, but of 
 late years his business interests have to some 
 extent encroached upon his professional work. 
 During the Price raid he served as lieutenant in 
 a company of militia. For two terms he was 
 chosen to serve as a member of the school board, 
 of which he was president continuously after his 
 first year, but before the end of the .second term 
 he moved from the ward and resigned the posi- 
 tion. He is the owner of property in different 
 parts of the state, has also engaged in the real- 
 estate business in Leavenworth and erected a 
 business house on Cherokee street, besides his 
 residence on Seventh street. He is a member of 
 the First Congregational Cliurch, in which he 
 officiates as a trustee. Politically he is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
 In Waverly, Mo., Judge Ide married Miss 
 Mary Johnson, who was born in Brunswick, Me., 
 and was a school teacher prior to her marriage. 
 She died in Leavenworth, leaving three chil- 
 dren. Lizzie v., a graduate of Rockford (111.) 
 Female Seminary, is the wife of L- A. Knox and 
 resides in Leavenworth; Mary A., who is the 
 wife of C. J. Schmelzer, is also a graduate of the 
 seminary at Rockford, and now a resident of 
 Kansas City, Mo.; and Harvey J. died in boj-- 
 hood. Mrs. Mary Ide was a daughter of Ebe- 
 nezer M. and Elizabeth Johnson, natives of Con- 
 necticut, the latter a daughter of a physician 
 who served in the war of 1S12. Mr. Johnson 
 was a merchant in Brunswick, Me., and after 
 retiring from business he removed to Ohio, set- 
 tling near Springfield, where his last years were 
 spent. His death occurred when he was visiting 
 Judge Ide in 1862. In Leavenworth Judge Ide 
 was united in marriage to Miss Ella Catlin, who 
 was born in Connecticut and in 1863 came to 
 Leavenworth with her father, Shelden G. Catlin, 
 who was a wholesale jobber in shoes. She died 
 in 1879, leaving a daughter, Ella C, who is now 
 
 attending the School of Dramatic Art in New 
 York Cit}'. The present wife of Judge Ide, 
 whom he married in Chillicothe, Mo., in 1886, 
 was Mrs. Lottie G. (Giltner) Phillips, who was 
 born in Indiana and accompanied her parents to 
 Chillicothe, where her father was a merchant and 
 her first husband an attorney. 
 
 EAPT. MILTON PETTIBONE, of Lawrence, 
 was born near Pembroke, Genesee County, 
 N. Y., January 15, 1822, a descendant 
 of a prominent English family and a relative of 
 Roswell Pettibone, for whom Roswell P. Flower 
 was named. His father, John R. , and grand- 
 father, Roger Pettibone, natives of Vermont, 
 served respectively in the first and second wars 
 with England, the father being a commissioned 
 officer. By occupation he was a carpenter and 
 builder and also a farmer. In 1829 he settled at 
 Ypsilanti, Mich., where he engaged in contract- 
 ing. In 1836 the Huron River was swollen by a 
 spring fre.shet and was about one-half mile wide. 
 One day, with three companions, he crossed in a 
 boat to get some tools. When making the return 
 trip he was drowned while endeavoring to save 
 a woman's life. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Susanna Hovey, was born in Vermont 
 and died in Michigan. They were the parents 
 of twelve children, nine of whom grew to matur- 
 ity, but Milton alone survives. He was reared 
 in Michigan and, being fourteen years of age 
 when his father died, from that time he assisted 
 in caring for his mother until she died eight 
 years later. He was employed at the cooper's 
 trade until 1858, when he came west to assist in 
 making a free state of Kansas. His brother 
 John had come in 1S56, and at the same time he 
 had determined to come as soon as arrangements 
 could be made. Settling at Wellsville, Franklin 
 County, he cleared and improved a farm of one 
 hundred and sixt)' acres. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war our subject 
 volunteered in Company D, Second Missouri 
 State Militia, which was composed of seven com- 
 panies from Kansas that went into Mis.souri to 
 fight bushwhackers and guard Kansas from 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 guerillas. While at Independence with only a 
 few men he was attacked at night by a very 
 large force, and was wounded, taken prisoner, 
 but soon paroled and mustered out at Kansas 
 City two weeks later, after a service of seven 
 months. Next he was commissioned captain of 
 Companj^ E, Tenth Kansas Militia, by Governor 
 Carney, and at the time of the Price raid took 
 part in the battle of Westport and aided in driv- 
 ing the Confederates out of Kansas. 
 
 After the war Captain Pettibone resumed 
 farming. In 1873 he settled in Lawrence. For 
 two years he owned a farm on Mud Creek, but 
 traded it for city propertj-, and improved a place 
 at No. 472 Lincoln street. His first vote was 
 for Whig candidates. From the organization of 
 the Republican party he was identified with it. 
 He is a member of Washington Post No. 12, 
 G. A. R. For many years he has been chairman of 
 the board of trustees of the Pilgrim Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 In Michigan, Captain Pettibone married Al- 
 mira E. Putnam, who was born in New York 
 and died in Michigan; both of her children are 
 also deceased. The second marriage of the cap- 
 tain took place in Washtenaw County, Mich., 
 and united him with Mrs. Eleanor (Vought) 
 Bacon, a native of New York, and the widow of 
 Hiram A. Bacon, who was a farmer in Michi- 
 gan. By her first marriage she had two sons. 
 One died in childhood; the other, Philip G. V. 
 Bacon, is engaged in the lumber business in 
 Texas. Her marriage to Captain Pettibone re- 
 sulted in the birth of three children, namely: 
 Almira Eliza, who is married and lives in North 
 Lawrence; Mrs. Nellie Wilkins, of Portland, 
 Ore.; and Charles, in North Lawrence. Mrs. 
 Pettibone is the only survivor of the twelve 
 children of Philip G. and Leah (Manning) 
 Vought, natives respectively of New York and 
 New Jersey. Her grandfather, Capt. John 
 Vought, a native of New Jersey, and an officer 
 in the Revolutionary war, .settled in Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y. Philip G. Vought settled in Wash- 
 tenaw County, Mich., in 1834, and afterward 
 carried on farming there. He married a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel Manning, a farmer of New Jersej-. 
 
 Enterprises pertaining to the welfare of Law- 
 rence always receive the .sympathy and co-oper- 
 ation of Captain Pettibone. For two terms he 
 served as a police officer of the sixth ward, and 
 for one term represented the sixth ward in the 
 city council. During his residence in Franklin 
 County he held the office of county commissioner 
 for one term, also served on the school board 
 during the entire period of his residence in that 
 county and aided in building the first school 
 there. For some time he held office as justice of 
 the peace, resigning when he removed from the 
 county. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH J. COX came to Kansas in 
 1869 with his parents and settled on a farm 
 in the eastern part of Wakarusa Township, 
 Douglas County. This property he operated for 
 a time and also bought and cultivated a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres near the homestead. 
 For eight years he served as a member of the 
 school board, of which he was president and 
 treasurer. In the fall of 1884 he was the Repub- 
 lican nominee as representative of the thirteenth 
 district in the legislature and was elected bj- a 
 fair majority. Two years later he was elected by 
 twice as large a majority as he had received be- 
 fore. In the session of 18S5 he served as a mem- 
 ber of various committees. In the session of 
 1887 he was chairman of the committee on state 
 affairs and a member of three other committees. 
 With his colleague he secured the passage of a 
 bill appropriating nearly $400,000 for the Quan- 
 trell sufferers. During the extra .session of 1886, 
 at the time of the redistricting of the state, he 
 served on the legislative apportionment com- 
 mittee. He supported John J. Ingalls for the 
 United States senate in 1885. After the session 
 of 1887 he .settled in Lawrence. He was given 
 the contract to build the north and south wings 
 of the state capitol, at a cost of $500,000; also a 
 second contract for the roofing of the capitol and 
 the building of the dome, at a cost of over $250,- 
 000. The completion of both contracts took his 
 entire time from 1887 to 1S93, and he has since 
 engaged in general contracting. He has had the 
 contract for some of the business blocks in 
 
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 257 
 
 Topeka, the new Fort Bliss at El Paso, Tex., a 
 detached ward in the Osavvatomie insane asylum, 
 the Santa Fe hospital at Topeka, a large pump- 
 ing station in Topeka, several bridges across the 
 Kaw River, a number of buildings at the Haskell 
 Institute, the Br3-ding & Lansing Railroad, 
 some work at the University of Kansas, and 
 numerous residences in Topeka and Lawrence. 
 Without doubt he is one of the most successful 
 contractors in the state. 
 
 Mr. Cox was born in Seymour, Jackson 
 County, Ind., October 9, 1853, a son of Richard 
 A. and Margaret (Cosand) Cox. His father, 
 who was born near Goldsboro, N. C, April 4, 
 1820, was a son of Isaac, and grandson of Rich- 
 ard Cox, whose ancestors, from England, were 
 among the earliest .settlers of North Carolina. 
 Richard Cox removed from that state to Illinois 
 about 1824 and died there. At the time of his 
 removal his son, Isaac, also came north, wishing 
 to free himself from the influences of slavery. 
 He settled in the midst of the woods in Indiana, 
 where he cleared a farm. He was a leader in the 
 Society of Friends. Politically he adhered to 
 Whig principles until the organization of the 
 Republican party, which he then joined. He 
 died in 1862, at the age of about sixty-two years. 
 He married Milicent Parker, who was born near 
 Goldsboro, N. C, a daughter of Isaac Parker, 
 who was of English descent ; he moved to Indiana 
 prior to 1824 and afterward engaged in farming 
 and also was a minister in the Friends' Society. 
 He died when seventy-five j'ears of age. 
 
 Richard A. Cox was the third among ten chil- 
 dren. Of his brothers, Benjamin came to 
 Kansas and was a prosperous farmer here, but, 
 later removed to Tulare, Cal. He himself re- 
 moved from Bartholomew Countj', Ind., to Jack- 
 son County, the same state, and from there, in 
 1869, .settled in Douglas County, Kans. , buying a 
 farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres. In 
 1890 he retired from business cares and has since 
 made his home in Lawrence. He was among the 
 first Quakers to settle in Douglas County and is 
 identified with that society in Lawrence. In 
 Washington County, Ind., he married a daughter 
 of Benjamin Cosand, who was born, reared and 
 
 married in North Carolina, and was a pioneer in 
 Washington County, Ind., where he was a 
 prominent worker in the Friends' Societj-. The 
 Cosand family is of English descent. Mrs. Mar- 
 garet Cox was born in Pasquotank County, 
 N. C, and died in Douglas County, Kans., in 
 1879, aged sixty-two. Of her five children three 
 sons are living. Charles resides on a farm in 
 Douglas Count}' and Albert L- lives in Lawrence. 
 In Lawrence, November 25, 1872, Mr. Cox 
 married Miss Belle T. Trueblood, who was born 
 in Salem, Ind., a daughter of William N. and 
 Isabelle (Albertson) Trueblood, natives of North 
 Carolina. Her father, who was of English de- 
 scent, was a farmer and extensive miller, and 
 took a leading part in the work of the Society of 
 Friends. His wife, who was also a member of 
 an English Quaker family, was the daughter of a 
 ph3'sician who moved from North Carolina to 
 Indiana. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Cox 
 is Flora Margaret, a graduate of the high school 
 and a student in the University of Kansas. The 
 family are identified with the Society of Friends. 
 Fraternally Mr. Cox is connected with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, Acacia 
 Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M.; Lawrence Chap- 
 ter No. 4, R. A. M.; DeMolay Commandery No. 
 4, K. T., and Abdallah Temple, N. M. S., 
 at Leavenworth. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM R. CARTER came to Kansas in 
 \ A / March, 1870, and after a short time in 
 Y V Topeka, in June of the same year settled 
 in Lawrence. Here, for many years, he was 
 foreman for O. P. Smith, a large contractor, who 
 erected a number of buildings for the state, also 
 built Washburn and Bethany colleges at Topeka. 
 In 1883 he began contracting and building, 
 which he has since followed, and, in addition, he 
 has drawn plans and specifications for buildings. 
 He had charge of the carpentering in the first 
 buildings erected at Haskell Institute, built the 
 Merchants' Bank, Chancellor vSnow's residence, 
 depots for the Santa Fe road along the line in 
 Kansas, the Hiawatha National Bank, Pliawatha 
 Academy, the academy at Oswego, Kans., and 
 numerous residences and business houses. 
 
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 The Carter family is one of the oldest in Sussex 
 County, England, where successive generations 
 have lived as far back as the record can be traced. 
 Thomas Carter, who was a bricklayer and con- 
 tractor, was the first of the name to settle in 
 America. He crossed the ocean in 1850, and 
 established his home on a farm in Grant County, 
 Wis. His son, Richard, who was born in Eng- 
 land, was a clerk at Brighton, Sussex County, 
 for some years. He did not accompanj' his father 
 to America, but remained at Brighton, and there 
 he died at seventy-six years. He married Sarah 
 Beeching, who was born at Cowfold, Sussex 
 County, a daughter of William Beeching. She 
 died in 1851, leaving two children, but the 
 daughter, Elizabeth, died at the age of twelve 
 years. The son, who is the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Brighton January 30, 1845. 
 He was six years old when he lost his mother. 
 His education was obtained in the Brighton 
 schools and St. John's College at Hurstpier 
 Point. Afterward he was apprenticed to an 
 architect and builder, and served for four years, 
 later following his trade in his native land for 
 five years. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Carter came to America. For a 
 year he worked at his trade in Lancaster, Grant 
 County, Wis. From there he came to Kansas, 
 and has since built up a large business in con- 
 tracting. The accuracy of his work and his close 
 attention to every detail has made him prominent 
 as a contractor, and has won for him the confi- 
 dence of the people. Politically a Democrat, his 
 attention is given clo.sely to his business affairs, 
 and he has therefore never identified himself with 
 politics, nor has he sought office of any kind. He 
 is a charter member of the Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation, and belongs to Lawrence Lodge No. 6, 
 A. F. & A. M., and Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F., 
 in which he has been a trustee for many years. 
 In his native land he became identified with the 
 Church of England, and still adheres to that 
 faith, being now identified with the Episcopal 
 Church of Lawrence, and for years a member of 
 its board of vestry. 
 
 In Lancaster, Wis., occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Carter to Miss Alice E. Carter, who was 
 
 born in England, and accompanied her parents 
 to Wisconsin in girlhood. Of their union six 
 children were born. The eldest, Richard W., 
 graduated in civil engineering from the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas in 1894, and is now engaged in 
 his chosen profession at Trenton, N. J. The 
 other children are Bessie, Edwin, Alfred, Anna 
 and Frances. 
 
 •gURDON GROVENOR, a resident of Law- 
 _ rence since 1857, ^'nd, in point of years of 
 ^ business activity, the oldest lumber dealer 
 in Kansas, traces his ancestry to the Grosvenor 
 family, who crossed the channel with William 
 the Conqueror and were given Cheshire County. 
 The founder of the family in England was Gilbert 
 Le Grosvenor, a Norman nobleman and a 
 nephew of the noted Norman conqueror. The 
 name means "the great hunter." After 1066 
 the family w^as prominent in the wars of England 
 and a number of the name joined the ranks of 
 the Crusaders who marched to the Holy Land. 
 From the same ancestor descended the Earl of 
 Westminster. In 1685 John Grosvenor came 
 from Cheshire County to America and settled in 
 Roxbury, Mass., where he died in 1691. The 
 familj' coat-of-arms may still be seen on the stone 
 that marks his resting place. His son, Ebenezer, 
 and grandson, Caleb, made their home at Pom- 
 fret, Conn., in which town the great-grandson, 
 Moses, was born and spent his entire life. Next 
 in line of descent was Willard, who was born in 
 Pomfret, became a farmer in Suffield, and later 
 settled at West Springfield, Ma.ss. , where he 
 died. Willard's son, Gurdon (our subject's 
 father), was born in Suffield, where he followed 
 farming and the transfer business. He died at 
 forty-one years. His wife, Maria, a native of 
 Suffield, was a daughter of Capt. Seth Phelps, 
 who served in the Indian wars in Ohio .shortly 
 after the Revolution and al.so, under General 
 Scott, was a captain in the war of 1812. His en- 
 tire life, with the exception of the period of his 
 military service, was spent in Suffield, where he 
 died. His father, Aaron, who was born in 
 the same town, was a son of Timothy Phelps, a 
 native of Northa'.npton, Mass., whose father. 
 
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 Nathaniel, born in Windsor, Conn., was a son of 
 Nathaniel, Sr. , a native of England. The latter 
 was a son of William Plielps, who was born in 
 Tewksburj', England, in 1599, and in 1630 
 brought his family to America, settling in Massa- 
 chusetts, but soon moving to Windsor, Conn. 
 His father, William, Sr. , lived and died in 
 Tewksburj', and was a son of James Phelps, born 
 in that place in 1520. Capt. Seth Phelps married 
 Phoebe, daughter of Rev. John Hastings, and 
 granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Hastings, who 
 were among the pioneer Baptist clerg3-men in 
 Suffield, Conn., and were very active in building 
 up that denomination in their locality. Mrs. 
 Maria Grovenor died in Connecticut at fifty years 
 of age. She had one son by her marriage with 
 Mr. Grovenor, Gurdon, who forms the subject 
 of this article. Maria Grovenor afterward mar- 
 ried Warren Lewis, by whom she had two 
 children, John and Mary Lewis. Gurdon was born 
 in Suffield, Conn., September 13, 1830, and was 
 reared on a farm. After completing his education 
 he taught school for five years. In October, 1857, 
 he came to Lawrence, via the Missouri River to 
 Wyandotte, and thence to Lawrence. Restarted 
 a grocery, which he conducted until 1863. Mean- 
 time, in 1859, he embarked in the lumber busi- 
 ness, and after selling his grocery he gave his 
 entire attention to his lumber trade, having a 
 large yard on Massachusetts and Warren streets. 
 During the Quandrell raid, in common with all 
 the business men of the cit)-, he suffered heavy 
 losses, his residence being burned to the ground, 
 but, in some miraculous way, his store, which 
 was set on fire, was saved from destruction. In 
 1866 he located his yard at Massachusetts and 
 Berkeley streets, where it has since remained. 
 He assisted in organizing the Merchants' Na- 
 tional Bank, in which he has since been a di- 
 rector. In May, 1899, on account of the failing 
 health of Mr. Grovenor and his son, he sold his 
 entire lumber business to Funnell & Co. of 
 Topeka. 
 
 In Suffield, Conn., Mr. Grovenor married 
 Ellen M. Crane, who was born in Washington, 
 Mass., and died in Lawrence, Kans. They had 
 
 three children, Charles P., John C. and Fanny 
 M., onlj' one of whom is living, Charles P., who 
 was interested in business with his father. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Grovenor took place in 
 Monson, Mass., and united him with Miss L. 
 Maria Bliss, who was born in Wilbraham, Mass., 
 and is a member of an old family of the state, 
 For more than twenty-five years our subject has 
 been a member of the Baptist Church, in which 
 he has been deacon for many years, has served 
 as chairman of the board of trustees, was a 
 member of the building committee, and has also 
 for years been a trustee of the Baptist state con- 
 vention, of which he has twice been chosen 
 president. For more than a quarter of a century 
 he has been a trustee of Ottawa University, and 
 has several times been president of the board, 
 of which he was the oldest member until his res- 
 ignation in June, 1899. 
 
 The first presidential ballot cast by Mr. Grove- 
 nor was in favor of Winfield Scott. Since the 
 organization of the Republican party he has .sus- 
 tained its principles by his vote. Several times 
 he has been a member of the citj' council, once 
 held office as county commissioner, and for three 
 terms (1865, 1870 and 1871) was mayor of the 
 city. He has been a member of the school 
 board, and was interested in the erection of 
 Central building, the first schoolhouse built in 
 the city. 
 
 0SGOOD A. COLMAN, who is engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits in Douglas County, 
 began farming in Kanwaka Township in 
 187 1. Seven years later he purchased his pres- 
 ent farm in the same township, where he has 
 since engaged in general farming and stock-rais- 
 ing. He is the owner of one hundred and eighty 
 acres of land, all improved and under cultivation. 
 Notwithstanding the limited advantages he had 
 in his youth he has become one of the well-to-do 
 farmers of his locality, and has proved himself a 
 useful and honorable citizen. A Republican in 
 politics, he has been a leader in local matters, 
 but has never sought office for himself, several 
 times refusing nominations offered him. How- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ever, he has consented to serve as school director, 
 which office he has filled since 1889 in district 
 No. 15. 
 
 Onr subject's father, li. A. Colman, was born 
 in Ashby, Mass., and in early manhood moved 
 to Boston, where he learned and afterward fol- 
 lowed the paper manufacturing business. He 
 was successful and furnished employment to sev- 
 eral men. In 1854 he sold out and moved to 
 Douglas County, Kans., settling in Lawrence. 
 On Christmas day of that year he took up a 
 quarter-section of land, on which he made some 
 improvements and remained for two years. In 
 1856 he sold the place and opened in Lawrence a 
 general store, which he carried on for one and 
 one-half years. Upon selling the store, he pur- 
 chased a farm in Kanwaka Township, and there 
 remained until 1894, when he disposed of the 
 property and went to California. There he died 
 in 1S98, at eighty-four years of age. He was a 
 man of intelligence and kept posted concerning 
 public affairs. In politics he was stauchly Re- 
 publican. For several years he served as justice 
 of the peace, and several times was a delegate to 
 county and state conventions. During the Civil 
 war he served as lieutenant of the first colored 
 regiment organized in Kansas, and was commonly 
 known by the title of captain. His ancestors 
 were early settlers of Massachusetts, and one of 
 them was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. By 
 his marriage to Mary J. Wendell, a native of 
 Marblehead, Mass., he had fouiteen children, 
 but the only survivors are: C. T. ; Osgood A.; 
 Mary, Mrs. J. R. Topping, of Kanwaka Town- 
 ship; and William A., also of this township. Of 
 those deceased, Charles Jackson Colman enlisted 
 in Maj', i86i, as a private, and was advanced to 
 a first lieutenancy in the fall of 1S62. He was 
 killed at the battle of Poison Springs, April 14, 
 1864, while commanding a company of the First 
 Kansas colored troops. 
 
 Born in Boston, Mass., in 1S50, our subject 
 was four years of age when his parents came west 
 to Kansas. He had only such advantages as the 
 early schools of Douglas County afforded. For 
 a time he clerked in a store owned by George 
 Ford, in Lawrence, after which he turned his at- 
 
 tention to his present occupation — agriculture. 
 In 1875 he married Miss Flora R. Richardson, 
 who was the first graduate of the University of 
 Kansas, and who.se daughter is the first gradu- 
 ate'schild who will have completed the university 
 course. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Colman 
 are: Alice, Nellie, Minnie, Fred, Clara, Asa and 
 Ralph. 
 
 GlLBF-RT GRIFFIN. In the spring of 1S78 
 1 1 Mr. Griffin rented a farm of one hundred 
 I I and sixty acres in Kudora Township, Doug- 
 las County. Three years later he bought the 
 property, to which he has since added by the 
 purchase of an eighty-acre tract. Giving his at- 
 tention closely to general farming and stock- 
 raising, he has met with gratifying success, 
 which is especially praiseworthj- when it is noted 
 that, at the time of coming to his present place, 
 he had nothing but one team and a few head of 
 stock. He was the first charter member of the 
 Farmers' Alliance, in the organization of which 
 he took a very active part, and afterward he 
 served as vice-president and then as president of 
 the society for several years. For four terms he 
 was treasurer of school district No. 44 and was 
 the first to agitate the question of erecting a school 
 building in the district. The People's parts- re- 
 ceives his support and he always advocates its 
 principles by his influence and his vote. 
 
 In Niagara County, N. Y., Mr. Griffin was 
 born January 31, 1844, ^ son of James and Jane 
 (Brazee) Griffin, natives of the same localitj-. 
 His paternal grandfather, William Griffin, carried 
 on a cooper factory and an extensive milling busi- 
 ness. James Griffin was a farmer during nmch 
 of his life, but did not confine his energies to 
 that occupation. He was also engaged in the 
 grocery business iu Niagara County. He was 
 active in the local ranks of the Democratic party. 
 In 1867 he removed from his native place to Polo, 
 Ogle County, 111., where he engaged in farming 
 until his death, in 1873, at the age of sixty-seven 
 years. His wife had died it New York ten years 
 prior to his demise. They were the parents of 
 eight children, five of whom are living, namely: 
 Ann, wife of H. M. Carter; Eliza Jane, who 
 
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 married William Newell; Sarah, Mrs. William 
 Lower}^; Carrie, wife of Saimiel Debolt; and Al- 
 bert. 
 
 Until twenty-one j-ears of age our subject re- 
 mained with his father, meantime obtaining his 
 education in common schools and in the academj- 
 at Gasport, Niagara County. In 1865 he went 
 to Michigan, where he followed photography for 
 a year. In 1866 he .settled in Polo, 111., where 
 the following four years were spent in farming. 
 In 1870 he came, overland, to Kansas, and set- 
 tled in Lawrence, where he engaged in teaming 
 for four j'ears. In 1874 he rented a farm on 
 Wakarusa Creek, and two years later purchased 
 one hundred and twenty acres at Bellevue Corner, 
 remaining there until he moved to his present 
 property in the spring of 1878. 
 
 November 24, 1869, Mr. Griffin married Jean- 
 nette Lawson, of Polo, Ogle County, 111. She 
 died in 18S6, leaving three children, namely: 
 Mary, wife of S. F. McGleget; Charles and 
 Eugene. The second marriage of Mr. Griffin 
 united him with Miss Emma Lawson, a sister of 
 his first wife, a lady of estimable character, who 
 shares with him the regard of acquaintances. 
 
 iA ATTHEW RYAN, JR. For years clo.sely 
 Y associated with the business interests of 
 (9 Leavenworth, Mr. Ryan is remembered as 
 one of the most capable and successful business 
 men this city has ever had. Although at the 
 time of his death he was only in the prime of his 
 mental and physical vigor, he had already gained 
 a success not always enjoyed by men whose lives 
 are prolonged to three score and ten years. In 
 his character were combined qualities which 
 almost invariably bring their possessor prosperi- 
 ty — wise judgment, energ3% determination and 
 keen foresight. These qualities, however, depict 
 only one side of his nature. In disposition he was 
 large-hearted and sympathetic, helpful to those 
 less fortunate, and genial and companionable. 
 His partner, George C. Richardson, described 
 him as a very magnanimous man, and certainly 
 this quality of magnanimitj- was one of his most 
 striking characteristics. 
 
 The history of the Ryan famil>' appears in the 
 sketch of Matthew Rjan, Sr. , father of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. It was in 1857 that the fam- 
 ily became established among the pioneers of 
 Leavenworth, and from that day to this its mem- 
 bers have been prominent in business and in pub- 
 lic life. Matthew, Jr., was born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, November 15, 1851. When he was a boy 
 of fourteen he began to assist his father and soon 
 was given full charge of the cattle business. In 
 partnership with George C. Richardson he es- 
 tablished the largest cold storage plant in Leaven- 
 worth, this being located at No. 519 Cherokee 
 street. He also became identified with other 
 local industries. As a director in the First Na- 
 tional Bank he was associated with one of the 
 foremost financial institutions in the west. He 
 was president of the Leavenworth Coal Company 
 and the Ryan Brothers Cattle Company for years, 
 and until his death. His time was so closely 
 given to his varied business interests that he had 
 no leisure, even had he the inclination, to engage 
 in public affairs, and, aside from voting the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket, he took no part in politics. 
 
 In Leavenworth occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Ryan to Miss Dacotah Skinner, who was born in 
 Prairie du Chien, Wis., a daughter of Archibald 
 and Anna E. (Swinehart) Skinner, and a grand- 
 daughter of Morris Skinner, a farmer of Penn- 
 sylvania. Her father was born in western Penn- 
 sylvania and became a pioneer of Prairie du 
 Chien, and later of Kansas. In 1864 he settled 
 in Lawrence, Kans., where he engaged in ihe 
 hotel business and also had charge of his farm 
 near the town. He died at the age of seventy- 
 two. He was of remote Scotch descent, and 
 traced his ancestry to Revolutionary soldiers. 
 His widow is still living and makes her home 
 with her daughter, Mrs. Ryan, besides whom 
 she has two children, P. N., of Portland, Ore.; 
 and Mrs. S. M. Kelsey, of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 Mrs. Ryan was reared and educated in Lawrence 
 and received her education in the university there 
 and in St. Mary's Convent at Leavenworth. She 
 is the mother of four children, namely: Grace, 
 wife of Eugene Burr, of Leavenworth; Mary L-, 
 who is attending a seminary in Chicago; Clarence 
 
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 R. and Anna Florence. Mrs. Ryan is actively 
 identified with the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 While in the midst of his business activities, 
 when fortune had rewarded his efforts and domes- 
 tic happiness and warm friendships blessed his 
 life, Mr. Ryan was suddenly called from earth. 
 When riding, November 29, 1897, his horse 
 stumbled and threw him, injuring him in such a 
 way as to cause death. This sudden catastrophe 
 was mourned as a heavy loss to the citizenship 
 and business circles of Leavenworth, and the 
 sympathies of a host of warm personal friends 
 were extended to the family, thus suddenly be- 
 reaved of husband and father. 
 
 (Tamils gray, clerk of the first judicial dis- 
 I trict of Kansas, is one of the most popular 
 Q) citizens of Leavenworth, and also one of its 
 leading politicians. While he was born near 
 Woodstock, Canada, his life has been almost 
 wholly pa.ssed in Leavenworth County, where his 
 parents settled in his very early childhood. His 
 father and grandfather, both of whom were named 
 Andrew Gray, were natives of Kilmarnock, a 
 town twelve miles from Ayr, in Ayrshire, Scot- 
 land, and both came to America, settling in Can- 
 ada. The former, a farmer by occupation, was 
 one of the pioneers of Kansas, and in 1858 settled 
 in Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County. 
 After a time he removed to the James Stone 
 farm, three miles south of Leavenworth. In 
 1869 he purchased property on the Delaware res- 
 ervation in Stranger Township, and here he has 
 since made his home. He is now (1S99) sixty- 
 seven years of age. He has always been a stanch 
 patriot, devoted to the Union, and during the 
 Civil v^-ar he joined the army that defended the 
 state in the Price raid. By his marriage to Mar- 
 garet Robertson, who was born in Scotland, he 
 had seven children. Five are still living, viz. : 
 Matthew G. , who lives in Stranger Township; 
 William, who lives near Woodstock, Canada; 
 James; Alexander, a stock-dealer and merchant 
 at Ordway, Colo.; and Mrs. James P. Dillon, 
 who occupies the old homestead in Stranger 
 Township. 
 
 James Gray was two years of age when his 
 parents removed to Kansas, and he grew to man- 
 hood in Leavenworth County, meantime atteiid- 
 ind district schools in High Prairie and Stranger 
 Townships, and, in 1879, graduating from Skill- 
 man's Commercial College. During the time of 
 the great Leadville boom he went to that citj-, 
 and for two years engaged in pro.specting in Col- 
 orado. After his marriage he went to Wichita, 
 Kans., where he engaged in the grocery business, 
 remaining for two years. His connection with 
 politics dates from 1888. During that year he 
 was appointed under-sheriff, a position that he 
 filled for a period of four years. From S. F. 
 Neeley he received an appointment as traveling 
 deputy United States marshal, with headquarters 
 in Leavenworth. During his term of service in 
 this office he participated in .settling the Coxey 
 strikes and the railroad strikes on the Santa Fe. 
 While holding the position, in 1895, he was nom- 
 inated for city clerk and was the only candidate 
 on the Democratic ticket who was elected. He 
 served for two years, and during his last year in 
 office he was nominated for district clerk and was 
 elected by a fair majoritj-. January 11, 1897, ^^^ 
 took the oath of office as district clerk, and the 
 following year was re-elected by a good majority, 
 to serve until January, 1901. He is one of the 
 leading Democrats of the county, and has wielded 
 a large influence in the ranks of his party. March 
 2, 1881, he married Miss Gretta Hazlewood, who 
 was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and died in 
 Leavenworth, November 5, 1897, leaving one 
 son, Malcolm Melville. 
 
 30SEPH B. CUNNINGHAM. A position 
 among the leading farmers of Douglas Coun- 
 ty is held by the subject of this sketch, who 
 for years has owned and occupied a valuable 
 farm in Lecompton Township. While he has 
 engaged in general farming he has devoted his 
 attention principally to the stock business, his 
 specialt}' being the breeding of thoroughbred 
 swine, and through his judicious management of 
 affairs he has become comfortabl}' well off. A 
 man of vigorous constitution, he is fitted bv 
 
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 nature, as well as by inclination, for the arduous 
 duties of farm life. In the educational, religious 
 and business affairs of his township he has been 
 active, and, being a man of sterling integrit}-, 
 has won the confidence of his associates. 
 
 Born in Tuscarawas Count}-, Ohio, October iS, 
 1839, Mr. Cunningham early began to make his 
 way in the world. In 1856 he settled in Johnson 
 County, Iowa, where he married and engaged in 
 farming. After eight years in that state he came 
 to Kansas, spending a short time in Lawrence, 
 and thence removing to Lecompton Township. 
 For years he has been deeply interested in Lane 
 University, and at this writing he is chairman of 
 its executive board, in which position he is 
 largely responsible for its management. His 
 name appears prominently on the honorary mem- 
 bership roll of Zetgathean Literarj- Society, the 
 continued prosperity of which is due in no small 
 measure to his encouragement. When its days 
 were less sunny than now, he opened his purse 
 to tide it over difficulties. The society library is 
 largely made up of books presented by him, and 
 it was principally through his efforts that its 
 spacious hall was finished and furnished. Each 
 of his four sons was for years influential in its 
 councils. 
 
 Of the children of Mr. Cunningham, F. M. is 
 deceased. The others are as follows: Lester B., a 
 farmer in Wabaunsee and Pratt Counties; H. L. , 
 who is engaged in the grocery business at 
 Ottawa; F. B., a farmer in Douglas County; 
 MaryE., wife of William Zellers, 'a farmer of 
 Wabaunsee County; and Katie V., who is at 
 home. 
 
 HON. JOHN McKEE is one of the oldest 
 settlers of Leavenworth, having come here 
 in the spring of 1855. He was born in St. 
 Louis, Mo., Angust 31, 1827. His father, Stew- 
 art McKee, came from Belfast, Ireland, to 
 America when about twenty-two years of age, 
 landing in New York and going from there to 
 New Jersey, but worked his way west until he 
 reached St. Louis, where he followed the mill- 
 wright's trade. In 1834 he removed to Grant 
 County, Wis., and built a mill there. Politic- 
 
 ally he was a Democrat. By his marriage to 
 Miss Fine, of St. Louis, he had seven sons, of 
 whom two are now living, John and Henry E. 
 The boys were reared on the farm and worked in 
 the mill and lead mines in the vicinity. They 
 were educated at St. Louis Universitj'. 
 
 In 1852 the subject of this sketch returned to 
 St. Louis, and in the spring of 1855 came to 
 Leavenworth, and with his brother Henry en- 
 gaged in surveying and civil engineering. In the 
 fall of 1857 ^''s was appointed city treasurer of 
 Leavenworth, and the next year was elected 
 to the position, .serving for two terms. In the 
 fall of i860 he was chosen citj' marshal, filling 
 the office for a year, after which he was deputy 
 county treasurer for two years. In 1863 he was 
 elected sheriff, which office he filled for four years, 
 from January, 1864, to January, 1868. In the 
 fall of the latter year he was elected state senator, 
 and during his term introduced the present reg- 
 istration law for cities of the first class, which 
 became a law at that session of the legislature, 
 and which, with slight modifications, remains in 
 force at this time. He is a Republican, with 
 which political party he has been identified since 
 the commencement of its existence, having pre- 
 viously been an active free-state man when that 
 was the vital issue in Kansas and the countrj'. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. McKee was appointed receiver for 
 Carney & Stevens, and conducted their business 
 until it was closed out. For three years he was 
 city treasurer under Mayor Fortesque, after 
 which he was postmaster under President Ar- 
 thur, serving from April, 1883, until the election 
 of President Cleveland, and for six months after 
 his inauguration. Later he was interested in the 
 ramufacturing business in Leavenworth until he 
 retired in 1892. In 1858 he built the residence 
 at No. 517 Chestnut street, where he has since 
 made his home, and he also erected in 1868 a 
 business house on Delaware street that at the 
 time of its erection was one of the finest in the 
 town. Fraternally he is a member of Leaven- 
 worth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M.; Leaven- 
 worth Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.; Leavenworth 
 Commandery No. i, K. T. ; and Abdallah Tem- 
 ple, N. M. S. October 7, 1S58, he married Jo- 
 
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 sephine E. S. Lewis, of Potosi, Wis. Thej- had 
 ten children, three of whom died in infancy. 
 The others are: Stewart (a practicing physician 
 in Leavenworth), Sj-rena (who served as deputy 
 city treasurer for about ten years continuously 
 under Mayors Hacker, Dodsworth, Hook and Ed- 
 mond), Josephine Eugenia, Madge, Rose T., John 
 and Lydia. 
 
 (p\ UGUSTUS H. GRIESA, proprietor of the 
 Lj Kansas home nursery, in Wakarusa Town- 
 / I ship, Douglas County, was born in Biele- 
 feld, German^', in January, 1845, ^ son of Charles 
 and Henrietta (Schall) Griesa. His father, who 
 was a cabinet-maker, brought the family to 
 America in 1853 and settled in Lima, N. Y., 
 thence removed to Naples, and later to Cohoc- 
 ton, where he remained until his death. Of his 
 eleven children one died in Germany- and one 
 when crossing the ocean. Seven are now living, 
 three being in western New York and four in 
 Kansas. The education of our subject was be- 
 gun in Germany and completed in New York. 
 For a time he taught German in a select school 
 in Naples. He remained with his parents until 
 twenty-one years of age. From 1857 to 1867 he 
 worked in a nursery in Naples, from which place 
 he came to Kan.sas, being the first of the family 
 to seek a home in this state. He brought with 
 him some nursery stock, which he planted in 
 Kanwaka Township, four miles west of his pres- 
 ent homestead. He bought forty acres of slightly 
 improved land, with a small log cabin. Later 
 one of his brothers joined him and remained in 
 partnership with him for ten years. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Griesa purchased property at the 
 northwestern limits of Lawrence, to which he 
 moved his nursery and on which he has since 
 resided. The land had been used previously for 
 raising corn and wheat. Since his partnership 
 with his brother was di.ssolved, in 1879, he has 
 been alone. In 1880 he commenced to erect the 
 nursery buildings now on the place. His nur- 
 sery covers over one hundred acres of his own 
 land, besides what he leases. Of late years he 
 has made a specialty of experimenting in new 
 fruits. He has originated the Kansas, Lawrence 
 
 and Cardinal raspberries, the Mele strawberry, 
 Catalpa umbrella tree, and the Superb apricot. 
 In the growth of the latter he has been remark- 
 ably successful. Many horticulturists have de- 
 clared it to be the choicest fruit they ever tasted, 
 and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society ten- 
 dered him a first-class certificate on it. All of 
 the brands are recognized by his competitors gen- 
 erally as being of the highest order. The Kansas 
 raspberry is recognized from New Mexico to 
 Minnesota and from Oregon to Maine as the 
 hardiest variety of that fruit grown. The Cardi- 
 nal, which is not so well known, is even hardier 
 than the Kansas, and, having passed through the 
 extremely hard winter of 1898-99 without the 
 least injury, may be said to be able to stand the 
 coldest weather. He cultivates only the best 
 varieties of peaches and apples, discarding all that 
 are not up to the high standard he has established. 
 While this plan has entailed heavy expense, yet 
 he adheres to the plan of maintaining, notwith- 
 standing expense, a high standard of fruit. He 
 grows all kinds of trees and shrubbery adapted 
 to this climate. One of the finest of his trees is 
 the umbrella catalpa, which he originated, and 
 shipments of which are made to distant states. 
 His sales are mostly in wholesale lots, through 
 agencies, selections being made from the cata- 
 logues which he issues annually. 
 
 In 18S0 Mr. Griesa built a substantial farm 
 house. In 1892 he remodeled and enlarged the 
 residence, making of it a comfortable home. He 
 also has three tenant houses, occupied by his 
 men. He furnishes steady employment to five 
 men, besides which he hires from thirty to forty 
 men by the sea.son. To aid in the work he has 
 six horses of his own, and in the spring hires a 
 number of others. In addition to his chosen oc- 
 cupation he is a taxidermist of no mean skill, 
 and his collection of mounted birds is worthy of 
 study by all interested in ornithology. Among 
 other rare specimens he has one eagle measuring 
 seven and one-half feet from tip to tip of wings. 
 
 Mr. Griesa was formerly a Republican, but is 
 now a Prohibitionist. He attended the national 
 Prohibition convention at Pittsburgh, where Mr. 
 Levering was nominated for president, but as the 
 
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 platform adopted by that convention did not en- 
 tirely represent his views, he gave his support to 
 George Bently, whose platform stood for woman 
 suffrage as well as the remonetization of silver. 
 He assisted in the organization of the Congrega- 
 tional Church of his township, in which he was 
 for years Sunday-school superintendent, and is 
 still a leading worker. In July, 1869, he married 
 Amelia, daughter of Lewis Beebee, of Lima, 
 N. Y., who was identified with the establishment 
 of the Lima Seminary as one of its founders. In 
 that institution the members of his family were 
 educated. 
 
 At the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Griesa the following poem was read by 
 Rev. A. M. Richardson: 
 
 Once on a time, when skies were bright, 
 And Cnpid's wings were plumed for flight, 
 A youth and maiden, blithe and fair. 
 Became a happy, wedded pair. 
 
 They made their home on Kansas soil 
 Resolved to test the fruits of toil. 
 An humble home— no outward sign 
 Proclaimed the wealth within enshrined. 
 
 With patient hearts and willing hands. 
 They labored long on house and lands. 
 The heavens smiled, the earth, caressed, 
 Gave forth the treasures she possessed. 
 
 Rare fruits and flowers and golden grain 
 Bedecked the hills, adorned the plain, 
 The social board with plenty spread, 
 Gave ample proof of daily bread. 
 
 But, strange to tell, there came a day 
 Its inmates longed to hie away 
 To broader fields, and settle down 
 Anear to market and the town. 
 
 Hither they came — before our eyes. 
 Behold this stately mansion rise! 
 Its pleasant rooms, in bright array. 
 The mistress' taste and skill displaj-. 
 
 While trees and shrubs and fruitful fields, 
 Show what the master's labor yields. 
 .\ bonnie home! whose peace and love 
 Give foretaste of the Home above! 
 
 How swift the years have flown away, 
 That bring this silver wedding day! 
 We give you joy — that all these years — 
 'Mid sun and storm, 'mid smiles and tears — 
 
 The chain of love has stronger grown 
 Binding each heart fast to its own. 
 No changes can your souls divide! 
 You still are bridegroom and his bride! 
 
 The echoes of 3'our marriage bells, 
 
 In richer, sweeter music swells. 
 
 Than when in youth's fair bridal morn, 
 
 They chimed the vows that made you one! 
 
 The silver threads that crown your brows, 
 Like silken ties, hold fast those vows, 
 More sacred still, as life moves on. 
 Until the heavenly home is won. 
 
 We wish you joy! dear, precious friends! 
 What e'er the lot our Father sends. 
 May coming years bring peace and rest. 
 And all that makes life rich and blest. 
 
 While gifts of boundless love and grace 
 Find in your hearts a larger place. 
 May this, your silver wedding's date 
 Its golden glory celebrate. 
 
 Lawrence, July 20, 1804. 
 
 ~DWARD E. MURPHY, member of the 
 ^ board of directors of the Modern Woodmen 
 _ of America for Kansas, was appointed to 
 this position in July, 1899, and in addition has 
 also officiated as assistant head counsel of the 
 order, and from July, 1895, to July, 1899, served 
 as state deput}'. Under his supervision the work 
 was greatly promoted and its success enhanced. 
 He has traveled over the entire district, deliver- 
 ing addresses, organizing camps and forwarding 
 the work of the fraternity. When he became 
 state deputy in 1895 the order had eleven thou- 
 sand members in Kansas; now there are more 
 than forty-three thousand, which remarkable 
 growth is largely due to his wise management. 
 He was a charter member of Leavenworth Camp 
 No. 367, in which he has held the various offi- 
 ces, and at the head of which he stood for eight 
 years. His home is at No. 411 Chestnut street, 
 Leavenworth. 
 
 The grandfather of Mr. Murphy was Arthur 
 Murphy, a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who 
 brought his family to America and settled in Mas- 
 sachusetts, where he died. He had two sons in 
 the Civil war. One, Thomas, was on board the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 "Monitor" (luring its celebrated battle with the 
 "Merrimac;" the other served in the army. The 
 father of our subject, Hon. John C. Murphy, 
 was born in County Kerry, Ireland, and learned 
 the trade of plasterer and bricklayer in Worcester, 
 Mass., where he carried on a large business. In 
 iSsShecame to Leavenworth and began con- 
 tracting and building. For many years he was 
 foreman for the government at Forts Sill and 
 Lyon, and in the state penitentiary at Leaven- 
 worth. In 1881 he went to Denver, Colo., later 
 engaged in cattle-raising in New Mexico and 
 Arizona. During the Cleveland administration 
 he was postmaster at Duncan, Ariz In 1897 he 
 returned to Leavenworth, where he died in Au- 
 gust, 1898, at theage of sixty-six years. Forone 
 term he was a member of the Kansas state legis- 
 lature, and was the author of the mechanics' lien 
 law. During the war he was a commissary ser- 
 geant in the militia. His wife, Margaret (born 
 in Connecticut, and died in Leavenworth in 
 1S79), was a daughter of Edward Costello, a na- 
 tive of Ireland, who settled in Connecticut and 
 later was employed as a corder in Fox's woolen 
 mills at Worcester, Mass. He died at seventy- 
 two years, while visiting in Leavenworth. 
 
 The family of Hon. John C. • and Margaret 
 Murphy consisted of the following-named chil- 
 dren: Edward E.; Winnifred, who died in Leav- 
 enworth; Fannie, of this city; Henry, who was 
 connected with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
 Railroad at Sedalia, Mo., and died therein 1890, 
 when twenty-.six years of age; Maggie, Mrs. R. 
 Springer, of Leavenworth; Mrs. Mollie Williams, 
 of this city; Hampton, who died in infancy; and 
 John C, who issecondlieutenant of Company C, 
 Twentieth Kansas \'olunteers, now in .service at 
 Manila, Philippine Islands. The eldest of the 
 family, our. subject, was born in Worcester, Mass., 
 May 14, 1853. In 1859 he was brought to 
 Leavenworth, the family traveling from St. Louis 
 on the Steamer "Sky Lark." When he was 
 fourteen his father removed to a farm six miles 
 south of Leavenworth, in Delaware Township, and 
 there he remained until twenty-one years of age. 
 After returning to Leavenworth in 1874, he was 
 employed by different business houses, also was 
 
 for nine months on a government survey in the 
 Indian Territory. He was one of the earliest let- 
 ter carriers in Leavenworth, there being but five 
 carriers in the town at the time he became con- 
 nected with the postoffice. After holding the po- 
 sition for seven years he resigned and accepted a 
 situation as city circulator of the Leavenworth 
 Slaiidard. In 1883 and 1884 he was weigh clerk 
 at the penitentiary coal shaft, under Governor 
 Glick. In 1884 he obtained a contract for an 
 output of coal and traveled through Kansas, sell- 
 ing to local dealers. In 1887 he became a deputy 
 under John J. Roche in the office of register of 
 deeds, after which he was deputy to Sheriff 
 Churchill, later turning his attention to the insur- 
 ance business. In 1893 he was appointed deputy 
 revenue collector of the first division under R. B. 
 Morris, and served for almost four years, resign- 
 ing to accept the position of state deputy of the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. 
 
 In Leavenworth Mr. Murphy married Agnes, 
 daughter of Col. Thomas Moonlight. She is a 
 graduate of the Leavenworth high school and an 
 intelligent and refined woman, with artistic abil- 
 ity. She has filled the office of secretary of the 
 Art League and of the Orphan Asylum, and is a 
 director in the Leavenworth Hospital Associa- 
 tion. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Mur- 
 phy are: Thomas Moonlight, Edward Emmett, 
 Jr., Margaret and Bryan. 
 
 Mr. Murphy is past master workman of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen and has six times 
 been elected to the supreme lodge of the order. 
 He is grand vice-chancellor of the Knights of Py- 
 thias of Kansas, past grand of Lodge No. 27, 
 I. O. O. F. , past chief of the Degree of Honor, 
 member of the Royal Neighbors, Leavenworth 
 Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., Knights and Ladies 
 of Securit}', Fraternal Aid Association, Select 
 Knights, Code of Honor, Royal Fraternity and 
 United Commercial Travelers. With his wife 
 he holds membership in the Episcopal Church, of 
 which he is a vestryman. He is one of the local 
 leaders of the Democracy, and has been a mem- 
 I)er of the state central committee, the executive 
 committee of the state central committee, the 
 county central committee (of which he has been 
 
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 269 
 
 chairman) and the citj- central committee (of 
 which he is now chairman). He has also served 
 as chairman of the congressional committee of his 
 partj'. Though active in politics, he has never 
 sought office for himself. He is an energetic, 
 enterprising man, and the success which he has 
 gained in life is due entirely to his own unaided 
 efforts. 
 
 HENRY WILLIAM WUL FEKUHLER. 
 From the time that he came to Leavenworth 
 (April, 1858), Mr. Wulfekuhler has been 
 identified with the business interests of the city 
 and has assisted in developing its commercial re- 
 sources. Quietly but energetically he has pur- 
 sued his chosen business calling, and by judg- 
 ment and energy he has acquired a competence. 
 He has made many friends during the more than 
 forty years of his residence in Leavenworth, and 
 has gained the confidence of his business asso- 
 ciates through the reliability of his transactions. 
 With his brother, Frederick William, he is pro- 
 prietor of the wholesale grocery house of Rohlf- 
 ing & Co., which is one of the oldest and largest 
 concerns of its kind in Leavenworth. 
 
 The house in which Mr. Wulfekuhler was 
 born, August 9, 1834, stood in Osnabriick, prov- 
 ince of Hanover, Germany, and was built genera- 
 tions ago by one of his ancestors; it is still stand- 
 ing, and is the property of one of the family. 
 His father and grandfather, both of whom bore 
 the name of Christopher, occupied the old home- 
 stead, and were well known in their part of the 
 province. Chri.stopher Wulfekuhler, Jr., mar- 
 ried Charlotta Wissman, a native of Versmold, 
 Prussia, and a daughter of William Wissman. 
 They were the parents of three sons and three 
 daughters, of whom the two surviving sons are 
 Henry William and Frederick William, and the 
 two surviving daughters still reside in Germanj'. 
 
 In 1854, when nineteen years of age, our sub- 
 ject came to America on the sailing vessel "Her- 
 man," which crossed from Bremen to New Or- 
 leans in forty-two days. He was the first of the 
 family to settle in the United States. He trav- 
 eled up the Mississippi to St. Louis, where he 
 clerked until 1858. On coming to Leavenworth 
 
 he started in business on Cherokee street with 
 Mr. Rohlfing as Rohlfing & Wulfekuhler. In 
 i860 he bought out Mr. Rohlfing, who went to 
 Denver, Colo., and opened a wholesale and retail 
 grocery, but died in that city in September of the 
 same year. The business at Leavenworth has 
 since been owned and conducted by our subject 
 and his brother, and they also freighted with mule 
 and ox-trains across the plains until the comple- 
 tion of the Union Pacific Railroad. The grocery 
 business is a large one, and the trade extends 
 throughout Kansas and Missouri, the stock of 
 goods occupying three large buildings. 
 
 In addition to his interest in the grocery, Mr. 
 Wulfekuhler owns stock in the Globe Canning 
 Company, and is interested in the Leavenworth 
 National Bank, the Manufacturers National Bank 
 and the Union Savings Bank, and he also owns 
 numerous farms in this state. During the Civil 
 war he was a member of the home militia. At 
 the close of the war he returned to his old home 
 in Germany and spent two years there. While 
 abroad he also visited the exposition at Paris. 
 He adheres to the Lutheran faith, which was the 
 religious belief of his ancestors. In politics he is 
 a Republican. The residence which he owns at 
 No. 722 Oak street was built by himself in 1868. 
 He was married in Leavenworth to Miss Louisa 
 Rohlfing, a native of Prussia. The children born 
 of their union are named as follows: Otto and 
 Albert, who assist their father in business; Eu- 
 gene, who was connected with the Manufactur- 
 ers' National Bank of Leavenworth, and died in 
 this city in 1897, at twenty-seven years of age; 
 and Louis H., a graduate of the University of 
 Kansas and the Columbian Law School in Wash- 
 ington, D. C. , and now a member of a prominent 
 law firm of Leavenworth. 
 
 0ANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., postmaster of 
 Leavenworth, was born in this citj' August 
 22,1870, and is a son of Col. D. R. Anthony, 
 Sr. After having acquired the rudiments of his 
 education in local public schools, he entered 
 Michigan Military Acadeni)- at Orchard Lake, 
 Mich., from which he graduated on the comple- 
 
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 tion of the regular course. In 1 891 he graduated 
 from the State Univer.sit)- of Michigan. T'pon 
 his return home he became connected with the 
 Leavenworth Times, and has since held the posi- 
 tion of business manager. 
 
 Reared in the faitli of the Republican party, 
 Mr. Anthony has always adhered to its princi- 
 ples and has taken an active part in its affairs. 
 As a delegate to county and state conventions 
 he has rendered good service, and he is now 
 state committeeman for his district. In recogni- 
 tion of his .service for his party, as well as his 
 ability to fill a responsible position with honor 
 and efficiency. President McKinley appointed 
 him po.stmaster of Leavenw-orth July 8, 1898, 
 and this office he has since held, filling it to the 
 satisfaction of the people of the city. His double 
 duties as postmaster and as business manager of 
 the paper make his life a very busy and active 
 one, and leave him little leisure for outside mat- 
 ters. However, he is always foremost in enter- 
 prises for the benefit of the city and the promotion 
 of the welfare of the people. 
 
 In June, 1897, Mr. Anthony married Bessie, 
 daughter of Paul E. Havens, of Leavenworth. 
 They have one daughter, Eleanor. 
 
 IILLIAM SMALL. The prominent posi- 
 tion held by Mr. Small in the business 
 circles of Leavenworth and of Kansas 
 has come to him as the result of his excellent 
 judgment and great energy. During the long 
 period of his connection with the business inter- 
 ests of Leavenworth he has built up a mer- 
 cantile establishment that is one of the most 
 complete in the entire state; and, at the same 
 time, he has gained an enviable reputation 
 for accuracy of business methods and sagacity of 
 judgment. The firm of William Small & Co. 
 occupies a four-story building, 48x125, at Nos. 
 413-415 Delaware street, where a large trade in 
 dr)' goods has been successfully conducted. 
 
 In addition to his identification with the dry- 
 goods business, Mr. Small was one of the 
 organizers, and is now president of, the Leaven- 
 worth & Mexico Agricultural Company, which 
 
 owns eleven hundred acres in the Isthmus of Te- 
 hauntepec. The company has improved, from 
 the forest primeval, a coffee plantation on which 
 is raised coffee, besides other tropical productions. 
 The superintendent of the plantation is a practical 
 man, and his successful management of the place 
 has greatly increased its value. The headquar- 
 ters of the company are in Leavenworth. 
 
 Mr. Small was born and reared in Hamilton, 
 Ontario. His parents, William and Mary J. 
 (Harkness) Small, were natives respectively of 
 Dundee, Scotland, and County Tyrone, Ireland, 
 but spent their lives principally in Canada, where 
 he was employed as a bookkeeper in Hamilton. 
 They had only two children, and the younger of 
 these, James, died ih St. Paul, Minn., .so that 
 William is now the sole survivor of the family. 
 When he was thirteen he became an apprentice 
 to the drj'-goods trade, at which he served for 
 three years. In 1866 he removed from Hamil- 
 ton to St. Louis, Mo., where he was employed 
 as a wholesale and retail dry-goods clerk, being 
 for some time with what is now the William 
 Barr Dry-Goods Company. 
 
 Coming to Leavenworth in 1871, Mr. Small 
 filled a position as clerk in the dry-goods store of 
 Leibenstein Company and after the failure of that 
 firm he was with H. Saunders, later Weaver & 
 Saunders. About 1880 he became a partner in 
 the firm of Weaver & Small. Three years later 
 the firm was changed to Small, Ram.say & Vories, 
 and afterward to Small & Vories, finally Mr. 
 Small became the sole proprietor. He conducted 
 the business alone for two years. In August, 
 1893, the admission of others to the business 
 caused the name to be changed to William 
 Small & Co. 
 
 While in Canada Mr. Small married Miss 
 Zephy Steele, who was born in Edinburgh, Scot- 
 land. Fraternally he is a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Eellows; Modern Wood- 
 men of America; Knightsof Pythias, in which he 
 is past chancellor; and Knights of Honor, in 
 which he was formerly dictator. In matters po- 
 litical he has been allied with the Republican 
 party. He is a member of the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Leavenworth. In conclusion it 
 
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 may be said of him that he is a man whose 
 success has been gained by perseverance, deter- 
 mination and tireless energy. In youth he was 
 taught habits of self-reliance, which afterward 
 proved invaluable to him. By his apprenticeship 
 to the dry-goods business he was grounded in 
 the fundamental principles of the business. He 
 is known for sound and careful judgment as a 
 business man and for a progressive spirit as a 
 citizen. 
 
 EOL. HORACE L. MOORE. The Moore 
 famih^ was founded in America by Andrew 
 Moore, who came from England and settled 
 in Poquonock, Conn., being married there Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1671, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel 
 Phelps, and granddaughter of William Phelps, 
 the first representative of the Phelps family in 
 America. He continued to reside in Connecticut 
 and died at Windsor November 29, 17 19. In 
 his family the eighth child was Benjamin, who 
 was born in Windsor, Decembers, 1693, and died 
 at Poquonock, February 23, 1732. His marriage 
 united him with Emma, daughter of Nathaniel 
 Phelps, whose father, George Phelps, came to 
 this country in an early day. 
 
 Next in line of descent was lyieut. Joseph 
 Moore, who was born in Simsbury, Conn., July 
 21, 1720, and during the Revolutionary war 
 served as lieutenant in Captain Buttolph's Eight- 
 eenth Connecticut Troops. During the battle of 
 lyong Island he was taken prisoner and confined 
 in the prison ship "Jersey," in New York Har- 
 bor, where he died November 3, 1776. He had 
 married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Miriam 
 (Buell) Stevens, and. granddaughter of Peter 
 Buell, whose father, William Buell, came to 
 America at an early date. Gen. Don Carlos 
 Buell, of Civil war fame, belonged to the same 
 family. 
 
 Samuel, son of Lieutenant Moore, was born in 
 Simsbury, Conn., May 24, 1764, and died in 
 Portage County, Ohio, November 3, 1816, he 
 having been a farmer in Ohio from 1806 until his 
 death. He married Eunice, daughter of Capt. 
 Isaac and Susanna (Root) Gillett. The captain 
 was born March 5, 1744, and served in the Revo- 
 
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 lutionary army as a captain. He was a son of 
 Deacon Isaac, son of Isaac, son of Nathan, whose 
 father, Nathan Gillett, Sr. , settled in Dorchester, 
 Mass., in 1630 and afterward served in the 
 Pequod war. 
 
 Samuel, son of Samuel Moore, Sr. , was born 
 in Granby, Conn., and served in the war of 1812, 
 he being then eighteen years of age. In 1806 he 
 had accompanied his parents to Portage County, 
 Ohio. He was the third among his parents' 
 children. His brother, Mark, was one of the 
 first to enlist in the war of 1812, and was sent to 
 Detroit, where he was taken prisoner. Later he 
 was exchanged and returned home, but died one 
 moiith later as a result of exposure. Samuel 
 Moore, Jr., improved a farm of two hundred and 
 twenty-five acres on the western reserve, and 
 there resided until his death, meantime frequent- 
 ly serving as an official. 
 
 On Christmas day of 1817 Samuel Moore, Jr., 
 married Elizabeth Keyes, who was born in Mid- 
 dlesex, N. Y., a daughter of Amaziah and Nancy 
 (Crafts) Keyes. Her father was born in Ply- 
 mouth, Mass., August 13, 1771, and married a 
 daughter of Maj. Edward Crafts, who was born 
 in Boston October 12, 1746, and served through- 
 out the Revolutionary war as a major. In 1763 
 he enlisted as a private in Paddock's artillery 
 company of Boston. His brother, Thomas, was 
 first a lieutenant and afterward colonel of a regi- 
 ment of which Paul Revere was lieutenant-col- 
 onel. Just before the Revolution Edward Crafts 
 entered the continental service, enlisting at Wor- 
 cester April 19, 1775, as a private. He took part 
 in the battle of Bunker Hill, after which he was 
 made captain in Colonel Gridley's regiment, and 
 at the close of the war was breveted major. 
 From Worcester he removed to Murrayfield (now 
 Chester), Hampden County, Mass., where he be- 
 came a large farmer. In 1792 he settled in Mid- 
 dlesex, Ontario County, N. Y. During the jour- 
 ney his daughter, Hannah, fourteen years of age, 
 was captured by Indians. As soon as she was 
 missed, her brother, Edward, twenty-three years 
 of age, started in pursuit and after following the 
 Indians for more than a week succeeded in rescu- 
 ing her. Major Crafts died in New York April 
 
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 II, 1806. His wife died in Auburn, Ohio, De- 
 cember 17, 1832. She bore the maiden name of 
 Eliot Winship, and was a daughter of John 
 and Bethia Winship, and a granddaughter of 
 Edward and Rebecca (Barshaw) Winship. She 
 was named for the "apostle" Eliot, the missionarj- 
 among the Indians. 
 
 Amaziah Keyes was a son of Abijali Keyes, 
 who was born September 17, 1746, a sou of 
 Oliver and Rebecca (Patterson) Keyes, and a 
 grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Howe) 
 Keyes. Thomas Keyes was a son of Elias and 
 Sarah (Blauford) Keyes, and a grandson of 
 Robert Keyes, who with his wife, Sarah, resided 
 at Watertown, Mass., in 1633. 
 
 The family of which the subject of this sketch 
 is a member consisted of nine sons and one daugh- 
 ter. Of these, Mark M., M. D., who was the 
 oldest of the family, is living in Wesley ville, Pa.; 
 Homer H., D. D., who was chaplain of the 
 Third Kansas Infantry during the Civil war, now 
 resides at Chautauqua, N. Y., and is a noted 
 Methodist divine. Amaziah, M. D., deceased, 
 was captain of Company D, Second Kan.sas 
 Cavalry; Samuel died in Mantua, Ohio; Halsej- 
 G. died in Mantua when twenty-two years of 
 age; Elizabeth is the wife of George H. Fair- 
 banks, a minister of the Congregational Church 
 in Cleveland; Francis died in Kansas; Mortimer 
 G., M. D., deceased, was a physician in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio; Walter Watson reside^ on the old 
 homestead. Horace Ladd Moore, who was next 
 to the youngest of the ten children, was born in 
 Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, February 25, 
 1837. He was educated in Hiram College when 
 James A. Garfield was a teacher there and was 
 ever afterward a firm friend and admirer of that 
 great statesman. When eighteen years of age he 
 began to teach school. 
 
 In June, 1858, Mr. Moore came to Kansas, 
 and after a short time in Atchison County came 
 to I<awrence, where he studied law in the office 
 of Christian & Lane, the latter one of the most 
 prominent men of Kansas. He would have been 
 admitted to the bar in June, 1861, but on the 
 14th of May prior to this he enlisted as a private 
 in Company D, Second Kansas Infantry, and was 
 
 mustered in at Kansas City for three months. 
 He joined General Lyon at Springfield, Mo., and 
 took part in the battles of Forsythe, Wilson's 
 Creek and Shelbiua. He was mustered out at 
 Leavenworth as corporal, October 31, 1861. The 
 following day he re- enlisted and assisted in rais- 
 ing Compauy D, Second Kansas Cavalry, of 
 which he was commissioned second lieutenant 
 December 11, 1861. He was promoted to be 
 first lieutenant May i, 1862, and was commis- 
 sioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Arkansas 
 Cavalry by Secretary of War Stanton, in Feb- 
 ruary, 1864. He was mustered out June 30, 
 1865, at Little Rock, Ark. While a member of 
 the Second Kansas he took part in the battles of 
 Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Van Buren, Reed's 
 Hill, Fort Smith and Devil's Backbone. 
 
 In 1867 a battalion of four companies of the 
 Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry organized for service 
 on the plains against the Indians, and he was 
 commissioned major. The campaign lasted about 
 four months and included one battle on Prairie 
 Dog Creek with the Cheyennes in northwestern 
 Kansas. In the fall of 1868 a regiment known 
 as the Nineteenth Cavalry, consisting of twelve 
 companies, was organized by order of the secretary 
 of war. Gov. S. J. Crawford resigned his office 
 to take command of the regiment and Mr. Moore 
 was mustered in as lieutenant-colonel. Upon the 
 resignation of Governor Crawford in Januarj', 
 1869, our subject was made colonel of the regi- 
 ment and commanded the last Indian campaign 
 for Kansas. A winter campaign was conducted 
 and the plains Indians forced back to their reser- 
 vations. 
 
 After the war Colonel Moore engaged in the 
 mercantile business, having charge of a grocery 
 in Lawrence until 1876, when he embarked in a 
 similar business at Trinidad, Colo. As a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Moore, Bennett & Co., he was 
 connected with stores in Las Vegas, Otero, 
 Trinidad, Albuquerque and San Marcial, mak- 
 ing his home part of the time in Las Vegas and 
 for a time in Albuquerque. In 1882 he sold out 
 and returned to Lawrence. For two years he 
 served as couutj- treasurer. In 1892 he was 
 Funston's opponent for congress, being the candi- 
 
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 275 
 
 date of the Democratic and People's parties. The 
 election was in doubt, and was contested by- 
 Colonel Moore. After a long contest he was 
 seated, in August, 1894, and served in the Fifty- 
 third Congress, after which he was not a candi- 
 date for re-election. Since then he has been re- 
 tired from business, though still superintending 
 his various interests. Politically he was a Re- 
 publican until the candidacy of Horace Greeley, 
 after which he allied himself with the Democrats; 
 but at the time of Garfield's candidacy he sup- 
 ported him for personal reasons. He is a Knight 
 Templar Mason, is a member of Washington 
 Post, G. A. R., the Sons of the Revolution and 
 contributes to the Congregational Church, of 
 which his family are members. 
 
 At Mantua, Ohio, September 16, 1864, Colonel 
 Moore married Esther Amelia, daughter of Capt. 
 Samuel and Jane (Deming) Harmon. Her fa- 
 ther, who was born in Suffield, Conn., in 1808, 
 was a son of Alexander, and grandson of Deacon 
 Samuel Harmon, whose father, Samuel, was an 
 early settler of Connecticut. Colonel and Mrs. 
 Moore had four children, two of whom are living. 
 Samuel A., who was educated in the University 
 of Kansas, is engaged in the shoe business in 
 Atchison. Frank H., a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas and Columbia College, D. C, 
 is a practicing attorney of Kansas City. During 
 the summer of 1899 Colonel and Mrs. Moore 
 made a tour of Europe. 
 
 (JOSEPH M. RAYMOND, a prosperous farmer 
 I of Douglas County, is engaged in cultivat- 
 (2/ iug three hundred acres in Kanwaka Town- 
 ship and is known as one of the enterprising 
 farmers of this region. In former years he made 
 a specialty of the fruit business, but now gives his 
 attention largely to general farming. One of 
 the most noticeable improvements of his farm is 
 the substantial barn, which is the work of his 
 own hands. In 1896 he cut timber in the woods 
 and with the help of a hired man erected a frame 
 barn, with a stone basement, which, when com- 
 pleted, made one of the best buildings of the kind 
 iu the township. 
 
 In Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio, Oc- 
 tober 6, 1837, our subject was born, a son of 
 William and Alatha (Murray) Raymond, natives 
 respectively of Steuben County, N. Y. , and Fair- 
 field County, Ohio. His father, who was a son of 
 George, and a grandson of Daniel (son of Daniel, 
 Sr.,) had very few educational opportunities, 
 and never attended school but nineteen days in 
 his life. He was seventeen years of age when 
 the family settled in Ohio, they being the third 
 family to settle in Reed Township, where they 
 improved land from the dense forest. He was 
 there at the time the Chippewa and Delaware 
 Indians started west. From his youth he was 
 an active worker in the Methodist Church. In 
 politics he was first a Whig, later a Republican. 
 He had three brothers (triplets), Abraham, Isaac 
 and Jacob, who became large, robust men, Abra- 
 ham being, in manhood, six feet tall; Isaac, five 
 feet eleven and three-fourths inches; and Jacob, 
 five feet eleven and one-half inches. 
 
 By the marriage of William Raymond to Miss 
 Murray, which was solemnized near TifSn, Seneca 
 County, seven children were born, namely: 
 Henrietta, who died at two years; George, of 
 Gibsonburg, Ohio; Joseph M.; James, a farmer 
 living on the old home.stead; Susannah, who died 
 at eighteen years; William Jepperson, a traveling 
 salesman with headquarters in Topeka; and Han- 
 nah A., wife of Frederick Pfeiffer, of Paulding 
 County, Ohio. 
 
 The schools in our subject's boyhood days were 
 not graded as now, and the instruction was mea- 
 gre and crude, but he obtained sufiicient educa- 
 tion to enable him to successfully teach several 
 terms of boarding school, "boarding round" as 
 was the custom then. August 13, 1862, he en- 
 listed in the Union army, becoming a member of 
 Company I, One Hundred and First Ohio Infan- 
 try, which took part in -the battles of Perry ville, 
 Ky., October 8, 1862; Liberty Gap, Tenn.; 
 Chickaraauga (where he was taken prisoner, but 
 soon paroled) ; and all the engagements of the 
 Atlanta campaign from June 10, when he rejoined 
 his regiment, to its close, including Jonesboro 
 and Eovejoy. From the loth of June to the 27th 
 there was not a moment, night or day, when the 
 
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 whistle of bullets through the air could not be 
 heard. On the 27th, in a charge, the Union 
 forces lost two thousand men in one hour. Al- 
 though he was in the thickest of the fight he did 
 not receive a scratch. At the conclusion of the 
 Atlanta campaign, General Sherman arranged 
 his army for the march to the sea, sending a 
 detachment (including the One Hundred and 
 First Ohio Infantry) to join General Thomas at 
 Nashville. This small force successfully with- 
 stood Hood's whole arm}' at Franklin, Tenn. 
 (where Crockett was killed November 30, 1864), 
 taking many pri.soners, killing and wounding 
 thirteen of the rebel generals and safely joining 
 General Thomas at Nashville the next day. 
 Mr. Raymond was introduced to President Hayes 
 as a soldier of the Cumberland army, and he asked 
 him at once if he was in the battle of Franklin. 
 He answered that he was, and President Hayes 
 promptly said, "I consider that the hardest-fought 
 battle of the war. ' ' December 1 5 General Thomas 
 demoralized Hood's army. Mr. Raymond was 
 honorably discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, June 
 13, 1865. Returning home he carried on the farm 
 for two years. 
 
 In 1854 Knott Crockett came to Kansas, and, 
 by pre-emption and purcha.se, secured two hun- 
 dred and forty acres in Douglas Countj-. At the 
 opening of the Civil war he determined to offer 
 his services to his country. He returned to his 
 father's home in Ohio and enlisted with Mr. Ray- 
 mond in the same company. During the war he 
 was killed. Having been a great friend of Mr. 
 Raymond, the latter came to Kansas and took up 
 the work where his comrade had left off. He 
 broke ground, planted crops, erected buildings 
 and planted the seeds from which sprang all the 
 trees now on the place. In 1874 he was eaten 
 out by the grasshoppers and returned to Ohio, 
 where he remained for six years. In 188 1 he 
 came back to Kansas, but soon went to Missouri 
 and started a lumber }-ard at Bolivar, where he 
 remained for five years. On again coming to 
 Kansas he completed the improvements on his 
 place. 
 
 Ardently supporting the Republican party, Mr. 
 Raymond has been a delegate to its conventions 
 
 and has served as township clerk and in other 
 positions. As chairman of the building commit- 
 tee he was one of the prime movers in securing 
 the erection of the Congregational Church in his 
 vicinitj-. He has been chairman of the board of 
 trustees and is now officiating as deacon. At 
 different times he has been Sunday-school super- 
 intendent. Prior to coming to Kansas he was a 
 member of the Methodist Church, but since then 
 has been an active Congregationalist. At one 
 time he was master of the Grange in his town- 
 ship. In Masonry he has attained the rank of 
 Knight Templar. He was instrumental in the 
 organization of the Good Templars and is a mem- 
 ber of the Royal Arcanum. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Raymond, in Seneca 
 County, Ohio, solemnized at the homestead of 
 his grandfather, April 7, 1868, united him with 
 Miss Hila K. Bennett, daughter of Abraham 
 Bennett, a native of Steuben Count}-, N. Y. 
 They are the parents of two sons now living, 
 and lost two children in infancy. William Mur- 
 ray, who took the complete course in the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, is now in charge of the adver- 
 tising department of theSedalia Democrat. Fred- 
 erick Newton, who is also a graduate of the state 
 university, is city passenger agent in New York 
 for the Chicago & Alton Railroad. 
 
 EAPT. ROBERT CARPENTER. Of the 
 many thousands who responded to the call 
 for men to defend the Union none has a 
 record more honorable than that of Captain Car- 
 penter. In the warfare against the guerillas on 
 the frontier he accomplished some brave and dar- 
 ing feats. When men were called upon for some 
 achievement more than ordinarily hazardous he 
 was always the first to respond and was always 
 to be found, in the front, leading his men on to 
 gallant victory. As a cavalry officer he was un- 
 surpassed, often defeating from five to ten times his 
 own number, and apparently with little loss to 
 his command. Though taken ill during the latter 
 part of the Price raid he recovered sufiiciently to 
 continue on the frontier until the close of the 
 
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 277 
 
 A resident and businessman of lyawrence, Cap- 
 tain Carpenter was born in Portage, Wyoming 
 County, N. Y., October 20, 1828, a son of Nicho- 
 las C. and Miranda (Boggs) Carpenter. His 
 grandfather, Zachariah Carpenter, was born of 
 English parentage and served as an officer under 
 Washington in the Revolution. He was a black- 
 smith and died in Orange County, N. Y. In 
 that count}', near Goshen, occurred the birth of 
 Nicholas C. Carpenter, who became a pioneer of 
 the Genesee Valley, but was twice driven from 
 there b}' the Indians. When his son, Robert, 
 was three years of age he settled in Farmersville. 
 His last years were spent in Lawrence and he 
 died in his son's home at eighty years of age. 
 His wife, who was a member of the family to 
 which belonged Governor Boggs, of Missouri, 
 was born in New York, daughter of Robert 
 Boggs, a farmer of Cattaraugus County. Of her 
 three children (all sons), our subject was the 
 only one that lived to maturity. He attended 
 the public .schools in Cattaraugus County and 
 Sandusky Seminary. From sixteen to twenty- 
 four years of age he taught school. In October, 
 1855, he settled in Sparta, Monroe County, Wis., 
 where he engaged in lumbering. He also built 
 and operated a tannery in that town, and carried 
 on a real-estate business. 
 
 In October, 1861, our subject was commis- 
 sioned first lieutentant of Company A, Third 
 Wisconsin Infantry, which company he assisted 
 in raising, but refused to accept the captaincy. 
 He was assigned first to the department of Mis- 
 souri, then to that of Kansas, and served as 
 provost- marshal at Troy, Doniphan County, 
 Kans. , until August 15, 1862, after which he was 
 ordered to Leavenworth and the field. His first 
 battle was at Plattsburg, but he had previously 
 participated in man}' skirmishes. He joined the 
 army in the field just after the battle of Newtouia, 
 in October, 1862, was at Cane Hill, November 
 28, Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, and March 
 3, 1863, was commissioned captain, after which 
 he served as such, although most of the time he 
 had seven companies under him. During the 
 Price campaign, in October and November, 1864, 
 he had some exhausting marches and his health 
 
 was seriously impaired by hardships and exposure. 
 Soon after he was placed in command of the post 
 at Fort Scott. In addition to the impairment 
 of his general health, his e}'es were .so seriouslj^ 
 affected that, while commanding at Fort Scott, 
 he had to be led to and from the post. While 
 there he found things in an unfortunate con- 
 dition, but as soon as his eyes grew better, with 
 the aid of his company he caused a revolution in 
 matters and brought about peace and order. 
 Absolutely without fear he was always at the 
 front in every desperate undertaking; he was the 
 leader of his men and inspired them with much of 
 his own enthusiasm and courage. For weeks he 
 went without rest and sleep, and in 1865 he ap- 
 plied for a discharge. Without any order but his 
 own request. Governor Solomon mustered him 
 out, but the department would not let him go, 
 General Dodge stating, in a personal interview, 
 that he could not spare him, and promising his 
 work would be limited to a general superintend- 
 ence. He was stationed at Marysville, Marshall 
 County, and had charge of the escorting of trains 
 across the plains, between the Missouri River 
 and Denver. March 9, 1865, he was commis- 
 sioned captain of Company L, Third Wisconsin 
 Cavalry, by Governor Lewis. However, his 
 health continued to grow worse, and his second 
 resignation, August 11, 1865, was accepted by 
 General Sherman. His colonel spoke of him in 
 the highest terms, saying that he was the peer of 
 any soldier for courage, fidelity and skill. 
 
 After leaving the army Captain Carpenter 
 .spent months in the hospital at St. Louis and 
 for two years he was unable to do work of any 
 kind. He had come for the first time to Law- 
 rence in August, 1865, and as soon as he was able 
 to engage in work once more he returned to this 
 city. He followed various lines of business, in- 
 cluding that of dealer in hides and leather, from 
 which he drifted into the manufacture of harness. 
 From 1870 he was in partnership with Adam 
 Brueggen until the latter's death in 1877, after 
 which he was in partnership with F. Gnef kow 
 until February, 1887. Since then he has con- 
 tinued the manufacture of harness, the sale of 
 saddlery, hides and furs, his location being on 
 
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 Massachusetts street. From 1882 to 1898 he was 
 treasurer of the Kansas Fruit Vinegar Company, 
 which had a large business here. In religion he 
 is a Presbyterian. 
 
 In Missouri Captain Carpenter married Miss 
 Mary E. Dodge, who was born in Papinsville, 
 that state. She was an eye witness of the first 
 fight with the guerillas and some of the bullets 
 struck the house where she lived. Her father, 
 Jonathan, who was from Vermont, went to the 
 gold fields of California and died there. Her 
 mother was a daughter of Rev. Dr. Austin, a 
 Presbyterian minister and a relative of Dr. Storrs, 
 of New York. The family was among the first 
 to establish the mission at Papinsville, settling 
 among the Osage Indians there. Her mother 
 died in 1896. Her uncle. Dr. Leonard Dodge, 
 makes his home in Papinsville and is the most 
 influential citizen of the town. Captain and Mrs. 
 Carpenter have two sons, namely: James R. and 
 Walter Storrs, both graduates of the Lawrence 
 high school. The older son is with his father in 
 business, and the younger is traveling salesman 
 for the American Tobacco Company. 
 
 HON. P. P. ELDER, vice-president of the 
 Ottawa Publishing Company and a pioneer 
 of 1857 in Franklin County, was born in 
 Somerset County, Me., September 30, 1823, a 
 son of Isaac and Mary (Quint) Elder. The El- 
 der family is of Scotch- Irish lineage. In an early 
 day some of that name crossed the ocean from 
 the north of Ireland. From 1717 they were 
 identified with the history of Cumberland County, 
 Me. There the paternal grandfather was boni 
 and reared, and from there he accompanied a 
 company of soldiers to engage in the service of 
 his country during the Revolutionary war. As a 
 private in General Stark's army he endured all 
 the hardships and perils incident to that memora- 
 ble struggle. In the battle of Bennington he was 
 wounded in one eye, but with that exception es- 
 caped unharmed. 
 
 Born and reared in Cumberland County, Isaac 
 Elder removed from there to Somerset County 
 and cleared a farm in the midst of the woods. In 
 
 addition to agricultural pursuits he engaged in 
 the lumber business for many years. He con- 
 tinued to make his home in Maine until his death, 
 which occurred in 184S, at seventy years of age. 
 His wife, who also spent her entire life in Maine, 
 was the daughter of a Revolutionary hero, who 
 took part in the battle of Bennington and other 
 engagements. In a familj' of eight children, all 
 of whom reached mature years, the subject of 
 this article is the only one now living. One of 
 his brothers, Alva, who was a soldier in a Maine 
 regiment during the Civil war, came to Kansas in 
 1868 and died in Franklin County in July, 1898. 
 
 The first thirty years in the life of Mr. Elder 
 were passed in Maine. His education was ob- 
 tained in Farmington Academy and Maine Wes- 
 leyan University at Reedfield. From sixteen un- 
 til twenty-four j-ears of age he taught school, af- 
 ter which he bought a farm near his old home 
 place and engaged in agricultural pursuits. While 
 he had never traveled to anj- extent, his mind 
 had broadened by reading, and he kept posted 
 concerning the issues before the people. Not 
 everyone who had traveled the length and breadth 
 of our country was as familiar with its problems 
 as he, although he had never been out of New 
 England. He was always opposed to the institu- 
 tion of slaverj', which he regarded as a menace to 
 the prosperity of a nation. In 1844, upon attain- 
 ing his majority, he began to identify himself with 
 public affairs, and cast one of the sixteen votes 
 for Abolition principles in the old town. From 
 that time onward he was pledged to the abolition 
 of slavery and gave his support to men of similar 
 belief. When the question arose as to whether 
 Kansas should be a free or slave state he decided 
 to come west and cast in his fortunes with the 
 free-state people. Coming to Franklin County 
 in 1857, he took up a claim and at the same time 
 became a member of the state militia. Eighteen 
 months later he brought his family to the west. 
 The family settled on the farm near Ohio City, 
 which he had entered for $1.25 an acre. 
 
 Shortly after Abraham Lincoln became presi- 
 dent he appointed Mr. Elder agent to the Osage 
 and Seneca Indians at Fort Scott, a position that 
 he filled for four years. Meantime he recruited a 
 
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 regiment of Osage Indians and kept that tribe 
 and other Indian nations on the side of the Union, 
 his work in that line being invaluable. He re- 
 signed as agent April 30, 1865. On his return to 
 Franklin Countj' he settled in Ottawa, which 
 had recentlj' been organized and in which he 
 built the first substantial house in 1865-66, haul- 
 ing the material for the residence from Kansas 
 Citjf and Lawrence. In 1866 he established the 
 banking firm of P. P. Elder & Co. , which con- 
 tinued in business for five years. In the fall of 
 1871 he organized the First National Bank of Ot- 
 tawa, of which he was president for two years, 
 and then sold his interest. Since then he has de- 
 voted himself largely to the cattle business. For 
 more than thirty years he handled and fed more 
 cattle than anyone in the count}', and at one time 
 he owned twelve hundred acres of land, the most 
 of which was in one body. 
 
 Mr. Elder has been closely identified with terri- 
 torial and state politics. In 1859 he was elected 
 clerk ofthe territorial house. The following year 
 he was elected to the territorial council, which 
 met at Lecompton and adjourned to Lawrence, 
 where the session was held. The second session 
 opened at Lecompton January i, 1861, and ad- 
 journed to Lawrence as usual. Under the Wyan- 
 dotte constitution Mr. Elder was elected to the 
 state senate and served in the first session that 
 met at Topeka, under the proclamation of Gov- 
 ernor Robinson, in March, 1861. In 1868 he 
 was chosen to fill a vacancy in the state senate. 
 In 1875, 1876 and 1877 he served as a member of 
 the house, in which he was chairman of the com- 
 mittee on ways and means, and was elected 
 speaker in January, 1878. In 1870 he held the 
 chairmanship of the Republican state central 
 committee. In the fall of the same year he was 
 elected lieutenant-governor of Kansas and served 
 as president of the senate for two years. While 
 he was serving as a member of the house of 
 representatives in 1883 the first railroad bill be- 
 came a law, and he was a member ofthe last con- 
 ference committee. In 1891 he was elected to 
 the "alliance" house of representatives, and was 
 unanimously chosen to act as speaker. 
 
 While identified closely with the history of the 
 
 state, Governor Elder (for by this title he is best 
 known) has never neglected or been indifferent to 
 the welfare of Ottawa, his home city. From the 
 time of its start to the present he has been one of 
 its most progressive citizens. Its progress has 
 been ever near to his heart. Measures for the 
 advancement ofthe city or the prosperity of the 
 people have alwaj^s been given his aid and sj'm- 
 pathy. As mayor of the city he labored to pro- 
 mote its prosperity and enlarge its business 
 interests. Largely to his efforts was due the 
 building of the first railroad to Ottawa. He 
 organized a company, of which he was president, 
 and which built a railroad (now a part of the 
 Santa Fe system) from Ottawa to Olathe, thus 
 making a short cut to Kansas City. Through 
 his negotiations the machine shops were located 
 in Ottawa. He is interested in the gas company 
 here and in other enterprises calculated to pro- 
 mote the prosperity of the place. In 1896 he 
 founded the Ottawa Times, of which he was editor 
 and proprietor, but after two years, by consolida- 
 tion, the i?f/'?^^//Vw«- Z'/wrj' was established. This 
 paper is owned by the Ottawa Publishing Com- 
 pany, of which he is vice-president. It is one 
 ofthe leading daily papers of the state, and much 
 of its popularity is due to his concise, keen and 
 pointed editorials, which frequently appear in its 
 columns. 
 
 During his residence in Maine, in 1845, Gov- 
 ernor Elder married Catharine, daughter of 
 Daniel Felker, a farmer of that state. They are 
 the parents of two children: Aldama P., who is 
 engaged in business in Ottawa; and Lena E., 
 wife of E. E. Fuller, also of this citj\ 
 
 GILBERT A. ALLEN, M. D., D. D. S., of 
 T\ Ottawa, was born in Jerseyville, Jersey 
 /l County, 111., a son of A. A. and Elizabeth 
 (Close) Allen, natives respectively of New Jer- 
 sey and Jersey County, 111. His paternal grand- 
 father, who was a member of an old family of New 
 Jersey, became a pioneer of Michigan, settling in 
 Oakland, where he followed the trade of tanner 
 and currier until his death. The maternal grand- 
 father, George Close, owned boats that plied the 
 
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 waters of the Mississippi and engaged in the 
 steamboat business until his death, which oc- 
 curred in Illinois. 
 
 The father of our subject was a physician 
 whose skill and knowledge brought him a large 
 practice. He practiced in Janesville, Wis., and 
 Jersey ville. 111., and from the latter place, in 
 April, 1859, brought his family to Kansas, .set- 
 tling on a claim in Allen County near what is 
 now the village of Kincaid. There, in addition to 
 farming, he practiced his profession. During the 
 Civil war he offered his services to the Union army , 
 but at the earnest request of his neighbors, who 
 felt the county could ill afford to lose his services 
 as a physician, he gave up his plan of entering the 
 army. In religion he was a Baptist and fraternal- 
 ly was connected with the Masons. He continued 
 to reside near Kincaid until his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1893, at sixty-four years of age. His 
 widow is still living on the homestead. Of their 
 four children two are living. Our subject, who 
 was the eldest of the four, was born July 31, 1852, 
 and was less than seven years of age when the 
 family moved to Kansas. Hence his life has been 
 identified almost wholly with this state. He at- 
 tended the academy at Geneva, Kans., after 
 which he taught one term of school. For his 
 life calling he first selected dentistry, which he 
 studied in Leavenworth under Dr. J. K. Merrick. 
 In 1879 he opened an ofSce in Osborne, of which 
 place he was the first regular practicing dentist. 
 After two years he removed to Linn County, and 
 was one of the first to put up a business block in 
 Blue Mound, where he erected a large double 
 store, with the intention of using a part of the 
 building as a drug store. 
 
 In the mean time Dr. Allen had become inter- 
 ested in the stud)' of medicine, which he carried 
 on in the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical Col- 
 lege, taking two full courses of lectures. He then 
 engaged in the practice of medicine at Lincoln 
 Center, Lincoln County, where he remained for 
 three years. In 1889 he came to Ottawa and has 
 since given his attention principally to the medical 
 profession, although to some extent he practices 
 dentistry. Politically he is a Democrat, but has 
 never been active in party aflfairs. He was mar- 
 
 ried in Allen County to Miss Hattie C. Martin, 
 who was born in Ogle County, 111., a daughter of 
 Freeman Martin, a wealthy farmer now residing 
 in Allen County, Kans. They are the parents 
 of three daughters, Elizabeth Mathilda, Lillian 
 Frances and Bessie Lou, all of whom possess 
 musical ability and are being given excellent ad- 
 vantages in that art. 
 
 r" RANK P. FITZ WILLIAM, a practicing at- 
 r^ torney of Leavenworth, has spent his life in 
 I this city, where he was born June 7, 1873. 
 He was reared here and his education was ob- 
 tained in the public schools. After graduating 
 from the high school in 1891 he began the study 
 of law in the office of Mr. Wheat, where he con- 
 tinued until he was admitted to the bar in June, 
 1894. From his father, the late ex-Senator 
 FitzWilliam, he inherited powers of mind that 
 enable him to master the most intricate problems 
 connected with the law. He is well posted in 
 everything that pertains to the profession. His 
 studies did not cease with his admission to the 
 bar; he has been a constant student, ever eager 
 to broaden his knowledge of law in its many 
 branches. 
 
 Upon the Democratic ticket, in April, 1896, 
 Mr. FitzWilliam was elected justice of the peace, 
 and ser\'ed for two j-ears in that capacity, after 
 which he was not a candidate for re-election, but 
 resumed the practice of law. In the fall of 1898 
 he was nominated for representative of the 
 seventh district in the legislature on the straight 
 Democratic ticket. Notwithstanding the fact 
 that the district is largely Republican, he re- 
 ceived such stanch support that he tied his op- 
 ponent, F. B. Dawes. However, the vote of the 
 few soldiers in Cuba enabled Mr. Dawes to se- 
 cure the seat. In a subsequent contest at the 
 same election for prosecuting attorney it was 
 shown that eighty votes had not been counted, 
 which mistake would have elected Mr. FitzWil- 
 liam by over twenty-five votes. The record 
 made by Mr. FitzWilliam was the best ever made 
 in this district by a Democrat. He has served as 
 a member of the city and countj' committees of 
 
BENJAMIN B. MOORE. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 2S3 
 
 his party and in other ways has promoted Demo- 
 cratic principles. In religion he is a member of 
 the First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 gENJAMIN B. MOORE, deceased, was a 
 pioneer of 1854 in Leavenworth County, 
 and long held a position among the most 
 honored and influential business men of Alex- 
 andria Township. His early years were spent 
 in Fauquier County, Va., where he was l^orn 
 August 2, 1820, and where for a time he was 
 employed as an overseer, but, foreseeing the 
 development of the great western plains, he early 
 came to Kansas. The first employment he se- 
 cured was with Mr. Russell in freighting across 
 the plains, and he was given charge of the out- 
 fitting and starting of trains running to Salt Lake 
 City. Later he came to Alexandria Township 
 and superintended Mr. Russell's large sawmill 
 on the Big Stranger, where he often had as many 
 as one hundred men under him. An excellent 
 judge of timber, he could estimate very closely 
 the quantity in any tree, and was equally expert 
 in judging as to quality. He took up one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of the finest bottom laud 
 here, and then began the improvement of the 
 property. In this work he was aided by the 
 sympathy and appreciation of Mr. Russell, who 
 assisted him both materially and by advice. He 
 continued in the employ of Russell, Majors, 
 Waddell & Co. , until their partnership was dis- 
 solved in the spring of 186 1, after which he gave 
 all of his time to the cultivation of his land and 
 to the buying and selling of farm property. From 
 the beginning of his agricultural ventures he 
 invested in stock. Aided by his industrious and 
 energetic wife he prospered as a farmer, and 
 while he was managing his landed investments 
 his wife took care of the chickens and the cows, 
 thus assisting him greatly in getting a start. 
 Unlike many men he made his brains earn more 
 than his hands, and used intelligence in every 
 business enterprise. Not only was he energetic 
 and persevering, but economical as well, and in 
 all his dealings he was strictly honest and fair. 
 Generosity was one of his leading attributes of 
 
 character. As an instance of his kindness of 
 heart, it may be stated that, meeting his former 
 employer, Mr. Russell, when on a visit to New 
 York, he learned that Mr. Russell had lost every- 
 thing and was almost destitute, but thought he 
 saw a favorable opening, and stated that if he 
 had $400 or $500 he could make another start. 
 Immediately upon his return home Mr. Moore 
 sent him $500 as a gift. 
 
 Actively interested in local politics as a Demo- 
 crat Mr. Moore cared nothing for oflBce, but con- 
 sented to serve as one of the county commission- 
 ers. He was a member first of High Prairie 
 Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M., and later of 
 Easton Lodge No. 45. His death occurred 
 August 19, 1898, and his funeral was attended 
 by members of the Masonic lodges of Leaven- 
 worth and Easton. He was twice married; 
 first, January 10, 1850, to Cecelia A. Tansell, 
 who died February 27, 1854. Three children 
 were born of their union: Susan C, who is the 
 wife of Rev. J. O^. Forsman; Robert W., de- 
 ceased; and Mary Frances, Mrs. Alfred Rhodes. 
 February 9, 1857, Mr. Moore was united in mar- 
 riage with Caroline Aldridge, of Muskingum 
 County, Ohio. Her father, Azel Aldridge, was 
 born in Baltimore of English parentage, and was 
 a millwright by trade. He married Catherine 
 Flesher, whose father came from Germany, and 
 settled in Ohio when the Indians were still 
 numerous there. Mrs. Moore was one of seven 
 children, and the youngest of three now living. 
 To her marriage three children were born, name- 
 ly: Charles O., a farmer in Alexandria Town- 
 ship; Henry S., deceased; and Virginia Louise, 
 wife of Dr. W. B. Wood, formerly of Leaven- 
 worth County, but now living in California. 
 
 QHARLESO. MOORE, who is engaged in 
 jr farming in Alexandria Township, Leaven- 
 U worth County, was born in the township 
 where he now resides, March 30, 1859, ^^^ is a 
 son of Benjamin B. and Caroline Moore. He 
 was educated in the district schools here, and 
 also attended school in Platte City, Mo. When 
 his education was completed he began to assist 
 
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 in the cultivation of the home farm, and has 
 since been connected with agricultural interests. 
 When about twenty-one he settled upon a farm 
 in High Prairie Township, but later returned to 
 Alexandria Township, and settled upon the 
 place which he now occupies. He cultivates 
 eighty acres in his home place, and also rents 
 one hundred and sixty acres in High Prairie 
 Township. 
 
 In political views Mr. Moore is a supporter of 
 Democratic principles. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Easton Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M. ; 
 Topeka Consistory No. i, Scottish Rite, and 
 Abdallah Temple, N. M. S., of Leavenworth. 
 As a citizen he favors all measures for the benefit 
 of the people of his county, and is actively iden- 
 tified with various enterprises calculated to ad- 
 vance the interests of his township. His first 
 marriage took place October 3, 1881, and united 
 him with Miss Ida McCune, daughter of Adam 
 McCune. Two sons were born of that marriage, 
 Claude L- and Raymond A. His second mar- 
 riage occurred January 3, 1893, ^^^ united him 
 with Octavia Adams, daughter of Ross Adams, 
 of Leavenworth County. This union has been 
 blessed by two children, Ernest M. and Caro- 
 line L. 
 
 HON. F. P. FITZ WILLIAM, deceased, for- 
 merly a well-known citizen of Leavenworth 
 and a member of both the lower and the 
 upper houses of the legislature, was born in 
 Washington County, Pa. He was a son of 
 Francis Fit?. William, who descended from Earl 
 Fitz William of England, and was a farmer of 
 Pennsylvania, where he took part in the early 
 whisky riots of that state. In Washington and 
 Jefferson College (the college which James G. 
 Blaine attended) our subject received his classi- 
 cal education, and afterward he read law with 
 Judge Montgomery, of Washington, Pa. Ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1855, he remained in his 
 home state for two years. At that time consid- 
 erable excitement was being aroused in behalf of 
 Kansas. Its destiny, as free or slave state, lay 
 in the hands .of its people; consequently thou- 
 sands from both north and south cast their for- 
 
 tunes in with the territory, hoping their influ- 
 ence might count for the cause they espoused. 
 In 1855 a free state constitution was framed at 
 Topeka and in 1857 a pro-slavery constitution 
 was drawn up at Lecompton, but neither became 
 operative. The struggle between free-soilers 
 and slave-state supporters continued until finally 
 the war settled, forever, the great problem that 
 had so long confronted our country. 
 
 It was during the height of the political agita- 
 tion, in 1857, that Mr. Fitz William came to 
 Kansas. He opened an office in Leavenworth, 
 where he continued to reside for twenty years, 
 or until his death, in 1877. I" 1S65 he was a mem- 
 ber of Governor Carney's staflf, with the rank of 
 lieutenant-colonel. In politics he supported the 
 Democratic party. He was a member of one of 
 the first senates that met after the admission of 
 Kansas into the Union, and he also served in the 
 assembly, besides holding the local offices of 
 county and city attorney. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. FitzWilliam in June, 1868, 
 united him with Eliza Clay Jack.son, who was 
 born in Bowling Green, Kj'., a daughter of John 
 Jackson, and a member of a Virginian familj' to 
 which belonged General " Stonewall " Jackson. 
 She was reared in Kentucky and graduated from 
 the seminary in that state. She is now living at 
 the familj' residence, where her son F. P., and 
 daughter, Miss Elizabeth, also reside. Her other 
 daughters are, Mrs. E. L. Carney and Mrs. Omar 
 M. Abernathy, both of Leavenworth. 
 
 30HN W. CRANCER. Not only as a pioneer 
 of Leavenworth, but also as one of its pro- 
 gressive and enterprising business men, Mr. 
 Crancer is well known in the business circles of 
 this city. Since he arrived in Leavenworth, 
 February 22, 1857, he has witnessed many 
 changes in the town and has been personally 
 interested in its development. Through his 
 efficiency as a business man he has not only 
 promoted his own success, but the prosperitj- of 
 the city as well. Since 1884 he has been the pro- 
 prietor of a large wholesale hardware establish- 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 285 
 
 through this state and into Colorado and Okla- 
 homa. On the corner of Delaware and Third 
 streets he has a building with a frontage of fort}^- 
 eight feet and three stories in height, besides 
 which he has two warehouses of four floors each, 
 on Delaware and Cherokee streets respectively, 
 the total floor space aggregating thirty-two 
 thousand feet. 
 
 John W. Crancer was reared in St. Louis and 
 when fifteen years of age was apprenticed to the 
 tinner's trade, which he followed for some years 
 in that city. For a time he was employed as 
 bookkeeper with the firm of L. F. Hastings & 
 Co., and it was while in this position he decided 
 to engage in business in Leavenworth with 
 Stewart Hastings, firm of Crancer & Hastings. 
 With a capital of $700 he embarked in business 
 here. They opened a small shop on Cherokee 
 street, between Main and Second, and began 
 to manufacture tinware in a building eighteen 
 feet square. They also sold stoves and house 
 furnishing goods. 
 
 One year after coming to Leavenworth Crancer 
 & Hastings built a two-story structure 24 x 75, 
 on Delaware, between Fourth and Fifth, and in 
 that building the firm of Crancer & Hastings 
 carried on business. In 1861 he bought his 
 partner's interest and continued alone. After a 
 time he built a store across the street from his 
 former location. In the meantime he became 
 interested in a business of which he had pre- 
 viously known nothing. He was asked to make 
 a cornice for which he was furnished plans. At 
 once giving his attention to the work, within a 
 day he had put himself in possession of the de- 
 tails. Soon he had the cornice completed. His 
 estimate of the first cost was within a few dollars 
 of the exact amount, and the work still stands, 
 although more than thirty-five years have passed 
 since its completion. Afterward he was given 
 work of a similar nature throughout the state, 
 including some important contracts in Leaven- 
 worth and throughout the state. In order to 
 carry on the business with a better understand- 
 ing he went to New York City, where he found 
 two cornices. These were the only shops in the 
 entire country besides his own. While con- 
 
 ducting this business he continued the manu- 
 facture of tinware and also had contracts for 
 roofing, etc. When he first settled in Leaven- 
 worth there were more than seventy-five tinners in 
 the town, but the business changed in subsequent 
 years, by the introduction of machinery, etc., 
 and now there are only about six, these being em- 
 ployed simply for repair work. It was this fact 
 that caused him to turn his attention to the hard- 
 ware business. He bought out John F. Richards 
 and has since built up a large wholesale trade, 
 which is conducted under the firm name of J. W. 
 Crancer & Co., the other member being his son, 
 Edwin W., who is general manager of the busi- 
 ness. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Crancer, in St. Louis, 
 united him with Miss Mary Nichols, who was 
 born in Manchester, England, and is an estimable 
 lady, and an active member of the Episcopal 
 Church. Five children were born of this union, 
 four girls and Edwin W. In addition to his 
 business interests Mr. Crancer has been con- 
 nected with mining enterprises in Colorado, and 
 is also the owner of a stock farm of eleven 
 hundred acres in Tonganoxie Township. The 
 only ofiices he has ever consented to hold have 
 been those of an educational nature, and as school 
 director he was instrumental in promoting the 
 welfare of the cit}' schools. Prior to the presi- 
 dential campaign of 1S96 he was a Democrat, but 
 when that party declared for free silver in its 
 platform he left it and has since been independent. 
 
 Gl LFRED H. SLATER is one of the enter- 
 Ll prising business men of Franklin County. 
 / 1 In 1895 he opened a general store at Nor- 
 wood, Hayes Township, and has since built up a 
 large trade, having by fair dealings and courteous 
 manners won the confidence of the people of his 
 locality. His sales amount to about $7,000 per 
 annum, and his trade extends all through the 
 surrounding country. The store and residence 
 which he occupies were erected on property that 
 he purchased after coming here. He is also the 
 owner of one hundred and sixty acres of pasture 
 land, which he uses for the grazing of stock. In 
 
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 addition to the management of his store he bu)s 
 live stock, which he feeds and then ships, having 
 been engaged in the shipping business since 
 1883. He is a stockholder in the Ottawa Re- 
 publican and Times, and is interested in all 
 enterprises aiming at the promotion of the coun- 
 ty's welfare. 
 
 William Slater, our subject's father, was born, 
 reared and educated in England, and engaged in 
 farming there. At thirty years of age he came 
 to America and settled in Putnam County, 111., 
 thence removed to Grundy County, the same 
 state, where his son, Alfred, was born June 30, 
 1857. In religion he was a Baptist. Until the 
 time of Horace Greeley's candidacy he was a 
 Republican, but after that he adhered to Demo- 
 cratic principles. His first wife died in England, 
 leaving a son, John. After settling in Illinois he 
 married Hypatia Hume, b}' whom he had three 
 sons, Alfred H., William and Edward H., all 
 residents of Hayes Township. In the spring of 
 1882 the father came to Kansas and settled in 
 Franklin Couuty, where he died. In financial 
 matters he was successful, and on leaving Illinois 
 sold his farm of two hundred acres for $75 an 
 acre, investing some of this money in the pur- 
 chase of five huudred acres in Hayes Township. 
 
 After leaving grammar school our subject 
 attended a normal school for four years. After 
 coming to Kansas his father gave into his charge 
 the care of the farm property, and he engaged in 
 stock-raising there, buying and feeding on a 
 large scale. Since 1895 he has also been pro- 
 prietor of a store. As clerk of the school board 
 he has done all within his power to advance edu- 
 cational matters in his locality, and was one of 
 those who succeeded in having district No. 97 
 established. Active in the Democratic party, he 
 has served as delegate to county and congres- 
 sional conventions. His business has been such 
 as to prevent his attendance at the state conven- 
 tions. For seven years he served as township 
 trustee, and for two years each he filled the office 
 of treasurer and clerk. Had he the time to en- 
 gage in politics actively he would undoubtedly 
 be one of the leaders of his partj^ in the county. 
 In the Christian Church he has served as clerk and 
 
 deacon, and he assisted largely in the erection of 
 the house of worship owned by this congregation 
 in Norwood. He is a member of the Fraternal 
 Aid Association. September 2, 1884, he married 
 Alice Dell Haley, by whom he has two children, 
 Walter Gay and Gertrude. 
 
 WILLIAM W. ERASER, a hero of the Civil 
 war, and since 1869 a resident of Ottawa, 
 was born in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, 
 March 7, 1844, a son of James and Jean (Doug- 
 las) Eraser. His grandfather, Simon Fraser, 
 was born in the highlands of Scotland, and was 
 a direct descendant of one of the same name 
 who fought under Wallace. He had a brother 
 who was killed at Montreal while serving in the 
 French and Indian war. After having been for 
 some years superintendent of a coal mine in 
 Ayrshire, in 1858 James Fraser brought his fam- 
 ily to America and settled in Alton, 111., where 
 he died at the age of sixty-three years. His 
 wife, who died in the same city at fifty-five years, 
 was the daughter of a Scotchman who served in 
 the British army and died in India. James and 
 Jean Fraser were the parents of ten children, of 
 whom our subject was sixth in order of birth. 
 One son, James, who was a .sergeant in Company 
 I, Ninety-seventh Illinois Infantry, was killed at 
 Vicksburg. Three sons are now living, one of 
 these being John, of Milwaukee, who .served in 
 Company G, Ninety-se\-enth Illinois Infantrj', 
 during the Civil war. 
 
 The subject of this sketch accompanied the 
 other members of the family to America in 1858, 
 taking passage at Liverpool on the sailing vessel 
 "Richard Robinson," and arriving in New York 
 after a voyage of twenty-one days. Afterward 
 he attended school in winters and worked on a 
 farm during summer months. August 4, 1864, 
 he enli.sted in what was afterward known as 
 Company I, Ninety-seventh Illinois Infantry; 
 was mustered into service at Camp Butler, near 
 Springfield, 111., October 8, and from there 
 marched to Covington, Ky., Lexington, Cynthi- 
 ana, Nicholasville and Louisville, and thence by 
 boat to Memphis. December 20 the company 
 
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 left Memphis for Vicksburg. He took part in 
 the charge at Haines' Bluif under General Sher- 
 man, December 30-January i, where the Thir- 
 teenth army corps was repulsed. At Arkansas 
 Post his regiment occupied the extreme left, and 
 was the first regiment to place its colors on Fort 
 Hindman. The regiment went down the river 
 to Young's Point, opposite Vicksburg, and was 
 for three days engaged in digging on the canal 
 across the point where the Mississippi now flows. 
 The active campaign against Vicksburg com- 
 menced April 16, 1863, with the corps under 
 Gen. John A. McClernand in the advance, and 
 crossed the Mississippi at Bruinsburg, reaching 
 Port Gibson, Miss., on the morning of May i. 
 The Ninety-seventh made two charges. In the 
 first they captured two pieces of artillery; in the 
 second they were repulsed. The battle of Cham- 
 pion Hills occurred May 16, and the next day 
 was the battle of Big Black River, where the 
 Ninety-seventh Illinois and the Nineteenth Ken- 
 tucky, supported by the Forty-eighth Ohio, 
 captured three regiments and their colors, two 
 batteries, one of four guns and one of five guns. 
 The battle of Vicksburg commenced May 19. In 
 the first charge twenty-seven of Mr. Fraser's 
 regiment were killed and wounded, among the 
 killed being his brother, James. May 22, two 
 men from each company volunteered to make an 
 assault, as a forlorn hope, on a certain point of 
 the enemy's works. They were ordered to leave 
 their money and watches, if they had any, with 
 their comrades. John G. Miller and W. W. 
 Fraser volunteered from Company I, and with 
 Edwin lyowe, of Company K, succeeded in 
 reaching a point so close as to prevent the Con- 
 federates from having a flank fire on the charg- 
 ing column, and made it possible for the Union 
 men to take and hold the fort for three hours. 
 General L,awler, commander of the brigade, and 
 Gen. A. J. Smith, commander of the division, 
 wrote to Secretary Staunton in regard to the 
 three men who showed such remarkable bravery, 
 and the secretary granted them three months' 
 furlough with six months' pay. Lowe was pro- 
 moted to sergeant and color bearer, while our 
 subject was promoted to corporal and one of 
 
 eight color guards. John G. Miller was killed 
 November i, 1864, while Edwin Lowe fell in a 
 charge that resulted in the capture of Mobile. 
 
 Thirty-two years after the battle of Vicksburg 
 Mr. Fraser received the following letter from the 
 record and pension office in Washington City: 
 
 "Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, by 
 direction of the president and in accordance with 
 the act of congress approved March 3, 1863, 
 providing for the presentation of medals of honor 
 to such ofiBcers, non-commissioned officers and 
 privates as have most distinguished themselves in 
 action, the assistant secretary of war has awarded 
 you a medal of honor for most distinguished gal- 
 lantry in action at the battle of Vicksburg, Miss. , 
 Maj' 22, 1863, while a member of a volunteer 
 storming party upon the enemy's works. The 
 medal has been forwarded to you to-day by regis- 
 tered mail. Upon receipt of it, please advise this 
 office thereof. 
 
 "Very respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) "W. C. Ainsworth, 
 "Col. U. S. A., Chief Record and Pension Office." 
 
 In addition to the medal of honor Mr. Fraser 
 was also awarded a ribbon of the pattern pre- 
 scribed and established by the president under 
 the provision of the joint resolution of congress, 
 approved May 2, 1896, to replace the ribbon to 
 which the medal of honor was attached, and a 
 knot to be worn in lieu of the medal. He also 
 received from Washington a certificate of mem- 
 bership of the Medal of Honor Legion of the 
 United States. This certificate is highly artistic, 
 having on the left the army medal of honor in 
 perfect colors of the medal, and underneath a 
 battle scene on land. On the right is the naval 
 medal of honor in colors and underneath a naval 
 engagement, while above is a fac-simile of the 
 knot of ribbon to be worn in lieu of the medal. 
 At the bottom is the seal of the legion. The 
 document reads as follows. "In the name and by 
 the authority of the Medal of Honor Legion of 
 the United States, to all whom these presents 
 shall come, greeting: Know ye that William W. 
 Fraser, having received a medal of honor for dis- 
 tinguished gallantry in action, in accordance 
 with the act of congress, and having rendered 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 faithful service in maintaining the honor, integ- 
 rity and supremacy of the United States, was re- 
 ceived as a companion of the first class of the 
 Medal of Honor Legion of the United States of 
 America, on the second day of May, Anno 
 Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 
 
 "In testimony whereof, the names of the com- 
 mander and adjutant and the seal of the order 
 are hereunto affixed. Given at Washington, 
 D. C, this ninth day of June, in the year of our 
 Lord, 1897." 
 
 (Signed) Nelson A. Miles, Commander. 
 John Tweedale, Adjutant. 
 
 There being only five other medals of the kind 
 in the state, the honor conferred upon Mr. Fra.ser 
 is no common one, and it is natural that he 
 should prize his medal of honor above any other 
 earthly possession. Just before his furlough of 
 three months he took part in the battles along 
 the Mississippi to New Orleans, and accom- 
 panied General Banks on the Red River expedi- 
 tion. After the surrender of General Lee his 
 regiment was sent with others along the gulf 
 coast to the Rio Grande River to menace the 
 French usurpation under Maximilian. He was 
 mustered out at Galveston, Tex., and honorably 
 discharged at Camp Butler, August 19, 1865. 
 Afterward he attended Shurtleff College in Alton, 
 111., for six months, and then clerked in a cloth- 
 ing store in that city. In the spring of 1869 he 
 settled in Ottawa, where for sixteen years he 
 conducted a grocery business. In 1S85 he built 
 a brick store, two stories, 25x80, and in 1886 he 
 opened a dry-goods business here, which he has 
 since carried on succe.ssfully. In politics he is a 
 Democrat. He is a member of the Veterans' 
 Association of the Ninety-seventh Illinois In- 
 fantry and George H. Thomas Post No. 18, 
 G. A. R. He is past commander of the Select 
 Knights, past master workman of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, a pa.st officer in the 
 lodge and encampment of Odd Fellows, and a 
 member of Franklin Lodge No. 18, A. F. &A. M., 
 at Ottawa, having been made a Mason in Alton 
 more than thirty years ago. He was married in 
 Alton to Mi.ss Jennie Rutledge, who was born in 
 Durham, England, and came to America with 
 
 her father, John Rutledge, settling in Alton. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fraser have two children: Mrs. 
 Ethel Woodlief, of Brookfield, Mo. ; and Jean, 
 
 at home. 
 
 OLAUDE L. COWDERY, M. D. Thefam- 
 1 1 ily represented by this prominent business 
 vj man of Ottawa is of English descent, but 
 was identified with the early history of New 
 England, and some of its members took part in 
 the Indian and Revolutionary wars. From its 
 original form of Coudray the name was changed 
 to its present spelling. Elijah Cowdery was born 
 in New Haven, Conn., and moved to Trumbull 
 County, Ohio, where he spent his remaining 
 3'ears upon a farm. His son, Lyman, a native 
 of Trumbull County, went south in early man- 
 hood, driving in a two-wheeled gig from Ohio 
 to Columbus, Ga. There he opened a general 
 store, his goods having been .shipped from the 
 north to Savannah and from there conveyed by 
 teams to Columbus, four hundred and fifty miles 
 distant. He was the youngest of thirteen sons, 
 the eldest of whom, Lester, had in youth gone 
 .south and settled at Columbus, so that the two 
 brothers never met until the youngest arrived in 
 Columbus. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war Lyman Cow- 
 dery was drafted into the Confederate armj-; but 
 he refused to take up arms against the people of 
 the north, with whom he was in sympathy, so he 
 was assigned to the conmiissarj- department. As 
 soon as possible he left the south and went to 
 New York City, where he engaged in business 
 until the close of the war. When peace was de- 
 clared, in 1865, he returned to Georgia by the 
 first steamer that sailed for Savannah. When off 
 Cape Hatteras this ship was wrecked and one 
 hundred and fifty-six persons were drowned He 
 was among those who perished in the wreck. At 
 that time he was forty-five years of age. Twice 
 married, his first wife was Sarah Lewis, daughter 
 of Judge Ulysses Lewis, who was bom in Mil- 
 ledgeville, Ga., and removed to Russell County, 
 Ala. , where he was district attorney. He was a 
 descendant of Welsh ancestors who settled in 
 Virginia. His daughter, Sarah, was born in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Alabama and died there prior to the war. After- 
 ward her sister, Jennie, became the wife of Mr. 
 Cowdery, and some years after his death was 
 married to Mr. Murdock, a large and prominent 
 planter; she died in Alabama in 1880. 
 
 The two children of Lyman Cowdery were born 
 of his first marriage. The daughter, Mrs. Sallie 
 Freenj', resides in Columbus, Ga. The son, who 
 forms the subject of this article, was born in 
 Columbus in April, 1856. After his- father's 
 death he was sent north and received his educa- 
 tion in Warren Academy, in Warren, Ohio, re- 
 turning to Columbus after a few years, and grad- 
 uating from the Columbus high school in 1874. 
 Two years later he graduated from the Atlanta 
 Medical College, with the degree of M. D. His 
 health being poor he went to Denver, Colo., 
 hoping that the change of climate might prove 
 beneficial. After a year he returned to Alabama, 
 and married Ida Lucas, daughter of William 
 Lucas, who was a prominent planter near Mont- 
 gomery and died during a visit in Ottawa. 
 
 In 1877 ■D''- Cowdery settled in Ottawa, and as 
 a member of the firm of Becker & Cowdery em- 
 barked in the drug business. In 1890 he sold 
 out to his partner and opened a drug store on 
 the north side, where he owns his store building 
 and has built up a fine trade. He is a member 
 of the board of health and formerly served upon 
 the school board. Fraternallj^ he is connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen, 
 Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 
 7, R. A. M. In the Episcopal Church he is an 
 active worker and a member of the vestry. He 
 is a charter member of the Kansas Pharmaceuti- 
 cal Association and a member of the Chautauqua 
 Association. A Democrat in politics, he has 
 served on the city central committee and as a 
 member of the county committee. His first wife 
 died in Ottawa, leaving two sons, Claude L. and 
 Clifford M., both at home. Afterward he was 
 married in this city to Alice, daughter of Samuel 
 Barnett, who was twice elected treasurer of 
 Franklin County and was a prominent farmer of 
 this county, where he died in 1S97. " Mrs. Cow- 
 dery was born in Ottawa and received her educa- 
 tion in the high school of this city, from which 
 
 she graduated. Both Dr. and Mrs. Cowdery 
 have many friends among their acquaintances 
 and are respected for their worth of character 
 and for their interest in all enterprises for the ad- 
 vancement of Ottawa. 
 
 •JJEORGE C. RICHARDSON, oneof Leaven- 
 
 □ worth's influential business men, is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Ryan & Richardson, 
 wholesale dealers in fruits. Matthew Ryan, Jr., 
 his partner, to whose keen business acumen and 
 untiring energy their success was in no small 
 degree due, is now deceased, so that the responsi- 
 bility of managing and carrying forward the 
 large business lies entirely with the junior mem- 
 ber of the firm. That he has proved equal to the 
 emergency the continued success of the enter- 
 prise indicates. In the firm's cold storage house 
 at Nos. 515-521 Cherokee street there is a stor- 
 age capacity of two hundred cars or thirty-five 
 thousand barrels, it being the largest cold stor- 
 age plant in the city. One hundred thousand 
 barrels of apples are handled annually, the busi- 
 ness extending through all the northern and 
 southern states; for many years the apples have 
 been marketed in New York City and exported to 
 London, Liverpool and Hamburg. 
 
 In 1897, in partnership with Mrs. Dacotah S. 
 Ryan, the widow of Matthew Ryan, Jr., Mr. 
 Richardson organized the Missouri Valley Or- 
 chard Company, of which he is president and 
 manager, and Mrs. Ryan secretary and treasurer. 
 The company purchased eight hundred acres of 
 laud twenty-two miles southwest of Leaven- 
 worth, on the Kansas City & Northwestern 
 Railroad, and here they have planted forty thou- 
 sand apple trees, which, as soon as they are in 
 bearing condition, will prove a very profitable in- 
 vestment for the owners. In 1896 Mr. Richard- 
 son erected in South Leavenworth an ice manu- 
 facturing plant, with a capacity of sixty tons, 
 about one-half of whose product is distributed 
 through central and southern Kansas. In 1897 
 he built a pork-packing house and leased it to 
 Wilke & Co., who have since carried on business 
 there. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was born in Leavenworth 
 November 14, 1856, and was the second white 
 child born in this city, and now the oldest native- 
 born citizen here. His parents were Jason P. 
 and Mary (King) Richardson, who came to 
 Leavenworth in 1855. Mr. Richardson engaged 
 in the general merchandise business and resided 
 here until his death; his widow is still living, in 
 Leavenworth. In 1876 our subject entered Barre 
 (Vt.) Academy, where he was a student for two 
 years. On his return to Leavenworth he gradu- 
 ated from Skilhnan's Business College. In 1878 
 he was given employment at $1.50 a day with 
 Havens & Co., of Leavenworth. After about 
 two years he was taken into the firm, being given 
 a one-third interest in the business. In 1882 
 their mill was destroyed by a mill-dust explo.sion 
 and burned to the ground. Afterward, with 
 A. B. Havens, as Havens & Richardson, he 
 started a canning factory, which he conducted for 
 a year. His next venture was the purchase of a 
 flour mill at Waldron, Mo., but the high water 
 in 1883 damaged the mill to such an extent as to 
 impair its usefulness. 
 
 In 1886 the firm of Richardson, Simon & Co. 
 embarked in the fruit business in Leavenworth, 
 also established a branch at Wichita, Kans., and 
 handled and packed all kinds of domestic and 
 foreign fruits. In 1891 Mr. Ryan and Mr. Rich- 
 ardson entered into partnership, and the firm of 
 Ryan & Richard.son afterward carried on a whole- 
 sale apple business. As Mr. Ryan was occupied 
 with his extensive cattle interests in Arizona, 
 Montana and other western points, and also had 
 important coal interests, much of the management 
 of the business fell upon Mr. Richardson. How- 
 ever, in spite of the many other enterprises that 
 demanded Mr. Ryan's time he was ever ready to 
 counsel and assist Mr. Richard-son, who feels that 
 he owes much to his partner's excellent judg- 
 ment and shrewd foresight. November 26, 1897, 
 Mr. Ryan met with an accident that resulted in 
 his death three days later. According to the 
 terms of the will, his wife was the .sole legatee 
 and the business was continued the same as before. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is a Republican in his views, 
 but has always been averse to politics and takes 
 
 no part in public affairs. He is connected with 
 the Knights of Honor and the Catholic Mutual 
 Benefit Association. On the 3d of August, 1899, 
 at the fifth annual convention held at Detroit, 
 Mich., he was elected president of the National 
 Apple Shippers' Association, besides which he is 
 active in the work of the Kansas State Horti- 
 cultural Society. His marriage, which took place 
 in Leavenworth, united him with Miss Anna 
 Draper, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a 
 daughter of George and Mary (Ryan) Draper, 
 and a niece of Matthew Ryan, Sr. Five children 
 were born of this luiion, but one son, George, 
 died at the age of sixteen months. The others 
 are: Helen May, Mabel Draper, Matthew Rj'an, 
 Jr., and Amanda Parker. The family occupy an 
 attractive residence on North Broadway. 
 
 [q)EORGE W. SNYDER, who is one of the 
 l_l energetic and capable farmers of South 
 \^ Centropolis Township, Franklin County, 
 was born in Richland Count}-, Ohio, June 12, 
 1838. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Mag- 
 ner) Snyder, natives respectively of Pennsylvania 
 and Ohio, and the parents of six children, all 
 living. About 1830 his father settled in Ohio, 
 and afterward was extensively engaged in farm 
 pursuits in that state. The years of his boyhood 
 and youth our subject spent in the vicinity of his 
 birthplace. His education was such as common 
 schools afforded, and gave him the necessary 
 knowledge which is fundamental to all success. 
 
 When thirty years of age Mr. Snyder deter- 
 mined to seek a home in the west, believing that, 
 with cheaper land, he might be better able to get 
 a start in the world. Accordingly in 1868 he 
 came to Kansas and bought one hundred and 
 sixty acres of raw prairie laud in Franklin 
 County. At once he commenced the work of 
 imjiroving the place. After a time he brought 
 the land into good condition. On this place he 
 has engaged in raising farm products and stock. 
 By adding to his original purchase he has be- 
 come the owner of four hundred acres, half of 
 which is planted in corn. As a farmer he has 
 prospered, and the fine improvements on his 
 
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 farm speak volumes for his thrift and energy. 
 He is never happier than when at work, and 
 may be seen daily busying himself in the various 
 details of farm management, superintending his 
 property, planning improvements and looking 
 after the crops and the stock. 
 
 September 29, 1864, Mr. Snyder married Miss 
 Martha J. Billow, by whom he has four children: 
 Harry C. ; Irvin W. ; Maude, wife of Levi Burns; 
 and lyillie, at home. The family stand high in 
 social circles in their part of the county, and 
 have many friends, who have been won by their 
 refinement and genial dispositions. They hold 
 membership in the Lutheran Church at Ottawa. 
 In educational matters Mr. Snyder has always 
 been interested, desiring to aid the public schools 
 in every way possible, and his school tax is 
 larger than that of any other man in the 
 township. 
 
 HON. PAUL R. BROOKS, a pioneer of 1854 
 in Lawrence, is one of the most prominent 
 men of the city. On the organization of the 
 Watkins National Bank, in April, 1888, he was 
 elected cashier and a director, in which capacities 
 he has since officiated. The bank has a capital 
 stock of $150,000 and occupies one of the finest 
 bank buildings in the entire state. Under his 
 conservative yet energetic management a profit- 
 able financial system has been established and 
 safe investments have been made. In addition to 
 his responsible position as cashier and manager 
 of the bank he acts as trustee for the Jewett es- 
 tate in Lawrence, and as administrator and ex- 
 ecutor for several valuable estates. 
 
 Between 1630 and 1640 Thomas Brooks, a 
 Puritan, came from England and settled in Con- 
 cord, Mass. From him descended Solomon 
 Brooks, who was born in Lincoln, Mass., and 
 served as a minute man at Concord and Lexing- 
 ton, also took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 He filled three difi"erent terms of enlistment in 
 the American army. Afterward he removed to 
 Temple, N. H., thence to New Ipswich, N. H., 
 and later joined his children in York County, 
 Me., where he died at eighty-five years. His 
 10 
 
 son, Jeremiah, who was born at Temple, N. H., 
 -served in the war of 18 12, and later engaged in 
 merchandising in York, Me., where he died in 
 188 1, at the age of ninety. He was a prominent 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 
 wife, Eveline, was born in York, a daughter 
 of Theodore Parsons, who it is thought served 
 in the Revolutionary war. By occupation he 
 was a farmer; he died in Maine at seventy-five 
 years, and his daughter passed away in 1893, at 
 ninety years. They were descendants of English 
 ancestors who were among the earliest settlers of 
 what is now York County, Me. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in York, 
 Me., July 22, 1834. He was one of twelve chil- 
 dren who attained mature years, of whom three 
 sons and five daughters survive. One son, Al- 
 bert G., who came to Kansas in i860 and served 
 in the Second Kansas Infantry during the Civil 
 war, is now connected with the Gulf Railroad in 
 Denver, Colo. Another son, Jeremiah, came to 
 Lawrence in 1872 and still lives in this city. 
 
 After completing an academic education, in 
 185 1, our subject went to Boston, where he 
 clerked in a dry goods store for three years. In 
 September, 1854, he came to Kansas, making his 
 way to Leavenworth by boat. As there was then 
 no road across to Lawrence he returned to Kan- 
 sas City by boat, and from there made his way 
 to Lawrence, arriving here in September. He 
 and his cousin, Daniel H. Brooks (who died here 
 in the spring of 1855) had heard of this place as 
 "Yankeetown," so were led by curiosity to in- 
 vestigate the town. The two opened the first 
 store in the first building erected in Lawrence, 
 this being a log cabin on Massachusetts street. 
 During the winter they bought goods in Kansas 
 City and hauled them to Lawrence. In 1855, 
 when near what was known as the Quaker mission, 
 the cousin lost the trail and from exposure caugh 
 a cold that resulted in his death. Our subject 
 then continued the business alone. Several times 
 he went to St. Louis for goods. He soon moved 
 into a log building which was the first postoffice 
 and which stood on Massachusetts, across the 
 street from the old building. He was appointed 
 deputy-postmaster. In 1857 he embarked in the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 boot and shoe business and located in a frame 
 )uilding, where he remained until i860. 
 
 Before a charter had been secured for Lawrence 
 a city government was organized in 1856 and Mr. 
 Brooks was elected a member of the city council. 
 Governor Walker, objecting to the establishment 
 of a city government without his consent, brought 
 troops here from Leavenworth with the avowed 
 purpose of dispersing the council, but nothing fur- 
 ther came of it. After a year the charter was se- 
 cured and the first regular city council was chosen. 
 In the fall of 1858 Mr. Brooks was elected to the 
 territorial legislature on the free state ticket. 
 The legislature first met at Lecompton, but ad- 
 journed to Lawrence. It was again called to Le- 
 compton by the governor, but again adjourned to 
 Lawrence, and here the session was held which 
 declared for the abolishment of slavery in Kansas. 
 
 From i860 until after the Quantrell raid Mr. 
 Brooks engaged in the real-estate business. Dur- 
 ing the war he was quartermaster of the Third 
 Kansas Regiment, which was mustered into 
 service for defense against Price, and in the field 
 he was brigade quartermaster. In September, 
 1863, he was appointed city clerk, and in the fol- 
 lowing November was elected to fill a vacancy. 
 By re-election he served five full terms, and was 
 renominated for a sixth term, but decliued. At 
 the time of the Quantrell raid his home on Ken- 
 tucky street was burned, August 21, 1863. He 
 and his wife were visiting in Maine; had he been 
 at home he would probably have lost his life, as 
 he was one of the first men for whom the gang in- 
 quired. The county clerk was killed in the raid, 
 and Mr. Brooks, returning at once to Lawrence, 
 was appointed county clerk, which office he held 
 until 1874. For three years afterward he was 
 agent of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston 
 Railroad, and later was for four j^ears deputy 
 county treasurer. In the fall of 188 1 he was 
 elected county treasurer on the Republican ticket 
 and was re-elected in 1883, being nominated by 
 both the Republicans and the Democrats, at the 
 same hour, on the same daj\ In October, 18S6, 
 he retired from the treasurer's office, after which he 
 was deputy under his successor. Col. H. L. Moore. 
 
 Since then he has had the management of the 
 Watkins National Bank. He has always been a 
 leader among the Republicans of Lawrence and 
 has frequently served as chairman of the Douglas 
 County central committee. He was married in 
 this city, October 3, 1858, to Mary A., daughter 
 of Rev. Alanson Boughton, a Baptist minister of 
 New York. She was born in Cayuga County, 
 that state, and came to Lawrence in 1857 with a 
 married sister. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Brooks is connected with the 
 blue lodge and chapter of Masonry and is a mem- 
 ber of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. He is 
 familiar with the history of Lawrence from its 
 earliest days. There are only five persons in the 
 city who came here before he did. All of the 
 early movements for the advancement of the town 
 received his co-operation. He aided in securing 
 the location of the University of Kansas and the 
 Haskell Institute in this city. All educational 
 and philanthropic movements have received the 
 impetus of his encouragement. Few now living 
 in Lawrence are as familiar with its history as he, 
 and certainly no one takes a more vital interest in 
 its progress. Some years before the war he be- 
 came identified with a militia organized bj' Gen- 
 erals Robinson and Lane, for the purpose of 
 building the forts to defend Lawrence in case of 
 attack, and he was chosen first lieutenant of a 
 company. When the first raid was made on 
 Lawrence his store was robbed, and two loads of 
 goods on the way here from Kansas City were 
 captured. At that time, when the forces were in 
 forts here, they were accustomed to call on him 
 for requisitions of coffee and sugar, and in return 
 provided him with what was known as protection 
 scrip, but the value of the goods, amounting to 
 about $600, he never received. He remembers 
 vividly the struggles of pioneer days and . the 
 perils of border warfare and pro-slavery raids, and 
 often contrasts with pleasure those times with the 
 present day, when Lawrence is one of the educa- 
 tional centers of the west, a city beautiful in ap- 
 pearance, active in commerce, sub.stautial in 
 finances, and elevated in the character of its 
 citizenship. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 295 
 
 r^ AUI. E. HAVENS. The family represented 
 ry by this influential citizen of Leavenworth 
 is was founded in America by William Havens 
 of Wales, who crossed the ocean and settled at 
 Portsmouth, R. I., in 1636. Capt. Daniel 
 Havens, the great-grandfather of Paul E., was 
 born on Long Island February 5, 1750, and mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Bostwick, whose birth occurred 
 March 26, 1755. During his active life he fol- 
 lowed the sea. He died at Sag Harbor, N. Y. , 
 while still a young man. His son, Paul Havens, 
 was born at Sag Harbor October 7, 1777, and 
 married Anne Kennedy, who was born December 
 2, 1778; she was a daughter of Robert Kennedy, 
 a Revolutionary soldier, born September 18, 
 1748. C. D. P. Havens, son of Paul and Anne 
 Havens, was born November 3, 1808. In 1832 
 he married Eleanor, daughter of Philip R. Frey, 
 and a descendant of Swiss ancestry. 
 
 In 1688 Henry Frey, a native of Switzerland, 
 settled on the present site of Palatine Bridge, 
 New York, becoming the 6rst settler in that 
 region of the Mohawk Valley. His son, Henry, 
 was born September 15, 1712, and had a son. Col. 
 Henry Frey, whose birth occurred September 23, 
 1735. The last-named was an ofificer in the 
 French and Indian war, serving under Sir William 
 Johnson. He married Elizabeth, a sister of Gen. 
 Nicholas Herkimer, and their only daughter was 
 the mother of Eliza Cockburn, the wife of Judge 
 Alfred Conkling; their only son was Philip 
 Rockell Frey, father of Mrs. Eleanor Havens. 
 
 Paul E. Havens was born in the town of 
 Ephrata, Fulton County, N. Y., May 4, 1839. 
 When he was eight years old his father died. Six 
 years later he became clerk in a store at Elmira, 
 N. Y., and continued there until 1856, when he 
 came as far west as Iowa. For two years he was 
 employed in Davenport. In July, 1858, he came 
 to Leavenworth. About that time the territorial 
 judges appointed terms of their courts to be held 
 in each settled county, and he was appointed a 
 deputy clerk of the court for Jefferson Count}', 
 under Judge Samuel D. Lecompte, the chief 
 justice of the supreme court of the territory and 
 judge of the first judicial district. On the 
 adoption of the state constitution he was elected 
 
 clerk of the district court for Jefferson County. 
 At the next general election he was chosen to 
 succeed himself in the office. In 1861 he was 
 elected a member of the house of representatives 
 from the eighth district, comprising the counties 
 of Shawnee, Jefferson and Jackson. 
 
 During 1863 Mr. Havens established his per- 
 manent home in Leavenworth. Here he at first 
 engaged in the insurance business as local agent 
 and as secretary of a local marine insurance com- 
 pany, which carried on a prosperous business 
 until trafiSc was transferred from the Missouri 
 River to the railroads, which reached Leaven- 
 worth in 1866. In 1868 he became a.ssociated 
 with H. L. Newman in the banking business, 
 under the firm name of Newman & Havens. 
 This business was discontinued by limitation in 
 1874, Mr. Newman removing to St. Louis. Mr. 
 Havens was one of the projectors of the Kansas 
 Central Railway, an enterprise inaugurated by 
 local capital, for the building of a railroad to 
 Denver, and he served as a director and as secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the company until the road 
 was sold to Jay Gould in 1883. He was also 
 interested in the construction of the railroad 
 between Leavenworth and Atchison, now a part 
 of the Missouri Pacific Railway. In connection 
 with his brother, A. B. Havens, in 1876 he em- 
 barked in the milling business, which was suc- 
 cessfully conducted until the property was totally 
 destroyed by fire in March, 1882. 
 
 In the organization of the Leavenworth Na- 
 tional Bank in 1883 Mr. Havens took a warm 
 interest and active part, and he has served as its 
 president from the date of its organization. The 
 capital of the bank was originally $100,000, but 
 after a year was increased to $150,000. Its 
 career has been very prosperous. It has paid 
 regular dividends of ten per cent, per annum 
 and accumulated, in addition, a surplus and un- 
 divided profits aggregating over $200,000. This 
 highly gratifying result is largely due to the 
 wisdom and business ability of its able oflBcials, 
 who have guided the finances of the bank in .safe 
 channels that have proved profitable. 
 
 From 1887 to 1897 Mr. Havens was vice- 
 president of the Leavenworth Light & Heating 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Company, but during the latter year he disposed 
 of his interest in the company. In 1890 he was 
 elected vice-president of the Leavenworth City 
 and Fort Leavenworth Water Company, and on 
 the death of L. T. Smith was chosen his suc- 
 cessor iu the presidency, which position he still 
 holds. Enterprises for the benefit of the city 
 have always received his support and co-operation. 
 Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 In December, i860, Mr. Havens married Miss 
 Matilda Moore, of Wooster, Ohio. Their sur- 
 viving children are Eleanor and Elizabeth, who 
 is the wife of Daniel R. Anthony, Jr., the present 
 postmaster of Leavenworth and business manager 
 of the Leavenworth Times. 
 
 (lOHN NAVARRE MACOMB, of Lawrence, 
 I is the oldest living representative, in the 
 (2/ direct line of descent, of a prominent pioneer 
 family of America. He was born in Detroit, 
 Mich., 22 September, 1843. His father. Col. 
 John N. Macomb, was born in New York City 9 
 April, 181 1, and passed the years of his boyhood 
 in Newark, N. J., where he received his early 
 education. Later he .spent one year in Hobart 
 (then Geneva) College, in New York. He was 
 graduated from the United States Military 
 Academy at West Point i July, 1832. His 
 whole life, from his appointment as a cadet in 
 September, 1828, was spent in the army. He 
 was a lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery and for 
 .some years aide-de-camp to his uncle, Maj.-Gen. 
 Alexander Macomb. In the year 1838 he was 
 transferred to the corps of Topographical Engi- 
 neers, of which he remained a member until it 
 was merged into the Corps of Engineers in 1863. 
 Afterward he continued with the enlarged corps 
 until I July, 1882, when he was placed upon the 
 retired list, fifty years from the day he was 
 graduated from West Point. For eighteen years, 
 from 1838, he was connected with the topograph- 
 ical survey of the great lakes, having charge of 
 that work a large part of the time. In 1856 he 
 was placed in charge of surveys in New Mexico 
 and adjacent country, having for their object the 
 building of a transcontinental railroad. During 
 
 the first two years of the Civil war he was one of 
 the engineers connected with the Army of the 
 Potomac. Afterward he was in charge of fortifi- 
 cations at Portsmouth, N. H., and the improve- 
 ment of the western rivers, with headquarters at 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, and later at Rock Island, 111. 
 In 1877 he was placed in charge of river improve- 
 ments in New Jersej-, with headquarters at Phila- 
 delphia, and remained in charge of this work 
 until his retirement in 1882. He was frequently 
 selected to serve as a member of boards appointed 
 to examine and report upon engineering works. 
 
 Colonel Macomb received several substantial 
 tokens of the appreciation in which his services 
 were held by the residents "of Detroit, Buffalo, 
 Cleveland and other cities, among which may be 
 mentioned a very handsome silver service and a 
 Jurgensen watch. 
 
 On 7 March, 1838, Colonel Macomb married 
 Czarina Macomb, who was born at Fort Johnson, 
 Charleston Harbor, S. C, 21 October, 18 10, and 
 the subject of this sketch is the only living child 
 of that marriage. 
 
 In 1850 Colonel Macomb married Nainiy, 
 daughter of Commodore John Rodgers, and they 
 had five children, viz.: Montgomery Meigs, ot 
 the Seventh Artillery; Augustus Canfield, of the 
 Fifth Cavalry, both now iu Porto Rico; Mrs. 
 Thomas W. Peters, Christina and Nanny. He 
 made his home after his retirement in Wash- 
 ington, D. C. , in which city he died i6 March, 
 1889. 
 
 John Navarre Macomb, thecolonel's father, and 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
 born in Detroit, Mich., 7 March, 1774, and was 
 a merchant in New York City for several years. 
 In November, 1810, he was traveling from Lisbon 
 to London on the English packet " Princess Char- 
 lotte, ' ' when the ship was attacked by a French 
 privateer. The captain requested all passengers 
 to go below, but Mr. Macomb asked permission to 
 remain on deck and assist in defending the ship. 
 While working a gun he was struck by a ball and 
 died soon afterward in Falmouth Harbor, 9 
 November, 18 10. He was buried iu the church- 
 yard at that place. He left a wife and seven 
 children, of whom Colonel Macomb was the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 297 
 
 youngest. His wife, who bore the maiden name 
 of Christina Livingston, was born in New York 
 City 26 September, 1774, and grew to woman- 
 hood in that city, where she was married to Mr. 
 Macomb 29 March, 1797. After she became a 
 widow she made her home in Newark, N. J., 
 where she reared lier children. She died at 
 Esperanza, N. Y., at the home of her daughter, 
 Mrs. Jane E. Rose, 24 August, 1841. 
 
 Alexander Macomb, great-grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, was born in Ireland 27 
 July, 1748, and was brought to America by his 
 father in 1752. His early life was spent in 
 Albany, N. Y. About 1769 his father, John 
 Macomb, moved to Detroit, accompanied by the 
 family. The sons were engaged principally in 
 merchandise and real-estate transactions. On 4 
 May, 1773, Alexander Macomb married Catherine 
 de Navarre, daughter of Robert de Navarre and 
 Marie Lothman dit Barrois. Of their ten chil- 
 dren John Navarre Macomb was the oldest and 
 Gen. Alexander Macomb the seventh. Alex- 
 ander Macomb lived in Detroit until 1786, when 
 he moved to New York City. He owned and 
 resided in the house at No. 47 Broadway that 
 was occupied by General Washington at the time 
 of his inauguration. He and his family were 
 present at the inauguration ball, and some of the 
 articles of dress and ornamentation worn on that 
 occasion are now in the possession of their de- 
 scendants. In 1788-89 he was a member of the 
 New York legislature. A merchant bj^ occupa- 
 tion, the fluctuations caused by the war of 1812 
 and losses of vessels and cargoes wrecked him 
 financially. After his death congress granted his 
 widow about $30,000 in consideration of these 
 losses. About 1792 he bought from the State of 
 New York the large tract of land in the Adiron- 
 dack region known as Macomb's purchase, con- 
 taining nearly four millions of acres. In 1820 he 
 moved to Georgetown, D. C. , where he died 19 
 January, 1831. His first wife died in New York 
 City 17 November, 1789. In 1791 he married 
 Mrs. Jane Rucker, nee Marshall, by whom he 
 had seven children. 
 
 The father of Alexander Macomb was John 
 Macomb, who came from Ireland in 1742 and 
 
 established himself in New York, where he held 
 an official position under the colonial govern- 
 ment. From 1755 to 1769 he made his home in 
 Albany, and thence moved to Detroit. He was 
 descended from the MacCoombies of Scotland, an 
 ancient and honorable famil}' who moved from 
 that country to Ireland during the early part of 
 the seventeenth century. 
 
 Gen. Alexander Macomb, the maternal grand- 
 father of our subject, was born in Detroit 3 April, 
 1782. He married at Belleville, N. J., 18 July, 
 1803, Catherine Macomb, who was born in 
 Detroit 30 October, 1787, a daughter of William 
 and Sarah Jane (Dring) Macomb. She died at 
 Georgetown, D. C, 10 September, 1822. After- 
 ward General Macomb married in Georgetown, 
 26 May, 1826, Mrs. Harriet Wilson, daughter of 
 Rev. Stephen B. Balch, D. D. 
 
 The military career of General Macomb was 
 very brilliant. In 1798 he entered the militia, 
 but, desiring more active service, he entered a 
 regiment of New York cavalry in 1799. Ability, 
 a fine physique and prepossessing manners ad- 
 vanced him rapidly. He was appointed lieu- 
 tenant of dragoons and assigned to Philadelphia 
 on recruiting service. With the recruits he went 
 to the southwestern country and joined General 
 Wilkinson's expedition into the Cherokee coun- 
 try, remaining for one year. When the corps of 
 dragoons disbanded a corps of engineers was 
 formed and he was made first lieutenant, after 
 which he returned to West Point. He was ap- 
 pointed judge advocate in the trial of Colonel 
 Butler, and in the handling of that case exhibited 
 marked ability. In 1805 he was made captain of 
 engineers and had charge of the erection and 
 repairing of fortifications on seaboard. In recog- 
 nition of meritorious service, in 1808 he was pro- 
 moted to be major. When the second war with 
 England broke out he was made lieutenant- 
 colonel and engaged in the organization of the 
 army. Soon after his promotion to the rank of 
 colonel he took command of the third regiment 
 of artillery and marched to the frontier. In 
 active service he displayed his ability as a com- 
 mander and realized the fullest confidence of his 
 superiors. When England decided to put an end 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to the war by a decisive campaign General 
 Macomb was in command of a small force at 
 Plattsburg, N. Y., where he met and put to flight 
 the newly re-enforced array of experienced men, 
 consisting of fourteen thousand regulars and 
 many others who had served under Wellington. 
 To meet these soldiers he had only fifteen hun- 
 dred regulars, and some scattering militiamen 
 hastily gathered from the neighborhood. His 
 force was unable to cope successfullj' with the 
 whole strength of the enemy, but by good 
 generalship he diverted a large part of the English 
 forces and completely routed the others, taking 
 more prisoners than he had men. His signal 
 victory caused the greatest rejoicing and led to 
 his promotion to be major-general. He was 
 awarded a gold medal commemorative of the 
 battle of Plattsburg, the thanks of congress, and 
 was presented with a handsome sword by the 
 state of New York. 
 
 At the close of the war of 18 12 General Ma- 
 comb was given command of the troops at Detroit. 
 In 1 82 1 he was called by President Monroe to 
 Washington, D. C, and was made chief of the 
 corps of engineers. Upon the death of General 
 Brown, in February, 1828, he was appointed 
 commanding general, and filled the office to the 
 day of his death, 25 June, 1841. 
 
 The father of Catherine, wife of Gen. Alex- 
 ander Macomb, was William Macomb, a brother 
 of the first Alexander. He was born in Ireland 
 in 1 75 1 and was brought to America by his 
 father, living in Albany, N. Y., until 1769, when 
 he went to Detroit with the family. He was a 
 partner in business with his brother, Alexander. 
 He purchased from the Indians the principal 
 islands in the Detroit River. The original deed 
 is still in possession of his descendants. It is on 
 parchment, and signed by sixteen of the chiefs, 
 among them the celebrated Tecumseh. Portions 
 of Grosse Isle, the larger of the group, remain 
 in possession of and are occupied by some mem- 
 bers of the family at the present day. One 
 island, Belle Isle, is part of the City park of 
 Detroit and is noted for its beautiful scener}'. He 
 also owned the farm afterward conveyed by his 
 widow and her children to General Cass, upon 
 
 which a large portion of the city of Detroit is 
 now situated. William married Sarah Jane Dring 
 in 1780. She was a descendant of a Huguenot 
 family driven out of France bj- the revocation of 
 the Edict of Nantes. His death occurred in 
 1796. 
 
 Robert de Navarre, the father of Catherine de 
 Navarre, was born in Villeroy, Brittany, France, 
 in 1709. He was sent by the French government 
 as sub-intendant and roj^al notary to Fort Pont- 
 chartrain in Detroit, where he arrived in 1730, 
 and took charge of his ofiBce. From him are de- 
 scended the numerous and illustrious members 
 of the Navarre family in America. In Detroit, 
 10 February , 1734, he married Marie Lothman 
 dit Barrois, daughter of Francis and Mary Ann 
 (Sauvage) Lothman dit Barrois. He died in 
 Detroit, 24 November, 1791. His wife died 20 
 December, 1799. 
 
 The Lothman family originated in Holland, 
 but moved from there to the province of Berry, 
 France; hence the name Barrois, a corruption of 
 Berrois. Willibrord Lothman, the grandfather 
 of Marie Lothman dit Barrois, was sent to 
 Canada in 1665 as secretary, counselor and 
 general agent of the East India Company. He 
 was a great linguist and official interpreter of the 
 Portugese language. 
 
 Robert de Navarre was a son of Francois de 
 Navarre, who in 1695 married Jeanne Pluyette. 
 They resided in the parish of Villeroy, diocese of 
 Meaux, in Brittany, France. Francois was a 
 son of Antoine de Navarre, who in 1665 married 
 Marie Lallemant. Antoine was a son of Jean de 
 Navarre, who in 1623 married Susanna le Clef. 
 Martin, father of Jean, married in 1593 Jeanne 
 Lefebre. The father of Martin was Jean, who 
 married Perette Barat. Jean was a son of 
 Antoine de Bourbon, Due de Vendome, who be- 
 came king of Navarre in 1554. The son of 
 Antoine de Bourbon, Henry III. of Navarre, was 
 crowned king of France in 1589, under the title of 
 Henry IV. The noble family of Bourbon, which 
 became a ro3'al family of France, was descended 
 from the Baron of Bourbonnais Adhemar, or 
 Aimar, who was invested with that barony in the 
 latter part of the ninth century. The barony 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 299 
 
 was a rich district, located in the center of France. 
 In 1272 Beatrix (of Bourbon) of Burgundy, 
 daughter of John of Burgundj' and Agnes of 
 Bourbon, heiress of the Bourbon baronj', married 
 Robert, count of Clermont, the sixth son of Louis 
 IX. (St. Louis) of France. Their son, Louis, 
 became duke of Bourbon in 1372. In 1488, by 
 the death of John II., the direct line of Bourbon 
 ended; the collateral Hue began with John's 
 brother, Peter, lord of Beaujeu, who married 
 Anne, sister of Louis XL Peter died in 1503, 
 leaving onlj' a daughter, Susanne, who in 1505 
 married Charles of Montpensier. At his mar- 
 riage Charles took the title of Duke of Bourbon. 
 He was killed in an assault upon Rome in 1527. 
 The fourth in descent from Peter's brother James 
 was Louis, count of Vendome. His great-great- 
 grandson, Antoine de Bourbon, in 1548 married 
 Jeanne D'Albret, heiress of Navarre, and became 
 king of Navarre in 1554, as before stated. 
 
 Philip Philip Livingston, father of the wife of 
 the first John Navarre Macomb, was born in New 
 York City 8 June, 1741, and died in 1781. He 
 was a son of Philip Livingston (1716-1778), a 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence and a 
 member of the continental congress. Philip 
 Philip Livingston was a member of the Society of 
 the Cincinnati. Tracing this branch of the 
 famil}', Robert, the first lord of the American 
 manor, was born in Scotland in 1654 and emi- 
 grated to the United States, where he died in 
 1728. His son, Philip, was father of Philip, the 
 signer of the Declaration of Independence. While 
 of immediate Scotch descent, the family traces 
 its lineage to Livingius, a Hungarian nobleman, 
 who came to Scotland in the suite of Margaret, 
 queen of King Malcom III., about 1068. The 
 genealogy can be traced direct to King Edward 
 III. of England and James I. of Scotland, prior 
 to which it is a matter of history. 
 
 On the death of James I. of Scotland, in 1437, 
 Sir Alexander Livingstone of Calendar was ap- 
 pointed by the estate of the kingdom one of two 
 joint regents during the minority of James II., 
 being himself made keeper of the king's person, 
 while his associate, Crichton, received the ofBce 
 
 of chancellor. Later he was appointed to the 
 judiciary of Scotland and ambassador to England. 
 He died in 1449. He was the ancestor of a 
 numerous race. His son, James, became the 
 first Lord Livingstone. Alexander, the fifth 
 lord, through whom the New York branch of the 
 family was descended, was one of the guardians 
 of Mary Queen of Scots, being appointed to that 
 office in 1543. In 1548 he accompanied his royal 
 ward to France and died there in 1553. His 
 daughter, Mary, was one of four Marys who 
 were playmates and maids of honor to the queen. 
 In 1600 Alexander, the seventh Lord Livingstone, 
 was created the first earl of Linlithgow, a title 
 which descended to the fifth earl, who in 17 13 
 was made an earl of the United Kingdom. Two 
 years later he joined with the earl of Mar in sup- 
 porting the cause of the first pretender, for which 
 he lost his earldom, and it has not since been 
 restored to his descendants. 
 
 The first earl of Linlithgow had four brothers, 
 the third of whom, in 1625, was made a baron of 
 Nova Scotia, which title descended to the eleventh 
 baron. Sir Alexander Livingstone, in 1853. 
 Three other titles, with estates, were conferred 
 upon enterprising young sons of the house of 
 Livingstone: the earldom of Calendar in 1641, 
 which in the course of descent became merged 
 with that of Linlithgow; the earldom of New- 
 burgh in 1660, which is now extinct, and the 
 viscountship of Kilsythe in 1661, which was 
 forfeited by the heir in the rebellion of 1715. 
 John Livingstone, son of the fifth Lord Living- 
 stone, guardian of Mary of Scots, was slain in 
 the battle of Pinkiefield in 1547. He was suc- 
 ceeded by a son, Alexander, the first of three 
 generations of ministers of the Scottish church. 
 The second was William, whose son. Rev. John, 
 was the father of Robert, the first lord. The last- 
 named emigrated to America about 1675 and in 
 1686 received from Governor Dongan a grant of 
 a large tract of land, which in 1715 was con- 
 firmed by royal charter of George I., erecting 
 the manor of Livingston, embracing a portion 
 of the present counties of Dutchess and Columbia, 
 in New York. This tract is still known as the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Livingston manor. Robert Livingston, the first 
 lord of the manor, married Alida, daughter of 
 Philip Pietersen Schuyler. 
 
 The family of Livingston was very prominent 
 in the founding and development of the United 
 States, from the early colonial days to the period 
 of quiet prosperity after the war of 1812. Its 
 members occupied high positions in the various 
 legislative bodies and in the army. They con- 
 tributed greatly to the success of the struggle of 
 the colonies with the mother country. They 
 were first among the jurists and clergymen. 
 They were successful business men. They pro- 
 moted the development of commerce, agriculture 
 and manufactures, and their influence was always 
 exerted for the amelioration and betterment of 
 the condition of the people. 
 
 Having carried the three principal lines of 
 ancestry of the family back to noble and royal 
 origin, where it is, of course, a matter of history, 
 we will take up the life of the subject of this 
 sketch. John Navarre Macomb, the third of the 
 name, was but two and one-half years of age 
 when he lost his mother. His father's sister, 
 Mrs. Jane E. Rose, who resided at Esperanza, 
 N. Y. , took charge of him. His education was 
 begun in private schools and completed in Hobart 
 College at Geneva, N. Y., from which institution 
 he was graduated in 1861. Returning to the 
 farm, he spent the next ten years there in the 
 routine of farm work. In the autumn of 1870 
 his aunt lost her husband by death and the next 
 summer the aunt and nephew moved from 
 Esperanza to Branchport, a small village a mile 
 di.stant, in Yates Count)-, where he resided until 
 1892. In 1892 he came to Kansas and settled in 
 Cofi"eyville, but the next year removed to Law- 
 rence, in order that his only child, John Navarre 
 Macomb, might have university advantages. He 
 purchased a fine residence on the corner of Ken- 
 tucky and Adams streets, and here he has since 
 made his home. 
 
 Mr. Macomb's political affiliations have always 
 been with the Repulilican party. His first vote 
 was cast for Abraham Lincoln. In Masonic circles 
 he has been very active. He has been a mem- 
 ber and the presiding officer of Milo Lodge, No. 
 
 108, F. & A. M.; of Penn Yan Chapter, No. 100, 
 R. A. M.; of Ontario Council, No. 23, R. & S. 
 M., and of Jerusalem Commanderj-, No. 17, 
 K. T., all of Penn Yan, N. Y.; also a member of 
 Zabud Council, No. 4, of Topeka, Kans. He is a 
 life member of the Scottish Rite bodies of the 
 Valley of the Genesee, in Rochester, N. Y., and 
 a member of those of the Valley of Lawrence, 
 and a member of Topeka Consistory, No. i, of 
 Topeka, Kans. He was created a Sovereign 
 Grand Inspector General and made an honorary 
 member of the Supreme Council of the thirty- 
 third degree of the Northern Ma.sonic Jurisdiction 
 of the United States on 19 September, 1882. 
 From 1889 to 1891 he was Grand Master of the 
 Grand Council of R. & S. M. of New York. 
 For four years he was District Deputy Grand 
 Master of the twenty-first Ma.sonic district in the 
 Grand Lodge of New York. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Order of the Palm and Shell. He 
 was an earnest worker in the Order of Patrons 
 of Husbandry, having been master of the Grange 
 at Branchport, N. Y. , as well as of the Grange of 
 Yates County, N. Y. For several years he has 
 served as president of the Douglas County Hor- 
 ticultural Societ}'. He is a member of Lawrence 
 Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. 
 
 Mr. Macomb is an active and prominent mem- 
 ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He 
 was one of the incorporators of St. Luke's Church 
 at Branchport, N. Y., a vestryman and warden 
 from its organization in 1866 to 1893, and always 
 during that period a lay delegate, representing 
 that church in the convention of the diocese of 
 Western New York. He was a lay deputy from 
 that diocese to the general convention in 1880 
 and 1883. Since coming to Kansas he has been 
 a vestryman of Trinity Church, Lawrence, and 
 has represented that and St. Paul's Church, 
 Coffeyville, in the diocesan convention. 
 
 He has been for many years a trustee of the 
 General Theological Seminary in New York City, 
 and in 1892 and 1893 .served in the same capacity 
 in DeVeaux College at Suspension Bridge, N. Y. 
 
 20 May, 1874, Mr. Macomb married Mrs. Julia 
 Louisa Wheeler, widow of B. H. Wheeler, of 
 Litchfield County, Conn., and daughter of Peter 
 
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 Righter, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where she was 
 born. Their onl}' child, John Navarre Macomb, 
 the fourth of the name, was born at Branch- 
 port, N. Y., 24 Januarj', 1877. 
 
 John Navarre Macomb, Jr. , the fourth of the 
 name, spent the first sixteen years of his life 
 in Branchport, N. Y. In 1893 he was graduated 
 from the Coffeyville (Kans.) high school and the 
 same autumn entered the Kansas State University 
 at Lawrence. He was graduated in 1898, receiv- 
 ing the degrees of B. S. and M. S. at the same 
 time. Since that time he has been engaged in 
 mining and railroad engineering in southeastern 
 Kansas and Oklahoma. He represented the 
 diocese of Kansas in the general convention of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church in Washington, 
 D. C, in 1898. He is a member of Lawrence 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and of the Scottish 
 Rite bodies in Lawrence, Kans. 
 
 HON. SHERMAN MEDILL. One of the 
 prominent property owners and public men 
 of Leavenworth County is Mr. Medill, who 
 is the representative of the sixth district in the 
 state legislature. He has for years been an active 
 worker in the Republican party and has taken an 
 interest in its legislation and served as delegate 
 to many of its conventions, but he never accepted 
 candidacy for ofiBce until 1898. At that time, 
 without solicitation on his part, he was nomi- 
 nated for representative. The fact that the party 
 had a close fight on its hands induced him to ac- 
 cept the nomination, in the hope that he might 
 help snatch a victory from the Democrats. Al- 
 though under ordinary circumstances the Demo- 
 crats would have won by four hundred majority, 
 he was elected by a majority of two hundred and 
 forty, running six hundred ahead of his ticket, 
 a fact which shows his high standing in the lo- 
 cality. He was successful in carrying three town- 
 ships that usually gave Democratic majorities. 
 As representative he has ser\-ed as a member of 
 four committees of importance, being on the ju- 
 diciary, mines and mining, roads and highway 
 and labor committees, and has taken a special 
 interest in matters pertaining to his home county. 
 
 In the house in Alexandria Township where 
 he now resides, Mr. Medill was born December 
 27, 1865. The Medill family descended from 
 three brother who emigrated to America, two of 
 whom settled in Canada, while Joseph located in 
 Ohio. They come from the same family as the 
 late Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune. 
 James, our subject's father, was born in Ohio in 
 1824. He continued to reside in Jefferson County 
 until 1853, after which he spent four years trad- 
 ing on the Mississippi. In 1857 he came to Kan- 
 sas and for seven years made his home in Leav- 
 enworth. He then settled upon a farm in Alex- 
 andria Township, where he successfully followed 
 agricultural pursuits. In 1894 he retired and re- 
 turned to Leavenworth, where he remained until 
 his death, July 3 of that year. Politically he 
 was a Republican, and fraternally a Knight 
 Templar Mason. In religion he was connected 
 with the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In the public schools and Lawrence Business 
 College our subject obtained an excellent educa- 
 tion. He afterward spent two years in Colorado. 
 Upon his return to Leavenworth County he re- 
 sumed work on the home farm, and in 1889 as- 
 sumed the entire control of the property, which 
 he has since conducted. His specialty is the 
 stock business, and the farm of four hundred and 
 eighty acres is in pasture for the stock or for the 
 raising of grain to be used as feed. During the 
 winter he feeds large numbers of cattle, princi- 
 pally Shorthorn Durhams. As a stock-raiser he 
 has been unusually successful, and is considered 
 an authority in this business. He owns one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in Stranger Township, 
 within a mile of Tonganoxie, also farmland in 
 High Prairie Township and real estate in Leav- 
 enworth, his total possessions aggregating seven 
 hundred and twenty acres, most of which is 
 rented. He has large and important investments, 
 which require his close attention. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America and the blue lodge of Masonry. 
 
 June 4, 1890, Mr. Medill married Monica, 
 daughter of James Morgan, of Leavenworth. 
 They are the parents of four children: James 
 Sherman, William Harold, George Tabor and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Joseph McKee. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Me- 
 dill was a teacher in the schools of Leavenworth 
 Count}-, and her intimate knowledge of educa- 
 tional matters has led to her election twice to 
 serve as a member of the school board of her dis- 
 trict, in which capacity she has given efficient 
 service. 
 
 (John LEANDER STRATTON, a promi- 
 I nent stockman of Lincoln Township, Frank- 
 v2/ lin Count}', residing in the suburbs of Ot- 
 tawa, was born near Princeton, Bureau Count}', 
 111., August 3, 1848, a son of Abram and Sarah 
 (Baggs) Stratton. He was one of six children, 
 four of whom are living. Of these, Eliza is the 
 wife of Sylvester S. Newton, police judge of 
 Wyanet, 111., and the owner of large farm hold- 
 ings in Bureau County. The oldest son, Lemuel 
 N. Stratton, D. D., for many years held pastor- 
 ates in New York and Illinois, also officiated as 
 president of Wheaton Theological Training 
 School, and took an active part in the work of 
 the Congregational denomination; he is now liv- 
 ing retired from the ministry at Wheaton, 111. 
 The youngest son, Abram M. , is a farmer and 
 fruit-grower of Carlton, Ore. Samuel Fay Strat- 
 ton, deceased, was for years professor of natural 
 science and chemistry in Wheaton College and 
 also labored in the Congregational ministry. 
 
 Abram Stratton, Sr. , was born in Dutchess 
 County, N. Y., February 18, 1805, a son of Ab- 
 raham and Eunice (Mann) Stratton, and died in 
 Bureau County, 111., August 28, 1877. The A'rr- 
 ord of Bureau County, 111., .speaks of him as fol- 
 lows: "At a large meeting of old settlers of Bu- 
 reau County in 1865, the oldest settler was called 
 for and requested to come forward and take a seat 
 on the platform; and Mr. Stratton responded, a 
 hale, hearty man of .some sixty or sixty-five 
 years." The mother of Mr. Stratton died when 
 he was five and his father, a farmer, passed away 
 nine years later. When nearly grown he left the 
 Hudson Valley. In 1829 he traveled on foot, 
 with his knapsack on his back, iii this way mak- 
 ing the long journey west to Illinois, guided, 
 after he left Detroit, by nothing except Indian 
 trails. Between Detroit and Chicago he met the 
 
 pony mail carrier who made trips once in two 
 months, carrying the mail between the two front- 
 ier towns. At that time Chicago was known as 
 Fort Dearborn, and was garrisoned by troops 
 that guarded the trading post and the annuity 
 office established for the benefit of the Indians, 
 who were very numerous in that locality. 
 
 After staking a claim in Bureau County Mr. 
 Stratton .spent the winter of 1829-30 in Peoria. 
 In the summer of 1830, from some point near St. 
 Louis, guided by a pocket compass, he started to 
 return to New York, and eventually reached his 
 old home. After a short visit he came west via 
 the Erie Canal to Bufialo, then by the lakes to 
 the mouth of the St. Joseph River in Michigan 
 (for at that time boats were seldom run to Fort 
 Dearborn). Patiently he towed his goods around 
 the lake during a stonny November, and finally, 
 buying an ox-team and making a sled, he started 
 from Chicago in a December snowstorm over the 
 trackless prairies and through pathless woods, 
 disturbed by packs of wolves or wandering Indi- 
 ans, but buoyed up by high hopes and firm re- 
 solves. In the courage he exhibited there is a 
 lesson well worthy of emulation by fhe present 
 generation who, though never called upon to en- 
 dure the hardships he passed through as a pio- 
 neer, may nevertheless learn from him lessons of 
 determination and perseverance in the midst of 
 adversity. And, indeed, no one but a man of 
 great courage would have penetrated, as he did, 
 the depths of the forests where the foot of white 
 men had seldom trod, and the prairies buried be- 
 neath snow where cold and exhaustion and peril 
 waited upon the intrepid traveler. The one who 
 plunged into those deep wastes of dreariness 
 could hope to hear few sounds save the fierce 
 howling of hungry wolves, and he could hope to 
 see few faces except those of savage Indians. The 
 conscious sympathy of comrade and fellow- worker 
 was not for him during those long trips between 
 his old and his new home. 
 
 Shortly after his settlement in Bureau County 
 Mr. Stratton establi.shed a home of his own. Oc- 
 tober 16, 1831, he married Miss Sarah Baggs, 
 this being the second marriage in the then coun- 
 ty of Putnam, of which Bureau was a part. In 
 
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 the first list of jurors drawn at Hennepin, the 
 county seat, his name appears. During the early 
 days of the county (which was settled by three 
 New England colonies) all disputes were settled 
 by arbitration, and he was a member of the board 
 of arbitrators. So honorable was he, so upright 
 in life, so genial in association, so hospitable to 
 visitors, and so kind in his home, that he won 
 universal aifection. For j^ears he was one of the 
 county's most prominent men. In the latter part 
 of 1876 he was stricken with paralysis and sank 
 into a dreamless sleep. He was buried in Forest 
 Hill Cemetery at Wyanet. The funeral was at- 
 tended by a vast throng of friends, for no man 
 ever lived in the county who was more widel)' 
 known or sincerely loved. His name and his 
 memory are inseparably associated with the an- 
 nals of Bureau County. Standing at the head of 
 his newmade grave. Rev. T. J. Pomeroy, of 
 Wyanet, said. "Kind-hearted and genial, faith- 
 ful and resolute, he had many friends and warm 
 friends. Of a judicial turn of mind, he carefully 
 turned all facts over before deciding any case, 
 and his conclusions were generally so accurate 
 that his opinions had great weight with his fel- 
 lowmen. He was a man of fidelity. He de- 
 lighted to show how accurately he could keep his 
 promises. Integrity, and honesty are the words 
 that best describe his modest and unobtrusive 
 life." 
 
 In the early settlement of America two Strat- 
 ton brothers arrived in New England in 1730. 
 They were Scotch Presbyterian ministers. The 
 one from whom this branch descends went to 
 lyong Island and the records of the church there 
 show a faithful pastorate. He is said to have 
 had two children, a son and daughter. The son, 
 Abraham (our subject's great-grandfather), 
 moved to New Jersey, but did not remain in that 
 state permanentl}'. He settled in Schoharie 
 County, N. Y., but soon afterward was drowned 
 in Schoharie Creek, September 11, 1797, while 
 attempting to cross on horseback. 
 
 The wife of Abram Stratton was in every way 
 fitted to endure with him the hardships of front- 
 ier life, for she was a woman of wonderful cour- 
 age, and never evinced the least fear, even in the 
 
 midst of exciting encounters with Indians. She 
 was born in Urbana, Ohio, April 19, 1814, a 
 daughter of John and Rebecca (Thomas) Baggs. 
 Her grandfather. Rev. John Thomas, was said to 
 be one of the most eloquent ministers of the Bap- 
 tist denomination in his day; he removed from 
 Ohio to Illinois, where he amassed considerable 
 property. In religion Mrs. Stratton was first 
 connected with the Methodist Church, but not 
 feeling satisfied with the lack of firmness shown 
 by the church at the time of the slavery agita- 
 tion, she aSiliated with the Wesley an Church, to 
 which she afterward belonged. For some years 
 she was a teacher in the Sundaj'-school, having 
 about twenty-five in her Bible class. When ad- 
 vanced in years she was afflicted with paralysis, 
 and for many years she was helpless, but she en- 
 dured this affliction with the same cheerful equa- 
 nimity' she had displayed in the days of her pio- 
 neer privations. Her death occurred September 
 18, 1898. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired at 
 Oberlin (Ohio) College, Carlton College, in 
 Northfield, Minn., and Wheaton (111.) College, 
 from the last of which he graduated in June, 1876. 
 After his graduation he purchased an interest in 
 a hardware and farm implement business at 
 Wyanet, where he remained for four years. On 
 selling his business interests in that town he be- 
 came a member of the firm of Hudson & Strat- 
 ton, dealers in hardwood lumber at Kalamazoo, 
 Mich., where he did a successful business for 
 eight years. Following this he went to the Wil- 
 lamette Valley in Oregon, and for four years was 
 cashier of the McMinnville National Bank. At 
 the expiration of four years he was obliged to 
 come to Kansas to superintend his real-estate in- 
 terests, he having acquired farm lands in central 
 Kansas while he was living in Kalamazoo. Re- 
 signing his position in the bank he settled in 
 Rush County, Kans. After two years he re- 
 moved to Franklin County in order that his chil- 
 dren might have the benefit of the Ottawa 
 schools. He is engaged in raising registered 
 Jersey and Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China 
 hogs. On all matters pertaining to the stock 
 business he is well informed. In politics he is a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Republican. He is an active member of the Con- 
 gregational Church and holds office as superin- 
 tendent of the Sundaj-'-school. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Stratton to Miss Calista 
 L. Thompson occurred May 13, 1884. She is a 
 member of an Illinois family, and a daughter of 
 Lucius G. Thompson, M. D., a retired physician 
 of Lacon, Marshall County, 111., who was for 
 more than fifty years engaged in practice in that 
 place. He had three brothers, Corwin C, Bur- 
 ton and Charles, all of whom were prominent 
 lumber dealers; the first-named was for years one 
 of the largest wholesale lumber merchants in 
 Chicago. Two children comprise the family of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stratton: Baird L., born April 4, 
 1885; and Grace Marion, December 21, 1886. 
 
 EHARLES FRANKLIN WOLF. In the 
 spring of 18S7 Mr. Wolf came to Franklin 
 County and purchased two hundred and 
 eighty-seven acres of land in Lincoln Township. 
 By subsequent purchases he has become the 
 owner of a farm of four hundred and fifty-five 
 acres, where he has made a specialty of raising 
 regi.stered stock. To-day he is one of the best- 
 known breeders of Shorthorn cattle in his part of 
 Kansas, and he owns one of the most valuable 
 farms in his county, bearing, among other im- 
 provements, a comfortable residence and the 
 finest barn in the state. He is connected with 
 Star Lodge No. 27, Select Knights of Ottawa. 
 In religion he is a Methodist, and has served his 
 church as steward and trustee, also for a number 
 of years held the office of Sunday-school superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 In Fairfield County, Ohio, the subject of this 
 sketch was born July 12, 1851, a .son of Ezra and 
 Barbara (Spangler) Wolf. He was one of twelve 
 children, six of whom are living, namely: Salem, 
 who is engaged in the drug and hardware busi- 
 ness in Adelphi, Ross County, and has served 
 his district in the lower house of the Ohio legis- 
 lature; Samuel, a farmer of Fairfield County; 
 William, who is a retired fanner in Baldwin, 
 Kans.; Morris, a dentist in Parsons, Kans.; John, 
 who is engaged in farming in Allen County, 
 
 Kans. ; and Charles Franklin. Ezra Wolf was 
 born in Frederickstowu, Pa., Januarj' i, 1804. 
 When he was a boy he accompanied his father to 
 Fairfield County, Ohio, where the latter entered 
 land and followed the blacksmith's trade. Here 
 the youth grew to manhood, married and settled 
 upon a farm. His education was largely self- 
 acquired, but, being a broad reader, he became a 
 well informed man. In politics he supported the 
 Democratic party. He filled a number of county 
 and township offices and was frequently .selected 
 as delegate to county conventions. For years he 
 was trustee, class-leader and steward in the 
 Methodist Church. Much of his time was given 
 to the stock business, in which he was successful. 
 He remained on the home place up to his death, 
 in 1876. 
 
 The mother of our subject was born in Fair- 
 field County, Ohio, September 6, 1810. She was 
 a daughter of Col. Salem Spangler, a prominent 
 citizen of Fairfield County, having come there 
 from New England and entered land in early 
 days. His ability as a leader brought him to the 
 front. Several times he was elected to the legis- 
 lature, and he was asked to accept the nomination 
 for governor of Ohio, but, as he was advancing 
 in years, he decided it would be unwise to permit 
 his name to be used. He was a member of the 
 building committee that built the Ohio state 
 house. Other matters pertaining to his county 
 and state received his stanch support, and he was 
 easily recognized as one of the eminent men of 
 his day. During the Revolutionary war he bore 
 the rank of colonel. 
 
 When sixteen years of age our subject began 
 to teach school. He had previously attended 
 common schools, but later, feeling the need of 
 more advanced studies, he entered the academy 
 at Pleasantville, Ohio, where he remained for a 
 time. He continued to teach until 1878. Dur- 
 ing this time he married Miss Mary A. Abbott, 
 the ceremony being performed August 26, 1873. 
 Mrs. Woll''s father, John Abbott, is a descendant 
 of one of the oldest American families, and traces 
 his lineage to Morris Abbott, who was lord mayor 
 of London in 1638. For many years John Abbott 
 engaged in the mercantile business in Clearport, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Ohio, but some years since he removed to a farm 
 in Fairfield County, where he is now living re- 
 tired. His wife bore the maiden name of Ellen 
 White. 
 
 From 1873 to 1878 Mr. Wolf devoted his win- 
 ters to teaching and his summers to farming in 
 Allen County. He then returned to Fairfield 
 County, where he was employed as salesman in 
 a general store in Clearport. In 1884 he deter- 
 mined to come west and the fall of the year found 
 him settled at Humboldt, Allen County, Kans. , 
 where he became interested in the stock business. 
 From there he came to Franklin County and es- 
 tablished his home on his present farm. He and 
 his wife have four children: Ortho Olden, who 
 was born June 4, 1874, and is a graduate of the 
 Chicago Veterinary College; Frank E., who was 
 born January 9, 1876, and is now an instructor 
 in the Baldwin (Kans.) Commercial College; 
 Retta E., born March 7, 1882, and Max A., 
 August 19, 1887. 
 
 ["RANK O. HETRICK, mayor of Ottawa, and 
 r3 member of the board of trustees of Ottawa 
 I ^ University, is one of the successful profes- 
 sional men of his city. He was born in Mans- 
 field, Ohio, October 5, 1859, and is a son of the 
 late Isaac Hetrick, the loved and honored pioneer 
 Baptist preacher of Franklin Count}'. From 1867 
 he has made his home in Kansas. In 1878 he 
 graduated from the Ottawa high school, after 
 which he took up the study of dentistry under 
 Dr. W. J. Newton, gaining an accurate knowl- 
 edge of the profession in this way. He started in 
 business for himself in 1880, since which time he 
 has taken special courses in dentistry and has 
 made it his aim to keep abreast with every devel- 
 opment made in the profession. His marriage, in 
 Appanoose, this county, united him with Miss 
 Hattie St. John, who was born in Franklin 
 County in i860, being a daughter of M. St. John, 
 of Ottawa. 
 
 Interested in all public enterprises, Dr. Het- 
 rick has always supported plans for the benefit of 
 his home town and county. In April, 1899, he 
 was elected mayor, for a term of two years. In 
 this position he has ably guided the affairs of the 
 
 city, advancing its interests and striving to 
 increase its commercial importance. He is a 
 member of the Ottawa Gun Club, and, when his 
 business duties permit, he is fond of taking an 
 outing where he may enjoy hunting and other 
 sports. Fraternally he is connected with the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 At the time of the erection of the Baptist 
 Church Dr. Hetrick was chairman of the build- 
 ing committee, and since 1S94 he has been a 
 member of the board of trustees. For twelve 
 years he was connected with the primarj' depart- 
 ment of the Sunday-school, in which work he 
 was peculiarly successful and which he greatly 
 enjoyed. At this writing he is Sunday-school 
 superintendent. He was a charter member of 
 the first-formed Y. M. C. A., and at one time ofiB- 
 ciated as its president. Everything pertaining 
 to his profession enlists his sympathy and atten- 
 tion. For many j^ears he has been a member of 
 the State Dental Association, of which he was 
 elected president in 1892 and also served as treas- 
 urer for six years. The National Dental Asso- 
 ciation numbers him among its members. Fre- 
 quently he has contributed articles to the dental 
 journals, and in other ways he has promoted pro- 
 fessional progress. 
 
 REV. ISAAC HETRICK was born in the 
 suburbs of Baltimore, Md., June 15, 1810, 
 a son of Jacob and Sarah (Lemon) Hetrick, 
 natives respectively of German}^ and England. 
 His father for some years engaged in farming 
 near Baltimore, but in 1S12 removed to Richland 
 County, Ohio, settling ten miles from Mansfield, 
 where he improved a farm and remained until 
 his death at eighty-six years. His wife was a 
 member of a prominent English family, her father 
 having been for many 3'ears a member of the 
 house of commons in England, of which he was 
 speaker for sixteen years. 
 
 From the age of two years Isaac Hetrick was 
 reared in Ohio. During his early years of man- 
 hood he was a farmer in Ohio and for twenty 
 years he held office as justice of the peace, also 
 served for two terms as a member of the Ohio leg- 
 islature at the time that James A. Garfield be- 
 
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 longed to the state senate. When thirty-five 
 years of age he moved into the cit^- of Mansfield, 
 where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and ac- 
 cumulated a competenc\- . He was converted when 
 forty years of age and became a member of the 
 First Baptist Church of Mansfield. Five years 
 later he began to preach, and in time devoted 
 himself almost exclusively to Christian work. In 
 1865 he was regularly ordained to the ministr5' 
 of the Baptist denomination. To this work he 
 devoted himself with zeal and fidelity. Believing 
 thoroughly that the Lord had called him to preach 
 the Gospel, he gave himself whollj- to it, and 
 was the means of helping hundreds of men and 
 women in their Christian experiences. Much ot 
 his means was given to the spread of the Gospel. 
 His work was of a most self-sacrificing nature. 
 He gave no thought to himself nor to any remu- 
 neration for his work, but labored tirelessly in the 
 cause of Christ, content if he could help the lives 
 of his associates and lead them into higher spirit- 
 ual joys. In September, 1867, he came to Kansas, 
 where he was instrumental in organizing cougre- 
 gationsat Greenwood, Rehamah, Antioch, Appa- 
 noose, Centropolis and Maple Grove, and at four 
 of these places he erected church buildings. For 
 twenty years he was pastor of the churches at 
 Appanoose and Greenwood, preaching at Green- 
 wood until within two months of his death and 
 at Appanoose until two j'cars before he died. No 
 record was kept of the number of baptisms or 
 weddings at which he officiated, but it is known 
 that during one year he had more than two hun- 
 dred baptisms. Though offered $1,000 in an- 
 other pastorate, he steadfastly clung to his two 
 country churches, although they were able to pay 
 him only $400 a year. He was the most sacri- 
 ficing of men, generous to a fault, alwaj's thinking 
 of others before himself. In mind he was origi- 
 nal, having firm convictions of his own and 
 thinking for himself. His most successful work 
 was in the building up of weak congregations and 
 in evangelizing. He was chosen to act as mod- 
 erator of the Miami Baptist Association. His 
 last years were spent in Ottawa, where he died in 
 1891, aged eighty-two years and six months. 
 The first wife of Isaac Hetrick was Sarah 
 
 Zeigler and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Peter Black, of Indiana. She died when her 
 son, Dr. F. O. Hetrick, was two years of age, 
 and of her seven children four are now living, 
 two being in Greenwood, Franklin Count}-, and 
 one in Ottawa. The third marriage of Mr. Het- 
 rick united him with Mrs. Elizabeth (Paramore) 
 Rowland, who was born in Ohio. This union 
 was childless, Mr. Hetrick's twelve children hav- 
 ing been born of his first two marriages. He had 
 two sons in the Civil war. Oneofthe.se, Michael, 
 a member of an Ohio regiment, was captured by 
 the Confederates and starved to death in Ander- 
 sonville. The other, Samuel, served from the 
 opening to the close of the war, and afterward 
 died in Texas. 
 
 \Ji ARCEXA ST. JOHN, who came to Kan- 
 y sas in 1856, was born at Linden Hill, Cat- 
 (g taraugus County, N. Y. , a son of Jasper 
 and Julia A. (Reynolds) St. John, natives re- 
 spectively of Saratoga and Dutchess Counties, 
 N. Y. His paternal grandfather, Marcena St. 
 John, who was born in Connecticut, became an 
 early settler of Saratoga County, N. Y. , and 
 thence removed to Yates County, where he made 
 his home upon a farm until his death. He was 
 the descendant of French ancestors who emigra- 
 ted t3 England and at the time of the "May- 
 flower" settled in New England. Jasper St. 
 John, who was a tanner by trade, built a tannery 
 in Cattaraugus County, and remained there until 
 1S46. He then removed to East Townsend, Hu- 
 ron Countj', Ohio, and built a tannery, which he 
 ran for ten years. Afterward he engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes, in connection 
 with the tanning business. In 1859 he came to 
 Kansas and settled at Centropolis, where he prob- 
 ably tanned the first leather ever tanned in 
 Franklin County. He manufactured shoes to be 
 used in the Pike's Peak region, also tanned a very 
 fine grade of harness leather. In later years he 
 turned his attention to farm pursuits. During 
 1864 he established his home in Centropolis, 
 where he acted as postmaster. At the time of 
 Price's raid he .served in the state militia. In re- 
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 when eightj--five 3'ears of age. His wife, who, 
 at eighty-six years, is living at Centropolis, is a 
 daughter of William Reynolds, who was born on 
 the Hudson in New York and served in the war 
 of 1812. The Reynolds family is of English 
 descent. Of eight children (five now living) our 
 subject is the eldest. He had two brothers, An- 
 drew and Henry H., who served in the Civil 
 war, the former being sergeant in the First Kan- 
 sas Battery, the latter a member of the Eleventh 
 Kansas Infantry. 
 
 On the homestead where he was born April 
 20,1831, the subject of this sketch passed the 
 years of early boyhood. He accompanied his 
 parents to Ohio in 1846, where he learned the 
 shoemaker's trade. When he became of age he 
 entered into partnership with his father. In 
 April, 1856, he came to Kansas, with Col. S. N. 
 Woods, but after a few months in Lawrence re- 
 turned to Ohio. Again, in April, 1858, became 
 to Kansas, settling on a claim in what is now 
 Appanoose Township, Franklin County, and im- 
 proving one hundred and sixty acres. In 1862 
 he entered the state militia as lieutenant, and re- 
 mained with it until the militia refused to leave 
 the state. He then enlisted in Company M, 
 Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, in which he served as 
 a corporal. Among the battles in which he took 
 part were those at Lexington, Little Blue, Big 
 Blue, Westport, Newtouia and Weber's Falls. 
 At the close of the war his regiment was sent 
 against the Indians on the frontier, and contin- 
 ued in the service until November, 1865, when 
 he was mustered out as sergeant. 
 
 Returning to Centropolis, Mr. St. John re- 
 sumed farming. He remained on his home place 
 until 1884, when he came to Ottawa and became 
 interested in dental work with his son-in-law. 
 Dr. Hetrick, having charge of plate work and the 
 mechanical part of dentistry for the latter. He 
 is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 A Baptist in religion, he was prominent in the 
 upbuilding of the Sunday-school and church at 
 Appanoose. For many years he was secretary 
 of the County Sunday-school Association, to 
 which he devoted much time and thought. At 
 this writing he is deacon of the Ottawa church. 
 
 He was married in Huron Count}', Ohio, to Miss 
 Viola A. Stanton, who was born in Cattaraugus 
 County, N. Y. , a daughter of G. R. Stanton, 
 M. D. Of the five children born to their union, 
 two daughters are living, one of whom is with 
 her parents, while the other is the wife of Dr. F. 
 O. Hetrick. 
 
 DWIN M. SHELDON, who for some years 
 ^ has been at the head of one of the im- 
 ^ portant enterprises of Ottawa, came to this 
 city in January, 1870, and for two j'ears held a 
 position as deputy register of deeds under his 
 brother, Herbert F. Sheldon. During the sena- 
 torial session of 1872 he was journal clerk of the 
 state senate. On the Republican ticket, in the 
 fall of 1872, he was elected clerk of the district 
 court, which office he filled from January, 1873, 
 to January, 1875. Upon retiring from office he 
 bought a soap factory which had been started in 
 the spring of 1874 and which he has since con- 
 ducted, manufacturing both laundry and toilet' 
 soaps. He is also to some extent interested in 
 farming. For some years he has affiliated with 
 the Populists, being in sympathy with the prin- 
 ciples of this party. In 1885-86 he served as a 
 member of the city council, in which capacity he 
 aided in promoting projects for the benefit of the 
 city. He is president of the Ottawa Mutual 
 Loan and Savings Institution and secretary of 
 the Franklin County Fair Association, with 
 which for fifteen years he has been connected as 
 secretary or assistant secretary. 
 
 When in middle life Seth Sheldon removed 
 from his farm near Pawlet, Vt., to Chautauqua 
 County, N. Y. He was accompanied b}' his son, 
 Tichenor, who afterward engaged in farming 
 near Sherman and died there at seventy-seven 
 years of age; he married Lucinda Brown, who 
 was born near Boston and died at Sinclairville, 
 N. Y. She was a descendant of a New England 
 family that was represented in the Revolutionary 
 war. The subject of this article was born in 
 Chautauqua County, N. Y., March 18, 1847, 
 and was the youngest of five children, the others 
 being as follows: Milton Brown, who died in 
 New York; Hon. Herbert F. Sheldon, state 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 senator from this district; Roj-al E., a merchant 
 in Chautauqua County; and Fannie, who died in 
 Ottawa in 1871. 
 
 In local schools and Westfield Academy our 
 subject obtained an excellent education. When 
 he left home it was to join his older brother in 
 Kansas, where he has since made his home. 
 Since coming to Ottawa he married Miss Ennna 
 A. Elder, who was born in North New Portland, 
 Me., and in 1868 came to Ottawa with her father, 
 Alva. Mrs. Sheldon is a member of the Presbj-- 
 terian Church, and Mr. Sheldon has also been an 
 active worker in this denomination, having 
 served as president of the board of trustees for 
 ten years, and as chairman of the building com- 
 mittee at the time of the erection of the house of 
 worship. They are highly respected by the 
 members of the church, and also stand high in 
 social circles of the city. Their only son, Royal 
 E., is engaged in business in Ottawa, being a 
 member of the firm of Sheldon & Williams, 
 jobbers. Fraternally Mr. Sheldon is connected 
 with Ottawa Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M., in 
 which he is past secretary. 
 
 (lAMES H. RANSOM, who has been a suc- 
 I cessful business man, came to Kansas in 
 (2/ 1868 and has since been identified with the 
 growing interests of this state, his home having 
 been in Ottawa for some years past. He is a 
 member of a pioneer family of New England. 
 His great-grandfather Ran.som, who was a Revo- 
 lutionarj- soldier, removed to New York and set- 
 tled in Otsego County. From there the grandfather 
 went to Chautauqua County, settling upon a 
 farm. The father, Willard Ransom, was born in 
 Otsego County, graduated from the Cincinnati 
 Eclectic Medical College, and practiced his pro- 
 fession in Chautauqua County until he died, at 
 eighty-two years. Like his father he held mem- 
 bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
 married Marietta Briggs, who was born in Chau- 
 tauqua County, her father, James Briggs, having 
 moved there from Vermont; her entire life was 
 spent in that county, where she died in advanced 
 years. Of the four children of her marriage. 
 
 James H., the eldest, was born in Harmony 
 Township, Chautauqua County, in November, 
 1836; Miranda is the wife of A. L. Lewis, of New 
 York: John lives in Toledo, Ohio; and Mary 
 married H. J. Cook, of New York. 
 
 In 1856 the subject of this sketch left home 
 and went to Illinois, where he taught school and 
 traveled through different parts of the state. He 
 then returned to New York, from there went to 
 Pennsylvania, and in 1862 found employment in 
 the oil regions. For a time he engaged in freight- 
 ing and boating at Pithole City, after which he 
 took contracts for sinking wells, and also carried 
 on a hardware business in Pithole City. In 1868 
 he left the east and settled in Kansas. For a year 
 he conducted a business at Burlington, after 
 which for several years he ran a flour and saw 
 mill in Clinton, Douglas County, and subsequently 
 settled on a farm north of Clinton. At the time 
 of the building of the Lawrence & Carbondale 
 Railroad he furnished all of the timber for 
 bridges and all the ties used on the road. Later 
 he became interested in the coal business at Car- 
 bondale, where he owned and operated two coal 
 mines, and supplied the railroad with coal. 
 
 Removing to Lawrence in 1875, Mr. Ransom 
 opened a wholesale and retail coal business. 
 After three years he located in Williamsburg and 
 bought the mines of the Williamsburg Coal Min- 
 ing Company, which he afterward operated for 
 some years. In the fall of 1886 he moved to Ot- 
 tawa and started a retail coal business, later ad- 
 ding the ice business, and continuing both until 
 he sold to Mr. Bennett. His interest in the mines 
 has been continued to the present, and he owns 
 one thousand acres of coal land, with a shaft and 
 twentj'-inch vein. About 1880 he started the 
 town of Ransomville, three miles from Williams- 
 burg, and was appointed the first postmaster of 
 the place, besides which he carried on a general 
 mercantile store and engaged in shipping grain 
 and stock from the town. He has continued rail- 
 road contracting, his principal contracts being 
 on the Santa Fe and its branches. Besides his 
 other property he owns a farm of more than two 
 hundred acres near Princeton. Politically a Re- 
 publican, he has served as a member of the coun- 
 
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 ty and state central committees, and has been in- 
 fluential in the work of his part3'. 
 
 In Chautauqua Countj', N. Y., Mr. Ransom 
 married Miss Eunice Glidden, daughter of Dan- 
 iel Glidden, who was born in Vermont and en- 
 gaged in farming near Harmony, Chautauqua 
 County. She was born and reared there and died 
 in Ottawa, leaving a son and daughter. The 
 former, Willard Ransom, graduated from Cornell 
 in 1899 with the degree of M. E. The daughter, 
 Myra, is the wife of B. D. Bennett, of Ottawa. 
 
 LIVER J. FARNSWORTH. In reviewing 
 the life of Mr. Farnsworth we find in him 
 one of the best-known stock-raisers and 
 dairymen of Leavenworth County. When he 
 came to Kansas in 1872 he bought the property, 
 consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, on 
 section 18, High Prairie Township, where he 
 has since resided. At that time the land was 
 fenced, but bore no other improvement. Under 
 his personal supervision it has been transformed 
 into a finelj' improved estate, with a substantial 
 residence and first-class farm buildings. Stock- 
 raising is the principal business, and the grain 
 and hay raised are used entirelj' for feed. The 
 herd of one hundred head of cattle includes Short- 
 horns and Herefords, among them some fine 
 milch cows. Shipments of milk are made regu- 
 larly to Kansas City. The entire place is man- 
 aged in a manner that proves the thrift and 
 energy of the owner, and no detail is so small as 
 to be neglected or overlooked by him. 
 
 The first member of the Farnsworth family of 
 whom there is a record was Roger de Farnsworth, 
 1297, who lived in Lancashire, near Liverpool, 
 England. Joseph, of Dorchester, Mass., came 
 to this countr}' in the Dorchester company in 
 1628, and died in 1659. He had ten children. 
 The first generation in America was represented 
 by Matthias, a farmer of Lynn, Mass. By his 
 marriage to Mary Farr, of Lynn, he had, among 
 his children, a son, Matthias, Jr., born in 1649, 
 who married Sarah Mutting and died in the In- 
 dian war in 1693. The representative of the 
 third generation in America was Josiah, born 
 II 
 
 Februarj' 24, 1687. He was taken prisoner by 
 Indians and carried to Canada. By his marriage 
 to Mary Pierce he had ten children, of whom the 
 seventh, Thomas, born April i, 1731, married 
 Elizabeth Tuttle, in 1753, and served in the bat- 
 tle of Lexington during the Revolutionary war. 
 It is thought that he was a minister. He was 
 twice married and had eleven children. The 
 fifth generation was represented by Thomas, Jr., 
 who was born at New Ipswich, N. H., May 29, 
 1768, and married Demis Ladd, who was born in 
 New Hampshire in 1769. Both died at Alden, 
 N. Y., he in 1852 and she in 1863. Their chil- 
 dren were as follows: Jerry, who was born in 
 September, 1791, and died in 1792; Laura, who 
 was born February 6, 1793, and married Paul 
 White, by whom she had ten children; Linda, 
 who married David Robinson and had nine chil- 
 dren; Thomas, Jr., who was born at Williams- 
 town, Vt., May 20, 1797; Rachel, who married 
 Dr. Martin and died in 1840; Jerry (2d), who 
 was born in 1801, and married Eliza Bassett; 
 Ozel and Ozel (2d); Lemuel, born in 1809; 
 Alonzo, 181 1 ; Alvira, 1813; and Marshall, 1815. 
 The sons became farmers and were good citizens 
 and prosperous men. The greater number of 
 them lived to old age. 
 
 Thomas Farnsworth, the third of that name, 
 married Sophia Udell, who was born at Stratford, 
 Vt., October 8, 1803, a daughter of Oliver Udell. 
 They had five children, viz.: Louisa, born Jan- 
 uary 22, 1825; Eleanor Maria, September i, 1827; 
 Homer L., 1831; Oliver J., 1837; and Carrie, 
 July 30, 1840. The eldest, Louisa, became the 
 wife of Mathew Patterson, who was born in 1812; 
 their daughter, Lucy Harriet, who was born in 
 1863, was married in 1888 to Merton Minot, and 
 their marriage resulted in the birth of two sons, 
 Brewster (deceased), and George. The second 
 daughter, Eleanor Maria, was married in 1850 to 
 Dr. John DennLson, who was born in 1819; their 
 daughter, Flora Ellen, born in June, 1852, be- 
 came the wife of Christopher Dunhart, who was 
 born in 1843, and they became the parents of two 
 children, Clarence, born in April, 1878, and Flen- 
 nie, born in 1889, the latter representing the ninth 
 generation of the family in America. The third 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 member of the family, Homer L., was born at 
 Aldeii, N. Y. , in 1831, and died at Sweetland, 
 Iowa, in 1862. The youngest of the familj', 
 Carrie, was married July 7, 1863, at Alden, N.Y., 
 to Joseph E. Evvell, who was born January 16, 
 1839; they have one child, Florence Josephine, 
 born August 7, 1871. 
 
 When twenty-one years of age Thomas Farns- 
 worth (3d) drove from Vermont to the Erie canal 
 in New York. For nineteen years he followed 
 the tanner's trade, but defective hearing caused 
 him to retire from that occupation, after which 
 he engaged in farming. He was an old-line 
 Whig and active in local politics. At the time 
 of his death he was ninety-seven j^ears of age. 
 
 In Erie County, N. Y., where he was born in 
 1837, our subject received his education. At 
 twenty years of age he went to Columbus, Ohio, 
 and remained there for four years, engaging in 
 mercantile pursuits. On his return to the home 
 place in New York he assumed its management, 
 and remained there for nine years. In 1868 he 
 went to Clifton, W. \'a., where he engaged in 
 the manufacture of salt; but not finding the busi- 
 ness profitable he traded for a stock of dry goods 
 and groceries, and started in business at Middle- 
 port, Ohio, just across the river from West Vir- 
 ginia. In 1872 he sold his store and came to 
 Kansas, since which time he has resided on his 
 present farm. He has been interested in Repub- 
 lican politics and has attended county and state 
 conventions of his party. While he has never 
 accepted nomination for political office he has al- 
 ways been willing to work in the interests of the 
 schools, and for twenty years has been a member 
 of the school board, of wliich he is the present 
 treasurer. He has been interested in the build- 
 ing of the school in the eighth district, which is 
 one of the best school houses in the county ; the 
 interior of the building is made attractive by 
 painted walls and wainscoting, and everytjiing is 
 done to make the surroundings pleasant and com- 
 fortable for the children. 
 
 Twice married, Mr. Farnsworth's fir.st wife 
 was Malvina Mount/.. After her death he was 
 married, in April, 1871, to Elizabeth Nichols, 
 and they have four children, John T. , Nellie F. , 
 
 Pearl and Myrtle. Their daughter Pearl was 
 married to Clarence L. Faulkner April 14, 1897, 
 and they have one son, Oliver K., born Decem- 
 ber 17, 1898. In religious belief Mr. Farnsworth 
 is a firm believer in Christian Science. He is a 
 very conscientious man, honest in everj- transac- 
 tion and striving in his life to carry out the 
 teachings of the golden rule. 
 
 HON. GEORGE J. BARKER, ex-member of 
 the senate and legislature of Kansas, is one 
 of the most prominent attorneys of Law- 
 rence. He is of New England birth and lineage, 
 and a descendant of "Mayflower" ancestry. His 
 father, Hon. Cyrus G. Barker, was born in Con- 
 necticut and reared in Hampden County, Mass., 
 where he engaged in farm pursuits for some years. 
 About 1844 he removed to Rock County, Wis., 
 and settled at Somerville, but later went to Clin- 
 ton Junction and continued agricultural pur.suits, 
 dying there in 1868. He was one of the largest 
 land owners of his county and much of his prop- 
 erty is now owned by his son, J. C. Barker, who 
 is mayor of Clinton Junction. A pioneer of that 
 section, he was known among all the people for 
 miles around and stood high as a citizen. At 
 various times he was elected to local offices and 
 also .served in the legislature. He married Eliza 
 King, whose father removed from Connecticut to 
 Massachusetts, where she was born. Her ances- 
 tors were Congregationalists and pioneers of New 
 England. Of her four children, one daughter 
 died at the age of sixteen and another after mar- 
 riage. The 3''oungest of the family, our subject, 
 was born in Hampden County, Mass., November 
 6, 1842. He was educated at Allen's Grove Acad- 
 emy, where he prepared for Beloit College. In- 
 stead, however, of taking a course in college he 
 became a student of law in the Chicago Law 
 School, from which he graduated in 1S65, with 
 the degree of LL-B. He remained in Chicago 
 until 1867, when he came to Lawrence and be- 
 came a member of the firm of Akin & Barker. 
 Later he was with other attorneys, being for 
 a time identified with the law firm of Barker, 
 Gleed & Gleed, with offices in Topeka and Law- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 rence. He was afterward a member of the firms, 
 Barker & Poehler, and Barker, Poehler & Pearse, 
 since which he has been alone. 
 
 As attorney for the Western Farm Mortgage 
 Trust Company of lyawrence, operating in Col- 
 orado, Mr. Barker had an office on Curtis street, 
 Denver, where he remained for two years, mean- 
 time becoming president of the company. Besides 
 his private practice he has been attorney for the 
 Santa Fe Railroad. For two terms he held the 
 office of prosecuting attorney, during the exi.st- 
 ence of the prohibition law, and he made it his 
 business to see that the law was enforced. In the 
 celebrated Kunkle case he was attorney for the 
 defendant, who was acquitted. For twenty years 
 he has been connected with the Hillman case, 
 one of the most interesting in the civil histor}' of 
 the United States, and a case that has been pro- 
 tracted for a longer period than any other, in 
 which the widow sued the insurance companies 
 for the recover)' of insurance money. The al- 
 leged killing took place March 17, 1879, after 
 which there were six trials, one of these lasting 
 sixty days. He was one of the original attorneys 
 when the case was brought into court in 1880, 
 and mastered its many intricacies and the count- 
 less points of law involved. 
 
 The first vote of Mr. Barker was cast for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, and he has since continued to sup- 
 port Republican principles. He has attended the 
 state conventions of the party and has served on 
 the executive committee of the state central com- 
 mittee. For one term he was mayor of Lawrence, 
 for several years city and county attorne}', also 
 served as president of the city council, and as 
 state senator from 1886 to i8go. During his 
 term in the senate he secured the passing of the 
 Quantrell raid bill, which secured to the citizens 
 of the county $300,000 for the sufferers from that 
 raid. In 1896 he was elected to represent the 
 fourteenth district in the state legislature and 
 served in the session of 1897 and the special ses- 
 sion of 1898. 
 
 In Allen's Grove, Wis., Mr. Barker married 
 Lucena, daughter of Sidney Allen, the first set- 
 tler of that place. She was born in Rochester, 
 N. Y., and died in Lawrence, Kans. , in 1886, 
 
 leaving three daughters, Mrs. Ann E. Spencer, 
 of lola, Kans., Lucena Allen and Fannie. The 
 present wife of Mr. Barker was Mrs. Emma (De- 
 land) Dinsmore, widow of Frank Dinsmore (who 
 was superintendent of schools in Lawrence, and 
 a daughter of B. F. and Harriet (Bowen) Deland, 
 natives of Chautauqua County, N. Y. Her fa- 
 ther was for some years a farmer in New York, 
 but removed to the copper regions of Michigan. 
 She is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan College 
 and is a woman of culture and broad knowledge. 
 She is the only woman who has ever been a mem- 
 ber of the school board in Lawrence. By her 
 marriage to Mr. Dinsmore she had four children, 
 Paul, Kate, Edna and Frances. In religious be- 
 lief she is a Presbyterian and takes a warm inter- 
 est in the work of that church, which Mr. Barker 
 also attends. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Lawrence Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., Law- 
 rence Chapter No. 4, R. A. M., and DeMolay 
 Commandery, K. T. 
 
 I AFAYETTE P. BALDWIN, who is one of 
 It the well-known farmers and stock-raisers 
 l_2f of Douglas County, residing in Kanwaka 
 Township, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, 
 September 6, 1850, a son of Israel C. and Lucy 
 J. (Preston) Baldwin. He was one of five chil- 
 dren, of whom he and his brother, Alvah S., of 
 Delaware County, Ohio, are the only survivors. 
 His father, who was a native of New York state, 
 born in 1806, while still a young man removed 
 to Ohio, settling in Delaware County, where he 
 married and engaged in farming. In the fall of 
 1859 he came to Kansas and established his home 
 in Douglas Countj', five miles west of Lawrence, 
 where he bought a section of land. He gave his 
 attention closely to the development of his land 
 and made of it a valuable farm. Engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits, his last years were passed 
 busily and prosperously. His death occurred 
 upon the old homestead in 188 1. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 common schools. On approaching manhood the 
 management of the homestead devolved largely 
 upon him, and thus qualities of industry, self- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 reliance and perseverance were earlj^ developed in 
 his character. In 1874 he married Miss Marga- 
 ret Pierson, who was born in Indiana and came 
 to Kansas in 1854 with her father, Thomas Pier- 
 son, settling in Kanwaka Township, Douglas 
 County. The four children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Baldwin are named: Laetta, Thomas, Earl and 
 Eugene (deceased). After our subject'smarriage 
 he was given one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land by his father. To the cultivation of this 
 property he gave his attention, increasing its 
 value by the erection of a substantial farm house. 
 He continued to reside there until after the death 
 of his father, when he purchased the home resi- 
 dence and one hundred and twenty acres of the 
 place. Removing to it, he has since resided here. 
 He has given his time largely to the cattle busi- 
 ness, in which he has been exceptionally .suc- 
 cessful. In his labors as a tiller of the soil and 
 as a stock-raiser he has displayed practical com- 
 mon sense, discrimination and an ability to work 
 to a good advantage, and the success that has 
 followed his efforts proves that he was fortunate 
 in the selection of an occupation. His forefathers 
 were Democrats, and he is equally stanch in his 
 allegiance to this party. 
 
 I EVI RUSSELL CRAWFORD, who .settled 
 It in Ottawa in 1867, was identified with the 
 l~) growing interests of this city from that time 
 until his death. He was a descendant of Deacon 
 John and Sarah (Fisher) Crawford, who came to 
 the new world in 1754 and settled upon a farm in 
 Warren, Knox County, Me. Although unfamiliar 
 with general farming (having been a shepherd in 
 his native land) he was industrious and met with 
 considerable success. For years he served as a 
 deacon in the Baptist Church. His son, Capt. 
 James Crawford, was a sea captain and part 
 owner of the steamer "Speedwell," which was 
 seized by the French. John Crawford, .son of 
 Capt. James and Margaret (Rivers) Crawford, 
 was born in Warren in 1803 and engaged in 
 farming in his native county until he died in 
 1870. He married Mahala Russell, a native of 
 Warren, and a daughter of Rufus and Mary 
 
 (Fisher) Russell, both of whom died in 1819. 
 Levi Russell, father of Rufus Russell, was of 
 English descent and a member of a Puritan fam- 
 ilj'. He moved from Plymouth, Mass., to Maine, 
 where he died. During the Revolutionary war 
 he served in the colonial army. His wife was 
 Hannah Simmons, of Duxbury, Mass. The 
 grandfather of Mary (Fisher) Russell, James 
 Fisher, was born in 1760 and died in 1834. Dur- 
 ing the Revolution he was sent to America as a 
 British soldier, but deserted and joined the 
 American ranks; for, being from Scotland, his 
 sympathies were on the side of the struggling 
 colonies. After the war ended he settled in War- 
 ren, Me., and married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Archibald Robinson, a son of Dr. Moses Robin- 
 son, who was of Scotch-Irish lineage and settled 
 first in Cushing, Me., but later became a pioneer 
 of Warren. Archibald Robinson married Mar- 
 garet Watson. 
 
 The family of which our subject was a mem- 
 ber consisted of nine children, of whom Mrs. 
 Luella Burdett and Mrs. Margaret Colbath (both 
 of New Hampshire) alone survive. Levi Rus- 
 sell, who was the third of the family, was born in 
 Warren, Me., June 6, 1834, and was reared on 
 the home farm, attending Warren Academy and 
 afterward teaching. In Thomaston, Me., he was 
 apprenticed to house and ship carpentering, and 
 for three years was employed on a ship plying 
 between New York and Liverpool. During this 
 time he had several dangerous trips, once being 
 nearly shipwrecked in a storm. During one win- 
 ter he visited Cuba and frequently his ship 
 anchored in New York and New Orleans. After 
 the Portland fire he engaged in building there 
 for a year. In the fall of 1867 he came to Ottawa, 
 where he engaged in contracting and building, 
 among his contracts having those for the Baptist 
 Church, second ward school, Horace J. Smith's 
 block, the new building of the Ottawa Uni- 
 versity and .some of the finest blocks and houses 
 in the city. After the Chicago fire he engaged 
 in contracting in that city in 1871-72, but with 
 that exception continued to make Ottawa his 
 home until his death. He built several houses 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 near by. For years he was a member of the 
 board of education and the city council. In 1872 
 he was made a trustee of Ottawa University, 
 which position he held continuously (except one 
 year when away) until 1896, and for fourteen 
 years he served as secretarj' of the board. At 
 the same time he was a member of the executive 
 committee. Fraternally he was a Mason. Dur- 
 ing almost his entire life he was a trustee and 
 deacon in the Baptist Church. In addition to his 
 constant work for the university and church he 
 was also foremost in the temperance cause, and 
 it was largely due to his efforts that Ottawa was 
 able to have prohibition several years before it 
 was made a state law. In the temperance cause 
 he was an indefatigable worker and he was also 
 active in the p''osecution of the violators of the 
 law. Through this means he did not a little 
 toward making Ottawa one of the most desirable 
 residence towns in the state. For years he taught 
 a Sunday-school class, and in other ways he did 
 all within his power to promote the cause of the 
 church. When the new building at the university 
 was erected he was one of the most generous con- 
 tributors toward it, and at other times the uni- 
 versity received other benefactions from him. He 
 was a thoughtful reader and thinker, and pos- 
 sessed clear-cut convictions upon all important 
 questions. Politically he was a stanch Republi- 
 can (casting his first vote for Fremont and Day- 
 ton) and always remained steadfast to those prin- 
 ciples. His death occurred April 18, 1897, in 
 the city where for so long he had been an hon- 
 ored and influential citizen. 
 
 September 26, 1866, Mr. Crawford married, in 
 Warren, Me., Miss Inez J. Kalloch, who was 
 born in that town, a daughter of Lermond and 
 Sarah (Robinson) Kalloch. Her grandfather, 
 Benjamin Kalloch, who was born in 1785, served 
 in the war of 18 12, and died in 1838; he married 
 Esther Libby, who was born in 1787 and died in 
 1832. She was a daughter of Nathan and Eliza- 
 beth (Eermond) Libby, the former born in 1761, 
 and died in 1837. Nathan was a son of Maj. 
 Hatevil Libby, who was a major of militia in the 
 Revolutionary war; he was born in 1737 and died 
 in 1820. His wife, who was Jane (Watson) 
 
 Libby, was born in 1735 and died in 1819. Ben- 
 jamin Kalloch was a son of Alexander Kalloch, 
 who was born in 1740, served as a lieutenant in 
 the Revolutionary war, and was the first to raise 
 the stars and stripes over Warren, where he died 
 in 1826. His forefathers were Scotch-Irish; his 
 father, Finlay Kalloch, came to America from the 
 north of Ireland about 17 19 and after his mar- 
 riage to Mary Young removed to Portsmouth, 
 N. H., thence to Warren, Me., in 1735. Eliza- 
 beth Lermond was a daughter of Alexander and 
 Mary (Harkness) Lermond, the latter of Welsh 
 descent. The former, who was born in London- 
 derry in 1707, came to America with his parents 
 in 1719; he owned mills at Warren, where he died 
 in 1790. Lermond Kalloch was born in 1810 
 and died in 1893; his wife was born in 18 15 and 
 died in 1863. She was a daughter of Lewis and 
 Eunice (Fairbanks) Robinson, the latter a daugh- 
 ter of John and Eunice (Payson) Fairbanks and 
 a granddaughter of Capt. Samuel Payson, of 
 Revolutionary fame. John Fairbanks was also 
 an officer in the colonial army. Lewis Robinson 
 was a son of Andrew Robinson, of Scotch de- 
 scent. Lermond Kalloch was a prominent farmer 
 living in Warren and was active in religious 
 affairs, being for many years a deacon in the 
 Baptist Church. He had only two children, Mrs. 
 Crawford (the wife of the subject of our sketch) 
 and Elmus N. The latter, who was a sergeant 
 in Company I, Twentieth Maine Infantry, during 
 the Civil war, and remained in the army until 
 peace was declared, died in Fort Scott, Kans., in 
 August, 1887. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were the parents of 
 three children. Clarence Buck, who graduated 
 from Brown University in June, 1887, died in 
 October of the same year, when twenty years of 
 age, being accidentally killed while boarding a 
 train at Auburudale, Mass. His death, in the 
 dawn of manhood, when every prospect was 
 bright and his future seemed rich with hope, was 
 a severe blow to the family. He was a member 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
 The only daughter, Inez Mabel, graduated from 
 Ottawa University in 1892 with the degree of 
 A. B., and afterward taught in Grand Island 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 (Neb.) College for some time, but is now agent 
 for the Mutual Life Insurance Companj- of New 
 York in Ottawa. Prominent in social life, she 
 was the leader in organizing the local chapter of 
 Daughters of the Revolution and was for two 
 years president of the M. P. M. Club, the oldest 
 ladies' literary club here. The only living son, 
 Ralph Kalloch, is a member of the class of 1901, 
 Ottawa Universitj-. 
 
 pQlLLIAM H. WILLIAMS, who is the 
 I A/ o^^''^^'' of fourteen hundred acres, is recog- 
 Y Y nized as one of the most extensive and suc- 
 cessful stockmen of Harrison Township, Frank- 
 lin County. He was born in Phoenixville, Pa., 
 December 2, 1845, ^ son of William and Ellen 
 (Cohn) Williams, natives respectively of Wales 
 and England. His father came to the United 
 States in 1844 and twelve years later established 
 his home in Kansas, taking up a claim in Cen- 
 tropolis Township, Franklin County, and in 
 March, 1857, moving his family to the place. 
 There he built up a large and important stock 
 business, and in time came to be one of the 
 largest shippers in the county. His shipments 
 were not limited to this country alone, but he 
 also shipped beef cattle to Liverpool, England, 
 although the most of the shipments were made 
 to Buffalo and New York City. For years he 
 raised horses, mules and cattle on a large scale, 
 and there was no branch of the stock business 
 with which he was unfamiliar. At the time of 
 his death he owned five hundred acres of laud, 
 all of which he had improved and increased in 
 value. He died in 1884, at the age of seventy 
 years, and his wife passed away when fifty-two 
 years of age. They left three sons, William H., 
 M. T. and Richard. 
 
 Coming to Kansas in 1855, our subject settled 
 with his parents in Centropolis Township in 1857, 
 and he has since been interested in farming and 
 stock-raising. In 1879 he began feeding cattle 
 on a farm of his own in Centropolis Township, 
 and in this waj' he secured a start in the stock 
 business. In 1885 he sold that farm and moved 
 to Cutler Township, where he bought twenty 
 
 hundred and seventy acres, formerlj- owned by 
 C. C. Cole, and on it he engaged, in the stock 
 business initil his removal to Harrison Township 
 in 1893. He is one of the large land owners of 
 this township. His attention is given closely to 
 the buying, feeding and shipping of cattle and 
 hogs, and he is considered a thoroughly ex- 
 perienced and successful stockman. He is inter- 
 ested in movements beneficial to his township. 
 From the age of twenty-one until the Chicago 
 convention he was a Democrat, but when the 
 Democrats inserted in their platform a plank ad- 
 vocating the free coinage of silver he left the 
 ranks of that party and has since affiliated with 
 the Republicans. He has never been active in 
 local elections, nor has besought official positions. 
 In 187 1 Mr. Williams married Miss Phoebe E. 
 Foster, who died, leaving three children: Eliza- 
 beth, wife of W. L. McCandless; William, who 
 is married and lives in Peoria Township, and 
 Alice. His present wife bore the maiden name 
 of Eva Randall and was born in Indiana. 
 
 I YMAN REID. On the corner of Elm and 
 It Third streets stands what is without doubt 
 [_2f the finest residence in Ottawa. It was 
 erected by Mr. and Mrs. Reid in 1898-99 and is 
 constructed of buff colored brick, of a style of 
 architecture that is modern and imposing. With- 
 in may be found every modern convenience and 
 improvement, while the whole is furnished with 
 an elegance and harmony that reflect the tastes 
 of the inmates. The charming eSect is height- 
 ened by well-kept grounds and the various ap- 
 purtenances of a model home. Indeed, it may be 
 safely said that few places in eastern Kansas are 
 more beautiful than this. 
 
 A citizen of Ottawa since October i, 1875, Mr. 
 Reid was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson 
 County, Ohio, on the 4th of July, 1852. His 
 father, William, who was born at Reidville, Pa., 
 moved by wagons to Ohio, and became a manu- 
 facturer at Mount Pleasant, where he met with 
 large success. For years he served as school di- 
 rector and justice of the peace, and was also a 
 director of the First National Bank of Mount 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Pleasant. In politics he was a Republican and 
 an Abolitionist, and in religion adhered to Pres- 
 byterian doctrines. He married Rachel S. 
 Mitchell, who was born at Scott's Ridge, Bel- 
 mont County, Ohio, the daughter of a farmer 
 and pioneer of that county, and a sister of J. J. 
 Mitchell, who is prominently connected with the 
 Chicago & Alton Railroad in St. lyouis; and also 
 of William H. Mitchell, vice-president of the Illi- 
 nois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago (whose 
 son, John J. Mitchell, is president of that famous 
 banking institution). 
 
 The family of William and Rachel S. Reid con- 
 sisted of four sons and four daughters, of whom 
 two sons and three daughters are living. One of 
 the sons, G.W., died in Baltimore, Md.; another, 
 William H., is second vice-president of the Illi- 
 nois Trust and Savings Company of Chicago. 
 The youngest son, Lyman, was born and reared 
 at Mount Pleasant, where he obtained his rudi- 
 mentary education. Afterward he attended 
 Mount Union College for two years and the Pitts- 
 burgh (Pa.) Commercial College. The years 1871 
 and 1872 he spent in Chicago in business, after 
 which he returned to college. For some years 
 his health was poor, and, hoping that travel 
 might prove beneficial, he came west in 1875, 
 visiting his sister, wife of Rev. D. C. Milner, in 
 Ottawa. He gained in health so rapidlj' that he 
 decided to remain in that citj'. He accepted a 
 position as bookkeeper for the Forest mills, 
 which during that year (1875) carried on an im- 
 mense business in the purchase and shipment of 
 castor beans. During 1875 Franklin County 
 was the banner county in the United States in the 
 size of its castor bean crop, there being about two 
 hundred thousand bushels raised here, which 
 sold at $2.50 a bushel. Almost all of that enor- 
 mous crop was bought by the Forest mills, and 
 Mr. Reid had charge of its purchase and ship- 
 ment. After having remained in the same posi- 
 tion for two years he engaged in the hardware 
 business on Main street, being a member of the 
 firm of Robinson & Reid for three years and Reid 
 & HoUiday for two years, after which he sold his 
 interest in the store. In 1884 he became book- 
 keeper at the Excelsior mills and continued in 
 
 that capacity until June i, 1898, when he re- 
 signed. In politics he favors the principles for 
 which the Republican party stands. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the lodge and encampment 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
 In Freeport, Pa., Mr. Reid married Miss Ida 
 M. Warden, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 and received her education in Mount Union Col- 
 lege. Her father, Joseph L. Warden, was for 
 years an oil refiner in Freeport, but retired from 
 business in favor of the Standard Oil Company. 
 He died in Philadelphia. His brother, William 
 Warden, was associated with William Rockefeller 
 in the starting of the now famous Standard Oil 
 Company. Mr. and Mrs. Reid are identified 
 with the Presbyterian Church, in the work of 
 which they take a warm interest. They became 
 the parents of two children, but only one is now 
 living, Joseph Warden Reid, who is a student in 
 Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., prepara- 
 tory to a course in Yale College. As a pianist 
 and vocalist Mrs. Reid has exhibited superior 
 talent, and her voice, often heard in solos, has 
 won the admiration of all for its sweet and pure 
 tones, as well as for the thorough knowledge of 
 music displayed. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM H. WOODLIEF. The 
 stock and farm interests of Franklin County 
 have a prominent representative in Mr. 
 Woodlief, who has resided in Ottawa Township 
 since 1877. Previously a resident of large cities, 
 but tiring of metropolitan life, became to Kansas 
 during the year named, with a view to purchasing 
 a homestead. He visited his present place for 
 the first time by night and was taken through 
 the house, but it was impossible to make a thor- 
 ough investigation of the property by lamp 
 light. However, he saw enough to convince 
 him this was the place he wanted, and in about 
 twenty minutes he decided to buy. Returning 
 to town, he closed the transaction. The place 
 not only possesses scenic attractions, but is also of 
 historical interest, as it was here that the bor- 
 der ruffians commenced their depredations. 
 They robbed J. T. Jones (then the owner of the 
 place) and burned the dwelling. Afterward Mr. 
 
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 Jones erected the present commodious stone resi- 
 dence, in which have been entertained many of 
 the noted men of the past forty years, among 
 them Horace Greeley and Abraham Liticohi. 
 The land lies on the old Santa Fe trail and of re- 
 cent 3'ears a postofEce and station named Wood- 
 lief have been established on the farm on the line 
 of the Santa Fe Railroad. 
 
 In Clermont County, Ohio, Mr. Woodlief was 
 born December 27, 1839. His father and grand- 
 father, both named R. Y. Woodlief, were natives 
 of Virginia and farmers there, owning land near 
 Richmond. Their ancestors came to Virginia 
 from England early in the eighteenth century 
 and were planters. They are descended from a 
 long line of English ancestrj'. The father, who 
 was an old-line Whig and later a Republican, 
 served as constable and justice of the peace. 
 He was a class-leader and trustee in the Method- 
 ist Church. Near Knoxville, Tenn., he married 
 Susan Sanders, by whom he had seven children, 
 five now living, William H. being the fifth and 
 the only one in Kansas. The last years of the 
 father's life were spent near Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 In public schools, Milford Seminary and the 
 Ohio State University at Delaware, Ohio, our 
 subject obtained his education. In Cincinnati he 
 learned the painter's trade. Subsequently secur- 
 ing a position as teacher in Hamilton County, he 
 successfully passed the required examination and 
 was given a first-class certificate in Cincinnati, 
 after which he taught for eight months. The 
 war then broke out and his school was selected as 
 headquarters for the officers of Camp Dennison. 
 August 6, 1 86 1, he enlisted in Company G, First 
 Ohio Cavalry, and saw active service with the 
 army of the Cumberland, taking part in the bat- 
 tles of Shiloh, Corinth, Champion Hills, Stone 
 River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and the 
 march to and siege of Atlanta. He also took part 
 in Kilpatrick's raid around Atlanta and other im- 
 portant engagements. He received a few wounds, 
 though none of which was serious. After a short 
 time in the ranks he was made orderly sergeant, 
 four or five months later became second lieutenant 
 and in a year was promoted to the captaincy, 
 which position he held until his resignation in 
 
 October, 1864. He resigned owing to the fact 
 that he had been assigned to another company 
 than his own and he felt that to be an injustice 
 to the companj-. The company had been poorly 
 officered and suS'ered misfortune, but he put 
 them into shape, and, as the first lieutenant de- 
 veloped into an excellent commissioned officer, 
 he desired to give him an opportimitj' to prove 
 his ability. 
 
 Returning to Ohio, Captain Woodlief engaged 
 in the mercantile business at Withamsville and 
 in farming and in contracting. Later for five 
 years he carried on a cigar factorj- at the above 
 place and Miamiville. In 1873 he took a mail 
 contract, which business he has continued to 
 some extent ever since, having done city work in 
 all of the larger cities except Chicago and New 
 York. In 1877 he came to Kansas and bought 
 nine hundred and sixty acres in Franklin Countj-, 
 and now owns a thousand and forty acres in one 
 bod}', besides a farm of two hundred and forty 
 acres near by. The most of this land is now 
 in tame grass. The stock industry has been his 
 principal business. He keeps on his place from 
 one to three hundred head of Shorthorn cattle. 
 He keeps on hand about two thousand head of 
 Angora goats for sale and breeding purposes. 
 At one time he kept from one hundred to one 
 hundred and fifty head of horses and mules, but 
 at present does not handle many. 
 
 A prominent Republican, Mr. Woodlief has 
 been township trustee and served one term in the 
 state legislature, where he was interested in se- 
 curing the passage of the bill to build the Locust 
 street bridge in Ottawa and also aided other 
 needed legislation. He is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic order, having attained the Royal Arch de- 
 gree, and George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., 
 of Ottawa. In the j-ear 1864, in Ohio, he mar- 
 ried Rose, daughter of Benjamin Archer, a farmer 
 and at one time county treasurer of Clermont 
 Count}-, Ohio. They have five children: Maude, 
 wife of James Brazier, residing on the home 
 farm; Benjamin, an engineer on the Chicago, 
 Burlington & Quincy Railroad, living in Brook- 
 field, Mo.; William, who spends his time largely 
 in the buying and selling of stock and is now in 
 
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 Nebraska; Archer, who is engaged in railroading 
 in Brookfield; and Cassie, who is the only mem- 
 ber of the family born in Kansas. Mrs. Wood- 
 lief died in 1883, and he married his present wife, 
 Mrs. Lulu (Allen) Riggs, October 13, 1892. 
 
 BEN BALDWIN. The success which has 
 ^ attended the efforts of Mr. Baldwin since he 
 ^ came to Douglas County proves that this 
 section of Kansas offers abundant opportunities 
 to an energetic, progressive man. In the summer 
 of 1867 he bought a farm in Kanwaka Township, 
 but soon sold the property, and bought one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in Wakarusa Township, 
 where he has since resided. The place was but 
 slightly improved and it required constant labor 
 on his part to effect the improvements desired. 
 From the first he was interested in the stock bus- 
 iness, beginning on a ver}' small scale and grad- 
 ually adding to his herd, at the same time im- 
 proving the grade of his stock. He now manages 
 over eight hundred acres, almost all of which is 
 in the Kaw bottom, and about six hundred acres 
 are devoted to cereals. He makes a specialt}' of 
 Galloway cattle, twenty of which are eligible to 
 registr}\ He has also engaged in the breeding 
 of Clydesdale horses, and carries thirty or forty 
 head of mules which are used in his contracts for 
 railroad grading. On his farm are situated the 
 club house and lake owned by the Lake View 
 Fishing and Shooting Association. Through his 
 efforts he has had established the station of Lake 
 View, which has a store and a telegraph, express 
 and post-office. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin was born in Woodville, Sandusky 
 County, Ohio, March 15, 1842. His father, 
 William, a native of New York, learned the 
 blacksmith's trade in youth and when a young 
 man went to Ohio, where at first he followed his 
 trade, but later cleared and improved a farm, also 
 conducted a hotel. He was a Democrat of the 
 Jacksonian type and took an interest in local af- 
 fairs. In religion he was connected with the 
 United Brethren Church. By his marriage, in 
 Ohio, to Caroline Kelsey, he had four children: 
 Elizabeth, who married Joseph A. Harpel, of 
 
 Olyrapia, Ore.; Eben; Helen, wife of R. W. Gor- 
 rill, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume; and Virginia, wife of Charles H. Taylor, a 
 farmer at Eskridge, Wabaunsee County. 
 
 After attending Elm Grove Institute for three 
 years our subject assumed the management of the 
 home place; his father having died when he was 
 a boy of eight years, the responsibilities of life 
 were early thrust upon him. He remained at 
 home until August, 1867, when he came to Kan- 
 sas and settled in Douglas County. His means 
 were limited at the time, but through his judi- 
 cious management he has become one of the most 
 prosperous men of his county. In addition to 
 farming and stock-rai.sing he has also engaged 
 extensively in railroad contracting. In 1886 he 
 began railroad tax work for the Santa Fe Rail- 
 road and has since done all of the work of that 
 kind for the road in Kansas, except on its branch 
 in southern Kansas. He has also had charge of 
 the grading for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- 
 cific road in this state, being associated in these 
 contracts with his brother-in-law, Mr. Gorrill, 
 and employing four gangs of men. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Baldwin erected the fine residence 
 which he now occupies. About the same time he 
 built a granary for corn and hay, which utilized 
 twenty-eight thousand feet of lumber in its build- 
 ing. His stone barn, built in 1879, has a capac- 
 ity of eighty tons of hay, and contains in the 
 basement a stable with stalls for thirty head of 
 horses. All the modern improvements may be 
 found on his farm and in his house. From his 
 private gas plant the gas is generated for lighting 
 the residence and also for cooking purposes. He 
 is a stockholder and director in the Merchants 
 National Bank, at Lawrence, and in the Lawrence 
 Vitrified Brick and Tile Company. In earlier 
 life a Republican, he is now independent in poli- 
 tics. For six years he served as township trustee 
 and for two years, under appointment by Gover- 
 nor Humphrey, he held the position of state house 
 commissioner. In religion he is connected with 
 the Baptist Church. Fraternally he is a member 
 of Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M.; Law- 
 rence Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. ; DeMolay Com- 
 mandery No. 4, K. T.; Topeka Council; Abdal- 
 
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 lah Shrine, N. M. S., of Leavenworth, and is also 
 associated with the Commercial, Athletic and 
 Topeka Clubs. 
 
 At Sandusky, Ohio, Mr. Baldwin married Ette, 
 daughter of Enoch and Catharine Nichols, of 
 Erie County, Ohio. To this marriage were born 
 five children: William E., deceased; Helen M., 
 wife of Alexander C. Mitchell, of Lawrence; 
 Carrie, who died in infancy; Virginia, wife of 
 James Mitchell, of Lawrence; and Carrie (2d) 
 deceased. The second marriage of Mr. Baldwin 
 united him with Grace Herning, daughter of 
 Michael and Sarah A. Herning, of Lawrence. 
 They have a daughter, Mary. 
 
 qUDGE CHARLES L. ROBBINS. There 
 I are very few of the residents of Franklin 
 (2/ County who have been identified with its 
 history for a longer period than the subject of 
 this article; nor are there many who have been 
 more intimately identified with public affairs. 
 In April, 1856, he came to Kansas. His first lo- 
 cation in Franklin County was at Centropolis, 
 but he soon removed to Minneola, one mile dis- 
 tant, which was subsequently for a time the 
 county seat. In the spring of 1862 he established 
 his headquarters at Ohio City. When Ottawa 
 was started, in August, 1864, he was one of its 
 first settlers, and from that day to this has been 
 connected with the advancement of the cit}'. 
 
 The Robbins family is of German extraction. 
 Benjamin Robbins, a native of Connecticut and a 
 pioneer of Ohio, served with valor in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. His son, Joseph Robbins, also a 
 native of Connecticut, served in the war of 1812, 
 and afterward devoted himself to farm pursuits 
 in Ohio, where he died at ninety-one years of 
 age. He married Mehitable Hurlburt, who was 
 born in Massachusetts and died in Ohio. They 
 became the parents of seven sons and three 
 daughters, of whom all but one son attained ma- 
 turity, and six sons and one daughter are still 
 living. Three sons took part in the Civil war, 
 James M., Theodore and Charles L. The first 
 named, who was a member of the First Kansas 
 Battery, came to Kansas in 1856 and is now a 
 
 farmer in Franklin County; Theodore, who was 
 a member of an Ohio regiment, is now living in 
 Seneca County, Ohio. 
 
 The seventh in order of birth among the ten 
 children was Charles L.,W'liowas born in La- 
 Grange, Ohio, June 22, 1833. In youth 
 he went to Michigan and from there to McHenry 
 Countj', 111., where he worked on a farm for a 
 year. After spending six months in Kenosha, 
 Wis., he came to Kan.sas, arriving in Lawrence 
 April 18, 1856, having made the trip from Wis- 
 consin to Ohio, then by boat from Cincinnati to 
 St. Louis, and from there to Kansas City also by 
 boat. The party of which he was a member was 
 led by Colonel Wood, who had gathered the 
 companj' in Ohio. At St. Louis thej' met a 
 Rhode Island company who accompanied them, 
 increasing their number to one hundred and 
 forty. On reaching Kansas City they hired 
 teams and wagons to convey the women and 
 children to Lawrence, while the men walked. 
 
 Desiring to secure a timber claim, Mr. Rob- 
 bins came into Franklin County and located land. 
 He returned to Lawrence on the night Sheriff 
 Jones was shot. Coming back to Centropolis, he 
 began to make improvements on his property, 
 but soon enlisted in Captain Shore's company, in 
 which he .served until October, 1856, taking part 
 in the battles of Franklin, Fort Titus, Prairie 
 City, Bull Creek and Middle Creek. Governor 
 Geary, when appointed, disbanded the company. 
 Mr. Robbins then returned to Centropolis, but 
 was ill for several months, as a result of the 
 campaigning. In January, 1858, the governor of 
 Kansas appointed him sheriff of Franklin Coun- 
 ty, which position he filled until January, i860, 
 being the fir.st man in the office. Having made 
 several arrests which incurred the di.spleasure of 
 certain parties, he was defeated for the nomina- 
 tion in 1S59. During the fir.st term of court held 
 in the county (1858) there were forty indict- 
 ments and he had to make all the arrests. Soon 
 after the expiration of his term he was appointed 
 deputy -sheriff. In the fall of 1861 he was nomi- 
 nated and elected sheriff, and by re-election 
 served until 1866, holding the office during the 
 perilous times of the Civil war. He was a mem- 
 
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 ber of the Tenth Kansas State Militia, belonging 
 first to Company A and later to Company C and 
 Company K, and at the battle of Westport served 
 as sergeant. From 1 866 to 1870 he engaged in the 
 livery business and during two years of this time 
 ' was county assessor. In i86g he was re-elected 
 sheriff and served for one term. In 1870 he 
 opened a grocery in Ottawa, which he conducted 
 until the spring of 1889, and during ten years of 
 that time served as county commissioner, hold- 
 ing the office longer than anyone else had ever 
 occupied it. Since 1889 he has served, by suc- 
 cessive re-elections, as justice of the peace. In 
 the various positions he has held his service has 
 been characterized by integrity, energy and faith- 
 fulness to every duty, and has won him an enviable 
 reputation as an ofiicial. He has always been 
 active in the Republican party and has led in its 
 councils in his home city. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and has been noble grand of the lodge and 
 an officer in the encampment. 
 
 In Centropolis Judge Robbins married Miss 
 Mary Brundage, October 4, 1858, who was born 
 in Westmoreland County, Pa., and in 1856 ac- 
 companied her father, Aaron Brundage, to Doug- 
 las County, Kans. She died at Ohio City in 1869. 
 Of her three children, Emma died at fourteen 
 years; Milton is engaged in business in Los 
 Angeles, Cal., and Fannie is the wife of M. T. 
 Ferguson and lives in Ottawa. 
 
 (31 MASA T. SHARPE. During the period of 
 I I his connection with the history of Ottawa, 
 / I Mr. Sharpe acquired a reputation that was 
 not limited to his city or county, but extended 
 throughout the state. With his interests politi- 
 cally centered in the Republican, he gave his 
 time, his thought and his influence to advance its 
 welfare and promote its progress in the state 
 where he lived. Both personally and through 
 the medium of his paper he did much to secure 
 the success of his party. However, he was not a 
 narrow partisan, but a man of broad views, ever 
 conceding to others that liberality and freedom of 
 opinion which he demanded for himself One of 
 
 his most important works was in connection with 
 the State Board of Charities, of which he was 
 appointed a member by Governor Anthony and 
 re-appointed by each governor until failing health 
 forced him to resign in 1889. His service in this 
 appointment was most valuable and reflected 
 credit upon his intelligence and wise judgment. 
 He assisted in the building up of all the state 
 charitable institutions except the Osawatomie 
 Asylum. After fifteen years of constant service 
 as treasurer of the board, when his accounts were 
 balanced and audited, they were not even one 
 cent out, which fact goes to show that he was a 
 methodical and accurate business man. 
 
 Mr. Sharpe was born in Watertown, N. Y., 
 December 16, 1843. His father, Artemus Trow- 
 bridge Sharpe, was born in Pomfret, Conn., in 
 18 12, and removed to Watertown, N. Y., where 
 he was a teacher of the violin and voice culture. 
 From there he went to Wabasha, Minn., where 
 he was a pioneer farmer. In 1873 he settled in 
 Ottawa, where he lived until his death, in 1895. 
 During his residence in Watertown he married 
 Helen May Trowbridge, who was born in that 
 city in 1822 and died in Minnesota. They were 
 the parents of four children who attained matur- 
 ity. One of these, Edward, was a soldier in a 
 Minnesota regiment during the Rebellion, and 
 now resides in Franklin County, Kans. The 
 next to the youngest of the family, our subject, 
 was educated in New York and Minnesota and 
 studied law in St. Paul. For a time he was mail 
 agent for the Northern Packet Company on the 
 "City of St. Paul" and the "Phil Sheridan," 
 which ran between St. Paul and Dubuque. From 
 1871 to 1873 he edited the Wabasha Herald, after 
 which he sold out. In 1873 he came to Ottawa 
 and established the Republican, in the publication 
 of which he became known as one of the most 
 prominent journalists in the state. He built the 
 Republican block, which has a frontage of twen- 
 ty-five feet. In addition to his city property he 
 owned an eighty-acre farm three miles northwest 
 of Ottawa. He was a man of sincere Christian 
 life and a faithful member of the Congregational 
 Church. When he passed away, August 18, 
 1890, it was recognized that his church, his 
 
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 party and his home town had met with a great 
 loss, and his fellow-citizens united in testifying 
 to his worth as a man and his kindness as a 
 friend. 
 
 For more than twenty years Mr. Sharpe was 
 blessed by the companionship of a lady of noble 
 character, one whose admirable qualities make 
 her much beloved by her friends. Miss H. Ro- 
 sella Moon was born in Gerry, Chautauqua 
 County, N. Y., a daughter of John B. and Alzina 
 (Babcock) Moon, natives, respectively, of Troy 
 and Black River Falls, N. Y. Her grandfather, 
 John Moon, was born in York state, member 
 of an old family of New England and of English 
 descent, and for some years he cultivated a farm 
 in Chautauqua County, N. Y., where he died. 
 Her father, John B., moved in 1849 to Janesville, 
 Wis., and became the owner of a farm in Rock 
 County. He is now living in Chicago. His 
 wife was a daughter of Thomas Babcock, a farmer 
 in New York; she died in Janesville, leaving five 
 children. Mrs. Sharpe, who was next to the 
 oldest of the family, was reared in Janesville and 
 was one of the first graduates from the high 
 school in that city. Afterward she taught for 
 eight years, becoming principal of a school and 
 gaining a high rank among the teachers of her 
 locality. At one time she accompanied a num- 
 ber of teachers on the "Phil vSheridan" to the 
 Teachers' Association convention in St. Paul, 
 and it was while on this boat that she first met 
 Mr. Sharpe. They were married in Janesville 
 on the ist of December, 1869, and their mar- 
 riage was blessed by five children, but the eld- 
 est, Artemus A., and the youngest, John Moon, 
 died in 18S6, when thirteen and two years of 
 age, respectively. Frances Louise has made a 
 specialty of the violin, which she studied under 
 the celebrated Jacobson of the Chicago Conserva- 
 tory of Music; she is now engaged in teaching 
 music, in which she has been very successful. 
 The two living sons are Araasa Trowbridge, of 
 New Orleans, and George Anthony, of Ottawa. 
 Mrs. Sharpe is a member of the Baptist Church 
 and is an active worker in various .societies con- 
 nected with that denomination. She is also a 
 member of the Woman's Columbian Club. Hav- 
 
 ing associated for so many years with her hus- 
 band in his plans and hopes, and having gained 
 from him a broad knowledge of public affairs, 
 which knowledge she has enlarged by general 
 reading, it is but natural that she should continue 
 her interest in matters relating to the progress of 
 the state and nation, and should keep well in- 
 formed concerning the problems confronting our 
 country to-day. 
 
 GlLVIN H. WRIGHT, M. D., general .sur- 
 Ll geon in charge of the Atchison, Topeka & 
 I I Santa Fe Railroad hospital at Ottawa, was 
 born in Brookline, N. H., March 23, 1867, a son 
 of Moses and Etta (Gardner) Wright, natives of 
 New Hampshire. He is descended from a 
 colonial family of New England. His great- 
 grandfather, Timothy Wright, served with valor 
 in the Revolutionary war and afterward made his 
 home in New Hampshire until his death, when 
 ninety-eight years of age. Timothy Wright, Jr., 
 son of this Revolutionary soldier, was a large 
 owner of citj' property and countr}- estates, and 
 made his home in New Hampshire. In the state 
 where he was reared Moses Wright followed the 
 trade of mechanic and woodworker, living the 
 quiet and u-seful life of a private citizen. 
 
 The eldest of four children born of the two 
 marriages of his father. Dr. Wright grew to man- 
 hood amid the surroundings familiar to his 
 ancestors for several generations. From an early 
 age he was interested in hospital work, and 
 through his employment as nurse laid the founda- 
 tion of his subsequent professional experience 
 and knowledge. It was his ambition in boj-- 
 hood to become a physician and surgeon. The 
 study of anatomy and physiology was his favorite 
 among those comprising his curriculum. As 
 .soon as circumstances permitted he entered the 
 medical department of the University of Vermont, 
 and there he took the complete course of lectures, 
 graduating in 1S90 with the degree of M. D. 
 He has since taken two post-graduate courses, 
 one of these being in New York. 
 
 In 1S90 Dr. Wright entered the service of the 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, 
 with which he has since been connected. He was 
 
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 first assigned to the Carthage mines in New 
 Mexico, but in the fall of 1891 was transferred to 
 the Ottawa hospital as surgeon, which position 
 he has since successfully filled, having entire 
 charge of the hospital. Surgery is his specialty 
 and in it he is well grounded and thoroughly in- 
 formed concerning every detail. His study of 
 two years under Maj. J. M. Banister, M. D., of 
 Fort Leavenworth, was of great assistance to 
 him in the broadening of his surgical knowledge. 
 Besides his hospital work he has built up a gen- 
 eral professional practice, which extends through 
 this part of Franklin County. He is a member 
 of the Kansas State and American Medical 
 Associations, and keeps in touch with every 
 organization and movement connected with the 
 profession. 
 
 Prior to leaving New England Dr. Wright was 
 married in Burlington, Vt., to Miss Olive San- 
 born, who was born in Amesbury, Mass., and by 
 whom he has two children, Fay and Alvin. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias, and in Masonry is identified with Frank- 
 lin Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 
 7, R. A. M.; Tancred Commandery, K. T.; 
 Topeka Consistor3', and Abdallah Temple, 
 N. M. S. In politics he is not active, but he 
 keeps informed concerning the principles adopted 
 by various political organizations, and votes with 
 the Republican party. In religion he is con- 
 nected with the Congregational Church. 
 
 GlMBROSE BIGSBY. Of the farms on the 
 Li California road there is none that attracts 
 I I more attention than does the homestead 
 owned and occupied by Mr. Bigsby. It is situ- 
 ated on section 28, Wakarusa Township, Douglas 
 County. Noticeable among its improvements 
 are the commodious brick residence erected in 
 1894 3nd the substantial barn, 40x50, built in 
 1898. From a large windmill water is pumped 
 into tanks to be used in the barn, while the water 
 used in the house is supplied by a pump fifty- 
 three feet deep. The appearance of the property 
 proves tlje owner to be a man of energy and 
 thrifty qualities. While he had many difficulties 
 
 to overcome during the first ten years of his life 
 in Kansas, being a practical farmer he finally 
 gained success, and his life is an example of what 
 ma)^ be accomplished by energy and ability. 
 
 In Montgomery County, N. Y. , Mr. Bigsby 
 was born November 17, 1839. His father, Will- 
 iam, a native of York state, engaged in farming 
 there until 1844, when he moved to Hartford, 
 Wis., and engaged in the manufacturing busi- 
 ness. He continued there until his death, in 
 1875. During the existence of the Whig party 
 he voted for its principles, and afterward became 
 a Republican. He was an upright, honorable 
 man, and stood high in his community. By his 
 marriage to Sarah Lighthall, who was born in 
 Pennsylvania and reared in New York, he had 
 four children, of whom our subject, the oldest, 
 was the only one who attained maturity. He 
 had few opportunities to obtain an education, 
 and the information he now possesses was mostly 
 acquired by experience. When twenty years of 
 age he became brakeman on a construction train. 
 Nine months later he was made conductor and 
 ran on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road 
 for nine years. 
 
 Coming to Kansasin i868, Mr. Bigsby and his 
 father-in-law bought two hundred acres of land 
 on section 28, but they could not agree as to the 
 best method of operating the land and after a year 
 divided the property, our subject taking forty 
 acres where his house now stands. Until he 
 could get a start he followed other occupations 
 in addition to farming. As he succeeded he 
 added to his land until he now has two hundred 
 acres, all of which (except twenty acres of timber) 
 is excellently adapted for farming. He bought 
 a half interest in a threshing machine, which he 
 ran successfully for a number of years. After- 
 ward he turned his attention to raising cattle and 
 hogs, in which he was at one time engaged ex- 
 tensively, but now has only about forty head of 
 cattle and one hundred and fifty hogs. For three 
 years after coming here his home was a building 
 12x12, but as soon as possible he erected a resi- 
 dence that was better adapted to the comfort of 
 the family. 
 
 April 13, 1861, Mr. Bigsby enlisted in Com- 
 
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 pany B, First Wisconsin Infantry, which was one 
 of the first to respond to the call for seventy-five 
 thousand men. Later he re-enlisted, but was 
 taken ill with typhoid fever and honorably dis- 
 charged. He is now a member of Washington 
 Post No. 12, G. A. R., at Lawrence. In politics 
 he votes with the Republicans. His marriage, 
 May 3, 1863, united him with Lucretia Conant, 
 of Hartford, Wis. They have four children: 
 George William, a carpenter in Lawrence; Guy 
 Ambrose, a farmer of Kanwaka Township; Sarah 
 Belle, and Sarah Abigail. 
 
 REV. JOHN W. FOULKROD, who resides 
 in Wellsville, Franklin County, was born in 
 Pike County, Pa., February 18, 1855, a son 
 of George W. and Florence R. (Edwards) Foulk- 
 rod, natives of Pennsylvania. On the paternal 
 side he descends from Adam Foulkrod, who in 
 1734 came from Strasburg, Germany, to eastern 
 Pennsylvania and whose descendants were sub- 
 sequently prominent in that state. At the open- 
 ing of the Civil war George W. Foulkrod offered 
 his services to defend the Union, enlisting in 
 Company G, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry. 
 He served with valor on sharply contested battle- 
 fields, strewn with the dead bodies of thousands 
 who were loyal unto death to the convictions 
 which they cherished. At the battle of Gettys- 
 burg he was shot, but further information than 
 that the family were never able to secure, and his 
 body fills an unknown grave. His wife died in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1868, leaving three sons, 
 Walter, John W. and George Eugene, who were 
 between ten and fifteen years of age. 
 
 In 1S70, while in Indiana, our subject took ad- 
 vantage of an opportunity to drive a team 
 through to Kansas. Arriving at Rautoul, Frank- 
 lin County, he worked as a farm hand for several 
 months. He then went to Pomona and broke 
 prairie land. In the fall he drove a team through 
 to Texas, and after a .short time started to walk 
 back to Kansas. He spent the winter in the 
 Indian Territory and in the spring returned to 
 Franklin County, where he worked as a farm 
 hand until 1876. He then rented a farm at 
 
 Greenwood for a year. While there he united 
 with the Baptist Church. Returning to Rantoul, 
 he rented a farm and for three years engaged in 
 feeding cattle. Selling out in 1879, he began to 
 preach, but did not engage in regular pastoral 
 work until after he studied in the Baptist Univer- 
 sity at Ottawa. For two years he was a student 
 in that institution, but lack of means prevented 
 him from completing the counse of study. He 
 began to teach school, in which work he con- 
 tinued for twelve years, meantime preaching as 
 opportunit5' offered. He finally gave up teaching 
 in order to devote himself entirely to ministerial 
 work. In 1881 he accepted the pa.storates at 
 Wellsville, New Hope and Bethel, to which he 
 ministered for four years. Next he accepted a 
 call to North Ottawa. In 1894 2nd 1895 he 
 preached in Canton, S. Dak. He then returned 
 to Wellsville and has since made his home here, 
 meantime preaching at Gardner, Johnson County, 
 seventeen miles east of this town. 
 
 After coming to Kansas Mr. Foulkrod married 
 Miss Mattie Curtis, a native of Indiana, who was 
 brought to Kansas by her parents in childhood. 
 Seven children were born of their marriage, four 
 of whom are living: Florence, Laura, Lulu and 
 John E., the daughters being students in the local 
 schools, while the .son is a bright and promising 
 boy of five years. 
 
 As a Republican Mr. Foulkrod has maintained 
 an interest and taken a part in local affairs. He 
 has served as clerk of the village. Fraternally 
 he is connected with Wellsville Lodge No. 356, 
 A. F. & A. M., and Wellsville Lodge No. 135, 
 I. O. O. F. 
 
 EHARLES L. CONGER, who is a general 
 merchant of Hesper, Douglas County, was 
 born at this place in 1862, a descendant of 
 an early family of New York, and a son of John 
 and Eliza (Cole) Conger, natives of the latter 
 state. His father, who was born near Rochester, 
 made his home there for years, engaging in a 
 general mercantile business, although in youth 
 he had followed the weaver's trade. In 1858 he 
 moved his stock of dry goods to Kansas, and tak- 
 ing up a claim at what is now Hesper, he sold 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 his goods here. After a time he embarked in 
 the dairy business, in which he continued until 
 the time of his death. He owned four hundred 
 and eighty acres of land and was one of the most 
 extensive farmers of Eudora Township. Fratern- 
 ally he was a charter member of Eudora Lodge 
 No. 42, I. O. O. F., in which he served as treas- 
 urer for some years. His death occurred on his 
 farm in January, 1872, when he was fifty-two 
 years of age. . He was survived by his wife for 
 many years, her death taking place on the home- 
 stead in 1897, when she was seventy-six years of 
 age. They were the parents of four children, 
 namely: George, deceased; Theron, who lives in 
 Oklahoma; Mary, whose home is in Colorado; 
 and Charles L. 
 
 Within a mile of his present home the subject 
 of this sketch was reared and educated, gaining a 
 common-school education in the district schools, 
 while he afterward fitted for business life in the 
 Lawrence Business College. At eighteen years 
 of age he began the cultivation of a farm near 
 Hesper, where he remained for eighteen years. 
 In 189S he purchased the store and stock of A. 
 B. Nicol, at Hesper, since which time he has 
 carried on a general mercantile business, and at 
 the same time he holds the office of postmaster at 
 Hesper. In politics he is inclined to be inde- 
 pendent, giving his support rather to the man 
 than the party. For some time he was active in 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, belong- 
 ing to the lodge at Eudora. Like his father he 
 has assisted in building up this part of the coun- 
 ty and in extending its business interests. He 
 was married in 188 1 to Minerva, daughter of 
 William Coate, of Eudora, and they have two 
 children living, Evelyn and Erie. 
 
 NENRY H. RODGERS, a farmer and stock- 
 raiser residing on section 22, Ottawa Town- 
 ship, Franklin County, was born in Fay- 
 ette County, Ohio, March 29, 1841, a son of 
 William H. and Lucinda (Miners) Rodgers. 
 His father, who was a native of Kentucky, re- 
 moved to Ohio in boyhood and there for years 
 engaged exteasively in farm pursuits. During 
 
 1849 he settled in Shelby County, 111., where he 
 became the owner of a valuable farm and contin- 
 ued to reside until his death, in 1895. During 
 the existence of the Whig party he advocated its 
 principles and later voted with the Republicans. 
 In religion he was a Presbyterian. He was twice 
 married, both times in Ohio. By his first wife 
 he had six children, namely: W. R., of Ottawa, 
 Kans. ; Henry H.; Harvey, a farmer of Ottawa 
 Township; James, deceased; Sadie E.; and Har- 
 din, of Ottawa Township. 
 
 At the age of eight years our subject accom- 
 panied the family to Illinois. His educational 
 advantages were limited and his present knowl- 
 edge has been largely acquired by experience 
 and observation. When twenty-two years of age 
 he started out for himself, since which time he 
 has engaged in farming. At first he cultivated 
 land in Illinois, but in 1867 he came to Kansas 
 and was among the first to settle on the Ottawa 
 reservation, where he bought one hundred and 
 sixty acres from the Indians. Of this tract only 
 twelve acres had been broken, the remainder 
 being timber or prairie land. On the place stood 
 a small cabin that had been occupied by Indians; 
 no other improvement had been made. It re- 
 quired great effort on the part of Mr. Rodgers to 
 get the place under cultivation, and only those 
 who have had similar experiences can appreciate 
 his struggle. However, he gradually put his 
 plans into operation, and, as time went by, met 
 with an increasing prosperity. He added to his 
 property until he now owns two hundred and 
 eighty acres in one body and well watered, which 
 adapts it for stock purposes. When horses 
 brought good prices he gave considerable atten- 
 tion to raising them, but now devotes himself 
 principally to raising good graded cattle. In- 
 stead of raising general farm products, his land is 
 in grass and grain for feed. 
 
 In politics Mr. Rodgers is a Republican. He 
 has served as road overseer and school director, 
 and gives thoughtful attention to educational 
 matters, desiring that his district shall have as 
 good a school as possible. His religious connec- 
 tions are with the Presbyterian Church. Octo- 
 ber 16, 1862, he married Hannah C. Tull, of 111- 
 
330 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 inois, who was reared on a farm adjoining the 
 one owned by the father of Mr. Rodgers. Con- 
 sequently the two were acquainted from child- 
 hood. They became the parents of four children 
 namely; Annie, wife of H. A. Davis, a farmer of 
 Green wood_Towuship, Franklin County; William 
 M., who lives in Piatt County, 111.; John, who 
 resides in Waverly, Coffey County, Kans. ; and 
 Nettie B., who married J. W. Ferris, of Waver- 
 ly, Kans. Mrs. Hannah Rodgers died in 1890. 
 Not wishing to remain on the home farm after 
 she had passed away, he rented the place and 
 went to Waverly, Kans., where he still owns 
 property. Later he was married in that place to 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Blair) Williams, formerly of 
 Ohio. However, he had always been actively 
 employed, and life in Waverly did not suit one 
 of his energetic nature, so after four years there 
 he returned to his farm, since which time he has 
 superintended the propert}-. 
 
 PjAVID E. MUNDEY, who has been one of 
 mI the leading citizens of Linwood for years, 
 \q) has been especially active in local Republi- 
 can politics and has been one of the influential 
 workers in his party. At various times, notably 
 in 1884 and 1898, he has "stumped" Leaven- 
 worth County in the interests of the party ticket. 
 Frequently he has been selected to serve as a 
 member of the county central and other commit- 
 tees, and he has been a delegate to countj', con- 
 gressional and state conventions. In 1884 he 
 was his party's candidate for county superin- 
 tendent of schools, and, although not elected, he 
 ran ahead of his ticket. He was nominated for 
 the legislature in the fall of 1898, but was defeated 
 by eleven votes. Upon the incorporation of Lin- 
 wood as a city of the third class, in 1897, he was 
 chosen to act as the first mayor, and in 1898 was 
 made a member of the citj' council. In the 
 .spring of 1S99 he was elected mayor for the sec- 
 ond time, and is now the incumbent of this office. 
 He was a warm adherent of the plan of incorpor- 
 ating the town and has favored all other meas- 
 ures which he believed would benefit the place. 
 As a result he has won a reputation as a public- 
 
 spirited citizen, whose loyaltj- to his home town 
 no one doubts. Realizing the value of excellent 
 educational facilities he has labored in the inter- 
 ests of the schools. At one time he was a mem- 
 ber of the county examining board and also 
 president of the Teachers' Association. 
 
 Mr. Mundey is of French descent. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather came from France and settled 
 in Hagerstown, Md., where he taught school for 
 several years. His last years were spent in 
 Mansfield, Ohio, where he died. His son, Henry 
 Mundey, followed the merchant tailoring busi- 
 ness in Shelby, Ohio, where he died in 1864, at 
 the age of fifty-two years. By his marriage to 
 Sarah Livensparger he had eight children, of 
 whom five are now living, namely: Joseph, 
 Frank, John, David E. and Thaddeus. Our sub- 
 ject was born in Seneca County, Ohio, in 1854, 
 and was educated in Richland County, the same 
 state, where he attended the Shelby high school. 
 After completing his studies he engaged in teach- 
 ing school for nine years. In 1879 he came to 
 Kansas and for one year he taught in Lyon 
 County. He then came to Leavenworth as a 
 teacher in the schools of the county, in which 
 work he continued for fifteen years. In 188 1 he 
 became a teacher in Linwood, where he was em- 
 ployed for eight years. Poor health finally 
 obliged him, in 1894, to retire from his work as 
 teacher, and he then settled on a small farm in 
 the city limits, where he has since resided, devot- 
 ing his time largely to market gardening and the 
 raising of fruits. He has set out about two hundred 
 trees and is making his occupation a profitable 
 one. Besides his gardening interests he acts as 
 agent for a number of well-known fire insurance 
 companies, having all of the local business in this 
 line. Fraternally he is chancellor of Linwood 
 Lodge No. 108, K. of P., and served as its first 
 representative to the grand lodge of the state. 
 He is also a member of the Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation. August I, 1899, Mr. Mundey assumed 
 the duties of deputy United States internal rev- 
 enue collector for the northern half of eastern 
 Kan.sas, to which he was appointed in July. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mundey in 1881 united 
 him with Nellie, daughter of James A. Adams, 
 
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 COL. JOHN J. BAKER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 wlio settled in Lawrence in 1858 and afterward 
 became a prominent farmer of Reno Township, 
 Leavenworth County. Mrs. Mundey was born 
 in Lawrence and grew to womanhood irl Reno 
 Township, where she was educated. The chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Mundey 'are: Harry D., 
 Clarence Leroy, Eva Alice and William Arthur. 
 
 EOL. JOHN J. BAKER. During the spring 
 of 1868 Colonel Baker came to Kansas and 
 purchased three hundred and twenty acres 
 of the Delaware Indian reserve land, in what is 
 now Sherman Township, Leavenworth County. 
 His means being limited, at first he farmed on a 
 very small scale, but gradually, as his means in- 
 creased, he bought stock, made improvements 
 and built necessary buildings. He is still living 
 on the same place, which comprises one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land and bears all the improve- 
 ments of a modern estate. He took an active 
 part in the organization of the Farmers' Grange 
 and for some time served as its president. 
 
 The Baker family originated in Germany, 
 where the name was Becker. About 1721 Jacob 
 Becker emigrated from Germany to America and 
 settled in Lancaster County, Pa., where he died 
 in 1 801. The great-grandfather of our subject 
 was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and his 
 great-uncle, Henry Becker, was a colonel in the 
 continental army during the same conflict. 
 With Jacob Becker came three brothers and one 
 sister to America, all of whom settled upon farms 
 in Pennsylvania. His grandson, Benjamin 
 Baker, was born in Lanca.ster County, Pa., in 
 1794, and at one year of age was taken to Canada 
 by his parents, afterward remaining in that coun- 
 try until 1826, when he returned to the States. 
 For a time he made his home in Erie County, 
 N. Y., but later removed to Michigan, where he 
 died in 1861. By trade a tanner, he built up a 
 large business in Erie County and became well- 
 to-do. He was a son of Benjamin Baker, Sr., 
 who removed from Lancaster County, Pa., to 
 Canada in 1795 and there engaged extensively 
 in farming. He died in Canada in 1852, when 
 eighty-nine years of age. Benjamin Baker, Jr. 
 12 
 
 married Nancy Hershey, who was born near 
 Hagerstown, Md., and died in Sturgis, Mich., 
 August 20, 1878, aged eighty-seven. Of their 
 nine children, one sou and three daughters are 
 now living, the latter being Melinda, Anna M. 
 and Sophia. 
 
 Colonel Baker was born in Markham, a suburb 
 of Toronto, Canada, January 29, 1824. When a 
 very small child he was taken by his parents to 
 Clarence, Erie County, N. Y., where later he 
 was educated in the common schools. At the 
 age of seventeen years he began to learn the tan- 
 ner's trade, which he followed for eight years. 
 In 1848 he opened a retail boot and shoe store at 
 Waukau, Wis., and he continued in that place 
 until 1854, when he went to Sturgis, Mich., the 
 home of his parents. There he engaged in gen- 
 eral farming. In 1862 he organized a company 
 of infantry at Sturgis and July 28 was made cap- 
 tain of Company E, Nineteenth Michigan Infan- 
 try, with which he went to the front. He was 
 promoted to be major of his regiment June 27, 
 1864, and was made lieutenant-colonel October 
 28, 1864, which office he held until his honorable 
 discharge, after two years and ten months of serv- 
 ice. He took command of the regiment May 
 25, 1864. His regiment was assigned to the sec- 
 ond division, third brigade, twentieth army 
 corps, under Gen. Joseph Hooker, and accompa- 
 nied Sherman on the Atlanta campaign from 
 Chattanooga to Atlanta, thence marched with 
 him to the sea, taking part in the memorable en- 
 gagements of that time. July 20, 1864, he was " 
 wounded at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., and at 
 Thompson's Station, Tenn., was taken prisoner 
 March 5, 1863, with most of his regiment. 
 He was confined in Libby prison for nearly three 
 months, after which he was exchanged and sent 
 to Columbus, Ohio. In that city the regiment 
 was re-organized during the latter part of May, 
 1863, and frofli there was ordered to the front, 
 joining the old corps. For disability and by rea- 
 son of his services being no longer required he 
 was mustered out May 15, 1865. Returning to 
 Sturgis he resumed farm pursuits. 
 
 From Michigan Colonel Baker came to Kansas 
 in the spring of 1868 and has since resided upon 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a farm in Sherman Township, Leavenworth 
 County. He takes an interest in public affairs 
 and always votes the Republican ticket. At one 
 time he was identified with the Masonic frater- 
 nity. He is a member of McDaniel Post No. 
 256, G. A. R., at Bonner Springs, and was at 
 one time its commander. In Buffalo, N. Y. , 
 June 3, 1847, ^s married Ami M., daughter of 
 John and Eliza Beam, of Willoughby, Black 
 Creek, Canada. They had three children, 
 Theoda, Orpha (deceased) and Hervey J. The 
 last named, who has a farm near the old home- 
 stead, married Lulu Armstrong, by whom he has 
 three children, Orpha, Nannie and John J., the 
 latter named in honor of his grandfather. 
 
 KICHARD STEPHENS, who was for twenty 
 years prior to his death an influential citizen 
 of Baldwin, Douglas County, was born at 
 St. Agnes, Cornwall, England, June 30, 1820. 
 He was reared in a mining community and early 
 became familiar with a miner's work. When 
 nineteen years of age he came to the United 
 States and settled in Pennsylvania, but after a 
 time removed to Illinois and engaged in mining 
 near Galena. His next location was at Eagle 
 River, Wis., which at that time was a small vil- 
 lage. After a year he went back to Illinois. In 
 1849 ^^s crossed the plains to California, where 
 he engaged in mining and met with success. Re- 
 turning a year later to Illinois, in 1S51 he again 
 went to the Pacific Coast. He shipped as a pas- 
 senger on the "North America," which was 
 wrecked on the ocean. However, he managed 
 to save his life and a portion of his effects, and 
 reaching the shore, hired a Mexican with a mule 
 to convey his luggage sixty miles to Acapulco. 
 On arriving in that city he was entertained by 
 the Spaniards, who, won by his excellent sing- 
 ing, showed the utmost friendline.* toward him. 
 He remained with them until another steamer 
 came along, when he proceeded to California and 
 resumed mining, with, however, less success than 
 on his former visit. After two years he decided 
 to return home and accordingly made his way 
 back to the east. 
 
 In the fall of 1857 Mr. Stephens came to Kan- 
 sas. At old Palmyra (now Baldwin) he opened 
 a small hotel, which he conducted for several 
 years. In 1861 he retired from the hotel busi- 
 ness and began to deal in real estate, also en- 
 gaged in loaning monej', following the two lines 
 of business until his death, which occurred De- 
 cember 28, 1879. His marriage, which took 
 place June 9, 1845, united him with Miss Sophia, 
 sister of William H. Gill, in whose sketch the 
 family history appears. She w^as born in Eng- 
 land October 12, 1825, and is a sincere member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which her 
 husband also belonged. They were the parents 
 of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. 
 The others are named as follows: Thomas C, 
 who died at twenty-six years; Mary E., wife of 
 John P. Brown, of Indiana; Sophia, who resides 
 with her mother; Elizabeth J., wife of John C. 
 Henderson, of British Columbia; Emma, who 
 married William H. Reed, of Council Grove, 
 Kans. ; John R., a farmer in Oklahoma; William 
 A., an undertaker and furniture dealer of El 
 Dorado Springs, Mo. ; Charles E. , who is a prac- 
 ticing physician in Elmo, Kans.; James H., pro- 
 prietor of a mercantile establishment in Pierce 
 City, Mo.; and Kathlene, who married W. O. 
 Fuller, a journalist in Rockland, Me. In the 
 various communities where they reside the mem- 
 bers of the family have gained a high standing 
 and the esteem of their associates. 
 
 pC) ALTER H. OLIN, superintendent of the 
 \ A / city schools at Ottawa, was born at Wal- 
 Y V "lit Grove, on the banks of the Sacramento 
 River, in California, August 7, 1862. He de- 
 scends in a direct line from John Olin, of Wales, 
 who came to America at the age of about four- 
 teen, and three years later settled in the vicinity 
 of East Greenwich, R. I. His son, John, and 
 grand.son, also named John, were born in Rhode 
 Island, whence the latter moved to Shaftsbury, 
 Vt. Ezra, son of the third John, was born in 
 Rhode Island March 23, 1772, and at the age of 
 three and one-half years removed with his par- 
 ents to Vermont, his later years being spent on a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 335 
 
 large farm near Shaftsbury, where, during the 
 Revolution, General Stark defeated the British. 
 Arvin, son of Ezra, was born at Shaftsbury July 
 13. 1797. ^^^ taught school in Vermont. At 
 the close of his first term he married one of his 
 pupils, Betsey Bennett, daughter of a farmer. 
 Afterward he walked to York state, took up a 
 tract of land, cut logs for a house, and sent for 
 his wife. She was given $20 by her father, and, 
 accompanied by her brothers, made the trip 
 through the forests to her new home, where, with 
 her husband, she endured all the hardships of 
 frontier life, far from the refining influences of 
 civilization. In time they met with remarkable 
 success, and their farm became one of the finest 
 in that section of country. L,ate in life they 
 moved from Genesee County, N. Y., to Portage 
 County, Ohio, where they bought farm property. 
 At the time of his death he was more than 
 seventy years of age. 
 
 Nelson, son of Arvin Olin, was born in Gene- 
 see County, N. Y. , and at an early age began 
 farming near the homestead in Portage County, 
 Ohio, but, being seized with the western fever, 
 in 1850 he went to Clinton County, Iowa, where 
 he improved a section of land. June 3,1860, a 
 cyclone swept over that part of Iowa, destroying 
 crops, buildings and fences, and sweeping ruin 
 and death over a strip of country two and one- 
 half miles wide and forty miles long. His house 
 was blown away, and of everything within it 
 all that was left was a salt cellar and pepper 
 box, which are now cherished as mementoes of 
 the disaster. 
 
 Fortunately, the family sought refuge in the 
 cellar, and so escaped with their lives. The 
 mother's health being affected by the catastrophe, 
 the father decided to remove to California. Ac- 
 cordingly he made the trip via New York and 
 Panama, and settled at the fork of the American 
 River, near Sacramento. In those days each 
 township had its vigilance committee, and he 
 served as a member of the one in his township. 
 Through the determination of himself and asso- 
 ciates the confederacy was prevented from show- 
 ing its colors, and the state was held for the 
 Union. Often his life was in danger, but he 
 
 continued to uphold the Union without thought 
 of results, led simply by a desire to support the 
 cause of justice. During his residence in the 
 west he suffered from the Sacramento River 
 flood. In 1866 he returned east, settling on the 
 old home place near Kent, Ohio, where his wife 
 died the same year. In 1870 he again started 
 west. He spent one season in Galesburg, Kala- 
 mazoo County, Mich., and in 1871 settled in 
 Douglas County, Kans., where he bought a 
 farm. During 1874 he embarked in the cheese 
 business, but the grasshoppers destroyed the 
 crop, and the experiment was a failure. In 1877 
 he removed to a new farm near Eldorado, Butler 
 County, and later settled on his present farm, 
 near Eudora, Douglas County. 
 
 The first wife of Nelson Olin was Harriet 
 Holley, who was born at Gainesville, Wyoming 
 County, N. Y., December 18, 1827, a member of 
 an old family of New England, some of whom 
 (among them. Marietta Holley "Josiah Allen's 
 wife," and the inventor of the present water sys- 
 tem) have acquired national reputation. Her 
 father, Solomon Holley, was born in Vermont, 
 became a pioneer of Wyoming County, N. Y., 
 and Brimfield, Portage County, Ohio, later 
 moved to Lowmoor, Iowa, and thence to Rock- 
 ford, 111., where he died. The family of Nelson 
 and Harriet Olin consisted of four children: 
 N. E., a dealer in musical merchandise at Kent, 
 Ohio; Oscar E., principal of the academic de- 
 partment in Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio; 
 Arvin S., who occupies the chair of pedagog}^ in 
 the State University of Kansas; and Walter H., 
 of this sketch. By the second marriage of Nel- 
 son Olin eight children were born, five of whom 
 are living, viz.: C. F., who is yard inspector for 
 the Santa Fe road at Dodge City, Kans.; Pearl, 
 a student in St. Louis, Mo. ; Mary, Anson and 
 Lorena. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch was four years 
 of age the family returned east from California 
 to Ohio. The year 1870 was spent in Michigan, 
 and in 187 1 he arrived in Kan.sas. For some 
 years he attended school near Vinland, and 
 afterward studied in Butler County. His first 
 experience as a teacher was when eighteen years 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of age. Desirous of more extended information 
 than he could obtain in grammar schools he left 
 no stone unturned in his efforts to gain an educa- 
 tion. Bj' cutting corn he earned mone}' with 
 which to buy high school books, and entered the 
 high school at Eldorado. Two weeks later the 
 county superintendent prevailed upon him to 
 take a six months' school ten miles from town. 
 He consented, and while teaching continued to 
 study, and graduated with the high school class 
 of 1884. Afterward he resumed teaching. In 
 the spring of 1886 he entered the Agricultural 
 College at Manhattan, where he completed the 
 four years' course in three j-ears, and graduated 
 in 1889 with the degree of B. S. The monej- 
 necessary for his college course he had earned 
 unaided. Afterward he was principal of the 
 Wabaunsee school and in.structor in the normal 
 institute. In the fall of 1890 he was elected 
 principal of Waverly school in Coffey County, 
 and while there married the primary teacher in 
 the school. Miss Winnie E. Cotton. In the 
 summer of 1891 he carried on graduate work at 
 the Agricultural College, and continued each 
 summer until 1894, when he received the degree 
 of M. S. In 1891 he accepted the superintend- 
 eucy of the Osborne school, where he remained 
 for five j-ears, and after 1894 he began to take 
 charge of normal institutes as instructor and 
 conductor. In 1896 he was elected principal of 
 the Ottawa high school, and two years later was 
 promoted to be superintendent of the cit}' schools, 
 with thirty teachers and sixteen hundred and 
 fifty enrolled pupils under his charge. He is 
 thoroughly prepared for successful work as in- 
 structor. His knowledge of pedagogy is broad 
 and profound, and he has made of it a science. 
 Few educators have a more thorough grasp of 
 their work than he. After graduating from col- 
 lege he was undecided as to whether to enter 
 normal school or take the state examination. In 
 order to test his ability he tried the latter, and 
 was successful, receiving a certificate, and pass- 
 ing a mo.st creditable examination. In 189S he 
 was given a state certificate for life. 
 
 At Wabaunsee, Kans., November 27, 1890, 
 Professor Olin married Miss Winnie E. Cotton, 
 
 who was born in that town, and was educated 
 there and in Manhattan Agricultural College, 
 afterward engaging in educational work until 
 her marriage. She is a fine musician, and has 
 made a specialty of the study of this science. In 
 social and musical circles she occupies an influ- 
 ential position. She is identified with the 
 M. P. M. Club and the Baptist Church. Be- 
 sides her two children, Winnifred Helen and 
 Walter Eugene, she cares for an adopted nephew, 
 Josie Cotton Olin. Her father, William F. Cot- 
 ton, was born in Rutland, Vt., a son of William 
 Cotton, who traces his aucestrj' to Cotton Mather 
 and John Cotton, of "Mayflower" fame, and in 
 whose honor Boston was named. In 1856 W. 
 F. Cotton settled on a claim near Wabaunsee, 
 Kans., where he has since engaged in farming. 
 For two terms he was a member of the state leg- 
 islature, and during the Civil war he served in 
 the Kansas militia. For some years he was an 
 attorney, but, preferring outdoor work, he gave 
 up his practice in favor of agricultural pursuits. 
 His wife, Ellen M. Genu, was born in Foxcroft, 
 Me., a daughter of a sea captain who engaged in 
 the whaling business. The Genu family descends 
 from "Mayflower" ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Cotton were the parents of five children, four of 
 whom are living: Mrs. Kate Brown, of Tongan- 
 oxie, Kans.; William Lincoln, on the old home- 
 stead; Mrs. Olin; and Mrs. Mabel Smith, of 
 Manhattan. 
 
 j~ REEMAN TYLER, who for years cultivated 
 rrt a farm in Hayes Township, Franklin County, 
 I is now living in Ottawa, retired from active 
 labors. He was born in Lawrenceville, St. Law- 
 rence County, N. Y. , in 1819, a son of Asa and 
 Fannie (Tupper) Tyler. He descends from one 
 of three brothers who came to America in a ver\- 
 early day, one of whom settled in Portsmouth, 
 N. H., while the others went further south. His 
 father, a native of New Hampshire, removed to 
 New York and there engaged in farming and 
 coopering. During the war of 18 12 he served in 
 the American army. Of his six children the 
 eldest, Freeman, was educated in New York and 
 Ohio. He was thirteen years of age when the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 337 
 
 family established a home in Ohio, where, schools 
 being poor and few, he had very meagre advan- 
 tages. His time was almost wholly given to 
 farm work and he assisted in clearing a large 
 tract of land. When he was fifteen his father be- 
 gan to manufacture barrels to hold tallow, and in 
 this work he helped during the winter mouths, 
 when little could be done in the field. As there 
 was a demand for flour barrels they also manu- 
 factured these, going into the woods and cutting 
 the timber, from which they shaved the staves 
 by hand. At one time they took a contract to 
 furnish one thousand barrels; soon afterward 
 their cooper was taken sick and the father fa- 
 vored abandoning the contract entirely, but our 
 subject insisted that the work must be completed, 
 so he made the barrels himself and filled the con- 
 tract. That was his first experience in manufac- 
 turing flour barrels alone. From that time he 
 followed coopering for thirty years. 
 
 In 1845 Mr. Tyler settled in Illinois. After 
 some 3'ears there he moved to Wisconsin in order 
 that his children might have the advantage of the 
 schools at Beloit. Upon his return to Illinois, 
 after six years in Beloit, he turned his attention 
 from coopering to farming, believing the latter 
 occupation would be more beneficial to his health, 
 then by no means good. From Illinois he came 
 to Kansas in the fall of 1880 and bought two hun- 
 dred and forty acres in Franklin County, where 
 he made valuable improvements and engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising. On that place he 
 made his home until the fall of 1899, when, hav- 
 ing disposed of the property, he removed to Ot- 
 tawa. In politics he is a Democrat. Though 
 eighty years of age he is strong and robust, and, 
 were his sight good, would show little signs of 
 his advancing years, but an attack of la grippe 
 greatly impaired his sight and left his eyes in 
 weak condition. 
 
 While in Ohio Mr. Tyler married Harriet Sex- 
 ton. They are the parents of six children, all 
 living, namely: Albert, a farmer of Franklin 
 County; Frank A., who lives in Rockford, 111.; 
 Anna E., widow of Francis Waid; D. C, a phy- 
 sician at Clifton, Washington County, Kans. ; 
 Rovelle P. ; and Hattie, widow of Frank Ringer. 
 
 The youngest son, Rovelle P., who conducted 
 the home farm from 1887 to 1899, was born in 
 Roscoe, Winnebago County, 111., in 1854, and 
 was reared to farm pursuits, which he has always 
 followed. In 1880 he accompanied his father to 
 Kansas. He settled in Lyon County, where he 
 cultivated two hundred acres that he still owns, 
 but now rents. In 1887 he came to Franklin 
 County to take charge of the home place, and 
 afterward engaged in general farming and feed- 
 ing cattle and hogs. Like all of the family he 
 is a Democrat. He has served as delegate to 
 county and state conventions, has served as treas- 
 urer of the school board and now holds the office 
 of township treasurer. 
 
 (John W. SCOTT, a contractor and builder, 
 I has his ofiice at No. 407 South Main street, 
 (2/ Ottawa. Not only is he an expert carpen- 
 ter, but a fine cabinet-maker as well, his work in 
 both departments exhibiting a cultivated taste 
 and wise judgment. The various residences and 
 public buildings for which he has held the con- 
 tract have been completed in a manner satisfac- 
 tory to all concerned, and have given him a posi- 
 tion among the leading men in his occupation in 
 this city. 
 
 A son of Cyrus and Elizabeth (Metcalf) Scott, 
 the subject of this sketch was born in McCon- 
 nellsville, Morgan County, Ohio, October 7, 1850. 
 His grandfather, John Scott, was one of the early 
 settlers of Morgan County, where Cyrus Scott 
 engaged in farm pursuits until his death, at the 
 age of seventy. Elizabeth Metcalf was born in 
 Morgan County, to which her father, Abraham, 
 had removed from New England. She is still 
 living and makes her home in Ohio. Of her ten 
 children seven grew to mature years and three 
 sons and one daughter still survive. The oldest 
 of the family is the subject of this sketch. He 
 was reared on the home farm and at the age of 
 sixteen began to learn the carpenter's trade. 
 When twenty-one years of age he went to Min- 
 nesota and took a claim in Cottonwood County, 
 remaining there for two years, when the grass- 
 hoppers ruined his crops. Afterward he worked 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 at his trade for two years in that county, and 
 then went to Norwalk, Iowa, where he was sim- 
 ilarly employed. For seven years he engaged in 
 carpentering and cabinet-making in Trenton, 
 Mo, In 1884 he came to Ottawa, where, after 
 one year as an employe, he began to take con- 
 tracts of his own. 
 
 In Morgan County Mr. Scott married Frances 
 Murduck, who was born there and died in Otta- 
 wa in August, 1897, leaving three children, 
 Mabel, Gertrude and Earl. Hoping that a change 
 of climate might benefit his wife, whose health 
 was dehcate, in 1888 Mr. Scott went to Califor- 
 nia and settled in the San Gabriel Valley, where 
 he engaged in contracting, erecting some of the 
 finest buildings in that vicinity. In 1896 he re- 
 turned to Ottawa, where he has since made his 
 home. Among his contracts have been those for the 
 First National Bank building, residenceof A. M. 
 Blair, Santa Fe hospital, the residences of H. A. 
 Dunn, W. B. Kiler and others that are among 
 the most substantial in the city. In politics he 
 always votes the Republican ticket. At one time 
 he was active in the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, but his membership has been allowed to 
 lapse. He is connected with Franklin Lodge 
 No. 18, A. F. & A. M., of Ottawa. 
 
 eHARLES W. OLDROYD, who has served 
 acceptably as county treasurer of Franklin 
 County and city a.ssessor of Ottawa, came to 
 Kansas in 1880 and has made his home in Ottawa 
 since 1881. He was born in Shreve, Wayne 
 County, Ohio, September 17, 1838, a son of 
 Henry and Hannah K. (Ebright) Oldroyd. His 
 paternal grandfather, Charles Oldroyd, was born 
 near Huddersfield, England, where he engaged 
 in the mauufacture of woolen cloth. Nine years 
 after the birth of his son, Henry, he brought his 
 family to America and settled near Harrisbnrg, 
 Pa., where he resumed the manufacture of wool- 
 ens. After settling in Wayne County, Ohio, he 
 engaged in farming, remaining there until his 
 death at the age of almost seventy. 
 
 The active years of Henry Oldroyd were passed 
 in Wayne County, Ohio, where he carried on a 
 
 farm. He died there in 1892, when eighty-three 
 years of age. From boyhood he was identified 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He took 
 a warm interest in building up missions and es- 
 tablishing churches, and was one of the leaders 
 in his own congregation. During the existence 
 of the Whig party he voted that ticket. After- 
 ward he became a Republican. His wife, who 
 was born near Harrisbnrg, Pa., was a daughter 
 of George Ebright, a native of Pennsylvania and 
 of German descent; late in life he removed, via 
 team and wagon, over the mountains to Ohio, 
 where he died. Mrs. Oldroyd is still living in 
 Shreve and is now eighty-eight years of age. Of 
 her five sons that attained mature years, E. G. , 
 who resides in Shreve, was a member of the 
 Fourteenth Iowa Infantry in the Civil war and 
 was seriously wounded in the head at Shiloh, 
 but soon recovered and returned to his regiment. 
 A. B. , who lives near Shreve, was a member of 
 the same company and regiment as his older 
 brother, Charles W. W. F. , who belonged to 
 the One Hundred and Eighty sixth Ohio Infan- 
 try, died in Ohio. The youngest son, T. B., is 
 engaged in the furniture business in Arkansas 
 City, Kans. 
 
 Reared on the home farm, our subject attended 
 a neighboring school, which was held in a log 
 building fitted up in pioneer style. In 185S he 
 began to learn pharmacy in Wooster, Ohio. At 
 the first call for volunteers, in April, 1861, he 
 enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, 
 being mustered in as corporal for three months. 
 Ordered to West Virginia, he there took part in 
 skirmishes with the enemy. He was mustered 
 out August 18, and on the 2d of September en- 
 listed in the same company and regiment for 
 three years, being made first sergeant, later pro- 
 moted to be second and then first lieutenant. His 
 service was principally in Kentucky and Tennes- 
 see. At a battle in the rear of Vicksburg, in the 
 winter of 1862-63, a brigade made a charge on 
 that city, and he was taken prisoner and con- 
 veyed to Jackson, Miss., where he was kept for 
 three months. When finally released he returned 
 to Camp Chase, Ohio, and remained there for one 
 }-ear on parole. On being exchanged he rejoined 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 339 
 
 his regiment at Matagorda Bay, Tex., thence 
 went to New Orleans, from there up the Red 
 River after Banks' expedition, and late in the 
 fall of 1864 was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Settling in the last-named city, Mr. Oldroyd 
 engaged in the sale of photographic supplies. In 
 1868 he returned to Wayne County, where he 
 carried on a farm for ten years. During 18S0 he 
 settled in Franklin County, Kans. , on a farm two 
 and one-half miles south of Ottawa, but the fol- 
 lowing year established his home in the city. 
 Here he opened a coal, feed and wood business, 
 and also engaged in buying and shipping grain. 
 In 1890 he became deputy county treasurer under 
 D. C. Hanes. The latter dying during the first 
 year of office, the count}' commissioners appointed 
 Mr. Oldroyd to fill the vacancy that year. He 
 then continued as deputy under John F. Lamb 
 for one year and J. L- Henderson for four years. 
 In the fall of 1895 he was nominated for the office 
 on the Republican ticket and was elected, serving 
 from October, 1896, to 1898. Since then he has 
 been city assessor. In 1883 he established his 
 home on the raw prairie, which he has since 
 transformed into a beautiful place, with fine trees 
 and gardens. The location is No. 623 West 
 Second street. 
 
 In Wooster, Ohio, in 1865, Mr. Oldroyd mar- 
 ried Miss S. C. Wilhelm, who was born in that 
 city, a daughter of John and Rachel (Heplar) 
 Wilhelm, natives of Northumberland County, 
 Pa. Her father, who was a carriage manufac- 
 turer, was one of the first settlers of Wooster and 
 was interested in its early start. He died there 
 when seventy-four years of age. In religion he 
 was connected with the German Reformed Church. 
 He and his wife were the parents often children, 
 five of whom are living. Three of their sons took 
 part in the Civil war as members of an Ohio regi- 
 ment. Mr. and Mrs. Oldroyd have a son and 
 daughter now living: John H., who is a mem- 
 ber of the insurance firm of Miller & Oldroyd; 
 and Gertrude N. , a graduate of Ottawa high 
 school and in 1898 of Ottawa University. The 
 younger son, Flmer G., died at seventeen years 
 of age. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Oldroyd has been 
 
 secretary of the county central committee. He 
 is serving his second term as vice-president of the 
 school board. Fraternally he is past officer in 
 Franklin Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M.; past 
 officer in Lodge No. 203, A. O. U. W. ; member 
 of the Knights and Ladies of Security; and for 
 two terms commander of George H. Thomas 
 Post No. 18, G. A. R. ; also a member of the 
 Sixteenth Ohio Veterans' Association. In re- 
 ligion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 ROBERT H. PEARSON, a pioneer of Doug- 
 las County, owns and occupies a farm of two 
 hundred and forty acres in Palmyra Town- 
 ship. He was born in Yorkshire, England, 
 April I, 1828, a son of William and Fannie (Hall) 
 Pearson, natives of England. When a young 
 man his father learned the cabinet-maker's trade. 
 In 1832 he came to America and settled in Alle- 
 gheny, Pa., where he was employed at carpen- 
 tering and finishing work in a shop. He re- 
 mained there until 1865, when he came to Kan- 
 sas and built a residence in Baldwin. During 
 the existence of the Whig party he upheld its 
 principles, and afterward took an active part in 
 the Republican party. For many years he was 
 connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Although he lived to be eighty-four years of age 
 he was active up to the day before his death. He 
 had a brother, James, who served under Welling- 
 ton at the battle of Waterloo. He was the father 
 often children, but six of these died at an early 
 age. The four who attained maturity were 
 named as follows: Ann, Mrs. George Lovett, de- 
 ceased (born October 18, 1826); Robert H.; 
 Richard (April 17, 1830), who died in Franklin 
 County at the age of sixty-six years; and Eliza 
 (February 23, 1839), who is the wife of William 
 Feltwell and lives in Philadelphia, Pa. The 
 younger of the two sons came to Kansas in 1855, 
 settled in Douglas County and afterward resided 
 here. During the Civil war he served in the 
 Union armj', being connected, at different times, 
 with Illinois and Kansas regiments. 
 
 When a young man our subject learned the 
 trade of a coach-body builder. For a short time 
 
340 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he worked at his trade in Milwaukee, later was 
 employed in St. lyOuis and in Keokuk, Iowa. In 
 the winter of 1S51-52 he went to California and 
 engaged in placer mining in the southern mines, 
 meeting with fair success. In April, 1854, he 
 started back east. Having heard of Kansas and 
 learning that lands here were coming into the 
 market, he decided to seek a home in this then 
 territory. Near where Baldwin now stands he 
 secured a claim, May 15, 1854. It was by uo 
 means easy to hold the claim, as pro-slavery men 
 made repeated efibrts to drive him away; how- 
 ever, he had as much courage and more determi- 
 nation than the}', so succeeded in holding the 
 property until i860, when he sold it. About the 
 same time he purchased his present property, 
 which he has since placed under cultivation. In 
 early days he belonged to Shore's Rough and 
 Ready Pioneer Company and took an active part 
 (1855) in defending the city of Lawrence from 
 demolition by foreign invaders. The battle of 
 Black Jack was fought on his farm and he took 
 part in it, as well as participating in other skir- 
 mishes. For a time he was a member of Nugent's 
 Regiment, Missouri Home Guard, but was trans- 
 ferred from it to the Ninth Kansas Infantry, 
 where he served for several mouths, when by 
 reason of the muster out of the company and by 
 way of favor no objection to his being re-enlisted 
 is known to exist. 
 
 In spite of obstacles Mr. Pearson has had more 
 than ordinary success. The task that lay before 
 him when he came to Kansas was not an easy 
 one. He took up a timber and a squatter's 
 claim, and was forced to defend his rights by the 
 aid of his gun, against as many as five or six men 
 at one time. In the end, however, troubles of 
 that kind gave way to prosperity. He is now 
 the owner of two hundred and fortj' acres. The 
 Republican party receives his vote and influence. 
 He has never cared for oifice and has held none 
 excepting that of school director or road overseer. 
 For thirty years or more he has been a member 
 of Baldwin City Lodge No. 31, I. O. O. F., in 
 which he has passed all of the chairs. He is also 
 a member of the Grand Army Post at Baldwin. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Pearson, September 
 
 23. 1855, united him with Miss Catherine Ann 
 Basinger. Their wedding was the first ever sol- 
 emnized in Palmyra Township, and their oldest 
 son, William F., was the first white child born 
 there. Mrs. Pearson was born in Kentucky, 
 February 27, 1837, but resided in Kansas from 
 the fall of 1854, and died here December 4, 1878, 
 when about forty years old. Of the children 
 born to this union, three died at an earlj' age. 
 The others are as follows: William F. (born 
 August 10, 1856), a machinist in Wellsville, 
 Kans. ; George Arthur (March 22, 1859), who is 
 engaged in farming in Oklahoma; Ann Jane (Oc- 
 tober 4, i860), now Mrs. Charles Stover; R. 
 Siegel (March 31, 1862), a farmer of Pomona, 
 Kans.; Edward (August 2, 1865), who resides on 
 the home farm; Fannie (October 22, 1867), wife 
 of Hardin Cavender; Elizabeth (March 22, 1869), 
 a nurse in Topeka, Kans. ; Nettie (February 24, 
 1871), wife of Walter Scott; and Fred H. (Octo- 
 ber 3, 1873), a farmer in Palmyra Township. 
 February 7, 1884, Mr. Pearson married Rosella 
 Harris, of Palmyra Township. She was born in 
 Chautauqua County, N. Y., and has resided in 
 Kansas since 1880. 
 
 ~DWARD B. MERRITT. Few residents of 
 ^ Lansing have been more closely identified 
 __ with its business interests than has Mr. 
 Merritt, who is the proprietor of a general mer- 
 cantile store and has built up a large trade in this 
 place. A man of great industry, undoubted in- 
 tegrity', and more than ordinary intelligence, he 
 has become recognized as one of the leading bus- 
 iness men of his town, and the store which he 
 owns and conducts is the largest in Leavenworth 
 County, outside of the city of Leavenworth. 
 
 Mr. Merritt was born in Platte County, Mo., 
 April 25, 1857, a son of Charles and Jane (More- 
 lock) Merritt. He was reared on a farm and re- 
 ceived his education in country schools. In 1877 
 he came to Leavenworth, where he secured em- 
 ployment as a clerk, but after a short time he 
 became interested in farming in the southern 
 part of the county. In the fall of 1878 he en- 
 tered Whittier College at Salem, Iowa, where he 
 
NICHOLAS GENTRY. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 343' 
 
 took the studies of the fall and winter terms. 
 Later he taught school for three years in Leaven- 
 worth and Wyandotte Counties. 
 
 In 1882 he opened a general store in Lansing, 
 beginning on a very small scale, but increasing 
 his stock from time to time as his enlarging trade 
 rendered advisable. In 1895 he established a 
 branch at Soldier, Kans. , where he built up a 
 large trade. He owns a fine residence in Lansing 
 and is one of the most prosperous business men 
 of the town. In politics a Republican, he has 
 been actively connected with local affairs, has 
 been one of the political leaders of the village, 
 and under the Harrison administration filled the 
 office of postmaster. Personally he is a man of 
 very independent character, never afraid to speak 
 his convictions, but possessing under all circum- 
 stances the courage of his opinions. November 
 4, 1885, he married Miss Verlena Timberlake, 
 daughter of J. Harvey and Lavina (Holdon) Tim- 
 berlake, of Lansing, Mich. They have three 
 children: Delia T., Ollie T. and Edna T. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Merritt is connected 
 with Nine Mile Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M.; 
 Leavenworth Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.; Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen of 
 America, Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal 
 Aid Association. For six years he was master in 
 the blue lodge of Masonry and he has also been 
 chancellor commander in the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 PJICHOLAS GENTRY, a farmer and stock- 
 Yl raiser of Wakarusa Township, Douglas 
 1/9 County, was born in Boone County, Mo., 
 August 31, 1840, a son of Beverly and Olive 
 (Hern) Gentry. His paternal great-grandfather, 
 a native of England, came to this country and 
 settled in Kentucky, where succeeding genera- 
 tions resided. From that state at an early age 
 Beverly Gentry moved to Missouri and improved 
 a farm in Boone County, where he married. In 
 politics he was first a Whig and later a Demo- 
 crat. Of his ten children five are living, viz.: 
 Eliza, widow of Green Sweezer, of Wakarusa 
 Township; Susan, widow of Daniel Farmer and a 
 resident "of Jefferson County, Kans.; Elizabeth, 
 
 who married J. J. Allen, then of Douglas County, 
 but now a resident of Jefferson County; Nicholas; 
 and Eveline, who married Madison Thompson 
 and now lives in Wichita. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired 
 principally by self-culture. He was about six- 
 teen when his parents removed from Missouri to 
 Kansas and he was afterward connected with the 
 freighting across the plains. When with his 
 father he freighted for him to all of the old towns 
 along the trail. He crossed the plains six times, 
 made five trips as far west as Pike's Peak, and has 
 been all through New Mexico. At the opening 
 of the Civil war he went to Fort Leavenworth 
 for the purpose of enlisting in the army, but as 
 the government needed teamsters he was placed 
 in the quartermaster's department and sent to 
 New Mexico. For three months he drove a 
 company wagon in the regular army, being with 
 the Second Dragoons. After his return to Kan- 
 sas he began freighting for the government, in 
 which he continued until 1866. He then settled 
 upon a farm in Lecompton Township, Douglas 
 County. About 1887 he purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres where he has since resided, on 
 section 22, Wakarusa Township. He has added 
 to his residence and in 1898 erected a large barn. 
 His specialty has been the raising of wheat and 
 he also has some stock. During the existence of 
 the Grange he was one of its active members and 
 he is now connected with the Fraternal Aid 
 Association. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 
 In Douglas County, August 10, 1865, Mr. 
 Gentry married Catherine Shafer, by whom he 
 has five children, viz. : Laura, wife of Eli Wilson, 
 of Grant Township, Douglas County; LiHie 
 Elizabeth, who married David McCreath and oc- 
 cupies a farm adjoining her father's; Nettie, wife 
 of Walter Kennedy, of St. Joseph, Mo. ; Mathias 
 Shipley, who is married and lives on a farm west 
 of the home place; and Seymour Otto, who 
 assists on the home farm. It has been the aim of 
 the parents to give the children good educations 
 and they spared no pains to fit them for the re- 
 sponsibilites of life. The daughters are gradu- 
 ates of the high school at Lawrence and two 
 have been schoolteachers. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mrs. Gentry is a daughter of John and Anna 
 Maria (Baker) Shafer, natives of Germany. Her 
 father came to America in early manhood, cross- 
 ing the ocean in a sailing vessel that landed in 
 New Orleans. There he followed his trades of 
 blacksmith and boiler-maker. At the opening of 
 the Civil war he joined Company H, Fir.st Louisi- 
 ana Regiment, C. S. A., and died while in the 
 army, in the fall of 1861. His wife came from 
 Havre to America in 1845, when twenty-three 
 years of age. On the ocean the ship was wrecked 
 and the pas.sengers endured great hardship until 
 they were picked up by a passing vessel. Mrs. 
 Gentry was the only child of her parents. She 
 was ten when her father died and three years 
 later her mother passed away. Immediately 
 afterward she came to Kansas, where she was 
 married to Mr. Gentry prior to the fifteenth an- 
 niversary of her birth. 
 
 y/lALCOM F. SMITH, deceased, was born 
 y and reared in Cleveland, Ohio, where his 
 (g father, Dr. Alva Smith, a graduate of the 
 Cincinnati Eclectic College, was a practicing 
 physician. His paternal grandfather, when a 
 boy of sixteen, enlisted in the continental army, 
 for service against England, and afterward en- 
 dured all the hardships of that long and bloody 
 war, spending one winter at Valley Forge, where 
 food was so scarce that star\'ing men fought for a 
 grain of corn and clothing so difficult to secure 
 that men walked, barefooted, through the deep 
 snow. While he was in the thickest of the 
 fights he was never injured, although at one 
 time a bullet grazed his head. 
 
 At the time that James A. Garfield was a stu- 
 dent in Hiram College, Ohio, Malcora F.Smith 
 also attended that institution. After graduating 
 he attended a dental college, where he gained a 
 thorough knowledge of the profession. While 
 practicing at Barrington, 111., he enlisted, August 
 I, 1862, in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Illi- 
 nois Infantry, and was afterward made .sergeant- 
 major, September 7, 1863. January 20, 1864, 
 at Memphis, he was commissioned second lieu- 
 tenant of Company E, First Alabama Artillerj'. 
 
 On the 5th of March, the same year, he was 
 made first lieutenant. His regiment was merged 
 into the Third United States Colored Infantrj-, 
 later the Seventh United States Heavy Artillery, 
 and finally was made the Eleventh United States 
 Colored Infantrj-, in which he served until Octo- 
 ber, 1865. Among the battles in which he bore 
 a part were those at Holly Springs, Tallahatchie, 
 Chickasaw Bluff on the Yazoo River, Arkansas 
 Post, the relief of Porter's squadron, and what 
 was known as the Rolling Fork expedition, in 
 which he traveled for nine days on four days' ra- 
 tions, and without ever taking his boots off. 
 Twice he narrowly escaped death. A bullet 
 grazing his neck left a scar; another passed be- 
 tween his fingers while he was charging over a 
 fence in a skirmish. He took part in the opera- 
 tions around Vicksburg, the battle of Richmond, 
 La., was also at Grand Gulf, Canton, Raymond, 
 Champion Hills, Edwards' depot, Black River 
 Bridge, Jackson, Miss., and the assault on Vicks- 
 burg, May 19-21, 1863. General Grant called 
 for volunteers and Mr. Smith was one who 
 promptly responded to the call and participated 
 in that memorable assault. While in the Elev- 
 enth Infantry he took part in the battle of Cane 
 Hill, Holly Springs and Guntown. Later he was 
 detailed as adjutant and quartermaster of his reg- 
 iment at Soldiers' Home, Memphis, Tenn. His 
 health became broken by reason of the hardships 
 of army life and he was honorably discharged, on 
 account of disabilitj-, October i, 1865. From the 
 effects of his service he ever afterward suffered. 
 He had been weakened especially by his work 
 after the blowing up of the "Sultana," when he 
 labored day and night to aid the survivors of the 
 catastrophe. 
 
 Not being able to continue at his profession on 
 account of poor health, Mr. Smith became a busi- 
 ness man. For a time he was bookkeeper and 
 cashier in a bank and clerk in a postofiice. In 
 1869 he settled in Burlingame, Kans., and in 1887 
 established his home in Ottawa, where he lived, 
 in retirement, until his death, February 10, 1896. 
 He had been identified with the Grand Army 
 from the time of its organization and always 
 maintained an interest in the meetings of the army 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 veterans. For many years he was a faithful mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church and in that faith he 
 died, looking forward to a future of happiness 
 and a reunion with his loved ones in the world 
 to come. 
 
 y/lRS. LURENDA B. SMITH has been prom- 
 y inently identified with the work oftheWo- 
 {3 man's Christian Temperance Union for a 
 quarter of a century. As president of the state 
 organization she traveled through every part of 
 Kansas, organizing local societies, reviving weak 
 ones, and strengthening the movement in behalf 
 of prohibition. For three years much of her time 
 was spent in the field, and, while the constant 
 travel was fatiguing, yet she was more than re- 
 paid in the good accomplished and in the seed 
 sown that has since borne fruit. In this work she 
 received the sympathy and assistance of her hus- 
 band, M. F. Smith, who was proud of her success 
 and delighted iu the promotion of the temperance 
 movement. At his death, desiring to remain at 
 home with her daughter, she resigned as presi- 
 dent, but accepted the oiBce of corresponding sec- 
 retary, which does not require travel, but never- 
 theless takes almost her entire time. 
 
 Mrs. Smith was born at South Bolivar, Alle- 
 gany County, N. Y. Her father, Philetus Bev- 
 erly, a native of that county, removed in 1844 to 
 Barrington, Cook County, 111., where he farmed 
 and also preached, joining the Rock River con- 
 ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
 1868 he came to Kansas, settling in Burliugame 
 Township, Osage County, where he became one 
 of the pioneer prohibition workers and also 
 preached occasionally. The infirmities of advan- 
 cing years, however, prevent him now from be- 
 ing active in public affairs. His wife was Lovisa 
 Mix, who was born in Vermont in 18 14, a daugh- 
 ter of Ira Mix, a soldier in the war of 1812 and 
 for years a farmer in Allegany County. In the 
 family of Philetus and Lovisa Beverly there were 
 nine children, seven of whom attained their ma- 
 jority and four are living. Two sons, Dwight C. 
 and Cassius E., who enlisted in the army, served 
 as members of a regiment of light artillerj', and 
 the latter died at Fort Donelson as a result of 
 
 exposure while on picket duty. Mrs. Smith was 
 fourth in order of birth among the children of 
 the family. She was educated in the schools of 
 Cook County and taught three terms of school. 
 In 1862 she became the wife of M. F. Smith at 
 Barrington, 111. Of the five children born to 
 them, two are living, viz.: Waldo C, who is in 
 the employ of the Wells-Fargo Express Company 
 in Ottawa; and Winn ifred 1,., a graduate of the 
 Ottawa high school, class of 1899. Much of her 
 active life Mrs. Smith has given to Christian edu- 
 cational and temperance work, for which she is 
 fitted by natural gifts and education. In the va- 
 rious societies of the Christian Church she has 
 been an interested worker and during her long 
 connection with this denomination has been fore- 
 most in its enterprises. She is connected with 
 the Ladies Circle G. A. R. , and is also a member 
 of the Columbian Literary Club. 
 
 EHARLES D. CRANE, one of the most suc- 
 cessful business men of Ottawa, has made 
 his home in this city since 1869, and, in 
 point of actual years of business experience, is one 
 of the oldest merchants here. His first undertak- 
 ing in the west was the purchase of the old 
 Ottawa mill, which he remodeled, doubling its 
 capacity, and superintending its management. 
 In 1871 he traded his share in the mill for a stock 
 of goods, and for two years he made no effort to 
 learn the dry-goods business, hoping to have an 
 opportunity to trade his goods for a mill; but, no 
 opportunity presenting itself, he determined to 
 put all of his energy into the mercantile business 
 and acquire a practical knowledge of it. Since 
 then his attention has been given very closely to 
 the management of his store. He rented the 
 building which he now occupies, 25x110 feet in 
 dimensions, and afterward used an adjoining 
 room, 25x110, in which to place the remainder 
 of his large stock. During the time of the fi- 
 nancial depression, when many merchants were 
 succumbing to the panic, he not onlj' held his 
 own financially, but increased his quarters by fit- 
 ting up a room on the second floor, 25x90, where 
 he has since kept his stock of carpets, cloaks, 
 
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 etc. His business is almost wholly retail, al- 
 though he has carried on a jobbing business with 
 a few adjacent towns. As a merchant he is a 
 man of fine judgment, great enterprise and keen 
 foresight, and these qualities have assisted him in 
 the attainment of success. His influence, both in 
 business circles and socially, is large, and is the 
 result of his known integrity and genial disposi- 
 tion. 
 
 Born in Batavia, Genesee County , N. Y., Nov- 
 ember 28, 1833, Mr. Crane is a brother of H. D. 
 Crane, in whose sketch appears the family his- 
 tory. In 1843 he accompanied his parents to Illi- 
 nois, where he spent five years, meantime attend- 
 ing school in a building primitive in appearance 
 and crude in its appointments. He assisted in cul- 
 tivating and improving the home farm, and drove 
 five yoke of oxen witli which to break the prairie 
 land. After going to Iowa in 1843 he continued 
 to work on a farm until 1855, when he secured 
 work in a mill at Cedar Rapids. In 1857 he went 
 to West Union, Fayette County, Iowa. In 1859 
 he took the overland trip to California, going via 
 Omaha, Fort Kearney, Fort Hall, over Goose 
 Creek Mountain, and down the Humboldt River, 
 and arriving in California after a journey of four 
 months. The trip was taken with the hope of re- 
 gaining his health, which was very poor. He 
 had agreed to return in 1861, so, during that 
 year, with health improved and with the money 
 he had saved, he journej'ed via Panama to New 
 York Cit}^ Having seen much of the country 
 he was glad to settle down into the quiet routine 
 of business. He had traveled from Batavia, N. Y., 
 to Sacramento, Cal., via wagon, and had en- 
 dured all the hardships of pioneer life, but the re- 
 sults were beneficial to him, as he acquired self- 
 reliance and habits of perseverance. After his 
 return he operated a mill on Turkey River for 
 two years alone, then took his brother, H. D., 
 into partnership and they improved a mill at Cas- 
 cade, Iowa, which they ran until coming to Kan- 
 sas in 1869. Since then his life has been insep- 
 arably identified with the history of Ottawa, 
 among whose business men he holds a foremost 
 position. At the organization of the People's 
 National Bank he was chosen a director and con- 
 
 tinued to serve in that capacity until he sold his 
 stock. He was also interested in the organiza- 
 tion of the Ottawa Building and Loan Associa- 
 tion, and for two years served as treasurer and a 
 director, but then disposed of his shares and re- 
 tired from the society. 
 
 In Cascade, Iowa, Mr. Crane married Miss 
 Angelica Anderson, who was born in Dubuque, 
 Iowa, being a daughter of Alexander Anderson, 
 a surveyor in the early daj's of Iowa. They have 
 one child, Ada, who graduated from the Ottawa 
 high school and the New England conservatory 
 of music at Boston; she is now the wife of C. F. 
 Dennee, professor of pianoforte and composition 
 in the conservator)' from which she graduated. 
 
 Since the organization of the party Mr. Crane 
 has been a Republican. While in Dubuque 
 Count}', Iowa, during the bitter fight regarding 
 Allison, he performed great service in behalf of 
 that gentleman, aiding in securing his nomina- 
 tion at West Union, and during the following 
 winter Allison was for the first time elected to 
 the United States senate, of which he has since 
 been a leader. Mr. Crane was elected to the 
 council of Ottawa, but refused to qualify, not de- 
 siring to hold office. Fraternally he is connec- 
 ted with Ottawa Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M., 
 Ottawa Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and Tancred 
 Comraandery No. 11, K. T. 
 
 HON. JOHIEL H. BONEBRAKE, M. D. 
 During the long period of his residence in 
 Lecompton, Dr. Bonebrake has been inti- 
 mately associated with the interests of the town. 
 Coming here at the close of the war, when the 
 prominence of pro-slavery "days had departed, 
 when real-estate values had depreciated and the 
 place resembled some "deserted village," he 
 aided other citizens in re-establishing business, 
 and was especially active in the founding of Lane 
 University, which, in January, 1865, became the 
 propertj' of the United Brethren denomination, 
 and of which he was treasurer for nineteen years. 
 He has also ofSciated as a local preacher in the 
 United Brethren Church, and has been very 
 prominent in its work in this localitj'. 
 
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 347 
 
 A son of George and Eliza (Adams) Bone- 
 brake, our subject was born in Preble County, 
 Ohio, June 21, 1830, being the second of three 
 children, the eldest of whom, Jane, is the wife of 
 Joseph Manning, of Jefferson, Iowa, and the 
 youngest, Parkison I., is president of the Central 
 National Bank, of Topeka, Kans. The father, 
 who was born in Pennsylvania in 1799, was a 
 boy of eight years when his parents removed to 
 Preble County, Ohio, and there he grew to man- 
 hood. For years he was an itinerant preacher in 
 the United Brethren Church. In 1848 he re- 
 moved to Wayne County, Ind., but after four 
 years established his home in Fountain County, 
 that state, and two years later went to Marion 
 County, -Iowa, where he resided up to i860. 
 During the latter j'ear he came to Kansas, set- 
 tling in Lecompton, and in this town he died, in 
 1866, in the home of his son. His wife, who 
 was born in New Jersey in 1806, and died in 
 Indiana in 1848, was, like himself, a sincere 
 Christian and a faithful member of the United 
 Brethren Church. 
 
 On reaching manhood our subject taught for 
 two years in the public schools of Marion County, 
 Iowa. Following this he engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business in Fountain Count}-, where he re- 
 mained for three years. On his arrival in Iowa 
 he took up the study of medicine, which he read 
 under the tutorship of Dr. Roberts, in Attica, for 
 six months. He then entered the Keokuk (Iowa) 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he 
 took a course of lectures in 1854-55. The next 
 year he attended the Cincinnati (Ohio) Eclectic 
 Medical Institute. Just prior to his graduation 
 the sickness of his brother called him home. He 
 established himself in practice in Attica, from 
 which town, in i860, he removed to Auburn, 
 Shawnee County, Kans., and five j'ears later 
 opened an office in L,ecompton, where he has since 
 resided. From the time of his settlement here 
 he has been active in local affairs and has proved 
 himself a public-spirited citizen. In 1866 he was 
 elected to the state legislature and again, in 1885, 
 was returned to the lower house. For thirty }^ears 
 he held office as city clerk of Lecompton. June 
 I, 1897, he was appointed postmaster of Lecomp- 
 
 ton, which office he has since filled with efficiency. 
 He has always been a stanch Republican and 
 has supported the principles of his party. 
 
 April 15, 1858, Dr. Bonebrake married Miss 
 Sarah Witt, who was born in Wayne County, 
 Ind., but at the time of her marriage was living 
 in Bedford, Iowa. Five children were born of 
 their union, but only two are living. The older 
 daughter, EvaB., is the wife of Dr. A. J. May, 
 of Cambria, Kans., and the younger, Cora W. , 
 married Dr. S. J. Hampshire, of Overbrook, 
 Kans. 
 
 I OUIS CASS STINE, of Ottawa, was born 
 It in New Market, Highland County, Ohio, 
 L/ July 31 > 1847, a son of Jacob Crawford and 
 Rebecca (Mathewson) Stine, natives respectively 
 of Washington County, Pa., and Highland 
 County, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, who 
 was of German descent, moved from Pennsyl- 
 vania to Greensburg, Ind., and engaged in farm- 
 ing near that town until he died. Reared in 
 Greensburg, where he learned the shoemaker's 
 trade, Jacob C. Stine removed from there to Ohio, 
 where he married and became a practicing attor- 
 ney in New Market. For many years he served 
 as justice of the peace. A local leader of the 
 Democratic party, he served as a delegate to 
 national conventions and took a prominent part 
 in the councils of his party. In religion he was 
 a Methodist. Uprightness marked all his actions, 
 and genero.sity was shown in his helpful aid to 
 the poor and needy. He continued in the prac- 
 tice of law until he was fifty-nine years of age, 
 when he retired, and two years later he died. 
 His wife, who also died in Ohio, was a daughter 
 of Ira Mathewson, a native of Virginia and an 
 early settler of Highland County, Ohio, removing 
 thence to Bond County, 111., where he died. He 
 was a member of a pioneer family of New Eng- 
 land, of Scotch descent and Presbyterian faith. 
 
 The subject of this article was one of six chil- 
 dren, three of whom are living, A. Jackson being 
 a farmer in Coffey County, Kans. , and Isaac a 
 resident of Dallas, Tex. Louis Cass, who is the 
 second of the sons, spent the first eighteen years 
 of his life in New Market. In March, 1S65, he 
 
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 removed to Kansas Township, Edgar County, 
 111., where he engaged in farming, but, being 
 troubled with ague there, he returned to Ohio the 
 following year. In 1868 he went to Wapello, 
 Iowa, where he was employed by a manufacturer 
 of pumps for one year. In 1869 he visited east- 
 ern and south central Kansas, spending a short 
 time with a brother in Johnson County. Return- 
 ing to Wapello, he remained there until 1872, but 
 meantime traveled extensively in Iowa and 
 western Illinois. 
 
 In the year 1872 he settled in Charleston, Coles 
 County, 111. Subsequently he removed to Spring- 
 field, where he was engaged in business. He 
 was married in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1876, his wife 
 being Mary Williams, who was born in New 
 Market, Ohio. In 1S64 she accompanied her 
 father, Rev. Nathaniel Williams, to Illinois, later 
 going to Iowa, and in 1884 he came to Kansas, 
 settling in Clinton, where he died in 1887. 
 
 Intending to study law, Mr. Stine went to 
 Wilton, Iowa, in 1877, but after a year, on 
 account of trouble with his eyes, he abandoned 
 its study. In 1879 he came to Franklin County, 
 Kans., and bought a farm on the present site of 
 Richter, but a year later removed to Williams- 
 burg, this county, and opened the Williamsburg 
 Bank, which was the first bank started in the 
 town. As his partner he had C. W. Goodin. 
 After a year he removed to Ottawa and with Mr. 
 Goodin, in January, 1882, organized the Goodin 
 Bank, of which he continued as cashier until 
 18S7. He then purchased his partner's interest 
 and organized the Ottawa State Bank, of which 
 he became president. In 1893 he sold his bank- 
 ing interests in order to devote his attention to the 
 large Silkville property entrusted to his care, he 
 being president of the board of trustees of the 
 Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home at Silkville. 
 
 About 1870 Earnest Valeton de Boissiere, a 
 philanthropic French gentleman, who was a 
 graduate of the Polytechnic .school of Paris and 
 a gentleman of large means, purchased and 
 settled upon a large tract of land in the south- 
 western part of Franklin County. His property 
 contained over three thou.sand acres, and he built 
 a residence of sixty rooms. It was his hope to 
 
 establish a co-operative farm, but the hope was 
 destined to disappointment. He then began to 
 raise silkworms, having large mulberry orchards, 
 and engaging in the manufacture of silk. The 
 quality of the silk was so superior that it was 
 given a premium at the Centennial of 1876. 
 Although the venture did not prove a financial 
 success, he, being fond of experiment, continued 
 there. Being philanthropic, he gave all of his 
 property in France for charitable' purposes, and 
 contemplated donating his Kansas lands for the 
 same purpose. His desire to give his property to 
 some worthj' institution came to the knowledge 
 of Mr. Stine in 1892. Being an ardent Odd 
 Fellows, he at once realized that an orphans' home 
 would carry out the principles of Odd Fellowship 
 and accomplish great good. He called on Mon- 
 sieur de Boissiere and laid his plans before him. 
 The Frenchman was at once charmed with the 
 idea, believing it more practicable than other 
 .schemes that had been laid before him. In May, 
 1892, the property was deeded to a board of trus- 
 tees, of which Mr. Stine was appointed president. 
 In October of the same year, when the grand 
 lodge of Kansas met, he presented the arrange- 
 ments in detail, and after deliberation the grand 
 lodge accepted the property, under the conditions 
 laid down by the owner, and provided for the im- 
 provement and building up of the place. It 
 comprised three thousand one hundred and fifty- 
 six acres of land, with stock and machinery. 
 
 Being elected president of the board, with the 
 entire management of the home, Mr. Stine sold 
 his bank in order to devote all of his time to the 
 work in which he was so deeply interested. In 
 1S92 he accompanied De Boissiere to New York 
 upon his return to France, he having promised 
 to return in 1894 on the opening of the school, 
 but he died in January, 1894. The home was 
 opened in June of that year. In the building up 
 of the school an assessment was made and some 
 dis.satisfaction arose, the matter finally coming 
 into the hands of the grand lodge and the 
 sovereign grand lodge, where Mr. Stine won a 
 victory. The dissatisfaction no doubt arose from 
 the fact that certain parties, using their influence 
 in what might be called the politics of the order. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 endeavored to handicap him in his work; and 
 objection was made because the Frenchman had 
 insisted on the property being in the hands of 
 trustees appointed independently of the grand 
 lodge, in which he showed discretion, for the 
 board is thus left free from any changes made in 
 the order. However, some were not pleased 
 with it and made such strong objections that of 
 late it has been necessary to abandon the in- 
 dustrial school. This school had done much 
 good, as is shown by the fact that some of its 
 pupils are now occupying positions of trust in 
 various places; but the grand lodge, repudiating 
 its former action, the school was closed. For 
 this reason the good work has been retarded, but 
 it is the hope that it can be taken up again soon, 
 and the charitable plans of its originator carried 
 out. 
 
 Mr. Stine was made an Odd Fellow in Mattoon, 
 111., in 1873, but he did not take an active part in 
 the order until he came to Kansas. He is now a 
 member of Ottawa I,odge and has been connected 
 with the grand lodge since i88i, having been its 
 treasurer from 1883 to 1894. For the same 
 period he also served as treasurer of the board 
 of trustees of the Fraternal Benefit Association 
 of the Odd Fellows. He is a member of the 
 Rebekahs, Encampment, Canton and Muscovites. 
 At the time of the meeting of the sovereign grand 
 lodge in California he was a member of the com- 
 mittee of escort. He was one of the committee 
 of fifteen that went from this grand lodge to 
 Columbus, Ohio, in order to invite the grand 
 lodge to Kansas; their invitation was accepted 
 and the convention was held in Topeka. He was 
 a charter member of the Fraternal Aid, of which 
 he was general treasurer for many years. He is 
 also connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and with the Knights and Ladies of 
 Security. 
 
 In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Stine there are 
 a son, Nathaniel True, and a daughter, Louis 
 Fay. The son is a graduate of Wentworth 
 Military Academy at Lexington, Mo., and the 
 daughter is a student in the public schools of 
 Ottawa. The family are members of the First 
 Presbyterian Church, 
 
 For years Mr. Stine has been chairman of the 
 county Democratic central committee. In 1896 
 he was a delegate from the second congressional 
 district to the national convention of the Demo- 
 cratic party in Chicago, where W. J. Brj'an was 
 nominated for president. He is personally 
 acquainted with Mr. Bryan, whom he had the 
 honor of entertaining in his home on South Main 
 street. He aided in the organization, and is now 
 president, of the Ottawa Publishing Company, 
 publishers of the Daily Republican , which is now 
 a Democratic paper in its politics. He is also a 
 member of the Commercial Club. 
 
 ROBERT L. WOOD, M. D., a resident of 
 Kansas since 1858, is the oldest physician of 
 Leavenworth County. When he came to 
 this state he purchased a farm ten miles southwest 
 of Leavenworth and, in connection with his pro- 
 fessional work, superintended the cultivation of 
 his land. He continued an active and busy life, 
 devoted to his professional duties and agricultu- 
 ral pursuits, but after years of activity he retired 
 in 1887 and took up his residence in Leavenworth. 
 Upon every topic connected with the science of 
 medicine and also upon all subjects of political 
 importance he keeps posted and is well informed. 
 
 Dr. Wood was born in Stokes County, N. C. , 
 in 1821. The ancestors of the family in this 
 country came from England and settled in North 
 Carolina. Joseph Wood, the doctor's father, was 
 a leading physician of Randolph County, N. C, 
 and also carried on a large farm. He died in 
 Texas, while on a visit in that state. At the time 
 of his death he was eighty years of age. By his 
 marriage to Susan Lindsay, who was born in 
 North Carolina, of Scotch-Irish descent, he had 
 seven children, three now living, viz. : Robert L- ; 
 Sidneys., M. D., of Orange, Cal. ; and Sarah, 
 wife of William Yohe. The wife and mother 
 died at seventy-six years of age. 
 
 The medical education of our subject was ob- 
 tained in the Louisville (Ky.) Medical College, 
 from which he graduated in 1846. During that 
 year he located in St. Joe, Mo., where he engaged 
 in practice for twelve years, coming from there to 
 
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 Leavenworth County in 1858. He has always 
 been an adherent of the Democratic party, but 
 has not been active in politics. His first mar- 
 riage was in 1849 to Georgia Allen, of Kentucky, 
 who diedin 1859, leaving three children, viz.: 
 William B., a physician in Orange, Cal.; Ella, 
 wife of John Keller; and Minnie, v^'ho married 
 John Hutchinson, of California. By his second 
 wife, who was Mary Black, Dr. Wood had three 
 children: Leila, widow of Robert Melvin; Henry 
 and Jesse. His third wife was Catherine Bux- 
 ton, a native of Missouri, by whom he had three 
 children: Edwin S., Blanche and Estella. 
 
 ~ DWIN S. WOOD, M. D., police .surgeon and 
 't) secretary of the board of health of Leaven- 
 ^ worth, also health officer of Leavenworth 
 County, was born in High Prairie Township, 
 October 25, 1872, a .son of Dr. Robert L. and 
 Sarah (Buxton) Wood, natives respectively of 
 Stokes County, N. C, and Clay County, Mo. 
 The family of which he is a member has given 
 many eminent men to the medical profession. 
 Its members have been unusually successful as 
 physicians and surgeons, possessing the peculiar 
 mental traits and talents requisite for a successful 
 professional career. His grandfather and father 
 both devoted the active years of their lives to the 
 science of medicine and were skillful practition- 
 ers. An uncle and a brother are now success- 
 fully practicing in Orange, Cal., and other rela- 
 tives have also entered this profession. 
 
 It is not strange therefore that Dr. Wood se- 
 lected therapeutics as the science to which his 
 life should be devoted. His preliminary profes- 
 sional studies were conducted under his father's 
 oversight. After one year with him, in 1893 ^^ 
 entered Rush Medical College in Chicago, from 
 which he graduated in 1896, with the degree of 
 M. D. Returning to Leavenworth, he opened an 
 office and has since carried on a general practice. 
 In the spring of 1897 he was appointed police 
 surgeon and secretary of the board .of health, 
 which positions he has since filled efficiently. 
 Since January, 1899, he has also held the office 
 of county health officer, to which he was appoint- 
 ed by the county commissioners. 
 
 Dr. Wood is a member of the Leavenworth 
 County Medical Society and the Alumni Associ- 
 ation of Rush Medical College, also the Phi Rho- 
 Sigma Fraternity. He votes the Democratic 
 ticket at local and national elections. Fratern- 
 ally he is a member of King Solomon Lodge No. 
 10, A. F. & A. M 
 
 ELARK WILBER, who owns and cultivates 
 a valuable farm in Sherman Township, 
 Leavenworth Count)-, was born in Erie 
 County, Ohio, June 21, 1853, being a son of 
 Thomas G. and Abigail (Mason) Wilber. His 
 father, a native of New York state, removed to 
 Ohio in early manhood and there followed the 
 blacksmith's trade and general farming until his 
 retirement from business. He was a man who 
 stood high in his community. In politics, though 
 not active, he was interested, and alwaj's sup- 
 ported Democratic principles. He died in 1887, 
 when sixty-two years of age. He had long sur- 
 vived his wife, who pas.sed away in 1868. Of 
 their nine children all but one are living. Rich- 
 ard and Amos are farmers respectively in Fair- 
 mount and Sherman Townships, Leavenworth 
 County. The others are: Clark, the subject of 
 this sketch; Charles and Mary, of Ohio; Ira, of 
 Sherman Township; Ezra and Jessie, of Ohio. 
 The Wilber family was represented in New Eng- 
 land in a very early day, and Brownell Wilber, 
 our subject's grandfather, removed from Massa- 
 chusetts to New York. 
 
 The third son of his parents, our subject 
 received such educational advantages as his 
 neighborhood school affiirded. At an earl)' age 
 he became familiar with farm work, in all of its 
 details. When nineteen he began to learn the 
 mason's trade, which he followed for a few years, 
 and afterward he engaged in farming in Lorain 
 County, Ohio. In 1881, at the time of the great 
 flood, he first came to Kansas and after a short 
 visit returned to Ohio, where he followed his 
 trade for a year. The year 1S83 found him a 
 permanent settler of Kansas, where he bought 
 forty acres in Sherman Township, Leavenworth 
 County. He is now the owner of one hundred 
 
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 353 
 
 and sixty acres, where he follows general farming 
 and stock-raising, and besides his home place he 
 rents considerable land which he devotes to farm 
 purposes. 
 
 Reared under Democratic influences, Mr. Wil- 
 ber voted that ticket for some years, but is now 
 inclined to be independent. As road overseer 
 he has worked in the interests of his township. 
 It was largely through his influence that stone 
 arch bridges have been built in the roads of this 
 section. He was a promoter of the Kaw River 
 bridge movement and endeavored to stir up popu- 
 lar enthusiasm in behalf of this needed improve- 
 ment. In 1873 he married Miss Rachel Aurilla 
 Powell, a daughter of Philander and Lavina 
 Powell, who was born in Ohio. They are the 
 parents of four children, namely: Abbie M., 
 wife of Arthur Taylor, of Carlinville, 111; Minnie, 
 Roy and Pearl. Mr. Wilber has given his chil- 
 dren good advantages, in order to fit them for po- 
 sitions of usefulness and honor in the world. Re- 
 alizing the advantages of a good education, he has 
 striven to promote the welfare of his school dis- 
 trict and has been much interested in the progress 
 of the school. For three years he was a member 
 of the school board, of which he served as the 
 treasurer. 
 
 /JJEN. WILLIAM HENRY SEARS, attor- 
 |_ ney-at-law, of Lawrence, and private secre- 
 Vj tary to United States Senator W. A. Harris, 
 was born in Iowa March 7, 1858. The family 
 has been represented in America since 1630, when 
 Richard Sears crossed the ocean in company with 
 the first governor of Massachusetts. Successive 
 generations resided in Massachusetts and were 
 engaged in mercantile and shipping pursuits. 
 Col. Isaac Sears was the founder of the Sons of 
 Liberty and organized the movement in all of the 
 colonies from Maine to Georgia. It was the 
 members of this society to whose influence was 
 due the primary agitation that led to the Revolu- 
 tion, and he served in the war as colonel. It is 
 said that a suggestion from him led to the forma- 
 tion of the first continental congress. He had 
 charge of the party that pulled down the statue of 
 King George III. in Bowling Green Park, Ntw 
 
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 York, and from this statue, which was made of 
 lead, he moulded forty-two thousand bullets, 
 with the boast that he "would hurl leaden maj- 
 esty at King George III." In Connecticut he 
 organized a company of horsemen who went to 
 New York and demolished the printing ofiice of 
 James Rivington, publisher of the Royal Gazet- 
 teer, in the interests of the Royalists. The presses 
 were thrown into the river, and bullets were 
 made from the type. At the time he and his men 
 were destroying British effects, Alexander Ham- 
 ilton made an earnest appeal to the people to rise 
 up and stop him, but he was not interfered with. 
 Owing to his prominence he was known as 
 "King" Sears. The family have in their pos- 
 session an autograph letter from General Wash- 
 ington to Major-General Lee, stating that if he 
 needed a man of intrepid daring and courage he 
 should call upon Col. Isaac Sears. During the 
 war he was elected to the New York assembly, 
 and as he was needed there, he resigned from the 
 army and gave his services in the legislature. 
 Being wealthy for that day, he was enabled to 
 assist the movement looking toward independ- 
 ence, and, indeed, was so liberal that he was left 
 penniless at the close of the war. Having a good 
 name and credit, he chartered a ship and engaged 
 in the China trade, and while in the Orient he 
 died. A monument was erected above his re- 
 mains on French Island, near Canton. Others 
 of the family were in the Revolutionary war, but 
 none took so prominent a part as he. To his 
 patriotism, energy and determination is traced 
 the organization which in the end started the 
 movement for the organization of the colonies, 
 resulting in the memorable Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. His martial spirit has been inherited 
 by his descendants, some of whom have served 
 in all our country's wars. 
 
 Charles M. Sears, the father of our subject, 
 was born in Port Leyden, Lewis County, N. Y., 
 and settled in Kansas during territorial days, 
 taking up a claim in Eudora Township, Douglas 
 County, and building a house that still stands. 
 He resided here until 1880, when he went back 
 east and established his home in Chillicothe, 
 Ohio. Since his return east he has engaged in 
 
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 the canning business, and now owns the largest 
 factory of its kind in Ohio. In proof of this 
 statement, it may be said that in May, 1899, he 
 had sold five million cans of the future crop. 
 During his residence in Kansas he was not active in 
 politics, although he served as a member of the 
 legislature, county commissioner and justice of 
 the peace. In the latter position he gained a 
 reputation for ability. At the time of the Price 
 raid he joined the Kansas state militia and served 
 as captain of his company. When in pursuit of 
 Quantrell during the celebrated raid, he was 
 wounded in the neck. At this writing he is 
 commander of his Grand Army post. By his 
 marriage to Mary Ann Hayes-Smith, of New 
 York, he had nine children, of whom four sons 
 and one daughter are living, our subject being 
 the only one in Kansas. 
 
 Both in the arts and in law our subject re- 
 ceived excellent advantages. He graduated from 
 the law department of the University of Kansas 
 June 12, 1890, and the post-graduate law depart- 
 ment University of Michigan June 30, 1892. 
 Since completing his studies he has been en- 
 gaged in practice in Lawrence. From the time 
 of the organization of the National Guard in 1885, 
 up to the spring of 1899, he was connected with 
 it. For two j'ears before he had been captain of 
 an independent company, the Robin.son Riiles. 
 He organized the military system at the Haskell 
 Institute and formed a regiment of eight compa- 
 nies, which he drilled. Enlisting as a private 
 in the National Guard, he worked his way up to 
 the rank of senior brigadier-general. He con- 
 ceived and carried out an idea which resulted in 
 the starting of the first camp of observation and 
 school of instruction in the state and, indeed, in 
 the entire country. At their meeting, held in 
 Fort Leavenworth, they not only had the benefit of 
 the best instruction of the regular army, but also 
 the benefit of .seeing the actual drill of the regu- 
 lar army in all of its branches. Upon the break- 
 ing out of the war with Spain he offered his 
 services to Governor Leedy, having the endorse- 
 ment of every representative and both senators 
 of the state, but as he had supported Hon. W. A. 
 Harris when the latter was a candidate for gover- 
 
 nor, he was ignored, although without doubt the 
 National Guard in Kansas had no man more able 
 or better posted than he. It is said that he has the 
 finest military library of any citizen-soldier in 
 the state. During the legislative trouble at To- 
 peka in 1893 he served in such a manner as to 
 elicit the praise of Governor Llewelling, who be- 
 lieved that he had been saved from "humiliation 
 and di.sgrace and possiblj- assassination' ' by the 
 general's promptness. At the time of the famous 
 coal strike, he commanded two regiments and 
 was under arms for three days. 
 
 At the time of Senator Harris' campaign. Gen- 
 eral Sears was one of his lieutenants, and did 
 such valuable work in his behalf that he was 
 chosen private secretary upon the election of Mr. 
 Harris to the senate. In politics he is an ardent 
 Populist, and is prominent in the councils of his 
 party, but has worked less for himself than for 
 others. He is a member of the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows and the Phi Delta Pi and 
 Sigma Nu of his alma mater. June 25, 1884, he 
 married Alice H. Peabody, daughter of Maj. 
 David G. Peabody, of Lawrence. They have a 
 son, Burton Winthrop Sears. 
 
 HON. CARMI W. BABCOCK. For many 
 \ears General Babcock was one of the most 
 influential citizens of Lawrence, to which 
 city he came in September, 1854, when it con- 
 tained only a few houses and gave little indication 
 of its present importance and commercial stand- 
 ing. From that time until his death, which 
 occurred in October, 1890, he was active in pro- 
 moting the interests of the town and prominent 
 also in political circles throughout the state. As 
 a citizen he gave his support to measures of un- 
 doubted value, and his co operation was always 
 relied upon in the perfecting of progressive plans. 
 A son of Elias and Clara (Olmsted) Babcock, 
 natives of Vermont and members of prominent 
 families of that state, the subject of this article 
 was born in Franklin County, Vt., April 21, 
 1830. He was a brother of Gen. O. E. Babcock, 
 who served on the staff of General Grant; Myron 
 Babcock, M. D., a prominent physician of Sara- 
 
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 toga Springs, N. Y. , and Hon. L. A. Babcock, 
 who was the first attorney-general of Minnesota. 
 His education was obtained principally in Bakers- 
 field Academy, after which he engaged in teach- 
 ing. In 1850 he went to Minnesota and studied 
 law in the office of Babcock & Wilkinson, of St. 
 Paul. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar and 
 the following year came to Kansas, where he took 
 up a claim on the south end of Massachusetts 
 street, in Lawrence. This property was after- 
 ward laid off in town lots as Babcock's addition. 
 After devoting a short time to the practice of law 
 he formed a partnership with another gentleman, 
 under the firm name of Babcock & Lykins, and 
 the two opened on Massachusetts street what was 
 the first banking institution in the city. At the 
 time of Quantrell's raid their bank was burned 
 and they suflFered a heavy loss. 
 
 In the winter of 1854-55 Mr. Babcock was ap- 
 pointed the first postmaster of Lawrence, an 
 office which he held for four years. He was also 
 one of the first ma}'ors of the city and served for 
 .several terms as a member of the city council. 
 In 1856 he was elected to the free state legisla- 
 ture, and he was honored by being chosen presi- 
 dent of the first state senate. He built the Law- 
 rence bridge and owned it for twenty years. In 
 1869 he was appointed by President Grant sur- 
 veyor-general for the state of Kansas, and in 
 1873 was again appointed to the position. While 
 acting in that capacity he finished the survey of 
 the public lands and the ofiice was then abolished. 
 
 From 1877 Mr. Babcock was a contractor, and 
 one of his contracts was that for the east wing of 
 the state capitol. Later, and until his death, he 
 was secretary of the Kansas Basket Manufactur- 
 ing Company; Fraternally he was a Mason. He 
 was a vestryman and senior warden of the 
 Episcopal Church and a generous contributor to 
 its maintenance. 
 
 January 17, 1866, in LaCrosse, Wis., General 
 Babcock married Miss Martha C. Gillette, who 
 was born in Cleveland, and whose first teacher 
 was the lady who afterward married President 
 Garfield. Her father, Seth A. Gillette, was born 
 in Ohio, a son of Griswold Gillette, who was an 
 early settler on the western reserve, and whose 
 
 wife was the oldest daughter of Colonel Tracy, 
 of Revolutionary fame. From Ohio Seth A. 
 Gillette moved to Wisconsin and engaged in the 
 manufacture of lumber in LaCrosse, where he 
 was successful, retrieving the losses he had ex- 
 perienced in Ohio. His last years were spent in 
 Lawrence. He married Belinda Peas, who was 
 born in Ohio, the youngest of a large family of 
 children whose father was a captain in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. She spent her last years with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Babcock. Of her five children 
 Mrs. Babcock was the youngest and is the only 
 one now living. She was educated in LaCrosse 
 Seminary and a private school, and is a lady of 
 refinement and culture. General and Mrs. Bab- 
 cock were the parents of three children, namely: 
 Mrs. Martha Gillette Pierson, of Lawrence; 
 Clifford Gillette, who is connected with the Santa 
 Fe road in Argentine, Kans.; and Frances 
 Adelaide, who graduated in the department of 
 fine arts, University of Kansas, in the class of 
 1899- 
 
 pCjILLIAM FRANKLIN SPENCER, who is 
 \A/ engaged in business in Leavenworth, was 
 YV born in Buchanan County, Mo., in 1843, 
 a son of Obadiah M. and Nancy (Williams) 
 Spencer, and a descendant, on the paternal side, 
 of English ancestors who settled in the south in 
 a very early day. His father, who was a native 
 of North Carolina, removed to Missouri in 1837 
 and engaged in farming there for years, meeting 
 with fair success in his work. During 1870 he 
 came to Leavenworth County, Kans., and pur- 
 chased the old land office farm in Kickapoo 
 Township. Here he carried on agricultural pur- 
 suits, becoming an extensive and prosperous 
 farmer. His death occurred in 1886, when he 
 was seventy-seven years of age, and his wife also 
 died in this township. 
 
 Of five sons and five daughters comprising the 
 family our subject was the second son in order 
 of birth. He was educated in Mis.souri in coun- 
 try schools. During the Civil war he engaged in 
 freighting across the plains from the Missouri 
 River to Denver, Colo., and, with his ox-teams, 
 did a large amount of hauling. He continued 
 
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 in the business for three years, after which he 
 turned his attention to farming. The year 1870 
 found liim in Kansas. In Leavenworth County 
 he bought from Eli McCullough one hundred 
 acres of fanning land, to which he afterward 
 added from time to time, until his landed pcsses- 
 sions now aggregate three hundred and eightj^- 
 five acres, the property being used as a stock 
 farm for the raising of fine horses and cattle. He 
 now owns the old homestead, where his father 
 and mother spent their last days. In 1898 he 
 bought the old Cook livery .stable on Miami 
 street and at once built new barns, where he has 
 since conducted a general livery business. 
 
 In principles a stanch Democrat, Mr. Spencer 
 has always been interested in the work of his 
 party. In 189S he was a candidate for county 
 treasurer. He served as township trustee for one 
 year and has filled other offices of responsibility, 
 in all of which he has worked for the benefit of 
 local interests. In Kickapoo Lodge No. 61, K. 
 of P., he has held the office of chancellor. He 
 is also connected with the Knights and Ladies of 
 Security in Kickapoo. In 1899 he rented his 
 farm property and took up his residence in town, 
 where he has since made his home on Fourth 
 and Walnut streets, opposite the court house. 
 By his marriage in 1872 to Miss Laura Jennison, 
 he has six children, Oliver Martin, Phoebe, 
 Alonzo, Nanc}', Ella and William F. , Jr. 
 
 HENRY C. F. HACKBUSCH, of Leaven- 
 worth, was born in Marnitz, Germany, Sep- 
 tember II, 1832, a son of Henrj- J. F. and 
 Dorothea (Schroeder) Hackbusch, the latter of 
 whom died when he was only four years of age. 
 He was given good educational advantages bj- his 
 father and attended Frederick Franz College at 
 Parchim, in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg- 
 Schwerin. At eighteen years of age he immi- 
 grated to America and settled in Dubuque, Iowa, 
 where he made his home from 1851 to 1857. 
 While there he engaged in various occupations. 
 For three winters he worked in a printing office 
 and during several summers engaged in survey- 
 ing public lands in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minne- 
 
 sota. In 1855 he was given a position in the 
 engineer's department of the Dubuque Harbor 
 Improvement Company, where he remained 
 until he came to Leavenworth two years later. 
 During his first year here he followed surveying, 
 after which for six months he was in the office of 
 the United States surveyor-general of Kansas and 
 Nebraska, as draughtsman, and then became a 
 surveyor of public lands on the plains. In the 
 spring of 1861 he entered the surveyor general's 
 office as principal draughtsman, in which capac- 
 ity he was employed for two and one-half years. 
 In the fall of 1863 he was promoted to be chief 
 clerk and continued in that position until August, 
 1864, when he resigned in order to engage in 
 field work. 
 
 In the summer of 1869 Hon. C. W. Babcock 
 appointed Mr. Hackbusch chief clerk in the of- 
 fice of the surveyor-general of Kansas, and this 
 position he held for four years, but resigned in 
 1873 in order to accept an appointment from the 
 Secretary of the Interior as United States sur- 
 veyor of Indian lands in the Indian Territory. 
 He continued in the position until 1875, when 
 the office was temporarily discontinued by the 
 government. The work in which he has en- 
 gaged has brought him in contact with various 
 Indian tribes, the Sioux in Minnesota, the 
 Pawnees, Omahas and Otoes in Nebraska, etc. , 
 and during all of his intercourse with them he 
 had no trouble of a serious nature, but won their 
 confidence by his fair dealings. During the ex- 
 istence of the Whig party he voted with it, and 
 since the organization of the Republican party he 
 has voted for his principles. 
 
 During 1895, 1896 and 1897 Mr. Hackbusch 
 was with a geological surveying party in the 
 Indian Territory. He was then sent to Wyom- 
 ing by the commissioner of the general land office 
 for the purpose of examining government sur- 
 veys, in which he was engaged for five months. 
 During the summer of 1899 he was connected 
 with the Dawes commis.sion and worked in the 
 Indian Territory. In 1893 he was elected to the 
 legislature from Leavenworth, and in 1895 and 
 1897 was re-elected to the office, serving as a 
 member of the committees o» mines and mining. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 rail roads and insurance. In 1884 and 1885 he 
 held the office of county treasurer. He and his 
 wife, who was Anna Mathonet, of Leavenworth, 
 are the parents of three children, Florentine, 
 Dorothea and Frederick. By a former marriage 
 he has a son, Henry, who is a railroad engineer. 
 Fraternally Mr. Hackbusch is a member of 
 Lodge No. 26, B. P. O. E., of Kansas City, Mo. 
 He is also connected with the blue lodge, chap- 
 ter, commandery. Mystic Shrine in Masonry. 
 In his business he has met with success. Com- 
 ing to America without means, he has built up a 
 fine reputation for proficiency in surveying and 
 in this occupation has become well known 
 throughout the west. The United States Gen- 
 eral Land Office consider him one of their most 
 competent and experienced surveyors. 
 
 (lOHN M. PHILLIPS, M. D., of Linwood, 
 I is a descendant of an English family that set- 
 (2/ tied in North Carolina in a very early day. 
 His grandfather, Absalom, and great-grand- 
 father, Capt. Josiah Phillips (who was an officer 
 in the colonial army during the Revolutionary 
 war), were planters in North Carolina; but, in 
 1836 the former, accompanied by his family, re- 
 moved to Indiana and settled in Martinsville, 
 Morgan County. The doctor's father, the Rev. 
 James S. Phillips, was a young man at the time 
 of the removal to the north, and much of his sub- 
 sequent active life was spent in that state. While 
 farming was his occupation, his time was largely 
 given to ministerial work, and his services were 
 given gratuitously for the good of the cause. 
 About 1884 he retired from active labors, and 
 now, at eighty-four years of age, he is making 
 his home with his son, Isaac Q. , in Douglas 
 County, Kans. His wife, Sarah M., daughter of 
 Nathan and Nancy (Dickinson) Edwards, na- 
 tives respectively of the north of Ireland and 
 Scotland, was born in Chatham County, N. C, 
 and died in Arkansas in 1895, at eighty-one years 
 of age. The first member of the Edwards family 
 to come to America was her grandfather, Noah 
 Edwards, who was born in the north of Ireland, 
 of Scotch extraction, and who, settling in North 
 
 Carolina, became a planter in that state. From 
 there his son, Nathan, removed to Indiana dur- 
 ing the early settlement of that state, and, secur- 
 ing a tract of unimproved land, developed a fine 
 farm. 
 
 Of a family of nine children, four sons are now 
 living, namely: Edwin D. F. Phillips, M. D., of 
 Lawrence; Charles W., of Leavenworth County; 
 Isaac Q., of Douglas County; and John M., who 
 was the eighth in order of birth. The deceased 
 are Thomas A., Nancy A., Mary F. , Nathan E. 
 and William B. Our subject was born in Ham- 
 ilton County, Ind., July 18, 1852, and was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Indiana. At nine- 
 teen 3'ears of age he came to Kansas and settled 
 in Tonganoxie, where he became familiar with 
 the drug business under the instruction of his 
 brother. Dr. E. D. F. Phillips. For seven years 
 he engaged in the drug business at Tonganoxie 
 and for two years in Lawrence. Meantime he 
 carried on the study of medicine. In 1878 he en- 
 tered the Kansas City Medical College, where he 
 took the complete course of lectures and gradu- 
 ated March 4, 1881, with the degree of M. D. 
 He opened an office in Johnson County, but after 
 a very short time, in the fall of 1 881, he came to 
 Linwood, and here he has since carried on a gen- 
 eral practice. As far as his opportunities per- 
 mit ne has made a specialty of surgery, in which 
 department of his profession he is intensely inter- 
 ested. It is his aim to keep in touch with every 
 development in the medical science, and he 
 studies professional works and current medical 
 literature with the thoughtfulness of one who 
 aims to keep abreast with the times. 
 
 As a Republican Dr. Phillips has been identi- 
 fied with local politics. For some time he served 
 as clerk of the school board and took a part in 
 the building of the schoolhouse in Linwood. For 
 one term he held the office of township clerk. In 
 Linwood Lodge No. 108, K. P., he is past chan- 
 cellor, and he is also connected with the Modern 
 Woodmen of America and the Fraternal Aid So- 
 ciety. Professionally he is . identified with the 
 Eastern District Medical Society. To the work 
 of the Congregational Church he has been a gen- 
 erous contributor, and as a member of its board 
 
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 of trustees he has been instrumental in promot- 
 ing its welfare. All objects for the benefit of the 
 people, commercially, educational!}' or morally, 
 receive his hearty sympathy. He was deeply in- 
 terested in the attempt to secure a bridge over 
 the Kaw River between Linwood and Johnson 
 County, and still cherishes hopes that this needed 
 improvement will in time be made. December 
 24, 188 1, he married Ida F., daughter of Will- 
 iam J. Dawson, of Liuwood. They and their 
 children. Birdie E., William S., Kittie I. and 
 Nellie M., occupy the residence which the doctor 
 erected in 1888. 
 
 /gEORGE D. STINEBAUGH. As a valiant 
 |_ soldier in the Civil war, and as a capable 
 \^ business man of Ottawa, where he has made 
 his home since March 24, 1866, Mr. Stinebaugh 
 is well known to the people of eastern Kansas. 
 He was born near Galion, Crawford County, 
 Ohio, August 13, 1840, a descendant of ancestors 
 of Wurtemberg, Germany, ancestry represented 
 among the pioneers of Pennsylvania. His grand- 
 father, John, son of Adam Stinebaugh, a Revo- 
 lutionary soldier, was born in Pennsylvania and 
 served in the war of 1812. When his sou, Jacob 
 (who was born in Hagerstown, Md., in 1806), 
 was a child of two years, he moved to Horseshoe 
 bottoms on Cheat River near Beverly, W. Va., 
 and there carried on a blacksmith's shop and en- 
 gaged in the cattle business. He died during a 
 visit to Maryland when his son was a young man 
 of twenty-four. The latter soon afterward moved 
 to Crawford County, Ohio, married and engaged 
 in farming. In 1854 he removed to Williams 
 County, Ohio, and there made his home until 
 1866, when the entire family .settled in Kansas. 
 Buying a farm in Franklin County, near the now 
 extinct town of Ohio City, he engaged in agri- 
 cultural pursuits there until his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1869, at sixty-three years of age. He 
 was a man of considerable ability; reared under 
 the judicious oversight of his father, who was a 
 man of prominence, he was fitted for life's re- 
 sponsibilities, and during his long career he 
 proved himself to be a man of integrity and intel- 
 ligence. Though he learned the blacksmith's 
 
 trade he gave little attention to it, but devoted 
 himself to farming. While in Ohio he also had 
 mail contracts for four routes. In religion he 
 was a Lutheran. 
 
 The wife of Jacob Stinebaugh was Helena 
 Hershner, who was born in York County, Pa., of 
 German descent, and about 1822 accompanied 
 her father to Ohio, where her marriage occurred. 
 She died in Kansas March 4, 1889, when eighty- 
 three years of age. Of her ten children all but 
 one attained maturity and six are now living. 
 John, who was a member of Companj' C, One 
 Hundredth Ohio Infantry, in the Civil war, is now 
 living in St. Joe, Mo.; Henrj', who was a ser- 
 geant in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry, died 
 in Ohio from the eifects ol his army service; An- 
 drew, who was a member of the Tenth Kansas 
 militia, is now in California; Jacob, who enlisted 
 in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry and was 
 wounded in front of Atlanta, now makes his 
 home in Ottawa; Ellizabeth is the wife of H. 
 Towney, living near Princeton, Franklin Coun- 
 ty; George D. was sixth in order of birth; Mary 
 died in childhood, Mrs. Ellen Goodrich died in 
 Ottawa; Lydia lives in Franklin County; and 
 Mrs. Anna Campbell resides in North Dakota. 
 
 When fourteen years of age our subject accom- 
 panied the family from Galion to Williams Coun- 
 ty. At the first call for volunteers in the Civil 
 war he determined to enlist. April 19, 1861, he 
 volunteered in Company C, Fourteenth Ohio In- 
 fantry, and was mu.stered in at Cleveland for 
 three months. Among his first engagements 
 where those at Philippi, Laurel Hill or Beeling- 
 ton, Carricks Ford and Cheat River (which was 
 almost on the same ground where his father was 
 reared) . He was mustered out at Toledo, Ohio, 
 August 13, 1861. In company with his brother 
 Henry he enli.sted in Company H, Thirty-eighth 
 Ohio Infantry, and in 1864 they were joined by a 
 third brother, Jacob. Among the engagements 
 of his second term of service were Mill Spring, 
 Stone River, Perryville, Chickamauga, Mission 
 Ridge, Chattanooga, Resaca, Kenesaw Moun- 
 tain, Snake Creek Gap, and all the battles of the 
 Atlanta siege. In the battle of Jonesboro, at the 
 first volley, every man within ten feet of him was 
 
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 struck. And in the second volley two shots 
 passed through his left leg, another grazed the 
 left side, while one grazed the top of his head. 
 About sundown he was carried to the rear and at 
 midnight his leg was amputated on the field. He 
 was sent to a field hospital, where he remained 
 three days — then was transferred to the hospital 
 at Atlanta, then to Chattanooga, afterwards to 
 Nashville, Tenn., thence to New Albany, Ind., 
 later to Louisville, Ky., where he was dis- 
 charged. As soon as he was able to get around 
 he was given the head clerkship at the hospital, 
 and continued in that capacity until July 14, 
 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Lou- 
 isville, Ky. 
 
 Returning home Mr. Stinebaugh took a course 
 in Bryant & Stratton's Business College at To- 
 ledo, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1866. 
 He then came to Kansas, where he was employed 
 as deputy recorder of deeds of Franklin County. 
 In the session of 1866-67 ^^^ served as enrolling 
 clerk of the house of representatives. In the fall 
 of 1867 he was elected county clerk on the Re- 
 publican ticket, and by re-election each two 
 years, held the office from 1868 to 1880. While 
 acting as county clerk he had become interested 
 in the real- estate business, and in this he has 
 since engaged. In 1890 he was admitted to prac- 
 tice in the interior department and has since been 
 a pension attorney. He represents six of the 
 old-line fire insurance companies. For two years 
 he was a member of the city council and served 
 on the school board at the time of the building of 
 Central school. For some time he served as city 
 clerk. He is a member of George H. Thomas 
 Post No. 18, G. A. R. , and his wife is connected 
 with the ladies of the G. A. R. For several years 
 he was treasurer of the Baptist Church. 
 
 The residence owned by Mr. Stinebaugh stands 
 at No. 623 West Fifth street. He was married 
 September 13, 1868, near Ohio City, Kans., to 
 Mary Ann, daughter of James and Nancy (An- 
 derson) Reese, and a native of Lafayette, Ind. 
 Her grandfather, John Reese, who was of Welsh 
 descent, was a native of Virginia, where he op- 
 erated a grist mill. He served in the Indian 
 wars. From Virginia James Reese moved to In- 
 
 diana, settling in Boone County, where he en- 
 gaged in milling, then for a short time lived in 
 Lafayette. Afterward he moved to the vicinity 
 of Danville, Vermilion County, 111., and there 
 resided until his death. His wife was born in 
 Pulaski County, Ky., a daughter of Vardsman 
 Anderson. Mrs. Reese died in Indiana. Of her 
 five children that attained maturity, Lewis A. 
 served in the Mexican war, then was in the regu- 
 lar army for eight years, and later took part in 
 the Civil war; he died in Neosho County, Kans. 
 Samuel, who was sergeant in Company C, Seven- 
 tj'-second Indiana Infantry, died in Oakwood, 
 111. Jesse A., who was in the Fourth United 
 States Cavalry during the war with Mexico, aft- 
 erward served for fifteen years in the regular 
 army, and in the Civil war was a member of the 
 Seventh Kansas Regiment; he was killed at the 
 battle of Little Blue in November, 1861, the first 
 engagement after he enlisted. Elizabeth J. is liv- 
 ing in Indianapolis, Ind. Mary A., who was 
 reared in Indiana, came to Kansas in 1867, and 
 September 13, 1868, became the wife of Mr. 
 Stinebaugh, by whom she had an only child, Al- 
 lie E. , deceased at fourteen months. After the 
 death of their child they adopted a daughter, 
 Matie E. Goodrich, who married Frank Illk, and 
 makes her home near Oakwood, 111. 
 
 V/IrS. CLARINDA L. RUSSELL, who was 
 Y born in Leavenworth on the present site of 
 (3 the Union depot, Delaware and Main 
 streets, in May, 1856, is the oldest surviving 
 resident of the city who was born here. She 
 occupies a comfortable residence, a part of which 
 was built by her father, Thomas Cass, in 1857, 
 the material used in its construction being native 
 sawed cottonwood lumber. The location of the 
 residence is No. 718 Shawnee street. 
 
 Thomas Cass was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 
 October 11, 1823, a .son of John and Bridget 
 (Carey) Cass, also natives of Ireland. His 
 father died on the ocean when he was bringing 
 the family to America, and the mother died in 
 New York City the same year. After having 
 spent the first seven years of his American life in 
 
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 different places, in 1853 Mr. Cass settled in 
 Leavenworth and entered the government em- 
 ploy, having charge of trains that crossed the 
 plains. He was such a stanch free-state man that 
 he aroused the enmit}' of the southern adherents 
 and was once attacked by them and his life put in 
 the greatest peril, but he managed to escape. In 
 1867 he opened a store that was known as Uncle 
 Tom's Cabin. He was interested in the improve- 
 ment of the city and built both residence and busi- 
 ness houses. At the time he built on Shawnee 
 street it was then in the midst of the woods, and 
 few believed that the city would ever extend such a 
 distance from Main street. In politics he was a 
 stanch Democrat. 
 
 While in Chester, 111., Thomas Cass formed 
 the acquaintance of Mary Jones, whom he mar- 
 ried at Weston, Mo., in 1854. She was born in 
 Allegheny, Pa., and died in Leavenworth, Kans. , 
 in February, 1859. Her parents, John and Marj- 
 Jones, were Pennsylvanians by birth, and in 1832 
 removed to Chester, 111., near which town he 
 cleared and improved a farm, remaining there 
 until his death, in 1871, at the age of seventy-one 
 years. His wife died in 1866. His father, 
 Charles Jones, was born in Wales and settled in 
 Pennsylvania, being a resident of Allegheny City 
 at the time of his death. 
 
 When our subject's mother died she was a 
 small child, and was then taken by her father to 
 the home of her grandmother Jones. _ In July, 
 1865, she was placed in Mount St. Mary's 
 Academy, at Leavenworth, where she was a pupil 
 for some time. She also attended the high school 
 of Leavenworth. Her marriage, which took 
 place in Leavenworth June i, 1876, united her 
 with Ephraim Russell, who was born in Paisley, 
 Scotland. His father, Joseph Russell, brought 
 the family to America and settled in Leaven- 
 worth, Kans., where he died; the wife and 
 mother is now making her home in Salt Lake 
 City. Mr. Russell was a bricklayer by trade. 
 He followed that occupation industriously and 
 successfully, remaining in Leavenworth until his 
 death, in 1878. Since then Mrs. Russell has 
 given her attention to the management of the 
 property she inherited from her father and to the 
 
 training of her accorapli.shed daughters. Birdie 
 and Ethel, of whose talents she is justly proud. 
 She po.ssesses genuine business ability, with the 
 energy and determination to succeed, and has 
 managed her property interests in a manner that 
 reflects the highest credit upon her. In religion 
 she is a Roman Catholic and holds membership 
 in the Cathedral. Her sympathies, politically, 
 have always been with the Democratic party. 
 
 K)ELSON A. CHAMBERS, who is engaged 
 Y I in farming and stock-raising in Franklin 
 1^ Township, Franklin County, was bom in 
 North Carolina in 1833, a son of Joshua and 
 Nancj' (Powell) Chambers. He was the oldest 
 of ten children born to the first marriage of his 
 father. The latter, a native of North Carolina, 
 engaged in farm pursuits there until very shortly 
 before the Civil war, when he moved to Indiana. 
 After having made his home in that state for 
 more than ten years he removed to Iowa and there 
 spent the remaining years of his life. Politically 
 he was a Democrat. He was first married in 
 North Carolina, that wife dying in Indiana, and 
 afterward he married a second time in Iowa. 
 
 When only fifteen years of age our subject 
 went to Indiana, preceding his father to that state 
 and working on a farm there from 1851 to 1866. 
 During the latter year he moved to Iowa, .settling 
 upon a farm in Polk County and actively identi- 
 fying himself with the agricultural interests of 
 that .section. He remained there until 1S72, and 
 in the spring of the latter year came to Kansas, 
 first settling in the northern part of Peoria Town- 
 ship, Franklin County. There he engaged in 
 farming until 1877. He then bought two hun- 
 dred and forty acres of raw land immediately 
 south of where he now lives. He broke the land, 
 put up fences, and placed the property under ex- 
 cellent improvement. On selling that tract he 
 bought what was known as the Wadsworth farm 
 adjoining his present place on the northeast. He 
 continued to reside there until 1896, when he 
 bought his present place of one hundred acres, 
 where he raises thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle 
 and Poland-China hogs. The property which he 
 
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 now owns has been acquired by his own energy 
 and industry since coming to Kansas, and he has 
 no reason to regret his decision as to settling in 
 this state. 
 
 Since 1863 Mr. Chambers has been connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His 
 first vote was cast for John C. Fremont for presi- 
 dent, and since then he has always been a Re- 
 publican. In Indiana, July 2, 1855, he married 
 Rhoda E. Nugent, by whom he had five children. 
 Four of the family are now living, viz.: John O., 
 who married Minnie Cole and farms in partner- 
 ship with his father; Nancy J., wife of John L,. 
 Baker, of Franklin Couut}^; Amanda E., who 
 married C. W. Badorf, and lives in Cowley, 
 Kans. ; and Isabel, wife of A. J. Steen, of Wells- 
 ville. 
 
 [cJUSTAVE JUUUS WOLFSPERGER, de- 
 |_ ceased, was for some years before his death 
 vJ succesjifully engaged in the hotel business in 
 Leavenworth, being proprietor of the Kansas 
 Central hotel. He was born in this city June 15, 
 1 860, a son of Mathias and Catherine Wolfsperger, 
 natives of Germany. His father came to the 
 United States when twenty-two years of age and, 
 after a short time in New York, proceeded to 
 Kansas, settling in Leavenworth, where he built 
 up a large and profitable business in the line of 
 staple and fancy groceries. He came from an 
 ancestry that was noted for activity in the busi- 
 ness pursuits of life. By industry and judicious 
 application to business he acquired a compe- 
 tency. Throughout life he was connected with 
 the Lutheran Church, in which he had been con- 
 firmed in boyhood. His death occurred in 
 Leavenworth May 3, 1898, when he was sixty- 
 seven years of age. He and his wife had three 
 children, but all are now deceased. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our subject went 
 to California, where he remained for three years. 
 On his return home he embarked in the hotel 
 busine.ss, and in this he continued until about a 
 year before his death, January 14, 189S. In the 
 management of business he showed an intelli- 
 gence and honesty of purpose that, in the end, 
 brought its own reward. Had his life been spared 
 
 to old age he would undoubtedly have become 
 wealthy; and, while he was still a young man 
 when he died, he nevertheless left his family in 
 comfortable circumstances. His energy was one 
 of the noticeable traits of his character. He 
 was constantly occupied with plans for business 
 and for the extension of his interests, and these 
 plans his superior executive ability enabled him 
 to carry out. 
 
 October 12, 1882, Mr. Wolfsperger married 
 Miss Alice Jesson, who was born in Frankfort, 
 Kans., and was reared in California. Her 
 father, Soren Jesson, a native of Denmark, came 
 to America when a j'oung man and settled in 
 Kansas, where he engaged in farming for several 
 years. From this state he removed to California 
 and embarked in the transfer business. He now 
 makes his home in San Francisco, but at this 
 writing is in Alaska. He married Margaret 
 Wright, who was born in Illinois, of English ex- 
 traction, and died at middle age. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wolfsperger became the parents of two daughters, 
 Lela Fay and Alice Gertrude, both of whom are 
 with their mother. The family are connected 
 with the Lutheran Church. A capable business 
 woman, Mrs. Wolfsperger superintends the in- 
 terests left by her husband and displays resources 
 of mind, as well as a genial disposition, that make 
 her popular in society. Mr. Wolfsperger was 
 identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows and in politics was a Democrat, but not 
 actively connected with partisan affairs. 
 
 LIVER F. SHORT, a pioneer of '57, was 
 born in Indiana, where for some years his 
 father officiated as pastor in the Methodist 
 Episcopal denomination, later being similarly en- 
 gaged in Springfield and Bloomington, 111. The 
 son was given good educational advantages and 
 graduated from an Illinois college, after which 
 he gave his attention to civil engineering and sur- 
 veying. In 1857 he came west on the govern- 
 ment survey of Kansas and assisted in the survey 
 of the greater part of the state. He continued to 
 follow engineering and surveying until his tragic 
 death. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In August, 1874, Mr. Short was a member of 
 a party of twenty-two who were engaged in sur- 
 veying Meade County, near where the county- 
 seat of Meade now stands. With him were his 
 two sons, Harold C. and Truman. The party 
 divided up into three smaller parties, besides 
 four men who remained in camp. In one of the 
 parties were Mr. vShort, his son Truman, and four 
 others. They left the camp, intending to remain 
 absent engaged in surveying for a week. He 
 had frequently before been attacked by Indians, 
 but had always managed to escape. It had been 
 agreed that if anj' of the men were attacked by 
 Indians thej' should set the prairie grass on fire 
 as a signal to the men at the camp and other par- 
 ties of surveyors. Unfortunately, in the .spot 
 where they were surveying the grass had very 
 recently been burned. When seven miles from 
 the camp they were attacked by the savages. It 
 is probable that the Indians were ambushed and 
 un.seen by the white men until they began to fire. 
 Mr. Short was killed instantlj'. The other men 
 started to run back toward the camp, but were 
 pursued by the Indians and .shot one by one, the 
 last to fall being within three miles of camp when 
 he was shot. Their wagon was also shot in many 
 different places. 
 
 The lady whom Mr. Short had married bore 
 the maiden name of Celia Catlin, and was de- 
 scended from English ancestors who were early 
 settlers of Connecticut. Her father, T. M. Cat- 
 lin, was born in Litchfield, Conn., and was one 
 of the early settlers in the vicinity of Springfield, 
 111., where he established his home on a farm 
 nine miles west of town. For years he engaged 
 in farming and the stock business upon that 
 place, and there his daughter, Celia, was born. 
 When advanced in years he came to Kansas, and 
 his last days were spent in the home of his 
 daughter; he died in May, 1895, at ninety-two 
 years of age. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Short was blessed with five children, one of 
 whom, Truman, has already been mentioned, 
 while the olde.st, Harold C, is represented in the 
 following sketch; O. F. , Jr., is engaged in the 
 cattle businessnear Boise City, Idaho; Leonard re- 
 sides in Chicago, and Metella C. is living in Colo- 
 
 rado. After the death of our subject his widow 
 was married to D. C. Hawthorne, then of Leav- 
 enworth, but now living on a fruit farm near 
 Grand Junction, Colo., where Mrs. Hawthorne 
 has made her home for some years. 
 
 HAROLD C. SHORT was born in Atchison, 
 Kans., September 17, 1858. His early 
 childhood years were spent in that city, at a 
 time when it and the surrounding country were 
 in the midst of the excitement occasioned by bor- 
 der warfare and civil strife. In 1865 his parents 
 removed to Leavenworth, and he was educated 
 in the public .schools of this city. During his 
 vacations he always accompanied his father on 
 surveying expeditions, and in that way became 
 familiar with the work. These surveys were 
 principally in Kansas, although some of them 
 were in the Indian Territory. He was a member 
 of the expedition in 1874, when his father and 
 brother were killed, and only e.scaped through 
 being with another party. 
 
 In the fall of 1874 Mr. Short entered the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas, and there he took the regular 
 four years' course of study, receiving a degree on 
 the conclusion of his course. In 1878 he went to 
 Boise City, Idaho, where a brother of his mother 
 lived, and with him he engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness, but in 1885 returned to Leavenworth. He 
 entered the employ of S. F. Atwood, who had been 
 in charge of the ab.stract books since 1857. Upon 
 the death of Mr. Atwood in 1886 Mr. Short 
 bought the abstract books and has since con- 
 tinued the business. He has the oldest set of ab- 
 stract books in Leavenworth County. In addi- 
 tion to this work he is also engaged in the real- 
 estate and loan business. His office is in the 
 Manufacturers' National Bank building. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Short took place in Leav- 
 enworth, and united him with Miss Emma Neu- 
 bauer, who was born in Germany, and was 
 brought in childhood to Leavenworth b}' her 
 parents. The two children born of this union 
 are: Harold C, Jr., and Helen. The family are 
 connected with the First Presbyterian Church, to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 365 
 
 the support of which Mr. Short contributes. He 
 is a member of the Fraternal Aid Association of 
 Leavenworth. In politics he is a stanch Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 "T DMUND LISTER, proprietor of the Lister 
 'p stock farm in Peoria Township, Franklin 
 ^ County, came to Kansas in September, 
 1859, with the intention of selecting a suitable 
 location for a home. He bought a horse in Leav- 
 enworth and rode over much of the country, fin- 
 ally coming to the place where he now lives. 
 Being pleased with the location and advantages, 
 he bought one hundred and sixty acres and at 
 once began its improvement. He now farms 
 about two hundred acres, which is mostly in corn 
 to be used for feed for stock. The remainder of 
 the land which he has acquired is in grass for 
 pasturage. While he buys cattle of various 
 grades, his specialty is the Shorthorn breed. At 
 one time he had many draft horses on his place, 
 but since the depreciation in prices he has given 
 little attention to raising horses. Besides his 
 other stock he has one hundred or more head of 
 hogs. At this writing his landed possessions ag- 
 gregate eight hundred acres in his home farm 
 and other farms indifferent localities, besides two 
 hundred acres in Missouri in the mineral belt 
 just east of Joplin. This success is remarkable 
 when it is considered that he started without 
 capital, and all that he has acquired is the result 
 of his industry and ability. 
 
 In Lincolnshire England, Mr. Lister was born 
 February 18, 1831, a son of Robert and Mary 
 (Wray) Lister, both of whom spent their entire 
 lives in England. He was one of nine children, 
 of whom two sons and three daughters came to 
 America. His father, who was a druggist and 
 farmer, held some ofiBcial positions, and was an 
 active member of the Church of England. When 
 a boy our subject had few advantages, and the 
 education he possesses has been acquired by his 
 own efforts, not in schools. Reared on a farm, he 
 learned thoroughly all that pertained to agricult- 
 ure. Realizing that he must make his own way 
 in the world, he decided to come to the United 
 States. While his parents were not in favor of 
 
 this step his mind was made up, and in 1850 he 
 crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel that con- 
 sumed thirty-four days in the voyage. Landing 
 in New York he proceeded to Chicago, and then 
 went to Joliet, 111., where he remained for three 
 years. Next he went to California, spending 
 five years there and in Washington. He was 
 successful in mining and also acted as manager 
 of a ditch company. On his return to Illinois he 
 remained only a few months and then came to 
 Kansas, where he has since made his home. He 
 is one of the largest stock-dealers in Franklin 
 County and has met with unusual success in his 
 work. He was one of the first who became in- 
 terested in the Fair association, of which he is a 
 life member. Until about 1890 he affiliated with 
 the Democrats, but now votes with the Repub- 
 licans. He was reared in the Church of Eng- 
 land and has always adhered to that faith. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Lister, April 5, i860, 
 united him with Miss Mary N. Graham, by 
 whom he has nine children, namely: Mary 
 Louisa; Martha Matilda, who is married and 
 lives in Indianapolis, Ind. ; Ann; Caldonia, a 
 teacher; Jane; Nora Rebecca, who occupies the 
 chair of mathematics in St. Mary's hall, an Epis- 
 copal seminary at Faribault, Minn.; Edmund, 
 who assists in themanagement of the home place; 
 Creanor T. and Robert H. 
 
 'HOMAS CLARK RYAN is superintendent 
 and treasurer of the Leavenworth Coal 
 Company, also a member of its board of di- 
 rectors. The mine owned by this company was 
 opened in 1863 and is not only the oldest, but al- 
 so the largest, coal mine in Kansas. Under the 
 management of Mr. Ryan, who has held his pres- 
 ent position since January, 1899, the high stand- 
 ard of the mine has been maintained and the 
 company's interests well protected. He is a 
 genial and accommodating man, yet withal de- 
 termined and energetic, and has acquired a thor- 
 ough knowledge both of the mining of coal and 
 of gold and is considered an expert assayer. 
 
 The city where he now resides is his native 
 home, and here he was born August 26, 1866. 
 
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 He is a son of Matthew Ryan, of whom mention 
 is made upon another page. He was reared and 
 educated in Leavenworth until thirteen j'ears of 
 age, when he was sent to Notre Dame University 
 in Indiana, and there carried on the studies of 
 the scientific course until the close of the junior 
 year. From the time he was twelve years of age 
 he spent his vacations in Montana, and in this 
 wa}' he early became interested in trailing cattle 
 and in ranching. In 1880 he embarked in the 
 cattle business, and six years later was placed in 
 charge of the cattle owned by Ryan Brothers 
 Cattle Companj', feeding them at the glucose 
 works in Leavenworth. In 1887 he went to Den- 
 ver and for five years was connected with the 
 Globe smelter there. During his course of study 
 at Notre Dame he had gained a thorough knowl- 
 edge of engineering, chemistrj-, assaying and 
 surveying, and this knowledge was of great as- 
 sistance to him in his work at the smelter. For 
 two years he was assistant assayer, after which 
 he was chief assayer, holding the latter position 
 for three years and resigning in 1892. His next 
 work was at Baker City, Ore., where he en- 
 gaged in the cattle business with M. C. Harvey, 
 shipping cattle to Kansas City, Mo., and continu- 
 ing for three months in the business. 
 
 The next enterprise in which Mr. Ryan be- 
 came interested was the Lost Horse mine, which 
 is situated in the San Bernardino range of moun- 
 tains in Riverside County, Cal., and which he 
 purcha.sed from George W. Lang. He took the 
 mine as a prospect and spent one j-ear in its de- 
 velopment, developing it to a depth of four hun- 
 dred and fifty feet and finding ore in workable 
 quantities, with a four-foot vein that gave large 
 assays. The indications being favorable, he or- 
 ganized the Lost Horse Mining and Milling 
 Company, of which he has since been president 
 and general manager. Under his supervision a 
 ten-stamp mill was erected and equipped. In 
 December, 1898, his .services were required in 
 Leavenworth in connection with the coal com- 
 pany in which he owned large interests. It 
 therefore became necessary for him to leave Cali- 
 fornia and return to Kansas. However he still 
 owns his interest in the mine, which is operated 
 
 under the management of a superintendent. 
 Since 1893 he has been a member of the firm of 
 Ryan Brothers Cattle Company, which owns large 
 cattle interests in New Mexico, Arizona, Indian 
 Territorj- and Kansas. 
 
 In Leavenworth occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Ryan to Miss Frances O'Donnell, who was born 
 in Atchi.son, Kans., and graduated from the 
 Leavenworth high school and St. Mary's Acade- 
 my. She is a daughter of Frank O'Donnell, now 
 a resident of Leavenworth and president of the 
 board of county commissioners of Leavenworth 
 County. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan have two children, 
 Katherine Sheedy and Thomas C, Jr. 
 
 jJjIS H. SKOURUP. proprietor of the Ottawa 
 I / creamery, is a Dane by birth and descent. 
 lis His parents, Hans J. and Catherine 
 (Bugvraa) Skourup, were born in Denmark, the 
 latter a daughter of Henrik C. Bugvraa, and the 
 former a son of Jorgen H. Skourup. In religious 
 belief both were reared in the Lutheran faith and 
 became identified with that church. The father, 
 who is now seventy-five years of age, makes 
 his home on the place that has been in the family 
 for more than three hundred years. Of his twelve 
 children all but three attained maturity and eight 
 are living, all being in Denmark except N. H. 
 and J. H., the latter a farmer of Grundy County, 
 Iowa. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Jolland, 
 Denmark, May 28, 1868, and was reared on the 
 old homestead, attending public and high schools. 
 In youth he served an apprenticeship in a cream- 
 erj- and cheese factory. In 1888 he entered the 
 Danish army and served for a year in the king's 
 life and body guard. Cro.ssing the Atlantic in 
 1889, he joined his brother in Grundy County, 
 Iowa, and .secured employment as buttermaker in 
 a creamer}- at Morrison, where he remained for 
 two 3'ears. He then attended the Waterloo Com- 
 mercial College, graduating in 1892. In order 
 to become acquainted with American customs he 
 spent one summer in traveling as a salesman. In 
 the fall of 1892 he became manager of the cream- 
 ery at Reinbeck, Iowa, and from there came to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 367 
 
 Kansas in the spring of 1893. The Richmond 
 Creamery Company had recently been established 
 and its building completed. He accepted the 
 management of the business, in which he later 
 also became secretary and a stockholder and di- 
 rector. When the building was burned down in 
 1894 he superintended the rebuilding on a larger 
 scale than before. In 1896 he sold his interest in 
 the business and came to Ottawa, building the 
 Ottawa creamery, of which he is the sole propri- 
 etor. He has established four skimming sta- 
 tions, located at Homewood, Rantoul, Norwood 
 and Pomona. Twenty-five thousand pounds of 
 milk are handled daily. The plant is modern 
 and substantial, and is operated by an engine of 
 ten-horse and a boiler of twenty-horse power. 
 One thousand pounds of butter are manufactured 
 per da}', and shipments of the Ottawa creamery 
 brand are made throughout this entire region, 
 where the superior quality of the butter brings a 
 steady demand, at good prices. 
 
 Mr. Skourup is a member of the State Dairy 
 Association and the National Butter Makers' As- 
 sociation. He takes an interest in everything 
 connected with his chosen occupation, and is rec- 
 ognized as one of the most proficient and success- 
 ful creamery men in the state. In politics he 
 affiliates with the People's party, and fraternally 
 is connected with Ottawa Lodge No. 24, 
 I. O. O. F. He was married in this city to Miss 
 Annie Greischar, who was born in Richmond, 
 Kans., and is a daughter of Charles Greischar, of 
 Richmond. 
 
 (lOHN A. PORTER, of Williamsburg, Frank- 
 I lin County, was born in Mercer County, Pa., 
 Q) May I, 1837, a son of Alexander and Mary 
 E. (Alexander) Porter. Both of his grandfathers, 
 George W. Porter and John Alexander, enlisted 
 from Pennsylvania in the war of 18 12, and the 
 former served as sergeant of his company. Great- 
 grandfather Alexander Porter, who it is thought 
 was born in Pennsylvania, was captured by the 
 Indians at the age of seven years and was kept 
 until he was twenty-one, when he was given his 
 liberty and returned home to his parents. George 
 W. Porter, who was a native of Washington 
 
 County, Pa., was for many years a resident of 
 Mercer County, that state; in early life he followed 
 the hatter's trade, but afterward opened a gro- 
 cery in Sharon, Pa., where he remained in busi- 
 ness for many years, dying in that town at the 
 age of eighty-five. A native of Mercer County, 
 Alexander Porter, Jr., remained during his en- 
 tire life in that county and engaged in the manu- 
 facture and sale of hats. During much of the 
 time his home was in Sharon, of which place he 
 was one of the "fathers," and a member of its 
 first town council. His political affiliations were 
 first with the Jeffersonian Democrats, but later he 
 became a Republican, and as such took an active 
 part in local affairs. A lifelong Presbyterian, he 
 was for several years an elder in the church. He 
 died in Sharon in 1885, when eighty-four years 
 of age, and his wife died in the same place at the 
 age of seventy-five. Of their six children three 
 are now living, namely: Joseph S., of Sharon; 
 Rachel, Mrs. Williams, a widow; and John A. 
 
 Until nineteen years of age our subject remained 
 in Sharon. He then traveled for two years, after 
 which he settled in Warren, Ohio, and learned 
 the tanning business, remaining there for four 
 years. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Sev- 
 enty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, a company 
 whose members were Sharon boys. He was as- 
 signed to the Eighteenth Army Corps, depart- 
 ment of the south, in which he served for three 
 years and eleven months. With his corps he 
 took part in the battles of James Island, June 10, 
 1862; Pocotaligo, October 22, 1862, Morris Island, 
 Fort Wagoner, etc. In the spring of 1864 the 
 corps was consolidated with the army of the 
 James River, with which he remained until the 
 close of the war, meantime taking part in the 
 battles of Chester Heights, Strawberry Plains, 
 Drury's Bluff, in front of Petersburg (where he 
 remained in the entrenchments six weeks), Chap- 
 iu's Farm (a desperately fought engagement), 
 and Darbytowu Road. In the last-named battle, 
 October 27, 1864, he lost his left leg, and at the 
 battle of Pocotaligo a rifle ball passed through 
 his ear and fractured his skull. 
 
 Returning from the war to his native town, Mr. 
 Porter resided there until 1880, with the excep- 
 
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 tioii of a short time. During iSSo he came to 
 Kansas and took charge of the tinning depart- 
 ment in the shop of W. C. White, a former Penn- 
 sylvania man who had embarked iu business at 
 Williamsburg. With him he remained for six 
 years, after which he followed the tinner's trade 
 until he retired in 1895. A Republican in poli- 
 tics, he was justice of the peace while in Penn- 
 sylvania, and was elected to the same office in 
 Kansas, but did not serve. For several years he 
 has served as a class- leader and a trustee in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. He is past com- 
 mander of Post No. I So, G. A. R., and past no- 
 ble grand of Williamsburg Lodge No. 302, I. O. 
 O. F., also, with his wife, belongs to the Circle of 
 Rebekahs. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Porter married Elvira, daughter 
 of Silas Bennett, who for forty-five years, com- 
 mencing in 1837, was identified with the tin and 
 hardware business in New Castle, Pa., and for 
 fifty years was an active member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. Mrs. Bennett bore the maid- 
 en name of Catherine Nichols and, like her hus- 
 band, was a devoted Methodist. They were the 
 parents of eleven children, ten now living, name- 
 ly: Ebenezer F., William Henry Harrison, El- 
 vira, Silas A., George W., Adeline, Rebecca, 
 Albert N., Charles W., Mary E. and Horatio S. 
 The three oldest sons, Ebenezer F., William H. 
 H. and Silas A., enlisted in the Union army. 
 Ebenezer, who was in the Seventy-sixth Penn- 
 sylvania Infantry, was shot in the ankle at the 
 siege of Fort Wagoner, in July, 1863, and, after 
 being wounded, was captured by the enemy, who 
 amputated his foot and exchanged him a few days 
 later. William H. H., who was a member of 
 Company H, Seventh Ohio Infantry, was killed 
 in the battle of Ringgold, Ga., November 27, 
 1S63. Silas Andrew, who enlisted from New 
 Castle, Pa., in the Seventy-seventh Pennsylva- 
 nia Infantry, served first for three months and 
 then for nine months, being on duty in Texas 
 during most of the time. Charles Wesley Ben- 
 nett, for ten years prior to the loss of both feet 
 in a railroad accident, January 10, 1894, at 
 Wellsville, Kans., was the champion catcher of 
 the national base ball league. George W., Al- 
 
 bert N. and Horatio S. reside in Cleveland, Ohio; 
 Adeline lives in Erie, Pa., and Rebecca and Mary 
 E. in New Castle, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Porter 
 became the parents of four children: Silas B., 
 decea.sed; John M., who is at home; George W., 
 a bookkeeper for F. K. Stearns & Co., in De- 
 troit, Mich.; and Adda B., wife of Edgar C. 
 Hope, ofTopeka, Kans. 
 
 3 AMES R. THORNBURY, M. D., of Prince- 
 ton, Franklin County, was born in Jackson- 
 ville, Morgan County, 111., July 20, 1842, a 
 son of Benjamin and Emily (Chrisman) Thorn- 
 bury. He was one of nine children, six of whom 
 are living, those besides hini.=elf being as follows: 
 Alfred, a farmer in Dallas County, Iowa; Harriet, 
 wife of Tillman Smith, of Panther, Iowa; Benja- 
 min, who is engaged in farming near Granger, 
 Iowa; Mary J., who married Louis Murray, a 
 farmer of Dallas County; and Willis, also a farmer 
 of that county. The father, who was born in 
 Virginia in 1S18, was taken to Kentucky in in- 
 fancy by his parents, and ten years later accom- 
 panied them to Illinois, settling in Springfield 
 when that city contained only two houses. He 
 was married in Jacksonville and settled upon a 
 farm in Morgan County, where he remained until 
 1866. From that county he removed to Chari- 
 ton County, Mo., and two years later settled in 
 Polk County, Iowa, twenty miles north of Des 
 Moines. In that place he made his home up to 
 his death, which occurred in 1889. An active 
 worker in the Democratic ranks, he was fre- 
 quently selected to serve as delegate to county 
 conventions and was active in all the local work 
 of the party. He was a man of sterling charac- 
 ter, the influence of whose life was apparent for 
 good among all with whom he associated. 
 
 Benjamin Thornbury was a son of Samuel and 
 Harriet (Chatman) Thornburj-, the latter a mem- 
 ber of a wealthy family of planters. The former, 
 who descended from old Virginian stock, was a 
 commercial man, and while in Charle.ston, S. C, 
 contracted yellow fever, which was the cause of 
 his death soon afterward. The maternal grand- 
 parents of our subject were John and Nancy 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 369 
 
 (Bobbitt) Chrisman. The former was born June 
 6, 1791, in Kentucky, to which state his father, 
 John, Sr., had come from Germany in an early 
 day via North Carolina, stopping in the latter 
 state for a very short time only. John Chrisman 
 was a fine mechanic and devoted much of his 
 time to woodworking and blacksmithing, although 
 he owned and occupied a farm which he im- 
 proved. His wife, who was born October 31, 
 1796, was a daughter of Isom Bobbitt, a native of 
 Virginia and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, 
 taking part in the battles of Cowpens, Vetaw 
 Springs and other noted battles. 
 
 Shortly after the beginning of the Civil war our 
 subject determined to enlist and began making 
 preparations to enter the army. August 2, 1862, 
 he enlisted in Battery F, First Illinois Light 
 Artillery, and later was transferred to Company 
 A, of the same regiment, from which he was 
 mustered out of the service July 10, 1865. He 
 took part in the following engagements: Pitts- 
 burg Landing, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, 
 Black River, Missionary Ridge, siege of Knox- 
 ville, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kene- 
 saw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Sta- 
 tion and Nashville. After he was mustered out 
 he returned to his home. In 1866 he went to 
 Mi-ssouri, and during the .six following years he 
 taught district schools. Meantime he took up 
 the study of medicine, to which he devoted his 
 leisure hours. In the spring of 1878 he gradu- 
 ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 in Keokuk, Iowa. After he had ceased teach- 
 ing, in 1872, he came to Kansas and settled in 
 Princeton, where he practiced as an undergradu- 
 ate until 1877, when he entered college and com- 
 pleted his studies. Since then he has continued 
 to practice in Princeton, and through his skill in 
 the diagnosis of disease and his ability in select- 
 ing helpful remedial agencies he has won the 
 confidence of the people. 
 
 August 5, 1862, Dr. Thornbury married Miss 
 Emma Leeds, whose father, Absalom Leeds, a 
 native of New Jersey, removed to Morgan Coun- 
 ty, 111., in early life and for years was one of the 
 foremost farmers of that county, but in 1876 set- 
 tled in Princeton, Kans., where he still makes 
 
 his home. Dr. and Mrs. Thornburj' are the 
 parents of five children, four of whom are living. 
 The eldest, Ada, is the wife of Frank Caldwell, a 
 farmer of Franklin County ; Clara married Jean 
 Masters, a farmer of this county; Emma is at 
 home; and James G. is connected with the Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company. 
 
 From 1874 to 1878 Dr. Thornbury was post- 
 master at Princeton, and he is now serving his 
 second term as member of the board of pension 
 examiners. Active in Republican ranks, he has 
 served his party as delegate to county and state 
 conventions, and was a delegate to the state con- 
 vention that nominated the "Big four." In the 
 work of the Christian Church he has been inter- 
 ested ever since, years ago, he united with that 
 denomination, and both in church and Sunday- 
 school activities he has aided. He is a member 
 of Ottawa Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M., also 
 of Princeton Post No. 1 1 1 , G. A. R. , in which he 
 has ofiiciated for three terms as commander. 
 
 Gl NDREW T. KYLE, who is a retired busi- 
 [1 ness man living in Lansing, Leavenworth 
 I I County, was born in Davis County, Ind., 
 February 8, 1830, a son of Matthew W. and 
 Elizabeth (Burris) Kyle. His father, who was 
 born and reared in Mercer County, Ky. , moved 
 to Indiana in 1828 and from there, in 1837, went 
 to Platte County, Mo., where he was a pioneer 
 and one of the first schoolteachers in that part of 
 the state. He died in Platte County in 1856, and 
 his wife also passed away there, surviving him 
 for many years. They were the parents of six 
 sons, four of whom are living, viz.: Andrew T., 
 William, who occupies the old homestead in 
 Platte County, Mo.; James, who resides in Jefier- 
 son County, Kans.; and George W., of Platte 
 County. 
 
 At the age of seventeen our subject volunteered 
 in the army for service in the Mexican war and 
 continued at the front during the remainder of 
 the war, the entire period of his service covering 
 sixteen months. He was mustered out in the 
 fall of 1848. In 1849 he married Miss Sarah A. 
 Keller, and the following year he made a trip 
 
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 across the plains to the gold fields of California, 
 where he remained for almost fonr years. In the 
 spring of 1854 he was one of the thirty-two men 
 who organized Platte County's well-known town, 
 Weston, and also crossed the river into Kansas, 
 and assisted in laying out the town site of Leav- 
 enworth. He acted as superintendent in the 
 clearing of the tract and the laying out of one- 
 half section into building lots, after which he 
 settled upon four lots on the northwest corner of 
 Delaware and Main streets, and there built the 
 first hotel in Leavenworth. In that hotel, De- 
 cember 5, 1854, occurred the birth of his daugh- 
 ter, Cora, who was the first child born in Leav- 
 enworth and who afterward became the wife of 
 James M. Allen, but is now deceased. 
 
 After having managed the hotel for some years 
 Mr. Kyle gave his attention to the buying and 
 selling of real estate and stock. In 1859 he set- 
 tled upon a farm five miles south of town, where 
 he remained for five years, engaging in general 
 agricultural pursuits. In 1864 he returned to the 
 city, but shortly afterward crossed into Platte 
 County, Mo., where he carried on a mercantile 
 business for four years. About 1870 he came 
 back to Leavenworth and opened a livery stable, 
 which he conducted for a few years. In 1873 the 
 property was destroyed by fire. Two years later 
 he removed to Lan.sing, accepting a position as 
 an official in the state penitentiary, and for eight- 
 een years he continued in the state employ. Upon 
 retiring from his position, in 1893, he established 
 his home in a house that he had purchased in 
 Lansing and here he has since lived in retire- 
 ment. He has always been a stanch believer in 
 Republican principles and has borne a share in 
 the work of his party, but has never sought office 
 for himself. Personally he is a man of firm de- 
 cision and strong character, and his life has been 
 individualized by his will power and determina- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kyle became the parents of five 
 children, of whom Cora, before mentioned, was 
 the eldest; William died in infancy. The others 
 are Andrew T., Jr.; Ida, who married R. W. 
 Reynolds, and resides in McLouth, Kans., and 
 George H. The older sou is one of the leading 
 
 citizens of Great Falls, Mont., where he carries 
 
 on a real- estate and brokerage business. Mrs. 
 Kyle is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 (TOHN M. HUND, who is engaged in farm- 
 I ing and stock-raising in Kickapoo Town- 
 (2/ ship, Leavenworth County, was born August 
 29, 1857, upon the farm still owned and occupied 
 by his father, Wendlin Hund. Here he grew to 
 manhood, meantime receiving such advantages 
 as the public schools of the district afforded. 
 Being of an industrious disposition he began to 
 assist in the cultivation of the home place at an 
 early age. Through experience and observation 
 he gained, while young, a thorough familiarity 
 with every detail of farming. 
 
 With the money he had saved in previous 
 years Mr. Hund bought a farm in 1881. He 
 purchased the Joel Hiatt place of one hundred 
 and sixty-six acres, and here began to cultivate 
 the land, making a specialty of wheat for a few 
 years. Since 1896, however, he has given his 
 attention principally to the raising of cattle, hav- 
 ing on his place a number of fine Durhams. He 
 also has made a specialty of raising Poland- 
 China hogs and the Plymouth Rock breed of 
 fowls. Since 1893 he has furnished many of the 
 families of Leavenworth with milk and creamery 
 butter. On his farm he has made a number of 
 improvements which greatly add to the value of 
 the place, the most noticeable of these improve- 
 ments being a handsome residence, neatly and 
 comfortably furnished. 
 
 The political affairs of his township receive due 
 attention from Mr. Hund. In politics he is a be- 
 liever in Republican principles. For several 
 terms he has acted as township clerk and treas- 
 urer, which offices he has filled with efficiency. 
 He has also been active in educational matters, 
 and since 1877 has served as a member of the 
 school board of district No. 40, being the secre- 
 tary of the board at this writing. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Leavenworth camp. 
 Modern Woodmen of America. He is an active 
 member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa- 
 tion, in the work of which he has been interested. 
 
WENDUN HUND. 
 
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 373 
 
 By his marriage, May ii, 1881, to Mary, daugh- 
 ter of John Aaron, of Leavenworth, he has six 
 children, viz.: Francis C, John A., Mary E., 
 Grace R., Clara G. and Frances. 
 
 pGjENDLIN HUND. The character and 
 I A / standing of a man are usually determined 
 V Y by what he has accomplished. The life 
 work of Mr. Hund is illustrated by the amount 
 of property he has accumulated, the large busi- 
 ness he has built up, and the comforts by which 
 his family are surrounded. He has one of the 
 most attractive homesteads in Leavenworth 
 Country, embracing a section of land in Kickapoo 
 Township. His farm is supplied with first-class 
 buildings, suitable for the successful manage- 
 ment of the wine business, in which the owner is 
 largely engaged. Considerable attention is also 
 given to the manufacture of cider and to the rais- 
 ing of cattle and the carrying on of a dairy. 
 The many conveniences which Mr. Hund has 
 gathered about himself and his family indicate 
 his progressive character and untiring energy. 
 The leading traits in his character are his strict 
 attention to business, his promptness in meeting 
 all obligations, and his excellent understanding 
 of every phase of the lines of business in which 
 he engages. 
 
 Mr. Hund was born in St. Charles, Mo., Sep- 
 tember 2, 1834, being a son of Maurice and Mag- 
 dalene (Hodapp) Hund. His father came to the 
 United States with two sons in 1832 and settled 
 in St. Charles, Mo. The oldest son, John, 
 moved to Iowa in 1844, and in 1857 came to Kan- 
 sas, settling in Kickapoo Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, where he made his home until 
 1886. Afterward he lived, retired, in Ventura, 
 Cal., but frequently returned to Kansas to look 
 after his business interests. In 1891 he and his 
 wife celebrated their golden wedding. He died 
 in 1898, at the age of almost eighty years. The 
 father celebrated his golden wedding in Kicka- 
 poo Township in 1866. He had settled in this 
 township two years before, and afterward resided 
 here until he died at eighty-four years. He was 
 a member of a long-lived family, and his mother 
 
 14 
 
 was over ninety when she died. His wife died 
 in Kansas when seventy-nine years of age. 
 Their son, Michael, came to Kansas in 1872, 
 settling in Wabaunsee County, where he carried 
 on farm pursuits until his death, in June, 1898, 
 at the age of seventy-four. 
 
 Of the three sons comprising the family our 
 subject is now the sole survivor. He was edu- 
 cated in district schools and the Jesuit school 
 near his home. In 1856 he came to Kansas and 
 took up a quarter-section of land, comprising a 
 portion of his present farm. At first he confined 
 his attention to farming', but afterward he be- 
 came interested in stock-raising. In 1872 he be- 
 gan to raise grapes and manufacture wine, and 
 from time to time he increased his vineyard until 
 he now has sixtj- acres planted to grapes. He 
 manufactures about thirty thousand gallons per 
 year, which he sells at fair prices. He is also 
 the owner of one-hundred and thirty head of cat- 
 tle and carries on a large dairy business. He is 
 one of the oldest settlers of Leavenworth County 
 and has resided in Salt Creek Valley for more 
 than forty-two years. He is the largest wine 
 grower in the state and has built up a busi- 
 ness that is important and extensive. In politics 
 he is independent. At one time he served as 
 township treasurer, but he prefers to give his 
 time to business rather than public office. 
 
 In October, 1853, Mr. Hund married Genevieve 
 Snyder, who died in 1872. The children of that 
 union are: John M., a farmer of Leavenworth 
 County; Joseph; George; Frederick, also of this 
 county; Mary, Helena and Annie, all of whom 
 are married. Mary and Annie reside in Jefier- 
 son County and Helena in Leavenworth. By 
 his second wife, who was Josephine Rogg, Mr. 
 Hund had four children: Katie, wife of Frank 
 Phillips; Charles, who served in the Twentieth 
 Kansas Infantry during the Spanish-American 
 war; Henry and Genevieve, at home. Mrs. 
 Josephine Hund died November 25, 1884, and 
 afterward our subject married Dora D. Gast, a 
 native of Germany. They are the parents of 
 four children, namely: Josephine, Otto, Peter 
 W. and Bernard. The family are Roman Catho- 
 lics in religious belief. Mr. Hund has been a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 member of the school board of District No. 40 
 and was the principal organizer of the school, in 
 which work he met with considerable opposition. 
 For twent)'-three years after its organization he 
 served on the school board and was treasurer of 
 the district, meantime doing much to promote 
 the educational interests of the district. 
 
 ["RANK H. vSTANNARD. Among tlio.se 
 r^ who have been active in promoting the ad- 
 I vancement of horticulture in Kansas men- 
 tion belongs to Mr. Stannard, of the firm of 
 Brewer & Stannard, proprietors of the Ottawa 
 Star Nurseries. Upon coming to Ottawa in 1879 
 Mr. Stannard at once embarked in the nursery 
 business, beginning on a small .scale, but gradu- 
 ally building up the large business of to-day. The 
 firm owns one thousand acres planted to fruit 
 trees and nursery stock. Of this land five hun- 
 dred acres is situated at Manzanola, near Rockj' 
 Ford, Colo., while a similar acreage lies near 
 Ottawa, forming the largest nursery in Kansas. 
 Upon the land are to be found trees of all varie- 
 ties, both fruit and ornamental, as well as the 
 other products of a nursery. A large trade has 
 been built up, both in the sale of seeds and 
 plants, and shipments are made to almost every 
 state in the Union, but principally to Missouri, 
 Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma 
 and Texas. The office of the firm is in the First 
 National Bank building in Ottawa. 
 
 Mr. Stannard was born near Aurora, 111., on 
 Christmas day of 1857, and was the .second of .six 
 children (five now living) comprising the family 
 of Charles H. and Maria (Kenip.ster) Stannard, 
 nativesrespectively of Cattaraugus Coun'ty, N.Y., 
 and London, England. His father, who was a 
 son of Alvin Stannard, a farmer of New York, 
 was a machinist by trade, but devoted himself 
 largely to farming. When a young man he went 
 to Illinois, where he was employed for a time in 
 a machine shop at Aurora, but later removed to 
 Warren County, Pa., and carried on a farm until 
 his death, when less than fifty years of age. He 
 was a member of the Bapti.st Church and frater- 
 nally was identified with the Odd Fellows. His 
 
 wife, who makes her home with our subject, was 
 a daughter of Christopher Kempster, who came 
 from England to the United States and settled in 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Warren Coun- 
 ty, Pa. , the subject of this sketch was eight years 
 of age. He attended public schools there and in 
 Jamestown, N. Y. In 1879 he left home and 
 came to Ottawa, where he was the first to set out 
 nursery stock. Since then he has risen to a 
 prominent rank among the horticulturists of 
 Kansas. He is identified with the Western Nur- 
 serymen's As.sociation and the American Associ- 
 ation of Nurserymen and is a member of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the latter organization. 
 Politically the Republican party has always re- 
 ceived his support. For one term he was a mem- 
 ber of the city council. In 1896 he was elected 
 a .member of the board of trustees of Ottawa Uni- 
 versity and also served as secretary of its execu- 
 tive committee. In the Baptist Church, of which 
 he is a member, he holds ofiice as chairman of 
 the board of trustees. 
 
 In Kansas City Mr. Stannard married Luceba, 
 daughter of Hiram A. Stannard, who in 1878 re- 
 moved from Illinois to Ottawa, Kans. , and some 
 j'ears later died in Harvej' Count}', this state. 
 Mrs. Stannard was born near Lamoille, Bureau 
 County, 111., and was a member of the first grad- 
 uating class of Ottawa Universitj', from which 
 she received the degree of A. B. Of her four 
 children three are living, George A., Mabel F'ay 
 and Pearl M. 
 
 (I AMES LINGARD, a farmer and stock- 
 I raiser in Homewood Township, Franklin 
 Q) County, was born in Lincolnshire, England, 
 in 1823, and in youth followed farming and car- 
 pentering in his native place. In 1862 he came to 
 the United States, .settling first in Will County, 
 111., where he engaged in stock-raising and farm- 
 ing. Four years later he came to Kansas and 
 purchased a farm northeast of Ottawa, but never 
 made his home on that land. In 1867 he bought 
 two hundred and seven acres of his present farm, 
 and has since carried on an extensive stock busi- 
 ness. He is now the owner of one thousand 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 375 
 
 acres in Franklin County, and makes a specialty 
 feeding Hereford and Durham cattle and Poland- 
 China hogs, handling more stock than any other 
 man in the township. The land has been trans- 
 formed from raw prairie to a valuable farm, bear- 
 ing first-class improvements and in excellent con- 
 dition for stock-raising. Besides this place he is 
 interested in property in Ottawa and Williams- 
 burg. It has been his aim to place his farm in 
 fine condition, that it may rank among the finest 
 in the county. The trees that stand in his j'ard 
 were brought by him, on horseback, from 
 Garnett twenty-eight years ago. From time to 
 time he has erected farm buildings, as needed. 
 
 In politics Mr. Lingard is a Populist. Several 
 times he has served as treasurer of the township. 
 He is liberal in support of schools and churches, 
 and he has served as a member of the .school 
 board for several years. Both he and his wife 
 were active in the work of the Episcopal Church. 
 In 1844 he married Miss Ann Eister, a native of 
 England, who died in Kansas May 28, 1899, at 
 the age of seventy-four years. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Lingard married Miss Eliza J. 
 Baker, by whom he has eight children, namely: 
 Lizzie, wife of John Scott, agent for the Mis- 
 souri Pacific Railroad at Ottawa; Annie; Jennie, 
 wife of Edward Pendleton; James, Maude, Amos 
 L., Jr., Eula and Eleanor. 
 
 Gl MOS L. LINGARD, the only son of James 
 L_l and Ann (Lister) Lingard, was born in 
 / I England and accompanied his parents to the 
 United States, settling with them in Illinois. 
 Two years later, in 1864, he came to Kansas, 
 where later he was joined by his father. In 1873 
 he purchased his present farm, on which he has 
 since engaged in feeding and raising cattle. 
 From time to time he has bought additional 
 land, and now owns two thousand acres, situated 
 in Cutler Township, Franklin County. On his 
 farm he has between four and five hundred head 
 of cattle. He is one of the most practical and 
 experienced cattlemen of his ' township, and is 
 thoroughly informed in every detail of the stock 
 business. Under his careful supervision his land 
 has been transformed from raw prairie into a 
 valuable estate. On the Republican ticket he has 
 been elected to several township offices, includ- 
 ing that of trustee, which he has filled for several 
 years. For a number of years he has been a mem- 
 ber of the school board. In religion he is an 
 Episcopalian. 
 
 LIVER DENTON. It is conceded that Mr. 
 Denton occupies a high place among the 
 business men of Leavenworth. His life has 
 shown how a laudable ambition may be gratified 
 when that ambition is accompanied by energy, 
 integrity, perseverance and business abilit}'. The 
 firm of Denton Brothers, composed of himself 
 and his brother Winfield W., embarked in the 
 grain business in Leavenworth in 1 891, occupy- 
 ing an elevator with a capacity of two hundred 
 thousand bushels. In the fall of 1897 they began 
 the exporting of grain, shipping cereals of all 
 kinds and having Mobile, Ala. , for their prin- 
 cipal market. The business is the largest of its 
 kind in the state and owes its growth largely to 
 the sound judgment of its projectors. In addi- 
 tion to the original members of the firm, Robert 
 and Louis Denton, sons of Winfield W. Denton, 
 have since been admitted to the partnership. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Genoa, 
 Cayuga County, N. Y., February 11, 1852, a son 
 of Robert and Abbie (Ward) Denton, natives 
 respectively of Orange County, N. Y., and 
 Newark, N. J. His paternal grandfather, James 
 Denton, a farmer, removed from Orange to 
 Cayuga County, but later removed to Ohio, 
 settling near Painesville, where he bought a farm 
 and remained until death; his wife was Martha 
 Lewis, of Orange County. The maternal grand- 
 father, Abner Ward, a native of New Jersey and 
 a farmer there, removed to Genoa, N. Y., where 
 he died; his wife, Mary (Rogers) Ward, was 
 also a native of New Jersey and died in Genoa. 
 
 Robert Denton was third among seven chil- 
 dren, one of whom, Oliver, started for California 
 at the time of the gold excitement, but died on 
 the way. Robert Denton was a farmer near 
 Genoa, but about 1856 removed west to Iowa, 
 settling near Iowa City upon a farm, He was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 born March 15, 1822, and is still living. His 
 wife, who was born July 7, 1820, has been a 
 member of the Congregational Church since 
 twenty-two years of age. She was one of thir- 
 teen children, all of whom are dead except her 
 two brothers. To her marriage seven children 
 were born, viz.: Winfield W.; Caroline, Mrs. 
 Lucius Platte, who died in Lake Forest, 111., in 
 April, 1898; Oliver; Horace, who died in Leaven- 
 worth in 1892; Harvey, who died at five years 
 of age; Mary, who died when seven months old; 
 andAbiierJ. Mrs. Abbie Ward Denton died at 
 Centralia, Kans., June 23, 1899. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 public schools and Iowa City Commercial College. 
 He began as a farmer in Iowa. In 1879 he came 
 to Kansas, settling in Downs and embarking in 
 the grain and stock business at the time of the 
 completion of the central branch of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad. He built the first elevator in the 
 town, and contiiuied in the grain and stock busi- 
 ness for twenty-two years, at the same time 
 operating a farm. In 1891 he removed to 
 Leavenworth, of which city he has since been an 
 active business man. He is a Republican in his 
 political views, but has never been active in 
 public affairs nor cared for official positions. 
 Before coming to Kansas he married Miss Dora 
 Crum, who was born in Indiana, and !))• whom 
 he has two children, Mamie and Alpheus Penn. 
 
 Gl UGUST KROLL, who is engaged in farm- 
 / 1 iiig in Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth 
 / 1 County, is one of the prosperous agricultur- 
 ists of Salt Creek Valley, and since 1885 has 
 owned and occupied the John Hund farm of 
 eighty acres, where he is engaged in raising stock, 
 also in the fruit business and general farm pur- 
 suits. He was born in West Prussia, Germany, 
 September 4, 1847, a .son of Andrew and Eliza- 
 beth (Shrader) KroU. In 1862 the family emi- 
 grated to the United States, landing in Balti- 
 more, Md., where they remained for three months. 
 They then came to Leavenworth, Kans., where 
 the father died in 1865, at the age of sixty years, 
 and the mother when eighty years old. They 
 
 were the parents of five children, viz.: Jacob, of 
 Leavenworth; Frank, who is in Gunnison, Colo. ; 
 August; Albert, deceased; and Josephine, wife 
 of M. A. Wohltrom, of Leavenworth. A brother 
 of Andrew KroU, John by name, came to America 
 in 1862 and settled near Bloomington, 111., where 
 he has since engaged in farming. A brother of 
 Mrs. Kroll, Andrew Shrader, brought the family 
 to the United States in 1862 and afterward became 
 drill master for the United States Volunteers at 
 Baltimore. 
 
 At the time of coming to this country August 
 Kroll was a youth of fifteen years. His educa- 
 tion was obtained in German}' and in Kansas. 
 Under his father's in.struction he learned the 
 blacksmith's trade. While he was in Baltimore 
 he worked for a butcher, receiving $4 the first 
 month and afterward $15 a month. Upon set- 
 tling in Leavenworth he began blacksmithing, 
 and in 1864 became blacksmith for the quarter- 
 master's department at Fort Leavenworth. In 
 October, 1865, he was appointed blacksmith for 
 General Curtis and staS", whom he accompanied 
 in their campaign against General Price, being 
 present in all the battles of that campaign. He 
 was wounded in the second battle of the Blue, 
 being shot through the arm, but refused to go to 
 the hospital. During the day he was employed 
 at repairing and blacksmithing, while often at 
 night he was engaged at picket duty outside of 
 the company's lines. 
 
 At the conclusion of the Price campaign Mr. 
 Kroll returned to his work at the post. In 1866 
 he went as blacksmith with the cavalry to New 
 Mexico, spending the winter at Fort Union, and 
 returning in the spring to Fort Leavenworth, 
 where for a year rheumatism prevented him from 
 following his trade. In 1868 he began to work 
 for himself at his trade. Soon afterward he built 
 a shop at Valley Falls, Jefferson County, where 
 he followed general blacksmithing in partnership 
 with Vincent P. Newman. Returning in the fall 
 of 1869 he resumed work in the quartermaster's 
 department at Fort Leavenworth. In the spring 
 of 1870 he was sent to Camp Supply in the In- 
 dian Territory, where he remained for six months 
 as blacksmith. During that time he returned to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Leavenworth on a thirty days' furlough, and on 
 his way stopped at the government mail ranch, 
 where he found the soldiers had been killed and 
 scalped by the Indians. In January, 187 1, he re- 
 turned to Leavenworth and bought a shop, where 
 he carried on business for himself. In 1873 he 
 went to Houlton, Jackson County, Kans. , where 
 he carried on a general blacksmith shop until 
 1885, and then returned to Leavenworth Count}' 
 and purchased the farm where he has since re- 
 sided. He is a Republican, but has never taken 
 an active part in politics. In religion he and his 
 family are members of St. Joseph's Roman Cath- 
 olic Church. 
 
 April 17, 1871, occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Kroll to Christina, daughter of John Hund, a 
 brother of Wendlin Hund, of Kickapoo Town- 
 ship. They are the parents of ten children, 
 namely: Annie, wife of John Brosier; Mary M., 
 John B., Frank A., Katie T., Henry A., Jose- 
 phine H., Fred A., Rosie A. and LiHie E. 
 
 REV. ROBERT ATKINSON. There is no 
 name more intimately associated with the 
 history of Ottawa University than that of 
 Mr. Atkinson. From 1868 until his death, Jan- 
 uary 17, 1899, he was identified with this insti- 
 tution of learning, which owes its existence, in 
 fact, more to his judicious management than to 
 the efforts of any other one man. A record of 
 his life will, therefore, possess more than ordi- 
 nary interest for the readers of this volume. He 
 was born, of Scotch parentage, in Toronto, Can- 
 ada, August 24, 1824. His early life was passed 
 in his native city. In youth he became identi- 
 fied with the Baptist Church and determined to 
 enter the ministry. With this object in view, 
 (although hindered bj- being compelled to work 
 his own way) he diligently applied himself to the 
 necessary studies. His early college work was 
 done in Bucknell. Later he entered Madison 
 (now Colgate) University, from the collegiate 
 and theological departments of which he gradu- 
 ated, a member of a class of twenty-seven, among 
 whom were Prof. James R. Eaton, of William 
 Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., Rev. T. R. 
 
 Howlett, of Washington, D. C, Judge D. P. 
 Baldwin, of Logan.sport, Ind., and C. C. Osborne, 
 of Benedict College. Afterward, while study- 
 ing in Union Seminary, he engaged in missionary 
 work in New York City. At one time he di- 
 rected the corps of students engaged in colporteur 
 work for the publication society. Through his 
 several lines of work he became acquainted with 
 leading men of his denomination and also gained 
 valuable experience in evangelistic work. 
 
 The first and only pastorate ever held by Mr. 
 Atkinson was with the North Church of New- 
 ark, N. J., amission of the First Church. There 
 he was ordained to the ministry and labored for 
 eleven j'ears. Under his leadership the mission 
 became a strong church, owning valuable 
 propert}'. To aid in the erection of a house of 
 worship he secured $65,000 outside of the mem- 
 bership. Other worthy movements received his 
 aid. He was closely connected with the temper- 
 ance work that proved such a blessing to the 
 town. At the time of the war he assisted re- 
 cruiting oiScers in securing the enlistment of 
 members of his congregation and rendered valu- 
 able service pensonally upon the battlefield. His 
 activit}- in citj' mission work led to his selection 
 as a member of the Board of the Home Missionary 
 Society. It was in this capacity that he was sent 
 west in 1868 to investigate the condition of Ot- 
 tawa University and to report as to its difficulties. 
 He found affairs in a most discouraging condi- 
 tion. A man of less courage than he would have 
 abandoned the work in despair. The condition 
 of the university was so critical that prompt and 
 sagacious action was necessary. The govern- 
 ment, by treaty with the Ottawa Indians, had 
 secured a large and valuable tract of land for 
 educational purposes, the sole condition being 
 that the children of the Indians should be cared 
 for and educated in the arts of civilization. The 
 board of trustees had undertaken to carry 
 out the treaty for the government. The plan 
 was to engage the Indians in tilling the soil 
 while they carried on their studies, but the 
 scheme proved impracticable. The Home Mis- 
 sionary Society, finding that the affairs of the 
 school were daily growing more complicated, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 realized that a master mind must take affairs in 
 hand; therefore they deputed Mr. Atkinson for 
 the task. The insight he soon gained into af- 
 fairs led to his appointment as secretary. 
 Through personal solicitation in the east he 
 raised $44,000 to defray the indebtedness of the 
 university. He was also obliged to conduct a 
 fiercely contested legal battle in order to protect 
 the property of the institution. During this 
 time it became necessar%- to secure the personal 
 action of the president to stay execution of a con- 
 gressional order, and Mr. Atkin.son went to Gen- 
 eral Grant's private residence at Long Branch, 
 where he secured the desired order. As a re- 
 sult of his energy and sagacity the institution 
 was saved and its property protected. The 
 building, erected in 1869, was destroyed by fire 
 January 9, 1875, and through his energy funds 
 were secured to replace the original structure. 
 
 The Indians retained their interests in the uni- 
 versity until 1873, when, having moved to the 
 Indian Territory, a separation of their interests 
 was effected. Of the fifteen thousand acres left 
 from the original twenty thousand, about three 
 thousand were sold for $16,000, and twelve 
 hundred and eighty were allowed to the trustees 
 to meet their liabilities. The balance of the 
 lands, together with the $16,000, were returned 
 to the Indians. 
 
 When the finances of the university had been 
 placed upon a solid footing Mr. Atkinson de- 
 voted himself to private business enterprises, in 
 which he was successful. While in Newark he 
 had been connected with a large braid manufac- 
 tory, started in Pa.ssaic, N. J., and had acted as 
 its manager, through his judgment and ability 
 bringing a large degree of success to the enter- 
 prise. In everything that he undertook he 
 proved himself a successful financier. At the 
 time of his death he owned considerable real- 
 estate and valuable live-stock interests. 
 
 During the time he was secretary of the uni- 
 versity Mr. Atkinson served as general mis- 
 sionary for Kansas and adjoining territories, se- 
 curing sites for buildings and locating pastors in 
 the new and growing country. In the Baptist 
 denomination in Kansas he was one of the lead- 
 
 ers. As president of the state convention he 
 took an active part in the enlargement of denomi- 
 national work in Kansas. He was long a faith- 
 ful member of the First Bapti.st Church of 
 Ottawa, a church that dates its origin as far back 
 as 1837, when Rev. J. Meeker began his labors 
 as missionary among the Ottawa Indians. From 
 1875 to the date of his death he was the leader 
 of the Bible class, a work in which he was pe- 
 culiarly succe.ssful. He was a life member of all 
 the missionary societies of the denomination, and 
 his contributions to religious enterprises were 
 generous. Ottawa University, too, often re- 
 ceived his financial aid; he was an almost con- 
 stant giver to the institution, in whose work he 
 never lost a deep interest. The aggregate of his 
 gifts, through his long life, was very great. 
 
 Though a stanch Republican Mr. Atkinson 
 had no desire to identify himself with politics, 
 and steadfastly refused to occupy all positions ex- 
 cept those of an educational or local nature. The 
 three times that he was elected to the city coun- 
 cil, it was without opposition. Few residents of 
 Ottawa were more widely known. He was rec- 
 ognized as a man of spotless integritj', one who, 
 in the midst of large financial transactions, was 
 ever characterized by a strict regard for honest\-. 
 Possessing firm convictions, when once he was 
 convinced of the justice of a cause, no amount of 
 persuasion ever swerved him from the stand he 
 took. 
 
 In 185S Mr. Atkinson married Miss Margaret 
 Northrup, who was born in Sussex County, N. J. , 
 a descendant of an English family that had rep- 
 resentatives in the Revolutionary war and the 
 war of 1812. Her father, Moses Northrup, was 
 an extensive farmer in Sussex County, to which 
 locality his ancestors had come from Orange 
 County, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson were 
 the parents of four children, Mrs. Hudson B. 
 Topping, who is a graduate of Ogontz College 
 and now resides in Ottawa; Mrs. Harrj- Brown, 
 a graduate of Monticello Female Seminar)-, now 
 living in Kansas City; Robert, Jr., who gradu- 
 ated from the Wentworth Military Academy in 
 Missouri and the Lawrence Business College, and 
 who succeeded his father as secretary of the 
 
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 Western Mutual Fire Insurance Compan}', and 
 James Nortlirup, who is administrator and man- 
 ager of the famil}' estate. The younger son 
 graduated from Ottawa Universit}' in 1898, after 
 which he spent some months in the University of 
 Chicago, and in the fall of 189S entered Johns 
 Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he 
 studied politics, economics and history. His 
 mother went to Baltimore to spend the holidays 
 with him, and returned to Ottawa only three 
 days before the sudden death of Mr. Atkinson. 
 Surrounded in his last moments by his wife and 
 all of his children, our subject passed peacefully 
 from earth. His death was universallj- mourned 
 as a loss to his town and state. The citj' council, 
 board of trustees of Ottawa University, the board 
 of directors of the Ottawa Chautauqua Assembl)-, 
 the board of directors of the Western Fire Insur- 
 ance Company and the Kansas Baptist Conven- 
 tion passed resolutions of respect, and private 
 citizens also joined with them in expressing to 
 the family their deepest sympathy. 
 
 (SIlMON B. LANGWORTHY, M. D., a resi- 
 ze dent of Kansas since 1878, isengaged in the 
 \Z/ general practice of his profession in Leaven- 
 worth, where he has his office in the Ryan block. 
 Besides his private practice he acts as examining 
 physician for a number of insurance companies, 
 is a member of the medical staff of Cushing 
 Hospital, and has filled the position of lecturer 
 on therapeutics in the Leavenworth Training 
 School for Nurses, of which institution he was 
 among the original promoters. Under the ad- 
 ministration of President Cleveland, in 1S95 he 
 was appointed a member of the first board of 
 United States examining surgeons for pensions, 
 and was chosen secretary of the board, which 
 position he filled with ability. For a number of 
 years he was a member of the board of health of 
 Leavenworth, and from 1896 to 1899 he served as 
 county health officer. In every plan for the 
 development of his profession, in every matter 
 pertaining to its advancement, he maintains a 
 warm interest. He has been a contributor of 
 articles to various medical journals and has read 
 
 a number of papers before conventions of the 
 medical fraternity, all of which have indicated 
 his deep professional knowledge and the accuracy 
 of his diagnosis of disease in its manifold forms. 
 At one time he was a member of the Jackson 
 County (Mo.) Medical Society. In 1898 he 
 served as a delegate to the convention of the 
 American Medical Association, of which body he 
 is a member. He is also connected with the 
 Western Surgical and Gynecological Association, 
 the Eastern District Medical Societ}-, and the 
 Leavenworth County Medical Society, of which 
 he was secretary for three years. 
 
 On Langworthy Ridge, near Riceville, Craw- 
 ford Count}', Pa., the subject of this sketch was 
 born April 29, 1859, a son of Joseph A. and 
 Mindwell (Burton) Langworthj', the former a 
 native of Vermont, the latter born near Brocton, 
 N. Y. His paternal grandfather, Asher Lang- 
 worthy, was of remote English descent, two 
 brothers having in an early day come from 
 England to Martha's Vineyard. He was a 
 farmer in Vermont and later in Crawford County, 
 Pa. Joseph A. Langworthy was a fruit farmer 
 and local Methodist minister; in i860 he .settled 
 in Brocton, Chautauqua County, N. Y., where he 
 became owner of a large fruit farm. There he 
 died at sixty-one years of age. His wife, who is 
 now living with our subject's family, is seventy- 
 eight years of age. Her father, Simon Burton, 
 was born in New Hampshire, of English descent, 
 and removed thence to Chautauqua County, 
 N. Y. , where he and his son-in-law built one of 
 the first grist mills in that section. He served in 
 the war of 18 12 and was slightly wounded in 
 battle. He died at eighty-five years, while vi.sit- 
 ing his grandson. Dr. Langworthy. His father, 
 Simon Burton, Sr., and three of his brothers, 
 together with himself, were soldiers in the second 
 war with England. 
 
 Twice married, Joseph A. Langworthy had 
 two daughters and one son (now living) by his 
 first marriage, and by his second marriage two 
 sons, one of whom, the younger, A. E., a drug- 
 gist in Atchison, has recently been elected as 
 assistant to the chair of chemistry in the State 
 University of Kansas. The elder son of the 
 
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 second marriage, Simon Burton Langworthy, 
 forms the subject of this article. He was reared, 
 after one year of age, near Brocton, N. Y., and 
 attended the schools there and the State Normal 
 School in Fredonia, N. Y., from which he 
 graduated in the spring of 1878. Very soon 
 afterward he came to Kansas, where he taught in 
 Cherokee County for a year. In 1879 he came 
 to Leavenworth County and was for two years 
 principal of the Fairmount school, then for two 
 j'ears a teacher in the Leavenworth city schools. 
 Afterward he engaged in fruit farming on the 
 Golden Hill fruit farm, in the city limits, oper- 
 ating this place while he carried on his medical 
 studies. In 1887 he graduated from the Kansas 
 City Medical College with the degree of M. D. 
 He then practiced in Leavenworth for two years. 
 For four years he was a member of the medical 
 staff of the dispensary connected with the Kansas 
 City Medical College, and for one year was 
 demonstrator of chemistry in the Kansas City 
 Medical College. At the same time he engaged 
 in general practice in Kansas City. In 1892 he 
 returned to Leavenworth, where he has since re- 
 sided. He is a Republican in politics. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with King Solomon Lodge 
 No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of this city. 
 
 In New York, in 1878, Dr. Langworthy mar- 
 ried Miss May H. Moore, who was born in the 
 eastern part of the state on the Hud.son River, 
 and in 1878 graduated from the State Normal 
 School of Fredonia. The four children born of 
 their union are named as follows: Joseph Howard, 
 who graduated from the Leavenworth high 
 school in 1898; Herman Moore, also a high 
 .school graduate; Amy E. and William J. 
 
 NENRY W. RHEA is a prominent farmer of 
 Sherman Township, Leavenworth County, 
 and has been active in matters pertaining 
 to the development of local resources. He was 
 one of the organizers of the Bonner Springs 
 creamery, which has proved of value to the com- 
 munity. In the building of bridges and roads he 
 has always maintained a ready interest, believing 
 that no county can take a high rank in a state 
 
 until its transportation facilities have been im- 
 proved as much as possible. He is a stockholder 
 in the Tri-State Telephone Company. 
 
 Mr. Rhea was born in Hamilton County, Tenu., 
 in 1839, a son of Andrew and Eleanor (Millikin) 
 Rhea, natives of Tennessee, where the former 
 carried on blacksmithing until his death in 1852. 
 Politically he was a stanch Democrat. His 
 father, John Rhea, who migrated from Virginia 
 to Tennes.see, was of Scotch descent, whose fam- 
 ily settled in Virginia at an earlj' age. John 
 Rhea married Mary Northcross, who was a de- 
 scendant of Lord Northcro-ss, of England. Our 
 subject's mother was of German parentage and 
 spent her entire life in Tennessee, where she died 
 in 1862. Of her nine children four are living, 
 namely: Elbert A., Benjamin M., Henry W. and 
 Mary A. 
 
 During the early part of the Civil war our sub- 
 ject enlisted in the Second Tennessee Volunteer 
 Infantry and was made sergeant of Company F, 
 and assigned to the department of the Cumber- 
 land under General Rosecrans. Upon being dis- 
 charged in 1864 he entered the quartermaster's 
 department as its agent at Knoxville, Tenn., 
 where he remained until the close of the war. In 
 1867 he came to Kansas and .settled in Brown 
 County, where he remained for two years. After- 
 ward he traveled through different parts of the 
 state and the west. In 1873 he engaged in the 
 mining and mercantile business at Joplin, Mo., 
 where he remained for four years, selling out in 
 1877. He then bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres in the Delaware reserve on the Kaw bot- 
 tom, and since that time he has carried on stock- 
 raising and farming, making a specialty of rais- 
 ing potatoes. In 1880 he erected a fine residence 
 at Loring Station, on the heights overlooking the 
 Kaw valley, one of the most attractive parts of 
 Sherman Township. A railroad station has been 
 built on his land, which facilitates the shipment 
 of produce and travel. He plants about one 
 hundred and twenty acres in potatoes and raises 
 large crops. 
 
 Having given his attention very closely to the 
 various duties connected with the cultivation of 
 his land, Mr. Rhea has never had the leisure to 
 
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 383 
 
 cultivate a taste for public affairs that he might 
 have desired. He has never sought office and 
 has not identified himself with any political party, 
 but has been independent in his politics. He is 
 especially interested in educational matters and 
 has aided in securing good schools for his district. 
 He and his wife, who was Louisa McCaleb, of 
 Tennessee, have many friends among the people 
 of Sherman Township and are respected wherever 
 known. 
 
 |~ RANCIS XAVIER JARDON. Few among 
 ly the farmers of Douglas County have been 
 I more successful than this enterprising agri- 
 culturist of Willow Springs Township. Through 
 his energy and industry he has acquired valuable 
 possessions, including the ownership of one of 
 the finest farms in eastern Kansas. His total 
 possessions in this county aggregate ten hundred 
 and forty acres, all of which represents his own 
 earnings. The farm upon which he resides con- 
 sists of four hundred acres, with fine improve- 
 ments, including one of the handsomest country 
 residences in the state and the most substantial 
 barn in the locality. Besides this place he owns 
 one hundred and sixty acres of improved land in 
 Palmyra Township and four hundred and eighty 
 acres comprising a stock farm in Marion Town- 
 ship. Besides his farming operations, in the fall 
 of 1889 he engaged in the live-stock commission 
 business in Kansas City, Mo., under the firm 
 name of Burnside, Jardon & Co., and for five 
 years gave his personal attention to that busi- 
 ness, since which time he has remained on the 
 farm, hiring men to attend to the commission 
 business in the city. He has been unusually suc- 
 cessful as a farmer. While he gives much time 
 to general farm pursuits, he is also interested in 
 stock-raising and has on his place from two to 
 three hundred head of cattle. 
 
 Near Pittsfield, Mass., our subject was born 
 April II, 1858. He is a brother of Augustus M. 
 Jardon, in whose sketch the family history will 
 be found. When he was only about one month 
 old his parents came to Kansas, hence he remem- 
 bers no other home than this. When twenty- 
 three years of age he rented a farm, and in this 
 
 way secured a start in life. In the spring of 
 1882 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 that he still owns, and to it he has from time to 
 time added as circumstances permitted. Decem- 
 ber 3, 1883, he married Adelia Miller, who died 
 April 8, 1889. His second marriage took place 
 April 15, 1893, and united him with Miss Vir- 
 ginia T. Elliott, of Topeka, Kans., by whom he 
 has two children, Francis and Irene. In politics 
 he is a Democrat with liberal views, and in local 
 elections supports the best men for oSices of 
 trust. Fraternally he is connected with Palmyra 
 Lodge No. 43, A. F. & A. M., of Baldwin. 
 
 Mrs. Jardon is the daughter of John Y. and 
 Louise (Collins) Elliott, natives respectively of 
 Petersburg, Va., and Rheatown, Tenn. The 
 former was for many years a prominent manufac- 
 turer of wagons and carriages. A leading Dem- 
 ocrat he held the office of mayor of Rheatown, 
 where his extensive factory was located. In Ma- 
 sonry he passed through the various chairs to 
 that of Master Mason in the chapter. Mr. Elliott 
 continued in business at Rheatown until his 
 death, which occurred May 3, 1883. Of the fam- 
 ily of seven daughters and two sons born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Elliott only three are living, viz.: Mrs. 
 Jardon; Miss Jo Elliott, who makes her home 
 with her sister in Willow Springs Township; 
 and Emma, wife of Joseph Dickinson, of Rhea- 
 town, Tenn. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM ROBERT WOOD, Ph. D. 
 There is no profession or occupation afford- 
 ing a wider field for usefulness than that of 
 the ministry. Among the men who have hon- 
 ored this profession and who, in turn, have been 
 honored by it, conspicuous mention belongs to 
 the subject of this sketch, who is pastor of the 
 First Baptist Church of Ottawa. Dr. Wood is a 
 man of clear intellect and logical reasoning fac- 
 ulties, an earnest speaker and a successful leader. 
 When he first came to Ottawa he found a church 
 of four hundred and fifty members, and when he 
 left, after a pastorate of two and one-half years, 
 the membership had been increased to six hun- 
 dred. So high was the esteem in which he was 
 held that, some years later, while carrying on 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his degree studies in the University of Chicago 
 and at the same time acting as pastor of a grow- 
 ing church in that city, he was again called to 
 Ottawa, and, accepting the call, he has since 
 ministered to the congregation here. 
 
 The First Baptist Church of Ottawa was organ- 
 ized May 4, 1864, by a company of Baptists, of 
 whom I. S. Kalloch served as chairman and C. C. 
 Hutchinson as secretary. At that time a Bap- 
 tist church was already in existence here, having 
 been planted through the faithful labors of Rev. 
 J. Meeker, missionary to the Ottawa Indians. 
 Accordingly the new organization was given the 
 name of the Second Church, but when the In- 
 dians were transferred to other sections of the 
 country and their mission therefore disbanded, 
 the Second then became the First Church. A 
 building was erected in 1865 and remodeled in 
 1880. When it became too small for the needs 
 of the growing congregation a new house of 
 wor.ship was erected, which is the finest and one 
 of the largest church buildings in Kansas. There 
 has been a steady growth in the membership, 
 which now numbers more than seven hundred. 
 Every department of the church is in excellent 
 condition and the various societies are accom- 
 plishing much for the cause of Christ in this city. 
 
 Dr. Wood was born in London, Canada, April 
 21, i860, a son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Bell) 
 Wood, natives respectively of Glasgow, Scotland, 
 and Montreal, Canada. His grandfather, William 
 Wood, who was probably of English descent, 
 was born in Scotland and prepared for the Pres- 
 byterian ministry, but ill health caused him to 
 come to America, where he engaged in farming. 
 He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church 
 in London, Canada. Matthew Wood, being the 
 only son, succeeded to the old homestead, where 
 he resided for years, but now makes his home at 
 Luther, Mich. He has served as school director 
 and has been interested in the building of 
 schools. While in Canada he served as county 
 commissioner for some years. His wife was a 
 daughter of Archibald Bell, a native of Paisley, 
 Scotland, and a descendant of a Highland family. 
 He was a pioneer contractor in Toronto, but 
 after years in that city removed to a farm near 
 
 London, and finally died at Strathroy. He was 
 the first elder in the old Knox Presbyterian 
 Church of Toronto. 
 
 In the family of Matthew Wood were seven 
 children, all but one of whom are living. John 
 M. is a fruit grower in Mexico; Archibald B. is a 
 merchant in Dumont, S. Dak.; Mary W., Mrs. 
 Beatty, lives in Sterling, 111.; Thomas C. is con- 
 nected with the Miners' supply house in Rhine- 
 lander, Wis.; and Harriet W., a teacher, resides 
 with her parents. 
 
 Until twenty-two years of age the subject of 
 this article remained on the home farm, of which 
 for some years he had charge. In 1882 he en- 
 tered Woodstock (Ontario) College, and attended 
 until the senior year, when failing health obliged 
 him to leave. From 18S2 he was engaged in 
 preaching, although not holding a regular pas- 
 torate. He had identified himself with the Bap- 
 tist Church at the age of eighteen, although both 
 of his parents were Presbyterians. In 1885 he 
 went to Colorado, where he was ordained Sep- 
 tember 29, and became pastor of the First Bap- 
 tist Church of Boulder. At the same time he 
 continued his studies in the Universitj* of Colo- 
 rado, from which he graduated in 1888, with the 
 degree of Ph. B. His second pastorate in Colo- 
 rado was with the Judson Baptist Church in Den- 
 ver, where he remained until the spring of 1890. 
 At the .same time he was secretary of the Baptist 
 state convention and had charge of missionary 
 work in Colorado, having the supervision of 
 about forty missionaries scattered throughout the 
 state. The duties of his position made it neces- 
 sary for him to travel considerably, in order to 
 understand thoroughly the needs of each mission 
 post. Frequentlj' he preached in mountain and 
 mining towns. In Ma}', 1890, he accepted the 
 Ottawa pastorate, which he held until Septem- 
 ber, 1892, and then went to Chicago, where he 
 attended the University of Chicago, and received 
 the degrees of B. D. and Ph. D. He also took 
 charge of a newly organized church of thirty-five 
 members, from which he built up the Lexington 
 Avenue Baptist Church, located three blocks 
 from the Universitj- and containing a member- 
 ship of two hundred. Since his return to Kansas 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 385 
 
 he has acted as a member of the ministerial com- 
 mittee of the Ottawa Universitj' and chairman of 
 the executive committee of the state convention 
 of Baptist societies in Kansas. In every place 
 where he has labored he has been successful in 
 strengthening congregations and in increasing 
 membership. Weak churches and congrega- 
 tions broken down by dissensions have been 
 helped by his labors and brought into harmony 
 and good fellowship. Among young people his 
 work has been remarkably successful, and while 
 in Boulder it was through his efforts the young 
 people's society was organized that afterward 
 became a power for good in that count}' and 
 state. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Wood united him with 
 Miss Mary Ethel Eldridge, who was born in 
 New York state and received her education in a 
 high school and business college in Chicago. For 
 ten years she was private secretary to Isaac E. 
 Blake, president of the Continental Oil and 
 Transportation Company, with headquarters in 
 Denver, Colo. While in that city she was inter- 
 ested in the real-estate business and also in min- 
 ing in Colorado, Utah and Idaho. She drew the 
 original specifications for the magnificent $30,000 
 organ which Mr. Blake presented to the Trinity 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Denver. As a 
 financier she has few equals among women, 
 while her culture brings her into social promi- 
 nence. Dr. and Mrs. Wood have two children, 
 Gordon Blake and Roberta Virginia. 
 
 EOIv. JOHN KNOX RANKIN. The first 
 representative of this branch of the Rankin 
 family in America was John Rankin, who 
 was born in County Donegal, Ireland, of Scotch 
 descent, and emigrated to the new world in 1727, 
 settling on the Juniata River in Penns3dvania. 
 At a somewhat later date he moved to the vicinity 
 of Carlisle. He was the father of two sons and 
 eight daughters, the sons being Thomas and 
 Richard. Thomas was an elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church and a leading man in his commu- 
 nity. Among his family of six sons and six 
 
 daughters was Richard, who was born near Car- 
 lisle in 1756 and followed the blacksmith's trade 
 in conjunction with farming. During the Revo- 
 lutionary war he was one of the brave patriots 
 who fought for the freedom of our country. Af- 
 ter the close of the war he returned to his Penn- 
 sylvania home, but in 1786 settled in Tennessee. 
 By his marriage to Jane Steele he had eleven sons 
 and one daughter. 
 
 Among these sons were four Presbyterian cler- 
 gymen, all of whom were prominent in the anti- 
 slavery movement. One of them. Rev. John 
 Rankin, almost suffered martydom on account of 
 his outspoken opposition to slavery, being several 
 times mobbed. Another of the brothers. Rev. 
 Robert Rankin, was born in Jeff"erson County, 
 Tenn., and attended for some years Murraj^ 
 Academy in Dandridge, fini.shing his education 
 under his brother John, at Ripley, Brown County, 
 Ohio. Upon being licensed to preach he ac- 
 cepted a charge in Huntingdon, Ohio, and from 
 there went to Cass Count}' near Eogansport, Ind., 
 to labor as a home missionary, near which town 
 he died in 1840, when his son, our subject, was 
 only three years of age. Besides him, he left 
 two other children: Mary, who is married and 
 lives at Quenemo, Kans. , and Alexander, a Kan- 
 sas pioneer of 1857, "o^ living in Lawrence. 
 
 The wife of Rev. Robert Rankin was Eliza 
 Rowe Lowry, who was born in Greene County, 
 East Tennessee, a daughter of Adam and Julia 
 Lowry, who sailed for America from London- 
 derry, Ireland. Her father was a pioneer miller 
 and farmer and also flat-boated on the Tennessee 
 River. The family were all stanch believers in 
 the Union cause, and twenty-two of them were 
 captured at one time, in Tennessee, in a crowd of 
 three hundred. After the death of Rev. Robert 
 Rankin his widow was again married. Her last 
 years were spent in Kansas and she died at Que- 
 nemo November 29 , 1 898 . She was a woman of no- 
 ble character and great patience in the midst of ad- 
 verse circumstances, and to her influence our sub- 
 ject undoubtedly owes the firm principles of honor 
 implanted in his nature. Deprived of his father's 
 care when too small to realize his loss, his mother 
 thereafter cared for him and watched over his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 education and training, doing everything for him 
 that her limited circumstances rendered possible. 
 
 The first college in which our subject studied 
 was at Wabash, Ind., but on account of his anti- 
 slavery views he left that institution and entered 
 a college at Iberia, Ohio. That school had been 
 established under the care and patronage of the 
 Free Presbyterian Church, a denomination which 
 .seceded from the old and new schools of the 
 Presbyteriafa body on account of the slavery 
 question. Both men and women were admitted 
 to its cla.sses, and al.so both black and white stu- 
 dents. It was under the supervision, as presi- 
 dent, of a scholarly man (uncle of the lady whom 
 Colonel Rankin afterward married), who was the 
 last victim of the fugitive-slave law, having been 
 convicted under the fugitive-slave law and sent to 
 the penitentiary on the charge of aiding fugitives 
 in securing their freedom; and he remained in 
 prison until pardoned by President Lincoln. 
 Rev. John Rankin was also active in the organi- 
 zation of the Free Presbyterian Church and the 
 founding of the college at Iberia. 
 
 May I, 1859, our subject arrived in Lawrence, 
 joining his brother, who had come to Douglas 
 County in 1857. In the spring of i860 he re- 
 turned to Iberia, where he graduated in i860. 
 During his first sojourn in the west he was door- 
 keeper for the territorial council of 1859. On his 
 return to Lawrence in 1S60 he took an ox-team 
 and went to Iowa, bringing back a load of wheat 
 ground. During the winter of 1860-61 he was 
 enrolling clerk in the last territorial legislature. 
 When the first state legislature met he was ap- 
 pointed a journal clerk and at the close of the 
 session enlisted in the Union army. In May, 
 1861, he was elected second lieutenant of Com- 
 pany C, Second Kansas Infantr}-, which was 
 composed of Johnson County boys. Going to 
 Missouri, he took part in the battles of Forsyth, 
 Dug Spring and Wilson Creek, where Lyon was 
 killed and the regiment cut to pieces. In the 
 fall of 1861 he was mustered out with his regi- 
 ment, and on the re-organization of the regiment 
 as cavalrj' was commissioned lieutenant of Com- 
 pany H, Second Kansas Cavalry. During that 
 year he and others were detached to form a bat- 
 
 tery, which was sent south to Corinth, but, there 
 being an oversupply of artillery in Rosecrans' 
 corps, the men were remounted as cavalrj-. The 
 other officers returned to Kansas and our subject 
 remained in command of the men, as body guard 
 for Gen. Robert B. Mitchell. He took part in 
 the movement of Buell's array back to Louisville, 
 the battle of Perry ville, Ky., and until the pur- 
 suit of Bragg's army was abandoned, after which 
 the detachment was returned to the Second Kan- 
 sas. He was detached as aide-de-camp to Gen- 
 eral Mitchell, on whose stafFhe remained until the 
 expiration of his time, in the meantime taking 
 part in the battles of Stone River, Rover, Triune, 
 Shelby ville and Chickamauga, after which Mitch- 
 ell was transferred to the department of the 
 west, with headquarters in Omaha. 
 
 During the Quantrell raid our subject and his 
 cousin were the only men in Lawrence who re- 
 sisted the raiders with arms, an account of which 
 is given in Cordley's History of Lawrence and 
 Speer's History of "Jim" Lane, in pursuit of 
 Quantrell. On that day, August 21, 1863, the 
 two men had a contest with six raiders in the 
 street and wounded two and drove the others 
 awaj'. In June, 1865, upon being mustered out, 
 our subject was commis.sioned colonel and given 
 a position as paymaster and inspector-general, 
 which he filled four years, until it was abolished 
 by law. In 1866 he was elected a member of the 
 house of representatives, from 1867 to 187 1 served 
 as postmaster at Lawrence, in 1874 and 1875 was 
 honored with the office of mayor, in 1889 was 
 again chosen for the legislature, held the office of 
 assistant superintendent of Haskell Institute, 
 and in 1890 was appointed special agent in the 
 Indian service under Benjamin Harrison, a po- 
 sition which he has since filled with the greatest 
 efficiency. At different times he has served as a 
 member of the school board of Lawrence. He 
 was a member of the board of directors of the 
 Lawrence Land and Water Power Company, and 
 was treasurer and a director of the St. Louis, 
 Lawrence & Southwestern Railroad. In politics 
 he has always been stanch in his adherence to 
 Republican principles, and has exerted a wide 
 influence among the members of his party. His 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 religious faith is that of his forefathers, the Pres- 
 byterian. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., and the 
 Kansas Commandery of the Loyal Legion. In 
 former years he was engaged in the mercantile 
 business, but the duties of his position as Indian 
 agent have for some years engrossed his entire 
 time and given him little leisure for other pur- 
 suits. 
 
 March 21, 1S66, in Terryville, Conn., Colonel 
 Rankin married Laura, daughter of Rev. Thomas 
 Finney, a prominent minister in the Free Presby- 
 terian Church. She was born in New Philadel- 
 phia, Ohio, and died in Lawrence in 1875, leav- 
 ing two sons. The older of these sons, Robert 
 C, is living in East Las Vegas, N. M. The 
 younger, Herbert J., who enlisted as a rough 
 rider in the Spanish-American war, served during 
 the Santiago campaign and was mustered out at 
 the close of the war. The second marriage of 
 Colonel Rankin took place September 5, 187S, in 
 Lawrence, and united him with Miss Augusta 
 Fischer, who was born in Cherzt, Prussia, and 
 by whom he has four children: Carl, Anna L. , 
 Alice M. and Margaret A. 
 
 GJAMUEL R. DICKEY, proprietor of County 
 /\ Line farm, in Delaware Township, Leaven- 
 IjJ/ worth County, is one of the best-known 
 stockmen in this part of the state. A resident 
 of this county since 1865, he was among the first 
 to begin the breeding of fine stock in the state of 
 Kansas and has made a specialty of raising Ham- 
 bletonian horses, of which he usually has from 
 twenty-five to fifty head on his farm. His trot- 
 ting horses are among the finest in the state and 
 on his place he has a good trotting track. Fre- 
 quently he has made shipments of fine driving 
 stock to Philadelphia and other eastern points. 
 Upon his farm, which consists of one hundred 
 and twenty-five acres, he also carries on general 
 farm pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Dickey was born in Chester County, Pa., 
 June 23, 1844, a son of James R. and Jane (Cum- 
 mings) Dickey. Early in the eighteenth century 
 Samuel Dickey came from the north of Ireland. 
 
 His son, Samuel, married Mary Jackson in 1759 
 and they had four sons: John, Samuel, Ebenezer 
 and David. John was the father of James R., 
 whose son, Samuel R., is the subject of this 
 sketch. Several of the name took part in the 
 struggle for national independence. Our sub- 
 ject's paternal grandfather, John Dickey, a native 
 of Chester County, spent his entire life there, and 
 was one of the prominent men of his locality. 
 The maternal grandfather of our subject, John 
 Cummings, owned large estates and several lime 
 kilns near Philadelphia, where his daughter, 
 Mrs. Dickey, was born and reared, and where 
 she died; she was buried in the cemetery at 
 Oxford, Pa. 
 
 In 1865 James R. Dickey brought his family to 
 Kansas and settled in Brown County, where he 
 engaged in farming. Agriculture was his life 
 occupation, although, at different times, he also 
 had other interests. At one time he operated a 
 cotton factory in Chester County and for a year 
 he also carried on a woolen mill in Kentucky. 
 In politics he was a Republican and during war 
 times was a stanch Abolitionist and supporter of 
 the Union. He was drowned in 1867, when fifty- 
 four years of age. His oldest son, John, who 
 went to Colorado in i860, enlisted in the First 
 Colorado Infantry in the Civil war and was never 
 heard of after the battle of Apache Canon. The 
 other children were as follows: Sarah, deceased; 
 Samuel R.; and Jane, wife ofTheophilusBarnhart; 
 formerly of Texas, now of Chickasha, I. T. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was reared near Ox- 
 ford, Chester County, Pa., and was educated in 
 common schools. He accompanied his parents 
 to York County, Pa., and Geneseo, 111. In 1865 
 he came with them to Kansas, settling in Leaven- 
 worth Count)'. Two years later he purchased 
 the farm where he now resides, and here, since 
 1878, he has engaged in the breeding of trotting 
 horses, also in general agricultural pursuits. Po- 
 liticallj' he has always been a Republican, but is a 
 strong supporter of the silver standard. He has 
 served as clerk of the school board, but, as a rule, 
 prefers not to hold official positions. 
 
 April 7, 1869, Mr. Dickey married Miss Emily 
 A. Carpenter, by whom he has five children: 
 
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 Mary E., who is in New York; James H., who is 
 with his parents; Charles F., a graduate of the 
 New York College of Pharmacy, class of 1899, 
 and winner of a prize of $100 for the best ex- 
 amination in materia medica and pharmacognosy; 
 Harry C, a student in the same school; and 
 Jennie. The children have been given excellent 
 educational advantages and are unusually intelli- 
 gent and cultured. Mrs. Dickey is a daughter of 
 Charles K. Carpenter, who at one time was a 
 merchant in New York City, but in i860 re- 
 moved to Kansas. He made the acquaintance 
 of the law firm of Ewing, Sherman & McCook, 
 all of whom became generals in the Civil war. 
 He purchased the Sherman farm near North To- 
 peka, and there made his home for four years. 
 In 1 864 he came to Leavenworth County and pur- 
 chased a farm on the Indian reservation line, 
 after which he returned to New York City. His 
 last days were spent in that place, where he died 
 in 1883. He had a brother, George Carpenter, 
 who was post quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth 
 for some time during the Civil war, holding the 
 ranknf captain. 
 
 IJJELSON MERCHANT. At the time of the 
 j / excitement concerning the free-state or slav- 
 liD ery triumph in Kansas, Mr. Merchant was 
 one of the men who were attracted to the west 
 and cast in his fortunes with the men of the north 
 in an endeavor to crush out slaverj^ from their 
 midst. In the spring of 1857 he came to Frank- 
 lin County and pre-empted one hundred and six- 
 tj' acres in Hayes Township. He experienced 
 all the excitement and danger incident to life in 
 a new country where opposing forces were striv- 
 ing for the mastery. Sometimes when border 
 ruffians were creating devastation in the neigh- 
 borhood and leaving death in their trail, he was 
 forced, for safety, to spend whole nights in the 
 brush. On one night Quantrell slept in his house, 
 but he was not aware of the fact until after the 
 famous raider had gone. In December, 1857, 
 his family joined him in his new home, and here 
 they have since resided, he giving his attention 
 to agricultural pursuits. 
 
 In Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., Mr. Mer- 
 
 chant was born May 24, 1830. His father, 
 Rens.selaer Merchant, was a native of Wa.shing- 
 ton County, that state, born November 30, 1804, 
 and at the age of thirteen he accompanied his 
 parents to Lyons. The remainder of his life was 
 spent in that place, where he died Januarj' 27, 
 1849, at the age of forty-four years. Through his 
 service in the militia he was always known as 
 captain. In connection with farming he engaged 
 in teaching school. His father, John Merchant, 
 was born in Washington County April 11, 1776, 
 and died in Wayne County at the age of ninety- 
 one years. His life work was that of an agricult- 
 urist. In politics he was a Democrat. 
 
 The mother of our subject, who bore the 
 maiden name of Lydia Lane, was born in Wayne 
 County June 23, 1812, and died there May 30, 
 1S74. In religion she was connected with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a daugh- 
 ter of Ziba and Frances (Dennis) Lane, the 
 former born January 31, 1783, and died January 
 20, 1866; the latter born in Maine January 20, 
 1784, and died in New York January 11, 1868. 
 By her marriage to Mr. Merchant she had one 
 son and two daughters. The oldest daughter, 
 Eleanor, was born October 29, 1834, and became 
 the wife of E. A. Gridley. The younger daugh- 
 ter, Lydia, born January 5, 1839, is the widow of 
 John H. Munn, and lives in New York. The 
 oldest of the three children was Nelson. He was 
 educated in the common schools of the home 
 neighborhood and grew to manhood with a thor- 
 ough knowledge of agriculture. 
 
 January 29, 1851, our subject married Miss 
 Julia A. Griffith, who was born in Bridgeport, 
 Conn., February 9, 1831, and at the age of one 
 year was taken bj' her parents, David and Pollie 
 (Piatt) Griffith, to Wayne County, N, Y., where 
 she was reared, educated and married. Her 
 father, a native of Wales, crossed the ocean five 
 times. In early life he followed the hatter's trade 
 in New York and Bridgeport, Conn., for perhaps 
 ten years, and later he engaged in farming. His 
 death occurred when he was .seventj'-seven years 
 of age. Influential in the Republican party he 
 was offered some important state offices, but re- 
 fused to accept them. His wife was born in Con- 
 
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 necticut aud died in New York at thirty-three 
 years of age. Of their four children two are de- 
 ceased. Six children were born to the union of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Merchant, namely: Herschel, a 
 farmer of Hayes Township; Lydia E. , wife of 
 H. F. Ellis, of Ottawa, Kans.; Nettie L., who 
 died in September, 1889, at the age of twenty-six 
 years; Foster P., who is a farmer of the home 
 neighborhood; Clarence, who died January 7, 
 1886, at eighteen years of age; and Charles, who 
 manages the home farm. 
 
 Until 1897 a Republican, Mr. Merchant in that 
 year identified himself with the Prohibition party, 
 with the principles of which he had always been 
 in sympathy. For .sixteen years he served as 
 justice of the peace, and for several years was as- 
 sistant county assessor of Franklin County. In 
 1868 he was engrossing clerk of the state legisla- 
 ture, and in 1869-70 served as sergeant-at-arms 
 in the state senate. With his family he holds 
 membership in the Presbyterian Church. He is 
 identified with Palmyra Lodge No. 23, A. F. & 
 A. M., of Baldwin, in which he has officiated as 
 junior deacon and master. 
 
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 I LIN BELL is one of the successful business 
 men of Lawrence, where he has made his 
 home since 1S85. He has built up what is 
 now the largest music business in Kansas, and 
 with his brother John as partner has established 
 a valuable trade extending through the state. 
 When he came to this city he was without means. 
 His brother had settled here in 1884 and had 
 started in business as a piano tuner and repairer. 
 In 1886 they opened a music store in a building 
 ten feet square, with a capital of only $25. Such 
 a start might not seem encouraging, but they 
 were energetic and determined to succeed, and it 
 was not long until they had established them- 
 selves upon a sound financial basis. When the 
 brother went to Chicago the firm of Bell Brothers 
 dissolved and our subject continued alone, but 
 after three years his brother returned and the old 
 business relations were resumed. In 1892 they 
 removed to their present location. No. 845 Massa- 
 chusetts street, where they occupy the larger 
 
 part of two floors, carrying in stock all kinds of 
 musical instruments and acting as distributing 
 agents for the Shaw and Marshall and Wendell 
 pianos. The brothers are interested in the 
 Russell-Lane Piano Company of Chicago, for 
 whom they are the sole western agents. 'Oliu 
 was one of the incorporators of the company and 
 was chosen a director, also secretary, in which 
 capacities he has since been retained, besides 
 which, since January, 1899, ^^ ^^^ also been 
 treasurer. The factory owned by the company is 
 a five-story building at Nos. 37-39-41 and 43 
 Coventry street, but even the immense capacity 
 furnished by that building is severely taxed, so 
 rapidly has the business grown. In spite of a 
 large number of hands being furnished constant 
 employment the pianos cannot be manufactured 
 rapidly enough to supply the great demand. 
 The company is the successor to the old Russell 
 Piano Company, once so well known throughout 
 the country. ■ 
 
 The Bells are an old eastern family. Our sub- 
 ject's father, Robert, a native of York state, was 
 a sou of William Bell, who moved west to Wis- 
 consin, thence to Kansas and died in Lawrence. 
 From Wisconsin Robert went to Indiana, and 
 during his residence at Mishawaka, St. Joseph 
 County, his son, Leolin (known as 'Olin) was 
 born, February 20, 1865. When the latter was 
 fifteen years of age the father took the family to 
 Iowa and settled in Shenandoah, where he died. 
 He had married Eliza DeMott, who was born in 
 Mineola, Long Island, a member of an old Revo- 
 lutionary family that originally came from 
 France. She is still living and makes her home 
 in Clarinda, Iowa. Of her four children, John 
 H. is in Lawrence; Mrs. Clara Houson resides in 
 Kansas City; and W. J. is engaged in the music 
 business in Texas. When ten years of age our 
 subject secured employment on a farm near South 
 Bend, Ind., and from that time he has been self- 
 supporting. He was only six when he began to 
 play on the cornet, having inherited from his 
 father a talent for music. However, while he 
 worked on the farm his talent was not developed. 
 After coming west as far as Iowa he remained in 
 Shenandoah until 1882 and then spent a year in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the preparatory department of the University of 
 Kansas. Returning to Iowa, after a year he 
 went back to Indiana and continued there until 
 February, 1885, when he joined his brother in 
 Lawrence. He is a member of the Music Chib 
 of Lawrence. His brother organized and is 
 leader of Bell's Military Band, in which he plays 
 B flat cornet. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bell is a Republican. He is a 
 member of the Plymouth Congregational Church, 
 also belongs to the Fraternal Aid Association and 
 the United Commercial Travelers. His mar- 
 riage, which took place in Lawrence, united him 
 with Miss Ida R. Burr, who was born in Massa- 
 chusetts and came west with her father, Fred P. 
 Burr. She is a talented musician and a graduate 
 of the musical department of the University of 
 Kansas. The two children born of this union are 
 Grace Adelaide and Ida Dorothy. 
 
 r~ ITCH REED, deceased, formerly one of the 
 ry prominent men of Douglas County, was 
 I born in the town of Richmond, Ontario 
 County, N. Y., July 28, 1814, a son of Wheeler 
 and Olive (Risdoii) Reed. His father was twice 
 married and by his first wife, our subject's moth- 
 er, had five children, none of whom is now liv- 
 ing. For his second wife he chose Miss Hannah 
 Risdon, a sister of the first wife. To their union 
 fifteen children were born, of whom the follow- 
 ing survive: George, of Coldwater, Mich.; Emily, 
 wife of Solomon Longyear, of Seattle, Wash.; 
 Almira, who married Warren Gilbert, of Le- 
 nawee County, Mich.; Byron, also of Lenawee 
 County; and Henry, who lives in Grand Rapids, 
 Mich. 
 
 A native of Vermont, Wheeler Reed accompa- 
 nied his parents to New York in boyhood and 
 settled in Ontario County, where his father ac- 
 quired large possessions, each of the five sons be- 
 ing given a farm upon settling in life. The fam- 
 ily became numerous and influential. Fift}- chil- 
 dren, descendants of the first settler, attended 
 the same school and formed almost the entire list 
 of scholars. They were also leaders in the Pres- 
 byterian Church and operated a woolen and flour- 
 
 ing mill in the same locality. The education of 
 our subject was obtained in common schools and 
 the academy at Canandaigua, N. Y., after which 
 he taught two terms in New York, and then 
 went to Oakland County, Mich., where he taught 
 for two years. He returned to New York, but 
 his services in Michigan had been so satisfactory'- 
 that they wrote for him to return and teach the 
 following winter; however, having already ac- 
 cepted a school for that term he could not com- 
 ply with the request. He taught one term in 
 New York, and during that time was married. 
 At the expiration of his term he went back to 
 Michigan and settled on a fann in Lenawee Coun- 
 ty which he had acquired some time before. 
 There he engaged in farming, by his energy and 
 good judgment obtaining large and valuable pos- 
 sessions. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Reed moved to the town of Adrian 
 intending to spend his remaining years in retire- 
 ment. However, two of his daughters removing 
 to Kansas, in 1869 he determined to locate in the 
 west, and July of that year found him with his 
 famil)- in Douglas County. He settled in Waka- 
 rusa Township, six miles south of Lawrence, 
 where he developed one of the best farms in the 
 count}'. Here he quietlj', but busily, passed the 
 latter part of his life, dying on the old homestead 
 January 10, 1897. For many years during his 
 residence in Michigan he served as justice of the 
 peace. From youth he was an earnest Christian, 
 seeking to carry out in his life the glorious prin- 
 ciples of Christianity, and after coming to Kan- 
 sas he identified himself with the Methodist 
 Church, although he had previously been con- 
 nected with the Presbyterians. 
 
 February 20, 1840, Mr. Reed married Miss 
 Ann Draper, a lady of estimable character, to 
 whose sj'nipathy and co-operation he owed not a 
 little of his success. She was born near tlie city 
 of Hull, in Yorkshire, England, May i, 1816, a 
 daughter of John and Mary (White) Draper. 
 Her father, who was born and reared in Lincoln- 
 shire, England, moved to Yorkshire in early 
 manhood and learned the trade of a carpenter, 
 which he followed for some years in that shire, 
 in 1 83 1 he emigrated from England to America 
 
STEPHAN NAEHER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and settled in Farmington, Mich., where many 
 years of his life were passed. He removed to 
 Wakarusa Township in 1869, and died here a 
 few years later. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Reed were born five children, three of whom are 
 deceased, namely: Marshall and Marcia (twins), 
 and Mary C. Elizabeth D. is the wife of A. F. 
 Allen, a prominent farmer of Vinland, Kans. 
 Ellen M. married Dr. George Leary, who resides 
 in Wakarusa Township, Douglas County. 
 
 mTEPHAN NAEHER, an enterprising busi- 
 ^\ ness man of Leavenworth, was born in 
 VJJ/ Frickingen, Baden, Germany, December 24, 
 1855, the onl}' child born to the union of John 
 and Mary Aim (Andelfinger) Naeher, natives of 
 Baden. His father, who was the son of John 
 Naeher, Sr. , and a member of an old family of 
 his localit}^ was for years employed as an assistant 
 to the chief forester, continuing in that position 
 until he retired at the age of sixty-six years. A 
 year later he died. His first wife, who was the 
 daughter of a farmer of Heiligenburg, died at the 
 age of thirty-seven years, when her son, Stephan, 
 was five days old. Afterward the father was 
 again married, having by the union a son, 
 Thomas, who is a tinsmith in Leavenworth. 
 
 When a boy our subject worked for two and a- 
 half years in the botanical gardens of one of the 
 princes of Baden, where he learned the forester's 
 business. Determining to try his fortune in 
 America, in 1872 he crossed from Hamburg via 
 Havre to New York on the packet-steamer 
 "Holsatia," which was on the ocean for thirteen 
 days. From New York he came west to Leaven- 
 worth, where he worked as a gardener for two 
 months. Later he secured a clerkship in Henry 
 Krezdorn's store, remaining in that position 
 until 1878. From June, 1878, to September, 
 1879, he was employed by Rohlfing & Co., whole- 
 sale grocers. When Thomas Morgan opened a 
 store he was engaged as clerk with him. May i, 
 i88i, he bought Mr. Morgan out and has since 
 continued the business alone. Later he bought 
 the property on which the store and residence 
 stand. The lot is 90 x 140 feet in dimensions, of 
 
 15 
 
 which ground the brick store occupies 24x60, 
 and the warehouse, for grain, hay and storage, 
 70 X 20. The location is No. 1300 South Fourth 
 street. He has built up an excellent trade in the 
 retail grocery business, and is known for the 
 reliability of his dealings and his honesty in 
 every transaction. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Naeher took place in 
 Leavenworth and united him with Miss Rosa 
 Rapp, who was born in Lexington, Mo., but was 
 reared in Leavenworth from the age of one year. 
 She is a daughter of Jacob Rapp, who was born 
 in Baden and emigrated to the United States, 
 settling in Lexington, Mo., and there following 
 the shoemaker's trade. During the Civil war he 
 was a member of a Mis.souri regiment that en- 
 listed from St. Louis. At the close of the war 
 he came to Leavenworth and opened a shoe store, 
 but later turned his attention to the grocery busi- 
 ness, in which he has since engaged. The chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. Naeher are Amelia, 
 Stephen A., Annie, Katie, Frances and Josephine. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Naeher is a stanch 
 Republican. He is interested in the work of the 
 Turn Verein, to which he belongs. He was at 
 one time chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, a 
 member of the grand lodge and a charter member 
 of the Uniform Rank. The Woodmen of the 
 World numbers him among the members of its 
 Leavenworth camp, and he is also connected 
 with Delaware Tribe No. 3, I. O. R. M. 
 
 QENJAMIN J. DONOVAN, who first came 
 IC\ to Leavenworth in 1853 and settled perma- 
 C^ nently in this city three years later, was born 
 in Cork, Ireland, and was reared on a farm near 
 Chillicothe, 111., and was a son of Benjamin Don- 
 ovan, Sr. After establishing his home in Leav- 
 enworth he became interested in the transfer 
 business for Durfee & Peck, and continued with 
 them until he died, being at the time of his death 
 the oldest transfer man in the town. During ter- 
 ritorial days he served as a magistrate. How- 
 ever, he preferred to give his attention to private 
 business matters rather than public affairs, and 
 had no desire to hold ofEce. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The luarriageofBenjamiu Donovan united him 
 with Catherine A. Heme, daughter of Philip 
 Heme, who died in Providence, R. I. She is 
 still living, and makes her home with her son, 
 Martin B. Mr. Donovan died in 1873, at the 
 age of forty years. Of their ten children only 
 three are living, viz.: Martin B.; Mrs. Joseph 
 Farrell, of Kansas City; and John H., who is in 
 charge of the transfer department of the Donovan 
 Coal, Ice & Transfer Company. 
 
 iA ARTIN B. DONOVAN, proprietor of the 
 y Donovan Coal, Ice & Transfer Company of 
 (9 Leavenworth and the Leavenworth Coal, 
 Feed & Commission Company, also manager of 
 the Crawford Grand Opera House, has spent his 
 entire life in Leavenworth, where he was born 
 July 15, 1859. Upon the death of his father in 
 1873 he succeeded to the management of the 
 transfer business, which were then so small that 
 only one horse and one dray were needed. Under 
 his efficient management a large business was 
 built up. He added coal and wood to the trans- 
 fer business, and in 1897 P"*^ i" ^'^ i^^ plant and 
 a general and cold storage warehouse, with good 
 capacity. The office and warehouses are at No. 107 
 Main street, and the ice house is on Seneca street. 
 From here shipments of manufactured ice are 
 made to the wholesale houses of Kansas City and 
 other points. 
 
 In addition to the Donovan Coal, Ice & Trans- 
 fer Company, whose large business is the result of 
 his executive ability and wise judgment, Mr. Don- 
 ovan is interested as a partner in the livery firm 
 of Keller & Co., at No. 312 South Fourth street, 
 proprietors of the finest livery barns in the city. 
 He is also a partner in the firm of Hiatt & Dono- 
 van, successors to the Osage Indian Traders at 
 Pawhuska, Okla. This business has had a phe- 
 nomenal growth, necessitating the rebuilding of 
 the store to three times its former capacity. The 
 town of Pawhuska is thirtj' miles from the rail- 
 road, the nearest station being Elgin, Kans. 
 
 Under the management of Mr. Donovan the 
 Crawford Grand Opera House has enjoyed an un- 
 precedented prosperity for several years. The 
 
 house has a seating capacity of one thousand and 
 has, during the season, the best attractions on the 
 road. Mr. Donovan is the possessor of a fine 
 voice and for eleven years he was first tenor in 
 the cathedral. Politically he is a Democrat and 
 actively interested in local affairs. Fraternallj' 
 he is connected with the Ancient Order of Hiber- 
 nians, the Woodmen of the World, Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, Tent of Maccabees, and 
 Catholic Knights of America. 
 
 When the Leavenworth Coal, Feed & Commis- 
 sion Companj- was organized Mr. Donovan 
 became interested in it and is now the sole pro- 
 prietor, Ben Perry being the manager. The office 
 of the company is at the comer of Fourth and 
 Choctaw streets, and the firm deals in all kinds 
 of coal, feed and grain. Mr. Donovan is a large 
 property owner. Besides his fine residence on 
 Miami street he owns a farm three miles south- 
 west of Tonganoxie, where he is rai.sing fine thor- 
 oughbred horses, and in the Osage Indian Reser- 
 vation he also has a large ranch, where he is en- 
 gaged in breeding horses, mules and hogs. 
 
 In I<eavenworth Mr. Donovan married Agnes, 
 daughter of Paul Rohr, who came to Kansas in 
 1856 and was engaged in the harness business in 
 Leavenworth. Mrs. Agnes Donovan was born 
 in Buffalo, N. Y. , and died in Leavenworth in 
 1891, leavinga son, Martin B., Jr., now a stu- 
 dent in St. Benedict's College at Atchison. A 
 daughter, MaryC. , was born of this union, but 
 died in childhood. The second marriage of Mr. 
 Donovan united him with Miss Theresa Mesel, 
 daughter of John and Theresa Mesel, pioneers of 
 Leavenworth County. By this union were born 
 two sons, George Eddy, and John Joseph, who 
 died in 1899. 
 
 HON. GEORGE A. FISHER, proprietor of 
 the Fisher machine works of Leavenworth, 
 is a pioneer of the west and a leading busi- 
 ness man of the city which for years has been 
 his home. In December, 1896, he and his four 
 .sons .started the works which they now conduct, 
 building a tvvostory shop, 24x125 feet in dimen- 
 sions, at Nos. 206-208 Cherokee street. In the 
 shop are manufactured tools and machinery of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 395 
 
 all kinds. All of the equipments are modern and 
 the products first-class in every respect. The 
 special feature of the works is the Portable Boring 
 machine invented by George H. Fisher, for the 
 re-boring of cylinders and Corliss valve seats, 
 which is the only worm-geared and automatic 
 feed-boring mill in the west. The advantage of 
 this machine is the fact that cylinders may be 
 bored without change of position, which enables 
 the owner to avoid loss of time. In most cases 
 the cylinders are bored without shutting down 
 the plant for more than ten or twelve hours at 
 a time. 
 
 The Fisher family, in past as well as the present 
 generations, has had manj' expert machinists 
 among its members. Our subject's father, whose 
 name was the same as his own, was born in Ger- 
 many, and in early life settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 where he followed the trade of a boiler-maker. 
 He died in that city when ninety-eight years of 
 age. His wife, Mary Ann Gary, was born in 
 Scotland, and died in Pittsburgh. Of their nine 
 children, three are living, a sister and a brother 
 (the latter, Moses, a veteran of the Civil war) 
 being residents of Pittsburgh. George A. was 
 born in that city December 14, 1832, and re- 
 ceived a public-school education. From the age 
 of sixteen until twenty-one he served an ap- 
 prenticeship to the machinist's trade. In 1853 he 
 crossed the plains to California, outfitting at Leav- 
 enworth with an ox -team and then going, with a 
 Mormon train to Fort Laramie, from there with 
 another train via South Pass to California, where 
 he arrived after a trip of four months. Three 
 months later he returned across the plains with 
 an ox-team, going with a party to what is now 
 Denver (then Cherry Creek). In that place he 
 met Green Russell, who, accompanied by a party, 
 was en route to California, but found gold in 
 Colorado and decided to remain; later he laid out 
 the town of Aurora, now the west part of Denver. 
 Mr. Fisher remained with Mr. Russell for more 
 than half a year, after which he returned to Fort 
 Leavenworth. During the territorial strife he 
 was employed by the government in carrying dis- 
 patches between Lawrence and Leavenworth, 
 then joined an expedition against the Sioux In- 
 
 dians and took part in a fight with the savages at 
 Ash Hollow, eighty miles from Sumner. From 
 there the company went to Dakota. He was en- 
 gaged in trading with the Indians, and with his 
 wagon and four-yoke team traveled from one set- 
 tlement to another. In i860 he joined General 
 Sully as a guide, his abilty to speak the Sioux 
 language making his services especially valuable. 
 He took part in the battle at White Stone Lake 
 and was twice wounded there. Afterward he re- 
 sumed Indian trading among the Sioux. Twice 
 he was attacked by savages and seriously injured, 
 once his horse being shot under him, leaving him 
 to make his way, as best he could, to Fort Look- 
 out, one hundred and fifty miles away. He res- 
 cued and returned to her home Mrs. Kelly, who 
 was kidnapped by Comanche Indians in 1862 and 
 sold to the Sioux in Dakota. 
 
 Returning to Pittsburgh in 1863, Mr. Fisher 
 married Miss Anna B. Claus, daughter of John 
 and Barbara Claus, of that city. With his wife 
 he went back to Dakota and settled upon a ranch 
 at Bonham, but Indians were numerous and white 
 settlers scarce; and his wife not liking the place, 
 he removed to St. Joe, where he was employed 
 as a machinist. In 1869 he came to Leavenworth, 
 and for twenty-one years afterward was employed 
 by the same firm as machinist, a record which 
 proves the value of his services better than mere 
 words could do. Upon resigning his position he 
 engaged in the dairy business on his farm of fif- 
 teen acres in the suburbs, and continued thus en- 
 gaged until he opened his machine shop. 
 
 Mr. Fisher has had considerable experience in 
 frontier life. He has many relics, including a 
 pipe, from Albert Sidney Johnston, for securing 
 horses that had been stolen, and a gold-headed 
 cane from the Dakota territorial legislature. 
 During the ten years that he traveled in Dakota 
 trading among the Indians he never slept in a 
 house, his only bed being an improvised one in 
 tent or on the ground. He was a member of 
 the first territorial legislature of Dakota, to which 
 he was elected on the Republican ticket. He 
 also served as postmaster at Bonham. He and 
 his wife are the parents of eleven children, 
 namely: Anna B.; Mrs. Minnie Belle Biddle, of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Leavenworth; George H., a partner of his father 
 and a j'oung man of inventive abilitj-; CoraC; 
 Harry, Arthur and Walter (partners with their 
 father); Grace, Ernest, Clara and Richard. 
 
 EDWARD BRUNE, secretary and man" 
 /\ ager of the Douglas County Creamery Com- 
 Cv/, pany, is in charge of one of the most im- 
 portant business concerns of Lawrence. In June, 
 1895, he was elected to the position which he has 
 since filled with the greatest efficiency, and he is 
 also a stockholder and director of the company. 
 The creamery was opened April 10, 1895, but 
 was not operated under any system until he as- 
 sumed its management, since which time it has 
 been made a most successful investment for its 
 stockholders. The company has a paid-up capi- 
 tal of $4,700, with an authorized capital of $10,- 
 000. The plant has a capacity of fifteen hundred 
 pounds of butter a day, and a specialty is made 
 of the finest grade of table butter, shipments of 
 which are made as far east as Philadelphia, al- 
 though Kan.sas City furnishes the principal mar- 
 ket for the product. Every modern equipment 
 may be found in the creamery, including two sep- 
 arators and a combined churn and worker. The 
 plant is operated by a boiler of fifteen-horse power 
 and an engine of ten-horse power. At Lecomp- 
 ton and Bclvoir well-equipped skimming sta- 
 tions have been established. To aid in the op- 
 erating of the creamery Mr. Brune has invented 
 a number of devices, one of these being an auto- 
 matic belt shift 1)11 the feed pump of the separa- 
 tor. He is an active member of the Kansas State 
 Dairy Association and the National Creamerj- 
 Buttermakers' Association, in the latter of which 
 he has officiated as vice-president. 
 
 The father of our subject. Rev. John Henrj- 
 Brune, was born near Halle, German}-, and was 
 reared on the home farm, but in early manhood 
 came to America. He was educated for the min- 
 istry and was ordained a minister in the German 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. For a time he 
 preached at Warrenton, Warren County, Mo., 
 where his son S. Edward was born May 19, i860. 
 Thence he went to Golconda, 111., later was in 
 
 charge of a church in Missouri. In 1866 he 
 came to Lawrence as pastor of the Lawrence 
 Church, but a year later, while holding this pas- 
 torate, he died at thirty-three years of age. He 
 had married Wilhelmina Bromelsick, who was 
 born in Germany and came to America in an 
 early day, settling in Hermann, Mo. About 1857 
 he came to Kansas, and here he died forty years 
 afterward. After the death of her husband Mrs. 
 Brune was again married, and now makes her 
 home at Eudora, this state. By her first mar- 
 riage she had five children, two of whom are liv- 
 ing, S. Edward and George C, the latter being 
 editor of the Eudora A'ifK'.f. 
 
 When our subject was six years of age he was 
 brought by his parents to Lawrence. He at- 
 tended the public schools in this citj' and also 
 spent one year in the University of Kansas. In 
 I S79 he accompanied the family to Eudora and 
 settled on a farm, where he remained for three 
 years with them. Afterward he bought the forty- 
 acre place from them and continued farming 
 alone until 1889, when he sold the property and 
 bought the Eudora House. For four years he 
 continued at the head of this hotel until it was 
 destroyed by fire in 1893. His next business 
 venture was as secretary of the Eudora cream- 
 ery. In 1894 he went to Iowa and took a course 
 in the Ames creamery .school, where he completed 
 the regular studies. Returning to Eudora he 
 took charge of the buttermaking department in 
 the creamery, and after six months succeeded to 
 the management of the plant. On resigning that 
 position and selling his interest in the business 
 he came to Lawrence, where he has since made 
 his home. While in Eudora he served for one year 
 as a member of the citj' council, and at the time of 
 his removal from that place he held the office of 
 justice of the peace. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He is a believer in the doctrine of the denomina- 
 tion in which his father was a minister. In the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen he is past mas- 
 ter workman of the local lodge. While in Eu- 
 dora he was made a Mason, and is now a member 
 of Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. He 
 was a charter member of the Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation at Eudora, of which he was president, and 
 
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 since his removal to Lawrence he has become as- 
 sociated with that organization here. He is a 
 member of Bell's military band, in which he 
 plays the first clarinet. During his residence in 
 Eudora he married Miss Mary A. Albright, who 
 was born in Lee County, III., and about 1870 ac- 
 companied her father, Charles Albright, to a 
 farm near Eudora. Mr. and Mrs. Brune have 
 two children, Clarence E. and George W. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM LAMBERT, secretary, treasurer 
 \ A / and manager of the Leavenworth Fruit 
 Y Y and Commission Company , is one of the 
 enterprising business men of Leavenworth. In 
 October, 1897, he began in the fruit commission 
 business in partnership with Henrj' L. Roden- 
 burg, under the company name of the Leaven- 
 worth Fruit and Commission Company. The busi- 
 ness was incorporated in November, 1898, with 
 Mr. Rodenburg as president, George C. Richard- 
 son, vice-president, and Mr. Lambert secretary, 
 treasurer and manager. The commission house is 
 located at No. 511 Cherokee street, where foreign 
 and domestic fruits and vegetables are handled, a 
 specialtj' being made of apples and potatoes in 
 car lots. The business is the largest in the com- 
 mission line in the city, and its success is due to 
 the enterprise and ability of its officers. 
 
 Mr. Lambert was born in Loudonville, Ash- 
 land County, Ohio, February 19, 1861, a son of 
 Jacob and Catherine (Zider) Lambert, natives 
 respectively of Holmes County, Ohio, and Ger- 
 many. His father, who was for some years a 
 farmer, afterward carried on a general store 
 in Loudonville. In 1878 he removed to Hot 
 Springs, Ark., but after four months there, dur- 
 ing the same year he settled in Leavenworth, 
 and afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 in Delaware Township, this county. In 1897 ^^ 
 rented his farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 and has since lived retired in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 His wife died in 1881, leaving four sons and two 
 daughters, who are now living. 
 
 Of these, William was next to the oldest. He 
 remained with his father in Loudonville until 
 1878, when he came to Leavenworth and entered 
 
 the employ of James H. Foster in the dry-goods 
 department, afterward being for thirteen 3-ears in 
 charge of the woolen department with Ettenson, 
 Woolfe & Co. He resigned his position in order 
 to give his attention to the fruit commission busi- 
 ness, in which he has since successfully engaged. 
 As a business man he is keen, capable, efficient 
 and honorable, and has won many friends in the 
 busine.ss circles of Leavenworth. In national 
 politics he is a Democrat, but his time is so closely 
 given to his business affairs that he has little 
 leisure for participation in local matters. In 
 religion he is connected with the Christian 
 Church. Fraternally he is past grand of Leaven- 
 worth Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. F., also a member 
 of the encampment, and past master of American 
 Lodge No. 122, A. O. U. W. The Leavenworth 
 Council, United Commercial Travelers, numbers 
 him among its members. His marriage took 
 place in this cit3' and united him with Noda O., 
 daughter of Samuel Merchant and a native of 
 Camden Point, Mo. The four children com- 
 prising their family are Dottie, I^dna May, Jacob 
 William and Verner. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM BROMELSICK. At the time of 
 \A/ the Quantrell raid, August 21, 1863, Mr. 
 Y Y Bromelsick was a child of eleven years, 
 and was living with his parents on a farm four 
 miles southeast of Eudora, Douglas County. 
 When the raiders marched toward Lawrence they 
 made only two or three stops after leaving Kan- 
 sas City. One of the.se was at the Bromelsick 
 farm. They also stopped at the Bentley house, 
 one-half mile east, where they killed two soldiers 
 who were stopping there. Coming on to the 
 Bromelsick farm, they arrived there about eleven 
 o'clock. The family were all asleep, but were 
 awakened by the command to surround the house. 
 The father hastened to the cellar to hide, know- 
 ing that his life was in danger. Some one 
 knocked on the door with the butt end of a gun. 
 The mother answered the knock and tried to con- 
 vince the raiders that there were no men on the 
 place, but they searched and soon found the father 
 and the hired man. The latter, who was the first 
 
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 one caught, was taken outside, but being strong, 
 knocked his two captors down and escaped to the 
 cornfield. When they found Mr. Bromelsick, 
 they made him dress, and as he was tying his 
 shoes, the wind blew the light out. The darkness 
 saved his life. He slipped away, escaped through 
 the back door and fled to the field. As the raid- 
 ers searched through the house thej' found the 
 eleven-year-old son, whom they jerked out of 
 bed, to see if he was large enough to kill, but 
 finding him so small, left him alone. Meantime 
 the father had fled to a neighbor, whom he en- 
 deavored to persuade to hasten to Lawrence with 
 the alarm, he himself being too old to undertake 
 the trip; but the neighbor was thoroughly fright- 
 ened and feared to venture out. The raiders left, 
 carrying with them nothing but a doulile-barreled 
 shotgun. About daylight Mr. Bromelsick and his 
 hired man ventured back to the house, and it was 
 not until they arrived that the family were sure 
 they had not been killed in the night. 
 
 August Bromelsick was born in Borgholthau- 
 sen, Prussia, the son of a farmer. He married 
 Francisca Vosz, who was born in the same place 
 as himself. They had five children, viz.: Henrj-, 
 who lives near Hermann, Mo.; Mrs. Wilhelmina 
 Walters, of Eudora, Kans.; Mrs. Charlotte Fem- 
 mer, who died in Eudora; Mrs. Anna Miiller, of 
 St. Joe, Mo.; and William, the youngest, who 
 was born near Hermann, Mo., April i8, 1852. 
 The father brought his family to America and 
 became a pioneer of Hermann, Mo., where he en- 
 gaged in farming. In i860 he came to Douglas 
 County, Kans., where he improved a half-section 
 of land. Late in life he retired from active labor 
 and settled in Lawrence, where he died in iS95,at 
 the age of ninety-three. In politics he was a Re- 
 publican. He took a prominent part in the Ger- 
 man Methodist Church, in which he was a class- 
 leader. His wife died while visiting a daughter 
 in Warrenton, Mo., at the age of eighty-three 
 years. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the grammar school of Eudora and the high 
 school of Lawrence. For seven years he clerked 
 in a dry-goods store in this city, after which he 
 entered the firm of H. A. Kendall & Co., dealers 
 
 in gents' furnishing goods, and successors to 
 Wilder Brothers. They first occupied a small 
 store, but in 1877 Mr. Bromelsick bought out his 
 partner and has since bought the building at No. 
 807 Massachusetts street, which he has occupied 
 since 1893. His store is as complete in details 
 and perfect in arrangement as any of the kind in 
 Kansas. Two floors are utilized for the stock, 
 the most of which is sold at retail, although some 
 jobbing is done. His stock of hats is the largest 
 in the city, and in stj'le and price the utmost sat- 
 isfaction is given. In addition to the business 
 here he is a director of the Atlas Building and 
 Loan Association of Lawrence, which he assisted 
 in incorporating. In politics he is a Republican. 
 For two years he was a councilman from the 
 third ward. He is a member of Lawrence Lodge 
 No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and Lawrence Chapter 
 No. 4, R. A. M. 
 
 In Trenton, 111., Mr. Bromelsick married Miss 
 Louisa Eisenraayer, who was born in Mascou- 
 tah, St. Clair County, 111., daughter of an early 
 settler of Illinois who is now president of the Eis- 
 enmayer Milling Company. She received a good 
 education and is a graduate of the Illinois Female 
 College at Jacksonville, 111. In religion she is 
 identified with the First Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Mr. and Mrs. Bromelsick have two 
 sons, Walter and Alfred. Their older son is a 
 graduate of the high school and is now connected 
 with the mill in Springfield, Mo. 
 
 HEODORE H. RUEDIGER, deceased, who 
 vi'as one of the highly esteemed citizens of 
 Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, con- 
 ducted a farm on section 33, and was also identi- 
 fied with mercantile interests in Lawrence. He 
 was born in Germany September 6, 1841. When 
 seven years of age he was brought by his parents 
 to America, they settling on Staten Island. He 
 was educated in Alfred University, New York 
 City, under Dr. Kenyon, and took a business 
 course in Rochester, N. Y. When the Civil war 
 broke out he enlisted, but he was under his ma- 
 jority and his mother refused to permit him to 
 join the army. He then went to Germanj', where 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 he traveled for his brothers who were engaged in 
 the manufacturing business. After five years 
 spent abroad he came again to the United States, 
 this time engaging in business in Salina, Kans. , 
 as a member of a drj'-goods firm. Later he was 
 interested in farming with a brother in Osage 
 County. About 1868 he came to Lawrence and 
 formed a business partnership with Henry Rest- 
 ing, which continued for some years. But the 
 confinement was not congenial to one of his na- 
 ture, and, selling out, in 1885 he came to the 
 farm in Wakarusa Township where his widow 
 now resides, and in which he had previously be- 
 come interested. While in Lawrence he was con- 
 nected with the Watkins Loan Company, in 
 which he held a responsible position. Upon com- 
 ing to the farm, which is situated four miles west 
 of Lawrence, he devoted his time to raising 
 stock. 
 
 Mr. Ruediger was one of the originators of 
 the Douglas County creamery, in which he served 
 as a director and for two years was president. 
 On his farm he had a number of Holstein and 
 Jersey cows, and he engaged quite extensively in ■ 
 dairying. When horses were of more value than 
 now he did considerable in that business. He 
 was a progressive farmer, using sensible methods 
 in all of his work. The grain raised on his place 
 he used almost wholly for feeding his stock, 
 seldom selling any. In addition to the two hun- 
 dred and forty acres in his home place he had 
 charge of one hundred and sixty acres belonging 
 to his wife's brother. All of the improvements on 
 his place were made under his immediate super- 
 vision. He built a fine residence on the side of 
 the hill and named it "Grand View," which 
 name the beautiful prospect rendered very ap- 
 propriate. 
 
 Prior to the Greeley presidential campaign Mr. 
 Ruediger was a Republican, but afterward he 
 affiliated usually with the Democrats, although 
 inclined to be independent in his views. He 
 steadfastly refused to enter the field of politics, 
 and although urged to become a candidate for 
 state treasurer, he declined the honor. He was 
 not a member of any church, although he fre- 
 quently worshiped with the Congregationalists. 
 
 During the early part of his life he was secretary 
 and treasurer of the Melville Mining Company, 
 which owns property at Silverton, Colo. So- 
 cially he was highly esteemed, yet he cared little 
 for fashionable entertainments, his tastes being 
 toward home life and domestic enjoyment, and 
 his home was an ideal one, in which each mem- 
 ber of the family sought to promote the other's 
 happiness. 
 
 October 10, iSyi.Mr. Ruediger married Bertha, 
 daughter of August Poehler, of Lawrence. They 
 had three children: Alfred Poehler, a graduate 
 of the University of Kansas, now engaged in the 
 drug business in Lawrence; Paul Theodore, who 
 manages the home farm; and Aimee Marie, who 
 is a student in the University of Kansas. Mrs. 
 Ruediger was born in Boston, Mass., and re- 
 ceived an excellent education, both in German 
 and English. Her father was an early settler 
 of Lawrence and is now in Germany. He was 
 born in Detmold, Germany, and at twenty-one 
 years of age came to America, settling in Boston, 
 where he was connected with the firm of Chicker- 
 ing & Co. About 1 854 he removed to Burlington, 
 Iowa, where he engaged in business with his 
 brother, Theodore. From there he and his brother 
 came to Lawrence in 1864. 
 
 On his home farm Mr. Ruediger died October 
 27, 1898, after a long illness, caused by cancer of 
 the stomach. He was laid to rest not far from 
 the scenes so familiar to him and amid the sur- 
 roundings that associations had rendered dear. 
 
 I A FAYETTE MILLS, who came to Leaven- 
 liL worth in January, 1853, was from that time 
 LJ until his death intimately associated with 
 the growth and development of the city, among 
 whose citizens he held a high position as a man 
 of integrity and worth. He was born in what is 
 now Schuyler County, N. Y. , May 3, 1827, and 
 was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bennett 
 Mills, both natives of New York. His father was 
 the son of George Mills, a Revolutionary soldier. 
 He studied law in youth, and was admitted to the 
 bar in New York, where he engaged in practice. 
 Later in life he removed to St. Joseph, Mo., of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 which city he was the first mayor. He settled on 
 a claim of one hundred and sixty acres where the 
 Patee house now stands. In 1852 he went to 
 California, but returned a few years later and 
 died in Leavenworth. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was next to the 
 youngest of eight children. When his mother 
 died he was taken to the home of his grandfather, 
 George Mills, who was a pioneer of New York, 
 and came to the Seneca Lake v-alley from Penn- 
 sylvania when but two families resided there, lo- 
 cating upon a portion of the L'Hommidieu 
 Patent, on the eastern bank of Catharine Creek. 
 Here in his humble houseof logs, in 1797, he en- 
 tertained the Duke of Orleans, who afterward 
 became Louis Philippe of France. 
 
 In his Indian bateau he navigated the waters 
 of the Seneca long before a sloop or schooner had 
 rested upon its surface. He was one of the old- 
 est Free Masons in the state, having become a 
 member of that fraternity in 1800. This enter- 
 prising and hardy pioneer was the first post- 
 master in that region. The receipts of the first 
 quarter were thirty-seven and a-half cents, of 
 which the general government received one-half 
 
 Mr. Mills was married May 26, 1847, to Cath- 
 arine, daughter of Phineas and Catharine Casper 
 Mills, of New York. Her great-grandfather, 
 John Casper, was a native of the Kingdom of 
 Saxony. He emigrated to America in 1745, and 
 fought in the Revolution. His son, David, the 
 grandfather of Catharine Mills, fought in the war 
 of 1812, and was wounded. The Casper and 
 Mills families were both of Holland-Dutch de- 
 scent, the name of Mills being originally Von 
 Mehl. Both families have been intensely loyal 
 to their adopted land. David Casper, who served 
 in the war of 18 12, was repre.sented in the Civil 
 war by one son (who was also in the Mexican 
 war) and twenty grand-sons and grand-sons-in- 
 law. 
 
 Mr. Mills finst settled in Lake County, 111., 
 where he remained three years. From there he 
 went to St. Joseph, Mo., and in January, 1853, 
 went to Fort Leavenworth as clerk in the pay- 
 master's department. Later he was transferred 
 to the quartermaster's department as chief clerk, 
 
 holding that position until the close of the Civil 
 war. In 1857 he built a house on Shawnee and 
 Thirteenth streets, which was the first house in 
 that part of the city. There he remained until his 
 death, which occurred October i, 1873. Politic- 
 ally he was a Union Democrat, and fraternally 
 was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, 
 having attained the thirty-second degree. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Mills have had three children, 
 Virginia, Katie and Fayette Maclin, of whom 
 the first named is the sole survivor. She was 
 married in 1881 to Captain Frank H. Mills, 
 U. S. A., of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, which 
 won such fame during the Santiago campaign. 
 Captain Mills was retired a few years since on 
 account of disability. He was the son of Surgeon 
 Madison Mills, U. S. A., who served over forty 
 years, and died at Governor's Island in 1873. 
 Captain Mills died July 29, 1899. Besides his 
 son. Dr. Mills has had two sons-in-law and four 
 grandsons in the armj'. 
 
 Mrs. Mills is an Episcopalian; at an early day, 
 in conjunction with two others, she assisted in 
 starting a mission, which has grown to be a large 
 church (St. Paul's). Of the three original mem- 
 bers she alone survives. Among the people of 
 Leavenworth, where for .so long a time she has 
 made her home, she has a host of warm friends. 
 
 CVSAIAH N. BARLEY, who is a farmer in 
 I Grant Township, Douglas County, was born 
 X, in Champaign County, Ohio, near Urbana, 
 in 1840, a son of George and Julia (Spigman) 
 Barley, who were born, reared and married in 
 Virginia. His grandfather, John Barley, also a 
 native of the Old Dominion, followed agricultural 
 pursuits there, owning a large tract of land. Of 
 his children, the third, George, received a pub- 
 lic-school education and at the age of about twen- 
 ty-six settled in Ohio, where he improved land 
 and carried on farm pursuits. At the same time 
 he was also interested in stock-raising. Upon 
 the Democratic ticket he was elected to a number 
 of offices in his township. When he went to 
 Champaign County he and his wife brought with 
 them the first cradle ever taken into that county. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 401 
 
 They were the parents of four sons and three 
 daughters, of whom two sons are the only mem- 
 bers of the family in Kansas. 
 
 Remaining with his father on the home farm 
 until twenty-four years of age, Mr. Barley then 
 enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Thir- 
 ty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He was at once sent 
 to the front and stationed in front of Petersburg 
 and Appomattox. At the close of the war he 
 was mustered out in Columbus, Ohio. After a 
 short stop in Illinois he came to Kansas in 1865. 
 Here he farmed and freighted until 1870, when 
 he bought his present farm. The land had been 
 but slightly broken and he at once set about its 
 improvement. In 1884 he erected the residence 
 he has since occupied. He has engaged in rais- 
 ing corn, wheat and potatoes, making a specialty 
 of the latter. About 18S1 he became interested 
 in raising horses. Three years later he bought 
 an imported stallion and two imported mares, 
 since which time he has raised a number of full 
 bred horses. 
 
 As a member of the Republican party Mr. 
 Barley has been active in local politics, and he 
 usually attends the county conventions of his 
 party. Several times he has been elected to 
 township offices, and for years he has been a 
 member of the school board. In 1870 he married 
 Miss Mary Gaskell, who was born in New Jer- 
 sey, but at the time of their marriage was living 
 in Kansas. They have an only son, Charles E. , 
 in whose education they have been deeply inter- 
 ested, being desirous to fit him for the responsi- 
 bilities of life. He is now a student in Went- 
 worth Military Academy. 
 
 qJEORGE H. DAVIS, superintendent of the 
 
 a Great Western Manufacturing Company, is 
 one of Leavenworth's most progressive citi- 
 zens. Intensely interested in all that pertains to 
 the development of the town, he is especially 
 alive to the importance of a thorough and mod- 
 ern educational system; and, while he has re- 
 fused other public offices, he has given much 
 time and thought to his work upon the board of 
 education. He believes that by giving to the 
 
 children elevating educational influences and en- 
 vironments they will be prepared for even the 
 highest spheres of activity, and will be made 
 honest, capable and public-spirited citizens. 
 
 A member of the school board for ten years, 
 during six years of that time Mr. Davis has been 
 its president. He has been instrumental in in- 
 troducing many improvements in the schools and 
 has aided in the improvements (to the amount of 
 $50,000) that have been made during his time of 
 service. He originated a plan for keeping a sys- 
 tematic account, in brief form, of every item of 
 expense, and issues an annual report, showing 
 how the money has been expended, also present- 
 ing statistics regarding the attendance upon the 
 schools, cost of supplies, collections, etc. During 
 1898 there was an average daily attendance, at 
 the eleven city schools, of almost three thousand, 
 the largest attendance ever recorded during any 
 year of the city's history. By an increase of ac- 
 commodations and teachers, the average number 
 of pupils in each room had been reduced to thir- 
 ty-eight from forty-four the previous year; and 
 the valuation of school property had been raised 
 from $84,000 to $94,000, while the valuation of 
 furniture was more than $16,000. 
 
 Mr. Davis is of eastern birth and parentage. 
 His grandfather, James Davis, who was of Welsh 
 descent, was born in Farmington, N. H., and en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising there. The 
 family was founded in America soon after the ar- 
 rival of the "Mayflower." The grandfather's 
 death occurred in Beverly, Mass., at seventy-nine 
 years. His son, James P., was born in Dover, 
 N. H., and was an own cousin of Governor Frank 
 Davis of Massachusetts. He became a pork packer 
 and stock dealer at Farmington and Dover, and 
 later in Cambridge and Beverly, Mass. In 1847 he 
 settled in Alton, 111., where he was superinten- 
 dent of a packing house until his death, 1858. 
 He married Elizabeth W. Webber, who was 
 born in Beverly, Mass., the daughter of John P. 
 Webber, a farmer and stock-trader, also a manu- 
 facturer of and dealer in cotton goods, and later 
 a manufacturer of mustard; her mother was 
 Desire Wellman, member of an old and promi- 
 nent family of Massachusetts. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
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 Davis died in Massachusetts, December 2, 1898. 
 Of her seven children all but two are living, our 
 subject being the oldest and the onlj- one in the 
 west. One son, James E., who was a member 
 of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Illinois In- 
 fantry during the Civil war, afterward died in 
 Illinois. 
 
 In Cambridge, Mass., where he was born 
 April 16, 1838, the subject of this sketch received 
 ,his primary education. Later he attended school 
 in Beverly. In 1851 he joined his father in 
 Alton, 111., where he attended .school during the 
 spring and fall, and in winter worked in the pack- 
 ing house. In 1855 he was apprenticed to the 
 machinist's trade in a foundry in Alton, where 
 were manufactured engines and saw-mill ma- 
 chinery. After three years he completed his 
 trade. Afterward he worked with his father in 
 the pork-packing business and when his father 
 died he became superintendent of the packing 
 house, continuing in the position until he came 
 west in February, i86o. In 1859 his mother 
 and the other children had returned east, and in 
 the summer he joined them in Massachusetts, 
 and for a short time worked in George Fox's 
 shops in Boston, but soon returned to Alton. 
 
 On coming to Leavenworth Mr. Davis secured 
 employment in the Great Western shops. Aftfr 
 one month he was made foreman. While his 
 time was principally given to his work he was 
 also active in the various movements resulting in 
 the Civil war. In i860 a mob attempted to hang 
 a murderer; the sheriff appealed to Mr. Davis for 
 assistance to prevent the mob from capturing the 
 man, and Mr. Davis with a few others saved the 
 man's life, but later the .same man was condemned 
 to death and hanged in Denver. After a short 
 time in Leavenworth Mr. Davis went back to 
 Alton and resumed his former position as super- 
 intendent. In the spring of 1861 he became su- 
 perintendent of bridges for the Chicago & Alton 
 Railroad. In the fall of the same year he went 
 to Springfield, as superintendent of James 
 Lamb's packing house. In the spring of 1862 he 
 engaged at his trade in Litchfield, 111., for the 
 Terre Haute Railroad. After three months he 
 returned to Alton, where he was superintendent 
 
 of Walker's packing house. December 14, 1862, 
 in Alton, he married Annie S., daughter of An- 
 drew Mather, a native of Scotland and an early 
 settler of Alton, where she was born. The two 
 children born of this union, James A. and George 
 H., Jr., died in infancy. 
 
 From the spring until the fall of 1863 Mr. 
 Davis was in the employ of the Patterson Iron 
 Works Company of Alton, after which he was 
 superintendent of Wetherbee's packing house. 
 Upon the death of Mr. Wetherbee he went east 
 for a short time, and on his return became con- 
 nected with John Smith's pork-packing establish- 
 ment in Alton, but failing health forced him to 
 resign. Afterward he was assistant foreman in 
 a machine shop, of which, in 1866, he became a 
 part owner, contiiuiing until the .spring of 1S68, 
 when the firm of Dumford & Davis was dissolved. 
 He then again came to Leavenworth, where he 
 was foreman of the Great Western Manufactur- 
 ing Company until 1873 and since then has been 
 superintendent of the works. 
 
 In Alton in 1859 Mr. Davis w'as made an Odd 
 Fellow. He is now a past officer in Mechanics 
 Lodge No. 89, and its representative in the grand 
 lodge. He has also been connected with the en- 
 campment, and in former j^ears was a member of 
 the Knights of Honor. He is now first chief 
 patriarch in the Modern Woodmen of America. 
 In national politics he is a Democrat, but in local 
 matters is liberal, believing in the best man for 
 the place, irrespective of political affiliations. 
 With his wife, he holds membership in the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Leavenworth. 
 
 ■ DWIN T. REES, grand scribe of the Grand 
 'S Encampment of Kansas, is one of the most 
 
 . prominent members of the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows in the state. His connection 
 with this order began in 1875, when he was made 
 a member of Metropolitan Lodge No. 27, in which 
 he afterward served as noble grand, and which 
 he represented in the grand lodge. Later he be- 
 came identified with Far West Encampment No. 
 I , in which he passed all of the chairs and was 
 chosen grand scribe in 1891. In 1893 he was 
 
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 appointed grand representative to the Sovereign 
 Grand Lodge held in Milwaukee, Wis. He is a 
 charter member of Canton Leavenworth, in which 
 he has held various official positions and is now 
 clerk. In 1866 the headquarters of the Grand 
 Encampment of Kansas were established in Leav- 
 enworth and Samuel F. Burdette was chosen 
 grand scribe, a position which he filled continu- 
 ously until 1 89 1, when he was succeeded by Mr. 
 Rees, the present incumbent. 
 
 The home of Mr. Rees is in Leavenworth, of 
 which city his father, Amos, was one of the earli- 
 est settlers. The latter, a native of Kentucky, 
 removed from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Missouri in 
 boyhood with his parents, the family home being 
 established in Chariton County, where he studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar. Afterward he 
 engaged in practice and for a number of years 
 served as prosecuting attorney for a district that 
 included all of northwestern Missouri. For some 
 years his home was in Platte City. He was one 
 of the thirty-two men who laid out the city of 
 Leavenworth. In 1855 he established his home 
 in this place and built a residence on South Sec- 
 ond street. From that time he was extensively 
 and successfully engaged in the practice of law. 
 He was born December 2, 1800, and died in 1886, 
 when about eighty-six years of age. Fraternally 
 he was a Mason. His wife, Judith C. (Trigg) 
 Rees, was born in 1809 and died in March, 1895, 
 at the age of eighty-five. They were the parents 
 of four children, namely: Sarah E., who died in 
 Leavenworth, in March, 1895; Lewis T. , a trav- 
 eling salesman whose home is in Leavenworth; 
 Mary M. and Edwin T. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Platte 
 City, Mo., Augusts, 1852. His education was 
 obtained in the grammar and high schools of 
 Leavenworth. The first knowledge of business 
 that he obtained was when employed as clerk for 
 Lewis Mayo of this city, and later he was em- 
 ployed by other business men here. For some 
 years he carried on a coal business of his own, 
 continuing thus engaged until he was elected 
 grand scribe in 189 1. Since then his attention 
 has been given closely to the duties of his office, 
 and he has been very successful in the work to 
 
 which he now devotes himself Besides his con- 
 nection with the Odd Fellows, he is also identi- 
 fied with the Muscovites at Topeka. In matters 
 political he gives his support to the Democratic 
 party. 
 
 EHARLES HOWARD RIDGWAY. It is 
 doubtful if Ottawa has any citizen who of 
 recent years has done more to promote its 
 material progress than the subject of this article. 
 Since he came here in 1889 he has not limited 
 his attention to his chosen occupation, the insur- 
 ance business, but has been identified with local 
 enterprises of various kinds and has been especial- 
 ly helpful in advancing measures for the benefit 
 of the city. He acted as manager of the old 
 Auditorium and assisted in securing the funds 
 for the building of the Rohrbaugh, which he 
 opened and managed until the pressure of other 
 interests necessitated his resignation. Realizing 
 the need of an organization among the business 
 men of Ottawa, he took an active part in start- 
 ing the Commercial Club and has since been one 
 of its leading members. An idea of his energy 
 may be gained from the statement that the two 
 largest and finest Fourth of July celebrations 
 ever held in Ottawa were under his auspices. He 
 also became interested in the Franklin County 
 fair, which had run down and was burdened with 
 a heavy debt. During the seven years that he 
 served as secretary of the association a fair was 
 held each year, premiums and all expenses were 
 paid, and a large indebtedness was also wiped 
 out. As an insurance agent he built up one of 
 the largest local agencies in the west, having his 
 office at No. 232 Main street, where he repre- 
 sented ten of the old-line fire insurance compa- 
 nies. February 9, 1899, the state insurance com- 
 missioner, Mr. Church, appointed him assistant 
 insurance commissioner, and he sold his local in- 
 surance business in order to take active charge 
 of his office. In this position he has one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five companies under his su- 
 pervision. His work entails great responsibility, 
 but he is fully equal to every emergency, and has 
 won merited praise for his wise management of 
 affairs. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Ridgway was born in Ripley, Brown 
 County, Ohio, August 17, 1865. Hi.s father, Alex- 
 ander McClain Ridgway, also a native of Ripley, 
 was a son of Charles Ridgway, who was born 
 near Philadelphia, a descendant of one of two 
 brothers, Jacob and Amos Ridgway, who came 
 from Switzerland to Philadelphia. Charles be- 
 came a pioneer in the pork packing industry on 
 the Ohio River and for 3-ears had flatboats run- 
 ning as far south as New Orleans. He attained 
 remarkable success and was one of the wealthi- 
 est men of Ripley. A man of versatile ability, 
 he worked as merchant, cooper, manufacturer 
 and farmer. The citizens of Maysville, K)'., 
 offered him a large bonus if he would bring his 
 plant to their town. He was a prominent busi- 
 ness man and was known all along the river. 
 Fraternally he was a Mason. He was very active 
 in the founding of Antioch College, and built a 
 church at Ripley, besides doing other philan- 
 thropic and religious work. 
 
 Alexander McClain Ridgway became superin- 
 tendent of his father's mercantile establishment 
 in Ripley. He was accustomed, at an earlj- age, 
 to go acro.ss the mountains to Philadelphia and 
 from there ship trunks full of merchandise to 
 Ohio. He graduated from Antioch under Prof. 
 Horace Mann as A. B., then entered Yale, 
 where he remained until the outbreak of the 
 Civil war. June 18, 1861, at the age of twenty- 
 five years, he enlisted as second lieutenant of 
 Company C, Twelfth Ohio Infantry, but soon 
 was made first lieutenant of Company C, Thir- 
 teenth Regiment, under Colonel Lowe. He was 
 seriously wounded at Carnifax Ferry and was 
 brought back to Ripley on the .steamer "Marj- 
 Cook." Upon being mustered out he gave his 
 attention to the shoe business in Cincinnati, 
 where he died February 10, 1868, from the ef- 
 fects of his wound. He married Mary Maxwell 
 Gaddis, who was born in Ripley, Ohio, a daugh- 
 ter of David and Jane (Eastou) Gaddis, natives 
 respectively of Pennsylvania and England. Her 
 father, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was a 
 contractor and builder in Ripley, where he died 
 at the age of eighty years. He was a devoted 
 Methodist and helped to build the church of this 
 
 denomination in Ripley. He had a brother, John, 
 in the war of 1812. Mrs. Ridgway was given a 
 fine musical education and studied both in Cin- 
 cinnati and Philadelphia. For ten years she was 
 a teacher of vocal music in the Cincinnati con- 
 servatory of music. She now resides in Ottawa 
 with her only child, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 When only fifteen years of age our subject had 
 charge of a mercantile establishment. Two 
 years later he entered Antioch College and there 
 he occupied the room which had been his father's 
 twenty-five j-ears before, and the name of "Alex. 
 Ridgway" was still to be found on the door, 
 where it had been cut by a hand long since stilled 
 in death. After two years in college our subject 
 in 1884 came to Kansas and entered Baker Uni- 
 versity, working his way through that institu- 
 tion. He spent a year in South Dakota, then re- 
 turned to the university. For a time he was em- 
 ployed as traveling salesman for the wholesale 
 house of G. E. Weikert & Co., stationers. On 
 resigning that position he opened an insurance 
 agency in Ottawa. He was married in Baldwin 
 City to Susie E. Schnebly, who was born in 
 Gla.sgow, Mo., and received her education at 
 Baker University. They are the parents of two 
 children, Wayne and Helen. Fraternallj- Mr. 
 Ridgway is past officer both in the lodge and en- 
 campment of Odd Fellows. 
 
 (TOSEPH G. SCHNEBLY, M. D., decea.sed, 
 I was born on a farm near Xenia, Greene 
 Q) County, Ohio. After completing his edu- 
 cation in the Delaware (Ohio) University he 
 taught school, being for several years principal 
 of the Franklin .school in St. Louis, Mo., where 
 he had twenty-three teachers inider him. At the 
 same time he began the study of medicine. He 
 attended the old Pope Medical Institute of St. 
 Louis, and afterward took a course of lectures 
 in the Keokuk (Iowa) Medical College, where 
 he graduated in 1866. Before Kansas had been 
 covered with a net work of railroads as at pres- 
 ent, he came to this state, and journe3'ed by 
 stage from Topeka to Manhattan, where he be- 
 came a professor in the Kansas Agricultural 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 405 
 
 College. After some years in that institution 
 he removed to Baldwin and accepted a position 
 as professor of mathematics and chemistry in 
 Baker University, then a new and small insti- 
 tution. 
 
 Some years later Dr. Schnebly purchased a 
 drug store in Baldwin, and while managing the 
 business he also practiced medicine. His last 
 years were spent in retirement, and he died in 
 Baldwin April 25, 1895. Fraternally he was 
 connected with the blue lodge of Masons. He 
 raised and organized a company for service in the 
 Civil war, but, not being strong enough to enter 
 the service himself, he was obliged to turn the 
 command over to another. In politics he was a 
 Republican. In iSSi he was elected to the state 
 legislature and in 1883 was re-elected. 
 
 nOSEPH S. BOUGHTON, who has long been 
 I numbered among the progressive citizens of 
 (2/ Lawrence, is the member of an old Connecti- 
 cut family. The genealogy of the family in this 
 country is traced back to the early settlement of 
 New England, His grandfather, John Bough- 
 ton, who served in the war of 1812, joined the 
 tide of emigration that had started toward the 
 west and, crossing the Hudson, he established 
 his home upon a farm in Cayuga County, N. Y. 
 The father, Rev. A. Boughton, was born and 
 reared in Cayuga County, and became a pioneer 
 Baptist minister in that part of the state, where 
 he preached for about forty years. He died at 
 Moravia when seveuty-twoyearsofage. His wife, 
 Hannah, was a member of the Squires family, 
 well known among early settlers along the Hud- 
 son River, and of Holland- Dutch and Scotch 
 descent. She was the daughter of a soldier in 
 the war of 181 2. At this writing she makes her 
 home with her daughter in Lawrence, besides 
 whom she has three children, her other son, 
 George, being in a New York regiment during 
 the Civil war. 
 
 Born in Oswego, N. Y. , March 2, 1839, the 
 subject of this sketch was reared in Cayuga 
 County, and attended Cortland Academy. At 
 the age of seventeen he began to teach. In 
 
 i860 he went to Pipestone, Berrien County, 
 Mich., where he engaged in teaching for a year. 
 In August, 1 86 1, he enlisted in Company B, 
 Sixth Michigan Infantry, being mustered in as 
 corporal at Kalamazoo. He was sent to Balti- 
 more and joined the Butler expedition to New 
 Orleans, after which, during the summer of 1862, 
 he was in that city and on the Mississippi. The 
 only important engagement in which he took 
 part was the battle of Baton Rouge. In October, 
 1862, he was honorably discharged at New 
 Orleans on account of physical disability. Re- 
 turning to Moravia, N. Y., as soon as able he 
 secured a clerkship in the quartermaster's de- 
 partment, and was with Sherman's army from 
 Chattanooga to Atlanta, and was discharged at 
 Nashville in the fall of 1864. At once became 
 to Lawrence, joining a sister, Mrs. Paul R. 
 Brooks, who had come here in the early settle- 
 ment of the town with a half-sister, Mrs. Clark. 
 
 Shortly after he came to Lawrence Mr. Bough- 
 ton selected and purchased a number of books 
 and started a circulating library. The move- 
 ment proved so successful and popular that it be- 
 came the foundation of and was merged into the 
 Lawrence city library, which is owned and sup- 
 ported by the city and is a permanent institution. 
 For his connection with a movement so elevat- 
 ing he deserves great praise. For two years he 
 published the Kaw Valley Courier, a weekly Re- 
 publican paper, which he sold to John Speer, 
 editor of the Tribune. Afterward he traveled 
 for the Tribune, securing subscriptions and acting 
 as correspondent to the paper. In 1878 he began 
 the printing of legal blanks and blank books for 
 the use of banks, real-estate agents, attorneys, 
 city and township officers, etc. During the years 
 that have since followed he has built up a large 
 and valuable business and has become known 
 through the entire state, from all points of which 
 he receives orders. Besides keeping in stock every 
 kind of legal blank and blank book, he carries 
 office stationery, and is prepared to furnish circu- 
 lars of every kind. His office is at No. 639 Massa- 
 chusetts street. 
 
 In Lawrence Mr. Boughton married Miss 
 Elizabeth Gill, who was born in England, and in 
 
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 PORTR-\IT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in&mcy was brought by her parents to the United 
 States, they settling first in WLsomsin, but snb- 
 seqnently coming to Kansas. The foor childreu 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Boaghton are: Arthur C. who 
 is in the genoal office of Swift & Co., Chicago; 
 Paul G.. who is with the Hall Lithographing 
 Company in Topeka; Gertrude H., a student in 
 the University of Kansas: and Sydney A., who 
 is in business with his &ther. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Boaghton is connected with 
 WashingtcMi Post No. 12, G. A. R., in region 
 he is identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 ChoTcfa, and in politics is a RepaUican. He is a 
 member of the Select Friends Order and is the 
 editor and pablisher of the Sflett Friend Maga- 
 simf, the official (vgan of the &ateTnit3-. 
 
 EAPT. HENRY B. DICKS, of Leavenworth, 
 was bom in St. Loois, Mo., April 4. 1S43. ^ 
 son of John R. and Mary 'Harmon) Dicks, 
 natives respectivdy oS Virginia and Peimsylva- 
 nia. His father, who was reared on a &rm, went 
 to Philaddidiia and kamed the tailor's trade. 
 From there he proceeded to St. Loois, where for 
 many years he engaged in merchant tailoring, 
 and met with fair success in his work. He was 
 a man of genial di^tosition, kind-hearted and 
 geDeroos, and had many friends in St. Louis. 
 His death occnrred in that dty when be was fifty- 
 five. His wife passed away when sixty -two years 
 of age. Of their five children, three sons are 
 now living, two of whom, Samn^ W. and William 
 L., reside in St. Louis, the latter being connected 
 with William Barr's dry-goods house. Another 
 son, George W., who was foreman of a cracker fac- 
 tory in Leavenworth for eleven years, died here 
 when forty-seven years of age. Ellen, the cmly 
 dangbter, married Harry O. Gorman, of St. Paul, 
 and died at thirty-five years of age. 
 
 The second of the sons was Henry B., onr 
 sobject. He was educated in pnblic and Catho- 
 lic schools in St. Loois. In ApriL 1S61, he en- 
 listed in Company C of the Dixie gnaid. A 
 mooth later he was captnred at Camp Jadcsoo 
 and in October was paroled, going to Memphis, 
 Tenn., where be joined a battery. ]2. Next be 
 
 went to Springfield, Mo., and soon afterward 
 took part in the battle of Elkhom. Returning 
 to Memphis with his company, he remained in 
 Tennessee for some time, and took part in the 
 battle of Corinth. He held the rank of sergeant 
 of his company. At Brook Haven, Miss., he 
 was captured, but was at once paroled and went 
 to Jackson, thence to Lauderdale, Miss. , where 
 for several months he was on guard duty in a 
 hospital. Returning to his command, he spent 
 a short time with it, later went back to Lauder- 
 dale, thence proceeded to Enterprise, where he 
 clerked for the provost-marshal for six months. 
 He was then detailed with the lieutenant of his 
 company, who was provost -marshal. 
 
 .\t the close of the war Captain Dicks went to 
 New Orleans, and a week later returned to his 
 home in St. Louis. For two years he clerked in 
 a fish store on Olive street, after which he col- 
 lected for large stores for several years. His 
 next enterprise was in the tobacco business, buy- 
 ing crops and selling the same to the manufac- 
 turers. Three years were spent in that business. 
 When Granite Mountain mining stock was low 
 in St. Louis he invested heavily, and the subse- 
 qoent rise in prices brought him a fortune. Since 
 then he has invested his money in loans and 
 property and has devoted himself to the manage- 
 ment of his interests, engaging in no active busi- 
 ness. In 1897, in company with Mr. Edison, 
 Mr. Hunt and M. B. Dono\-an. he purchased the 
 Excdsior Springs hotel property, at Excelsior 
 Springs, Mo., and just before the fire he sold his 
 interests there. 
 
 While in St. Louis he married Miss Catherine 
 Breiman, who died in Leavenworth. Of the 
 three children hora to their union, Lillian died 
 when sixteen and William O. when twenty-five 
 years of age. Anita, the youngest of the three, 
 makes her home with her aunt in Leavenworth . 
 Captain Dicks occupying rooms in the Ryan 
 block. For several years he was a notary public 
 in St. Loois. 
 
 While he is a stanch Democrat, he never 
 SDOght office nor has he any taste for party af- 
 fairs, although he is always willing to help his 
 friends who are candidates for office. Fraternally 
 
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 407 
 
 he is connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. While he is not engaged in busi- 
 ness, he finds sufficient to occupy his atten- 
 tion in the oversight of his moneyed interests. 
 He is fond of sports, especially of fishing, 
 and was one of the princif>al movers in the 
 organization of the Leavenworth Anglers' Asso- 
 ciation. His health, however, being far from 
 good, he is unable to devote as much time to 
 active sports as he would enjoy, but he has not in 
 consequence lost his interest in them. He is a 
 kind-hearted man, and many poor persons have 
 been the recipients of his help and practical 
 sj-mpathy. 
 
 WILLIAM W. BROWN, who has made his 
 home in Douglas County since boyhood, 
 was bom in Mount Pleasant, Ind., Octo- 
 ber 19, 1S44, a son of John and Magdalen (Rapp) 
 Brown. He was one of seven children, five of 
 whom are living, nameW: CaroUne, John C, 
 William W., Joseph A. and Mar\- L. His father, 
 a native of Baden-Baden, Germany, bom in iSoS, 
 learned the trade of a tailor in youth and after- 
 ward came to America, arriving in this country 
 after a voyage of three months. He spent some 
 time in looking for a suitable location. After his 
 marriage, which took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 he settled in Mount Pleasant, Ind., where he es- 
 tablished a tailoring business and buUt up a lu- 
 crative trade. In 1S54, leaving his family in 
 that town, he took a trip through Nebraska. Mis- 
 souri and Iowa, seeking a new location, and 
 finally selected a place in Iowa, where he bought 
 some town lots. Returning to Indiana, in the 
 fall of 1S55 he started with his family for Iowa, 
 going via St. Joseph, Mo. In that city he was 
 comi)elled to remain for the winter, and while 
 waiting for spring he and his son-in-law, Mr. 
 Munzer, oi)ened a tailoring establishment. When 
 spring came he abandoned his intention of set- 
 tling in Iowa. In the spring of 1S57 he came to 
 Kansas, settling in Lecompton, where he and 
 his son-in-law opened a clothing store and mer- 
 chant tailoring establishment. In 1859 he pur- 
 chased a farm four miles southwest of Lecompton 
 
 and two years later disposed of his business and 
 removed to his farm, where he continued to re- 
 side until his death, in 1876. 
 
 The first experience of our subject in farm 
 work was in i860. During the CivU war, in 
 1863, he enlisted in Company D, Fifteenth Kan- 
 sas Cavalry, and immediately afterward was sent 
 on detached dutj- to St. Joe, Mo. , where he was 
 engaged first in picket duty, and afterward de- 
 tailed on scout dut\-. This occupied his time 
 during the greater p>art of 1864. He was mus- 
 tered out of the service at Leavenworth, October 
 19, 1865. Returning home after his discharge 
 he continued on the farm for eighteen months, 
 when he purchased eighty acres adjoining the 
 homestead. At a later date he purchased an- 
 other eighty, and now owns one hundred and 
 sixty. While he carries on general farming, he 
 has given much of his attention to stock-raising, 
 and has become known as one of the substantial 
 agriculturists of the count%-. Although not a 
 partisan he is a stanch Republican. His wife is 
 connected with the United Brethren Church, and 
 whUe he is not identified with it or anj- other de- 
 nomination he is in sympathy with Christian 
 work and has been a generous contributor to 
 worthy causes. 
 
 December 15, 1870, Mr. Brown married Miss 
 Elizabeth Shirley, daughter of Isaac Shirley, a 
 native of Missouri. Her father came to Kansas 
 in 1855 and settled near Lecompton upon a farm, 
 where he remained until his death. Three chil- 
 dren were bom to the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Brown. Of these two are living, namely: Charles 
 F., who was bom March 24, 1S79: and Beulah 
 G., March 10, 1S91. 
 
 0ILAS BENTLEY MEEKER. Franklin 
 ?\ County is the home of many men who were 
 \^ J early thrown upon their own resources and 
 whose natural aptness was developed by contact 
 with the world, resulting in making them more 
 successful perhaps than they would have been 
 had they been reared in wealth. Among this 
 number is Mr. Meeker, who has resided in Kan- 
 sas since 1870, having settled in Ottawa during 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 that year. After twelve years in this city en- 
 gaged in following the trade of a carriage painter 
 and trimmer he purchased an eighty-acre farm 
 in Ohio Township, where he has since resided. 
 He is now the owner of three hundred and sixty 
 acres in one body, and gives his attention princi- 
 pally to buying and feeding cattle. 
 
 In Livingston Township, Essex County, 
 N. J., Mr. Meeker was born July 14, 1836. His 
 father, Abijah, who was born in Essex County 
 in 1802, resided on a farm until 1854, when he 
 removed to Newark, N. J., and embarked in the 
 grocery business. As a business man he was 
 fairly successful. A Whig in early life, he was 
 later identified with the Democratic party, and 
 held various ofiBces, such as member of the town- 
 ship committee, etc. In religion he was a Bap- 
 tist. His death occurred in Newark when he 
 was fifty-three years of age. His father, Jeph- 
 tha, a native of the same county and a lifelong 
 farmer, was a son of one of tlie eleven sons 
 of Timothy Meeker, Sr. It is a remarkable 
 fact that all of these sons, together with their 
 father, served in the Revolutionary war, the 
 father of Jephtha, Timothy, Jr., being a minute 
 man, while his father was a sergeant and served 
 during the entire war. All were natives of New 
 Jersey. Our subject's mother, Julia (Wade) 
 Meeker, was born in New York City, but .spent 
 almost her whole life in Essex County, N. J., 
 and died in Kansas when eighty-two years of 
 age. Of her five children, two are living, Silas 
 B. and Jennie, wife of Prof M. L. Ward, of 
 Ottawa, Kans. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our subject was 
 apprenticed to the trade of a carriage trinnner in 
 Newark, N. J., and at the expiration of his 
 time (four years) he began working at his trade 
 in Newark and Warren County, N. J. Later he 
 engaged in the carriage business in Franklin, 
 N. Y., for eight years, but sold out in 1870, 
 having decided to settle in Kansas. In politics 
 he is a Republican, but always refuses to accept 
 nomination for office. During his residence in 
 New Jersey he married Miss Eliza Squier, of 
 Essex County, who died in Franklin, N. Y. 
 Five children had been born to their union, but 
 
 two of these died in infancy. Julian L., the 
 oldest of the three now living, is a farmer in 
 Oklahoma. William S. al.so lives in that terri- 
 tory. Grace R., who resides with her father, is 
 a member of the Daughters of the Revolution, 
 (Topeka Chapter) by virtue of seven ancestors 
 who served in the Revolutionar}' war, the family 
 having been one of the earliest and most promi- 
 nent among the pioneers of New Jersej'. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Meeker united him with 
 Eniily J. Squier, a sister of his first wife. She 
 died in June, i8gi, leaving two children, Roy S. 
 and Jennie E. 
 
 HENRY ANTHONY, who owns one of the 
 good farms of Peoria Township, Franklin 
 County, was born May 12, i860, on the 
 place where he now resides, and is a son of John 
 and Margaret (Hammel) Anthony. He had only 
 such educational opportunities as the common 
 schools of the neighborhood afforded. When 
 twenty-two years of age he started out for him- 
 self, renting and operating the homestead of six 
 hundred and forty acres. He now has four hun- 
 dred acres under cultivation, and raises corn and 
 hay principally, but never sells any grain or feed, 
 using it for his stock. He keeps on his place 
 from one to two hundred and fifty head of Durham 
 cattle and about three hundred head of Poland- Chi- 
 na hogs. At this writing he is the owner of three 
 hundred and sixty-seven acres, a part of the 
 homestead, and a quarter-section of other land. 
 
 Political matters have received considerable 
 attention from Mr. Anthony, who is a stanch 
 Democrat in national issues, but in local elections 
 supports the men whom he considers best quali- 
 fied to represent the people. He has served as a 
 member of the .school board. Fraternally he is 
 connected with Wellsville Lodge No. 356, A. F. 
 & A. M., and Select Knights, A. O. U. W. A 
 Baptist in religion, he was one of those who as- 
 sisted largely in the building of the house of 
 worship now occupied by this congregatioji, as 
 well as the former edifice which was burned. 
 His attention is given closely to the management 
 of his farm. He is an energetic, hard-working 
 man, and may usually be found working on his 
 
WILI.IAJI S. FINLF.Y. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 411 
 
 land. The location of his place is excellent, be- 
 ing on section 33, seven and one-half miles south 
 of Wellsville and ten miles east of Ottawa. In 
 1S96 he built a large crib and barn, 34x60 feet, 
 which has room for two wagons to drive in side 
 by side. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Anthony took place Jan- 
 uary I, 1888, and united him with Mary O. 
 Sumstine, of Franklin County. They are the 
 parents of four children, Victoria Lynn, Lena 
 Dell, Walter Clyde and Laura Gladys. 
 
 pCJlLLlAM S. FINLEY, president of the 
 I A/ Williamsburg State Bank, is one of the 
 V Y best-known men in Franklin County, 
 among whose citizens he wields an influence that 
 is apparent in the promotion of helpful enter- 
 prises. He is recognized as a man of progressive 
 plans, who is interested in education and every 
 good work, and who, in the line of financiering, 
 exhibits a keenness of perception and an accurate 
 judgment that proves him to be adapted to the 
 banking business. 
 
 A son of James R. and Elizabeth (Feaster) 
 Finley, the subject of this sketch was born in 
 Crawford County, Pa., in 1831. He was edu- 
 cated in common schools and in DufiPs Com- 
 mercial College at Pittsburgh, Pa. , after which he 
 was employed in clerical positions, and also, for 
 two years, followed the carriage-maker's trade. 
 In 1857 he went to Kewaunee, Wis., where he 
 carried on a lumber business as a member of the 
 firm of Kelly, Finley & Co., later Taylor, Finley 
 & Co. For ten years he was one of the most 
 active business men of Kewaunee. In 1867 he 
 went to Fond du Lac, Wis., where for a short 
 time he was interested in a drug bu.siness, but 
 later became a member of the lumber firm of 
 Hamilton, Finley & Co., remaining in the town 
 for eleven years. 
 
 Severing his connection with business interests 
 in Wisconsin, in 1878 Mr. Finley came to Kansas 
 and settled on a stock farm south of Ottawa, in 
 Ohio Township, where he engaged in stock farm- 
 ing for four years. In 1882 he sold the farm and 
 came to Williamsburg, where he purchased the 
 16 
 
 private bank of Mr. Bartholow, and this he con- 
 tinued as a private institution for sixteen j'cars. 
 The Williamsburg State Bank was organized in 
 1898, with him as president and his son, James 
 R., as cashier, since which time the bank has en- 
 joyed a steady growth in deposits. Besides the 
 bank he is interested in the feed mill and elevator 
 at Williamsburg, and is also the owner of farm- 
 ing land and town property. 
 
 While in Wisconsin Mr. Finley was a member 
 of the state legislature in i860 and 1861, being 
 elected on the Republican ticket. For one term 
 he also served as treasurer of Kewaunee County. 
 Since coming to Kansas he has been prominent in 
 the Republican party in Franklin County. In 
 1898 he was elected to represent the fifteenth dis- 
 trict in the state legislature, and during his term 
 in the lower house was a member of the com- 
 mittee on banks and banking, also the committee 
 on assessment and taxation. Both in Wisconsin 
 and in Kansas he has attended state conventions 
 of the Republican party. For fifteen years he 
 has been a member of the school board. At the 
 breaking out of the Civil war the governor of 
 Wisconsin commissioned him draft commissioner 
 for Kewaunee County and he completed the draft. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Knights of 
 Honor. 
 
 By his marriage, in 1851, to Miss Laura A. 
 Swift, Mr. Finley has one son, James R., who 
 was born in 1869. He received his education in 
 local schools and is also a graduate of Sprague's 
 Correspondence School of Law, at Detroit, Mich. 
 Since completing his studies he has been asso- 
 ciated with his father, and is filling the position of 
 bank cashier with efficiency. He married Miss 
 Mary Pearson, of Williamsburg, where they now 
 reside. 
 
 EHARLES F. W. DASSLER, attorney-at- 
 law, of Leavenworth, is well known, not 
 only in the city where he resides, but 
 through the authorship of law works that are 
 accepted authorities in the various matters of 
 which thej' treat he has become known through- 
 out the entire country, and is recognized as one 
 of the most accurate law writers of the nineteenth 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 century. The following list of his works proves 
 that his life during the past quarter of a centurj' 
 has been a busy and useful one, honorable and 
 creditable to himself and helpful to his profession: 
 
 1874. Dassler's Kansas Digest, 1 volume; publisher, 
 
 W. J. Gilbert. 
 187G. Dassler's Kansas Statutes, 2 volumes; publisher, 
 
 \V. J. Gilbert. 
 187!). Compiled Laws of Kansas, 1 volume (under act of 
 
 legislature); publisher, W. J. Gilbert. 
 
 1880. Dassler's Kansas Digest, 1 volume; publishers. 
 Mills & Co. 
 
 1881. Compiled Laws of Kansas, 1 volume; publishers, 
 Geo. W. Crane & Co. 
 
 1881. K.-insas Addendum, Green's Pleadingand Practice, 
 1 volume; publisher, W. J. Gilbert. 
 
 1881. Reprint of McCahon's R. and 1 Kansas R., with 
 notes and additional cases, 1 volume; publishers, 
 F. P. Baker & Sons. 
 
 1882. Reprint of Vols. 2 and 3, Kansas Reports, with 
 notes, 2 volumes; publishers. Mills & Co. 
 
 1883. Reprint of Vol. 4, Kansas Reports, with notes, 1 
 volume; publishers, Mills & Co. 
 
 1883. Leavenworth City Ordinances, 1 volume; pub- 
 lishers, Dassler & Sbafer. 
 
 1884. Reprint Vols. 5, 6 and 7, Kansas Reports, with 
 notes, 3 volumes; West Publishing Co. 
 
 1885. Compiled Laws of Kansas, 1 volume; Geo. W. 
 Crane & Co. 
 
 1885. Reprint Vols. 8,9, 10 and 11, Kansas Reports, 
 with notes, 4 volumes; West Publishing Co. 
 
 1886. Reprint Vols. 12, 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22, Kansas 
 Reports, with notes, G volumes; West Publishing 
 Co. 
 
 188G. Kansas Addendum, Green's Pleading and Prac- 
 tice ('2d edition), 1 volume; Gilbert Book Co. 
 
 1887. Reprint Vols. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 Kansas 
 Reports, with notes, 7 volumes; West Publishing 
 Co. 
 
 1893. Kansas Form Book, 1 volume; Crane & Co. 
 
 1894. Kansas Digest ( new volume 2), 1 volume; Crane 
 &Co. 
 
 1899. Compiled Laws of Kansas, 1 volume; Crane & Co. 
 
 Mr. Dassler was born in St. Louis, Mo., April 
 3, 1852, a son of John G. and Mary (Hintze) 
 Dassler, natives of Germany and Lutherans in 
 religion. They resided for years, and until their 
 death, in St. Louis, where he engaged in the 
 mercantile business. Of their five children now 
 living Charles is the eldest and the only one in 
 Kansas. It was in 1868 that he came to this 
 state. At first he made Salina his home and was 
 employed as a clerk there. With a desire to fit 
 
 himself for the profession of law he returned to 
 St. Louis and entered Washington University, 
 from which he graduated in 1873 with the degree 
 of LL. B. He was admitted to the Missouri bar, 
 but at once came to Leavenworth, and in July of 
 the same year was admitted to the barof Kansas. 
 Since then he has given his attention to the gen- 
 eral practice of his profession and to the compila- 
 tion and editing of the various law books with 
 which his name is identified. He was married 
 in this city to Miss Lee L. Marsh, who was born 
 in Ohio and bj- whom he has a son, John Carl. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dassler is a Democrat. He has 
 twice been elected city attorney, which po.sition 
 he filled creditably. For four years he repre- 
 sented the second ward in the citj' council, of 
 which he was president during two years of the 
 time. In 1880 he was his party's candidate for 
 the state senate, and, notwithstanding the fact 
 that this district was largely Republican, he was 
 defeated by less than thirty votes. 
 
 "HOMAS J. HINES. From the close of the 
 Civil war until his death, Mr. Hines was 
 identified with the business and agricult- 
 ural interests of Leavenworth County. During 
 the first seven j'ears of his residence here he con- 
 ducted a countrj^ store in Salt Creek Valley. 
 Meanwhile he purchased a farm in the southern 
 part of Easton Township and in 1872 he turned 
 his attention to agricultural pursuits. He was 
 the owner of seven hundred and fifty acres, and 
 was recognized as one of the largest land owners 
 in the township of Easton. Much of his time 
 was given to the raising of horses, cattle and 
 mules, which he shipped to eastern markets. He 
 continued actively engaged in the stock business 
 and general farm pursuits until his death, which 
 occurred on his homestead in 1892, at the age of 
 sixty-six j'ears. 
 
 A son of James and Anna (Butler) Hines, the 
 subject of this sketch was born in Ireland in 
 1826. Three years later his parents, leaving 
 him in Ireland, came to America and settled in 
 New York state. Shortly afterward his father 
 returned tg Ireland, and there died. A few 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 413 
 
 years later the mother moved to Ohio, where her 
 death occurred. When fifteen years of age our 
 subject crossed the ocean, landing in New 
 Orleans, where he spent some time. Later he 
 visited his mother in Ohio. In 1849 he went to 
 California bj' water and for three 5-ears he suc- 
 cessfully engaged in mining, but, unfortunatelj', 
 a bank failure caused the entire loss of his earn- 
 ings. Returning east, he was for three years 
 employed on a farm in Knox County, Ohio. In 
 1855 he removed to southern Iowa, and there en- 
 gaged in farming for seven years, at the same 
 time being proprietor of a hotel in Bloomfield. 
 During the Mexican war he enlisted for service, 
 but the war ended before his regiment was 
 ordered to the front. During the Civil war his 
 sympathies were with the north, but the care of 
 his large family rendered it necessary for him to 
 remaia at home. At the close of the war he es- 
 tablished his home in Leavenworth County, with 
 whose interests in agriculture and business he 
 was afterward identified. Fraternally Mr. Hines 
 was connected with the Masons. In religion he 
 was of the Roman Catholic faith, as is his family. 
 He took an active part in local politics and 
 aided the Democratic party. For three years he 
 held the office of poor commissioner. He was a 
 man of sound judgment and his advice was fre- 
 quently sought by others in his community, 
 among whom he had a high reputation for intel- 
 ligence, integrity and discretion. Three times 
 he returned to Europe, in order to visit his 
 friends in Ireland and also for the purpose of at- 
 tending to business matters there. While in 
 Ohio, August 5, 1849, he married Catharine, 
 daughter of Adam Stephan, member of an old 
 family of that state and New York. Mrs. 
 Hines was born in Onedia County, N. Y. The 
 children born of their union are as follows: 
 Mary, who became the wife of Peter Moahan; 
 John D., who is engaged in the cattle business at 
 Winchester; James, of Denver, Colo.; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Dr. T. C. Craig, of Easton; Katie; Will- 
 iam, a member of the firm of Hines Brothers; 
 Ella, who is Mrs. Christopher Higgins; Anna, 
 who married Paul Sieben; and Charles, of the 
 firm of Hines Brothers. Mrs, Hines continues 
 
 to reside in the village of Easton, where she has 
 a host of warm personal friends among the peo- 
 ple of this community. Her daughter Mary and 
 the latter's husband are deceased, and thej' 
 left two daughters and two sons, one of the 
 latter being deceased. The grandchildren make 
 their home with Mrs. Hines. 
 
 30HN W. BUNN, oil inspector for the Union 
 Pacific Railroad and also one of the oldest 
 employes in the expert department of the 
 Galena oil works, was born in Allegheny, Pa., 
 July 25, 1851, a son of John and Selina (Berk- 
 heimer) Bunn, natives respectively of Salem, 
 N. J., and Pennsylvania. Concerning our sub- 
 ject's father, we quote the following from a local 
 paper: "John Bunn, a nonagenarian, and for 
 twenty years a resident of this state, died at the 
 home of his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Barackman, No. 
 32 Porter street, Kansas City, Kans., on the even- 
 ing of May 6, 1899. The funeral was held on 
 Monday, May 8, at 2 p. m., from the Highland 
 Park Methodist Episcopal Church, and interment 
 made in the Oak Grove cemetery. 
 
 "Mr. Bunn was born in Alloway's Town, Sa- 
 lem County, N. J., August 17, 1808, and was 
 therefore ninety years, eight months and nine- 
 teen days old at the time of his death. 
 
 "Thrown upon his own resources when but 
 eight years of age, by the death of his father, for 
 a number of years he followed the life of a sailor 
 boy along the Atlantic coast. In 1824, when but 
 a lad of sixteen, he saw General LaFayette. To 
 make sure of doing this he resorted to the same 
 artifice used by Zaccheus of old, climbing — not a 
 fig tree but a gas post in front of Liberty Hall, 
 Philadelphia, and so dense was the throng that 
 as he related it, he "had to stay there three mor- 
 tal hours" before he could find room to descend. 
 About this time he was an apprentice in the 
 largest shipyard on the Delaware river, serving 
 seven years to thoroughly learn his trade. After 
 getting his papers as a master ship builder he 
 started for the west, crossing the Alleghany 
 mountains before there were any railroads west 
 of them. He descended their western slope on 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the inclined plane railroad that was then oper- 
 ated with rope from Hollidaysburg to Cone- 
 luaugh. He had charge of the first drj' dock at 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. He built steamboats at Pitts- 
 burgh and Brownsville, Pa., also barges and flat 
 boats at a number of towns near the head of the 
 Ohio river. He was well known among river 
 men from Pittsburgh to New Orleans when the 
 river was the great highwaj' of commerce in the 
 west. 
 
 "In 1855 he, with his family, moved from Pitts- 
 burgh to Wetzel County, Va., where he lived 
 until the fall of 186 1. Having been reared 
 among the Quakers he had imbibed many of their 
 ideas and had strong convictions against slavery. 
 Once while reading his paper, the New York 
 Tribune, in the town postoffice, it was snatched 
 from his hand by a man who afterward became a 
 colonel in the Confederate army. This same man, 
 Robert T. McEldowney, after the Rebellion came 
 to Mr. Bunn and apologized for the act, Mr. 
 Bunn's eldest son, B. H. Bunn, with others, 
 having furnished Colonel McEldowne)' money 
 with which to get home in a respectable manner. 
 
 "Mr. Bunn was the only man in the county in 
 which he lived who voted for Abraham Lincoln 
 in i860. This was before the ballot .system was 
 a law in Virginia, when every man walked up 
 to the window and announced the names of those 
 for whom he wished to vote. This vote of Mr. 
 Bunn's aroused a bitter feeling against him, and 
 resulted in the burning down of his steam saw 
 and grist mill, at New Martinsville. 
 
 "He soon after moved onto his farm across the 
 river in Ohio. Coming of "fighting stock" his 
 father a veteran of 18 12, and his grandfather a 
 noted Indian fighter, he could do no less than 
 seek to enter the Union army. This he did but 
 was rejected on account of his age. However, 
 his two eldest sons entered the service long before 
 either had reached the age of eighteen, and all 
 three of his sons-in-law were Union veterans. 
 
 "Mr. Bunn was married to SalinaE. Berkheim- 
 er, March 12, 1827, and was the father of eleven 
 children; seven of these grew up to have families 
 of their own. Six children, four sons and two 
 daughters, are still living and are all residents of 
 
 Kansas. These are: Mrs. Julia A. Barackman 
 and William M. Bunn, of Kansas City; Thomas 
 Bunn, of Fort Scott; John W. Bunn, of Ottawa; 
 Burris H. Bunn and Mrs. Lina Lynian, of Rush 
 Center. There are also living twenty-seven 
 grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. 
 
 "Mr. Bunn in 1868 moved to Tennessee, living 
 there several years during the troublous times of 
 the reconstructionary period, then returned to 
 Ohio, where his wife died in 1877. In the fall 
 of 1878, four of his children having located in 
 Rush County, he with his other three children 
 also came to Kansas. 
 
 "He resided in Center Township, this county, 
 from the fall of 1878 to the summer of 1882, when 
 he removed to Ottawa, living with his widowed 
 daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Williams, up to the time 
 of her death in the fall of 1886. He then made 
 his home with his son John W. , but for the past 
 year or more, since his health became so poor, 
 he has lived with his daughter, Mrs. Barackman. 
 
 "Mr. Bunn was a strong partj- man and a strong 
 Republican from the party's organization until 
 his death. He voted at every presidential elec- 
 tion since he became of age, except in the fall of 
 1856, then not being a resident of the state long 
 enough to gain citizenship. 
 
 "He was ever religiously inclined, being a firm 
 believer in the truths of th ; Bible, while not at 
 all sectarian. Himself a man of the strictest in- 
 tegrit}', he deemed it a crime to repudiate honest 
 debts. He was one of those of whom it was truly 
 said, "His word is as good as his note." To his 
 children he has bequeathed that best of legacies, 
 the memory of a life well spent in honorable la- 
 bor, faithfully done. 
 
 "It had been known for a short time that the end 
 of his existence was drawing near. Gradually 
 his vital powers ceased to exert themselves, and 
 death came calmly and peacefully to the life 
 which had spanned nearly across the century." 
 
 The earl}- years of our subject's life were spent 
 in Allegheny, Pa., and Wetzel County, W. Va. 
 Soon after the close of the war he went to Frank- 
 lin County, Tenn., and later made his home on 
 a plantation in Mississippi. In 1874 he came to 
 Kansas and settled on a claim near Rush Center, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 415 
 
 Rush County. As time passed by he transformed 
 the place into a valuable farm, on which he en- 
 gaged in raising broom corn and various grains. 
 In 1880 he went to Kansas City and soon after- 
 ward received appointment as oil inspector on the 
 Kansas Pacific division of the Union Pacific road. 
 After two j-ears he was appointed inspector of the 
 whole system, his headquarters being in Omaha, 
 from which place he traveled over the whole line 
 of the railroad. In 1890 he established his home 
 in Ottawa, where he now resides. Since his first 
 connection with the railroad there has been a 
 radical change in the oil business, and this road 
 was the first to contract with the Standard Oil 
 Compan)' for oil on a mileage basis. He is a 
 member of the expert department of the Galena 
 oil works, with whom he meets annuallj' at 
 Franklin, Pa., and he has served as a member of 
 various of its committees. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bunn is a Republican. He is 
 identified with the Congregational Church, in 
 which he has officiated as treasurer and deacon. 
 He was married in Rice County, Kans., to Miss 
 Mary Crusan, who was born in Indiana County, 
 Pa. They are the parents of five children, 
 namely: Elizabeth Maxwell and Gertrude E., who 
 are graduates of the high school and are now at- 
 tending Ottawa University; John J., Charles M. 
 and Frank Euin. 
 
 0AMUEL F. FEW, M. D., was born in 
 2\ Woodstock, Va. , May 26, 1820, a son of 
 y^J Samuel and Mary (Prichard) Few, natives 
 respectively of Chester County, Pa., and Win- 
 chester, Va. His father, who was for years, and 
 until his death, a merchant tailor in Woodstock, 
 was descended from one of three brothers, who 
 came to America from Wales, one of whom set- 
 tled in Pennsylvania, another in Ohio and the 
 third in Georgia. The one who .settled in 
 Georgia was William Few, one of the signers of 
 the constitution of the United States and a man 
 of great prominence in colonial affairs. The 
 family were Friends in religious belief. The 
 Prichard family were early settlers of Virginia 
 and were prominent in the history of that com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 In the family of Samuel and Marj- Few there 
 were three sons, the oldest and youngest of whom 
 were Stephen and William, both of whom died 
 in Virginia. The second son, Samuel F., gradu- 
 ated from the University of Virginia with the 
 degree of A. B., and in 1846 graduated from Jef- 
 ferson Medical College of Philadelphia, with fhe 
 degree of M. D. Afterward he opened an office 
 in Covington, Va. In 1854 he removed west to 
 Independence, Mo. Shortly afterward he be- 
 came connected with the Leavenworth Town 
 Company and assisted in laying out this city, 
 spending his time between this place and Inde- 
 pendence,, but in 1855 he located permanently in 
 Leavenworth. Having considerable means he 
 invested in property and laid out an addition to 
 the city. During the boom days he was wealthy, 
 but the subsequent depreciation in real-estate 
 values affected him considerably. He was 
 assistant surgeon at Jefferson Barracks and dur- 
 ing the war, at Fort Leavenworth. After the 
 war he became a member of the pension board, 
 in which capacity he served until his death, De- 
 cember 3, 1S92. He was a stanch supporter of 
 the Union and a free-state man. After the dis- 
 integration of the Whig party, to which he be- 
 longed, the Republican party received his sup- 
 port. During early days he was one of the offi- 
 cers of the court and for years he was city physi- 
 cian. Fraternally he was a Mason and in relig- 
 ion held to the faith of the Friends. 
 
 In Covington, Va., March 8, 1850, occurred 
 the marriage of Dr. Few to Miss Annie E. Callag- 
 han, wjio was born in that town. Her father, 
 John Callaghan, was born in Ireland in 1787 and 
 in childhood came to the United States with his 
 father, Dennis O' Callaghan, who became a planter 
 of Virginia and a man of considerable wealth. 
 For many years he served as sheriff of Alleghany 
 County. The O'Callaghan family was original- 
 ly from Scotland and was of the Scotch Presby- 
 terian faith. The wife of Dennis O'Callaghan 
 was Margaret Pierson, also the descendant of 
 Scotch ancestors. John Callaghan dropped from 
 his name the prefix O' which had been used by 
 his ancestors. He married Maria Pulliam, who 
 was born in Fredericksburg, Va., and died in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the Old Dominion about i860. She was a 
 daughter of Richard Pulliam, a planter of Vir- 
 ginia, and a descendant of English ancestry. 
 Six children comprised the family- of John and 
 Maria Callaghan, viz.: William, who died in Vir- 
 ginia; Annie E. , Mrs. Few; Robert, who died iu 
 Leavenworth; Thomas and Edwin, planters in 
 Virginia; and John, a farmer in Texas. Mrs. 
 Few is still living at the old Leavenworth home- 
 stead, No. 712 South Fifth street. 
 
 yy|.\J. A. G. ABDELAL, M. D., who has 
 Y made his home in Lawrence since 1869, 
 (3 was born iu Marseilles, France, February 
 7, 1832, and is a member of a family whose 
 original name, Abdallah (meaning slave of God) 
 was changed to its present form after settlement 
 in France. As far back as 1500 the office of aga 
 (commander-in-chief) of the Maraalucts, a cavalry 
 force twenty thousand strong, was held by mem- 
 bers of the family, descending from one genera- 
 tion to another, in unbroken line, until the grand- 
 father of our subject held the office. The latter 
 was appointed mayor of Cairo, as a means of con- 
 ciliating the inhabitants of that town, recently 
 captured by Napoleon. When Napoleon had 
 evacuated Cairo and returned to France the aga 
 followed him to that country, where he was by 
 him made general of the Mamalucts of tlie Im- 
 perial Guard. He remained in the office from 
 about 1790 to 1800, and died in Marseilles when 
 advanced in years. 
 
 Jo.seph Abdelal, the doctor's father, was born 
 in Alexandria, Egypt, and was employed as ad- 
 ministrator of a line of steamers between Marseil- 
 les and Alexandria. After fort)' years of active 
 life he retired from business and his last years 
 were spent quietly in his home town, Marseilles. 
 He married Ellen Agaub, who was born in Tur- 
 key, but was reared in France and continued to 
 reside in the latter country until her death. Her 
 father, Pierre Agaub, was a Frenchman and was 
 engaged in diplomatic service in Turkey and 
 other countries, discharging his duties so faith- 
 fully that the French government made him a 
 knight of the Legion of Honor. 
 
 In the famil}- of which the doctor was a mem- 
 ber there were two sons and two daughters, but 
 he and a sister in France alone survive. His 
 brother. Gen. Louis Abdelal, was one of the of- 
 ficers who won renown in the French army, serv- 
 ing through the Franco-Prussian war as com- 
 mander of the Eighteenth Army Corps. As 
 major he led the heroic charge at Balaklava, 
 where he saved the English army from destruc- 
 tion. After the charge he was made lieutenant- 
 colonel of the First Hussars and an oflBcer of the 
 Legion of Honor, also served as ordnance officer 
 to the sou of King Louis Phillipe. He died in 
 France in 1890 at sixty-one years of age. His 
 son, Alfred, is now captain of the Ninth Regular 
 Dragoons. 
 
 The subject of this sketch graduated from the 
 Royal College of Marseilles in 1852, and by 
 special dispensation received the degree of M. D. 
 He entered the French army as assistant surgeon 
 of the First Regular Algerian Sharpshooters, and 
 .served in Algeria until the war with Russia, 
 when he was transferred to the Black Sea region. 
 For three months he was detached in hospital 
 service. At the taking of Sebastopol he was at 
 the front. Upon the declaration of peace his 
 regiment was sent to Paris, where they were 
 stationed for seven months. Returning to Algeria 
 he was on detached duty at Arab Bureau for two 
 years, being assistant surgeon of the first class, 
 and afterward rejoined the regiment. In 1S59 
 he was sent to Italy and participated in the 
 campaign of 1859 60 in that country, taking part 
 in various battles. When the war closed he re- 
 turned to Algeria with the regiment. Upon the 
 declaration of war between France, England and 
 Spain against Mexico, the regiment was ordered 
 to Vera Cruz, Mexico, remaining there until the 
 fall of 1862. After some time Napoleon III. 
 issued a proclamation permitting officers and 
 soldiers of the French army to pass from there 
 into Maximilian's army. He availed himself of 
 the privilege and became a surgeon-major in a 
 Mexican regiment, where he remained until 
 Maximilian was captured. 
 
 On resigning his conmiission Dr. Abdelal en- 
 gaged in private practice in different cities of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 417 
 
 Mexico and the south. lu 1868 he came to 
 Lawrence, where he has since carried on a gen- 
 eral practice and for two terms, under Cleveland, 
 was chairman of the board of pension examiners, 
 also served as coroner of Douglas County from 
 1870 to 1872. He is a member of the Douglas 
 County, State, Eastern District and American 
 Medical Associations. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat. He was made a Mason in Lodge No. 6, in 
 Lawrence, and has attained the Scottish Rite de- 
 gree. He is also connected with the Turn Verein, 
 Odd Fellows, National Union and Sons of Her- 
 man. 
 
 The facility with which Dr. Abdelal speaks 
 French, English, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, 
 Greek and Latin, makes him at home in almost 
 every part of the world except China, which is 
 one of the very few countries he has never visited. 
 His life has been a verj' active one, and his serv- 
 ice in the army reflected the highest credit upon 
 his ability. He was married in Baltimore, Md. , 
 in 1868, to Miss Marie LaFevre, who was born 
 and educated in Paris and died in Lawrence in 
 1870. 
 
 r"RANCIS M. JENKINS, a veteran of the 
 JM Civil war and a farmer of Marion Township, 
 I ' Douglas County, was born in Rappahan- 
 nock County, Va., January 15, 1833, a son of 
 Newman and Maria (Weekly) Jenkins, of whose 
 twelve children eight survive. They are: Har- 
 rison, a farmer in Osage County, Kans. ; Francis 
 M.; Nancy, who married Cyrus Beadles, and 
 lives in Champaign County, Ohio; Mary, wife of 
 Henry Arnold, of Overbrook, Kans.; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Peter Berry, of Champaign County, Ohio; 
 Washington, who is engaged in carpentering in 
 Champaign County; Margaret, wife of Stephen 
 Dixon, of Jay County, Ind. ; and William, a 
 farmer of Mercer County, Ohio. 
 
 The Jenkins family was established in Virginia 
 in a very early day. Newman Jenkins was born 
 in Rappahannock County, where he married and 
 settled upon a farm. In 1837 he removed to 
 Ohio and established his home in Licking Coun- 
 ty. Later he made several removals to adjoining 
 counties, and died in Mercer County at the age 
 
 of seventy-two years. His father, Timothy Jen- 
 kins, was born in Rappahannock County and 
 spent his entire life upon a farm there. His 
 father-in-law, Frank Weekly, al.so a native of 
 Virginia and a member of a well-known family 
 there, served in the war of 181 2, and died at the 
 advanced age of one hundred and fifteen years. 
 
 In the subscription schools of the early half of 
 the nineteenth century our subject acquired his 
 education. In 1855 he left the parental roof and 
 began life for himself, his first year's experience 
 being as a farm hand in different parts of Ohio. 
 In 1856 he married Miss Mary C. SafBe, who 
 was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, a daugh- 
 ter of Thomas and Louise (Shaw) Saffle. Her 
 father, a native of Virginia, moved to Ohio prior 
 to his marriage and settled in Muskingum Coun- 
 ty, where he engaged in farming and resided 
 until his death. After his marriage our subject 
 purchased a farm of forty acres in Muskingum 
 County, where he settled down to agricultural 
 pursuits. During his residence there. May 2, 
 1864, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred 
 and Sixtieth Ohio fnfantry, and was sent with 
 his command to the front, doing service in the 
 Shenandoah Valley. While there he took part 
 in the engagements at Middletown and Harper's 
 Ferry, besides numerous skirmishes. At the ex- 
 piration of his term of service he was mustered 
 out at Zanesville, Ohio, September 7, 1864. 
 
 In the fall of 1865 Mr. Jenkins removed to 
 Moultrie Count}^ 111., and one year later came 
 to Kansas, arriving in Douglas County Novem- 
 ber 27, 1866. While living in Illinois he had 
 traded for his present farm in Marion Township, 
 and here he has since engaged in general farm- 
 ing. Since 185S he has been a member of the 
 Methodist Church and an active worker in its 
 various enterprises. Believing thoroughly in 
 public schools, he has done all in his power to 
 advance the schools of his district, and for many 
 years rendered efficient service as treasurer of the 
 school board. In politics he is a firm Republican, 
 always voting for party principles. Since 1S70 
 he has been a member of the Masonic blue lodge, 
 and he is also connected with Richland Post No. 
 370, G. A. R. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Of the seven children born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Jenkins five are living, nanielj': Hiram, 
 who cultivates the home farm; Louise, wife of 
 M. T. Harding, a farmer of Douglas County; 
 Salome, who married Sanford Owens, a farmer of 
 Osage County, Kans. ; Carrie, wife of Edward 
 Dodder, a farmer of Osage County; and Mary, 
 who married Jacob Wright and also makes her 
 home in Osage County. 
 
 y yi RS. MARY (GILL) ELWELL, who is one 
 y of the most highly respected ladies of Pal- 
 (9 niyra Township, Douglas Count}-, was born 
 in Cornwall, England, October 27,1827, and came 
 to America with her parents when she was four- 
 teen years of age. She is a sister of William H. 
 Gill, in whose sketch the family history appears. 
 Her education was obtained in Galena Seminary, 
 at Galena, 111., where she afterward taught until 
 the time of her first marriage. In 1853 she be- 
 came the wife of Samuel Nye, who was born 
 and reared in Massachusetts, thence went to 
 Helena, Ark., and engaged in business as a com- 
 mission merchant, also was in St. Louis for a 
 time. At the time of his marriage he was liv- 
 ing in Elizabeth, 111., where for years he car- 
 ried on a mercantile business and also had min- 
 ing interests. A man of high character, kind 
 heart, liberal disposition and great energy, he 
 won many friends and met with fair .success in 
 business. Had he chosen, he might have been a 
 leader in politics, but his tastes did not lie in that 
 direction, although he was a stanch believer first 
 in Whig principles, and afterward a Republican. 
 He died in Elizabeth at the age of fifty-one years, 
 leaving two children, Julia, who married Joseph 
 Buttrick, of Michigan; and Samuel W. Nye, a 
 farmer owning a good farm adjoining his moth- 
 er's homestead in Kansas. In 1884 Samuel W. 
 married Miss Olive G. Hays, from Ohio; he is 
 now the father of three daughters: Mary Hope, 
 Lucile and Esther. 
 
 In October, 1859, Mrs. Mary G. Nye was mar- 
 ried to Stephen E. Elwell, of Elizabeth, 111. Mr. 
 Elvvell was born in Warren, Ohio, and in youth 
 learned the carpenter's trade, but later engaged 
 
 principally in mining. In 1867 Mrs. Elwell came 
 to Kansas and settled on a claim in Douglas 
 County that was a gift to her from her brother 
 John. At the same time Mr. Elwell went to 
 Montana, where he engaged in mining for ten 
 years but did not meet with .special success. Dur- 
 ing his stay in Montana he was a member of the 
 territorial legislature. Finally he returned to 
 Kansas and his last years were spent on his wife's 
 farm. Politically he was an active Democrat and 
 a leading politician, but never sought office for 
 himself. He was thrown from a wagon and killed, 
 November 17, 1886, when sixty -nine years of age. 
 John K., the elder, attended for two years the 
 Kansas State University, but graduated from 
 Baker University, Baldwin, Kans. Soon after 
 graduating he went to Buenos Ayres, South Amer- 
 ica, where he was employed as auditing clerk on 
 the railroad across the continent from Buenos 
 Ayres to Chili, and made one trip to the end of 
 the unfinished road at the base of the Andes. He 
 left Buenos Ayres on account of the revolution 
 of 1892. His ne.xt scene ofoperations was Cuba, 
 where he was bookkeeper for an iron mining 
 company near Santiago. Later he was engaged 
 in the lumber business and acted as manager for 
 a steamboat company. At the time of the war 
 with Spain President McKinley appointed him 
 interpreter and assistant to Miss Clara Barton 
 and the committee of investigation in Cuba. After 
 she had given up the Red Cross work of relief in 
 Cuba he took a vessel loaded with provisions to 
 Havana and Matanzas. He also assisted General 
 Lee in his work as United States Con.sul. Since 
 the close of the war he has been president, treas- 
 urer and manager of the Elwell Mercantile Com- 
 pany at Santiago de Cuba, which company is a 
 very large one and makes important shipments 
 of lumber, fruit etc. He also has important real- 
 estate interests on that island. The younger son, 
 Charles, who was educated at Baldwin and the 
 University of Kansas, at Lawrence, was for a 
 time local editor of the Lawrence Journal and af- 
 terward ticket agent at Lawrence for the Santa 
 Fe Railroad. Later he was for two years city 
 ticket agent in Denver, Colo., but resigned the 
 p;isition to go to Cuba, in order to assist his 
 
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 brother, with whom he has since been associated 
 in the real-estate business. At the time of this 
 writing he is foreign war correspondent for the 
 associated press and is now at San Domingo with 
 Jiminez, president of the new republic. 
 
 3 AMES LEIBEY, M. D., deceased, was born 
 in Hamburg, Germany, and in boyhood ac- 
 companied his father, Frederick, to America, 
 settling first in Philadelphia, but soon going to 
 the Cumberland Valley, where he was reared and 
 educated. He then went to New Orleans, where 
 he studied medicine and began its practice. Re- 
 turning north in 1848 he left New York for Cali- 
 fornia via Cape Horn on the ship "Columbus," 
 and after a monotonous voyage landed in San 
 Francisco. Going inland, he engaged in min- 
 ing. In 1852 he returned east, bringing with 
 him a considerable amount of gold-dust. For a 
 time he made his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 where he owned property, but later went back 
 to New Orleans and embarked in the sugar refin- 
 ing business, making shipments of sugar to the 
 north by boat. 
 
 In Logansport, Ind., in May, 1856, Dr. L,eibey 
 married Miss Nancy A. Graham. Their wed- 
 ding tour was a trip to Leavenworth, Kans. , 
 where they arrived on the 30th of the same 
 month. On the 3d of October, 1856, they came 
 to Lawrence in a stage with nine passen- 
 gers, guarded by twenty-six dragoons, whose 
 presence the border warfare rendered necessary. 
 Crossing the Kaw by means of a rope ferr}^, they 
 entered the town that was to be their future 
 home. Both being ardent free-state advocates 
 and stanch Republicans, they incurred the hatred 
 of pro-slavery sympathizers, whose malice they 
 suffered more than once. They were living in 
 Lawrence at the time of the Quantrell raid and 
 lost their residence and business propertj^ by fire. 
 Dr. Leibey was taken a prisoner and locked in a 
 room above the hardware store, it being the in- 
 tention to fire the building with him in it. A 
 guard was placed before the store to prevent his 
 escape. Mrs. Leibey was driven out of her house 
 by the gang. Learning her husband's where- 
 
 abouts, she went to the guard and appealed to 
 him for the doctor's release, but in vain. After- 
 ward another rufBan was put on guard and she 
 made her appeal to him, but of course without 
 avail. As she stood watching, she saw the 
 guard hurry across to a saloon. At once she ran 
 upstairs, took her husband down the rear stairs 
 and hastened with him to the river, where they 
 escaped in safet)'. 
 
 After the raid. Dr. and Mrs. Leibey returned 
 to Leavenworth and remained thereuntil a house 
 was built for them in Lawrence. From the 
 shock and danger of the raid Mrs. Leibey suf- 
 fered a long illness and it was some time before 
 she regained her former strength. In October 
 they returned to Lawrence and took up their res- 
 idence in a frame house that had been built for 
 them. Soon afterward they erected the residence 
 in which Mrs. Leibey and her daughter now 
 make their home. The latter, Lily Graham 
 Leibey, is an accomplished musician, highly edu- 
 cated, well informed in arts, music and science, 
 and is her mother's companion both in domestic 
 interests and the broader field of knowledge and 
 culture. Dr. Leibey was a man of more than 
 ordinary ability. His education was broad and 
 he was familiar with several languages, besides 
 being a musician, a performer on various in.stru- 
 ments and a vocalist. From the age of seven- 
 teen he was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and his life was that of an earnest Chris- 
 tian. Fraternally he was identified with the 
 Masons. His death occurred in 1868, when he 
 was fifty-six years and ten months old. 
 
 iyiRS. NANCY A. (GRAHAM) LEIBEY is one 
 y of the pioneer women of Lawrence, to whose 
 patriotic devotion and sterling judgment 
 much of the early growth of this city was due. 
 Much has been written and much said concern- 
 ing the men who came to Kansas in early days 
 with the hope of making this a free state, and 
 certainly too much cannot be said in their praise; 
 but little has been written regarding the women 
 who came west in the '50s, who endured all the 
 horrors and suffered the hardships of border war- 
 
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 fare, and who, in spite of all perils, remained 
 true, faithful and steadfast to the end. Such, in 
 brief, isthestory of Mrs. Leibey'slife. Shecame 
 west a bride, leaving a home where every comfort 
 had been found and a state where peace reigned; 
 from such a place she was brought to a state rent 
 with dissension and stained with the blood of 
 martyred citizens. Like her husband, she was a 
 radical Abolitionist and was determined to do all 
 within her power to advance the free-state cause. 
 In earlj' da)'s .she became acquainted with all the 
 noted men of Kansas and was an ardent admirer 
 and personal friend of "Jim" Lane and other 
 Abolitionists. 
 
 In an early day the Grahams came from Scot- 
 land to Delaware, where Mrs. Leibey's father and 
 grandfather (both named Israel) were born. The 
 former grew to manhood on the large homestead 
 and had every advantage which ample means 
 could provide. His father, who was a remarka- 
 ble man in many respects, was a man of thought 
 and high honor. Becoming convinced that 
 slavery was unjust, he freed his slaves, removed 
 to Pennsylvania, and bought for each slave a 
 small farm there, helping them to get a start in 
 the world. He had twenty-one children bj' one 
 wife and all attained mature years and married, 
 afterward scattering into different parts of the 
 country. 
 
 The mother of Mrs. Leibey was Mary, daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Bowen, both natives of Kent Coun- 
 ty, Del. Her father, who was a large farmer, 
 enlisted in a cavalry company during the Revo- 
 lution and served under LaFayette at the battle 
 of Brandywine, where he was wounded. He re- 
 turned home for a short time, but as soon as able 
 went back to the army and witnessed the surren- 
 der of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He died in Del- 
 aware. 
 
 In 1835 Israel Graham, Jr., and his wife moved, 
 by wagon, to western Pennsylvania, settling near 
 Pittsburgh. While they were crossing the Alle- 
 ganies, and were nearUniontown, Fayette Coun- 
 ty, Pa., a daughter was born to them, in a 
 hunter's lodge high up on the mountains. For a 
 cradle they used a sugar trough. It was this 
 daughter, born amid strange surroundings, who 
 
 was destined to become one of the pioneers of a 
 state that was then unknown. The family pro- 
 ceeded to the vicinity of Pittsburgh, where Mr. 
 Graham engaged in the manufacture of salt for 
 six years. Next he moved to Springfield, Ohio, 
 where he took contracts for the building of canals 
 and roads. In 1850 he settled on a large farm 
 near Logansport, and in time became the owner 
 of additional land and engaged extensively in 
 stock-raising. He was a man of broad ideas, 
 natural talent, strong character and firm princi- 
 ples, was generous to the needy, and kind to all. 
 Had fate brought him into public life he would 
 have been a power for good throughout his na- 
 tion. He possessed a stalwart frame, was never 
 ill, and in physique was well proportioned, being 
 six feet and two inches in height. His wife died 
 in Ohio when thirtj'-three years old and he passed 
 away in 1879, when almost seventy-five. Thej' 
 were the parents of five children, the eldest of 
 whom is our subject. The others are: Mrs. Hes- 
 ter Toner, of Kewana, Ind. ; Mrs. Cassie Reighter, 
 of Logansport, Ind. ; Mrs. Sarah Coppic, of 
 Brownwood, Tex.; and France, of Fulton, Ind. 
 
 From the age of seven until fifteen our subject 
 lived in Springfield, Ohio, where she attended 
 the public schools and academy. When seven- 
 teen she began to teach in Logansport and con- 
 tinued until her marriage three j-ears later. She 
 then came to Kansas with Dr. Leibej- and has 
 since made this state her home and has main- 
 tained the deepest interest in its welfare. While 
 in Leavenworth a body of men came from Platte 
 County, Mo., to terrify the free-state people. 
 She was sitting on the porch at the Phillips house 
 as the}', passed by. The next morning another 
 company appeared and surrounding the house, 
 sent some of their men into the house. Several 
 free-state men were shot in the hall, and William 
 Phillips was killed and his brother wounded. 
 Fearing the seizure of their possessions, she had 
 the trunks taken into a building in the rear of a 
 neighboring house and there locked. All free- 
 state workers were ordered by the pro-slavery 
 invaders to leave, and many, fearing for their 
 lives, hastened away, some going on the boat 
 "Emma." Dr. and Mrs. Leibey were boarding 
 
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 with Colonel Sharpe, a pro-slavery man. A mob 
 from Alabama swamp ordered them to leave, and 
 they went to Richland Landing, then down the 
 river by boat. During the passage they met the 
 "Old Emigrant," and boarded it, finding among 
 its passengers Mr. Geary, the new governor of 
 Kansas, who had been a friend of the doctor in 
 California. They returned with him to Fort 
 Leavenworth and remained in the colonel's home 
 for twenty-one days. Afterward they experi- 
 enced all the perils of war times in Lawrence and 
 more than once escaped as by miracle. 
 
 Since Dr. Leibey's death Mrs. Leibey has 
 given her attention to the management of her 
 property and moneyed interests, in which, being 
 a thorough business woman, she has been quite 
 successful. She has never lost her love for Kan- 
 sas and no one rejoices in its prosperity more 
 than does she. 
 
 ROBERT M. BRUCE, owner of the Lawrence 
 lumber yard, is a son of Charles Bruce, 
 one of the pioneers of Kansas. His grand- 
 father, Lawson Bruce, who was a prosperous 
 New England farmer, was a son of Rev. Rufus 
 Bruce, a minister, who during the Revolution 
 fought in defense of American liberty. The 
 family is of Scotch extraction. Charles Bruce 
 received an academic education and for four years 
 engaged in teaching. After his marriage he car- 
 ried on a drug business in Logansport, Ind. , for 
 ten years. Coming to Kansas in 1858, he took 
 up a claim in Douglas County, near Blue Mound, 
 and for three years devoted his time to its im- 
 provement. In 1 86 1 he opened a lumber yard 
 in Lawrence, later also had a yard in North 
 Lawrence. During the Civil war he went to]the 
 front to defend the state against Price and took 
 part in the battles of Westport, Little Blue and 
 others along the border of Missouri. He was an 
 ardent free-state man and in politics supported 
 Republican principles. For two terms he held 
 the office of councilman, and he also served as a 
 member of the school board. Fraternally he was 
 connected with the Odd Fellows. 
 
 At the time of the Quantrell raid Charles 
 Bruce, in common with all free-state men, ex- 
 
 perienced all the dangers incident to an indis- 
 criminate massacre of men and destruction of 
 property. He was in the field milking his cows 
 when he saw the raiders approaching. At once 
 he hastened to alarm his neighbors. He then 
 turned his horses loose and, jumping on one, 
 started toward Mount Oread. He was inter- 
 cepted by three of the band. They inquired who 
 he was, but he parleyed with them, evading a 
 direct answer. Finally they compelled him to 
 jump from his horse and were going to kill him, 
 when the leader interfered and told him to run 
 for his life. He escaped into a cornfield. He 
 lived to see the downfall of slavery, the preserva- 
 tion of the Union and its subsequent magnificent 
 progress. He died in Lawrence May 4, 1890. 
 
 In Niles, Mich., January 6, 1852, Charles 
 Bruce married Miss Julia A. Pettibone, who died 
 May 5, 1873. Of the Pettibone family the only 
 survivor is Capt. Milton Pettibone, who is rep- 
 resented in this work. Her father, John R., a 
 native of New York state, settled near Ypsilanti, 
 Mich. , and while rowing two ladies across the 
 river there, was accidentally drowned. To this 
 family belonged Roswell Pettibone, for whom 
 ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New York, 
 was named. Charles and Julia A. Bruce were 
 the parents of three children who grew to ma- 
 turity. Edwin Lawson Bruce, the oldest, is 
 proprietor of a large wholesale and retail lumber 
 business in Kansas City. The daughter, Mrs. 
 Addie Petrie, lives in Wichita, Kans. The sec- 
 ond son, Robert M., was born on the claim at the 
 edge of Miami County, Kans., January 16, 1862, 
 and was reared in Lawrence, receiving his edu- 
 cation in the grammar and high schools and also 
 graduating from the Lawrence Business College. 
 From boyhood he was interested in the lumber 
 business and early became familiar with every 
 detail. When his brother went to Kansas City 
 the firm title became C. Bruce & Son, and the 
 two yards were consolidated at No. 627 Massa- 
 chusetts street. After the death of the father in 
 1890 our subject consolidated the Lawrence and 
 Kansas City yards, and the firm became the Bruce 
 Lumber Company, incorporated. In 1898 he 
 sold his interest in the company and bought 
 
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 the Lawrence yard, where he has a frontage of 
 seventy five feet on Massachusetts street and two 
 hundred feet on Vermont street, with a large 
 yard containing all kinds of lumber and build- 
 ing material. This is the oldest yard in the 
 citj- and is one of the most successful as well. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bruce is connected with the 
 Uniform Rank, K. P., and in politics is a Re- 
 publican. He is a member of the Hoo Hoos 
 Lumberman's Association. His residence stands 
 at No. 275 Walnut street. He was married iu 
 Kansas City to Miss Hattie Rollins, who was 
 born in Jefferson County, Kans. , and by whom 
 he has two daughters, Addie and Marie. Mrs. 
 Bruce is a daughter of Joseph D. Rollins, who 
 settled in Lawrence in 1856, became a large con- 
 tractor and builder here, but was burned out at 
 the time of the Quantrell raid, losing everything 
 he had. Afterward he engaged in stock-raising 
 in Rural Township, also for a few years engaged 
 in mining at Silverton, Colo. During the Civil 
 war he took part in the campaign against Price. 
 He now makes his home with his daughter, 
 Mrs. Bruce. 
 
 y y ICHAEL REEDY, decea.sed, was for some 
 y years engaged in business in Lawrence. 
 (9 He was a member of an old eastern family. 
 His grandfather, Michael Reedy, Sr. , was born 
 in Pennsylvania and in 1812 removed to Ohio, 
 where, after having served in the second war with 
 England, he devoted himself to the clearing and 
 improvement of a farm in Ross County. He was 
 a son of Conrad Reedy, a soldier of the Revolu- 
 tion, who died in Buffalo Town.ship, Northamp- 
 ton (now Union) County, Pa., August 3, 1859; 
 his wife died in Ross Countj', Ohio, March 28, 
 18 1 8. 
 
 The Rcedj- family trace their lineage to the 
 Webbers of Holland. In 1610 Walfort Webber, 
 of Holland, married Anna Cook, and their son, 
 Walfort, was married in 1630 to Anna Wallis. 
 Next in line of descent was Armant Webber, who 
 married Jainetta Comilus in 1675, and their son, 
 Walfort (3d), married Gratzie Jacob in 1697. 
 The daughter of the latter couple, Catherine 
 Webber, in 1743 became the wife of John Francis 
 
 Geltner, and their daughter, also named Cather- 
 ine, in 1765 was married to Conrad Reedy. In 
 September, 181 1, their son, Michael Reedy, was 
 united with Mary Magdalene Davis. In 1849 
 their son Conrad (our subject's father) , married 
 Caroline Delong, who was born in Berks County, 
 Pa., accompanied her parents to Ross County, 
 Ohio, at an early date, and died in 1893, at the 
 age of sixty-nine years. The first Walfort Web- 
 ber settled on the Isle of Manhattan and accumu- 
 lated a large fortune, becoming the owner of a 
 vast estate there. In his native land he had 
 fallen in love with Anna Cook, a member of a 
 noble family. His social position being inferior 
 to hers, her family refused their consent to the 
 marriage, so the young couple ran away from 
 home and were married. Thus it was that the 
 family became established in America. 
 
 Near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, Conrad 
 Reedy was born and reared. He became a farmer 
 in Colerain Township, that county. In 1870 he 
 brought his familj- to Lawrence, Kans., where 
 he invested in real estate, and later he engaged 
 in business with his sons. He died May 12,1897, 
 at eighty-one years of age. He and his wife were 
 Lutherans in religious faith. They had five chil- 
 dren, viz.: Catherine, Byron and Cleary, all de- 
 ceased; Lewis, who is engaged in the grocery 
 business in Lawrence; and Michael. The last- 
 named was born in Colerain Township, Ross 
 County, Ohio, February 4, 1863, and was seven 
 j^ears of age at the time the family settled in 
 Kansas. His education was obtained in the 
 grammar and high school of Lawrence. In 1882 
 he entered into partnership with his father in the 
 grocery business, and his brother also became 
 connected with the firm, which was dissolved in 
 1897, our subject taking the vinegar and cider 
 business, which had been started in 1891. His 
 steam hydraulic cider mill had a capacity of sev- 
 enty-five barrels a day, and the output, a fine 
 quality of cider vinegar, he sold throughout the 
 state of Kansas. In 1898 he also became inter- 
 ested in the fuel business. 
 
 In Eudora, Kans., June 19, 1894, ^^r- Reedy 
 married Sarah, daughter of Jacob Strobel, a pio- 
 neer farmer of that .section, having gone there 
 
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 when Indians still roamed over the prairies. One 
 child, Howard Lester, was born of their union. 
 Politically Mr. Reedy was a Democrat and served 
 on committees and attended conventions of his 
 party. He was connected with the lodge and 
 encampment of Odd Fellows, was a member of 
 the Turn Verein, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Fraternal Aid Association. 
 His death occurred September 3, 1899. 
 
 /3LARENCE; CASE GODDARD, M. D. The 
 ll Evergreen Hospital, which was established 
 \J in 1890 for the treatment of nervous dis- 
 eases, is situated on the corner of Limit .street 
 and Maple avenue, Leavenworth, and is the 
 largest private ho.spital in the state. The insti- 
 tution was established and has since been con- 
 ducted under the efficient supervision of Dr. 
 Goddard, who organized and is president of the 
 Evergreen Place Hospital Company, and whose 
 business abilit}' and professional skill have been 
 apparent in the systematic management of the 
 hospital. In March, 1898, the building burned 
 to the ground. He immediately began rebuild- 
 ing, and now has one large main building, be- 
 sides a smaller structure, with twelve acres of 
 lawn whose well-kept appearance adds to the 
 general effect. Having made a special studj- of 
 nervous diseases, also of diseases of the eye and 
 ear, the doctor is admirably qualified to stand at 
 the head of a large institution of this kind, and 
 the success with which he is meeting proves that 
 he possesses the confidence of the people. 
 
 The Goddard family is of English extraction 
 and was early identified with the historj' of New 
 England. Marcellus Goddard, a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, married a Miss Case, who de- 
 scended from an old eastern family; he was a life- 
 long resident of Connecticut. His son, Edwin 
 Pinney Goddard, was born in Connecticut and 
 removed to Ontario County, N. Y., where he 
 was a merchant and receiver of the port of Canan- 
 daigua on the canal. He was a succe.ssful busi- 
 ness man, and the proprietor of large mills and 
 packing houses. In 1856 he came west to Illinois 
 and opened a store at Abingdon, Knox County. 
 
 Four years later he settled in Leaven worth, where 
 he established the first large nursery in the cit3^ 
 and as a member of the firm of E. L. Wheeler & 
 Co., was actively interested in the horticultural 
 business, having a nursery on Maple avenue and 
 Thornton street. His death occurred in this city 
 in the spring of 1867. 
 
 The marriage of Edwin P. Goddard united him 
 with Maria Fillmore, who was born in Wayne 
 County, N. Y., February 9, 1812, and is now 
 making her home with her son, the subject of 
 this sketch. Her father, Luther Fillmore, a tan- 
 ner in Wayne County, N. Y., was a nephew of 
 William Fillmore, the father of the thirteenth 
 president of the United States. Eight children 
 born to Edwin P. and Maria Goddard grew to 
 maturity, and six of these are still living. One 
 of the sons. Judge Luther Marcellus Goddard, 
 was county attorney of Leavenworth County in 
 early days, but afterward removed to Denver, 
 Colo., and is now associate justice of the supreme 
 court of Colorado. The other sons are: George 
 Washington, a mine operator at Eldora, Colo.; 
 Cyrus Fillmore, also of Eldora; Byron Strong, a 
 farmer of Leavenworth County; and Clarence 
 Case, of this sketch. The last named was born 
 at Gorham, Ontario County, N. Y., March 21, 
 1849, and was reared at Walworth, Wayne Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., Abingdon, 111., and Leavenworth, 
 Kans. , having made this cit}' his home after 
 i86o. After the death of his father he began to 
 study medicine under Dr. J. W. Brock, and later 
 entered McDowell College, where he studied for 
 a term. In 1873 he graduated from Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, New York, with the 
 degree of M. D. The following year he took a 
 special course in eye and ear work at the college 
 and hospital. From 1875 until 1887 he was con- 
 nected with the United States army as physician 
 and surgeon, and during these twelve years he 
 was stationed successively at Forts Sill, Elliott, 
 Tex.; Riley, Kans.; Lyon, Garland and Craw- 
 ford (the three last in Colorado) and Leaven- 
 worth. 
 
 Upon retiring from the army Dr. Goddard 
 turned his attention to civil practice, making a 
 specialty of diseases of the eye and ear. Since 
 
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 1890 his attention has been given largelj- to the 
 management of the hospital, bnt he also engages 
 in private practice, and has his office on the 
 corner of Fifth and Delaware streets. He is a 
 member of the Leavenworth County, Kansas 
 State, Missouri Vallej', Eastern Kansas Medical 
 Associations; also the State Sanitary A.ssocia- 
 tion and American Medical Association. From 
 1889 to 1891 he served as county physician. In 
 the Episcopal Church, of which he is a member, 
 he has been senior warden and is now a vestrj-- 
 man. Fraternally he is connected with Leaven- 
 worth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., of which he 
 is past master; Leavenworth Chapter No. 2, R. 
 A. M.; Leavenworth Commandery No. i, K. T. , 
 of which he is eminent commander; and Abdal- 
 lah Temple, N. M. S., of which he is chief 
 rabban. 
 
 The residence of Dr. Goddard stands on the 
 corner of Middle and Fifth avenues. He was 
 married in Platte County, Mo., to Miss Clara C. 
 Weibling, who was born in Indiana, and in 1857 
 came to Leavenworth with her father, Harmon 
 Weibling, who opened up the first mail route to 
 Denver, also a coach line to Denver, and was for 
 years a mail contractor, dying in Leavenworth 
 in 1872. The only child of Dr. and Mrs. God- 
 dard is Clarence Brock Goddard. 
 
 (TOHN HERRIES. Since he first came to Kan- 
 I sas, in the fall of 1856, Mr. Herries has wit- 
 (2/ nessed the growth and development of this 
 part of the great west, and has himself been inti- 
 mately connected therewith. Asa pioneer he was 
 well known among other early settlers, while as a 
 farmer he has been more than ordinarily success- 
 ful. The place which he owns lies on sections i 
 and 2, in Alexandria Township, Leavenworth 
 County, and consists of three hundred and twen- 
 ty acres, the most of which he now rents. The 
 house stands on section 2, and near it is a fine 
 orchard of fruit trees in good bearing condition. 
 After years of activity he is to some extent re- 
 tired from farming, and is enjoying the comforts 
 gained by his industry and good judgment. 
 Mr, Herries wasbonj in Scotland January 12, 
 
 1830, and was reared on the farm owned by his 
 father, James Herries. When sixteen years of 
 age he came to America and settled near Hamil- 
 ton, Ontario, where he engaged in the mercantile 
 business. However, not meeting with the suc- 
 cess he desired, he came to the States, settling in 
 Iowa in the spring of 1856. In the fall of the 
 same year he came to Kansas, and after two 
 months in Leavenworth he settled in Coffey Coun- 
 ty, taking up a quarter-section of land near Bur- 
 lington. The land was raw and its improvement 
 occupied his attention for some years. In the fall 
 of 1861 he went to the southwestern part of Kan- 
 sas and engaged in hunting wolves for the hides. 
 During the winter he secured three hundred 
 hides. Early in 1862 he enlisted in the Fifth 
 Kansas Infantry as a private in Company E, and 
 served throughout the war, taking part in the 
 battles of Helena and Pine Bluff, where, with 
 only six thousand men, the Union forces held off 
 Price with fifteen thousand. 
 
 On being discharged from the army in Novem- 
 ber, 1865, Mr. Herries sold his place in Coffey 
 County and removed to Leavenworth County, 
 where he bought one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Alexandria Township. Of the property less than 
 fifty acres had been improved. He at once began 
 the work of getting the land in good shape. In 
 this he has been successful, and the farm now 
 ranks among the best in the township. He has 
 also added to its acreage until it is double its 
 original size. During the years of his life in Kan- 
 sas he has experienced all the trials and hard- 
 .ships incident to starting in a new country, where 
 there were no improvements and few settlers. He 
 also experienced the perils connected with the 
 free-state movement. He was one of the few 
 who did not need aid when Pomeroy came 
 through in 1861 ; on the other hand, he was able 
 to help others who had been starved out. In the 
 stock business, particularly in the raising of 
 Shorthorn cattle, he has been quite successful, 
 and he still owns a large number of head. 
 
 Politically Mr. Herries is a Republican. While 
 in Coffey County he was the first judge of the 
 county, but has since refu.sed nominations for all 
 oflBces, During the existence of the Grange he 
 
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 was one of its members. In religion he is of the 
 Presbyterian faith. In 1865 he married Mrs. 
 Sarah (John.son) Dillon, a sister of Col. H. P. 
 Johnson. They are the parents of two sons and 
 two daughters, namely: Henry, who is a farmer 
 in Alexandria Township; Mollie; John P., agent 
 for the Northwestern Railroad at McLouth; and 
 Nettie, wife of Robert B. Kessinger. 
 
 ^OHN DUFFIN, who is one of the oldest set- 
 I tiers of Salt Creek Valley, was born in Bal- 
 O lysullin. County Antrim, Ireland, February 
 2, 1831. During his boyhood and youth he re- 
 mained in his native land, where he learned the 
 weaver's trade, and also became familiar with 
 farm pursuits. In 1851 he came to America, 
 and for six months was employed in New York 
 City. July 7, 1852, he enlisted as a private in 
 the regular army and was assigned to the First 
 Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. His service 
 was principally in Texas and New Mexico, and 
 he was stationed at Fort Union, N. M., for some 
 time. He fought in a number of battles with 
 Indians and was obliged to be constantly on the 
 alert for these treacherous foes. During the early 
 part of the Civil war his regiment was ordered 
 east to report to General McClellan, but after 
 traveling about one-half the distance over the 
 plains was ordered back to Fort Union to protect 
 the frontier. Ten years of service in the regular 
 army impaired his health to such an extent that 
 he was unable to continue longer as a soldier. 
 For this reason he was honorably discharged. 
 He then sought an occupation and climate in 
 which he might reasonably hope to regain his 
 strength. 
 
 Coming to Leavenworth County in 1862, Mr. 
 DuflSn bought a homestead claim in Kickapoo 
 Township, and on this place he has since en- 
 gaged in farming and gardening. In addition to 
 the raising of grain and some stock, for several 
 years he kept a road house, his property lying 
 on the military road. For twenty years he also 
 carried on a large dairy business, in which he 
 built up an extensive trade. Since coming to this 
 region he has not only been in better health, but 
 
 has also been fairly prosperous. He has been in- 
 terested in local matters and affiliates with the 
 Republican party. October i, 1859, ^t Taos, 
 N. M., he was granted his final papers of full 
 American citizenship. In religion he adheres to 
 the Roman Catholic faith, in which he was 
 reared, and he now holds membership in the 
 Fort Leavenworth Church. Fraternally he is 
 connected with Custer Post, G. A. R. 
 
 In Taos, N. M., August 28, 1859, Mr. Duffin 
 married Margaret Ryan, daughter of Daniel and 
 Mary (Griffin) Ryan, natives of Ireland. She 
 died January 16, 1897, at the age of fifty-five 
 years. Of their ten children eight are now liv- 
 ing, viz.: Rose, wife of Charles Ferguson; John, 
 in San Antonio, Tex.; Daniel, a farmer in Leav- 
 enworth County; Edward, who served in the 
 war with Spain; Mary, wife of John Luce; Mur- 
 tha C; Bernard, now in North Platte, Neb.; and 
 Agnes G. , who is at home with her father. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM G. HESSE. One of the most 
 \ A / important business industries of Kansas is 
 YV conducted by the William G. Hesse & Son 
 Manufacturing Company, of Leavenworth, who 
 own the largest manufacturing establishment of 
 the kind in the state and make shipments through- 
 out the entire western country. The company 
 was incorporated in 1892, with W. G. Hesse as 
 president and O. H. Hesse vice-president and 
 secretary. In July, 1899, Alexander Pieper was 
 admitted as a member of the firm. The products 
 include vehicles of every kind. In the various 
 buildings connected with the business, which 
 have a combined floor space of seventy-seven 
 thousand and two hundred square feet, may be 
 found all the modern machinery for the manu- 
 facture of different parts of woodwork of wagons, 
 carriages and buggies. One of the specialties of 
 the firm is the manufacture of the patent short- 
 turn Ludlow wagon, which can turn on six-foot 
 circle high wheels. 
 
 A resident of Leavenworth since 1857, Mr. 
 Hesse, the president of this company, was born 
 in Saxony, Germany, July 5, 1838, a son of 
 Henry and Anna (Wartman) Hesse, natives of 
 
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 the same province. His grandfather, WilHam 
 Hesse, came to Saxony during the Napoleonic 
 wars, and continued to live there until his death, 
 in 1846. At first he followed the harness- 
 maker's trade, but afterward carried on a starch 
 factory and brewery. Henry Hesse was a black- 
 smith by trade and built up a large trade in his 
 chosen occupation. He died in Saxony when 
 seventy-six 3-ears of age. In his family there 
 were three children: William George; Frederick 
 Henry, who was a soldier in the German army 
 and has since carried on a blacksmith's business 
 at his father's old stand; and Anna Sophia. 
 
 The bo}'hood days of our subject were passed in 
 Langensalza, his native town, where he followed 
 the carriage-maker's trade. When fifteen he 
 came to America, leaving Bremen on a sailer that 
 arrived in New York City after a voyage of 
 forty-two days. Afterward he worked in New 
 York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D. C, 
 and for two years in St. Louis. In 1857 he came 
 to Leavenworth and soon afterward started a 
 shop here, his location being on Shawnee street, 
 between Third and Fourth streets. During the 
 war he .started a shop on the corner of Seventh 
 and Sioux streets, where he outfitted freighters 
 with large wagons. There he continued until 
 187 1. During the latter j-ear his shop was 
 burned, entailing a heavy loss. His next ven- 
 ture was the purchase of property on Cherokee, 
 between Fourth and Fifth streets, where he built 
 up a business. In 1883 he built the carriage 
 factory on Pawnee street, and this he has since 
 operated. At this writing he has two buildings 
 and a lumber yard on Pawnee street. The 
 buildings are 60x60 and 60x80 respectively, 
 with four floors; and the lumber yard is 56 x 125. 
 On Cherokee street is a repository and hardware 
 store built by Mr. Hesse, with three stories and 
 basement, 48x125 feet in dimensions. In the same 
 block is a factory where tops are manufactured. 
 The business has been built up almost wholly 
 through the energy and business ability of the 
 company's president, who is a man of wise judg- 
 ment, force of character and discriminating in- 
 sight into business details. While carrying 
 under his supervision all weighty affairs con- 
 
 nected with thfe business, he at the same time 
 does not lose sight of those apparently trivial 
 matters which, though seeming small, neverthe- 
 less afi"ect the profits of an enterprise to a great 
 extent. With a keen judgment he superintends 
 every detail, directs his employes (both those in 
 the factory and those on the road), and carries 
 into everj- matter the shrewd discrimination that 
 has always been one of his leading characteristics. 
 In this city occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Hesse to Miss Selina Stauber, who was born in 
 Zurich, Switzerland, and accompanied her par- 
 ents to St. Louis. Of the seven childrei> born of 
 this union four are living, viz.: Amelia, Mrs. 
 A. L. Ruhl, of Kansas City, Mo.; Sophia, Mrs. 
 James McGuire, of Kansas City; Otto H., vice- 
 president and .secretary of the manufacturing 
 company; and Louise, at home. 
 
 yyilSS MARY E. DOLPHIN. No state is 
 Y more advanced than Kansas in the attention 
 (g paid to the education of the young. Not 
 onl}' has it a magnificently equipped state uni- 
 versity, but its public schools too are unsur- 
 passed in thoroughness and in the high character 
 of their teachers. All over the state there are 
 men and women who devote their lives to the 
 progress of the coming generation, and who.se 
 highest reward is to see the intellectual advance- 
 ment of the race. In this good work no one has 
 taken greater interest than the superintendent of 
 the schools of the city of Leavenworth, Miss 
 Dolphin, who has been connected with the edu- 
 cational interests of this city since iSSy. Her 
 education was acquired in Susquehanna County, 
 Pa., and in the Universit}' of Michigan, where 
 she took a special course in mathematics. In 
 1S83 she graduated in President Taylor's first 
 class from the state normal of Kansas. After 
 teaching for six years in Emporia she took 
 charge of mathematics in the Leavenworth high 
 school and also acted as assistant principal. In 
 1896 she was elected bj' the school board to the 
 responsible position she has since filled by annual 
 re-election. Her continuance in ofiice is the best 
 evidence of her fitness for the position. Her 
 
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 431 
 
 duties are many and of great responsibilty. In 
 the city schools she has sixty-eight teachers, be- 
 sides which she also has a training class of twenty 
 who act as substitutes and assistants. In count- 
 less ways her influence has been felt in the ad- 
 vancement of the schools. Imbued with a love 
 for her work, she enters with enthusiasm into 
 everj'thing calculated to raise the standard of 
 education. She keeps in touch with every ad- 
 vance made in the educational world and adopts 
 in her work every suggestion which she believes 
 will be of practical assistance in the conduct of 
 the schools. 
 
 In February, 1899, Miss Dolphin attended the 
 convention of national superintendents at Col- 
 umbus, Ohio, and had the distinction of being 
 one of four lady superintendents present. She is 
 a member of the State Social Science Federation, 
 also of the Saturday Club, the oldest club for 
 ladies in Leavenworth. Socially she is held in 
 the highest esteem by the people of Leavenworth 
 and is a welcomed guest in the best homes, 
 where her high intellectual attainments are recog- 
 nized and admired. 
 
 (lULIUS S. EDWARDS, treasurer and an or- 
 I ganizer of the Citizens' Mutual Building and 
 (2/ Loan Association of Leavenworth, has been 
 connected with this flourishing organization since 
 it was started and holds certificate No. i , the first 
 issued by the company. The officers of the asso- 
 ciation, other than himself, are L- Hawn, presi- 
 dent; J. Hannon, vice-president; C. S. Hartough, 
 secretary; and L- G. Hopkins, attorney. With 
 a capital stock of $1,500,000, the company is pre- 
 pared to carry on its business successfully and 
 profitably for all concerned. During fifteen years 
 of business there has not been a loss or a fore- 
 closure, and the reports, duly audited, reveal a 
 most satisfactory condition of the finances, which 
 may justly be attributed to the efiiciency of the 
 official corps. 
 
 In Bridgeton, N. J., the subject of this sketch 
 was born June 29, 1849. His father, Steen Ed- 
 wards (or, Edward Steen, as he was known in his 
 native land) was born December 24, 18 10, in Co- 
 penhagen, Denmark, and was reared in the hom? 
 
 17 
 
 of his grandfather Langeland. At fifteen years 
 of age he was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. 
 His education was received in a naval academy, 
 and from 1825 to 1840 he was employed in a navy 
 3'ard. Then, with a number of other men, he 
 bought a vessel and planned to come to America 
 in it, but the ship was wrecked offthe coast of 
 Spain and all on board came nearly being lost. 
 They landed in Bayonne, France, and sold the 
 wreck for a small sum. Of all the men Mr. Ed- 
 wards was the only one who had enough money 
 to pursue his way to the United States. He set- 
 tled in St. Louis, but after a year went to Natchez, 
 where he lay ill with fever for six months. He 
 then went to Florida as a volunteer in the Indian 
 war, and after six months in active service was 
 made an assistant in a hospital, for which work 
 his knowledge of medicine fitted him. Later, for 
 two years, he served as a physician in the army, 
 and during the time he had charge of a small hos- 
 pital. On retiring from the army he practiced 
 medicine in northern Florida for a year, then 
 spent five months in Havana, Cuba, after which 
 he traveled through the southern states as physi- 
 cian and dentist. 
 
 In 1846 Mr. Edwards settled in Bridgeton, 
 N.J., where he engaged in farming until 1857, 
 and afterward give his attention for four years to 
 the canning of vegetables and fruits. In 1871 he 
 built a greenhouse and engaged in business as a 
 florist, building up a large business that is now 
 carried on by his sons. In 1883 he took into 
 partnership his second son, Theodore E., the firm 
 name becoming S. Edwards & Son. In Septem- 
 ber, 1896, he gave up his interest to his son, 
 Adolph E. , when the title was changed to T. E. 
 Edwards & Bro. Since then he has lived in re- 
 tirement on his farm near Bridgeton. For one 
 of his age (eighty-nine) he is active and strong. 
 He is a member of an old and honorable family 
 in Denmark, whose genealogy appears in the 
 " Familj' Tree of a family Steen in Denmark, 
 Norway and the United States," prepared by H. 
 H. Steen in 1896. 
 
 The marriage of Steen Edwards, in 1848, uni- 
 ted him with Miss Mary Ann Dare; she was born 
 in Bridgeton, N. J., March 3, 1825, a daughter 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Eli and Zelika (Seel}') Dare, and has always 
 lived on the homestead where she was born. 
 November i6, 1898, they celebrated their golden 
 wedding. All of their sons (eight in number) 
 are still living. They are as follows: Julius Steen, 
 of this sketch; Theodore Edward, born June 22, 
 1852, now in business at Bridgeton; Odin Ru- 
 dolph, who was born June 21, 1855, and for sev- 
 eral years was a merchant in Philadelphia, but is 
 now superintendent of the Medico-Chirurgical 
 Hospital in that city; Leslie Sherwood, who was 
 born October 20, 1857, and is engaged in the 
 nursery business at Glendora Springs, Los Gatos, 
 Cal.; Adolph Eugene, who was born vSeptember 
 6, 1861, and is a florist at Bridgeton; Devoux 
 Bard, who was born May 13, 1864, and has en- 
 gaged in the florist's business at Atlantic City, 
 N. J., since 1884; Otto William, who was born 
 September 7, 1867, and is a machinist in Camden, 
 N.J. ; and Valdemar Emile,who was born Sep- 
 tember 14, 1871, and is superintendent of an in- 
 surance company at Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were .spent in 
 Bridgeton, where he and all of his brothers were 
 born. He was educated in the public schools 
 and in a commercial college in Philadelphia. For a 
 time he was employed as a bookkeeper in Philadel- 
 phia. From there, in April, 1 881, he came to Leav- 
 enworth, where he has since made his home. For 
 several years he was manager for a canning com- 
 pany, and now holds a similar position with the 
 Globe Canning Company, in which he holds an 
 interest. At the organization of the Citizens' 
 Building and Loan Association he was made pres- 
 ident and served as such for four years, after which 
 he was chosen treasurer, and he is now serving 
 his twelfth 3'ear in the latter capacity. The 
 greater part of his time is devoted to the manage- 
 ment of the finances of the association, in which 
 he has been unusually successful. In national 
 politics he is a Republican, in local matters lib- 
 eral. In 1886-87 he was a member of the city 
 council. A member of the Presbj'terian Church, 
 he officiates as a trustee of the same. Besides 
 his other interests he is engaged with W. E. 
 Fletcher in the insurance business, and with C. S. 
 Hartough in the real-estate business. 
 
 In Philadelphia, Pa., December 25, 1876, Mr. 
 Edwards married Lizzie Drew Patterson, who 
 was born there Maj' 29, 1849. Her father, Cal- 
 lender Patterson, was born in Perry ville, Md., 
 May 6, 1820, and is now a dentist in Philadel- 
 phia; her mother, Lizzie Pierce Drew, was born 
 in Providence, R. I., May i, 1816, and died in 
 Philadelphia August 22, 1887. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Edwards are the parents of two children. The 
 son, Aubrey St. Clair, was born in Philadelphia 
 January 19, 1879, and is a sergeant in Company 
 C, Twentieth Kansas Infantrj-, now stationed at 
 Manila. The daughter, Lillian Irene, was born 
 in Leavenworth June 23, 1884, and is now com- 
 pleting her education. The family stands high 
 socially and its members are esteemed wherever 
 known . 
 
 EHAUNCEY FLORA, who is a pioneer of 
 1857, is engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising on section 10, Delaware Township, 
 Leavenworth County. In 1894 he bought Green- 
 wood cemetery and the fruit farm adjoining, con- 
 sisting of thirty acres. The laud is planted in 
 fruits of all kinds, mostly berries and grapes. 
 He is making a .specialty of fine horses, and owns 
 Chauncey F. (formerly Black Rover), with a 
 record of 2:21, sired by Pretender, who was by 
 Dictator; dam sired by Bourbon Wilkes, son of 
 George Wilkes. This fine horse he keeps at the 
 head of his stable. Among his colts is Free 
 Silver, standard bred, by the sire of Falmouth 
 (which has the best three-year old record); dam 
 by Delbrino. On the farm is a large stable with 
 twenty-three stalls, while all the other con- 
 veniences of a stock farm may be seen here. 
 
 Mr. Flora was born in Logansport, Ind., June 
 4, 1848, a son of Hon. R. V. and Mary (Ross) 
 Flora, atid a grandson of Adam Flora and John 
 Ross. His paternal grandfather, who was the 
 son of a German pioneer of Virginia, was a 
 soldier in the war of 18 12 and afterward, with his 
 family, removed from the Old Dominion to Ohio, 
 settling upon a farm near Cincinnati, where he . 
 died. One of his sons, Jacob, a soldier in the 
 Mexican war, settled in Kansas in 1867 and died 
 in McPherson County. R. V. Flora was a con- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 433 
 
 tractor and builder in Indiana, and had the 
 original contract for the Wabash Railroad from 
 Delphi to Indianapolis, but, the company chang- 
 ing hands, he was defrauded of f 100,000, the 
 judgment for which is still preserved. In 1856 
 he settled in Kansas, where he was a contractor 
 and builder, building the state penitentiary, as 
 well as store rooms and residences. About 1878 
 he retired from business. He died in 1895, when 
 eighty-one years of age. Politically a Democrat, 
 he served as sheriflf and member of the legisla- 
 ture for one term each and for several terms was 
 a member of the city council. At the time of 
 his death he was the oldest Mason in Kansas, 
 where he was connected with the blue lodge, 
 chapter and commandery. His first wife died in 
 1855, leaving a son, Chauncey, and two daugh- 
 ters, one of whom resides in Chicago, the other in 
 lyincoln. Neb. His second marriage was child- 
 less; by his third wife he had two sons, Horace 
 P. and George V., both of whom are traveling 
 salesmen. 
 
 When a boy our subject worked at brick- 
 laying about eighteen months, while his father 
 was putting up the Fort lycavenworth buildings. 
 In 1864 he and his father crossed the plains with 
 two wagons and four yoke of oxen each, driving 
 to Virginia City, Nev. Indians were trouble- 
 some and they lost one of the men in their party 
 on the return journey in 1865. After returning 
 to Leavenworth our subject was for five years in 
 the employ of Leibenstein & Co. , then was with 
 James Wilson in the dress goods department of 
 his store for a year. As traveling salesman for 
 Haas & Co., of Leavenworth, he spent some 
 years on the road in Kansas and Nebraska. He 
 then entered the railway mail service as postal 
 clerk between Kansas City and Kiowa, Kans., on 
 the Santa Fe, but, at his request, his run was 
 changed to the Kansas Central, between Leaven- 
 worth aud Miltonvale. 
 
 On the Democratic ticket, in the fall of 1889, 
 Mr. Flora was elected sheriff of Leavenworth 
 County, at first being chosen to fill a vacancy in 
 the ofiSce, then was elected by a majority of seven 
 hundred and ninety-nine. In 1891 he was nomi- 
 nated again, biit as it was illegal for ^ sheriff to 
 
 serve more than two terms, and as his election to 
 fill a vacancy was considered one term, he did 
 not become a candidate again. His father was 
 placed on the ticket in his stead and was elected, 
 he serving as undersheriff from 1892 to 1894. 
 He was a very efficient officer, and captured 
 many well-known crooks. Several murders were 
 committed during his term of office, but only one 
 murderer escaped him, and this man was located 
 in Mexico, but the authorities refused to give 
 him up. While serving as undersheriff Mr. 
 Flora was a prominent candidate for United States 
 marshal and had endorsements from every part 
 of the state. During the strike at the Home 
 mine he appointed twelve of the strikers deputies, 
 and, knowing all the men, he soon quelled the 
 riot; but his opponent took advantage of this fact 
 and succeeded in turning enough votes to defeat 
 him for marshal. 
 
 In Leavenworth Mr. Flora married Jennie 
 Fisher, who was born on the place where she still 
 lives. Her father, George M. Fisher, came from 
 Virginia to Kansas in 1855 and engaged in farm- 
 ing in Leavenworth County until his death. Mr. 
 Flora has one son, Lawson. He is identified 
 with the Red Men and his wife is also a member 
 of Pocahontas Tribe. He was made a Mason in 
 King Solomon Lodge No. 10, and is now con- 
 nected with the chapter and commandery also, 
 while his wife is identified with the Eastern Star. 
 In the Knights of Pythias he has served as 
 chancellor. 
 
 r"REDERICK W. HARTMAN. There are 
 1^ few of the farmers of Douglas County who 
 I have been more successful than the subject 
 of this sketch. In 1870 he purchased two hun- 
 dred acres of land in Marion Township. From 
 this as a nucleus he has built up a large and 
 finely improved farm, adding to the original 
 acreage from time to time as his means permitted 
 or the opportunity was presented. His total 
 landed possessions now aggregate about twenty- 
 two hundred acres in Franklin, Douglas and 
 Osage Counties, to all of which property he 
 gives personal supervision. On his home farm 
 he has erected a residence that rivals many an 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 elegant city home. The land, too, has been 
 brought under an excellent state of cultivation. 
 From 1885 to 1888 he rented his farm and moved 
 to Baldwin City, but returned in i88g, and has 
 since resided here. For some years he has been 
 a director in the Kansas State Bank at Overbrook, 
 0.sage County, and since 1897 has officiated as 
 president of the institution. 
 
 Born in Prussia, Germany, July 8, 1836, Mr. 
 Hartman was a boy of twelve when his parents, 
 Frederick M. and Jane (Burd) Hartman, crossed 
 the ocean to the United States and settled in 
 Sheboygan, Wis. There his father died in 1865, 
 at the age of sixty-five, and his mother when 
 eighty-eight years of age. There were four 
 children in the family: Henry, who died in She- 
 boygan, Wis.; Minnie, Mrs. Anton Meyer; 
 Hannah, wife of Jacob Dingle; and Frederick 
 W. The last named grew to manhood in Wis- 
 consin, and in 1859 went to Sangamon County, 
 111., where he worked on a farm for a few years. 
 In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Seventy-third 
 Illinois Infantry, and was assigned to Sheridan's 
 division, Army of the Cumberland, in whose 
 engagements he participated until the close of the 
 war. 
 
 After a short visit in Illinois Mr. Hartman 
 came to Kansas, in October, 1865, and settled in 
 Ottawa. In the spring of 1S66 he went to the 
 Indian Territory and bought cattle, which he 
 drove to Ottawa. In 1867 he purchased eight}' 
 acres in Franklin Countj' and there engaged in 
 farming for three yeans. He then sold the prop- 
 erty and bought his present farm in Marion 
 Township, Douglas County. Since coming to 
 Kansas he has made his own way in the world, 
 and his success is worthy of commendation, for 
 it has been acquired without outside assistance, 
 but .solely through his own and his wife's energy 
 and determination. For several years he was a 
 member of the .school board, and he has aided in 
 the erection of schoolhouses and also of churches. 
 In politics he is a Republican. His marriage, in 
 1868, united him with Cloey Etta Dial, who was 
 born in West \^irginia, and by whom he has 
 three children: Frederick M. ; Ida, wife of Robert 
 Walker; and Henry F. Mrs. Hartman is a 
 
 daughter of Thomas Dial, a native of North 
 Carolina, who migrated to West Virginia in boy- 
 hood and in later years became a large and pros- 
 perous farmer there. 
 
 (TACOB PLANZ, of Lawrence, was born in 
 I the city of Alsfeld, Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger- 
 \Z) many, October 10, 1842, a son of Eberhart 
 and Elenore (Koch) Planz, natives of the same 
 place. His paternal grandfather, Werner Planz, 
 was a baker in Alsfeld and a member of an old 
 family that had been Lutherans since the days of 
 the reformation. He had two children, a son 
 and daughter. The former was an industrious, 
 persevering man, and doubtless would have be- 
 come well-to-do had he not died at middle age. 
 He married a daughter of Jacob Koch, a butcher 
 in Alsfeld, and a member of an old family there. 
 They were the parents of three daughters and 
 one son, all of whom came to America. Their 
 youngest child, Jacob, was reared in his native 
 town and attended school until his confirmation 
 at fourteen years of age. In boyhood be became 
 familiar with the baker's trade, through having 
 helped an uncle in his shop. 
 
 Desiring to escape military oppression our sub- 
 ject came to the United States in the fall of 1859. 
 He left Bremenhaven in September on the sailer 
 "Theresa," which landed in Baltimore after an 
 uneventful voyage of six weeks. Stopping in 
 that city he secured work as a baker on South 
 St. Charles street, where he remained about two 
 and one-half years. He then went to St. Louis, 
 Mo. , where he first worked as a baker and later 
 as a brewer. While there he served as a mem- 
 ber of the state militia. In 1865 he came to 
 Kansas. For a time he worked at his trade in 
 Leavenworth, but on the gth of September of 
 the same year he came to Lawrence, where for 
 almost five years he was employed as first hand 
 in the Lawrence bakery. He then started the 
 Kansas bakery. In 1872 he bought the lot at 
 No. 1 1 12 Pennsylvania street, and here he built 
 the bakery which he still occupies. He has 
 built up a very large business that is not limited 
 to the city, but extends through the surrounding 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 435 
 
 country and adjoining towns. Besides his busi- 
 ness block he owns four houses here, his prop- 
 erty holdings being quite valuable. 
 
 In the city of l,awrence occurred the marriage 
 of Mr. Planz to Miss Mary Stoebener, who was 
 born in Germany and came to this country in 
 company with her father, Marx Stoebener, settling 
 upon a farm near Willow Springs, Douglas 
 County, in 1866. Five children comprise the 
 family of Mr. and Mrs. Planz, namely: Mrs. 
 Mary Willmann, of Lawrence; Mrs. Louisa 
 Sellers, of Scottsburg, Ind.; Gerhard, Berthold 
 and Arthur Jacob, all of whom are bakers by 
 trade and assist their father in the management 
 of the bakery. In religion the family are of the 
 Lutheran faith. 
 
 ©AMUEL DODSWORTH, deceased, formerly 
 2\ mayor of Leavenworth, member of the city 
 CyJ council and the board of education, was 
 prominently identified with many important in- 
 terests of his home town, and held a position 
 among its most successful business men. Al- 
 though almost his entire life was passed in Kan- 
 sas, he was of eastern birth and parentage, and 
 was born in New York City March 16, 1846. The 
 Dodsworth family is of English lineage. His 
 grandfather, Samuel Dodsworth, was a builder 
 in England, while his father, John, also a native 
 of that country, was reared in his native town, 
 Birmingham, and in 1845 crossed the ocean, set- 
 tling in New York City, where he worked at the 
 bookbinder's trade. Later he was similarly en- 
 gaged in Philadelphia. In 1855 he came to Kan- 
 sas and at Lawrence opened the first bookbind- 
 ing business in the entire territory. Among the 
 contracts awarded him were those for the binding 
 of the territorial and later of the state laws. He 
 spent a short time in Iowa City, but returned to 
 Lawrence, and in 1857 settled in Leavenworth. 
 From that time he engaged in the stationery and 
 book business until his death, which occurred in 
 1862, at forty-one 5'ears of age. 
 
 Just before leaving England, in 1845, John 
 Dodsworth married Miss Charlotte Richardson, 
 who was born in Birmingham. She was a daugh- 
 ter of William Richardson, a gunsmith by trade, 
 
 and a soldier in the English army during the Na- 
 poleonic wars of 181 2-15. Of the children born 
 to John and Charlotte Dodsworth two died 
 young; Mrs. Annie M. Shoemaker resides in 
 Leavenworth; and the only son, Samuel, is de- 
 ceased. The last-named, on the death of his 
 father, succeeded to the management of the sta- 
 tioner}' and book business, and this he afterward 
 successfully conducted. In addition to the man- 
 agement of his business interests he was for two 
 terms a member of the city council, and from 
 1893 to 1895 served as mayor of Leavenworth, 
 discharging the duties of that office with the 
 fidelity and efficiency noticeable in every position 
 that he occupied. Politically he was always a 
 stanch Republican and always upheld party prin- 
 ciples. His death occurred June 10, 1896. 
 
 In Leavenworth, October 16, 1872, Samuel 
 'Dodsworth and Miss Annie Few were united in 
 marriage. Mrs. Dodsworth was born in Inde- 
 pendence, Mo., where her parents. Dr. Samuel F. 
 and Annie E. Few, were at the time residing. 
 However, she was reared in Leavenworth, and 
 has known no other home save this city. Her 
 educational advantages were of a superior char- 
 acter and admirably qualified her for the high 
 position in society that she now holds. In relig- 
 ion she is connected with the First Presbyterian 
 Church and closely identified with many of its 
 activities. Her family consists of five children: 
 Lottie, who is a graduate of the high school; 
 Walter, who has succeeded his father in the man- 
 agement of the Samuel Dodsworth Book Com- 
 pany on Delaware street; Marie, John and Helen, 
 all at home. 
 
 EHARLES A. ASHBY, who is engaged in 
 farming in Douglas County, was born upon 
 the farm which he now owns and operates. 
 Through his paternal ancestors he descends from 
 an old family of Virginia. His father, James C. 
 Ashby,was born in Kentucky, and at an early 
 age accompanied his parents to Indiana, where 
 he was reared upon a farm, early becoming fa- 
 miliar with agricultural pursuits. After his mar- 
 riage he engaged in farming in that state until 
 1S57, when he and his brother came to Kansas 
 
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 and pre-empted claims, he settling in Douglas 
 County, and his brother locating directly across 
 the line in Franklin County. Politically he 
 was a Republican and always voted with his 
 party, but took little part in public affairs. 
 He was an earnest member of the Method- 
 ist Epi.scopal Church, and a man of upright life, 
 who won many friends in his locality. Through 
 his energetic management he became the owner 
 of three hundred and seventy acres, representing 
 his unaided efforts. Upon the farm where he 
 had resided for eleven years he died November 
 30, 1868, aged forty-four years. 
 
 The mother of our subject bore the maiden 
 name of Mary F. Foster and was born in Ken- 
 tucky, whence in 1829 she accompanied her par- 
 ents to Indiana, settling in Putnam Count}', near 
 the Ashby homestead. There she was reared, 
 educated and married. Her father, Henry 
 Foster, was born in Virginia near the Maryland 
 state line, and was reared in Kentucky, where 
 he learned the cabinet-maker's trade. In the 
 early days of Indiana he entered land in that 
 state, and there he resided until he died, at sixty- 
 five years. He was of Scotch lineage. His 
 wife, Jane (Nelson) Foster, was born in Ken- 
 tucky in 1803, of Irish parentage. In 1866 she 
 accompanied a son to Kansas and afterward re- 
 mained in Baldwin until her death, at sixty-four 
 years. After the death of Mr. Ashby, in 1868, 
 his widow took up the management of the home 
 farm, and upou it she afterward continued to 
 reside. At an early age .she became a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and that de- 
 nomination represented her religious views dur- 
 ing her entire life. In its faith she passed from 
 earth August 4, 1894, aged sixty-six years. In 
 her family there were six children, Henry, 
 Charles, Jennie, Alice, Mary and Rose. 
 
 At the time of his father's death our subject 
 was nearly ten years of age, he having been born 
 December 5, 1858. He continued on the home- 
 stead with his mother, upon whose death he in- 
 herited a portion of the estate. Desiring to pos- 
 sess the entire property he bought the interests 
 of the other heirs, and now owns one hundred 
 and si.xty acres of valuable land. Upon his 
 
 place he engages in general farm pursuits and 
 has also commenced to raise Durham cattle. He 
 gives his attention quite closel}' to the manage- 
 ment of his land, and does not mingle in political 
 affairs anj- further than to ca.st a Republican 
 vote at elections. 
 
 (JOHN F. FAUCETT. When the tide of 
 I emigration began to turn toward Kansas, 
 (2/ among those who decided to come west was 
 Mr. Faucett, then a young man living in Indiana. 
 In 1S56 he started west by team. He spent the 
 winter in Iowa and early in the spring resumed 
 his journej', having traded his horses for two 
 yoke of oxen, with which he drove through to 
 Douglas County. In what was then a part of the 
 Shawnee Indian reservation (now included in 
 Palmyra Township), he entered a claim, March 
 18, 1857. Settling on the place he put up a 
 shanty and began the improvement of the land. 
 Here he has since made his home. While 
 serving in the army he sold a portion of his 
 claim, in order to secure needed mone}' for the 
 support of his family, and he now occupies eighty 
 acres, all of which is under cultivation. 
 
 Mr. Faucett was born August 12, 1825, in 
 Hendricks County, Ind., the year after it was 
 organized as a county. He is a member of an old 
 \'irginia family. His grandfather, John Faucett, 
 a native of the Old Dominion, was a boy of nine 
 years when he, a brother and sister, and their 
 mother, were taken prisoners by the Indians. 
 The savages promised his mother that .she could 
 return home, but her son never heard of her 
 again. He was held a captive for three years, 
 and afterward was taken b}- a chief as his son, 
 being kindly treated in every way. Finallj' a 
 white man bought him from the chief, giving a 
 horse in exchange. He was taken into his 
 benefactor's home and lived with him on a farm 
 for some years. At the opening of the Revolu- 
 tionary war he enlisted as a private and continued 
 in the service uirtil the close of the conflict. In 
 later years he was given a pension by the govern- 
 ment. He moved from Virginia to Ohio and 
 later to Indiana, where he died at eighty-six 
 years. In politics he was a stanch Democrat. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 437 
 
 He married Eva Frj% who was born in Virginia 
 and died in Indiana at eighty-six years. Both 
 were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 The father of our subject, Joseph Faucett, was 
 born on the Ohio River when his parents were 
 moving from Virginia to Ohio. He was reared 
 in the latter state and learned the tailor's trade in 
 Franklin, afterward following that occupation for 
 several years. From Ohio he removed to Hen- 
 dricks County, Ind., and bought a tract of tim- 
 ber land, which he cleared and improved, and 
 upon which he remained until his death at 
 seventy-three years. During the winter months, 
 when it was impossible to do much on the farm, 
 he worked at his trade, and at one time, while an 
 apprentice, he had an order for an overcoat for 
 General Harrison. He was an earnest Christian, 
 holding membership in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Politically he voted with the Demo- 
 crats, and upon his party ticket was elected to 
 various local offices. He married Rebecca M. 
 Huron, who was born in Ohio and died in In- 
 diana, January i8, 1873, when about sixty-nine, 
 her death occurring the same 5'ear as that of her 
 husband. They were the parents of three sons 
 and seven daughters, of whom six are now living. 
 
 When a boy our subject assisted his father in 
 clearing the home farm. His education was 
 limited to about three months' attendance at the 
 subscription school each winter. When he was 
 twent3'-one he began to work by the month. 
 Seven years later he married and settled on a 
 rented farm, where he remained until his re- 
 moval to Kansas. He has been a hard-working, 
 persevering man, and is deserving of success. 
 August 28, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, 
 Second Kansas Cavalr3% and served as a private, 
 taking part in various engagements. From 
 January until July, 1863, he was stationed at 
 Springfield, Mo., after which he went to Fort 
 Smith, Ark. During the next winter he was at 
 the outposts near that fort, and in March was sent 
 south after Price, to prevent the latter from re- 
 enforcing Smith on the Red River. L,ater he re- 
 turned to Fort Smith and Van Buren. While he 
 was never wounded in battle nor taken prisoner. 
 
 he sustained an injury from a horse falling upon 
 him, and he had many narrow escapes during his 
 three years of service. His time was principally 
 given to scouting and skirmishing. At the close 
 of the war he was mustered out at Fort Gibson, 
 in July, 1865. 
 
 By the marriage of Mr. Faucett to Miss Mary 
 E. Poe, of Hendricks County, Ind., three daugh- 
 ters were born. They are: Ella, wife of Fred- 
 erick Sturdy, of Galena, Kans. ; Effie, who mar- 
 ried William Reed, of San Francisco, Cal. ; and 
 Alma, wife of J. F. Keefer, a farmer of Douglas 
 County, Kans. The family are connected with 
 the Presbyterian Church, to which Mr. Faucett 
 has contributed for years. Active in local affairs, 
 he has always given his support to the Republican 
 party. He is interested in Grand Army matters 
 and belongs to Seth Kelley Post No. 410, at 
 Vinland. 
 
 GJMBROSE P. EGGLESTON. The pages of 
 Ll this work would not be complete without 
 I I appropriate mention of the gentleman whose 
 name introduces this sketch. He is a pioneer of 
 Tonganoxie Township, Eeavenworth County. 
 To his energy and industrj' the native soil was 
 made to yield an abundant harvest, and the wild 
 stretch of land, covered with brush, has given 
 way to cultivated farm land. Taking up two 
 quarter- sections of land in the northern part of 
 the township he erected a house and there he 
 continued to reside for years. In 1896 he retired 
 from active work and now makes his home across 
 the county line in McLouth. 
 
 Several generations of the Eggleston famil}' 
 have resided in America. The first to come was 
 Biggett Eggleston, who emigrated from England 
 and whose wife was from Scotland. The family 
 was worthily represented in the Revolution. 
 Dutchess County, N. Y., was their home from an 
 early day, and there our subject's father, Truman 
 Eggleston, was born and reared, and spent his 
 entire life engaged in farming. By his marriage 
 to Eorinda Paine, three sons and four daughters 
 were born, of whom our subject and two sisters 
 alone survive. He was born in Dutchess Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., April 25, 1826, and was Uext to the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 oldest of the famil}'. His education was obtained 
 in district schools. At an early age he began to 
 cultivate one of his father's farms. In 1849 he 
 moved west as far as Ohio. He was the first of 
 the family to seek a western home and was not a 
 little criticised for so doing, but the after years 
 proved the wisdom of the move. He taught 
 school in and later near Toledo, and also bought 
 a tract of timber land, which he cleared. In 1868 
 he moved from Ohio to Kansas, where he after- 
 ward engaged in stock-raising and farming. For 
 many years he served as justice of the peace, an 
 office that he filled worthily. In religion he is a 
 Universalist. 
 
 Before he was twenty-one Mr. Eggleston mar- 
 ried Armilla Hayward, but she died two years 
 later. In 1858 he married Catherine Johnson, 
 who died in the summer of 1867. September 17, 
 1868, he was united with lyida Phelps, of Michi- 
 gan. Of their three children, two are living: 
 Murray Chapin, who conducts the old home- 
 stead; and Lorinda M., wife of John F. Harding, 
 who lives near McLouth, Jefferson County. 
 
 pCjlIyLIAM FEVURIvY owns seven hundred 
 
 \ A / and twenty acres in Leavenworth County 
 V V and is numbered among the most success- 
 ful farmers and stock-raisers of Alexandria Town- 
 .ship. He was born in Baden, Germany, April 
 I, 1835, a .son of Michael and Catherine Fevurly, 
 also natives of Baden. His father brought the 
 family to America in 1841 and settled in Phila- 
 delphia, but after five years removed to Elk 
 County, Pa., and bought a farm near St. Mary's, 
 remaining there for several years. In 1847 
 the wife and mother died and the family then be- 
 came scattered. At the time of his death he was 
 fifty years of age. He had the religious belief of 
 the Roman Catholic Church. His children are 
 named as follows: Sarah, wife of Mathias Hon- 
 atte, of Pennsylvania; Rosie A., who has been 
 twice married and is now a widow; William; 
 Robert, a farmer and stock-dealer in Leaven- 
 worth County; Mrs. Kate Schultz, of Leaven- 
 worth; and Hannah, who is mother superior of a 
 convent in St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 When our subject was fifteen years of age he 
 secured work on a farm, for which he was paid 
 $3 per month. After a year he went to Brook- 
 ville. Pa., and worked at odd jobs there; 
 later learned photography, which he followed in 
 diSereut cities and towns of the west, staying a 
 short time in each place. Having saved $2,000 
 in the business, he stopped after twelve years and 
 engaged in the brewery business, but lost all of 
 his hard-earned savings. In 1857 he took up a 
 claim in Minnesota. In the spring of the follow- 
 ing year he settled in Weston, Kans., where he 
 worked bj' the day in a pork-packing house. 
 After a short time he went with a government 
 surveying party to the Little Blue, where he re- 
 mained for nine months. Afterward he traveled 
 through Iowa and Minnesota, engaging in the 
 picture business. In the spring of i860 he drove 
 .six yoke of oxen across the plains to Salt Lake 
 City, for which he was paid at the rate of $40 
 a month and board. From there he went to 
 California, where he engaged in mining, and 
 became the owner of eighty feet in the Yellow 
 Jacket. In the fall of 1863 he came to Leaven- 
 worth County, having $7,000 which he inve.sted 
 in land, and here he has since made his home. 
 Though he is now past middle life, he can do as 
 much work in one day as any one in his town- 
 .ship, and is robu.st and heart}-. 
 
 By his marriage to Miss Effie M. Coffin, of 
 Minnesota, Mr. Fevurly had one son, Albert, who 
 is now a wagonmaker in Easton, Leavenworth 
 County. March 20, 1864, Mr. Fevurly was a 
 second time married, his wife being Elizabeth J. 
 McCarty, of Leavenworth County. They have 
 six children, viz.: James F. and Robert, farmers 
 in Alexandria Township; Mollie, wife of Milton 
 Coates, of California; Fannie, who married James 
 Alexander, a farmer and schoolteacher in this 
 township; William Moses, and Lee, both at home. 
 For fourteen years our subject has been a mem- 
 ber of the school board. He has also filled the 
 office of road overseer. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat, but independent in his views, especially in 
 local affairs, as he believes in voting for the best 
 qualified men, no matter what their politics may 
 be. 
 
WILLIAM rATTlvRSON. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 441 
 
 WILLIAM PATTERSON, chief superin- 
 tendent of construction at the Kansas 
 state penitentiary in Lansing, is one of 
 the few men who have made the art of building 
 and constructing a life study, and his chief aim 
 has been to thoroughly master his chosen occu- 
 pation. It may rightly be said that he has won 
 for himself the name of one of the best building 
 constructors and master mechanics in the coun- 
 try. A man of quiet tastes, caring nothing for 
 publicity, he is rarely seen in public assemblies, 
 but prefers to spend his leisure hours in his 
 home, to which he is devoted. 
 
 Mr. Patterson was born in January, 1824, in 
 Northumberland, England, his home being on 
 the Scottish border. He learned the trade of 
 mechanic under his father, William Patterson, Sr., 
 who was an expert master mechanic and had 
 charge of the construction of the county-seat of 
 Chittingham. When he became a young man 
 he left home and went to Newcastle, where he 
 followed his trade four years. In 1850 he sailed 
 for America in a ship on the Black Star line, and 
 landed in New York after a voyage of thirty 
 days. He remained in that city for three years 
 and then went to Fredericksburg, Va., where he 
 assisted in building the dam on the Rappahan- 
 nock River. Afterward he began building rail- 
 roads and bridges in the Shenandoah Valley, and 
 many bridges that he built are still standing. 
 For a time he worked at his trade on the south 
 wing of the capitol in Washington. When the 
 war broke out he was working in West Virginia 
 and was obliged to remain there for a year. Fin- 
 ally he secured a pass through the lines and went 
 to Ohio, and from there in 1866 to Kansas, 
 reaching Leavenworth in the fall of that year. 
 
 When the foundation of the state penitentiary 
 was laid, the state warden appointed Mr. Patter- 
 son master mechanic and he had full charge of 
 the construction of the left wing of the main 
 building and the warden's home. In 1874 he 
 was made general superintendent of construction. 
 He had charge of the erection of the outer build- 
 ings and the water plant. Through all the 
 changes that have been made in the manage- 
 ment of the penitentiary he has remained in his 
 
 position, a fact which speaks well for him. He 
 is now one of the oldest officers in the institution, 
 and also one of the most highly respected men 
 connected with it. In religion he and his family 
 are identified with the Baptist Church. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. Patterson married Miss Sarah 
 Parker, who died in May, 1897. They were the 
 parents of two daughters, namely: Isabelle, the 
 widow of John Dodds, of Kansas City; and 
 Euphemia, wife of William Bardthold. There 
 are six grandchildren, to whose welfare their 
 grandfather is deeply devoted. They are Will- 
 iam and Clara Dodds, and Clarence, Edwin, 
 Sarah and Nina Belle Bardthold. 
 
 61 RNOLD FLINTJER, who is proprietor of an 
 Ll insurance, loan and real-estate agency in 
 / I Leavenworth, owns and occupies a neat 
 homestead of six acres near the city. He pos- 
 sesses in a notable degree those qualities which 
 are essential factors to success in any department 
 of business life, namely: industry, perseverance, 
 sagacious judgment and determination. In the 
 possession of these sterling qualities he may rea- 
 sonably hope for a large share of business suc- 
 cess. A courteous and affable gentleman, his 
 genial manner and recognized uprightness have 
 won for him many friends in his home town and 
 county. 
 
 In Hanover, Germany, where he was born May 
 7, 1857, Mr, Flintjer passed his boyhood days on 
 a farm, attending school during the winter months 
 and helping at home in the summer. In 1870 he 
 accompanied the family to America and settled in 
 Grundy County, Iowa, where he assisted in im- 
 proving a farm. After seven years he came with 
 his parents to Kansas, settling in Osborne County, 
 where they acquired title to eleven hundred acres. 
 In 1888 his father, Dade J. Flintjer, brought the 
 family to Leavenworth County, and purchased a 
 farm near the city of Leavenworth, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death, April 14, 1895, 
 at seventy-seven years of age. He had been a 
 hard-working man, and for thirty-six years fol- 
 lowed a seafaring life, but afterward engaged in 
 farming. He was a man of religious character 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and worshiped with the Lutherans. In politics 
 he voted the Democratic ticket. His wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Margaretta Brons, was 
 born in Germany and died in Leavenworth Coun- 
 ty, in August, 1897, at the age of seventy-two 
 years. Like her husband she was a sincere 
 Christian and a devoted member of the Lutheran 
 Church. Of the six children in their family, 
 John D., the eldest, is adjuster for an insur- 
 ance company in Kansas City, Mo., and Daniel 
 J. follows the same business in that city; Arnold 
 was the third in order of birth; Everett is a gro- 
 cer in Houston, Tex.; Maggie R. married Joseph 
 Borchley and lives on the home farm; and Anton 
 D. is connected with his brother in the grocery 
 business at Houston. 
 
 After the removal of the family to Leavenworth 
 County our subject continued on the home farm 
 until 1 89 1. He then came to Leavenworth and 
 opened the agency which he has since conducted. 
 Reared in the Lutheran faith, he still adheres to 
 its doctrines. Politically he is a Democrat, but 
 not active in partisan matters. 
 
 His first wife was Augusta Albright, a native 
 of Germany. She died in July, 1892, leaving five 
 sons, Harry, Myron, Walter, Irving and William. 
 Afterward he married Mrs. Bertha Herrwald, of 
 Bonner Springs, Kans., who by her former mar- 
 riage has a son, Henry. 
 
 IILLIAM FREIENMUTH, head miller for 
 the Tonganoxie Milling Company, is also 
 extensively engaged in the fruit business. 
 He owns a farm of two hundred acres in Tongan- 
 oxie Township, Leavenworth County, of which 
 he has seventy acres planted in fruit trees, all set 
 out by himself. While he superintends the man- 
 agement of the fruit orchard, he hires the labor 
 done and makes the raising of fruit the principal 
 industry on the place. In the management of 
 his varied business interests he is keen and alert, 
 quick to see an advantage, and equally quick to 
 avail himself of it. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Switzer- 
 land June 23, 1849. His father, whose name was 
 the same as his own, emigrated from Switzer- 
 
 land to South America and later settled in the 
 United States. When a boy our subject worked 
 in his father's mill. At twenty-five years of age 
 he left his native land with his father and crossed 
 the ocean to the Argentine Republic, where he 
 engaged in farming. At that time wheat was 
 just being started and he engaged in raising it, in 
 connection with other cereals. After one j'ear 
 devoted to farming he turned his attention to mill- 
 ing, in which work he was occupied for two years. 
 He then came to the United States and for a year 
 was employed in St. Louis, later spent a year in 
 a mill at Lawrence, Tex., also was in Dallas and 
 Houston. In 1879 he settled in Kansas. At first 
 he was employed in Bowersock's mill in Law- 
 rence, later was appointed head miller in the Pa- 
 cific mill, where he remained until 1889, and from 
 there came to Tonganoxie. Since then he has 
 been connected with the Tonganoxie Milling 
 Company. The mill was built with a capacity of 
 one hundred and fift}- barrels. It has been man- 
 aged so carefully that it has gained a wide repu- 
 tation for the excellence of its products. Eight 
 men are employed outside of the office. In May, 
 1899, 3 decided change was made in the manage- 
 ment of the mill, by means of which it is now 
 possible to grind hard wheat and also to econo- 
 mize in power. 
 
 In politics Mr. Freienmuth is independent, 
 never having allied himself with any party. He 
 is quiet and retiring by disposition, but genial 
 and companionable with friends, and has gained a 
 high place in the regard of those with whom he 
 has had business relations. In Lawrence, Kans. , 
 in 1885, he married Miss Eda Fischer, of that 
 city. They are the parents of three children, Ed- 
 ward Otto, Alma and William Hans. 
 
 <A AJ.CLARKSON REYNOLDS, who is a pio- 
 y neer and representative citizen of Palmyra 
 (S Township, Douglas County, was born at 
 Reynolds Mills, Randolph County, N. C, July 
 7, 1828. His father, Isaac, also a native of that 
 place, was in early life employed in a saw and 
 grist mill and upon a farm there. When thirty 
 years of age he removed to Parke Countj', Ind., 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 443 
 
 where he spent two years upon a farm. His 
 next location was in Wayne County, Ind., where 
 he built one of the first steam mills in the state. 
 After conducting this mill for thirteen years he 
 removed to another point in the same county 
 and bought a mill, which he conducted until a 
 short time before his death. In politics he was 
 first a Whig, later a free-soiler and Abolitionist, 
 and finally a Republican, and he took an active 
 part in local and national affairs. In religion he 
 was a Quaker. He died at the age of eighty 
 years. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, Francis Rey- 
 nolds, was born in North Carolina and resided 
 there until seventy-five years of age, when he 
 went to Indiana, remaining there until his death, 
 at the age of eighty-four years. Reared in the 
 Quaker faith, he always adhered to that religion. 
 His grandfather, a native of England, came to 
 America for the purpose of seeking a home, and 
 selected a location now occupied by the city of 
 Philadelphia. He started back to England for 
 his family, but was drowned at sea. Later his 
 wife and children crossed the ocean and settled 
 on land that he had selected. At that time, 
 John, father of Francis Reynolds, was a mere 
 child. The Reynolds family originated in France, 
 but left that country for England on account of 
 religious persecutions. 
 
 Our subject's mother, who bore the maiden 
 name of Sarah Hinshaw, was born in North 
 Carolina and died in Indiana when thirty years 
 of age. She left four children, the youngest of 
 whom was only ten days old. Only two are now 
 living, Edwin, of Henry County, Ind., and 
 Clarkson. The last-named spent his boyhood 
 days in Indiana, where his parents settled in 
 1832. He learned the trades of carpenter and 
 millwright, at which he was employed until 1850. 
 Led by the discovery of gold in California he 
 started west March 29, 1850, and crossed the 
 plains, arriving at his destination September 15. 
 After a year in the mines he went back to Indi- 
 ana. In 1855 he settled upon a tract of wild land 
 in Jo Daviess County, 111., but in the spring of 
 1857 came via ox -team to Kansas, spending five 
 weeks and two days on the way. Arriving in 
 
 Douglas County, he settled on a tract of one 
 hundred and sixty acres in Palmyra Township, 
 and there he remained until 1872, when he sold 
 the place. Next he went to Linn County, bought 
 wild land and engaged in bringing it under culti- 
 vation. In 1878 he sold out there and bought 
 his present farm, desiring to be near a good 
 school, where his children might have desired 
 educational advantages. 
 
 May 23, 1852, Major Reynolds married Miss 
 Olinda B. Routh,who was born in Wayne County, 
 Ind., January 16, 1832, and spent her girlhood 
 years in the house where she was born and mar- 
 ried. Her father, Joseph Routh, a native of East 
 Tennessee, went to Indiana in youth and settled 
 on a farm, where he spent his remaining years. 
 At the time of his death he was sixty years of 
 age. During the Civil war he had four sons and 
 two sons-in-law in the Union army. He married 
 Letitia Burroughs, who was born in Ohio and 
 accompanied her parents to Indiana in girlhood, 
 the country at that time being new and unim- 
 proved and Indians still roaming through the 
 forests. She died there at fifty years of age. 
 Major Reynolds and wife are the parents of five 
 children: Dora J., wife of Marion Hathaway, 
 of Muncie, Ind.; Sarah Letitia, who was born in 
 Illinois and is the wife of William H. Riggs, of 
 Osage County, Kans. ; Thomas Arthur, who 
 was born in Kansas during the territorial days, 
 and is now president of the Kanask Mining Com- 
 pany of Arkansas, chief of the Coffey ville (Kans. ) 
 fire department, and connected with a store in 
 the latter city; Mattie Alice, who married Will- 
 iam A. Stephens and resides in Eldorado Springs, 
 Mo.; and Charles Edwin, who is clerking in a 
 hardware store in Coffeyville. 
 
 Active in the Republican party, Major Rey- 
 nolds was in 1859 elected the first assessor of his 
 township. Since then he has frequently served 
 as trustee and assessor. For nineteen years he 
 served as a member of the school board. October 
 10, 186 1, he enlisted as a private in Company B, 
 Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and served in the ranks 
 for eighteen months, being mustered out April i, 
 1863. He then returned to Douglas County and 
 in the fall of 1863 was elected to the legislature. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 serving in the session of 1864. During the latter 
 year he assisted in raising the Sixteenth Kansas 
 Cavalry, and in October was commissioned major 
 of the regiment, which was ordered to Colorado 
 to protect the people from the Indians. He was 
 mustered out in Leavenworth December 6, 1865. 
 His interest in army matters led him to allj' 
 himself with the Grand Army. He belongs to 
 E. D. Baker Post No. 40, at Baldwin, of which he 
 was adjutant for two j^ears and commander one 
 year. In 1853 he was made a Mason at Economy, 
 Ind. He is the only living charter member of 
 Palmyra Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M., in 
 Baldwin, which he assisted in founding and of 
 which he was master for eighteen years. He 
 was reared in the Quaker faith, but marrying 
 outside of the sect has not since been identified 
 with it. He has been prospered financially 
 and now owns one hundred acres of as good land 
 as may be found in Palmyra Township. 
 
 30SEPH H. DREISBACH. The position 
 occupied by Mr. Dreisbach in Tonganoxie is 
 that of one of its most prominent and suc- 
 cessful business men. With many of the best 
 known enterprises of the town he is intimately 
 identified. His reputation is that of a successful 
 business man, who, while aggressive and push- 
 ing, is yet guided by a conservative judgment 
 and shrewd common sense, and who uses sound 
 judgment in all of his business transactions. In 
 1892, with his father and brothers, he opened a 
 general mercantile store, and thus was founded 
 the large establishment he now conducts. He 
 built up a large and profitable trade, occupying a 
 three-story building 30 x 100 feet in dimensions, 
 and stocking it with a complete line of mer- 
 chandise; but in 1899 he closed out his .stock of 
 dry goods and boots and shoes and has since 
 made a specialty of hardware and agricultural 
 implements, handling the McCormick reapers, 
 Nichols and Shepherd threshers, Studebaker 
 wagons, the Bradley, Wheeler and J. I. Case 
 machinery, etc. Besides this business he has 
 other interests. In 1898, with Whitsed Laming 
 and W. C. Phenicie, he bought the mill propert}', 
 
 introduced a new rotary sifting process and 
 organized the Tonganoxie Milling Company, of 
 which he is president. The mill has a capacity 
 of two hundred barrels a day, and has proved 
 one of the most important industries in the town. 
 He is also a stockholder in the Tonganoxie 
 Creamerj- Company and the Tonganoxie Building 
 and Loan Association. In 1898 he built a corn 
 elevator with a capacity of five thousand bushels, 
 and he has aLso operated acorn mill since 1892. 
 
 Mr. Dreisbach was born in Franklin Township, 
 Carbon County, Pa., August 24, 1862, a son of 
 D. H. and Mary E. (Benner) Dreisbach. His 
 grandfather, Daniel Dreisbach, a native of Penn- 
 sylvania and a farmer by calling, was a son of 
 Gustavus Dreisbach, who was born in North- 
 ampton County, of French and German descent, 
 and married Rebecca Solt, who was born in 
 Pennsylvania, of French de.scent, and was the 
 daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. All the 
 ancestors were Lutherans. H. D. Dreisbach was 
 born in what is now Carbon Countj' July 21, 
 1831, and was the oldest son in a family of ten 
 children. At .seventeen years of age he went to 
 Allentown, where he learned the wagon-maker's 
 trade, and then returned home and opened a 
 shop. Later he was engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness at Pine Run, Carbon County, and after^vard 
 was employed at Maria Furnace. After having 
 carried on a store of his own in Ironton, Pa., he 
 spent several years on a farm in Carbon County, 
 and then put down two wells in Venango County. 
 At Milton, Pa., he was for three years a member 
 of the firm of Balliet, Dreisbach & Klinger, pro- 
 prietors of a lumber business and planing mill. 
 In 1868 he came to Kansas and settled on a farm 
 of one hundred and seventy-eight acres in Sher- 
 man Township, Leavenworth County, which 
 property he still owns. In the fall of 1892 he 
 settled in Tonganoxie, where the firm of J. H. 
 Dreisbach & Co. began in business, its members 
 being himself and his sons, J. H., L. K. and A. J. 
 L. K. Dreisbach has since retired from the firm. 
 In January, 1897, he assisted in organizing the 
 Tonganoxie Creamery Company, of which he is 
 treasurer and a director. 
 
 September 5, 1854, at Allentown, Pa., Mr. 
 
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 Dreisbach married Mary E. Benner, daughter of 
 Jesse and Harriet (Balliet) Benner. Her father 
 died in early manhood and her mother afterward 
 became the wife of Samuel Eewis, a prominent 
 man of AUentown, who died in 1897. Mrs. 
 Lewis is still living in that city. Her ancestors 
 came to Pennsylvania from France at the time of 
 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and their 
 ancestry can be traced, in unbroken line, to a 
 great warrior of France in the sixth century. 
 The first of the family in this country was 
 Paulus Balliet. In early days the name was 
 spelled Ballyard. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Dreisbach were eight in number, viz.: Emma, 
 who died at sixteen years; Susan and Delia, of 
 Leavenworth County; Mrs. Harriet Baker, of 
 Kansas City; Asa, who is with our subject in 
 business; Mrs. Mary Cheesman, of Tonganoxie; 
 Joseph H. and Lawrence K. The father is a 
 member of the People's party and was its candi- 
 date for county treasurer in 1894. In religion he 
 is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons. 
 
 Since the age of six years our subject has 
 made his home in Leavenworth County. He 
 remained on his father's farm until 1888, when 
 he married and bought a farm in Reno Township, 
 remaining there for four years and engaging in 
 the stock business. The farm consisted of nine 
 hundred and sixty acres and was situated four 
 miles south of Tonganoxie. In politics he votes 
 with the Populists at national elections, but in 
 local matters favors the best man, irrespective of 
 party. His marriage took place in Reno Town- 
 ship and united him with Mrs. Madeline (Jee) 
 Davis, who was born in England, a daughter of 
 Alfred Jee, of that country. 
 
 r^ETER EVERHARDY, sheriff of Leaven- 
 U' worth County, and a resident of the city of 
 \^ Leavenworth since September 22, 1866, was 
 born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Matthew and 
 Margaret (Conner) Everhardy, natives of Prus- 
 sia. His father, who came to America in 1833, 
 settled in Cincinnati when that now large and 
 
 prosperous city was a broad stretch of hazel 
 brush, with a very few houses, these built of logs. 
 He became a gardener in Cummingsville, now a 
 part of Cincinnati, and there he died at the age 
 of fifty-five years, when our subject was a small 
 child. He had been twice married, and by his 
 first wife, who died in 1853, he had eight chil- 
 dren, four now living, viz.: Josephine Poff and 
 Agnes Haag, in Leavenworth; Jacob, in Califor- 
 nia; and Peter. Of the second marriage one 
 child was born, a daughter, Mary, now living in 
 Ohio. 
 
 In Cincinnati, where he was born October 27, 
 1847, the boyhood days of our subject were 
 passed. He assisted his father in their market 
 garden. In 1858 his older brother, Jacob, who 
 had learned the butcher's trade, established his 
 home in Leavenworth, and in 1866 our subject 
 joined him here. He learned the butcher's trade 
 under his brother, with whom he remained until 
 1873 as an employe, and afterward the two were 
 as.sociated together under the firm name of Ever- 
 hardy Brothers, their place of business being No. 
 205 North Fifth street. About 1875 our subject 
 bought his brother's interest in the business, 
 which he conducted alone, occupying a brick 
 business house, which he had purchased. For 
 years be has been at the head of this bu.siness, 
 which is known as the Central Meat Market. In 
 addition to his bu,siness property he is the owner 
 of two houses on Seneca street. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Everhardy, in Leaven- 
 worth, united him with Miss Lizzie Nagle, who 
 was born in Cincinnati. They are the parents 
 of five children. Their son, Jacob, graduated 
 from the Jesuit College at St. Mary's, Kans., 
 with the degree of A. B., and afterward gradu- 
 ated from the Kansas City University Medical 
 College with the degree of M. D., since which 
 time he has practiced his profession in Leaven- 
 worth. The daughters are Mary, Clara, Blanche 
 and Louise. 
 
 The Democratic party has always received the 
 stanch allegiance of Mr. Everhardy, and he has 
 been prominent in its local councils. In 1893 he 
 was nominated for mayor, but the nomination 
 was against his wishes and he declined to accept 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the candidacy. In the fall of 1897 he accepted 
 the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Leaven- 
 worth County and was elected by a majority of 
 six hundred and six. He took the oath of office 
 January 10, 1898, for a term of two years. This 
 position he has filled with efficiency and fidelity, 
 his service giving satisfaction to all concerned. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Modern 
 Woodmen of America. He is identified with St. 
 Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, and is con- 
 nected with Branch No. i, C. M. B. A., of which 
 he is a trustee. 
 
 (John FLINNER. one of the fine farms of 
 I Leavenworth County lies in High Prairie 
 O Township and is owned by Mr. Flinner, to 
 whose perseverance and energy its thrifty appear- 
 ance is due. His lauded possessions aggregate 
 three hundred and thirty acres, upon which he 
 has made improvements that greatly increase the 
 value of the property. In all of his work he uses 
 sound judgment and business sense, hence he has 
 been more than ordinarily successful, both in the 
 raising of cereals and in stock-dealing. On his 
 place may be seen draft horses, Shorthorn cattle 
 and Poland-China hogs, and as a stock-farmer 
 he is second to no one in his township. The usual 
 improvements of a model estate may be seen on 
 his farm, including a neat residence, good fencing, 
 shade and fruit trees, etc. In 1893 he erected a 
 barn which is one of the best in the county, con- 
 taining, as it does, every modern equipment and 
 convenience for the shelter of stock or the .storage 
 of grain. 
 
 Mr. Flinner was born at Neuengronau, near 
 Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, January 3, 
 1852. He was educated in common schools and 
 was employed as a sheep herder and also in roof- 
 tiling works. December 26, 1867, he arrived in 
 New York from his native land. After two weeks 
 he went to Millersburg, Ohio, and near there he 
 worked on a farm by the month for four years. 
 Afterward he worked at the carpenter's trade for 
 eight years. In the spring of 1882 he came to 
 Leavenworth County and bought one hundred 
 and ninety acres of unimproved land. Here he 
 has since made his home. Possessing inventive 
 
 abilit5\ he has given considerable attention to the 
 invention of useful articles. In 1880 he patented 
 a gate, and in 188 1 and 1888 patented improve- 
 ments to the same; from the sale of these gates 
 he has made considerable money. He is the pat- 
 entee of the conductor's magnetic check-holder, 
 used on passenger cars to hold checks, etc. (pat- 
 ented July 18, 1899); also invented, in 1883, but 
 did not patent, a rotary engine; and invented a 
 fence weaving machine for the weaving of wire 
 fence. Some twenty years ago he put up a small 
 telephone, but never took out a patent for it. 
 
 In politics Mr. Flinner is liberal, but inclines 
 toward the Democratic party, being a supporter 
 of free trade. He has served as delegate to local 
 conventions and for two terms held the office of 
 township treasurer. December 27, 1873, he mar- 
 ried Miss Emma Sommer Manichwalde, who was 
 born in Crimmitshau, Germany, and came to 
 America in girlhood. They have five children: 
 Louis, who isengaged in farming in this county; 
 William, John, Laura and Max, at home. In the 
 spring of 1896 Mr. Flinner and his wife went to 
 Europe, where they remained for five months. 
 
 Gl DOLPHUS D. BUTELL. In the occupa- 
 Ll tion of buying and feeding cattle and raising 
 / I sheep, Mr. Butell has been more than or- 
 dinarily successful, and he is recognized as one 
 of the leading stock dealers of Douglas County. 
 He is the owner of a farm in Palmyra Township 
 comprising three hundred and fifteen acres, the 
 most of which is in grass and pasture, as the 
 owner believes stock-farming to be more profit- 
 able than the raising of grain. His place ad- 
 joins the old family homestead and is improved 
 with substantial buildings and other accessories 
 of a first-class estate. • In addition to the super- 
 vision of these interests he is also president of 
 the State Bank of Baldwin. 
 
 Near where he now lives, in Palmyra Town- 
 ship, Mr. Butell was born November 2, 1858. 
 His father, Charles Butell, was a native of 
 France, and after his marriage to Rose Stickle 
 followed the brick and lime business for a .short 
 time. In 1853 he crossed the ocean and settled in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Kankakee, 111., remaining there until the fall of 
 1855, when he came to Kansas and took up land 
 still owned by the family. He was one of the 
 very first permanent settlers in Palmyra Town- 
 ship, where he improved a farm and gave his at- 
 tention to agricultural pursuits. Here he died 
 September 13, 1871, at the age of forty-three 
 years and six months. He was fairly successful 
 in life and left three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land, besides other realty, all of which repre- 
 sented his unaided efforts. During the Price 
 raid he served in the state militia. He was a 
 firm Democrat and active in party affairs, but 
 never sought ofiBce. His wife, who was born in 
 France in 1828, is still living on the old home- 
 stead. Both were members of the Roman Catholic 
 Church from childhood and in that faith reared 
 their children. They were the parents of four 
 sons and two daughters, viz.: Joseph, a farmer 
 in Franklin County, Kans. ; Mary, wife of Nar- 
 cissa Averill, a Frenchman, living in Franklin 
 County; James, a farmer of Douglas County; 
 Ira S., who is engaged in farming in Osage 
 County; Ernestine, wife of Thomas Dyer, of 
 Douglas County; and Adolphus D. 
 
 Continuing to live at the old homestead until 
 thirty-five years of age, our subject then married 
 and established his home on his present farm, 
 which he had previously purchased. He has al- 
 ways resided in the same neighborhood and has 
 many friends among the people of the township. 
 Politically he is a Democrat, but is liberal in 
 his ideas, and never shows a partisan spirit in 
 his views. By his marriage to Miss Victoria 
 Jardon, who has always lived in this township, 
 he has three children, Ernest, Helen and Carl. 
 
 ROBERT GARRETT. Prominent among 
 the pioneer business men of Leavenworth is 
 the subject of this article. His life history 
 illustrates what may be attained by faithful and 
 continued effort in carrying out an honest pur- 
 pose. From the age of fifteen, when he began 
 an apprenticeship to the dry-goods trade, he has 
 been constantly identified with the mercantile 
 business. Activity, integrity and energy have 
 
 brought him success, and his connection with 
 various industries has been a decided advantage 
 to his home city, promoting its material wel- 
 fare in no small degree. 
 
 Among those who are now conspicuous in the 
 commercial enterprises of Leavenworth there are 
 very few who were associated with its history 
 during the stirring days of the '50s and who 
 participated in its growth at a time when the 
 pros and cons of the slavery excitement ran high. 
 In this list of pioneers belongs the name of Mr. 
 Garrett. It was in 1857 that he came to Leaven- 
 worth, then a small frontier village nearly three 
 hundred miles below Omaha. The town had 
 small claim to consideration, except for the rea- 
 son that a government military post was near bj'. 
 From that time to this he has been a resident of 
 the place, has witnessed its growth to the most 
 populous city of Kansas, and has himself con- 
 tributed his quota to the advancement of its busi- 
 ness interests. 
 
 The Garrett family originated in Scotland. 
 Jack Garrett, a farmer by occupation and an elder 
 in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, removed 
 from his native land to County Down, Ireland, 
 where he died at almost eighty years of age. 
 His son, John, who was born in County Down, 
 engaged in farming there until his death, at for- 
 ty-three years of age; he married Eliza Urey, who 
 was born in County Down, of Scotch descent, 
 and who died in 1877, at the age of almost ninety 
 years. Both were Presbyterians in religious be- 
 lief. They were the parents of eight sons and 
 one daughter, viz.: James, who died in Ireland; 
 Mrs. Susanna Hammond, a widow living in Ire- 
 land; William, who engaged in business for some 
 time in the United States, but died in his native 
 country; Samuel, who died in Kentucky in 1895; 
 Robert; Alexander, who came to Kansas with 
 Robert in 1857, but returned east in 1874 and 
 died in North Carolina in 1S94; John, who died 
 in Kentucky; Frank, whose death occurred in 
 Ireland; and Joseph, who died in Kentucky. 
 
 Born in County Down in 1823, Mr. Garrett 
 emigrated to the United States in 1847 on the 
 sailer "Glenmore," which anchored in New York 
 after a voyage of eight weeks. He settled at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Princeton, Caldwell County, K\-., where for ten 
 years he engaged in merchandising. From that 
 state he came to Kansas in 1857 and opened a 
 grocery on Third and Cherokee streets, Leaven- 
 worth, where he built up a wholesale trade that 
 extended throughout the entire state. During 
 the war he served as a member of the Leaven- 
 worth National Guard. He continued as a gro- 
 cer until 1867, when he turned his attention to 
 the lumber business, opening a yard and estab- 
 lishing a trade that has since grown to large pro- 
 portions. He now has his office and yard on 
 Sixth and Cherokee streets, and is the oldest 
 lumber merchant in the city. Until 1872 the 
 business was carried on under the firm title of 
 Garrett & Ru.sh, but afterward the firm name 
 was Robert Garrett & Co., and in 1880 his son, 
 John R., was admitted as a partner, the title, 
 however, remaining unchanged. During the 
 spring of 1880 a branch lumber business was es- 
 tablished in Kansas City, Kans., where the firm 
 of Garrett & Griest have established a growing 
 and profitable trade. 
 
 During his residence in Kentucky Mr. Garrett 
 was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Cobb, 
 who was born there. Five children comprise 
 their family, namely: Mary, who graduated from 
 the high school of Leavenworth, and is now the 
 wife of Joseph S. Keith, of Kansas City, Mo.; 
 John R., who is his father's business partner; 
 Samuel C, a graduate of the business college of 
 this city and now bookkeeper for his father; 
 Frank, who graduated from the high school, 
 Hamilton College, and the law department of the 
 Michigan State University, and is now an attor- 
 ney in Los Angeles, Cal.; and Joseph H., who 
 resides in Leavenworth. 
 
 In political views Mr. Garrett supports Demo- 
 cratic principles, but has never been active in 
 politics, nor desired offices of a public nature, 
 preferring to devote himself to his business af- 
 fairs. He assisted in organizing the Manufac- 
 turers' National Bank, and was a member of the 
 board of directors until he severed his connection 
 with the bank. He is one of the oldest surviving 
 members of the First Presbyterian Church, in 
 which he has long officiated as a deacon. A man 
 
 of known reliability and excellent judgment, he 
 has prospered in his undertakings, and is now 
 the owner of property in the cit3', of whose busi- 
 ness men he is among the most progressive and 
 enterprising. In the midst of his busy life and 
 his pleasant surroundings he has never forgotten 
 his old home beyond the seas, and in 1871, a few 
 years before the death of his aged mother, he re- 
 turned to Ireland to visit her, at the same time 
 renewing the associations of his boyhood's home. 
 
 REAZIN V. FLORA. The year 1857 was a 
 momentous one in the history of Kansas, 
 for it was then that hundreds of men came to 
 the state in order to assist in deciding its fate as 
 a free or slave state, and many of these men in 
 after days were intimately identified with the prog- 
 ress of the commonwealth. Among these pio- 
 neers was Mr. Flora, a contractor and builder, 
 who had followed that occupation successfully 
 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Logansport, Ind. He 
 came west at a time of great excitement, when 
 the dark clouds of civil strife were hovering 
 over the state and when the storm was almost 
 read}' to sweep over a whole nation. His after 
 life was connected with the history of Leaven- 
 worth, of which he was a pioneer and prominent 
 citizen. Like all pioneers, he was hospitable and 
 generous; yet he possessed decided opinions, in the 
 expression of which he was frank. He was a 
 man of quiet tastes, and the positions of official 
 prominence which he held were not of his seek- 
 ing; but, when elected to them, he was faithful 
 in the discharge of the trust. 
 
 A native of West Virginia, born in Wirt County 
 in 1813, Mr. Flora was a son of Adam Flora, a 
 soldier in the war of 1812. His ancestors were 
 colonial settlers of Virginia and a number of the 
 family took part in the Revolutionary war. At 
 the time he settled in Leavenworth he was a 
 man of middle age. Being an efficient con- 
 tractor he was given many important contracts 
 and furnished employment for hundreds of work- 
 men. He held a number of contracts with the 
 government, and erected several buildings for the 
 government at Fort Leavenworth, and he also had 
 
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 a contract with the state to erect the first wing of 
 the state penitentiary at Lansing. Many sub- 
 stantial business blocks in Leavenworth were 
 erected under his supervision, and he continued 
 actively engaged in business until his retirement 
 in 1880. 
 
 In politics Mr. Flora was a Jacksonian Demo- 
 crat of the original type. He always held to the 
 principles of his party and voted the ticket at lo- 
 cal and general elections. During the border 
 warfare days he was a member of the city coun- 
 cil, at the time that D. R. Anthony was mayor. 
 For two years he held office as sheriff of Leaven- 
 worth County, a position of greatresponsibility, but 
 which he filled efficiently. In i86g he was elected 
 to the state legislature and served in that body 
 for one term. Fraternally he was interested in 
 Masonry and held membership in the blue lodge, 
 chapter and commandery, being a Knight Temp- 
 lar. He was twice married. His first wife, 
 who was Jane McCoy, died in Logansport, Ind. , 
 leaving threechildren: Chauncey, of Leavenworth; 
 Mary, wife of Charles J. Smith, of Chicago; and 
 Annabel, who married J. A. Stiner, of Lincoln, 
 Neb. During the year of his removal to Leaven- 
 worth he was united in marriage with Mrs. 
 Margaret (Bell) Strait, by whom he had two 
 sons, Horace P. and George V.. both traveling 
 salesmen, with headquarters in Leavenworth. 
 The death of Mr. Flora occurred in this city 
 March 15, 1895. 
 
 0ELOS N. BARNES, of Leavenworth, a pio- 
 neer of '59 in Kansas, is a member of a 
 family that has been represented in America 
 since the latter part of the seventeenth century or 
 early part of the eighteenth century. The line of 
 genealogy and the various generations cannot be 
 definitely traced, however, owing to the fact that 
 his father, James Barnes, was left an orphan in 
 childhood and hence never learned the family 
 history. But it may be inferred from the record 
 made by nineteenth century representatives that 
 preceding generations were loyally devoted to 
 the welfare of our country and large contributors 
 to its development. 
 
 Reared by an uncle in Oneida County, N. Y., 
 18 
 
 James Barnes made agriculture his life work. 
 During the war of 181 2 he was the first man to 
 respond to the call for volunteers to defend 
 Sacket's Harbor, and enlisted at Rome, N. Y. 
 When Chautauqua County was virtually a wilder- 
 ness, ere yet an attempt had been made to reclaim 
 its forests from their primitive wildness, he set- 
 tled there and cleared a tract of land, on which 
 he made many valuable improvements. Starting 
 in as a farmer on a small scale, he gradually added 
 to his possessions, and in time became the owner 
 of four hundred acres. He experienced the hard- 
 ships and deprivations incident to pioneer life, 
 but, unlike many pioneers, was spared to see 
 much of the result of his work and to enjoy the 
 comforts his years of toil rendered possible. In 
 politics he was a Whig until the formation of the 
 Republican party, which party, after 1856, he 
 supported with his vote. His marriage united 
 him with Amanda, daughter of Solomon Noble, 
 of Oneida County, N. Y., and a descendant of a 
 family that was represented among the early set- 
 tlers of Virginia; her great-grandmother was a 
 member of the well-known Loudoun County 
 family of Lees. 
 
 Of a family of four children, the subject of this 
 article is the sole survivor. His primary educa- 
 tion was obtained in a school kept in a log house 
 that had been built by the people of the immedi- 
 ate neighborhood. Afterward he attended an 
 academy in Westfield, and later was a student in 
 Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. Meantime, 
 during vacations, he assisted his father in making 
 improvements on the home place; but upon the 
 completion of his college course he left New 
 York and went to Chicago, where, as civil 
 engineer, he was connected with the building of 
 the Chicago & Galena Railroad. In 1853 he lo- 
 cated and had charge of the building of a divis- 
 ion of the Chicago & Milwaukee road, and was 
 connected with the Illinois & Wisconsin. 
 These various lines were soon consolidated with 
 the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, into 
 which they were merged. 
 
 When making explorations from Fond du Lac 
 to strike the iron region, Mr. Barnes spent the 
 summer of 1857 in preliminary surveys for the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 road, and in this work had Indians as his guides. 
 However, the panic of 1857 put an end to further 
 operations in that locality. For two years he was 
 employed as chief engineer for the road running 
 southwest from Oshko.sh, Wis. In 1859 he ac- 
 cepted a position as chief engineer of the Park- 
 ville & Giand River road, and had charge of the 
 building of the roadbed from Parkville to Cam- 
 eron. The outbreak of the Civil war prevented 
 the completion of the road. In 1861 he bought 
 a flock of sheep in New York and shipped them 
 to Burlington, Iowa, from which point he had 
 them driven to Kansas; this was the first flock of 
 any size brought into the state. 
 
 Owing to physical disability, Mr. Barnes was 
 not eligible to enlistment in the army, but he en- 
 tered the government service as master of trans- 
 portation in the Second Cavalry, acting generally 
 as agent for the quartermaster, looking after 
 trains and providing forage for the regiment 
 while on the march. In 1863-64 he was princi- 
 pally engaged in providing supplies for the post 
 at Fort Leavenworth. In the fall of the latter 
 year he was sent by Quarterma.ster Durbin to 
 gather the transportation property on the route 
 between Forts Leavenworth and Smith, and take 
 it out of the reach of Price's men, then raiding 
 in this country. This difficult task he accom- 
 plished successfully, without the loss of any of 
 the government property, which he removed thirty 
 or forty miles from the border and retained it 
 there until the fight was over. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Barnes had taken up land in Kan- 
 sas, and three years later he purcha.sed a farm 
 of three hundred and twenty acres in High 
 Prairie Town.ship, upon which he placed his 
 family. After the surrender of Lee and the fall 
 of the Confederacy he took up his residence on 
 this farm and remained on the place until 1878, 
 meanwhile operating eight hundred and eightj' 
 acres as a stock and dairy farm. Removing into 
 town in 1878, he was for several years engaged in 
 building the Leavenworth, Topeka & Southwest- 
 ern Railroad and the Topeka, Salina & West- 
 ern Railroad. Afterward he became interested 
 in building a part of the sewerage system of 
 Kansas City. Of recent years he has given 
 
 his attention to various industries, the manufac- 
 ture of furniture and other mercantile enterprises, 
 but lately chiefly to the ovensight of his farms in 
 this county, as well as two farms he owns in Mis- 
 souri. Besides these properties he owns consid- 
 erable real estate in Kansas Citj' and Leaven- 
 worth and has a comfortable home at No. 613 
 Chestnut street, Leavenworth, built by himself 
 in 1882-83. 
 
 While not active in politics, Mr. Barnes has al- 
 ways supported Republican principles. During 
 the trying times prior to the war he did much 
 by his influence to maintain law and justice in 
 Kansas, and his conservative judgment acted as 
 a wise check to men whose impulses were rasher 
 than his. The Union had in him a stanch sup- 
 porter. For twenty' years he served as county 
 engineer, for four years was county surveyor and 
 for a similar period held the position of city en- 
 gineer, being in charge of the latter oflBce at the 
 time the Leavenworth, Topeka & Southwe.stern 
 road was building. It has been his steadfast 
 policy' to refu.se nomination for political oflSces, 
 and when nominated at one time for representa- 
 tive he refused the nomination. For four years, 
 under Governor Martin, he had the contract for 
 handling the product of the state coal mine, and 
 was the only one ever holding the contract who 
 carried it out successfully. In fraternal relations 
 he is a Royal Arch Mason. 
 
 February 2, 1859, Mr. Barnes married Caro- 
 line M. Wilson, of We.stfield, Chautauqua 
 County, N. Y. She was a daughter of John 
 Wilson, a lineal descendant of the Scotch Stuarts, 
 and the youngest of a large family of children 
 whose parents emigrated from Scotland and set- 
 tled in the eastern part of New York. He 
 was the only one of the children born in the 
 United States. His occupation was that of farm- 
 ing. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes became the parents of 
 four children: Hiram Wilson, a farmer of Leav- 
 enworth County; Jennie, wife of Thomas With- 
 ers, a civil and mining engineer of Denver, 
 Colo.; Jessie and Caroline A., accomplished and 
 popular young ladies, who are taking care of the 
 home since the death of their mother. The 
 young ladies are members of the Whittier Club, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 453 
 
 the oldest and best-known young ladies' club of 
 Leavenworth, of which Miss Jessie is now presi- 
 dent, she being the thirteenth who has held the 
 office. Mr. Barnes suffered the loss of his wife, 
 who departed this life February ii, 1893, deeply 
 mourned, not only by the family, who were de- 
 prived of her loving care, but also by a large 
 circle of friends and acquaintances. She was 
 connected with the Presbyterian Church, was a 
 charter member of the Art League, and for many 
 years one of the most active members of the Or- 
 phan Asylum board of trustees. She was a lady 
 of charitable disposition, kind to the unfortunate 
 and sympathetic with the sorrowing, and had 
 many warm friends among the people of this 
 neighborhood. 
 
 I ORENZO W. HINDMAN, the owner of a 
 I C valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 l2f situated in Palmyra Township, Douglas 
 County, was born in Sardinia, Brown County, 
 Ohio, June 9, 1841. His father, Samuel, who 
 was born and reared in Ohio, learned the cabin et- 
 maker'strade, which he followed in that state for 
 some years. In May, 1857, he came to Kansas, 
 selected Douglas County as his future home and 
 pre-empted a claim in Willow Springs Township, 
 near the present property of his son. The sur- 
 rounding country was wild and unimproved, re- 
 taining the appearance of primeval nature, and it 
 required constant effort through many years to 
 bring the land under excellent cultivation, but he 
 was determined and persevering, and in the end 
 met with considerable success. After about 
 twenty-five years on the same place he sold the 
 property and removed to Carthage, 111., where 
 he lived retired until his death, at seventy-seven 
 years. A stanch Republican, he was frequently 
 elected to office by his party. During the '60s 
 he represented the district in the state legislature 
 for one term, and for several years served as 
 county commissioner. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, William Hind- 
 man, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., and at 
 an early age accompanied his parents to Ken- 
 tucky. When eighteen he went with them to 
 Highland County, Ohio, where and in the ad- 
 
 joining county of Brown he spent the remaining 
 years of his life, dying at the age of eighty-five. 
 During the war of 18 12 he enlisted as a private 
 and at the expiration of his time re-enlisted and 
 was made first lieutenant of his company. In 
 politics he was a Whig and in religion a Presby- 
 terian. His father, Samuel, a native of Ireland, 
 came to America at sixteen years of age, settled 
 in Pennsylvania, and followed the weaver's trade 
 in addition to farm pursuits. At the opening of 
 the Revolutionary war he was commissioned 
 lieutenant, later served as adjutant for a year, 
 and on the reorganization of the company was 
 assigned to duty on General Washington's staff. 
 Unfortunately, a few days later, when General 
 Washington shot a beef, Mr. Hindman, who was 
 near and attempted to hold the cow down, was 
 kicked by it so severely that he was disabled. As 
 soon as he had recovered sufficiently to resume 
 work he secured three yoke of oxen and engaged 
 in hauling supplies for the colonial army, in 
 which work he continued until the close of the 
 war. He was a stanch Whig and a personal 
 friend of Washington. At the time of his death 
 he was ninety-nine years of age. 
 
 Our subject's mother bore the maiden name of 
 Narcissa Gilliland. She was born in Ohio and 
 is still living, being now seventy-eight years of 
 age. Our subject was educated in public and 
 private schools. While his parents were on the 
 frontier in Kansas they sent him back to Ohio, 
 desiring that he should have better advantages 
 than were then possible in the west, but he failed 
 to realize the privilege and ran away, returning 
 to his frontier home. March 6, 1862, he enlisted 
 in Company C, Third Kansas Infantry, and later 
 was transferred to the Ninth Regiment, serving 
 for three years. During most of the time he was 
 engaged in bushwhacking on the border or in 
 scout duty, and was neither wounded nor taken 
 prisoner. On his return home he bought a farm 
 adjoining his father's place. In 1881 he rented 
 the farm that he purchased two years later and 
 upon which he has since made his home. He 
 married Lizzie Taylor, of this county, and they 
 have twelve children. 
 
 As a Republican, Mr. Hindman has been act- 
 
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 ive in local politics. In 189 1 he was elected 
 sheriff and served, b)' re-election, for four years, 
 which is the limit of the office in Kansas. He 
 has been a member of the school board ever since 
 he attained his majorit}-, and like his father has 
 always been influential in school work. Fre- 
 quently he has .served as a delegate to county 
 conventions, where his influence is always given 
 in behalf of a vigorous policy on the part of the 
 party. He is one of the charter members of 
 E. D. Baker Post No. 40, G. A. R., at Baldwin. 
 
 r^ D. STOKELY, who is engaged in farming 
 L/^ and stock-raising on section 8, Harrison 
 K? Township, Franklin County, was born in 
 Mercer County, Pa., in 1847, a son of James A. 
 and Hannah (McEwen) Stokely. His father, 
 who was a native of Mercer County, left there in 
 1856, accompanying a surveying party to Kansas, 
 where he assisted in surveying parts of eastern 
 Kan.sas, laying out county and township lines, 
 and continuing for some time in the government 
 employ. From Kansas he made a trip overland 
 to California, remaining in Marysville for two 
 j'ears. On his return east he brought his family 
 from Pennsylvania to Marion County, 111., and 
 settled on a farm there. From 1859 to 1874 he 
 carried on a farm of two hundred acres, al.so en- 
 gaged in cutting down timber, operating a saw- 
 mill and contracting and building. In 1879 he 
 again came to Kansas, this time as a settler in 
 Marshall County. In 1883 he removed to Kan- 
 sas City, Mo., and retired from active cares. His 
 death occurred in that city in 1898, when he was 
 seventy-nine] years of age. At the time of his 
 first trip to Kansas he stopped in Kansas City, 
 where only one house then stood. However, 
 other houses soon sprang up and he as.sisted in 
 doing some building there. From youth he was 
 a believer in the doctrines of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church and took an active part in its work. 
 The Republican party, from the time of its or- 
 ganization until his death, received his stanch 
 support. 
 
 The Stokely family was founded in America by 
 John Stokely, a native of Scotland, who cro.ssed 
 
 the ocean years before the Revolutionary war and 
 settled in Maryland, where it is supposed that he 
 died. His son, Benjamin F. (fatherof James A.), 
 was born in Maryland near the Pennsylvania 
 line. He was a man of far more than ordinary 
 ability and wielded a large influence upon his 
 fellow-citizens. Going to Mercer County, at 
 the age of twenty-seven he laid out the county 
 for the government and was the first man to per- 
 manently settle there, the date of his location be- 
 ing October 15, 1795. The remainder of his life 
 was spent in that then new county, and he be- 
 came the owner of about two thousand acres 
 there, almost all of which was given him in pay- 
 ment for his services as surveyor. Not only was 
 he a large farmer, but a successful one as well. 
 His talents were varied. He seemed fitted not 
 only for farming, but also for public life, and the 
 offices which he held were filled with the greatest 
 efficiency. Politically he was an old-line Whig. 
 For years he was the leading man of the county, 
 in the early history of which he was prominent. 
 His long and intimate connection with local af- 
 fairs made it appropriate that he should prepare 
 and compile a history of the countj-, and cer- 
 tainly no one was better fitted for the task than he. 
 He died in Mercer County when eighty years of 
 age. 
 
 During his residence in Mercer County James 
 A. Stokely married Miss McEwen, who was 
 born there and who is now (at seventy -seven 
 years) making her home in Kansas City, Mo. 
 In the latter city her oldest and youngest sous, 
 Samuel B. and James A., also reside. Her 
 father, Samuel B. McEwen, was a native of Scot- 
 land and settled in Pennsylvania, where he died. 
 When our subject was eleven years of age he 
 accompanied his parents to Illinois, where he 
 grew to manhood. In 1881 he came to Kansas 
 and settled on a farm iu Marshall County, where 
 he made his home for almost nine years, mean- 
 time not only farming, but also traveling for the 
 Keystone Manufacturing Company. In 1890 he 
 established his home in Kansas City, but con- 
 tinued to travel for the firm until 1892, when he 
 bought the old Whipple farm in Harrison Town- 
 ship, Franklin County. Since then he has re- 
 
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 sided on this place, engaging principallj^ in rais- 
 ing and feeding stock, and using much of his 
 farm (one-quarter of a section in size) for pastur- 
 age of stock. In politics he is a Republican. A 
 believer in good schools, while serving on the 
 school board for several j-ears he labored to se- 
 cure for the children of the district all the ad- 
 vantages of good schools. 
 
 March 23, 1S79, Mr. Stokely married Florence 
 N. Edwards, who was born in Clark County, 111., 
 a great-granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier, 
 and a member of a prominent familj', long influ- 
 ential in the south, one of whose most noted rep- 
 resentatives was General Morgan, of the Confed- 
 erate army. Her father, William Morgan Ed- 
 wards, M. D., was born near Charle.ston, S. C, 
 and practiced medicine for some years in Mar- 
 shall County, Kans. .where he settled in i86o. 
 Later he spent ten years in Pawnee City, Neb. 
 His death occurred in Thomas County, Kans. 
 During a portion of his residence here he served 
 as a member of the board of medical examiners 
 for pensions. One of his brothers, Albert Ed- 
 wards, M. D., is now engaged in practice at 
 Marysville, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. Stokely are 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and are worthy citizens of their community. 
 They have four children, all at home: Edna B., 
 Mabel A., Delma E. and Oeber G. 
 
 HUGH SHANNON, a retired farmer residing 
 in Lenape, Leavenworth Count}', was born 
 in eastern Tennessee in 1836, a son of Hugh 
 and Susan (Henry)Shannon. His paternal grand- 
 father was banished from Ireland and came to 
 America before the Revolutionary war, settling 
 in Virginia. His maternal ancestors were exiles 
 from England in an early day and settled as pio- 
 neers in Cocke County, Tenn. Hugh Shannon, 
 Sr., was born in the Old Dominion in 1801 and 
 when small accompanied his parents to eastern 
 Tennessee, where he resided until forty -five years 
 of age. He then removed to Murray County, Ga. , 
 and there made his home until 1870, the year 
 of his settlement in Kansas. His last years 
 were spent in retirement upon his son's farm in 
 
 Leavenworth County, where he died in 1877, 
 aged seventy-six. While in Tennessee and 
 Georgia he took an active part in local affairs and 
 was a prominent Democrat, although during war 
 times he sided with the Union, being opposed to 
 the institution of slavery. For many years he 
 was a tax collector in Georgia and he also held 
 the office of justice. His wife died in Leaven- 
 worth County when eighty years of age. They 
 were the parents of seven children, five of whom 
 are living, viz.: John, of Murray County, Ga.; 
 Robert, of Leavenworth County, Kans. ; Hugh; 
 William, also of Leavenworth County; and 
 George, who is living in the Indian Territorj'. 
 
 Upon a farm in Murray County, Ga., the boy- 
 hood years of our subject were quietly passed until 
 the breaking out of the Civil war. In 1862 he 
 was drafted into the Confederate army, but only 
 served for one year. As soon as he left the army 
 he went to New York. For six years he was 
 employed on the steamboat "Thomas Cornell," 
 plying on the Hudson River between New York 
 and Kingston. In 1869 he returned to Georgia, 
 where he visited his parents and friends. In the 
 spring of 1870 he brought his parents to Kansas 
 and settled in Lenape. Soon afterward he bought 
 an eighty-acre tract in the Delaware reserve. 
 This property he still owns. During the years 
 that have intervened he has bought, improved 
 and sold considerable farming land, and has been 
 successful in his enterprises. The farm which he 
 cultivated adjoins the village line and he has al- 
 ways made his home in town. He has made 
 a specialty of raising potatoes and has also en- 
 gaged extensively in raising hogs. For some 
 years he also carried on a grocery, building up a 
 trade among the people of the village and sur- 
 rounding country. He also bought and shipped 
 grain and stock. Altogether he was for years one 
 of the active business men of his section of the 
 county , but more recently he has been to a large ex - 
 tent retired from business cares, although he still 
 maintains an oversight of his property interests. 
 He is a Republican in politics and for nearly 
 twenty years has been a member of the county 
 central committee, has also served for two terms 
 as treasurer and trustee of Sherman Township, 
 
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 and for twenty years has acted as treasurer of the 
 Lenape school board. He is now filling the 
 position of notary public, to which he was ap- 
 pointed in 1887 by Governor Martin. In 1877, 
 under President Hayes, he was appointed post- 
 master at Lenape, which oflSce he held during 
 that administration and also during the adminis- 
 tration of President Harri.son. During the long 
 period of his residence in Lenape he has become 
 well known among the people of Leavenworth 
 County and by his uprightness of character has 
 won a host of warm personal friends. 
 
 Gl UGUST GATES, a pioneer of Leavenworth, 
 Lj now deceased, was born in Darmstadt ,Ger- 
 / I many, July 2, 1826, and in 1845 came alone 
 to America, where he worked at any honest oc- 
 cupation he could find. At the opening of the 
 war with Mexico he enlisted in the army and re- 
 mained at the front until its close. At the time 
 Leavenworth was being started he came here and 
 at once identified himself with the young town. 
 In 1856 he erected a building on the corner of 
 Second and Delaware streets, which is still stand- 
 ing. Investing largely in real estate, both city and 
 country, with the rise in values he became well- 
 to-do. In 1866 he bought the lot and erected 
 the residence where his family now resides. The 
 place was wholly unimproved, and he set out a 
 number of shade trees that now add greatly to the 
 attractiveness of the homestead. While he al- 
 ways made his home in town, he continued to su- 
 perintend the management of his farms. During 
 the days of the Civil war he was stanch in his 
 adherence to the Union cause. Politically he al- 
 ways favored the Republican party in national 
 affairs, but in local matters voted for the best 
 man. During 1863 and 1864 he held the office 
 of county clerk. Fraternally he was connected 
 with the Ma.sonic order and in religion was a 
 Presbyterian. After years of residence in Leav- 
 enworth he died, January 21, 1894, and was 
 mourned as a good citizen and upright man. 
 
 March 19, 1865, Mr. Gates married Johanna F. 
 Elbert, a lady of noble character. Of the five 
 children born to their union, three are living: 
 
 William D., a contractor; Minnie, and Olga, a 
 teacher in the public schools of Leavenworth. 
 Mrs. Gates was a daughter of George P. Elbert, 
 who was one of the first settlers of this city. He 
 was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and 
 emigrated to America in 1843, spending .some 
 time in Louisville, Ky., and St. Joseph, Mo., 
 where he engaged in the mercantile business. 
 In 1854 ^^ settled in Leavenworth, where he 
 started the first store in the town. He erected 
 the frame building on Second near Delaware, 
 which is the oldest building now standing in the 
 city. Much of his time was given to the devel- 
 opment of his real-estate interests. His age pro- 
 hibited him from being admitted into the state 
 militia, but he served in the home guard. In 
 disposition he was quiet and retiring. He died 
 in 1S85, when seventj--five years of age. 
 
 EHARLES C. SPENCER, who is one of the 
 well-known farmers of the southern part of 
 Leavenworth County, was born in Buchanan 
 County, Mo., in 1847, being a son of Obadiah M. 
 and Nancy (Williams) Spencer, and a brother of 
 W. F. Spencer, mentioned elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume. He was reared on his father's farm and re- 
 ceived such educational advantages as the com- 
 mon schools afforded. When his parents removed 
 to Kansas he remained on the old homestead in 
 Buchanan County, and carried on a general line 
 of farming there for five years. In 1878 he fol- 
 lowed his parents and brothers into Leavenworth 
 County, Kans., where he bought property in 
 Sherman Township and at once began the im- 
 provement and cultivation of his new place. In 
 the years that followed he transformed the farm 
 into one of the best in the neighborhood. In 
 1890 he purchased his present property, compris- 
 ing one hundred and sixty acres, where he has 
 since engaged in raising the cereals to which the 
 soil is adapted, and has also conducted a stock 
 business. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Spencer is a stanch 
 Democrat and always votes the partj^ ticket. He 
 has taken an interest in local matters and has en- 
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 spirited, patriotic citizen. In the office of trus- 
 tee of Sherman Township, which he filled for four 
 years, his service was most satisfactory to the 
 people of the township. He is a believer in pub- 
 lic schools and no one takes a deeper interest than 
 he in every movement calculated to promote the 
 welfare of our schools. For eighteen years he 
 was a member of the school board of district No. 
 58, and during almost that entire time he served 
 as president of the board. Fraternally he is a 
 member of Linwood Lodge No. 24i,A.F.& A.M., 
 and Linwood Lodge No. 108, K. P. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Spencer was Mollie Beagle, 
 of Kickapoo Township. She died leaving one 
 son, Frank L. The second marriage of Mr. Spen- 
 cer took place in 1887 and united him with Miss 
 Lottie Moore, by whom he has one daughter, 
 Nannie May. 
 
 (lOHN C. HINDMAN. The southern part 
 I of Leavenworth County, while it was settled 
 (2/ somewhat later than the central and northern 
 parts, is none the less fertile. Among those who 
 have spent a considerable portion of their lives 
 in Sherman Township and who have assisted 
 in the development of its agricultural resources 
 may be mentioned Mr. Hindman. In 1882 he 
 purchased a tract of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 and afterward, from time to time, he added to his 
 property until he is now the owner of two hun- 
 dred and fifty-two acres. His farm is one of the 
 finest of those lying along Stranger Creek. 
 While he has engaged in raising the various 
 cereals, his specialty has been potatoes, and he 
 has between fifty and sixty acres planted to these, 
 in the raising of which he has been quite suc- 
 cessful. 
 
 William T. Hindman, father of our subject, 
 was born in Brown County, Ohio, December 20, 
 1825, and made his home there until 1851, when 
 he settled in Galesburg, 111. Seven years later 
 he came to Douglas County, Kans. , where he 
 has since resided. He was a pioneer of Law- 
 rence and of Douglas County, where he was for 
 a time in the government employ and also car- 
 ried on farm pursuits. After ten years there, in 
 1868 he purchased land on the Delaware reserva- 
 
 tion, the property having once been a favorite 
 stamping ground of the Indians, and on the farm 
 still stood an Indian council house. He began 
 to improve the land and after a time, through his 
 industry, the place became quite valuable. In 
 1889 he retired from general farming and re- 
 turned to Lawrence, where he has since made his 
 home. He and his wife are members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. During his resi- 
 dence in Sherman Township he held a number 
 of local ofiices and was an active worker in Re- 
 publican ranks. He is one of the survivors of 
 the Lawrence massacre, August 21, 1863. His 
 father, William Hindman, Sr., was a lifelong 
 resident of Ohio. The latter' s father, Samuel 
 Hindman, who was a descendant of Scotch-Irish 
 ancestors, emigrated from Ireland to Lancaster 
 Count}', Pa., prior to the Revolutionary war. 
 
 By the marriage of William T. Hindman, Jr., 
 and Amanda Gaddis six children were born. 
 The following lived to maturity: Susan, wife of 
 E. W. Lucas; John C; and Lizzie, who married 
 W. C. Bigger, of Lawrence. Those deceased 
 were: Caroline, Emma and Daisy. The only 
 son was born in Knox County, 111., January 7, 
 1856, and was two years of age when his parents 
 settled in Kansas, so he remembers no other 
 home than this. He received his primary educa- 
 tion in the Lawrence public schools and after 
 removing to Leavenworth County, at twelve 
 years of age, attended for some time the schools 
 of Sherman Township. Upon the retirement of 
 his father, in 1889, he succeeded to the manage- 
 ment of the farm. A visitor to his farm will see 
 that good buildings have been erected, modern 
 machiner}' has been introduced, the land has been 
 subdivided into pastures and fields of convenient 
 size by an excellent system of fencing, and all 
 the improvements of a model farm have been in- 
 troduced. Farming has been Mr. Hindman' s 
 life occupation, and the energetic manner in 
 which he has taken hold of all ideas tending to 
 enhance the value of his property has had much 
 to do with his success as an agriculturist. On 
 his place he has everything necessary to make a 
 comfortable rural home. 
 
 Mr. Hindman enjoys a reputation not only as 
 
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 a substantial farmer, but also n an intelligent 
 citizen and a man thoroughly posted concerning 
 public affairs. No matter how engrossing he 
 finds his farm duties, he alwaj-s spares time to 
 keep conversant with the problems confronting 
 our nation, and is an intelligent reader and 
 thinker. His vote is given to the Republican 
 party. For three years, as township treasurer, 
 he served faithfully and well, and he has also been 
 a member of the school board. He is a member 
 of Lin wood Lodge No. 242, A. F. & A. M. 
 November 14, 1888, he married Regena Friden- 
 stine, who was born in Erie Count}', Ohio, a 
 daughter of John and Angeline (Curth) Friden- 
 stine. They have three children, Olive May, 
 Jennie Belle and Grace Faj'. The family are 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 in which for several years Mr. Hindman has been 
 one of the stewards and he and his wife are 
 teachers in the Sunday-school. 
 
 I UTHER P. KINDRED. During the year 
 It 1890 Mr. Kindred came to Leavenworth 
 |_2f County and purchased a farm on the Kaw 
 bottom in Sherman Township, near the village of 
 Lenape. Here he has one hundred and ten acres 
 planted to potatoes, in the raising of which he has 
 met with success and which he makes the special 
 feature of his farm work. He has found the river 
 bottom to be splendidly adapted for the raising 
 of potatoes and the large crops which are raised 
 he ships to markets in this and other states. He 
 was active in the organization of the association 
 formed for the purpose of growing and shipping 
 potatoes from this neighborhood, for several years 
 held membership in the Farmers' Alliance, served 
 as president of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit As- 
 sociation and other societies formed for the ix-ne- 
 fit of the citizens of this locality. 
 
 Prior to the first war with England William 
 Kindred left that countrj' and settled upon Amer- 
 ican soil. When the war began he enlisted under 
 General Washington and remained at the front 
 until liberty was gained and the British troops 
 had retreated from our country. Afterward he 
 settled in Madison County, Ky. At that period 
 
 Kentucky was considered in the remote west, 
 and men who settled there were forced to endure 
 all the hardships of pioneer life. Bears were 
 abundant and no meat was so plentiful as this, 
 the early settlers living more upon the spoils of 
 their gun than upon manufactured or imported 
 articles. William, Jr., son of the Revolutionary 
 soldier, served in the war of 18 12, and afterward 
 gave his attention to farming in Kentucky, hav- 
 ing in connection with his farm a large apiary. 
 By his marriage to Mary Garland he had twelve 
 children, of whom five are now living, namely: 
 Garland, of Madison County, Ky. ; Sarilda, of 
 Estill County, that state; Fields, father of our 
 subject; Sylvester, who is living in Clark Countj-, 
 Mo., and Joshua, of Platte County, Mo. 
 
 When a young man, Fields Kindred left Ken- 
 tucky and moved to Clay County, Mo., but seven 
 years later he came to Kansas, where he has 
 since engaged in the stock business and agri- 
 cultural pursuits, making his home in Wyandotte 
 County. He married Margaret Prather, by whom 
 he has five children: Mollie, wife of Joseph Wil- 
 .son; Mildred, who married Richard Sanders; 
 John W., of Johnson County, this state; Charles 
 L. aud Luther P. During the residence of the 
 family in Clay County, Mo., our subject was born 
 May 24, 1865. Almost his entire life has been 
 spent in Kansas, and his education was received 
 in the public schools of Wyandotte County. His 
 first experience in farming was gained in his 
 home country, from which he went to Allen 
 County, this state, and for four years carried on 
 a potato farm. Since 1890 he has made his home 
 in Leavenworth County, among whose farmers 
 he aud his brother, Charles L. , hold a high po- 
 sition, being respected for their worth as men 
 and for their energy as farmers. For several 
 years he has been a member of the school board. 
 He believes in aiding any enterprise for the ben- 
 efit of his community, hence he has been active 
 in the movement for the erection of a bridge over 
 the Kaw River here. June 25, 1887, he married 
 Miss Laura Brougham, who was born near De- 
 troit, Mich. , a daughter of Lawrence and Cornelia 
 (Mosher) Brougham. When she was two years 
 of age her parents removed to Wyandotte Coun- 
 
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 ty, Kans. Mr. Brougham was a native of Ire- 
 land and came to America when he was about 
 twelve years old. Mr. and Mrs. Kindred have 
 three living children, Herbert, Hazel and Cornelia. 
 
 REV. LOUIS GUENTHER, pastor of St. 
 Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, at No. 
 306 North Broadwaj', Leavenworth, was 
 born in Hoerstein, Kreis Unterfranken, Bavaria, 
 July I, 1837, the youngest of the four sons of 
 Sebastian and Susanna (Lutz) Guenther, the 
 former a shoemaker and farmer and, for a time, a 
 soldier in the Bavarian army. The older sons 
 were Rudolph, of Leavenworth; John, who died 
 in this city November 30, 1898; and Adam, who 
 is living retired in Leavenworth. 
 
 The boyhood days of Father Guenther were 
 passed in parochial schools and a gj'mnasium, 
 after which he took a six years' course in classics 
 in Aschaffenburg. In December, 1855, he came 
 to America on a sailing vessel that reached New 
 York harbor after a voyage of forty-nine days 
 from Antwerp. Going west, he joined his 
 brother Rudolph in Keokuk, Iowa. March 28, 
 1858, he arrived in Leavenworth. At first he 
 was employed by the firm of Russell, Major & 
 Waddell. In 1859, in this city, he taught the 
 first German school established west of the Mis- 
 souri. In September, i860, he went to St. Louis 
 and entered the college conducted by the Jesuit 
 Fathers at Florissant, where he studied for seven 
 months. In March, 1861, he became one of the 
 first students in the recently established St. 
 Benedict's College at Atchison, Kans., where he 
 completed his philosophical course the next year. 
 Afterward he studied theology in St. Vincent's 
 Abbey, Westmoreland County, Pa. 
 
 August 25, 1864, Father Guenther was or- 
 dained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic 
 Church, the ordination ceremony occurring in the 
 old frame Catholic Church, under the charge of 
 Bishop John B. Miege. With his headquarters 
 in Lawrence he began missionary work, travel- 
 ing through the counties of Shawnee, Douglas, 
 Franklin, Anderson, Lyon and Pottawatomie, 
 and riding on horseback from one frontier town 
 
 to another. In 1865 he came to Leavenworth to 
 prepare himself for his work in the Order of 
 Carmelites. For a time he taught school in St. 
 Joseph's parish. After nine months he returned 
 to mission work in southern Kansas, making his 
 home on Pottawatomie Creek, in what is now 
 Scipio, Anderson County, and organizing con- 
 gregations throughout that entire section of 
 country. The parish of Garnett, Anderson 
 County, was organized through his efforts, also 
 those at Burlington, Coffey County, and Piqua, 
 Woodson Countj'. He was the first priest who 
 said mass in the city of Ottawa, and held similar 
 services in different parts of Franklin County. 
 He organized congregations at Mineral Point, 
 Holy Cross and Westphalia, and at several places 
 had charge of the building of churches. From 
 Anderson County he was ordered east to Cumber- 
 land, Md., and assigned to the diocese of Balti- 
 more, having charge of missions in the western 
 part of Maryland and establishing congregations 
 that are now large and prosperous. 
 
 After fourteen months Father Guenther re- 
 turned to Anderson County and resumed his 
 former work. He extended his mission work 
 into other sections of the country and was most 
 helpful in promoting the cause which he served. 
 In September, 1871, he was made pastor of St. 
 Joseph's Church at Leavenworth. The church 
 had just been completed, under the supervision 
 of Father Heiraann, and the work has been estab- 
 lished upon a broad basis. He has since given 
 his attention to its upbuilding. In 1882 the 
 parochial residence was built, and when he left 
 much of the church debt had been paid. In 1882 
 he was transferred to Canada, to take charge of a 
 German congregation, and he made his home at 
 Niagara Falls for four years. His next location 
 was at New Baltimore, Somerset County, Pa., 
 where he organized a home for clerical students, 
 and for fourteen months he had charge of the 
 students until they were ordained to the priest- 
 hood. Returning to Canada, he was given 
 charge of junior students, but was taken ill and 
 obliged to rest for a year. 
 
 August 25, 1889, Father Guenther celebrated 
 his silver jubilee as a priest in St. Joseph's Church, 
 
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 Leavenworth, in the presence of the bishop and 
 many prominent priests. The occasion was a 
 memorable one, and the honors bestowed upon 
 him showed the high esteem in which he was 
 held by his associates. Returning to Pittsburgh, 
 Pa., as superior of the Carmelite Mona.stery, he 
 built Holy Trinity Church on Center avenue and 
 Crawford street, which is one of the most beau- 
 tiful edifices in Pitt.sburgh and an ornament to the 
 city. November 11, 1895, he returned to Leav- 
 enworth as pastor of St. Joseph's Church. At 
 once he began to build a parochial school. The 
 corner stone of the building was laid April 26, 
 1896, and the structure was completed the same 
 year, at a cost of $9,000. The school was 
 opened in September. It is in charge of four 
 sisters of charity and one male teacher, and is 
 attended by two hundred and fifty pupils, for 
 whom the best educational facilities are provided. 
 The parish contains more than two hundred 
 families, the oversight of whom makes the priest's 
 life a busy one. He is a man of warm heart, 
 kindly nature, one who sympathizes with the suf- 
 fering and sorrowing of his parishioners, and 
 whose sound judgment is helpful to those who 
 seek his counsel. 
 
 from his pastorate in Leavenworth, Father Hei- 
 mann returned to the east and some years after- 
 ward died at New Baltimore, Somerset Countj', 
 Pa., at the House of Studies of the Carmelite 
 Order. 
 
 r"ATHER ALBERT HEIMANN, who came 
 r3 to Kansas in 1846 and was one of the 
 I earliest Roman Catholic priests in this part 
 of the country, was ordained to the holy priest- 
 hood in Kentucky by Bi.shop Flaget. After 
 coming west he was engaged in mission work 
 among the Indians. In the fall of 1864 he en- 
 tered the Carmelite Order, he and Father Guen- 
 ther being the first Carmelites to receive the 
 costume of the order in the United States. 
 
 St. Joseph's parish in Leavenworth was started 
 in 1857 by Father Seitz. The first church build- 
 ing erected was dedicated in 1859, on the first 
 Sunday in July. It was a frame building, and 
 was utilized as a school. Father Guenther being 
 the first teacher. The first pastor was Father 
 Fish. He was followed in turn by Fathers 
 Anthony Kuhls, Cyril Knoll and Heimann, the 
 latter being the fifth pastor. He in turn was 
 succeeded by Father Guenther. Upon resigning 
 
 nOHN HITZEMANN. Not a few of the best 
 I citizens of Leavenworth County are of Ger- 
 v2/ man birth. To this class belongs Mr. Hitze- 
 mann, a retired farmer of Stranger Township, and 
 a native of the state of Scaumburg-Lippe, Ger- 
 many. He was born September 14, 1840, a son 
 of Gottlieb and Mary Hitzemann. In the spring 
 of 1857 ^^^ famil}' came to America, crossing the 
 ocean in a sailing vessel that made the trip in 
 twenty-one days. After landing in New York 
 they proceeded to Illinois. During the war the 
 parents removed to Iowa and settled near Wa- 
 verly, where they died. 
 
 In the spring of i860 our subject left Illinois 
 and came to Kansas, where he worked in a brew- 
 ery in Leavenworth. Shortly after the war be- 
 gan he enlisted, May 15, 1861, in Company I, 
 First Kansas Infantrj', and served for three j'ears, 
 being finally discharged at Fort Leavenworth. 
 He took part in a number of engagements, among 
 them that at Springfield, Mo., August 10, 1861. 
 Later he was transferred to a scouting regiment 
 that also participated in the siege of Vicksburg. 
 The last battle in which he took part was that of 
 Corinth, Miss. Several times during battles shots 
 passed through his clothes and canteen, but he 
 was never wounded. In the fall of 1864 he took 
 up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Douglas County. The land was raw and he 
 fenced and improved it. A year later he sold 
 the claim and went to Ottawa, Franklin County, 
 where he improved land and also engaged in the 
 manufacture of walnut shingles. After a little 
 more than a year he returned to Leavenworth 
 County. 
 
 Eighty acres, bought in 1870, and situated on 
 section 12, Stranger Township, formed the nu- 
 cleus of Mr. Hitzemann's possessions. At the 
 time of purchase nothing could be seen but a na- 
 ked stretch of prairie, without even so much as a 
 riding switch on it. The fine maples that now 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 461 
 
 adorn his yard he raised from the seed. He turned 
 the first furrows in the soil, planted the first seed 
 and harvested the first grain. All the improve- 
 ments on the place are the fruits of his industry. 
 As he prospered he added to his land and now 
 owns six hundred and forty- eight acres. Wheat 
 is his specialty among grains, and Poland- China 
 hogs among stock. He continued at the head of 
 the farm ' until 1893, when he retired, and the 
 property is now managed by his children. 
 
 Interested in local politics, Mr. Hitzemann votes 
 the Democratic ticket and works for the success of 
 his party. Several times he has been chosen to 
 serve on the school board, and he has also held 
 the office of road overseer. In religion he is con- 
 nected with the Lutheran Church. His marriage 
 occurred in Leavenworth July 3, 1864, and united 
 him with Mary Pappenhausen, of this county. 
 They have five children, viz.: John Henry, Will- 
 iam G. , Julius C. and Otto, who are farmers of 
 Stranger Township; and Ida, the wife of J. C. 
 Peters, also of this township. 
 
 0AVID W. LITTELL. To read of a man 
 who has won influence and honor under ad- 
 verse circumstances and in the face of dis- 
 couragements inspires us to greater efforts in the 
 battle of life. Such a man is Mr. Littell, an hon- 
 ored representative of a grand old race. He is a 
 gentleman of untarnished name and character, 
 ■ known for his integrity, honesty and uprightness. 
 Through an unfortunate accident when he was a 
 young man he lost his left hand, and, having 
 always used that hand for writing, he was left 
 almost helpless. However, he began with a de- 
 termination to learn to use his right hand and 
 was so successful that to-day few can show a finer 
 penmanship than his. 
 
 The Littell family descends from William Lit- 
 tell, of Dublin, Ireland, who left a vast estate to 
 which his American descendants are legal heirs. 
 The first in America was another William, who 
 was born in Ireland, of Scotch lineage, and set- 
 tled in Beaver County, Pa., where he died. It is 
 probable that he served in the Revolution. His 
 son, William, Jr., was born in Pennsylvania, 
 
 served as a private in the war of 1 8 1 2 , and became 
 the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixtj^ 
 acres near Beaver, where he died in 1853. He 
 was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, 
 and in politics was an old-line Whig. He married 
 Cynthia, daughter of John Smith, who settled 
 upon a large farm in Beaver County, coming there 
 from the eastern part of the state. He was of 
 Scotch ancestry. Mrs. Littell died in 1852. She 
 was the mother of seven sons and five daughters, 
 comprising, in many respects, a very remarkable 
 family. Six of her sons and four of her sons-in- 
 law, also two of her grandsons, served in the Civil 
 war, every one serving with conspicuous bravery 
 and endurance. Of all of them, the oldest gained 
 the greatest distinction. Gen. John Littell was 
 commissioned colonel of the Seventy-sixth Penn- 
 sylvania Infantry, and after the battle of Fort 
 Fisher he was promoted to be brigadier-general 
 in recognition of gallantry. He was twice wound- 
 ed in the service. He is now one of the promi- 
 nent men of Beaver Falls, Pa. The second son, 
 William, was captain of Company D, Twenty- 
 third Iowa Infantry, and is now engaged in the 
 real-estate and loan business in Wayne County, 
 Iowa. In 1899 President McKinley appointed 
 him a member of the Dawes Commission in Indi- 
 an Territory. David, the subject of this sketch, 
 was the third in order of birth. Morgan died in 
 childhood. G. Washington, who was chief mu- 
 sician in the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, graduated 
 from the Cleveland Medical College and is now a 
 practicing physician at Creston, Wayne County, 
 Ohio. James enlisted in Company I, Fourth 
 Iowa Infantry, and died while in winter quarters 
 at Rolla, Mo. Henry, who was a private in the 
 Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, died after the war from 
 the results of exposure and hardships in the army. 
 Mrs. Eliza Robinson died in Beaver County, Pa., 
 in 1898. Mrs. Rebecca A. Calhoun lives in that 
 county, as does also Mrs. Maria Ewing. Mrs. 
 Nancy Ewing makes her home in Lawrence. 
 Mrs. Cynthia J. McHenry died in Beaver County, 
 Pa., in 1898. 
 
 At the family homestead near Hookstown, 
 Beaver County, Pa., the subject of this sketch 
 was born June 29, 1838. In youth he learned 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the carpenter's trade. With a desire to see the 
 west he came to Kansas in 1S59, and was so 
 pleased that he began in the building business at 
 Leroy, Coffey County, where he also opened a 
 furniture and undertaking establishment. He 
 had the first business of the kind in the town, 
 where he continued until the fall of 1865. Mean- 
 time, during the early part of the Civil war, the 
 governor commissioned him an ensign bearer in 
 the Kansas cavalry, and he engaged in fighting 
 bushwhackers in southeastern Kansas and south- 
 western Missouri. In 1864 he was a member of 
 the Seventh Kansas Militia, that was ordered out 
 from Fort Leavenworth at the time of the Price 
 raid. 
 
 Coming to Lawrence in 1865, Mr. Littell en- 
 gaged in building. Soon he began to take con- 
 tracts for making ties and bridge timber on the 
 Union Pacific road. While he was erecting a 
 sawmill at Williarastown, Jefferson County, the 
 unfortunate accident occurred that caused the loss 
 of his left hand. Afterward he was unable to do 
 any work for a year. He then attended common 
 school for a year, and later for seven years was 
 market master in Lawrence, during which time 
 he turned in $2,500 a year, something which had 
 never been done before, nor has it been repeated 
 since. In 1874 he was elected register of the 
 deeds for the first time. In 1S76 and 1878 he was 
 re-elected by majorities of from one thousand to 
 fifteen hundred. He served from January, 1875, 
 to January, 1881. Next, entering the real-estate 
 business in Lawrence, he continued for three 
 years, until he was elected constable, an office 
 which he has since held, being elected the last 
 time in the spring of 1899. For this office he 
 has never had any opposition. 
 
 The home of Mr. Littell, built by himself, is a 
 beautiful residence at No. 161 7 New Hamp.shire 
 street. He was married in Leroy on the 4th of 
 July, 1865, to Miss Martha E. Ringle, who was 
 born in Indiana February 4, 1844, a daughter of 
 Simon and Nancy (Yackey) Ringle. In 1S5S 
 her father settled upon a farm near Leroy, Kans., 
 and there he continued to reside until his death, 
 in the spring of 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Littell had 
 a daughter and son. The former, born in 1S66, 
 
 became the wife of George Dick, who graduated 
 from the University of Kansas and from the Alle- 
 gheny (Pa.) Theological Seminary, but died 
 immediately after his return home from the sem- 
 inary; his wife had died two years before, January 
 29, 1892. Their only son, George L. Dick, 
 makes his home with Mr. Littell. The son of 
 Mr. Littell, Mortimer Clair, was born Januarj' i, 
 1 87 1, and is now engaged in clerking in Law- 
 rence, from the high school of which he graduated. 
 In politics Mr. Littell is a Republican. For 
 five years he has been adjutant of Washington 
 Post No. 12, G. A. R. He is identified with the 
 First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lawrence. 
 Since 1867 he has been a member of Halcyon 
 Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F., of which he has been 
 secretary for twentj'-five years, also has held the 
 office of noble grand, is past officer in Oread En- 
 campment, a member of the canton, and besides, 
 holds membership with the Knights of Honor. 
 
 (3 AMUEL REYNOLDS, who came to Kansas, 
 ?\ in the spring of 1855, has for many years 
 \~J been secretary of the Douglas County Hor- 
 ticultural Society, and is a well-known fruit- 
 grower of Wakarusa Township. The record 
 places the date of his birth April 12, 1823. He 
 was born in the western part of England and at 
 an early age gained a knowledge of horticulture 
 under the instruction of his father, Samuel, a 
 successful fruit-grower. When seventeen years 
 of age he came to America and for a few years 
 taught in Canada, after which he taught for 
 seven years in Brooklyn, N. Y. During the 
 last three years of his residence in the latter city, 
 in addition to keeping up his school work he 
 compiled and publi.shed the North Brooklyn 
 directory, which contained fifty thousand names. 
 Hoping that a change of climate might relieve 
 him of a chronic throat trouble he came to Kan- 
 sas in March, 1855, before the completion of the 
 government survey. He was fortunate in secur- 
 ing for $200 a claim one and one-half miles south 
 of his present residence. Buying teams, he be- 
 gan to haul freight from Kansas City, for which 
 he was paid $1 per hundred. At the same time 
 
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 he also had the mail contracts from Lecompton to 
 Osawatomie, and from Lawrence to Burlington. 
 In 1858 he began to set out fruit trees and ever 
 since then he has made a specialty of horticult- 
 ure, now owning what is said to be one of the 
 largest apple orchards in the county. The 
 original orchard which he planted is still in 
 bearing condition. While he has not neglected 
 general farm pursuits, he has made horticulture 
 his chief vocation, and has gained recognition 
 for his thorough knowledge of this occupation. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Reynolds erected a two-story stone 
 residence on his farm. Three 3^ears later, when 
 Quantrell came through this county, on passing 
 the farm he burned the house, barn, carriage, 
 etc.; Mr. Reynolds and his family saved their 
 lives by hiding in the corn fields. The house which 
 he now occupies, at No. 1905 Louisiana street, 
 Lawrence, was then in course of construction, but 
 the parties who were building it became so fright- 
 ened that they left Kansas. Thereupon Mr. 
 Reynolds purchased the property and completed 
 the house, which he has since occupied. There 
 are seven acres in the place, all of which is under 
 improvement. At the time he settled here 
 there was not a tree between the Kansas and 
 Wakarusa Rivers. On his home place he has a 
 large garden and an orchard, with apples of the 
 winesap, Ben Davis, new pippin and York im- 
 perial varieties. Up to 1887 he had a dairy here, 
 but at that time it was removed to his farm, 
 where he has about thirt)' cows; his son is 
 interested with him in the dairy business. 
 
 From the time of attaining his majority Mr. 
 Reynolds voted the Republican ticket, supporting 
 every presidential candidate of that party until 
 the campaign of President Harrison in 1888, when, 
 owing to the change of party principles, he left 
 the party, which he considered had deserted the 
 people in favor of the capitalists. He is now 
 chairman of the county central committee of the 
 people's party and is very active in local affairs. 
 In religion an Episcopalian, he was instrumental 
 in starting the parish in his neighborhood in 
 1858. From the organization of the congregation 
 he has served as warden or as vestryman. Hav- 
 ing had excellent musical advantages while in 
 
 Brooklyn, he has given his chvirch the benefit of 
 these and for years has had charge of the music 
 and for many years was a member of the quar- 
 tette choir. In earlier life he was also connected 
 with the Sunday-school. 
 
 The year before he came to Kansas Mr. Rey- 
 nolds was married, in Brooklyn, to Mary S. 
 Heasler, by whom he had three children: Ed- 
 ward, who operates his father's farm; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Homer Whitney, who lives near Topeka; 
 and George, of Lawrence. The wife and mother 
 died in 187 1, and three years later Mr. Reynolds 
 married Elizabeth Wheeler, who was born in 
 Maine, but at the time of her marriage was liv- 
 ing in Douglas County. The children born of 
 their union are Grace, Mabel, Frederick, Cora, 
 Rov Samuel and Clarence. 
 
 ULLIAM M. SHIRAS is a member of the 
 firm of Crane & Shiras, proprietors of the 
 Excelsior Mill, in Ottawa. He is an en- 
 ergetic business man, possessing not only a great 
 deal of enterprise, but also a sound judgment and 
 quick discrimination. Since coming to Ottawa 
 in 1875 he has been identified with this flour- 
 ishing city and has done much to promote its 
 interests. Identified with the board of trustees 
 of Ottawa University, as a member of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the board he has done much 
 to aid this worthy institution of learning, which 
 enables the young men and women of Ottawa 
 and vicinity to obtain classical advantages at a 
 minimum cost. While his life is a busy one 
 and necessarily is devoted closelj' to business 
 matters, he takes time for recreation, and is very 
 fond of his guns and dogs. He owns Ben Bo or 
 Tycho, one of the finest-bred English setters in 
 America, and also owns Beauty, of the same 
 strand. In the organization of the Ottawa Gun 
 Club he took an active part and now serves as a 
 director of the same. He is a member of the 
 Kansas State Tournament Association, which 
 met in Ottawa in 1898. In other ways he has 
 shown his interest in sporting and athletics. 
 
 The first members of the Shiras family in 
 America came from Scotland to New Jersey, 
 
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 thence to Pittsburgh, Pa. WilHam M. Shiras, Sr., 
 was a native of Pittsburgh, where he engaged in 
 the manufacture of iron, later removing to Iron- 
 ton, Ohio, and thence to Cincinnati, where he 
 carried on a real-estate and brokerage business 
 until his death in 1863. He married Ellen Ennis, 
 who was born in Cincinnati, and died there in 
 1890. She was a daughter of William Ennis, who 
 died in Manchester, Ohio. Of her four children, 
 Peter, who served through the entire Civil war, 
 is now a banker in Ottawa; James O. is in New 
 York City; Charles E. died in Cedar Rapids; 
 William M., the youngest of the sons, was born 
 in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 1859. When eleven 
 years of age he accompanied the family to Racine, 
 Wis., and there attended Racine College. In the 
 spring of 1875 he came to Ottawa and entered the 
 People's National Bank as assistant cashier, in 
 time becoming a stockholder and director in the 
 institution. He continued with the bank until 
 1 88 1, when he bought an interest in the Excel- 
 sior mill, of which he is one of the proprietors 
 and which is the largest mill in the city. He is 
 also interested in a gas company which is pros- 
 pecting for gas. Politically he is a Republican, 
 and fraternally is connected with the Knights of 
 Honor. 
 
 In Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Shiras married Cor- 
 nelia B., daughter of Seymour A. and Elizabeth 
 (Hoyt) Adams. Her father, a native of New 
 York, was for twenty-five years pastor of the 
 First Baptist Cliurch in Cleveland, and she was 
 born during the family's residence in that city. 
 During the Civil war he spent some time in New 
 Orleans in the service of the Union and while 
 there fell a victim to the disease from which he 
 later died in Cleveland. He was one of the mo.st 
 influential ministers of Cleveland and for upright- 
 ness of life and power as a preacher stood verj' 
 high among his fellow-citizens. His wife, who 
 was born in Connecticut, is now living in Cleve- 
 land. Mrs. Shiras was reared in the faith of the 
 Baptist Church, with which .she became identified 
 in girlhood and to which she has since belonged. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Shiras have four children, namely: 
 William M., Jr., a graduate of the Ottawa high 
 Scljool, and now employed as bookkeeper in this 
 
 city; Ralph A., also a graduate of the high 
 .school, and now a student in the Ottawa Univer- 
 sity; Howard Hoyt, a member of the high school 
 class of 1903; and Eleanor. 
 
 (p\ NDREW P. NELSON, who is engaged in 
 LA general farm pursuits in Sherman Township, 
 I I Leavenworth County, was born in Sweden 
 in 1841 and grew to manhood in his native coun- 
 try. In 1868 he crossed the ocean to seek a 
 home in the United States. Believing that the 
 west afforded the best opportunities for a young 
 man without capital, he settled in the then new 
 town of Kansas City, and there for eleven years 
 he was employed in packing houses. With the 
 money saved during that period, in 1879 he 
 bought a farm of eighty acres near Eudora, Kans. , 
 and there for five years he engaged in tilling the 
 soil. In 1884 he purchased two hundred and 
 forty acres in the soiitheni part of Leavenworth 
 County, and here he has since followed general 
 farm pursuits. Besides the raising of corn and 
 wheat he has made a specialty of raising fruit, in 
 which he is meeting with success; and is also en- 
 gaged in the stock business, raising horses and 
 hogs. The farm is improved with a neat resi- 
 dence and the various buildings necessary for 
 the .storage of grain and shelter of stock. The 
 neat appearance of the buildings and land indi- 
 cates the thrifty character of the owner. He has 
 every reason to be glad that he came to America, 
 for he has gained a success here that would not 
 have been possible in his native land. 
 
 Since becoming a naturalized citizen of the 
 United States Mr. NeLson has always voted 
 the Republican ticket. He takes an interest in 
 local elections, but has never sought office for 
 himself. While living in Kansas City he was 
 chosen a member of the first city council, upon 
 the incorporation of the city, and assisted in 
 inaugurating many movements for the benefit of 
 the place during its early history. The year be- 
 fore he left Sweden he was married to Miss Ellen 
 Peterson. They became the parents of six sons 
 and two daughters, named as follows: Bernard, a 
 grocer in Kansas City; Alma, wife of John She^- 
 
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 han; Albert, at home; Charles, who is engaged 
 in the grocery business in Kansas City; Hattie, 
 Andrew P., Jr., Otto and Walter. The family 
 attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, but Mr. 
 Nelson still clings to the Lutheran faith, in which 
 he was reared. 
 
 (John W. ROBERTSON, proprietor of a fur- 
 I niture and undertaking establishment in 
 (2/ Lawrence, was born in Dojdesburg, Frank- 
 lin County, Pa., August 7, 1847, and was the 
 oldest son and second child among a family of 
 nine, all but one of whom are still living, five 
 being in Pennsylvania, one in Iowa, and two in 
 Kansas. His parents, John and Eliza (Mont- 
 gomery) Robertson, were natives of Franklin 
 County, and the latter is still living on the old 
 homestead where the former died. The paternal 
 grandfather, William Robertson, was born in 
 England, and emigrated to Pennsylvania, settling 
 on a farm in Franklin County, where he died, an 
 aged man. The maternal grandfather, John 
 Montgomery, was born in eastern Penn.sylvania 
 and became an early settler of Franklin County, 
 where he manufactured furniture of all kind and 
 also carried on an undertaking business. 
 
 At sixteen years of age our subject was ap- 
 prenticed to the trades of cabinet-maker, finisher 
 and undertaker in Mifflintown, Juniata County, 
 Pa. In 1866 he went to Decatur, 111., where he 
 followed his trade as a journeyman. In April, 
 1868, he arrived in Lawrence, where he secured 
 employment at his trade, and in 1869 was made 
 foreman of the business occupying the building 
 which he now occupies. For fourteen years he 
 continued with Bailey & Smith, meantime spend- 
 ing a short time in California. In 1889 he bought 
 out T. O. Irvin & Co., and engaged in the under- 
 taking business. Two years later he took his 
 brother, E. M., into partnership, under the title 
 of Robertson Brothers. Their accommodations 
 being inadequate, and his old location, Nos. 
 808-810 Massachusetts street, being vacant, he 
 removed here, where he has three floors, 50x100 
 feet. He is a graduate of different schools of 
 embalming, and acts as funeral director and man- 
 ager. He enjoys the reputation of having the 
 
 finest furniture store in Kansas; certainly it is 
 true that one seldom sees in anj' city a stock 
 more complete or more elegant. His accurate 
 and honorable method of conducting business has 
 brought him the confidence of the people and has 
 brought him a large and growing trade. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Robertson took place in 
 Lawrence in 1872 and united him with Miss Tin- 
 nie I. Bowker, who was born near West Brook- 
 field, Mass. They have two sons, Frank H. and 
 John W. , Jr. The older, who is a young man of 
 splendid education and fine musical talent, is a 
 teacher in the Chicago Conservatory of Music. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Robertson is a member of 
 Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M.; Law- 
 rence Chapter No. 4, R. A. M.; and DeMolay 
 Commandery No. 4, K. T. ; also Lodge No. 4, 
 I. O. O. F.; Lodge No. 7, A. O. U. W., Degree 
 of Honor No. 8; Knights and Ladies of Security; 
 Ancient Order of Pyramids No. 188, in which he 
 is noble prophet; and No. 3, Fraternal Aid, in 
 which he is a charter member and of which he 
 has been president for three terms. He is a charter 
 member of the Merchants' Athletic Club and is 
 also identified with the Commercial Club. Polit- 
 ically he votes for Republican men and measures. 
 In 1875 he became a member of Plymouth Con- 
 gregational Church and has since been an attend- 
 ant upon its services and a contributor to its 
 movements. 
 
 \A AJ. CHARLES L. EDWARDS. As one 
 y of the pioneer and prominent educators of 
 {3 Kansas, and as the principal of the first 
 public schools in Lawrence and the founder of the 
 first academy in this city, Major Edwards is de- 
 serving of rank among the citizens whose energy 
 and intelligence built up what is now one of the 
 leading cities of the state. March 30, 1857, he 
 opened the Quincy high school in the Emigrant 
 Aid building, but on the 2d of April removed to 
 the basement of the Unitarian Church then being 
 completed. In the winter of 1857-58 he was prin- 
 cipal of a public school, with Misses Lucy M. 
 Wilder, Sarah A. Brown, Mary Boughton and 
 Isabella G. Oakley as assistants. He continued 
 at the head of the schools until February 7, 1859, 
 
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 when, having been elected countj- superintendent 
 of schools the preceding November, he resigned 
 the principalship. When he first began to teach, 
 the management of Lawrence University proposed 
 to make his institute the preparatory department 
 of the university, and this plan was carried out, 
 the fees remaining the same: the institute was 
 opened September 19, 1859, and continued about 
 three months, when it closed. Since the war he 
 has not engaged in educational work, but his in- 
 terest in it never ceased, and many men afterward 
 prominent in the state f among them ex-Congress- 
 man Haskell) attributed not a little of their suc- 
 cess to the painstaking care of their early in- 
 structor. 
 
 The Edwards family settled in Ma.ssachusetts 
 from Wales. Samuel Edwards, a native of North- 
 ampton, Mass., settled upon a farm near South- 
 ampton, where he also taught school for fort}' 
 winter terras. During the Revolution he served 
 in the American army. His son, Elisha, was a 
 soldier in the war of 18 12, and followed in his 
 father's footsteps as farmer and teacher. Elisha, Jr. , 
 who was born at Southampton, and also taught 
 there as well as engaged in farm pursuits, took 
 part in the war of 1 8 1 2 , and died in Massachusetts 
 at seventy-four years. He married Julia King, 
 who was born in Suffield, Conn., w-as orphaned 
 at an early age, and died when forty years old. 
 Her oldest child, Horace L., died in 1846, at 
 twenty-four years. The second-born, Elisha A., 
 who was a captain in the Thirty-first Massachu- 
 setts Infantry, died at the old homestead in Feb- 
 ruary, 1898. The youngest of the family, George 
 K., who was a sergeant in the Thirty-first Mas.sa- 
 chusetts, was accidentally injured on Butler's 
 expedition and was discharged for disability, but 
 later became second lieutenant in the Second 
 District of Columbia Regiment. The oldest 
 daughter, Mrs. Julia Taylor, died in Alton, 111. 
 Those of the family now living are: Charles L. ; 
 Elizabeth, the wife of M. L. Gaylord, of East- 
 hampton, Mass.; Caroline, of Southampton: and 
 Eunice, who married Louis Gaylord, of Colorado, 
 though an early .settler of Kansas. 
 
 In Southampton, where he was born October 
 19, 1828, the subject of this sketch attended pub- 
 
 lic school and Southampton Academy. He also 
 studied in Westfield Academy, Williston Semina- 
 ry and Phillips Academj- at Andover, and at the 
 age of eighteen began to teach near home. In 
 1852 he graduated from We.stfield Normal School. 
 Later he taught at West Springfield, Gloucester, 
 North Hadlej- and Wenham, having a private 
 school in the latter tovi'n. In November, 1855, 
 he started for Kansas, landing at Kansas City on 
 the 26th, and remaining in the west during the 
 winter as "clerk for the New England Immigrant 
 Aid Society. The office of the society was 
 moved to Lawrence and he was the second 
 clerk of the bureau here. He first visited 
 Lawrence in January, 1856, and came again 
 on the 2ist of May, at the time of the burn- 
 ing of the Eldredge House and printing office 
 by Sheriff Jones and his men. He remained as 
 clerk here until October, 1856, when he turned 
 his attention to teaching. When he became 
 county superintendent he organized the county 
 into school districts, these increasing from five to 
 thirt3'-five in three months, and he had thirty 
 schools in operation. In the spring of i860 he 
 was deputy postmaster under Dr. Samuel Huson. 
 With the intention of returning west in a short 
 time, Mr. Edwards went back to Massachusetts 
 in the summer of i860. He taught the village 
 academy at Southampton in 1860-61 and 1861-62. 
 At the outbreak of the war a company of home 
 guard was formed, of which his brother was cap- 
 tain and he sergeant for a time, but later captain. 
 In August, 1862, he was commissioned first lieu- 
 tenant of Company D, Thirty-seventh Ma.ssachu 
 setts Infantry, and was sent south, joining the 
 main army after Antietara. He took part in the 
 following engagements: Fredericksburg, Decem- 
 ber II, 1S62; Marye Heights, Maj- 3, 1863; Salem 
 Church, May 4, 1863; Franklin's Crossing, June, 
 1863: Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863; Mine Run, No- 
 vember 30, 1863: Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864: Lau- 
 rel Hill, May 8-9, 1864; the "Angle," May 12, 
 1864; Spottsylvania Court House, May, 1864; 
 North Anna, May 24, 1864; Cold Harbor, June i- 
 12, 1864; Petersburg, June 18, 1864; Fort Stevens, 
 July 12, 1864: Charleston, August 21, 1864; 
 Opequan, September 19, 1864; Hatcher's Run, 
 
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 February 5, 1865; Fort Steadman, March 25, 
 1865; fall of Petersburg, April 2, 1865; Sailor's 
 Creek, April 6, 1865. He was commissioned 
 captain Aprils, 1864, and major June 26, 1865, 
 and was mustered out July 3, 1865. 
 
 In May, 1866, Major Edwards returned to 
 Lawrence. Here he was local editor of the Law- 
 rence Republican, and continued with the paper 
 after it was consolidated with \.\\e Journal. On 
 the opening of the Carbondale road he embarked 
 in the coal business, which he has since conducted. 
 About 1890 he started in the insurance business 
 and has since represented several old-line compa- 
 nies. He was married in Massachusetts in i860 
 to Miss Susan Powers, who was born in Hadley, 
 Mass., and by whom he has a daughter, Virginia 
 Sedgewick. For some years Major Edwards has 
 held the office of township clerk. He is a mem- 
 ber of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., and 
 the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Veterans' As- 
 sociation. In politics he has always been a firm 
 Republican. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He holds membership with the Sons 
 of the Revolution. For a number of years he has 
 been treasurer of the Plymouth Congregational 
 Church, of which he was the twenty-sixth person 
 to become a member and is now fifth oldest of the 
 surviving early workers in the church. His ac- 
 quaintance extends among the best men of his 
 county and state, and he holds a position high in 
 the respect of all who know him. 
 
 P QlLLIAM KAHN. Nocountry has afibrded 
 \ A/ g''^^'^^'' opportunities to the poor man than 
 V Y our own. Here an industrious man has 
 an opportunity to gain a competence. The sub- 
 ject of this sketch had every reason to be grateful 
 that he left his German home and emigrated to 
 the United States, for, though without means 
 when he landed here, in time he acquired ample 
 means. During the last years of his life he was 
 one of the prosperous businessmen and farmers 
 of Leavenworth County. By his own determina- 
 tion and energy be rose from poverty to prosper^ 
 
 19 
 
 ity. His industry was great and he was regarded 
 as one of the most active men of Reno Township, 
 where he resided. 
 
 Mr. Kahn was born in Osnabriick, Germany, 
 March 12, 1841, a son of August Kahn, who was 
 a lifelong resident of that country. When he was 
 nineteen years of age he came to the United 
 States, landing in New York, where he followed 
 the baker's trade for a short time. Next he went 
 to St. Louis. Upon the breaking out of the Civil 
 war he enlisted in the Third Missouri Infantry 
 and soon afterward was detailed as regimental 
 baker, but when he had been in the service for 
 three months he was honorably discharged on 
 account of disability caused by an accident. He 
 then returned to New York City, where he worked 
 at his trade for a few months. After his marriage 
 to Helena Smith, a native of Germany, he moved 
 to Jersey City, N. J., and engaged in the grocery 
 and baker}' business for a year, later removing to 
 Hackensack, where he was foreman on a large 
 farm. His next location was in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 where he carried on a bakery for one year, then 
 for a year he had a grocery and bakery at Hunt- 
 ington, Long Island, N. Y. At the expiration of 
 that time he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and became 
 interested in the real-estate business, which he 
 followed until 1881, meantime being connected 
 with important property transactions not only in 
 that city, but also in Chicago. 
 
 On selling out his interests in the east, in 1881, 
 Mr. Kahn came to Kansas. Shortly afterward he 
 bought a farm in Leavenworth County, and upon 
 this place the remainder of his life was passed. 
 At the time of purchase the farm comprised one 
 hundred and seventy acres. From time to time 
 he bought additional property, and at the time of 
 his death was the owner of four hundred and 
 twenty acres. The land was placed under excel- 
 lent cultivation and improved with good farm 
 buildings, substantial fencing, and modern ma- 
 chinery of all kinds aided in the work of plowing, 
 reaping, threshing and harvesting. In 1893 ^^ 
 became interested in the dairy business, begin- 
 ning on a small scale, and gradually building up 
 a large business. His dairy plant was equipped 
 with modern machinery. In the fall of 1898 he 
 
470 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 purchased a creamerj' at Bonner Springs, Kans., 
 which his family still own. He was unable, 
 however, to carry out the improvements that he 
 had planned, for very soon after he had purchased 
 the creamery his death occurred. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Kahn was connected with the 
 Order of Foresters. He was reared in the faith 
 of the German Lutheran Church, and always re- 
 mained true to its teachings. During the early 
 part of his residence in the United States he affil- 
 iated with the Democrats, but after 1884 he voted 
 the Republican ticket. For four terms he served 
 as justice of the peace at Reno. Actively inter- 
 ested in local matters, he aided in enterprises 
 calculated to promote the welfare of his fellow- 
 citizens; and while his private business interests 
 were large and important, he never allowed them 
 to absorb his entire time. His death, the result 
 of a runaway, took place November 21, 1898, 
 when he was fifty-seven years of age. He left, 
 besides his wife, six children, namely: Anna, who 
 is the wife of Otto Luckan; Anton, who is mar- 
 ried and has three children, Frederick, Alfred and 
 Anna; William, who is manager of the creamerj' 
 and farm, and superintends the estate; Minnie, 
 wife of Paul Luckan; Henrj- and Frederick, who 
 reside with their mother. 
 
 GlRTHUR WILLIS. From an early period 
 U in the history of Ottawa Mr. Willis has 
 / I been identified with the nursery interests of 
 this city. Of those who engaged in the business 
 at the time he came none was left five j'ears later, 
 and he is now the oldest man following the occu- 
 pation here. Not only is he the oldest, but one 
 of the most successful as well. When be came 
 to Ottawa, in the spring of 1871, the Ottawa 
 University nunsery, started by H. T. Kelsey 
 about 1S66, was the leading nursery of the county, 
 besides which there were a few gardens of .smaller 
 size and minor importance. Sliortlj' after his 
 arrival he planted two hundred thousand apple 
 trees and grafts, as well as other fruits, but the 
 experiment proved a failure. In the .spring of 
 1873 he planted considerable nursery stock, 
 which he sold at retail two years later. In 1876 
 
 he leased a tract of university land and started a 
 nursery, which, to accommodate the college in- 
 terests, he called the Ottawa University nursery. 
 His present nursery was started in the spring of 
 1877, with seventy-seven hundred apple grafts 
 and three bushels of hedge seeds. Afterward he 
 made larger plantings and constantly increased 
 the business. Competition increased with en- 
 suing years. In 1879 Brewer & Stannard began 
 on a small scale; in 1885 T. P. Way started a 
 nursery, and in 1890 Mr. Taylor became inter- 
 ested in the nursery business. 
 
 From 1877 to the present time Mr. Willis has 
 set out over two hundred and fifty thousand 
 apple grafts each year. In 1883 he sold his 
 university lease and started on land of his own, 
 again taking the name of the Willis Nursery 
 Company. His office and sale ground are at the 
 east end of Fifth street on Cherry street. He has 
 fifty acres in uurserj-, of which four and three- 
 quarters acres are in town. Besides his stock 
 here he has nurserj' stock growing in Vinland 
 and New York state, and is interested in 
 orchards in Kansas and Missouri. In 1882 he 
 purchased his present residence and subsequently 
 he built the office and packing house that now 
 form valuable features of his property. There 
 are few nurserymen in the state who are as 
 familiar with the business as he, and certainly 
 few have met with greater success. 
 
 Mr. Willis was born three miles from Geneva 
 Lake, in Walworth County, Wis., March 17, 
 1843. His paternal great-grandfather settled in 
 York state, going there from Nova Scotia, and 
 the grandfather was reared in the east, but in 
 1843 established his home in Rock County, Wis., 
 near the Walworth line. There he lived on a 
 farm until his death, in 1845. The father, L. H. 
 Willis, who was born near Danville, Livingston 
 County, N. Y., in 1817, removed to Walworth 
 County, Wis., in 1840 and bought eighty acres, 
 after which he returned to New York and married 
 Mary Bowers. In 1842 he settled upon his farm, 
 which he improved, and to which he added until 
 he owned two hundred and twenty acres. He 
 continued to reside on the same farm until he 
 died, in 1896. For twenty years he served as 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 471 
 
 justice of the peace, and he also served as school 
 director and in other local offices. In religion he 
 was a Baptist. His wife was born in western 
 New York and was reared in Pennsylvania, 
 whence she accompanied her parents to Wis- 
 consin. She died in 1871. Of their five sons 
 and two daughters all but one son attained ma- 
 ture years, and three sons are now living. Our 
 subject was the oldest of all. He attended school 
 in the country and at Delavan, and remained at 
 home until twenty years of age. In the spring 
 of 1864 he went to Rockford, 111., and worked in 
 a nursery owned by J. S. Sherman, where he 
 cared for trees and gained a thorough knowledge 
 of the business. After two j^ears and three 
 months with the same employer he went to Mis- 
 souri, where he spent most of his time until com- 
 ing to Kansas. He was married in Ottawa to 
 Amelia Esterly, who was born in Ohio, and by 
 whom he has four children: Ola, who graduated 
 from Ottawa University and is now her father's 
 stenographer; Blanche, a graduate of the Ottawa 
 University and for a time was a teacher in the In- 
 dian Territory; Arthur E. and Fern. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Willis was chosen a trustee of 
 Ottawa University and since 1890 he has been 
 secretary of the board of trustees and a member 
 of the executive committee. Both by his means 
 and his influence he has proved himself a true 
 friend of the institution, one who desires to pro- 
 mote its success. From early manhood he has 
 been connected with the Baptist Church. For 
 some years he was a member of the board of 
 trustees, and is now deacon. At the time of the 
 erection of the house of worship he served as 
 a member of the building committee. In Sunday- 
 school work he has always been interested and 
 has taken an active part. Politically he is a 
 Republican. For two terms he represented the 
 second ward in the city council and during three 
 years of that time officiated as president of the 
 board. 
 
 His thorough knowledge of the nurserj' busi- 
 ness and his long identification therewith has 
 made Mr. Willis a conspicuous figure among the 
 men following this occupation. He has been 
 honored with election as state vice-president for 
 
 Kansas of the American Association of Nursery- 
 men. He is also chairman of the executive com- 
 mittee of the Western Nurserymen's Association. 
 Whenever possible he attends the meetings of 
 these associations, and his influence has been felt 
 in the extension of their interests. However, his 
 attention is necessarily given to his business, 
 primarily, and its demands are such that he has 
 little leisure either for vacations or for outside 
 matters. He superintends his fifty salesmen, 
 who represent his nursery in difierent parts of the 
 west, and in addition he also manages his large 
 mail orders, which come to him from every part 
 of the Union. 
 
 While leading a quiet life, and one that is de- 
 voted to business aff'airs, Mr. Willis has never- 
 theless exerted an influence for the betterment of 
 the moral, educational and religious welfare of 
 his city. It has been his aim to make the world 
 better for his having lived in it. His influence 
 has been directed toward and felt for good. In 
 spite of a limited education and lack of early ad- 
 vantages, he has become well informed and has 
 been enabled to take his place among the capable 
 and worthy citizens of Ottawa. His has been a 
 busy, useful, happy life, and as he looks back 
 gratefully over the past, there is nothing in it 
 that he would change if he could. To such as 
 he the commonwealth of Kansas owes the progress 
 it has made during the past quarter of a century. 
 
 I OUIS C. MEHL, who is engaged in con- 
 I C tracting and building in Leavenworth, was 
 |j2f born in this city February 22, 1863, a son 
 of Henry and Elizabeth (Kunzig) Mehl. His 
 paternal grandfather, Peter Mehl, a native of 
 Germany, and member of an old family of that 
 country, served in the German army and after- 
 ward engaged as a contractor and builder. The 
 maternal grandfather, Peter Kunzig, who was 
 also a contractor and builder by occupation, came 
 to America in 1854 and settled in Philadelphia, 
 where he engaged in business as an undertaker. 
 During the year that he crossed the ocean Henry 
 Mehl also sought a home in the United States and 
 he, too, settled in Philadelphia, where he was 
 
472 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 employed as a cabinet-maker. In 1859 he set- 
 tled in Leavenworth, where he engaged in car- 
 pentering and erected many of the early build- 
 ings in the town. In 1863 he enlisted as captain 
 of an artillerj' company in the militia and as 
 such .served until the close of the war. In this 
 citj' be married Miss Kunzig, by whom he has 
 four children, viz. : Henry \V., who is engaged in 
 the drug business in this city; Louis; Albert, a 
 druggist of Kan.sas Cit)^; and Ida, who resides 
 with her parents at No. 511 Miami street. 
 
 Under his father's instructions Mr. Mehl 
 learned the carpenter's trade, and in time he be- 
 came a partner in the contracting business. 
 About 1 891 his father retired, since which time 
 he has continued the contracting and building 
 business. Among his contracts were those 
 for Turner Hall and numerous dwellings and 
 business houses in Leavenworth, as well as resi- 
 dences in other towns in Kansas. He gives his 
 attention quite closely to his business interests, 
 and devotes little time to politics, although he 
 is a stanch Democrat. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Modern Woodmen of America, 
 the Knights of Pythias, and the Turn Verein, in 
 which latter he has been a trustee. He was mar- 
 ried in Leavenworth January 16, 1894, to Miss 
 Gretchen Titel, who was born in this city and by 
 whom he has two children, Hilda and Louis, Jr. 
 
 gHARLES W. INGLE. Through the ener- 
 getic manner in which he has conducted ag- 
 ricultural pursuits Mr. Ingle has amassed a 
 competency which places him among the most 
 prosperous farmers of Douglas County. He is 
 the owner of three hundred and ten acres of valu- 
 able land lying in Willow Springs Town.sliip, 
 where he carries on general farming and stock- 
 raising. On his farm may be seen a fine grade of 
 Hereford and Durham cattle, and he also owns a 
 draft Clyde stallion which is quite valuable. 
 
 The ancestors of Mr. Ingle were Virginians. 
 His grandfather, John Ingle, removed from Vir- 
 ginia to Ohio about 1825 and there resided until 
 his death at sixty -two years of age. He married 
 a Miss Kaiser, who was born in Virginia, of Ger- 
 
 man descent, and died in Ohio at the age of sixty. 
 Their son, John, Jr., was born in Hampshire 
 County, Va., and was fourteen j'ears of age 
 when the family settled in Seneca County, Ohio, 
 at the time that the Seneca purchase was opened 
 to settlement. In that county he took up a forty- 
 acre claim, which he pre-empted, paying for the 
 pre-emption by working at twenty-five cents a 
 day. In 1838 he removed from there to Vermil- 
 ion County, Ind., and bought a farm, where he 
 remained until 1857. He then accompanied our 
 subject to Kansas and pre-empted the claim now 
 occupied by the latter, paying $750 for the prop- 
 erty. Only about seven acres had been fenced 
 and there was no building except a log house, 
 but the property was considered valuable on ac- 
 count of its proximity to Middle Tawy Creek 
 and also because it contained considerable tim- 
 ber. Here he continued to reside until his death, 
 which occurred when he was seventy' -six years of 
 age. In politics he was a Whig until the disin- 
 tegration of that party, after which he voted 
 with the Republicans. Though active in public 
 affairs he never sought office for himself. For 
 years he was a local preacher in the United 
 Brethren Church and a.ssisted in the singing, being 
 both a good speaker and a fine singer. He was 
 a man whose genial nature won many warm 
 friends among his associates. He married Nancy 
 Dennis, who was born on the eastern shore of 
 Maryland and was orphaned at an early age, after 
 which she was taken to the home of a wealthy 
 planter. Her father served during the entire 
 period of the Revolutionary war, and was in the 
 army at the time of her birth. In religion she 
 was connected with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. At the time of her death, in Indiana, 
 .she was sixty-three years of age. In her family 
 there were two sons, one of whom, Isaac K., 
 died at the age of fifteen. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one our subject started 
 out in life for himself. His boyhood years had 
 been passed in Seneca County, Ohio, where he 
 was born September 11,1831. There, Novem- 
 ber 3, 1852, he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Margaret Hamill, by whom he had seven 
 children, viz.; Fannie E., who died at twenty- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 473 
 
 five years; John, who was born in Willow Springs 
 Township in 1859 and is still living in this part 
 of the county; Emory B., a prosperous farmer in 
 Osage County, Kans. ; Rose, wife of Malcolm 
 Swinley, of Franklin County; Edward and Grant, 
 who assist in the cultivation of the home farm; 
 and Helen, also at home. 
 
 After his marriage, in 1852, Mr. Ingle settled 
 in Vermilion County, Ind. From there, late in 
 the fall of 1857, ^^ moved to Kansas by team and 
 pre-empted a claim in Douglas County, two miles 
 from his present home. He improved the land, 
 building needed structures, placing the soil under 
 cultivation and planting a large orchard. There 
 he made his home for twenty-five years, after 
 which he traded the land for one hundred and 
 fifty acres adjoining his present property, the lat- 
 ter being his father's estate, which he acquired 
 by inheritance and purchase. In politics he was 
 a Republican for years, but finally left the party 
 on account of the money question, he being a be- 
 liever in the greenback theory. In i87ihewas 
 elected to the legislature, where his services were 
 most helpful to his constituents. He also served 
 as justice of the peace for some time, township 
 trustee for five years, and held other offices. 
 When twenty-eight years of age he became a 
 local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and continued as such for several years, but, not 
 believing in infant baptism, for this reason his 
 license was revoked, upon which he withdrew 
 from the church. But, though not identified with 
 any congregation, he is a sincere Christian and in 
 his life upholds the teachings of Christianity. 
 
 V/lARCEIyMUS B. RAY, who is engaged in 
 y farming in Kanwaka Township, Douglas 
 (9 County, was born in Jefferson City, Mo., 
 April 8, 1852, a son of Luke E. and Marietta 
 (Drown) Ray, natives of Cabell County, W. Va. 
 His father, who was born in 181 7, of Scotch par- 
 entage, learned the carpenter's trade in youth. 
 He engaged in the mercantile business at Jeffer- 
 son City and at Carthage, Mo. , and built the vil- 
 lage of Preston, eight miles from Carthage, where 
 he remained until the time of the Civil war. Be- 
 
 ing in sympathy with the Union and living in 
 Confederate territory, his surroundings became 
 unpleasant and, indeed, dangerous. The bush- 
 whackers stole all of the cattle and horses on his 
 farm, and later burned the dwellings and othtr 
 properties. Thereupon he took his family to 
 Marysville, Kans., and in 1862 settled in Doug- 
 las County, where he purchased eighty acres in 
 Kanwaka Township, later adding another tract 
 of similar size. During the first years of his res- 
 idence here he was a member of the home guard. 
 He employed agents to manage the farms in Mis- 
 souri, but never realized anything from the prop- 
 erty. He became one of the well-known farmers 
 of this township, and was a leader in local ranks 
 of the Republican part3^ Since his death, in -1894, 
 his widow has resided on the old homestead, 
 which is managed by the subject of this sketch. 
 The family comprised the following-named chil- 
 dren: Eliza A., wife of Dr. G. W. Williams; Para 
 Lee, who married John Maloy; Sarah, Mrs. Le- 
 roy J. Bean; Henry B., George W., Henry S. G., 
 Marcelmus B., Luke E., deceased; Romaine F., 
 wife of Joseph Howell; Brunie, deceased; and 
 Grant, who died in infancy. 
 
 In infancy our subject was taken by his parents 
 from Jefferson City, Mo., to Carthage, where the 
 family remained a year, thence going to Preston. 
 He accompanied his parents to Kansas, mak- 
 ing the trip in a wagon which was drawn by a 
 team of oxen and in which were placed all of the 
 household effects. After settling in Douglas 
 County he assisted his father in clearing a farm. 
 At the time of his marriage he bought eighty- 
 five acres, and there he resided until his father's 
 death, since which time he has lived on the old 
 homestead, and conducts both farms. While he 
 is not a member of any denomination, he is in 
 sympathy with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Active in politics as a Republican, he has served 
 as delegate to various conventions and has kept 
 posted concerning all public issues; had he so de- 
 sired he might have held almost any local ofiice, 
 but his inclinations are not toward positions of 
 prominence. He is interested in educational mat- 
 ters and has rendered excellent service as a mem- 
 ber of the school board. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 November 25, 1872, Mr. Ray married Anna 
 McDonald, %vho was born and reared in La Porte, 
 Ind., and was of Scotch descent. In the '70s 
 she accompanied her parents to Kansas, and was 
 married in Independence, this state. Later her 
 parents removed to Florida. The oldest son of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ray was George, who died at four 
 years of age. Their other children are Ernest D., 
 Nellie G. and Luke Elmer. 
 
 (TJAMUEL A. STONEBRAKER owns eighty 
 Ny acres comprising a valuable farm in Pal- 
 Q) myra Township, Douglas County, and fifty- 
 two acres on which the village of Black Jack was 
 built. Of this town, lying on the old Santa Fe 
 stage route, he was the founder, and for years 
 carried on a general store and hotel there, but the 
 building of the Santa Fe Railroad through the 
 county caused the village to be abandoned. In 
 early days he was one of the prominent Republi- 
 cans in his locality and still retains a deep inter- 
 est in politics. For forty years he has not been 
 absent from any conventions of Douglas County. 
 In 1866-67 he served as clerk of the district 
 court, and for twenty years he was justice of the 
 peace and notary public. 
 
 At Warrior's Mark, Huntingdon County, Pa., 
 Mr. Stonebraker was born July 17, 1832. His 
 father, Samuel Washington Stonebraker, was a 
 native of Hagerstown, Md., and in youth learned 
 the tailor's trade in Baltimore, after which he re- 
 moved to Huntingdon County, Pa., and secured 
 employment at his trade. Later he became pro- 
 prietor of a furnishing store. In 1846 he removed 
 to Williamsburg, Blair County, Pa., where he en- 
 gaged in the grocery business until his death, 
 February 23, 1873, at the age of seventy-three 
 years, one month and twenty-three days. For 
 many years he was a class-leader in the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. For fourteen years he 
 served as postmaster, to which office he was ap- 
 pointed in recognition of his services to the Re- 
 publican party. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, John Stone- 
 braker, was born, reared and married in Hagers- 
 town, Md., and was a potter by trade. About 
 
 18 1 8 he removed to Huntingdon County, Pa., 
 and purchased a farm near Colerain Forges. On 
 his place was the dam that held the water to run 
 the forges. He remained on that farm until his 
 death, at ninety years of age. During the Revo- 
 lution he served in the colonial army. He was a 
 man of upright character and a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Eliza- 
 bath Hutchinson, who was born in Hagerstown, 
 of German extraction, and who died at eighty- 
 four years of age. 
 
 Our subject's mother, who bore the maiden 
 name of Elizabeth Robinson, was born near Al- 
 toona, Blair County, Pa., and died in June, 1842, 
 at thirty-five years of age. She left four sons 
 and one daughter. The eldest, John A., died in 
 Missouri at the age of sixty-six, and David T. 
 died in Osage County, Kans., at sixty years of 
 age. Samuel A. was third in order of birth. 
 Austin F., who participated in the early strug- 
 gles in Kansas, served through the Civil war and 
 later was chief of police in Memphis, Tenn. 
 While filling that office he was shot by a man 
 whom he was attempting to arrest, but recovered, 
 and is now living in Iowa. The only daughter, 
 Cordelia Jane, is the widow of William Moore 
 and resides in Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 When only seven years of age our subject was 
 made a cripple by hip disease. Three years later 
 'his mother died. He continued at home for five 
 more years, after which he became a traveling 
 salesman for a Philadelphia firm, whom he repre- 
 sented in Huntingdon, Blair and Clinton Coun- 
 ties for four years. On his return home he 
 clerked in the store for his father. In 1854 he be- 
 gan to clerk for a Mr. Allison. After a year he 
 was chosen clerk of the election board. Later he 
 taught one term of school. When he arrived in 
 Kansas, May 23, 1856, he had only $3.65 iu his 
 possession. The next day he went to a land sale 
 and took a claim one mile north of Black Jack, 
 but after holding this property until 1858 he 
 gave it away. In January, 1858, he opened a 
 small store at Black Jack. Doubtless few men 
 have ever begun in business with less capital than 
 he then had, for his cash in hand consisted of only 
 forty cents. However, in spite of this small be- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 475 
 
 ginning, he graduall}' built up a good trade. The 
 building of the railroad through the county 
 turned the trade into another direction, but he 
 continued to conduct the store until 1897. In 
 1857 he was taken prisoner b}' pro-slavery men 
 and carried to L,ecompton, but was soon released. 
 Twice during the Rebellion his store was robbed. 
 He has always been a friend to the government 
 and a patriotic citizen. He is interested in edu- 
 cational matters and served on the school board 
 for several years. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Stonebraker married Susan D. 
 Strunk, of Center County, Pa. They are the par- 
 ents of eight children now living, namely: Will- 
 iam Anderson, a farmer in Lyon County, Kans.; 
 Dora, wife of John Lathen; Olive B., Mrs. Ben- 
 jamin Oglesby, of Montana; David O. , who is 
 engaged in the livery business; Julia Pearl, wife 
 of Newton Snyder; Ira O., a farmer of Lyon 
 County; Linne, wife of Oliver P. Shannon; and 
 Harry Clay, at home. 
 
 GlUGUSTUS M. JARDON, vice-president of 
 LA the State Bank of Baldwin, is one of the rep- 
 / I resentative residents of Douglas County. 
 He is the owner of four hundred and sixty-five 
 acres of valuable land lying in Willow Springs 
 Township, where he carries on agricultural pur- 
 suits. For some years he has made a specialty 
 of breeding thoroughbred Hereford cattle, and 
 usually feeds from one to two hundred head of 
 cattle each year. The success that has met his 
 efiforts places him among the most prosperous 
 men of his township and gives him a position as 
 a leading stockman and farmer in his locality. 
 
 In Pittsfield, Mass., our subject was born Au- 
 gust 17, 1854. His father, Xavier Jardon, was 
 born and reared on a farm in France, and at an 
 early age (his father being the owner of a pack- 
 ing house) he learned the manufacture of char- 
 coal. When about twenty-eight years of age he 
 came to America and settled in Massachusetts, 
 where he married Eliza Beuchat, a native of 
 Switzerland, but a resident of America from the 
 age of twenty years. In 1858 he came to Kansas 
 and bought one hundred and sixty acres of raw 
 
 land in Palmyra Township, Douglas County, 
 where he passed the remaining }'ears of his life. 
 At the time of the Quantrell raid in 1863, after 
 the city of Lawrence had been burned, Quantrell 
 and his men left for more congenial quarters. 
 They passed through the Jardon farm and ordered 
 Mr. Jardon to open the gate for them. Not un- 
 derstanding the English language, he did not do 
 as they requested, which so angered them that 
 they threatened to shoot him. Mrs. Jardon drew 
 the water for their horses, using the entire sup- 
 ply in their well, and was paid $5 by the men for 
 her trouble. In the work of pumping she was 
 assisted by her nine-year-old son, who distinctly 
 remembers the whole occurrence. 
 
 At the time of his death Xavier Jardon was 
 sixtj'-five years of age. He had been very suc- 
 cessful, and not only owned three hundred acres 
 of land in his own name, but had aided his chil- 
 dren in the purchase of farms. In religion he 
 was a Roman Catholic, and in politics voted with 
 the Democrats. His wife is now seventj' j-ears 
 of age and still occupies the old farm. Of their 
 twelve children three died in childhood, Augus- 
 tus being the oldest of the survivors. Of the oth- 
 ers, Alfred is a farmer in Colorado; Xavier is en- 
 gaged in farming and is also connected with a 
 cattle commission firm in Kansas City, Mo. ; So- 
 phia is the wife of Horace T. Butell, of Osage 
 County, Kans.; Martin is a farmer and stock- 
 raiser in Willow Springs Township, Douglas 
 County; Julia married Walter Ford, of Oklahoma; 
 Victoria is the wife of A. D. Butell, whose sketch 
 appears on another page; Adolphus D. resides 
 with his mother on the homestead; and Edmund 
 is a farmer in Palmyra Township, this county. 
 
 At the time of coming to Kansas our subject 
 was a small child and his entire life, with the ex- 
 ception of the few first years, has been passed in 
 this locality. He remained at home until twenty- 
 three years of age, and then, with his father's 
 assistance, purchased one hundred and sixt)' acres 
 of land comprising a part of his present property. 
 Here he has since made his home, actively en- 
 gaging in stock-raising and farming. By his mar- 
 riage, January 9, 1883, to Rosalie Gormont, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania, he has one daughter, 
 
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 Lola, who is still at home. While he is astauch 
 Democrat, he has never cared for political offices, 
 nor has he been prominent in public affairs. Like 
 his parents, he is of the Roman Catholic faith. 
 
 pCJILLIAM A. PARDEE, who is a well- 
 
 \ A / known farmer of Willow Springs Town- 
 YY ship, Douglas County, was born in Ulster 
 County, N. Y., October 22, 1835, a son of Levi 
 and Nellie (Trumper) Pardee. The first of the 
 Pardee family in America was his grandfather, 
 Levi, who came from France during the Revolu- 
 tionary war, to .serve as a soldier under Lafayette 
 and assist the colonies in establishing their inde- 
 pendence. Born and reared in Maine, Levi Par- 
 dee at an early age became captain of a sailing 
 vessel on the Hudson River. He made his home 
 in Westcamp, Ulster County, and besides his prop- 
 erty there owned a farm in Orange County. He 
 died when forty-five years of age, of hemorrhage 
 of the lungs, and was buried at Westcamp. His 
 wife, who was born in Ulster County, in 1798, 
 was the daughter of James Valentine Trumper, 
 a German, who came to this country and held offi- 
 cial rank as a colonel in Washington's army dur- 
 ing the Revolution. 
 
 Of a family of four children, the subject of this 
 sketch is the sole survivor. His boyhood days 
 were spent in Ulster and Greene Counties. After 
 his father's death his mother became the wife of 
 William Richardson. The latter, in 1849, started 
 for California, but was taken ill en route and his 
 familj- joined him in Mi.ssouri, where they arrived 
 July 5, 1850. Afterward he settled on a farm of six 
 hundred and eighty acres, occupying what is now 
 Morristown, Ca.ss County, Mo., and there he died 
 in 1857. On account of the danger incident to 
 border warfare that locality became unpleasant, 
 and the familj- in 1861 crossed the state line into 
 Kansas. Four years later the mother died, at 
 the age of sixty-seven years. She was a devoted 
 wife and mother, and a faithful member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 During the Civil war our subject took part in 
 the battle of the Blue at the time of the Price raid. 
 February 25, 1864, he married Miss Agnes D. 
 
 Jameson, who was born in Pennsylvania. Her 
 father, John Jameson, came to Kansas in 1858 
 and entered the land now owned by our subject. 
 He was an active Republican and served on de- 
 tached duty during Price's raid. He was not 
 spared to witness the triumph of the Union and 
 the extinction of slavery, but died December 4, 
 1864, at fifty-four years of age. Nine children 
 were born to the union of our subject and his 
 wife, but two of these died in infancy. Those 
 now living are: James V., a plumber in Kansas 
 City , Mo. ; Edward E. , a farmer in Willow Springs 
 Township; Harry E., who is engaged in the 
 plumbing business in Kansas City; Robert and 
 Rosie (twins), William H. and Bessie D., who are 
 with their parents. The family are identified 
 with the Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. 
 Pardee was formerly a Republican, but now affil- 
 iates with the Populists. Fraternall}- he is con- 
 nected with Baldwin City Lodge No. 31, I.O.O.F. 
 He has had no reason to regret his settlement in 
 Kansas, for, although he had only $2 when he 
 came to the state, he has been prospered and is 
 now the owner of two hundred and sixty acres, 
 representing his own earnings. 
 
 0AVID HERRIES. Since coming to Kan- 
 sas Mr. Herries has been engaged in agri- 
 cultural pursuits in Leavenworth County. 
 Coming here a young man, without means, he 
 was so pleased with the opportunities offered that 
 he decided to remain, and for two j-ears he 
 worked with his brother. At the expiration of 
 that time he bought his present farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in the northern limits of 
 Tonganoxie Township. Settlers were few in 
 this part of the county, and .scarcely any attempt 
 had been made at improvement. Between his 
 brother's place and Lawrence nothing but an 
 occasional fence could be seen to show that 
 the land had ever been visited by white men. 
 His own property, at the time of purchase, was 
 new and entirely destitute of improvements; he 
 has done all of the work necessary to bring the 
 place to its present state of cultivation. He gives 
 considerable attention to .stock-raising, and while 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 477 
 
 he has not a large herd, those that he owns are 
 in the best condition and are mostly graded 
 Shorthorn cattle. 
 
 A native of Scotland, born in November, 1837, 
 Mr. Herries is a member of a family to which 
 reference is made in his brother's sketch. When 
 he was ten years of age the family emigrated to 
 Canada, and there his education was obtained. 
 At the age of fourteen he began to clerk for a 
 brother, with whom he remained for three years, 
 and later followed carpentering and farming. 
 During his last three years in Canada he worked 
 the home place for his father on shares. When 
 he was twenty-eight he joined his brother 
 in Kansas, expecting to return to Canada, but 
 was so pleased with the west that he established 
 his home here. In religion he is of the Scotch 
 Presbyterian faith, but there being no church of 
 that denomination in his locality he has allied 
 himself with the Methodists. In national mat- 
 ters he is a Republican. He is a member of the 
 Grange at McLouth. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Herries married Margaret Gat- 
 chell, who was born in Wyandot County, Ohio. 
 They became the parents of seven children, six 
 of whom are living, viz.: Sarah Myrtle, who 
 married Herman Eggett and lives on the home 
 farm; Mrs. Isabelle Eggleston, William G., 
 Emma, James and Hiram. 
 
 0AVID EVANS, who dates his residence in 
 Lawrence from March 23, 1857, experienced 
 all the hardships and dangers incident to 
 life in Kansas during the slavery conflict. At 
 the opening of the Civil war he was engaged in 
 teaming with a span of mules worth $400, which 
 had taken premiums at fairs and were the finest 
 in the state. The work, however, necessitated 
 constant sleeping out of doors, which resulted in 
 ague, and he was therefore advised to seek an- 
 other occupation. Selling out, he engaged in 
 farming, but was not successful and returned to 
 Lawrence. In the spring of 1S63 he bought a 
 dray and began hauling. At the time the Quan- 
 trell raiders came into the town he had a shot- 
 gun but no ammujiition. Some of the raiders 
 
 came to his place, took his horse, burned the 
 barn with all the feed, tools, etc., leaving him 
 nothing. He undertook to stealthily crawl to a 
 neighbor's house for ammunition. The neighbor 
 ran to a cowshed and Mr. Evans also went in 
 there, but the raiders surrounded the building 
 and shot repeatedly at him. To save his neigh- 
 bor's life he came out and talked to the men. 
 They demanded his money and when he declared 
 he had none, they replied that they knew better 
 and shot at him again. He gave them one of his 
 pocketbooks and they then wheeled away. Re- 
 terning home, his wife urged him to flee at once 
 for his life, and so he hastened to the banks of 
 the river. When the raid was over he found 
 himself with nothing excepting one pocketbook 
 containing $90. With this money he bought a 
 horse, fixed up his dray and continued in the 
 drayage business for many years, finally building 
 up the largest transfer business in the city. He 
 now has eight teams, with a transfer line to the 
 Santa Fe, and has large barns, etc. He built his 
 residence at No. 715 New York street, also owns 
 a block on Massachusetts street, is a stockholder 
 and director in the Lawrence Gas and Electric 
 Light Company and a stockholder in the Watkins 
 National Bank. 
 
 A native of Pembrokeshire, Wales, Mr. Evans 
 was born October 6, 1833. His father, John 
 Evans, was a cabinet-maker by trade, but died in 
 middle life, when his son, David, was only two 
 years of age. The mother, who bore the maiden 
 name of Margaret Harris, was born in Pembroke- 
 shire, a daughter of David Harris, a farmer. She 
 had only one child by her first husband, John 
 Evans, but after his death she was again married, 
 and became the mother of six sons and one daugh- 
 ter, all of whom attained mature years, and three 
 of the sons came to the United States. She died 
 in Wales when seventy -three years of age. 
 
 When our subject was fourteen years of age 
 his mother and step-father moved from town to a 
 farm near Haverford West. When he was nine- 
 teen years of age he left there, to try his fortune 
 in America. It had been his original intention to 
 settle in Australia, but changing his plans he de- 
 cided to sail for America. May 10, 1853, he left 
 
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 Liverpool on the sailer "Kossuth," Capt. J. J. 
 Bell, and landed in New York on the loth of June. 
 Going to Centerville, Allegany County, N. Y., 
 he was engaged in farming until 1857, when he 
 came to Kansas. Here he took a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres in Franklin County, 
 but made Lawrence his headquarters. He proved 
 up on the place, but afterward sold it. In the 
 summer of 1859 he was married in Lawrence to 
 Miss Mary Edwards, a native of Wales. About 
 the same time he began to work for a man, but 
 his employer failed and he received his pay in a 
 span of mules, with which he started teaming. 
 During the Price raid he was a member of the 
 Third Kansas Militia, which was called out to- 
 ward Kansas City to assist in driving the Confed- 
 erate general out of the state. He is a member 
 of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., in politics 
 is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. In the Bap- 
 tist Church he has served as a trustee for twenty- 
 five years. He lost his wife and four of their 
 children by death, and has seven children now 
 living. The names of his children are as follows: 
 Mrs. Laura Quick, of Lawrence; John, who died 
 at eighteen months; Emily E., of Denver, Colo.; 
 William, who died at twenty months; Mrs. Agnes 
 Leach, who died in Kansas City; Mrs. Alice Ro- 
 ber, of Lawrence; Frank, who assists his father in 
 business; Mrs. Carrie Stanford, of this city, and 
 Nellie and Elsie, who are with their father. 
 
 EAPT. JULIUS FISCHER, a pioneer of '57 
 at Eudora, Douglas County, and ever since 
 1868 a resident of Lawrence, was born in 
 Flatow, Marein Verder, West Prussia, May 23, 
 1827. His father, Johan, a native of Saxony and 
 a brewer by occupation, married in Berlin, and 
 there also worked at his trade. Later he built a 
 brewery at Flatow, but through misfortune lost 
 tlifi entire property. He died in Prussia in June, 
 1857. His wife was Caroline Winkelmann, a 
 native of Berlin and daughter of a prosperous 
 government official; she died in 1852. Their 
 family consisted of twelve children, but only 
 three sons and one daughter attained mature 
 
 years. Of these Carl is living in Lawrence; 
 Heinrich, who was in the pontoon corps during 
 the Civil war, is in St. Louis; and Julius forms 
 the subject of this .sketch. 
 
 At the age of fourteen our subject was ap- 
 prenticed to the trade of a cabinet-maker in hi.s 
 native town. After his three years' apprentice- 
 ship he was employed as a journeyman. In 
 1 848 he enlisted in the Prussian army as a pri- 
 vate in the Twelfth Company, Twenty-first Regi- 
 ment of Sharpshooters, and served for two years 
 and ten months, at the expiration of which he 
 was discharged. After working at his trade for 
 some years he started for the new world. He 
 left Hamburg on the sailing vessel "Oder" and 
 after a voj-age of six weeks landed in New York, 
 August 24, 1856. He .spent two weeks in New 
 York, then bought a ticket to Chicago, and after 
 paying for the ticket had only seventy-five cents 
 left. Ten days were spent on the emigrant train 
 and when he arrived in Chicago he had only a 
 nickel. Fortunately, his clothes were good, but, 
 unfortunately, he had no tools. He secured 
 lodgings in a State street boarding house, and 
 began a long and wearj- effort to secure emploj'- 
 ment. After two weeks, through the influence 
 of a Russian, he was given work in a lounge- 
 frame factory at $9 a week. Later he worked at 
 the carpenter's trade, and then was in Wright's 
 mower and reaper works. 
 
 In the spring of 1857 Mr. Fischer became a 
 member of the Kansas Town Company. In 
 April twenty-one men started for Kansas and ar- 
 riving in Douglas County laid out Eudora, 
 which was so named in accordance with the re- 
 quest of the Indian, Pascal Fish, who wished it 
 named for his daughter. Mr. Fischer a.ssisted 
 in starting a sawmill, and in it he worked, re- 
 ceiving $2.50 per day. These wages seemed 
 very large to him then, as he had been through 
 so many trying experiences in Chicago that he 
 had learned to value money. However, his 
 prosperity was soon terminated. Hard times 
 came on; he lost his position. Every one was 
 financially distressed, and work was exceedingly 
 difficult to secure. He manufactured stirrups 
 for saddles and, with these fastened on his back. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 he walked to Lawrence, where he sold them. 
 Later, with a partner, he started a sawmill and 
 manufactured native lumber at Eudora for four 
 years. During this time they cut two hundred 
 acres of timber, besides what they bought from 
 loggers. 
 
 During the Civil war our subject raised Com- 
 pany M, Twenty-first Kansas Militia, and was 
 commissioned its captain by Governer Carney. 
 His was the only infantry company in the regi- 
 ment. He participated in the battles during the 
 Price raid in Missouri. On the expiration of the 
 term of service he returned to Eudora. In 1868 
 he settled in Lawrence, where he built an ice 
 house and engaged in a retail ice business, con- 
 tinuing in this until his retirement in 1893. In 
 January, 1894, he became interested in a shoe 
 business which his son had started five years be- 
 fore. January 14, 1894, the Menger Shoe Com- 
 pany was incorporated, with Mr. Fischer as 
 president. Otto Fischer as secretary, treassurer 
 and manager. The following year the firm title 
 was changed to Fischer & Son. The location of 
 the firm is No. 742 Massachusetts street. By 
 his connection with business affairs and by his 
 improvement of business and residence property, 
 Captain Fischer has done much to develop the 
 interests and enlarge the resources of Lawrence. 
 He is a stanch Democrat, an admirer of Bryan, a 
 believer in the silver standard and the income 
 tax, and an enemy to the trusts and monopolies 
 that have gained such power in our country. 
 While in Eudora he served for a term in the 
 town council and after coming to Lawrence he 
 served two years in the city council, representing 
 the fourth ward. He is a member of Washing- 
 ton Post No. 12, G. A. R. 
 
 In Lawrence Captain Fischer married Miss 
 Tekla Menger, who was born in Rudolphstadt, 
 Saxony, Germany, a daughter of Frederick Men- 
 ger, who coming to America, spent a short time 
 in Philadelphia, and in 1857 settled in Douglas 
 County, Kans. His son, Adolph, who was in 
 the regular army for five years and took part in 
 the Civil war, later engaged in the real-estate 
 business in Lawrence. Another son, Ottomar, 
 lives in Philadelphia; a third son, A. G. Men- 
 
 ger, began hi the shoe business in Lawrence in 
 1865 after the Quantrell raid and with his 
 brother, Herman, became the proprietor of a 
 large store. The children of Captain and Mrs. 
 FLscher are as follows: Otto, his father's partner, 
 and councilman from the fourth ward, also a 
 prominent Knight Templar Mason, married Miss 
 Agnes Jadiecke, of Lawrence, and they have 
 two children, Erna and Elfreda; Eda is married 
 and lives in Tonganoxie, Kans.; Carl a.ssists his 
 father in the store; and Anna, the youngest of 
 the family, is at home. 
 
 HORATIO TAWNEY. A stage coach from 
 Douglas to Franklin County had among its 
 passengers in December, 1864, the subject 
 of this sketch. At that time Ottawa was a small 
 hamlet and settlers were few throughout the sur- 
 rounding country; but foreseeing possibilities for 
 good in the region, he bought a farm in Ohio 
 Township, and here he has since made his home, 
 cultivating the one hundred and four acres that 
 comprise the place. As a Republican he has 
 been a local leader of political affairs. For five 
 years he served as township assessor, and for 
 twenty years he was a member of the school 
 board, besides which he served as township 
 clerk. With his family he is identified with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, while fraternally 
 he is a member of Princeton Post No. iii, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 A son of Frederick and Anna (Myers) Taw- 
 ney, our subject was born in Richland County, 
 Ohio, June 7, 1834. His father, who was born 
 near Gettysburg, Pa., removed with his parents 
 to Ohio in boyhood and there he learned the 
 wagon-maker's trade, at which he was employed 
 for several years. Later he bought a farm, which 
 he carried on, at the same time operating a saw 
 mill. In 1875 he sold the place and came to Kan- 
 sas, buying a farm near Ottawa and residing 
 there until the death of his wife in i886. After- 
 ward he made his home with his son Horatio. 
 During the lifetime of the Whig party he sup- 
 ported its principles, and when the Republican 
 party was organized became an adherent of its 
 
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 platform. In religion he was a Methodist. He 
 was born March lo, 1808, and died January 7, 
 1899. His father, Henry Tawney, who, it is 
 thought, was a native of Maryland, spent his life 
 principally in Pennsylvania and Ohio, following 
 the blacksmith's trade and dying at an advanced 
 age. 
 
 The mother of our subject was born in Adams 
 County, Pa., and died in Franklin County, 
 Kans., in 1886. Her father, Henry Myers, who 
 was of German extraction, moved from Pennsyl- 
 vania to Richland County, Ohio, and died there 
 at an advanced age. In religion she was of the 
 Lutheran faith. Of her seven sons and two 
 daughters the following survive: Henry, a resi- 
 dent of Franklin County; Horatio; Caroline, who 
 is in Texas; Francis James; David, a farmer in 
 Cutler Township, Franklin County; Harriet Ma- 
 ria, wife of William K. Easterly, of Williams 
 County, Ohio; and Hiram W., of this county. 
 Cornelius was killed by a horse when thirty- 
 five years of age. Until he was of age our sub- 
 ject remained on the home farm. He then bought 
 forty acres of timber land, .some of which he 
 cleared before entering the armj'. July 29, 1862, 
 he enlisted in Company C, One Hundredth Ohio 
 Infantry, and was assigned to the Twenty-third 
 Army Corps. In 1864 he was promoted from 
 the ranks to be corporal, in which capacity he 
 continued until he was honorably discharged. 
 For some months during the war he was held a 
 prisoner by the Confederates. September 3,1863, 
 while in Texas, he was captured by General Jack- 
 son's men, and from that time until March 13, 
 
 1864, he was held at Libby prison and Belle Isle. 
 Finally he was exchanged and returned to his 
 command. Among the battles in which he took 
 part were those at Franklin, Nashville, Atlanta, 
 Columbia, Limestone Station, Town Creek and 
 the various engagements of the Atlanta cam- 
 paign. He was honorably discharged July 2, 
 
 1865. His brother Francis James served in 
 Company E, Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and 
 their uncle, Abraham, who served in an Indiana 
 regiment, died of wounds received in battle. 
 
 After the war Mr. Tawney returned to his 
 Ohio home, but soon sold his place and moved to 
 
 Kansas, where for a time he worked at the car- 
 penter's trade, in addition to clearing his land. 
 He was married October 16, 1856, to Miss Eliza- 
 beth A. Stinebaugh, who was born near Galion, 
 Ohio, September 23, 1838, a daughter of Jacob 
 and Ellen (Hershier) Stinebaugh. During the 
 Civil war she had four brothers, George D., 
 Henry, Jacob B. and John, who served in the 
 Union army, Henry and Jacob being members of 
 Company E, Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and 
 John, of Company C, One Hundredth Ohio In- 
 fantry. Three of the children of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Tawney died in childhood. Those living are: 
 William A., who is station agent for the Union 
 Pacific Railway at Lincoln Centre, Kans. ; Fran- 
 cis G., a farmer in Ohio Township; Sylvia A., 
 wife of E.J. Murphy; Horatio H., a farmer and 
 cattle-dealer in Ohio Township; Annie E., who 
 married Frederick Smith; Charles S., a farmer of 
 Franklin County; Hattie B., a stenographer in 
 Kansas City, Mo.; Oliver, who is station agent 
 for the Union Pacific Railroad at Palco, Rooks 
 County, Kans.; Minnie M. and James A. G., at 
 home. 
 
 (lUDGE JOHN FERRIS. There is no citi- 
 I zen of Lecompton who has been more active 
 Q) in its educational interests than Judge Ferris. 
 Having had few advantages when he was a boj', 
 and being obliged to acquire his education wholly 
 by self-culture, he realizes more than many the 
 advantages of a good education, and has done all 
 within his power to promote the welfare of the 
 schools of his town. For ten years he acted as a 
 member of the board of trustees of Lane Universi- 
 ty, and during the greater part of this time served 
 upon its executive committee. Since 1882 he has 
 been a member of the school board of Lecompton, 
 and has been instrumental in promoting the in- 
 terests of the schools and advancing the standard 
 of education. 
 
 In County Down, Ireland, our subject was 
 born July 13, 1830, a son of John and Nancy 
 (Campbell) Ferris. He and his sister, Sarah J., 
 who resides on the homestead in Ohio, are the 
 only survivors of seven children comprising the 
 family. His father, who followed the weaver's 
 
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 trade in his native land, emigrated to America in 
 1831. After two years in New York City, the 
 prevalence of that dread disease, cholera, deter- 
 mined him to leave there. With his family he 
 removed to Ohio and .settled in Tuscarawas Coun- 
 ty. After a short time on a farm he went to the 
 county seat, where he made his home until his 
 death. His wife, who was a native of Scotland, 
 accompanied her parents to Ireland when she was 
 a girl. Twenty years after Mr. and Mrs. Ferris 
 settled in America they induced her father, Mr. 
 Campbell, to seek his home in this country, and 
 our subject remembers that after he had crossed 
 the ocean and joined the family in Ohio he said 
 that he had never been ill in bed a whole day in 
 his life, although he was then ninety-five years 
 of age. He died three years later. 
 
 His parents being poor, our subject was early 
 thrown upon his own resources, and was also 
 largely responsible for the maintenance of the 
 family. At sixteen years of age he ran a boat on 
 the Ohio canal, and during the two following 
 years he was an intimate acquaintance of James 
 A. Garfield, who was employed at the same work. 
 After two years he apprenticed himself to the 
 blacksmith's trade in Akron, Ohio, and upon the 
 completion of his time he went to New Philadel- 
 phia, Ohio, where he worked as a journeyman for 
 nine years. During this time, in 1853, he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Ellen Cunning- 
 ham, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. In 
 1857, having lost his health through overappli- 
 cation to his trade, he was advised by physicians 
 to give up blacksmithing and devote himself to 
 outdoor work. With this object in view he mi- 
 grated to Indiana and settled on a farm in Or- 
 ange County. During the summer months he 
 cultivated his land and in winter taught school. 
 In this way he continued for twelve years, with 
 the exception of the time spent in the service of 
 his country. In Februarj^, 1864, he enlisted in 
 Company M, Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, and 
 engaged in fighting the guerillas, taking part in 
 many skirmishes. His original enlistment had 
 been in Company F, composed of friends and 
 those who had been his pupils in school. But 
 owing to sickness he was uuable to be mustered 
 
 into the service with the others, and when he 
 joined them he found his company full, so he was 
 assigned to Company M, composed of strangers. 
 He took part in the battles of Nashville and 
 Franklin, the Davis raid and the capture of Mo- 
 bile. He was mustered out of the service at 
 Vicksburg in November, 1865, and was honora- 
 bly discharged at Indianapolis, Ind. On his re- 
 turn to Indiana he resumed farming and teach- 
 ing. 
 
 In 1869 he came to Kansas and settled one 
 mile southeast of Leconipton, where he leased 
 land from Col. William M. Nace, residing there 
 for two years. He then removed to the home in 
 Lecompton where he has since resided. Shortly 
 after settling here he was elected justice of the 
 peace and served in the office for six j'ears. For 
 four years after coming to town he continued 
 farming, but the grasshopper scourge of 1874 and 
 1875 destroyed his crops and discouraged him 
 completely with farming. After losing his sec- 
 ond crop in 1875 he was left with a debt on his 
 home and no means. For two years he engaged 
 in railroading, working as a section hand, after 
 which he was made foreman of the section, and 
 worked in this capacity for five years. He re- 
 signed when he was offered a position in the 
 water service at Lecompton, a position which he 
 filled one year, but being crippled through an 
 accident, was obliged to resign. Since then he 
 has not been able to actively engage in any busi- 
 ness. After the expiration of his term as justice 
 of the peace he was elected police magistrate of 
 L,ecompton and served in this office for nine 
 years. Upon refusing to serve longer he was 
 elected city attorney, which position he still 
 holds. 
 
 Politically Judge Ferris has always been an 
 ardent supporter of the Republican party. He 
 is a man of earnest Christian character, and has 
 from youth been interested in church and Sun- 
 day-school work, being an active member of the 
 United Brethren Church. He has often acted as 
 arbiter in disputes between his neighbors, and in 
 frequent instances has been the confidant of both 
 parties involved. His known integrity and jus- 
 tice of character have made him respected among 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his associates. He and his wife became the par- 
 ents of nine children, but only four are now liv- 
 ing, namely: Marj' E., wife of Dr. E. B. Packer, 
 of Osage City, Kans.; Ellen, who married Dr. 
 R. O. Loggan, of Philomath, Ore.; William L., 
 who is connected with the Santa Fe Railroad; 
 and Joseph H., who is engaged in railroading in 
 Colorado. 
 
 0EORGE P. WASHBURN, of Ottawa, is a 
 I— member of a family that made a record for 
 ^JJ valor and devotion to the Union during the 
 Civil war. At the opening of that conflict his 
 father, P. S. Washburn, raised a company of 
 volunteers and was commissioned first lieutenant 
 of Company H, Twenty-first Missouri Infantry, 
 after which he served with recognized bravery 
 until he was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, 
 Aprils, 1862. The effects of the wound were so 
 serious that he was disabled for further sendee 
 and obliged to resign. He never recovered from 
 the injury, but after twenty years of suffering, 
 died in 1882. The oldest son, A. M. Washburn, 
 with a patriotic loyalty that belonged to him by 
 inheritance and training, enlisted in Company H, 
 Twenty-first Missouri Infantrj-, of which his fa- 
 ther was a commissioned officer. During Price's 
 raid, in the fall of 1864, he was killed by the 
 Confederates near Lexington, Mo., and now rests 
 in an unknown grave. The .second son, who 
 forms the subject of this sketch, accompanied his 
 father, whom he assisted in the management of 
 his affairs and outfit while at the front. When 
 his father was wounded at Shiloh he brought him 
 to St. Louis, where, in August, he was honor- 
 ably discharged. In the fall of 1863 the j-oung 
 man had his first experience as an enlisted soldier. 
 At that time he volunteered in the company of 
 which his father had been an officer, and joined 
 his regiment at Vicksburg, later taking part in 
 the expedition up the Red River under General 
 Banks, and participating in the battle of Sabine 
 Cross Roads and other engagements on the home- 
 ward route. His next expedition was into Mis- 
 sissippi, for there-inforcement of General Sturgis 
 against General Forrest in the battle of Guntowu. 
 
 After his return to Memphis he again accom- 
 panied an expedition to Missis-sippi and took part 
 in the battle of Tupelo. In September he was 
 ordered to St. Louis, and from there went to de- 
 fend the west against Price. He took part in the 
 battle of the Big Blue and various skirmishes. 
 It was during this raid that his brother was killed 
 from ambush. After Price retreated he was 
 ordered to St. Louis and thence to Nashville, 
 where he arrived about the same time with Gen- 
 eral Thomas. He was present at the battle of 
 Nashville and the siege of Mobile, Ala., also 
 witnessed the taking of Spanish Fort and Fort 
 Blakely, together with other fortifications. After 
 the fall of Mobile his command under Gen. A. J. 
 Smith started for Montgomery, Ala., but when 
 halfway to that city received word of Lee's sur- 
 render, and on that account were ordered back 
 to Mobile, thence detailed to go to Fort Morgan 
 for the winter. He was mustered out of service 
 at St. Louis, in April, 1866. Nor were he, his 
 brother and father the only members of the fam- 
 ily in this company. His uncle, Wilbur Davis, 
 was a sergeant and served actively until he was 
 killed at Nashville. 
 
 George Washburn removed from Brown Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, to Ripley County, Ind., in an early 
 day. He was of German parentage and spoke 
 no language but German. His son, Cornelius 
 Washburn, died on the farm on White Oak Creek, 
 twenty miles northea.st of Ripley, Brown County, 
 in 1821, at thirty-six years; his wife died at Cov- 
 ington, Ky.,in 1856, aged sixty -seven, her death 
 resulting from an accidental fall down the stairs 
 of her home. P. S., son of Cornelius Washburn, 
 was a leading architect and contractor in Coving- 
 ton, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio. October 20, 
 1840, he married Hannah C. Boyce, who died at 
 Fairmont, Clark County, Mo., May 5, 1858. 
 Becoming the owner of large tracts of land in 
 Clark County, Mo., he removed there in 1857, 
 and continued to reside there until his death. 
 He had six children, viz.: Ellen, who died in 
 i860; A.M.; George P. ; Charles C. , a contractor, 
 of Mount Pulaski, 111.; Belle, who died in 1870; 
 and Mrs. Tillie Thompson, of Ottawa, Kans. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Brown 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 4? 3 
 
 County, Ohio, March 21, 1846, and was reared 
 in Covington, K3'., until 1857, after which he 
 li%'ed on a farm in Missouri. After his return 
 from the war he attended school in Fairmont one 
 year, and then spent two years in Quincj', 111., 
 learning the carpenter's trade. Meantime he 
 studied mathematics, drawing and architecture 
 in the evening school at Bryant & Stratton's 
 Commercial College, from which he graduated. 
 He was employed as journeyman in central Illi- 
 nois and finally settled at Mount Pulaski, where 
 he engaged in contracting and building. In 1878 
 he removed to Kansas City, where he was em- 
 ployed as architect and superintendent for Cross 
 & Taylor. He had charge of the building of 
 the Atchison Union depot, the Denver Union de- 
 pot, the union depot at Peoria, 111., and other im- 
 portant railroad buildings. On the death of Mr. 
 Taylor he returned to the main office of the firm 
 in Kansas City, and continued there until the 
 spring of 1882, when he came to Ottawa. Under 
 Governors Martin and Humphrey he was for six 
 years architect for the state board of charities, and 
 built several state institutions, among them the 
 industrial school for girls, additions to the reform 
 school at Topeka and blind institution at Kansas 
 City. Meantime he continued his business at 
 Ottawa. He was architect and had charge of 
 the building of the court house at Ottawa, which 
 is one of the finest in the state. He was architect 
 of the court house at Atchison, which cost $100,- 
 000; the court house, county infirmary and jail 
 in Johnson County; the court house in Miami 
 County, Kans. ; and the court house and jail in 
 Woodson County. Besides these Kansas build- 
 ings he built the court house in Pittsfield, 111., 
 and a $40,ooojail at Logansport, Ind. Many of 
 the finest business blocks and residences in the 
 state have been erected under his superintend- 
 ence. He was architect for the Baptist Church, 
 First National Bank and all the school buildings 
 in Ottawa, also the Baker University buildings in 
 Baldwin. His contracts have always been carried 
 out in a business-like and trustworthy manner, 
 and no architect in the state stands higher than 
 he. Since 1885 he has been a fellow of the 
 American Institute of Architects, and has at- 
 
 tended all of their annual conventions since that 
 time. He has his office at No. 413 South Main 
 street, Ottawa. 
 
 In February, 1870, at Niantic, 111., Mr. Wash- 
 burn married Alice, daughter of C. A. Sponsler, 
 who removed from her native cit}% Springfield, 
 111., to Ottawa, Kans., where he followed the 
 architectural business. They are the parents of 
 four children. The oldest. Pearl, is a fine musi- 
 cian and well-educated lady; she is now the wife 
 of Rev. J. C. Coggins, pastor of the Christian 
 Church at Independence, Kans., and a fine scholar 
 and excellent speaker. The older son, C. A., 
 is studying architecture under his father. The 
 youngest children are named Hazel and George 
 Thomas. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Washburn is connected with 
 the Masons and the lodge and encampment of 
 Odd Fellows. He is active in the work of the 
 George H. Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R., in 
 Ottawa, and has represented it in the state en- 
 campment, also in the national encampment at 
 Milwaukee. He is also connected with the Kan- 
 sas Commandery of L,oyal Legion. In religion 
 be is a member of the Christian Church. Politi- 
 cally he has always supported Republican prin- 
 ciples, and has represented his party in local 
 committees and state conventions. He stands 
 high among the citizens of Ottawa, where he has 
 a reputation for liberality and enterprise, as well 
 as for success in his chosen business. 
 
 EHARLES F. GREEVER, of Leavenworth, 
 city engineer, was born four miles north of 
 Savannah, Andrew County, Mo., August 
 10, 1864, a son of George W. and Sarah (Porter- 
 field) Greever, natives of Virginia. His mater- 
 nal grandfather, John Porterfield, was the son of 
 a Revolutionary soldier, of English descent, and 
 was a planter in Virginia. The paternal grand- 
 father, Leonidas Greever, also a planter in the 
 Old Dominion, was the son of Hiram Greever, a 
 native of Scotland, who was a colonial settler of 
 Virginia, a planter by occupation, and in religion 
 a Presbyterian. During the Revolution he served 
 in the American army. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The boyhood days of George W. Greever were 
 spent in the home of his uncle, Hon. Hiram 
 Greever, who was for eighteen years a member 
 of the state senate of Virginia and was strong in 
 opposing the secession of the southern states. 
 When he was twenty-two years of age he re- 
 moved to Ohio and was employed as a book- 
 keeper in Dayton. He returned to Virginia to 
 marry Miss Porterfield. In 1854 he settled upon 
 a farm in Andrew County, Mo., and afterward 
 became a member of the firm of Greever & Beaty, 
 who were the first to establish a pork-packing 
 business in Savannah. He was opposed to slavery 
 and stanch in his adherence to the Union. His 
 younger brother, Addison, was lieutenant-colonel 
 on General Lee's staff, but he cast his fortunes 
 in with the Union army, raising a company for 
 the Eleventh Missouri Infantry. He served for 
 four years in the west and southwest as captain 
 of his company. When his brother, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Greever, was imprisoued at Columbus 
 he went there, secured his release and brought 
 him to Missouri, where he kept him until the 
 war was over. Being thoroughly opposed to 
 slavery, he had set his slaves free at the opening 
 of the war and employed help whom he paid by 
 the day. 
 
 At the close of the war Captain Greever bought 
 a farm near Newmarket, Mo., which he operated 
 until 1868, and then removed to Wyandotte 
 County, Kans., twelve miles south of Leaven- 
 worth, where he cultivated a farm. In 1882 he 
 moved to Tonganoxie Township, Leavenworth 
 County, and there he died July 3, 1891, at sixty- 
 three years of age. For eight years he had been 
 a member of the lower house of the Kansas legis- 
 lature, elected on the Democratic ticket. He 
 organized and was president of the Kansas Trot- 
 ting Horse Breeders' Association. He brought 
 from Lexington, Ky., the first standard-bred 
 horses that were ever in Wyandotte County, and 
 these he continued to raise on his farm as long as 
 he lived. Some of them acquired a wide reputa- 
 tion in racing circles. In 188S he brought out 
 three head of the best breed from Kentucky. 
 One of these he was driving when he met his 
 death. The horse turned a corner so rapidly 
 
 that he was thrown into a wire fence and received 
 injuries from which he died two hours later. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Greever died in Wyandotte County 
 in 1875. She was the mother of five children, 
 viz. : William S. , a farmer of Cowley County, 
 Kans.; James P., who died in Wyandotte Coun- 
 t}-; John B., a farmer in Leavenworth County; 
 Charles F.; and Mrs. Sarah E. Allan, of Reno, 
 Leavenworth County. The subject of this sketch 
 grew to manhood in Kansas. In 18S2 he at- 
 tended the Palmer Academy, and a year later 
 became a student in the Friends' Academy in 
 Tonganoxie. During 1884-89 he attended Camp- 
 bell University at Holton, where he completed 
 the regular university course. Meantime he had 
 spent a year with an engineering corps of Kansas 
 City. In April, 1889, he went to Oklahoma with 
 the engineering department of the Denison & 
 Washetaw Valle}^ Railroad Company, with whom 
 he remained until the surveying had been com- 
 pleted. Returning home in July, 1889, he spent 
 four months there, and then went to Denison, 
 Tex., where he was first assistant engineer iu 
 charge of construction of sewer work of twelve 
 miles in Denison. He also completed the rapid 
 transit railway of Denison, later had charge of 
 the construction of a wagon bridge across the 
 Red River at Denison. Returning home in April, 
 1 89 1, he took charge of his father's affairs from 
 that time until January, 1892, when he was ap- 
 pointed county engineer of Leavenworth County 
 by the board of commissioners. He contiimed 
 to hold the position constantly until August i, 
 1897, when his resignation was accepted, but on 
 the I St of January, 1898, he was again appointed 
 to the office. From 1893 to 1895 he served as 
 county surveyor, to which office he was elected 
 on the Democratic ticket. April 21, 1897, the 
 mayor appointed him city engineer, and since 
 that year he has al.so been chief engineer of the 
 Leavenworth & Lansing Electric Railway Com- 
 pany, in the laying out of which road he was in- 
 terested from the start. With his brother he is 
 interested in farming and the breeding of fine 
 horses, and at the head of his stable has Owray, 
 by Onward. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Greever is a member of the 
 
JACOB H. ROTHEN'BKRGER. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 487 
 
 Masonic lodge in Leavenworth. He was made a 
 Mason in Henry Lodge No. 190, A. F. & A. M., 
 at Tonganoxie, and had the distinction of being 
 the youngest master of that lodge. He is also 
 connected with the chapter Masons. In politics 
 he has always been firm in his allegiance to the 
 Democratic party. He has frequently been a 
 member of the county central committee. In 
 1896 he served as a member of the state central 
 committee, and he has been a delegate to state, 
 congressional and county conventions. He is a 
 warm admirer of Senator W. A. Harris, of Leav- 
 enworth County, whose candidacy for the senate 
 he actively promoted in 1S97. 
 
 (Jacob H. ROTHENBERGER, proprietor 
 I of the Pioneer Cooper Works, is one of the 
 G/ oldest business men of Leavenworth. July 
 I, 1859, he opened a shop on the corner of Main 
 and Choctaw streets, where he remained for 
 eighteen months, later removing to Choctaw 
 street, between Fourth and Fifth. In 1864 he 
 bought property on Sixth street and built the 
 works which now extend from Short to Oak 
 street, a depth of two hundred and twenty-five 
 feet, and a frontage of one hundred and thirty- 
 five feet. Not only is this the oldest, but also one 
 of the largest cooper shops in Kansas. During 
 early days he manufactured barrels out of rough 
 lumber, but now uses the machinery process. 
 Besides his shop he owns other property, includ- 
 ing farm land in Alexandria Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, and is also interested in other en- 
 terprises. 
 
 • A Republican in politics, Mr. Rothenberger 
 was for three terms councilman from the third 
 ward, and for one term served as president of the 
 council, being acting mayor during the absence 
 of the mayor. During 1891 and 1892 he served 
 for nineteen months as chief of police of Leaven- 
 worth. In 1893 he was elected county sheriff on 
 the Republican ticket, and at the expiration of 
 his term was re-elected by a large majority, serv- 
 ing from January, 1894, to January, 1898. Dur- 
 ing his service he quelled a mob of striking min- 
 ers who had come from Rich Hill, Mo., intending 
 20 
 
 to force the Leavenworth mines to stop work. 
 Through his wise management trouble was 
 averted and the miners were sent home to their 
 side of the river. During the Civil war he was 
 a member of a militia company that was called 
 out during the Price raid. In 1861, when Leav- 
 enworth was threatened, he took thirteen men 
 from the Turner's Society to Fort Leavenworth 
 for enlistment; the first company raised here for 
 service was composed of Germans, but by mistake 
 it was made Company I in the First Kansas In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Mr. Rothenberger was born in Rheinpfalz, Ba- 
 varia, Germany, August 8, 1833, a son of Henry 
 Lawrence and Elizabeth (Schumacher) Rothen- 
 berger, also natives of Bavaria. His father, who 
 was a guide in the French army, had been cap- 
 tured by the French and forced to serve in that 
 capacity. By trade he was a cooper and brewer. 
 In 1857 he came to America and settled in Des 
 Moines County, Iowa, thence came to Leaven- 
 worth, whete he died. His wife also died here. 
 Of their three children, two sons, Jacob H. and 
 John, are living. The latter, who was a soldier 
 in the First Iowa Infantry, is now a farmer in 
 Delaware Township. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the cooper's 
 trade under his father. In 1851 he left Havre in 
 the sailer "Bavaria," which anchored in New 
 York after a voyage of thirty-five days. For 
 three years he was employed at the cooper's trade 
 in New York. In 1854 he settled in Burlington, 
 Iowa. At the time of the Pike's Peak excitement, 
 in 1859, he started west with a party, traveling 
 via ox-team to Kearney, but they met so many 
 people returning and the reports were so discour- 
 aging, that he became discouraged and went to 
 Nebraska City. Thence became to Leavenworth, 
 where he worked at his trade for a short time, 
 and then opened a shop of his own. In this city 
 he married Catherine, daughter of Theodore 
 Herboldsheimer, and a native of Bavaria; she 
 came to America with her father, who settled at 
 Junction City, Kans., but later removed to To- 
 peka. Mr. and Mrs. Rothenberger became the 
 parents of eleven children, of whom the following 
 survive; Ida, wife of George W. Kaufmann, of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Leavenworth; Agnes, Catherine, Elizabeth, Ed- 
 ward and Otto; Mary died in 1895; Charles in 
 1892; and three died in infancy. 
 
 For many years Mr. Rothenberger was presi- 
 dent of the German-English school board; about 
 twelve years he was president of the Turners' 
 Society of this city, and for four years he was 
 president of the German-American Publishing 
 Company, which published the Leavenworth 
 Frcie Pressc. Fraternally he is a past officer in 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; was for 
 fourteen years master of exchequer in the 
 Knights of Pythias and a member of the Uniform 
 Rank; is past president of the Order of Foresters 
 and the Sons of Herman; and is financier in the 
 lodge of United Workmen, which he has repre- 
 sented in the grand lodge at different times. 
 
 IILLIAM H. GILL, who was one of the 
 early .settlers of Kansas, owns three hun- 
 dred acres of farming land 'in Douglas 
 County and resides in Palmyra Township. He 
 was born in Cornwall, England, July i, 1832, 
 and was ten years of age when, in 1842, his 
 father, Richard Gill, crossed the ocean to estab- 
 lish his home in America. The family settled in 
 Missouri, but in two years removed to Galena, 
 111., and there the father was interested in lead 
 mines until 1867. During the latter year he 
 brought the family to Kansas, and bought a 
 house and lot in Baldwin, where he settled and 
 spent the remainder of his life in retirement from 
 business cares. In religion he was identified 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church and in poli- 
 tics voted with the Republican party, but, being 
 a man of quiet, retiring disposition, never took 
 an active part either in religious or political af- 
 fairs. His death occurred when he was eighty 
 years of age. In early manhood he married 
 Mary Glanville, who was born in England and 
 traced her ancestry back to the early days of that 
 country. She died in Baldwin when seventy- 
 eight years of age. 
 
 The family of which our subject was the 
 third consisted of eight children. The eldest, 
 Sophia, is the widow of Richard Stephens, of 
 
 Palmyra Township. Mary G. is the widow of 
 Stephen R. Elwell, also of this township. Eliza- 
 beth Ann married Brazilla Dunn and lives in 
 Oregon. Richard G., who came to Kansas in 
 1856 to ascertain the whereabouts of our subject, 
 then a prisoner, took up a pre-emption claim in 
 Douglas Count}- and resided here for several 
 years. During the war he was pressed into the 
 Confederate army, but deserted at the first oppor- 
 tunity, not being in sympathy with that cause. 
 His last years were spent in Arkansas, where he 
 died at fifty-two years. John G. is engaged in 
 farming in Franklin County, Kans. Emma was 
 first married to Charles Chetlan, and after his 
 death became the wife of Col. Charles Adams. 
 Katie married Lorenzo Graves and died at forty 
 years of age. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our subject left 
 the home of his parents and went to St. Louis, 
 Mo. He attended the Desperes Academy twelve 
 miles from that city for a time and also taught a 
 school near there. Later he taught in Iowa 
 County, Wis. , for three years, after which he was 
 a student in the Lawrence University at Apple- 
 ton, Wis. However, on account of trouble with 
 his eyes, he was obliged to discontinue his studies. 
 During the border ruffian excitement he came to 
 Kansas, in July, 1856, via Nebraska City, where 
 he met a company of emigrants under Colonel 
 Eldridge, and with them he proceeded as far as 
 Topeka. While he was there he responded to a 
 call for volunteers and on the same day started 
 to hunt a gang of ruffians, overtook and fought 
 them, then went to Lecompton. Next he pro- 
 ceeded to Lawrence, where he was stationed for 
 some time. He took part in the Hickory Point 
 fight with the border ruffians, and the next day, 
 while returning to Lawrence, he and the other 
 members of his company were captured by a com- 
 pany of United States troops and held prisoners 
 for about three months. On being released he 
 returned to Lawrence, where he was employed in 
 putting up ice and in operating a shingle 
 machine. 
 
 In February, 1857, Mr. Gill pre-empted a claim 
 and began the improvement of the land. He re- 
 tained the property for several years, not dispos- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 489 
 
 ing of it until after his marriage. In 1858 he re- 
 turned to Illinois, where he taught two terras of 
 school. Later he taught again in Wisconsin. 
 In 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company B, 
 Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered 
 in as first lieutenant. The captain of the com- 
 pany being always on detached duty, our sub- 
 ject had command of the company the greater 
 part of the time. At Frankfort, Ky., he served 
 as post commandant. Quantrell was captured 
 by his regiment and died while held a prisoner 
 by it in Louisville, Ky. After a service of three 
 years and three months our subject was honor- 
 ably discharged, the war having closed. Upon 
 being discharged he returned to Kansas and has 
 since made his home in Douglas Count3^ Po- 
 litically he always supports Republican prin- 
 ciples. He is a member of the Grange and also 
 belongs to Seth Kelley Post No. 410, G. A. R., 
 of Vinland. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Gill united him with Mrs. 
 Mattie V. (Cutter) Kelley, widow of Seth Kelley. 
 She was born in Massachusetts and came to Kan- 
 sas in an early day. By her first marriage she 
 has one son, George Kelley. The two daughters 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Gill are Helen Gertrude and 
 Mary Glanville. Mrs. Gill is a lady of culture 
 and took an active part in the establishment of a 
 public library at Vinland. In religious connec- 
 tions she and her son and the two daughters are 
 Presbyterians, while Mr. Gill is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 J LBERT BALES. The character of the soil 
 ^ of Leavenworth County is such that various 
 ^ branches of agriculture may be followed 
 with a reasonable hope of success. Accordingly, 
 some men have interested themselves in the 
 stock business, for which the fine pasture lands 
 afford an excellent opening; some have engaged 
 in raising corn and wheat; some have made a 
 specialty of the apple business, and others have 
 given attention to the raising of small fruits. 
 Mr. Bales has made the potato business his spe- 
 cialty, and the remarkable success with which he 
 has met proves that he did not err in judg- 
 
 ment in taking up this line of work. In 
 1890 he purchased a farm in the Kaw bottom in 
 Sherman Township. The place consisted of one 
 hundred and seventy acres, which he at once 
 planted to potatoes. Since then he has made 
 many improvements on the farm, among them 
 being the erection of a substantial country home. 
 He has also added to his property and now owns 
 two hundred and twenty acres, of which about 
 one hundred acres are planted in potatoes. Dur- 
 ing the season he makes large shipments to the 
 markets. His success has encouraged others to 
 engage in the business. Realizing the value of 
 concerted action, he has labored to secure an or- 
 ganization of potato growers in this locality. 
 Largely through his influence the Kansas Produce 
 Growers' and Dealers' Association was organ- 
 ized, the object of which is to encourage the 
 growing of better crops and the securing of more 
 satisfactory arrangements for marketing; and he 
 has served as president of the society. 
 
 Mr. Bales was born in Greene County, Tenn., 
 in 1856, a son of Abner and Cerena (Pierce) 
 Bales. His grandfather, Jacob Bales, was a na- 
 tive of Sullivan County, Tenn., and a life-long 
 resident and farmer in that county, where he was 
 a man of considerable prominence. In religion 
 he was of the Quaker faith. He died in 1875, 
 when eighty-seven years of age. He was a de- 
 scendant of one of three brothers who came to- 
 gether from England and settled in Virginia. 
 Abner Bales was a farmer of Greene County and 
 also, prior to the Civil war, engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of linseed oil and of boots and shoes. 
 Reared in the Quaker religion, and a firm be- 
 liever in the doctrines of that society, he believed 
 wars to be wicked and Godless; hence he refused 
 to take any part in the Civil war. However, his 
 sympathies were with the Union. He died at his 
 home in Greene County in 1863, when fifty years 
 of age. His wife died at the age of sixty-two. 
 They were the parents of eleven children, all but 
 two of whom are still living. They are: Mary, 
 widow of Frank Patterson; Louisa, the wife of 
 Robert Corder; Newton; Jacob; George; Caro- 
 line, who married Jacob Grimm; Thomas, Elbert 
 and Nathan. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In 1873 the subject of this sketch left his home 
 ill Tennessee and moved to Grant County, lud. 
 In the fall of 1877 he settled in Kansas City, 
 Kans., where he was etuployed for four years. 
 In the spring of 1882 he began growing potatoes 
 in Wilder, Kans., where he remained for two 
 years, and afterward he spent seven years in the 
 same business at Edwardsville. In 1890 he pur- 
 chased the property which, with its subsequent 
 additions of land, comprises his present home. 
 Politically he is a Democrat, and keeps well 
 posted concerning public questions. For several 
 years he has been a member of the school board 
 and one of the active workers in promoting the 
 interests of his district .school. He is identified 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church and a con- 
 tributor to its support. His first wife, whom he 
 married in 1884, bore the maiden name of Laura 
 Wilson; she died in January, 1886. Afterward 
 he was united in marriage with Letha Olive 
 Pipes, by whom he has four children: Lennie, 
 Beulah, Florence and Helen. 
 
 ISAAC F. HUGHES, chairman of the board 
 of county commissioners and a successful 
 merchant of Lawrence, was born in Glou- 
 cester County, N. J., July 29, i86i, a son of Will- 
 iam M. and Sarah S. (Abraham) Hughes, 
 natives of New Jersey. His father, who was a 
 member of an old family of that state, engaged in 
 farming there until 1868, when he settled upon a 
 farm in Reno Township, Leavenworth County, 
 Kans., and there he made his home during the 
 remainder of his life. While on a visit to the 
 Centennial Exposition he died at the Hughes 
 home in Philadelphia. He was then sixty-eight 
 years of age. His wife died at North Lawrence, 
 April I, 1898, at the age of seventy-nine years. 
 They were the parents of eight children, viz.: 
 Robert W. , who was a member of a New Jersey 
 regiment during the Civil war, and is now con- 
 nected with the Santa Fe road in Newton, Kans. ; 
 Mrs. Mary K. Southern, of Manchester, Eng- 
 land; William A., who was an engineer on a 
 ferry running between Philadelphia and Camden, 
 and died in the latter city in 1895; Mrs. Emma 
 
 Hogbin, of Hamilton County, Kans.; G. C, who 
 is in his brother's store in Lawrence; James J., 
 of Tehama County, Cal.; Charles W., who re- 
 sides in Portland, Ore.; and Isaac F. 
 
 The last-named was seven years of age at the 
 time the family settled in Kansas. He attended 
 a school in Reno Township, also spent four win- 
 ters in the Lawrence school and in the business 
 college. In 1879 he entered the employ of S. B. 
 Pierson in order to learn the milling business, 
 and remained in the same place for more than 
 six years, meantime thoroughly learning the 
 trade. He then became manager and head miller 
 in Babcock's mill in North Lawrence, and con- 
 tinued in the same place after it become the prop- 
 erty of another gentleman and was transformed 
 into a flour mill. In February, 1893, he em- 
 barked in the grocery business, beginning on a 
 small scale on Locust street. In June of the 
 same 3'ear he took in Edward B. Pine as a part- 
 ner and enlarged the business. Since June, 1894, 
 he has occupied the building at No. 187 Bridge 
 street, to which, in 1896, he built an addition at 
 the north end, and began to deal also in meats 
 and provisions. In Januaiy, 1899, he invested 
 $1,600 in groceries, flour and feed, and also added 
 fresh and salt meats and market produce to his 
 stock. His success has been remarkable, espec- 
 ially' when it is considered that at eighteen he 
 began to work at $4 a week, and had not a dollar 
 besides what he earned. His industry and in- 
 telligence, however, soon made him a valuable 
 workman, and at the time he began in business 
 for himself he had been able to save a nice little 
 capital to invest in business. He is popular 
 among his customers and by energy and accu- 
 racy has built up a large trade. 
 
 Mr. Hughes was married in Trenton, Mo., 
 October 17, 1891, to Miss Lizzie Griffitts, who 
 was born in Jefferson Countj-, Kans., the daugh- 
 ter of an old settler of that county. They have 
 four children: Herbert; Earl, who is the young- 
 est boy in the Lawrence high school; Ray and 
 Fay (twins), four years of age. The family are 
 connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 in which Mr. Hughes is a member of the board 
 of trustees. In politics he is a Republican. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 491 
 
 the fall of 1893 he was elected to the board of 
 county commissioners of Douglas County and 
 was re-elected in 1896, to serve until January, 
 1900. He is now serving his second term as 
 chairman of the board. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A.M.; 
 charter member and past officer in the local 
 lodge, A. O. U. W., in which he has been finan- 
 cier for years; a charter member of the Fraternal 
 Aid, Modern Woodmen and Order of Pyramids, 
 and is also identified with the Degree of Honor. 
 
 [cJEORGE WASHINGTON SEYMOUR. 
 I— Throughout a long and active life, much 
 VJ of which was passed in Leavenworth Coun- 
 ty, Mr. Seymour maintained a reputation for in- 
 tegrity and manly worth, as well as for energy 
 in his chosen occupation of farming. In 1861 he 
 settled permanently in Kansas, establishing his 
 home on land in Kickapoo Township, which he 
 had purchased in 1857. In 1866 he sold that 
 place and bought eighty acres where his family 
 still reside. Here he engaged in raising grain and 
 stock, adding to his land until his possessions ag- 
 gregated one hundred and twenty acres. He 
 erected the first store building at Boling Station 
 and put in a stock of merchandise. The old 
 house that stood on his farm he replaced with a 
 commodious residence, containing all the modern 
 improvements. Always interested in local affairs 
 he did his part toward the advancement of his 
 township and county. For eighteen years he 
 served as justice of the peace, to which ofiice he 
 was first appointed to fill a vacancy and which he 
 continued to fill by election. His decisions as 
 justice were thoughtfully and wisely rendered 
 and very few of them were ever reversed in the 
 higher courts. For years he was identified with 
 the Masonic order. In religion he was a member 
 of the Christian Church and a contributor to its 
 maintenance. 
 
 Mr. Seymour was born in Granger County, 
 Tenn., February 25, 1S13, and died in Leaven- 
 worth County, Kans., August 17, 1895, at the 
 age of eighty-two years. He engaged in farming 
 there until 1838, when he removed to Missouri 
 
 and took up a claim near St. Joseph. During 
 that year he visited Kansas, stopping at Fort 
 Leavenworth for a short time. In 1853 he sold 
 his Missouri claim and went to Williamson Coun- 
 ty, Tex., where he gave his attention to the stock 
 business. In 1857 he brought a drove of mules 
 to Kansas and at that time he bought land in 
 Kickapoo Township. Returning to Texas the 
 next year he remained there until 1861, when, on 
 account of his sympathies with the Union, that 
 section of country became undesirable for a resi- 
 dence. He then came to Kansas and established 
 his home permanently in Leavenworth County. 
 In politics he was a Democrat, but he favored 
 the Civil war and the abolition of slavery. 
 
 By his first marriage Mr. Seymour had six 
 children, all but two of whom are still living. 
 June 28, 1845, he married Mrs. Susan M. Rus- 
 sell, daughter of Isaac Gann, and a native of 
 Washington County, Tenn. Of the nine chil- 
 dren born to them, seven are living, viz. : Mar- 
 garet, who is married and lives in St. Louis; 
 Samuel A., who is a farmer in High Prairie 
 Township; Ann Eliza, who is married and lives 
 in Wyandotte County, Kans.; George W., a cat- 
 tleman in the Indian Territory; William A., a 
 farmer of Leavenworth County; Albert J., of 
 Kansas City, Mo. ; and Robert L. , who has charge 
 of the home farm and the store at Boling. 
 
 (TOHN GILMORE first came to Kansas in 
 I 1855, traveling through the territory with 
 (2/ Governor Robinson and Messrs. Hill and 
 Whitman on a tour of inspection. The following 
 year he spent a short time in Duluth, Minn., 
 with a view to locating there, but decided that 
 Kansas offered greater inducements. In 1857 he 
 came to Lawrence for the second time, and here 
 he engaged in the hardware and tinware business 
 with a partner under the firm name of Allen & 
 Gilmore, their connection continuing until i860. 
 On dissolving the partnership he went to Colo- 
 rado, and from there in the fall of i860 returned 
 east, spending the winter in Indiana. In the 
 spring of 1861 he returned to Douglas County, 
 Kans., and purchased one hundred and sixty 
 
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 acres on the Kaw bottom, five miles east of Law- 
 rence, where he has since engaged in the stock 
 and farming business. He is one of the promi- 
 nent agriculturists of Eudora Township, and is 
 making a specialty of raising fine cattle and 
 horses. Since he first came here he has added to 
 his property until he is now the owner of one 
 thousand acres of rich bottom land, on which he 
 raises various cereals and potatoes. In 1874 he 
 was one of the incorporators of the Lawrence 
 packing hou.se, in which he continued to be a 
 stockholder for some time. 
 
 In Genesee County, N. Y., our subject was 
 born November 27, 1832, asonof James Gilraore, 
 who was a native of Washington County, N. Y., 
 and spent his entire active life as a farmer in the 
 Empire state. He made a specialty of stock- 
 raising, in which he was extensively engaged for 
 that day. In politics he was an old-line Whig 
 and took an active part in local affairs. His death 
 occurred in Livingston County, N. Y., in 1882, 
 when he was eighty-six years old. He was a 
 son of James Gilmore, St., who was born in 
 Washington County and for years successfully 
 carried on farm pursuits there. The family de- 
 .scended from Colonel Gilmore, an officer under 
 General Washington. The first of the name in 
 this country came from England or Scotland and 
 settled in New York prior to the Revolutionary 
 war. 
 
 B3' the marriage of James Gilmore, Jr. , to Marj' 
 Green, who was born in New York and died there 
 in 1853, at the age of fifty-three, there were born 
 five children, three of whom survive, viz. : Thom- 
 as, of Livingston Countj', N. Y.; Sarah Mary, 
 widow of Judge S. O. Thatcher, of Lawrence; 
 and John. The last-named was reared on a farm 
 in Livingston County and was educated in com- 
 mon schools and Alfred College at Baker's Bridge, 
 N. Y. In 1847-48 he spent some time with his 
 grandfather in Indiana. From there he came to 
 Kansas. During the long period of his residence 
 in the .same locality he has witnessed manj- 
 changes and has been a contributor to enterprises 
 for the benefit of the people of his township and 
 county. While he has never cared for political 
 prominence, he has always kept po-Sted concern- 
 
 ing national problems and has been a stanch sup- 
 porter of Republican principles. In 1856 he 
 married Miss Susannah C. Odell, of Indiana. 
 They have five children, namely: Annie O., who 
 is with her parents; Solon T., an attornej' in 
 Kansas City; Mary G., a teacher in the Colorado 
 Springs .schools; Josephine, a teacher in Eudora; 
 and Nydia, wife of Thomas J. Hughes, of Okla- 
 homa. 
 
 HOMAS DYER. The farming interests of 
 Mr. Dyer are mainly connected with the 
 county of Douglas. He is the owner of a 
 valuable farm of three hundred and twenty acres 
 in Willow Springs Township, one hundred and 
 sixtj' acres of which was the homestead of his 
 father. Besides this he has three hundred and 
 sixty acres in Franklin County, across the line 
 from Douglas, all of which is improved; and he 
 also owns an eighty-acre tract of valuable land 
 near Baldwin. His attention is divided between 
 stock-raising and cereals, in both of which lines 
 he has had good success. 
 
 Near Milwaukee, Wis., Mr. Dyer was born 
 March 23, 1849. His father, John Dyer, a na- 
 tive of County Sligo, Ireland, was reared upon a 
 farm and married Bridget Doyle, a native of the 
 same county as himself. After having devoted 
 some years to farming in Ireland he decided that 
 the new world offered him greater advantages 
 than his own land, and therefore determined to 
 seek a home across the ocean. In 1834 he came 
 to America, first settling in New York, and in 
 1840 removing to Wisconsin, where betook up a 
 tract of wild land. The country was new and 
 the city of Milwaukee was as yet unknown. In 
 the spring of 1857 h^ removed from thereto Kan- 
 sas, settling in Douglas County and entering a 
 claim to land in Willow Springs Township. 
 From that time he continued to reside here and 
 met with fair success as a farmer. In early days 
 he was active in the Democratic party and held 
 numerous local offices. In religion he was a Ro- 
 man Catholic. His death occurred January 6, 
 1884, at the age of eighty-three years. He was 
 survived for some years by his wife, who passed 
 away October 11, 1S98, at eighty-nine years. Of 
 
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 493 
 
 their eleven children, seven are still living, 
 namely: Mrs. Margaret Gormal)', a widow liv- 
 ing in Kansas City; John, a farmer of Willow 
 'Springs Township; Michael, who is also engaged 
 in farming here; Lizzie, who married George W. 
 Hayslett, of Lawrence; Martin, a farmer of 
 Franklin County; Thomas, and James, of Willow 
 Springs Township. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Kansas our 
 subject was seven years of age. He continued 
 with his parents until their death, caring for them 
 in their old age and helplessness, and in return 
 was given the old homestead when they died. 
 January 9, i877,he married Miss Ernestine Butell, 
 of Douglas County. They are the parents of four 
 children, William P., Joseph H., Charles H. and 
 Rosie, all at home. In election matters Mr. Dyer 
 is more for the man than the party, and always 
 endeavors to support only such men as will faith- 
 fully and intelligently conserve the interests of 
 the people. In national elections his sympathies 
 are toward Democratic candidates. He and his 
 wife were reared in the Roman Catholic faith. An 
 efficient farmer and accommodating friend, he has 
 won a high place in the esteem of his business 
 and social acquaintances. 
 
 0R. JOSEPH STAYMAN, the pioneer fruit 
 grower of Leavenworth County, has resided 
 on his present homestead, within the limits 
 of the city of Leavenworth, since i860. At once 
 after settling here he began to plant fruit trees 
 and made many experiments in order to learn 
 what varieties are best adapted to the soil and 
 climate. Horticulture has been his life study 
 and there is no detail of the business with which 
 he is not familiar. He introduced the leading 
 varieties of apples now grown in the state of 
 Kansas, and is now engaged in producing what 
 is known as the Stay man apple to take the place 
 of the common apples, also raises Ben Davis and 
 Missouri pippin varieties. The two orchards that 
 he owns comprise a large tract of land, with 
 about three thousand trees. 
 
 The Stayman family are of German descent and 
 were among the early settlers of Lancaster and 
 
 Cumberland Counties, Pa., where they identified 
 themselves with the Mennonites. Joseph Stay- 
 man, Sr. , a native of Cumberland County, moved 
 to Ohio in 1839 ^^^ there died in 1848. By oc- 
 cupation he was a farmer and fruit grower. In 
 politics he was an old-line Whig and one of the 
 earliest Abolitionists in the United States. It 
 was characteristic of the family that its members 
 were patriotic, loyal citizens, who always took a 
 stand on the side of the right because it was 
 right, whether or not it might be policy to do so. 
 He married Barbara Myers, who was born in 
 Pennsylvania, daughter of John Myers, a preach- 
 er in the United Brethren Church, and a de- 
 scendant of German ancestry. Nine children 
 were born of their union, but only two are now 
 living: Joseph; and John W., of Springfield, 
 Ohio. The mother died in Ohio at seventy-three 
 years of age. 
 
 In Cumberland County, Pa. , the subject of this 
 sketch was born October 7, 1817. He was reared 
 on the home farm and under the instruction of 
 his father, who was a fine mathematician, and in 
 the schools held in log buildings he obtained his 
 education. In youth he assisted his father in 
 the milling business. In 1839 he accompanied 
 his parents to Ohio, where for five j'ears he was 
 interested in the milling business with his father. 
 During this time he was a student of phrenology, 
 psychology and medicine. In 1846 he began to 
 deliver lectures on these subjects throughout the 
 country, and also dwelt much upon scientific 
 topics, notably electricity. For nine years much 
 of his time was spent in the lecture field. Mean- 
 time, in 1849, he married and established his 
 home in Carlisle, Pa. In 185 1 he removed to 
 Abingdon, 111., where for several years he prac- 
 ticed medicine, but in 1858 purchased a nursery 
 business, which was the beginning of his connec- 
 tion with the fruit business. From Illinois he 
 removed to Kansas, where he has since been a 
 prominent horticulturist. 
 
 In 1876 Dr. Stayman sent fruit to the Centen- 
 nial Exposition at Philadelphia and received a 
 premium for excellence of display. It is a fact 
 worthy of mention that there were over two hun- 
 dred varieties of fruit exhibited from Leaven- 
 
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 worth County at this exposition. He was one of 
 the county's delegates to Philadelphia. In addi- 
 tion to the part he took in sending fruit from his 
 home town and county he enlisted the interest 
 of people in different parts of the state and 
 through his influence they sent fruit to the Cen- 
 tennial Exposition, where he took a premium. 
 
 Dr. Staynian is the originator of the Clyde 
 strawberry, also of different varieties of grapes 
 and raspberries. He has made a study of draw- 
 ing and designing cuts of varieties of fruits, and 
 these are con.sidered very accurate. Through 
 his influence in 1866 the Kansas State Horticult- 
 ural Society was organized. The papers of or- 
 ganization were drawn up in his house by him- 
 self and William Tanner. He was one of the 
 founders of the Leavenworth County Horticult- 
 ural Society, of which he served as secretarj^ for 
 twenty years. At one time he was connected 
 with the Grange and he has also been active in 
 the Leavenworth County Agricultural Society. 
 
 Always interested in questions of public im- 
 portance, Dr. Stayman is a Republican in his po- 
 litical belief. While he takes a part in local 
 matters he has never sought oflSce and his con- 
 nection with municipal affairs has been of a gen- 
 eral, rather than a personal, nature. He possesses 
 inventive ability and has devised a number of ar- 
 ticles of undoubted utility. In 1856 he invented 
 an electrical magnetic engine, which has since 
 been adopted by street car companies in all parts 
 of the United States; but, not having sufficient 
 funds to advertise and manufacture the engines 
 himself, he failed to realize any personal gain 
 from his invention. He and his wife, who was 
 Susan M. Black, of Cumberland County, Pa., 
 are held in the highest esteem by their acquaint- 
 ances and have made many warm personal 
 friends during the long period of their residence 
 in Leavenworth. 
 
 He is one of the most noted checker players 
 in the United States, and he corrected the 
 "Black Doctor" game, which had been before 
 the public for over one hundred and fiftj- years. 
 He played the game with the champion checker 
 player of the "Black Doctor," J. D. Janvier, to 
 prove the correctness of the position taken, beat- 
 
 ing him eleven out of twelve games, the twelfth 
 being a draw game. The series of games occu- 
 pied a year and was done by correspondence. 
 The doctor accepted his challenge and sustained 
 his ground. 
 
 Gl NTON GETKER, who came to Kansas in a 
 Ll very early day and has since made his home 
 I I in Douglas Count}', settled in Eudora Town- 
 ship in 1857 and assisted in laying out the village 
 of Eudora. He was a member of the original 
 town company', in which he owned two shares. 
 At once after settling here he began to follow the 
 cabinetmaker's trade, in which, by reliable work 
 and fair dealings, he soon won a reputation 
 throughout this part of the county. In i860 he 
 purchased one hundred acres on the Shawnee 
 reservation, which he improved and still owns, 
 but he has never resided on the farm, preferring, 
 in the interests of his business, to make his home 
 in the village. He owns several buildings in 
 Eudora and has built up a good trade in cabinet- 
 making, besides which he carries on an under- 
 taking business. 
 
 Born in Hanover, Germany, in 1824, Mr. Get- 
 ker was reared and educated in his native prov- 
 ince, where he gained a thorough knowledge of 
 the trade which he has since followed. Believ- 
 ing that better opportunities awaited him in the 
 new world, in 1856 he came to America, arriving 
 in New York after a voyage of seven weeks in a 
 sailing vessel. He spent three weeks in New 
 York and then proceeded toward the great west. 
 For a time he followed his trade in Indianapolis, 
 Ind. Thence he went to Chicago, where he se- 
 cured employment. Very soon, however, he 
 decided to cast in his lot with the people in Kan- 
 sas, which was then attracting wide attention by 
 the opportunities it offered settlers. During the 
 latter part of 1857 he found his way to Douglas 
 County and here he has since made his home, 
 working industriously and patiently in the accu- 
 mulation of his valuable property. During the 
 Civil war he was a member of the state militia 
 and went out with his company against General 
 Price at Westport. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Getker, in 1882, united 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 495 
 
 him with Miss Rebecca Baker, of Chicago. They 
 have three children, namel}': William, whoisnow 
 in Leavenworth; Albert and Alice, at home. The 
 family are identified with the Catholic Church. 
 
 I LOYD DUFFEE, surveyor of Douglas 
 It County, and a resident of Lawrence, was 
 l_2f born five miles west of this city, in Kan- 
 waka Township, October 30, 1869, the only child 
 of Lewis and Margaret (Sowash) Duffee. His 
 paternal grandfather, John Duffee, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, was descended from a pioneer farmer 
 of that state who came to this country either from 
 England or Scotland. Lewis Duffee was born in 
 old Chester, Chester County, Pa., in 1834, and 
 was nine years of age when his parents removed 
 to Wayne County, Ind. There his youthful 
 years were passed upon a farm. When sixteen 
 he began to learn the carpenter's trade, at which 
 he worked for five years. In 1855 he came to 
 Douglas County, Kans., and took up the claim 
 where he now resides, section 6, township 13, 
 range 19. From the wild land he evolved a finely 
 improved farm. At first he made his home in a 
 log cabin, 10x12 feet; and, in order to support 
 himself until his farm became productive, he en- 
 gaged in carpentering. During the pro-slavery 
 and free-state troubles of the ' 50s he was a mem- 
 ber of the old artillery company, and at the time 
 Price made his raid into Kansas he joined the 
 militia and aided in driving the southern general 
 back. Politically he has always been an advo- 
 cate of Republican principles and has voted that 
 ticket both in general and local elections. He 
 is now the owner of a fine farm of two hundred 
 and forty acres, which owes its productive condi- 
 tion entirely to his intelligent oversight. His 
 wife was born in Westmoreland Count}', Pa. , a 
 daughter of Joseph Sowash, who was born in 
 Pennsylvania and engaged in boring salt wells in 
 that state, but after his removal to Henry County, 
 Ind., devoted himself principally to farming. He 
 was a mechanic and possessed inventive genius. 
 
 Having completed the studies of the schools of 
 Kanwaka Township, in 1887 the subject of this 
 sketch entered the preparatory department of the 
 
 University of Kansas, where he gave his atten- 
 tion to the study of engineering and surveying. 
 In 1894 he graduated with the degree of B. S. 
 Returning home, he engaged in farming until 
 1897, when he was elected county surveyor by a 
 fair majority. He took the oath of office in Jan- 
 uary, 1898, to serve for two years. In the dis- 
 charge of his duties he has proved himself to be 
 a competent and efiicient surveyor and engineer, 
 and has won the confidence of the people whom 
 he represents. In politics he has always sup- 
 ported Republican candidates, having been reared 
 in the faith of that party and being in sympathy 
 with its platform regarding protection, currency 
 and expansion. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM SHEPHERD was a resident of 
 \ A / Kansas for forty years. Long a public 
 Y Y official and business man, he is remem- 
 bered for his spotless integrity and accuracy of 
 his accounts. Coming to Kansas in 1857 ^^ d" 
 gaged in the hardware business in Wyandotte 
 and built up a large trade among the people here. 
 At the same time he interested himself in public 
 affairs. In politics he was always an adherent of 
 the Democratic party. He served as county 
 treasurer for one term and as city clerk for four- 
 teen years, also held the office of clerk of the 
 district court. Frequently he represented his 
 party in county and .state conventions and upon 
 various committees. 
 
 The Shepherd family is of English descent, but 
 has resided in America for some generations. Mr. 
 Shepherd was born in New York City March 6, 
 1830, but spent his boyhood in Albany, to which 
 city his father, Alexander Shepherd, removed in 
 1830, engaging in the furniture and undertaking 
 business there. Upon completing his education 
 he became private secretary to Erastus Corning. 
 For a time he also carried on a hardware busi- 
 ness in the east. In 1857 he established his 
 home in Kansas, during the days of the free-state 
 excitement. During the following years, as Leav- 
 enworth grew in population, he became more 
 prosperous and his influence increased. In the 
 citizenship of his town he held a high rank, and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his death, which occurred March 17, 1897, was 
 deeply mourned. Fraternally he was connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias and Masons. 
 
 In August, 1856, Mr. Shepherd married Mar- 
 garet Gardiner, of Albany, N. Y. She was a 
 daughter of John Gardiner, who was a native of 
 Perth, Scotland, but came to America at thirteen 
 years of age and for some years engaged in farm- 
 ing, but afterward was employed as maltster in 
 Albany. He married Mary Topping, a native 
 of England. In religion he was of the Scotch 
 Presbyterian faith. Eight children were born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, and of these six are 
 still living. All were reared to lives of useful- 
 ness and from an early age were accustomed to 
 responsibilities. They are as follows: Carrie; 
 Henry; Frank; Jennie, wife of John Gable; 
 Charles Edward; and William. 
 
 0AVID H. ANDERSON, who is engaged in 
 .stock-raising and farming on section 26, 
 Kanwaka Township, Douglas County, was 
 born in Sangamon County, 111., August 16, 
 1845, and is a son of Thomas Anderson (see sketch 
 elsewhere in this volume). When eight years of 
 age he was brought by his parents to Douglas 
 County and settled with them on a farm four 
 miles south of Lecompton. He attended school 
 in that village and many a day rode to and from 
 the schoolhou.se with "Jim" Lane, who always 
 carried several old pistols in his buggy. Being 
 the oldest of the children, he early began to assist 
 in the cultivation of the farm and attended school 
 only at such times as he was not needed at home. 
 During the war he was an employe of the quar- 
 terma.ster's department and engaged in teaming 
 from Fort Scott south. After the close of the war 
 he freighted from Leavenworth across the plains. 
 Afterward he engaged in farming in Jefferson 
 County for a number of years, and then settled 
 just west of his present home. For a year or 
 more he farmed in Butler and Osage Counties, 
 and for fifteen years cultivated farms in Jasper 
 and Platte Counties, Mo., and Jefferson County, 
 Kans. , where he was quite successful. 
 
 In April, 1899, Mr. Anderson settled on his 
 
 present homestead of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, and here he has since engaged in raising 
 cattle and general farm products. The farm has 
 running water, which adapts it excellently for 
 the stock business. He is a persevering, indus- 
 trious man, and is familiar with the occupation 
 which he has followed from his earliest recollec- 
 tions. While he is somewhat in sympathy with 
 Democratic principles, he has never identified 
 himself with the party, but has remained indepen- 
 dent in his views. At this writing he is a member 
 of the school board. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Anderson, August 24, 
 1867, united him with Marj-, daughter of Rev. 
 Joseph Doughty. They are the parents of six 
 children, viz.: Thomas, who is mining in south- 
 western Missouri; Ada, wife of William Narra- 
 more, also of southwestern Missouri; Ora, who 
 married Oscar Palmer, and lives in Granby, New- 
 ton County, Mo.; John, a farmer of Kanwaka 
 Township, Douglas County, Kans.; Eben and 
 William, at home. 
 
 STANLEY WILLIAMS, proprietor of 
 the Pacific elevator in Ottawa, is one of 
 the successful business men of this city. 
 In 1893 he bought the elevator and plant and has 
 since engaged in the buying and shipping of 
 grain, also has carried on a wholesale and retail 
 business in feed and hay, having built a plant for 
 the grinding of feed. Under his supervision the 
 elevator has been enlarged to a capacity of twenty 
 thousand bushels. It is connected with the tracks 
 of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which renders 
 the transportation facilities excellent. The plant 
 is operated by steam power, and has a boiler and 
 engine of thirty-five horse power. He has also 
 added a store to the warehouse in which the flax 
 seed is cleaned, 'and has made a specialty of ship- 
 ping this seed to Chicago and St. Louis. Branch 
 stations have been established at Richter, Po- 
 mona, Homewood, Michigan Valley, Lyndon, 
 Quenemo, Bushong, Allen and Imes. The re- 
 markable success of the enterprise is due to the 
 ability and shrewd judgment of its owner, who is 
 a man of determination, perseverance and wise 
 discrimination. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 497 
 
 Benjamin F. Williams, our subject's father, 
 was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, his father 
 having removed there from Pennsylvania. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he served in an Ohio regiment. 
 In 1866 he settled near Mexico, Audrain County, 
 Mo. , where he engaged in farming. From there, 
 in 1877, he removed to Lacygne, Linn County, 
 Kans., where he carried on a lumber business. 
 In 1880 he sold out and came to Ottawa, where 
 he engaged in the stock business and farming. 
 He died in 1882, when fifty-one years of age. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Hannah 
 Rheem, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, and 
 died in Ottawa in 1892. She was a daughter of 
 Daniel Rheem, who moved from Ohio to Missouri, 
 settling at Pleasant Hill, Cass County, and there 
 carrying on a farm until he died. Of three chil- 
 dren (two of whom attained maturity) our sub- 
 ject was the oldest and is now the sole survivor, 
 his brother, Frank R. , who was teller in the First 
 National Bank of Ottawa for ten years, being de- 
 ceased. He was born near Lancaster, Fairfield 
 County, Ohio, August 25, 1862, and was three 
 years of age when the family settled in Missouri. 
 His education was completed in the high school 
 at Ottawa and Kansas State University in Law- 
 rence, while he also had the advantage of a com- 
 mercial course in Spaulding's Business College in 
 Kansas City, from which he graduated in 1884. 
 For one year he was employed as bookkeeper for 
 Fuller & Cobb's mill in Ottawa, after which he 
 carried on a grocery for three years on Main 
 street, and then became agent for S. A. Brown & 
 Co., owners of the Pacific elevator. He contin- 
 ued the management of the business until he pur- 
 chased it, since which time he has been sole pro- 
 prietor. 
 
 At No. 411 South Hickory street, Ottawa, 
 stands a handsome residence, built of buff-colored 
 brick, and modern in architecture and improve- 
 ments. Here reside Mr. Williams and his wife, 
 who was formerly Nora Haley, and was born in 
 Ohio, but accompanied her father, Richard Haley, 
 to Kansas in her girlhood. In politics Mr. Will- 
 iams is a Republican and on this ticket he was 
 elected to represent the second ward in the city 
 council. He is connected with Franklin Lodge 
 
 No. 18, A. F. & A. M., the Modern Woodmen, 
 and is also a member of the State Grain Dealers' 
 Association. In the work of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church he has been deeply interested, and 
 served as recorder of the board of stewards and 
 was also the first president of the Epworth 
 League. 
 
 fi>6|lLLIAM NEELY TODD. The family 
 \ A I represented by this enterprising business 
 Y V man of Leavenworth is of southern lineage 
 and Scotch-Irish extraction. His father, Thomas 
 Todd,was born inWestVirginia,whitherthe family 
 had come from the north of Ireland in his father's 
 youthful years. He was reared in his native 
 place and early became familiar with life upon a 
 plantation. Though all of his surroundings were 
 those of slavery and the sympathies of the people 
 were with this institution, he always believed it 
 to be a crime against the negro race. When 
 there arose agitation concerning the admission of 
 Kansas as a free state, he, desiring to remove 
 from a locality distasteful to him, and wishing to 
 cast his lot in with the free-state adherents in the 
 west, came to Leavenworth in 1855, making the 
 trip by boat from Wheeling to St. Louis, and 
 thence by another boat to Leavenworth. Open- 
 ing a private school in this city he gave his at- 
 tention to educational work. In 1857 his family 
 joined him here, and at that time he settled upon 
 a farm on Pilot Knob, where he engaged in rais- 
 ing grain and fruit. From the first of his con- 
 nection with the history of Leavenworth County 
 he was active in local affairs, and was stanch in 
 his adherence to the free-state movement. When 
 the war clouds began to darken the sky he sup- 
 ported the Union and was loyal to its interests. 
 When he was very ill the memorable election of 
 i860 occurred, and, determined to cast a ballot 
 for Abraham Lincoln, he rose from bed and was 
 hauled in a wagon to the polls. It was the last 
 act of his life. The next day he died. He was 
 then forty-one years of age. His wife, Susan, 
 was a daughter of John Smith, both natives of 
 West Virginia, while his mother, Mary (Neely) 
 Smith, was born in the north of Ireland. The 
 Smiths were prominent in Revolutionary times, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and during the Civil war were stanch support- 
 ers of the Union. In religion they were Presby- 
 terians. 
 
 In the family of Thomas Todd there were • 
 three sons. Of these, John L., who was associ- 
 ated with our subject, died at thirty-one years of 
 age; and Thomas J. has for more than twenty 
 years been engaged in the mercantile business at 
 Fort Benton, Mont. The oldest of the three 
 sons, our subject, was born in West Virginia 
 December I, 1850. He arrived in Leavenworth 
 July 8, 1857. After the death of his father the 
 family left the farm and came to town, where his 
 mother gave her time and thought to the careful 
 training of the boys. In March, 1867, he en- 
 tered the employ of Cochran, Bittman & Taylor, 
 beginning with a small salarj'. About 1871 he 
 became a traveling salesman for the house, his 
 territory extending from northwestern Missouri 
 to southwestern Kansas. Quitting the road in 
 1879 he became a member of the firm, the name 
 of which was char.ged to Bittman, Taylor & Co., 
 and he has since been connected with this busi- ' 
 ness. In 1891 the Bittraan-Todd Grocer Com- 
 pany was incorporated, with Mr. Bittman as 
 president, Mr. Todd vice-president and manager, 
 and J. M. Gable secretary and treasurer. For a 
 time the firm was on Delaware street, but since 
 1867 the location has been at Nos. 117-119 
 Shawnee street, where the company now occcu- 
 pies three floors, 52x125 feet. They also have a 
 large warehouse on Main street, Leavenworth, 
 and warehouses in Salina and Hutchinson, Kans. 
 Ten men are employed to represent them on the 
 road, traveling in this state, and in Missouri and 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Besides his intimate connection with the Bitt- 
 man-Todd Grocer Company, the success of which 
 is to no small degree due to his ability, Mr. Todd 
 is connected with other important enterprises of 
 his home town. He is a director in the Globe 
 Canning Company. During the existence of the 
 board of trade he was for a time its president. 
 He a.ssisted in the incorporation of the Leaven- 
 worth Bridge Terminal Company, was a member 
 of its first board of directors, and is still a director 
 and stockholder. In politics he is a Republican, 
 
 and upon that ticket was elected to the city coun- 
 cil from the second ward, a position that he filled 
 efficiently. However, his tastes are not in the 
 line of office-holding, and it is his preference to 
 devote himself closely to his important business 
 intere.sts. Fraternally he is associated with 
 Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M.; 
 Leavenworth Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.; Leaven- 
 worth Commandery No. I, K. T., and Abdallah 
 Temple, N. M. S. Like his father he has al- 
 ways been stanch in his adherence to whatever 
 he believes will conduce to the prosperity of the 
 nation. While he was too young at the time of 
 the free-state agitation to fully enter into its im- 
 portance, yet he took an enthusiastic part in all 
 the exciting discussions of tho.se days, and when 
 the war came on he vi'as a stanch Union patriot, 
 though only a child of eleven years. His father 
 had a brother. Rev. Joseph Todd, who was strong 
 in his adherence to the Confederacy, and who 
 settled in Missouri in an early day, later being 
 interested in the location and founding of Leaven- 
 worth. He now resides in Shelby ville. Mo. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Todd, in Leavenworth, 
 united him with Miss Hattie Aller, who was born 
 in New York state, and during war days accom- 
 panied her father, H. M. Aller, to Missouri. She 
 is a lady of estimable character, and an earnest 
 member of the Congregational Church. The 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Todd are: Thomas L. , 
 Henry Aller, Sue Aller, Josephine H. and 
 William N. , Jr. 
 
 ROBERT SWISHER. In the li.st of success- 
 ful farmers of Leavenworth County, who 
 through their unaided exertions and the 
 exercise of perseverance and sound judgment, 
 without capital to aid them in starting, have 
 nevertherless risen to positions of influence and 
 prosperity, mention belongs to Mr. Swisher. 
 While he has for some time made his home in 
 the city of Leavenworth, and is now to some ex- 
 tent retired from farming, he still superintends 
 his estate of one hundred and sixty acres three 
 miles from the city. As an agriculturist he has 
 made a specialty of raising fine horses, hogs and 
 mules, which business he has found profitable. 
 
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 He has also cut and sold several hundred cords 
 of wood. At this writing he not only owns his 
 farm, but also his city home on Ottawa street, 
 and a number of building lots in the cit}\ 
 
 The Swisher family was founded in America 
 in colonial days by a native of Germany, who 
 settled in Virginia. Jacob, a son of the original 
 emigrant, had a son, John Swisher, who was a 
 native of Rockbridge County, Va., and there 
 spent his entire life. He and his wife, Mary, 
 had six children, all of whom but Robert reside 
 in either Ohio or Virginia. Robert was born in 
 Rockbridge County July 15, 1824, and was reared 
 on the home farm, receiving but limited educa- 
 tional advantages. In 1845 he left home and 
 went to Gallia County, Ohio, where he secured 
 work on a farm. As soon as practicable he began 
 farming for himself, and for six years he success- 
 fully operated a leased farm. At the time of the 
 free-state agitation in Kansas he sold his inter- 
 ests in Ohio and came west, cros.sing the Missouri 
 River with his two teams and landing on the 
 Kansas side in November, 1856. Settling in 
 Leavenworth County, he purchased, for $450, a 
 claim to a quarter-section of land five miles west 
 of Leavenworth. Upon that place he established 
 his home. In the spring of 1857 he entered his 
 land, and began the work of cultivating the soil. 
 At the close of the Civil war he bought one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres three miles from the city, 
 and later sold his first farm. 
 
 Mr. Swisher has always been interested in 
 local affairs, and keeps posted concerning im- 
 portant measures brought before the people. In 
 politics he votes the Democratic ticket. His 
 time has been so closely given to farming that he 
 has had no leisure to participate in political af- 
 fairs, nor has he had any desire to hold ofBce. 
 When he began as a farmer he had but little 
 means. His success shows that he is a man of 
 good business ability. He has had two mottoes 
 which he has always aimed to live up to, and they 
 are: "Never put off until to-morrow what can be 
 done to-day," and "Always pay as you go," 
 mottoes which might be adopted by everyone to 
 their advantage. In 1845 he married Miss Mary 
 Trout, and they have six children: Givins B., 
 
 who is in California; Melzo A.,who is engaged in 
 farming in Missouri; Mrs. Sophia V. Finski, in 
 Leavenworth; Mrs. Jane Sanders, in Kansas 
 City; Mrs. Augusta Hunter, in Kansas City; and 
 Alonzo, who has charge of the old homestead. 
 
 ^EORGE WELLS. One of the attractive 
 l_ places in Leavenworth County is the farm 
 y^ owned and occupied by Mr. Wells. It 
 comprises one hundred and forty acres, situated 
 in the southern part of the city of Leavenworth, 
 and within easy means of access via electric cars. 
 Since he purchased the property in 1881 he has 
 made many improvements, chief among which is 
 the laying out of forty acres in what he calls 
 Mound Park (better known as Wells Park). 
 This park is a favorite resort of city people in the 
 summer, and contains a lake, with boats, and 
 also other improvements that make it a desirable 
 place for recreation and pleasure. 
 
 Mr. Wells was born in Syracuse, N. Y., Octo- 
 ber 8, 1832, a son of Benjamin and Zilpha (Sal- 
 mon) Wells, also natives of that city. His 
 grandfather, James Wells, was a millwright of 
 Syracuse and an exceptionally fine machinist. 
 Benjamin, the eldest son of the family, was a 
 builder and millwright. In politics he was first 
 a Whig and later a Republican. In religion he 
 was a Methodist. He and his wife had five chil- 
 dren: Caroline, who is married and lives in South 
 Bend, Ind. ; Alva, a builder and manufacturer in 
 South Bend; Mrs. Emeline Webb, of Naples, 
 N. Y. ; Nancy, deceased; and George. The last- 
 named was educated in the Syracuse schools, 
 and during vacations worked with his father. 
 When sixteen he was able to take contracts for 
 building, and his ability won ready recognition. 
 During his father's absences in millwright work 
 he took charge of the building of some large 
 houses, and when he was twenty-two he built 
 one of the finest residences in that section. At 
 thirty -five years of age he settled on a farm near 
 Lawrence, Kans. , and, while managing his 
 place, also built many residences and business 
 houses in Lawrence. His ability becoming 
 known, he was given contracts for the building 
 
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 of residences and public buildings in Kansas City, 
 as well as in smaller cities in this section. In 
 1882 he established his home in Leavenworth, 
 where he has had the contract for the Federal 
 building, Goddard Sanitarium and many busi- 
 ness blocks, the aggregate value of his contracts 
 reaching a large sum. 
 
 For many years Mr. Wells voted with the 
 Republicans, but some ten years ago he trans- 
 ferred his allegiance to the Democratic party. 
 In local elections he is independent, voting for 
 the man rather than the party. He has always 
 refused to accept offices other than membership 
 on the .school board. Formerly he was active in 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and now 
 belongs to the blue lodge of Masonry. His mar- 
 riage, January 18, 1866, united him with Miss 
 Amanda Ellen Dawson, daughter of Mathias 
 Dawson, a pioneer and wealthy citizen of In- 
 dianapolis. They have two children, Annie Lou 
 and Frank H. 
 
 I E ROY TRACKWELL, one of the represen- 
 I C tative farmers and stock-raisers in Tonga- 
 l~) noxie Township, Leavenworth County, was 
 born in Shelby County, Ind., March 18, 1845. 
 His father, William, was born in Cabell County, 
 W. Va., in 1801, a descendant of an Englishman 
 who .settled in Maryland, and a son of Joshua 
 Trackwell, a slave-owner and planter of West 
 Virginia, and a soldier in the war of 1812. After 
 completing his education, William Trackwell for 
 many years engaged in teaching school. Later 
 he was a pilot on the Ohio River, running flat- 
 boats to New Orleans long before there were 
 any steamers on the river. In 1825 he settled 
 in Shelby County, Ind., where he was afterward 
 joined by his family. Clearing a tract of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, he improved a fine 
 farm. In 1857 he sold that place and came to 
 Kansas, which he had visited during the previous 
 year. He bought two hundred and forty acres 
 where Benjamin F. Trackwell now lives, also 
 three hundred and twenty acres in Franklin 
 County, and afterward improved the property. 
 Politically he was an ardent Democrat. A man 
 of strong convictions, he took no back seat in 
 
 political matters, but stood out squarely on the 
 side which he believed to be right. About three 
 years after coming here he was killed by a boiler 
 explosion in a mill. 
 
 By his first wife William Trackwell had five 
 children, Venila, Rhoda, Joshua, Lavinia and 
 Buel. His second wife was Margaret Randall, 
 who bore him three daughters and three sons, 
 viz.: Mary E., who is married and lives in the 
 .state of Washington; Miranda, deceased; Le Roy, 
 of this sketch; Benjamin F.; James, who is in 
 California; and Alice, wife of James Warren, of 
 Butte, Mont. The early years of our subject's 
 life were spent in Shelby County, Ind. He was 
 twelve years of age when brought to Leaven- 
 worth County, Kans. , and for some years after- 
 ward his home w^as in Alexandria Township, 
 where he attended subscription schools. In 1863 
 he was employed by the government in herding 
 mules and driving teams between Fort Leaven- 
 worth and New Mexico and Texas. During the 
 seven years he continued in the government 
 employ he had no serious trouble with the 
 Indians, although the latter were exceedingly 
 ho.stile at the time. In 1870 he purchased an 
 eighty-acre farm in Tonganoxie Township, 
 where he has since made his home. In addition 
 to this place he has entire supervision of a farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres owned by his 
 father-in-law. He makes a specialty of raising 
 Shorthorn cattle, and much of the grain rai-sed 
 on his farm is used for winter feed for his stock. 
 
 In his marriage Mr. Trackwell was very fortu- 
 nate, as his wife was a woman of great capability 
 and amiable disposition. She was Sarah Rose, 
 daughter of Remus McArdle, who is now living 
 retired at Jarbalo, I,eavenworth County. She 
 was born in Vermilion County, 111., and died in 
 Leavenworth County, May 20, 1895. In religion, 
 as was her husband, she was a member of the 
 Adventist Church and a faithful follower of its 
 tenets. She left seven children, named as 
 follows: William and Charles, who are farmers 
 of Tonganoxie Township; Josie, who married 
 William A. Wilkes, a farmer of this township; 
 James, Maude and Remus, who are at home; and 
 Gladys, who resides with her grand-parents, 
 
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 McArdle. Fraternally Mr. Trackwell has been 
 actively connected with the Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation. In politics he is interested in the welfare 
 of the Democratic party and votes its tickets both 
 in national and local elections. 
 
 HON. MATT W. EDMONDS, not only as a 
 farmer, but also as the incumbent of a posi- 
 tion of trust and responsibility, has been 
 successful in life. In i8g8 he was elected to 
 represent the eighth district in the state legis- 
 lature, and entered upon his duties as legislator 
 January 9, 1899. In his office he has given es- 
 pecial attention to local legislation. He was the 
 author of the bill, the passage of which he se- 
 cured, authorizing the county to organize and 
 disband any school district, subject to the ap- 
 proval of the county commissioners; also the bill 
 that gave to the Lansing school district a $15,000 
 schoolhouse and an appropriation of $600 a year 
 for partial pay for teachers' hire. Mainly through 
 his instrumentality an appropriation was made, 
 providing for the payment of back salaries of 
 employes of the state institutions, twenty per cent 
 of whose salaries had been withheld for two years, 
 owing to insufficient appropriation. Among the 
 committees upon which he has served are those 
 on federal relations, mines and mining, state 
 library and cities of the second and third class. 
 
 Mr. Edmonds was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. , 
 November g, 1864, a son of Robert and Susan 
 (Walker) Edmonds. His father came from Coun- 
 ty Cork, Ireland to America in 1847 ^'^'^ settled 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he lived for twenty- 
 seven years. On coming west he spent two years 
 in Leavenworth, after which he purchased the 
 farm in High Prairie Township now occupied by 
 our subject. Throughout life he engaged in the 
 pork-packing business. After coming to Kansas, 
 there being no railroad to southern Kansas, 
 where he made his sales, he shipped the products 
 of his packing house by wagon. In politics he 
 was a Democrat. He died on his farm December 
 23, 1881. Of his ten children only two are liv- 
 ing, Robert C. and Matt W. 
 The education of our subject was begun in pub- 
 
 lic schools and completed in a college at Pied- 
 mont, Mo., and in Campbell University, Holton, 
 Kans. For two years he taught school in Mis- 
 souri, but owing to the death of his father re- 
 turned home, and with his brother, succeeded to 
 the management of the farm of two hundred 
 acres. The old homestead has never been 
 divided, but is owned jointly by his mother, his 
 brother and himself. In 1888 they erected the 
 residence in which they have since made their 
 home. 
 
 Mr. Edmonds is a local leader of the People's 
 party. In 1892 he was chosen chairman of the 
 county committee and chairman of the first judi- 
 cial district committee which elected Hon. L. A. 
 Meyers judge. Of the latter committee he is 
 still chairman. Under Governor Lewelling he 
 served as deputy coal oil inspector. On receiv- 
 ing the nomination as representative he resigned 
 the chairmanship of the county committee. He 
 stands high among the members of his party in 
 Leavenworth County, and in the halls of legis- 
 lature has also gained a reputation for intel- 
 ligence and integrity. During the existence of 
 the Farmers' Alliance he was one of its members, 
 and during much of the time served as its secre- 
 tary. 
 
 Q EATTY ARMSTRONG. During the year 
 |C\ 188 1 Mr. Armstrong came to Lecompton 
 d/ Township, Douglas County, and purchased 
 a farm eight miles northwest of Lawrence. Here 
 he has since resided, prosperously engaging in 
 farm pursuits. He is one of the enterprising cit- 
 izens of the community and favors all progressive 
 plans whereby the people will be benefited. He 
 is a friend of the public school system and for six 
 years has served as school treasurer, also for two 
 years as director of the school board . The Grange 
 and the Farmers' Alliance number him among 
 their members. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Lawrence Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., and Le- 
 compton Council No. 155, Fraternal Aid Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 In Jefferson County, Ohio, Mr. Armstrong was 
 born August i, 1849, a son of Robert and Ann 
 (Ekey) Armstrong. He was one of seven chil- 
 
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 dren, of whom two besides himself are now liv- 
 ing, namel}^: John G., who lives in Wood Coun- 
 ty, Ohio; and Mary J. The grandfather, Charles 
 Armstrong, was one of the early settlers of Jef- 
 ferson County, Ohio, having settled there when 
 his township contained only three houses. He 
 was a native of Ireland and in early life was em- 
 ployed as a shoemaker, but after settling in 
 America became a farmer. He married a Miss 
 Jackmond, who was born in Ireland, and who, 
 three j'ears after Mr. Armstrong had crossed the 
 ocean, came to America in the same ship in which 
 he had sailed to the new world. 
 
 Robert Armstrong was born in Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, in 1799, and at an early age assumed 
 the management of the home farm, which he con- 
 tinued to cultivate until 1866. He then removed 
 to Seneca County, where he purchased land and 
 resided until his death. He was one of the lead- 
 ers in the capture of General Morgan at the time 
 of the latter's celebrated raid through Ohio. 
 Some three days prior to the capture of the gen- 
 eral, Mr. Armstrong was chosen bj' Colonel 
 Shackelford to assist him in locating the Confed- 
 erate leader, and he finally located the camp, 
 crept cautiously up, seized the gun of one of the 
 men on picket dutj-, captured the man, and suc- 
 ceeded in taking him away a prisoner without 
 arousing the camp. For thirty years he was a 
 faithful member of the Methodist Church. He 
 was a public-spirited man, liberal to a fault, and 
 a contributor to all charities and churches in his 
 home neighborhood. His death occurred April 
 
 7. 1876. 
 
 On reaching manhood our subject apprenticed 
 himself to the trade of a stone mason and brick 
 mason, and from that time until 1878 he gave 
 his time largely to his trade in Ohio. In 1878 
 he determined to come west. In March of that 
 year he arrived in Kansas. Choosing Douglas 
 County as his home, he settled in Kanwaka 
 Township. For three years he farmed as a renter 
 there. In i88i he came to Lecompton Town- 
 ship, where he has since made his home. In 1873 
 he married Miss Marj' A. McClung, daughter of 
 John McClung, whose ancestors were earlj' set- 
 tlers of Ohio, They are the parents of four chil- 
 
 dren namely: Ethelyn I. , wife of George Banks, 
 a farmer near Garden Grove, Iowa; Harley C, 
 who is also engaged in farming near Garden 
 Grove; Edith C, wife of Frank Miller, who as- 
 sists his father-in-law in farming; and A. I. Del- 
 bert, a farmer in Kanwaka Township. 
 
 EALVIN F. EATON, deceased, one of the 
 first settlers on the Kaw bottom, near Law- 
 rence, was born in Lowell, Ohio, in 1833, 
 the son of William and Jane (Barclay) Eaton, 
 natives respectively of Vermont and Ohio. He 
 descended, on the paternal side, from English 
 ancestors who settled in Vermont early in the 
 history' of that state. His father migrated from 
 that state, settling in Ohio, where he married 
 and made his home for some 3'ears. About i860 
 he removed west to Kansas, but soon afterward 
 returned to Ohio and enlisted in the Union army. 
 When a young man he engaged in teaching i 
 school and the money thus earned was used for ' 
 defraying his expenses while he studied law. 
 Much of his active life was devoted to the practice 
 of law, in which he was successful. His mental 
 gifts were such as to place him in the front ranks 
 of the citizenship of his communitj\ He died 
 when seventy years of age. Of his children 
 Samantha and Calvin F. are deceased, and Frank 
 makes his home in Kansas. 
 
 The early years of the life of our subject were 
 spent in Lowell, Ohio. In 1852 he started over- 
 land for California to seek his fortune in the gold 
 fields of the far west. After remaining there for 
 several years, in 1859 he returned to his native 
 place. In the spring of i860 he came to Kansas 
 and purchased one hundred and sixty acres on 
 the Kaw bottom, in Eudora Township, Douglas 
 County, where he afterward made his home. 
 However, he did not cultivate the farm himself, 
 but rented it to other parties, and went again to 
 California to engage in mining there. Meeting 
 with little success he returned and took up the 
 management of his farm in 1864. On the place 
 he made a number of improvements. Just as he 
 was getting the land in condition for cultivation, 
 death closed his earthly career, in 1868, when he 
 
WILLIAM GARDNER. 
 
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 507 
 
 was thirty-five years of age. He was a man of 
 quiet, retiring disposition, and was best loved by 
 those to whom he was best known, having those 
 qualities of heart and mind which win affection 
 and esteem. During the Civil war he was a 
 member of the state militia, in which he rendered 
 service at the battle of Westport and during 
 Price's campaign. 
 
 January 29, 1864, Mr. Eaton married Miss 
 Rebecca Blond, a native of Quebec, Canada, but 
 a resident of the States from early childhood, 
 having accompanied her parents, Isaac and Mary 
 (Sanderson) Blond, first to Pittsburgh, Pa., and 
 thence to Ohio. She is a ladj' of executive ability, 
 and since the death of Mr. Eaton has superin- 
 tended the home farm, showing judgment in its 
 management. In 1894 her residence was de- 
 stroyed by fire, but during the same year she 
 built another house with modern appointments. 
 She is the mother of two children by her first 
 husband, Ella, and Harry C, who assists in tak- 
 ing charge of the old homestead. In May, 1876, 
 Mrs. Eaton married Sino Stanley and they had 
 one daughter, Florence May Stanley. 
 
 pQlLLIAM GARDNER, deceased, who was 
 I A/ °"^ °^ ^^^ pioneers of Hesper, Douglas 
 V Y County, was born in Guilford County, N.C., 
 January 19, 1807, a son of Thaddeus and Eunice 
 (Starbuck] Gardner, both of whom were natives 
 of Nantucket I.sland. Growing to manhood in his 
 native place, he early learned lessons of self-reli- 
 ance, industry and perseverance, which stood him 
 in good stead during the vicissitudes of an active 
 life. It was difiicult for him to gain a substantial 
 footing in the south, where the surroundings and 
 conditions were such as to prevent prosperity. 
 At the opening of the Civil war, in 1S61, he re- 
 moved to Kansas and purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land near the present village 
 of Hesper, in Eudora Township, Douglas County. 
 Here, busily engaged in agricultural pursuits, he 
 passed the remaining years of his life, and here 
 death came to him, in 1881, at the age of seventy- 
 three years. 
 
 By birth and training Mr, Gardner was a 
 
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 member of the Friends' Church. In character 
 he possessed those attributes usually noticeable in 
 members of that sect, being modest, unassuming, 
 strictly honest and peace-loving. When Quan- 
 trell made his famous raid to Lawrence he passed 
 Mr. Gardner's home and killed a man one mile 
 west, but he said that, while he would like to 
 have another man he did not wish to disturb a 
 people so peaceful as that of the Quakers. The 
 fact that his religious views prevented him from 
 taking part in the Civil war did not prevent Mr. 
 Gardner from supporting the cause of the Union 
 in such other ways as were possible. Believing 
 that slavery should not exist he removed from 
 the south, although by doing so he sacrificed 
 almost all of his property and the mercantile 
 business which he conducted at Florence, N. C. 
 While living in the south. May 6, 1841, he mar- 
 ried Miss Penelope Hill, a native of North Caro- 
 lina, and who is still living. She is a lady of 
 gentle demeanor, with a heart full of kindness 
 toward the suffering and distressed and a ready 
 sympathy that wins friends among her acquaint- 
 ances. 
 
 pCJlNSLOW DAVIS. During the period of 
 \A/ his residence in Eudora Township, which 
 V V covered twenty-three years, Mr. Davis won 
 and retained a high position among his fellow- 
 citizens, and became known as one of the honor- 
 able, industrious farmers of Douglas County. 
 He was born in Randolph County, N. C, in 
 1813, a son of James and Caroline (Winslow) 
 Davis, both natives of North Carolina. When 
 a boy he received fair advantages and for a time, 
 in early manhood, he engaged in teaching school. 
 However, agriculture was his occupation through- 
 out the greater period of his life. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war Mr. Davis, 
 finding surroundings unpleasant in the south, de- 
 termined to settle in Kansas. Accompanied by 
 his wife and two children they had adopted he 
 made the trip, overland, from Guilford County, 
 N. C, to Douglas County, Kans. After a long 
 and weary journey, which was made in a covered 
 wagon, he finally arrived at his destination, and 
 settled near what is now Hesper, on an eighty-acre 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tract. At the same time he entered a quarter-sec- 
 tion in Chase County- and another quarter in Lj'on 
 County, but made his home in Douglas County, 
 where he followed general farming. 
 
 For many years Mr. Davis was a prominent 
 worker in the Society of Friends, in which he 
 long officiated as an elder. At the time of the 
 building of Hcsper Academy he was one of the 
 most liberal contributors to the movement. His 
 life was unmarked by great changes or adventur- 
 ous incidents. He pursued the quiet, even tenor 
 of his way as a peace-loving Quaker, striving in 
 word and deed to exemplify the teachings of that 
 sect, and in its faith he passed away, in 1884, at 
 the age of seventy- one j-ears. He had been mar- 
 ried in 1837 to Margaret Hill, wlio, since his 
 death, has resided in the home that she built at 
 Hesper, with her sister, Mrs. Gardner. 
 
 ^5 FORGE F. GODDING, member of the firm 
 — of Beal & Godding, at No. 812 Vermont 
 ^ street, Lawrence, was born in Worcester 
 County, Mass., February 21, 1855, a son of 
 George G. and Masylvia (Wetherbee) Godding, 
 natives respectively of New Ipswich and Rindge, 
 N. H. His maternal ancestors were pioneers of 
 New England and served with honor in the In- 
 dian and Revolutionary wars. His paternal 
 grandfather, Ariel Godding (the son of a Scotch- 
 man who took part in the Revolution) , followed 
 agricultural pursuits in New Hampshire, where 
 he owned three hundred acres stocked with cattle 
 and sheep. lie was a captain in the New Hamp- 
 shire militia and was a man of much influence 
 among his associates. 
 
 When twenty years of age our subject's father 
 began to learn thetradesof ma.son and carpenter. 
 Later he took up millwright work and built both 
 mills and flumes. Afterward he engaged in 
 farming at Ashby, Middlesex Count}', Mass. In 
 politics he was for some time a Republican. He 
 was one of the men who originated the Know 
 Nothing party, in the councils of which he was 
 afterward prominent. Of his six children five 
 reside at A.shby, where his widow still makes her 
 h nne and where his closing years were spent. 
 
 The oldest son and third child in the family was 
 George F. He was onlj' twelve years of age 
 when he began to work in a mill and, his father 
 being helpless from an injury at that time, his 
 earnings were the support of a family of eight. 
 For eight years he continued in the mill, after 
 which he engaged in lumbering, hewing timber, 
 which he hauled to the sawmill and then sold to 
 the manufacturing plants. His wages were 
 steadily increased, so that he was able to give his 
 sisters academic educations. At theageof twen- 
 tj'-three he came west and joined a surveying 
 party which laid out the Santa Fe road from 
 La Junta into New Mexico. After working at 
 the grading of the tracks he engaged in building 
 irrigation ditches. Returning to Massachusetts 
 in 1880 he carried on a commission and shipping 
 business in Boston for a year, and then worked 
 for three 5'ears in the city's employ. 
 
 In the spring of 1885 Mr. Godding came to 
 Kansas and settled in Lawrence, where he en- 
 gaged in the hay business and in buying and 
 selling Jersej' cattle. In March, 1891, he became 
 interested in the livery business, having as a 
 partner William Beal, who came to this city 
 from London in 1874. The two purchased Mr. 
 Taylor's barn and have since engaged in busi- 
 ness, giving their time to the building up of a 
 large trade. They have about twenty-five head 
 of horses, besides boarding about thirty head for 
 others. In 1890 Mr. Godding purchased eighty 
 acres in Kanwaka Township, this tract being 
 one-half of the old Cleland farm, patented from 
 the government. As his attention is consumed by 
 his business he rents the land to other parties. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is connected 
 with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Fra- 
 ternal Aid Association and the Order of Pyra- 
 mids. Since nineteen years of age he has been a 
 member of the Congregational Church, and 
 formerly was active in Sunday-school work. 
 
 May 15, 1885, Mr. Godding married Susie F. 
 Platts, daughter of Aaron E. Platts, and they 
 have three sons, Roy, Arthur and Frank. Mr. 
 Platts, who is living retired in Lawrence, was 
 born in Rindge, N. H., a son of John V. Platts, 
 who was born in the same place, engaged in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAIj RECORD. 
 
 509 
 
 farming there and was a captain in the militia. 
 His ancestors came from England prior to the 
 Revolutionary war, in which both of Mr. Platts' 
 grandfathers served, and one of his great-grand- 
 fathers was a noted Indian fighter. Aaron E. 
 Platts was educated in public schools and the 
 academy at New Ipswich and grew to manhood 
 on a farm. Afterward he made agriculture his 
 principal occupation. In 1855 he came to Kan- 
 sas and took up one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Kanwaka Township, where he improved a good 
 farm and engaged in stock-raising and dairying. 
 A Republican in politics, he served as township 
 trustee for several years, and as county commis- 
 sioner, 1869-70. While living in New Hamp- 
 shire he was married, October 13, 1853, to 
 Susan R. Wetherbee, by whom he had only one 
 child, Susie F. , who attained years of maturity. 
 
 (i OHN ROBSON AITCHISON. Among the 
 I early settlers of Kansas, who experienced 
 (2/ all the hardships of pioneer times and proved 
 to be useful citizens during the days of border 
 warfare, mention should be made of the subject 
 of this sketch. He was born near Madrid, St. 
 Lawrence County, N. Y., July 14, 1834, a son of 
 James and Ellen (Robson) Aitchison, natives 
 respectively of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scot- 
 land. His parents came to America shortly 
 after their marriage and settled in St. lyawrence 
 County, N. Y., where they made their home on a 
 farm. They had six sons and two daughters, of 
 whom two sous survive, Robert and John Robson. 
 The father died when his children were small, 
 but the mother lived to be eighty-four years of 
 age. 
 
 Since he was a child of eight years our subject 
 has made his own way in the world. His educa- 
 tion was very limited, for his attention had to be 
 given closely to self-support. In the fall of 1856 
 he went to Hudson, Wis. , where he was employed 
 until he started for Kansas, in July, 1857. He 
 arrived in Lawrence on the 21st of August, and 
 here he secured work in a brickyard. Later, 
 going to Topeka, he put up a kiln of brick and 
 remained about two months. His employer was 
 
 unable to pay for the job, and he then returned 
 to Lawrence, but it was difficult to secure em- 
 ployment of any kind. Finally he secured work 
 with Lyman Allen, a farmer and hardware mer- 
 chant, and a man of fine character. For him he 
 worked four years, receiving $300 a year. 
 
 During the war Mr. Aitchison aided in protect- 
 ing the interests of the state. At the time of 
 Price's raid he was in a battery attached to the 
 Third Kansas Infantry, and was detailed as a 
 scout and dispatch carrier at Blue Mound. At 
 one time he was detailed with a company of 
 twenty-five to go to the Sac and Fox agenc)', and 
 afterward he was sent to the border with Colonel 
 Blood, having a number of skirmishes with 
 Missouri ruffians. He took up surveying and 
 assisted in surveying for railroads and towns, 
 helping to lay out the towns of Vinland, Lin- 
 wood, Norwood, Williamstown, a part of Wyan- 
 dotte, and Babcock's and Lane additions to Law- 
 rence. For five years he was with Thomas Stern- 
 bergh, the city engineer. During early days he 
 did considerable freighting and slept outdoors 
 both winter and summer, but the life, though a 
 hard one, was congenial to him. In 1865 he 
 built a store on the corner of Massachusetts and 
 Warren streets, and this he still owns. 
 
 September 5, 1865, Mr. Aitchison was mar- 
 ried, in Lawrence, to Miss Amanda Waters, who 
 was born in Kalamazoo County, Mich., and in 
 1863 came to Kansas with George Sweilzer, a 
 resident of Lawrence from territorial days. She 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church of this 
 city, to which her husband has been a contributor. 
 They have two children. Bertha and Ralph. Mrs. 
 Aitchison is a daughter of Freeman Waters, a 
 native of New York and a cooper by trade, who 
 removed to Michigan and during the war enlisted 
 in a regiment from that state. While at the front 
 he was wounded and his death occurred soon 
 afterward in Detroit. He married Susan Birdsell, 
 who was born in New York, and died in Michi- 
 gan in i860; she was a daughter of John Bird- 
 sell, a farmer and pioneer of Kalamazoo County, 
 Mich. In the family of Freeman and Susan 
 Waters there were four daughters and one son, 
 of whom three are now living. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Under Mayors Ludington and Woodward Mr. 
 Aitchison served as street commissioner. He 
 was ijffered, l)ut refused, the position of deputy 
 United States marshal. He is a member of 
 Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. In national 
 politics he is a Democrat, but is not radical in his 
 views, and concedes to others the same liberty of 
 thought and opinion which he claims as his own 
 right. During his long residence in the state he 
 has witnessed man}'- changes in the state, has seen 
 the development of Lawrence, the extension of its 
 educational and commercial interests and the in- 
 crease of its population, and to its advancement 
 he has contributed his quota. 
 
 EAPT. STEPHEN H. ANDREWS. At the 
 time of the slaverj- agitation the subject of 
 this sketch came to Kansas to cast his for- 
 tunes in with the free-state party. In March, 
 1857, he arrived in Leavenworth, where he and 
 three others bought a team and wagon and started 
 for the Smoky Hill, seven miles above Fort Rilej'. 
 His companions returned ea.st after some months, 
 but he remained, and was the first to take up a 
 claim on the hill. He cleared the timber, built a 
 cabiu and began the improvement of the land, 
 making his home alternately on that place and at 
 Junction City. His sympathies were so strong 
 on the side of the Union that at the opening of 
 the Civil war he seized the first opportunity to 
 offer his services to the government. In May, 
 186 1, he enlisted in Company B, Second Kansas 
 Infantry, which was mustered in at Wyandotte, 
 he being first .sergeant. He was sent to Missouri 
 and joined General Lyon at Springfield. After a 
 number of skirmishes, his first experience of an 
 important battle was at Wilson's Creek, August 
 10, 1S61. Thence he was ordered to Rolla, Mo., 
 and returned to Fort Leavenworth in September, 
 by order of General Fremont. There he was 
 mustered out October 31, and honorably dis- 
 charged from the army. In December of the 
 same year he returned to Massachusetts and 
 opened a recruiting office, his intention being to 
 bring men out to Kansas to join the Second 
 Kansas Cavalry, but during the time the legisla- 
 
 ture was in session and passed a bill prohibiting 
 the paying of bounty to married men residing in 
 Massachusetts and enlisting elsewhere. This 
 changed his plans. He was then authorized by 
 the governor of Massachu.setts to raise a company 
 and became captain of Company A, Thirty-fifth 
 Massachusetts Infantry, his commission dating 
 from August i, 1862. With his men he marched 
 south and took part, with the Army of the 
 Potomac, in the battles of South Mountain, An- 
 tietam and Fredericksburg. In the spring of 
 1863 he was ordered west with the ninth corps to 
 join Burnside's troops, and took part in the siege 
 of Vicksburg, after which his company went to 
 Knoxville, Tenn., and from there rejoined the 
 Army of the Potomac. Immediately before this, 
 April 24, 1863, he resigned his commission, 
 owing to the impairment of health by the hard- 
 ships of army life. After his return to Kansas, 
 during the Price raid his company of militia was 
 ordered into service by Major-General Curtis, 
 who commanded the western department. He 
 was first lieutenant of the Black Hawks, attached 
 to the Third Kansas militia, and commanded the 
 company at the time of the raid. 
 
 Captain Andrews was born in North Scituate, 
 Plymouth County, Mass., November 16, 1835. 
 His father, Stephen Snow Andrews, was born in 
 Boston, and was a son of Rev. William Andrews, 
 a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and a member of one of the oldest families of 
 Cape Cod. The father, who died when his chil- 
 dren were small, married Rebecca Farrow, who 
 was born in Roxbury, Mass., and died in Law- 
 rence, Kans. She was a daughter of Allen 
 Farrow, who was born in Connecticut, of French 
 descent, and served in the war of 1812, after 
 which he engaged in farming at North Scituate. 
 Our subject was one of three children, two of 
 whom are living, his sister, Mrs. Rudencia 
 Lamb, who came to Kansas in the fall of 1857, 
 being now a re.sident of Wilson County. On 
 account of his father's death he was obliged to 
 become self-supporting at an early age, and for 
 some years clerked in stores. From his home 
 state he came west in 1857, and he has since 
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 identified with Kansas. From 1864 to 1866 he 
 engaged in the manufacture of brick, after which 
 he became a grocer and shipper of produce, 
 making shipments to Denver and the mountains. 
 In 1S95 he sold out and retired from business. 
 In politics he is a Republican, and was chosen 
 city assessor for 1900. He is a charter member 
 of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. , in which 
 he has held all the official positions and is past 
 commander. Under Commander Green he served 
 as assistant quartermaster-general of the depart- 
 ment of Kansas, with the rank of colonel. He 
 was married, in Lynn, Mass., to Miss Martha A. 
 Stickuey, member of an old family of that city. 
 
 30HN HASKELL GILLHAM, a veteran of 
 the Civil war, was born near Edwardsville, 
 Madison County, 111., February 12, 1836, a 
 son of S. P. and Louisa (Gillham) Gillham. The 
 family of which he is a member was founded in 
 America by John Gillham, an emigrant from Ire- 
 land to South Carolina, who brought with him 
 his wife and two children. Afterward his wife 
 died and he married a German lady, by whom he 
 had five sons and two daughters. It is a remark- 
 able fact that all of his seven sons and his four 
 sons-in-law served in the Revolutionary war. 
 One of these sons, John, was born in South Car- 
 olina and was reared in the south; but, being op- 
 posed to slavery and finding he could not remain 
 at the old home without being looked down upon 
 because of his views, he decided to settle in the 
 north. Accordingly he brought his family to the 
 American bottoms of Illinois, where he was a 
 pioneer. At the time of the removal his son, 
 Ryderus Clark Gillham, was a youth of nineteen 
 years, and he afterward engaged in farming in 
 Madison County. His son, S. P., was born in 
 that county and served in the Black Hawk war, 
 after which he turned his attention to farming 
 near the old homestead. When he was seventy- 
 six years of age he was accidentally killed by be- 
 ing thrown from his horse. His wife, who was 
 born near Edwardsville, was a daughter of Samuel 
 Gillham, a native of South Carolina, and a de- 
 scendant of one of the Revolutionary soldier-sons 
 
 of John Gillham. Another of these sons, Isaac, 
 was very seriously wounded at the battle of 
 Cowpens. He was then only sixteen years of 
 age, but he recovered and lived to be ninety- 
 three. Samuel Gillham came from South Caro- 
 lina in an early day and served as a captain in 
 the Black Hawk war, later engaging in agricult- 
 ural pursuits. 
 
 By the first marriage of S. P. Gillham ten chil- 
 dren were born, of whom three are living, our 
 subject being the oldest son and second child. 
 By the second marriage three children were born, 
 of whom two are living. One brother, Samuel C. , 
 now of Springfield, Mo., was a member of the 
 same regiment to which our subject belonged. 
 The latter was reared on the home farm and at- 
 tended the public schools and McKendree College 
 at Lebanon, 111., spending two and one-half 
 years in the latter institution. In August, 1862, 
 he volunteered in Company F, One Hundred and 
 Seventeenth Illinois Infantry, and was mustered 
 in at Springfield on the 9th of September. He 
 was sent to Memphis under General Hurlbert, 
 thence to Meridian, Miss., under General Sher- 
 man, up the Red River under Banks, thence to 
 Tennessee, later under Rosecrans following Price 
 in Missouri, from there back to Nashville under 
 General Thomas, taking part in the battle in that 
 city, and then going into winter quarters. Under 
 General Canby he was sent to New Orleans, then 
 at Fort Blakely, and after the battle of Red River 
 was in constant action, never eating dinner in the 
 same place two successive Sundays. He was 
 mustered out as fifth sergeant at Springfield, 
 111., September 6, 1865. During his entire serv- 
 ice he never lost a day on account of illness, but 
 he returned home with health greatly impaired, 
 and has never recovered from the effects cf ln^ 
 army life. 
 
 September 23, 1867, Mr. Gillham came to 
 Lawrence, Kans., and for four years and seven 
 months was employed by J. J. Reeser, on Massa- 
 chusetts street. Under him he gained a thor- 
 ough knowledge of horseshoeing. On leaving 
 his employ he started out for himself, having a 
 partner for two years, and then beginning alone. 
 In 1873 he opened his shop at No. 713 Vermont 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 street, and here he has since continued, being the 
 oldest blacksmith and horseshoer in the city, 
 and having a reputation for expertness and skill 
 in his occupation. He is very active in the work 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served as 
 a trustee during the building of the new house of 
 worship. In politics he has always been a Re- 
 publican. He is identified with the Select 
 Friends and Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R., 
 and is a demitted member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. His residence is at 
 No. 827 Tennessee street. He was married in 
 Illinois the first time, but his wife died there soon 
 afterward. His second marriage united him with 
 Miss Mary E. Ware, who was born in Kentucky, 
 but who, at the time of their marriage, was resid- 
 ing in Logan County, 111. They are the parents 
 of two sons, Harry N. , who is in business in 
 Lawrence; and Arthur W., also a blacksmith bj- 
 trade. 
 
 (lOSEPH POITREY, who came to Leaven- 
 I worth in 1857, is engaged in farming and 
 GJ stock-raising on section 30, High Prairie 
 Township. The nucleus of his present propertj' 
 consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, bought 
 in 1869. To it he added from year to year and 
 now owns two hundred acres, much of which is 
 used for pasturage, while in other fields hay is 
 raised for winter feed. When he came here he 
 was 5130 in debt, and the payment of this debt 
 (for which his father was security) was the first 
 work to which he applied himself. After that 
 had been paid he commenced to save, and by fru- 
 gality and industry secured a modest competency. 
 Mr. Poitrey was born in France November 1 1 , 
 1830, being a son of Ale.xander and Josephine 
 (Delphis) Poitrey. Of eight children he and his 
 brother, John, now a retired cattleman living in 
 Trinidad, Colo., are the only ones who came to 
 the United States. His education was obtained 
 in his native land. When twenty-four years of 
 age he crossed the ocean, coming from Paris, 
 where he had made his home for five years. The 
 sailing vessel "Princeton" brought him from 
 Liverpool to New York in twenty-four days. 
 After a short sojourn in New York and six months 
 
 in Philadelphia he went to Delaware, where he 
 worked during one winter. He then went to 
 Reading, Pa. , and for three years was employed 
 in railroad shops or as brakeman. 
 
 On coming to Kansas in 1857 Mr. Poitrey 
 joined his brother in Marshall Countj-, thence 
 went to Shawnee County and soon came to 
 Leavenworth. A month later he started out on 
 his own account, taking up one hundred and 
 sixty acres in Chase County, on which he made 
 some improvements. In 1 860 he sold that tract and 
 returned to Leavenworth County, taking up land 
 in Kickapoo Township. During the war he was 
 engaged as teamster in the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment, working at Forts Leavenworth and Scott 
 and in a part of Arkansas. From November, 1S62, 
 to March, 1863, he was on the road every day, no 
 matter what the weather might be. At the close 
 of the war he returned to his farm in Kickapoo 
 Township and continued there until 1869, when 
 he sold and bought his present property. About 
 twenty-five acres had been cleared, but no other 
 improvement had been made. He broke the re- 
 mainder of the land, fenced the place, built a 
 house and barns, and introduced the various con- 
 veniences of a model countrj' home. 
 
 Politically Mr. Poitrey is a Republican. He 
 favors good educational advantages, and for 
 eighteen years he has been treasurer of the school 
 board. In 1864 he married Josephine Hanequin, 
 who was born in Lorraine, but at the time of her 
 marriage was living in St. Louis. She died in 
 April, 1882. Of the twelve children born to 
 their marriage five are now living. They are: 
 Alice, who married Paul Chmidling, a farmer 
 near Leavenworth; Joseph, in Trinidad, Colo.; 
 Josephine, who is her father's housekeeper and is 
 a popular young lady; Louis, at home; and Orrie. 
 
 P 6) ALTER F. SWIFT came to Ottawa in 
 \ A / June, 1866, when the town was new. He 
 V Y bought an interest in a dry-goods store, 
 but after a few months sold out and started in the 
 cattle business, which he continued until the 
 country became settled. Afterward he clerked 
 for a few months in the store of Horace J. Smith, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 513 
 
 with whom he formed a partnership in 1868 as 
 Smith & Swift. When the partnership was dis- 
 solved in 187 1 he began in the loan business, but 
 in 1874 again bought a hardware store, which he 
 conducted for sixteen j'ears. During this time 
 he built the Swift block and also the warehouses 
 occupied by the Topping Hardware Company. 
 After he retired from the hardware business he 
 resumed the loaning of money and in 1890 be- 
 came interested in the life insurance business, in 
 which he was successful from the'^first. During 
 the years that have since elapsed he has written 
 $1,500,000 in insurance, as the representative of 
 the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of Milwaukee, and has gained a position as 
 one of the leading insurance agents in the state. 
 
 The Swift family was represented among the 
 early settlers of New England. Job Swift was 
 master of a coasting vessel, and his son, Charles D., 
 who was born at Cape Cod, was only eight years 
 of age when he began to go to sea. Later he be- 
 came master of a whaling vessel and was inter- 
 ested at one time in twenty whalers, but when 
 the introduction of kerosene lessened the demand 
 for whale oil he retired from the business. He 
 had sailed in every ocean and had rounded Cape 
 Horn many times. After his retirement at thir- 
 ty-five years he became interested in banks and 
 insurance companies. He died in New Bedford, 
 Mass. , when seventy years of age. He married 
 Mary Howe Crane, who was born in Dorchester, 
 Mass., and died at seventy years. Her sister 
 married John Preston, who manufactured the 
 first chocolate in America, but sold his business 
 to the now celebrated firm of Walter Baker & Co. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was one of the 
 eleven children of Charles D. and Mary H. 
 Swift. Of these, the eldest, William J., is a re- 
 tired druggist of New Bedford. Charles D., Jr. , 
 who was first mate of a vessel engaged in Bra- 
 zilian trade, was lost at sea, his ship being 
 wrecked off Cape Hatteras. Albert H., who 
 was with the Corliss Engine Company for twelve 
 years, died in New Bedford. John P., who was 
 a seafaring man in early life and served in the 
 United States navy during the Civil war, is now 
 living retired in New Bedford. Walter F. , the 
 
 seventh in order of birth, was born in New Bed- 
 ford, March 25, 1845. Arthur Dean is employed 
 in the postoffice in New Bedford. Elizabeth A., 
 a graduate of the Greenwich (R. I.) University, 
 married Hon. George B. Richmond, member of 
 one of the oldest families of New Bedford, and 
 himself a man of prominence, having served as 
 ma3'or for many years, also as member of the 
 legislature, and for the past fifteen years as re- 
 corder of deeds. Mrs. Mary H. Hewins is the 
 wife of the agent of an eastern railroad. Ida C. 
 lives in New Bedford. 
 
 When fourteen years of age our subject started 
 out in the world for him.self. He began as clerk 
 in a store in New Arlington, Mass., where he 
 was paid $50 and his board the first year, $75 
 and board the second year, and $100 and board 
 the third year. In 1861 he was made assistant 
 postmaster, the postofiice being in the store where 
 he worked. In the spring of 1862 he resigned 
 his position and went to Warren, R. I., later to 
 Boston, thence to Reading, Mass., where he was 
 employed as clerk. While in Reading a shoe 
 merchant from Leavenworth came east to buy his 
 goods, and each summer for three successive 
 years he made Mr. Swift an offer, but each time 
 the offer was refused until the third year, when 
 he accepted an offer of $100 a month. In the 
 spring of 1866 he came to Kansas, spending one 
 week from Boston to Leavenworth, but after re- 
 maining with his Leavenworth employer for two 
 months he came to Ottawa, where he now re- 
 sides. He is still interested in property in Massa- 
 chusetts, where he spends his summers in pleas- 
 ant and invigorating vacations. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Swift, who bore the maiden 
 name of Amanda P. Pickrell, was born in Spring- 
 field, 111., and died at Ottawa in 1872. His sec- 
 ond marriage also united him with a Springfield 
 lady. Miss Bertha Burkhardt, daughter of James 
 Burkhardt. He is the father of two sons, 
 Charles Delano and William A. The older son, 
 who has traveled extensively in Europe, enlisted 
 in the Spanish-American war in the spring of 
 1898 and was assigned to Troop G, Second 
 United States Cavalry, and remained in service 
 until the close of the war, when he was mustered 
 
514 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 out. Mrs. Swift is a member of the Presbj'terian 
 church, and Mr. Swift has been most liberal to- 
 ward that church, taking an active part in its 
 work. He served as a member of the building 
 committee that had in charge the erection of the 
 new house of worship. Toward all charitable 
 and religious enterprises he has displaj-ed the ut- 
 most generosity, and his co-operation is always 
 relied upon in measures for the benefit of his 
 town. It has been contrary to his principles to 
 serve in any public or political office, and the 
 only exception to this rule was when his intimate 
 friends induced him to accept a position on the 
 school board. He is a man of high character, 
 possessing qualities that win him success in busi- 
 ness and the friendship of his associates, and is a 
 worthy representative of a family that gave to 
 the world Dean Swift, one of the greatest of Eng- 
 lish humorists and satirists. 
 
 30HN M. DYER, who was the pioneer coal 
 operator in the vicinity of Pomona, Franklin 
 County, was born in Clinton Count)', Ohio, 
 July 13, 1 841, a son of Lawson B. and Mary 
 (Davis) Dyer, natives respectively of Virginia 
 and Ohio. When about ten years of age his 
 father removed to Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio, 
 with his widowed mother, and there he grew to 
 manhood, married and carried on a farm for 
 some years. In the fall of 1851 he settled in 
 Illinois, and from there, in 1868, he came to 
 Kansas, locating in Greenwood Township, Frank- 
 lin County, and improving a valuable farm from 
 a tract of raw land. On retiring from active 
 labors he returned to Illinois, where he died at 
 eighty-two years of age. As a pioneer, both in 
 Illinois and Kansas, he did his part toward 
 developing local resources. For several months 
 he acted as agent for Whetstone & Baniett in the 
 sale of their large tract of land south of the 
 Marais des Cygnes River. His wife is still living 
 and makes her home with a daughter in Illinois. 
 They were the parents of ten children, five of 
 whom are still living. 
 
 When twenty-two years of age Mr. Dyer began 
 independent farming. In 1868 he accompanied 
 
 his father to Kansas and bought eighty-six acres 
 south of the Marais des Cygnes River, which 
 property he at once commenced to improve. He 
 still owns his first purchase as well as eighty-six 
 acres adjoining, making one hundred and seventy- 
 two acres in all. After engaging in general farm 
 pursuits until 1883 he then moved to Melvern, 
 Osage County, Kans., and embarked in the mer- 
 cantile business, which he carried on for five 
 years. Next, returning to his farm, he remained 
 there for a short time, after which he moved to 
 Pomona and built a residence. During the first 
 year he resided on the farm, while digging a 
 foundation for a stable he struck a vein of coal. 
 This led him to investigate, and he found the 
 earth was underlaid with workable deposits of 
 coal. In 1873 he began to dig out the coal, 
 which he supplied to the Topping mill. Since 
 then he has opened other coal mines. He has 
 taken out thousands of tons from his land, and 
 supplies Ottawa and other cities and towns of this 
 locality. He owns one hundred and forty acres 
 (all underlaid with coal), but has only taken out 
 about fifteen acres as yet. He was the first man 
 to open coal mines south of the river and is the 
 pioneer of the business in his vicinity. The 
 product is a fine quality of soft coal, which com- 
 mands a readj' sale at good prices. 
 
 Besides his other interests Mr. Dyer was for 
 three years a partner with Dr. Pasley in the drug 
 business in Pomona. He owns ten acres, com- 
 prising his home, situated within the limits of 
 Pomona, and is also the owner of other property. 
 A successful man, he has labored not only for his 
 personal prosperity, but has at the same time con- 
 tributed to the advancement of local interests, 
 and has aided in the erection of churches and 
 .school houses and in other movements of un- 
 doubted value. For many years he was a Re- 
 publican, but has recently allied himself with the 
 advocates of free silver. For three years he was 
 trustee of Greenwood Township and for one year 
 held a similar position in Pomona. In 1894 he 
 was his party's candidate for representative to 
 the legislature. As a member of the school , 
 board he has promoted the welfare of the common 
 .schools. Since twenty-one years of age he has 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 been identified with the Masonic fraternity, and 
 is a charter member of Pomona Lodge, A. F. & 
 A. M., in which he has served as master. He is 
 past noble grand of Pomona Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows. For years he has been trustee and 
 steward and an active worker in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Ill Illinois, April 2, 1863, Mr. Dyer married 
 Martha J. Shreeves, by whom he has three 
 daughters and one son, viz.: Viola, wife of 
 Porter Groves; Frank E., who is in Wyoming; 
 Rachel M., wife of S. E. Richardson; and Lillian 
 B., wife of J. M. Dailey. 
 
 (7) AMUEL A. HOUSTON. For ten years Mr. 
 ?Sk Houston was connected with either the regu- 
 Cy/ lar or the volunteer army. In 1855, at 
 Zanesville, Ohio, he enlisted in what is now the 
 Fourth (then the First) United States Cavalry, 
 serving under Capt. George H. Stewart in Com- 
 pany K. On the 12th of March, 1856, he arrived 
 with his company at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 
 and it was then that he .saw for the first time the 
 state that for so many years has been his head- 
 quarters and his home. For some subsequent 
 years his time was mostly spent on the plains or 
 in the mountains, where he encountered the In- 
 dians in numerous skirmishes. Those were days 
 of hard fighting, long rides, dangers, hardships 
 and exposure, yet, across the chasm of the fleet- 
 ing years he looks back upon them as the hap- 
 piest days of all his life. Finally he was caught 
 in a blizzard west of Fort Riley and almost per- 
 ished. It was during the winter of 1859-60, and 
 he was one of a party of forty-eight men who 
 were caught in the norther and injured to such an 
 extent by the cold that forty-two of the number 
 were sent to the hospital. It was this catastrophe 
 that caused the loss of his right eye. Shortly 
 afterward he was mustered out of the service at 
 Fort Leavenworth. 
 
 When the Civil war began Mr. Houston raised 
 forty men at Burlington and brought them to 
 Lawrence, where they were mustered into Com- 
 pany D, Second Kansas Infantry, he being com- 
 missioned second sergeant. He took part in the 
 
 battles of Forsythe, Dug Springs, Prairie de 
 Anna Mountains, Backbone, Wilson Creek, Prai- 
 rie Grove, etc. The original enlistment was for 
 three months, but the time was extended to five 
 months. He then, in October, 1861, enlisted 
 for three years, but served for a longer time, his 
 entire term of service being forty-four months. 
 In the spring of 1865 he was mustered out and 
 honorably discharged. He then became foreman 
 for Van Light & Co. on the plains, continuing 
 with them until 1870, when he began railroading. 
 In 1876 he established his permanent home in 
 North Lawrence, where he has a comfortable, 
 attractive residence at No. 431 Locust street. He 
 was married in Green Valley, 111., in 1875, to 
 Miss Ellen Z. Oswald, who was born in Mary- 
 land. They became the parents of three sons, 
 Edward T., who died at twenty years; William, 
 who is connected with the Maple Leaf Railroad at 
 Oelwein, Iowa; and Charles. 
 
 Mr. Houston is past commander of Washing- 
 ton Post No. 12, G. A. R.; a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen and the De- 
 gree of Honor Pyramids; a charter member of 
 J. M. Taylor Camp No. 78, Sons of Veterans, of 
 which he was division chaplain, with the rank of 
 major, in 1898-99; and secretary of the Kansas 
 State Veterans' Association, of which he is a 
 charter member. In politics he is an uncompro- 
 mising Republican. 
 
 WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG. On coming 
 to Kansas in 1875 Mr. Armstrong settled 
 in Osage County, where he purchased land 
 and spent one year. In 1876 he removed to Law- 
 rence, where he had bought a small place on his 
 arrival in the state. Beginning as a dealer in 
 cattle, he gradually developed an important and 
 profitable business, and from time to time has 
 been enabled to increase his possessions, which 
 now aggregate five hundred and sixty acres. In 
 1898 he removed from his city home to his farm 
 three miles southwest of Lawrence, in Wakarusa 
 Township, where he has since resided, and is 
 making a specialty of raising hay. 
 
 A son of John and Elizabeth (Warren) Arm- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 strong, our subject was born in Madison County, 
 Ohio, January 28, 1842. He was one of eleven 
 children, the following being the survivors: Eliza, 
 widow of Andrew Jackson, of Madison County, 
 Ohio; Warren, a retired farmer and capitalist of 
 Madison County; Samuel, a cattle dealer; and 
 Frances, both of whom reside in that county ; 
 William H. ; and John F. , a retired stockman and 
 farmer of Madison County. The father was born 
 in Virginia in 1790 and while still a boj' accom- 
 panied his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he 
 grew to manhood. At the breaking out of the 
 war of 1812 he enlisted in the service and re- 
 mained until the close of the war. A short time 
 after his marriage he settled in Madison County, 
 where he bought a timbered tract and from the 
 woods evolved a finely improved farm. The 
 active part of his life was spent upon that place, 
 engaging in general agricultural pursuits. In 
 politics he was a strong supporter of the Whig 
 party, and upon its disintegration became a Re- 
 publican, but, while he was influential in political 
 matters, he was not an ofiice seeker and never 
 held office. His death occurred in 1862. 
 
 Being afflicted with asthma when a boy, our 
 subject was not able to attend school regularly, 
 nevertheless he gained a good education bj- self- 
 culture. During the Civil war he enlisted in 
 Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio 
 Infantry, and during his service of one hundred 
 days, took part in the battle of New Creek Sta- 
 tion. After his father's death in 1862 he and his 
 brother Warren took charge of the home farm, 
 which they continued to manage for some time, 
 purchasing after some years the interests of the 
 other heirs. In the spring of 1875 they sold the 
 place, and our subject decided to come west and 
 engage in farming in Kansas. He has never had 
 occasion to regret this decision, as he has been 
 very fortunate in his undertakings in this state 
 and has gradually built up a farm that is sur- 
 passed by few in Douglas County. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics, but has been too much en- 
 grossed with his personal affairs to devote atten- 
 tion to public matters and has never cared for 
 official positions. 
 
 February 9, 1875, Mr. Armstrong married 
 
 Miss Anna M. Paine, who was born in Madison 
 County, Ohio, her father, Zadock Paine, being a 
 prominent farmer there. Two sons comprise the 
 family of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong: Earl W., who 
 is in charge of one of his father's farms; and 
 Frank M., who assists in the cultivation of the 
 home place. 
 
 \A RS. HANORA (HICKEY) ANDERSON, 
 y who was one of the early settlers both of 
 C9 Illinois and Kansas, and is now living on 
 a farm four miles south of Lecompton, Douglas 
 Couut}', was born in the city of Limerick, Ireland, 
 in 181 6, a daughter of David and Margaret 
 (Ryan) Hicke}'. She was one of eight children, 
 five of whom are still living, namely: Mary, 
 widow of Daniel Mahoney, of Osage County, 
 Kans. ; Ellen, wife of Michael Ryan, of St. 
 Louis, Mo.; Hanora; David, who lives in Spring- 
 field, 111,; and Ann, widow of Michael Murphy, 
 of Douglas County, Kans. The parents were 
 born, reared and married in County Limerick, 
 Ireland, where the father engaged in farm pur- 
 suits until his death, in 1831, at the age of fifty- 
 five years. 
 
 When seventeen years of age, in 1833, our 
 subject became the wife of Thomas Anderson, 
 who was born and reared upon a farm adjoining 
 the one owned by Mr. Hickey. He was one of 
 the five children (all now deceased) of Thomas 
 and Bridget (McQueney) Anderson, natives of 
 Counties Limerick and Clare. After their mar- 
 riage Mr. and Mrs. Anderson settled upon a 
 farm in County Limerick and there they re- 
 mained until 1841, when they crossed the ocean 
 to America. After a voyage of ten weeks and 
 three days they landed in New Orleans in the 
 fall of that year. From there they traveled via 
 steamer to St. Louis, and then took a stage for 
 Springfield, 111. Mr. Anderson bought a tract of 
 land and settled down upon a farm, which he 
 cultivated for fourteen years, and which now 
 forms the site for the railroad depot in that city. 
 While living there he and his wife saw the first 
 railroad laid into Illinois and witnessed the rapid 
 development of the state. 
 
 At the time the tide of emigration began to 
 
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 turn toward Kansas Mr. and Mrs. Anderson 
 came to this state in the spring of 1857 and set- 
 tled four miles south of L,ecorapton, in Kanwaka 
 Township, Douglas County. In time Mr. An- 
 derson became one of the prominent and pros- 
 perous farmers of the county. He was spared to 
 a venerable age, passing away May 24, 1889, 
 when in his ninety-eighth year. From child- 
 hood he was a member of the Roman Catholic 
 Church, to which his wife also belongs. 
 
 In politics he was a Democrat. Coming to 
 Kansas at the time of the border warfare, he gave 
 his sympathy and support to the free-state party 
 and favored the abolition of slavery. He was too 
 old to enlist in the service during the Civil war, 
 but he and his wife both felt the keenest interest 
 in the preservation of the Union and the ex- 
 tinction of slavery. They were the parents of 
 fourteen children, seven of whom survive, viz. : 
 Bridget, who is the wife of Patrick Cummings, 
 of Douglas County; David, a farmer of Kanwaka 
 Township; John and William, who are also en- 
 gaged in farming in this township; Margaret, 
 wife of Patrick Brown, a farmer of Jackson 
 County, Kans. ; George and Alexander, who cul- 
 tivate farms near their mother's homestead. 
 
 REUBEN R. DOOLITTLE, a retired farmer 
 of Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, 
 was born in Wayne County, N. Y., May 
 22, 1827. His father, Rev. Grin Doolittle, a 
 native of New York, was for many years a minis- 
 ter in the Methodist Episcopal Church, but owing 
 to the stand taken by the denomination at the 
 time the slave question was being agitated, he 
 withdrew from the ministry and devoted his at- 
 tention to lecturing in behalf of the abolition of 
 slaves. It was his privilege to live to see the 
 slaves emancipated and our nation the home of a 
 people all of whom were free. Later he became 
 an advocate of the Republican party. By his 
 marriage to Elizabeth Randolph he had nine 
 children, of whom our subject was the fifth and is 
 the only one in Kansas. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, Reuben 
 Randolph Doolittle, was born in Culpepper, Va., 
 
 where he attained maturity, but afterward he 
 removed to New York and settled upon a farm. 
 At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he was 
 about seventeen years of age. During the war he 
 was employed as dispatch bearer for General 
 Washington, a position that required great cour- 
 age. 
 
 When our subject was about nine years of age 
 the family settled in Michigan, then a new coun- 
 try, and afterward he helped to clear a farm. In 
 1852 he went via water to California, crossing the 
 isthmus of Panama and reaching the Pacific coast 
 after a long voyage. For two years and four 
 months he engaged in mining. At the time of 
 his return the railroad across the isthmus was 
 completed with the exception of eight or ten 
 miles. He resumed farming in Michigan, but 
 soon became restless again, and in the spring of 
 1859 started for Pike's Peak. However, when 
 about one hundred and twenty miles west of Oma- 
 ha he met so many returning that he decided not 
 to go further. Consequently he drove down to 
 Douglas County and bought a claim where he 
 now resides, afterward securing from the govern- 
 ment a deed, bearing the signature of Andrew 
 Johnson, to one hundred and sixty acres of land. 
 Of the entire tract, only ten acres had been im- 
 proved. He set to work to break the land, fence 
 it, and put up necessary buildings. His first 
 house was a log cabin, in which he lived for 
 about eight years. At first he raised principally 
 corn and wheat. It was difl5cult to dispose of his 
 crops, as there was no railroad even to Lawrence 
 and it was then quite a small town. At the time 
 of the war he was a member of the state militia, 
 but did not see active service, as he was placed on 
 detached duty. 
 
 As he prospered, Mr. Doolittle added to his 
 possessions until he became the owner of two 
 hundred acres. In 1885 he erected a comfortable 
 house from plans designed by his wife, and here 
 he has since resided. While his attention has 
 been given mostly to farming, he has also en- 
 gaged in dairying to some extent and at one time 
 also raised fowls and sold eggs and chickens. His 
 wife gained a reputation throughout the county 
 as a skillful buttermaker, and at no time was a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pound of her butter ever sold for less than twenty- 
 five cents, while at times it commanded as much 
 as fifty cents. In addition to the residence there 
 are other good buildings on the place, including 
 a substantial barn, and there is also a complete 
 equipment of machinery. 
 
 In politics Mr. Doolittle was a Republican un- 
 til 1892, when he transferred his allegiance to 
 the Democratic party. He would never accept 
 any office, but has devoted all of his energy to the 
 proper management of his place and, as a farmer, 
 has acquired a reputation second to none in his 
 locality. Interested in the fruit business, he 
 brought some peach pits from Michigan to Kan- 
 sas and the fruit he raised was as fine as any 
 grown in the county. At the Columbian Expo- 
 sition in Chicago, some of his peaches were sent 
 for exhibition, but were rejected, as the commit- 
 tee could not be convinced they were seedlings. 
 During the lifetime of his wife they traveled con- 
 siderable, both being fond of studying customs 
 and habits, as well as viewing scenery in different 
 parts of the country. Several times they visited 
 California and the east, and also visited the Cen- 
 tennial in Philadelphia, the World's Fair in Chi- 
 cago and the Trans-Continental Exposition in 
 Omaha; having by intelligent labor earned the 
 right to independence, they enjoyed life to the ut- 
 most, without a break in their happiness until 
 the death of Mrs. Doolittle, in March, 1899. Prior 
 to her marriage, in Michigan, in 1852, she was 
 Jeannette Van Vleet. Her father was a justice of 
 the peace and for thirty years served as post- 
 master at Wheatland, Hill.sdale County, Mich. 
 
 The only son of our subject and his wife is 
 Randall Doolittle, who was born in Michigan in 
 December, 1857. He was two years of age when 
 his parents brought him to Kansas. His educa- 
 tion was received in district schools and the busi- 
 ness college at Lawrence, after which he took a 
 course in telegraphy. For two years he was em- 
 ployed as an operator on the Santa Feroad, but, 
 being the only child, he felt it to be his duty to 
 help in the management of the home farm, of 
 which he now has entire control. Active in po- 
 litical matters, he has been a delegate to many 
 conventions. In 1895 ^^^ was elected township 
 
 trustee and served for two terms, being the only 
 Democrat elected to any office in Wakarusa Town- 
 ship. November 29, 1882, he married Ella Wal- 
 ton, of this township. They have four children, 
 Charles, Faith, Jeannette and Walton Randall. 
 
 HENRY CHRISTIAN PRANG. The life of 
 this pioneer was for years intimately iden- 
 tified with the growth and progress of 
 Leavenworth County. He lived to enjoy the 
 comforts secured by the toil of earlj' days, and to 
 witness the growing importance of the city of 
 Leavenworth, with whose history he was familiar 
 from the time of its start. A native of Germany, 
 he made his home in America after eight years 
 of age, his parents settling near Burlington, Iowa, 
 where he was reared. The year 1854 found him 
 in Leavenworth. Soon afterward he went to 
 Kickapoo, where he opened a blacksmith's shop, 
 and for two years followed his trade. He then 
 returned to Leavenworth and engaged in general 
 blacksmithing until 1872. 
 
 On retiring from blacksmithing he opened a 
 plow factorj' with Mr. Howell, organizing the 
 firm of Howell & Prang, and continuing in the 
 business for five years. In 1875 he became fore- 
 man for the Caldwell Manufacturing Company, 
 manufacturers of wagons at the Kansas state 
 penitentiary, where he remained for four j-ears. 
 In 1883 he formed a partnership with August 
 Schanze in the implement business, the two con- 
 tinuing together for a few years. From that time 
 he followed his trade until his death, which oc- 
 curred July 23, 1886, at the age of forty-nine 
 years. His life was an active and busy one, and 
 by industry and economy he gained a com- 
 petency. 
 
 The Republican party received the support of 
 Mr. Prang. He never sought office, but was 
 once nominated, without his consent, for council- 
 man from the third ward. He was willing to 
 assist his friends who desired office, but preferred 
 to give his attention to business affairs rather 
 than to official duties. lu the blue lodge of 
 Masonrj' he held the office of master for .several 
 successive years. In religion he was a Method- 
 
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 ist. By his marriage to Jane Waddell he had 
 three children: Charles H., a grocer, and George 
 W., a horseshoer, both residing in L,eavenworth, 
 and Ellen, who died at the age of twenty-two. 
 George W. was a member of the council from 
 the third ward for one term, and fraternally he is 
 active in the Modern Woodmen and Odd Fel- 
 lows' Orders. 
 
 (T H. JACOBS, manager of the Kansas Water 
 I and Ivight Company, of Lawrence, came to 
 (2/ this state in the spring of 1857 ^nd settled in 
 Douglas County. He assisted in laying out the 
 village of Eudora, and there he opened a general 
 mercantile store. However, the following year 
 he removed to Johnson County and staijed in 
 business at DeSoto, remaining there for six 
 years. In the fall of 1864 he disposed of his 
 store there and came to Lawrence, becoming a 
 member of the firm of Summerfield & Jacobs, 
 and opening a wholesale and retail grocery. The 
 partnership continued successfully until the 
 death of Mr. Summerfield, after which Mr. Jacobs 
 carried on the business alone for fourteen years, 
 retiring in 1894, after thirty years of business life 
 in the same city. Meantime, after retiring from 
 the wholesale trade, he gave some attention to a 
 baking business, in which he built up a large 
 trade. As a business man he was known as a 
 hard worker, and one who in all of his transac- 
 tions was just, honest and fair. In 1894 he was 
 made superintendent of the water works in Law- 
 rence, which position he has since held, giving 
 careful attention to the management of the plant. 
 The water works are built according to modern 
 plans and have proved satisfactory, the supply of 
 water being ample and the quality excellent. 
 The water is carried by a system of basins to a 
 standpipe, which gives the desired pressure. 
 
 Mr. Jacobs was born in Nowowiesz, province 
 of Plock, Poland, in December, 1829, and was 
 next to the youngest of twelve children, six of 
 whom are living, two in America, the others in 
 the old country. His parents, Jacob and Rika 
 Jacobs, were born in Poland, where his father 
 was a merchant and farmer until his death at 
 sixty-eight years. Our subject remained at home 
 
 until seventeen years of age, when he migrated 
 to Germany, and for three years taught school 
 there. He then went to Newcastle, England, 
 where he learned the trade of painter and glazier. 
 In the fall of 1853 he came to America on the 
 sailer, "Constantine," which anchored in New 
 York City after a voyage of seven weeks. He 
 remained in New York until 1855, when he went 
 to Chicago and began in the fruit and confection- 
 ery business on the corner of Wells and Ran- 
 dolph streets. From there he came to Kansas in 
 1857, and his subsequent history has been identi- 
 fied principally with that of Douglas County. 
 He was married in Eudora, this county, to Miss 
 Mina Summerfield, who was born in Germany, 
 and died in Lawrence in 1898. They were the 
 parents of three children: Benjamin, who gradu- 
 ated from the Kansas City Medical College and 
 is now practicing in that city; Solon, who is so- 
 licitor for the Georgia Central Railroad in Ala- 
 bama; and Mrs. Bertha Tilles.of Fort Smith, Ark. 
 Fraternally Mr. Jacobs is connected with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and is a Master Mason. 
 During the Price raid he was called out as a 
 member of the state militia, and assisted in driv- 
 ing the Confederates out of Kansas. In politics 
 he has always been a Republican, but is not 
 radical in his views. 
 
 GJRTHUR J. ANDERSON, M. D., general 
 Ll medical examiner for the Fraternal Aid 
 / I Association and one of the popular physi- 
 cians of Lawrence, was born in Greenfield, Ohio, 
 June 19, 1863, and has made his home in Lawrence 
 since the fall of 1868. His father, S. B. AndersoTi, 
 M. D., was a son of John and Sarah (Brooks) 
 Anderson, natives of Scotland, who lived for some 
 years in Pennsylvania, but later settled in Green- 
 field, Highland County, Ohio. Born in Pennsyl- 
 vania and reared in Ohio, S. B. Anderson gradu- 
 ated from a medical college in Cincinnati, and for 
 some years practiced in Greenfield, but in 1868 
 settled in Lawrence, Kans., where he built up a 
 large practice. He served both as president and 
 vice-president of the State Homeopathic Medical 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Society. Since his retirement from practice he 
 has made his home in Denver, Colo. At Green- 
 field, Ohio, August 9, 1849, he married Miss 
 Nancy L. Davis, daughter of Dr. Jephtha Davis, 
 who was born in Kentucky, but removed to Ohio 
 and engaged in medical practice at Circleville 
 until his death. In the family of Dr. S. B. and 
 Nancy Anderson there were seven children, 
 namely: Samuel H., who graduated from the St. 
 Louis Homeopathic Medical College and is now 
 engaged in practice in Kansas City, Mo. ; Mary 
 A., wife of S. D. Coffin, of Denver, Colo.; John 
 Frank, who owns and conducts a stock ranch in 
 Monte Vista, Colo.; William J., who died in 
 Kansas City; Nannie, who died in childhood; 
 George D., who died in Denver, Colo., in 1899; 
 and Arthur J. 
 
 The subject of this sketch studied in the Uni- 
 versity of Kansas with the class of 1885 until the 
 close of the junior year, making a specialty of 
 chemistry and anatomy. On leaving school he 
 began the study of medicine with his father. In 
 1884 he entered the St. Louis Homeopathic Med- 
 ical College. One j-ear later he matriculated in 
 the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 
 from which he graduated in 1887, with the degree 
 of M. D. The confinement of college work had 
 impaired his health greatly, but after a year de- 
 voted to recuperation he was as rugged as before. 
 He practiced with his father until 1895, and since 
 the latter' s retirement has been alone. In 1893-94 
 he held the chair of sanitary science and hygiene 
 in the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College. 
 In 1893 he received from the governor appoint- 
 ment as a member of the state board of health, 
 which position he filled for two years. 
 
 Dr. Anderson was married in Lawrence to Eva 
 B., daughter of E. A. Smith, who was the first 
 cashier of the first bank established in this city 
 and is now engaged in the raising of standard- 
 bred horses. Mrs. Anderson was educated at 
 Bethany College and is a lady of refinement, 
 holding a high position in society. Their three 
 children are Bessie, Eva and Arthur. 
 
 Fraternally Dr. Anderson is connected with 
 Acacia Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., Scottish 
 Rite and Topeka Consistory. He is past chan- 
 
 cellor in the Order of Knights of Pythias. In the 
 organization of the Fraternal Aid Association he 
 took an active part and has been one of its active 
 members. In 1897 he was elected general med- 
 ical examiner for the association, his district cov- 
 ering eleven states and two territories. So ablj' 
 did he fill the office that at the expiration of his 
 term he was re-elected, in 1899, against thirteen 
 candidates. He is local examiner for the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, examiner for the 
 Modern Woodmen, Woodmen of the World, Se- 
 lect Friends, National Reserve and Ancient Or- 
 der of Pyramids. A charter member of the 
 Douglas Count J- Homeopathic Medical Society, 
 he has been one of the officials since its organiza- 
 tion and is now its vice-president. He is also 
 connected with the Kansas State Homeopathic 
 Medical Society and the American Institute of 
 Homeopathy. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 
 HARRY RABINOVITZ, of Leavenworth, 
 was born near Kovina, Russia, a son of Zus- 
 man and Rachael (Hernburg) Rabinovitz, 
 and a descendant, on his father's side, of a family 
 of noted Jewish rabbis, while through his mother 
 he traced his lineage to an old and prominent 
 family engaged in the mercantile business. He 
 was the youngest of five children, of whom two 
 sons and one daughter are in the United States, 
 his brother, Frank, being a merchant in Kansas 
 City. He was born January 18, 187 1. Until 
 fourteen years of age he attended the national 
 schools in Russia. When a boy he traveled 
 through Russia, France, Germany and England. 
 In 1885 he came to America, reaching Philadel- 
 phia a stranger in a strange land, with whose 
 cu.stoms and language he was not familiar, and 
 with no money in his possession except sixty- 
 five cents. For four months he engaged in sell- 
 ing matches to such customers as he could find 
 on the .street or in offices. In this way he earned 
 $g. With this money he purchased a small out- 
 fit of goods and began peddling through diffi;rent 
 parts of Pennsylvania, making his headquarters 
 in Allentown. 
 
 After three years as a peddler he went to Chi- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 521 
 
 cago and from there to Kansas City in 1889, 
 spending three months as a clerk. His next lo- 
 cation was at Lee Summit, Mo. , where he attended 
 school two winters and also studied under private 
 instruction in the summer. At the same time he 
 carried on business as a peddler. On his return 
 to Kansas City he engaged in the restaurant 
 business. In 1894 ^^ came to Leavenworth, 
 where he bought a wholesale liquor business, and 
 this he carried on for one year. In 1895 he ac- 
 cepted a position as agent in Leavenworth for 
 Val Blatz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wis., 
 and has since filled this position. The company 
 has recently completed a large plant, with office, 
 warehouse, ice house and storage rooms, on 
 Broadway and Seneca street. The ice house has 
 a capacit}^ of two hundred and fifty tons, and the 
 warehouse a capacity of three car loads. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Rabinovitz returned to his native 
 land, where he visited relatives and old friends. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias. He is a Republican in national poli- 
 tics, but in local elections votes independently. 
 
 fgjEORGE UMMETHUN, who was one of 
 |_l the leading business men and well-known 
 vU pioneers of Leavenworth, was born in Furst- 
 nau, Hanover, Germany, December 15, 1835, and 
 was educated in his native province. In 1851 he 
 accompanied his parents to America and settled 
 with them in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he secured 
 work in a drug store, and remained in the same 
 position until he left the city. In the spring of 
 1859 he came to Leavenworth and opened a drug 
 store under the firm name of Coolidge & Um- 
 methun, having as a partner his former employer 
 in Cincinnati. After the building burned in 
 which he had carried on business he erected 
 what was then known as the Ummethun opera 
 house, a two-story brick building on the corner 
 of Delaware and Fourth streets. Here, in the 
 corner room of the ground floor, he conducted 
 the leading drug business in the city. For 
 several years he rented the upper part of the 
 building as an opera house, but afterward it was 
 remodeled into a business block, and the Leaven- 
 
 worth National Bank now occupies the rooms in 
 which he had his drug store. He then opened a 
 drug store in another part of the town, where he 
 continued in business until his death. 
 
 Upon the organization of the German Savings 
 Bank Mr. Ummethun was chosen its president 
 and served as such during the first three years of 
 its existence, after which he was a director and 
 stockholder in the institution until its consolida- 
 tion with the First National Bank. In 1878 he 
 was elected mayor of Leavenworth, being the 
 first Democrat to hold that office for some years. 
 It was the wish of both parties that he serve a 
 second term, but he refused. In 1889, at the 
 Democratic state convention held in Leavenworth, 
 he was unanimously nominated for lieutenant- 
 governor, but was defeated with his party. In 
 1863-64 he was a member of the city council. 
 His interest in local afiairs was less that of a 
 partisan than of a public- spirited citizen, who 
 desired the advancement of his city and its in- 
 creasing prosperity. Fraternally he was con- 
 nected with the Odd Fellows. He was reared in 
 the Lutheran faith and always inclined toward 
 that church. His disposition was genial, accom- 
 modating and generous; he was a man of domestic 
 tastes, and his happiest hours were those spent in 
 the midst of his family, to whom he was intensely 
 devoted. He died January 30, 1890, while he 
 was still in the prime of life and business activity. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Ummethun to Miss Martha 
 Augusta Austin occurred October 4, 1865. She 
 was born in Huron County, Ohio, a daughter of 
 Homer and Adaline (Cherry) Austin, natives 
 respectively of Berkshire County, Mass., and 
 New York. Her father went to Ohio when a 
 young man and assisted in clearing and improving 
 a farm there. From 1849 to 1851 he was with 
 the gold-seekers in California and met with fair 
 success. After his return to Ohio he remained 
 for some years on the home farm, which had been 
 given to him by his father. In the spring of 
 1863 he sold that place and came to Leavenworth, 
 where he engaged in the grocery business for 
 three years. Later he settled upon a farm twelve 
 miles from the city and there he has since made 
 his home. At the time of Price's raid he served 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in the home guard. During his residence in 
 Ohio he served as justice of the peace for several 
 years. Notwithstanding his eight3'-four busy 
 years, he is .still active for one of that age. His 
 wife is also living and is seventy-five years of age. 
 Of their four children, Martha Augusta is the 
 eldest. Mr. and Mrs. Ummethun have two 
 daughters, Josephine, at honae; and LinnieLeona, 
 wife of Dr. C. C. Allen, of Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 ROBERT M. FERGUSON, who is proprietor 
 of a mercantile store in Leloup, Franklin 
 County, was born in Plainfield, 111. , June 12, 
 1853, and represents the third generation of his 
 family in America. His father, Robert, came to 
 the United States in 1849 and after one year in 
 eastern Pennsylvania, where he married, he 
 settled in Illinois, becoming identified with agri- 
 cultural matters in that state. By his marriage 
 to Nancy McDoiigal, he had eight children, of 
 whom Robert is the oldest now living. His edu- 
 cation was begun in the common schools of 
 Illinois and carried on later in Northwestern Col- 
 lege at Plainfield, a business college at Joliet, and 
 Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., but 
 he left the last-named institution before gradu- 
 ating. 
 
 In the spring of 1876 Mr. Ferguson came to 
 Franklin County to take charge of his father's 
 farm here, and, besides its management, he en- 
 gaged in shipping grain and cattle. After a time 
 he began to raise stock, and he continued buying, 
 raising, feeding and shipping, until 1887, when 
 he embarked in the mercantile business. In the 
 meantime he also engaged in the lumber business, 
 in which he was interested for four years. Since 
 beginning as a merchant he has dropped all out- 
 side matters and enterprises except the shipment 
 of grain and the supervision of his farm. He 
 is the owner of two hundred and thirty acres 
 which he cultivates, in addition to three hundred 
 and twenty acres that he rents. In raising farm 
 produce he makes a specialtj' of corn. His various 
 interests combine to make him a very busy man. 
 He has the leading business in Leloup, his sales 
 aggregating $6,000 per annum, outside of his grain 
 
 business, which is also large. Having to devote 
 himself closely to the management of his private 
 affairs, he has no leisure for participation in public 
 affairs, but he seeks to do his duty as a citizen 
 and keeps posted concerning national issues. The 
 Democratic party represents his views upon the 
 problems before our countrj', and he gives his 
 vote to his party's candidates. Three times he 
 was chosen to act as po.stmaster (during the ad- 
 ministrations of Hayes, Cleveland and Harrison), 
 and he had the oflSce in his .store. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson's family con.si.sts of his wife and 
 two children, Henry, aged sixteen, and Robert, 
 aged two j-ears. 
 
 /5JEORGE A. ANDERSON, a prosperous cat- 
 |_ tleman and farmer of Kanwaka Township, 
 \ji Douglas Count}', was born in this count}' 
 March 15, i860, the son of Thomas and Hanora 
 (Hickey) Anderson, to whose sketch upon an- 
 other page the reader is referred for the family 
 historj'. He grew to manhood on the home farm 
 and was given such advantages as local schools 
 afforded. Reared under the most careful home 
 influences, and trained to habits of industrj', 
 perseverance and integrity, he was well fitted for 
 the responsibilities which awaited him in life. 
 At an early age he became familiar with agri- 
 culture, and it was natural that, when selecting 
 an occupation, he should choose the one with 
 which he was most familiar and in which he 
 might reasonably hope to gain exceptional suc- 
 cess. 
 
 In 1885 occurred the marriage of Mr. Ander- 
 son to Miss Maggie J. Favvl, who was born in 
 Douglas County. Her father, Patrick Fawl, was 
 among the earliest settlers of Kansas and is still 
 living at the homestead in Marion Township, 
 Douglas County, where he settled upon coming 
 west. After our subject's marriage he settled 
 upon a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Kanwaka Township, which place had been deeded 
 to him by his father. Upon this place he began 
 farming for himself. Working industriously he 
 was rewarded bj' a commendable degree of suc- 
 cess. Realizing the possibilitj' of large profits in 
 the cattle business he devoted considerable atten- 
 
WILLIAM SERVATUS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 525 
 
 tion to this branch of agriculture. In the fall of 
 1891 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 additional, and removed to his new home. Be- 
 sides these two properties, comprising three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, he owns one hundred and 
 sixty acres which he uses for the pasturage of his 
 cattle. He and his wife are the parents of eight 
 children, seven now living, viz.: Mary, Maggie, 
 George, Thomas, Frank, Rosie and William. 
 
 The political affiliations of Mr. Anderson are 
 with the Democratic party. In 1895 he was 
 elected clerk of the township, which office he 
 filled for three years. In religion he is a Roman 
 Catholic. Fraternally he is connected with Law- 
 rence Camp No. 798, Modern Woodmen of Amer- 
 ica. He is respected as one of the enterprising 
 farmers and honorable citizens of his township. 
 
 y yi RS. DELIA F. SERVATUS, who is a pio- 
 Y neer of Franklin County, has for more than 
 (9 forty years made her home on a farm ten 
 miles southwest of Ottawa, in Homewood Town- 
 ship. She was born in Bucks County, Pa., a 
 daughter of John and Anna Catherine (Hoffman) 
 Matts, of whose ten children eight are still living. 
 The three oldest sons, Peter, Alexander and 
 Elias, are retired from active cares, the first- 
 named living in Dane County, Wis., the second 
 in Coopersburg, Pa., and the third in Richland- 
 town. Pa. John lives in Dane County, Wis.; 
 Nicholas is a farmer in Franklin County, Kans. ; 
 Jackson F. carries on farm pursuits in Bucks 
 County, Pa.; and Catherine Amelia makes her 
 home in Bucks Count}', Pa. 
 
 The Matts family was founded in America by 
 John Mich Metz (as the name was then spelled), 
 a native of Germany, who settled in this country 
 in early life. His wife, Barbara, was born on 
 the ocean when her parents were crossing from 
 Germany to the United States. Born in Phila- 
 delphia, John Matts was a boy when he accom- 
 panied his parents to Bucks County, Pa., and 
 there he learned the tanner's trade under his 
 father, with whom he worked in the tanning 
 business until the father's death, when, he being 
 the only son, the responsibility of managing the 
 
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 business fell entirely upon him. After some 
 years of successful work he retired from the busi- 
 ness and settled upon a farm, where the remain- 
 ing years of his life were spent. He was a 
 prominent figure in local politics and took a lead- 
 ing part in district affairs. For four years he 
 was a member of the state legislature, and at 
 other times he held local positions of honor and 
 trust. In early life he voted with the Democrats, 
 but at the time of Andrew Jackson's veto of the 
 national bank bill, which did not meet with his 
 approval, he allied himself with the Whig party 
 A successful business man, he amassed a consid- 
 erable fortune. While he was not connected with 
 any church, he was a man of Christian belief and 
 exemplary life. During the war of 18 12 he went 
 to the front in the American army. 
 
 The mother of our subject was a native of 
 Northampton County, Pa., and a daughter of 
 John and Margaret Hoffman, natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and owners of a valuable farm in Bucks 
 County. Mr. Hoffman was a soldier during the 
 entire period of the Revolutionary war and was 
 with Washington when he crossed the Delaware 
 on that stormy night in winter. Often, in later 
 years, he told his children and grandchildren of 
 those days of suffering, when the soldiers, illy 
 clad and barefooted, pushed their way through 
 ice and snow, leaving behind them the bloody 
 footprints made by their bare and lacerated feet. 
 
 When eighteen years of age our subject went 
 to Wisconsin and made her home with her four 
 brothers who had preceded her to that state. In 
 1856 she became the wife of William Servatus, 
 who was born in Prussia, German}', in 1830, and 
 came to America late in the '40s. For some 
 years he followed the painter's trade in Utica, 
 N. Y. Later he settled in Dane County, Wis., 
 where he met and married Miss Matts. Shortly 
 after his marriage, in the winter of 1856-57, he 
 came to Kansas and pre-empted one hundred and 
 sixty acres in Franklin County, on which he 
 built a small cabin. Returning to Wisconsin, he 
 brought his wife back with him and settled in 
 his new home, where they arrived June 6, 1857. 
 Settlers were few at that time, their nearest 
 neighbors being a few families who had settled 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 oil Middle Creek. In time thej- were prospered 
 and were able to replace their cabin with a 
 neat house, while other improvements were con- 
 stantly being made also. Mr. Servatus died here 
 February 4, 1881, since which time his widow 
 has continued to live here, managing the cultiva- 
 tion of the land and actively superintending all 
 of the work. In religion she is identified with 
 the Christian Church, while Mr. Servatus was a 
 Roman Catholic. 
 
 \A ICHAEIv A. PRZYBYLOWICZ, city clerk 
 y of Leavenworth, was born in thiscit)' June 
 (9 I, 1865, a son of Hon. Michael A. and 
 Johanna (Geschnecher) Przybylowicz, natives 
 respectively of Poland and Germany. His father, 
 who was the son of a soldier in the Russian army, 
 learned the butcher's trade in youth, and after 
 coming to America spent some time in the east, 
 but about 1847 traveled through Kansas and 
 Missouri, settling in St. Joe. About 1850 he 
 cros.sed the plains to California and engaged in the 
 restaurant business in San Francisco. Later he 
 took up a claim in what is now Portland, Ore., 
 and engaged in business there, but soon gave up 
 all of his interests in that place, and returning 
 east settled in Leavenworth, where he embarked 
 ill the grain and commission business. During 
 the Civil war he was a member of a Kansas regi- 
 ment of volunteers. In 1869 he started the Con- 
 tinental hotel and this he conducted, building up 
 a large business, and becoming well known as an 
 accommodating, genial landlord. From 1883 to 
 1890 he rented the hotel toothers, but in the lat- 
 ter year again assumed its management, and car- 
 ried it on until his retirement from business in 
 1895. During his active business life he made 
 several trips across the plains. In local affairs he 
 took an active part, being a leading Democrat. 
 Several times he was elected a member of the 
 city council and for two terms he was a member 
 of the .state legislature of Kansas. Of his eleven 
 children, six are now living. 
 
 The oldest son and next to the oldest child is 
 the subject of this sketch. In 1884 he gradu- 
 ated from the high school. Shortly afterward he 
 entered the First National Bank as a messenger 
 
 bo}', and later was promoted, bj- successive steps, 
 until he became a bookkeeper. After four and 
 one-half years in the bank he resigned in order 
 to engage in the hotel business with his father, 
 and for four years he continued with the latter. 
 When his connection with the Continental hotel 
 was severed he went to Kansas City and for a 
 .short time was bookkeeper for the We.ston Brew- 
 ing Company. On his return to Leavenworth he 
 became night clerk in the Imperial hotel. April 
 6, 1897, he was elected city clerk on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket and on the 14th of the same month 
 he took the oath of office. Since then he has 
 given his attention to official duties, in the dis- 
 charge of which he has shown efficieucj* and 
 energy. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Select Knights. 
 
 (Tames L. turner, of Ottawa, was born 
 I in Marysville, Union Count}-, Ohio, March 
 (2/ 14, 1857, a son of James and Elizabeth 
 (Gibson) Turner, natives respectively of Penn- 
 sylvania and Virginia. His grandparents came 
 from their respective localities to Ohio and settled 
 upon farms in Union County. For many years 
 James Turner held office as probate judge in 
 Union County, where he died in 1859; five years 
 later his wife died. Of their twelve children all 
 but three grew to mature years, and five sons 
 and one daughter are now living. One of the 
 sons, Taylor, was a soldier in the Civil war and 
 died in Pennsylvania. Another son, Emory, 
 lives in Kansas City, Mo., while Allen and James 
 L. reside in Ottawa, Kans. 
 
 The youngest of the .sons, our subject was de- 
 prived by death of his parents while he was still 
 too young to realize his lo.ss. He remained with 
 an older sister on the home farm and when she 
 died, in 1876, he started out forhim.self. After- 
 ward he was employed on farms in the same 
 neighborhood until December, 1878, when he 
 and his brother Allen came to Ottawa. At first 
 he rented land in Ottawa and carried on farm 
 pursuits, but in 1893 he settled in the city and 
 .started a livery business on Second street. Here 
 he has since built up a large business. He is the 
 owner of two fine draft horses, "Moscow" and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 527 
 
 "Thumper." "Moscow," No. 14,282, is a black 
 Percheron stallion, bred by F. J. Jolidan & Son, 
 of Elvaston, 111. Sired by Isidore, 8018, he by 
 Bayard II (5612), he by Picadore I (7330), he 
 by Bayard (9495), he by Estrabia, 187 (796), he 
 by a son of Jean-le-Blanc (739). Dam, Rosette 
 7998(12121) by Mignon (11216), by Fa vori, be- 
 longing to Madam Marchand; second dam Co- 
 cotte (12120) by Bayard, belonging to M. Le- 
 feuvre. He is coal-black, with star on forehead, 
 sixteen and one-half hands high, and won the first 
 prize at the Franklin County fair of 1896, while 
 one of his colts won first prize at both the Doug- 
 las and Franklin County fairs. 
 
 In politics Mr. Turner is ajRepublican. He is 
 past officer in the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and a member of the Knights and Ladies of 
 Security and the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. He was married in Ohio to Miss Lou 
 Coon, who was born in Sidney, Shelby County, 
 that state, and is a lady of refinement and pleas- 
 ing manners and an active member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 EHARLES C. EMERY, who is one of the old- 
 est surviving residents of Kanwaka Town- 
 ship, Douglas Count}^ now makes his home 
 in Lawrence, where, in March, 1895, he pur- 
 chased a residence at No. 504 Louisiana street, 
 with the intention of spending his remaining 
 days here, in the enjoyment of the competency 
 acquired by his industrious efibrts in earlier days. 
 He was born in Saco, Me., May 31, 1830, a son 
 of Moses Emery, who was an attorney and farmer, 
 a man of high standing and a prominent factor in 
 church and educational matters. The famil)^ is 
 descended from John Emer)', who with his broth- 
 ers, Anthony and another whose name is un- 
 known, crossed the ocean from England in 1635, 
 one settling in Pennsylvania, while Anthony and 
 John became pioneers of Newburg, Me. In 
 1836-37 Mo-ses Emery, then a member of the 
 Maine legislature, successfully engineered the 
 enactment of the charter of the Portland, Saco 
 and Portsmouth Railroad Company in the face of 
 a powerful opposition. Of the cause of education 
 
 he was a prominent champion, and for a long 
 period was president of the board of trustees of 
 Thornton Academy at Saco, named after Mar- 
 shall Thornton, one of its founders and a leading 
 contributor to its support. Our subject's mother, 
 Sarah C Thornton, was a daughter of Rev. 
 Thomas Thornton, a minister sent by the English 
 government to act as marshal of the province. 
 
 Prior to the age of nineteen our subject started 
 for California. Sailing to Boston, he there took 
 passage on a boat and journeyed to the isthmus 
 of Panama, where he spent three months. From 
 there he took a whaling vessel to California, where 
 he arrived after a voyage of seventj' -eight days. 
 For three weeks he worked in San Francisco, 
 living with a Mormon family. He then went to 
 the mountains and engaged in mining. For a 
 time he worked with a Mr. Bowie, a cousin of 
 the inventor of the bowie knife. While there he 
 met Nathaniel Gordon, a man from Maine, who 
 was hanged in New York in 1862 and was the 
 first man to suffer capital punishment in the 
 United States on account of bringing negroes 
 from the coast of Africa to our country. Finally 
 our subject sold out to his brother and returned 
 to Maine. Since his first trip a railroad had been 
 built across the isthmus, and he crossed on it, the 
 fare being $25 for a ticket and fifteen cents for 
 every pound of baggage taken across. 
 
 On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his birth 
 our subject arrived in Kansas. He bought one 
 hundred and sixty acres of unsurveyed land in 
 what is now Kanwaka Township. The land 
 was raw and no attempt had been made to clear 
 it of the timber growth or break the prairie. He 
 at once settled upon it and began the work of im- 
 provement. Afterward he engaged in raising 
 horses and cattle, and also carried on general 
 farm pursuits. He continued to live there until 
 March, 1892, when he removed to Kansas City. 
 From there became to Lawrence in 1895. 
 
 He never sought for office, but, at the solici- 
 tation of the members of the Republican party in 
 his locality consented to serve as road overseer, 
 which office he filled for a number of years. He 
 was also one of the board of directors of school 
 district No. 20. In religion he is of the Uni- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tarian faith. September 9, 1857, he married 
 Anna Caldwell, of Saco, Me., an estimable lady, 
 whose death February 27, 1897, was a heavy 
 blow to the family. They were the parents of 
 three sons, namely: John C, who died at Rico, 
 Colo., of pneumonia, at thirty -one years of age; 
 Frank W., a physician in Winfield, Kans. ; and 
 Eugene T. , who conducts the home farm. Be- 
 sides his property possessions in the west our 
 subject is interested in a cotton factory at Bidde- 
 ford. Me. 
 
 (p\ NDREW SCHWARTZ, who is a prosper- 
 LJ ous German- American farmer of Alexandria 
 / I Township, Leavenworth County, was born 
 at Schwegenheim by Speyer, Rhine Province, 
 Germany, January 9, 1845. He was the second 
 child and oldest son among seven children (two 
 now deceased) born to the union of Philip and 
 Katherine (Reichert) Schwartz, who were far- 
 mers. When a boy he attended the schools of his 
 native land and afterward learned the wagon- 
 maker's trade. When twenty-one years old he 
 came to America, with the intention of returning 
 to Germany, but, liking this country, he decided 
 to remain. From New York, where he landed, 
 he went to Columbus, Ohio, and secured work 
 at his trade. Two years later he came to Kan- 
 sas and for a time stopped in Leavenworth, but 
 later settled in the village of Springdale in the 
 fall of 1870. After two months as an employe he 
 bought out his employer and carried on the shop 
 alone. With a short intermission he continued 
 the business until 1888, when he turned his at- 
 tention to farming. From the proceeds of his 
 business he secured the money necessary for the 
 purchase of farm land. From time to time he 
 made investments in land, and now owns one 
 hundred and thirty acres, all lying near Spring- 
 dale. Stock-raising has been his specialty. He 
 understands stock thoroughly and gives them 
 the best of care. On his place may be seen Short- 
 horn cattle and Poland-China hogs. The fact 
 that he has running water on his place greatlj' 
 increases its value. Everj'thing is arranged in 
 the best manner possible, and there is plenty of 
 shelter for the stock. He has always been a lover 
 
 of a good horse, and those on his place, both 
 work and carriage horses, are of the best. The 
 larger part of the land is used for pasturage, but 
 some is planted to grain, which is used for feed 
 for the stock. He has been prospered and has 
 secured a competency. 
 
 Politically Mr. Schwartz votes the Republican 
 ticket and attends the county conventions of his 
 party, as well as some of the congressional and 
 state conventions. In 1889 he drove out to Colo- 
 rado with a four-mule team and was engaged in 
 railroad work there during the summer, but in 
 the fall sold his outfit for $700 and returned to 
 Kansas, preferring this state to Colorado. As he 
 had rented his place for three years he opened 
 a hotel at Brighton, Leavenworth County, and 
 continued there until the lease on his place had 
 expired. He then returned to his farm, where 
 he has since devoted himself closely to the stock 
 business. He is agenial,companionableman,fond 
 of good companj-, but never neglecting his busi- 
 ness affairs, which he manages with shrewdness 
 and in an economical manner. On his farm 
 stands a Quaker Church, and he is a member of 
 the congregation, though his wife is a member 
 of the Catholic Church. August 9, 1882, he mar- 
 ried Annie Mohan, who has resided in Leaven- 
 worth County since 1861. They became the par- 
 ents of three children, but all are deceased. They 
 have reared a nephew of Mr. Schwartz, who is 
 now in Denver, Colo. 
 
 EHARLES APITZ, proprietor of the Central 
 Hotel of Lawrence, was born in Halle, 
 Saxony, Germany, a son of August and 
 Maria (Spott) Apitz, also natives of Saxony. 
 Both of his grandfathers took part in the wars of 
 the early part of the nineteenth century ; his pa- 
 ternal grandfather, who was forced to take part 
 in the Napoleonic march to Moscow, perished 
 during the trip. August Apitz was a harness-' 
 maker and upholster and engaged in the leather 
 business. He died in 1872, having survived his 
 wife twelve years. They were the parents of 
 nine children, all but three of whom attained 
 mature years. Of those who were spared to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 529 
 
 manhood and womanhood, Henrietta and Frede- 
 ricka died in Germany, and Frederick, who came 
 to Kansas in 1865 and was a large and prosper- 
 ous harness manufacturer, died in Lawrence, on 
 the 4th of July, 1894. The three now living are: 
 Charles, of Lawrence; and Albert and Franz, of 
 Germany. 
 
 In the village where he was born October 28, 
 1837, the subject of this sketch was reared and 
 there he learned the trades which his father fol- 
 lowed. Afterward he was employed as a jour- 
 neyman in the different kingdoms of Germany, 
 also in Switzerland, Austria and Hungary. In 
 1863 he left Bremen on the sailer "Peter Roland" 
 and, after a voyage of forty-six days, landed in 
 New York, where he worked at the upholster's 
 trade. September 28, 1864, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany A, Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, Second 
 Army Corps, being mustered in as a private at 
 Elizabethtown, and thence sent to the front at 
 Petersburg, arriving there three days after his 
 muster-in. The company was not provided 
 with muskets until after reaching the battle-field. 
 On the 28th of October they went into the battle, 
 being stationed near the front on the left flank of 
 the army. When the day was ended fifteen hun- 
 dred were dead, wounded or captured. He was 
 one of the prisoners, and was taken to Libby 
 prison at Richmond, where he remained for four 
 months lacking four days, after which, at the 
 time of the grand exchange, February 26, 1865, 
 he was returned to the northern ranks. His ex- 
 periences in prison were exceedingly trying, for 
 he suffered not only from hunger, but also from 
 the cold, and at times it seemed as if he would 
 die of starvation or freeze to death. 
 
 On being released from prison, Mr. Apitz was 
 given a furlough of thirty days, at the expiration 
 of which he accompanied his regiment to the 
 south, witnessed the final surrender of Lee and 
 then took part in the'review at Washington. On 
 being discharged he returned to New York City, 
 and there found a letter from his brother stating 
 that he was in Canton, 111. Desiring to join 
 him, our subject came west, but on arriving at 
 Canton found his brother had gone to Lawrence, 
 Kans. Accordingly he came to this citj', in 
 
 August, 1865. He was the first upholsterer in 
 Lawrence, starting a shop on Massachusetts 
 street which he conducted for three years suc- 
 cessfully. However, the dust injured his health 
 and he was obliged to quit. Going to Leaven- 
 worth, he bought the City hotel, which he con- 
 ducted until 1870, but the venture was not suc- 
 cessful. His next undertaking was the building 
 of the Tremont house at Humboldt, Kans. , which 
 he conducted for six years. In 1876 he traded it 
 for one hundred and seventy acres of land in 
 Shelby County, Mo. He went to Macon City, 
 Mo. , where he carried on the Macon house until 
 1880, when the building was burned down. 
 Then, going to Moberly, Mo., he ran a hotel and 
 was so successful that after a year he bought a 
 place, selling this at a great profit a year later. 
 In 1882 he returned to Lawrence and bought the 
 old Union (now the Central) hotel, corner of 
 Vermont and Warren streets, where he has a 
 large building covering three lots and equipped 
 with all of the modern improvements. Of this 
 hotel he is the popular landlord. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Apitz is a Republican, 
 but is independent in local politics. He has been 
 trustee of the Turn Verein and is a member of 
 Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. In Lawrence 
 he married Miss Mary Stadler, who was born in 
 Germany, and in childhood accompanied her 
 parents to Missouri. They have three children: 
 Amelia, William F. and Bertha. The older 
 daughter is the wife of Albert Krause, who is 
 first lieutenant of Company H, Twentieth Kansas 
 Infantry, that won fame in the Philippines; Will- 
 iam F., who was a member of the Sixth United 
 States Infantry, was shot and seriously wounded 
 in the right hand at Santiago, during the Spanish- 
 American war. 
 
 (I CASS RATHBONE. The family repre- 
 I sented by this gentleman has been identified 
 (2/ with American history since the days of the 
 " Mayflower" and the settlement of Massachu- 
 setts. Subsequent generations removed further 
 south. J. Castelli Rathbone, who was born in 
 New Jersey and educated in New York City, 
 moved to West Virginia in young manhood and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 bought property on which afterward oil was first 
 discovered in that state. His lauded posses- 
 sions aggregated several thousand acres, which 
 he superintended, in addition to engaging in mill- 
 ing and merchandising. For many years he 
 served as county surveyor. He was a man of 
 superior abilit}' and intelligence, and wielded a 
 large influence in his community. At the open- 
 ing of the Civil war the government called upon 
 him to raise a company for the Union army, and 
 this he did, receiving a colonel's commission in 
 recognition of his services. Oil had been discov- 
 ered on his land just prior to the war, and after 
 its close he returned home and gave his attention 
 to the development of that industry. He has 
 always been a verj' active man, and now, at 
 eighty-one years of age, is still hearty and robust. 
 His home is now with his son in Leavenworth 
 County, but he retains some interests in the east. 
 In earlier life he was active in the Democratic 
 party, and took a leading part in local affairs as 
 a member of the town council and in other capaci- 
 ties. In religion he is of the Catholic faith. By 
 his marriage to Eliza Vanderbeek, of New Jersey-, 
 he had ten children, only four of whom are now 
 living, namely: Abram, of Lawrence, Kans.; 
 William, who remains in Parkersburg, W. Va. ; 
 F. W., M. D., of Kansas City, Mo.; and J. Cass, 
 of this sketch. 
 
 During the residence of the family in Parkers- 
 burg, W. Va., our subject was born July 25, 
 1858. He was educated in Baltimore and the 
 college at Ellicott City. In deference to his 
 father's wishes he took up the study of law, 
 which he completed in 1879, and afterwards prac- 
 ticed at St. Mary's and Parkersburg. However, 
 the profession was not congenial, and he sought 
 other work more to his taste. In 1880 he bought 
 a drug store in Kansas City and with his brother 
 continued in that business for five years. He 
 then came to Leavenworth County and purchased 
 a country place of three hundred and twentj' 
 acres in Tonganoxie Township. At that time 
 his health was so poor that he was told by the 
 physicians that he would probably not live more 
 than a month. In the hope that country life 
 might assist him to regain his strength he bought 
 
 his property here. The hope was realized and 
 he has now regained his strength and is hale and 
 strong. At the time of its purchase the farm 
 had a small house, but he has since erected a fine 
 residence, as well as other farm buildings. In 
 1897 he went to Missouri and bought a mill at 
 Pleasant Hill, but not finding it profitable he 
 sold it a year later. He now gives considerable 
 attention to the stock business, making a specialty 
 of black Jerseys. He has never been active in 
 politics nor has he allied himself with any party, 
 but maintains an independence of thought in such 
 matters. In religion he is a member of the 
 Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 August 18, 1S79, Mr. Rathboue married Miss 
 Eugenia Chancellor, daughter of Capt. Edmund 
 P. Chancellor, who at one time was a well- 
 known river captain on the Ohio between Pitts- 
 burgh and Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone 
 have four children, Rhoda, Mary Eugenia, Lu- 
 cille and Edmund Castelli. 
 
 I EWIS SEUFERT is engaged in farming and 
 I C stock-raising in Leavenworth County and is 
 U one of the pioneers of Stranger Township. 
 He was born in Baden, German}-, Maj- 30, 1834, 
 and was only one j-ear old when brought to 
 America by his parents. Reference to his family 
 history appears in the sketch of his brother, 
 George A. Seufert, who occupies a farm near his 
 own. He was educated in the public schools of 
 Buffalo, N. Y. When nineteen years of age he 
 .settled on a farm with his parents. In 1854 he 
 went to California by water and remained for 
 four and one-half years, engaged in farming and 
 mining. His mining ventures were not very 
 successful, but in farming he was more fortunate. 
 After his return to the east he resumed work 
 on the homestead. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Seufert left New York and .settled 
 in Leavenworth County, Kans., where he has 
 since made his home. At first he carried on 
 general agricultural pursuits in partnership with 
 his brother, George Adam, but in 1S93 the estate 
 was divided, he taking the eastern half, and his 
 brother the western tract. He has since carried 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 on general farming alone. The place consists of 
 two hundred and fifty acres of valuable land, 
 upon which he has made all the improvements of 
 a first-class farm. He is an energetic and indus- 
 trious man and deserves the abundant success that 
 has rewarded his efibrts. 
 
 For some years Mr. Seufert identified himself 
 with the People's party, but when the Democrats 
 adopted a free silver plank in their platform he 
 transferred his allegiance to this party. While 
 he has never accepted office, he has been inter- 
 ested in local politics and has taken an active 
 part in matters affecting the welfare of the people. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Henry lyodge 
 No. 90, A. F. & A. M., of Tonganoxie. His 
 parents being Lutherans, he was reared in that 
 faith and has always adhered to its doctrines. In 
 1865 he married Miss Barbara Leininger, who 
 was born in Alsace, and came to America in girl- 
 hood. They have had seven children, but one 
 died in infancy. The others are: Charles L. and 
 Henry, who are in the employ of a firm in Kan- 
 sas City, Mo.; Louisa, William, Priscilla and 
 George E. 
 
 30HN WILLIAM ALDER, chief clerk of the 
 Haskell Institute at Lawrence, and a veteran 
 of the Civil war, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., 
 November 3, 1844, a son of John and Marie 
 Antoinette (Rossenbach) Alder, natives repec- 
 tively of Burwick on the Tweed, England, and 
 Alsace, which at that time was a part of France. 
 His father was the only son of William Alder 
 (also an only son). In youth he learned the 
 carpenter's trade. At the age of seventeen he 
 entered the British army and served in the Ber- 
 mudas for seven years altogether, after which he 
 settled in Buffalo, N. Y., and followed his trade. 
 In 1856 he removed west to Wisconsin and set- 
 tled in the woods near Prairie du Chien, where 
 he cleared and cultivated a farm. At the opening 
 of the Civil war he enlisted in the Fifth Wiscon- 
 sin Infantry, and served for four and one-half 
 years, until the close of the war. At the battle 
 of Antietam he was severely wounded in the left 
 side, from the effects of which he never recovered. 
 He died in 1882, at the age of sixty-six. In poli- 
 
 tics he was a strong Republican and was fre- 
 quently elected on that ticket to local offices. 
 His wife, who was of German and French ex- 
 traction, accompanied her parents to Buffalo, 
 N. v., in girlhood, and died in Wisconsin. 
 They had seven children, five of whom are liv- 
 ing. One of the sons, Alfred A., enlisted at six- 
 teen years in an Illinois battery and served during 
 the last two years of the Civil war; he is now 
 living in South Dakota. 
 
 In August, 1S62, the subject of this sketch 
 was enrolled as a member of Company I, Third 
 Wisconsin Cavalry, and was mustered into the 
 service at Madison, Wis., joining the regiment 
 at Fort Scott about thirty days after their arrival. 
 Six months later he was made orderly to Major- 
 General Blunt, with whom he served at the 
 taking of Fort Smith, and the battles of Lexing- 
 ton, Little and Big Blue, Westport, Mine Creek 
 and Newtonia. At Baxter Springs, October 6, 
 1863, eighty soldiers were attacked by six hun- 
 dred guerillas and met with severe losses. 
 He continued fighting bushwhackers and engaged 
 in outpost duty. At the close of the war he was 
 honorably discharged at Fort Leavenworth, in 
 July, 1865, and at once came to Lawrence, where 
 he clerked in a boot and shoe store. After a 
 time he became a member of the firm of D. C. 
 Haskell & Co., continuing in this connection un- 
 til the business was sold in 1877. I" January, 
 1879, he entered the Indian service at Pine Ridge 
 Agency, S. Dak., where he remained as chief 
 clerk until the fall of 1885. He then came back 
 to Lawrence, where he has since made his home. 
 In May, 1890, he received appointment to his 
 present position as chief clerk at the Haskell 
 Institute. 
 
 In politics Mr. Alder is a Republican, stanch 
 in his allegiance to his party. He is a member 
 of the Congregational Church and a contributor 
 to its benevolences. He was made a Mason in 
 Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., to which 
 he still belongs, and he is also connected with 
 Lawrence Chapter No. 4, R. A. M., and DeMo- 
 lay Commandery No. 4, K. T. Washington 
 Post No. 12, G. A. R., numbers him among its 
 members. Since coming to Lawrence he married 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Miss Eunice M. Pease, who was born in New 
 Hampshire, a daughter of C. A. Pease, a pioneer 
 of 1855 in Lawrence, and now a retired business 
 man of this city. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Alder is Charles Eugene, a graduate of the high 
 school and the Univ^ersitj' of Kansas, from which 
 he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M., also 
 a graduate of Harvard College in 1898. The 
 daughters are Louise, a graduate of the high 
 school in 1898, and Helen, a member of the high 
 school class of 1902. 
 
 (lEREMIAH H. GLATHART, who was one 
 I of the very first men to engage in business 
 Q) in Lawrence, was born near Pekin, Carroll 
 County, Ohio, in May, 1836, and when eighteen 
 months old was taken to Hancock County, the 
 same state, by his parents, Peter and Susanna 
 (Kennel) Glathart, natives of Switzerland. The 
 former, who accompanied his father to America, 
 settled in Carroll County in 1825 and followed the 
 mason's trade and general farming. Early in 
 1838 he settled nine miles east of Findlay, Ohio, 
 where he followed his two occupations of mason 
 and farmer, and where he died at fifty-six years. 
 His wife also died in Ohio, and of their ten chil- 
 dren only three are living. There were six sons, 
 one of whom died in boyhood. Manassah, who 
 was a member of the Second Kansas Regiment, 
 was killed in the battle of Springfield, Mo., early 
 in the war; Leon, who enlisted in Ohio, died at 
 Chattanooga, Tenn.; Aaron, also a member of an 
 Ohio infantry regiment, was wounded in service, 
 but recovered and now lives in Findlay, Ohio; 
 Rudolph went to San Antonio, Tex., before the 
 war and never returned. 
 
 Among his brothers and sisters, of whom he 
 was third from the youngest, the subject of this 
 sketch passed his boyhood days on a farm. He 
 assisted in clearing the land and placing it under 
 cultivation. His advantages were meagre. For 
 a short time he was a pupil in a log building, 
 furnished after the manner of primitive schools, 
 with a writing desk running along the wall and 
 with puncheon floor and rough pine benches for 
 seats. He taught school one winter and then 
 
 clerked in Findlay. He was the first of the 
 family to migrate west. Having read much con- 
 cerning the history of Kansas, its struggles for 
 the abolition of slavery and its border troubles, 
 he became so interested that he established his 
 home here and in 1S58 assisted in voting it in as 
 a free state. He came from Cincinnati by boat 
 to St. Louis, thence by boat to Kansas City, from 
 there walked to Paola and Osawatomie.from there 
 to Lawrence. At Osawatomie he had staked a 
 claim, then another in Franklin County, and, 
 finally, on reaching Lawrence, was so pleased 
 with this neighborhood that he gave up the first 
 two claims and took one ten miles south of Law- 
 rence. After six months he traded it for a stock 
 of grocerj- and bakery goods and embarked in 
 business in this city. 
 
 In the spring of i860 Mr. Glathart started 
 with a company of twelve and three wagons 
 drawn by mules and horses, and following the 
 Platte route, reached Denver after five weeks. 
 He spent a short time on a ranch and then re- 
 turned to Lawrence. In the summer of the same 
 year he drove cattle and hauled freight to Den- 
 ver, and afterward freighted in the mountains as 
 far as Idaho Springs, returning in i85i, when he 
 took another load of freight to Denver. In the 
 summer of 1861 he sold goods at Empire City, 
 returning by stage in the fall. While he went to 
 Ohio on a visit he sent some freight to Colorado 
 in charge of others, but they did not follow out 
 his instructions and he lost heavily thereby. He 
 then quit freighting and began auctioneering in 
 Lawrence, in which line he has had a large busi- 
 ness. For some years he carried on the Old 
 Curiosity Shop, selling out in 1878. About 1869 
 he started in the wagon and carriage business. 
 For some years he also had a livery business on 
 North Hampshire street, and now has a stock of 
 agricultural implements, his location being No. 
 640 Massachusetts street. At different times he 
 has been extensively interested in the stock busi- 
 ness and has bought and sold horses and mules. 
 He owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 in Wakarusa Township, this county, and two 
 farms of five hundred acres in Sarcoxie Town- 
 ship, Jefferson County. He was a director in the 
 
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 533 
 
 old Douglas County Bank and had continued 
 as such with its successor, the Lawrence Na- 
 tional Bank. He is also a director in the Ameri- 
 can Plaster Cement Company and a director in 
 the Sparr-Stubbs Contracting Company, which 
 has had railroad contracts, and built the Physics 
 building. University of Kansas. He is also a 
 member of a company that bought Bismarck 
 Grove for a public park. 
 
 In Lawrence Mr. Glathart married Miss Emily 
 Thompson, who was born in Massachusetts, but 
 has spent her life principally in this city. They 
 have two children living. Albert, who graduated 
 from the University of Kansas in 1896 with the 
 degree of A.B., has since been connected with 
 his father in business; Emily, who is a graduate 
 of the high school and the conservatory of music 
 at Lawrence, is the wife of Dr. Charles Simmons, 
 of this city. Mr. Glathart is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. Politically 
 he was a Republican from i860 to 1870, when he 
 espoused the cause of Democracy and has since 
 been a firm adherent of its principles. 
 
 ["ELIX C. BROWN, proprietor of Brooklawn 
 r3 Sanitarium in Kickapoo Township, Leaven- 
 I worth County, was born in Buchanan Coun- 
 ty, Mo., August 13, 1843. He is a son of Gideon 
 L. Brown, who removed from Tennessee to Mis- 
 souri in 1830 and became a pioneer farmer of 
 Jackson County, and later of Platte, settling in 
 the latter county in 1837. A man of enterprise 
 and shrewd business judgment, he was considered 
 one of the best and most successful farmers in his 
 section of the country. The most of his active 
 life was spent in Buchanan County, where he had 
 a host of warm friends. In 1854 he visited Kan- 
 sas and entered a tract of land in High Prairie 
 Township, Leavenworth County, but never re- 
 moved to this state. Having come from the 
 south, and being familiar with southern institu- 
 tions, he sympathized with the Confederacy at 
 the time of the Civil war. He was himself a 
 large slave holder and lost heavily by the war. 
 Politically he was active in the Democratic party 
 and took a warm interest in public affairs. His 
 
 intelligence and high character fitted him for po- 
 sitions of honor and trust, but his preference was 
 for private life, and he devoted himself assiduous- 
 ly to his agricultural interests. At the time of 
 his death, in 1859, he was fifty-nine years of age. 
 He was a son of Felix Brown, of North Carolina, 
 who descended from Scotch ancestors identified 
 with colonial history and active in the Revolu- 
 tionary conflict. By the marriage of Gideon L. 
 Brown to Matilda Patton, of South Carolina, 
 seven children were born, four of whom are now 
 living, namely: Martha, wife of A. H. Squires, 
 of Platte County, Mo. ; Amanda, widow of Sam- 
 uel Fulton; Felix C; and Missouri T., wife of 
 Henry Turner. The mother, who is now eighty- 
 four years of age, resides in Wallace, about two 
 miles from the old homestead in Buchanan Coun- 
 ty, Mo. 
 
 When eighteen years of age the subject of this 
 sketch enlisted in the Confederate army, joining 
 a company of dragoons under Governor Jackson. 
 After a short time he became a member of the 
 First Missouri Light Artillery, in which he con- 
 tinued until the close of the war. In a skirmish 
 near Newtonia, Mo., and a battle at Jenkins 
 Ferry, he was wounded, but neither time serious- 
 ly. He took part in all the battles west of the 
 Mississippi River in which the department of the 
 Mississippi participated, with the single excep- 
 tion of the battle of Elk Horn. After the sur- 
 render of General Lee and the downfall of the 
 Confederacy, in April, 1865, he returned to his 
 native county. He began farming on the old 
 homestead and there remained for seven years. 
 In 1872 he settled in Atchison County, Kans. 
 His first visit to this state had been made in 
 company with his father, when he was a boy of 
 nine years, and he well remembers the excite- 
 ment caused by the border warfare of those days. 
 
 After farming in Atchison County for eight 
 years Mr. Brown returned to Missouri, and from 
 there, in 1883, he came to Leavenworth County 
 to take charge of an asylum known as the Maple- 
 wood Asylum. He remained at the head of the 
 institution for a year, after which he engaged in 
 the mercantile business in Leavenworth for four 
 years. In 1889 he erected a substantial building 
 
534 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 south of the city and there he opened a private 
 sanitarium, of which he has since been the head, 
 although, in the spring of 1898, he moved his 
 institution from its former location to the old 
 military road, where he now carries on a private 
 asylum and sanitarium. Since 1883 he has made 
 a study of this line of work and is admirably 
 ([ualified for all of its responsibilities, hence he 
 meets with success. In politics he is a Democrat 
 and takes a part in public affairs. While in 
 Atchison County he served as trustee of Walnut 
 Township for two terms. Twice he was a can- 
 didate for alderman from the sixth ward of Leav- 
 enworth, but each time was defeated by a small 
 majority. Fraternally he is past grand of Odd 
 Fellows' Lodge No. 103. February 15, 1866, he 
 was united in marriage with Jincy A. Blakeley, 
 of Platte County, Mo. They are the parents of 
 eight children, namelj': Thomas J. , who is under- 
 sheriff of Leavenworth County; Cora M., wife 
 of Arthur Land; Maude, who married C. H. 
 Masterson; Felix L., a farmer; Gideon A., Jes.se, 
 Ernest and Kirby, at home. 
 
 GlLEXANDER G. GLENN. Noticeable 
 Ll among the fine farms of Douglas County is 
 / I the property of Mr. Glenn, which is situa- 
 ted on the uplands of Lecompton Township, 
 three miles west and one mile south of Lecomp- 
 ton. Here he has made his home since 1861, 
 meantime making valuable improvements on the 
 place and bringing it under a high state of culti- 
 vation. Through able management of his farm- 
 ing and stock interests he has become one of the 
 substantial men of his locality, and is now the 
 owner of four hundred and twenty-three acres of 
 valuable land. 
 
 In Boone County, Mo., our subject was born 
 April 27, 1833, being a .son of A. W. and Nancy 
 (Austin) Glenn, of who.se eleven children eight 
 are living. His father, a native of Kentucky, 
 born about 1800, was eight years of age when his 
 parents moved to Missouri, settling at a point 
 that is now the heart of St. Louis. Daniel Boone 
 was a ju.stice of the peace at the time and made 
 out the deed for the land. Indians still roamed 
 
 over the prairies, and the Spaniards, too, caused 
 constant trouble. After two years the family re- 
 moved to St. Charles, Mo., but in a short time 
 settled in Howard County, where the men erected 
 forts, manufactured their own powder, and 
 guarded their homes while the women largely at- 
 tended to the crops. 
 
 After his marriage A. W. Glenn engaged in 
 farming in Boone County for some years. Later, 
 however, he went to Linn County, Mo., where 
 he had many exciting experiences with and es- 
 capes from the Indians. In the .spring of 1856 he 
 came to Kansas, settling in Lecompton Town- 
 ship, Douglas County,, where his son, our sub- 
 ject, now resides, the latter having the previous 
 year purchased a settler's right to a quarter-sec- 
 tion for $500 in gold. During the fall after the 
 father's arrival, his farm was the camping place 
 for a thousand soldiers who were sent to protect 
 the citizens of this part of Kansas. He lived on 
 the old homestead until within a few days of his 
 death. While visiting his son on this farm he 
 was stricken with congestion of the brain and 
 died in January, 1898. 
 
 His youthful years spent upon the frontier, 
 amid pioneer scenes, had given our subject a taste 
 for this kind of life, and in 1854 he started for 
 Kansas, then a sparsely settled territory. Arriv- 
 ing in Douglas County in August of the same 
 year, he looked over the country and was favora- 
 bly impressed by the prospects offered. Return- 
 ing to Missouri, he spent the winter there, and 
 in the spring of 1855 he again came to Kansas, 
 where he pre-empted one hundred and sixt)' acres 
 of land three miles from Lecompton, upon which 
 tract he began farming. In 1861 he exchanged 
 his farm on the river bottoms for his father's 
 place, and removed to the latter property, where 
 he has since resided. In politics he has alwa3'S 
 been a Republican, but has not cared for public 
 offices, nor had a desire to identify himself with 
 partisan affairs. His religious faith is that of the 
 Methodist denomination. He is a man of up- 
 right life, kind heart and great generosity, and 
 willingly gives to objects of an educational, reli- 
 gious or charital)le nature. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Glenn, in 1856, united 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 535 
 
 him with Miss Elizabeth Zinn .daughter of George 
 W. Zinn, who came to Kansas at an early day, 
 settled in Douglas County, and was a member of 
 the first territorial legislature as well as several 
 succeeding sessions of that body. Eleven chil- 
 dren were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Glenn. Of these ten are living, namely: George 
 A., William B., John T., Cyrus and Grant, who 
 are farmers of Lecompton Township; Jacob, who 
 is at home with his parents; Eliza A., who is the 
 widow of Joseph Vaughn and makes her home 
 with her parents; Nancy J., at home; Mary E., 
 wife of Cyrus McQuisten, of Big Springs; and 
 Alphareta, at home. 
 
 r~REDERICK WEELBORG was a resident 
 r^ of Leavenworth County from the pioneer 
 I days of 1S57 until his death. Born in 
 Germany in 1832, he was reared in that country 
 and received the advantages of its schools. In 
 order to escape obligatory service in the Ger- 
 man army he came to America at the age of 
 twenty-one years. Securing employment at the 
 shoemaker's trade in Indianapolis, Ind., he 
 remained in that city for a few years. In 1857 
 the attention of the people in the United States 
 was drawn toward Kansas and strong efforts were 
 made to attract settlers there. Among the many 
 who decided to cast in their lot with the new 
 country was Mr. Weelborg. He came to Leaven- 
 worth when the town was very small, giving 
 little evidence of future prominence and pros- 
 perity. Opening a small shop he devoted himself 
 to the shoemaker's trade. After some time he 
 removed to the country near Leavenworth and 
 for thirteen years made his home upon a farm, 
 the management of which he superintended. The 
 latter part of his life was spent in retirement from 
 business cares and in the enjoyment of comforts 
 his early labors had rendered possible. 
 
 April 23, 1862, Mr. Weelborg married Sophia 
 Schreck, who was born in Union County, Ind. 
 Her father, Henry Schreck, a native of Prussia, 
 was reared on a farm in that country and there 
 married Mary Baymer, a native of the same place 
 as himself. About 1848 he brought his family 
 
 to America, settling first in Pittsburgh, Pa., and 
 working in mines in western Penn.sylvania. 
 From there he moved to Union County, Ind., 
 and rented a farm. Later he bought farm land 
 in Ripley County, Ind., where he engaged in 
 general agricultural pursuits. As the country 
 settled up he removed further west. For a time 
 he lived in Missouri. In 1862 he came to Kansas 
 and purchased a farm of forty acres five miles 
 south of Leavenworth, where he resided until his 
 death at seventy-three years of age. Politically 
 he was a Republican and in religion a member 
 of the Methodist Church. His wife, who, like 
 himself, was an earnest Methodist, died when 
 eighty-two years of age. 
 
 Active in local politics, Mr. Weelborg voted 
 the Republican ticket and identified himself with 
 enterprises for the benefit of his town and county. 
 His life was that of a conscientious Christian, 
 and he and his wife were active workers in the 
 Methodist Church. They had no children of 
 their own, but took three into their home and 
 cared for them as their own. When Mr. Weel- 
 borg died, January 2, 1890, he was in comfort- 
 able circumstances. In his estate was included 
 a two-story brick building on Delaware street, 
 with a store room on the first floor and residence 
 apartments, occupied by his widow, on the second 
 floor. He had many friends among the people 
 of this county where for so long he had made his 
 home. 
 
 HON. WALTER B. BASS, deceased, former- 
 ly a successful grain and stock farmer of 
 Ottawa Township, Franklin County, was 
 born in Williamstown, Orange County, Vt., De- 
 cember 4, 1828. His father, Joel, was a son of Joel 
 Bass, Sr. , who was a son of one of three brothers 
 that came to this country from England and settled 
 in the New England states. The education of our 
 subject was obtained in the common schools and 
 Kimball Union academy. In 1850 he went to Ken- 
 tucky and there he taught school for two years, 
 after which he engaged in farmingin Will County, 
 111. , for about fifteen years, buying and improving 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land that was 
 raw prairie and engaging largely in the stock 
 
536 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 business. In December, 1868, became to Kansas 
 and settled in Ottawa Township, Franklin Coun- 
 ty, where his family still resides. All around 
 this locality he found the land raw and destitute 
 of improvements, not even having fences. Be- 
 ginning with a half section, he broke the land, 
 put the best of it under the plow, so that one 
 hundred acres were in cultivation. Most of the 
 property was used for hay and grazing purposes. 
 He gave considerable attention to the stock busi- 
 ness, raising cattle and handling other stock. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Bass was active, affiliating 
 in his earlier days with the Republican party, but 
 becoming somewhat independent in later life. He 
 was a champion of the free silver cause. While 
 in Illinois he served for some time as township 
 supervisor, a position similar to that of county 
 commissioner. After coming to Kansas he was 
 township trustee for many years. In the fall of 
 1880 he was elected to the state legislature on the 
 Republican ticket. During his term of service he 
 was a member of the committee that drafted the 
 Murray act and gave considerable time to the suc- 
 cessful carrying through of the bill. From the 
 time of his .settlement in the west he was identified 
 with the Presbyterian Church, in which he served 
 for several years as an elder. 
 
 February 26, 1856, in Orange County, Vt., 
 Mr. Bass married Ellen, daughter of John and 
 Dolly (Smith) Lynde. Her grandfather. Judge 
 Cornelius Lynde, who was for many years a judge, 
 descended from an English family that settled in 
 the neighborhood of Maiden, Mass. John Lynde, 
 a native of Vermont, was a farmer and a man of 
 influence and strong character. For years he 
 was a director in a bank at Northfield and another 
 in Barre. In politics he was a Whig and later a 
 Republican, and he served ably in the state legis- 
 lature , both as representative and as senator. He 
 was a strong supporter of the temperance cause. 
 By his marriage to Miss Smith he had twelve 
 children, all but one of whom attained mature 
 years, Mrs. Bass being the eldest. She received 
 good advantages in girlhood and was fitted, both 
 by natural gifts and by training, for the responsi- 
 bilities of life. By her marriage nine children 
 were born, but only three attained maturity. Of 
 
 these William assists in the management of the 
 home farm; John, who married Sarah Ruth Tracy, 
 also resides on the old homestead; and Ella, de- 
 ceased, w^as the wife of George Marsh. 
 
 The latter part of the life of Mr. Bass was 
 spent somewhat in retirement, although he con- 
 tinued to maintain an oversight of his property 
 interests long after advancing years rendered 
 manual labor unadvisable. During the existence 
 of the Grange he was one of its best known mem- 
 bers. Both by principle and by practice he ad- 
 vocated the temperance cause, regarding the 
 licensing of liquor as an evil to be condemned. 
 When in his seventieth year he passed from 
 earth, March 14, 189S. 
 
 GIlFRED B. POWELL, deceased. This pio- 
 Ll iieer .settler of Levenworth County was long 
 / I numbered among the leading agriculturi.sts 
 of Alexandria Township, with whose vital in- 
 terests he was intimately identified. When he 
 came to the vve.st the farming lands had not been 
 brought under culivationto any great degree; the 
 .soil was waiting for the hand of the husbandman. 
 He purchased raw land, which under his skillful 
 guidance rapidly developed into a cultivated 
 farm, yielding abundant harvests. All of the 
 surroundings underwent a transformation, the 
 result of labor and energy. He was interested in 
 the development of his township and did his full 
 share in making it a profitable farming region. 
 
 In Madison County, Ind., where he was born 
 May 17, 1820, the subject of this memoir was 
 reared until fourteen years of age. His mother 
 dying at that time, he went to Virginia to make 
 his home with an aunt in Loudoun County, forty 
 miles from Washington, D. C. For several years 
 he remained on a farm. April 2, 1842, he mar- 
 ried Miss Haimah Smith, who was born in Lou- 
 doun County August 15, 1820, and was reared on 
 a farm there. After his marriage Mr. Powell fol- 
 lowed farming and the shoemaker's trade. In 
 1848 he went to Warren County, Ohio, and one 
 year later settled in northern Indiana, where he 
 worked as a shoemaker. In April, i860, he 
 came to Leavenworth County and rented farm 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 537 
 
 land. In 1863 he bought the farm of raw prairie 
 land which, under his management, was trans- 
 formed into a highly cultivated place. It in- 
 cludes three hundred and twenty acres of land 
 and is now the home of his widow. Here his 
 life was brought to a close, January 2, 1899, after 
 a busy and useful existence. Republican in poli- 
 tics, he was active in local affairs and held several 
 offices. He was a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, while his wife was a Quaker 
 by birthright. Of his children we note the fol- 
 lowing: William is postmaster of the Soldiers' 
 home at Leavenworth; Mary G. resides with 
 hermother; Virginia is the wife of M. S. Grant, 
 of Leavenworth; Frank is in Alaska; Charles L. 
 in Leavenworth; Robert F. on the home farm; 
 and Mahlon T. in Leavenworth; Howard, the 
 youngest, is a farmer in High Prairie Township. 
 
 r"REDERICK W. WULFEKUHLER, propri- 
 JM etor of the wholesale grocery house of 
 I Rohlfing & Co., has been identiSed with 
 the business interests of Leavenworth since the 
 fall of 1 86 1, and is not only one of the most 
 experienced, but also one of the most successful 
 grocers in the state. His establishment is situ- 
 ated on the corner of Cherokee and Third 
 streets. The main building is four stories in 
 height, 50 X 125, besides which there is a three- 
 story building, 25 X 125, and also a warehouse. 
 The company is one of the oldest in the state 
 and its trade extends throughout this entire 
 section of the country, the business having 
 proved a most successful investment for its 
 promoters. 
 
 Mr. Wulfekuhler was born at the family home- 
 stead near Osnabriick, Hanover, Germany, in 
 September, 1841 . Reference to the history of his 
 father, Christopher, may be found in the sketch 
 of his brother, H. William. When he was four- 
 teen years of age he came to America, proceeding 
 from New York City to St. Louis, where he was 
 apprenticed to the jeweler's trade. His trade 
 occupied his days and in the evenings he attended 
 school. In St. Louis, in May, 1861, he enlisted 
 in Company A, Third Missouri Reserves, and 
 
 served in southwestern Missouri for three months. 
 After his muster-out he came to Leavenworth 
 and entered the employ of his brother, who 
 had established the business of Rohlfing & Co. 
 in 1858. In 1864 he became a partner in the 
 company. 
 
 During the early days Rohlfing & Co. were 
 engaged in freighting to Denver and established 
 a branch house on Fifteenth street, that city. 
 In 1866 the two brothers bought the old-estab- 
 lished house of Henry & Garrett and continued 
 that business, which he still owns. In 1887 he 
 bought the block which he now occupies. He 
 was instrumental in the re-organization of the 
 Globe Canning Company, of which he has since 
 been treasurer. In the re- organization of the 
 Leavenworth National Bank he took an active 
 part and has since been a director; he is also a 
 director in the Union Savings Bank. 
 
 Politically Mr. Wulfekuhler is a Republican. 
 He and his family are members of the Lutheran 
 Church. He is a member of Custer Post No. 6, 
 G. A. R. His marriage took place in Denver and 
 united him with Miss Sophia Rohlfing, who was 
 born in Hanover. Four children were born of 
 their union, viz.: Alma; Hattie, who was educated . 
 at Bethany, Kans. ; Adolph, who is bookkeeper 
 for his father; and Frederick, Jr. 
 
 HENRY BIEBUSCH, a pioneer of Lawrence, 
 now deceased, was born in Prussia, in April, 
 182 1, and in youth learned the builder's 
 trade. At eighteen years of age he came to 
 America and followed his trade in the eastern 
 states. In March, 1857, he arrived in Lawrence, 
 Kans. , where he took contracts for the building 
 of houses. At the time of the Quantrell raid, in 
 August, 1863, he had just completed a building 
 on the corner of Warren and New Hampshire 
 streets. This the raiders burned to the ground. 
 They also visited the family residence, but Mrs. 
 Biebusch, instructing her hu.sband to hide, met 
 them at the door and they left the place without 
 doing any harm. As a contractor he was very 
 successful, but in 1873 he lost all he had by the 
 failure of the Home Insurance Company of 
 
538 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Topeka, in which he held stock and mortgages. 
 About the .same time he ceased to take contracts 
 and engaged in the hotel business. During his 
 residence in the east he was a prominent member 
 of the Turn Verein. Fond of music he was 
 himself a fine singer and a good musician. He 
 organized the Turners' Society in Lawrence, 
 which held its first meetings in his yard, but 
 afterward built a hall of its own. In the first 
 band organized here he played the trombone. 
 During the war he was a member of the Kansas 
 militia. For many years he was connected with 
 the Masonic fraternity and in religion he was an 
 active member of the Lutheran Church. After 
 having been for years successfully engaged in 
 the hotel business he died February 24, 1891. 
 
 The widow of Mr. Biebusch, who has had 
 charge of his property interests since his death, 
 was Annie Kaittenberg, born in Bakken, Schles- 
 wig-Holstein. Her parents, Kassen and Cecelia 
 (Peterson) Kaittenberg, were also born there, 
 the former being a brick manufacturer and con- 
 tractor. He joined his children in America when 
 past middle life, but died a month after he 
 reached Davenport, Iowa. After his death his 
 .widow went to California with her .sons and died 
 at Willow, that state, in 1891, aged eighty-one 
 years. She was the mother of seven children, 
 named as follows: James, of Lawrence, who was 
 a member of an Illinois regiment during the Civil 
 war and died at the home of his sister, Mrs. 
 Biebusch, May 18, 1899; Jasper, who is living 
 retired from busine.ss in Dixon, Cal.; Anna 
 Dorothea, Mrs. Biebusch; Hans C, a ranchman 
 at Willow, Cal.; Mrs. Maria Brinkman, of Inde- 
 pendence, Kaus. ; Henry and Andrew, who are 
 engaged in ranching at Willow, Cal. 
 
 When Mrs. Biebu.sch was a girl of eighteen 
 she came to America, in the .sailer "Johanna 
 Eliza," which after a voyage of six weeks from 
 Hamburg landed in New York. The voyage 
 proved an almost fatal one, for the vessel had a 
 collision and was injured to such an extent that 
 it began to fill with water, but by a constant use 
 of the pumps the danger was averted. After 
 landing .she went to Rock I.sland, 111., and there, 
 March i, 1857, she became the wife of Mr. 
 
 Biebusch. With him .she proceeded at once to 
 Kansas. She experienced all the hard.ships of 
 the days of border warfare and the subsequent 
 perils of the Civil war. In 1873 .she started the 
 Biebusch hotel, which she continued until 1888, 
 and afterward built a house, 100 x loa, on New 
 Hampshire street. Besides this property she 
 owns the building occupied by the University 
 book store. In religion she is connected with the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Church. She is identified 
 with the Woman's Relief Corps and has taken an 
 interest in its work. To her marriage three 
 children were born, Clara, Cecelia and Otto. 
 The two younge.st died in childhood. Clara 
 married Philip Weitzenkorn, of Lawrence, and 
 died May 18, 1896, leaving two children, Leo 
 and Dorothea. Notwithstanding all the sorrow 
 that has came into the life of Mrs. Biebusch in 
 the loss of her husband and all her children she 
 is not sad or gloomy, but has a cheerful, pleasant 
 disposition that wins the friendship of her associ- 
 ates and acquaintances. 
 
 r"REDERICK DEICHMANN, who is living 
 1^ retired at No. 812 Rhode Island street, Law- 
 I ^ rence, was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, 
 in 1 83 1, and received his education in the schools 
 of his native land. When a young man he came 
 to America, landing in New York and going 
 from there to Chicago, where he was employed 
 for some years. In i860 he settled in Douglas 
 County, Kans., opening a butcher shop at Eu- 
 dora, and at the same time engaging in farming 
 and stock-raising. He was successful and ac- 
 quired considerable property. After Quantrell's 
 raid he moved to Lawrence and bought the lots 
 on which the Hub store now stands. Here he 
 erected a building, which he rented for two years. 
 The construction of this building was superin- 
 tended by his wife, he meantime continuing his 
 shop in Eudora, but on closing up that business 
 he opened a shop in Lawrence. For many years 
 he carried on business, building up a large trade. 
 At Eudora, in 1861, Mr. Deichmann married 
 Mrs. Henrietta (Kuffman) Harbold, who was 
 born in Germany and immigrated to the United 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 539 
 
 States during the same year that Mr. Deichmann 
 crossed the ocean. She was first married to Carl 
 Harbold, who died soon afterward. After her 
 marriage to our subject she at once began to as- 
 sist him in all of his enterprises. When she set- 
 tled in Eudora she was obliged to cut the bushes 
 down in order to make the land open to travel. 
 For years she lived in a small log hut, meantime 
 working outdoors in the cultivation and clearing 
 of the land. Early and late she toiled in the 
 fields, shirking no work that would aid in the de- 
 velopment of the place. Indians were numerous 
 in early days, and she became familiar with their 
 language so she could converse with them, after 
 which she had no trouble with them. To her 
 marriage with Mr. Deichmann three children 
 were born: Mary, wife of A. M. Goldstandt, of 
 Wichita, Kans. ; Frances, who married H. L. 
 Gerson, of Oklahoma; and Alfred, who is en- 
 gaged in the cattle business in Kansas City, Mo. 
 At various times Mr. Deichmann invested in 
 city and farm property, much of which he still 
 owns. For eight years he was a director in the 
 L,awrence National Bank and the Lawrence Gas 
 Company. An honest, upright man, his business 
 transactions were conducted in such a manner as 
 to win the confidence of those who had dealings 
 with him. In 1890 he retired from business. In 
 politics he early identified himself with the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and on that ticket he was twice 
 elected to the city council. Of recent years he 
 has been afflicted with softening of the brain, and 
 since this affliction has come upon him his wife 
 has taken charge of his business interests and 
 managed his affairs successfully. 
 
 30HN Q. ADAMS, who owns and operates a 
 farm in Grant Town.ship, Douglas County, 
 was born in Brooke County, W. Va., July 
 27, 1841, and is a descendant, in the fourth gen- 
 eration, from one of that name who came to 
 America and settled in Pennsylvania, later going 
 to Ohio. His father, James Adams, was a cabi- 
 net-maker by trade, which he followed in West 
 Virginia, but in 1857 came to Kansas in order to 
 identify himself with the free-state cause. Set- 
 
 tling in Franklin County, he took up one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, broke the ground 
 and made the necessary improvements. There 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 
 1862, when he gave the place to our subject in 
 order to keep him out of the war, a plan, how- 
 ever, which did not prove successful, as the latter 
 had been in the army before and afterward en- 
 listed a second time. Going to Lawrence, James 
 Adams followed his trade there. Upon the death 
 of his wife, whom he had married in Virginia and 
 who bore the maiden name of Jane Orr, he re- 
 moved to Anderson County, Kans., and lived at 
 the home of his son, O. B. Adams, and there his 
 death occurred in 1891. He was an earnest 
 Christian and a faithful member of the Presby- 
 terian Church. In politics he was a stanch Re- 
 publican. In his family were seven children, six 
 of whom are now living. 
 
 Educated in subscription schools, our subject 
 was reared to farm life and early selected agri- 
 culture for his occupation. He was sixteen years 
 of age when the family settled in Kansas. At 
 the opening of the Civil war he enlisted in Com- 
 pany F, Second Missouri Battalion, under Col- 
 onel Nugent, and served until he was honorably 
 discharged in January, 1862. On his return 
 home his father persuaded him to turn his at- 
 tention from military affairs to the cultivation of 
 the farm, and for a time he engaged in the plant- 
 ing of a crop, but in July he again enlisted, this 
 time becoming a member of the Twelfth Kansas 
 Infantry, in which he remained until January, 
 1865. During most of the time he was engaged 
 in scout duty, principally in Arkansas, but he 
 also took part in a number of engagements, 
 among them that of Jenkins Ferry on the Saline 
 River. 
 
 Returning to Lawrence at the close of the war 
 Mr. Adams secured employment at carpentering. 
 After a year he bought a farm in Tonganoxie 
 Township, Leavenworth County, where he en- 
 gaged in the cultivation of grapes, continuing 
 there until 1873. He then sold the place and 
 bought his present farm in Grant Township, 
 Douglas County, where he has eighty-six acres 
 devoted to general farm pursuits, making a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 specialty of wheat, corn and potatoes. In all 
 movements for the good of the communitj' he 
 maintains an interest. His first presidential vote 
 was cast for Abraham Lincoln and he has ever 
 since adhered to Republican principles. In re- 
 ligion he is a Congregationalist. He is a mem- 
 ber of Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. In 
 1867 he married Mi.ss Annie M. Miller, daughter 
 of Robert Miller, of Lawrence. They have five 
 children, namely: Robert J., who is engaged in 
 the mercantile business at Big Springs; MarkO., 
 who conducts the home farm for his father; Susie 
 M., wife of George Ford, a farmer in Grant 
 Township; Frank, who is engaged in business as 
 a photographer; and Eva V., at home. 
 
 (lAMES DONNELLY, whocameto Lawrence 
 I in June, 1857, is proprietor of one of the 
 O finest livery establishments in the entire 
 west. In 1869 he started in the hack business 
 with one hack, and from that small business has 
 built up his present large and important business. 
 With his brother, in 1873, he bought a suitable 
 location for a livery, and carried on a growing 
 business in an old building that stood there. 
 When that barn was burned down, in 1897, he 
 erected a two- story brick structure, 50x117 feet, 
 with an adjoining stable, 75x50, the new part 
 containing an elevator. Here he has ample 
 accommodations for hacks, carriages, coupes and 
 surreys, as well as for his roadsters and driving 
 horses. Every modern improvement is to be 
 found in the stables, including water and sewer 
 connections, electric bells and lights, etc. 
 
 The Donnelly family is one of the oldest in 
 Derry. Our subject's father, Bernard, who was 
 born in that county, grew to manhood upon a 
 farm there and was educated in the national 
 schools of Ireland. In 1847, accompanied by his 
 wife, Mary (Mclver) Donnelly, a native of Coun- 
 ty Tyrone, and with their seven children, he 
 took passage on the sailer "Sir Colin Campbell," 
 which after a voyage of six weeks and three days 
 from Belfast arrived in Quebec. From there he 
 
 proceeded via the lakes to Chicago and thence to 
 a farm near Woodstock, 111. Two of his broth- 
 ers, Neill and Andrew, had preceded him, and 
 the settlement in that vicinity is still known as 
 the Donnelly settlement. In 1S57, with all of 
 his family except his son Andrew (who in 1849 
 had crossed the plains to California, and re- 
 mained there until 1873, finally coming to Law- 
 rence, where he died) and his daughter Cather- 
 ine (who had died in Illinois in 1849) he started 
 for Kansas, making the trip via Jefferson City and 
 steamer, while his son, our subject, drove over- 
 land, crossing the Mississippi at Burlington and 
 the Mis.souri at Weston. After settling in Law- 
 rence he built the Donnelly house and engaged 
 in keeping boarders until he died in 1863. His 
 wife, who was a daughter of Dennis Mclver, died 
 in Lawrence in 1884, aged about eighty years. 
 Of their children who accompanied them to Kan- 
 sas, Mrs. T. J. Collins and Mary reside in Law- 
 rence; James was fifth in order of birth; John, 
 who was our subject's partner, diedin 1892; and 
 Neill is in charge of the Kansas City business 
 owned by himself and brother. 
 
 In County Derry, Ireland, the subject of this 
 sketch was born in December, 1840. He was 
 se%'en j'ears of age when he accompanied his par- 
 ents to America. From an early age he hired 
 out to farmers in Illinois. In 1857 ^^ drove over- 
 land to Kansas, and after his arrival in Lawrence 
 began working for other parties. During the 
 war he and his brother John served in the mili- 
 tia. In 1864 he went to Leavenworth, but re- 
 turned to Lawrence the following year. Here 
 he married, in 1S72, Miss Maggie McConnell.vvho 
 was born in St. Catharine's, Canada, and died iu 
 1879. She was a daughter of John McConnell, 
 who was a merchant tailor by trade and settled in 
 Lawrence about 1868. 
 
 Politically Mr. Donnelly is a Democrat and 
 has been on the county committee various times. 
 In 1858 he voted for the admission of Kansas as 
 a free state. In the organization of the Commer- 
 cial Club he took an active part, and is now one 
 of its leading members. He is also a member of, 
 and stockholder in, the Merchants' Athletic As- 
 sociation. 
 
CLARK TEFI'T. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 543 
 
 ELARK TEFFT, one of the pioneers of the 
 western country, now living in Appanoose 
 Township, Franklin County, was born in 
 Exeter, Washington County, R. I., in 1827, a 
 son of Jonathan and Mary (Gates) Tefft, both of 
 Puritan descent. His grandfather, Sprague 
 Tefft, spent his entire life in Washington County, 
 of which he was a native, and he was a member 
 of a family connected with the early history of 
 Rhode Island. Jonathan Tefft was also a life- 
 long resident of Washington County, and died on 
 a farm there at forty-nine years of age. A man 
 of pronounced views, he was stanch in his anti- 
 slavery beliefs and was also a leading spirit in 
 agitating reforms in the sale of intoxicating liq- 
 uors. He was long survived by his wife, who 
 died in Connecticut at eighty years of age. They 
 were the parents of eight children, five of whom 
 are living, namely: Israel G., of Connecticut; 
 Clark; Lyman B.; Lucy A., widow of Euos 
 Hunger; and Jonathan E., a physician residing 
 in Springfield, Mo. 
 
 Until twenty-six years of age our subject re- 
 mained in his native county. He learned the 
 blacksmith's trade and also worked in a cotton 
 mill for some time. In 1854, coming west, he 
 settled south of Lawrence, pre-empting the north- 
 west quarter of section i , Willow Springs Town- 
 ship, Douglas Couuty. The land was wholly 
 unimproved audit was only after years of toil on 
 his part that the necessary improvements were 
 made. He made of it a stock farm and continued 
 there until 1870, when, desiring more satisfactory 
 range for his stock, he sold out and purchased 
 one hundred and sixty acres in Franklin County 
 where he now lives. By subsequent purchase 
 he has become the owner, altogether, of two hun- 
 dred and fojrty acres, on which he follows general 
 farming and stock-raising. At the time he settled 
 on the place only twelve acres had been im- 
 proved. He has developed the remainder of the 
 two hundred and forty acres and made the various 
 improvements now noticeable on the place. 
 
 Often members of the Republican party, to 
 
 which he adheres, have asked Mr. Tefft to become 
 
 a nominee for some local office, but he has always 
 
 refused political offices except in Douglas County, 
 
 23 
 
 where he served three terms (six years) as jus- 
 tice of the peace. For several years he served as 
 a member of school boards in Douglas and Frank- 
 lin Counties, during which time he assisted in 
 building a schoolhouse and in promoting the 
 standard of education in the district. By his 
 marriage, in 1846, to Clara A. Larkin, he has a 
 daughter, Mary J., Mrs. J. F. Patten, and a son, 
 Milton D., a farmer of Appanoose Township. 
 At the time of the Civil war he was a member of 
 the state militia and served as captain of Company 
 A, Twenty-first Kansas Cavalry, with which he 
 took part in the battle of the Blue against General 
 Price. During Quantrell's raid, in 1863, he 
 started from Lawrence to Baldwin to notify the 
 people of Quantrell's approach. After he had 
 left home, some of the raiders surrounded the 
 house and said they had orders to burn all houses. 
 Mrs. Tefft entreated them not to burn the place 
 and they promised not to do it if she would give 
 them $50. She had only seventy-five cents in 
 the house. This she gave them, but it was of 
 coiirse not enough to appease their demands; 
 and, had they been able to find matches, the house 
 would undoubtedly have been destroyed, but 
 they finally left without doing any damage. Mr. 
 Tefft was always stanch in his adherence to the 
 free-state cause and did all in his power to keep 
 slavery out of Kansas. He was on duty during 
 the battle of Washington Creek. At all times he 
 was found ready to do his part. As a citizen he 
 has shown a loyal devotion to his state and his 
 nation, and has supported measures for the bene- 
 fit of each. 
 
 ^/j ARK S. WRIGHT, who is engaged in con- 
 Y tracting and building in Leavenworth, was 
 (9 born in Roanoke County, Va., December 
 27, 1856. The years of boyhood and youth he 
 spent upon the farm where he was born, and 
 from an early age he assisted in the cultivation 
 of the land. His father was interested in an 
 undertaking and furniture business and manu- 
 factured furniture and coffins. Under his super- 
 vision the son gained a knowledge of cabinet- 
 making. From that he drifted into carpentering. 
 When about sixteen he secured employment as 
 
544 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a carjienter in the erection of the buildings of the 
 Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacks- 
 burg, \'a. The following season he was employed 
 on the Lake Spring Hotel at Salem, Va. When 
 he was twenl)--one years of age his father was 
 killed b)- a runaway horse; afterward he took 
 charge of the home place and remained there 
 until twenty-four years of age. 
 
 Mr. Wright then left his old Virginia home 
 and came west as far as Decatur, 111., where he 
 worked at his trade during one season. In Sep- 
 tember, 1S83, he came to Leavenworth and for two 
 years worked at carpentering, but since 1885 has 
 been taking contracts. Much of his work since 
 1894 has been in the nature of contracts for the 
 government, including work at Forts Leaven- 
 worth, Reno and Root, Ark. , where he had charge 
 of the building of officers' quarters. He was the 
 contractor and builder of the Ettenson block, one 
 of the finest buildings in the west. Besides his 
 contracting business he is the owner of a farm of 
 one hundred and sevent}' acres in Leavenworth 
 County, which he managed personally for a num- 
 ber of years, but in 1898 rented the land to ten- 
 ants. 
 
 In politics Mr. Wright affiliates with the Re- 
 publican party and votes its ticket at local and 
 national elections. By his marriage to Miss 
 Hannah Dowdell, December 31, 1884, he has 
 four children, namely: Elmer R. ; Lawrence and 
 Laura, twins, who are now eleven years of age; 
 and Edna. 
 
 EIIARLES C. CUTLER came to Kansas in 
 1S57, and took up one hundred and sixtj^ 
 acres of land near the claim which his father 
 entered, in Cutler Township, Franklin County. 
 While improving his place he remained with his 
 father, whom he assisted in the general manage- 
 ment of the estate. He is now the owner of 
 eight hundred acres of land, on which he is en- 
 gaged in raising .stock, making a specialt}' of 
 Shorthorn cattle, of which he has about thirty 
 head. He also has a number of Clydesdale 
 horses. A man of progressive disposition, he has 
 always been interested in matters looking toward 
 the improvement of his property, and is quick to 
 
 seize upon any idea that promises to be of practi- 
 cal help. During the many years of his residence in 
 this one spot he has maintained a constant inter- 
 est in the growth of the county. As vice-presi- 
 dent of the Fair As.sociation he endeavored to 
 promote an enterprise which he believed would 
 prove advantageous to the people. 
 
 Born in Washington County, Ohio, in 1835, 
 our subject is a son of Daniel C. and Betsy 
 (Larkin) Cutler. His father was born in Water- 
 ford, Ohio, in 1799, when all of that region was 
 included in the northwestern territory. He en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising there until 
 1857, with the exception of two years in Iowa. 
 During 1857 he crossed the plains into Kansas 
 Territory, and, settling in Franklin County, he 
 took up a quarter-section where his .son now 
 lives. The remainder of his life was spent in 
 this place. In time he accumulated one thousand 
 acres of land. Much of his attention was given 
 to trading in land and raising stock, his interests 
 being large and important. A stanch free-state 
 man, he was fearless in the expression of his 
 opinions and firm in his decisions. On the or- 
 ganization of the Republican partj' he became a 
 supporter of its principles. While in Ohio he 
 was a political associate of Asa Harris. It was 
 through his efforts that a postoffice was estab- 
 lished at Rantoul, and he served as postmaster 
 for several years, having the office at his resi- 
 dence during all of the time. He was the first 
 county commissioner under territorial govern- 
 ment. Throughout all of eastern Kansas he was 
 known and honored. His death occurred at his 
 home in 1887, aged eighty-eight years. His 
 wife, who was born in Ohio in 1806, died in 
 Kansas in 1883. They were the parents of two 
 children, Charles C, and Mary A., who died in 
 
 1853- 
 
 While our subject did not have good advan- 
 tages when he was a boy , he has gained a broad 
 knowledge through observation and self-culture, 
 and is a well-informed man. Politically he is a 
 Republican, but he has never cared for political 
 prominence, nor has he sought office, preferring 
 to give his attention wholly to his private busi- 
 ness affairs. During the war he served in the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 545 
 
 state militia, which was called out to assist in 
 driving Price out of the state, and he took part 
 in the battles of Westport and the Blue. Like 
 his father, he is an active worker in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. In 1890 he married 
 Sarah Friesner, who was born in Ohio, a daugh- 
 ter of Daniel and Eliza (Shields) Friesner, also 
 natives of that state. Her father, who was for 
 years the leading merchant of Logan, Ohio, died 
 in that place in 1859, at the age of forty-four 
 years. Strong in convictions, he supported the 
 old-line Whig party with all the ardor of a man 
 who firmly believes in the justice of his cause. 
 ' He was a man of religious character, a devoted 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. Of his 
 family of nine children, only three are living, 
 those besides Mrs. Cutler being William S. , who 
 was an officer in the Union army during the 
 Civil war and is now living in Logan, Ohio; and 
 John S., a prominent attorney and ex-judge of 
 the circuit court of the Hocking County district. 
 
 ber of Abdallah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 
 In 1886 he was married to Amanda R. Clough, 
 second daughter of William McNeill Clough, a 
 former member of the Leavenworth bar. 
 
 pCJiLLIAM A. PORTER was born in Gra- 
 \ A / tiot. Licking County, Ohio, January 22, 
 YV 1852. His opportunities for securing an ed- 
 ucation were meagre, and he is therefore a self- 
 made man. At the age of ten years he moved 
 with his parents to central Illinois and settled in 
 DeWitt County, where he remained until 1869. 
 He then came to Kansas, settling in Miami 
 County, where he engaged in farming in the 
 summer and teaching school in the winter. 
 At the death of his father, in 1877, he began the 
 study of law at Paola under the instruction of 
 W. B. Brayman, a prominent attorney of that 
 place. In 1880 he graduated from the law de- 
 partment of the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor, and in September of the same year he lo- 
 cated at Leavenworth, where he has since resided 
 and practiced his profession. He is well versed 
 in the science of the law and is strong before 
 courts and juries. He has never held a political 
 office, although an able campaigner and always 
 interested in the election of Republican nominees 
 and always giving his services freely to his party. 
 He is a Past Eminent Knight Templar and a mem- 
 
 NARRY T. HUTSON, proprietor of Hutson's 
 bakery, was for a number of years one of 
 the most active and enterprising business 
 men of Lawrence. He still retains a general 
 supervision of his bakery, but, on account of ill- 
 ness, is forced to leave the active work to others. 
 About 1887 he was afflicted with inflammatory 
 rheumatism and for years suffered most severely 
 from that disease, which, in 1894, left him a 
 cripple, with both limbs stiff and useless. How- 
 ever, although he is to a large extent helpless, 
 his illness has not warped his sunny, genial dis- 
 position, but he retains his good nature and 
 cheerful way of looking at things. 
 
 Mr. Hutson was born in Gosburton, Lincoln- 
 shire, England, December 31, 1850, a son of 
 Charles and Annie (Rice) Hutson, also natives 
 of Lincolnshire. His father, who was a shoe- 
 maker by trade, during the latter part of his life 
 engaged in farm pursuits. There were twelve 
 children in the family, but only two ever came 
 to America. Our subject, who was one of the 
 5roungest, received only limited advantages, for, 
 the family being large and the parents people of 
 small means, he was early obliged to become 
 self-supporting. At nine years of age he began 
 to work for his board and clothes, and for some 
 years he was employed on a farm. While he 
 did well in England, he was ambitious to gain a 
 larger success, so came to America in March, 
 1872. Settling in Lawrence, he was employed in 
 a livery for almost two years, and then worked 
 for a baker about the same time, after which he 
 farmed near town for a year, and then started a 
 restaurant on Massachusetts street. From this 
 business he drifted into the management of a 
 bakery in 1882. He bought a lot at No. 709 
 Vermont street, built a building suitable for resi- 
 dence purposes, also containing bake shops, of- 
 fice, etc. In 1892 he sold out his restaurant in 
 order to devote himself entirely to the bakery, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 which has proved a very successful enterprise. 
 Hutson's bread is known all over Lawrence and 
 is in steady demand. 
 
 In Lawrence, in Maj', 1877, Mr. Hutson mar- 
 ried Miss Anna Groh, who was born at Cape 
 Vincent, Jefferson County, N. Y. Her father, 
 George Groh, a native of Frankfort, Germanj', 
 came in company with other members of the 
 family to America and settled near Watertown, 
 where he grew to manhood. Afterward he en- 
 gaged in farming in Jefferson Count}-. In i860 
 he settled in Boonville, Mo. , where he remained 
 until his death, in 1877. He married Susannah 
 Lear, who was born in Frankfort, German^-, and 
 accompanied her parents to Lafargeville, N. Y. , 
 where .she was reared and married. Her death 
 occurred in Missouri. Of her ten children, six 
 attained maturity, one of these, Jacob, being a 
 soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. Hutson was born 
 in 1 85 1 and in i860 accompanied her parents to 
 Missouri, where she attended the public school. 
 In 1870 she came to Lawrence, where she was 
 married seven years later. She is an energetic, 
 capable woman, and has proved a helpmate to 
 her husband in the truest sense of that word. 
 They have two sons, George, who is in Arkansas 
 City, Kans., and William, who assists in the 
 bakery business. Mr. Hutson is identified with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and his 
 wife is a charter member of the Fraternal Aid 
 Association in this city. 
 
 (I OHN CRAMER. Notwithstanding hiseighty 
 I active years, Mr. Cramer is still a man of 
 v2/ keen intellectual powers and well-preserved 
 bodily faculties. A pioneer of Wellsville, where 
 he still makes his home, he is the owner of a resi- 
 dence and eight acres of land in this village, also 
 has eighty acres in Douglas County, Kans., and 
 a five-acre tract in Kansas City, Mo., which he 
 purchased thirty years ago and which has since 
 become quite valuable. For some years he has 
 engaged in the buying, selling and shipping of 
 stock, and has met with success in the business. 
 Near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, Mr. 
 Cramer was born April 25, 1819, a son of William 
 
 and Margaret (Coonfoj-er) Cramer, natives of 
 Pennsylvania and of Dutch families. His father, 
 who learned the blacksmith's trade in Pennsyl- 
 vania, moved to Ohio when that .section of coun- 
 try was new, and there he engaged in farming 
 and blacksmithing. From Fairfield County he 
 moved to Knox County, Ohio. Later he bought 
 a farm in Florence, Cooper County, Mo., where 
 he cultivated his land and also engaged in black- 
 smithing. Politically he voted with the Demo- 
 crats. He died in Missouri when ninety years of 
 age. His wife died when ninety-five. When 
 only five years of age our subject was put into 
 the home of a man with whom it was planned he 
 should learn a trade, but when ten years old he 
 returned to his mother, who took, on a lease, a 
 tract of timber land. This he helped to clear, 
 and afterward bought. In time he became the 
 owner of over two hundred acres, which he had 
 earned by his own efforts, in addition to helping 
 his mother. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Cramer sold out in Ohio for about 
 $10,000 and came to Kan.sas, where he bought a 
 halfsectionof landin Richland Township, Frank- 
 lin County. He carried on farm pursuits and 
 dealt in .stock until 1882, when he sold his farm 
 of six hundred acres for $17,000. On leaving 
 that place he settled in Wellsville, where he has 
 since bought and sold stock. For half a century 
 he has been an earnest member of the Baptist 
 Church. He is a believer in Democratic prin- 
 ciples and is deeply interested in public affairs, 
 but has never desired office, and the only posi- 
 tions he has con.sented to hold are those of school 
 director and other local ofiBces. For many years 
 he has been connected with the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Cramer was Maria Hard- 
 ister, of Ohio, who died at forty-five years of age. 
 Of her nine children six are still living, namely: 
 Andrew, who served in the Civil war and is now 
 a farmer in Butler County, Kans.; Frank, who 
 served in the Rebellion and is now engaged in the 
 livery business in Wellsville; Lavina, Mrs. Ham- 
 ilton; Mar\', who is married and lives in Green- 
 wood, Kans.; Louisa; and David, a farmer of 
 Osage County, Kans. William died from the ef- 
 fects of disease contracted in the army. The 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 547 
 
 second marriage of Mr. Cramer united him with 
 Lucy Morgan, who was born in Ohio and died in 
 Kansas at thirty-eight years of age. Of the 
 three children born of this union, John is en- 
 gaged in buying and shipping stock in Wellsville, 
 being a partner of his father; Louisa, Mrs. Bev- 
 ins, whose husband is a farmer, lives in Iowa; 
 Carrie is married and lives in Kansas City, Mo. 
 The present Mrs. Cramer bore the maiden name 
 of Anna Bivens rnd wa ; born in Circleville, Ohio. 
 
 (TOHN W. KINDRED. The farm in the Kaw 
 I Valley which is owned and operated by Mr. 
 Q) Kindred is known as the Jacob Dolosi 
 estate, and comprises ninety acres of fine land 
 situated in the Weaver bottom. The soil is so 
 excellently adapted to the raising of potatoes that 
 the owner is making a specialty of them, and has 
 already met with noteworthy success in this 
 branch of agriculture. Besides his private inter- 
 ests he is general manager of the Kaw Valley 
 Potato Growers' and Co-operative Dealers' Asso- 
 ciation of Weaver, in the organization of which 
 he took a very active part. 
 
 Born in Madison County, Ky., August lo, 
 1858, our subject was two years of age when his 
 father. Fields Kindred, moved to Clay County, 
 Mo. , and there he acquired the rudiments of his 
 education. When he w^as twelve he accompanied 
 his parents to Edwardsville, Kans., where he 
 grew to manhood, completing the common-school 
 studies in Wyandotte Count}-. He remained with 
 his father until twenty-six years of age, when he 
 took a farm four miles north of Bonner Springs. 
 In addition to operating this place, which was 
 known as White Feather farm, he also purchased 
 and cultivated adjoining land. In 1894 he moved 
 to Fall Leaf, Leavenworth County, where each 
 year he planted between sixty-five and one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres in potatoes. While farm- 
 ing there he made his home in Eudora, in order 
 to secure educational advantages for his children. 
 Next he purchased two hundred and fifteen 
 acres in the Kaw Valley, four miles west of 
 Eudora, where he engaged in raising potatoes 
 quite extensively. In February, 1898, he sold 
 
 that place and bought a farm in Willow Springs 
 Township, Douglas County, from which place, 
 in April, 1899, he removed to his present prop- 
 erty in Eudora Township, the same county. 
 This location he considers the best he has yet 
 found, and he has energetically set about the 
 improvement of the farm, which shows the 
 results of his efficient supervision. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Kindred is connected with 
 Bonner Springs Lodge, K. of P., and the Knights 
 and Ladies of Security in Eudora. In politics he 
 is a Populist. While living in Wyandotte County 
 he took an active part in local afiairs, and in 
 1887, 1888 and 1889 he served as trustee of Dela- 
 ware Township. While filling that position he 
 was instrumental in securing good bridges for 
 the countr)' roads, and was appointed bridge 
 commissioner by the county board. Other local 
 improvements also received the impetus of his 
 assistance. Believing that the public school is 
 the basis of the good government of the future, 
 he does all in his power to promote the welfare 
 of the schools of his neighborhood. For five 
 years he was a .school director in Wyandotte 
 County. December 29, 1881, he married Miss 
 Annie Morgan, who died April 16, 1883, leaving 
 a daughter, Edna, now a student at the Hesper 
 Academy. April 2, 1885, he was united in 
 marriage with Eliza B. Magee, who was reared 
 in Wyandotte Countj^ and bj' whom he has had 
 the following-named children: Agnes, Nora, 
 Frank (deceased), Grace, Lena, Seth, Byron, 
 Ethel and Ellis Lee. The family are connected 
 with the Christian Church, and aid religious 
 movements as far as possible. 
 
 (Junius underwood, member of the 
 I wholesale produce firm of Kumler & Under- 
 C2/ wood, and secretary and treasurer of the 
 Griffin Ice Company, of Lawrence, is a member 
 of an old Pennsylvania family. His father, 
 Prescott, was a son of Daniel Underwood, a na- 
 tive of Connecticut, who removed to Pennsyl- 
 vania and engaged in lumbering and building. 
 During the Civil war Prescott Underwood offered 
 himself for service, but was rejected. After the 
 
548 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 war he settled upon a plantation in Georgia, but 
 in 1868 removed to Kansas, settling in Lawrence. 
 While making his home in the city he improved 
 a tract of seventy-five acres adjoining the city 
 limits, where he engaged in raising fruit and 
 potatoes. He was one of the first to engage in 
 raising potatoes in this locality, and became one 
 of the largest shippers and growers in the county, 
 having nearly one hundred and twenty-five acres 
 planted in potatoes. However, neither he nor 
 his wife had good health, .so, hoping a change 
 would prove beneficial, he removed to Whatcom 
 County, Wash., in 1S87. There the climate 
 proved very helpful, and he has since given his 
 attention to the cultivation of his valuable farm, 
 making a specialty of raising cherries. He has 
 frequently contributed to agricultural papers, and 
 his success as an agriculturist and particularly as 
 a fruit and produce-grower makes any suggestions 
 from him valuable. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Jane A. Niles, was born in 
 Wayne County, Pa., and died in Washington 
 February 17, 1889, leaving three children: Junius; 
 Mrs. Mary Buswell and Hattie, both in Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Born in Wayne County, Pa., March 15, 1865, 
 the subject of this .sketch was reared in Kansas, 
 and studied in the Lawrence high school and the 
 University of Kansas, which he attended until 
 the junior year. On account of his father's poor 
 health he left the university and assumed the 
 management of the home farm, which he super- 
 intended for three years. During that time he 
 engaged in .shipping potatoes to different points 
 and thus became acquainted with his present 
 partner, G. V. Kumler. In 1891 the firm of Bell 
 & Kumler was succeeded by Kumler & Under- 
 wood, who at first carried on an exclusive pro- 
 duce business, but later began to deal in garden 
 and field seeds, also to handle potatoes and apples 
 in carload lots. The firm have a warehou.se, 
 25x50, at No. 628 Massachusetts street, and a 
 seedhouse, 40x80, three stories in height. Be- 
 sides this business, Mr. Underwood is secretary- 
 and treasurer and a director of the Griffin Ice 
 Company, which he assisted in incorporating and 
 of which A. J. Griffin is the manager. This is 
 
 the largest ice company in Lawrence. Not only 
 have they several warehouses in which natural 
 ice is stored, either for home distribution or ship- 
 ment to other points, but they also have a plant 
 with a capacity of thirteen tons a day for the 
 manufacture of artificial ice. 
 
 On the Republican ticket Mr. Underwood was 
 elected to represent the sixth ward in the city 
 council, where he served for six years, retiring in 
 the spring of 1899. During his last term he was 
 chairman of the library committee. He is con- 
 nected with the Fraternal Aid, Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and Knights of Pythias. In 
 Delmar, Iowa, December 15, 1887, hewas united 
 in marriage with Miss Flora Hinckley, who was 
 born in that city, a daughter of Clark Hincklej-, 
 a veteran of the Civil war and now manager of 
 a creamery at Welton, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Un- 
 derwood had six children: Alice, Addie, William, 
 Hattie, Fay and Prcscott. Hattie died June 16, 
 1899- 
 
 EHARLES W. EWING, M. D., a leading 
 physician of Wellsville, Franklin County, 
 was born in Marathon, Clermont County, 
 Ohio, December 8, 1861, a son of John and Re- 
 becca (Birdsall) Ewing, and a descendant of one 
 of three brothers, John, Samuel and Alexander, 
 who emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland 
 about the time of the Revolutionary war. His 
 father, a native of Batavia, Ohio, was reared and 
 educated in that place. About 1861 he went to 
 California, where (and in Idaho) he engaged in 
 mining for seven years. Like many miners, he 
 met with both good and bad luck, at times was 
 successful and again unsuccessful. On return- 
 ing to Ohio he took up farm pursuits near Mara- 
 thon, where he remained until his death, at six- 
 ty-three years of age. His wife, who was born 
 near Marathon, is still living, and is how sixty- 
 four years of age. She is a lady of noble Chris- 
 tian character, and an earnest believer in Meth- 
 odist Episcopal doctrines. Of their three chil- 
 dren, Edward, who is engaged in railroading, 
 resides at Concordia, Kans.; Elizabeth is the wife 
 of N. S. Hazen. 
 
 When eleven years of age our subject began to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 549 
 
 work upon a farm. From that time on he was 
 self-supporting. At the age of sixteen he came 
 to Kansas, settling in Nemaha County, where he 
 secured work on a farm. When not busy with 
 farm duties he attended school, completing the 
 course in the Paola normal school at Paola, Mi- 
 ami County, from which he graduated in 1884. 
 He had commenced to teach school in 1880, hav- 
 ing schools in Miami and Johnson Counties, and 
 after his graduation he taught for two winters, 
 also served as deputy county treasurer of John- 
 son County. In 1884 he took his first readings 
 in medicine, having as preceptor Dr. G. T. 
 Goode, of Olathe, Johnson County. Later he 
 matriculated in Jefferson Medical College at 
 Philadelphia, Pa., from which he graduated in 
 1888. Returning to Kansas he opened an office 
 at Edgerton, Johnson County, and continued 
 thereuntil July, 1892, when he removed to Wells- 
 ville. He is well informed regarding his profes- 
 sion, has a thorough knowledge of the various 
 forms of disease and the best remedial agencies 
 for each, and his practice is large and growing. 
 
 Fraternally Dr. Ewing is connected with the 
 blue lodge of Masonry in Wellsville, and is also 
 a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and Knights of Pythias. In religion he is 
 a Methodist, while his wife adheres to the doc- 
 trines of the Christian Church. October 7, 1896, 
 he married Miss Minnie A. Goode, of Olathe, 
 Kans. , daughter of Dr. G. T. and Virginia A. 
 (Lane) Goode. They have one son, Charles 
 W.,Jr. 
 
 |~RANK P. SMITH, A. B., A. M., is one of 
 1^ the successful educators of Kansas. He 
 I ^ became principal of the high school at Ot- 
 tawa, Kans., in the fall of 1889, and the follow- 
 ing year was elected superintendent of schools. 
 In that capacity he continued until December, 
 1894, when he was elected to succeed Edmund 
 Stanley (state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion), as superintendent of the Lawrence schools, 
 which responsible position he has filled with the 
 greatest intelligence and fidelity. Under his 
 supervision are fifty-two teachers and twenty-six 
 hundred pupils, of which enrollment more than 
 
 seventeen per cent are in the high school. There 
 are seven grammar school and one high school 
 buildings. The latter is thoroughly equipped 
 for advanced work, and it is said that no high 
 school in the state is higher in its standard or 
 more thorough in its work than this, which fact 
 proves the ability of those who are devoting 
 themselves to the instruction of the students. 
 
 Professor Smith was born in Salem, Ind., July 
 9, 1854, a son of Lewis N. and Nancy Jane 
 (Worrall) Smith, natives respectively of Wash- 
 ington County, Ind., and Westport, Ky. His 
 grandfather, Richard Smith, of Virginia, settled 
 in Salem, Ind., about 1822, and died there in 
 1833. During the war of 18 12 he served in the 
 American army. His wife, Hannah, was a daugh- 
 ter of George Etzler, who enlisted from Virginia 
 in the Revolutionary war. Lewis N. Smith has 
 been a farmer, and by economy and judgment has 
 accumulated a competency. He has served sev- 
 eral terms as county commissioner. Of his three 
 sons and one daughter, Spencer W. is a physician 
 in Indiana; Mrs. Laura Maudlin also resides in 
 that state; and L. Newland occupies the old 
 homestead. The oldest of the family is the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. He was reared on a farm and 
 had few leisure moments, but, being studious, he 
 devoted himself to his books whenever possible, 
 and was in the habit of plowing corn during the 
 day and studying Caesar and Virgil at night. In 
 1873 he entered the Indiana State University at 
 Bloomington, from which he graduated in 1878, 
 with the degree of A. B. The degree of A. M. 
 was conferred upon him by Baker University in 
 
 1893- 
 
 In 1878 Professor Smith became principal of 
 the village school at Fisherville, Ky., and in 
 October of that year he was married, in Salem, to 
 Miss Amanda E. Brewer. In February, 1879, a 
 disastrous fire terminated his work in Fisherville. 
 He returned to Indiana and remained for some 
 months on the home farm. Afterward, for three 
 years, he was principal of the high school at 
 Salem, and for two years held a similar position 
 in Orleans, Ind. For five years he served as 
 superintendent of the Bedford city schools. His 
 wife died in December, 1888, leaving a daughter, 
 
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 Daisy B., who is a graduate of the Lawrence high 
 school class of 1S99, and is now a student in the 
 Kansas University. From Indiana he came to 
 Kansas, where he has since won prominence as an 
 instructor, the energy with which he carries on his 
 work and the intelligence displayed therein having 
 secured for him the confidence of his associates. 
 He is a member of the state school text book 
 commission, appointed by Governor Stanley, and 
 is connected with the State Teachers' and the 
 National Education Association, of the latter of 
 which he is a vice-president. Politically he ad- 
 heres to Republican principles. At one time he 
 was active in the work of the Knights of Pythias. 
 He is a past officer in the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, a member of Lawrence Lodge No. 
 6, A. F. & A. M. ; Lawrence Chapter No. 4, 
 R. A. M.; DeMolay Commandery No. 4, K. T., 
 and the consistory of Topeka. In religion he is 
 a Methodist. Since coming to Kansas he has 
 been a second time married, his wife being Miss 
 Rose E. Brock, who was born in Leavenworth 
 County, Kaus., and was educated in the Eureka 
 high school. 
 
 nOHN B. STUMP, who resides near Baldwin, 
 I Douglas County, was born in Clermont 
 (2/ County, Ohio, May 30, 1834, a son of Louis 
 and Elizabeth (Fitzwater) Stump, also natives 
 of that part of Ohio. His paternal grandfather, 
 John Stump, who was of German extraction, was 
 born in Virginia and for a short time made his 
 home in Kentucky, but removed to Ohio with 
 two brothers, settling upon a farm and afterward 
 devoting himself to agricultural pursuits there; 
 he married Jane Lowrey, who was a native of 
 the Old Dominion. Louis Stump was born on the 
 first day of the year 1804, and spent his entire 
 life upon a farm near Camp Dennison, Ohio, 
 where he met with fair success as an agriculturist. 
 During the existence of the Whig party he voted 
 for its principles, and afterward became identified 
 with the Republicans. He died when eighty-one 
 years of age. 
 
 The mother of our subject, who was a daughter 
 of Thomas Fitzwater, died in 1836, when her 
 three .sons were small. In religion she was a 
 
 faithful member of the Presbyterian Church. Of 
 her children, the two eldest were Thomas and 
 David, neither of whom ever married. Thomas, 
 who was a farmer in Illinois, died at the age of 
 seventy-years, and David, who remained in Ohio, 
 died when sixty-eight years of age. After the 
 death of our subject's mother, his father was 
 married to Matilda Price. By that union seven 
 children were born, one of whom died in infancy. 
 The others are as follows: Daniel, a farmer of 
 Franklin County, Kans.; Belinda, who married 
 Jerry Hussey, and died in Ohio in 1885; Jane; 
 Samuel, a farmer and stockman, who died in 
 Kansas at the age of fifty years; Joel H., who is 
 a farmer in Illinois; and Mary, who lives in Ohio. 
 
 Until thirty-five years of age our subject re- 
 mained at home with his father and step-mother, 
 excepting only the period of his service in the 
 army. In March, 1863, he enlisted in gunboat 
 service on the "Covington," Captain Hurd, and 
 after three months was transferred to the "Ex- 
 change" No. 38, Captain Gibson, where he re- 
 mained for twentj- months. The most of this 
 time was spent on the Tennessee, Cumberland, 
 Yazoo, Mississippi and White Rivers, and he 
 participated in a number of engagements. At 
 the close of the war he was honorably discharged 
 and went back to his Iowa home. In the spring 
 of 1869 he came west to Kansas and in the county 
 of Douglas purchased a tract of farm land in Wil- 
 low Springs Township. There he continued to re- 
 side until 1895, when he sold the one hundred and 
 sixty acre farm and bought a tract of ten acres 
 near Baldwin, his present home. 
 
 In political views Mr. Stump has always afiili- 
 ated with the Republican party; but he has 
 never shown a partisan spirit in his opinions. 
 For five years he served as trustee of Willow 
 Springs Township and discharged the duties of 
 the office with the utmost fidelity. With his 
 family' he holds membership in the Presbyterian 
 Church. Fraternally he is connected with Odd 
 Fellows' Lodge No. 31, in Baldwin, and with 
 E. D. Baker Post No. 40, G. A. R., also in this 
 village. His marriage, November 8, 1869, united 
 him with Miss L. A. Goodell, who was born in 
 Grafton County, N. H., January 3, 1835, a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 551 
 
 daughter of John and Lucy (Storrs) Goodell, 
 natives of the same counts^ both members of old 
 New England families and of Scotch extraction. 
 Her father died at sixty-five and her mother 
 when sixty-one years of age. Both were adhe- 
 rents of the Congregational Church. She was 
 educated in the public schools of New Hampshire 
 and an academy in Vermont. After teaching for 
 a few years in New England she went to Ohio, 
 and was similarly engaged for four years, also 
 taught for three years in Iroquois County, 111. 
 Two daughters were born to the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Stump. The older. Birdie, is the wife 
 of J. F.- Dole, a resident of Washington state. 
 The younger, Mysie E. , is a graduate of the 
 Baldwin high school and an accomplished j'oung 
 lady, who is popular among the young people of 
 the village. 
 
 ROBERT A. KIER, who is one of the enter- 
 prising and progressive business men of 
 North Lawrence, was born in Clarksburg, 
 Indiana County, Pa., August 28, 1832, a son of 
 David and Jane (Lauglin) Kier, also natives of 
 that county. His grandfather, David Kier, Sr., 
 was born in Ireland of Scotch ancestry, and at an 
 early age settled in Pennsylvania, where he en- 
 gaged in farming until his death; in this country 
 he married a lady who was of German descent. 
 Upon a large farm in Indiana County David 
 Kier, Jr., carried on agricultural pursuits until 
 he passed away, when forty-five years of age. 
 His wife, who was a daughter of John Lauglin, a 
 native of Westmoreland County, Pa., and a large 
 farmer, was left at the death of her husband with 
 the management of the farm and the care of the 
 children. She remained with her children on the 
 homestead, and there her death occurred when 
 advanced in years. Of her five sons and three 
 daughters, four sons and one daughter are now 
 living, and one of the brothers occupies the old 
 homestead. Another son, James, served in the 
 navy during the Civil war. 
 
 The youngest of the children was Robert. He 
 attended the grammar and high schools, and re- 
 mained with his mother until he was twenty- 
 three years of age. In the fall of 1855 he settled 
 
 on a farm near Muscatine, Iowa, and there he en- 
 gaged in farming, superintending for four years 
 a place owned by a steamboat captain. Then 
 going to Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, he 
 worked there for a time, later was at Leon, Decatur 
 County, that state, where he carried on a drug 
 business for seven years. In 1880 he came to 
 Lawrence, and during the first year worked as a 
 druggist, but afterward engaged in contract paint- 
 ing for three j'ears. In 1886 he began in the coal 
 business and has since built up a large yard on 
 Rhode Island street, where he deals in coal of all 
 varieties, and also has wood on sale. A siding 
 from the Union Pacific Road makes easy connec- 
 tion with his yard, thus facilitating the work. 
 For a time he engaged in the manufacture of 
 wire fence, but now devotes himself exclusively 
 to the coal business. 
 
 Besides his coal j'ard Mr. Kier owns three 
 houses in North Lawrence, one of them, on the 
 corner of New York and Maple streets, being his 
 residence, and one of the finest houses in this part 
 of Lawrence. A man of firm convictions, he has 
 never wavered in his allegience to the Repub- 
 lican party, but always supports its principles. 
 He is a member of the Christian Church and a 
 contributor to its maintenance. Fraternally he 
 is connected with the Odd Fellows. During his 
 residence in Iowa he was married in Muscatine 
 County to Miss Cordelia Ritchie, who was a 
 member of an old family there, her father, John 
 D. Ritchie, having been the earliest settler there. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kier have three daughters, Ionia, 
 May and Maude. 
 
 HON. NOAH SIMMONS, M. D. For many 
 years identified with the history of Law- 
 rence, Dr. Simmons did much to promote 
 the prosperity of the city, among whose citizens 
 he held a position of influence. His recognized 
 ability led to his election to a number of positions 
 of trust and responsibility. For two terms he 
 served as a member of the state legislature, and 
 during the legi.slative struggles of his second term 
 he supported the Douglas faction. Among the 
 other offices which he filled were those of mayor 
 of Lawrence, health officer and coroner of Doug- 
 
552 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 las County, member of the state board of health 
 and president and secretary successively of the 
 Kansas State Medical Association. While his close 
 connection with public affairs brought him promi- 
 nence in his home county and state, he became 
 best known throughout the country as the pro- 
 prietor of Simmons' liver tablets or ginger snaps, 
 which have had a large sale, their manufacture 
 having become a business of considerable mag- 
 nitude. 
 
 Dr. Simmons was born in Piqua, Ohio, March 
 21, 1828, and died at Lawrence, Kans., April 27, 
 1898. He was the youngest of thirteen children, 
 whose father, Adam Simmons, was a native of 
 Switzerland, a farmer by occupation, and a mem- 
 ber of the German Reformed Church. When he 
 was entering upon manhood he began the study 
 of medicine in Miami County, Ohio, and after a 
 time spent in studj- under private preceptorship, 
 in 1852 he entered the Cincinnati Eclectic College, 
 and began the course there, but did not complete 
 his studies at once. Instead, he opened an office 
 at Union City, Ind. , where he practiced steadily 
 for two years. He then took another course of 
 lectures in college, after which he returned to 
 Union City. In 1864 he again entered college, 
 remaining this time until his graduation February 
 15, 1865. He continued actively engaged in 
 practice at Union City until June, 1868, the date 
 of his removal to Lawrence, where he afterward 
 built up a large and remunerative practice. He 
 also gave some attention to the supervision of his 
 farm in Sarcoxie Township, Jefferson County, 
 where he had a fine fruit orchard. Fraternally 
 he was connected with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, Masonic fraternity 
 and Eastern Star, also the Independent Order of 
 Good Templars. In religion he was connected 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Political- 
 ly he was firm in his allegiance to Republican 
 principles. He was a man who possessed far 
 more than ordinary literary ability, and, had he 
 not chosen medicine for his profession, he would 
 probably have made a name for himself in liter- 
 ature. Even in the midstof his busy professional 
 career he found time for the preparation of 
 articles bearing upon the science of medicine or 
 
 upon historical or general subjects, and these 
 indicate his high order of literary talent. 
 
 In Fletcher, Ohio, April 9, 1857, occurred the 
 marriage of Dr. Simmons to Miss Elizabeth Toms, 
 who was born near Dayton, Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary 
 (Merkel) Toms, natives respeclivelj' of Frederick, 
 Md., and Washington County, Pa. Her paternal 
 grandfather, Jacob, was born in Maryland and 
 was of English descent. Her maternal grand- 
 father, Daniel Merkel, moved from Pennsylvania 
 to Miami Count)', Ohio, where he died; he was a 
 son of a Revolutionary soldier. Jonathan Toms, 
 though a tanner by trade, devoted himself prin- 
 cipally to fanning in the Miami Valley. He was 
 reared in the Lutheran faith, but, on his removal 
 from Maryland to Ohio, there being no Lutheran 
 Church in his new home, he identified himself 
 with the United Brethren denomination. He was 
 an Abolitionist in principle and a Republican in 
 politics. At the time of his death he was ninety- 
 two years of age. His wife died when she was 
 .sixty-two. Their ten children attained mature 
 years, and five are now living, Mrs. .Simmonsbeing 
 next to the youngest. She had two brothers who 
 served in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, 
 Emanuel being sergeant, and George Oliver cap- 
 tain of his company. 
 
 The family of Dr. and Mrs. Simmons consisted 
 of three sons. The oldest, Charles Jefferson 
 Simmons, is represented in the following .sketch. 
 The second son, Frank Simmons, is a graduate 
 of a high school and the commercial college of 
 Lawrence and is now connected with a business 
 house in Lawrence. Harry, the youngest son, is 
 a commercial grain dealer in New York City. 
 The younger sons are professional .skaters and 
 have traveled over the entire world, giving ex- 
 hibitions of, and lessons in, that art. Mrs. Sim- 
 mons has been a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church since a girl of sixteen years. She 
 is connected with the Eastern Star, Selected 
 Friends and Ladies' Circle of the Grand Army. 
 Since the death of her husband she has been in 
 charge of the manufacture of the tablets and has 
 superintended their sale in a way that proves her 
 to be a woman of exceptional business ability. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 553 
 
 Among the people of Lawrence, where for more 
 than thirtj^ years she has made her home, she has 
 many friends and well-wishers. She has witnessed 
 the growth of this city from an early day and has 
 taken a pride in its development and progress. 
 
 There is connected with the Simmons family a 
 history that is more than usually interesting. As 
 already stated, the family is of Swiss origin. 
 Phillip Simmons with his wife and only son, John, 
 settled in York County, Pa. After the death of 
 his parents and years after his own marriage, 
 John started with his family for Ohio. On the 
 way he met the Millhouse family, who had come 
 from the same part of Switzerland as himself. 
 The two families settled in the Miami Valley. 
 John Simmons, Jr. , a few years later, married 
 Susan Millhouse. In the latter part of 1809 
 their only son, David, was born. March 14, 
 1 8 10, John enlisted in the First Regiment of 
 United States Infantry and was assigned to duty 
 at Fort Dearborn, on the present site of the city 
 of Chicago. Soon afterward he arrived at the 
 fort, and was so pleased with the prospects that 
 he frequently expressed the belief that a great 
 city would in time be built near there. Wishing 
 to have his family with him he walked back to 
 Ohio, and in the latter part of March, 181 1, ac- 
 companied by his wife and son, started for their 
 new home in the west. They reached Chicago in 
 April, joining the little band of soldiers at the 
 fort. February 13, 1812, their daughter Susan 
 was born, the first white child born on the present 
 site of Chicago. Indians were treacherous and 
 hostile, and the small troop of soldiers, with their 
 families, were constantly menaced by these foes. 
 August 15, 1812, occurred the dreadful massacre 
 ot Fort Dearborn, the record of which is a part 
 of history. Near an old cottonwood tree, long 
 known as "Massacre" tree, a wagon filled with 
 little children, fleeing from the Indians, was over- 
 taken and every child murdered. Among these 
 children was David, who was known as the ' 'curly- 
 headed corporal," and about the same time the 
 little "corporal's" father, Corporal Simmons, 
 was foully murdered by the savages, and his wife, 
 with her infant daughter in her arms, was cap- 
 tured. Of their long months of captivity, their 
 
 sufferings, their cruel treatment, it is difficult to 
 conceive. In April, 1813, an exchange was ef- 
 fected and mother and daughter were once more 
 permitted to return to the mother's old Ohio 
 home. Nor did their trials end with the return. 
 A year afterward the mother's sister and brother- 
 in-law were killed by the Indians. In time, how- 
 ever, peace and prosperity came to them, and, in 
 the happiness of the present, the mother could to 
 some extent forget the sufferings of the past. 
 The daughter became the wife of M.P. Winans and 
 moved from Ohio to Iowa, thence to California. 
 During the World's Fair it was the desire of 
 many that she visit the great city by the lake, but 
 she had lived so long in the genial climate of 
 southern California that she was averse to return- 
 ing, even temporarily, to the east. 
 
 EHARLESJ. SIMMONS, M. D. Inthepro- 
 fession which he selected for his life work, 
 Dr. Simmons has attained a success that en- 
 titles him to rank among the foremost physicians 
 of eastern Kansas. A close student of the sci- 
 ence of medicine, his skill and ability have won 
 for him a high reputation, not only among those 
 who have been under his professional care, but 
 also among other physicians. His reputation 
 among the people of Lawrence, his home town, 
 is that of an able physician, who is accurate in 
 the diagnosis of disease and skillful in the selec- 
 tion of remedial agencies. From year to year 
 his practice has increased, and is now of such 
 proportions that it leaves him with little leisure 
 for social recreation or needed rest. 
 
 Dr. Simmons was born in Union City, Ind., 
 February 25, 1858, and was ten yearsof age when 
 brought to Lawrence by his father, Noah Sim- 
 mons, M. D. He was educated in the gram- 
 mar and high schools and in the University of 
 Kansas, from which he graduated in 1882, with 
 the degree of A. B. Immediately afterward he 
 began the study of medicine, of which he had 
 gained a rudimentary knowledge under his 
 father's instruction. He attended a course of 
 lectures in the medical department of the state 
 university, after which he studied in Dartmouth 
 
554 
 
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 (N. H.) Medical College, and finally graduated 
 from the University of Vermont, with the degree 
 of M. D. He also graduated from Bellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, New York, where 
 he attended two sessions; and from the Eclectic 
 Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he 
 took one course of lectures. Returning to Law- 
 rence, he entered upon the practice that has since 
 assumed large proportions, and in addition to his 
 private practice he was citj' phj'sician for two 
 years. His office is at No. 721 Massachusetts 
 street. 
 
 The few vacations which Dr. Simmons has al- 
 lowed himself in his bu.sy life are devoted to 
 post-graduate work in eastern colleges. In 
 1895-96 he took a course of lectures in the Post- 
 Graduate Medical College of New York. In 
 1897-98 he made a special study of surgery and 
 gynecology in the New York Polj'clinic, and in 
 1898-99 he devoted some time to the same 
 specialties in Philadelphia. Devoted to profes- 
 sional duties, he has no desire to enter the arena 
 of public affairs and, aside from voting the Re- 
 publican ticket, takes no part in politics. How- 
 ever, as a public-spirited citizen he is well in- 
 formed concerning local and national issues. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Modern 
 Woodmen and Knights of Pythias. For two 
 years he was United States Pension Examiner. 
 In his religious views he favors the doctrines of 
 the Methodist Church. His marriage, which 
 took place in Lawrence, united him with Emily, 
 daughter of J. H. Glathart, of this city. They 
 have two children, Jerry and Stella. 
 
 REV. JAMES MURRAY, a retired raini.ster 
 residing in Baldwin, was born in Canan- 
 daigua, Ontario County, N. Y., on the 4th 
 of July, 182S. His father, James, who was 
 probablj' a native of Massachusetts, accompanied 
 his parents to Monroe County, N. Y., in boy- 
 hood, and later removed to Ontario County, 
 where he followed the shoemaker's trade. Dur- 
 ing the war of 181 2 he enli.sted in the American 
 army, and served until he lost an eye in the bat- 
 tle of Sacket's Harbor. In politics he was iden- 
 
 tified with the Know- Nothing party and later with 
 the Whigs. In religious belief he was a Method- 
 ist, and while he was quiet and retiring in dis- 
 position and not prominent in the church, he was 
 a very earnest and faithful member. He died in 
 1855, at the age of sixty-four years. His mother, 
 Sarah, who was of Scotch birth, died October 23, 
 1841, at seventy-seven yearsof age. He married 
 Orpha Hickox September 14, 1814. She was 
 born in Ontario County, N. Y., and spent her 
 last days in Michigan in the home of her son, 
 James, where she died at .sixty-four years of age. 
 Of her seven children our subject alone survives. 
 She, like her husband, was an earnest Christian 
 and a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 In the village of Canandaigua, N. Y., our 
 subject received his education, graduating from 
 the academy there at nineteen years of age. He 
 then went to Michigan and taught school for a 
 short time. October 5, 1853, at Bellevue, Mich., 
 he married Miss Hannah Perry, who was born in 
 Cortland County, N. Y., August 11, 1833, ^ 
 daughter of Joab and Jane (Crawford) Perry, 
 natives of New York. Her father, in 1834, went 
 to the then territory of Michigan, where he 
 cleared a homestead from the primeval wilds, 
 and, as his count}' became settled, acquired 
 prominence among his neighbors by reason of 
 his upright character and acknowledged ability. 
 A Democrat in politics he was active in local 
 affairs, and for many years served as justice of 
 the peace. His death occurred when he was 
 eighty-five. His wife, who, like him, was born 
 in New York of old New England stock, and 
 was a member of the Methodi.st Episcopal Church, 
 died in 1880, at the age of seventy-two years, upon 
 the old homestead, where she and her husband 
 had lived for many years. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Murray came to Kansas and se- 
 lected a claim in Johnson County, but was driven 
 away by the troops. Returning to Michigan he 
 devoted considerable time to the work of a local 
 preacher. At the opening of the Civil war he 
 enlisted as a delegate in the Christian commis- 
 sion rooms at Louisville, Ky., and later enlisted 
 in Company E, Fifteenth Michigan Infantry. 
 
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 He was assigned to Sherman's division, and at 
 the time of the march to the sea was detailed and 
 left in the rear to complete some clerical work on 
 the muster rolls. When the work was finished 
 he went via New York to Goldsboro, expecting 
 to join the command, but found that Sherman 
 had passed on to the sea. He then returned to 
 Washington, where he took part in the grand 
 review. Afterward he was ordered to Memphis, 
 Tenn., and Helena and Little Rock, Ark., where 
 he was discharged. He was paid off at Detroit, 
 Mich., in September, 1865. In October of the 
 same year he sold his property in Michigan and 
 removed to Kansas, settling in Ottawa, and ac- 
 cepting a position as agent for the American 
 Bible Company. In 1869 he entered the minis- 
 try, and was present and answered every roll call 
 for thirty years thereafter. For three years he 
 was superintendent of mission work in the Indian 
 Territory, but was then obliged to retire from the 
 work on account of poor health. During his 
 time in this position he had been in twenty-one 
 of the twenty-three nations of the Indian Terri- 
 tory, and has had personal interviews with many 
 leading Indians, including "Scar- Faced Charley" 
 and "Steamboat Frank," who massacred Custer. 
 From 1869 to 187 1 Mr. Murray held a pastor- 
 ate in Mound City, Kans. , after which he re- 
 ceived conference appointments to various places. 
 He entered the town site at Oklahoma City and 
 was elected the first mayor of the place, also 
 served as president of the Oklahoma Town Site 
 Company, that city having been founded at the 
 time that he was superintendent of missions in 
 the Indian Territory (1886-89). In 1889 he 
 came to Baldwin, purchased a home, and, on 
 account of ill health, took a superannuated posi- 
 tion in the conference. When the president of 
 the bank at Baldwin died, in 1891, the cashier of 
 the bank, in behalf of the directors, ofi"ered Mr. 
 Murray the presidency. Although he had no 
 experience in banking he accepted and filled the 
 position with success, continuing until 1898, 
 since which time he has been a director in the 
 institution. Twice he was elected mayor of 
 Baldwin, and in other ways the people have 
 shown that they hold him in the highest respect. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican, with prohibition 
 sympathies. Some years ago he was asked to 
 act as financial agent of Baker University. At 
 the time of his appointment he was asked what 
 salary he expected. He answered "that he 
 would give his services and board himself," 
 which he has continued to do, donating his serv- 
 ices gratuitously to the college and collecting 
 considerable money for the institution. He is a 
 member of E. D. Baker Post No. 40, G. A. R., 
 and for one year acted as department chaplain for 
 the state association. He and his wife have two 
 daughters: Jennie, wife of R. N. Kemp; and 
 Mary, who married James E. Hair, cashier of 
 the bank at Baldwin. 
 
 (lOHN A. DAVENPORT, Sr., was born in 
 I Belmont County, Ohio, and was the member 
 (2/ of an old and honored Virginian family of 
 planters. His father and grandfather, both of 
 whom bore the same name as himself, were born 
 in the Old Dominion, and were extensive planters 
 and tobacco merchants, their plantations being 
 operated by their slaves. However, the father 
 became convinced that the institution of slavery 
 was unjust, and in order to free himself from its 
 influences he removed to Ohio, taking with him 
 his eighty slaves. Purchasing large tracts of 
 land he presented eight}' acres to each colored 
 man, entailing the property to their descendants. 
 Upon the remainder of the tract he carried on, 
 through tenants, agricultural pursuits. 
 
 Much of the life of our subject was passed in 
 Ohio, and for years he carried on a general store in 
 Woodsfield. In 187 1 he came to Kansas, settling 
 upon a farm near Ottawa, and during the subse- 
 quent years of his life he identified himself closely 
 with the growing prosperity of Franklin County, 
 among whose citizens he was known and honored. 
 Fraternally he was a Mason. He was active in 
 the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and served as a member of the official board. 
 He attained the age of seventy-nine, dying July 
 13, 1898. His life was that of an exemplary cit- 
 izen. He always stood for measures to benefit 
 the people and uplift the race. During the Civil 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 war he served as colonel of the state militia at the 
 time of Morgan's raid in Ohio, being one of 
 three colonels who commanded twenty thousand 
 men. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Davenport united him 
 with Margaret .Smith, who was born in Ohio; her 
 father, John Smith, having moved to that state 
 from Pennsylvania. She is now living in Ottawa. 
 Of her six children all but one are still living, 
 one son, J. W., being a merchant of this city, 
 while another son, John A., Jr., is county clerk. 
 
 (John a. davenport, Jr., clerk of Frank- 
 I lin County and one of the successful busi- 
 Qj ness men of Ottawa, was born in Woods- 
 field, Monroe County, Ohio, September 30, 1858, 
 and was fourth among the six children of his 
 parents. When twelve years of age he accom- 
 panied the family to Franklin County and his 
 education was completed in the high school of 
 Ottawa. When thirteen he entered the employ 
 of the People's National Bank as a messenger 
 boy, continuing in that position for eighteen 
 months, after which he returned to high school. 
 Subsequently he'clerked in a mercantile establish- 
 ment. In 1 88 1 he went to Des Moines, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in coal operating, organizing 
 the Standard Fuel Company, which opened four 
 mines in the vicinity of Des Moines and had its 
 office in that city, with Mr. Davenport as secre- 
 tary. 
 
 Selling out his interest iii the concern in 1886, 
 Mr. Davenport returned to Ottawa, where he has 
 since carried on the grocery business in the same 
 block, his location being No. 320 Main street. 
 He has built up the largest business of its kind in 
 the city and is known as a reliable business man, 
 whose dealings are always fair and honorable. 
 From year to year he has increased his stock and 
 the aggregate amount of his sales, while reason- 
 able prices and fair dealing have brought the 
 store into favor with all customers. 
 
 In politics Mr. Davenport is in sympathy with 
 the silver wing of the Republican party, being a 
 champion of the free coinage of silver and at the 
 same time a believer in the protection of home 
 
 industries. For one term he represented the 
 third ward in the city council, and during the 
 last year of the term he served as president of the 
 board. In 1897 he was nominated for county 
 clerk on the Democratic ticket, endorsed by the 
 Populists, and was elected by a large majority, 
 leading his ticket. In January, 1898, he took 
 the oath of office, and has since given his time to 
 official duties. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Ottawa Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M., Franklin 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and in religion he is 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and a member of its board of trustees. The Com- 
 mercial Club numbers him among its members. 
 He was married in Springfield, 111., to Miss Ida 
 Burkhart, who was born in that city, and by 
 whom he has two sons, John Adrian (the fifth of 
 that name in direct line) and Walter. 
 
 r^HILIP M. LEWIS, M. D., who is a success- 
 Lr ful practicing physician of Lecompton, was 
 t^ born in Delaware County, Ind., February 
 20, 1841, a son of Ephraim and Sarah (Johnson) 
 Lewis. He is one of sixteen children, of whom 
 the following survive: Julia, widow of David 
 Conger, of Marshall County, Kans. ; Philip M.; 
 Jefferson, a minister of the United Brethren 
 Church, residing in Lecompton; Caleb, of Las 
 Animas, Colo.; Margaret, who married Archi- 
 bald McLaughlin, of Nemaha County, Kans.; 
 Susan, wife of Claudius McLaughlin, of Mar- 
 shall County, this state; Nancy E., of Frankfort, 
 Marshall County; Ada J., who married James 
 Smith, of Oklahoma; Sarah, wife of J. C. Blair, 
 of Centralia, Nemaha County; and William, 
 who is engaged in the real-estate business at 
 Blue Rapids, Kans. 
 
 A native of Tennessee, born in i8og, Ephraim 
 Lewis was only one year old when his parents 
 removed to Indiana and established their home 
 in a blockhouse in Dearborn County. Some 
 years later they removed to what was known as 
 the reserve, in the northern part of the state. 
 When Indiana was redivided into counties they 
 were in Delaware County. After his marriage 
 Ephraim Lewis settled upon a farm in that coun- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 557 
 
 ty and engaged in farming. In 1845 he re- 
 moved to Decatur County, where he made his 
 home for six years. Thence he went to Bartholo- 
 mew County. After another six years he estab- 
 lished his home in Jennings Count}'. In the 
 fall of 1857 he came to Kansas, settling on Sugar 
 Creek in I,inn County. He experienced the 
 perils and riots of pro-slavery and free-state 
 troubles. In 1858 he removed to Marshall Coun- 
 ty and there remained up to the time of his 
 death, which occurred in 1893. Though he was 
 reared a Democrat, after he settled on Kan- 
 sas he became an active worker in the free-soil 
 party. For two terms he served as county com- 
 missioner of Marshall County, where he was a 
 very influential citizen. 
 
 The education of Dr. Lewis was obtained in 
 public schools and in Lane University. In 1859 
 he began the study of medicine in the office of 
 Dr. A. J. Ockerman, of Marshall County. Dur- 
 ing the next year he accompanied his preceptor, 
 who removed to Madison County, Iowa, and 
 there spent two years. On the death of Dr. 
 Ockerman he continued his studies under Dr. 
 A. B. Smith. In 1865-66 he attended Rush 
 Medical College in Chicago, after which he began 
 to practice, as an under-graduate, in Madison 
 County. Two 3'ears later he returned to Kansas 
 and the year 1868 found him located in Lecomp- 
 ton, where he has since resided. In 1883 he 
 entered Kansas City Medical College, from which 
 he graduated the following year. Prior to this 
 he had built up an extensive practice, and had 
 gained the confidence of his community as a 
 skilled practitioner. Since entering in partner- 
 ship, in 1895, with Dr. H. L. Chambers, a physi- 
 cian and surgeon of exceptional ability, he has 
 been gradually retiring from professional prac- 
 tice and has been devoting a part of his time to 
 the growing of fancy poultry. 
 
 After the reorganization of the town of Le- 
 compton. Dr. Lewis was the first mayor and con- 
 tinued in that office for five years. For two 
 terms he served as township trustee. In poli- 
 tics he is independent, supporting the measures 
 he deems best for the country, irrespective of 
 party. In 1897 he was elected president of the 
 
 Kansas State Poultry Association. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Odd Fellows and in re- 
 ligion is a member of the United Brethren 
 Church. By his marriage to Miss Martha J. 
 Baird, of Warren County, Iowa, three children 
 were born, two of whom are living, Benjamin E. 
 and Maggie B. The son, who is a graduate of 
 Lane University and holds a state teacher's cer- 
 tificate, is principal of the high school at Centra- 
 lia, Kans. Soon after graduating he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Hattie E. Snyder, an ac- 
 complished young lady, daughter of Rev. Dr. 
 Snyder, of Lecompton. The daughter, who is a 
 talented musician, is the wife of Dr. H. L. 
 Chambers, of Lecompton. 
 
 GlLVIN V. SHARPE, B. S., LL. B., attor- 
 LJ ney-at-law and justice of the peace of Law- 
 / I rence, is a descendant of German ancestry. 
 His great-grandfather was one of three brothers 
 who came from Germany and settled in Ten- 
 nes.see, where the grandfather, William Sharpe, 
 was born. The latter removed to the north, set- 
 tling in Hendricks County, Ind. William Sharpe, 
 Jr., our subject's father, was born near Pitts- 
 burg, that county, and in 1862 enlisted in Com- 
 pany C, Seventieth Indiana Infantry, of which 
 regiment Col. Benjamin Harrison was commander. 
 Among the engagements in which he took part 
 were the battles of Chattanooga and Missionary 
 Ridge and those along the line of Sherman's 
 march to the sea. At the close of the war he re- 
 turned to Indiana. A few years later he removed 
 to Ringgold County, Iowa, where he engaged in 
 farm pursuits. In 1870 he came to Kansas and 
 settled upon a tract of land near Vilas, Wilson 
 County, where he has since made his home, 
 transforming his property into a well-improved 
 farm. Politically he is a Republican, and in re- 
 ligion a member of the Christian Church. He is 
 interested in the work of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and enjoys meeting his old comrades 
 and reviewing with them the events of the Civil 
 war and those memorable engagements at Rus- 
 sellville, Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, 
 Lost Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Marilla, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Savannah, Benton- 
 ville, Averborough, etc., in which he bore so 
 brave and gallant a part. Two of hi.s brothers 
 also fought bravely in defense of the Union. 
 
 The marriage of William Sharpe, Jr., united 
 him with Miss Sarah E. McAninch, who was 
 born in Hendricks Countj-, Ind., and died in 
 Wilson County, Kans., in February, 1882. Her 
 father, Joseph McAninch, was of Scotch parent- 
 age, and with two of his sons served in an Indi- 
 ana regiment during the Civil war. He is still 
 living and makes his home on a farm in Ring- 
 gold County, Iowa. Of the children of William 
 and Sarah Sharpe four are living, viz.: Alvin 
 v.; O. Dayton, a practicing physician in Neode- 
 sha, Kans.; Mrs. Minnie Newman, of Neodesha; 
 and Mrs. Etta Wiggins, also of Wilson County. 
 Our subject, who was the oldest of the family, 
 was born near Caledonia, Ringgold County, 
 Iowa, June 23, 1867. From three years of age 
 he was reared upon a farm in Wilson County, 
 Kans. After completing the studies of the schools 
 there, in 1888 he entered Lane University, from 
 which he received the degree of B. S. a few' years 
 afterward. He then entered the law department 
 of the University of Kansas, where he took the 
 regular course, graduating in 1893, with the de- 
 gree of LL. B. Previous to this, in order to earn 
 the funds necessary for his university course, he 
 had devoted some attention to teaching. In 1893 
 he opened an office at Yates Center, but in 1895 
 returned to Lawrence, where he has since en- 
 gaged in practice, with the exception of a short 
 period .spent in travel as attorney and collector for 
 the Deering Harvester Company. During this 
 time he traveled through North Dakota, Minne- 
 sota and Manitoba, and after his return to Law- 
 rence he represented the same company in Kan- 
 sas. In March, 1899, he was appointed justice 
 of the peace, and on the ist of April was elected 
 to the office. 
 
 June 7, 1893, in Lawrence, Mr. Sharpe mar- 
 ried Miss Linnie Blakley Worthington, who was 
 born in New York state and received her educa- 
 tion in the University of Kansas. They have one 
 child, Maud. The family attend the Methodi.st 
 Episcopal Church and are identified with its 
 
 work. Fraternally Mr. Sharpe is connected with 
 the Modern Woodmen and the Sons of V^eterans. 
 In politics he is stanch in his adherence to the 
 Republican party, and is an active member of the 
 Republican county central committee. 
 
 EYRUS W. FLORY. Coming to Marion 
 Township in 1876, Mr. Flory settled on what 
 was then known as the Metsker farm and 
 since that time he has been associated with the 
 agriculturists of his part of Douglas County. 
 His wife is the owner of six hundred and ninety 
 acres of land bearing first-class improvements, in- 
 cluding the usual buildings found on a first-cla.ss 
 farm. Besides general farming he is interested 
 in the stock business and has made a specialtj' of 
 feeding cattle, the farm being admirably adapted 
 for stock-raising by reason of the abundance of 
 water on it. He is also interested in the mercan- 
 tile business at Lone Star with his brother, J. M . 
 Flory, under the firm title of Florj- Brothers. 
 
 Born in Whitley Count)', Ind., in 1852, Mr. 
 Flory was a boy of almost twelve when his father, 
 Christopher Flory, in 1864 removed from Indiana 
 to Kansas and .settled in Willow Springs Town- 
 ship, Douglas County, where he has since made 
 his home on a farm. In earlj' manhood he fol- 
 lowed carpentering, but of later years has devoted 
 himself to agriculture. The subject of this sketch 
 received his education principally in the schools 
 of Willow Springs Township. At the age of' 
 twenty-one he started out for himself and, for a 
 year, had charge of a portion of the home farm. 
 At the time of his marriage, February 24, 1876, 
 he moved to the farm where he has since resided. 
 
 Taking an interest in all local affairs, Mr. 
 Flory gives his support to measures of undoubted 
 value to the people. Twice he was the Republi- 
 can candidate for township trustee, and for sev- 
 eral years he served as town.sliip clerk and treas- 
 urer, also was a member of the school board and 
 assisted in the building of Lone Star schoolhouse 
 No. 47. The people of this township recognize 
 his moral worth and hold him in the highest re- 
 gard as a man and a citizen. His wife, Sarah E., 
 daughter of John C. Metsker, shares with him in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 559 
 
 the esteem of friends and associates. Inimedi- 
 atel}^ after their marriage her father, Mr. Metsker, 
 gave her three hundred and fifty acres of land and 
 this she still owns, in addition to three hundred 
 and fifty acres they have since bought. They 
 are the parents of five children now living, 
 namely: Clarence M.; Jane E., wife of W. J. 
 Anderson; Leroy, Wallace O., and Lola M. One 
 son, Claude, died of diphtheria when three years 
 and ten months old. 
 
 gjEORGE ADAM SEUFERT, who is a re- 
 _l tired farmer and stock- dealer of Stranger 
 J Township, Leavenworth County, was born 
 in Baden, German)', May i6, 1832, a son of Lewis 
 Florian and Catherine (Roland) Seufert, natives 
 of Germany and France respectively. His father, 
 who was a tailor by trade, came to America in 
 1836, and stopped for two years in Rochester, 
 N. Y. From there he started with his family 
 for the west, but had gone only as far as Buffalo 
 when his wife was taken ill with fever and he was 
 obliged to stop. He became interested in busi- 
 ness in that city and was so successful that he 
 employed as many as twenty-five men. About 
 twenty j'ears after he settled in Buffalo, poor 
 health caused him to retire from business to a 
 farm where he continued to reside for twenty-four 
 years. Finally he came to Kansas and two years 
 later he died here, at the age of sixty-six. 
 Of his six children three are living: Catherine, 
 wife of Florian Seufert and a resident of New 
 York state; G. Adam, the subject of this sketch; 
 and Lewis, a farmer in Stranger Township. 
 
 When four years of age our subject was brought 
 by his parents to America, spending forty-two 
 days upon the ocean in a sailing vessel. He 
 was educated in Buffalo schools. For seven years 
 he worked for Holt & Palmer, proprietors of a 
 line of canal boats. Later he engaged in farm- 
 ing. During the gold excitement of 1859 he 
 went to California, where he secured work as a 
 farm hand, remaining until the spring of 1863. 
 On his return to Buffalo he resumed agricultural 
 pursuits near that city. In the fall of 1867 
 he settled in Kansas and bought one hundred 
 
 24 
 
 and sixty acres of land, of which twenty acres 
 had been broken. The only building on the 
 place was a small log house. For twenty-five 
 years he and his brother operated the land in 
 partnership. During the first seven months they 
 lived in the log cabin, but as soon as they had 
 money enough they built a more substantial 
 house. From time to time they added to their 
 possessions. They were shrewd, cautious and 
 conservative in their dealings, and never gave a 
 note or mortgaged their property, but bought for 
 cash only. At the time of the division of their 
 property, in 1891, they had five hundred and 
 forty acres, on which they raised cattle, horses 
 and mules, as well as engaged in general farm 
 pursuits. 
 
 After retiring from farming our subject gave 
 his attention more closely to the creamery busi- 
 ness, with which he was identified until the spring 
 of 1899. He is still interested in the creamery 
 at Basehor and is chairman of its board of di- 
 rectors. In 1899 he rented much of his land and 
 has since lived retired. He is a member of the 
 German Lutheran Church and a contributor to 
 religious enterprises. Politically he was reared 
 a Democrat. For ten years he has served as 
 school director and for twelve years has acted as 
 township treasurer. In 1864 he married Marga- 
 ret Leininger, whose home was twelve miles from 
 the city of Buffalo, in Erie County, N. Y. They 
 are the parents of four children: George, a farmer 
 of Tonganoxie Township; Rosie, who married 
 Harry Levan, of Kansas City; John, now in the 
 Klondike; and Margaret. 
 
 (Tames CONNOLLEY SIMMONS, former 
 I representative of the fifteenth district in the 
 Q) Kansas legislature, is a successful farmer 
 and stock-raiser of Franklin County. In 1890 
 he bought a tract of land in Franklin Township 
 one and one-half miles south of Wellsville. Prior 
 to that time he had engaged in buying and ship- 
 ping cattle, making his headquarters in Wells- 
 ville. He now gives even more attention than 
 previously to the stock business, making a spe- 
 cialty of raising Polled-Angus cattle and Poland- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 China hogs. While he farms one hundred and 
 .sixty acres, the grain raised is not sufficient to 
 provide feed for his stock, and each winter he is 
 obliged to buy some. 
 
 In Warren County, Ind., Mr. Simmons was 
 born December 23, 1850. His father, Frank, a 
 native of Ireland, was a .seafaring man and served 
 on a British man-of-war. Upon coming to this 
 country he settled in Indiana, where he became 
 interested in farming and the stock business. In 
 February, 1856, he established his home in Law- 
 rence, Kans., and remained there, interested in 
 the stock I)usiness, until his death. A stanch 
 free-.soiler he was always loyal to the govern- 
 ment, and in politics voted with the Republicans. 
 He was twice married, both times in Ohio, and 
 had thirteen children, four of whom were born in 
 Indiana, the others in Kansas. Of these our 
 subject was next to the eldest. He was five 
 years of age when the family settled in Kansas. 
 His mother died when he was a child, and when 
 fourteen years of age he went to Texas, where 
 he was employed as a cattle puncher on the trail 
 from that time until he was twenty-one. In 1S71 
 he returned to this locality and began to improve 
 some land in Richmond Township, Miami Coun- 
 ty. All the grain he rai.sed was used to feed his 
 stock, as even at that time he was interested in 
 the stock business. In 1875 he went to the 
 Black Hills, but after a year returned to Wells- 
 ville, where he remained until removing to his 
 present farm. 
 
 Active in the Democratic party Mr. Simmons 
 attends all state and county conventions, and has 
 served as a delegate to all of such meetings held 
 since 1882. For six years he was chairman of 
 the county central committee. In 1892 he was 
 elected to fill a vacancy as register of deeds. The 
 next year he was elected for a full term, being 
 the only Democrat in his congre.ssional district 
 who was successful in being elected. In 1896 he 
 was elected to the legislature, receiving a major- 
 ity of more than five hundred and forty, although 
 the county is Republican. Under his influence 
 the county was divided into two districts. While 
 ill the house he served as member of the railroad, 
 judiciary, congressional and judicial apportion- 
 
 ment committees. During Cleveland's first ad- 
 ministration he held the office of postmaster at 
 Wellsville. He is a charter member of the 
 Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and vSelcct Knights at Wellsville, and 
 is also connected with the Odd Fellows' lodge 
 there. 
 
 By his first wife, who bore the maiden name 
 of Sarah A. Copeland, Mr. Simmons had one 
 child, now deceased. September 7, 1881, he 
 married Kate E. Nutt, by whom he has six 
 children, namely: Mary Olive, John Francis, 
 William Ross, Mattie L., Ida L. and Ray E. 
 
 ILIJAM SPURGEON, who is an enter- 
 jirising business man of Lawrence, is a 
 descendant of an old ea.stern family. His 
 father, Jasper Spurgeon, who was born in Indi- 
 ana, removed from there to Jasper County, Mo., 
 and engaged in agricultural pursuits. When the 
 war broke out he found that his section of coun- 
 try was in the thickest of the .secession region. 
 He himself was a stanch Union man, yet he was 
 so honorable in character and .so fair-minded that 
 he retained the respect of his Confederate neigh- 
 bors. Feeling, however, that his family would 
 be safer elsewhere, he moved them to Fort Scott, 
 Kans., and, after seeing that they were provided 
 with needed comforts, .started back to his Mis- 
 souri farm. While on the way he was attacked 
 and killed by bushwhackers. He was then forty 
 years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Dorcas Foster, was born in Indiana, 
 and descended, through her mother, from the 
 Jackson family of North Carolina. She died in 
 Jasper County a short time after the death of her 
 husband, leaving five daughters and one son. 
 
 Born in Greencastle, Ind., the subject of this 
 .sketch was seven years of age when his father 
 was killed. His mother being unable to continue 
 the management of the two farms they owned, 
 sold them immediately after the war, when prices 
 were low. They have since become very valu- 
 able, and on one of them, six miles southeast of 
 Joplin, is a popular summer resort. At the close 
 of the war our subject came from Fort Scott to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 561 
 
 Lawrence, where his sister, Mrs. Hj'att, made 
 her home. He sta5'ed with her for a time, and 
 was then taken into the home of his uncle, Mar- 
 tin Sedgwick, who adopted him. There he grew 
 to manhood. Early made familiar with agri- 
 cultural pursuits he operated his uncle's farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres in Kanwaka Town- 
 ship, to which in time he fell heir. In 1893 he 
 sold the place and bought a livery barn at No. 
 820 Vermont street, Lawrence, where he has 
 improved and enlarged the building, now 40x108 
 feet, two stories, and has since carried on a livery 
 and feed business. He has a genial disposition 
 that makes him popular among his patrons. 
 Politically he is a Republican, and fraternally 
 holds membership with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 (31 LDAMAR P. ELDER, president of the Ot- 
 Ll tawa Foundry Company and president and 
 / I manager of the Ottawa Gas and Heating 
 Company, is one of the most successful business 
 men of Ottawa. He was born in Kenduskeag, 
 Me., April 17, 1854, a son of Gov. P. P. Elder, 
 of Ottawa, one of the most eminent men of Kan- 
 sas. He was four years of age when the family 
 came to Kansas, and his childhood j'ears were 
 passed in Ohio City, Fort Scott and Baldwin 
 City until 1S66, since which time he has made 
 his home in Ottawa. From 1S71 to 1873 he con- 
 ducted his studies in the University of Kansas. 
 When the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad 
 was completed he went to Texas and was em- 
 ployed as clerk in the grocerj' house of Fuller & 
 Hyatt at Denison. On returning to Ottawa in 
 January, 1874, by special act of the legislature 
 passed allowing him to exercise the rights of ma- 
 jority, he bought the hardware stock of S. D. 
 Smith, and engaged in the hardware business at 
 No. 126 South Main street. In 1882, by consoli- 
 dation with H. C. Bronson, the Bronson-Elder 
 Hardware Company was formed, this being in- 
 corporated with Mr. Bronson as president and 
 Mr. Elder secretarj' and treasurer. The location 
 of the business was at No. 216 South Main, and 
 the trade built up was large and profitable. After 
 some years the Ottawa Foundry Company was 
 
 organized, with Mr. Elder as president. In the 
 meantime Mr. Elder had acquired a controlling 
 interest in the gas works and was made superin- 
 tendent of that plant. 
 
 A division of the hardware stock was made in 
 1 888, when Mr. Elder took the plumbing and 
 gas- fitting part of the business. For some years 
 he remained at No. 220 South Main, but in 1895 
 removed to No. 208 South Main, where he has 
 three floors, 25x125. He carries all the leading 
 lines of stoves and ranges in stock, and has put 
 in one hundred and twenty-five furnaces in 
 Franklin and adjoining counties. He has had 
 the contracts for the finest plumbing, steam and 
 gas- fitting in Ottawa, including that for the 
 Rohrbaugh Opera House, Baptist Church, Peo- 
 ple's National Bank, First National Bank, court 
 house, count)' infirmary, the residences of H. A. 
 Dunn, Lyman Reid and others. The contract 
 for the residence of Lyman Reid was one of his 
 latest and most important. In it the plumbing is 
 complete and modern in every detail. A water 
 motor in the basement, operated by city water 
 pressure, forces soft cistern water automatically to 
 the various fixtures throughout the house. Two 
 lavatories, enameled laundry tubs, bath room 
 with tiled floor, enameled sink in photographer's 
 dark room, etc., render the house perfect as to 
 plumbing; while the heating is by the hot water 
 single pipe system, with large boiler and Zenith 
 radiators of ornamental design. No residence in 
 Kansas is more complete as to plumbing and 
 heating than this, and Mr. Elder received num- 
 erous congratulations upon the success of his 
 work. 
 
 In addition to his other business Mr. Elder 
 handles bicycles, making a specialty of the Cres- 
 cent, and he aLso sells windmills and pumps. He 
 has enlarged the gas plant to a capacity of one 
 hundred thousand feet, and has made the enter- 
 prise a profitable one. He is secretary of the 
 Master Plumbers' Association of the State of 
 Kansas. For twenty-five years he has been a 
 member of the fire department, of which he was 
 chief for ten years. For two years he was a 
 member of the school board. Politically he was 
 formerly a Populist but is now a Democrat. He is 
 
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 connected with the blue lodge and chapter of 
 Masonry, the Odd Fellows and Fraternal Aid. 
 For two years he was president of the State Fire- 
 men's Association, and served on its committee 
 on legislation. He was the author of two laws 
 now on the statute books of the state, one of 
 which levies a tax of two per cent of gross pre- 
 miums on fire insurance companies in cities 
 where organized fire departments are maintained, 
 this fund being for the relief of firemen injured in 
 fires or for their families. 
 
 In Ottawa, in 1876, Mr. Elder married Clara 
 M., daughter of William H. Maxwell, formerly 
 a prominent attorney of Jouesboro, Tenu., but 
 later a practicing lawyer in Ottawa, and finally a 
 resident of Paoli, where he died. Mrs. Elder 
 was born in Jonesboro and received her educa- 
 tion in the Ottawa University. To their marriage 
 three children were born: Raymond E., P. P., 
 Jr., and Clara D. The older son, who assisted 
 his father in business, enlisted in May, 1898, in 
 Company K, Twentieth Kansas Infantry, and 
 served as corporal until honorably discharged at 
 San Francisco in October of the same year. 
 
 [~RED RUDER, a pioneer of 1857, is still en- 
 JM gaged in business in Leavenworth. In July, 
 I * 1884, he started a harness shop at No. 731 
 Shawnee street, buying the property which then 
 had an old frame liuilding on it. He continued 
 in the same shop until 1895, when he built a 
 two-story brick structure, which gives him a fine 
 store room besides the rooms above. In addition 
 to the harness manufactured he carries a large 
 stock of saddles, and the trade is so large that he 
 and his son are kept steadily employed, at times 
 other assistance being required. The business is 
 carried on under the firm name of Fred Ruder 
 & Son. 
 
 In Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio, Mr. 
 Ruder was born May 28, 1835. His father, 
 George, was born in Baden, Germany, and came 
 to America in 1833, crossing in a sailing-vessel 
 which was wrecked near the coast of Ireland. 
 Upon reaching the new world he engaged in 
 farming in Ohio. Our subject's educational ad- 
 
 vantages were meagre, as he was able to attend 
 school only three months in the year. His time 
 was devoted principally to clearing the home farm. 
 When fourteen years of age he began to work in 
 Cleveland, and three years later he was appren- 
 ticed to the harncssmaker's trade, at which he 
 served until twenty-one. He then went to Chi- 
 cago, and after a short time at his trade, in the 
 spring of 1857 came to Kansas, arriving in Leav- 
 enworth April 15. Here he was employed as a 
 saddler in the government service. He made many 
 trips to the west for the government, being gone 
 from six months to two years at a time, and 
 working at Forts Dodge and Lyon and on the Un- 
 compahgre. Much of his time was given to the 
 repairing of harness for trains. In 1869 he bought 
 eighty acres of partly improved land in Leaven- 
 worth County and established his family in the 
 log cabin there, while he engaged in clearing up 
 the land. During some of his longer trips for the 
 government the family remained on the farm. 
 During this time he made the equipments for the 
 cavalry at the arsenal here and also worked at 
 Rock Island. In February, 1884, he brought his 
 family to Leavenworth. 
 
 Though not active in politics, Mr. Ruder has 
 served his party, the Republican, as delegate to 
 conventions and has been a member of the school 
 board. Reared a Lutheran, he inclines toward 
 that faith. In 1862 he married Mary Helling, 
 who was born in Cleveland, her father, Henry 
 Helling, having at one time been a manufacturer 
 there. The seven children comprising their fam- 
 ily are Amelia (decea.sed), Fred W., Caroline 
 M., Andrew G., Sarah J. (principal of the Ot- 
 tawa street public school), Anna B., and Charles 
 H., who works with his father. The second son 
 is superintendent of a factory at the state peni- 
 tentiary. The oldest son, who is his father's 
 business partner, was born at Fort Leavenworth 
 and has been a lifelong resident of this county. 
 Having been carefully instructed in the harness 
 business by his father, he is well fitted to engage 
 successfully in the business. Since June, 1896, 
 he has been in partnership with his father. He 
 is a thorough workman and gives his time clo.sely 
 to details of the business. He is connected with 
 
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 the Leavenworth Turn Verein and in politics is 
 a Republican. His marriage took place Decem- 
 ber 9, 1896, and united him with Ida Wettig, of 
 this city. 
 
 EHARLES BOSWORTH. Eleven miles east 
 of Ottawa, and five miles south of Weils- 
 ville, in the northeastern part of Peoria 
 Township, Franklin County, lies one of the finest 
 farms of this region. It is the property of Mr. 
 Bosworth, and lies on sections 21, 22, 23, 26 and 
 27. At the time he came here the land was raw 
 prairie, but he has transformed it into a valuable 
 farm. By various purchases he became the 
 owner of three thousand acres, out of which he 
 gave to each of his children a farm. He now 
 conducts tweut3'-two hundred acres, of which one 
 thousand acres are in Barber County, Kans. Of 
 his propertj' fifteen hundred acres have been 
 under the plow, but the land is now mostly in 
 tame grass for the pasturage of stock, and the 
 corn raised is also used for feed. He makes a 
 specialty of Hereford cattle, of which he now 
 owns three hundred head. Without doubt he is 
 the largest land owner and heaviest stockman in 
 the county. His farm bears all of the modern 
 improvements. The residence is surrounded by 
 large grounds, with shade trees that were set out 
 by him. The farm buildings on Mr. Bosworth's 
 property are the finest in Franklin County, and 
 among the best and most attractive in the state 
 of Kansas. It is a fact worthy of note that he 
 has distributed more money in wages than any 
 other farmer in Franklin County. 
 
 The ancestry of the Bosworth family is traced 
 back to Bosworth, England, a place associated 
 with the celebrated battle of Bosworth Field, 
 where, in August, 1485, was fought a battle that, 
 with the death of Richard III., terminated the 
 war of the Roses. Cyrus Bosworth, our subject's 
 father, was born in Massachusetts, and immedi- 
 ately after the breaking out of the war of 18 12 
 migrated to Ohio. It had been his intention to 
 engage in a seafaring life, but the boat he had in 
 process of building was burned by the British, 
 and he then abandoned the plan and went to 
 Ohio, where he followed farming. In politics a 
 
 Whig, he served as sheriff and representative. 
 In religion he was a member of the Christian 
 Church, in which he preached often. His death 
 occurred about the time of the beginning of the 
 Civil war. In his native county of Plymouth he 
 married Sina Strowbridge, by whom he had 
 fourteen children, but eight died in infancy, and 
 only our subject and a sister survive. By a sec- 
 ond marriage he had two children. 
 
 Born in Trumbull County, Ohio, July 27, 1824, 
 our subject was educated in common schools and 
 Bethany College in West Virginia, which he at- 
 tended for one term. At an early age he became 
 familiar with the stock business. His father was 
 one of the first to introduce fine stock into Trum- 
 bull County. He also engaged in the lumber 
 business with Granville W. Sears, furnishing the 
 Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company with 
 all the oak timber they used during a period of 
 three and a-half years. Both during and imme- 
 diately after the war he was successful in a finan- 
 cial way. In July, 1869, he arrived in Kansas. 
 His father-in-law, Mr. Sears, and the latter's 
 two sons, had come herein 1857, ^^'^ ^^'^ taken 
 up about ten quarter-sections of land, holding it 
 until 1869, when our subject, who was in part- 
 nership with Mr. Sears in the sawmill business, 
 traded his interest in the sawmill and land for 
 the Kansas land. On this property he settled, 
 and to it he added from year to year until his 
 possessions became very large and valuable. He 
 votes with the Republicans, and in religion is 
 identified with the Christian Church. 
 
 In Ohio, January i, 1856, Mr. Bosworth mar- 
 ried Mary E. Sears, whose father was born in 
 New York and her mother in New Jersey. Of 
 their seven children five are living, namely: 
 Granville Sears, a farmer of Peoria Township; 
 Frances E.; Mrs. Belle Moherman, of Peoria 
 Township; Mrs. Clara Castle, whose husband is 
 an instructor in Harvard College; and Laura. 
 
 At the time of the sale of the lands in the 
 Peoria Reservation in 1857, Mrs. Bosworth's 
 father, Granville W. Sears, accompanied by his 
 two sons, John M. and James M., came to Kan- 
 sas, and secured, by purchase and locating of 
 warrants, ten quarter-sections of land in Franklin 
 
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 and Miami Counties. This original acquisition 
 subsequentlj' became the property of Mr. Bos- 
 worth, who has added to it since that time by the 
 purchase of six quarter-sections. Of the whole 
 property he has in recent years deeded twelve 
 hundred acres to his children. 
 
 (Judge lewis S. Steele, of Lawrence, 
 I came to Kansas June i, 1857, and located a 
 Q) claim near Clinton, Douglas County. He 
 was born in Ross County, Ohio, September 15, 
 1833, a son of Col. J. C. and Elizabeth F. 
 (McLean) Steele, natives respectively of Cliilli- 
 cothe, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. His grand- 
 father, Robert Steele, who was born in West- 
 moreland County, Pa., and followed the carpen- 
 ter's trade, was one of the first settlers of Chilli- 
 cothe, having gone there prior to 1800, while it 
 was still the capital of the territory. With lum- 
 ber that he had sawed and nails that he manu- 
 factured he engaged in making furniture in that 
 cit3', and also followed general building, erecting 
 the first capitol of Ohio at Chillicothe. Later he 
 settled on a farm not far distant. He was of 
 Presbyterian-Scotch ancestry. His death oc- 
 curred when he was eighty-four. His wife was 
 a daughter of Dr. Johnston, of Chillicothe. 
 
 By trade Col. J. C. Steele was a carpenter, but 
 he followed farming during much of his life. In 
 1848 he settled at South Salem, Ohio. He aided 
 in the construction of the Cincinnati & Marietta 
 Railroad, in which he was a director. In 1857 
 he brought his family to Kan.sas and settled on a 
 claim at Bloomington, where he improved a farm 
 and made his home until he died, in 1878, at the 
 age of seventy-eight. Through his having. served 
 as the commander of the Ohio state militia he 
 was always known as Colonel. He was a mem- 
 ber of the first anti-slavery society in the United 
 States, joining it about 1833. He was a candi- 
 date for congress in Ohio on the free-soil ticket, 
 but was defeated with his party. While in the 
 east he was a prominent temperance worker, as 
 well as an advocate of abolition of slavery. In 
 1854 a colony was formed for the purpose of lo- 
 cating in Kansas, but complications arose and 
 
 the men determined to locate in Iowa. He there- 
 fore removed to Warren County, that state, when 
 he pushed on to Kansas, and in March located a 
 claim. From that time he worked to secure the 
 admission of Kansas as a free state. He was a 
 loyal patriot and gave five of his sons to the 
 Union service. In religion he was a Presbyterian 
 and served his church as an elder. 
 
 October 5, 1826, Colonel Steele married a 
 daughter of Alexander McLean, who was a na- 
 tive of Scotland and a pioneer farmer of Ross 
 County, Ohio. She had an uncle, D. V. Mc- 
 Lean, D. D., of Princeton, N. J., who was one of 
 the most famous preachers in this country. Her 
 death occurred February 3, 1868. Of her chil- 
 dren, Mary v., Mrs. R. A. Dean, resides in Law- 
 rence. Robert, who was captain of a company 
 that took part in driving Price out of the state, 
 died in Belvoir, Douglas County, Kans., in 1898. 
 Lewis S. was third in the family. Col. James M. , 
 who was first the captain of Company E, Twelfth 
 Kansas Infantry, later served as lieutenant-colonel 
 of the One Hundred and Thirteenth United 
 States Colored Troops, consisting of five compa- 
 nies; he now re.sides at Emporia, Kans., and is 
 cashier of the Emporia National Bank. Evaline 
 is the widow of C. F. Woodward, of Boise City, 
 Idaho. Araasa J., who was captain of the Ninth 
 Kansas Infantry in the Civil war, died in Ross 
 County, Ohio, February 11, 1874. Ira T., who 
 took part in the Price raid, is postmaster and a 
 merchant at Belvoir, Kans. , and a large farmer 
 there. The youngest child, Marcus, died in in- 
 fancy. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired 
 mainly in Salem Academy, which his father had 
 assisted in starting. After teaching one term of 
 school, in 1854 he went to Omaha, Neb., and 
 spent one winter there, later settling in Indian- 
 ola, Iowa, where he studied law with R. W. Steele, 
 an uncle. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar. 
 The next year he came to Kansas and settled at 
 Bloomington, Douglas County, where he took up 
 a claim. In i860 he crossed the plains with 
 oxen, following the Platte route, and arriving in 
 Denver after a trip of forty days. From Denver 
 he went to South Park, Buckskin Joe and Call- 
 
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 565 
 
 fornia Gulch, after which he crossed the Suow}' 
 range and mined in Washington Gulch. In the 
 fall of 1862 he returned to the vicinity of Cali- 
 fornia Gulch, thence went to Denver, where he 
 enlisted as a private in Companj' C, Third Colo- 
 rado Infantry, with which he marched to Leav- 
 enworth and Iron Mountain. He took part in 
 the capture of Camden Point and Liberty, the 
 battles of the Blue, Independence, Mares Des- 
 Cyne and Newtonia. At the consolidation of the 
 Second and Third Colorado Infantries at Rolla, 
 Mo., in December, 1863, he was assigned to 
 Company K, Second Regiment, and remained in 
 it until he was mustered out, September 25, 1865. 
 From the close of the war until his discharge he 
 was engaged on the plains in protecting militar}' 
 posts, and during that time had several skirmishes 
 with the Indians. 
 
 After leaving the army he located at Clinton, 
 Kans., where he engaged in the milling business 
 until 1872. During that year he came to Law- 
 rence and began to practice law, also embarked 
 in the real-estate and abstract business, in which 
 he has since continued. He has subdivided Earl's 
 addition to the east of the city, has a complete 
 abstract book of the count}', and has dealt in 
 farm lands in this, Jefferson and Leavenworth 
 Counties. From 1878 to 1880 he was police 
 judge and justice of the peace, and the former 
 office he held again from 189510 1897. A stanch 
 Republican he assisted in organizing that party 
 in Iowa in 1854, when its platform was far from 
 popular. Fraternally he is a member of Law- 
 rence Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and he is 
 past master. He and his sister, Mrs. Dean, are 
 the only survivors of the original members of the 
 First Presbyterian Church in Lawrence, this be 
 ing in 1858. For years he served as an elder 
 and trustee of the church. In 1870 he became 
 connected with the Grand Army and is now a 
 member of Washington Post No. 12. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Steele took place in 
 Lawrence, February 8, 1866, and united him 
 with Louisa A. Blakely, who was born in Mari- 
 etta, Ohio, and died in Lawrence in 1896. Her 
 father. Rev. A. Blakely, who descended from 
 "Mayflower" stock, was a pioneer Presbyterian 
 
 minister in Kansas, where he settled in 1864. 
 He organized the new school Presbyterian Church 
 at Lawrence, which is now consolidated with the 
 Presbyterian Church, and of which he was pastor 
 until he died. Two of his sons, Charles and 
 John R. , were members of the Ninth Regiment 
 New York Artillery. Charles was killed in the 
 battle of Cold Harbor. John R., who was hon- 
 orably discharged owing to physical disability, 
 returned home and died there soon afterward. 
 Judge and Mrs. Steele became the parents of four 
 sons. Charles A., the eldest of the family, resides 
 in Lawrence. John M., a newspaper correspond- 
 ent, enlisted in Company H, Twentieth Kansas 
 Infantry, and went to the Philippines, where he 
 took part in various battles and has been editor 
 of the Manila American. James L., a graduate 
 of the University of Kansas in 1895, is a practic- 
 ing lawyer of Lawrence. Horace E., the young- 
 est son, while a student in Park College, Mo., 
 left to enlist in the Spanish-American war, be- 
 coming a member of Companj' B, Third Missouri 
 Infantry, May 14, 1898. He was stationed at 
 Camp Alger, but finding his regiment would not 
 see active service, he secured a muster-out by 
 special order, November 7, 1898. He then has- 
 tened to San Francisco, intending to enlist in the 
 Twentieth Kansas Infantry, but arrived there too 
 late, the troops having just started for the Phil- 
 ippines, so he returned to Park College. The 
 sons are identified with the Sons of Veterans and 
 are bright and promising young men, of whose 
 future it is safe to predict that their father's 
 hopes will be fully realized. 
 
 (TOHN TUDHOPE. The life of this success- 
 I ful farmer of Leavenworth County furnishes 
 (2/ an example of what may be accomplished by 
 persistence, determination and energy. The fact 
 that, starting without means, he has attained a 
 commendable success is an encouragement to 
 every young man who starts now under similar 
 circumstances. His farm in the Kaw River bot- 
 tom is one of the finest in Sherman Township, 
 and consists of five hundred and twenty-four and 
 a-half acres. When he purchased the nucleus of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his property, in 1869, the Delaware reserve land 
 had just been placed on the market and he bought 
 fifty-six acres, to which he has since added fre- 
 quently. He is engaged in raising stock and 
 cereals, but makes a specialty of growing pota- 
 toes, to which he has planted from one hundred 
 and fifty to two hundred and fifty acres per year. 
 
 Our subject was born in Scotland April 10, 
 1833, a son of Jacob and Esther (Alston) Tud- 
 hope. His father, who carae to the United States 
 about 1848, settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., and en- 
 gaged in railroad contracting. About 1854 he 
 removed to Ohio and there remained until his 
 death, at .seventy-six years. During the Rebel- 
 lion he enlisted from Allegheny City in the Sev- 
 enty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, and contin- 
 ued at the front until the close of the war, after 
 which he accompanied his regiment to Texas to 
 investigate the Mexican affairs. When mustered 
 out he held the rank of sergeant. Returning to 
 his Ohio farm he resumed agricultural pursuits, 
 in which he continued uninterruptedly until his 
 retirement. In politics he voted the Republican 
 ticket. His wife died in Ohio when eighty-two 
 years of age. They were the parents of six chil- 
 dren, five of whom are living, namely: John; 
 James, who was killed in the battle of Gettys- 
 burg; William, now of Oregon, who enlisted in 
 Pennsylvania under Johnson to fight the Mor- 
 mons, and also took part in the Civil war as a 
 member of the Fourth United States Cavalry; 
 Margaret, Jane and Marion. 
 
 At the time the family came to America the 
 subject of this sketch was fifteen years of age. 
 About 1852 he secured employment at track-lay- 
 ing on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Alle- 
 gheny City, and afterward for many years he was 
 interested in railroad work. For sixteen years 
 he made his home in Nevada, Wyandot County, 
 Ohio, meantime engaging in construction and re- 
 pair work on railroads. In 1867 he came to 
 Kansas and settled at what is now Linwood. 
 From that time until 1893 he was employed on 
 the Union Pacific Road and had charge of repairs 
 of the tracks as roadmaster from Kansas City to 
 Junction City. Since 1893 he has given his at- 
 tention wholly to agricultural pursuits. In poli- 
 
 tics he is a stanch Republican. His first voto 
 was cast for S. P. Chase, governor of Ohio, and 
 his first presidential ballot for John C. Fremont. 
 For twenty-nine years he has been a member of 
 the school board, meantime taking a very active 
 part in educational matters; but, while willing to 
 accept this position, he has always refused polit- 
 ical offices. Since 1854 ^^ ^^s been a Mason. 
 He is a member of Lawrence Lodge No. 6, A. F. 
 & A. M. ; De Molay Commandery No. 4, K. T., 
 and Lawrence Chapter No. 4 at Lawrence. He 
 has taken the twentieth degree in Scottish Rite. 
 He is also connected with the Knights of Honor. 
 While in Ohio he was connected with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In the Congre- 
 gational Church, of which he is a member, he 
 serves as trustee and is an active worker. 
 
 The marriage of our subject took place July 
 24, 1854, ^"<^ united him with Miss Mary Will- 
 iamson, of Ohio, member of a Quaker family of 
 that state. They were the parents of six chil- 
 dren, four of whom are living, namely: John; 
 Sarah Esther, who is the wife of Hugh Perry; 
 Mary, Mrs. D. C. Harbaugh; and James. 
 
 REV. JOHN M. SULLIVAN, a retired Meth- 
 odist Episcopal minister residing in Bald- 
 win, Douglas County, was born in Fayet- 
 teville. Brown Countj', Ohio, Decembers, 1827. 
 His father, John, a native of Kentucky, removed 
 to Ohio with his parents in boyhood and spent 
 the remainder of his life in that state, where he 
 engaged in farming and died at fortj--seven years. 
 He married Sarah Hull, who was born in Ohio 
 and died there at thirty-two years. She was a 
 daughter of John Hull, probably an emigrant 
 from Germany to this countrj-, where he became 
 a man of influence and served under Washington 
 in the Revolutionarj' war. In religion she was 
 identified with the United Brethren Church. At 
 her death she left three children, the eldest being 
 John M. The second son, Peter, who was a 
 blacksmith by trade, served in the Seventh Illi- 
 nois Infantry during the Civil war, and there 
 contracted the disease that ultimately caused his 
 death. He was very popular among the jieople 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of Pittsfield, 111., where he resided. A stanch 
 Democrat, he was elected on the part}' ticket to 
 various town and count}' offices, all of which he 
 filled with credit to himself. The only daughter 
 in the family is Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Baer 
 and a resident of Georgetown, Ohio. The pater- 
 nal grandfather of our subject, Patrick O. Sulli- 
 van, was born near Dublin, Ireland, and in boy- 
 hood ran away from home to become a sailor. 
 After some years he abandoned his seafaring life 
 and settled in Kentucky, where he followed farm- 
 ing. His last years were spent upon a farm in 
 Ohio, where he died, of paralysis, at the age of 
 sixty-five years. He married Miss Rachael Fritz, 
 who was born in Pennsylvania, of German ex- 
 traction, and died in Ohio at the age of seventy 
 years, leaving seven children. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church. 
 
 At the time of his mother's death our subject 
 was fifteen years of age. He learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade afterward and followed it for a 
 time. At the opening of the Mexican war he en- 
 listed as a private in Company C, Second Ohio 
 Infantry, and in a short time was made a non- 
 commissioned officer. After serving for a year 
 he was honorably discharged from the armj', and 
 returned to Ohio. Later he attended Oberlin 
 College, then taught a district school for two 
 years and for a similar period was principal of 
 the Fayetteville graded schools. Meantime he 
 had determined to enter the ministry. With this 
 object in view he secured admission to the Cin- 
 cinnati conference, and was assigned as junior 
 preacher on the East White Oak circuit for a 
 year. His first charge was in Mount Washing- 
 ton, Ohio. He continued in that state until the 
 spring of 1870, when he came to Kansas and for 
 two years was stationed in Manhattan, for two 
 years at Waterville, three years at Holton and 
 four years in the Leavenworth district. In 1877 
 he moved his family to Baldwin, where he has 
 since made his home. 
 
 During the war Mr. Sullivan was for two years 
 chaplain of the Seventieth Ohio Infantry, and 
 he still has in his possession a splendid letter of 
 recommendation received from the colonel of the 
 regiment. After serving as chaplain for two 
 
 years the condition of his health forced him to 
 resign. For two years he was chaplain of the 
 house of representatives in Kansas. For more 
 than a quarter of a century he has been a trustee 
 of Baker University, being, with the exception 
 of Dr. Dennison, of Topeka, Kans. , the only 
 trustee who has served for so long a period. In 
 1 88 1 he received the appointment of agent for the 
 university and had charge of the financial manage- 
 ment of the institution, raising $10,000 with 
 which to pay its indebtedness. Since 188 1 he 
 has also been a trustee of the Chautauqua as- 
 sembly at Ottawa, Kans. For several years he 
 was president of the State Methodist Episcopal 
 Educational Association, and while at Holton he 
 was a member of the board of examiners and also 
 taught in the teachers' institute. Since his re- 
 tirement from the ministry he has had leisure for 
 participation in public afiairs and has been active 
 in the Republican party. 
 
 July 21, 1853, Mr. Sullivan married Lucy M. 
 Sweet, who was born in Kentucky, but reared in 
 Ohio, and is a lady of intelligence, amiable dis- 
 position and refinement of character. They are 
 the parents of four children now living, namely: 
 Benjamin M., a carpenter and builder in Topeka, 
 Kans.; Emma S., wife of Henry Siegrist, cashier 
 of a wholesale house in Kansas City, Mo. ; Sadie, 
 wife of Rev. John S. Colt, who graduated from 
 Baker University and is now a prominent minister 
 of Allegheny, Pa.; and Lyman, who graduated 
 from the business department of Baker Uni- 
 versity and is employed in a store in Baldwin. 
 
 W. ELDRIDGE, M. D., city physician of 
 ^ Lawrence, is a graduate of the Cincinnati 
 ^ College of Medicine and Surgery, from 
 which he received the degree of M. D., in Febru- 
 ary, 1879. For a year afterward he was em- 
 ployed as interne in the Cincinnati hospital, after 
 which he returned to his native county of Elk- 
 hart, Ind. In 188 1 he opened an office at Alma, 
 Wabaunsee County, Kans., where, in addition 
 to his general practice, he served as county coro- 
 ner for two terms and as county health officer for 
 five years, also as local surgeon to the Rock 
 
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 Island Railroad for six j-ears, county phj-sician 
 for one jear, and member of the board of pension 
 examiners for two terms, under Presidents Har- 
 rison and Cleveland. In 1891 he removed to 
 Alta Vista, and from there, in April, 1897, came 
 to Lawrence, where he has his office at the cor- 
 ner of Massachusetts and Henry streets. In May, 
 1898, he was appointed by Mayor Gould to the 
 oflBce of city physician. 
 
 Dr. Eldridge was born in Elkhart County, 
 Ind., March 19, 1854, and is a son of Joseph W. 
 and Jerusha (Walker) Eldridge, natives of Ohio 
 and Vermont respectively. His paternal grand- 
 father, Walter Eldridge, was born in Vermont, 
 whence he removed to Ohio, and in 1837 settled 
 in Indiana, where he died. The maternal grand- 
 father, Lucius Walker, also settled upon an 
 Indiana farm in 1837; he was a son of Elijah 
 Walker, a Revolutionary soldier who died in 
 Vermont and whose ancestors, of English origin, 
 had removed from Connecticut to Vermont in an 
 early day. Joseph W. Eldridge was a carpenter 
 and cabinet-maker by trade. He removed from 
 Indiana to Iowa, thence to Kansas, and assisted 
 in building all of the depots on the Rock Island 
 Railroad we.st of the Missouri. He is now living 
 retired at Fremont, Neb. His wife died in 1854, 
 when their younger sou was an infant, and left 
 two children, the elder of whom, Noble, is a 
 contractor in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 The boyhood days of Dr. Eldridge were spent 
 with his grandparents Walker on a farm. He 
 received his education in the high school at 
 Goshen, Ind., after which he engaged in school 
 teaching for four years. The study of medicine 
 he commenced under Dr. F. M. Aitken, of Elkhart, 
 Ind., and later carried it on in one of the best 
 medical colleges of that time. He gives careful 
 thought to every development made in the sci- 
 ence which he has selected for his life work and 
 keeps in touch with the latest discoveries in ther- 
 apeutics. He is a member of the Douglas Coun- 
 ty and State Medical Societies, in the work of 
 which he takes an interest. Politically he ad- 
 heres to Republican principles, and in religion is 
 a Methodist, while fraternally he is connected 
 with the Modern Woodmen, Independent Order 
 
 of Odd Fellows and Knights and Ladies of Se- 
 curity, of which he is examiner. While living 
 in Wabaunsee County he married Miss Lena 
 Moggie, who was born and reared there, and by 
 whom he has two children, Jessie and Ferris. 
 
 0EORGE C. APPLETON, recorder of deeds 
 I— of Franklin County, was appointed by the 
 \J^ board of county commissioners to fill a va- 
 cancy in this office, cau.sed by the death of his 
 father, G. F. Appleton, the former incumbent. 
 While he had previously been devoting himself 
 to an entirely different line of business, he has 
 nevertheless discharged the duties of his office 
 systematically and satisfactorily, and has proved 
 himself a capable official. In disposition he is 
 genial and affable, and these qualities have won 
 for him friends among the best people of his 
 count}'. 
 
 The Appleton family removed from Massachu- 
 setts to New Hampshire at an early day. S. S. 
 Appleton, a native of New Hampshire, was for 
 years general agent of the Vermont Central 
 Railroad at Burlington, Vt., where he died. His 
 son, G. F. , was with the Vermont Central, first 
 as city ticket agent in Burlington and later as a 
 passenger conductor. During the Civil war he 
 served for almost three years as captain of Com- 
 pany D, Tenth Vermont Infantry, assigned to 
 the Army of the Potomac, but on account of 
 physical disability he was discharged before the 
 close of the war. In 1873 he came to Kansas, 
 settling on a farm near Williamsburg, where he 
 engaged in farming and raising horses of the 
 Hambletonian strand. His horses he brought 
 from the east and some of them were very fine. 
 On his place of six hundred and twentj- acres he 
 had a race track, where he trained his horses for 
 the turf. On finally abandoning the hor.se busi- 
 ness he became a conductor on the Missouri Pa- 
 cific Railroad between Kansas Cit}' and Sedalia, 
 where he continued for .some years. He then re- 
 turned to his farm and was living there when in 
 1895 he was elected register of deeds on the fu- 
 sion ticket. Two years later he was re-elected 
 by a large majority. He took the oath of office 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 January 6, 1896, and continued in office until he 
 died, April 12, 1899. He was a man whose 
 friends were as numerous as his acquaintances. 
 Seen under whatever circumstances he might be, 
 he always proved himself a gentleman. Frank- 
 lin County had few men more popular or better 
 known than he, and his death was universally 
 regretted. 
 
 The marriage of G. F. Appleton united him 
 with Miss Jennie Abernathy, who was born in 
 New York City, of English and Scotch descent, 
 and is now living in Ottawa, making her home 
 with her only living child, having lost her 
 daughter Jennie in 1897. The subject of this 
 sketch was born in Burlington, Vt., May 17, 
 1 87 1, and was reared in Ottawa, where he at- 
 tended the public schools. At eighteen years of 
 age he secured a clerkship with Baldwin & Stone, 
 after which he became interested in railroading, 
 being employed with the Illinois Central, Rock 
 Island and St. Paul roads, both in the yard and 
 the train service. In January, 1899, he returned 
 to Ottawa and entered the register's office as 
 clerk. Upon the death of his father he succeeded 
 to the office, to serve until January, 1900. 
 
 |7|HARLES HEMAN CHAPIN. Adjoining 
 1 1 the village of Springdale, in Alexandria 
 Vj Township, Leavenworth County, lies the 
 farm where for years Mr. Chapin made his home. 
 He was a man who stood foremost among the 
 citizens of his county and also wielded consider- 
 able influence throughout Kansas, of which he 
 was a pioneer. Born in Bloomfield, N. Y., March 
 17, 1822, he was a son of Heman Chapin, who 
 engaged in various pursuits, but made agriculture 
 his chief occupation in life. After completing 
 his education in Canandaigua, N. Y. , he entered a 
 bank at Ellicottville, that state, and continued in 
 the same concern until 1856, when he resigned a 
 lucrative position in order to come west for the 
 purpose of identifying himself with the free-state 
 movement in Kansas. 
 
 During the troubles before the admission of 
 Kansas as a state Mr. Chapin was associated 
 with Gov. Charles H. Robinson and other men 
 
 of prominence. Upon the breaking out of the 
 Civil war he enlisted in the First Kansas In- 
 fantry, and was conmissioned quartermaster by 
 Governor Robinson. This position he held until 
 the disastrous battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., 
 September 11, 1861. In that engagement, when 
 General Lyon was shot, he was carried under a 
 tree and left there until the battle was ended. 
 Upon the withdrawal of the Union and Con- 
 federate forces Mr. Chapin returned to the battle- 
 field with his ambulances, in order to gather the 
 wounded. He found that the body of General 
 Lyon had been put in an ambulance, but as he 
 did not have room for the dead and the wounded 
 both, he gave orders that the wounded be cared 
 for first, hoping thus to save many lives. One of 
 the men exclaimed, "But this is General Lyon." 
 His reply was, ' 'A live soldier is better than a 
 dead general." Afterward, when the wounded 
 had been removed, he carried the body of the 
 general from the field. 
 
 Owing to ill health Mr. Chapin resigned his 
 commission and returned home. He engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising and was one of 
 the first to inaugurate the growing of fruit in this 
 locality. He took a special interest in horticult- 
 ure. In 1869-70 he was chairman of the board 
 of commissioners, to which board he was elected 
 on the Democratic ticket. Under Major Howell, 
 of the United States Engineers, he was employed 
 by the government in the dredging of the mouth 
 of the Mississippi River in 1874-75. After his 
 return to Leavenworth County he became an ex- 
 tensive contractor in the erection of bridges. He 
 was intimately associated with the growth of his 
 county and was a man of great public spirit. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Chapin united him 
 with Miss Abbie Clark, who died, leaving a son, 
 Staley N. Chapin, now a physician in Chicago. 
 August 30, 1864, he married Jennie L. Day, by 
 whom he had three children, namely: Oliver C, 
 who is a civil engineer and also has charge of 
 the home estate; Charles R. , who is in the elec- 
 trical business; and Mary C. , who is a graduate 
 in pharmacy. Mrs. Chapin was born in Erie 
 County, N. Y., and in early childhood was taken 
 to Wisconsin by her parents, Stephen and Lucy 
 
570 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 (Wilder) Day. Since her husband's death she 
 has continued to reside on the old homestead, 
 which comprises a half-section of land directly 
 west of Springdale. The property is managed 
 by her son, Oliver, a man of business enterprise, 
 who has leased land in the Osage Lands, I. T., 
 and expects to embark extensively in stock-rais- 
 ing. 
 
 After many years devoted to farming and 
 bridge-building, Mr. Chapin died suddenly, of 
 heart trouble, October 28, 1889. At the time of 
 his death many testimonials of his worth were 
 given to his family. Citizens united in admiring 
 his character and upright life. As a soldier he 
 was faithful to every duty; as a business man 
 conservative and judicious; and as a citizen pro- 
 gressive. 
 
 (ejAMUEL W. ABERNATHY, who is one of 
 2\ the most enterprising business men of Otta- 
 v£/ wa, was born in Morrow, Warren County, 
 Ohio, December 8, 1857, a son of James W. and 
 Abigail (Thompson) Abernathy, natives respec- 
 tively of Brown and Union Counties, Ohio. His 
 maternal grandfather. Rev. William Thompson, 
 was a minister in the Christian Church, while 
 his paternal grandfather, Samuel Abernathy, a 
 native of the north of Ireland, engaged in farm- 
 ing in Brown County. From Warren County, 
 where he had owned a farm, James W. Abernathy 
 moved to Clermont County, Ohio, and there he 
 still resides. His wife died in 1891. Of their 
 eleven children five are now living. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Clermont 
 County the subject of this sketch was eight years 
 of age. He received public school advantages 
 and remained at home until seventeen years of 
 age, when he secured work as a clerk. After- 
 ward he was employed as street car conductor in 
 Cincinnati for several years. In 1882 he came to 
 Ottawa, Kans., and began in business as collector 
 for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. After 
 nine months he went to Lawrence, where he was 
 first connected with a piano house and later with 
 a sewing machine firm. He remained in Law- 
 rence from June, 1883 to 1885, when he returned 
 to Ottawa and began in the sewing machine 
 
 business for himself on Main street. Gradually 
 his trade increased and he began to handle differ- 
 ent articles. In 1887 he bought a stock of mu- 
 sical instruments. This proved so profitable and 
 the business became so large that he finally 
 turned his whole attention to it, and is now sole 
 proprietor of the Abernathy Music Company', 
 which has several branch agencies and employs 
 from eight to ten traveling salesmen in south- 
 eastern Kansas. The original location of the 
 business was No. 218 Main street, but after four 
 years, in Maj^ 1891, the headquarters were 
 changed to No. 221 Main street. The success of 
 this enterprise is due almost wholly to the energy 
 of its founder, who is a man of business ability 
 and manages everj' detail of the business with a 
 keen eye and quick mind. His purchases of 
 pianos and organs are made in the factory and 
 the}' are shipped to Ottawa in carload lots, thence 
 reshipped to different points as ordered. In stock 
 are carried not only pianos and organs of the 
 principal makes, but also mandolins, guitars, vio- 
 lins and other popular instruments. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Abernathy is connected with 
 the uniform rank of Knights of Pythias. In pol- 
 itics he is a Democrat. He was married in Otta- 
 wa to Prudence S. Grant, who was born in Cler- 
 mont County, Ohio, a daughter of James Harris 
 Grant. They are the parents of six children, 
 Blanche B., Ella F., Francis F., Abbie E., Pru- 
 dence M. and Samuel G. 
 
 HENRY T. DIESTELHORST, who is en- 
 gaged in the furniture and undertaking 
 business in Williamsburg, Franklin Coun- 
 ty, was born at Polle-Adwah, province of Han- 
 over, Germany, in 1851. At the age of fifteen 
 years, leaving school, he began to learn the trade 
 of a cabinetmaker, at which he served for three 
 years, and afterward followed the trade as a jour- 
 neyman. When twenty-one years old he came 
 to the United States, and after a voyage of four- 
 teen days on the steamship "Wehser," of the 
 Star line, he landed in New York September 14, 
 1852. After landing he proceeded to Hamilton, 
 Mo., where his older brother was engaged in the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 571 
 
 furniture business. Soon afterward he went to 
 St. Joe, Mo., where he secured employment in the 
 furniture factory of Louis Hex. His next loca- 
 tion was in Gallatin, Mo., where he remained for 
 a few months with an uncle. 
 
 Coming to Kansas in the spring of 1873, Mr. 
 Diestelhorst worked in a furniture factory at 
 Leavenworth for a short time. In the fall of the 
 same year he removed to Ottawa, where for five 
 years he followed his trade. The year 1877 
 found him in Williamsburg, which was then a 
 small village. He purchased the furniture busi- 
 ness owned by John Boston, and at once began to 
 enlarge his trade, carrying a full line of furniture 
 and manufacturing much that he sold. Since 
 then he has added an undertaking business, and 
 in both lines is well and favorably known through 
 the southern part of Franklin County. In 1889 
 he erected on Main street the business block 
 which he has since occupied, and he has also 
 built another block and a residence in the town. 
 
 For several years Mr. Diestelhorst served as 
 township treasurer, having been elected to the 
 office on the Democratic ticket. He is active and 
 interested in local matters, and is loyal in every 
 respect to his adopted country. He is connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal 
 Aid As.sociation. In 1879 he married Matilda 
 Reiner, of Lawrence, and they are the parents of 
 five children: Ernest T., Ethel A., Herman, 
 Luther and Mary H. 
 
 Gl UGUST L. SELIG, ex-mayor of Lawrence, 
 LI has been engaged in the insurance business in 
 I I this city since 1874. He aided in the organi- 
 zation of the Kansas Building and Loan Associa- 
 tion, of which he has been secretary from the 
 first, and which occupies offices in the Selig 
 building, a two-story brick structure erected 
 in 1885. For three years he was state agent in 
 Kan.sas and Colorado for the New York Under- 
 writers' Association, and in the discharge of his 
 duties traveled all through these states. He rep- 
 resents twenty-two of the strongest old-line com- 
 panies in fire insurance, also the Mutual Benefit 
 Life Insurance Company ]^of New Jersey, and 
 
 places insurance on plate glass, steam boilers, 
 besides representing an accident and a fidelity 
 and casualty insurance company. 
 
 Mr. Selig was born in Hamburg, Germany, 
 August 6, 1846, a son of W. H. and Elizabeth 
 (Mackenthum) Selig, natives of Hanover and 
 Hamburg. His father, who was a builder in the 
 latter city, came to America in 1858 and settled 
 in Douglas County, Kans. In the summer of 
 1 86 1 he enlisted in Company F, Second Kansas 
 Cavalry. He was wounded at Poison Springs, 
 Ark., and taken prisoner. The Confederates started 
 for Tyler, Tex. , but on the way he became so ex- 
 hausted from his wound that he could proceed 
 no further. A guard was left with him to bring 
 him up to the camp as soou as able, but the 
 guard shot him, and no one knows his burial 
 place. His wife died in Germany in 1852, leav- 
 ing four children: Bertha, Mrs. Lahmer, of Law- 
 rence> A. L-; Charles, who at thirteen years 
 enlisted as a bugler in Company F, Second Kan- 
 sas Cavalry, and served until the close of the war, 
 since which he has made his home in Kansas; 
 and Mrs. Minnie Gardner, of Lawrence. 
 
 The early boyhood years of our subject's life 
 were spent in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, 
 then a part of Denmark, where his father had a 
 large brick 5'ard and exported brick to the United 
 States. In 1858 he and his father left Hamburg 
 on the "Harmonia" and after a voyage of two 
 weeks, during which time they touched at South- 
 ampton, England, they landed at Castle Garden. 
 In September they reached Leavenworth, and in 
 the spring of 1859 came to Lawrence, where the 
 other children joined them. During that year 
 he went to Belleville, 111., where he secured 
 work on a farm. In September, 1861, he wrote 
 home to say that he had volunteered in the Union 
 army and received word in reply that his father 
 and brother had also enlisted. He became a mem- 
 ber of Company E, Forty-ninth Illinois Infantry, 
 under Col. W. R. Morrison, and was mustered 
 in at Camp Butler. February 16, 1862, he was 
 in the battle of Fort Donelson, where the Union 
 forces gained their first decisive victory. He 
 was also at Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, the tak- 
 ing of Little Rock, Ark., and the battle of Pleas- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ant Hill, La. During the Red River expedi- 
 tion the first and second divisions were detached at 
 \'icksburg from the sixteenth army corps, of which 
 his regiment formed a part, and went to assist Gen- 
 eral Banks, arriving in time to save his army from 
 annihilation. Later, going to Memphis, the com- 
 mand was sent into Mississippi, in the fall of 
 1864, to destroy railroad lines, and drove Price 
 out of Missouri. Returning to Nashville, they 
 arrived there the morning afterthebattle of Frank- 
 lin had been fought. It had been a race between 
 General Schofield and General Hood as to which 
 should reach Nashville first, and the two divis- 
 ions to which our subject belonged were thrown 
 across Hood's front to check his progress. Two 
 weeks later the battle of Nashville was fought, 
 where Hood's army was completely routed. 
 During much of his service in war Mr. Selig 
 was with the first and third divisions (known as 
 the"Flying Detachments"of the Sixteenth Army 
 Corps, which formed under Gen. A. J. Smith 
 after leaving Vicksburg. He was never wounded 
 nor off duty until the close of the war, when an 
 attack of fever confined him in a hospital at Pa- 
 ducah, Ky. He soon recovered and was made 
 ho.spital steward. He had veteranized at Mem- 
 phis in 1864 and was mustered out as first cor- 
 poral in September, 1865, after a service of four 
 years lacking fourteen days. While in the army 
 he had studied under a Scotch-Irishman, his text 
 book being the Mi.ssouri Dfmocrat (now the St. 
 Louis Globe Deiiiocrat) . With the help of his 
 friend he was able in two years to keep the 
 company's books. 
 
 On leaving the army and returning to Law- 
 rence Mr. Selig served for three years at the tin- 
 ner's trade, and then opened a hardware store in 
 Xenia, Kans. After two and one-half years he 
 returned to Lawrence and resumed work, but 
 meantime continued his studies until he had ac- 
 quired, by self-application, a good education. 
 He has since been a prosperous business man of 
 this city. Here he married Miss Mary F. Park, 
 who was born in Mitchell, Ind., and in 1S66 
 came to Lawrence, with her father, John Park. 
 The latter had been sergeant in an Ohio regi- 
 ment and on coming to Lawrence started the in- 
 
 surance business which Mr. Selig now conducts. 
 Louis F., the olde.st-sonof Mr. Selig, is interested 
 in business with his father. John E. , the second 
 son, is in charge of the city trade of the Theodore 
 Poehler Mercantile Company. Ernest T., who 
 was a member of the class of 1901 , University of 
 Kansas, is now electrician at the Insane Asylum 
 atTopeka, Kans. Harry Garfield left the Law- 
 rence Business College to enli.st in Company H, 
 Twentieth Kansas Infantry, which he accom- 
 panied to Manila, taking part in battles there. 
 The youngest son, George A., is with his parents. 
 From 1890 to 1891, inclusive, Mr. Selig served 
 in the city council. During his second year as 
 councilman he was nominated for the mayor's 
 office, on the Republican ticket, and was elected 
 without opposition. In 1895 was again elected 
 without opposition, serving until May, 1S97. 
 During his first term he was instrumental in se- 
 curing a sewer system in Lawrence, the benefits 
 of which, though not at first appreciated, have 
 since been fully recognized. During his .second 
 term he inaugurated street improvements that are 
 being continued. He is a member of Washington 
 Pest No. 12, G. A. R., and aided in organizing 
 the Sons of Veterans in Lawrence, with whom 
 he was formerly connected. Fraternally he is 
 senior warden of Acacia Lodge No. 9, A. F. & 
 A. M.; past high priest of Lawrence Chapter No. 
 4, R. A. M., and past eminent commander of 
 De Molay Commandery No. 4, K. T. He is a 
 member of the board of trustees of the First Pres- 
 byterian Church and takes a warm interest in the 
 work of this denomination. 
 
 IJ^ELSON M. CHANDLER, a pioneer of 
 ry Franklin County, has been identified with 
 I /j the history of this part of Kansas for many 
 years, and has been especially active in Harrison 
 Township, where he owns eightj- acres of good 
 land. A careful and close observer of public 
 events and^national cri.ses, he has always been 
 independent in his views, supporting men rather 
 than parties. He was an admirer of Andrew 
 Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and, later, of William 
 Jennings Bryan. Educational work has been 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 573 
 
 given his constant assistance, while as clerk of 
 the district for four years and as school director 
 for some time he was able to be especially help- 
 ful to the local schools. For seven years he was 
 township clerk, for one year served as township 
 trustee, and for some years he has held the office 
 of township treasurer. 
 
 A son of John and Waitstill (Shaw) Chandler, 
 our subject was born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence 
 County, N. Y., and was one of four children, of 
 whom one besides himself survives, the other be- 
 ing Naomi S., wife of J. P. Perro, of California. 
 His father, who was born at Barre, Mass. , April 
 9, 1783, accompanied his parents from that place 
 to Potsdam, N. Y., in 1813, and there the re- 
 mainder of his life was devoted to farm work. 
 For several years he served as highway commis- 
 sioner and supervisor, and he also did considera- 
 ble to aid in the development of the schools of his 
 district. He was a public-spirited man, ambi- 
 tious not only for his own advancement but also 
 for the prosperity of his community. In the work 
 of the Presbyterian Church he was quite active. 
 Politically he voted with the Democrats. 
 
 Stephen, father of John Chandler, was born 
 August 23, 1753, and settled in New York in 
 18 1 3, his later years being spent in that state. 
 During the entire period of the Revolutionary 
 war he served as a member of Washington's 
 army. He was asonof Josiah Chandler, born at 
 Pomfret, Conn., August 2, 1724, and a lifelong 
 resident of Connecticut, where he engaged in 
 farming. Joseph, father of Josiah, was born in 
 Roxbury, Mass., June 4, 1683, and in early life 
 removed to Pomfret, Conn., where he married 
 and afterward resided. His father, John, who 
 was born in England in 1636, was only one year 
 old when he was brought across the ocean by his 
 father, William Chandler (born in England in 
 1598), whosettled in Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 The mother of our subject was born in Middle- 
 borough, Mass., March 12, 1786, a daughter of 
 Daniel Shaw, who was justice of the peace in his 
 town for years and was active in the Episcopal 
 Church. When a young man our subject taught 
 several terms in Potsdam, N. Y. In 1838 he 
 went to Lenawee County, Mich., and worked by 
 
 the month on a farm, also secured employment 
 as engineer in a sawmill, and later operated a 
 mill. In 1841 he returned to Potsdam and learned 
 the carpenter's trade, remaining there until 1869. 
 In May of the latter year he arrived in Ottawa, 
 Kans., where he soon purchased the farm he still 
 owns and occupies. During a portion of the time 
 that has since elapsed he has followed his trade 
 in Ottawa and Topeka, but his later years have 
 been spent quietly on his farm. He is interested 
 in religious movements and supports them when 
 possible to do so. 
 
 December 29, 1852, Mr. Chandler married Miss 
 Harriet E. Wilkinson, daughter of George Lee 
 Wilkinson, a native of England, born in Sheffield 
 in 1779. In his own country he learned the sil- 
 versmith's trade, and being a man of inventive 
 ability and with a thorough knowledge of his oc- 
 cupation, he made numerous improvements, 
 among other things inventing the German silver 
 process. He came to America and remained in 
 this country until his death, in 1842. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Chandler had five children, but two are de- 
 ceased. Three sons are living: Edwin W., of 
 Chicago; John Lee, at home; and William W., a 
 skilled mechanic living in Chicago Heights, 111. 
 
 I EWIS M. THOMPSON. The family repre- 
 
 I I sented by this gentleman originated in Scot- 
 \ J land, whence Gideon Thompson emigrated 
 to America at the age of seventeen years. After 
 settling in Philadelphia he enlisted in the colo- 
 nial army under General Morgan, whose daugh- 
 ter he afterwards married. When the war was 
 over he established his home in Pennsylvania, 
 at a point not definitely known. From that state 
 his son, Enos, migrated to Ohio in an early day. 
 Andrew H., son of Enos, was born in Athens 
 County, Ohio, and grew to manhood upon a farm 
 there. Some years after his marriage he sought 
 a home in Illinois, settling in Adams County in 
 1830 and purchasing a tract of farm land there. 
 He witnessed the early growth of that section of 
 the state, which in later days has become one of 
 the most prosperous farming regions in Illinois. 
 In 1856 he removed from that county to Mis- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 souri and settled in Harrison Count}-, where 
 he bought a section of land. For about ten 
 years he made his home in the southern part 
 of Missouri. In 1885 he came to Kansas and 
 spent his last days in Linwood, where he died at 
 the age of ninety-eight years. The only occupa- 
 tion which he followed in life, aside from that of 
 farming, was the trade of a millwright. By his 
 marriage to Elizabeth Stewart, who died in Illi- 
 nois in 1847, he had eight children, of whom 
 Lewis M. lives one mile and a-half south of Lin- 
 wood, and Enos lives in Linwood. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the miller's 
 trade, which he followed for some years in Illi- 
 nois. Born in Athens County, Ohio, October 
 23, 1828, he was only two years of age when the 
 family .settled in Illinois, and in that state he 
 made his home until 1856. He then moved to 
 Davis County, Mo., where he engaged in farm- 
 ing for twenty-two years, meeting with fair suc- 
 cess during that time. The year 1878 found 
 him in Leavenworth County, where he bought 
 one hundred and ten acres in the Delaware reser- 
 vation, in the Kaw River bottom. To this he 
 has added, and now owns one hundred andsixtj-- 
 five acres, upon which he has engaged in general 
 farm pursuits. 
 
 Agriculture, however, has not represented the 
 limit of Mr. Thompson's activities. For ten 
 years he operated a corn mill at Linwood, where 
 he ground corn meal. For seventeen years he 
 ran a ferry over the Kaw River between Leaven- 
 worth and Johnson Counties, and for .several 
 years he carried on a sawmill, sawing the timber 
 which he cut from his farm, also carried on the farm 
 and mills at the same time. He also conducted a 
 drug store in Linwood for five years. These va- 
 rious enterprises he conducted with energy and 
 discretion, winning the confidence of the people 
 as an intelligent and judicious business man. Be- 
 sides his farm he is the owner of three lots and 
 houses in Linwood. What he now has repre- 
 sents years of industrious application and has 
 been acquired solely by his personal efforts. He 
 has never allied himself with any political party, 
 but at elections votes for the men whom he con- 
 siders best qualified to represent the people. 
 
 While living in Missouri he was elected to vari- 
 ous township offices and also served as justice of 
 the peace. In 1867 he was made a Mason, and 
 now belongs to Linwood Lodge No. 241, A. F. & 
 A. M. His marriage September 13, 1867, united 
 him with Miss Isabel Plily, who died May 25, 
 1896, leaving four sons: John, who is principal 
 of the high school at Columbus, Iowa; Douglas; 
 Enos, who is a farmer and operates a sawmill in 
 Sherman Township; and Samuel G. 
 
 ~DWARD SHIVELY, a member of one of 
 ^ Douglas County's pioneer families, is a son 
 ^ of Joseph M. and Mary (Ulrich) Shively, to 
 whose sketch upon another page the reader is 
 referred for the family history. He was born in 
 this county September 9, 1867, and grew to man- 
 hood on the home farm, acquiring his education 
 in the common schools. Early made familiar 
 with agriculture, it was not strange that he 
 should select this occupation for his life calling, 
 and the success with which he is meeting proves 
 the wisdom of his choice. May 6, 1889, he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Ella Stutsman, a 
 native of this count}-. Her father, the late John 
 Stutsman, came from Indiana to Kansas about 
 i860 and settled in Marion Township, where he 
 engaged in farm pursuits until his death. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Shively purchased one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining his 
 boyhood's home in Marion Township, this tract 
 being a portion of his father's property. Here 
 he began farming and stock-raising. His in- 
 dustry and good management caused him to pros- 
 per. In 1898 he purchased an additional sev- 
 enty acres, making his present farm one of two 
 hundred and thirty acres. In addition to his 
 work as a farmer he has assisted his father in 
 inventing and patenting a corn harvesting ma- 
 chine, which in mechanical arrangement presents 
 many remarkable features capable of construc- 
 tion only bj' an inventive genius. The patent has 
 been purchased by the Deering Harvester Com- 
 pany, by whom the machine is now in process of 
 construction, and one is now on exhibition at 
 Mr. Shively's home. 
 
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 575 
 
 Politically Mr. Shively has never identified 
 himself with any organization, but votes inde- 
 pendently and for the men whom he considers 
 best qualified for office. He is a member of the 
 German Baptist Church and a contributor to its 
 various enterprises. He and his wife are the 
 parents of five children, Myrtle R., Ivy M., 
 Clyde E. , Mary Elizabeth and Floyd H. 
 
 GlUGUST ZIESENIS, who follows farming 
 LI just outside the limits of Eudora, Douglas 
 / I County, was born in Hanover, Germany, 
 November 22, 1829. His parents died when he 
 was a child. In youth he served for four years 
 at the cabinet-maker's trade and at twenty he 
 was drafted into the German army, but, not being 
 willing to serve, he ran away and came to the 
 United States without passport or papers of any 
 kind. After a voyage of thirty-five days he 
 landed in New York, in May, 1850. Proceeding 
 to Chicago he worked at his trade. From 1853 
 to 1855 he was employed in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 He then became connected with the quartermas- 
 ter's department of the regular army as a capen- 
 ter and accompanied General Kearney's expedi- 
 tion to Pierce, Neb. After continuing in the 
 government employ for a few months he went to 
 Chicago and resumed work at his trade. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Ziesenis accompanied the original 
 town company to Eudora, Kan s., and built the 
 first house in the village, purchased some lots and 
 assisted in laying out the town. Several of the 
 early houses and stores were erected under his 
 supervision. About 1857 he bought twenty-nine 
 acres of land in the Shawnee reservation and 
 built a small cabin on the site of his present home. 
 At the time of coming to Kansas the days of the 
 border ruffianism were drawing to a close, but he 
 took his part in bringing them to an end, al- 
 though of course not participating in the advent- 
 ures of earlier days. He was in Lawrence when 
 the governor sent the border ruffians to control 
 the election and he was one of the party that cap- 
 tured them. At this writing he has in his posses- 
 sion an old musket captured during the melee. 
 In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Kan- 
 
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 sas Infantry, in which he served for three years, 
 being promoted to the rank of corporal in recog- 
 nition of his ability and faithfulness to duty. 
 During the entire time of his service he was with 
 the frontier department of the army under Gen- 
 eral Banks, and did considerable fighting with 
 the Indians. On his return to Eudora, in 1865, 
 he resumed agricultural pursuits, becoming the 
 owner of a large stock farm , but he sold the most 
 of the property in 1887, when the mineral spring 
 was discovered on his land. 
 
 November 27, 1855, he married Johanna 
 Franken. They have three children living: 
 Minnie, widow of Thomas Gray, of Oklahoma; 
 Augusta; and Charles, who lives in Lawrence. 
 For several years our subject served as a member 
 of the school board. During territorial days he 
 was appointed road overseer by the governor, 
 and holds a commission as constable under Secre- 
 tary Welch, of the territory. He is a member of 
 Eudora Post No. 333, G.A.R., and has served 
 as post commander. In addition to his home 
 farm he owns a farm on the Kaw bottom in Leav- 
 enworth County, where he is introducing a sys- 
 tem of irrigation by means of water from the 
 Kaw River. 
 
 KA ARTIN P. HAYS. During the twenty years 
 y of his residence in Kansas Mr. Hays be- 
 . \S came known as one of the most energetic 
 and capable farmers and stock-raisers of Douglas 
 County. On coming to this county in the spring 
 of 1869 he purchased farm property in Palmyra 
 Township, and at once turned his attention to the 
 improvement of the property. In time he became 
 the owner of land in township 15, range 21, as 
 follows: section 5, one hundred and six acres; 
 section 6, one hundred and sixty ; section 7, one 
 hundred and sixty; section 14, eighty; making 
 a total of five hundred and six acres. This was 
 improved by a substantial residence, several 
 barns and granaries, and seven miles of hedge 
 fencing. One hundred and fifty acres of the 
 place he brought under cultivation, a still larger 
 acreage was used as a pasture for stock, while 
 on the remainder two thousand fruit trees were 
 planted. He made a specialty of raising Norman 
 
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 horses, and one of his finest stallions was the im- 
 ported thoroughbred "Condor." At the time of 
 his death, which occurred October 19, 1888, he 
 was one of the wealthiest men in his township. 
 
 Near Whitestown, Butler County, Pa., Mr. 
 Hays was born November 30, 1838. He was 
 reared on a farm and received a common school 
 education. His father, who was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, married a lady from Ireland, and after- 
 ward cultivated a farm in Butler County. About 
 1878 he removed to Kansas, where he died at 
 seventy years of age. At the opening of the 
 Civil war our subject enlisted in Company H, 
 Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, and served for 
 three years, participating in a number of impor- 
 tant battles, in one of which he was wounded by 
 a gunshot in the thigh. January 11, 1866, he 
 married Miss Elizabeth Myers, daughter of John 
 and Catherine (Beigley) Myers, and a native of 
 Butler County, Pa. Her father, who was a life- 
 long farmer and an active Republican, died at 
 eighty-seven years. While Mrs. Hays was visit- 
 ing her old home her mother died, September 27, 
 1899, aged ninety-three years, five months and 
 seventeen days. Both were members of the 
 Lutheran Church. The five children of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hays are named as follows: Harry H., who 
 since his father's death has had charge of the home 
 farm; Frank D., whose home is in Lawrence; 
 John L., Veda Grace and Bessie B., at home. 
 The family occupy the homestead, which is one 
 of the most desirable properties in the township, 
 comprising about seven hundred acres. In re- 
 ligion they are adherents of the Presbyterian 
 faith. 
 
 yyilCHAEL CONLEY, who is engaged in 
 y farming and stock-raising on .section 28, 
 a Ottawa Township, Franklin County, is a 
 veteran of the Civil war who, though .severely 
 wounded in the battle of Corinth, is still actively 
 engaged in conducting his farm. He was born 
 in Carroll County, Ohio, July i, 1837, a son of 
 Charles and Margaret (Bose) Conley, the former 
 a millwright by trade, a Democrat in politics and 
 a Lutheran in religion. About 1838 he remo\ed 
 to Stark County. There were three children in 
 
 the family: Lydia Ann, decea.sed; Michael; and 
 Hiram, who resides in Greenwood County, Kans. 
 After the father's death Mrs. Conley was again 
 married, becoming the wife of Barnard Brinkman, 
 and she continued to reside in Ohio until her 
 death. She was a daughter of Michael Bose, a 
 native of Maryland and a cabinet-maker and 
 farmer, who retained his activitj' and physical 
 faculties until past eighty years of age. 
 
 With the exception of four years devoted to the 
 lumber bu.siness at Ligonier, Noble Coimty, Ind., 
 our subject has spent his entire active life in 
 farming. September 7, 1861, he enlisted in 
 Company F, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, with 
 which he went to the front. Among the en- 
 gagements in which he participated were those 
 at Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh and Corinth. After 
 the latter battle he was confined to the hospital 
 for three weeks and then was sent home to Mas- 
 sillon, Ohio, in company with two comrades who 
 had been wounded by the same gunshot. 
 Twice he was placed on furlough and when he 
 reported the last time he was di.scharged for dis- 
 ability. 
 
 After the war Mr. Conley spent several j'ears 
 in Indiana. In 1869 he started west, going 
 through to San Francisco on the Union Pacific 
 and investigating the country through which he 
 passed. Concluding that Kansas presented the 
 most favorable opening he returned to this state 
 and bought eighty acres where he now resides. 
 The land was all prairie and he at once began 
 the task of breaking it and making improvements. 
 In 1883 he erected the substantial residence and 
 in 1898 built a large barn. His principal bu.si- 
 ness is the stock industry, and the grain which 
 he raises is used exclusively for feed. He keeps 
 on his place a fine grade of cattle, making a spec- 
 ialty of Shorthorns, and he also raises Poland- 
 China hogs. 
 
 As road overseer and as member of the school 
 board Mr. Conley has endeavored to promote in- 
 terests advantageous to his fellow-citizens. In 
 politics he is a Republican. During his residence 
 in the east he was identified with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, but since coming to 
 Kansas he has allowed his membership to lapse. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 September i8, 1879, he married Alice Gard, 
 daughter of Levi and Barbara (Miller) Gard, by 
 whom he has five children now living, namely: 
 Algy, Lelaud, Cora, Howard and Harold, all at 
 home. 
 
 LIVER MERO, who has made Leavenworth 
 his home since 1857, is a successful contrac- 
 tor and builder of this city. Among the 
 buildings with the erection of which he has been 
 connected may be mentioned the Cathedral, St. 
 Mary's Academy, Union and Santa Fe depots 
 (all in this city), Omaha College, Clayton Col- 
 lege, Denver depot, the general offices of the Fort 
 Scott & Gulf Railroad in Kansas City, the gen- 
 eral offices of the Santa Fe in Topeka, one wing 
 of the capitol in Topeka, and man}' residences in 
 Leavenworth and elsewhere. 
 
 The Mero family is of Canadian-French line 
 age. The parents of our subject were Frank and 
 Margaret (Peiro) Mero, who were born at Mont- 
 real, Canada, and their two daughters and four 
 sons were natives of the same city. Oliver, who 
 was the third of the sons, was born about 1832 
 and spent his boyhood days on the home place. 
 At fifteen years of age he went to Cohoes, N. Y., 
 where he served an apprenticeship to the carpen- 
 ter's trade. After the expiration of his time he 
 continued to work in the same place. From there 
 he went to Detroit, Mich., where he found em- 
 ployment as a carpenter. While in that city, in 
 1856, he heard "Jim" Lane deliver a lecture 
 concerning Kansas, in which he earnestly asked 
 the free-state supporters to cast in their fortunes 
 with the state that was in the midst of its strug- 
 gle against the slavery movement. He was so 
 interested and aroused that he determined to 
 come west and help to make Kansas a free state. 
 In 1857 ^^ established his home in Leavenworth, 
 where he had considerable experience in fighting 
 the border ruffians and in guarding the town at 
 night. From the first he was a free-state man 
 and a Union Democrat, and he assisted to vote 
 Kansas in as a free state. 
 
 The first carpentering secured by Mr. Mero in 
 Leavenworth was in the building of William Rus- 
 sell's house. He became head foreman of car- 
 
 pentering for James A. McGonigle, in which po- 
 sition he continued for thirty-four years, mean- 
 time having charge of jobs in different parts of 
 Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado. In 
 1888 he began contracting for himself, and in 
 1896 took his son Frank as a partner, since 
 which time the firm of Mero & Son has constant- 
 ly engaged in contracting. His residence, which 
 he built, stands on the corner of Middle street 
 and Second avenue. He is an active member of 
 the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and the 
 Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mero to Miss Sarah La- 
 barta, a native of Detroit, Mich., took place in 
 Leavenworth in 1859. The eleven children born 
 of their union are named as follows: Mrs. Amy 
 Thompson, of Leavenworth; Frank, who is his 
 father's partner; Mrs. Mary Peters and Oliver, 
 both of Leavenworth; Mrs. Annie Schmelzer and 
 Sophia, who live in Omaha; Ellen, who resides 
 with her parents; Theodore, living in Omaha; 
 James, William and Florence, of Leavenworth. 
 
 EALEB M. LUTHER is one of the well-known 
 florists of Lawrence. About 1890 his wife, 
 who has always been a lover of flowers, 
 became interested in raising them upon a larger 
 scale than before and built a small stone green- 
 house. Less with a desire to make money than 
 to gratify her taste for the beautiful, she gave 
 considerable time to her work, and finally the 
 business grew so large that he disposed of his 
 grocery in 1892 in order that he might assist her 
 in its management. Each year a greenhouse has 
 been erected, until their space now includes 
 nearly eight thousand feet of glass, their location 
 being at No. 1447 Massachusetts street, where 
 they have nine greenhouses fifty-five feet in 
 length. In the spring of 1899 they established 
 an uptown office near the Eldridge house on 
 Massachusetts street, where orders are received 
 and filled, and all kinds of cut flowers are kept 
 on sale. A special feature is also made of floral 
 decorations, in which line they have been very 
 successful. 
 
 Born in Beckmantown, Clinton County, N.Y., 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 April II, 1847, Mr. Luther i.s a son of the Rev. 
 Z. M. P. and CaroHue (Groves) Luther, natives 
 respectively of New Hampshire and Schuyler 
 Falls, N. Y. His father, who was orphaned at 
 an early age, removed to Cha/.y, Clinton County, 
 N. Y., near where he held pastorates in Presby- 
 terian churches for some years. Finally, owing 
 to impaired health, he retired from the ministry 
 and went to Elmer, Salem County, where he 
 died in 1865, at fiftytwo years. He married a 
 daughter of Harry Groves, a professional man, 
 and a deacon in the Presbyterian Church at 
 Schuyler Falls. Mrs. Caroline Luther died at 
 Stoughton, Mass., when seventy-two years of 
 age. Of her children, Charlotte died in Vir- 
 ginia. Amos, who enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany H, Sixtieth New York Infantry, was 
 promoted to be a lieutenant and ser\'ed for four 
 years. He died in Washington, D. C. Henrj- 
 died in Virginia City, Nev. Mrs. Helen C. 
 Hathaway lives in Stoughton, Mass.; and Alice 
 died in Kansas City. 
 
 The fourth among the children was the subject 
 of this sketch. He was fourteen when the fam- 
 ily moved from Clinton County, N.Y., to Salem, 
 N. J. , and for five 3'ears he lived upon a farm 
 near the latter city. In the spring of 1870 he 
 came to Lawrence and worked for his brother 
 Henry for a few months, after which he clerked 
 in a grocery and then started for himself. From 
 1885 to 1892 he was proprietor of a store 011 
 Massachusetts street, but sold out during the 
 latter year in order to give his attention to flori- 
 culture. He was a member of the American 
 Florists' Association, and takes an interest in 
 everything pertaining to this occupation. In 
 politics he is a Republican, in religion a Congre- 
 gationalist, and also holds membership in the 
 Fraternal Aid Association. 
 
 In Elmer, N. J., December 31, 1868, Mr. 
 Luther married Sarah E. Lawrence, who was 
 born in Waterloo, Canada. Her father, Leander, 
 was a son of Zephaniah Lawrence, who was a 
 member of an old Massachusetts family, but 
 spent his life as a farmer in Canada, where 
 Leander was born. At the close of the Civil 
 war the latter removed to New Jersey, where he 
 
 followed the cabinet-maker's business, and also 
 cultivated a small farm. He died February 23, 
 1888, in that state, aged seventy-one years. He 
 had married Sarah Bowker, who was born in 
 Canada, and died in New Jersej'. She was a 
 daughter of Griffin Bowker, an owner of a saw and 
 grist mill in Canada. Her mother was descended 
 from the Van Dorn family, who were among the 
 old and influential residents of Vermont. Leander 
 and Sarah Lawrence had three children: Sarah 
 E. ; Alice, who is a widow and lives in Vineland, 
 N. J.; and Abbott, a farmer in Salem County, 
 N. J. Mrs. Luther was educated in private 
 schools and an academy, from which she gradu- 
 ated. She came from New Jersey to Kansaswith 
 her husband in 1870, and has since resided in' 
 this city. Thej' have three children: Winnifred 
 H. , a student in the University of Kansas; Ethel 
 M., who is aLso attending that institution; and 
 Herbert L. 
 
 Gl NDREW S. BALDWIN. During the long 
 Ll period that has elapsed since he came to 
 / I Kansas Mr. Baldwin has made Douglas 
 County his home. He arrived here in May, 1855, 
 and took up a claim at the head of Rock Creek, 
 in what is now Marion Township. Immediately 
 he began the work of improving the claim and 
 bringing the land under cultivation. In the fall 
 of 1856 he sold the property, with the intention 
 of leaving this section of country, but the Wak- 
 arusa war had broken out, and being unable to 
 get away, he remained until the spring of the 
 following year. In the meantime he took up his 
 present home farm, and the prospects being good, 
 he decided to make this his home. Going back 
 to the east, he was married and on the 3d of 
 April, 1857, returned to his land and began 
 housekeeping on this place, where he has since 
 resided. During the early days he passed through 
 all the e.Kciting experiences of border warfare, 
 when life itself was in danger and property was 
 constantly being destroyed or laid waste. At the 
 time of the Civil war he was a member of Com- 
 pany I, Third Kansas State Militia, under 
 General Curtis, and took part in various engage- 
 ments, the most important being Westport. In 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 579 
 
 politics he is a pronounced Republican. For ten 
 years he held the office of justice of the peace, and 
 since 1876 he has been a member of the school 
 board, being treasurer of the school district at 
 this writing. For more than thirty years he has 
 been an ofiBcer in the Presbyterian Church, to 
 the support of which he has ever been a liberal 
 contributor. Fraternally he is connected with 
 General Lane Post No. 450, G. A. R. 
 
 In Harwinton, Conn., Mr. Baldwin was born 
 June 23, 1829, a son of Joseph and Polly (Smith) 
 Baldwin. He was one of ten children, six of 
 whom are living, viz.: Luther, a retired farmer 
 of Lee County, 111.; Miner, a farmer who lives at 
 Harwinton, Conn.; Henry L. , a retired business 
 man of Denver, Colo. ; Andrew S. ; Charles O. , a 
 farmer of Harwinton; and Mary E., of Litchfield 
 County, Conn. The father, a native of Branford, 
 Conn., born June 16, 1797, was a son of Capt. 
 Joseph Baldwin, an officer in the Revolutionary 
 war. He grew to manhood in his native county. 
 New Haven. On reaching manhood he removed 
 to Litchfield County, Conn., and there he resided 
 until his death, which occurred February 11, 
 1856. September 20, 18 19, he married Miss 
 Smith,who was born in Woodbury, Conn., June 5, 
 1796, and died November 19, 1899. Both were 
 consistent members of the Congregational Church 
 and were highly esteemed for the integrity of 
 their lives and their kindness of heart. 
 
 At eighteen years of age our subject .secured 
 employment as a farm hand, working by the 
 month for wages. January 24, 1857, he married 
 Miss Mary Burr, daughter of Urial and Esther 
 (Curtis) Burr, natives of Torringford, Litchfield 
 County, Conn., the father born May 19, 1795, the 
 mother September 13, 1797. The father, who 
 was a son of Reuben and Martha (Wilson) Burr, 
 was a man highly respected in his community 
 and took an active part in the work of the 
 Methodist Church. He married Miss Curtis 
 December 13, 1820, and for almost thirty-nine 
 years they lived together in happy wedded life, 
 until her death, October 16, 1859. He survived 
 her for many years and passed away June 29, 1882. 
 
 Upon the claim in Clinton Town.ship, where he 
 settled in the fall of 1856, Mr. Baldwin has since 
 
 made his home. He and his family stand high 
 among the people of this township and have 
 many friends among the best people of their 
 neighborhood. They have had eight children, 
 but only four are now living. Alice May, who 
 was bom August 22, 1858, married Adolphus G. 
 Hulce, a farmer of Leavenworth County, Kans., 
 by whom she has four children: Nellie, C. Irvin, 
 Bessie J. and Earl S. Cora A., who was born 
 October 30, i860, became the wife of G. W. Hood, 
 by whom she had a son, Harry I. ; she died Nov- 
 ember 21, 1893. Hattie, who was born March 
 4, 1862, married A.J. Hutcheson, by whom she 
 had four children: Maude M., Grace E., Alberts, 
 and O. Pearl; she died February 20, 1896. Fisher 
 G. was born February 4, 1864, and died January 
 27, 1866. Chester U., who was born July 3, 1866, 
 married Rose W. Anderson, and has one son, 
 Fred M. Edith A., who was born February 12, 
 1869, is the widow of Tanner Price, and resides 
 with her parents. Frederick A. was born March 
 15' i873> and died November 17, 1874. Mary G., 
 who was born October 28, 1877, is with her 
 parents. 
 
 OAPT. O. C. McNARY, first assistant sur- 
 1 1 geon at the western branch of the National 
 vj Military Home, in Leavenworth, was born 
 in Washington, Pa., in 1853, and is a son of 
 Oliver R. and Eleanor (Grove) NcNary. His 
 father, who was a native of Pennsylvania, en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business and also had 
 large real-estate interests in that state. At the 
 opening of the Civil war he enlisted in the 
 Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry for three months 
 and was made first sergeant of his company. At 
 the expiration of his term of service he became 
 connected with the One Hundred and Third 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, of which he was com- 
 missioned quartermaster. Later he was chief 
 quartermaster on the staff of Generals Hunt and 
 Wessells, with the rank of captain, and as such 
 served until the close of the Rebellion. He was 
 connected with the army from April 21, 1861, 
 until peace was re.stored. While fighting the 
 enemy at Plymouth, N. C, he was wounded in 
 the left leg and was taken prisoner by Confederate 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 soldiers, who convej'ed him to Andersonville and 
 confined him in that dreaded southern prison. 
 He was also in prison at Macon, Savannah and 
 Charleston, and, while in the jail j-ard in the lat- 
 ter city, he and other prisoners were put under 
 fire during the bombardment of Charleston. 
 During his eleven months of prison life he three 
 times effected an escape, but each time he was 
 recaptured by the enemy, once when in sight of 
 the stars and stripes. Finally, by exchange, he 
 secured a release, after which he was ill in the 
 hospital at Annapolis for several months. Upon 
 recovering his strength he was on duty for a 
 time at draft rendezvous at Madison, Wis., then 
 rejoined his regiment, with which he continued 
 until the war closed. 
 
 Shortly after his discharge from the army 
 Capt. O. R. McNary came to Leavenworth, 
 Kans. , and embarked in the insurance and real- 
 estate business, in which he was extensively in- 
 terested. Owing to ill health he was finally 
 obliged to retire from active business cares, and 
 during the last three years of his life he made his 
 home with his son, our subject. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Loyal Legion and Custer Post No. 
 I20, G. A. R., of Leavenworth, of which he was 
 twice elected commander, and at the time of his 
 death he was serving as registrar of the Loyal 
 Legion. His long and varied experience in south- 
 ern prisons gave him a vast amount of useful 
 knowledge, which he compiled in a work on 
 prison life, and his MSS. is now in the hands of 
 the National Association of ex-Prisoners of War, 
 for publication in book form. He died April 5, 
 1895, at the age of seventy-three. His wife is 
 still living and makes her home with her son. 
 The ancestors of the McNary family were Scotch 
 people, who settled among the pioneers of Lan- 
 caster County, Pa., and afterward became promi- 
 nent in Washington County. They were people 
 of upright characters, whose long lives were de- 
 voted to the welfare of their fellowmen. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was one of six chil- 
 dren, of whom five are living. His sisters are: 
 Matilda J., wife of Rev. W. C. Williamson, of 
 Keokuk, Iowa; Eleanor, wife of R. L. Munce, 
 of Washington County, Pa.; Maria J. and Hettie. 
 
 He was reared in Washington County and edu- 
 cated in common schools and Washington and 
 Jefferson College. In 1870 he came to Leaven- 
 worth, Kans., and studied medicine with Tiffin 
 Sinks, M. D., but later entered the Jefferson 
 Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he 
 graduated in March, 1882. Entering the regular 
 array he served as acting assistant surgeon for 
 two years at Fort Leavenworth and for two years 
 at Fort Reno, I. T. , after which he was ap- 
 pointed assi.stant surgeon at the western branch 
 of the National Military Home, reporting for duty 
 in Januarj^, 1887. This position he has since 
 held, devoting to it his entire attention and 
 discharging its duties with efficiency. In 1894 
 he married Laura L. Kelly, daughter of W. D. 
 Kelly, an old settler of Leavenworth. They 
 have one child, Clarkson D. 
 
 Through his descent from Revolutionary an- 
 cestors Captain McNary is eligible to member- 
 ship in the Sons of the Revolution. He is a 
 member of the Loyal Legion, and Leavenworth 
 Camp Sons of Veterans; also belongs to the 
 American Medical Association, Kansas State and 
 Eastern District Medical Societies, and is vice- 
 president of the Leavenworth County Medical 
 Society. 
 
 r^ETER LAPTAD, who resides upon a valua- 
 L/^ ble farm in Grant Township, Douglas County, 
 f^ was born in Vermont September 25, 1842, a 
 son of Joseph and Margaret (Lareau) Laptad. 
 His father, who was a native of France, was ed- 
 ucated in that country. At the time of the polit- 
 ical troubles there, he, holding views different 
 from those of his kindred, disagreed with them to 
 such an extent that he determined to seek a home 
 elsewhere, and in 1810 he settled in Canada. 
 There he married and engaged in cultivating a 
 farm as well as teaching school, the two occupa- 
 tions bringing him a good income. However, 
 there, as in his native land, he became involved 
 in political troubles and was obliged to leave. 
 Cro.ssiug the line into Vermont, he opened up a 
 farm there, but worked under great disadvan- 
 tage, for he had lost all in leaving Canada and, 
 besides, he was not familiar with the English 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 5^1 
 
 language. His last years were spent in retire- 
 ment in Vermont. Of his three daughters and 
 four sons our subject is the fourth in order of 
 birth, and he and his brother Joseph (a farmer 
 of Grant Township) are the sole survivors. 
 
 The family being limited as to means, our sub- 
 ject had no advantages when a boy. In 1861 he 
 enlisted in the Fourteenth Vermont Infantry, 
 and at the expiration of his time he again enlisted, 
 this time in the Second Vermont Battery. Dur- 
 ing the campaign at Gettysburg he was for three 
 days on the advance line, where the danger was 
 greatest, but escaped uninjured. He also took 
 part in several small engagements. At the close 
 of the war he was honorably discharged and re- 
 turned home, bearing a commission as sergeant- 
 major of artillery. Thinking the prospect better 
 in the west, he came to Kansas and settled in 
 North Lawrence, where he carried on a grocery 
 in the building now occupied by Hughes & Pines. 
 Later he put up a stone and brick building at No. 
 21 Bridge street and, taking a partner, carried on 
 a general mercantile establishment. In 1885 he 
 closed out the business and settled upon the farm 
 in Grant Township which he had purchased ten 
 years previous and which he has operated since 
 by hired help. He now controls one hundred 
 and eighty acres of good bottom land, and besides 
 general farming has a number of Hereford cattle 
 and Poland-China hogs, it being his intention to 
 devote considerable attention to the stock busi- 
 ness. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. Laptad has served 
 as township trustee and assessor and as a member 
 of the city council. As assessor he carried the 
 township through on an assessment of one mill, 
 which was the cheapest rate in any of the town- 
 ships. While in town he was active in the Grand 
 Army, but since removing to his farm has been 
 unable to attend the meetings of the post. He 
 has also been prominent in the Masonic blue 
 lodge. While engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness he and his partner started a store in Lin- 
 wood, which then had a station but no agent, and 
 this they conducted until a short time before clos- 
 ing out the Lawrence business. 
 
 lu Lawrence, February 3, 1867, Mr. Laptad 
 
 married Agnes Petrie, and they have five chil- 
 dren: Opal, wife of J. E. Hutt, who is an auditor 
 of the Santa Fe Railroad in Chicago; Pearl; Paul, 
 who is in the emploj- of the building and bridge 
 department of the Santa Fe road; Coskrie and 
 Evadne. 
 
 EHARLES W. McFARLAND, an enterpris- 
 ing young business man of Lawrence, is the 
 junior member of the McFarland Planing 
 Mill Company, proprietors of a planing mill on 
 Berkeley near Delaware street, and manufacturers 
 of sash, doors and blinds. The mill was started 
 in 1887, with a plant 70x50, besides a boiler 
 house, with a thirty-five horse-power engine. 
 Building material of all kinds is turned out and a 
 large trade has been built up in the firm's special 
 line. 
 
 The record of the McFarland family appears in 
 the sketch of Robert S. McFarland. Our sub- 
 ject's great-grandfather, Robert, was born in Vir- 
 ginia, and about 1824 moved to Ohio. His son, 
 John, a native of Virginia, engaged in farming 
 near Mansfield, Ohio, and died there in 1898, 
 aged about ninety-four years. J. N.,son of John, 
 was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1833, and estab- 
 lished his home in Oskaloosa, Jefferson Countj% 
 Kans., in 1857, where he engaged in the build- 
 ing business. In the fall of 1863 he came to Law- 
 rence, Kans. , where he engaged in contracting 
 and building until 1887, and then started a plan- 
 ing mill with his son. He was a member of the 
 Third Kansas Militia that was mustered into 
 service during the Price raid. He married Sa- 
 mantha J. Barnes, who was born near Mansfield, 
 Ohio, a daughter of Wesley Barnes, and a mem- 
 ber of a family to which reference is made in the 
 sketch of Robert S. McFarland. She died Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1899, leaving three children: Charles 
 W. ; Hattie, wife of O. C. LeSuer, of Lawrence; 
 and Nellie, at home. 
 
 At Kirksville, Iowa, the subject of this sketch 
 was born June i, 1856. He was reared princi- 
 pally in Lawrence, where he attended the gram- 
 mar and high schools. From 1873 to 1876 he 
 clerked for D. C. Haskell in the shoe business, 
 remaining there until Mr. Haskell was elected to 
 
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 congress. From boj-hood he was familiar with 
 and interested in carpentering, and at the age of 
 tvventj^-one he became his father's partner in the 
 building business. The two have since contin- 
 ued together, either as builders or as manufac- 
 turers of building materials. Both are keen, en- 
 ergetic and capable business men and give close 
 attention to the conduct of their mill. In politics 
 they are Republicans, but their interest in public 
 affairs, while constant, has never led them into 
 political prominence nor caused them to seek 
 public office. Fraternally the father is identified 
 with the Masons. In religion both are believers 
 in the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and contributors to this denomination in 
 Lawrence, the son serving as a member of the 
 board of stewards in the same. 
 
 61 LBERT H. KING, superintendent of public 
 LI instruction for Douglas County, is descended 
 / I from a pioneer family of Kentucky. His 
 grandfather, J. W. King, who was born in that 
 state in 1805, grew to manhood upon a farm , mar- 
 ried, and in 1843 removed to Indiana, settling 
 near Greencastle and engaging in agricultural 
 pursuits. When advanced in years he retired 
 from active farm cares. He is now ninety-four 
 years of age, but is unusuallj' vigorous for one so 
 advanced in life. His home is in Roachdale, 
 Ind. In religion he has for years been a faithful 
 member of the Baptist Church. He married a 
 Miss Hendricks, who was born in Kentucky, of 
 Pennsylvanian descent, and she, too, is still living. 
 The father of our subject, George William 
 King, was born near Lexington, Ky., in Feb- 
 ruary, 1835. When about eight years of age he 
 was taken to Indiana by his parents and was 
 reared upon a farm there. During the Civil war 
 he enlisted in Companj' I, One Hundred and 
 Tenth Indiana Infantry, and was assigned to the 
 Army of the Cumberland, with which he re- 
 mained until the expiration of his term of service. 
 Coming west in 1868, he settled in Bourbon 
 County, Kans., purchasing a farm near Xeuia, 
 and carrying on general agricultural pursuits. 
 He is now making his home upon his farm near 
 
 Baldwin, Kans. He is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic and in politics affiliates 
 with the Republicans. In Indiana he married 
 Nancy, daughter of Rev. Thomas Job, who was 
 born in North Carolina in 1S12 and is living at 
 New Maysville, Ind. He was a pioneer Methodist 
 Episcopal minister in his section of Indiana and 
 has accomplished much good for the cause of 
 religion. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was third among 
 seven children, the others of whom are named as 
 follows: John S. , agent for the Santa Fe Railroad 
 at Yates Center, Kans. ; Wallace, who is engaged 
 in farming in Republic County, Kans. ; Mrs. Alice 
 Ulrich, of Douglas Count}'; Nettie, who is 
 with her parents; Edward, a teacher in Douglas 
 County, and Florence. 
 
 Born at New Maysville, Ind., May 9, 1866, 
 Mr. King was only two years of age when the 
 familj- removed to Kansas; hence he knows no 
 other home than this state. He was reared on a 
 farm until seventeen years of age, when the fam- 
 ily settled in Baldwin. In 1887 he entered Baker 
 University, and during the years that followed he 
 alternated teaching with attendance at the uni- 
 versity, from wliich he graduated in 1896. For 
 six years he taught in Douglas County, where he 
 won a record for proficiencj- as an instructor and 
 success as a disciplinarian. He rose to such 
 prominence among the teachersof the county that 
 he was selected as a fitting person for the office of 
 superintendent of public instruction. In 1898 he 
 was nominated for this office on the Republican 
 ticket and received a majority of twelve hundred 
 and fifty. January 9, 1899, he took the oath of 
 office for a term of two years. He has since given 
 his attention to the discharge of his duties as super- 
 intendent and has maintained a careful oversight 
 of the schools of the count}', favoring all plans for 
 the promotion of their interests and the advance- 
 ment of the grade of scholarship. He has been 
 deeply interested in normal work, which he be- 
 lieves a most helpful auxiliary in preparing teach- 
 ers for successful careers in the schoolroom. By 
 virtue of his office he is ex-officio president of 
 the Douglas County Teachers' Association and 
 he has also been a member of the State Teachers' 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 583 
 
 Association for some years. He is connected with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lawrence and 
 contributes to its maintenance, as well as to other 
 worthy enterprises. Fraternallj^ he is past grand 
 of Baldwin Lodge No. 30, I. O. O. F., and is 
 now district deputy grand master, belonging to 
 the encampment at Lawrence. 
 
 EHARLEs B. McClelland, d. v. s., of 
 Lawrence, was born at Williamsville, San- 
 gamon County, 111., July 22, 1867, a son of 
 T. L. and Nancy J. (Jones) McClelland. His 
 grandfather, James McClelland, was the son of a 
 Scotchman and was born in Pennsj'lvania, but 
 settled in Illinois at an early age. Several of 
 his brothers took part in the Blackhawk war. 
 T. L. McClelland, a native of Sangamon County 
 and a farmer by occupation, settled in Chase 
 County, Kans. , in 1887, and became the owner 
 of a large stock farm there. In 1892 he settled 
 upon a large farm near Sibley, Douglas County. 
 During the Civil war he enlisted in the One Hun- 
 dred and Fourteenth Illinois Infantry and was 
 captured at Guntown, Miss., from which place 
 he was taken to Andersonville. After being con- 
 fined there for six months he was exchanged 
 and returned to his regiment, remaining in the 
 service until the close of the war. He is active 
 in the work of the Grand Army and is also iden- 
 tified with the Masonic fraternity. He married 
 a daughter of David G. Jones, who was born in 
 Ohio and about 1854 settled in Sangamon Coun- 
 ty, 111., where he died; his father was born in 
 Virginia and was the son of an Englishman who 
 settled in the Old Dominion. 
 
 Our subject was one of three sons, the others 
 being, N. F., a stockman at Giltner, Neb.; and 
 I. S. , at home. He was reared in Illinois and 
 graduated from the high school at Farmer City, 
 as salutatorian of his class. Afterward he taught 
 school for one year in Illinois. In 1887 he came 
 to Kansas, and for three years engaged in teach- 
 ing, being principal of the school at Clements. 
 In 1890 he entered the Chicago Veterinary Col- 
 lege, from which he graduated in 1892, with the 
 degree of D. V. S. Coming to Lawrence he has 
 
 since engaged in practice in Douglas and adjoin- 
 ing counties. He is the only graduated veterin- 
 nary in this city and has become known as a 
 reliable and well-informed man, to whose natural 
 ability has been added the benefit of thorough 
 study. He has his office at No. 812 Vermont 
 street. He is a member of the Alumni Associa- 
 tion of the Chicago Veterinary College, the Mis- 
 souri Valley Veterinary Association (before 
 which he has read a number of papers) and the 
 American Veterinary Association. 
 
 In politics our subject is a Republican. He is 
 connected with the Sons of Veterans, the Modern 
 Woodmen, the Order of Pyramids, and the 
 Alumni Association of the Farmer City high 
 school. He was married in Chase County, 
 Kans., in 1893, to Miss Maude Crook, who was 
 born nearSaffordville, that county, the daughter 
 of John Crook, a pioneer farmer of Chase County 
 and a soldier in an Illinois regiment during the 
 Civil war. They are the parents of two daugh- 
 ters. May and Vera, who with them reside at 
 No. 828 Mississippi street. 
 
 QETER H. WEEKS. Shortly after the close 
 L/' of the Civil war, in which he had borne arms 
 fS for the government, Mr. Weeks came to 
 Kansas and purchased the farm in Douglas 
 County which he has since occupied. He has de- 
 voted himself assiduously to agricultural pur- 
 suits and has become known as one of the ener- 
 getic, efficient farmers of Palmyra Township. 
 His landed possessions now aggregate two hun- 
 dred and ten acres in Douglas County, one hun- 
 dred and sixty in Logan County, this state, and 
 four hundred and eighty in eastern Colorado. Of 
 recent years he has given considerable attention 
 to the breeding of Durham cattle, and it is his 
 intention to use much of his land for ranching 
 purposes. While in the army he saved $800, 
 which, with money received by inheritance, 
 formed the nucleus of his present property. 
 
 Mr. Weeks was born in Peekskill, N. Y., April 
 29, 1842. His father, Samuel, was born and 
 reared in the same state, and in early life was 
 clerk on a steamboat and also teacher of the offi- 
 
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 cers' children at West Point, but resigned the 
 latter position in order to enter the ministry. 
 From 1848 to 1856 he was engaged as a Methodist 
 Episcopal preacher in Indiana, after which he 
 spent one year in Winter.set, Iowa, thence went 
 to Mount Ayr, Iowa, where he cultivated a farm 
 and also carried on a general mercantile store. 
 In the fall of 1865 he sold out there and moved to 
 Pleasant Hill, Mo., where he engaged in mer- 
 chandising for a year. Next he .settled in Baldwin, 
 Kans., where he was proprietor of a general store 
 and also preached occasionally. In 1875 he sold 
 out here and returned to JefFersonville, Ind. , 
 where he died at eighty-four years of age. Po- 
 litically he was a Republican. He was a son of 
 Jesse Weeks, a farmer of New York, whose 
 father, Thomas, was also a native of that state. 
 The marriage of Samuel Weeks united him with 
 Sarah Parks, who was born in New York and 
 died in Baldwin, Kans., October i, 1875, at 
 sixty -five years of age. She was connected with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of her three 
 childrc!!, Mary is a widow and Lyman is a painter 
 residing in Salida, Colo. The eldest of the 
 family, our subject, was educated in public 
 schools. In April, 1862, he enlisted in Company 
 I, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, and was mustered in 
 at St. Joe for three years. For a time he was 
 stationed on the border and took part in skir- 
 mishes with the bushwhackers and with Quan- 
 trell's men. He was mustered out at the end of 
 fourteen months. August 22, 1863, he enlisted 
 a second time, becoming a member of Company 
 D, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Davenport. With 
 his regiment he marched to Nashville, Tenn., 
 and spent the winter in that city, going from there 
 to Cleveland, the same state, and thence to the 
 Atlanta campaign. During his service he had 
 several narrow escapes but was never wounded nor 
 taken prisoner. He was mustered out at Macon, 
 Ga., in August, 1865. 
 
 Returning home our subject remained there 
 for a short time, then came to Kansas and settled 
 in Douglas County, with the subsequent develop- 
 ment of which he has been identified. He is a 
 member of Seth Kelley Post No. 410, G. A. R., 
 at Viuland, also belongs to Palmyra Lodge No. 
 
 23, A. F. & A. M., of Baldwin. His family are 
 connected with the Methodist Church, and he is 
 in sympathy with, and contributes to, its main- 
 tenance, tut is not identified with the congrega- 
 tion. By his marriage to Miss Julia Snyder, of 
 Utica, Ind., he had eight children, namely: 
 Elizabeth, wife of H. E. Craig; Emma, who 
 married Frank White and died at twenty-seven 
 years; Mrs. Frances Williams; Floyd, who has 
 charge of his father's stock ranch in Colorado; 
 Birdie, who died at five years; Homer, Alice and 
 Lyman, at home. 
 
 HENRY MANWARING, who is engaged 
 in gardening in Wakarusa Township, 
 Douglas County, was born in England, 
 February 28, 1839. His father died before he 
 was born and his mother when he was three 
 years of age. When eleven years of age he went 
 to make his home with an uncle, whom he ac- 
 companied to America two years later, taking 
 passage on the " Hibernia," which anchored in 
 New York after a voyage of five weeks and three 
 days. For nineteen years he made his home 
 in York state, being engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits, mixed gardening and farming in Seneca 
 County. In the spring of 1871 he and his uncle 
 came together to Kansas and purchased one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres where he now resides, about 
 four miles west of Lawrence on the old California 
 road. The land had been ploughed, the east 
 part of the house and the stone portion of the 
 barn erected, but no other improvements had 
 been made. Up to the spring of 1883 he operated 
 the land in partnership with his uncle, but the 
 latter died at that time, since which our subject 
 has been alone. He has erected a large green- 
 house, enlarged the house and barn, and has 
 built up a good business as a market gardner, in 
 addition to which he devotes some attention to 
 general farming. The products of his garden he 
 sells principally to dealers and shippers, thus 
 avoiding the additional work caused by making 
 the shipments himself. 
 
 Besides his work as a gardner Mr. Manwar- 
 ing has been connected with the Douglas County 
 creamery, of which he was one of the incorpora- 
 
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 tors. He was for two years president of the 
 company and for four years a director. He has 
 always believed in the principles advocated by 
 Abraham Lincoln, but the Republican party he 
 believes has drifted somewhat from its original 
 moorings, and he therefore allies himself with 
 the Populists. He is interested in political mat- 
 ters, but is not an office seeker. In religion he 
 is an Episcopalian. It is said of him by his 
 associates that no one better exemplifies the 
 principles of Christianity than he. While he is 
 modest and retiring, saying nothing in regard to 
 his kind acts, yet his life has been full of gener- 
 ous deeds and helpful words. 
 
 June II, 1863, in New York state, Mr. Man- 
 waring married Esther Ridley. They became 
 the parents of three children, two now living. 
 The older son, John (a namesake of our sub- 
 ject's uncle,) is superintendent of the Kanwaka 
 Congregational Sunday-school, a position which 
 he fills successfully. He served for one term as 
 township clerk, but refused further nomination 
 to the office. He and his brother, Charles 
 Henry, are unmarried and reside with their par- 
 ents, giving their attention to the stock business, 
 which they conduct in partnership. 
 
 "HOMAS T. TAYLOR is one of the leading 
 farmers and stock-raisers of Reno Town- 
 ship, Leavenworth County. He owns and 
 operates four hundred and ninety acres of fine 
 farming land, which he has placed in a high 
 state of cultivation and improved with all the 
 accessories and conveniences of a model estate. 
 While he gives considerable attention to the rais- 
 ing of grain, he has been making a specialty of 
 the stock business and has on his place about 
 one hundred and thirty head of high-grade Dur- 
 ham cattle, also raises Poland-China hogs. 
 
 Mr. Taylor was born in the North of Ireland 
 in 1834, a son of Anthony and Mary (Lowry) 
 Taylor. He accompanied his parents to America 
 in 1849. They settled in Indiana County, Pa., 
 and the subject of this sketch served four years 
 and two months as apprentice to the cabinet-mak- 
 ing trade in Brooklyn, N. Y. He farmed with 
 
 his father about four years in Pennsylvania and 
 then ten years near Maroa, Macon County, 111. 
 In 1869 he moved to Kansas and settled in Reno 
 Township, Leavenworth County. Mr. Taylor 
 and his brother Robert bought quite a tract of 
 land from the Kansas Pacific Railroad, in what 
 was called the Delaware reserve. They car- 
 ried on general farming and stock-raising and 
 for several years, in connection with farming, 
 they carried on a general store at Reno, 
 also the station agency and postoffice. Mr. 
 Taylor has been on the school board for nine- 
 teen years, as director or treasurer. He is for 
 free silver. In religion he is a member of the 
 Methodist Church. He has three children, 
 Arno, Emmet and Annie Jane. 
 
 HENRYS. DeFORD,M.D. At the time of the 
 revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis 
 XIV. thousands of Huguenots were forced to 
 flee from France. Among those who sougJit in the 
 new world an asylum of refuge was Jean DeFord, 
 whose home had been near Toulouse. Escaping 
 to America with his wife, he settled in Maryland 
 in 1686 and received from Lord Baltimore a 
 grant of twelve hundred acres on the eastern 
 shore, near Centerville. His son, John, was 
 born there and succeeded to the ownership of the 
 estate. The latter's son, also named John, was 
 born in Queen Anne County and moved to Kent 
 County, Md., thence to Pennsylvania. It was 
 his intention to seek a home in Virginia and with 
 that object in view he left his home in eastern 
 Maryland in 1785, and traveled westward, find- 
 ing a suitable location upon which he settled. 
 However, when the survey was made, it proved 
 that he was in Pennsylvania instead of Vir- 
 ginia. He was a man of great force of character 
 and during the Revolutionary war served bravely 
 as captain of a company. When about eighty 
 years of age he was accidentally killed. His son, 
 John, was born in 1768, and by occupation was a 
 farmer. At the age of seventy he removed to 
 Carroll County, Ohio, and there he died when 
 four years past the century mark. 
 
 Next in line of descent was John H. DeFord, 
 
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 our subject's father, who wasborn inUniontowti, 
 P'ayette County, Pa., and graduated from Jeflfer- 
 son College in Pennsylvania, after which he 
 practiced law in Uniontown almost forty years. 
 Possessing more than ordinary ability, he was 
 repeatedly called to ofiSces of trust and respon.si- 
 bility. He .served for many terms in the state 
 legislature and also was a member of the senate 
 of Pennsylvania. He was active in Masonry 
 and belonged to the Methodist Epi-scopal Church. 
 His death occurred in 1856, when he was fifty -six 
 years of age. 
 
 The mother of our subject, Harriet, was born 
 in Fayette County, Pa., of which her father, 
 Isaac Brownfield, was a lifelong resident. Her 
 grandfather, John Brownfield, who was of Vir- 
 ginian birth and English descent, settled in the 
 wilcls of Pennsylvania in an early day. She 
 spent her active years in the east, but died in 
 Ottawa in 1898, when eighty-seven years of age. 
 Her family comprised the following children: 
 J. W., attorney -at-law of Ottawa; Mrs. Lydia 
 A. Patton, who died in New York Citj'; Henry 
 S., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Frances 
 Thompson, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Daniel, who 
 was in the Civil war and is now a druggist in 
 Ottawa; Mrs. Harriet Emma Dobson, of Ottawa; 
 and James B., a druggist of this city. 
 
 Dr. DeFord was born in Uniontown, Pa., De- 
 cember 15, 1839. At an early age he began to 
 assist in the cultivation of a farm owned by his 
 father. When in the .senior class of Madison 
 College at Uniontown the war broke out and he 
 left school, afterward studying medicine in Jeffer- 
 son Medical College. He graduated in the .spring 
 of 1863 with the degree of M. D., and shortly af- 
 terward passed a very rigid examination for ad- 
 mission into the navy. He was commissioned 
 surgeon of the receiving ships in New York, 
 where he examined recruits for the navy. Later 
 he was assigned to the Mississippi squadron as 
 surgeon, and for eighteen months was on 
 board the flag ship "The Huntress" between 
 Cairo and Vicksburg. During this time he 
 was with the sailors constantly, and promptly 
 attended to those who were injured in ac- 
 tion. His last service was at the mouth of the 
 
 Hatchie River, to prevent the escape of Jefferson 
 Davis should he try to take advantage of that 
 route. His constant and hard service in the navy 
 completely ruined his health, and after Lincoln's 
 death, the fleet surgeon, seeing his critical con- 
 dition, ordered him back to Pennsylvania. Since 
 then he has been an invalid, able to engage but 
 little in professional practice and prevented from 
 engaging in those activities which would other- 
 wise have been a congenial outlet for his energies. 
 April 30, 1866, he arrived in Ottawa, where he 
 was examiner for life insurance companies and 
 the only member of the pension board, also for a 
 time was interested in a drug business, but the 
 condition of his health obliged him to retire from 
 all business enterprises. At one time he was a 
 member of the State Medical Association. He 
 assisted in the building up of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He is a member of George 
 H. Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R. In politics he 
 has always been a Republican. 
 
 In Ottawa Dr. DeFord married Miss Mary F. 
 Cowgill, of Indiana, daughter of Dr. H. E. and 
 Joanna N. (Stevenson) Cowgill. Two children 
 were born of their union. The daughter, Marga- 
 ret, is the wife of Rev. F. W. Simpson, pastor of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church of Osceola, 
 Mo. The son, Charles H., graduated from the 
 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy with the de- 
 gree of Ph.G., and is now assistant manager of 
 the drug department of a large pharmacy in New 
 York City. 
 
 (TOHN G. McCLANAHAN, one of the earli- 
 I e.st of the Douglas County pioneers, was 
 (2/ born in Lexington, Ky., June 18, 1826, a 
 son of William S. and Elizabeth T. (Triplett) 
 McClanahan, of whose eight children, one son 
 and three daughters, Amelia, Mary and Eliza- 
 beth, survive. His father, who was born in 
 Kentucky about 1800, went to West Virginia in 
 early manhood and engaged in farming in con- 
 junction with his work as a teacher in the public 
 schools. After some years he went to Lexing- 
 ton, Ky., in order that his wife, who was not 
 strong, might have the benefit of medical attend- 
 ance. After her recovery he returned to West 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 587 
 
 Virginia, where he remained until 1833. He 
 then removed to Boone County, Mo., and en- 
 gaged in farming and teaching. In 1848 he es- 
 tablished his home in Linn County, the same 
 state, where he resided until his death. He gave 
 up teaching about 1850 and was elected county 
 surveyor, which office he filled for six years. 
 Soon after resigning from that position he was 
 elected clerk of the county court, and served in 
 that capacity for fourteen years. He was a prom- 
 inent member of the Mission Baptist Church. In 
 politics he was first an ardent supporter of the 
 Whig party and later a stanch Republican. In 
 character he was upright, a man respected 
 wherever known . 
 
 Under his father's private tutorship our sub- 
 ject acquired an excellent education. From 
 eighteen to twenty-one years of age he worked in 
 a sawmill. Afterward he learned the carpenter's 
 trade. In 1850 he married Miss Mary A. Zinn, 
 a native of Illinois, and daughter of George W. 
 Zinn, who for some years had been a prominent 
 farmer near Danville, that state, but in 1839 re- 
 moved to Linn County, Mo. After Mr. McClan- 
 ahan's marriage he settled upon a farm which he 
 purchased in Linn County, and there he followed 
 farming and carpentering. In the fall of 1854 he 
 came to Kansas, in company with his father-in- 
 law, arriving in Douglas County September i. 
 He took up land four miles west of Leconip- 
 ton, where he still resides. He was the first set- 
 tler in this part of Douglas County. Upon his 
 property he first built a hut, and in the latter 
 part of September returned to Missouri for his 
 family. November of the same year found them 
 domiciled in their new home, and they have 
 since continued to reside upon the same farm. 
 
 During the border warfare days Mr. McClanahan 
 experienced all the excitement caused by the 
 slavery agitation. In 1S56 he was a member of 
 the grand jury and at that time carried his life in 
 his hand. During the Civil war he was a corpo- 
 ral in the militia and was called out to cut off 
 General Price in his Kansas raid. He is a friend 
 of education and has served on the school board 
 for twenty-six years. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican, and in religion a member of the Mission 
 
 Baptist Church. He is one of the oldest living 
 pioneers of Douglas County, and has witnessed 
 the gradual development of this county from 
 early days. Not only did he pass through all the 
 dangers and trials of antebellum days, but he also 
 has witnessed the subsequent growth of this sec- 
 tion of the state, and has gained for himself a 
 place among the most highly esteemed citizens of 
 the county. In this esteem his wife also shares. 
 Both recall the days when Douglas County was 
 sparsely populated and of little importance in the 
 commercial life of the state, and they have wit- 
 nessed its prosperity with pride and have con- 
 tributed not a little to its advancement. They 
 became the parents of ten children, seven of 
 whom survive, viz.: Martha A., wife of William 
 A. Duncan, of Lyon County, Kans. ; William S., 
 who is engaged in farming in Douglas County 
 and also operates a threshing machine; Sarah E., 
 widow of Hiram Gibbons, of this county ; John H. 
 and Franklin A., who are farmers of this county; 
 Mary Emma, wife of Thomas Hoog, of Shaw- 
 nee County; and Nancy E., who married John 
 Austin, proprietor of a cheese factory in Douglas 
 County. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM M. LINDLEY, who was one of 
 \ A / the first machinists and engineers in Law- 
 YY rence, was born in New London, Howard 
 County, Ind., November 11, 1849, a son of Al- 
 fred and Martha (Maxwell) Lindley, natives of 
 Orange County, Ind. His paternal grandfather, 
 William Lindley, a native of England and a pio- 
 neer of Indiana, made farming his life work and 
 cleared a fine homestead from a tract of wild 
 land. In religious faith he was a Quaker. The 
 maternal grandfather, Joseph Maxwell, was a 
 farmer by occupation and during the war of 18 12 
 he rendered efficient service as a soldier; his fa- 
 ther was also a man of great patriotism and with 
 the soldiers of the Revolution endured all the 
 hardships and privations incident to securing 
 liberty for our country. After having farmed 
 for some years in Indiana, in 1866 Alfred Lind- 
 ley brought his family to Kansas and settled in 
 Lawrence, where he was connected with mer- 
 cantile pursuits until his retirement from busi- 
 
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 ness. He died in this citj', and his wife, who is 
 still living, now makes her home in Wichita. 
 They had four children: George, a druggist in 
 Lawrence; Joseph, who is living in Wichita; 
 William M.; and Estella, of Wichita. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Kansas our 
 subject was about seventeen years of age, and for 
 a short time afterward he attended the Eudora 
 high school. In iS68 he began to learn the ma- 
 chinist's trade with the Kimball Iron Works Com- 
 pany, with whom he remained for twenty years 
 or more, and from 1886 to 1889 was foreman of 
 the plant. In the latter year he resigned to ac- 
 cept the position of chief engineer at Haskell In- 
 stitute, where he remained until February 28, 
 1899. Meantime he had charge of the engine 
 work, the putting in of piping, and the supervision 
 of the plant. While there, various buildings 
 were erected, among them the auditorium, store- 
 house, shop buildings, twolavatorj- buildings and 
 several residences, the boiler house was enlarged, 
 water works and electric lights were introduced, 
 and other improvements made. On resigning his 
 position he retired to private life, and has since 
 given his attention to the supervision of his home 
 on the Haskell road, where he has five acres of 
 fruit land. 
 
 While he is not active in public affairs, Mr. 
 Lindley keeps posted in politics and always votes 
 with the Republican party. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Odd Fellows. He was mar- 
 ried in Lawrence to Miss Nettie Lovell, who was 
 born in Ringgold County, Iowa, and is a lady of at- 
 tractive personality and a member of the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. They have three chil- 
 dren, Lora, Fred and Stella. 
 
 HENRY D. CRANE has been engaged in the 
 milling business in Ottawa for thirty years 
 and has met with success. On coming to 
 this city, in 1869, with his brother, C. D. Crane, 
 he bought a one-half interest in the old Ottawa 
 mills, and a year later the other one-half was 
 purchased by A. J. Wightman, the firm be- 
 coming Crane & Wightman. After a few years 
 his brother disposed of his share and turned his 
 
 attention to the mercantile business. In 1880 the 
 partnership was dissolved and the mill sold to 
 Baldwin & Fuller. The following year he built 
 the Excelsior mill on Main street, and for a time 
 used the stone burr process, but about 1883 
 changed to the roller system. For a time Mr. 
 Shaffer and W. M. Shiras were both connected 
 with Mr. Crane, but Mr. Shaffer sold his interest, 
 and the firm is now Crane & Shiras. The mill 
 has a capacity of two hundred and twenty- five 
 barrels, is 50x60 feet in dimensions, with a boiler 
 and engine room 40x35, and engine of ninety- 
 horse power, and a large corn elevator, with a 
 capacity of three hundred bushels an hour. The 
 warehouses are 34x60, 18x60 and 25x60. By 
 means of a switch from the Santa Fe the products 
 of the mill are easily loaded on cars for transporta- 
 tion. The three leading varieties of flour manu- 
 factured are High Patent No. 7, O. K. Patent 
 and Golden Gem, and corn meal is also manufac- 
 tured in large quantities. 
 
 Mr. Crane was born in Cattaraugus County, 
 N. Y., March 11, 1831, a son of Stevens and 
 Clarinda (Daw) Crane. His grandfather. Shad- 
 rack Crane, a native of New England, removed 
 to New York in early life, and there engaged first 
 in surveying and later in farming; he died in 
 Cattaraugus County. The maternal grandfather, 
 Peter F. Daw, a native of New England, was a 
 pioneer of Geuesee County, N. Y., settling at 
 Daw's Corners, where he engaged in blacksmith- 
 ing; his shop still stands at Daw's Corners, three 
 miles north of Batavia. He had three sons, 
 Homer, Henry and Ferris (all blacksmiths) 
 and two daughters. Of the sons, Homer for 
 thirty-five years carried on the shop started by 
 his father; Henry abandoned blacksmithing and 
 became a wealthy commi.ssion merchant in Buffalo, 
 N. Y.; and Ferris, who was a maker of edged 
 tools, died in Albany. 
 
 The father of our subject, a carpenter by trade, 
 removed to Winnebago County, 111., in 1842, and 
 settled near Rockford, where he was a pioneer 
 farmer and contractor. In 1848 he established 
 his home in Dubuque County, Iowa, and there he 
 died at fifty-two years. His wifewas fifty-six at the 
 time of her death, which occurred in New York. 
 
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 They were the parents of the following-named 
 children: Peter, a provost-marshal during the 
 war, who died in Ottawa; Mrs. Augusta McCray, 
 who died in Iowa; Henry D.; C. D., a merchant 
 in Ottawa; Mrs. Eliza Ferguson, who died in 
 Iowa; and D. F., who is head man in our subject's 
 mill. 
 
 When less than twelve years of age our subject 
 accompanied his parents to Illinois, making the 
 trip in a wagon and coming through Chicago 
 when it had less than five thousand people. 
 When a boy he worked constantly to help clear 
 and improve the farm. Often he hauled wheat 
 eighty miles to Chicago, receiving for it forty 
 cents a bushel. Dressed pork he sold for $1.50 
 per hundred. He assisted in threshing and 
 harvesting the grain, and was of great help in the 
 work of the farm. When he could be spared he 
 took great pleasure in hunting deer, which were 
 still abundant. More than once he was called up- 
 on suddenly to assist in fighting a prairie fire and 
 would stand for hours, fighting the flames with 
 an old overcoat that had been submerged in water. 
 After he went to Iowa in 1848, he began to drive 
 a team for a miller at Cascade. In 1849 ^^ was 
 apprenticed to the miller's trade in North Maquo- 
 keta, continuing there until the mill was washed 
 away in a flood, in 1851. From 1853 to 1855 ^^^ 
 worked in Anamosa and Cedar Rapids. A fine 
 mill having been erected in Cascade, in the fall 
 of 1855 he returned there and for fifteen years 
 was employed in it on a salary, being head miller 
 most of the time. Afterward he and his brother, 
 C. D., rented the mill until they came to Kansas 
 in i859» From Leavenworth they proceeded to 
 Ottawa, then the terminus of the Leavenworth, 
 Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, and here they 
 have since resided. 
 
 In Dubuque, Iowa, Mr. Crane married Miss 
 Rosella Wightman, who was born in Licking 
 County, Ohio, and by whom he has one child. 
 Lulu, wife of W. H. Becker, of Ottawa. Mrs. 
 Crane was a daughter of Abel P. and Adelia 
 Wightman, both of whom were born in Con- 
 necticut, and removed to Ohio. Her father fol- 
 lowed the wagonmaker's trade and served as post- 
 master of Granville. He was a soldier in the 
 
 war of 181 2. In 1854 he settled upon a farm in 
 Dubuque County, Iowa, where he died. His son, 
 A. J., brother of Mrs. Crane, established his home 
 in Ottawa, Kans. , in the fall of 1869 and for 
 twelve years was a partner in business with our 
 subject. Later he was twice elected treasurer of 
 Franklin County. He died in this city. 
 
 Since the organization of the Republican party 
 Mr. Crane has upheld its principles. He was a 
 member of the council one term and served as 
 mayor of Ottawa in 1883-84, holding the office at 
 the time of the smallpox epidemic; this greatly 
 increased his responsibilities, but by working 
 night and day he succeeded with the board of 
 health in wiping out the disease. He was made 
 a Mason at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1854, and in 
 point of membership is the oldest Mason in Otta- 
 wa. He is now connected with Ottawa Lodge No. 
 128, A. F. & A. M. , of which he was Master for 
 five years, and on his retirement was presented by 
 the members with an elegant and costly gold Past- 
 Master's jewel, the same being finely embellished 
 and engraved. He is also a member of Ottawa 
 Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and Tancred Com- 
 mandery No. 11, K. T. In religious belief he is 
 a Universalist, but is now serving as a trustee of 
 the Presbyterian Church, with which his wife is 
 identified. He is a member of the state Millers' 
 Association. For years he has acted as vice- 
 president of the Kansas Mutual Millers' Insurance 
 Company, now the Western Millers' Mutual In- 
 surance Company, the headquarters of which 
 were recently changed from Ottawa to Kansas 
 City, Mo. 
 
 HENRY C. BRANSON, secretary, treasurer 
 and manager of the Ottawa Foundry Com- 
 pany, vice-president of the Ottawa Hard- 
 ware Company, and chief of the Ottawa fire de- 
 partment, has made his home in the county-seat 
 ofFranklin County since December 28, 1867. He 
 was born near Williamsville, Sangamon Countj', 
 111., December 2, 1842, a son of Benjamin B. and 
 Mary E. (Thompson) Branson. On his father's 
 side he is of English lineage, while through his 
 mother he descends from Scotch-Irish Presbyterian 
 ancestors. His father, a native of Ohio, engaged 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in farming in Sangamon County, 111., for year.s, 
 and thence removed to Jacksonville, the same 
 state, where he died at seventy-three years. His 
 wife, who was born near Mount Sterling, Ky., 
 was a daughter of John Thompson, a soldier in 
 the war of 1S12, who removed from Kentucky to 
 Illinois, settling near Mechanicsburg; she died in 
 Taylorville, 111. Of her five children, only two 
 are living, a son and a daughter. 
 
 After completing public school studies our sub- 
 ject attended Knox College at Galesburg and the 
 Illinois College in Jacksonville. For some years 
 he engaged in the stock business, making his 
 headquarters at Jacksonville. On coming to 
 Kansas he settled in Ottawa and started in the 
 hardware and implement business with A. M. 
 Blair, the firm title being Blair & Branson. Af- 
 ter four years the name became Branson & Robin- 
 son, and eight years later it was changed to H. 
 C. Branson & Co. , then to Branson & Elder, and 
 finally the Branson-Elder Hardware Company 
 was organized, with himself as president, and 
 subsequently the Ottawa Hardware Company was 
 established, of which he has since been vice- 
 president and a director. About 1886 the Bran- 
 son & Elder Hardware Company became inter- 
 ested in the Ottawa Foundry Company, with 
 which Mr. Branson is now identified as secretary, 
 treasurer and manager. The company manufac- 
 tures castings for the Southern Kansas division of 
 the Santa Fe Railroad, al.so manufactures the 
 Williams hay press, etc. The plant is operated 
 by steam power, with a fifteen-horse power 
 engine, and all the modern equipments. 
 
 In Jacksonville Mr. Branson married Clara L. 
 Lathrop, who was born in that city, her father, 
 John W. Lathrop, having gone there from Con- 
 necticut in 1836. They have four children, Ed- 
 ward L., Clara Belle, Louise and Helen. The 
 son graduated from Cornell in 1892 with the 
 degree of LL. B. Returning to Ottawa, he began 
 the practice of law. While serving his second 
 term as justice of the peace he resigned in order 
 to accept the office of county attorney, which posi- 
 tion he now holds, discharging its duties with 
 fidelity. 
 . For one term Mr. Branson was a member of the 
 
 school board. Twice he was elected to represent 
 the second ward in the council, and during one 
 year he was president of the board. He assisted 
 in the organization of the fire department of Ot- 
 tawa, of which he and A. P. Elder have been the 
 only chiefs, he having served for twenty-four 
 j'ears either as chief or assistant chief. His con- 
 nection with the department dates from April, 
 1872, and it is due not a little to his efforts that 
 the service rendered by the department is one of 
 the quickest and most effective of any in the state. 
 He is also a member of the State Association of 
 Chiefs of Fire Departments. Fraternallj- he is a 
 member of Franklin Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M. ; 
 Ottawa Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; and Tancred 
 Commandery No. 1 1 , K. T. His first presidential 
 vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln and he has 
 since been firm in his allegiance to the men and 
 measures of the Republican party. 
 
 |ILLIAM JACKSON, acting captain of the 
 guard at the United States penitentiary, 
 Fort Leavenworth, is, in point of years of 
 active .service, the oldest employe in the prison, 
 and his long and efficient service has brought him 
 the esteem and regard of the officials of the insti- 
 tution. From his earliest recollections he has 
 been familiar with military posts and government 
 service. He has himself been employed by the 
 government since 1870, and during that long 
 period has won an enviable record for efficiency 
 and fidelity. 
 
 When a young man Robert T. Jackson emi- 
 grated from his native country, England, to 
 America, where he soon entered the regular 
 army, in which he spent thirty-six years of his 
 life. He was connected with a regiment of dra- 
 goons as band leader and was also chief musician 
 for the Fourth Cavalry and the Sixth Infantry. 
 Under the administration of President Lincoln 
 he was appointed forage master at Fort Leaven- 
 worth and in this position he continued to ser\'e 
 until his death, in 1877, when sixty-seven years 
 of age. He was a man of ability and stood high 
 among his comrades at the fort, as well as among 
 the people whom he knew in civic life. By his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 marriage to Mary Ann Burton, who died in Leav- 
 enworth, he had twelve children. Of these the 
 subject of our sketch was one, and was born 
 while his father was stationed at Fort Riley, 
 Kans., in 1856. When he was five years of age 
 his father was transferred to Fort Leavenworth. 
 His education was received in the city schools. 
 
 When only fourteen years of age Mr. Jackson 
 began to drive a team in Fort Leavenworth, 
 under the quartermaster's department. After- 
 ward he held an appointment as forage master at 
 the United States military prison under Maj . J. W. 
 Pope for five years. In 1895 ^^ was appointed a 
 guard at the penitentiary and has since been con- 
 nected with this institution. In the position 
 which he holds he is known for his industry, 
 faithfulness and intelligence. Fraternally he is 
 connected with Metropolitan Lodge No. 27, 
 I. O. O. F., in Leavenworth. By his marriage, 
 in 1877, to Maggie Connor, he has six children: 
 May, Norma, Grace, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Will- 
 iam R. 
 
 HON. DAVID JOSIAH BREWER. Among 
 those once resident in Leavenworth who 
 have become distinguished in the annals of 
 our country, conspicuous stands the name of 
 Justice Brewer. For the following account of his 
 career we are indebted to an article by Henry 
 Macfarland in the Christian Endeavor Woi'ld: 
 
 A fine type of the great Christian jurist is David 
 Josiah Brewer, associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, and one of the five 
 members of the court of arbitration on the con- 
 troversy over the boundary between Venezuela 
 and British Guiana. Mr. Justice Brewer was 
 sixty-two on the 20th of June, 1899, a few 
 days after the arbitration tribunal met in Paris to 
 hear ex-President Harrison and the other counsel 
 for Venezuela and Great Britain. 
 
 He has the unusual distinction of having spent 
 more than half his life upon the bench, and, al- 
 though he is so young and so vigorous in both 
 mind and body that he may well live to become 
 chief justice of the United States, he will in De- 
 cember complete ten years of service in the high- 
 est court of the United States, which is the great- 
 26 
 
 est court in the world. Now that Mr. Justice 
 Brewer's uncle, Mr. Justice Stephen J. Field, has 
 passed away, no other member of the Supreme 
 Court has served as a judge in state and federal 
 courts so many years as Mr. Justice Brewer; and 
 he bids fair to exceed the length of service of his 
 uncle on the Supreme bench, as Mr. Justice Field 
 exceeded that of Chief Justice Marshall. 
 
 Mr. Justice Brewer's place is among the two or 
 three ablest members of the Supreme Court, ac- 
 cording to the estimates of his colleagues and of 
 the leading members of the bar, many of whom 
 regard him as the greatest lawyer on the bench. 
 Although he is a Republican in politics. President 
 Cleveland made him chairman of the United 
 States commission on the Venezuelan boundary 
 line, while President McKinley appointed him 
 with Chief Justice Fuller to represent the United 
 States on the Venezuelan arbitration tribunal. 
 
 Mr. Justice Brewer is not more noted for his 
 ability and attainment as a jurist than he is for 
 his fine Christian character and his devotion to 
 the work of the church and the Sunday-school. 
 Following in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Josiah 
 Brewer, of Connecticut, an early missionary to 
 Turkey, and of his mother, Emilia A. Field, sister 
 of David Dudley, Cyrus W. , Stephen J. and Henry 
 M. Field, Justice Brewer as a young man joined 
 the Congregational Church, and has faith- 
 fully served in it all his life long. ' 'For some- 
 thing like thirty years," said Justice Brewer, "my 
 intimate friend, George Eddy, and I carried large- 
 ly the burdens of the First Congregational Church 
 of Leavenworth," and besides all that he did for 
 the church proper, he was superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school for a time, and for many years 
 teacher of its largest bible class. When he re- 
 moved to Washington he became an active mem- 
 ber of the First Congregational Church of Wash- 
 ington, where he teaches every Sunday morning 
 the largest Bible class in the Sunday-school. 
 
 Mr. Justice Brewer's career furnishes a most 
 wholesome and inspiring example in this money- 
 making and money-spending time, for it is one 
 long service of God and of country, rewarded, it 
 is true, with appreciation and with high honors, 
 but with small 'return in money; so that, be- 
 
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 ginning life without a dollar and having only 
 brief practice at the bar, Justice Brewer has no 
 fortune to-day but what he may have saved from 
 his modest salaries, sharing the glory of the 
 Supreme Court, which determines the disposition 
 of vast fortunes on small official incomes and above 
 suspicion of improper influences. 
 
 It is to his well-beloved wife, who died a year 
 ago, that Justice Brewer attributes all his success, 
 under God. It was most providential that, when 
 he arrived in Leavenworth in 1859, after spend- 
 ing the little money he had brought from the 
 east in a boyish dash for the gold reported at 
 Pike's Peak, and in debt for the money he had 
 borrowed, besides what he had earned by teaching, 
 to carry him through Yale College and the Albany 
 Law School, knowing nobodj- in the bustling 
 frontier town, and with his genial, fun-loving 
 nature, he soon met Miss Landon, a charming 
 girl with a fine character, who had come from 
 Burlington, Vt., to visit her sister, Mrs. Woods, 
 the wife of a merchant, and that they became 
 such good friends as to be married at an early 
 day. 
 
 This, Justice Brewer says, saved him from 
 wrecking his life, as he might have done, on the 
 rocks of "a good time," which allured so many 
 of the other young lawyers who like himself were 
 just starting in the new city of the new state. 
 His wife, his home, his church, at once restrained 
 him from danger, and gave him motive and in- 
 •spiration to make the most of his life. Manj' of 
 the one hundred and sixteen lawyers who started 
 with him in that town of seven thousand inhabit- 
 ants failed utterly through the habits of idleness, 
 or worse, which were so easy to form and so hard 
 to break . No wonder that Justice Brewer reveres 
 the memory of his wife with thankful heart. 
 
 Then, too, his marriage placed him on the first 
 stepping-stone of professional success, for it was 
 largely through the advice and assistance of his 
 brother-in-law, who was a Democrat, that before 
 he was twenty-five years old he was elected judge 
 of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth 
 County, to the surprise and dissatisfaction of some 
 of the older men, who thought that a young man 
 ought not to administer the criminal jurisdiction. 
 
 which covered murder cases, and appealed to the 
 legislature to take it awaj'. Before the legisla- 
 ture got around to doing it the young judge had 
 conquered his critics by the admirable way in 
 which he discharged his duties, and at the end of 
 three years was made district judge upon the 
 unanimous request of the bar. From that time 
 his promotion from court to court seemed to be a 
 matter of course. He worked incessantly as a 
 student of law, as he does to this day, and the re- 
 sults in hisjudicial opinions brought him ever in- 
 creasing opportunities and honors. 
 
 /7|HARLES B. STRONG has been a resident 
 I C of Kansas since 1866 and is one of the well- 
 \J known farmers of Grant Township, Doug- 
 las County. He was born in Michigan August 
 8, 1848. His father, a son of Hugh Strong, 
 bore the name of Charles Fitch Strong and was 
 born in Massachusetts, whence at fourteen years 
 of age he went to New York City. While Mich- 
 igan was still a territory he established his home 
 there and pre-empted land at Tecumseh, where 
 he began farming. During subsequent years he 
 devoted his attention to improving land, and as 
 he brought a tract under cultivation he sold it, 
 then purchased another unimproved farm. While 
 he never owned more than twenty-five hundred 
 acres at a time, he improved thousands of acres, 
 doing more work of this kind than anyone in his 
 locality. In 1 866 he removed to Kansas. Seven 
 years later he settled in Lawrence, where he 
 bought a hotel, also the farm now owned by his 
 son, Charles. In politics he was a Republican, 
 and in religion was of the Episcopalian faith. 
 While in Michigan he married Cornelia Shoals, 
 who died, leaving a daughter Cornelia, now the 
 wife of E. B. Strickland. Later he married 
 Mary A. Rice, by whom he had a daughter, 
 Mary, now the wife of Edward Prichard, of Mich- 
 igan. By his third wife, Martha ( Miller) Strong, 
 he had two sons, Charles B. and Fred J., the 
 latter of Leavenworth County. The father spent 
 his closing years in Douglas County, where he died 
 March 8, 1S97, at the age of eighty-four years. 
 From an early age our subject assisted his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 593 
 
 father at home. When less than sixteen j'ears 
 of age, in March, 1864, he enlisted in the Second 
 Michigan Infantry, Ninth Army Corps, under 
 General Burnside. He took part in the battle of 
 the Wilderness, was at Spottsylvania and Cold 
 Harbor and was wounded in the latter engage- 
 ment. After taking part in the grand review at 
 Washington he was honorably discharged in 
 that city. Returning to Michigan he made prep- 
 arations to come to Kansas. In the spring of 
 1866 he accompanied his father west and they 
 bought land in Easton Township, Leavenworth 
 County. Their property was wholly unimproved 
 and it took them a number of years to place it in 
 good condition. In addition to farm pursuits 
 they became largely interested in buying and 
 selling cattle. They planted as many as five 
 hundred acres to wheat in a single season and 
 were among the first to engage in raising this 
 cereal in large quantities. Even after his mar- 
 riage our subject continued to be interested with 
 his father, who, with advancing years, relied al- 
 most wholly upon his son's judgment and de- 
 cisions. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Strong moved to JeflFerson County, 
 where he farmed until the spring of 1877. He 
 then purchased property in Grant Township, 
 Douglas County, starting with one hundred and 
 sixty acres, and embarking in farming and stock- 
 raising at his new home. He now farms three 
 hundred and twenty acres, most of which is under 
 cultivation. His father owned two hundred and 
 forty acres where our subject resides, and this 
 the latter has also operated since the year 1886, 
 it being practically his own property. He has 
 about one hundred head of cattle, his specialty 
 being the Hereford breed, and he also raises 
 Poland-China hogs. A Republican in politics, he 
 has not been active in local affairs and he has al- 
 ways declined offers of official positions. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Strong, November 10, 
 1 87 1, united him with Kate Betsey Hicks, daugh- 
 ter of Garrett Smith Hicks, of Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Her father enlisted in the Union army and was 
 so seriously wounded in the second battle of Bull 
 Run that he died from the effects of his injuries. 
 He had served in the Twelfth New York In- 
 
 fantry. Mr. and Mrs. Strong are the parents of 
 four children, namely: Minnie A., who married 
 Lyman A. McCurdy, of Lawrence, and has one 
 son, Lyman C. McCurdy; Frank B., a farmer, 
 who is married and has one son, Charles Curtis 
 Strong; John F., who is a grocer in Lawrence; 
 and Curtis Hicks, who assists his father at home. 
 In all his work Mr. Strong has had an efficient 
 helpmate in his wife, who is a lady of great 
 energy and ability, as well as personal beauty. 
 In earlier days when it was impossible to secure 
 help in her kitchen, she took upon herself the en- 
 tire responsibility, not only of caring for her own 
 family, but also of cooking, each season, for 
 twenty-five or thirty harvesters, and at one time 
 she cooked for a week for forty hired men. The 
 success which has come to Mr. Strong is due not 
 a little to her intelligent assistance and untiring 
 energy. 
 
 (I OHN W. BAKER. The first passenger train 
 I that came through to Olathe brought Mr. 
 (2/ Baker to Kansas in 1870. Selecting a place in 
 Franklin County he returned to Illinois, where 
 he closed out his interests, preparatory to re- 
 moval. In 1871 he settled in this county, pur- 
 chasing eighty acres on the southern line of 
 Franklin Township. The land was raw prairie, 
 destitute of improvements, and giving little in- 
 dication of future value. Driving through from 
 Illinois, he at once began the task of placing the 
 land under cultivation. Every improvement now 
 to be seen is the result of his energy and industry. 
 He set out all of the trees on the place, erected 
 all of the buildings, put up fences, and from time 
 to time added to the property until he owned four 
 hundred acres. Out of this he has given his sons 
 eighty acres each, retaining two hundred and 
 forty for himself Here he engages in raising 
 Hereford cattle and also gives some attention to 
 general farm produce. He has one hundred and 
 sixty acres under the plow, rents eighty acres, 
 and also owns an orchard of four acres which 
 yields fruits of the choicest varieties. 
 
 In Sangamon County, 111., December 13, 1837, 
 our subject was born, a son of John and Kachel 
 (Biggs) Baker. His father, a native of Ohio, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was thirty- five years of age when he settled in 
 Illinois, in the midst of a farming region com- 
 paratively undeveloped. He farmed in Sangamon 
 County until 1870, when he came to Kansas and 
 settled in Ottawa, dying in Nebraska while on a 
 visit in 1883. Of his eight children four are now 
 living, namely: Mrs. Margaret Staggers, of Ot- 
 tawa; Thomas N., a farmer of Franklin Town- 
 ship; Reuben, who lives in Nebraska; and John 
 W. The last-named became familiar with farm 
 work at a very early age. He had no opportu- 
 nities to gain an education, his entire attendance 
 at school being limited to three mouths. He re- 
 sided in Sangamon County until his removal to 
 Kansas. 
 
 Formerly a Republican, Mr. Baker is now a 
 firm believer in the Prohibition party and is act- 
 ive in temperance work. In the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church he has served as steward and has 
 been class-leader for many years. He filled the 
 office of Sunday-school superintendent for thirty 
 years and his son is now serving in this position. 
 All matters relating to church work receive his 
 thoughtful attention and he contributes to them, 
 both of time and means, as far as his ability 
 renders possible. 
 
 While in Illinois, March 17, 1859, Mr. Baker 
 married Sarah J. Mahard. They are the parents 
 of four children. The older son, James E., a 
 teacher, is now principal of the Wellsville school. 
 Elizabeth is the wife of Allen Myers, of Franklin 
 Township. Thomas A. cultivates a farm adjoin- 
 ing the family homestead. Carrie is the wife of 
 Rev. J. W. Reed, of Centropolis. 
 
 ~" H. F. SCHNEIDER, who came to Law- 
 ^ rence in 1868, was first employed as a pat- 
 ^ tern maker in the shops of the Kansas 
 Pacific Railroad. Later he was foreman of 
 buildings with the Mi.ssouri, Kansas ik Texas 
 Railroad Company, and during the year he was 
 with them built the shops at Sedalia, Mo., and 
 Deni.son, Tex. His next position was as su- 
 perintendent of bridges, Iniildings and cars with 
 the St. Louis, Lawrence & Western Railroad, 
 which had its shops and headquarters in Law- 
 
 rence. He remained with the company for four 
 years, during the la.st two of which he was in 
 charge of buildings and roadbeds. When the 
 road was sold to the Kansas Pacific he turned his 
 attention to contracting and building, which he 
 has since conducted, having his office at No. 9 
 West Blakeley street. He had charge of the 
 building of the girls' dormitory at Haskell Insti- 
 tute, also the shop, hospital, store and residences 
 there; put in the heating plant at the University 
 of Kansas, built the club rooms of the Merchants' 
 Athletic Club and numerous store buildings and 
 residences. 
 
 Born near Minden, Westphalia, Prussia, June 
 9, 1836, our subject was the oldest of six children, 
 five of whom attained mature years and two are 
 living. His father, Ernest, and grandfather, 
 Ernest, Sr. , were born near Minden, and the 
 latter was a drununer in the Prussian army and 
 took part in the battle of Waterloo. Ernest, Jr., 
 a farmer and shoemaker, died near Minden in 
 1883, aged eighty years. He married Johanna 
 Meier, who was a farmer's daughter and spent 
 her life near Minden, dying there at thirty-three 
 years. When a boy our subject learned the 
 shoemaker's trade. In 1853 he left Bremen on 
 the sailer "Heinrich von Gogern," and after a 
 voyage of over two months landed in New 
 Orleans, thence proceeded up the Mississippi and 
 Ohio to Evansville, Ind., and from there traveled 
 to Fort Wayne overland, joining a brother of his 
 father in that city. During the winter he worked 
 at the shoemaker's trade, but in the spring of 
 1854 became driver on the Waba.sh canal, then 
 hired out on a farm for a year, and later became 
 an apprentice to the cabinet-maker's trade in 
 Fort Wayne. The firm failed after he had been 
 with them for eighteen months, and he then 
 began to work for others, being for a time in the 
 car works of a railroad and for two years was 
 bridge builder in the army of the Cumberland, 
 in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. Later he 
 was detailed to work in the locomotive depart- 
 ment in Nashville, where he remained until the 
 close of the war. Returning to Indiana he 
 resumed carpentering with the railroad company. 
 In 1867 he came to Kansas and was employed in 
 
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 the maintenance-of-way department of the 
 Kansas Pacific at W3'andotte. The next j'ear he 
 came to Lawrence, where he now makes his home 
 at No. 739 Ohio street. 
 
 In Fort Wayne Mr. Schneider married Ann 
 A., daughter of Benjamin Finnemore, whom .she 
 accompanied from Ohio to Peru, Ind. Later he 
 started for California, overland, and reaching that 
 state engaged in mining, being one of the men 
 who located the Conistock mine. He sold his 
 stock in the mine and returned to San Francisco, 
 where he was lost track of. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Schneider have seven children living, the eldest 
 of whom, George, is a contractor in Oregon. 
 The others, Ella, Anna, Charles W., William, 
 Nella and Carrie, are at home. 
 
 Mr. Schneider is president of the Democratic 
 Club and a member of the county Democratic 
 central committee. He is past officer and ex-rep- 
 resentative of Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F., has also 
 been district deputy and lodge trustee and is a past 
 officer in the encampment. Fond of music and 
 possessing a thorough knowledge of the art he 
 was one of the members of the old Lawrence 
 band, some of whose members are well known in 
 the state. Later for many years he played in the 
 German band and also had the B flat cornet in 
 the German orchestra. 
 
 QEV. dexter TUCKER, who was or- 
 1^ dained to the ministry of the Baptist Church 
 r \ in 1866, has often been called to preach, not 
 only in his own neighborhood, but in different 
 parts of Kansas, and has officiated at many mar- 
 riages and funerals. However, he has gained 
 his livelihood, not through the ministry (for all 
 his work has been done through love of the cause, 
 and without expectation of profit) , but in the 
 management of his farm of one hundred and ten 
 acres, situated in Palmyra Township, Douglas 
 County. 
 
 Near Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, N. Y., 
 where he was born March 21, 1834, the boyhood 
 days of our subject was passed on a farm. When 
 he was twenty-one years of age he began rail- 
 roading, and for some time was employed on 
 
 eastern roads in making a change of gauge. 
 Through sympathy with the free state people in 
 Kansas he was led to cast in his lot with them. 
 March 18, 1857, '^^ arrived in the then frontier 
 town of Leavenworth. The next day he started 
 out to look up a suitable location, and bought the 
 right to the claim he now owns. Settling upon the 
 land he began its improvement, and under his 
 oversight he brought the soil under excellent cul- 
 tivation. During the Civil war he was employed 
 for twenty- two months as butcher in the commis- 
 sary department in Kansas, Missouri and Ar- 
 kansas, being for a time brigade butcher under 
 General Lane, afterward under General Solomon 
 and lastly with General Blount. For this work 
 he was well fitted, having learned the butcher's 
 trade with his father in youth. 
 
 On returning to his farm Mr. Tucker gave his 
 attention again to farm work. Later, as a mem- 
 ber of the state militia, he was ordered to the 
 front at the time of Price's raid, and took part in 
 the battle of the Blue, also in other skirmishes 
 under General Lane. At the time of the Quan- 
 trell raid, in 1863, he was running a threshing 
 machine for other parties, and was, therefore, 
 away from home, which fact probably saved his 
 life, as the raiders passed through his farm and 
 destroyed all of his property by fire. For five 
 years he operated a threshing machine, and at 
 the same time was frequently called upon to act 
 as veterinary surgeon. His home place com- 
 prises one hundred and ten acres of land, which 
 is well improved. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Tucker, March 23, 1865, 
 united him with Miss Emma Preston, who was 
 born in Kentucky, They became the parents of 
 three sons and seven daughters, namely: Louis, 
 a farmer and stonemason living in Palmyra 
 Township; Fannie, wife of Frederick Morton; 
 and Celia, Mrs. Bert Day, all of this township; 
 Ellen, who married George Ice; Albert, who en- 
 listed in the First Texas Infantry at the time of 
 the Spanish war and went with his regiment to 
 Jacksonville, Fla. , but was discharged on account 
 of disability; Addie, who married William Dow- 
 ning, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Josiah; Nettie May 
 and Nellie Maude (twins), andjosie, all at home. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Formerly a Republican, the money question 
 caused Mr. Tucker to identify himself with the 
 Populists. He has been quite active in political 
 affairs in his township, but has never sought of- 
 fice for himself. However, the position of school 
 treasurer was forced upon him, and while he ac- 
 cepted it reluctantly, he filled it with efficiency. 
 
 y /I ESHACK SANDERS, who owns and oc- 
 y cupies a farm at Twin Mound, Marion 
 (3 Township, Douglas County, was born near 
 Shelby ville, Ky., December 9, 1840, a son of 
 ' Meshack and Lucy (Grady) Sanders, also natives 
 of Kentucky. His father, who was the son of a 
 lifelong Kentuckian, grew to manhood near 
 Shelbyville, where during his active life he was 
 employed as overseer of slaves on a large planta- 
 tion. He died about four months before his son 
 and namesake was born, and of his five children 
 only this son and William Thomas, of Missouri, 
 survive. In 1849 the mother removed with her 
 children to Bartholomew County, Ind., where 
 she died at seventy-two years of age. At the 
 time of the removal to Indiana, our subject was 
 a boy of nine years. He grew to manhood on a 
 farm and had few advantages, for he was obliged 
 to be self-supporting from an early age. From 
 nineteen to twenty-two years of age he served an 
 apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade, after 
 which he was employed as a journeyman. In 
 1865 he came to Kansas and followed his trade in 
 Leavenworth, also worked in the government em- 
 ploy at Fort Leavenworth. During 1867 he went 
 to Fort Laramie, Wyo., where he worked for the 
 government. The following year he returned to 
 Leavenworth. In the spring of 1869 he went on 
 the plains, in the employ of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad Company, traveling through Nebraska 
 and Wyoming. In the fall of 1869 he .secured 
 work for the government at Fort Steele, Wyo., 
 and in the spring of the next year he went into 
 the mining district at Sweetwater, Wyo., where 
 he engaged in mining. Coming back to Kansas, 
 he .spent a short time at Pond City, thence pro- 
 ceeded to Lawrence, and in 1872 opened a black- 
 smith's shop in the latter city. 
 
 Selling his shop in 1881, Mr. Sanders pur- 
 chased a farm at Twin Mound and, building a 
 shop on the land, he followed his trade, be.sides 
 cultivating his land and engaging in feeding cat- 
 tle. In 1892 he retired from his trade, since 
 which ,time he has devoted himself to superin- 
 tending his farm of three hundred and twenty 
 acres. He still owns real estate at Columbus, 
 Ind. , where he was reared. In politics he is a 
 Republican. During the war he went out with a 
 company of independents for the purpose of head- 
 ing off General Morgan at the time of the latter's 
 rai I into Ohio and Indiana. At this writing he 
 is a member of the county central committee of 
 his party. He has served as a director of the 
 schools and as treasurer for five years. For 
 some years he was identified with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows. The temperance 
 cause has in him an ardent champion. 
 
 March 21, 1872, Mr. Sanders married Fannie 
 C. Faxon, who was born in Scituate, Mass., and 
 by whom he has two daughters, Minnie E. and 
 Clare Corinne. Mrs. Sanders is a daughter of 
 William T. and Harriet (Cook) Faxon, natives 
 respectively of Braintree and Scituate, Cape Cod, 
 Mass., her father a man of ability and intelli- 
 gence. For some years he carried on a mercan- 
 tile business in Scituate, but in 1858 left the east 
 and came to Lawrence, where he engaged in the 
 meat business. Politicallj' he was a Democrat. 
 He died in Lawrence in 1889, when sixty -four 
 years of age. Of his seven children only three 
 daughters are now living, those besides Mrs. 
 Sanders being Eunice, wife of Alexander Marks, 
 of Lawrence; and Annie, wife of Harry King. 
 
 UGENE BREWER, of Ottawa, is the sen- 
 ^ ior member of the firm of Brewer & Stan- 
 __ nard, proprietors of the Ottawa Star nur- 
 series, and has made his home in this city since 
 1 87 1. He is a descendant of pioneer settlers of 
 New York state who came to this country from 
 Holland. His father, Samuel M., son of John 
 Brewer, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., 
 and for some years engaged in farming near 
 Gloversville, Fulton County, that state, but in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 1865 settled in Dekalb County, 111. , fifty miles 
 from Chicago, where he transformed a tract of 
 raw prairie into a well-improved farm. In 1871 
 he came to Kansas, settling in Cutler Township, 
 Ottawa County, where he transformed an unim- 
 proved section of land into a fine farm. Here he 
 died in 1897, when seventy-nine years of age. 
 He was a sincere Christian and a faithful member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, 
 Mary, was a daughter of Robert Stoddard, a far- 
 mer in New York. She was born in Fulton 
 County, that state, and died in Kansas in the 
 fall of 1874. Of their four children, Samuel L,. 
 resides in Cutler Township; Jerome is a farmer 
 in the same township; and Mrs. Alice Baker died 
 in Kansas. Our subject was born in Fulton 
 County, N. Y. , August 19, 1850, and was fifteen 
 years of age when the family settled in Illinois. 
 In May, 1871, he came to Kansas and engaged 
 in the produce business in Ottawa, having an 
 office on Main street. After some years, his 
 health being poor, he sought a change of occupa- 
 tion and in the fall of 1877 settled on a farm in 
 Cutler Township, where subsequent outdoor ex- 
 ercise soon proved very beneficial. From a tract 
 of wild land he improved a valuable farm of 
 eighty acres and this he still owns. 
 
 Associated with F. H. Stannard, in the spring 
 of 1879 Mr. Brewer embarked in the nursery bus- 
 iness, and made preparations for the establishment 
 of a growing nursery. The firm first planted a 
 variety of trees three miles south of Ottawa, and 
 they now have over three hundred acres in Frank- 
 lin County devoted to the business. Apple seed- 
 lings are grown at Topeka, Kans. (where they 
 have sixty acres) , and are afterward brought to 
 Franklin County, where they are grown to the 
 proper size. Cherries and plums are started in 
 their nursery at Humboldt, Tenn., where the 
 soil and climate are especially adapted for suc- 
 cessful work. Grapes are grown at Fredonia, 
 N. Y. (a section peculiarly adapted for grapes), 
 where they have nearly a million plants. They 
 are also largely interested in orchards in Colorado, 
 having in 1895 started an orchard of four hun- 
 dred acres lying on both sides of the Arkansas 
 near Rocky Ford and irrigated from that river by 
 
 a good ditch. Besides the orchard of four hun- 
 dred acres, they have about the same amount of 
 land planted to nunsery stock. The products of 
 the nursery are shipped to every part of the 
 United States, at times as much as one train load 
 of nursery stock being shipped in a day. 
 
 In Topeka, Kans., Mr. Brewer married Miss 
 Lillie B. Mills, who was born in St. Louis, 
 and accompanied her father, Barnett C. Mills, 
 to Shawnee County, twelve miles south of To- 
 peka. They have four children, Fred A., Alice 
 M., Mary Edna and Edith L. Politically Mr. 
 Brewer is a Republican. He is a member of the 
 American and the Western Nurserymen's Associ- 
 ation. He is serving as president of the Ottawa 
 Gun Club. An expert marksman, he has cap- 
 tured prizes in Missouri and New York as well 
 as in his own home state. Twice he has been 
 chosen to serve as president of the Kansas State 
 Sportsman's Association, and has been deeply 
 interested in the annual tournaments held in 
 Ottawa, toward the success of which he has con- 
 tributed and in which he has received medals. 
 
 EHRISTIAN SCHAAKE, an enterprising 
 farmer who resides in Eudora Township, 
 Douglas County, was born near Cassel, Ger- 
 many, in 1865, a son of Henry and Margaretta 
 (Seibel) Schaake. He received a fair education 
 in the German language. In company with two 
 older sisters he came to the United States and 
 settled in Edwardsville, 111., where he attended 
 school for three years. Meantime he became 
 familiar with American customs and our lan- 
 guage. For a number of years he worked on a 
 farm owned by his brother, William, who had 
 preceded him to this country. 
 
 July, 1888, found Mr. Schaake in Kansas, 
 where he rented a farm owned by his brother. 
 Cultivating the land he' saved his earnings care- 
 fully, in order that he might apply them to the 
 purchase of a place of his own. In the spring of 
 1898 he bought the old Thatcher farm in the 
 Kaw bottom. This place, which he has since 
 conducted, consists of two hundred and seven- 
 teen acres, in addition to which he rents a ninety- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 acre tract. He cultivates the land carefully, 
 making every acre bring him fair returns, and 
 raises such cereals as he finds best adapted to the 
 soil. In the raising of stock his specialty has 
 been hogs. He has given his time so closely to 
 farm pursuits that he has no leisure for outside 
 matters, even should his taste incline him toward 
 politics and public affairs. Aside from voting 
 the Republican ticket he takes no part in local 
 matters. He is said to own one of the neatest 
 farms in the bottom, and he spares no pains to 
 keep the improvements up to the highest grade. 
 The marriage of Mr. Schaake took place Julj^ 
 12, i8S8, just prior to his removal to Kansas, and 
 united him with Loui.sa, daughter of Charles 
 Dude, of Madison County, 111. They are the 
 parents of five children, Albert, Otilie, Benjamin, 
 Clarence and Milton, who are being given the 
 best educational advantages the neighborhood 
 affords. 
 
 G| UGUST WULFKUHLE, of Lawrence, has 
 Ll met with the success which his industry 
 / I merits. When a bo}' he learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade with his father, and after he was 
 confirmed, at the age of fourteen years, he con- 
 tinued the trade. At fifteen he made his master- 
 piece and then began to work for his father at 
 wages, applying himself so closely that at the end 
 of six months he received as large wages as any 
 of the journeymen. He continued for some time 
 but did not advance as rapidly as he desired. 
 As other young men had left the town and were 
 doing well elsewhere, and as the brick business 
 at that time was profitable, he went to Mecklen- 
 burg, where he began to work in a brick yard. 
 At the close of the second year he was made 
 foreman over thirty-two men. This position he 
 held until Emperor William called for soldiers 
 and he volunteered, serving from 1857 until 
 i860, when he came to America. He has been 
 a very hard-working man. During his first ten 
 years in Kansas he did the work of two men. At 
 night he would make a pair of shoes, working all 
 the night until three o'clock, then sleeping until 
 five o'clock, when he would arise to begin the 
 day's work. In spite of the fact that he slept 
 
 only two hours a day on every day but Sunday, 
 he did not suflfer materially in health, but was 
 able to do more work on a farm in a daj- than 
 anyone else could, at one time cultivating five 
 hundred acres of land without assistance. 
 
 Mr. Wulfkuhle was born in Westphalia, Ger- 
 man3% in a house that stood three miles from the 
 statue of Hermann the Great. His father, 
 Christof, al.so a native of the same place and a 
 shoemaker, served in the German army from 
 18 1 2 to 18 1 5 and took part in the battle of 
 Waterloo. At an advanced age he joined his 
 children in America and his death occurred in 
 Shawneetown when he was seventy-eight. His 
 family name was Bocker, but at the time of his 
 marriage to Marie Wultkuhle, who was the old- 
 est of six sisters and heiress to the Wulfkuhle 
 estate, by the crown law he was obliged to take 
 the name of the propert}^ so henceforth was 
 known as Christof Wulfkuhle. His wife died in 
 Germany. They had six sons and two daugh- 
 ters. One of the daughters died in Germany, the 
 other in America. The sons were named as fol- 
 lows: Henry, who occupies the old homestead in 
 Germany; Frederick, who is in Kan.sas; Herman, 
 who served in the Mexican war, went to Califor- 
 nia in 1849 and died in Kansas; Christof, of Deer 
 Creek Township, Douglas County; Adolph, who 
 died in New Orleans; and August, who was born 
 November 23, 1836, and was the youngest of the 
 family. 
 
 Coming to America in i860, our subject ar- 
 rived in New York after a voyage of fourteen 
 daj's from Bremen. He proceeded west to St. 
 Louis, thence to Jefferson City bj' rail, from 
 there by steamer to Leavenworth, where he re- 
 mained for fourteen days. Then, coming to 
 Lawrence, he settled on a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres with his brother Christof. Later 
 he sold his half interest in that place and bought 
 another farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 which he improved. At this writing he owns 
 two hundred and fortj* acres, all fenced and im- 
 proved, besides which he improved six other 
 farms between i860 and 1885. In the spring of 
 1864 he entered Company' B, Thirteentli Kansas 
 Infantry, and served as sergeant during the cam- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 599 
 
 paign against Price, taking part in the battle of 
 Big Blue. In 1879 he returned to his old home, 
 where he visited for three months. In 1885 he 
 settled in Lawrence, where he has built and owns 
 three houses and five stores. In religion he is a 
 Lutheran. He is a member of the Turn Verein, 
 in which he has been a trustee. At one time he 
 voted the Republican ticket, but is now independ- 
 ent in politics. 
 
 February 5, i860, Mr. Wulfkuhle married 
 Miss Lena Dreves, who was born in the same 
 place as himself. Her father, Fred Kid, who 
 was a teamster in early life, and took part in the 
 war of 1812-15, married Mrs. Caroline (Nolte) 
 Dreves, and took the name of the Dreves estate. 
 He and his wife died there and when Mr. and 
 Mrs. Wultkuhle were in Germany in 1879 they 
 erected monuments to their memory. They had 
 two daughters and five sons, three of whom 
 came to America, Mrs. Wulfkuhle being the 
 only survivor of them all. Our subject and his 
 wife had ten children, three of whom attained 
 mature years, namely: Lena, who married Albert 
 Walter and lives on the old homestead; Mrs. 
 Sophia Klock, of Lawrence; and Mina, who died 
 at eighteen years. 
 
 HON. C. N. BISHOFF, M. D., is one of the 
 leading men of Eudora Township, Douglas 
 County. In 1878 he purchased a farm of 
 one hundred and twenty acres at Keystone Cor- 
 ner, since which time he has superintended the 
 management of the place in addition to carrying 
 on a general practice as physician and surgeon 
 and operating a grinding mill on his farm. He 
 is a stockholder in the Eudora State Bank and is 
 interested in other enterprises that have proved 
 helpful to the community where he resides. In 
 politics a Republican, on that ticket he was twice 
 elected township trustee, and filled the oflfice sat- 
 isfactorily for two terms. From 1890 to 1894 he 
 represented this district in the state legislature, 
 (two sessions), where he took an active part in 
 bills and measures looking toward the benefit of 
 the people. 
 
 Born in Dauphin County, Pa., in 1838, Dr. 
 BishofFisa son of William and Fannie (Good) 
 
 Bishofi". His father came from Prussia in boy- 
 hood and was reared in Pennsylvania, making 
 his home for some years in Dauphin County, but 
 later going to Philadelphia, where he engaged in 
 the manufacture of woolen goods. He died in 
 the latter city. His father, who emigrated to the 
 United States some years after his marriage, be- 
 came a prominent manufacturer of woolens and 
 met with success in business. The mother of our 
 subject was a daughter of Christian Good, who 
 was a wealthy farmer and saw-mill operator, and 
 owned one of the first old-style grist-mills in that 
 section of countrj'. When seventj'-two years of 
 age his death occurred. 
 
 The only child of his parents, our subjet was 
 reared in the home of his maternal grandparents 
 and grew to manhood in Dauphin County. He 
 learned the woolen manufacturing business, which 
 he followed until the breaking out of the Civil 
 war. In 1862 he entered service as a member of 
 Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh 
 Pennsylvania Infantry, in which he remained for 
 nine months, meantime acting as colonel's or- 
 derly. At the expiration of his period of service 
 he began the study of medicine under the pre- 
 ceptorship of a physician in his native count}'. 
 Afterward he matriculated in the Eclectic Medi- 
 cal College at Philadelphia, from which he gradu- 
 ated in 1871. He then began in practice near 
 his old home, and was also for three years engaged 
 in the drug business at Likens. Closing out his 
 business in 1877, he came to Kansas, spending 
 the summer of that year in Lawrence, and in the 
 fall settling at Hesper, Douglas County, where he 
 made his home for a year. He then purchased 
 and settled on his present farm in Eudora Town- 
 ship. Interested in his profession, he is a mem- 
 ber of the Eclectic Medical Society of Kansas 
 and has contributed to medical journals articles 
 that show deep research and a profound knowl- 
 edge of the subjects treated. He is a man of 
 considerable mechanical skill and no jeweler ex- 
 cels him in the repairing of clocks and watches. 
 
 In 1864 Dr. Bishoff married Miss Mary Bau- 
 man, of Pennsylvania. They have three chil- 
 dren, namely: Mark L., who is principal of the 
 Eudora school; Minnie M.; and Roger W., a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 graduate of Manhattan College. Before coming 
 to Kansas Dr. Bishoff was an active member of 
 the United Brethren Church, but since then he 
 has not been identified with an^- denomination. 
 He is a member in good standing of the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 0ANIEL FOGLE, president of the D. Fogle 
 Mercantile Companj-, is one of the leading 
 business men of Franklin County, and has 
 done perhaps more than any other citizen of 
 Williamsburg to advance its interests and pro- 
 mote its prosperity. He was born in Dauphin 
 County, Pa., February 8, 1832, a son of Chris- 
 topher and Rachel (Minsker) Fogle. His maternal 
 great-grandfather served under Washington dur- 
 ing the entire seven years of the Revolutionarj' 
 war. He died while returning from the war to 
 his home on the Susquehanna River, in Dauphin 
 County, about ten miles north of Harrisburg. 
 
 A native of Wurtemberg, Germany, Chris- 
 topher Fogle came to the United States in 18 19 in 
 company with his father, Christopher, Sr., who 
 settled on the Brandy wine in Delaware, but later 
 settled in Dauphin County, Pa., where he re- 
 mained from 1825 until the time of his death. 
 In 1834 the junior Christopher moved to Jeffer- 
 son County, Pa., and there he remained until 
 his death, which occurred in 1872. B3' trade a 
 tanner, he was for some years engaged in the 
 manufacture of leather and carried on what was 
 for those days a large business. Active in local 
 affairs he served in several offices, including that 
 of associate justice. Until 1832 he was a Demo- 
 crat, but later he affiliated with the Whigs and 
 subsequently he assisted in organizing the Re- 
 publican party. He officiated as a local preacher 
 in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which all 
 of his family also were prominent workers. His 
 death occurred in 1872, when he was seventy- 
 two years of age. Of his ten children only two 
 are living: Daniel and Sarah, the ktter Mrs. 
 Robert Steele. 
 
 When a boj' our subject lived in Brookville, 
 Jefferson County, Pa., and, learning his father's 
 trade, succeeded him in business. In 1867 he 
 
 purchased three thousand acres in Greenwood 
 and Butler Counties and in 1868, three hundred 
 and twenty acres adjoining Williamsburg, where 
 he followed fanning and stock-raising for three 
 years. In 1869 he brought his family to Will- 
 iamsburg. In 1872 he purchased a stock of 
 goods from J. L. Barnett and from that time 
 until 1892 he was steadily engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business, in addition to carrying on a cat- 
 tle business. In 1892 he traded his store for a 
 ranch of two thousand acres, but two years later 
 he again purcha.sed the mercantile business, 
 which he has since conducted. In January, 
 1898, the D. Fogle Mercantile Company was in- 
 corporated, with his son, William C, as a mem- 
 ber and as general manager. Besides the man- 
 agement of his business interests he owns five 
 hundred acres of land in Franklin County, and 
 is engaged in raising stock, feeding about one 
 hundred head of cattle each winter. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Fogle married Elizabeth Clawson, 
 who died in 1892. She was a daughter of Mathias 
 and Marj' (Williams) Clawson, and was born in 
 Punxsutawney. Her maternal great-grandfather 
 was a general in Washington's arm}'. They 
 were the parents of six children, namely: Mary 
 Ellen, wife of C. N. Rand, of Marshall, Mo.; 
 Ben C, a cattleman of Stockton, Kans. ; Zilla B.; 
 Arza Bracken Fogle, A. M., profe.ssor of phy.sical 
 culture at Baldwin University; Frank, who is a 
 student in Chicago University; and William C, a 
 graduate of the State University (Kansas), who is 
 manager of the mercantile company- and is inter- 
 ested with his father in business. The lady who 
 is now the wife of Mr. Fogle bore the maiden 
 name of Armina Cummings, and was born in 
 Iowa, the 3'oungest daughter of Gabriel and 
 Julia A. (Bemis) Cummings, both descendants of 
 old and prominent families. She came with her 
 parents to Kansas in 1872 and received her edu- 
 cation at the State Normal School at Emporia and 
 the State University at Lawrence. 
 
 When only ten years of age our subject was 
 converted in the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
 Brookville, Pa. Since 1846 he has been an offi- 
 cial member of that denomination and has con- 
 stantly taken an active part in religious work. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 For twenty years in succession he has been su- 
 perintendent of the Sunday-school in Williams- 
 burg. All movements looking toward the ad- 
 vancement of Williamsburg have received his 
 help. He was one of those who, in 1876, took 
 an active part in contributing of their time and 
 means to secure the building of the Burlington 
 branch of the Santa Fe road into Williamsburg, 
 which has proved of the greatest aid to the town. 
 The position which he occupies is due not alone 
 to his success as a business man, but also to his 
 general intelligence, his firm principles of honor 
 and his irreproachable character. 
 
 (TACOB bush. Among those who have 
 I gained success in their chosen fields of labor 
 C2' mention may very properly be made of Mr. 
 Bush, who, during the period of his residence 
 in Franklin County, has become well known and 
 highly esteemed. He dates his sojourn in Kan- 
 sas from 1867, and the succeeding interval has 
 been busily emploj'ed in improving his farm in 
 Greenwood Township and bringing the naturally 
 rich soil to a high state of cultivation. At first 
 he purchased four hundred acres in partnership 
 with his father-in-law, and since then he has met 
 with such success that he is now the sole owner of 
 twelve hundred acres, the improvements of which 
 he has made personally, and on which he has en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising. 
 
 Born in Trumbull County, Ohio, September 9, 
 1846, Mr. Bush is a son of Conrad and Rebecca 
 (Foft) Bush, natives respectively of Germany 
 and Pennsylvania. His father and grandfather, 
 Peter Bush, came from Germany to this country 
 and settled in Ohio about 1801, being pioneers of 
 Trumbull County, where they spent their re- 
 maining years engaged in farming. Conrad 
 Bush was seventy-six at the time of his death. 
 Of his eleven children five are living, viz. : Con- 
 rad, of Franklin County; Peter, who lives near 
 the old homestead in Ohio; Jacob; Charles; and 
 Lila, wife of Louis Harshman. At the age of 
 sixteen our subject left home and became a 
 drummer boy in Captain Smith's company from 
 his old home. After serving as drummer for 
 
 three months he became a private in the First 
 Ohio Independent Regiment, and was assigned 
 to garrison duty and scouting, in which he en- 
 gaged until the expiration of his time. After 
 three years and three months of service he was 
 honorably discharged. 
 
 Returning to his old home at the close of the 
 war Mr. Bush remained there for a year. In 
 1866 he married and the next year came to Kan- 
 sas, settling on the farm where he has since re- 
 sided. He has been one of the heaviest dealers 
 in and raisers of cattle in the county, and has 
 been unusually successful in all of his ventures. 
 Though not a partisan, he is a stanch Demo- 
 crat. He is a member of the school board and 
 takes a warm interest in educational affairs. 
 Both schools and churches have been the recipi- 
 ents of his bounty and have felt the impetus of 
 his encouragement. He is connected with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. April 3, 1866, he 
 married Viola V., daughter of William Walker, 
 and a most estimable lady, whose death, October 
 2, 1897, was a heavy blow to the family. She 
 left three children, viz.: Laura Elizabeth, wife 
 of Samuel Allen; Myrtie May, who married Al- 
 bert Adams; and Charles J., who resides at 
 home. 
 
 r^EV. FRANK B. OLDS, of Lawrence, was 
 j^ one of the brave men who served faithfullj' 
 r \ and well in the defense of the Union during 
 the Civil war. He was a young man of twenty - 
 one j'ears when war was declared and he at once 
 resolved to offer his services to his country. In 
 September, 1861, his name was enrolled in Com- 
 pany F, One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio In- 
 fantry, which was mustered in at Cleveland, 
 Ohio, and assigned to the army of the Cumber- 
 land. Among the battles in which he took part 
 were those at Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Hickory 
 Creek, Dallas, Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta, 
 going to Nashville under General Thomas and 
 taking part in the campaign after Hood. From 
 Tennessee he went to Washington, thence via 
 ship to North Carolina, landing at Cape Fear, 
 and taking part in the battle of Fort Anderson, 
 which he assisted in capturing. For some time 
 
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 he was ill in the hospital at Salisbury. He was 
 honorablj- discharged at Cleveland in 1865, upon 
 the close of the war. From the effects of his 
 long arnij' service, with its exposures, hardships 
 and forced marches, he has never recovered, but 
 for years he has been a constant sufferer from the 
 results of his army life. 
 
 Near Edgerton, Defiance County, Ohio, our 
 subject was born April 10, 1841, the third among 
 eleven children, of whom five sons and two 
 daughters are living. His father, Thomas Olds, 
 who was born in the east and was the son of a 
 soldier in the war of 181 2, accompanied the fam- 
 ily to Ohio in childhood, and afterward followed 
 farm pursuits, the shoemaker's trade and also 
 served as a local preacher in the United Brethren 
 Church. In 1862 he removed to a farm near La- 
 porte City, Iowa, where he died at fifty-nine 
 years of age. He married Lemira Sprague, who 
 was born in the ea.st and died in Kansas when 
 seventy-five years of age. 
 
 Upon his return from the army our subject en- 
 gaged in teaching and also took up ministerial 
 studies. He was ordained a deacon and elder in 
 the Central Ohio conference of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and afterward preached suc- 
 cessively at Montpelier, Mount Victory, Newton, 
 LaRue and Middletown, Ohio. In 1875 he went 
 to Michigan and identified himself with the Con- 
 gregational Church. He held pastorates at Pot- 
 terville and Bronson, that state. In 1879 became 
 to Kansas and for two and one-half years was 
 pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church of Law- 
 rence, but ill health obliged him to give up 
 ministerial work and resign his pastorate. Since 
 then he has given his attention to the supervision 
 of his oil interests and has also preached oc- 
 casionally. In political belief he is stanchly Re- 
 publican. He is identified with Washington 
 Post No. 12, and takes a warm interest in Grand 
 Army matters. 
 
 At Williams Center, Ohio, July 30, 1865, Mr. 
 Olds was married to Miss Viola Palmer, who was 
 born in Portage County, near Ravenna, Ohio, 
 a daughter of Truman and Lucina (Gilbert) 
 Palmer. Her father removed from Portage to 
 Williams County, Ohio, and later settled in 
 
 Potterville, Mich., where he died at eighty-three 
 years. His wife also died there. Of their seven 
 children all but two are living. One son, Oscar 
 Palmer, was a member of Company F, One Hun- 
 dred and Eleventh Ohio Infantry, and after the 
 war entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, 
 but later changed to the Congregational denomi- 
 nation, and is now preaching at Springfield, Mo. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Olds are the parents of five chil- 
 dren, viz.: Mrs. Lillie Barnes, of St. Louis, Mo.; 
 Delia, -who graduated from the school of fine 
 arts. University of Kansas, and is now connected 
 with an art firm in St. Louis; Lora E., wife of 
 Prof. Frank Messenger, principal of the high 
 school at Albuquerque, N. M.; Frankie B., who 
 is a member of the class of 1902, University of 
 Kansas; and Donald L. 
 
 IJjARCISSE N. AVERILL, a pioneer of 
 ny Franklin Township, Franklin County, is 
 I [^ the owner of one thousand and forty acres 
 in the count}' where he resides and one hundred 
 and sixty acres across the line in Miami County, 
 Kans. All of his property is under improvement 
 and is devoted to general farm pursuits and the 
 raising of stock. He has made a specialty of 
 feeding cattle and hogs, a branch of agriculture 
 which he has found quite profitable. The prop- 
 erty which he has accumulated represents his 
 unaided exertions, for he started with limited 
 means, coming to Kansas in the pioneer days 
 when advantages were few and hardships many. 
 In spite of discouragements he has steadily 
 worked his way forward to a position of influence 
 among the people of his county. 
 
 In the northern part of France Mr. Averill 
 was born October 3, 1845, a sou of Pascal and 
 Louisa (Collin.s) Averill, natives of the same dis- 
 trict. His father, who was a farmer, emigrated 
 from his native land in 1854 and settled in Kan- 
 kakee County, 111. , where he worked on a farm 
 for three years. In the fall of 1857 he came to 
 Kansas and took up a claim near what is now 
 Black Jack, Palmyra Township, Douglas Coun- 
 ty. He was a hard-working man and devoted 
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 property, which, at the time of purchase, was in 
 its primeval condition. In his old age he came 
 to make his home with his son, Narcisse, at 
 whose place he died when eighty-eight years of 
 age. His wife had passed away December 29, 
 1869, at the age of sixty-one years. Both were 
 devout members of the Catholic Church and ad- 
 hered to its teaching throughout life. They were 
 the parents of two children, of whom the daugh- 
 ter, Mary Jane, married Victor Henou. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Kansas our 
 subject was twelve years of age. He remained 
 with his parents until twenty-three years of age 
 and received his education in the common schools. 
 He then purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 of wild prairie land in Franklin Township, and 
 from this property he has improved a valuable 
 homestead. He has devoted himself so closely 
 to agricultural matters that he has had little 
 leisure for participation in politics, although he is 
 stanch in his allegiance to Democratic principles. 
 February 3, 1869, he married Miss Mary Butell, 
 a history of whose family appears in the sketch 
 of her brother, A. D. Butell. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Averill are the parents of seven children, viz.: 
 Ulysses I., a farmer in Franklin Township; Julia, 
 wife of Charles Winters, of Franklin Township; 
 Louis, who is engaged in farming in the home 
 township; Joseph, Charles, Rose and Frank 
 (twins), all of whom remain with their parents. 
 The family are member of the Catholic Church. 
 
 'HOMAS N. BAKER, of Franklin County, 
 is one of the men who gave his services to 
 the Union during the Civil war. In 1862 
 he enlisted in Company I, Seventy-third Illinois 
 Infantry, and with his regiment went to the 
 front. His period of service was a most active one. 
 He took part in sixteen regular battles, also 
 numerous engagements of less importance, but 
 where the danger to life was even greater. His 
 regiment formed a part of the Fourth Army Corps 
 belonging to the army of the Cumberland and 
 participated in the Atlanta campaign and the 
 battles with General Hood. At Chickamauga 
 he was wounded on the top of the head, narrow- 
 
 ly escaping with his life, for, had the bullet 
 struck one-sixteenth of an inch lower it would 
 have been fatal. After Sherman left in his 
 march to the sea the Fourth Army Corps was left 
 to watch the rebel General Hood. They fought 
 him in the battle of Franklin and in the two- 
 days' fight at Nashville, where the Union forces 
 almost annihilated Hood. In June, 1865, Mr. 
 Baker received his honorable discharge at Nash- 
 ville, and then the regiment was ordered to 
 Camp Butler, Springfield, 111., where it was 
 finally mustered out. 
 
 Mr. Baker was born in Butler County, Ohio, 
 January 28, 1831, a son of John and Rachel 
 (Biggs) Baker, and a brother of John W. Baker 
 (elsewhere represented in this work). When he 
 was a small child his father settled in Sangamon 
 County, 111. Working out as a farm hand he 
 early gained a thorough and practical knowledge 
 of agriculture. When he was twenty he started 
 out for himself. In 1870 he drove through from 
 Illinois to Kansas by team. Settling in Frank- 
 lin County, he bought eighty acres on the 
 southern line of Franklin Township. The land 
 was wholly unimproved. Not a furrow had 
 been turned in the sod and there was neither 
 vegetation nor tree to indicate that man had ever 
 lived here. He started to break the land and 
 fence it and gradually made it one of the valuable 
 properties in this region. As he prospered he 
 added to the land and now has one hundred and 
 ninety -five acres under cultivation. Farming is 
 his principal business, although he owns some 
 stock and occasionally buys a bunch of cattle 
 for feeding. In the winter of 1898-99 he erected 
 his comfortable residence. Some years ago he 
 moved to Ottawa, intending to retire from farm 
 work, but, being a man of intensely active 
 nature, he was not contented to be idle, and so 
 returned to the farm as soon as the parties left to 
 whom it had been rented. 
 
 In politics Mr. Baker is a Republican. For 
 many years he has been a trustee in the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church and one of its most faith- 
 ful members. He has done much to advance re- 
 ligious and educational interests in his neighbor- 
 hood, among other things aiding in the erection 
 
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 of the church, and also donating the land for 
 both the schoolhouse and the church. For many 
 j'cars he was a member of the school board. 
 When twentj'-two j'ears of age he married 
 Frances Priddy, by whom he had seven children, 
 namely: Sybil, wife of Scott Gittinger, of Ottawa; 
 John L., who cultivates a farm adjoining his 
 father's; Sarah Alice, who makes her home with 
 her older brother; Mary, who married Edward 
 Crawford, and lives in Lyon County, Kans.; Don 
 Carlos, in California; Etta, wife of George Holt, 
 of Newton, Kans.; and Charles Oliver, who 
 assists in the management of the home place. 
 
 Gl LEXANDER SHAW, one of the prominent 
 r 1 Ijusiness men of Lawrence, was born Octo- 
 l\ ber 9, 1835, in New York City, in a house 
 that stood on the corner of Tenth avenue and 
 Thirty- seventh street, which was then a consider- 
 able distance from the thickly settled part of the 
 city. His father, James, and several brothers, 
 David, Alexander, Matthew and John, all of 
 whom were born in Scotland near Edinburgh, 
 came to this country in early manhood and set- 
 tled in New York, where Matthew engaged in 
 manufacturing cloth, James and David were 
 weavers and manufacturers, Alexander first de- 
 voted him.self to weaving, but later became inter- 
 ested in manufacturing, and John was a manu- 
 facturer also. All married and had children ex- 
 cept Matthew, and all are now dead. Prior to 
 leaving Scotland James had married Jane Ander- 
 son, and they made their home in New York 
 City for some years, but finally settled on a farm 
 in Fulton County, that state, where he died at 
 the age of sixty. His wife died in Iowa when 
 almost seventy years of age. Two of their chil- 
 dren, born in Scotland, died in New York City. 
 The other two are Alexander and Matthew, the 
 latter of whom came to Lawrence in March, 1858, 
 engaged in building here, was captured during 
 the Quantrell raid but made his escape, and after 
 some years removed from the city ; he now makes 
 his home in Kansas City. 
 
 At the time the family settled in Fulton County 
 our subject was twelve_ years of age. His 
 
 only school privileges consisted of three months' 
 attendance in a district school, added to a brief 
 time in a primary school in New York City. He 
 remained on the home farm until 1864, when he 
 sold out and in March of that year settled in 
 Kansas. He .started in the building business as 
 the successor of his brother, who engaged in the 
 grocery business. Gradually he built up a large 
 trade and won the confidence of the people. 
 During the time of the Price raid he was mus- 
 tered into Company C, Third Kansas Militia, 
 and went as far as the Blue, when, the regiment 
 not being needed, he returned home. In 1S89 
 he began to handle lumber and later started a 
 lumber yard, where he has all kinds of building 
 material. His yard is large and commodious, 
 with warehouses, sheds, etc. His ofiRce is at Win- 
 throp and Vermont streets, across the road from 
 the yard. Among his contracts were those for 
 the Watkins building(one of the finest bank build- 
 ings in the west), the residences of John Walruf, 
 F. M. Perkins, J. House and A. Henley, and 
 many store buildings on Massachusetts street. 
 He built his first residence in 1865 and has since 
 built several others, three being on Winthrop 
 street. 
 
 In Fulton County, N. Y., Mr. Shaw married 
 Miss Frances E. Hayes, by whom he has five 
 children, all graduates of the high school. The 
 only living son, James W., is his father's busi- 
 ness partner. Elmer died at eighteen years of 
 age. Nettie, who was an accomplished and 
 popular young lady, died April 4, 1899; her 
 death was a severe blow to the family, to whom 
 her noble character had made her inestimably 
 dear, while among her many friends the bereave- 
 ment was also keenly felt. The youngest daugh- 
 ters, Cora May and Julia are with their parents. 
 
 Much of the time since 1875 Mr. Shaw has 
 been a member of the city council, from the first 
 ward, but in 1S99 he resigned, refusing to serve 
 longer. Several times he was president of the 
 council and acting mayor of the city. He has 
 been interested in the development of the 
 town and all of the improvements have been 
 made during his terms as alderman. Originallj' 
 a Whig, he was one of the first to embrace Re- 
 
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 publican doctrines and has since voted with his 
 party. He is a member of Washington Post No. 
 12, G. A. R. He is past master of Lawrence 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and a member of 
 Lodge No. 7, A. O. U. W. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Shaw took into partnership his son, 
 under the firm name of Alex. Shaw & Son. The 
 latter was born in Fulton County, N. Y., gradu- 
 ated from the Lawrence high school, and early 
 became interested in building, making a special 
 study of architecture. He has become proficient 
 as an architect and furnishes plans and specifica- 
 tions for buildings. Since boyhood he has been 
 a member of the fire department and is now 
 its chief. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Masons and the Knights and Ladies of Security. 
 
 HOWARD W. HENDERSON, who is a busi- 
 ness man of Lawrence, was born in Cattar- 
 augus County, N. Y., August 29, 1849, a 
 son of Samuel A. and Margaret (Parkman) Hen- 
 derson, and a grandson of John Henderson and 
 Benjamin Parkman. His paternal grandfather, 
 a Scotchman by birth, came to America prior to 
 the war of 18 12, in which he served. Samuel A. 
 Henderson, who was a minister in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, moved to Minnesota in 1856 
 and settled in St. Paul, but later went to Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, and at the close of the Civil war 
 located at Muskegon, Mich. In 1865 he went to 
 Kansas City, Mo., where he died two years later. 
 Of his six children one died in infancy, and two 
 sons, Howard W. and Benjamin F. , reside in 
 Lawrence, while one sister lives in Pittsburgh, 
 Kans. , and another in Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, at fourteen years 
 of age our subject began to learn the trade of a 
 harness-maker. Two years later he engaged in 
 the quartermaster's department of the army, 
 where he remained for six months, having head- 
 quarters in Nashville, Tenn. , with the Army of 
 the Cumberland. In 1S64 he moved with his 
 parents to Michigan, where he worked at his 
 trade. The next year he settled in Kansas City, 
 Mo., and in 1867 removed to Johnson County, 
 Kans., to take up land. He spent two and one- 
 
 half years in Carthage, Mo., following his trade. 
 In 1874 he embarked in business for himself at 
 Springhill, Johnson County, Kans. In 1876 he 
 came to Lawrence and began in business here, 
 opening a shop in a small building. He has since 
 built up a large trade in harness and saddlery, of 
 which he carries a full line. His store room, 
 22x80, at No. 635 Massachusetts street, is filled 
 with all articles in his line, the value of his stock 
 being fully $3,000. He has men working the 
 year around and manufactures all of his stock. 
 He also makes a specialty of repairing. 
 
 Politically Mr. Henderson is independent, with 
 Republican inclinations. He is a member of the 
 Fraternal Aid Asisociation ; Order of Pyramids; 
 Halcyon Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F. ; and Acacia 
 Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M. He was one of the 
 organizers of the Psychic Club, for social and 
 scientific purposes, and has since been a leading 
 member. His marriage took place in Johnson 
 County, Kans., in 1875, his wife being Ada 
 Belle House, daughter of C. V. N. House, a 
 prominent merchant and politician of Springhill. 
 Mr. Henderson is identified with the Eastern 
 Star and has been one of the most active workers 
 of the chapter in Lawrence, which he represented 
 in the national convention at Wichita in 1899. 
 The children of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson are 
 Howard (of Denver, Colo.), Clarence, Leroy, 
 Rosine and LiHie. The second son, Clarence, 
 was married in September, 1899, to Miss Mabel 
 Smith, daughter of Charles W. Smith, a leading 
 undertaker of Lawrence. 
 
 HON. McCOWN HUNT, of Leavenworth, 
 was born at Fort Polk, Point Isabelle,Tex., 
 November 11, 1849, and was brought by his 
 parents in the same year to Fort Leavenworth, 
 then in Kansas Territory. During his boyhood 
 he spent considerable time at this fort, his father 
 being stationed here. His education was ob- 
 tained principally in the Polytechnic Institute of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. He then settled in the city of 
 Leavenworth, Kans. Later he was in the gov- 
 ernment employ in St. Louis and was interested 
 in the old St. Louis Gas Company. On his re- 
 
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 turn to Leavenworth for three years he engaged 
 in the mercantile business, and was then elected 
 clerk of the district court. Since then he has 
 been identified with important interests in this 
 city. He was one of the organizers and directors 
 of the Leavenworth Light and Heating Compa- 
 ny, in which for years he owned shares. A char- 
 ter member and director of the Leavenworth 
 Electric Light Company, he also served as its sec- 
 retary until it was absorbed by the Leavenworth 
 Light and Heating Company, and he was re- 
 tained as secretary of the latter organization until 
 he disposed of his interest therein. He is the 
 owner of considerable real estate in and near 
 Leavenworth, to the improvement of which he 
 has given much attention, and the value of which 
 has been enhanced by his judicious management. 
 Active in the Republican party, Mr. Hunt has 
 for some years been connected with political af- 
 fairs. He served for three years as chairman of 
 the Republican cit}- central committee. His first 
 candidacy was for the county commissioner's of- 
 fice, as the representative of the fourth ward. 
 He was elected, in spite of the fact that the ward 
 usually gave a Democratic majority. At the 
 time there were seven commissioners for the 
 county, but when the census was taken only 
 three were allowed, which left his district out, 
 and he therefore did not take his seat as commis- 
 sioner. For six years he was clerk of the district 
 court. In 1892 he was elected to the house of 
 representatives and served during the session of 
 1893, known as the war session. In 1894 he 
 was re-elected to the house of representatives for 
 the session of 1S95, and in that session he intro- 
 duced a bill making Washington's birthday a 
 legal holiday; this bill passed and became a law. 
 In 1896 his name was presented for state senator, 
 but he declined the nomination. During his 
 terms in the legislature Mr. Hunt was a member 
 of the committee on ways and means, printing, 
 penal institutions, judicial apportionment, and 
 chairman of the committee on manufactures. In 
 1893 he was successful in securing appropriations 
 for various charitable institutions of Leaven- 
 worth. In that session he supported Lucien 
 Baker for the United States senate, but did not 
 
 succeed in electing him. Two years later, how- 
 ever, he was more successful in his champion- 
 ship of the same candidate, to whose cause he 
 gave his stanch support, until finally the victory 
 was won. 
 
 After the death of his first wife, which occurred 
 in Leavenworth, Mr. Hunt was united in mar- 
 riage, June 5, 1889, with Miss Emily G. Gorman, 
 of Darlington, Wis. He is the father of five chil- 
 dren now living: Lafayette Howard, born Sep- 
 tember 13, 1878; Maria Hildegarde, March 22, 
 1881; McCown Nicholas Devereux, August 18, 
 1883; Henrj' Gorman William, September 22, 
 1891; and Mary Ann Emily, August 7, 1894. In 
 religion Mr. Hunt is a Catholic. Fond of all 
 kinds of sports, he was one of the organizers of 
 the Lt-avenworth Anglers Association, the only 
 incorporated fishing club in the state. He is now 
 president of this association, and also secretary of 
 the Leavenworth Boat Club. 
 
 I EAVENWORTH ANGLERS ASSOCI.'XTION. 
 It In May, 1S96, a party of gentlemen met 
 li2f in a private office in the city of Leaven- 
 worth and formed a fishing club, applying under 
 the laws of Kansas for a charter, and on the 13th 
 day of June, 1896, a charter was issued to the 
 Leavenworth Anglers Association as a private 
 corporation under the laws of the state. 
 
 The purposes for which the corporation was 
 formed were to maintain a club for the scientific 
 investigation of Piscatorial Arts, and the instruc- 
 tion of novices in .such arts, and for mutual pro- 
 tection and benevolence. 
 
 The term for which this corporation is to exist 
 under the charter is for ninety-nine years, and 
 the directors and trustees for the first year were 
 as follows: 
 
 McCown Hunt, T. T. Reyburn, 
 
 Robert E. Davis, E. F. Smith, 
 
 Henry B. Dicks, Lucien Baker, 
 
 W. A. Starks, E. S. Catlin, 
 
 H. F. Misselwitz. Mayer Shoyer, 
 
 H. W. Ide. 
 
 After receiving the articles of incorporation and 
 
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 charter the above-named gentlemen met and 
 elected officers for the first year as follows: 
 
 McCown Hunt, president; H. F. Misselwitz, 
 secretary; W. A. Starks, treasurer. In addition 
 to the above the following officers were also 
 elected: H. B. Dicks, captain; Mayer Shoyer, 
 lieutenant; T. T. Reyburn, quartermaster. 
 
 The club has taken two outings each year since 
 its organization, going into camp for ten days at 
 each outing. Having an outfit complete in every 
 detail, the members are as comfortable in camp 
 as at home, and the semi-annual outings are 
 looked forward to with great pleasure by all the 
 members. 
 
 The following is the list of active members of 
 the association: 
 
 T. T. Reyburn, McCown Hunt, 
 
 Dr. Mayer Shoyer, E. F. Smith, 
 
 H. B. Dicks, Dr. C. C. Goddard, 
 
 H. F. Misselwitz, . R. E. Davis, 
 
 Wm. C. Schott, F. W. Keller, 
 
 E. E. Brewster, W. W. Carney, 
 
 O. M. Abernathy, F. B. Dawes, 
 
 Dr. S. J. Renz, H. S. Stevenson, 
 
 E. B. Merritt, F. P. Harkness. 
 
 The membership being limited, the club is now 
 complete, and several applications for member- 
 ship are now in the hands of the secretary await- 
 ing a vacancy. 
 
 The present officers of the club are as follows: 
 
 McCown Hunt, president; O. M. Abernathy, 
 secretary and treasurer; H. B. Dicks, captain; 
 Mayer Shoyer, lieutenant; T. T. Reyburn, quar- 
 termaster. 
 
 The regular meetings of the club are held on 
 the first Thursday of each month at No. 425 
 Delaware street, Leavenworth. 
 
 I OUIS BEURM ANN, who owns and occupies 
 It a farm in Wakarusa Township, Douglas 
 U County, was born in the province of Hanover, 
 Germany, a son of Louis Beurmann, Sr. His 
 birth occurred January 7, 1837, and the following 
 year his parents crossed the ocean to America, 
 making the voyage in a sailing vessel, which after 
 a long trip landed in New Orleans. The father 
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 selected a home in Gasconade County, Mo., but 
 later removed to Kansas, and here resided until 
 his death. Our subject was reared in Missouri 
 and received such advantages as neighboring 
 country schools afforded. He was twenty-nine 
 years of age at the time of coming to Kansas, and 
 here he has since resided, being identified with 
 the farm interests of Douglas County. His first 
 purchase comprised one hundred and seventy 
 acres one-half mile north of his present home. 
 The land was mostly in timber, and few efforts 
 had been made to place it under improvement. 
 He began the clearing of the place, and as soon 
 as he had it in condition for cultivation , planted 
 a crop of potatoes and corn. Each year he in- 
 creased the amount of land cultivated and soon 
 gained a foothold as a farmer. 
 
 Selling that property in 1883 Mr. Beurmann 
 bought one hundred and forty -eight acres where 
 he now lives, and has ninety acres of rich bottom 
 land, all of which is under cultivation. Besides 
 the raising of cereals and vegetables he gives 
 some attention to the stock business, especially to 
 the raising of hogs. He is a thorough, practical 
 farmer, and, although he had no means when he 
 came here, he has acquired by hard work and 
 good judgment a farm that is well improved and 
 valuable. In local affairs he votes for the men he 
 considers best qualified for office, and in national 
 elections casts his ballot for Democratic candi- 
 dates. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the 
 Fourth Missouri Volunteers, and was assigned 
 to duty in the guarding of bridges from Gasconade 
 to St. Louis, serving for eighteen months in the 
 army, after which he was honorably discharged. 
 
 In Missouri, in 1861, Mr. Beurmann married 
 Dorothy Mengelsdorf, daughter of Christopher 
 Mengelsdon", a farmer in that state. They are 
 the parents of six children, viz.: Sophia, wife 
 of Wilson Agl«, of Lawrence; Albert, a farmer, 
 who lives on the home place; Julius, Louise, 
 Minnie and Louis, all at home. The family 
 occupy a neat house built by Mr. Beurmann, 
 who has also built a substantial barn and other 
 buildings as needed. He has taken some interest 
 in bee culture and has a number of hives, but 
 reserves the honey for home use, not caring to 
 
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 sell any. On the farm where he now lives he 
 has a lake stocked with black bass, channel, cat, 
 croppie and sun fish, and every summer hundreds 
 of people come to the grounds to enjoy the fine 
 fishing. 
 
 /P AMUEL SINGER, who has been engaged in 
 /\ business in Leavenworth since 1865, was 
 \~ J born in Stahlstown, near Greensburg, West- 
 moreland Count}', Pa., July 28, 1823, a son of 
 Samuel and Jane (Matthews) Singer, natives 
 respectively of Carlisle and Westmoreland County, 
 Pa. His paternal grandfather, Simon Singer, a 
 native of Switzerland, came to the United States 
 in early manhood and settled in Carlisle, Pa., 
 where his later years were passed. The maternal 
 grandfather, John Matthews, was of Scotch-Irish 
 lineage and a pioneer of Westmoreland County. 
 In religion he was connected with the United 
 Presbyterian Church. Samuel Singer, Sr. , served 
 in the war of 1812 under Gen. William Henry 
 Harrison, and afterward followed the black- 
 smith's trade in Stahlstown, where he died at 
 the age of seventy-five years, six months and 
 fifteen days. His wife died when fortj'-six years 
 old. They were the parents of nine children, 
 five now living. The names of the children are 
 as follows; Mrs. Mary King, who lives in Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, and is eighty-three years old; Mrs. 
 Catherine Harrison and Mrs. Nancy Mcllvaine, 
 deceased; Mrs. Elizabeth Burwell; Mrs. Maggie 
 Bell, who died in Cedar Rapids; Robert, who 
 was county prothonotary at Greensburg, Pa., 
 and died there; Samuel; John M., a member of 
 the Ninth Kansas Cavalry in the Civil war, and 
 now a blacksmith in Fairmount, Kans. ; and 
 Thomas W., in Penn.sylvania. 
 
 When a boy our subject learned the black- 
 smith's trade under his father. In 1S48 he went 
 to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he followed his 
 trade. Iowa was a new state then, and its set- 
 tlers were few. There was still considerable 
 sport for the hunter, and many leisure hours Mr. 
 Singer spent with his gun in the woods. In 
 1 865 he came to Leavenworth and opened a shop 
 on the line of the old road used by teamsters in 
 freighting. At first he had much work for 
 
 Mexican freighters. After some years he built a 
 new .shop at his present location, and there for 
 some time he not only did blacksmithing, but 
 also built wagons. At present he confines his 
 attention to repair work. Politically he is a 
 Republican. He built the residence on Lawrence 
 street now occupied by his family. He was 
 married in Pennsylvania to Jennie Warrick, 
 who was born in Fayette County, a daughter of 
 John Warrick. She is a member of the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church and a lady of industrious 
 disposition and noble character. The children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Singer are named as follows: 
 Mrs. Ella Munson, who died in Platte County, 
 Mo.; Mrs. Maggie Bohman, of Brattleboro, Vt.; 
 Jennie, who died in Leavenworth; Thomas, a 
 machinist, with the Great Western Manufacturing 
 Company ; James, a wagon-maker employed with 
 his father; and Edwin, who is also with his father. 
 
 EAPT. NATHANIEL C. CRADIT, who is 
 one of the oldest surviving settlers of Pal- 
 myra Township, Douglas County, is now 
 somewhat retired from active business cares, al- 
 though he still superintends the management of 
 his farm of one hundred and fifty acres adjoining 
 the village of Media. He was born in Ithaca, 
 Tompkins County, N. Y., March 11, 1827. His 
 boyhood years were spent on a farm near that city 
 and he was educated in country .schools. In early 
 life he accompanied his parents to Michigan and 
 settled in Jackson County. At eighteen years of 
 age he left home and began an apprenticeship to 
 the wagon-maker's trade, at which he .ser\-ed for 
 three years. He then went to Chicago, 111., and 
 secured employment at woodwork carpentering 
 on a railroad. He helped to build the first freight 
 and passenger depot that was erected on the 
 north side of that city, it being owned by the old 
 Galena Company, now the Chicago & North- 
 western. He continued with the railroad com- 
 pany until the road was built to Freeport, 111., 
 after which he worked on the Air Line Railroad 
 for seven years, taking charge of the building of 
 the company's turn tables and water tanks. 
 In the spring of 1857 Mr. Cradit came to Kan- 
 
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 sas and brought with him a saw-mill from Chi- 
 cago to Douglas County. This he erected in 
 Palmyra Township and continued to operate it 
 until 1864, when he sold out. In March, 1864, 
 he enlisted in Company K, Sixteenth Kansas 
 Cavalry, he having raised the company in his own 
 neighborhood. He was commissioned captain. 
 Previous to this the governor had commissioned 
 him captain of the militia which had been em- 
 ployed in guarding the property of citizens at the 
 time of the invasion of pro-slavery men from 
 Missouri. During the Price raid he was stationed 
 in Missouri. In November, 1864, he was ordered 
 to Fort Leavenworth, where he was stationed 
 during the winter. In May, 1865, he was honor- 
 ably discharged from the service on account of 
 disability, the result of an injury to his knee 
 during the Price raid. Among the battles in 
 which he took part were those at Independence 
 and Westport, the engagement at Newtonia, and 
 various skirmishes. 
 
 On his return from the army Captain Cradit 
 purchased one hundred and fifty acres, comprising 
 his present homestead. Here he engaged in gen- 
 eral farming, but gradually became especially in- 
 terested in the stock business and bought and sold 
 cattle and hogs. Some years since he retired 
 from active farm cares, although he still superin- 
 tends his place. December 21, 1852, at Batavia, 
 111., he married Miss Emily E. Pindar, a native 
 of Schoharie County, N. Y., but after 1850 a 
 resident of Illinois. They became the parents of 
 four children, all daughters. Of these, Helen 
 May, born in 1854, died in 1863. Harriet, who 
 was born in i860, was married in 1885 to David 
 Wetherby, of Iowa. Emma, born in 1866, is a 
 stenographer connected with the postoffice in St. 
 Louis, Mo. Fannie, who was born in 1876, is 
 the wife of Elmer Laughin, a merchant of Media. 
 
 Coming here with men of radical free-state 
 views, Captain Cradit early imbibed the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party and has always 
 adhered to them. He enjoys working to secure 
 offices for his friends and has done considerable 
 campaign work, but has never solicited such 
 positions for himself, although had he done so he 
 would doubtless have been as successful as he 
 
 has been in electing his friends to office. He is a 
 genial, popular man, whose circle of friends is 
 very large, and whose position is deservedly high. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Palmyra Lodge 
 No. 45, A. F. & A. M., at Baldwin. 
 
 (lOHN W. WRIGHT, who is one of the prom- 
 I inent contractors and builders of Leaven- 
 (2/ worth, was born in Roanoke County, Va. , 
 July 6, 1858. When he was a boy he gained a 
 thorough knowledge of the carpenter's trade 
 under the instruction of his father, E. A. Wright. 
 When he was twenty-one years of age his father 
 was killed; for a short time afterward our sub- 
 ject continued to reside at home with his mother, 
 but in October, 1879, he married and removed to 
 West Virginia. In 1880 he returned to his na- 
 tive county, where he worked at his trade for two 
 years. 
 
 June 18, 1882, Mr. Wright arrived in Leaven- 
 worth. As there was considerable building in 
 the city he had no trouble in securing employ- 
 ment at his trade. He continued to work for 
 others until 1889, when he began to take con- 
 tracts, and since then he has continued alone, 
 having had numerous contracts for the erection 
 of private and public buildings in the city. While 
 his contracts have mostly been for cottages, he 
 has had some as high as $5,000. In 1893 he did 
 over $33,000 worth of business. In 1890 and 
 1891, during the "boom" in Wichita, Kans., he 
 went to that city, where he was kept steadily en- 
 gaged in filling contracts, one of these being for 
 more than $11,000. 
 
 One of the most noticeable characteristics of 
 the closing years of the nineteenth century is the 
 attention given to building. It seems to be real- 
 ized, as never before, that "a man's house is his 
 castle," and health and happiness demand that 
 this "castle" be well constructed. The occupa- 
 tion of contractor and builder is, therefore, one of 
 great importance. Realizing this Mr. Wright 
 has made it his aim to complete every contract 
 satisfactorily, honestly and faithfully. He has 
 gained a reputation for excellence of work, as well 
 as for diligence and honesty. He devotes him- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 self verj- closely to business affairs, and has little 
 time for politics, although he is a stanch Repub- 
 lican and keeps posted concerning party matters. 
 In 1879 he married Alice Hall, of Roanoke Coun- 
 ty, Va. They have three sons: Frank \V., a 
 student in the Leavenworth high school; Luther 
 M. and Charles R. 
 
 ROBERT S. McFARLAND, superintendent 
 of Oak Hill cemetery, Lawrence, was born 
 near Mau.sfield, Ohio, June 5, 1834, and was 
 reared on a farm in Washington Township, five 
 miles from town, making his home there until 
 twenty- one years of age. He was the only son 
 among three children, his sisters being Sarah, 
 Mrs. William Stone, of Mansfield; and Anna, 
 wife of M. W. Worden, now of Pueblo, Colo., 
 who was first captain of Company E, Thirty- 
 second Ohio Infantry, but through bravery rose 
 to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. The first of 
 the McFarland family to come to America was a 
 musician who enlisted under Lord Dunmore, and 
 came from Scotland to fight the Indians, leading 
 the soldiers with his bagpipe in many a desperate 
 encounter with the savages. Afterward he settled 
 in Virginia as superintendent of a plantation. 
 His son, Robert, was born in the Old Dominion, 
 and was a shoemaker by trade. About 1824 he 
 .settled near Mansfield, Ohio, where he worked at 
 his trade and also farmed. On account of an in- 
 jury he was unable to enlist in the war of 1812, 
 but two of his brothers went to the front. He 
 died in 1856, at eighty-six years of age. His son, 
 David, our subject's father, was born in Loudoun 
 County, Va., and became a farmer in Richland 
 County, Ohio, where he cleared and improved a 
 fine tract of land. On retiring from active labors 
 he settled in Mansfield and there died in June, 
 1866, when sixty-six years of age. In early life 
 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, but 
 later he assisted in organizing the Wesleyan 
 Methodist congregation in his neighborhood, and 
 after the war placed his membership in the Con- 
 gregational Church, in which he later served as a 
 deacon. Politically he was first a Whig, then a 
 Republican. Though of southern birth, he op- 
 posed slavery and was one of the earliest and 
 
 most ardent Abolitionists in Richland County. 
 He married Elizabeth Schlosser, who was born in 
 Hagerstown, Md., a daughter of Andrew Schlos- 
 ser, who was of German descent, and moved to 
 Mansfield, Ohio, about 1S24. In Maryland he 
 had followed the blacksmith's trade, but in Ohio 
 he gave his attention to farming. At the time of 
 his death he was seventy-six years of age. His 
 daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth McFarland, died in 
 Lawrence in November, 1897, aged eighty years. 
 
 During the war Mr. McFarland was a member 
 of Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-third 
 Regiment Ohio National Guard. In 1864 he 
 was mustered into the United States service at 
 Camp Cha.se and, as orderly sergeant, was sent 
 to Washington, where he and others had charge 
 of fortifications. After two weeks he was ordered 
 to Whitehouse Landing, thence to Point of Rocks, 
 on the Appomattox, and after four days to Wil- 
 son's Landing, where he remained until fall. He 
 was then ordered to Columbus, Ohio, and honor- 
 ably discharged September 12, 1864. In 1870 he 
 settled in Mansfield, and, with his father, bought 
 one hundred and fifty acres one and one-half 
 miles from town. This property he improved 
 with neat houses and then sold. He also owned 
 other farms in the same locality. In 1879 he 
 came to Lawrence and in the spring of 1880 be- 
 gan work at the carpenter's trade. 
 
 June 18, 1884, Mr. McFarland was appointed 
 superintendent of Oak Hill cemetery and every 
 year since then he has been re-appointed to the 
 position, the duties of which he has discharged 
 with fidelity. Much of the credit for the beauti- 
 ful cemetery is due to his taste and supervision. 
 He has planted elm, cedar and other trees, and 
 has given close attention to the place, it being his 
 pride that the cemetery is one of the most beauti- 
 ful in the west. Here lie the remains of the 
 victims of the Quantrell raid, as well as many 
 other honored men and women who have passed 
 away .since. Oak Hill embraces forty acres, all 
 of which is laid out with drives and improved 
 with shade trees. He is a charter member of the 
 Association of American Cemetery Superintend- 
 ents, and attended the first and several subsequent 
 meetings of the organization. 
 
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 In Washington Township, Richland County, 
 Ohio, Mr. McFarland married Miss Mary Ellen 
 Ford, daughter of John Ford, who was a farmer 
 there. She died in Ohio Februarj' 7, 1863, leav- 
 ing two children: Milton W., in Mansfield; and 
 Mary Viola, Mrs. E. F. Caldwell, who died in 
 Lawrence in 1887. His second marriage, also in 
 Washington Township, was solemnized Novem- 
 ber 26, 1863, and united him with Miss Marj' 
 Jane McBride, who was born there, a daughter of 
 Augustus and Martha A. (Barnes) McBride, na- 
 tives respectively of Harrisburg, Pa., and Ohio. 
 Her grandfather, David McBride, was born in 
 Scotland, and settled in Pennsylvania, but re- 
 moved to Norwalk, Ohio, and was editor of an 
 Abolition paper there. In religion he was of the 
 Scotch Presbyterian faith. When ninety years 
 of age he died at the home of a son in Wisconsin. 
 Augustus McBride, who was a builder and con- 
 tractor in Washington Township, was a captain 
 of militia and enlisted for service in the Mexican 
 war, remaining at the front until he died, in 
 February, 1848. He was buried in the City of 
 Mexico. His wife was a daughter of Wesley 
 Barnes, who was born in Wheeling, W. Va., and 
 cleared a farm in Washington Township, Rich- 
 land Countj', Ohio (this property afterward be- 
 coming a part of the estate of our subject) . His 
 father died when he was a boy of fifteen, but his 
 mother survived to the great age of one hundred 
 and four years. He had an older brother in the 
 war of 18 1 2. The Barnes family is of English 
 descent, but has been identified with American 
 history from an early period. Mrs. Martha A. 
 (Barnes) McBride died in Washington, Ohio, at 
 the age of seventy-three years. She had a 
 brother, T. N., who served in the Mexican war, 
 and at the opening of the Civil war was commis- 
 sioned a captain, rising to the rank of lieutenant- 
 colonel. Four other of her brothers also served 
 in the Union army. In her family there were 
 four children, Mrs. McFarland and three sons. 
 The oldest. Judge Robert W. McBride, who was 
 a member of Lincoln's body guard during the 
 Civil war, afterward became an attorney and 
 judge in Indianapolis, Ind.; James N., who was 
 in the Sixty-fifth Ohio Infantry and was wounded 
 
 in service, resides at Waterloo, Ind. ; and Thomas 
 H., who was a member of the Sixty-sixth Ohio 
 Infantry, was wounded in the battle of Lookout 
 Mountain and died shortly afterward. The chil- 
 dren of Mr. and Mrs. McFarland are as follows: 
 Mrs. Lizzie Brown, wife of W. B. Brown, of 
 Lawrence; Mrs. Mattie R. Hackman, wife of 
 George W. Hackman, of Lawrence; Mrs. Edna 
 D. Patterson, wife of W. A. Patterson, of Chi- 
 cago; and David F. , a student in the University 
 of Kansas, cla.ss of 1900. 
 
 Since 1867 Mr. McFarland has been a member 
 of the Odd Fellows. He is past officer in Lodge 
 No. 18, a member of the encampment, and past 
 officer in Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 4. In 
 Washington Post No. 12 he is officiating as com- 
 mander, and is keenly interested in all Grand 
 Army matters. His wife is past president of 
 Woman's Relief Corps No. 9, and was an aide on 
 the national president's staff. Since 1867 she 
 has been a member of the Rebekah Degree, and 
 has held ofiBce as noble grand and also has served 
 as a member of the state council. Both Mr. and 
 Mrs. McFarland are members of the Fraternal 
 Aid and Knights and Ladies of Security, in 
 which she is a past officer. They are identified 
 with Plymouth Congregational Church of Law- 
 rence, and contribute to its various enterprises. 
 Since casting his first vote for John C. Fremont 
 Mr. McFarland has been in touch with the issues 
 of the age and has given his influence and ballot 
 to Republican candidates and principles. 
 
 THAN B. KECK. Three miles northwest 
 ^ of Tonganoxie lies a neat farm of eighty 
 __ acres, on which have been made improve- 
 ments of a valuable nature and which is one of 
 the many comfortable rural homes of Leaven- 
 worth County. It is the property of Mr. Keck, 
 who came to Kansas in September, 1868, and 
 purchased the place, then unimproved and uncul- 
 tivated. Through his efforts it has been trans- 
 formed into its present condition, and its neat ap- 
 pearance proves him to be a man of energy and 
 perseverance. He was born in Fulton County, 
 N. Y., October 6, 1840, a son of John and Lany 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 (Burns) Keck, natives of the same county. Dur- 
 ing 1840 his father removed to Kane County, 
 111., and purchased a raw tract of land, to the cul- 
 tivation of which he afterward devoted himself. 
 He was fairly successful as a farmer. In politics 
 he voted the Republican ticket and in religion 
 affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 His death occurred when he was seventy-three 
 years of age, while his wife was sixty-five at the 
 time of her demise. She was a daughter of Rob- 
 ert Burns, of Scotland, and in religious belief 
 was a Methodist. Of her thirteen children, our 
 subject was the eldest. He was an infant when 
 the family settled in Illinois and hence from his 
 earliest recollections he was familiar with fron- 
 tier farming. Being industrious, he early learned 
 to make himself useful at home, and in this way 
 he gained a thorough knowledge of agriculture. 
 
 Shortly after the opening of the Civil war, in 
 August, 1 86 1, Mr. Keck enlisted in the Union 
 army as a member of Company C, Thirty-sixth 
 Illinois Infantry. Enlisting as a private, he was 
 promoted to be a sergeant. His service covered 
 four years and two months. He took part in 
 the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., the engagements 
 of the Atlanta campaign, and those at Franklin 
 and Nashville, Tenn. At the battle of Stone 
 River, Tenn., he received an injury that frac- 
 tured his skull, and for six months he was con- 
 fined, in hospitals at Chattanooga, Tenn., and 
 Louisville, Ky. He was also wounded by a shell 
 in the left shoulder during the battle of Chicka- 
 raauga, which disabled him for three months and 
 obliged him to remain in the hospital at Nash- 
 ville. At Stone River, Tenn., he was captured, 
 but escaped within two hours. He was mustered 
 out October 8, 1865, and returned to his home in 
 Illinois. For two years he rented a farm in that 
 .state. From there he came to Kan.sas in 1868 
 and settled upon the place where he now lives. 
 
 January 24, 1866, Mr. Keck married Margaret 
 Cabeen, of Mercer County, 111. They had seven 
 children, two of whom are deceased. Those liv- 
 ing are: John Theron, who lives in Butte, Mont.; 
 Robert Russell, in California; Richard C, who 
 is with his parents; Charlotte B., wife of Robert 
 A. Robert.son; and Ida, who married Henry To- 
 
 buren, of Tonganoxie. The family are connec- 
 ted with the Presbyterian Church. Formerly a 
 Republican, since 1890 Mr. Keck has affiliated 
 with the Populists. He has .served as delegate 
 to count}' and district conventions and has been 
 a member of the township committee. He is in- 
 terested in Grand Army affairs and holds mem- 
 bership in the post at Tonganoxie. 
 
 3 AMES Mcdonald, who entered the gov- 
 ernment employ in 1859, is familiar with the 
 history of the west during its pioneer days 
 and has spent the greater part of his activelifein 
 accompanying the regular army upon its western 
 expeditions. He was one of the first to come to 
 this part of the country, and during early days 
 devoted considerable attention to the buying and 
 selling of squatters' claims, particularly in Ne- 
 maha and Jackson Counties, in which line of 
 work he was quite successful. He is now prac- 
 tically retired from active business cares, but still 
 superintends a small place on the reservation 
 at Fort Leavenworth and furnishes the families 
 at the fort with milk and butter. 
 
 Born in Ireland in 1836, Mr. McDonald ac- 
 companied his mother to Canada and thence to 
 the United States in 1848 and .settled at Ogdens- 
 burg, N. Y., where he remained for some years. 
 In company with a brother, in 1857 he came to 
 Kansas. Afterward he was emploj-ed as team- 
 ster for the government at Fort Leavenworth, and 
 as assistant wagon master made a number of 
 trips over the plains to Fort Laramie, Wyo., 
 Fort Union, N. M., and other points in the west. 
 Meantime he continued to make his home at the 
 reservation. During the Civil war he was em- 
 ployed as teamster between this fort and Scott 
 and Riley, and was a teamster in the battle of 
 Big Creek. While engaged in teaming he met 
 with a number of accidents, but, fortunately, 
 none of them proved serious. In the work of a 
 teamster for the government, accompanying 
 troops of soldiers from fort to fort, and having 
 charge of baggage, etc. , his active years were 
 passed. Like others of that day and occupation 
 he was more than once in peril from the Indians. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 He has seen all the changes made on the frontier, 
 where towns have been built and ranches started, 
 and other evidences of improvements made visi- 
 ble. In religion he is identified with the Roman 
 Catholic Church at the fort and is also connected 
 with the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. 
 
 By the marriage of Mr. McDonald, in 1866, to 
 Nora Grane}', nine children were born, viz.: 
 Mary; Wenfred; James, who is a teamster in the 
 government employ and participated in the San- 
 tiago campaign in 1898; Peter, Annie, John, 
 Nora, Katie and Thomas. 
 
 GlLEXANDER LEWIS. The Lewis family 
 U was founded in America by two brothers, 
 I I John and James, in a very early day. Johni 
 eldest son of James, had a son John, born October 
 13, 1683, whose eldest son, John, settled at North 
 Yarmouth, Mass. The latter's second son, James, 
 was born at North Yarmouth December 27, 1724, 
 and married Lydia Pratt, by whom he had five 
 sons and five daughters. The oldest son and 
 second child, John, was born in Ma.ssachusetts in 
 1754, and married Mary Phelps, born May 27, 
 1767. Of their thirteen children, all but one at- 
 tained maturity. In early manhood he settled in 
 Suffield, Conn., where his children were born 
 and where his death occurred. During the Revo- 
 lutionary war he served in the American army. 
 Of his children the sixth was Luther, father of 
 the subject of this sketch. He was born in Suf- 
 field, Conn., April 9, 1791, and served in the war 
 of 18 12, after which he settled on a farm in 
 Jacksonville, Tompkins County, N.Y., and there 
 died at sixty-nine years. When a young man he 
 learned the wheelwright's trade, but never fol- 
 lowed it to any extent. He married Mary Shel- 
 don, who was born in Suffield, Conn., February 
 24, 1792, and they became the parents of the fol- 
 lowing named children: John, Mary, Luther, and 
 Mrs. Eliza Carman, who died in New York state; 
 Mrs. Ann McConnell, who resides in Elmira, 
 N. Y.; and Alexander, who was born near Jack- 
 sonville, N. Y., November 13, 1830. 
 
 Until twenty-six years of age our subject re- 
 mained on the old homestead. Becoming inter- 
 
 ested in Kansas at the time of the border warfare, 
 he came to Lawrence in March, 1857. At first he 
 took up a claim, but soon sold it. Prior to the 
 war he carried on a grocery business, and during 
 the war he engaged in buying supplies for the 
 army. In 1863 he returned to New York, and in 
 Lansing, that state, married Miss Mary Frances 
 North, daughter of Josiah North, a prosperous 
 tanner there. He was returning to Lawrence 
 with his wife at the time the Quantrell raid oc- 
 curred and was therefore in no personal danger, 
 but he lost $5,000 bj' fire. On his return he 
 was obliged to build anew. He continued gov- 
 ernment contracting until the close of the war, 
 after which he engaged in the lumber business. 
 In 1868 he located on the corner of Massachu- 
 setts and Quincy streets, where he has a yard 
 200x117, with sheds, etc., and carries in stock a 
 full line of lumber and building material. At 
 the time of the Price raid he was mustered into 
 Rifle Company, Third Kan.sas Militia, Captain 
 Swift, and served for a short time. In politics he 
 is a Republican, and in religion belongs to the 
 Plymouth Congregational Church. His wife died 
 August 5, 1898, leaving an only son, Luther 
 North Lewis, who was educated in the high 
 school and University of Kansas, and is now en- 
 gaged with his father in business. 
 
 r~ RED W. KELLER, who is engaged in the 
 r3 livery business in Leavenworth, was born 
 I eight miles from Berlin, Germany, a son of 
 William and Lisetta (Gehr) Keller. When he 
 was eleven years of age the family came to the 
 United States and settled in Leavenworth, Kans., 
 where in the public schools he readily acquired 
 a knowledge of the English language. Six months 
 after his arrival in this country he was able to 
 speak English fluently. In 1872 he became in- 
 terested in dentistry and by careful study gained 
 a thorough knowledge of the business in Leav- 
 enworth, which he followed until failing health 
 compelled a change of occupation. In 1884 he 
 bought an interest in a livery business in this 
 city, of which he assumed charge the following 
 year. Since then he has given his entire time 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and attention to the business and has built up a 
 large and profitable trade. He keeps twenty-six 
 head of horses for rent, and also has many horses 
 that he boards for the owners. His line of hacks 
 and carriages is complete and modern. In 1897 
 the frame barn standing on the lot was torn down 
 and a brick two-story structure, with elevators, 
 etc., was erected, in which the business has since 
 been conducted. 
 
 In political matters Mr. Keller is independent, 
 and has never cared to identify himself with pub- 
 lic affairs, nor has he been willing to accept offi- 
 cial positions, although he accepted nominations 
 for the council and the school board. He was 
 one of the originators of the Leavenworth Ang- 
 lers' Club, of which he is now a member, and also 
 belongs to the Leavenworth Boat Club. He is 
 secretary and treasurer of the Leavenworth Hack 
 and Hearse Association. Among the people of 
 the city he is well known and popular. The only 
 relaxation from work that he allows himself is 
 with his gun or a good horse or fishing tackle, 
 for he is an ardent sportsman and a successful 
 one besides. 
 
 The residence which Mr. Keller owns and oc- 
 cupies was built by him in 1881 and stands at 
 No. 611 Shawnee street. He is interested in 
 other real estate here. December 26, 1881, he 
 married Alice Weber, of this city. They have 
 two children, Minnie and Joseph. 
 
 yyiARTlN L. STIGGLEMAN. This welL 
 Y known farmer and stock- raiser of Alexan- 
 (S dria Township, Leavenworth County, was 
 born in Wayne County, Ind., June 3, 1840. He 
 is a descendant, in the fourth generation, of John 
 Stiggleman, a native of Germany, who settled in 
 Virginia and followed the millwright's trade, also 
 served in the Revolutionary war under Washing- 
 ton. His son, John, migrated to Indiana when 
 that section of the country was new and sparsely 
 settled; he established his home in the eastern 
 part of the state, where he built several mills. 
 Under his careful instruction his sons were taught 
 the millwright's trade and were also made familiar 
 with farm work. One of these sons was John, 
 
 our subject's father, and a native of Virginia, but 
 from infancy a resident of Indiana. Schools be- 
 ing few and the instruction offered crude, he had 
 meagre advantages, but, being a man of bright 
 mind and habits of observation, he became well 
 informed. In fact, when every circumstance is 
 considered, it is remarkable that he gained such 
 wide knowledge as he possessed. He was the 
 victim of two catastrophes while still very j-oung. 
 When only nine months old one hand was burned 
 and at six years of age his right hand was acci- 
 dentally cut off by a brother. Notwithstanding 
 these afHictions he learned the millwright's trade, 
 and also, from 1844 to 1892, engaged in farm 
 work. Politically he was a Democrat and a warm 
 admirer of Stephen A. Douglas. He was not a 
 seeker after official positions and held none ex- 
 cept that of road overseer. In religion he was an 
 earnest member of the United Brethren Church. 
 By his first wife, Phoebe Walters, he had eight 
 children, three of whom are living, our subject 
 and two married daughters in Indiana. His 
 .second wife was Clementine Scott, and they had 
 four children, three of whom survive. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired 
 principally by his unaided efforts, as he had little 
 opportunity for schooling. During the Civil 
 war he served in Company K, Fifty-seventh 
 Indiana Infantry, which was assigned to the Cum- 
 berland valley under General Rosecrans. He was 
 present at Stone River, Chickamauga, Kenesaw 
 Mountain and took part in the Telehama cam- 
 paign, in which for sixteen days he wore wet 
 clothes. After three years of service he was 
 honorably discharged. Returning to his home in 
 Indiana he remained on a farm there until 1868, 
 when he came to Kansas. For eight years he 
 was emploj'ed on the Lecompton road by two 
 parties, with the last of whom he remained for 
 four years lacking only one-half day. In 1876 
 he bought forty acres adjoining an eighty-acre 
 tract purchased five years before, and in the spring 
 of 1877 he settled upon the place, starting out for 
 himself as a farmer. He began in the cattle busi- 
 ness on a very small scale, having only two cows, 
 but within ten years he had raised one hundred 
 calves. His specialty has been Shorthorn cattle, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 615 
 
 while in hogs he has registered Poland-China 
 stock. The cattle industry takes almost his en- 
 tire attention, and the hay and grain raised on the 
 farm are used solely for feed. In 1895 he erected 
 a fine country home and he also has a large and 
 -substantial barn. He has never cared to hold 
 office, but has served as road overseer and mem- 
 ber of the election board, and in politics is a 
 Democrat. He is a member of the Grand Army 
 Post at Mclyouth and takes an interest in every- 
 thing pertaining to it. 
 
 August 6, 1868, Mr. Stiggleman married 
 Catherine Byers, who died the following year. 
 He was again married, January 25, 1875, his wife 
 being Mary Robinson, of Leavenworth County, 
 daughter of James and Elizabeth Robinson. 
 They became the parents of six children: Eliza- 
 beth, deceased; Viola V., John, Mabel, Volney 
 and Bertie. 
 
 QlCHARD H. KINGSLEY, chief engineer of 
 U^ the United States penitentiary at Fort Leav- 
 y\ enworth, was born at Niagara, Canada, 
 September 6, 1837, a son of George C. and Mary 
 (Hobbs) Kingsley, the latter of Irish parentage 
 and the former of English birth and descent. As 
 an officer in the British army his father was 
 ordered from England to Canada during the re- 
 bellion of 1835 and was afterward stationed in 
 this country until his death, three years later. 
 In the family there were five children, and all of 
 these are still living, Richard H. being the 
 youngest. Su.san is the wife of David Stewart, 
 of Detroit, Mich.; Jane is the widow of Judge 
 Hubbard, of Oakland, Cal.; Sarah married John 
 Hubbard and makes her home in California; 
 George C. is living in New Brunswick. 
 
 Reared in Detroit, Mich. , the subject of this 
 sketch received his education in the schools of 
 that city. In 1851 he commenced to learn the 
 machinist's trade, which he followed in his home 
 town until 1857. He then came to Leavenworth, 
 Kans., and entered the emplo}' of the Great 
 Western Manufacturing Company. Later he was 
 engaged as engineer on a Missouri River steam- 
 boat, plying between Kansas City and Lexington, 
 and for four years he followed the river. After- 
 
 ward, for eight years, he was employed as en- 
 gineer on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and as 
 superintendent of the roundhouse. Going to 
 California in 1874, he was employed in the Sierra 
 Nevada mountains, on the Central Pacific Rail- 
 road. The following year he returned to Kansas 
 and accepted a position as engineer on the Santa 
 Fe Railroad, in which capacity he continued 
 until 1882. He then resigned in order to accept 
 the positionof chief engineer of the United States 
 penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, which appoint- 
 ment was tendered him by the secretary of war, 
 Lincoln. In 1895 the United States civil govern- 
 ment took charge of the institution. He has re- 
 tained his position through the various changes 
 in administration, and has won the confidence of 
 the penitentiary officials, who have the highest 
 regard for his ability and thorough knowledge of 
 his work. He has full charge of motive power 
 and construction, and at this writing is superin- 
 tending the erection of machinery at the new 
 penitentiary, under the direction of the warden. 
 Having made a life study of mechanical engineer- 
 ing, he is fitted for positions of responsibility. 
 He has kept posted upon all inventions in con- 
 nection with engineering, and is thoroughly 
 familiar with the occupation which he has made 
 his life work. During the entire period of his 
 connection with engines and machinery, which 
 covers almost a half century, he has met with no 
 serious accident, but his intelligent supervision 
 has prevented the catastrophes that sometimes 
 happen in the management of large plants. 
 Since 1882 he has made his home on the military 
 reservation. During the early '60s, under the 
 administration of Mayor Carney, he was ap- 
 pointed first chief engineer of the Leavenworth 
 fire department. At another time he was first 
 master mechanic of the engine department of the 
 Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, 
 between Lawrence and Ottawa. In politics he is 
 a Democrat, but takes no part in public affairs. 
 
 September 16, 1861, Mr. Kingsley married 
 Mary Valliant, who died, leaving four children. 
 The eldest of these, Clarence R., is master 
 mechanic on the Santa Fe road at Woodward, 
 Okla. The second son, Joseph, is assistant en- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 giiieer at the Leavenworth water works. The 
 third sou, Walter, is with his brother Clarence. 
 The youngest of the four children is Maude, wife 
 of Huuiphrej- O'Learj-. The second marriage of 
 Mr. Kingsley united him with Mrs. Mary Curry, 
 who was the mother of two daughters: Margaret, 
 wife of John D. L. Sheehan, of Washington, 
 D. C; and Mary. 
 
 Gl DOLPHUS G. OATMAN. In order to give 
 LA his children the advantages of a university 
 I I education Mr. Oatman settled in Lawrence 
 in iS8o. He purchased ten and one-fourth acres 
 of land adjoining the city on the northwest and 
 upon that place established a fruit farm, to which 
 he has since given his attention. All of the im- 
 provements have been made under his supervision 
 and the neat appearance of the farm proves the 
 thrift of the owner. While he is not a politician 
 and has invariablj' declined to become a candi- 
 date for office, he has always kept posted concern- 
 ing problems affecting the prosperity' of the peo- 
 ple and has been an active worker in the Repub- 
 lican partj'. 
 
 In Dundee, Kane County, 111., our subject was 
 born August 13, 1840, a son of James R. and 
 Letitia (Davidson) Oatman. His grandfather, 
 John Oatman, a native of Kentucky, was a min- 
 ister in the Christian Church and also a farmer. 
 About 1820 he removed to Indiana and later set- 
 tled in Eureka, 111., thence went to Dundee, the 
 same state, and finally established his home in 
 Texas, where he died at ninety years of age. 
 When Texas was in an almost wild state he en- 
 gaged in stock-raising there, but he was con- 
 stantly harassed by Indians. At one time the 
 savages stole considerable from him and he and 
 his sons started after them, and a few daj's later 
 they overtook them, killed some of the Indians 
 and recovered most of the property'. Several of 
 his .sons served in the Black Hawk and Civil wars. 
 
 James R. Oatman was one of fifteen children, 
 twelve sons and three daughters. He was born 
 in Indiana. When his son, our subject, was three 
 years of age he settled near Peoria, 111. At the 
 time of the Civil war he removed to Fort Scott, 
 Kans., where he engaged in the real-estate busi- 
 
 ness on an extensive scale. Owing to ill health 
 he took his family to Leavenworth, while he ac- 
 cepted a position as traveling salesman for a soap 
 company. When the firm removed to Denver, 
 Colo., he accompanied them, but, owing to 
 another failure of health, he resigned and went to 
 Kansas City. He died at the home of his son, 
 A. G., in the winter of 1898-99. At the time of 
 the war he was a stanch Abolitionist. B3' his 
 marriage to Miss Davidson, of Eureka, 111., he 
 had seven children, of whom our subject is the 
 oldest and all are still living but one. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired 
 principally in Eureka College. He was a mem- 
 ber of the freshman class when the Civil war 
 broke out, and he at once enlisted, his name be- 
 ing enrolled, in May, 1861, as a member of Com- 
 pany G, Seventeenth Illinois Infantry. Later 
 he was appointed musician. After the battle of 
 Shiloh he was mustered out of the service. He 
 re-enlisted, becoming lieutenant in the One Hun- 
 dred and Eighth Illinois Infantry and taking part 
 in about twelve engagements of his command, in- 
 cluding Donelson, the battles around Vicksburg, 
 and Memphis. In August, 1865, he was honor- 
 ably discharged, and joined the family in Illinois. 
 Owing to his father's ill health he assisted him 
 in business and engaged in land dealing. In 
 1 874 he went to Leavenworth and for about three 
 years was employed as a clerk, but his eyesight 
 troubled him to such an extent that he was forced 
 to resign his position. Going to Denver he was 
 employed in the soap works until his settlement 
 in Lawrence in 1880. He is a member of the 
 Modern Woodmen of America, Wa.shington Post 
 No. 12, G. A. R., and in religious belief is con- 
 nected with the Christian Church. 
 
 At Bennington, Vt., February 4, 1S67, Mr. 
 Oatman married Mary A. Ransom. They became 
 the parents of five children. Eva is the wife of 
 Walter Harriott, of Wakarusa Township, Doug- 
 las County. The oldest son. Homer C. Oatman, 
 M.D., is a graduate of the pharmac}- department 
 of the University of Kansas and Hahnemann 
 Medical College in Chicago. For three years he 
 practiced in Lawrence, after which he took a 
 medical course in Edinburgh, Scotland, desiring 
 
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 the advantages offered by European colleges and 
 hospitals. On his return he resumed practice in 
 Lawrence. He is a stockholder in a company 
 that is engaged in zinc and lead mining in Joplin, 
 Mo. The younger son, Arthur Roy, is a fruit 
 farmer in Wakarusa Township. Helen Maria is 
 the wife of Alric G. Aldrich, who is connected 
 with i\\eJoiir7ial, of Lawrence. Mary Josephine, 
 the youngest of the family, is deceased. 
 
 (Tames p. LINDSEY, one of the successful 
 I farmers and coal operators in Franklin Coun- 
 (2/ ty, occupies and owns a valuable farm com- 
 prising four hundred and fifty-two acres and sit- 
 uated west of the central part of Greenwood 
 Township. Here he is engaged in raising farm 
 produce and stock. His land is underlaid with a 
 fine quality of soft coal, and he has taken out 
 hundreds of tons, operating successfully in coal 
 mining. During almost the entire period of his 
 residence in this township he has held the office 
 of school director, and has endeavored to pro- 
 mote the welfare of school No. 59. As a Repub- 
 lican he is identified with local politics. At the 
 opening of the Civil war he enlisted in Company 
 A, Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and was as- 
 signed to the Army of the Cumberland, Four- 
 teenth Array Corps, in which he served three 
 years. 
 
 A son of James and Charlotte (Anthony) Lind- 
 sey, our subject was born in Orange County, 
 Ind., in 1842. His father, a native of Kentucky, 
 and a pioneer of Indiana, bought a large tract of 
 congressional land in Orange County, where he 
 became a leading and influential farmer. He died 
 therein 1869, at the age of sixty-four, His ances- 
 tors came to America in a very early day and 
 were among the first to settle in Chambersburg, 
 Pa., whence James Lindsey, Sr. (our subject's 
 grandfather), removed to Kentucky with his 
 family. Our subject's mother was born in Ken- 
 tucky and died in Indiana in 1889, when seven- 
 ty-two years of age. 
 
 Coming to Kansas in 1868, our subject at once 
 became interested in this state. In the fall of 
 1869 he purchased eighty acres in Greenwood 
 
 Township, Franklin County, and began farming 
 on a small scale. From time to time he made 
 additional purchases, and now owns one of the 
 largest farms for miles around. An industrious, 
 persevering man, he has met with a success to 
 which his labors entitle him. He is a charter 
 member of the Masonic blue lodge in Pomona, 
 and in religion is an active member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. 
 
 January 14, 1S69, Mr. Lindsey married Miss 
 Mary Moore, of Indiana, who died in 1878. 
 They were the parents of four children: Mary, 
 who is the wife of Albert Cole; Phyllis T., Mrs. 
 A. Sutton; Susan M., Mrs. H. Hettic; and James 
 W., deceased. The present wife of Mr. Lindsey 
 was Mrs. Clara (Osgood) Bannon, by whom he 
 has five children: William, Hattie E., Calvin B., 
 John P. and George L., all at home. Mrs. Lind- 
 sey was born in Green County, Wis., and was 
 one of six children, four of whom are now living, 
 viz.: Charles, of Washington state; Clara; Belle, 
 wife of Robert Ralston; and Dora E. , who mar- 
 ried John Emley, of Washington. Her father, 
 Benjamin F. Osgood, was born in New York 
 state and in an early day migrated to Wisconsin. 
 In 1857 he settled in Marshall County, Kans., 
 where he engaged in farming. From that coun- 
 ty, in 1869, he removed to Douglas Countj', but 
 later removed to Osage County. In 1892 he took 
 his family to the state of Washington, and there 
 he is now living, at eighty-two years of age. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca 
 Robb, was born in Pennsylvania and died in 
 Washington May 24, 1899, aged seventy-nine 
 years. 
 
 (Joseph NEWSOME is the proprietor of the 
 I Leavenworth Steam Boiler Works, which 
 (2/ were established by himself in 1864, and in 
 which are manufactured steam boilers and tanks 
 of every description. Under his supervision a 
 large business has been built up, and the works, 
 at Choctaw street, between Second and Third, 
 have been enlarged to meet the increased de- 
 mands. He has been given the principal busi- 
 ness in his line in this city, including the work 
 for the United States prison and other large insti- 
 
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 tulioiis, and in every instance the contracts have 
 been filled with efficiency and judgment. On ac- 
 count of advancing years he now desires to sell 
 his boiler works and retire from business cares. 
 
 Mr. Newsome is of English birth and descent. 
 He was born near Leeds, Yorkshire, March 29, 
 1828, a .son of William and Sarah (Longbottom) 
 Newsome, natives respectively of Leeds and Dews- 
 bury, Yorkshire. His father, who was a cloth 
 weaver by trade, removed to London and there 
 died at forty-five years. His wife died in the 
 same city when ninety-two years of age. They 
 were the parents of nine children, all but one of 
 whom attained years of maturity. When Joseph 
 left Loudon in 1853 he had seven sisters living in 
 that city, but now all are dead except Emma and 
 Maria, who still live in Loudon. When sixteen 
 our subject was apprenticed to the trade of a 
 boiler-maker, at which he served until tweuty- 
 one, and then worked as a journeyman. In 1853 
 he sailed for America on the "Queen of the 
 South," a sailing vessel, which anchored in New 
 York after a voyage of five weeks and two days. 
 Proceeding to Louisville, Ky., he worked at his 
 trade until the failure of his employers forced 
 him to seek employment elsewhere. He was a 
 foreman in the first locomotive shop established in 
 Louisville. From that city he went to St. Louis, 
 and July 3, 1855, returned to Louisville, arriving 
 there on the night of the great Know-Nothing 
 riot. He had been promised a position as fore- 
 man, but on Monday, the day of the riot, there 
 was so little prospect of the shop being started 
 again that he returned to St. Louis, where he 
 worked at his trade. 
 
 The spring of 1857 found Mr. Newsome fore- 
 man in a foundry at Alton, 111., and there he re- 
 mained until the works were closed in i86i, after 
 which he opened a shop of his own. In 1864 he 
 came to Leavenworth and started the works 
 which he has since conducted with success. He 
 is an energetic business man, gives his attention 
 closely to the management of the works, and 
 allows nothing to interfere with his business 
 duties. While he is a Democrat and a member 
 of the Odd Fellows, neither politics nor fraternal 
 associations take his attention from his business. 
 
 In everj' transaction he is frank and out.spoken, 
 and his word is always to be relied upon. Under- 
 neath a stern, and at times repellant, exterior, 
 beats a heart that is large and true, and it is this 
 large-heartedness that wins friends for him. He 
 is notably a man of common sense and sound 
 judgment, and in every business dealing no mat- 
 ter, however weighty, is allowed to cloud his 
 judgment. 
 
 While in St. Louis Mr. Newsome married Miss 
 Polly Fontanna, who was born in England, of 
 Swi.ss and English parentage. The ten sons and 
 two daughters born of this union are living, viz.: 
 William J., George A., Charles and Joseph, of 
 Leavenworth; Grant, of Herrington, Kans. ; Lee, 
 who lives in El Paso, Tex.; Mark T., who is in 
 Kansas City; Ben, who assists his father in busi- 
 ness; James, Grover Cleveland, Sadie and Ella. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM DENHOLM, a farmer and stock- 
 \A/ S^'^^'^'^^ of Stranger Township, Leaven- 
 V V worth County, was born in Scotland, July 
 30, 1S32, and was reared on a farm, meantime 
 learning the carpenter's trade under his father, 
 George Denholm. His mother, Elizabeth White, 
 died in Scotland. Afterward, about 1853, the 
 remaining members of the family came to the 
 United States and settled in New York City, the 
 father becoming owner of a small farm on Long 
 Island. His character was that of a typical 
 Scotchman, strictly honest, industrious and 
 thrifty, and in religion he was a Presbyterian. 
 His death occurred when he was ninety-two 
 years of age. 
 
 After settling in New York our subject fol- 
 lowed the carpenter's trade for some years. 
 Then, coming west to Illinois, he worked in 
 Rock Island, later going to Clinton County, 
 Iowa. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company 
 H, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry, as a private, and 
 served until June, 1865, meantime taking part in a 
 number of noted battles and accompanying Sher- 
 man on his march to the sea. In spite of his 
 long and active service he was neither wounded 
 nor taken prisoner. On receiving his honorable 
 discharge from the army he returned to Iowa. 
 
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 In the winter of 1865-66 he came to Kansas and 
 purchased eighty acres of unimproved land, form- 
 ing the nucleus of his present property. Jointly 
 with his son, he now owns six hundred acres of 
 land. He has been a hard-working, persevering 
 man, and deserves prosperity and success. In 
 politics he is a Republican, but he has never nar- 
 rowly and rigidly adhered to party lines, but has 
 been liberal in his views. 
 
 September 15, 1859, Mr. Denholm married 
 Miss Nancy Mitchell, who was born in New- 
 castle, Pa., December 19, 1832, a daughter of 
 Andrew and Jane (Dool) Mitchell, natives of 
 Ireland. Her father emigrated to America when 
 a young man and afterward for a time followed 
 the stonemason's trade and taught school. In 
 1853 he settled in Rock Island, 111., but after a 
 short time bought a farm in Clinton County, Iowa. 
 From there, in 1864, he came to Leavenworth 
 County, Kans., and settled in Stranger Town- 
 ship, where his death occurred in 1876, at sev- 
 enty-five years of age. He was a Presbyterian 
 in religion and a Republican in politics. His 
 wife, who was also a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, died in this township at the age of sev- 
 enty-four years. The two children of Mr. and 
 Mr. Denholm are George A. and Jennie E. , Mrs. 
 L. J. Morgan, of Montana. 
 
 [{JEORGE a. DENHOLM was born in De- 
 |_ witt, Clinton County, Iowa, July 12, i860. 
 y^ When- he was five years of age he was 
 brought to Kansas by his parents, and from that 
 time to this he has made his home in Stranger 
 Township, Leavenworth County. His education 
 was obtained in public schools, the Kansas State 
 University and the Lawrence Business College. 
 Since leaving college he has been associated with 
 his father in the management of their farm and 
 has also given considerable attention the dairy 
 business, in which he is meeting with success. 
 
 Matters pertaining to the business, agricultural, 
 moral or educational welfare of Stranger Town- 
 ship receive the co-operation and assistance of 
 Mr. Denholm, who is a progressive citizen, thor- 
 oughly believing in enterprises calculated to pro- 
 
 mote the interests of his locality. While his at- 
 tention is, of course, principally given to his own 
 affairs, which demand constant thought, never- 
 theless he finds time to keep posted concerning 
 the problems before our country to-day, and has 
 intelligent convictions upon all important sub- 
 jects. He is a believer in the principles for which 
 the Republican party stands and has supported 
 the national and local tickets of his party. At 
 this writing he is a member of the school board. 
 With his wife, he is connected with the Congre- 
 gational Church, and now holds the office of trus- 
 tee of the congregation. January 4, 1895, he 
 was united in marriage with Miss Hattie E. 
 Davis, of Geneseo, 111. , and they have two sons, 
 William D. and Walter G. 
 
 HON. ALEXANDER LOVE came to Kan- 
 sas at the time of the border warfare, ar- 
 riving in Lawrence April 28, 1857, with a 
 determination to assist in making this a free 
 state. He is one of the few survivors of the 
 Stubbs military company, the fir.st organized in 
 this city. In local affairs he took a leading part 
 from the date of bis arrival in the west. Three 
 times he was elected a member of the city council 
 and afterward served as a member of the board of 
 education. Gov. John A. Martin appointed him 
 a member of the board of state house commission- 
 ers that had charge of the building of the state 
 capitol. In 1876 he was elected to the legislature 
 from Douglas County, and during his term se- 
 cured an appropriation for the University of 
 Kansas. When his term expired he retired, re- 
 fusing further nomination. In 1887 he was 
 elected sheriff of Douglas County, which office 
 he filled for one term. During much of his life 
 in the west he has engaged in contracting, and has 
 finished some of the most expensive and durable 
 buildings, both public and private, that have 
 been erected in the state. 
 
 In Colerain, County Antrim, Ireland, our sub- 
 ject was born November 25, 1835, the youngest 
 of five children born to his mother's first marriage. 
 His father, Alexander Love, Sr. , was born in 
 Scotland and removed thence to Ireland, dying 
 
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 there when his son was only fourteen months old. 
 Of his children, the oldest, David, who was a 
 soldier in the British arm}', served all through 
 the Crimean war, then returning to England, re- 
 enlisted, was sent out and was massacred by the 
 Sepoys. Mrs. Mary Paul died in Pittsburgh and 
 is buried at Oak Hill, Lawrence. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Whiteside lives in Stillwater, Minn. James died 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y. The mother of these children 
 was born near Belfast, Ireland, ofScotch descent, 
 and bore the maiden name of Agnes Gilmour. 
 
 After her husband's death she brought the 
 children to America. She was married a second 
 time, and had by that union two sons and a 
 daughter, all deceased but George. She died in 
 Brooklyn and was buried in Greenwood cemeterj-. 
 
 When two years of age our subject was brought 
 to America by his mother, making the trip in a 
 sailing vessel. He was reared in Brooklyn, 
 where at the age of fifteen he began to learn the 
 trade of a plasterer and brick-mason. In 1854 he 
 started for California, going by boat to A.spinwall, 
 then across the isthmus, and again by boat to San 
 Francisco. Reaching that city without a nickel, 
 he was fortunate in at once securing work at his 
 trade. Later he went to the mines, but met with 
 little success, and then began contracting in Sac- 
 ramento. In 1856 he voted for J. C. Fremont 
 and has since cast his ballot for Republican 
 candidates. In December, 1856, he started back 
 to New York via the Nicaragua route. About 
 that time there was considerable excitement in re- 
 gard to Kansas, and people from both the north 
 and south were flocking there, each hoping to 
 gain success for their respective causes. He was 
 drawn hither in the hope of aiding the free-state 
 party. From that time to this he has been keen- 
 ly interested in everything pertaining to the prog- 
 ress of the state. During the war he served as 
 .second lieutenant of a Kansas battery of the state 
 militia at the time of the Price raid. When the 
 Quantrell raiders came to Lawrence, some of them 
 pursued and shot at him, but he succeeded in es- 
 caping. He is a member of Washington Post 
 No. 12, G. A. R. In religion he is a Presby- 
 terian. 
 
 One of the popular young ladies in the early 
 
 days of Lawrence, Miss Eliza McMurray, l)ecame 
 the wife of Mr. Love. She was born in the 
 north of Ireland and died in Lawrence. Seven 
 children were born of their union, two of whom 
 (twins) died in infancy. Those now living are: 
 Isabella, wife of Albert Riffle, a prominent civil 
 engineer whose home is now near San Francisco, 
 Cal.; James G., who is engaged in the insurance 
 business in Nebraska; Agnes, wife of Brice Craw- 
 ford, an attorney in Omaha; Theodore, a plasterer 
 in Kansas City; and Maggie, wife of Robert Put- 
 ney, of Albuquerque, N. M. The second marriage 
 of Mr. Love united him with Mrs. Nellie U. Stev- 
 ens, who was born in New England and descended 
 from "Mayflower" ancestry. Fraternally Mr. 
 Love is past master of Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M . ; 
 and one ofthe oldest members of the lodge and en- 
 campment of Odd Fellows. He is now secretary 
 of Lawrence Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F. 
 
 ~DMUND H. COX. Adjoining the village 
 ^ of Tonganoxie on the west lies one of the 
 __ fine farms of Leavenworth County. This 
 property, which is owned and occupied by Mr. 
 Cox, comprises one hundred and ten acres, and 
 is rendered valuable by the introduction of im- 
 provements made by the energetic owner. The 
 principal industry to which the land is devoted is 
 the stock business, the specialties being Short- 
 horn cattle and Poland-China hogs. For fifteen 
 years Mr. Cox was engaged in raising jacks, but 
 of late years he has given his attention wholly to 
 cattle and hogs. The land is utilized for pastur- 
 age or for the raising of grain to be used as feed. 
 Mr. Cox was born in Henry County, Iowa, 
 June 4, 1S43. His father, Aaron Cox, a native 
 of Kentucky, went to Indiana in early manhood 
 and in 1841 settled in Iowa, where he was a pio- 
 neer. In 1859 he came to Kansas and bought an 
 eighty-acre tract in High Prairie Township, 
 Leavenworth County, where he was afterward 
 fairly successful in farming and stock-raising. 
 Politically he is a Democrat. During his resi- 
 dence in Indiana he married Delilah Hobbs, and 
 they became the parents of eight children. Those 
 now living are; Elizabeth, who married Jonathan 
 
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 Knight and makes his home in Lawrence; William, 
 a farmer in Leavenworth County; James, of Okla- 
 homa; Deborah, wife of Seth HoUingsworth, of 
 Arkansas; and Edmund H. The father passed 
 away in Leavenworth County during the winter of 
 1898-99. He was a member of a family that came 
 to America about the time of the Revolution and 
 for years lived upon plantations in Kentucky. 
 
 In the schools of Oskaloosa, Iowa, our subject 
 completed his education. When eighteen years 
 of age he started out for himself. At first he 
 worked for wages, but as soon as he had saved 
 some money he started out for himself, buying 
 one hundred and twenty acres at Neely, Leav- 
 enworth County. Afterward he added to his 
 holdings until he owned three hundred and ten 
 acres. In 1895 he sold that place and bought his 
 present farm adjoining Tonganoxie. In politics 
 he is a Republican. For eleven years he was a 
 member of the school board, in which capacity be 
 materially aided school interests. Fraternally he 
 is connected with the blue lodge of Masons in 
 Tonganoxie and the chapter in Oskaloosa, Kans. 
 In 1867 he married Agnes Carver, of Kansas. 
 They have three children: Oska L., who assists 
 on the home farm; Annie, wife of James Bell, of 
 Leavenworth County; and Lorena, who married 
 C. W. Mcintosh, of Oskaloosa, Kans. 
 
 ^OHN H. AT WOOD. During the period of 
 I his residence in Leavenworth Mr. Atwood 
 (*/ has been particularly successful in a profes- 
 sional way and has established one of the largest 
 law businesses in the city. During the whole of 
 his residence in Kansas he has been prominent 
 in politics. He is a Democrat and has been act- 
 ive and influential both in the state and national 
 councils of his party. In 1896 he served as a 
 delegate-at-large to the national Democratic con- 
 vention, and at that great meeting he was chosen 
 to serve as chairman of one of the most important 
 committees of the convention, that on credentials, 
 and it was conceded by all that it was his happy 
 management of the affairs of that committee that 
 seated enough Bryan delegates in the convention 
 to make possible the nomination of the great 
 
 Nebraskan by a two-thirds vote, which the party 
 traditions required. His record in the office of 
 county attorney demonstrated his capacity as a 
 lawyer and gave entire satisfaction to the people, 
 which fact is best shown by the vote received by 
 him the last time he was a candidate for that 
 office, when he received more than twice as many 
 votes as his opponent. 
 
 Mr. Atwood was born in Phillipston, Worces- 
 ter County, Mass., September 12, i860. His 
 paternal ancestors were from Devonshire, Eng- 
 land. His great-grandfather, Moses Atwood, 
 was a pioneer builder of the town of Warwick, 
 Mass., and there the grandfather, Warren, was 
 born and engaged in farming until his death, 
 which occurred in 1872. Andrew, son of War- 
 ren Atwood, was born in Warwick, and grew to 
 manhood upon the homestead farm. At one time 
 he was a sub-contractor under his brother, Har- 
 rison Atwood, a partner of Thomas Scott, of 
 Pennsylvania Railroad fame, and as such built 
 the great bridge over the Susquehanna River. 
 Afterward he engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes at Athol and Ayer, Mass. He 
 was the organizer and first president of the First 
 National Bank of Ayer and this position of trust 
 he held from 1878 until his removal in 1893 to 
 Leavenworth, where he resided with his son until 
 his death, in February, 1899. 
 
 The maternal ancestors of Mr. Atwood were 
 members of an old English family which is of a 
 remote Norman origin. His mother, Mary 
 Emma Holden, was born in Woonsocket, R. I., a 
 daughter of Havilla and Mary (Vaux) Holden, 
 the latter being the daughter of a wealthy gen- 
 tleman from Hertfordshire, England, who, upon 
 removing to this country, settled in Woonsocket, 
 R. I. Andrew and Mary Emma (Holden) At- 
 wood were the parents of four children, of whom 
 three are living: Warren H., who resides in 
 Ayer, Mass., and who is a successful attorney 
 and judge of the district court there; Gilbert H., 
 who is a farmer and cattleman owning a large 
 farm in Douglas County, Kans. ; while the young- 
 est, John H., forms the subject of this sketch. 
 He was reared in Athol and Ayer, and received 
 excellent educational advantages, having been 
 
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 fitted for college by Professor Goldthwait, who 
 afterward became famous in certain educational 
 circles as the traveling tutor of the sons of Brad- 
 ley Martin of New York and London. It was 
 with this accomplished scholar that Mr. Atwood 
 spent nearly a year traveling in Europe. Re- 
 turning to this country he spent a year as an 
 unmatriculated student in the academic depart- 
 ment of Harvard University, from which he went 
 to the law department, graduating at the end of 
 three years with the degree of LL. B. Shortly 
 after his graduation he was admitted to the Mid- 
 dlesex bar. About this time he married Miss Nellie 
 Wyman, who came from an old Middlesex Coun- 
 ty family of Revolutionary origin and influential 
 connections. One of her sisters is the wife of 
 Professor Gooch of Yale, the great chemical ex- 
 pert and member of the National Academy of 
 Science. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood have three 
 daughters, Ruth, Helen and Dorothy. They re- 
 side in a handsome home on Fourth avenue in 
 Leavenworth, Kans. 
 
 Mr. Atwood came to Leavenworth in January, 
 1885; in three months he was appointed deputy 
 city attorney; in the fall of 1886 he was elected 
 county attorney and this office he filled for three 
 terms in succession, which is one more term than 
 any one attorney has ever successively served. 
 Retiring from office in January, 1892, he organ- 
 ized the law firm of Crozier, Atwood, Pether- 
 bridge & Levison, who occupied an extensive 
 suite of offices in the Times building. Upon the 
 death of ex-Judge and ex-United States Senator 
 Crozier, which occurred almost .simultaneously 
 with the election of Hon. Lucien Baker to the 
 United States senate, the old firm was dissolved 
 and the new firm of Baker, Hook & Atwood was 
 organized; this partner.ship continued until the 
 spring of iSgg.when theappointment of Hon. Will- 
 iam C. Hook to the federal judgeship of Kansas, 
 and Senator Baker's retirement from the practice 
 of law, dissolved the firm. 
 
 Mr. Atwood is a member of several fraternal 
 organizations, but his greatest honors have come 
 to him through the Masonic fraternity. The 
 Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine 
 of North America is an organization to which no 
 
 one is eligible unless he is a Knight Templar or 
 Tliirty-.second Scottish Rite Mason and it was 
 to the highest office in this body that Mr. At- 
 wood was elected in June, 1899. 
 
 As a public speaker Mr. Atwood is perhaps 
 more sought after than any public man in Kan- 
 sas, being recognized to be without a superior 
 among the campaign orators of his party in the 
 west. The larger portion of the many invitations 
 he receives to speak he is obliged to decline, since 
 his extensive law practice requires the major 
 part of his time and the best of his energies. 
 
 EAPT. HENRY A. OAKES, who was an 
 officer in the Union army during the Civil 
 war, is now the owner of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, forming one of the best farms in Pal- 
 myra Township, Douglas County, and here he is 
 engaged in general farming, dairying and stock- 
 raising. He was born at Haverhill, Ohio, March 
 18, 1838, a son of Ephraim H. and Nancy (Da- 
 vidson) Oakes. His father, who was born and 
 reared in Kings County, Long Island, early be- 
 came familiar with farm work, as his boyhood 
 days were passed on a small farm near Brooklyn. 
 For a time he followed the trade of a wagon and 
 plow manufacturer in his own state, but while 
 still a young man he removed to Ohio and settled 
 on a farm. During the remainder of his life he 
 combined work at his trade with the cultivation 
 of his farm. For years he also owned a ferry on 
 the Ohio River. First a Whig, on the organiza- 
 tion of the Republican party he became identified 
 with it, and afterward voted for its principles. 
 At one time he was a member of the state mili- 
 tia. His death occurred when he was ninety- 
 two years of age. His wife died in 1846, while 
 in middle life. They were the parents of five 
 children that attained maturity. 
 
 When a boy our subject a-ssisted in the culti- 
 vation of the home farm. His first outside work 
 was on the Ohio River, where he was employed 
 for two years. Later he went to Scott County, 
 111., and worked on a farm by the month. Sep- 
 tember 5, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany I, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois 
 
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 Infantry. From the ranks he was first promoted to 
 be sergeant, six months later was commissioned 
 second lieutenant, at Stone River was made first 
 lieutenant, and at Savannah was raised to a cap- 
 taincy. He remained in the service until the 
 close of the war. Meantime he participated in 
 many important engagements, including Chatta- 
 nooga, Atlanta, Peach Tree Creek, Resaca, 
 Jonesboro, and marched with Sherman to the sea, 
 thence going through the Carolinas, and was at 
 Raleigh, N. C, when Lee surrendered. 
 
 On his return to Scott County, Captain Oakes 
 rented a farm, which he cultivated for three 
 years. In March, 1869, he came to Kansas and 
 purchased the farm where he has since made his 
 home. He is a member of Washington Post No. 
 12, at Lawrence. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
 publican, and while never desiring ofiBce for him- 
 self, has been actively connected with local af- 
 fairs. He married Miss Eleanor Draper, who 
 was born in England, and by whom he has two 
 children, viz.: Ellen, who married Richard Tem- 
 ple; and Charles Harrj-, who is a lumberman in 
 Oregon. 
 
 (I AMES BRUCE SHEARER. In presenting 
 I to the readers of this volume the biography 
 • O of Mr. Shearer we are perpetuating the life 
 record of one who was for years a resident of 
 Lawrence and actively identified with its business 
 interests. The success with which he met en- 
 titles him to more than passing mention, for it 
 proves that he possessed mental qualities of a 
 high order and had the determination of character 
 to push to a prosperous termination whatever he 
 undertook. He was still a j-oung man, when, 
 October 31, 1898, his life work was ended, but 
 he had already gained important mercantile and 
 real estate interests in his home town. 
 
 Born in Prairie Citj-, 111., August 24, 1861, the 
 subject of this article was a son of George and 
 Sarah J. (Morris) Shearer, the latter a sister of 
 Dr. Morris, who is represented elsewhere in this 
 work. The former, a son of James Shearer (who 
 died in Lawrence), was born in Illinois and after 
 his marriage settled in Lawrence, then a small 
 town on the edge of the frontier. He had the 
 28 
 
 foresight to discern the possibilities of this section 
 of the country. He made inve.stments in real 
 estate in Lawrence and in time became the owner 
 of more valuable property than any other man in 
 Douglas County. While much of his attention 
 was given to the management of his land hold- 
 ings, he also carried on a mercantile business 
 with success and was interested in several banks, 
 and at the time of his death held the position of 
 president of the Ottawa State Bank. He con- 
 tinued to reside in Lawrence until his death, 
 which occurred January 4, 1890. His wife died 
 February 4, 1895. They were the parents of two 
 children who grew to maturity, their daughter 
 being Mrs. L. O. Mclntire. 
 
 Almost the entire life of James Bruce Shearer 
 was passed in Lawrence. In its schools he re- 
 ceived his education, and in its stores his first 
 knowledge of business afiairs. He was a graduate 
 of the high school and business college, after 
 which he entered upon a mercantile life. In 
 partnership with Mr. Mclntire he engaged in 
 business in Lawrence and Ottawa, carrying a full 
 line of drj'-goods, clothing, etc. When the 
 partnership was dissolved, in 188S, Mr. Shearer 
 engaged in the drj-goods business at Ottawa, and 
 there remained until October, 1894, when he re- 
 turned to Lawrence, in order to look after his 
 valuable real-estate holdings here. At the same 
 time he resumed the mercantile business in this 
 city, continuing until his death. He was an un- 
 usually energetic and successful business man 
 and laid the foundation of the large and important 
 business, which, in accordance with his request, 
 his wife has conducted since his death. 
 
 In Topeka, Kans., Mr. Shearer married Mi.ss 
 Maude Rickard, who was born in Seville, Medina 
 Count}', Ohio. One son was born of their union, 
 Lawrence Parker Shearer, who died April 5, 
 1898, at the age of thirteen years. Mrs. Shearer 
 has caused to be placed in the First Presbyterian 
 Church one of the finest memorial windows in 
 the west, in memorj' of her son, who, though 
 only thirteen years of age, was a member of the 
 church. Mrs. Shearer is the daughter of Ives 
 and Hannah (Dickey) Rickard. The former, a 
 native of Rochester, N. Y., settled in Ohio in his 
 
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 youth and became an extensive grain dealer, 
 merchant and owner of real estate in Seville. 
 During the Civil war he enlisted in an Ohio regi- 
 ment, in which he served with valor and fidelit)-. 
 Accompanied by his family, in 1881 he removed 
 to California and established his home at Ala- 
 meda, where he died in 1889. All of his five 
 children but Mrs. Shearer continue to reside on 
 the Pacific Coast, as does also his widow. The 
 latter was a daughter of John Dickey, a soldier 
 in the war of 18 12 and an active participant in 
 the battle of Fort Meigs. 
 
 Upon the death of Mr. Shearer his wife suc- 
 ceeded to the business which he had started. 
 For this responsible work her fine business quali- 
 fications admirably qualify her. In her store she 
 carries what is conceded to be the finest stock of 
 dry goods in Lawrence. The large business 
 interests left by her hu.sband she has ably man- 
 aged, and enterpri.ses of a charitable and benevo- 
 lent nature also receive her support. George B. 
 Reineke, who was her husband's "right hand" 
 man, continues as business manager of the store 
 and assists in maintaining the popularity of the 
 establishment. He is a member of the Com- 
 mercial Club and a gentleman of acknowledged 
 business ability. 
 
 pCjASHINGTON D. KELLY, deceased, who 
 \A/ ^^'^^ °"^ °^ '■^^^ earliest settlers of Leaven- 
 YY worth, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 March 23, 1828. At eighteen years of age he 
 came west as far as Iowa, settling in Keokuk, a 
 growing town on the Mississippi. There he se- 
 cured employment as clerk in a dry-goods estab- 
 lishment. His next location was at Liberty, Mo., 
 where he engaged in a general mercantile busi- 
 ness in partership with Eugene Allen. In 1855 
 he became a resident of Leavenworth, then an 
 insignificant village with little to indicate its 
 future importance. Here he engaged in the dry- 
 goods business as a member of the firm of Kellj' 
 & Bird, but sold out his interest at the opening 
 of the Civil war and for a short time furnished 
 supplies for the government. Afterward he en- 
 gaged in the real-estate business, buying and 
 selling lots, and doing much to advance the 
 
 property interests of the city. Owing to failing 
 health, in 1895 he turned the business over to his 
 sons, Eugene A. and John B., and afterward 
 lived retired until his death, March i, 1896. 
 He was connected with the blue lodge of 
 Ma.sonry, and in politics was a Democrat, but not 
 narrow in his views; nor did he ever seek office 
 or political prominence. His business plans oc- 
 cupied his time and absorbed his attention. He 
 was a puljlic-spirited citizen; a friend of the 
 city in which forty years of his life were pa.ssed, 
 and was recognized and honored, in all his deal- 
 ing, as a man above reproach. Intelligentlj' con- 
 versant with public affairs, he held it to be the 
 duty of a citizen to keep posted concerning the 
 problems of the age. He was a man of .strong 
 character, with a discriminating judgment that 
 detected and denounced wrong and advocated 
 right. 
 
 July 22, 1857, ^^r. Kelly married Miss Helen 
 Lattin, who was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, 
 and in the fall of 1856 came to Leavenworth with 
 a brother, Warren. The latter settled here in the 
 spring of 1S55, was one of the early mayors of 
 the town and a large land holder, but in 1862 
 went overland to California and afterward resided 
 there. Mrs. Kelly is a member of the Presbyter- 
 ian Church and has many friends among the peo- 
 ple of Leavenworth, where for so long she has 
 made her home. Of her children, the eldest, 
 Henry W., is now in Las Vegas, N. M.; the sec- 
 ond son, Eugene A., is cashier of the Union Sav- 
 ings Bank and also with his j^oungest brother, 
 John B., carries on a real-e.state business; the 
 only daughter, Laura L., is the wife of O. C. 
 McNary, M. D., who is connected with the 
 Soldiers' Home in Leavenworth. 
 
 |VLIK G. WOODRUFF, M. D., of Law- 
 rence, is a member of a pioneer family of 
 Providence, R. I. His father, Louis H., 
 was born in Dimock, Susquehanna County, Pa., 
 and enlisted in the Civil war from Binghamton, 
 N. Y., becoming a member of a New York regi- 
 ment and officiating as secretary' of General 
 Slocum. Later he settled at Tecumseh, Neb., 
 
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 where he had a trading post with the Sioux 
 Indians. At that place his son, Wylie G., was 
 born, March 4, 1866, and there, eighteen months 
 later, occurred the death of the wife and mother. 
 Afterward he returned to Pennsylvania, but died 
 in Binghamton, N. Y. His father, whose name 
 was the same as his own, was a man of great 
 wealth and was 'an educational philanthropist, 
 doing much to aid schools and colleges in their 
 work and founding and endowing Woodruff 
 Academy at Dimock. 
 
 The mother of Dr. Woodruff bore the maiden 
 name of Cornelia Glidden and was born in Friends- 
 ville, Pa. Her father, Benjamin, a native of the 
 same place, followed the profession of attorney 
 and was one of the justices of the peace there. 
 His father, Benjamin Glidden, Sr., was a 
 native of Friendsville and a soldier in the war of 
 1812. He descended from an English family that 
 settled in Pennsylvania prior to the Revolutionary 
 war, coming to that state from Providence, R. I. 
 Dr. Woodruff was one of three children, two of 
 whom are living. His brother, George W., 
 graduated from Yale in 1889 and from the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in 1895, ^"^^ ^^ "°^ ^ 
 practicing attorney in Philadelphia. He has 
 been prominent and active in football circles, and 
 has originated and promulgated ideas that have 
 completely revolutionized that game. 
 
 The boyhood years of Dr. Woodruff were spent 
 in the home of his grandfather Glidden in Friends- 
 ville, where he attended the public schools. 
 From fourteen to sixteen years of age he assisted 
 in the cattle business in Saline Valley, Kans. On 
 his return east he entered the Pennsylvania State 
 Normal School at Mansfield, where he remained 
 for two years. He then became a student in 
 Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, Pa., where he 
 prepared for Yale, but, on account of lack of 
 finances, did not take a university course. After 
 graduating from the commercial department of 
 Wyoming Seminary, in 1S84 he went to Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, where he was employed in the manu- 
 facturing department of White's Golden Lubricat- 
 ing Company, and during the two years he was 
 in the factory thoroughly mastered the business. 
 He was then employed as traveling salesman for 
 
 the company in Pennsylvania. On the burning 
 down of the factory the company retired from 
 business, and he came to Chicago, where he was 
 employed as superintendent of George H . Welton' s 
 Oil Company for almost one year. In the fall of 
 1888 he came to Kansas and started in the oil busi- 
 ness for himself, continuing in it until 1890, when 
 he turned his attention to the buying and selling 
 of real estate, and also traveled on the road for the 
 Hawkeye Preserves Company, his territory being 
 in the southwest. In the spring of 1892 he be- 
 came traveling representative in Kansas for the 
 Midland Coffee Company, of St. Joe, Mo. 
 
 As soon as it became possible he determined to 
 secure a medical education. September i, 1S93, 
 he entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, where he took the com- 
 plete course of four years, being meantime under 
 W. J. White, an eminent surgeon, and having 
 also special advantages in hospital and special 
 work. He stood at the head of his class in surgery. 
 During the first year of his university work he 
 entered the football team, getting the place of the 
 left guard, while Horton crowded the right guard 
 off. Both being good sprinters and keen and 
 shrewd young men, they changed the entire sys- 
 tem of football, making the guards responsible 
 for all end runs, and introducing other valuable 
 improvements. During his last three years in the 
 university, the university team won in every foot- 
 ball contest in which it engaged. He graduated 
 in 1897, with the degree of M. D., and returned 
 to Lawrence, where he has built up a general 
 practice. June 14, 1898, he was appointed act- 
 ing surgeon at Fort Riley, during the Spanish- 
 American war, and remained there until Septem- 
 ber 22, 1898, when he was honorably discharged 
 with the rank of first lieutenant. 
 
 Dr. Woodruff has always been fond of athletic 
 sports. During his last year in college he won 
 the amateur championship of America for throw- 
 ing a sixteen-pound hammer. In 1894-95 he 
 pulled with the University of Pennsylvania crew. 
 He was, however, especially interested in football 
 while there, and without doubt the university be- 
 came more widely known through the success of 
 its football team than for any other reason. Nor 
 
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 has he lost his interest in this game since he left 
 the university. In the falls of 1897 and 1898 he 
 was coacher for the Universit}' of Kansas foot- 
 ball team, and during that time the team won 
 every game but one. He is a member of the al- 
 umni association of the university. Politically 
 he votes with the Republicans. He is a member 
 of the H. C. Wood Medical Society of Philadel- 
 phia and the Douglas County Medical Society. 
 His marriage took place at Beloit, Kans. , Decem- 
 ber 26, 1 89 1, and united him with Cora V. Brag- 
 don, who was born in Waterville, 111., and is the 
 daughter of Benjamin Bragdon. 
 
 NENRY METZ, who has ably filled the office 
 of postmaster at Tonganoxie and is one of 
 the most influential residents of this town, 
 was born at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1838, a 
 .son of Jacob and Philopena (Powell) Metz, 
 natives of Germany. His father, who came to 
 the United States in youth, spent some eight 
 years in Philadelphia, where he married, thence 
 removing to the northwestern part of Ohio, and 
 settling upon a farm in Auglaise County. He 
 gave his attention closely to general farm pursuits 
 and had little time for participation in politics, 
 although he was always stanch in his adherence 
 to Republican principles. Of his children one 
 son died in childhood and a daughter, Elena, is 
 also deceased. The only surviving member of 
 the family is the subject of this sketch. His 
 education was meagre, for schools were few and 
 their facilities inadequate. His surroundings 
 were those of the frontier. There were no roads 
 opened yet, and when going to school he found 
 his way by means of blazed trees. The building 
 which answered for a schoolhouse was a log 
 cabin, the light for which was furnished by 
 holes in the logs; this plan, satisfactory in sum- 
 mer, certainly had its disadvantages in cold or 
 rainy weather, but the children being used to 
 privations, made the most of their opportunities 
 and seldom complained. 
 
 At twenty-two years of age our subject began 
 independent farming. In i860 he secured em- 
 ployment as a carpenter on the canal, which 
 
 work he continued in addition to farming for 
 three years. In 1869 he sold out and came to 
 Kansas, where he .spent a few months in Leaven- 
 worth, and then located permanently in Tongan- 
 oxie July 5 of that year. Buying a business 
 place and two lots, he engaged in the mercantile 
 business, beginning with a small stock of groceries 
 but increasing his trade from year to year until 
 he finally carried a large stock of general mer- 
 chandise. For nearly twenty-four years he was 
 engaged in this business, and also handled lum- 
 ber, coal, etc. After having built up a profitable 
 and gratifying business, failing health forced him 
 to retire from work so confining. In the fall of 
 1893 he sold out his business. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Metz had invested quite 
 extensively in farm land, and after retiring from 
 merchandising he gave his attention to the man- 
 agement of his property, which included one 
 hundred and twentj- acres in three farms. As a 
 Republican he has frequently served as delegate 
 to the county and state conventions of his party. 
 While actively engaged in business, it was im- 
 possible for him to accept office, but since selling 
 out his store he has held a number of local posi- 
 tions. He has served as a member of the town 
 council and for two terms was mayor. In Oc- 
 tober, 1897, he was appointed postmaster and 
 took charge of the office November 21 of the 
 same year, since which time he has discharged 
 his official duties satisfactorily. In all matters 
 for the benefit of the town he has always taken 
 a warm interest. He was a factor in securing 
 the start of the cheese factory and the creamery 
 and was also interested in the establishment of 
 the bank, of which he was president for three 
 years. All enterprises having for their object 
 the good of the town or the increase of the ma- 
 terial wealth have found in him an advocate and 
 friend, ready to give substantial aid, and that, 
 too, without hope of reaping per.sonal benefit. 
 Every worthy enterprise has found in him a 
 donor to the full extent of his ability to give. As 
 one of the early residents of the town and a man 
 whose energies have been devoted to the develop- 
 ment of its business interests, his name well de- 
 serves mention in this work. He is a member of 
 
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 the Lutheran Church and a contributor to its 
 charities. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Henry Lodge No. igo, A. F. &. M., of which 
 he was for twelve successive years elected master, 
 accepting the position for ten years. August 5, 
 i860, he married Charlotte D. Powell, of Ohio. 
 They had ten children, of whom only four are 
 living: Jacob, a guard at the United States peni- 
 tentiary at Fort Leavenworth; Christ, a farmer 
 in Kansas; Minnie, wife of Charles Gilliland, a 
 farmer of Leavenworth County; and Gertrude, 
 wife of Archer E. Sherman, and the assistant 
 postmaster at Tonganoxie. 
 
 3UDGE SAMUEL J. McNAUGHTON.of Ton- 
 ganoxie, is descended from one of the oldest 
 Scottish families who were in Scotland prior 
 to the origin of the clans. They were called 
 Necthans by the Celtic race and were powerful 
 long before the introduction of surnames among 
 them. The heads of the family for ages were the 
 Thanes of Loch Tay and possessed all the coun- 
 try south of Loch Fyne and Lochawe. Donald 
 McNaughton was nearly related to the Mac Dou- 
 gals of Lorn and joined with them against Robert 
 the Bruce in the battle of Dalre, 1306. His son 
 and successor, Duncan, was a royal subject of 
 King David II, who, as reward, conferred on his 
 son, Alexander, land in the Isle of Lewis, which 
 was long held by the family, and the ruins of 
 their castle still stand there. Donald, a younger 
 son of the family, was in 1436 elected bishop of 
 Dunkeld. The family have a record of the ances- 
 try for eight hundred years back. Alexander of 
 Argylshire landed in New York in 1738 and set- 
 tled in New Windsor, Orange County, where he 
 waited while getting patent to a grant in Argyle, 
 Washington County. The family laid the foun- 
 dation for the Dutch Reformed Church in 
 Argyle, N. Y. 
 
 Duncan McNaughton, our subject's great-great- 
 grandfather, was born in Argyle, Scotland, and 
 married Margaret Frisbie, who, after his death, 
 brought the family to America, excepting his 
 older son, Malcolm, who had accompanied his 
 uncle, Alexander, above mentioned. The great- 
 
 grandfather, Malcolm, eldest son of Duncan, 
 came to New York with his uncle; he married 
 Catherine Robinson and died between 1823 and 
 1826. The grandfather, Finlay, third son of 
 Malcolm, married Elizabeth Murray, who died in 
 1849, at the age of seventy years. They had six 
 children, Duncan, Archibald, William, Malcolm, 
 John M. and James. The father, Malcolm, was 
 born in Argyle, Washington County, and re- 
 ceived an excellent education. Becoming an at- 
 torney, he practiced in Saratoga County, N. Y. , 
 and served for some years as judge of the court 
 of sessions. He died there in 1876, when seventy- 
 eight years of age. His wife, Phoebe, was born 
 in Washington County and died there at eighty- 
 four years. She was a daughter of Gen. James 
 McDouall, who gained prominence as a general 
 in the war of 18 12; he married Sarah Thomas, 
 daughter of a general of the Revolutionary war 
 and a descendant of Scotch ancestry. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Schuy- 
 lerville, Saratoga County, N. Y., September g, 
 185 1, and was next to the youngest among eight 
 children. The eldest of the family, Elizabeth, 
 and the second-born, Annie (Mrs. DelcourS. Pot- 
 ter) died in New York. Charles H., who served 
 in the Civil war and lost an arm at the battle of 
 Chancellorsville, was afterward a member of the 
 legislature for many terms and also acted as post- 
 master at Schuylerville. 
 
 William John, the second son, resides in New 
 York City; Katherine B. (Mrs. Murray) lives at 
 Glen Falls; Ida F. died in New York; and Fred 
 is engaged in business at Fort Edward, N. Y. 
 
 In public schools and St. Stephen's Academy 
 our subject gained his education. In 1869 he 
 graduated in law and three years later he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. At once he came to Kansas 
 and began to teach school in Reno Township, 
 Leavenworth County. For two years he prac- 
 ticed law in Lawrence. In 1872 he was elected 
 justice of the peace, which ofiBce he held for fif- 
 teen years. While serving as justice he also 
 cultivated his farm near Lawrence. In 1890 he 
 settled in Tonganoxie, where he has since en- 
 gaged in practice. When he was elected police 
 judge in 1892 only one vote was cast against 
 
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 him; he filled the office efficiently for two years. 
 He is connected with the Touganoxie Building 
 and Loan Association and was one of the original 
 directors of the Tonganoxie Creamery Company. 
 Fraternally Judge McNaughton is past vice- 
 commander of the Modern Woodmen, past chan- 
 cellor of the Knights of Pythias, and a member 
 of Tonganoxie Lodge No. 190, A. F. & A. M. 
 He is a voter for Populist principles. In the fall 
 of 1898 he was nominated for representative by 
 the Democrats and endorsed by the Populists, 
 and at the election received one hundred and 
 nineteen votes in this township, there being only 
 two business men in Tongano.xie who voted 
 against him. For four years he was chairman of 
 the executive committee of the State Farmers' 
 Alliance. He was married in Reno Township 
 to Anna A., daughter of N. H. and Mary A. 
 (Jones) Eaton, who lived on a farm in Reno 
 Township. Judge and Mrs. McNaughton have 
 four children: Malcolm, who graduated from the 
 Tonganoxie high school and is now attending 
 the academy; Lucy, Alicia and Gertrude Mabel. 
 
 (JOSEPH YEWDALL. As a florist and land- 
 I scape gardener Mr. Yewdall has few supe- 
 (2/ riors. Solely through his determination he 
 has achieved prominence in his chosen calling. 
 For nine years he occupied a small room on Del- 
 aware street, but his quarters becoming too 
 small he moved up the street, where he rented a 
 place for six years. He then bought 300x117 
 feet at No. 1205 Delaware street, and at once be- 
 gan the task of transforming the wild and barren 
 tract into an improved and valuable nursery. 
 The splendid condition of the yards attests the 
 .success of his work. He also owns 1 50X 1 1 7 feet of 
 ground, with a residence acro.ss the street on 
 Hancock. On his property he has set out the 
 finest of nursery stock, including ornamental 
 trees, hardj' roses and plants of all kinds, and he 
 has enclosed the place by a fine Hartman iron 
 fence. In his work he has met with discourage- 
 ments at times, but has persevered and deserves 
 the success with which he has met. One year 
 the grasshoppers ate his vineyard almost to the 
 
 roots, but the hardy vines soon rallied and the 
 next j'ear bore an abundant crop of fine grapes. 
 Besides his other work, since 1885 he has been 
 forester to the Kansas division of the Union Pa- 
 cific road, and for some years bad charge of all 
 the parks (forty-eight) between Kansas Citj' and 
 Denver, but the divi.sion now extends only to 
 Topeka and his son gives it his personal .super- 
 vision. 
 
 Mr. Yewdall was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, 
 England, Friday, September 26, 1823, a .son of 
 William and Dinah (Horner) Yewdall. His 
 grandfather, John Yewdall, a native of the same 
 place, was sergeant in the British armj^ and served 
 in the battle of Waterloo. Afterward he engaged 
 in the manufacture of marine cloth by the old- 
 fashioned method, machinery and steam-power 
 not yet being introduced. He died on Kirkgate 
 street, one-half block from the hou.se where he 
 was born. He was a descendant of an old York- 
 shire family, whose successive generations were 
 christened in the Episcopal Church in Bradford. 
 William Yewdall was born in 1795, and engaged 
 in the manufacture of worsted merino until ma- 
 chinery was introduced, after which he was em- 
 ployed in wool combing. That occupation finally 
 was abandoned and, hoping he might secure em- 
 ployment in America, he crossed the ocean in the 
 fall of 1846, joining his son Samuel in Philadel- 
 phia and securing work there. In that city he 
 died at seventy-six years. His wife, who was 
 born in Bradford in 1797 and was also employed 
 in worsted- merino manufacturing, died in Phila- 
 delphia, and rests by the side of her husband in 
 Laurel Hill cemetery. They were the parents of 
 nine children, viz.: Benjamin, who is living re- 
 tired in Vineland, N. J.; Samuel, a manufac- 
 turer of worsted-merino, who was killed by the 
 explosion of a boiler in his house; Joseph; Sarah, 
 who died in Landenburg, Chester County, Pa. ; 
 John, a worsted manufacturer, now living re- 
 tired in Philadelphia; Dinah and Julia, both in 
 Philadelphia; William, who was a partner of 
 John in the manufacture of wor.steds in Phil- 
 adelphia and who died there in 1891; and Sol- 
 omon, who died at the age of eight years. 
 
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 the family (his father having come in the fall of 
 the previous year), crossed the ocean to America, 
 sailing from Liverpool on the "Galena," which 
 anchored in New York May 8. From that city 
 he went to Philadelphia and secured work at $5 
 a month, with a Germantown nurseryman and 
 florist. His wages being too small, he left that 
 place and was afterward employed in the exotic 
 gardens in Philadelphia, where he learned land- 
 scape gardening and the florist's business. After 
 a year his wages were increased. In time he be- 
 came an expert landscape gardener. After the 
 third year he was made foreman, which position 
 he held for six years, remaining there for nine 
 years altogether. For some time he was in part- 
 nership with Mr. Southworth in that city. His 
 whole heart and soul he put into his work, and 
 his enthusiasm and earnestness made him quick 
 in gaining proficiency. It was his ambition to 
 equal any of the landscape gardeners in the state. 
 He studied botany and horticulture, attending 
 lectures whenever possible. He also became 
 prominent in the work of the Pennsylvania Hor- 
 ticultural Society. 
 
 On leaving Philadelphia Mr. Yewdall became 
 foreman of a large nursery at Columbia, Pa., but 
 this position he afterward resigned in order to em- 
 bark in business as a florist for himself. After work- 
 ing on his own account he decided his prospects 
 would be better in a town less slow and dull. Re- 
 movingto Hammonton,N.J. , he bought abusiness, 
 but in four years sold out and returned to Phila- 
 delphia. After two years he went to Coatesville, 
 Pa., where he remained for four years, the last 
 year being city landscape gardener. April 1 1 , 
 1866, he arrived in Lawrence, Kaiis. , it being his 
 intention to take up a claim. However, he found 
 all the government land taken, except one claim, 
 the southwest quarter of section 23, range 20, at 
 Eudora, a tract of prairie land. This claim he 
 took up, but was unable to improve at the 
 time. During the winter he worked at the 
 Barnes nursery, and he and his wife boarded the 
 hands, but the experiment was so unprofitable that 
 it took him three years to liquidate the debt in- 
 curred in less than one year. Settling on his 
 claim, he built a log cabin, and remained there 
 
 for seven years, improving and cultivating the 
 land. Meantirne he engaged in horticulture and 
 started a small nurser3\ He also came to town 
 frequently to do gardening, and planted all the 
 trees on the Haskell property. From his claim 
 he moved to Loyal Mitchell's farm, to take care 
 of his fruit on shares, but not liking the position, 
 he left as soon as possible. Since then he has de- 
 voted himself to the nursery and florist's busi- 
 ness and has established a reputation for superi- 
 ority in his art. He is a member of the Douglas 
 County Horticultural Society and takes a warm 
 interest in everything pertaining to fruit and 
 flowers. 
 
 In Philadelphia Mr. Yewdall married Miss Har- 
 riet Marshall, who was born near London, Eng- 
 land, and died in Lawrence January 5, 1894. 
 The children born of their union are named as 
 follows: Joseph, at home; Mrs. Charlotte Cant- 
 rell, of Douglas County; Charles, Sarah, Viola 
 and Edward. Charles and Edward are their 
 father's right hand men and are of the greatest 
 help to him in his business. The family are iden- 
 tified with the Episcopal Church, in the faith of 
 which Mr. Yewdall was reared. His first vote 
 was cast for Abraham Lincoln and he has ever 
 since supported Republican candidates. 
 
 HON. REUBEN W. LUDINGTON, who 
 came to Lawrence in March, 1857, was 
 prominentlj' identified with the early vicis- 
 situdes and troubles of this city, and has since 
 been associated with its growth and advancement. 
 He was born in West Spriugfield (now Holyoke) , 
 Mass., September i, 1827, a son of Harry and 
 Villity (Winchell) Ludington. His grandfather, 
 Capt. Daniel Ludington, who was an oSicer in 
 the Revolutionary war and a large farmer at West 
 Springfield, was descended from a family that 
 came to America in an early day from Ludington, 
 near Stratford-on-the-Avon, England. Harry 
 Ludington was born at West Springfield August 
 6, 1 79 1, and served two enlistments in the war of 
 18 1 2, in which he was orderly sergeant. At one 
 time he assisted in preventing the British from 
 effecting the capture of New London, Conn. For 
 
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 years he engaged in the manufacture of fur hats 
 at Chicopee, Mass., and he died in that state 
 Februarj' 4, 1847. January 1 1, 18 16, he married 
 Miss Winchell, who was born at Turkey Hill, 
 Granby, Conn., January 29, 1797, and died at 
 the home of her son, Reuben W., in Lawrence, 
 June 13, 188 1. She was the daughter of Elisha 
 and Mindwell (Hulbert) Winchell, the former of 
 whom was born at Turkey Hill, June' 29, 1757, 
 and .served as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary 
 war, after which he engaged in cultivating a farm 
 near West Springfield, Mass. 
 
 The record of the Winchell family can be 
 traced back to 1293, when Robert Winchelsen 
 was elected archbishop of Canterburj', being the 
 tenth in succession from Thomas a Becket. 
 The originator of the family in America was 
 Robert Winchell. The published genealogical 
 record of the family shows that among the ances- 
 tors in America seventeen were college gradu- 
 ates and fifty-five professional men, while many 
 were in the legislature, and served in the two 
 wars with England, the Florida war, the Mexi- 
 can and Civil wars. Robert Winchell was prob- 
 ably born in the south of England or Wales. 
 He settled in Dorchester as early as 1624, re- 
 moved to Windsor, Conn., in 1635, and passed 
 away January 21, 1669. His son, Nathaniel, 
 born in England, married Sarah Porter, by whom 
 he had a .son, Stephen. The latter married 
 Abigail Marshfield, and their son, Thomas, born 
 at Windsor, Conn., married Marj^ Owen and 
 afterward lived at Turkey Hill. There Elisha 
 Winchell was born and reared. He was a lieu- 
 tenant in the Indian wars, and by occupation was 
 a farmer, carpenter and owner of a saw and grist 
 mill. By his marriage to Mary Thrall he had a 
 son, Elisha, who enlisted in the Revolutionary 
 war at nineteen years of age. For some years he 
 was a business man at Turkey Hill, but removed to 
 West Springfield in 1807. He and his wife. Mind- 
 well, often had reunions of their family, when rela- 
 tives from far and nearcarae to enjoy the hospital- 
 ity of their commodious house and generous hearts. 
 It was the custom to prepare for these gatherings 
 by roasting a quarter of beef before the fireplace, 
 and make other preparations upon as large a 
 
 scale. Afterward, through their daughter, the 
 homestead became the property of our subject. 
 The latter was one of six sons, only two of whom 
 attained their majority, himself and his oldest 
 brother, Henry H. , who was for years proprietor 
 of the Eldridge Hou.se in Lawrence, but is now 
 living retired. Daniel died in 1838, at' nineteen 
 years, Fredus when thirteen years of age, Charles 
 and Charles Wilbur at four years. The father of 
 these sons was a soldier in the war of 181 2, serv- 
 ing from its opening until peace was declared. 
 
 At the age of eighteen our subject went from 
 Holyoke to Hartford, Conn., where he was in a 
 wholesale dry-goods house for three years, work- 
 ing for $50 and board per annum. There was 
 laid the foundation of the accurate business habits 
 so profitable to him in later years. Returning to 
 Holyoke, he married and then engaged in 
 the mercantile business, also established a po.st- 
 office at Rock Valley and was the first postmaster. 
 After a time he bought the home formerly owned 
 by his mother's father, and there he continued 
 the family gatherings which had been so notable 
 during his grandfather's lifetime. In 1857 he 
 came to Kansas. His cousins, the Eldridges, 
 were in Lawrence, and he visited them. Being 
 pleased with the prospects he decided to remain. 
 He started a livery business (the old Eldridge 
 house stable) which he still owns, having as a 
 partner Col. S. W. Eldridge, but he soon sold to 
 his partner, and opened a mercantile store on 
 Ma.ssachusetts street. At the time of the Quan- 
 trell raid, August 21, 1863, his two buildings and 
 stock were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 
 $30,000. An attack was also made upon his 
 house, for he was marked as a free-state man 
 of too pronounced opinions to suit the pro-slaverj- 
 party. A neighbor, Mr. Lowe, .saved his house. 
 Fortunately, he and his wife and children were 
 visiting in Massachusetts at the time. Had he 
 been in the city he would probably have lost his 
 life. On his return he sold his house and started 
 anew in business. Going to old Franklin, he 
 bought a Methodist Church building, which he 
 moved up to Lawrence and transformed into a 
 store. The next year he built a three-story 
 brick building, 25x80, at No. 707 Ma.ssachusetts 
 
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 street, and there continued business until 1881, 
 when he retired from the mercantile business. 
 From 1884 to 1893 he was a member of the 
 wholesale grocery house of A. D. Craigue & Co., 
 on North Tejon street, Colorado Springs. 
 
 May 10, 1849, Mr. Ludington married Miss 
 Eunese B. Winchell, who was born in West 
 Springfield, Mass., a daughter of Capt. Tryon 
 Winchell, and a cousin of Mr. L,udington. They 
 have two children now living and lost one daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Alice E. Cory, who died in Lawrence. 
 Their son, Wilbur, resides with them, and their 
 surviving daughter. Angle V. , is the wife of Hon. 
 Cassius G. Foster, who was appointed United 
 States judge of Kansas by President Grant and 
 served until March i, 1899, since which time he 
 lived retired in Topeka, until his death, June 21, 
 1899. 
 
 During the war, while mayor of Lawrence, Mr. 
 Ludington was a member of Company E, Third 
 Kansas Militia, that saw service during the Price 
 raid. He is a member of Washington Post No. 
 12, G. A. R. Until recently he afBliated with 
 the Republicans, but is now a Democrat. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Lawrence Lodge 
 No. 6, A. F. & A. M.; Lawrence Chapter No. 
 4, R. A. M.; DeMolay Commandery No. 4, 
 K. T., in which he has held various offices. He 
 was a stockholder and the last president of the 
 Lawrence Street Railway Company, also served 
 as a director in the Second National and Law- 
 rence Exchange Banks, and has been a director 
 in the St. Louis, Lawrence and Southwestern 
 Railroad Company. In educational work and 
 the upbuilding of the school system he has al- 
 ways felt a deep interest. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 Mr. Ludington was 
 elected mayor, succeeding George W. Callomore, 
 who had been killed in the Quantrell raid. In 
 his inaugural address he referred, to the past his- 
 tory of the city, its trials and vicissitudes, and the 
 losses which all of the citizens had experienced, 
 but, at the same time, he declared his faith in the 
 future city, recommended the enlargement of 
 schools, the organization of a fire department and 
 purchase of grounds for a cemetery (which re- 
 sulted in the selection and beautifying of Oak 
 
 Hill cemetery), also recommended the improve- 
 ment of streets, and a vigilant system of military 
 defense by the erection of block houses. Five of 
 these block houses were put up, in order to pro- 
 tect the city against future raids. Under his ad- 
 ministration good order was restored and general 
 confidence inspired. In 1876 the city again had 
 financial reverses and he was again elected mayor 
 and re-elected in 1877. He succeeded for the 
 second time in placing the city's finances on a 
 firm basis, and retired from office, with the con- 
 fidence of the entire citizenship. 
 
 0ANIEL LEAHY, whose home is in Stranger 
 Township, Leavenworth County, was born 
 in New York state, February 19, 1837. 
 When twenty years of age he came to Kansas, 
 among the pioneers of 1857. He secured em- 
 ployment in a saw mill on Leavenworth Island, 
 owned by D. W. Powers, but after a year began 
 to cultivate land for himself. He also operated 
 a ferry boat for eighteen years. During the war 
 he was often engaged with his boat on trips for the 
 government, and frequently southern sympathiz- 
 ers attacked him, but he and his boat always 
 escaped unharmed. In those days perils existed 
 on every hand, and daily the settlers took their 
 lives in their hands. Their property, too, was 
 never safe from theft or wanton destruction. As 
 an instance of this, a yankee went over into Mis- 
 souri with two yoke of oxen after a load of 
 apples. One yoke was beef cattle and they were 
 stolen from him. On his return to the fort he 
 entered complaint, and the commandant sent 
 word to prominent men across the river that the 
 cattle must be returned or they would be held 
 responsible. Instances of this kind might be mul- 
 tiplied indefinitely. 
 
 While still engaged in ferrying Mr. Leahy 
 bought one hundred and sixty acres of the re- 
 serve land, and after a time he turned his entire 
 attention to the cultivation of his property. At 
 first he lived in the old house that was once the 
 home of Chief Wolf. Working steadily, he placed 
 the land under cultivation, planted trees and 
 hedges, and in 1884 erected a substantial resi- 
 
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 dence. He has made a specialty of feeding cattle, 
 and raises grain and hay to use as fodder. As 
 he prospered he added to his land, which now 
 comprises nine hundred and twenty acres. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He takes an inter- 
 est in matters pertaining to the benefit of his 
 community, and gives his support to worthy 
 projects. January i, 1865, he married Hulda 
 Vanneman, of Missouri. They have four chil- 
 dren: Hattie, wife of Frank Dodge; Alice, wife of 
 Thomas Mullen; Frank, who is engaged in busi- 
 ness in Texas; and Maude, at home. The two 
 married daughters reside near their parents. 
 
 ~IJ WESTHEFFER, who resides upon a 
 't) farm one-half mile west of Eudora, Doug- 
 ^ las County, was born in Cumberland Comi- 
 ty, Pa., in December, 1842, a son of Simon and 
 Frances (Ricer) Westheffer, natives of Penn.syl- 
 vania, and of Dutch descent. His paternal an- 
 cestors were among the first who came from 
 Holland to America and settled near Manhattan, 
 N. Y. In 1844 Simon WestheflFer moved from 
 Penn.sylvania to Ohio, and in 1851 established 
 his home in Miami County, Ind. , where he be- 
 came the owner of one hundred and sixty acres 
 of raw land. While he had previously followed 
 the tailor's trade, after he went to Indiana he 
 gave his time exclusively to the clearing of his 
 land, but he did not live to bring it under culti- 
 vation, for his death occurred in 1853, when he 
 was forty-four years of age. Afterward his wife 
 was again married, becoming the wife of Daniel 
 Shultzbach. By her first marriage she had six 
 children, four now living, viz.: Jacob, who lives 
 in Kan.sas City; EH; David, of Colorado; and 
 Elizabeth, wife of Lorenzo Donaldson. By her 
 second husband she had three children, of whom 
 two survive, Charles, of Miami County, Ind., and 
 Marion, al.so of that county. The mother now 
 makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Don- 
 aldson, in Indiana. 
 
 By studying in common schools our subject 
 obtained a fair education. In 1862 he en- 
 listed in Company H, Eighty-seventh Indiana 
 Infautry, and was a.ssigned to the Fourteenth 
 
 Army Corps, under Generals Rosecrans, Thomas 
 and Sherman, and accompanied the last-named 
 on the famous march to the sea. During the 
 battle of Chickaniauga he was .severely wounded 
 and to this day suffers from the effects of the 
 wound. In July, 1865, he was honorablj' dis- 
 charged from the army, and returned to Indiana. 
 The spring of the following year found him in 
 Lawrence, Kans. Shortly afterward, with his 
 brother Jacob, he bought a farm in the Kaw Val- 
 ley, his first purchase comprising one hundred 
 and twentj' acres, where he carried on general 
 farming and stock-raising for thirteen years. In 
 1877 he sold that place and moved to the farm 
 formerly owned by Robert Peoples, located in the 
 Kaw Valley, where he has since cultivated the 
 one hundred acres comprising the place. Oc- 
 tober3, 1877, he married Mrs. Deborah E. Peo- 
 ples, the widow of Robert Peoples, and a lady of 
 estimable character. They are the parents of 
 one son, Don. Mrs. Westheffer had two chil- 
 dreu by her former husband, an infant deceased, 
 and Jennie, wife of Charles Starkweather, of 
 Lawrence. 
 
 The views held by Mr. Westheffer upon na- 
 tional problems bring him into affiliation with the 
 Republican party. For several years he has served 
 on the school board aud has also frequently been 
 cho.sen to serve as township clerk, both of which 
 positions he has filled efficiently. In fraternal 
 relations he is connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen at Eudora and Eudora Post 
 No. 333, G. A. R. , in which he has been an offi- 
 cer. Mrs. Westheffer is a member of the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church. 
 
 ROBERT J. MINTIER, who for many years 
 has owned and occupied a farm situated 
 seven miles west of Leavenworth, is one of 
 the prominent and prosperous agriculturists of 
 Kickapoo Township, and during the long period 
 of his residence here has won many friends 
 among the people of Salt Creek Valley. It was 
 in 1864 that he purchased eighty acres forming 
 the nucleus of his present property*. To it he 
 added from time to time, until he has become the 
 
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 owner of three hundred and twenty acres, divided 
 into fields for the pasturage of his stock and the 
 raising of general farm products. Of late j'ears 
 he has made a specialty of raising fine timothy 
 hay and has also given considerable attention to 
 the raising of apples and peaches. He is a leader 
 in all enterprises for the benefit of the farmers of 
 his township or for the upbuilding of the educa- 
 tional and moral welfare of his community. For 
 years he has served as a director of Mount Olivet 
 school, in which position he has worked faith- 
 fully to secure good advantages for the children 
 of his district. For some years he was a sup- 
 porter of Populist principles, but now votes the 
 Republican ticket. Under the first administra- 
 tion of President Cleveland he was appointed 
 postmaster at Mount Olivet, an office which he 
 has since held. 
 
 In Harrison County, Ohio, in 1835, the subject 
 of this sketch was born to the union of Robert 
 and Elizabeth (Hammond) Mintier. His father, 
 a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Ohio in early 
 manhood and in time became one of the leading 
 farmers of Harrison County, where he spent the 
 remainder of his life, dying at seventy-eight 
 years. His wife died there when about sixty-one 
 years of age. They were the parents of twelve 
 children, eight of whom are now living, viz.: 
 Joseph, Thomas and John, in Ohio; Mary, wife of 
 John Hannah; Eliza, widow of James Henderson; 
 Robert J.; Esther, wife of Joseph Sheppard, and 
 David. 
 
 During 1858 Robert J. Mintier came west as 
 far as Iowa, and very soon afterward came to 
 Leavenworth, Kans. Near this city he secured 
 employment on a farm and he continued to work 
 for others until he was able to purchase a home 
 of his own, when, in 1864, he bought the farm 
 he has since improved and cultivated. Shortly 
 after he had settled on this place he stopped his 
 work and went with the state militia to assist in 
 driving General Price out of Kansas, accompany- 
 ing the militia to the front and witnessing the 
 battle of Westport. On his return home he re- 
 sumed the task of improving his property. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mintier, February 27, 
 1862, united him with Lucrelia A., daughter of 
 
 Joshua and Ascenath (Cummings) Ackley. Her 
 father came from Illinois to Kansas in 1854 and 
 was one of the earliest settlers of the Salt Creek 
 Valley, where he spent the remainder of his life, 
 engaged in farm pursuits. He died in 1892, when 
 eighty-eight years of age. In his family there 
 were twelve children, of whom five are now liv- 
 ing, Mrs. Mintier being the eldest of these. The 
 others are: Lydia, widow of Isaac Edwards; Uriah, 
 Joseph and Charlotte. A few years after her 
 father had settled in Leavenworth County Mrs. 
 Mintier came here with the other members of the 
 family. Familiar with farm work from child- 
 hood, she was qualified, by training and tastes, 
 to become the wife of a farmer, and to her ener- 
 getic assistance not a little of Mr. Mintier' s suc- 
 cess may be justly ascribed. Not only has she 
 managed her household affairs and the dairy with 
 thrift, but, during busy seasons, when it was im- 
 possible to secure help, she went to the field and 
 worked there as faithfully as she has labored in 
 the house. It is fitting that now, after years of 
 tireless labor, Mr. and Mrs. Mintier should be 
 comfortably situated and able to surround them- 
 selves with all the comforts of life. 
 
 V yiAC C. BYRD, proprietor of the Lawrence 
 y tannery, and one of the enterprising busi- 
 y ness men of this city, was born and reared 
 in Wake County, N. C. When he was a young 
 man he learned the tanner's trade, and afterward 
 found employment at this occupation in Maryland 
 and Virginia. In due time he became the owner 
 of a tannery at Durham, N. C, which he oper- 
 ated for many years. Finally, believing that 
 another section of country might offer greater in- 
 ducements to a business man, he removed to Kan- 
 sas. In the fall of 1889 he settled in Lawrence, 
 where he has since made his home. 
 
 For a time after locating in this city Mr. Byrd 
 followed his trade in the employ of others, but he 
 soon again engaged in business for himself, buying 
 the business owned by his employer, and here he 
 has since carried on a large trade. His specialty is 
 the tanning of all kinds of furs, both wild and do- 
 mestic, and the manufacture of fur robes and 
 
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 rugs, of vvliich he turns out more than five hun- 
 dred each season. His location is No. 145 Maine 
 street. Managing his affairs with economy and 
 judgment he has met with considerable success in 
 business. 
 
 Politically Mr. Byrd is a Republican, always 
 supporting the candidates and principles for 
 which this party stands. In religion he is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church. He was married 
 September 13, 1877, to Miss Lucy A. Steward, 
 who was born and reared in North Carolina, and 
 by whom he has eight children, all living. 
 
 U^ORRIS M. GRIST, Sr. Viewed in the 
 \l light of an honorable life and successful 
 I /j business career, Mr. Grist may be regarded 
 as one of the best citizens of Tonganoxie. Dur- 
 ing the fourteen years that he has engaged in the 
 drug business here he has become well and 
 favorably known among the people of the town 
 and surrounding country. Notwithstanding the 
 fact that he started in business with a very small 
 capital (only $350), by energy, industry and per- 
 severance, with the exercise of tact, good judg- 
 ment and sound common sense, he has secured a 
 competency, and at the same time has made for 
 himself a name for strict honor and integrity, and 
 for graciously helping his fellow-men . 
 
 Through his paternal ancestors Mr. Grist is 
 of Scotch, German and Irish lineage. His 
 grandfather, David Grist, emigrated from Scot- 
 land to Virginia and later settled in Pennsyl- 
 vania. One of his sons, AsaiahW. Grist, M. D., 
 graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Chi- 
 cago, and afterward engaged in the practice of 
 his profession, in which he attained considerable 
 eminence in the east; but, owing to ill health, 
 he removed to Kansas. Another son, John S. 
 Grist, our subject's father, was born in Mount 
 Pleasant, Pa. , and in youth learned the trade of 
 carpenter and builder. When twenty-two years 
 of age became to Kansas to see the "wild" 
 west, but soon returned to Pennsylvania, where 
 he married. In i868 he moved to Tonganoxie, 
 Kans., where he has lived ever since. By his 
 marriage to Matilda Buttimore he had four 
 
 children: Norris M., the eldest, who was born in 
 Westmoreland County, Pa.; Elizabeth,- wife of 
 Joseph Dessary, of Tonganoxie; Maj' Etta, who 
 is deputy postmaster here; and Alice, who mar- 
 ried Robert Fairchild and lives in Kansas City, 
 Kans. 
 
 The educational advantages afforded bj' the 
 graded .school of Tonganoxie were given to the 
 subject of this sketch in his early boyhood, and 
 the information thus obtained was supplemented 
 bj" a course in the Kansas State Universitj- at 
 Lawrence. Afterward he engaged in teaching 
 school, not, however, with the intention of mak- 
 ing this a permanent occupation, but in order to 
 gain the necessary means for starting in business. 
 Six years were spent as a teacher, and later for 
 eighteen months he was employed as assi.stant 
 clerk with the Caldwell Manufacturing Conipanj- 
 at the state penitentiarj-. Forming a partnership 
 with his brother-in-law. Dr. Dupuy Snell, in 
 1885 he embarked in the drug business. From 
 the first he met with success, and within two 
 years from the time of starting he purchased his 
 partner's interest in the business, which he has 
 since conducted alone. Shortly after ^le became 
 the sole owner of the business. 
 
 During the year 1887 and 1888 Mr. Grist took 
 a regular course of pharmacy in the pharmaceu- 
 tical department of the Kansas State Universitj', 
 and passed the state examination for pharma- 
 cists with credit, thus gaining an assured posi- 
 tion in his cho-sen occupation. Having pur- 
 chased the lot where his store is now located, in 
 1887 he here erected a substantial building. He 
 also purchased a residence containing four rooms, 
 which, by remodeling and additions, he has 
 transformed into a neat home of eight rooms, sur- 
 rounded by shade trees and a number of out- 
 buildings. Besides his drug business he has 
 other important interests, among other things be- 
 ing a stockholder in the creamery and the build- 
 ing and loan association, also a director in the 
 latter. 
 
 From boyhood Mr. Grist has depended upon 
 his own exertions, and the large degree of suc- 
 cess he has attained speaks well for his tenacity 
 of purpose. With no desire to enter the field of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 politics, and with independent views upon the 
 subject, he has never allied himself with any po- 
 litical organization; however, he keeps posted 
 concerning current events of importance and is a 
 patriotic citizen. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Modern Woodmen, and Henry Lodge 
 No. 190, A. F. & A. M., also the Eastern Star. 
 
 When at leisure from business duties Mr. 
 Grist may often be found studying the Bible, 
 history and the sciences. Few are more familiar 
 with the Scriptures than he. At this writing he 
 is also studying medicine. It is his aim to keep 
 up with the times in order that he may be able 
 to perform his part in helping the world upward. 
 He is a man who studies thoughtfully and rea- 
 sons conscientiously. In his life he has en- 
 deavored to live up to the high standard set for 
 a man. He has been charitable, kind-hearted 
 and helpful, and the needy have found in him a 
 true friend. 
 
 October 8, 1882, Mr. Grist married Lula, 
 daughter of Henry and Henrietta Snell, who 
 was born in Kentucky; her father, when a 
 young man, moved to Missouri, and there mar- 
 ried Miss Henrietta Phillips, daughter of a phy- 
 sician. Afterward he brought his family to 
 Kansas, where he has since resided. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Grist are the parents of four children : Net- 
 tie Matilda, who has entered upon the first year's 
 studies of the high school; Fuchsia Frances, 
 Norris M. Jr., and Paul Dupuy, who have 
 passed their school grades with credit and give 
 promise of bright futures. 
 
 yyiAJ. M. R. W. GREBE, who is engaged 
 y in dairying, general farming and stock- 
 (9 raising in Sherman Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, was born August 4, 1838, in the 
 then kingdom (now province) of Hanover, Ger- 
 many. He received his education in a Jesuit 
 college and military academy. In 1854 he was 
 given a lieutenant's commission in the German 
 army, in which he served for eight years. In 
 1862 he was given a leave of absence in order to 
 come to the United States and take part in the 
 Civil war. Landing in New York in July of 
 
 that year, he went to St. Louis and was there 
 commissioned first lieutenant in Company I, 
 Fourth Missouri Cavalry, under the command of 
 Gen. George E. Waring. In 1863 he volun- 
 teered to carry dispatches with thirty-seven 
 picked men and one commissioned oflScer, from 
 Columbus, Ky., to Memphis, Tenn., through the 
 lines of Rebel General Forrest. On the way he 
 and his comrades defeated two hundred and 
 thirty-five Confederate soldiers belonging to the 
 Georgia militia, seven of whom, including a 
 captain, were captured, and two of the wagons 
 were burned. He was obliged to attack them or 
 he would have been massacred himself; so while 
 the rebels did not know his strength, he, with 
 impulsive dash, attacked and defeated them. 
 For his bravery in the assault he was made a 
 captain and placed at the head of Company F, 
 which he joined at Huntsville, Ala., April 5, 
 1864. Soon afterward he was appointed aide-de- 
 camp to Gen. James B. McPherson, commander 
 of the army of the Tennessee, consisting of the 
 fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth army corps 
 and a cavalry corps. At the first battle of At- 
 lanta, July 22, 1864, he, as aide-de-camp, car- 
 ried an important dispatch to General Kilpat- 
 rick, on the extreme left wing of the army of the 
 Tennessee toward Decatur, Ga. It was there 
 that he voluntarily led a cavalry charge against 
 the advancing Confederate line and was twice 
 shot in the limbs (both being flesh wounds). 
 Though bleeding profusely, he refused to leave 
 the battlefield, in spite of the fact that Generals 
 McPherson and Logan requested him to do so; 
 but remained in the saddle until midnight came 
 and the victory was won. Later in the same bat- 
 tle, seeing General McPherson's riderless horse 
 come back from a thickly wooded part of the bat- 
 tlefield, he gathered a small body of soldiers and 
 charged into the thicket, not knowing whether 
 he would meet a rebel army corps or a corporal 
 guard. Encountering a company of Confederates, 
 he defeated them, after a desperate hand-to-hand 
 fight, and captured twelve or more men, also re- 
 covered from them the body of Gen. J. B. Mc- 
 Pherson, for which and for other acts he was 
 mentioned favorably by Major-General Logan, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and was promoted to the rank of major and re- 
 ceived the congressional medal of honor. 
 
 On the death of General McPherson, General 
 Logan succeeded to the command, and Major 
 Grebe served under him, proving of the greatest 
 assistance, for General Logan had come so sud- 
 denly into the command during the battle of At- 
 lanta that lie did not know the disposition of the 
 troops in that engagement. At the battle of 
 Ezra Church, July 28, 1864, Major Grebe saved 
 the life of his orderly, Sam Houston, by riding 
 within three hundred yards of the rebel line, and, 
 alone and unaided, taking him from under his 
 horse. The act was one of great bravery, for the 
 orderly lay midway of the two battle lines and 
 there was a constant and terrific fire of musketry 
 and grape. 
 
 When Gen. O. O. Howard succeeded Gen. John 
 A. Logan, Major Grebe served as an aide to him, 
 and afterward General Howard wrote him a let- 
 ter thanking him for efficient service while on 
 the staff. He al.so has letters written in 1864, 
 after the fall of Atlanta, and mentioning his acts 
 of gallantry, from Generals W. T. Sherman, John 
 A. Logan, Frank P. Blair and J. M. Schofield. 
 He also has in his possession the following letter: 
 Headquarters Army in the Field, 
 
 Camp near Petersburg, September 16, 1864. 
 Hon. Williard P. Hall, 
 Governor of Missouri, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Sir.— I beg leave to submit to Your Honor as 
 an applicant for the office of colonel, 13th Cav. 
 Mo. Vol., Capt. M. R. William Grebe, should 
 the office be vacant, and at the same time to .sub- 
 mit the recommendations of Generals Sherman, 
 Logan, Blair and Howard. 
 
 I am personally acquainted with the applicant 
 and I pledge myself to him to give entire satis- 
 faction. Very respectfully. 
 
 Your ob't s'v't, 
 (signed) U. S. Grant. 
 
 At the battle of Jonesboro, General Howard 
 asked for some one of his staff to volunteer to 
 carry a dispatch across Flint River to a cavalry 
 brigade. The mission was a dangerous one, for 
 the messenger would be obliged to swim the 
 
 river and cross a most dangerous part of the bat- 
 tlefield, exposed to a terrific musketry fire and 
 solid shot and shell. In his report General 
 Howard says, that ' ' Captain Grebe volunteered 
 to go where others hesitated to go." — And more, 
 too, say Generals Howard and Logan both, 
 ' ' when he had placed the reinforcements in po- 
 sition, seeing the enemy massing in front, he 
 jumped from his horse and picked up the rifle of 
 a fallen comrade and took a conspicuous part in 
 repulsing the enemy. After the repulse of the 
 rebels he jumped on top of the breastworks and 
 rushed with the column upon the fleeing enemy. 
 Coming into a conflict with the color btarer he 
 struck him down, but at the same moment was 
 struck by a rebel sword. He fell, holding the 
 flag, and bore the rebel color bearer down wiih 
 him, capturing the flag." The wound, though 
 two and one-half inches long, was only a flesh 
 wound, the sabre glancing off on the left collar 
 bone. When he recovered consciousness Gen- 
 eral Logan was standing at his side, while he 
 was resting in the arms of his orderly, L. H. 
 Waggoner, of Leavenworth, who is now presi- 
 dent of the Union Labor Council. Both Gen- 
 erals Logan and Howard stated in their official 
 report, that it was the carrying of the message by 
 Major Grebe (bringing a regiment of one thou- 
 sand cavalrymen with Spencer repeating rifles) 
 that saved the day for the Union troops. For 
 this service he was voted the thanks of congress 
 and the congressional medal of honor. This is 
 the highest honor which can be conferred upon a 
 soldier, and must be won in action for gallantry 
 and the gallantry must be voluntarily performed 
 and of such high degree as to clearly elevate the 
 soldier over the acts of bravery of his comrades. 
 September 30, 1864, Governor Hall of Mis- 
 souri commissioned Major Grebe colonel of the 
 Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry, and he reported 
 for duty at St. Louis, but, the regiment not being 
 ready, he was appointed aide-decamp on the 
 governor's staff, with the rank of major. While 
 in St. Louis he was one evening attending a 
 theatre as escort to the daughter of a Missouri 
 senator, when a captain in his former regiment 
 insulted the lady. He at once took her home, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 returned, found the man, whom he thrashed. 
 For this he was challenged to fight a duel. He 
 accepted the challenge and chose sabres for 
 weapons, as both were cavalry officers. The 
 challenging party, knowing the major's prowess 
 with the sabre, overbid and chose twenty-two 
 calibre revolvers, and thirty yards distance. 
 Major Grebe, recognizing the fact that the cap- 
 tain was determined upon a mortal combat, then 
 exercised his right and chose forty-five calibre 
 revolvers, twelve yards distance, firing until one 
 fell. Captain Hansen fell, shot in the left 
 breast, and Major Grebe was shot through his 
 uniform and waist. Hansen, after an illness of 
 several months, recovered. A court martial fol- 
 lowed; all principals, seconds and referee, were 
 cashiered. On account of mitigating circum- 
 stances (his military education and service in a 
 country where dueling is permitted and his most 
 distinguished service in behalf of this, to him a 
 foreign country) the court that tried Major Grebe 
 unanimously recommended him for executive 
 clemency, so that his valuable services might be 
 continued, but President Johnson refused to in- 
 terfere, and thus Major Grebe's military career 
 closed. It was not until recently that the former 
 decision against him was reversed, and he was 
 given an honorable discharge from the army. 
 
 In 1865 Major Grebe acted as clerk for the 
 Missouri constitutional convention. Afterward 
 the governor of Missouri appointed him commis- 
 sioner for that state, to go into the field and col- 
 lect the soldiers' votes. In December, 1865, he 
 settled in Kansas City, where he engaged in the 
 grocery business. Shortly afterward, while on a 
 hunting trip near Westport, he was waylaid by 
 the James boys (nine against two) and was se- 
 verely wounded by Jesse James. He had been 
 captain of a posse that took a leading part in 
 restoring order, and by so doing, and by his 
 stanch Republicanism, he secured the animosity 
 of these parties. It is supposed that the robbery 
 was largely the result of the prominent part he 
 took in suppressing disorder and on account of 
 his being a very active Republican. For several 
 years, in addition to the grocery business, he 
 conducted the Grebe Union hotel. In 1887 he 
 
 bought a farm of two hundred and forty acres in 
 Leavenworth County, to which he removed and 
 upon which he has since made his home. He is 
 a man highly respected and with many friends 
 throughout the west. In 1867 he married Mrs. 
 Felicite H. (de Padrone) Shannon, widow of 
 John Shannon, and a member of one of the first 
 families of New Orleans. They have a son, Will- 
 iam, and a daughter, Antoinette. 
 
 The life of Major Grebe presents much that is 
 of interest to the student of mankind. Educated 
 for a military career by the most warlike nation 
 in the world; leaving all that was dear to him 
 to come to this country in its hour of need and 
 peril; oifering himself, with his military knowl- 
 edge, his youth and his fine physique (he was 
 over six feet tall and as straight as the cedars of 
 Lebanon), to help fight the battles of a land 
 foreign to him; assisting through his bravery 
 and impulsive gallantry to gain Union victories; 
 and winning from Generals Logan, Blair and 
 Sherman the testimony that ' ' this country owes 
 him gratitude;" he was nevertheless for years 
 handicapped by a dishonorable discharge from 
 the army for an offence, the omission of which, 
 in the land where he was educated, would have 
 brought him into disgrace. Notwithstanding the 
 realization that he had been wrongly treated, he 
 remained a stanch Republican and a loyal citi- 
 zen, and there are many who will echo General 
 Sherman's statement, in a letter commenting 
 upon Major Grebe's loyalty: "Your example 
 stands to remotest time as a model of fidelity." 
 
 (lOHN C. ALEXANDER, a trustee of Ton- 
 I ganoxie Township, is one of the well-known 
 (2/ men of his part of Leavenworth County. 
 He arrived in Kansas September i, 1878, and 
 soon afterward bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres of raw prairie land. Beginning the task 
 of improvement without delay, he soon placed 
 the property in fine condition and made of it the 
 attractive homestead it is to-day. He has made 
 a specialty' of raising graded Shorthorn cattle, in 
 which he has been successful, and he has also 
 carried on a large dairy business, selling both 
 
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 milk and butter. While he has not as much land 
 as when he first came here, that which he owns 
 is under cultivation and its value is considerable. 
 In the main he has been successful, but met with 
 disaster in 1S95, when fire caused the entire loss 
 of his farm buildings. These he has since re- 
 built, so that his farm presents an appearance of 
 comfort and plentj-. 
 
 The Alexander family is of Scotch descent. 
 Samuel Alexander, our subject's father, was born 
 in Scotland, and, coming to America, settled in 
 Michigan, where he owned one hundred and 
 twenty acres of land, devoted largely to fruit 
 culture. In early life a Whig, he became a Re- 
 publican on the organization of the party and 
 afterward adhered to its principles. Though 
 reared in the Presbyterian faith, he was a Uni- 
 versalist in belief. He was a student of the Bible 
 and fond of general reading also. By his mar- 
 riage to Frederica, daughter of John Oatt, of 
 Monroe County, Mich., he had four children, 
 viz.: Margaret, wife of David Kelley, of Monroe 
 County; Lucinda, who married J. K. Bradford, 
 and lives in McLouth, Kans.; Mary E.; and John 
 C, who was born in Monroe County, Mich., in 
 August, 1849. He was educated in grammar and 
 high schools. For two years he clerked in a 
 grocery in Toledo, Ohio, after which he followed 
 the carpenter's trade, but soon returned to Michi- 
 gan and resumed farm work, with which he had 
 been familiar from childhood. His father died 
 when he was only twelve years old and from that 
 time he was self-supporting. For four years he 
 engaged in general farming and for eight years 
 carried on a dairy business in Toledo, Ohio. From 
 there he came to his present home in Kansas. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Alexander was 
 justice of the peace for fifteen years. November 
 8, 1897, he was elected township trustee, and he 
 then resigned as justice of the peace in order 
 to devote himself more closely to the trustee's 
 office. In 1898 he was re-elected trustee and- is 
 now filling his second term. Since twenty-one 
 years of age he has been a Mason. At Toledo, 
 Ohio, he served as senior deacon and junior war- 
 den. He was a charter member of the blue lodge 
 at Tonganoxie and its first senior deacon. He is 
 
 now connected with Lyra Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
 at McLouth; also the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and is secretary of the Grange in the 
 same village. 
 
 December 21, 1878, Mr. Alexander married 
 Ruby L. Muncil, by whom he has four children: 
 Olive N., May Mary, Grace L. and Samuel H. 
 Mrs. Alexander's father, Horace H. Muncil, 
 was a native of Vermont, whence in early man- 
 hood he removed to Michigan, and for many 
 years engaged in farming and freighting. From 
 Michigan he moved to Toledo and bought a farm 
 near that city. In 187 1 he moved from Ohio to 
 Kansas and bought a tract of one hundred and 
 sixty acres in Leavenworth County, where he 
 carried on farm pursuits. From early manhood 
 he gave his vote to the Democratic candidates. 
 During his residence in Ohio he married Harriet 
 Eggleston, anativeof New York. They became 
 the parents of three children, of whom Hanford 
 Muncil and Mrs. Alexander are living. 
 
 (S\ LLEN L. WILSON, of Lawrence, was born 
 r 1 in Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, July 14, 
 11 1869, a son of A. 8. and Frances M.(Lindsley) 
 Wilson, natives respectively of New York state 
 and Stryker, Ohio. His father, who for a time 
 carried on a mercantile business in Michigan, en- 
 listed during the Civil war in the Fourth Michi- 
 gan Cavalry, and was a member of the squad that 
 captured Jefferson Davis. When the war was 
 over he settled in Ohio and opened a mercantile 
 store in Williams County. At this writing he is 
 a merchant in Toledo, where he has been active 
 in business affairs and also in the Grand Army. 
 He and his wife have only two children, a son 
 and daughter. 
 
 After graduating from the high school in Stry- 
 ker, Ohio, our subject went to Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y., where he took a course in Eastman's 
 Business College. While in school he became 
 familiar with the painter's trade through work- 
 ing with a cousin who was a painter. On his re- 
 turn from Poughkeepsie he assisted his father 
 for a year and then visited the Pacific coast, re- 
 turning east as far as Denver, where he engaged 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 641 
 
 as salesman with F. W. Fuller. A year later he 
 went to Greeley, Colo., where he carried on busi- 
 ness as a contracting painter for a year. His 
 next location was in Kansas City, where he se- 
 cured employment with the Missouri Pacific 
 Railway Company as baggageman between Kan- 
 sas City and Omaha. 
 
 In January, 1896, Mr. Wilson came to Law- 
 rence, where he worked at the painter's trade 
 with A. H. Krause. In the spring of 1898 he 
 bought out his employer and has since continued 
 as a contracting painter and decorator. His 
 trade is the best of the line in the city. Through 
 his efficiency as a business man and his courtesj^ 
 and honorable dealings with all he has attained 
 a leading place among the decorators and painters 
 of Lawrence, and has met with financial success. 
 His office and shop are at No. 701 Vermont 
 street. Fraternally he is connected with the Ma- 
 sons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. During 
 his residence in Kansas City he was married 
 there to Miss Ida M. Fenney, who was born in 
 Leavenworth County, Kans. , and is a lady of 
 many estimable qualities. 
 
 GJLEXANDER KIRK. Coming to Leaven- 
 Ll worth in the spring of 1864, at the expira- 
 / I tion of his term of service in the Civil war, 
 Mr. Kirk has since been identified with the busi- 
 ness interests of this city. For a time he was in 
 the employ of Henry & Garrett, and later held a 
 clerkship with their successors, Rohlfing & Co., 
 with whom he remained until 1868. In the 
 spring of 1866 he crossed the plains to Helena, 
 Mont., with a stock of goods, which he sold 
 there, afterward making the return journey by 
 skiff from Fort Benton, a distance of twentj'- 
 seven hundred miles. On account of the hostility 
 of the Indians the trip was a dangerous one, and 
 more than once he was fired upon by the sav- 
 ages, but fortunately escaped unhurt. He 
 started in business for himself in 1868 and 
 after five years in one building moved across 
 the street to his present location, Nos. 428-430 
 Cherokee street. In his store he carries a full 
 
 line of staple and fancy groceries, making a spec- 
 ialty of the latter, in which he has built up a very 
 large trade. 
 
 Mr. Kirk was born in County Down, Ireland, 
 February 28, 1839, the j'oungest child of David 
 and Jane (Henr}^ Kirk, natives of Ireland. He 
 was a namesake of his uncle, Alexander Kirk, 
 who came to America in 1848, settling in Penn- 
 S3'lvania, and who, with his two sons, enlisted in 
 the One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Infan- 
 try at the opening of the Civil war; one of the 
 sons, Capt. Robert Kirk, was killed in the battle 
 of Chancellorsville, the father and the other son, 
 David, returning home at the close of the war, 
 and in 1874 removing to Douglas County, Kans., 
 where the father died. Our subject's mother was 
 a daughter of Alexander Henry, a farmer, who 
 brought his family to America in 1849, settling 
 near Princeton, Caldwell County, Ky., where he 
 engaged in farming; he and his wife died when 
 about eight}' years of age. Their daughter, Mrs. 
 Kirk, was sixty at the time of her death, having 
 long survived her husband, who died in Ireland 
 in early manhood. Of her five children all but 
 one attained mature j'ears. Jennie and David 
 died in Kentucky, where the younger daughter, 
 Nancy, now makes her home. 
 
 When our subject accompanied his mother to 
 America he was ten years of age. The trip on 
 the sailing vessel from Belfast to New York City 
 took forty-seven days. The family settled in 
 Kentucky, where he grew to manhood on a farm 
 with very limited opportunities for an education, 
 as his time was spent principally in the corn field 
 and the tobacco patch. In August, 1862, he en- 
 listed in Company F, Fifteenth Kentucky Cav- 
 alry, and was mustered into service as sergeant. 
 His service was principally in Tennessee and 
 Kentucky, where he fought guerillas and bush- 
 whackers. He was mustered out in December, 
 1863, and honorably discharged. In the spring 
 of r864 he came to Kansas. Shortly afterward 
 he became a member of Company A, Seventh 
 Kansas Militia, and served during the Price raid. 
 He has always been a Republican in national pol- 
 itics, but in local matters has been independent, 
 voting for the best man for the office in question. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Interested in the Grand Army, he holds member- 
 ship in Custer Post No. 6. He is identified with 
 the First Presbyterian Church and is one of its 
 elders and an earnest worker in its behalf. Prior 
 to his removal from Kentucky he was married 
 there to Miss Elizabeth J. Maxwell, member of 
 an old family of that state. They became the 
 parents of the following children: Nannie B.; 
 Albert L., who is connected with his father in 
 business; Urey, who died in childhood; Walter A.; 
 and Earl, who died in boyhood. 
 
 0ANIEL F. HEASTON. Since accepting 
 the position of superintendent of the Doug- 
 las County Infirmarj' Mr. Heaston has 
 given his entire attention to the duties of his of- 
 fice, and has displayed such sagacity and good 
 judgment in his management of affairs that he 
 has won the approval of all. Under his able 
 supervision the property is maintained in first- 
 class condition, and the land plainly shows the 
 oversight of a capable, industrious and energetic 
 man. In fact his service has been so .satisfactory 
 that, since coming here in March, 1899, he has 
 been requested by the commi.ssioners to sign a 
 contract for five years as superintendent. 
 
 In Harrison County, Ohio, Mr. Heaston was 
 born July i, 1842, a, son of Jo.seph and Catherine 
 (Fierbaugh) Heaston, of whose seven children 
 he is the sole survivor. His father, a native of 
 Westmoreland, Pa., born March 14, 1809, was a 
 boy of nine years when his parents removed to 
 Harrison County, Ohio, where he grew to man- 
 hood, married and settled upon a farm. He con- 
 tinued to reside upon the farm where he first set- 
 tled until the time of his death, in October, 1864. 
 Twice married, by his first wife, who was Mary 
 Norks, he had two sons, Joseph and John. John, 
 who volunteered his services at the opening of 
 the Civil war, and was a member of the One 
 Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Regiment, died 
 at Harper's Ferry of typhoid fever. Joseph en- 
 listed May 8, 1864, in Company B, One Hundred 
 and Seventieth Ohio Infantry. The second mar- 
 riage of Joseph Heaston united him with Cathe- 
 rine Fierbaugh, who was born October 12, 1820, 
 
 a daughter of John and Elizabeth Fierbaugh, 
 natives of Germany. The parents of Mr. Heaston, 
 John and Mary Heaston, were of Pennsylvania- 
 Dutch stock. 
 
 During the spring of 1862 our subject enlisted 
 in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
 Ohio Infantry, but, being under age, his parents 
 refused their consent to his enlistment and 
 brought him back home. However, in the fall 
 he joined the state militia, and May 8, 1864, he, 
 with other members of the state guard, entered 
 the government service, he becoming a member 
 of Company B, One Hundred and Seventieth 
 Ohio Infantry. He was detailed with his com- 
 pany to guard duty at Fort Simmons. On the 
 4th of July he was ordered to Maryland Heights, 
 overlooking Harper's Ferry, where for two 
 weeks he and his regiment were surrounded by 
 Hood's forces. Finally Hood withdrew his men 
 and started to make a raid through Pennsylvania, 
 but failed. While the federal soldiers were pur- 
 suing Hood Mr. Heaston was stricken with ty- 
 phoid fever, and was sent to Sandy Hook hos- 
 pital, but later was transferred to Frederick City, 
 thence to Baltimore and finally to Wheeling, 
 W.Va., and from there sent home on a furlough. 
 After a short time he joined his regiment at 
 Camp Denison, Ohio, but the physician found 
 him still .so ill as to be unfit for duty and ordered 
 him home immediatel)-, stating that if he wished 
 to .see home at all it would be nece.ssary to go at 
 once. His discharge was sent to him at the time 
 his comrades were discharged. 
 
 After some time Mr. Heaston regained his 
 health and was able to resume farming. Sep- 
 tember 12, 1867, he married Miss Elizabeth 
 Allbaugh, and in the spring of the following year 
 they started for Kansas, arriving in Lawrence on 
 the 14th of April, and going from there to Willow 
 Springs Township, where B. F. Hammill, his 
 brother-in-law, resided. There he visited for a 
 few days, but the next week bought a farm and 
 settled down to agricultural pursuits in Douglas 
 County. In August, 1869, he returned to Ohio 
 and resided in Harrison County until 1876. 
 Losing his wife at this time and his brother-in- 
 law dying in Kansas, he returned to the west. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 643 
 
 settled up the estate, and has since made Doug- 
 las County his home. By his first marriage he 
 had four children, three of whom are living, viz.: 
 Elmer E., a machinist residing at Wilson, Kans. ; 
 Melissa, wife of Isaac A. Fierbaugh, of Oklaho- 
 ma; and Sarah C, who lives in Falls City, Neb. 
 
 October 11, 1877, Mr. Heaston married Miss 
 Maria C. Allbaugh, who died January 9, 1884. 
 Of the two children born of this union one is liv- 
 ing, Edmund S. , who is with his father. In 1885 
 our subject was united with Mrs. Susan (Berry) 
 Heaston, by whom he had three children, but 
 only one is living, Mabel I. 
 
 Mr. Heaston still owns the farm where he re- 
 sided until he accepted the position of superin- 
 tendent of the Douglas County poor farm. He 
 is identified with Washington Post No. 12, 
 G. A. R. In religion he is an active worker in 
 the United Brethren Church and has filled the 
 various ofiices in the congregation. At the time 
 of the erection of the first house of worship of 
 this denomination in Willow Springs Township 
 he was a member of the building committee. 
 For thirteen years he served as supervisor of 
 Willow Springs Township and for seven years 
 he filled with efiiciency the oflSce of township 
 clerk. 
 
 gENJAMIN F. TRACKWELL is a member 
 of a prominent family of Leavenworth Coun- 
 ty and has, by his own energetic efforts, 
 gained for himself a position among the success- 
 ful farmers and stock-raisers of Alexandria 
 Township. He owns the old family homestead, 
 having purchased the interests of the other heirs, 
 and here he was, until recently, engaged in rais- 
 ing high-grade draft and driving horses, but he 
 now gives his attention principally to Shorthorn 
 and Durham cattle. The land is adapted for 
 stock-raising purposes, being both upland and 
 bottom land, while running water adds to the 
 value of the place. 
 
 The first of the Trackwell family in America 
 emigrated from England to Georgia. Our sub- 
 ject's grandfather, Joshua Trackwell, who served 
 in the war of 1812, was a farmer in West Vir- 
 ginia. His son, William Trackwell, was born in 
 
 Monroe County, W. Va., in 1801, and in 1825 be- 
 came a pioneer of Indiana, settling in Shelby 
 County, and giving his attention to the clearing 
 of his tract of three hundred and twenty acres. 
 After having lived there for many years, in 1857 
 he sold out and removed to Kansas, which state 
 he had visited the previous year. He bought 
 two hundred and forty acres in Alexandria Town- 
 ship and three hundred and twenty acres in 
 Franklin County. Upon the former land he made 
 his home until he was accidentally killed, in 
 i860, by the explosion of a boiler in a mill. He 
 was a man who possessed, under all circum- 
 stances, the courage of his convictions and stood 
 firmly for any principles which he believed to be 
 right. In politics he voted with the Democrats. 
 Twice married, by his first wife, a Miss McDufiie 
 of Shelby County, Ind., he had five children, 
 namely: Venila, deceased; Rhoda, who lives in 
 Ottawa, Kans.; Joshua, deceased; Eavinia; and 
 Buel, of Tonganoxie, Kans. His second wife 
 bore the maiden name of Margaret Randel, and 
 they had six children, viz.: Mary E., Mrs. 
 Couch, who lives in Washington state; Miranda, 
 deceased; LeRoy, whose sketch appears on an- 
 other page; Benjamin F. , of this sketch; James, 
 who is in California; and Alice, wife of James 
 Warren, of Butte, Mont. 
 
 In Shelby County, Ind , the subject of this 
 article was born May 6, 1847. His education 
 was mostly self-acquired. In 1864 he entered the 
 employ of the government in the quartermaster's 
 department, and in 1868-69 h^ was with General 
 Custer and General Sheridan in the Indian cam- 
 paign, taking part in one very severe engage- 
 ment with the Indians, who attempted to capture 
 the train. In 1871 he left the government serv- 
 ice and went to Nevada and California. In the 
 former place he was for six years engaged in 
 working in a gold reduction mill. Next he pros- 
 pected for gold in Oregon and Washington, and 
 also spent one year in farming in the latter state. 
 From there he came to Colorado. In 1879 he 
 engaged in teaming and contracting in Leadville. 
 Three years later he located claims for an eastern 
 company, selecting seventeen lode claims and 
 three hundred acres of placer land near Twin 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Lakes, in Lake County. For two years or more 
 he remained with the company as superintend- 
 ent. Finally he bought the old homestead from 
 the other heirs and has since engaged in the stock 
 business and in farming. 
 
 In politics Mr. Trackwell is a Republican in 
 national elections, but in local matters he votes 
 for the best man. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Henry Lodge 190, A. F. &. A. M., and in former 
 years was connected with the Patriotic Order 
 Sons of America. He is not a member of any de- 
 nomination, but attends the Methodist Church. 
 His marriage, September 17, 1888, united him 
 with Cora Kinkaid, of Leavenworth County, a 
 daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Rice) Kin- 
 kaid. Three children were born of their union, 
 namely: Miranda, deceased; Randel L. and Em- 
 ery Mason. 
 
 (TOHN A. HENDERSON is one of the well- 
 I known business men of Lawrence. He came 
 Q) to this city September i, 1894, and engaged 
 in the maimfacture of paint on contract for the 
 Consolidated Barb Wire Company for this and 
 their Joliet plants, manufacturing at both places 
 and dividing his time between the two. In the 
 spring of 1899 '^^ started in the manufacture of 
 house paints of all kinds, and has since carried 
 on a retail and wholesale business, manufactur- 
 ing the finest paints on the market and selling 
 at prices that attract buyers. At his shop. No. 
 619 Massachusetts street, he manufactures Hen- 
 derson's paints mixed ready for use. 
 
 Mr. Henderson was born in Kearney, Clay 
 County, Mo., May 11, 1863, a son of J. B. and 
 Eliza (Pence) Henderson, natives respectively of 
 Kentucky and Mi.ssouri. His father accompa- 
 nied his i)arents to Clay County, Mo., at an early 
 age and there he engaged in farming for many 
 years, finally retiring from all business cares. He 
 died in Kearney January 21, 1898, at the age of 
 sixty years. During the Civil war he was a 
 member of a Missouri regiment of militia. His 
 wife was a daughter of Adam Pence, who re- 
 moved from Kentucky to Clay County, Mo., and 
 became one of the most extensive farmers of his 
 section. One of his sons took part in the Mexi- 
 
 can war and also served as a captain in the Civil 
 war. Mrs. Eliza Henderson died July 21, 1874. 
 Her three sons and one daughter are still living, 
 John being next to the youngest of these. He 
 was reared on the home farm until fourteen j^ears 
 of age, when he went to Kansas City and secured 
 employment there. In 1881 he entered the em- 
 plo3- of the Kansas City Varnish Company and 
 learned the trade of varnish-making. He con- 
 tinued with the company until they retired from 
 business, after which he became connected with 
 the Continental Varnish Company as a varnish- 
 maker, having charge of one of their depart- 
 ments. He became thoroughly familiar with the 
 business, having learned it under D. G. Howey, 
 who had about fifty years of experience as a var- 
 nish-maker. During the time he was with the 
 Continental he had charge of their paint manu- 
 facturing department and manufactured paint for 
 wire manufacturing. From Kansas City he came 
 to Lawrence, where he has since built up a pros- 
 perous business of his own. 
 
 Politically Mr. Henderson is a Democrat. An 
 active worker in the Christian Church, he has of- 
 ficiated as a deacon and a member of the board of 
 trustees, contributing both of his time and means 
 to assist in the maintenance of the church. Era- » 
 ternally he is connected with the Modern Wood- 
 men, Royal Neighbors and Acacia Lodge No. 9, 
 A. F. & A. M. During his residence in Kansas 
 City he married there. He and his wife have a 
 daughter, Ruth. 
 
 GlUGUST BERGER. Through his connec- 
 Ll tion with its agricultural interests Mr. Ber- 
 / I ger is well known in Stranger Township, 
 Leavenworth County, where for years he was 
 actively engaged in general farming, and where 
 he still lives. For a few jears he has not per- 
 sonally engaged in the tilling of the soil, but has 
 relegated the cultivation of the farm to others, 
 while he maintains its supervision. He is an 
 industrious and honorable man and a good type 
 of our German- American citizens. Having spent 
 much of his life in Germanj', he is more familiar 
 with its language and more fluent in its use than 
 in the English language. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 645 
 
 In Hanover, Germany, where he was born 
 February 5, 1831, Mr. Berger spent his younger 
 years. He is a brother of Henry Berger, repre- 
 sented on another page of this volume. Learn- 
 ing the carpenter's trade in youtli, he followed it 
 for years in his native land. At the age of thir- 
 ty-five he crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, 
 "Leona," landing in New York after a voyage of 
 five weeks. Thence he came direct to Kansas, 
 arriving here in the fall of 1866. Shortly after- 
 ward he bought the land where he now resides. 
 His first purchase consisted of forty acres of raw 
 land, on which he built a house and cut the tim- 
 ber. From the first he met with success. By 
 subsequent purchase he now owns two hundred 
 acres. In farming he makes a specialty of rais- 
 ing potatoes, which he sells at a fair profit. He 
 has also raised cattle and hogs for some years. A 
 hard-working, persevering man, he deserves suc- 
 cess in his enterprises. 
 
 Since coming to this country and becoming a 
 naturalized citizen, Mr. Berger has been allied 
 with the Democratic party. In religion he is of 
 the Lutheran belief. When twenty-eight years 
 of age he married Carolina Schmidt, who was born 
 in Germany and died in Kansas in May, 1894. 
 Of their five children only two are living. Minna 
 is the wife of John Ayres, who is engaged in 
 farming on the home place. Anna married Jo- 
 seph Eble, also a farmer of this neighborhood. 
 
 r~RANCIS C. HERR, M. D., of Ottawa, is 
 1^ descended from ancestors who were promi- 
 I ' nent in the professional circles of Pennsyl- 
 vania during the early days of its settlement. 
 The Herr family was very prominent in the 
 Swabish precinct in Germany and had its coat- 
 of-arms and other insignia of rank. During 
 the latter part of the seventeenth century some 
 of the name came to the United States and set- 
 tled at Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pa., where 
 they wielded a large influence in business and 
 church affairs. Francis Herr, who was born in 
 Lancaster County, married a relative of Capt. 
 Jeff Neff, of Civil war fame, and their son, Amos 
 F. , was for years a prosperous farmer, actively 
 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits, but he is now 
 living retired, at his beautiful country place in 
 Lancaster County. In religion he is of the Men- 
 nonite faith. Notwithstanding his eighty-two 
 useful years, he has full possession of his facul- 
 ties and retains his interest in the world of 
 thought and progress. He married Anna, the 
 daughter of Christian Frantz, who was a farmer 
 at Eden, Lancaster Count}', and descended from 
 an old German family. She is still living and is 
 now seventy-two years of age. 
 
 The ten sons and daughters comprising the 
 parental family are as follows: Ida E., who re- 
 sides in York, Pa. ; Francis C. ; Homer A. , a me- 
 chanical engineer living in Philadelphia; Horace 
 N. , who died at thirteen years; Mary C. and Anna 
 A., who are living in Lancaster County; Edith, 
 of Waynesboro, Pa.; Lottia, who is with her 
 parents; Harry, a civil engineer in Lancaster; 
 and Willis N., a commercial traveler, living in 
 Strasburg, Lancaster County. The only mem- 
 ber of the family not in Pennsylvania is Dr. 
 Herr, the subject of this sketch. He was born 
 in Lancaster Countj', Pa., December i, 1852, 
 and received his primary education in a private 
 school maintained by Herr Brothers. After 
 spending a year in Lehigh University, in 1875 
 he became a student in the Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, where he took the full 
 course, graduating in 1879, with the degree of 
 M. D. After his graduation he spent a year as 
 interne in the Southwestern hospital of Philadel- 
 phia, and then engaged in practice. In 1884 he 
 came west and opened an ofBce in Ottawa, where 
 he has since successfully carried on a general 
 practice. In June, 1897, ^^ was appointed a 
 member of the United States board of pension ex- 
 aminers, and he is now secretary of the board 
 and has his headquarters in the office of the pen- 
 sion examiner. At one time he held the ofiice 
 of city physician. On the Republican ticket, in 
 1888, he was elected county coroner, and this of- 
 fice he held for one term, after which he declined 
 renomination. His affiliations have always been 
 with the Republican party, whose principles he 
 upholds b}' his ballot. He is identified with the 
 Kansas State Medical Society and takes an inter- 
 
646 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 est in every movement connected with his pro- 
 fession. In religion he is connected with the 
 Episcopal Church and officiates as a vestryman of 
 his congregation. He has held office as examin- 
 ing physician both for the Modern Woodmen and 
 the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 In Harrisburg, Pa., Dr. Herr married Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Jacob Seiler, ex-sheriff of 
 Dauphin County, and a sister of Prof. Jacob 
 Seiler, for years principal of Harrisburg Academy . 
 She was born in Harrisburg and received an ex- 
 cellent education in a private school in that city. 
 The only child of Dr. and Mrs. Herr, Parvin S., 
 died of smallpox in 1895, when eleven years old. 
 
 (lOHN FRITZEL, who is proprietor of the 
 I Jersey dairy in Wakarusa Township, Doug- 
 O las County, has built up a good business in 
 Lawrence and runs three wagons in this city. 
 He is the owner of eightj'-five acres on section i, 
 most of which is used for pasturage, and he also 
 controls one hundred and sixty acres of rented 
 land. His herd of cattle consists of about one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five head, all of the best grades, 
 and the milk which he sells has no superior in 
 the market. Besides his cattle he owns about 
 fifty head of hogs. Five wells and one cistern 
 furnish an abundance of water for familj' use and 
 for the stock. Besides his dairy business he de- 
 votes some attention to raising fruit and has an 
 orchard with both large and small fruits and also 
 a vineyard with different varieties of grapes. 
 
 Born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, April 10, 
 1858, our subject is a son of George and Mary 
 (Weissensee) Fritzel, being the second of five 
 children and the only one now in America. His 
 father served in the war with France, 1 870-1 871. 
 He was a man of weight in his community. For 
 fifteen years he held office as postmaster, in 
 addition to which he was a large farmer, liverj'- 
 man and dairyman. When twenty-one years of 
 age our subject came via steamer to America, 
 landing in New York, thence proceeding to 
 Kansas, where he secured employment on a 
 farm, remaining from August to March. He 
 then rented a farm owned by Mr. Anthony, which 
 
 he cultivated for two years. He then sold his 
 stock and implements and began to work for the 
 seed firm of Barteldis & Co., with whom he re- 
 mained for six and one-half years. The work, 
 however, proved too confining for him and he 
 was advised to seek other occupation. Not 
 knowing what to turn his hand to, he took a 
 position in the street department of the city and 
 spent some months at that work. Meantime he 
 had bought a house and lot and a few cows, so, 
 upon leaving the city employ he purchased 
 other cows and started in the dairy business. As 
 his trade increased the need of more room caused 
 him to trade his house and lot for part payment 
 on his present place, consisting then of ten acres 
 of land destitute of improvements. Here he 
 began with a house of only two rooms, but to 
 this he afterward added, and now has a comfort- 
 able home. From time to time he has put up 
 needed buildings, and now has three large barns. 
 Besides his sixty-five milch cows he has many 
 young cows and calves, and his business is on a 
 prosperous basis. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Fritzel is connected with the 
 Sons of Herman, Turner Society, Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen and Acacia Lodge No. 9, 
 A. F. & A. M. In religion he is a Lutheran, 
 and in politics independent. August 31, 1879, 
 he married Miss Maggie Snyder, who was born 
 in Germany, but at the time of their marriage 
 was living in Eudora. They have seven children: 
 John, Charles, Marj\ Minnie, Josephine, Henrj' 
 and Arthur. 
 
 3AC0B WINKELMAN is one of the reliable 
 farmers of Leavenworth County, and for 
 some years has owned and successfully 
 operated a tract of land in Sherman Township. 
 When he began for himself he was entirely with- 
 out means, but he was energetic and determined, 
 and worked out bj' the day, carefullj- hoarding 
 his wages until he had sufficient to invest. He 
 is the owner of sixty-two acres of farm land, and 
 has three blocks of city property that was origin- 
 ally a part of the estate, but has now been laid 
 off in town lots in Linwood. 
 
 In Union County, Pa., in 1843, our subject 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 647 
 
 was born, a son of Frederick and Barbara (Gar- 
 man) Winkelman. His father, who was born, 
 reared and married in Union County, removed in 
 1845 to Indiana and settled in Miami County, 
 where he made his home for five years. From 
 there he removed to northern Missouri. During 
 the early days of the settlement of Kansas he 
 came to this state, locating in Cherokee County 
 in 1S59 and continuing there for four years. In 
 1863 he settled in Johnson County, this state, 
 and for several years engaged in farm pursuits 
 there. When seventy years of age he came to 
 Leavenworth County, and two years later died in 
 Lenape. Throughout his entire active life he 
 engaged in farming. His wife died in Johnson 
 County when seventy years of age. They were 
 the parents of five children, namely: Catherine, 
 wife of James Smith, of Davis County, Mo. ; John, 
 of Oklahoma; Caroline, who married Wilmer 
 Morse; William, a farmer in Reno, Leavenworth 
 County; and Jacob. 
 
 Accompanying his parents in their various re- 
 movals, our subject came with them to Kansas 
 in 1859 and afterward continued with them until 
 his mother died and his father went to Lenape. 
 He then bought a farm adjoining Linwood, and 
 here he has since devoted his attention to farm 
 work. Being an industrious man, he is meeting 
 with success in the cultivation of his place. He 
 is a member of the Fraternal Aid Association. 
 In 1870 he married Eliza Woolley, and they have 
 five children now living. 
 
 I EONARD T. SMITH. Few men who have 
 It lived in Leavenworth have won the uu- 
 IZJ qualified esteem and warm friend.ship of 
 their fellow-citizens to so great a degree as did 
 Mr. Smith. Coupled with acknowledged ability 
 as a business man were traits of character that 
 endeared him to all. He was genial and com- 
 panionable, a frank and honorable man, whose 
 memory will long be cherished in the cit}' to 
 whose welfare he was so deeply devoted and 
 whose progress he constantly promoted. From 
 the time that he came to Leavenworth until his 
 death he was a leader in movements for the pub- 
 
 lic good. To his public spirit and indomitable 
 energy is the city indebted for its splendid water 
 works, the Soldiers' Home, the Union depot, and 
 the creditable structures erected by the Atchison, 
 Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. He 
 was the leading spirit in the following enter- 
 prises: Missouri River; Leavenworth, Atchison & 
 Northwestern; Kansas Central and Leavenworth 
 Northern and Southern Railroad Companies 
 (now a part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
 system), the Leavenworth City & Fort Leaven- 
 worth Water Company, and the erection of the 
 first bridge across the Missouri at Leavenworth. 
 
 A resident of Leavenworth from 1857, Mr. 
 Smith was born in Bethany, Genesee County, 
 N.Y. , December 2, 1827. His father, Thomas G., 
 a member of an old family of New England, was 
 born in Connecticut, January 7, 1789, was 
 orphaned at an early age, removed to New York 
 and settled on a farm near Bethany, where he 
 died December 30, 1867, at seventy-nine years of 
 age. He married Anna Burroughs, who was 
 born at Skaneateles, N. Y. , and died November 
 10, 1868, at the age of seventy-three. She wasa 
 daughter of Daniel Burroughs, who started the 
 first woolen mills in Skaneateles and was high in 
 the Masonic fraternity. He died when almost 
 ninety years old, and his wife was ninety-four 
 at the time of her death. 
 
 After having completed his education in the 
 public schools of Genesee County the subject of 
 this sketch turned his attention to business pur- 
 suits. In 1852 he removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., 
 and there engaged in the hotel business for five 
 years, coming thence to Leavenworth in 1857. 
 For three months after the opening of the Plant- 
 er's Hotel he conducted it for the owners, after 
 which he purchased the property and conducted 
 it successfully for seven years. Afterward, with 
 Alexander Caldwell, he engaged in government 
 contracting and freighting across the plains. He 
 was active in the building of railroads, and 
 assisted in building what is now the Missouri Pa- 
 cific from Kansas City to Leavenworth and from 
 this point to Atchison. He was also active in 
 the building of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
 Fe from Leavenworth to Holliday. In 1880, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 upon the inauguration of the system of water 
 works, he became the head of the enterprise, and 
 continued its proprietor and president of thecom- 
 panj' until his death. In national politics he ad- 
 hered to the Democratic party. In response to the 
 urgent solicitation of his many political friends he 
 accepted the nomination and was elected a mem- 
 ber of the first legislative assembl3- held under 
 the .state constitutions, but for himself he never 
 sought office, and his only participation in poli- 
 tics was in the interests of friends who were can- 
 didates for office. In 1867 he purchased the 
 property where he afterward made his home and 
 where, surrounded by his relatives and friends, 
 many of his happiest hours were spent. 
 
 In Bethany, N. Y. , November 3, 1853, Mr. 
 Smith married Miss Helen L. Kendall, who was 
 born in that village. Her father, Charles Ken- 
 dall, a son of Peter Kendall, of Revolutionarj' con- 
 nection, was born in Thetford, Vt., in 1799, and 
 engaged in farming at Bethany, where he died at 
 sixty-three years. He was a believer in the doc- 
 trines of the Presbyterian Church and reared his 
 children in that faith. His wife, Nancy Dodgson 
 Kendall, was born in Gloversville, N. Y. 
 
 Mr. Smith died suddenly of heart failure at the 
 Iturbide hotel in the City of Mexico, April 15, 
 1 89 1. But a few days before a party of friends 
 had joined him, in a contemplated tour of the re- 
 public, but the trip was thus suddenly and sadly 
 ended. His remains were conveyed to his former 
 home and placed in the family vault at Mount 
 Muncie. The following editorial, which appeared 
 in the Kansas City Journal at the time of his 
 death, shows the esteem in which he was held 
 among the people of this section of country. 
 " Len Smith is dead. Nobody ever knew him as 
 a 'Colonel' or an 'Honorable' or anything 
 else than ' Len,' and that fact tells the whole 
 story. He was one of the most genial, congen- 
 ial, companionable, frank, manly men we ever 
 knew. He was an active man in all departments 
 of life, but not ofiFensivelj- so in anything. He 
 was often active in politics, but always for some 
 friend, never for himself. He had a business fac- 
 ulty for large affairs, but in everything he under- 
 took advantage to his locality and his neighbors 
 
 went hand in hand with benefit to himself. He 
 was open-hearted, open-handed, open-minded, 
 one of the salt of the earth to one who knows 
 what that sort of salt means. He died away from 
 his home in a strange country, while engaged in 
 what to him was second-nature work, having 
 others participate in enjoyments and pleasures 
 with himself. He could not enjoy anything 
 alone. He was successful in two things in this 
 life: making himself comfortable in the enjoy- 
 ment of the good things of living, and in 
 making all who knew him his friends. After 
 all, did not Len Smith live more wisely and 
 to better purpose than if he had been ambiti- 
 ous, for with all his qualities of head and heart 
 he would have succeeded in any pursuit in life he 
 had chosen. With his life work behind him, he 
 cannot but sleep well and wake to continue his 
 genial work ' over there.' " 
 
 0R. WM. LEONARD BIRNEY (or Burney), 
 of Rantoul, Franklin County, is the eldest 
 of four children, sons and daughters of 
 Alexander A. Burney (or Birney) and Eliza- 
 beth Wakelyn Hall, his first wife. The father 
 was born near Huntsville, Alabama, Februarj* 
 3, 18 1 9. The family came to America in an 
 early day from the north of Ireland, but is of 
 Scottish origin. The mother was born in Ken- 
 tucky July 18, 1819, the only child by his .second 
 wife (Elizabeth Wakelyn), of Mahlon Hall, of 
 that state. Her family is of English and Welsh 
 extraction. 
 
 In the year 1835 the parents of the subject of 
 this sketch, then in their youth, found them- 
 selves, with their parents, in LaFayette County, 
 Mo., where they were married in 1837. Of this 
 union Dr. Birney was born January 19, 1839. 
 At five years of age his parents began his educa- 
 tion. There were no public schools in Missouri 
 then, but there were private schools and compe- 
 tent teachers, and to these they kept him in 
 pretty steady attendance. He does not remem- 
 ber to have ever attended a free school in his life. 
 When he was seven j'ears old he was enrolled in 
 the primary department of the Plea.sant Hill 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 649 
 
 Academy, where he attended until the death of 
 his mother, which occurred February 18, 1848. 
 He was then sent to a select school in Harrison- 
 ville for one year. His education was now con- 
 tinued in private schools until the years 1856 and 
 1857, when he attended the Harrisonville High 
 School. 
 
 In the spring of 1855, having an opportunity 
 to ' ' cross the plains " in an easy position and at 
 good wages, he availed himself of it, with the 
 consent of his father, and visited Fort Union, Las 
 Vegas, Santa Fe, etc. On this trip the caravan 
 had some thrilling adventures with the wild 
 Indians, but no blood was shed. About this 
 time, like every third youth of that day , he had 
 a desire to be a lawyer; and the winter of 
 1857-58 he spent in the law office of the late Wm. 
 McNeil Clough, at Parkville, with the view of 
 getting some notion of the study of the law and 
 of the law business. He was favorably im- 
 pressed, and determined to prepare himself for 
 law school. To this end he purchased a set of 
 text books and continued the study of law, 
 meantime teaching school during the winters. 
 
 The political excitement which had for several 
 years run so high at length brought about a 
 rupture between himself and one of the School 
 Board, which, at the close of his second term, 
 terminated his connection, as teacher, with the 
 district. Young Birney having been brought 
 up a Free Soiler, was opposed to the introduction 
 of slavery into Kansas, and could not refrain 
 from expressing his sentiments upon the ques- 
 tions then agitating the countrj^, and was of 
 course at once classed by the dominant political 
 party as a "negro-worshiping, abolition enemy 
 of our institutions, ' ' etc. On more than one oc- 
 casion did he narrowly escape with his life dur- 
 ing these hot discussions. At one time a so- 
 called " Northern Methodist" preacher was for- 
 bidden by secessionists to preach in a church 
 which was the joint propertj' of other denomina- 
 tions, and threatened with violence. They (the 
 secessionists) had the key to the church and re- 
 fused to admit him. Disgusted and indignant at 
 this effort to thwart free speech even in the pul- 
 pit, Birney, with one or two friends, waited on 
 
 the debarred minister and bade him be of good 
 cheer, telling him that a pulpit and a small audi- 
 ence awaited him. They had placed the pulpit 
 and seats at the "Camp-ground," near by, in 
 order, and with a few friends of free speech were 
 resolved to hear the minister preach if he so de- 
 sired. He accepted the offer, and delivered a 
 most temperate, though pointed and scholarly, 
 discourse, considering the circumstances. This 
 preacher was soon afterwards seized by a mob, 
 and after suffering much personal violence was 
 ordered, on pain of death, to leave the country; 
 and Birney was told that but for his youth and 
 standing in the community the "Committee" 
 would have treated him " to the same dose." 
 
 In the fall of 1859, in quest of quiet in which 
 to pursue his studies, he entered the law office of 
 a relative in Otterville, Mo., where he remained 
 until the close of the political campaign of i860. 
 He would have supported Lincoln if he dared; 
 but did next best, supporting Bell, and taking 
 editorial charge of the paper devoted to that 
 interest. After the election, the vigor of his edi- 
 torials having attracted the attention of the own- 
 ers of the Warsaw Democrat, he was asked to 
 take charge of that paper. After some negotia- 
 tions the office was offered to him for sale, and a 
 most unlucky bargain for him was made; and in 
 December, i860, he took charge of the paper. 
 The Southern States were then in rapid succes- 
 sion seceding from the Union, and the excitement 
 was very great. 
 
 Dr. Birney had been brought up a Democrat 
 of the school of Jefferson, Jackson and Benton, 
 and had early adopted the latter as his political 
 preceptor. Hence the idea of a dissolution of the 
 Union was to him the most horrible of political 
 heresies, and secession a crime no less than trea- 
 son. His editorials were in strict accord with 
 this belief, and in the innocence of unsophisti- 
 cated youth he published them as fearlessly in 
 the land of the " slickers" as he would if he had 
 been in the heart of Kansas. It was not long, 
 however, before there began to fall upon him a 
 storm of indignation, together with a shower of 
 threatening letters from every part of that wild 
 valley of the Osage. The feeling against him 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was much greater than he knew. One day Col- 
 onel M. L. Means called him into his office and 
 said: " Birnej-, I am a friend of yours, and I 
 don't want to see you killed. You seem to have 
 no idea of the danger you are in here. These 
 fellows will kill you as certain as you are stand- 
 ing there, if you continue to write and ]>ublish 
 such sentiments as yours. I will admit that you 
 are right — in fact I know you are right — but 
 what does that signify? I tell you, sir, this 
 
 country is going to ju.st as fast as time can 
 
 carry it, and if you don't stop your cant about 
 the Union you will find yourself some fine morn- 
 ing hanging to a limb, dead! Mark what I tell 
 you. I felt it to be ray duty, and I warn you as 
 I would a son." This was not wholly a revela- 
 tion to the young Unionist, but it was so in part. 
 He had not suspected that he stood in peril of his 
 life. He said to Colonel Means: "You agree 
 that I am right. If I am right I will take the 
 consequences." These were not long delayed. 
 A party of secessionists "waited on him " one 
 evening and told him they had resolved that he 
 should either turn over the paper to its former 
 owners and " go North," or advocate secession. 
 He declined to assent to either proposition. 
 They then ordered the printers to set no more 
 type in the office until further orders. The next 
 morning he found the office in the hands of a 
 lawless mob, styling itself "The Committee." 
 The printers were at work at the cases, and said 
 the paper had " flopped." Of course he took in 
 the situation at a glance. As he returned to his 
 hotel the most unfriendly expressions were made 
 in his hearing. That evening in a room below 
 him he plainly heard men, among whom were 
 several county officers, discussing the question 
 of hanging him. The sheriff said he would will- 
 ingly tie the rope. But they were not all of one 
 mind. Tom Murray, chief clerk of the house of 
 representatives, was in the crowd, and strenuous- 
 ly opposed mole.sting him in any way whatever. 
 He urged that Birney had done nothing worse 
 than to exerci.se the right of every freeman to ex- 
 press his own sentiments; though he admitted 
 the propriety of stopping his utterances in the 
 paper. He said it would be a shame and dis- 
 
 grace to murder a mere boy for so .small an of- 
 fen.se, though it might not be improper to keep 
 watch over him, and he volunteered to do the 
 watching himself. "Give him a chance," he 
 said, "to collect his accounts and settle up his 
 business." With a heart full of gratitude 
 toward that splendid young fellow did the imper- 
 iled object of the fireeater's wrath note that Mur- 
 ray's counsel prevailed. Thus was his business 
 taken from him; and though he was permitted to 
 live, and nominally permitted to collect what 
 was due him, upon his first effiart to do so, it was 
 pretended that he was attempting to collect what 
 l)elouged to another. He was thus forced to 
 abaudcm all, glad to get away from such persecu- 
 tion. At 8 o'clock on the morning of April 17, 
 186 1, at the front door of the Henry House, 
 where he boarded, he took a stage coach for L,ex- 
 ington, near which place, at his maternal uncle's, 
 he remained until September i. He then made 
 his wa3^ through a country swarming with armed 
 .secessionists to Kansas City, and thence to Frank- 
 lin County, where he remained at his father's 
 until the next year. 
 
 In April, 1862, he began to recruit from 
 among the Missouri refugees then in Kansas, a 
 company for the 2nd Batt. Cav. M. S. M. On 
 April 12 he received orders to report with his 
 men, 19 in number, to be mustered in. At the 
 muster the various skeleton companies were con- 
 .solidated, and there were not commissioned 
 offices enough to go around. Birney was mustered 
 as a First Sergeant, Co. C, Capt. Albert J. 
 Briggs, and served with the company until Aug- 
 ust 7, when the Governor appointed him a Lieu- 
 tenant and assigned him to the 22d Infantry Mo. 
 Vols., Col. F. H. Manter. He had but just re- 
 ceived his appointment when, while ascending 
 the stairs at his hotel in Kansas City, whither he 
 had gone under orders from Gen. B. F. Loan, 
 he was stricken with a functional disease of the 
 heart, developed by exposure and a severe attack 
 of measels, which he had recently suffered. 
 After an illness of two months, his recovery be- 
 ing but imperfect, on the advice of his physician 
 and friends he abandoned active service, and 
 sought and obtained the appointment of Dep. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 651 
 
 Prov. Marshal, 6th Dist. of Mo., and was 
 assigned to Clinton Co. for duty under the En- 
 rollment act, where he remained in the service of 
 the government until the close of the war. 
 
 The Missouri State convention having by or- 
 dinance vacated all the ofifices of Clerk of the Cir- 
 cuit Court in the State, empowering the Gover- 
 nor to fill the same by appointment until the 
 next general election, Birney was appointed 
 Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clinton County, 
 Maj' 9, 1865, for an unexpired term of twenty 
 months. December 8, 1S65, he issued the first 
 number of the New Constitution, a newspaper de- 
 voted to the principles of the Republican party ; 
 the first paper of that politics ever published in 
 that county. By means of this paper he organ- 
 ized the Republican voters of his county so ef- 
 fectually that they carried the general election of 
 November 3, 1866, the first and only time the 
 Republicans were ever victorious in that county. 
 At that election Biruey was elected Clerk of the 
 Circuit Court and Recorder of Deeds for four 
 years, from January i, 1867. At the expiration 
 of his term of office he had already begun the 
 study of medicine. His observations while clerk 
 had disgusted him with the practice of the law. 
 After diligent and conscientious study for several 
 years, he entered the Missouri Medical College at 
 St. lyouis, in September, 1877, graduating from 
 the same March 5, 1879, with the degree of 
 M. D. Returning to Clinton County he opened 
 an office in Plattsburg, where he practiced his 
 profession for two years. Just before he left 
 there he was chosen professor of anatomy and 
 physiology in Plattsburg College. 
 
 In September, 1881, he came to Kansas, and 
 settled in Rantoul, where he has since followed 
 his profession, building up a good practice and 
 gaining a reputation as a progressive, reliable 
 and competent physician. He is a member of 
 the county medical society. With his family he 
 holds membership in the Cumberland Presbyter- 
 ian Church, which he serves as an elder. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Odd Fellows, 
 though not a member of a lodge at present, there 
 being no lodge at Rantoul. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Birney, in 1865, united 
 
 him with Miss Laura E. Maupin, by whom he 
 has two daughters: Leonora W., wife of John 
 W. Rouse; and Ada A. Mrs. Birney was born 
 in Richmond, Missouri, and received a good edu- 
 cation in that state. Her father, Nicholas Mau- 
 pin, was a double cousin of Simeon Maupin, for 
 many years chairman of the faculty of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia. He was connected with the 
 Washington family and traced his lineage to 
 people of prominence in the pioneer days of 
 America. 
 
 Gl BEL HENSLEY. In point of years of busi- 
 Li ness activity Mr. Henslej' is the oldest 
 I I merchant of Pomona, and he also ranks 
 among the influential citizens of the town. He 
 is the senior member of the mercantile house of 
 A. Hensley & Son, besides which he operates a 
 corn and feed mill, and carries on an exchange 
 bank for the accommodation of his customers and 
 friends. In Pomona Township he owns a farm 
 which he rents. For some years he conducted a 
 tannery and engaged in the manufacture of har- 
 ness and collars on an extensive scale, and he is 
 now "proprietor of a harness shop in Pomona, be- 
 sides which he carries on a large livery business. 
 In 1896 he erected a business block on Main 
 street, and he has also built several dwellings, 
 stores and a liverj' barn in this place. 
 
 A son of James and Mary (Johnson) Hensley 
 (both of whom died in Illinois) the subject of 
 this sketch was born in Clark County, 111., in 
 1847. He grew to manhood on a farm and at an 
 early age became interested in brick manufactur- 
 ing, in which he engaged for several years. In 
 1874 he went to Marysville, Nodaway Count}', 
 Mo., where he engaged in the restaurant busi- 
 ness. Two years later he loaded a car of goods, 
 which he shipped to Newton, Kans., and opened 
 a store at Wellington, this state, for a short time 
 selling goods and trading for land and stock. 
 In December of 1876 he came to Pomona, Frank- 
 lin County, and formed a partnership with his 
 brother-in-law, J. L. Hatfield, purchasing a 
 small stock of goods and acting as business man- 
 ager for the firm. Later the title of the firm was 
 changed to Paul & Hensley, but in 1868 Mr. 
 
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 Hatfield again became interested in the business, 
 and the firm of Hensley & Hatfield continued 
 until 1S93, when Mr. Hensley purchased his 
 partner's interest and carried on the business 
 alone. In 1896 he took his son into partnership, 
 and the two have since continued together, by 
 energy and good judgment adding to their busi- 
 ness and establishing an enviable reputation for 
 integrity and fair dealing. 
 
 Interested in the political questions of the day, 
 Mr. Hensley adheres to the principles of the Re- 
 publican party and supports its candidates. 
 Among the local offices he has filled are those of 
 town treasurer and school director, in both of 
 which he worked in the interests of the people of 
 his community. A successful business man, his 
 success is due not to luck, but to steady, persever- 
 ing industry, and he merits his pre.sent pros- 
 perity. B}' his marriage to Matilda J. Sprague 
 he has a son, Frank J. (his partner in business) 
 and a daughter, Rosie E., who is the wife of 
 Hiram O. Bird. 
 
 'JjEGRGE H. LINCK, a talented mu.sician of 
 _. Leavenworth, is the leader of Linck's 
 J orchestra, which furnishes the music for the 
 opera house and for the finest parties and cotil- 
 lions in the city. The orchestra was organized 
 in 1897 under his personal supervision and con- 
 sists of six pieces; the high reputation gained 
 and the popularity of the orchestra in this part of 
 the state is due entirely to his excellent leader- 
 ship. He also plays the B flat cornet in the 
 Mascot band, and is engaged as a teacher of vio- 
 lin and harmony, in which he has a growing 
 class. 
 
 Mr. Linck was born in Leavenworth August 
 24, 1874, and is a son of George Linck, of this 
 city. He was educated in the Morris school. 
 From boyhood he has been fond of music and has 
 devoted considerable time to this art. He 
 studied first under Richard Schubert, the then 
 leading musician of Leavenworth. Afterward 
 he was a pupil of Geza von Dome, a celebrated 
 Hungarian musician. When the latter went to 
 Chicago during the World's Fair, Mr. Linck de- 
 cided to go to Europe, in order that he might 
 
 have the advantages of musical studj- under the 
 best masters. In the summer of 1893 he went 
 to Leipsic and entered the Royal Conservatory 
 of Music, where he studied under the celebrated 
 teacher, Robert Bolland. He continued there 
 for some time, devoting himself assiduously to 
 his art and becoming one of its mo.st proficient 
 disciples. When he graduated from that institu- 
 tion, in April, 1896, he stood among the highest 
 in his class in violin, pianoforte and harmony. 
 After traveling in German}- for a short time he 
 returned to America in 1896 and has since made 
 his home in his native city. The attention 
 which for yeats he has given to his profession 
 and the talent which he possesses in this art 
 combine to place him in a high rank as a musi- 
 cian, and he is considered one of the best teach- 
 ers of music in his state. For two years he was 
 musical director of the Turner Singing Society. 
 He is identified with St. Joseph's Catholic Church 
 of Leavenworth. His marriage, in this city, Au- 
 gust 10, 1898, united him with Miss Alma Retter, 
 who was born in Montana. 
 
 (TJTANCE L. MEYERS, who is under .sheriff 
 /\ of Leavenworth County, was born in the city 
 \~J of Leavenworth July 16, 1S65, and is a 
 descendant of a colonial familj- of Maryland. His 
 father, John L. Meyers, who was born and reared 
 in Baltimore, and who learned the plasterer's trade 
 in youth, crossed the country to Kansas in 1859, 
 settling in Leavenworth, where he engaged in 
 the wholesale tobacco business, and later in con- 
 tract plastering. After many j-ears of active 
 connection with the business interests of his 
 town he retired from business cares in 1897, ^"<1 
 has since lived quietly, in the enjoyment oftlio.se 
 comforts rendered possible by former indu.stry. 
 During the Price raid he served as a member of 
 a Kansas regiment. He married Mary Strobel, 
 who was born in Bavaria, Germany, and at three 
 years of age was brought to America by her par- 
 ents, settling in Baltimore, where she was reared. 
 At this writing (1899) she is fifty-five years of 
 age, while her husband is seventy- two. The 
 children born of their union are named as follows: 
 
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 Stance!,.; Louis J., who graduated in medicine 
 from a college in St. Louis, returned to Leaven- 
 worth and here died ; Joseph , who was accidentally 
 drowned in Missouri; Aloysius, who is traveling 
 auditor for the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western 
 Railroad; Frank, who graduated from St. Bene- 
 dict's, in Atchison, and from St. Meinrad Col- 
 lege, in Indiana, and is now priest of a Roman 
 Catholic Church at Mitchell, 111.; Charles, who 
 resides with his parents; and Minnie, widow of 
 A. W. Brown, of Osage City, Kans. 
 
 In the Cathedral parochial school the subject 
 of this sketch received his education. While still 
 very young he worked as a newsboy. In 1878 
 he became the regular carrier of the Leavenworth 
 Times, and after filling that position for two 
 years Colonel Anthony appointed him mailing 
 clerk, and he continued in that capacity until 
 1883. His next position was that of city circu- 
 lator of the Leavenworth Times, and this position 
 he held until 18S7, after which he held a similar 
 place with the Leavenworth Evening Standard. 
 October i, 1897, he resigned the latter position, 
 and January i, 1898, Sheriff Everhardy appointed 
 him as his deputy, which position he has since 
 efficiently filled, having charge of all of the office 
 work. 
 
 The marriage of our subject took place in 
 Leavenworth, October 3, 1887, and united him 
 with Miss Elizabeth Logan, who was born in Fort 
 Leavenworth, and by whom he has a daughter, 
 Irene. Mrs. Meyers is the daughter of P. Logan, 
 one of the territorial settlers of Kansas, who came 
 here in the government employ and was for a 
 time a soldier in the regular army. 
 
 Active in politics, our subject is a well-known 
 Democrat of Leavenworth County. At different 
 times he has been secretary of the county and 
 city central committees, and has also filled the 
 position of treasurer in the same. He has been 
 a delegate to county and state conventions of his 
 party and has taken a warm interest in all mat- 
 ters pertaining to the Democracy. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Foresters and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a 
 member of the Cathedral and a contributor to its 
 work. A member of the Catholic Knights of 
 
 America, he is president of the Kansas branch of 
 the order, and has also served as supreme dele- 
 gate from Kansas to the national convention of 
 the organization. 
 
 (lOHN Z. CLARK, proprietor of the Ottawa 
 I steam laundry, secretary and manager of 
 (*/ the Chautauqua Assembly, and former post- 
 master of Ottawa, has made this city his home 
 since 1878. He was born in Cambridge, Ohio, 
 February 14, 1851, a son of John L. and Mar- 
 garet (McCartney) Clark. On the paternal side 
 he descends from an Irishman who migrated to 
 Pennsylvania during the latter part of the seven- 
 teenth century. His father, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania, went to Ohio at an early age and there 
 learned the miller's trade. In 1851 he settled in 
 Monmouth, Warren County, 111., where he im- 
 proved a farm and continued to reside until his 
 death, in 1893. His wife, who was a native of 
 the north of Ireland, accompanied her parents to 
 Ohio in girlhood and died in Illinois in 1897. 
 In her family there were seven sons and two 
 daughters, of whom all are living except two 
 sons. Capt. William H. Clark, who enlisted in 
 Company F, Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, at the 
 opening of the Civil war, was assigned to the 
 Army of the Cumberland, and for meritorious 
 conduct was promoted to the rank of captain in 
 June, 1864, .serving until May, 1866; in 1868 
 he settled in Ottawa, where he has .since been an 
 influential member of the bar and for a time 
 served in the state legislature. The remaining 
 members of the family are: Henry, of Biggsville, 
 111.; Nancy, who lives in Monmouth; Mr.s. 
 Elizabeth Drennan, of Armour, Neb.; David M., 
 a business man of Chicago; John Z.; and James 
 H., a merchant of Greeley, Colo. The deceased 
 sons are Andrew W. , who died in Monmouth, 
 and Robert N., who died in Denver, Colo. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 public schools and Bryant & Stratton's Commer- 
 cial College in Burlington, Iowa. Owing to ill 
 health, in 1876 he traveled in the mountains of 
 the west. In 1878 he came to Ottawa and be- 
 came a member of the firm of Clark Brothers, 
 dealers in books and stationery, with an office on 
 
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 Main street. In the fall of 1889 President Har- 
 rison appointed him postmaster at Ottawa, which 
 office he held until the fall of 1894. He then 
 bought a steam laundry plant, which he remod- 
 eled and enlarged, and from that time he has suc- 
 cessfully conducted a laundry business. In De- 
 cember, 1897, he moved to the brick building at 
 No. 113 South Main street, and refitted and en- 
 larged the plant which now has a capacity equal 
 to many in large metropolitan cities. In the fall 
 of 1S98 he was elected secretary of the Chautau- 
 qua Assembly, which he has since managed, and 
 in connection with the same he publishes the 
 Assembly Herald. The Chautauqua Assembly is 
 one of the most elevating and helpful enterprises 
 ever inaugurated in Ottawa. Forest park is 
 utilized for a.s.sembly grounds and every effort is 
 made to provide the best talent and most uplift- 
 ing associations for the Chautauqua conventions. 
 Politically Mr. Clark is a Republican. He is 
 a ruling elder in the United Presbyterian Church 
 and an active factor in the progress of its work. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights and 
 Ladies of Security. In Ottawa occurred his 
 marriage to Miss Carrie L. Webb, who was born 
 in Pennsylvania and came west with her father, 
 Stephen E. Webb, a railroad engineer now resid- 
 ing in this city. They have three children, 
 Edith, Gertrude and Margaret. 
 
 j EWIS F. KNAPP. Since e.stabli.shing his 
 I C home upon his present farm Mr. Knapp has 
 |_y become known as one of the enterprising 
 farmers of Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth 
 County. The property which he owns comprises 
 one hundred and seventy-five acres, upon which 
 he is engaged in the raising of cereals (with a 
 specialty of wheat) and at the same time he car- 
 ries on a stock business. As a farmer he is meet- 
 ing with success, and, having devoted his active 
 life to this occupation, is familiar with every de- 
 tail connected with agriculture. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is a son of Adam 
 Knapp and was born January 5, 1856, upon the 
 farm now occupied by his brother, Thomas H., 
 to whose sketch the reader is referred for the 
 
 family historj'. Lewis was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and at an early age became familiar 
 with farm work. Being reared upon a farm, it 
 was natural that he should select agriculture for 
 his calling in life. He began farming for him.self 
 when he was twent3'-one years of age. With 
 money he had saved, in 1883 he purchased the 
 place where he has since engaged in stock-raising 
 and general farming. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Knapp took place Oc- 
 tober 28, 1878, and united him with Miss Amanda 
 Maget. The children born of their union are 
 named as follows: Barbara E., Albert M., 
 Nora E., Lewis F., Jr., Walter W. and 
 Ethel Irene. The family are highly respected 
 by their acquaintances. While Mr. Knapp has 
 given his attention quite closely to his farm work, 
 he nevertheless keeps posted concerning matters 
 that affect the public welfare, and is especially 
 interested in everything that will advance the 
 farming interests of Leavenworth County. In 
 politics he votes the Democratic ticket. Mrs. 
 Knapp is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 QOHN W. LOAR. There are few of those 
 I now living in Leavenworth whose advent in 
 (2) this city antedated that of Mr. Loar. It was 
 in 1853 t'^^t he crossed from Missouri to Kansas 
 and settled near what is now Leavenworth. He 
 took up a quarter-section of land on the Delaware 
 reservation, this land being the northwest quar- 
 ter of section 22, township 9, range 22, property 
 now occupied by M. M. Jewett. At once he be- 
 gan the improvement of farming land, and in 
 time he transformed the place into one of the best 
 improved in the neighborhood. In connection 
 with the raising of cereals he engaged in the 
 stock business, and the grade of hor.ses raised on 
 his place was so high that he won many prizes in 
 state and county fairs and was considered one of 
 the best exhibitors of stock in the state. In 1896 
 he bought a home in the city, where he lived re- 
 tired, except for such duties as are connected with 
 the supervision of his moneyed and property inter- 
 ests. At this writing he is living on his farm. 
 The Loar family originated in Germany and was 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 655 
 
 early represented in Maryland, whence later gen- 
 erations removed to Ohio and Kentuckj'. Our 
 subject's father, Nathan Loar, had four brothers 
 who served in the war of 1 8 1 2 . He married Mary 
 Taylor, and afterward they moved to Hampshire 
 County, W. Va., settling there in 1816, when 
 their son, John W. , was four years of age. The 
 latter afterward received common school advanta- 
 ges. When of age he went back to his birthplace 
 in Ohio, and there remained for seven years, en- 
 gaged in contracting in brick and stone-mason 
 work. In 1840 he moved to Boone County, Ky., 
 where he followed his trade for several years, 
 meantime making his home in Florence, where 
 he erected a residence. In that town he also 
 carried on a mercantile business. In 1851 he re- 
 moved to St. Joe, Mo., and two years later came 
 to Kansas, where he has since resided. On his 
 farm he engaged in raising horses, cattle and 
 mules; he is known as the best judge of horseflesh 
 in the state. During the Civil war he rented his 
 farm and moved into Leavenworth, while he be- 
 gan to take contracts with the government to 
 furnish horses and mules for Forts Leavenworth 
 and Scott. While the exact number of horses he 
 sold to the government cannot be estimated , it is 
 probable there were about two thousand. In 
 1865 he built a fine brick residence on his farm 
 and afterward made his home there until he re- 
 turned to Leavenworth in 1896. He is the owner 
 of a number of business and residence Ipts in the 
 city and also has fifteen acres within the limits; 
 he also owns claims in diiferent parts of the state. 
 At the time of the dispute between Great 
 Britain and the United States regarding the 
 Canadian boundary line, he volunteered for service 
 in the regular army. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat and takes an interest in local affairs. For 
 several years he served on the school board of 
 district No. 8. In 1857, having been ordered by 
 the court to open a road through his farm, he built 
 the territorial road between Leavenworth and 
 Lawrence. While his membership is in the 
 Christian Church, other religious movements have 
 also felt the impetus of his aid and generosity, 
 and progressive enterprises have been aided by 
 him to the extent of his ability. In 1849 he 
 
 married Lucinda, daughter of Joseph Hoskins, of 
 Ohio; she was an estimable lady, and her death, 
 February 24, 1895, was a heavy bereavement to 
 her husband, to whose welfare she had been af- 
 fectionately devoted during their long married 
 life. 
 
 WlAJ. ROBERT C. CAMPBELL, a resident 
 y of Ottawa and the owner of Riley Medium 
 CS No. 2150, record 2:io>^, one of the finest- 
 bred horses in Kansas, was born on the Susque- 
 hanna River, near Milton, Union County, Pa., a 
 son of William and Hannah (Parks) Campbell, 
 natives respectively of Scotland and Pennsylvania. 
 When his father was about one year old the 
 grandfather, William Campbell, Sr. , brought the 
 family to America and afterward spent two years 
 in New York, thence going to Union County, 
 Pa., and settling on a farm. In addition to agri- 
 cultural pursuits William Campbell, Jr., also 
 engaged in lumbering. He died in Union Coun- 
 ty when sixty-three years of age, and his wife 
 died in the same county. Of their six children 
 three sons are now living, one of whom, John, is 
 a lumberman on the Susquehanna River. Will- 
 iam, who is also a farmer and lumberman in 
 Union County, enlisted in the Union army when 
 a mere lad, and was made captain of a company 
 in the Fifty -second Pennsylvania Infantry, in 
 which he served until he was wounded and cap- 
 tured by the Confederates; afterwards he was 
 confined in Libby prison for one year. 
 
 On the farm where he was born May 13, 1845, 
 the subject of this sketch passed his years of early 
 boyhood. At the age of thirteen he went to 
 make his home with an uncle. Judge James 
 Parks, of Fremont County, who was then serv- 
 ing as sheriff. In youth he learned the car- 
 penter's trade and followed that occupation. At 
 the first call for volunteers he determined to en- 
 list in the Union service. In April, 1861, he was 
 made a musician in Company D, Sixty-ninth 
 Ohio Infantry, and was sent to the south, serving 
 until the order was issued to muster out all regi- 
 mental bands, and he was honorably discharged 
 in 1862. He then became second lieutenant of 
 Company K, Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry, in 
 
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 which he remained for six months, meantime en- 
 gaging at Cumberland Gap and in other south- 
 ern battles. He was honorably discharged at 
 Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring of 1864. His 
 next enlistment was in Company D, Thirteenth 
 Ohio Veterans' Corps, of which he was second 
 lieutenant until honorably discharged, in Au- 
 gust, 1865. He was present at the battles of 
 Cold Harbor, Whitehouse Landing, City Point, 
 Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, took part in the 
 siege of Petersburg and the surrender at Ap- 
 pomattox Courthouse. He was wounded at Din. 
 widdie Courthouse while making a charge; his 
 horse slipped in a sandhole and threw him, after- 
 ward falling upon him, and while he lay there the 
 whole brigade passed over him. When he re- 
 covered consciousness he insisted on accompany- 
 ing the troops in the charge, but the injury was 
 such a serious one that it crippled him for life. 
 He was wounded also by a sabre cut in the hand 
 and bullet in the leg. For meritorious service he 
 was made captain and then major, in command 
 of the battalion, and was finally mustered out with 
 the rank of major. After the war clo.sed he 
 served as provost-marshal in Powhattan County, 
 Va. He was honorably discharged in Columbus, 
 Ohio. 
 
 From the time of his discharge until 1870 
 Major Campbell engaged in the livery- business 
 in Oxford. He then came to Ottawa, Kans., 
 where he has since been proprietor of a livery 
 and has engaged in raising standard-bred horses. 
 He is also president and manager of the Phar- 
 macist mine in the Cripple Creek district. 
 
 For some j-ears Major Campbell was superin- 
 tendent of the Driving Park Association. From 
 the start of the Franklin County Fair Associa- 
 tion he was interested in it and served as an of- 
 ficer until recently. He is connected with George 
 H. Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R.; Ottawa 
 Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M. In religious 
 belief he is a Methodist. Politically he always 
 supports Republican principles. For four years 
 he served as councilman for the first ward and he 
 has also been a member of the school board. 
 His finst wife was Helen M. Bard, who was born 
 in Butler County, Ohio, and died in Ottawa, 
 
 Kans., in January, 1896. The children born of 
 their union are named as follows: Frank K., 
 who is in Texas; Mrs. Mary M. Giller, of Den- 
 ver, Colo.; Mrs. Ida O. Luce, of Kansas City; 
 and Mrs. Lola M. Jones, wife of A. D. Jones, of 
 Colorado Springs, Colo. The second marriage 
 of Major Campbell took place in Mishawaha, 
 Ind., and united him with Mrs. Ella M. (Laid- 
 law) Mason, a native of that state. 
 
 Among the horses now owned by Major Camp- 
 bell is Icarus, by Onward, fir.st dam by Dicta- 
 tor. In his stable at No. 113 West Second 
 street he also has Riley Medium, a dark brown 
 horse, fifteen and three- fourths hands high, bred 
 by Gen. W. T. Withers, at Lexington, Ky.; 
 sired b}' Happ}- Medium No. 400, he sired by 
 Rysdyk's Hamblelonian No. 10, first dam, 
 Maud R. , by Mambrino Patchen, by Mambrino 
 Chief Riley Medium is the sire of Bob Riley 
 2:10, Kate Medium 2:io//4', and other horses that 
 have made records for speed. He is a horse of 
 beautiful conformation and great strength and is 
 one of the finest of the sons of Happy Medium, 
 which has to his credit ninety-three trotters, the 
 fa.stest being Nancy Hanks 2:04, besides six 
 pacers, the fastest of which is Riley Medium. 
 
 30HN McCORMICK, a pioneer of '38 in 
 Leavenworth, was born in County Longford, 
 Ireland, June 24, 1832, a son of Andrew and 
 Margaret (Trimble) McCormick, also natives of 
 that county. His father, who followed farming, 
 died at seventy years of age, while his mother, 
 daughter of Thomas Trimble, died in early 
 womanhood. In the family there were two sons 
 and two daughters, all of whom came to Aiuer- 
 ica and three are living. John was a youth of 
 seventeen years when he crossed the ocean from 
 Liverpool on the sailing-vessel "Susan Lord," 
 which anchored in New Orleans after a voyage 
 of seven weeks and three days. He remained in 
 that city for a month and then came up the 
 Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Cincinnati, where 
 he remained about eight years, meantime learn- 
 ing the bricklayer's trade. He then went to 
 Chicago, where he worked at his trade. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 In April, 1858, Mr. McCormick came to Leav- 
 enworth. Soon he found employment at his 
 trade. For seven years he was employed as fore- 
 man for others. In 1873 he began contracting 
 for himself, and two years later started a brick 
 yard in the west part of the town. Since then he 
 has engaged in contracting and building. He 
 owns a yard of six acres, containing an abundance 
 of good clay, and here he manufactures a good 
 quality of brick. He has had the contracts for 
 some of the most substantial public buildings 
 and private residences in Leavenworth, among 
 them those for the large cathedral school, the 
 Catholic orphan asylum, the Sacred Heart 
 Church, the colored Catholic Church, Peter Ever- 
 hardy's residence and store. Dr. Thomas' build- 
 ing, Cribbs block, Chrismeyer building, two 
 buildings for O'Rourke and two for Erhart, also 
 a number of buildings at the Soldiers' Home and 
 the fort. He built the residence which he owns, 
 at No. 819 North Sixth street. 
 
 March 7, 1859, at Davenport, Iowa, Mr. Mc- 
 Cormick married Margaret, daughter of James 
 McCormick, both natives of Ireland. Her father, 
 who was a farmer, brought his family to the 
 United States in 1836 and settled in Monmouth 
 County, N. J. When sixty-two years of age 
 he enlisted in the Union army, becoming a mem- 
 ber of the Twenty-ninth New Jersey Infantry, in 
 which he served for nine months. Three days 
 after he was honorably discharged he again en- 
 listed and returned to the front, serving about 
 two years. He was wounded in the battle on 
 the James and was sent to a hospital in Wash- 
 ington, where he died from the effects of his 
 wounds. His wife was Mary Farrell, a native of 
 Ireland, and who died in New Jersey. Their 
 six children attained years of maturity and all 
 but one are still living, Mrs. McCormick being 
 next to the oldest. She was reared in New Jer- 
 sey and received such advantages as district 
 schools afforded. By her marriage to our subject 
 there have been born six children now living, 
 namely: Mary J., a sister in Mount St. Mary's 
 convent; Annie and Richard, of Leavenworth; 
 Margaret and Louise, who are married and live 
 in this city; and William, now in Alaska. 
 
 30 
 
 Politically Mr. McCormick has always been a 
 Democrat. He has rendered acceptable .service 
 on city and county committees and has attended 
 county and state conventions of his party. From 
 1887 to 1895 he represented the fourth ward in 
 the city council, and during his term of ofiice 
 many improvements were made that greatly pro- 
 moted the welfare of the city. For one term he 
 was a member of the board of county commis- 
 sioners. He is connected with the cathedral and 
 is also a member of the Catholic Mutual Benevo- 
 lent Association, of which he has been treasurer 
 for some time. 
 
 NENRY G. VAN NESTE. In spite of the 
 fact that his residence in Kansas covers only 
 a brief period, Mr. Van Neste has already 
 gained an assured standing among the stockmen 
 of Leavenworth County. He resides in Reno 
 Township, upon what was formerly known as 
 the C. J. Buckingham farm, where he has eight 
 hundred acres of land. While to some extent 
 he engages in general farming, his specialty is 
 the buying and selling of stock, and he usually 
 keeps on hand from five to six hundred head, 
 many of which are Polled-Angus cattle, and he 
 also has a number of fine horses. As a stock- 
 dealer he is a careful, judicious buyer, and closely 
 watches the markets in his sales, so that he is 
 establishing a profitable business. 
 
 As the name indicates, the Van Neste family 
 is of Holland-Dutch extraction. They emi- 
 grated to America in an early day and one of the 
 family was the first white child born on the pres- 
 ent site of New York City. George H. Van 
 Neste, who was a native of the Mohawk Valley, 
 removed to Illinois in 1854 and became a leading 
 farmer of Iroquois. He is now retired from active 
 cares and makes his home in Onarga, 111. A man 
 of local prominence, he has held the various 
 township offices and has contributed largely to- 
 ward the development of the resources of his 
 county. He married Emily J. Shottenkirk, who 
 died at the old homestead in 1870; they became 
 the parents of six children, four of whom are 
 living, namely: AnnaF., wife of J. F. Schmeltzer, 
 of Manteno, 111. ; Charles E. , a farmer and stock- 
 
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 man of Brewster, Neb. ; Nellie, wife of E. J. Viall, 
 of Maiiteno, III. ; and Henry G. The last-named 
 was born in Iroquois County, 111., in 1866, and 
 was educated in Grand Prairie Seminary and 
 Onarga Commercial College. 
 
 From an early age Mr. Van Neste was inter- 
 ested in agriculture. He bought his father's 
 homestead and there engaged in raising stock and 
 cereals until December, 1897, when he removed 
 to Kansas and established his home on the farm 
 where he now lives. While in Illinois he was an 
 active worker in the Republican party in his lo- 
 cality and aided much in promoting local enter- 
 prises. Nor has he been less interested in town- 
 ship and county matters in his new home. At 
 this writing he is serving as committeeman for 
 Reno Township. He became a member of the 
 Modern Woodmen of America and the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows in his native county, 
 and in the lodge of the latter order he passed all 
 of the chairs. He is not identified with any de- 
 nomination, but is a Methodist in doctrine and 
 faith. In 1889 he married Dora, daughter of 
 William B. Crider, of Illinois. They are the 
 parents of four children: George Crider, Charles 
 Foster, Nellie and Zebulon. 
 
 HUBERT KNIPE. Among those from other 
 countries who have long been identified 
 with the business interests of Leavenworth, 
 and who have labored to develop the conmiercial 
 welfare of the city, mention belongs to the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, a pioneer of '56. He was one 
 of those brave men who, at the first call for vol- 
 unteers during the Civil war, enlisted in the 
 Union service, and marching to the front, fought 
 for the stars and stripes on many a bloody battle- 
 field. By his valiant service he earned recogni- 
 tion as a true citizen of his adopted country. 
 
 Mr. Knipe was born in Cappelen, Rhine Prov- 
 ince, Prussia, April 17, 1845, a .son of Dennis 
 and Margaret (Krohn) Knipe, natives of the same 
 place as himself His maternal grandfather, 
 Andrew Krohn, was a soldier in the Napole- 
 onic wars and afterward carried on a bakery 
 business in his home town. Dennis Knipe, who 
 
 was a farmer by occupation, crossed the ocean in 
 1852 and settled on a farm near Weston, Mo. 
 Two years later his family joined him there. In 
 1856 he brought them to Leavenworth, where he 
 participated in the troubles of border warfare. 
 During the Civil war he was a member of Com- 
 pany B, Eighth Kansas Infantry, in which he 
 remained for two years, and was finally dis- 
 charged on account of physical disability. He 
 was sixty-three years of age at the time of his 
 death, in 1879. His wife is still living, and 
 makes her home with her only living child, Hu- 
 bert. 
 
 When the family came to America Mr. Knipe 
 was a boy of nine j-ears. The voyage from 
 Havre to New Orleans on the sailer "Saxony" 
 consumed sixty-one days. From New Orleans 
 the family proceeded on the steamer "Michigan" 
 up to Cairo; there the ice was so thick and dan- 
 gerous that passengers were transferred to a 
 wharf boat, which, burning, caused the loss of all 
 of their property. They came up the Missouri 
 River to Weston, where the father met them. 
 From the farm there they removed to Leaven- 
 worth May I, 1856. 
 
 September 12, 1861, the name of Hubert 
 Knipe was enrolled as a member of Company B, 
 Eighth Kansas Infantry, which was stationed at 
 Leavenworth for .six months and then joined 
 Buell's army in the south. He took part in the 
 battle of Perryville, after which he was under 
 Rosecrans at Stone River, Chickamauga and 
 Chattanooga. At the last-named place he was 
 wounded, November 25, 1863, being shot 
 through the right hip. He fell on the field and 
 was picked up by two Confederate prisoners. 
 Unconscious, he was taken to the hospital at 
 Chattanooga, and there he lay for a month. 
 When at last he left the hospital he was obliged 
 to use crutches. Returning to Leavenworth, he 
 remained here until April, 1864, when he was 
 transferred to Company F, Sixth Regiment, Vet- 
 erans' Reserve Corps, and was stationed at 
 Washington for three months. At the expiration 
 of his term of service he was honorably dis- 
 charged, September 13, 1864. 
 
 On returning to Leavenworth Mr. Knipe se- 
 
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 cured employment as clerk in a grocery. In 
 1870 he opened a store on the corner of Sixth 
 and Miami streets, and here he has since engaged 
 in the grocery business, having built on this 
 corner the store which he occupies, and also four 
 residences, besides building in other parts of the 
 city. He is a believer in Republican principles 
 and votes the regular party ticket. Custer Post 
 No. 6, G. A. R. , numbers him among its mem- 
 bers. Fraternally he is connected with Hiram 
 Lodge No. 68, A. F. & A. M.; Leavenworth 
 Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. F. , of which he is treas- 
 urer, and also belongs to the encampment. His 
 marriage in Leavenworth united him with Miss 
 Sybilla Hensler, who was born in Baden, Ger- 
 many, a daughter of Bernhart Hensler, who 
 brought the family to Leavenworth in 1865 and 
 engaged in the merchant tailoring business here. 
 The children of Mr. and Mrs. Knipe are as 
 follows: Hubert, Jr., a grocer in Chicago; Mar- 
 garet, at home; Henry C, who assists his father 
 in business; Edith, Nellie and Benjamin H., at 
 home. 
 
 HON. ACHILLES B. WADE, deceased, came 
 to what is now Douglas County in March, 
 1854, before the Shawnee treaty had been 
 ratified, and was one of the very earliest white 
 settlers in this section of the state. He was born 
 in Franklin County, Mo., in June, 1829, a son of 
 John and Mary Wade, natives of Kentucky, but 
 for years residents of Missouri, where they died. 
 He was the fifth among eleven children and was 
 reared upon the home farm. At the discovery of 
 gold in California he determined to seek his for- 
 tune in the great west. Accordingly he crossed 
 the plains, overland, with an ox-team. As he 
 passed through Kansas he noted with admiration 
 the fertile soil and broad prairies, but the Indians 
 were in possession, and settlement was, therefore, 
 impossible. He proceeded on his journey and was 
 gone two years, returning to Missouri and settling 
 upon a farm. However, he did not feel contented 
 there, and again started westward. With a cousin, 
 Mr. Kaufman, he engaged in surveying the 
 country and arriving at Blue Mound they struck 
 for claims. The cousin staked a claim on what 
 
 is now Massachusetts street, Lawrence, while 
 Mr. Wade put his stake down about one-quarter 
 of a mile away, in what is now West Lawrence. 
 There he broke the soil, planted a crop and en- 
 gaged in farming for one season. Meantime he 
 built the first log house in Lawrence. After a 
 year he and his cousin sold out to the Lawrence 
 Town Company and settled two miles northwest 
 of the present site of Lawrence. His second 
 claim was for one hundred and sixty acres, but 
 the adjoining claims overlapped his so that he 
 had only one hundred and twenty acres. There 
 he built a large brick house, a substantial barn 
 and other farm buildings, and placed the land 
 under cultivation, making of it one of the finest 
 farms for miles around. He continued to reside 
 on the same place until 1890, when he rented the 
 farm and located at No. igio Haskell street, 
 where he had fifteen acres of fruit land. During 
 the Price raid he enlisted in the Kansas militia 
 and started for the front with his command, but 
 was severely injured by being thrown from his 
 horse and was obliged to return home. During 
 the early days he was sheriff of Douglas County 
 and he was also a member of the first territorial 
 legislature. For many years he served as a mem- 
 ber of the school board and his helpful sugges- 
 tions were of the greatest value in promoting 
 the welfare of the schools. As a citizen he was 
 progressive and public-spirited. His long-time 
 associates in Douglas County tested him by the 
 varying vicissitudes of many years, and had reason 
 to know the manner of man he was, the strength 
 of his friendship, the generosity of his nature, 
 the integrity of his purpose, and the sincerity of 
 his life. It was, therefore, with a feeling of per- 
 sonal loss and bereavement that news was received 
 of his death, at his home in Lawrence, October 
 6, 1891. His passing from earth deprived the 
 city of one who had from earliest days been de- 
 voted to its welfare and interested in its pros- 
 perity. 
 
 In Franklin County, Mo., February 10, 1847, 
 Mr. Wade married Miss Nancy Davidson, who 
 was born March 13, 1828, in Lancaster County, 
 Ky., a daughter of Jordan and Sarah (Naylor) 
 Davidson, natives respectively of Kentucky and 
 
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 Virginia. Her grandfather, Jesse Davidson, a 
 native of Virginia, was a pioneer farmer of Ken- 
 tucky, from which state her father moved to 
 Franklin County, Mo., and engaged not only in 
 farming, but also in carpentering and building. 
 In 1855 he came to Kansas and took a claim four 
 miles from the home of his son-in-law, continuing 
 on the farm until he died. His wife, who was a 
 daughter of Thomas Naylor, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, spent her last years in the home of her 
 daughter, where she died. They were the parents 
 of twelve children, eight of whom attained mature 
 years, but only two are now living. Three of the 
 .sons took part in the Civil war as members of a 
 Kansas regiment, while four of Mr. Wade's 
 brothers also served in the Federal armj-. Like 
 her husband, Mrs. Wade has been a consistent 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination 
 since childhood and is now'identified with the First 
 Church in Lawrence. She was eight years of 
 age when her parents moved from Kentucky to 
 Missouri, and in the latter state she passed the 
 years of girlhood. Since the death of her hus- 
 band she has superintended their property and 
 maintained a general oversight of their interests. 
 They were the parents of seven children, two of 
 whom died in childhood, and Nancy at the age of 
 sixteen. Four are living, viz.: Mrs. Mary Mitch- 
 ell, who graduated from Lane University and is 
 now living in Rockford, 111.; Mrs. Dora Garrett, 
 a graduate of the University of Kansas, and now 
 residing on the home farm near Lawrence; Ed- 
 ward, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Franklin, who 
 is proprietor and manager of a theatrical company . 
 
 |~ C. SCHULTE, a successful business man of 
 1^ Leavenworth, has been at the head of a re- 
 I tail grocerj' since January, 1889, when he 
 bought the business with which he has since 
 been identified. A stanch Republican in politics, 
 Mr. Schulte has served as delegate to local and 
 state conventions and has been a member of the 
 county committee, also chairman of the citj- cen- 
 tral and county central committees. In 1S93 he 
 was elected, on the Republican ticket, to repre- 
 sent the third ward in the city council. Two 
 
 years later he wasreelected, ser\'ing from April, 
 1893, to April, 1897. During hisconnection with 
 the council he was active on different committees, 
 and for one year served as chairman on the ways 
 and means committee. While he was a member of 
 the council the bridge across the Missouri River 
 and terminal improvements were built, the elec- 
 tric street railway franchise was granted and the 
 road completed. 
 
 Mr. Schulte was born in Westphalia, Germany, 
 January 2, 1865. He was the first of the family 
 to come to America, and crossed from Hamburg 
 to New York in September, 1882. For two years 
 he remained in New York, where he was em- 
 ployed as a clerk in a grocery. In 1884 he came 
 to Leavenworth and secured employment with 
 Rohlfing & Co., with whom he continued until 
 he returned on a visit to Germany. He was mar- 
 ried in Leavenworth to Sophia, daughter of 
 Christian Mej-er, who settled in this city in terri- 
 torial days and engaged in the grocery business. 
 Mr. Meyer died in 1887 and two years later Mr. 
 Schulte bought the grocery business which he 
 had established. 
 
 0UDLEY H. WIGGIN, a retired dairyman 
 of Wakarusa Township, Douglas Countj', 
 was born in Carroll County, N. H., April 
 21, 1832, a son of Mark Wiggin, also a native of 
 New Hampshire. His paternal grandfather was 
 one of three brothers who emigrated from Eng- 
 land and settled in the northeastern part of our 
 country. While he was the owner of a farm, 
 Mark Wiggin gave his attention principally to the 
 mason's trade and was known as one of the best 
 workmen in his locality. In religion he was a 
 Congregationali.st, and, in politics, favored the 
 Democratic party. He died in 1S47, one year be- 
 fore his wife's death. Of their six children two 
 died in infancy, Mark in 1880, and George about 
 1875. Hannah P., who is eighty-two years of 
 age, and our subject are the sole survivors. 
 
 In boyhood our subject had few advantages. 
 He attended school only eight weeks out of the 
 entire year. At the age of seventeen he went to 
 Salem, Mass., and learned the trade of brick- 
 layer and plasterer, which he followed in that city 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 66 1 
 
 for a year. Later he went to Boston, and while 
 holding a responsible position there, as foremas 
 of twenty men, he determined to go further west, 
 believing the change would be beneficial to him 
 financially. Accordingly he removed to Cincin- 
 nati. For a few months he was employed on the 
 fast mail train between Cincinnati and Columbus, 
 but, owing to an injury to his eyes, he was obliged 
 to resign the position and resume his trade. He 
 went to Lafayette, Ind., and from there, in 1856, 
 removed to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where, and in 
 Salem, Iowa, he spent two years at his trade. 
 
 During the spring of 1858 Mr. Wiggin came to 
 Lawrence, Kans. Two months later he went to 
 Kansas City, and there he followed his trade un- 
 til the fall of 1 861, when he again came to Kan- 
 sas. After a year upon a farm he settled in 
 Lawrence, where he built up a good trade in his 
 cho.sen occupation. Many of the principal build- 
 ings of early days were erected under his super- 
 vision, and some of them still stand on Massachu- 
 setts street; he also built many of the residences 
 of those days. He was near the city at the time 
 of the Quantrell raid, but escaped. With a part- 
 ner, in 1873, he went to the Sac and Fox agency, 
 where he built many of the government build- 
 ings. With others, he was interested in erecting 
 $40,000 worth of buildings at the Cherokee 
 agency. When that work was completed he re- 
 turned to Lawrence. Owing to poor eyesight he 
 was obliged to give up his trade, and he then 
 started in the dairy business. However, his eyes 
 constantly grew worse, and he became threatened 
 with the entire loss of sight. At that time, in 
 1877, he went to Iowa and took a course of hy- 
 giene treatment, a strict diet being rigidly ad- 
 hered to. While this treatment caused a lo.ss of 
 flesh, it saved his eyesight, and when he returned 
 home after four months his eyes had materially 
 improved. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Wiggin bought the Worden farm 
 on the California road, where his son now resides. 
 This he carried on, with the assistance of his sons, 
 until 1892, when the property was divided, and 
 his .son, Frank, has since conducted the place. 
 He is now living retired, on a farm of fifteen 
 acres, which he bought in 1868. The house has 
 
 been enlarged and various improvements made, so 
 that his home is a comfortable one. Its location, 
 one mile west of Lawrence, is convenient. Here 
 for some years he carried on a dairy business, and 
 when he closed out he had about sixty head of 
 cows, besides young stock. He was one of the 
 incorporators of the creamery and is now a .stock- 
 holder in the same. His first presidential vote 
 was cast for John C. Fremont and he has since 
 voted the Republican ticket at all elections. He 
 is a member of the Methodist Church, with which 
 his family is also identified. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Wiggin, in Kansas City, 
 April 22, 1859, united him with Priscilla Baker, 
 a native of Uniontown, Pa. They have five 
 children: Frank D., who was born June 7, i860, 
 and is engaged in the dairy business; Ida Belle, 
 who was born September 14, 1862, and is the wife 
 of J. R. Flasket, a farmer of this township; Bert, 
 who was born June 3, 1865, and is now engaged 
 in the stock business; Henry C, who was born 
 October 11, 1868, and is now living in Michigan; 
 and Alfred, who was born January 14, 1875, and 
 is now connected with Wilder & Co. , in Lawrence. 
 
 HON. CHARLES H. TUCKER, clerk of the 
 district court, is one of the leading Repub- 
 licans of Lawrence. For twenty years or 
 more he has been a member of the county Repub- 
 lican committee, of which he has served both as 
 chairman and .secretary, having held the latter 
 position as early as 1878. Frequently he has 
 been a delegate to the state convention of his 
 party, where his intelligence and judgment have 
 been helpful in the settlement of important de- 
 cisions. The offices to which he has been elected 
 have been filled with accuracy and faithfulness, 
 thus winning for him the confidence of the peo- 
 ple. 
 
 Born in County Cornwall, England, May 6, 
 1857, the subject of this sketch was thirteen years 
 of age when he came to America, settling in 
 Lawrence in September, 1870. Here he spent a 
 year in the public school and was employed by 
 M. Newmark & Co., for two years. From 1875 
 to 1890 he was engaged in the produce commis- 
 
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 sion business in Lawrence, the firm of Andrews 
 & Tucker having a store on Massachusetts, and 
 dealing in Colorado and California fruits. In 
 1890 he became clerk to the count}' treasurer, 
 J. C. Walton, remaining with his successor, 
 A. L. Cox, and at the same time for four years 
 he was cit}' assessor. In the fall of 1894 he was 
 nominated to represent the fourteenth (now the 
 thirteenth) district in the legislature and was 
 elected bj' the largest majoritj- ever given any 
 candidate for this position in the district. Dur- 
 ing the session of 1895 he was a member of the 
 ways and means committee and aided in securing 
 appropriations for the University of Kansas, also 
 assisted in securing the election of United States 
 Senator Baker. In 1896 he was elected clerk of 
 the district court by a large majority and took 
 office in January, 1897. The following year he 
 was re-elected by an increased majority, to serve 
 until Januarj', 1901. 
 
 In this city Mr. Tucker married Miss Jessie 
 Flinn, who is a graduate of the high school and 
 also attended the university. They have four 
 children, Oliver Cromwell, George William, 
 Dorothy and John H. In religion Mr. Tucker 
 adheres to the faith of his father, who was a 
 Methodist minister. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Knights and Ladies of Security; is past 
 officer in the Modern Woodmen lodge, and past 
 master workman in the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, in which he has al.so been a repre- 
 sentative to the grand lodge. 
 
 QENJAMIN F. EDWARDS. The pioneers 
 ro of Leavenworth County will always be held 
 d/ in grateful remembrance. The hardships 
 and privations that they endured in the early 
 days of the settlement this county are being rec- 
 ognized now more than ever before, as the re- 
 sults of their labors are every year becoming 
 more apparent. Among these early settlers prom- 
 inent mention belongs to Benjamin F. Edwards, 
 of Kickapoo Township. In the spring of 1855 
 he crossed over from Missouri to Kansas and pre- 
 empted a claim of one hundred and sixtj' acres 
 where he now lives. Building a cabin, for two 
 
 years or more he kept " bachelor's hall." As the 
 years passed by he made valuable improvements 
 on the place. At the same time he added to it until 
 at this writing there are three hundred and sixty 
 acres in the farm. He has engaged in general 
 farm pursuits and in the stock business, making 
 a specialty of raising Poland-China hogs. 
 
 In Washington County, Tenn., in 1829, our 
 subject was born, a son of John and Sarah (Hop- 
 kins) Edwards. His paternal great-grandfather, 
 Abel Edwards, emigrated from England to Amer- 
 ica prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in 
 Virginia, from which state he enlisted in the col- 
 onial army. When the war closed he removed 
 to Washington County, Tenn., and took up large 
 tracts of land. About the same time his brother, 
 John, settled in eastern Kentucky'. Thomas, son 
 of Abel Edwards, was born in Virginia, but spent 
 his life principally in Tennessee, where he died 
 in 1850. His son, John, was born in Tennessee 
 in 1 800, and was a lifelong resident of Washing- 
 ton County, where he owned five thousand acres 
 of land and engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
 ing. His .stock grazed for miles in the moun- 
 tains, and proved a profitable source of revenue. 
 During the Florida war he was captain of a 
 Tennessee state company that served under Gen- 
 eral Jackson. Active as a Whig in local politics, 
 he held a number of offices, among them those of 
 deputy sheriflF and justice of the peace. During 
 the war his sympathies were strongly with the 
 Union, and he was killed by Rebel soldiers at his 
 home in 1864. His body was laid to rest on the 
 sixtj--fourth anniversarj' of his birth. 
 
 The wife of Capt. John Edwards was born in 
 Alabama and was a granddaughter of Stephen 
 Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Indepen- 
 dence. Benjamin P. Hopkins, her father, was a 
 soldier in the war of 18 12, serving under An- 
 thony Wayne. She died at the home of her son, 
 our subject, in 1888, when eighty-one j-ears of 
 age. Her nine children who attained maturity 
 were named as follows: William, of Martins- 
 ville, Ind. ; Nancy E., deceased; Benjamin F. ; 
 Thomas, who lost his life at Stone River, while 
 serving in the Union army; Mrs. Rebecca Rick- 
 man, of Nebraska; John, who was a captain in the 
 
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 Third North Carolina Infantry during the Civil 
 war and is now living in Rush County, Kans. ; 
 Samuel A., of Carroll County, Mo., who was a 
 soldier in the Confederate army during part of 
 the war; Sarah, Mrs. Henry Simons; and Zachary 
 T., living in Chautauqua County, Kans. 
 
 When eighteen years of age our subject volun- 
 teered for service in the Mexican war, and served 
 until the close of the conflict, when he was trans- 
 ferred to the regular array. During the five 
 years of his service he was stationed in different 
 parts of New Mexico and Colorado and assisted 
 in defending the western settlers from the depre- 
 dations of the Pawnee Indians. More than once 
 the Indians attacked him and their arrows found 
 lodgment in his clothes. He was mustered out 
 August 20, 1852, at Fort L,eavenworth. After a 
 short visit to his old home he started for Califor- 
 nia, but on reaching Missouri settled in Bu- 
 chanan County and engaged in farming there. 
 In the spring of I S55 he removed to Kansas, where 
 he has since built up a fine farm and become a 
 prosperous agriculturist. Before his marriage, 
 for two years he taught school during the winter 
 months and farmed in summer. 
 
 In politics Mr. Edwards is a Republican. For 
 four years he held the office of deputy sheriff" and 
 he has also filled a number of township offices. 
 In 1876 he was his party's candidate for the leg- 
 islature, but was defeated. In the exciting times 
 before the Civil war he was outspoken in his sup- 
 port of the free-state movement, and his frank- 
 ness brought upon him the enmity of pro-slavery 
 men. More than once his life was in great 
 danger on account of his opposition to slavery, 
 but, while he was aware of his peril, he refused 
 to become sileutly acquiescent to southern sym- 
 pathizers. A brave, outspoken man, he feared 
 neither friend or foe. During the war he was a 
 member of Company A, Seventeenth Kansas In- 
 fantry, and also acted as recruiting officer for the 
 Seventh and Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry. Among 
 the engagements in which he bore a part were 
 those at West port. Mo., Mine Creek and New- 
 tonia. He was slightly wounded at Westport, 
 and, while in the Seventh, was disabled by the 
 kick of a horse. He is a member of Custer Post 
 
 No. 6, G. A. R. In Kickapoo Lodge No. 4, 
 A. F. & A. M., of which he is a member, he 
 has passed all of the chairs. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Edwards, in 1857, united 
 him with Sarah Jane Dooley, of Platte County, 
 Mo. They have ten children, namely: Sarah, 
 who married Joseph Cleavinger; Alice, wife of 
 O. T. Sprong; John, a farmer; William Grant, 
 who resides with his parents; Albert M., a far- 
 mer of Leavenworth County; Ida, Mrs. John 
 Sprong; Agnes, wife of George H. Faulkner; 
 Benjamin F., Jr.; Myrtle and Lyman. The 
 family attend the Christian Church. 
 
 I ANSING VAN VOORHIS, a farmer of 
 IC Douglas County, came to Kansas in 1880, 
 |_2f hoping that the climate might prove advan- 
 tageous to his health, which had been injured by 
 his service in the Civil war. Purchasing one 
 hundred and twenty acres of his present farm in 
 Wakarusa Township he has since given his at- 
 tention to agricultural pursuits. At the time of 
 his settlement here thirty acres of the farm were 
 still covered with timber, and no improvements 
 had been made in any portion of the property. 
 At once he set about the task of clearing the land 
 and preparing it for cultivation. The work re- 
 quired constant effort and untiring labor, but it 
 was not done in vain, for he now has a valuable 
 homestead. He erected a residence and barn, 
 built fences, set out an orchard, and in 1890 built 
 a tenant house. All the conveniences of a 
 modern farm may now be found on the place. 
 Besides his agricultural interests he was for 
 some time connected with the Soldiers' Home at 
 Dodge City, Kans. In 1892 he was appointed a 
 member of the board of managers and later was 
 chosen president of the board, while for six 
 months he also acted as commandant of the home, 
 which at the time had between four and five 
 hundred inmates. 
 
 Maj. Rowe Van Voorhis, who founded this fam- 
 ily in America, came from Holland in 1663 and 
 settled in Fishkill, N. Y., afterward taking an 
 active part in the early wars of the country. His 
 descendants served in the Revolution and other 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 wars. They were people of prominence and 
 held positions of trust in New York and other 
 states. Our subject's grandfather, Court Van 
 Voorhis, a farmer, was one of the earlj' settlers 
 of Otsego County, N. Y. , where his second son, 
 James, was a farmer, an active worker in the 
 Whig party and the incumbent of local oflBces. 
 By the latter' s marriage to Jane Magee ten chil- 
 dren were born, nine of whom attained maturity, 
 viz.: Caroline, deceased; lycroy, who lives at 
 Templeton, S. Dak.; Abraham, formerly a physi- 
 cian, now deceased; Edelmer, a farmer in Orleans 
 County, N. Y. ; Adoniram, who died in boyhood; 
 Lansing, our subject, who was born in Otsego 
 County, N. Y., January 14, 1839; Maribah, Cora 
 and Adelaide. Our subject's great-grandfather 
 on the maternal side established the Magee family 
 in America and taught the first English school in 
 Albany, N. Y. His son, John Magee, our sub- 
 ject's grandfather, enlisted at sixteen j-ears in 
 the Revolutionary war, and after its close settled 
 on a farm in Otsego County. 
 
 When nineteen years of age our subject com- 
 menced to teach school, which occupation he fol- 
 lowed at intervals until he was thirty-six. He 
 remained in New York state until his removal to 
 Kansas. In August, 1864, he enlisted in the 
 Third New York Cavalrj', being a raw recruit in 
 an old regiment inured to hard marches and 
 fatiguing experiences. This was the regiment 
 which led the charge at Richmond and gained 
 fame on many a bloodj' battlefield. His ser\'ice, 
 however, was principally in vidette duty. Since 
 the organization of the Grand Army he has been 
 identified with it. In politics a Democrat, he 
 has served as delegate to many conventions. 
 Although his localitj' is Republican, the influence 
 of his personality was sufficient to secure his 
 election to the oSice of justice of the peace. He 
 is interested in the work of the Baptist Church 
 and during much of the time since he came west 
 he has taught the Bible class. He is connected 
 with the Sons of the Revolution and served as 
 vice-president of the state branch in his congres- 
 sional di-strict. 
 
 By his marriage to Electa Jane Brown, which 
 was solemnized in New York March 7, 1861, he 
 
 has three daughters. Lena A. is the wife of Olin 
 Templin, one of the faculty of the University of 
 Kansas; both are graduates of this university and 
 after their marriage spent two years in study in 
 Germany. The second daughter, Cora A., re- 
 sides with her parents. The youngest, Myrtie 
 M., is the wife of B. M. Gregory, who is a 
 farmer in Wakarusa Township, also an active 
 politician, and at one time served as clerk of the 
 district court. 
 
 Gl LBERT C. SHINN. The farm and stock 
 LI interests of Franklin Count}' have an in- 
 / I fluential and prosperous representative in 
 Mr. Shinn, a well-known resident of Hayes 
 Township. Shortly after the close of the Civil 
 war, in which he .served with faithfulness, he 
 came to Kansas for the purpose of selecting a 
 suitable location for a home. In March, 1866, 
 he took up one hundred and sixty acres in Hayes 
 Township. The land was then raw and un- 
 broken. He set about the task of improving the 
 place, which he placed under good cultivation. 
 From time to time he added to it until he now 
 owns five hundred acres, all in one bod}\ Short- 
 horn cattle, Poland-China hogs and standard- 
 bred horses may be seen upon his farm, with 
 descendants that have records between 2:16 and 
 2:14. 
 
 Born in Harrison County, W. Va., October 12, 
 1842, Mr. Shinn is a son of John K. and Tabitha 
 (Ogden) Shinn, and was one of twelve children, 
 of whom three sons are in Kansas. His father, a 
 native of Harrison County, engaged in farming 
 there, but in 1848 removed to Illinois, of which 
 he was a pioneer. In politics he was first a Whig 
 and later a Republican. When our subject was 
 twenty years old, in 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany G, Tvvelfth Illinois Cavalry, which was 
 assigned to the armj' of the Potomac, and after 
 it was veteranized the regiment was ordered to 
 the department of the Mississippi. His service 
 was such as to reflect credit upon his valor and 
 his patriotism. Since the war he has been iden- 
 tified with the Grand Army. 
 
 In political matters Mr. Shinn stands by him- 
 self, not adhering to the lines of any party, but 
 
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 believing firmly in the declaration of independ- 
 ence, the principles of abolition and the free 
 coinage of silver. To the last-named cause he 
 has given thought, time and attention. Fond of 
 reading and having a good library, he has kept 
 well posted concerning the issues which the peo- 
 ple confront, and has never idly drifted with the 
 tide of public opinion, but has been an original 
 thinker. Since the American bimetallic union 
 was organized in 1889 he has been one of its act- 
 ive members, and he is still connected with its 
 national committee. He was one of the Weaver 
 electors and his name appeared on the Alliance 
 state ticket in 1890. His influence has been felt 
 in his community in the promotion of local en- 
 terprises and the increased prosperity of this lo- 
 cality. During the existence of the Grange and 
 the Alliance he bore prominent parts in both. 
 
 October 7, 1865, Mr. Shinn married Frances E. 
 Bride, of lUinois. They are the parents of five 
 children, namely: Tabitha Eveline, wife of O. E. 
 Haley; Esther A., who married John M. Conard; 
 Phoebe Clara, Mrs. W. A. Rodgers; Jacob Elwin, 
 of Linn County, who has built up a business in 
 abstracts of title; and Clay Bride, at home. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM R. WILLIAMS, who came to 
 I A/ Lawrence in 1879, has since made his 
 V V home in this city. In that year he in- 
 vented, patented and copyrighted Williams' per- 
 fection tailor system of dress-cutting, and since 
 then he has added new features and made many 
 improvements, which also have been copyrighted. 
 This system he has introduced all over the United 
 States and Canada, and even into South Africa 
 and parts of Europe. He is a man of inventive 
 genius and hence is deeply interested in all mat- 
 ters pertaining to invention and discovery. Since 
 settling in Kansas he has given some attention to 
 stock-raising. He owns a farm of four hundred 
 acres in Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, 
 nine miles southwest of Lawrence, on the old 
 Washington creek bottom. This property he 
 has improved by substantial buildings and on it 
 he has engaged in raising Hereford cattle and 
 
 other fine stock. He also owns a farm near 
 Lawrence and considerable property in the cit}^ 
 A director in the old Douglas County Bank, 
 when it was merged into the Lawrence National 
 Bank he remained on the directorate of the latter 
 institution. 
 
 In Swansea, Glamorganshire, South Wales, 
 our subject was born July 22, 1848, and was one 
 of five children, of whom two besides himself are 
 living: Mrs. Elizabeth E. Button, of Hastings, 
 Neb., and Daniel T. (a member of the One Hun- 
 dred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry during 
 the Civil war), of Morris, 111. The father, Will- 
 iam, son of William, Sr. , was born near Cardiff, 
 South Wales, and was employed on the butte 
 docks in his native town. In 1S50 he brought 
 his family to America, settling at Morris, Grundy 
 County, 111., where he engaged in contracting 
 and building until his death, in 1865. He mar- 
 ried Mary, daughter of Richard Williams, who 
 was a shoe manufacturer at Merthyr-Tydvil, 
 South Wales. She was born there and died in 
 Morris, 111., in 1884, at seventy-four years of 
 age. Though bearing the same family name, 
 she was not related to the gentleman whose wife 
 she became. 
 
 When two years of age our subject was 
 brought by his parents to America on a sailing- 
 vessel, "James Wright," which spent six weeks 
 and two days between Liverpool and New York. 
 He was educated in Mount Morris Seminary and 
 in the State Normal School at Normal, 111. , and 
 paid his own expenses partly by teaching school. 
 Upon leaving the normal he secured employ- 
 ment as traveling salesman, and for several years 
 followed this vocation, his route being in Illi- 
 nois, Indiana and Michigan. Since then he has 
 made Lawrence his home, and has been con- 
 nected with the business and agricultural inter- 
 ests of Douglas County. He is a member of the 
 American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association. 
 In politics he is a Republican. For two terms 
 he served in the city council from the second 
 ward; and was chairman of the committee on 
 city property and enthusiastically in favor of the 
 plan of placing a fountain in the city park. He 
 is treasurer of the board of trustees of the Method- 
 
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 ist Episcopal Church and served upon the build- 
 ing coniniittee at the time of the erection of the 
 new church. 
 
 In Wilmington, Will County, 111., February 3, 
 1872, Mr. William.s married Miss Martha A. 
 Stovvell, who was born in that county; she is a 
 daughter of Charles Stowell, a farmer, who was 
 somewhat versed in law and was called upon to 
 serve for several years as justice of the peace. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Williams are the parents of three 
 children, namely: Arthur R., who graduated 
 from the department of law, University of Kan- 
 sas, in 1899; Roger M., a student in the high 
 school; and Rolland R. 
 
 EHARLES F. AVENARIUS. The name of 
 this family was originally Haverman, but 
 about four hundred years ago, in the time of 
 Luther, a learned professor of Leipsic changed it 
 to the Latin language, the Haver becoming 
 Avena, to which was added the Latin terminal 
 ' 'ins. ' ' Under the Latin name his descendants have 
 since been known. Ernst Phillip Avenarius was 
 born in Dietz-Nassau, Germany, and was edu- 
 cated for the medical profession in his native 
 land, after which he engaged in practice at 
 Dinxperlo, Holland. Next in line of descent 
 was Dr. Bernard T. Avenarius, who was born in 
 Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Holland, in 1777, and 
 married Hendrina Luimes. G. B. Avenarius 
 was born in 1818 in Dinxperlo and in , boy hood 
 learned the baker's trade. In 1864 he brought 
 his family to America, and the following year 
 settled in Waupun,Wis., where he carried on the 
 Exchange hotel. In 1870 he came to Kansas 
 and took up a homestead and pre-emption claim 
 near Tescott, Ottawa County, to which he after- 
 ward added, becoming the owner of about two 
 sections of land, where he carried on a cattle and 
 sheep business. Now retired from active cares 
 he is making his home with his son, the subject 
 of this sketch. For two terms he ser\'ed as jus- 
 tice of the peace. In religion he is a Lutheran. 
 He married Antoinetta Kaiser, who was born in 
 Amsterdam, Holland, a daughter of Heinrich 
 Kaiser, and died in Tescott, Ottawa County, 
 
 March 31, 1894. There were in the family nine 
 children, all but two of whom attained mature 
 years and six are now living. The oldest .son, 
 Benhard T.. died in Topeka, Kans. Mrs. Boland 
 lives in Claflin, Kans.; Henry J., in Catherin, 
 Colo. ; Charles F. ; Mrs. Thompson makes her 
 home in Tescott, Kans.; Gerrit A. is a photog- 
 rapher in Ellsworth, this state; and Mrs. Allet 
 Needhaui lives in Catherin, Colo. 
 
 The third of the sons, our subject, was born in 
 Gelderland, Holland, September 15, 1854. In 
 1864, with the others of the family, he left Rot- 
 terdam for London by steamer, and from London 
 crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, which ar- 
 rived in New York after a voyage of six weeks. 
 In the spring of 1865 he accompanied his parents 
 to Waupuii, Wis., where he attended school. In 
 the fall of 1870 the family came overland to Kan- 
 sas, spending six weeks on the road and buying 
 a herd of cattle near St. Joe, Mo. He at once 
 began to assist in herding the cattle, in which 
 business he continued until 1881. He then en- 
 gaged in the livery business at Ellsworth. In 
 March, 1884, he came to Ottawa, and entered 
 the employ of R. C. Campbell, with whom he 
 continued for eighteen months, after which he 
 spent a similar period with William B. Kiler. 
 The latter was burned out in June, 1887, and 
 shortly afterward the firm of Kiler & Avenarius 
 was formed and bought a livery barn on Second 
 and Hickory streets. After "eight months Mr. 
 Avenarius sold out to Mr. Kiler and bought the 
 old Mammoth, which he carried on for a short 
 time. Next he bought the Cannon Ball stables, 
 in which he had worked for $12 a month on com- 
 ing to Ottawa. On buying this property, in the 
 spring of 1896, he moved his rolling stock here, 
 refitted and painted the barn, and made it the 
 finest in the city. He is well posted concerning 
 horses and has some fine ones in his barn. 
 Among them is South Side Medium, Reg. 
 No. 31284, who won the three-year-old trot of 
 Franklin County, and made a trial record of 2:28 
 at that age, also won second premium at Mober- 
 ly, Mo., in the stallion roadster class, over a field 
 often stallions of all ages, and has taken the first 
 premium for best stallion roadster at the Frank- 
 
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 Hn County fair ever since he was six months old, 
 also took first premium in Miami Count}' in 1898. 
 This stallion is a brown roan, sixteen and one- 
 half hands high, and weighs one thousand and 
 one hundred pounds. Without doubt no finer 
 stallion has ever been brought to this section 
 His pedigree is as follows: Happy Heir, bred by 
 B. J. Tracy, of Lexington, Ky., sire of fifteen 
 stallions with fine records for speed; and Amor- 
 ette, registered in the great brood mare list; 
 Happy Heir sired by Happy Medium (sire of 
 Nancy Hanks) , dam Heiress; Happy Medium 
 sired by Hambletonian, sired by Abdallah, by 
 Mambrino. The pedigree is not only noted for 
 speed, but also for size, soundness, high breeding 
 and other valuable qualities. Among the other 
 horses owned by Mr. Avenarius are Sunshine 
 Wilkes by Favorite Wilkes; and Croppy P. , Reg. 
 No. 16364, which has a colt. Cannon Ball Me- 
 dium, sired by South Side Medium, and the fin- 
 est colt in the city. 
 
 Politically Mr. Avenarius is a Democrat and a 
 member of the county committee of his party. 
 He is connected with the Knights of Pythias. 
 Octobers, 1886, at Tescott, Kans., he married 
 Miss Anna B. Zaugg, who was born in Berne, 
 Switzerland, and accompanied a brother to Kan- 
 sas. She is a member of the Lutheran Church, 
 to which Mr. Avenarius contributes. They have 
 one child, Lena A. 
 
 (lACOB RODENHAUS, who has been identi- 
 I fied with the history of Kansas since 1856, was 
 C2/ born in Marburg, Kur-Hessen, Germany, 
 January 20, 1833, a son of John and Margarita 
 (Peters) Rodenhaus, also natives of Kur-Hessen. 
 His father, who was the son of a soldier in the 
 Napoleonic wars, engaged in farm pursuits in his 
 native place until he died. In the family there 
 were six children who attained years of maturity 
 and four of these are now living, one son being 
 in South Dakota. The subject of this sketch was 
 reared in Marburg and received his education in 
 a gymnasium. In 1852 he went to Liverpool, 
 where he embarked on a sailing vessel, and after 
 twenty-three days he arrived in New York. 
 
 Going to New Bremen, Ohio, he joined an uncle, 
 Mr. Metz, and afterward clerked in a general 
 .store there. In 1855 he went to Dayton, Ohio, 
 where he worked in a grocery for a year. 
 
 May, 1856, found Mr. Rodenhaus in Kansas, 
 desirous to do his part toward making it a free 
 state. From Kansas City he came to Leaven- 
 worth, thence went to the border counties and 
 spent six months trying to get hold of land, re- 
 turning to Ohio in the fall. The spring of 1857 
 found him again in Leavenworth, where he was 
 employed as a waiter in the Planters' hotel, kept 
 by McCarthy & McMecken, remaining in that 
 position until Smith & Rice bought the hotel. 
 He then went to the Osaukee land sale and bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres, which he sold seven 
 days afterward at a profit of $150. Then, in 
 company with a man from Iowa, he traveled by 
 team through Kansas, and in Andenson County, 
 near Greeley, took up one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land. In company with six men he lo- 
 cated claims and then sold them. Mount Gilead, 
 one-half mile from Greeley, was occupied by 
 General Blount. The men located claims around 
 Shannon City (now Garrett) and sold them at 
 good prices in the fall. Going to Lecompton in 
 the fall, Mr. Rodenhaus pre-empted his land with 
 a land warrant and engaged with Hoyt in selling 
 land warrants. Next returning to Leavenworth, 
 he stopped at the Mansion house, the headquar- 
 ters of General Lane, and whose proprietor was 
 a Mr. Perry, a radical Abolitionist. In 1858 he 
 voted at polls on the corner of Shawnee and 
 Main streets. This was the most exciting elec- 
 tion he ever experienced. The climax between 
 the free-state and pro-slavery parties had been 
 reached, and, to keep the peace, the town had 
 been placed under the protection of the military 
 from the fort. The election brought victory to 
 the free-state party, but did not end the disturb- 
 ances between the two factions, trouble contin- 
 uing until the war closed. During the existence 
 of the Union League Mr. Rodenhaus was one of 
 its members, under Colonel Clough. 
 
 About the time of purchasing one hundred and 
 twenty acres in Johnson County and one hundred 
 and sixty acres in Pottawatomie County, Mr. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Rodenhaus also opened a cigar store on Second 
 street, between Delaware and Shawnee, in Leav- 
 enworth. In 1859 and i860 he clerked in the 
 Leavenwortli house on Cherokee street, after 
 which he conducted a billiard hall on Delaware 
 street for two years. When the war broke out 
 he bought for $175 a tract of eighty acres of land, 
 near Olathe, from Captain Kimball, who raised 
 a company of volunteers with the money he re- 
 ceived; this property he afterward sold at a good 
 profit. In 1863 he occupied what afterward be- 
 came the county poor farm. In 1 864 he was pro- 
 prietor of a restaurant on Delaware street, be- 
 tween Second and Third. After nine months in 
 that business he started a store on the corner of 
 Lawrence street and Pennsylvania avenue, and 
 this, in 1874, he sold to Gus Schmeckel, who had 
 been his clerk for years. In 1871 he vi.sited his 
 relatives and friends in Germany, and in 1875 
 took a trip to California. For nine months in 
 1876 he engaged in the hide business, and in the 
 fall of 1877 he became interested in the pork-pack- 
 ing business with William Wettig. 
 
 At the time of the Dead wood excitement, in 
 1877, Mr. Rodenhaus shipped his pork to that 
 place, taking it by rail to Cheyenne (by way of 
 Denver), and thence by team three hundred and 
 twenty-five miles to Deadwood. From 1877 to 
 1885 he was in partner.ship with his brother in a 
 store, but in the latter year sold out to his brother 
 and started in the cattle business in South Da- 
 kota, having as partners Messrs. Herman, Lange, 
 Stein and Pryzbylowicz. At the same time he 
 engaged in raining and in buying and selling 
 farms and town property. Every year he spent 
 .several months in Deadwood. This trip he made 
 by stage from Cheyenne, Sidney and Fort Pierre, 
 and later, via railroad, over the Elkhorn and the 
 Burlington & Missouri. These long trips on 
 stage coaches were not only tedious, but even 
 dangerous, owing to the number of robbers who 
 laid in wait for the coaches. However, only once 
 was the coach in which Mr. Rodenhaus traveled 
 held up by road "agents." At that time there 
 were nine passengers, but the men had been 
 shrewd enough to bring with them only enough 
 money to pay for their meals, so the robbers se- 
 
 cured nothing from them. However, the only 
 lady passenger in the party had $250 which she 
 was bringing with her from California and this 
 money they secured. 
 
 The possessions of Mr. Rodenhaus include 
 farms in Delaware and High Prairie Townships, 
 residence property in Leavenworth, a .store build- 
 ing in Deadwood and a farm near that town, also 
 .stock in the Leavenworth Mutual Building & Loan 
 Association. He was also a stockholder in the Ger- 
 man Bank and the Plumraer Evaporating Com- 
 pany, which are now out of existence, and German 
 Building Verein Association. In Leavenworth 
 he married Miss Gertrude Feldhausen, who was 
 born in German}', and accompanied her parents 
 to America, settling first in Green Bay, Wis. 
 Their union has resulted in the birth of seven 
 children, viz.: Mrs. Minnie Sutorius, of Kansas 
 City, Mo.; Mrs. Annie Schmeckel, of Leaven- 
 worth; Jacob H., who is a conductor on the city 
 street railroad; Mrs. Lottie Mueller, of St. Louis, 
 Mo.; Mrs. Frances Sutorius, of Omaha; Mrs. 
 Etta Armstead, of Leavenworth; and Eugene, 
 now at school in St. Louis. • 
 
 In early life Mr. Rodenhaus was a Whig. 
 After he came to Kansas he was a free-state Re- 
 publican, and he is proud of the fact that he has 
 voted for every Republican presidential candidate 
 from the time he had a right to vote up to the 
 present time. From 1883 to 1894, with the ex- 
 ception of two years, he was city a.ssessor. In 
 1894, on the Republican ticket, he was elected 
 county commissioner for the second district, and 
 served from Jainiary, 1895, to January, 1898, be- 
 ing chairman of the committees and the most ac- 
 tive member of the board. At the same time he 
 was a commissioner of the poor for the city. He 
 is a director of the Sick Relief Society, financial 
 secretary and trustee of the Turn Verein, a past 
 grand officer in the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and for twenty years a member of the 
 volunteer fire company of Leavenworth, of which 
 he served during part of the time as secretary. In 
 the early days of his residence in the west he be- 
 longed to a militarj' company under Captain 
 Zesh, and was orderly sergeant, under Captain 
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 inarch against Price, he being assigned with Bat- 
 tery A and three cannons, to Shawneetown. His 
 long and intimate connection with the history of 
 Leavenworth entitles him to rank among its 
 foremost and honored pioneers, to whose self- 
 sacrificing efforts the present generation owes a 
 debt of gratitude that can never be paid. He 
 has proved himself a loyal citizen of his adopted 
 country, and is one of the most patriotic citizens 
 of the great commonwealth of Kansas. 
 
 J LI J. WHERRY, a farmer of Eudora Town- 
 ^ ship, Douglas County, residing at No. 1040 
 ^ Vermont street, Lawrence, was born in 
 Washington County, Pa., March i, 1844, a son 
 of James and Catherine (Patterson) Wherry, na- 
 tives of the same county. The Wherry family 
 originated in Wales, but several generations re- 
 sided in Switzerland, from which country one of 
 the name emigrated to America prior to the Rev- 
 olutionary war, becoming one of the earliest 
 settlers of Washington County. In the latter 
 county, John, a son of the emigrant, was born, 
 reared, married and engaged in farm pursuits 
 until his death. James, who was a son of John 
 Wherry, spent his entire life on a farm which was 
 one of the largest in the county and which he 
 successfully cultivated. During the existence of 
 the Whig party he supported its principles and 
 after its disintegration he became a Republican. 
 Though active in politics he never aspired to 
 office. His death occurred when he was seventy 
 years of age, and his wife passed away in 1894, at 
 the old homestead, where some of the family still 
 live. They were the parents of ten children, 
 eight of whom are still living. 
 
 The third son of the family was Eli J., the 
 subject of this sketch. He received such advan- 
 tages as common schools afforded. At the age 
 of twenty-one he came west to Kansas and set- 
 tled in Douglas County, first following the car- 
 penter's trade in Eudora. In 1867 he moved to 
 Johnson County and purchased a tract of land, 
 upon which he made his home for twenty years. 
 In 1887 he came to Lawrence in order that his 
 children might enjoy the splendid educational 
 
 advantages which this city aflfords. He still 
 owns two hundred and forty acres in Johnson 
 County, and one hundred and sixty-two acres in 
 Douglas County, and gives his attention closely 
 to the supervision of his properties and the rais- 
 ing of stock. At one time he was a Republican, 
 but now he is active in the Prohibition party and 
 works earnestly in behalf of the temperance cause. 
 During almost the entire period of his residence in 
 Kansas he has served as a member of the school 
 board. Besides his property in this state he is 
 the owner of real estate in Chillicothe, Mo. He 
 was one of the organizers of the Eudora Cream- 
 ery Company. Both he and his family are active 
 in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and he also contributes to other worthy move- 
 ments for the benefit of religion, education or 
 morality. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 December i, 1864, Mr. Wherry married Fran- 
 ces A., daughter of Henry Weaver, to whom 
 reference is made in the sketch of John F. 
 Weaver. Their union has been blessed by five 
 children, named as follows: Jennie, who is the 
 wife of Charles Jewett; Curtis A., a practicing 
 physician of Ogden, Utah; Stiles W., who is a 
 dental graduate and now practices his profession 
 in Ogden; Arthur C, a graduate of Lawrence 
 high school; and Linley P., the two last named 
 being still with their parents. 
 
 HON. JOHN H. HARRISON, probate judge 
 of Franklin County, was born near Ladoga, 
 Montgomery Countj', Ind., February 22, 
 1830, a son of Robert and Mary (Hammer) Har- 
 rison, natives of North Carolina. His paternal 
 grandfather, Abraham Harrison, was born in 
 North Carolina, of English descent, and be- 
 longed to a prominent Quaker family of the 
 south. The maternal grandfather, Isaac Ham- 
 mer, was also identifieti with the Society of 
 Friends in North Carolina and was a farmer by 
 occupation. 
 
 Near Guilford Courthouse, in Randolph Coun- 
 ty, N. C, Robert Harrison was born in 1786. At 
 twenty-one years of age he removed to Ohio and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 settled near Dayton, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing. Next he went to Indiana, where he culti- 
 vated a farm and also followed the cooper's trade. 
 When a young man he took part in the war of 
 1812. He was a Baptist in religious belief and a 
 man of philanthropic spirit and kind heart. He 
 died in 1839, and was long survived by his wife, 
 who passed away in 1875. They were the parents 
 of si.\ children, namely: Allen, who is living in 
 Montgomery County, Ind. ; Mrs. Elizabeth Bald- 
 win, who died in Indiana; Mrs. Cortney Hostet- 
 ter, who died in Indiana; Mrs. Sarah Brookshire, 
 who resides in that state; Robert, who died at 
 twentj' seven years; and John H. The last- 
 named was reared on the home farm, and at- 
 tended a subscription school held in a log build- 
 ing, with slab benches, puncheon floor, and a 
 writing desk that ran along the side of the wall. 
 It was in such a school as this that he taught for 
 a time. He po.sses.sed abilitj- as a mechanic and 
 early worked at that occupation, later devoting 
 himself especially to carpentering. It was his 
 custom to go into the woods, hew the timber, 
 haul it to the saw-mill, then take the lumber and 
 use it in the construction of bridges, barns, etc. 
 
 Coming to Kansas in 1869 Mr. Harrison bought 
 a farm five miles south of Wellsville, and the 
 next year he located his familj- there. For a 
 time he devoted himself exclusively to the culti- 
 vation of his farm of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, and in a few years he bought other farm 
 propertj'. After some time he resumed contract- 
 ing and building, and soon became known as an 
 expert in this business. On the People's partj- 
 ticket, in 1894, he was nominated for probate 
 judge, but was defeated by one hundred and fiftj- 
 votes. Two years later he was again the nomi- 
 nee of the Populists and fusion Democrats, and 
 this time he was elected by a majority of almost 
 four hundred. In 1898 he was again nominated 
 and elected, his term to expire Januarj-, 1901. 
 He has bought property in Ottawa, where he ex- 
 pects to make his permanent home. 
 
 In Indiana Miss Nancy Wilson, daughter of 
 Henry Wilson, became the wife of Mr. Harrison. 
 She was born in Kentucky and died in Indiana, 
 leaving six children, namely: Mrs. Lucj' Gregg, 
 
 of Kansas City; Mrs. Sarah Davis, of Wellsville, 
 Kans. ; Robert, who occupies the old home farm; 
 Allen, who is in Van Buren, Ark.; Oliver, a 
 contractor and builder in Wellsville; and Eva, 
 Mrs. Binford, of Kansas City. The second wife 
 of Mr. Harrison was Mrs. Martha E. Lamb, and 
 was born in Illinois, but at the time of their mar- 
 riage was living in Wellsville. 
 
 During his residence in Indiana Judge Harri- 
 son served as justice of the peace for four years. 
 For one term he was mayor of Wellsville, for 
 many years served as town clerk, member of the 
 school board and clerk of the same. In former 
 years he was very prominent in the Grange. In 
 1873 he was elected, on the Grange ticket, to the 
 state legislature and served for one term, during 
 which time he was a member of various commit- 
 tees and assisted in electing ex-Governor Harvey 
 to the United States senate. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. 
 
 ^EORGE E. McGILL, who has made his 
 |_ home in Leavenworth since 1865 and is one of 
 ^J the enterprising businessmen of this city, was 
 born near Toronto, Canada, July 11, 1840, a son 
 of John and Mary Ann (Learnad) McGill. His 
 paternal grandfather, George McGill, a jeweler 
 by trade, served for a time as sheriff of his native 
 town of Paisley, but during the weaver's rebel- 
 lion, in 1814, he emigrated to America, settling 
 in Canada and starting in the jewelry business 
 in Oshawa. Fraternally he was an active Mason. 
 He had several brothers who were officers in the 
 British army and all, upon retiring from the serv- 
 ice, settled in Canada, receiving grants to large 
 tracts of land that are still in possession of the 
 family. At the time the family crossed the ocean 
 John McGill was a child of six years, and he after- 
 ward made his home in Canada, where he fol- 
 lowed the carpenter's trade. His last years were 
 spent upon a farm and there he died at eighty- 
 three. His wife, who was also eighty-three at the 
 time of her death, was born in New Hamp.shire, 
 member of an old Revolutionary family. Six chil- 
 dren were born to their union, and all but one 
 are now living. 
 
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 When a youth of eighteen the subject of this 
 sketch began to teach school. In 1859 he went 
 to Boston, where he graduated from a commer- 
 cial college, and afterward for one year he studied 
 medicine in McGill University under his uncle. 
 Dr. William McGill. In 1863 he enlisted in the 
 One Hundred and Fourteenth Massachusetts In- 
 fantry, but was rejected. Two years later he 
 came to Leavenworth, where he engaged in the 
 practice of medicine for three years, and after- 
 ward traveled for a Leavenworth firm, later being 
 commercial traveler for H. W. King & Co., of 
 Chicago. He traveled for various firms for fif- 
 teen years, his territory comprising Kansas, west- 
 ern Missouri and southern Nebraska. In 1886 
 he retired from the road and began to raise Jer- 
 sey cattle, also engaged in the breeding of road- 
 sters. He has since given considerable attention 
 to this business, and has bred some Wilkes and 
 Hambletonian standards which have been sold at 
 high prices. He now has a dairy, with nearly 
 forty milch cows, and also owns a number of fine 
 horses, with good records. His farm of seven 
 acres is situated in the city, on Limit and Maple 
 avenue, and he also rents land adjoining. In the 
 fall of 1897 he became interested in the improve- 
 ment of real estate, and, with Mr. Jameson, has 
 since had charge of all the additions to the town. 
 His office is at No. 1 16 South Fifth street. 
 
 Politically a Republican, on this ticket Mr. 
 McGill was elected to the city council from the 
 sixth ward and served for one term. During that 
 time he was a member of the committees on 
 streets and grades, and fire department, also 
 chairman of the committee on public improve- 
 ments, and private secretary to Mayor Hook. 
 
 In Leavenworth occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 McGill to Miss Mary E. Riley, who was born in 
 Springfield, 111., and came to Kansas during ter- 
 ritorial days. Two sons were born to the union 
 of Mr. and Mrs. McGill. The older, John Frank- 
 lin McGill, M. D., is a graduate of the Kansas 
 City Medical College, class of 1888, and is en- 
 gaged in practice at Galena, Kans. The younger 
 son, D. Wallace McGill, is a graduate of the 
 Kansas Conservatory of Music, in which he is 
 now professor of musical composition and theory, 
 
 also instructor in psychology. He is also a grad- 
 uate of the Blind Institute at Kansas City. For 
 the last three years he has been recording secre- 
 tary of the National Association for the Higher 
 Education of the Blind. Possessing a gifted mind, 
 broadened by study and observation, he is a 
 young man of prominence, whose prospects for 
 the future are the brightest. As a public lectur- 
 er his services have been in demand in various 
 parts of the state. 
 
 (JOHNM. CONARD, an enterprising stock- 
 I man of Hayes Township, Franklin County, 
 O was born in La Salle County, 111., January 
 24,1867. His father, William Conard, a native 
 of Ohio, was taken to Illinois at the age of two 
 years, and was reared and educated there. En- 
 tering active life as a stock-raiser, he soon met 
 with gratifying success in this industry, and also 
 engaged in selling and shipping stock as well. 
 For some years he has been to a large degree re- 
 tired from active labors. He is an influential 
 citizen of La Salle County, where he is living in 
 quiet retirement from the busy cares of life. In 
 political matters he formerly advocated Republi- 
 can principles, but in more recent years he has 
 been in sympathy with Democratic principles in 
 national issues. Frequently he has been selected 
 to serve in local offices of trust, among his most 
 important positions being that of county com- 
 missioner, which he filled for many terms. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he was a stanch patriot. In 
 1862 he enlisted in an Illinois infantry regiment, 
 in which he continued until the close of the war. 
 Twice, during engagements, he was wounded, 
 but neither time seriously. By his marriage to 
 Sarah Dominy he had five children, of whom 
 John is the eldest and the only one in Kansas. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 grammar and high schools and the college at 
 Streator, 111. Until twenty-one years of age he 
 was with his father in the stock business, after 
 which he came to Kansas. With his father as 
 partner he bought eight hundred and fifty acres, 
 partly in Hayes and partly in Ottawa Townships, 
 Franklin County. At the time of settling here 
 he gave his attention] wholly to raising farm pro- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 duce, but later he became interested in the stock 
 business. In 1890 he bought his father's inter- 
 est in the property and has since been sole owner 
 and proprietor. In 1893 he leased the farm 
 and moved to Ottawa, where he lived for six 
 years. In 1899 he erected on his farm a resi- 
 dence of pressed brick and frame, 58x36, which, 
 with its stained shingle trimmings and fine interior 
 equipments, is one of the finest farm houses in 
 eastern Kansas. It is presided over with grace- 
 ful dignity by his wife, Esther A., daughter of 
 Albert C. Shinn, a lady of education, whose po- 
 sition in social circles is the highest. Thej' were 
 married January 21, 1891, and are the parents of 
 a daughter, Alberta B. 
 
 While Mr. Conard has never cared to identify 
 himself with public afFairs, he is well informed 
 concerning all subjects brought before the people 
 to be solved and in his sympathies is a strong 
 Democrat. 
 
 'HOMAS W. HARRISON, a veteran of the 
 Civil war, came to Kansas in 1866 and pur- 
 chased his present farm in Harrison Town- 
 ship, Franklin County, since which time he has 
 given his attention to transforming its one hundred 
 and sixty acres from raw prairie to a well-im- 
 proved estate. For some years he has filled the 
 ofl5ce of township trustee and he has also served 
 as a school director. He is a charter member of 
 the Grange in his township and takes a warm 
 interest in all matters pertaining to the stock 
 interests of his locality. 
 
 A son of Wilson L. and Mary (Goodbar) Har- 
 rison, our subject was born in Porter County, 
 Ind., March 31, 1844. His father, a native of 
 Shelby County, Ky., moved to Indiana in 1828, 
 settling first in Montgomery County and after- 
 ward following the tanner's trade in different 
 parts of the state, being for several years in Rus- 
 sellville, Putnam County. In 1866 he came to 
 Kansas and settled on the Ottawa Indian reser- 
 vation, purchasing land south of Ottawa, where 
 he followed farm pursuits during the remainder 
 of his life. In 1871, with another gentleman, 
 he petitioned the board of county commissioners 
 
 to divide the Ottawa reservation and organize the 
 southern half in a new township. The division 
 was finally made and the township was named 
 Harrison in his honor. He held several local 
 offices, such as trustee and member of the school 
 board. His death occurred in 1893, when he was 
 eighty-one years of age. 
 
 Joshua Harrison, our subject's grandfather, 
 moved from Shelby County, Ky., to Montgomery 
 County, Ind., in 1828, and there he spent the bal- 
 ance of his life. He was an early settler of the 
 county, among whose farmers he occupied a high 
 position. During the war of 1812 he enlisted in 
 the army and was a.ssigned to service on the fron- 
 tier. He died when ninety-three years of age. 
 The family of which lie was a member was rep- 
 resented among the pioneers of Kentucky and its 
 members were people of unusual abilitj^ and in- 
 telligence. He was an own cousin of Gen. 
 William Henry Harrison. 
 
 The mother of our subject was born near 
 Wheeling, in Hancock County, W. Va., and was 
 a daughter of John Goodbar, a Virginian, who 
 moved to Kentucky and thence to Montgomery 
 County, Ind., dying in the latter place at ninety- 
 one years of age. His daughter, Mrs. Harrison, 
 passed away in 1885, when seventy-five years of 
 age. Of her children, Sarah R. is the wife of 
 Thomas Scott, of Franklin County; Nancy P. is 
 deceased; Marj' C. died in 1895; and John N. lives 
 in Ottawa. Our subject, who was fourth among 
 the five children, was reared in Indiana, but has 
 made his home in Kansas since early manhood. 
 In i86i he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-fifth 
 Indiana Infantry, and took part in the battle 
 of Richmond, Ky. At the expiration of three 
 months he was honorably discharged. In 1863 
 he again enlisted, becoming a member of Company 
 K, Thirty-ninth Indiana Infantry, which was af- 
 terward mounted and became the Eighth Indiana 
 Cavalry. He served until the close of the war, 
 when he was mustered out as corporal. During 
 his term of service he took part in thirty-five en- 
 gagements, but was never wounded nor taken 
 prisoner. He accompanied General Sherman on 
 his famous march to the sea. In his possession 
 he has a piece of the table on which the terms of 
 
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 675 
 
 surrender between Johnston and Sherman were 
 written. He is now a member of George H. 
 Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R., in Ottawa. 
 
 October 5, 1876, Mr. Harrison married Miss 
 Lillias Perkins, daughter of Elijah Perkins, a 
 pioneer of Ottawa. By their marriage they have 
 two children: Bertha Bernice and Bruce Magill. 
 
 (Judge JAMES F. legate, a pioneer of 
 I Kansas, now living retired in Leavenworth, 
 G/ was born in Leominster, Mass., November 
 23, 1828, a son of William M. and Nancy (Had- 
 ley) Legate. The family of which he is a mem- 
 ber has been identified with American history 
 since 1659, and eight geneiations in succession 
 have occupied the homestead where our subject 
 was born. His father, who was born in the same 
 house as himself, followed a seafaring life for 
 twenty-seven years, and made his home in Mas- 
 sachusetts, where his death occurred at the age 
 of seventy-eight. During the war of 1S12 he 
 served as commander of a vessel in the naval 
 service. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, Thomas Leg- 
 ate, who served in the Revolutionary war as 
 a captain, was a son of Thomas Legate, Sr. , who 
 was a colonel in the same regiment. The father 
 of Col. Thomas Legate bore the same name as 
 himself and was a soldier in the early Indian 
 wars. The latter's father, Thomas, was born in 
 what is now Boston, and was a son of the founder 
 of the family in America, Thomas Legate (ist), 
 a native of England, and the third among the 
 four sons of Lord Hardcastle. During his serv- 
 ice as a captain in the navy he came to Boston 
 in charge of a small squadron. Again.st the 
 wishes of his family he married a French girl, 
 and for this was disinherited; but in 1659 the 
 family relented and obtained for him a grant of 
 land in Massachusetts. 
 
 In the family of William M. Legate there were 
 eleven children, eight of whom are living, the 
 eldest being eighty-five and the youngest sixty- 
 
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 two. William M. is still living in the Massachu- 
 setts town where he was born and is in good health 
 in spite of advanced years; Caroline, Mrs. James 
 W. French, died at thirty-nine years; Clar- 
 inda died when sixty-five years of age; Laura, 
 the widow of Thomas Fisher, of Hartford, has 
 four children, of whom one son is a preacher in 
 Dakota; Franklin resides on the old homestead ; 
 Walter was twenty-two at the time of his death; 
 James F. was seventh in order of birth; Sidney 
 resides in Michigan; Almira died at twenty-two 
 years; Sarah is living in the east; and Francena 
 is the wife of Andrew Smith, of Stratham, N. H. 
 The mother of this family died at seventy-eight 
 years. 
 
 When a boy Judge Legate received excellent 
 public-school and academic advantages. Going 
 to Lowell, Mass., he studied law with Ben Butler 
 for sixteen months, and then went to Olive Branch, 
 Miss., to assist a cousin in his private sqhool. 
 During the eight months he remained in this po- 
 sition he made the acquaintance of Judge Miller, 
 with whom he finished his law studies. He was 
 admitted to the bar under Judge Smith, in Mis- 
 sissippi, in 1848, and practiced law with Judge 
 Miller until 1854, when he came to Kansas, ar- 
 riving in Fort Leavenworth on the 5th of July. 
 During his residence in Mississippi, in 1852, he 
 canvassed the state in the noted gubernatorial 
 campaign where Messrs. Foote and Davis were 
 candidates, espousing the cause of Foote. At 
 the session of the legislature in 1853 Judge Leg- 
 ate made a speech in the caucus of the legislature 
 favoring the return of Jefferson Davis to the 
 United States senate, and thereby gained the 
 friendship of Mr. Davis. Aftercoming to Kansas 
 he spent two months in Lawrence, and then 
 went to Washington, D. C, where he again met 
 Mr. Davis. On his return to Lawrence he de- 
 clared himself a Democrat, but opposed to slavery 
 in Kansas. In 1856 he became identified with the 
 Free State party; this was merged, in 1859, into the 
 Republican party, with which during later years 
 he was actively and prominently connected. In 
 fact, for many years the history of his life and of 
 the party in Kansas was almost one and the same. 
 
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 Recognizing his fitness for public service the 
 fellow-citizens of Judge Legate frequently chose 
 him to represent them in offices of trust. He 
 was a member of the first legislature and has 
 since served seventeen terms as representative of 
 this district, either in the house or the senate. He 
 was appointed bj- President Lincoln United States 
 assessor of internal revenue, for the district of 
 Kansas, in 1862. In 1872 he was appointed 
 governor of Wa.shington Territory by President 
 Grant, but owing to the collapse of Senator 
 Pomeroy he never went there. From 1868 to 
 1872 he was superintendent of the mail depart- 
 ment in Kansas, Nebraska, Indian Territory-, New 
 Mexico and Colorado. During both the terri- 
 torial and state historj' of Kansas, up to and in- 
 cluding 1884, he was a member of every state 
 convention of his party, and took a prominent 
 part in all. At the close of President Arthur's 
 term of office, in 1884, he was made a receiver of 
 the land office in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and or- 
 ganized the -same, remaining there for three years. 
 In 1889 he was returned to the legislature, where 
 his services in behalf of his constituents were of 
 the greatest value. Being at variance with the 
 Republican candidate for governor in 1894, he 
 declared himself for Llewellen, the Populist can- 
 didate, in whose interest he made eighty-four 
 campaign speeches, assisting materially in secur- 
 ing his election. Since then he has been less act- 
 ive in politics than during former years. How- 
 ever, he has continued to be interested in public 
 affairs, and assists in enterprises of undoubted 
 public value. His long and close connection 
 with politics has made his name one of the best 
 known in Kansas and he has ranked among the 
 leading politicians in the state. 
 
 Since 1863 Judge Legate has made Leaven- 
 worth his home. He married Miss Jane Phillips, 
 who was born in Keene, N. H. They have three 
 children now living, namely: Nellie; Gertrude, 
 wife of Albert H. Fuller; and Harry, who is 
 storekeeper at the Federal prison. Fraternally 
 Judge Legate is a member of Leavenworth Lodge 
 No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and Leavenworth Chap- 
 ter No. 2, R. A. M. Mrs. Legate is a member of 
 the Congregational Church. 
 
 EAPT. THOMAS GETCHELL, deceased, 
 formerly one of the best- known citizens of 
 Williamsburg, Franklin County, was born 
 in Wolfboro, N. H., in 1831. The years of boy- 
 hood he passed in his native county of Carroll. 
 At the age of seventeen he went to Buffalo, N. Y., 
 where he secured employment at the cooper's 
 trade. From there he went to Hartstown, Pa., 
 where he was similarly employed. He remained 
 in the latter city until 1876, when he came to 
 Kansas and opened a lumber yard in Princeton. 
 During the eight years of his residence in that 
 place he built up a good trade and became known 
 as a reliable business man. 
 
 Selling out in 1885, Mr. Getchell left Prince- 
 ton and established his home in Williamsburg, 
 where he opened a dry-goods store. Two years 
 later he disposed of his stock of goods and pur- 
 chased the lumber business of S. A. Brown & Co. 
 From that time until his death he carried on a 
 lumber trade, furnishing building material of 
 all kinds, and becoming known as a reliable, 
 honest and upright man. While he was a stanch 
 Republican and a worker for his party, he would 
 never accept official positions, although always 
 willing to assist his friends who were candidates. 
 At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted 
 as first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fif- 
 tieth Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, and 
 soon afterward he was promoted to the rank of 
 captain. His company was selected to serve as 
 a body guard to President Lincoln in Washing- 
 ton and in this way the captain became a warm 
 personal friend of the president, who.se assassina- 
 tion he witnessed. He became a member of the 
 Grand Army Post in Princeton and served as its 
 treasurer. 
 
 In 1865 Captain Getchell married Lottie R. 
 Swift, who was born in New York and reared in 
 Penn.sylvania. Tliej- became the parents of one 
 son now living, Martin F., who is his father's 
 successor in the lumber business at Williams- 
 burg. Captain Getchell was a man whose hon- 
 esty and uprightness commanded the respect of 
 all. Fearless of public opinion, he always pur- 
 sued the course he believed to be just and right. 
 He was a man of public spirit and favored meas- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ures for the public good. He was recognized as 
 a good citizen and an exemplary man in everj' 
 respect both in business and private life. In all 
 of his work he was aided by his wife, whose coun- 
 sel and sympathy were of the greatest assistance 
 to him. During the last three years of his life 
 his health gradually and steadil}' failed. He vis- 
 ited Hot Springs, Ark., hoping to be benefited 
 b)' the waters there, but found no relief, and re- 
 turned to his Kansas home, where he died, Nov- 
 ember 19, 1893, after sixty-two useful years. 
 
 HERMAN SEIDEL, who has resided in 
 Leavenworth since boyhood, was born in 
 Nuremberg, Germany, November 10, 1864, 
 a son of August C. and Margaret (Vogel) Seidel, 
 both natives of Germany. His father, a black- 
 smith by trade, brought his famil}' to America in 
 1869 and settled in Leavenworth, where he has 
 since been employed at his trade. Of his family 
 of eight children six are now living, Herman be- 
 ing the oldest of all. He was five and one-half 
 years of age when the family embarked on a sail- 
 ing vessel at Bremen and started for the new 
 world. The voyage lasted for eight weeks, and 
 finally, when the harbor was almost reached and 
 the passengers were congratulating themselves 
 that soon they would be on land, smallpox broke 
 out, and for eight more weeks the ship was forced 
 to remain in quarantine. Leaving Bremen in 
 May, it was on the loth of September when the 
 ship cast anchor at Castle Garden, New York, for 
 the debarkation of the passengers. 
 
 At eleven years of age Herman Seidel was ap- 
 prenticed to the butcher's trade in Leavenworth. 
 He was with one man for two years and with an- 
 other for two and one-half years, after which he 
 was employed by Edward and Herman Bloch- 
 berger for five years altogether. In this way he 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the meat busi- 
 ness. In the summer of 1886 he began in busi- 
 ness for himself, opening a market at No. 800 
 South Seventh street, which is an excellent loca- 
 tion, and there he has since built up a large trade. 
 His business is exclu.sively retail, and extends 
 throughout his part of the city. In addition to 
 
 his business property he built and owns his resi- 
 dence at No. 106 Fifth avenue, and is al.so a 
 stockholder in the Citizens' Mutual Building and 
 Loan Association. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Seidel is a Republican. 
 He was made a Mason in King Solomon Lodge 
 No. 10, of which he is still a member; and is also 
 connected with Leavenworth Chapter No. 2, 
 R. A. M.; also the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, Modern Woodmen of America, and 
 the Fraternal Aid Association. His marriage, 
 November 24, 1884, in Leavenworth, united him 
 with Miss Mathilda Kinsla, who was born in this 
 city. Mrs. Seidel is a daughter of August 
 Kinsla, who was one of the pioneers in the meat 
 business in Leavenworth, and during the Civil 
 war served in the Second Kansas Mounted In- 
 fantry. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Seidel 
 are named Herman, Jr., and Lizzie, of whom 
 the latter died April 3, 1899. 
 
 ^JEORGE W. HAMBLIN, deceased, formerly 
 _ one of Ottawa's most enterprising citizens, 
 J was born inSuffield, Conn., March 17, 1842, 
 a son of Peter and Cornelia (Cole) Hamblin and 
 on both sides of the house traced his lineage to Hol- 
 land. His maternal grandmother, who bore the 
 maiden name of Maria Bogardus, was a descendant 
 of Anneka Jans. His father, who was born in 
 Catskill, N. Y. , resided for some years inSuffield, 
 Conn., thence removed to Toledo, Ohio, where 
 he engaged in the manufacture of cigars, and in 
 1 87 1 settled in Kansas. He died in Ottawa in 
 1896, when eighty years of age. His wife, who 
 was a daughter of a minister in the Dutch Re- 
 formed Church, died in Toledo, Ohio, in January, 
 1899, aged eighty years. They are the parents 
 of five children, two of whom are living. George 
 W., who was next to the youngest in the family, 
 was reared in Toledo and attended the public 
 schools in that city. In 1856 he accompanied his 
 father to the Lake Superior region. His father 
 soon went back to Toledo, but he remained in the 
 north, and took charge of a book store in the cop- 
 per mining district, at Negaunee, Mich. He was 
 large for his age, with the appearance and build 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of a man of mature years. When only eighteen 
 he was appointed postmaster, and held the office 
 for some time, it not being known that he was 
 under legal age. From Michigan he went to 
 Indiana, thence to Stryker, Ohio, where he en- 
 gaged in the dry-goods business and acted as 
 postmaster. 
 
 The year 1869 found Mr. Hamblin starting in 
 the real estate business in the new town of Otta- 
 wa. He laid out Hamblin's college and factory 
 additions, also Hamblin and Walton's addition in 
 the .southeastern part of the town, and was instru- 
 mental in the building up of the north side. He 
 bought the old hotel property on the c6rner of 
 Second and Main streets and remodeled the build- 
 ing, which was opened as the Hamblin house 
 and continued for years to be the leading hotel in 
 the city. Many residences were erected by him 
 personally, some of them being among the be.st in 
 the city. He built the Masonic Temple, contain- 
 ing the People's National Bank, which was one 
 of the first large business blocks in the city. He 
 has owned more pieces of property and put up 
 more buildings by far than any other man in Ot- 
 tawa, and a history of its material growth would 
 contain much of his own life record. Being ener- 
 getic and full of life, he carried forward his projects 
 with enthusiasm and was always active, pu.shing 
 and progressive. Nor did his activitj- abate in the 
 least until his fatal illness, which ended in his 
 death, September 26, 1882. In political belief he 
 was a Republican an<l fraternally a Mason, but he 
 was not identified closely with either politics or 
 fraternal organizations, preferring to devote him- 
 self wholly to private enterprises. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hamblin took place in 
 Stryker, Ohio, in 1868, and united him with Miss 
 Amelia L. vSolier, who was born in New York 
 City, and by whom he had four children, namely: 
 Fred Burroughs, a traveling salesman; Cornelia 
 Bogardus, a graduate of the Ottawa high school; 
 Richard, and Marguerite, also a high school 
 graduate. The family are identified with the 
 Congregational Church. Francis Sober, father of 
 Mrs. Hamblin, was born in Auvergne, France, 
 and in early manhood came to the United States, 
 for a time working as a saw- filer in New York 
 
 City. He was an early settler at Lockport, on the 
 Tiffin River in Ohio, where he bought and 
 operated a saw-mill. Afterward he engaged in 
 the mercantile business in Stryker, where he died 
 in 1868. He married Catherine C. Barbier, a 
 native of Valentigny, France, and daughter of 
 Pierre Barbier, whose farm lay on the banks of the 
 Doubs. Mr. and Mrs. Solier were the parents of 
 four sons and two daughters, of whom two .sons 
 are deceased. Both of the daughters, Mrs. 
 Hamblin and Mrs. Fred Waddle, reside in Ottawa. 
 
 pQlLSON McELHENY, superintendent of 
 \ A / the Leavenworth Construction Company, 
 V V oi Lawrence, came to Kansas in the fall of 
 1859 and had many interesting experiences during 
 the early days of his residence in the west. He was 
 born eleven miles north of Logansport, in Fulton 
 County, Ind., April 24, 1840,3 descendant of a 
 Scotchman who settled in Pennsylvania. His 
 grandfather represented the first generation born 
 in America. He moved from Pennsylvania to 
 Ohio, settling near Dayton, where he spent his 
 remaining years. The father, Moses McElheny, 
 was a native of Lancaster County, Pa., and set- 
 tled on a large farm in Indiana, where he cleared 
 two hundred acres of land. On selling that place 
 he moved to Fletcher's Lake and finally estab- 
 lished his home on the old Michigan plank road, 
 where he died. ' He was a man of upright char- 
 acter and a Presbyterian in religious belief. He 
 married Amelia King, who was born in Ohio and 
 died in Indiana in 1845. Of their union seven 
 children were born, four of whom are living, 
 Wilson being next to the youngest. Two of the 
 sons, Robert and Samuel, enlisted in an Illinois 
 regiment during the Civil war and were killed in 
 battle. 
 
 In 1854 our subject went to western Indiana, 
 where he worked on a farm. Two years later he 
 removed to Illinois, securing employment on a 
 farm near Pekin. With another young man, in 
 1859 he started on horseback for Kansas and ar- 
 rived in Leavenworth a month later. He secured 
 work as stage driver for the Missouri Stage Com- 
 pany, driving between Leavenworth and Kansas 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 679 
 
 Citj', and later making a trip to Pueblo. In 
 1862 he entered the employ of the Kansas Stage 
 Company between Leavenworth and Topeka. 
 After having been with them for five years he 
 became an employe of the Southern Kansas 
 Stage Company (Parker & Tisdale), for whom 
 he drove six months and was then made super- 
 intendent of the eastern division of tire company, 
 with headquarters in Ottawa. For thirty years 
 he was with this company, and during that time 
 started and operated a street-car line in Law- 
 rence. From 1S78 to 1882 he was in Texas 
 in charge of the company's stock, then moved 
 the herd to New Mexico, between Socorro and 
 Whiteoaks and Socorro and Fort Stanton. As 
 the railroad encroached he moved further out. 
 From New Mexico, after six months, he went to 
 Lyon County, Kans. , and settled on a farm that 
 he owned, where he engaged in farming for sev- 
 eral years. At that time Mr. Tisdale wrote ask- 
 ing him to take charge of the omnibus business 
 at Wellington. He went there and spent two 
 years in straightening affairs, after which he took 
 charge of the business at Arkansas City, re- 
 maining there for eighteen months. In October, 
 1888, he came to Lawrence to take charge of the 
 street-car line here, acting as manager of the 
 same until the road passed into the hands of 
 a receiver, in August, 1896. He continued with 
 the receiver for a time, after which he accepted a 
 position with the Douglas County Land Invest- 
 ment Company. He is still, however, manager 
 of the omnibus and street railway lines in Law- 
 rence. 
 
 In Ozawkie, Jefferson County, Kans., Mr. 
 McElheny married Miss Mary Morgan, daugh- 
 ter of Roland Morgan, a farmer of that county. 
 She died in Humboldt, Kans. , leaving one son, 
 George A., a grocer of Humboldt. By the sec- 
 ond marriage of Mr. McElheny, which united 
 him with Miss Ellen Gardner, a native of Ire- 
 land, he has two daughters, Minnie Ellen and 
 Ida May. 
 
 During the Price raid Mr. McElheny was a 
 member of the Third Kansas Militia that was 
 ordered to assist in driving the Confederate gen- 
 eral out of Kansas. He is a member of Lawrence 
 
 Lodge No. 6, and was master of Medina Lodge 
 No. 252, of Castroville, Tex. He belongs to the 
 Royal Arch chapter in San Antonio, Tex., where 
 he also joined San Antonio Commandery No. 7, 
 K. T., in 1 881; he was demitted from the Texas 
 Commandery to the Arkansas City Commandery 
 No. 30, of which he was a charter member. 
 From it he was demitted to DeMolay Com- 
 mandery No. 4, of which he was prelate for two 
 years, and from which he is now demitted. He 
 is connected with the Knights of Pythias, Fra- 
 ternal Aid Association and Modern Woodmen. 
 With his wife he belongs to the Eastern Star, 
 they being charter members of the order at Con- 
 way Springs, where he was one of the officials. 
 In religion he is a spiritualist, and his wife an 
 Episcopalian. Politically he votes the Demo- 
 cratic ticket. 
 
 GlUGUST L. KRIPP. One of the well-known 
 LJ business houses of Leavenworth is situated 
 / I at the corner of Pennsylvania street and 
 Tenth avenue, and is owned and operated bj' Mr. 
 Kripp, who is a man of business ability, qualified 
 to conduct intelligently and successfully an im- 
 portant enterprise such as this. In January, 1893, 
 he started in the grocery business, renting a store 
 building a block from his present site. The next 
 year he built his present store building and resi- 
 dence on Pennsylvania street and Tenth avenue, 
 and has since built the two-story frame residence 
 adjoining the store. In his store he carries a full 
 line of staple and fancy groceries, besides flour, 
 feed and hay. 
 
 In Galena, Jo Daviess County, 111., Mr. Kripp 
 was born August i, 1862. His father, B. H. 
 Kripp, was a native of Germany, where he was 
 reared and educated, and learned the stone-ma- 
 son's trade. Upon coming to the United States 
 he settled in Galena, where he followed his trade 
 until his death, in 1877. He married Canada 
 Saner, who was born in Germany, and died in 
 Clay Center, Kans., in 1889. Of their six chil- 
 dren the youngest was the subject of this sketch. 
 He was educated in common schools and the nor- 
 mal school at Galena. After traveling for a jear 
 with his brother-in-law, Mr. Buche, he settled in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Clay Center, Kans. In iS8i he went to Topeka 
 and secured employment in the bridge and civil 
 engineering department of the Santa Fe Railroad, 
 covering the territory from Kansas City to Las 
 Vegas. For three years he remained with the 
 company, after which he came to Leavenworth, 
 and was employed in the painting department of 
 William G. Hesse & Sons, continuing with them 
 until he started in business for himself. 
 
 The Democratic party received the allegiance 
 of Mr. Kripp. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Degree of Honor. He was married May i8, 
 1 88 1, at Clay Center, Kans., to Alice Morton, 
 who was born near Kirksville, Mo. Her father, 
 P. W. Morton, a native of Kentucky, was a 
 member of the family to which belongs Levi P. 
 Morton. He was engaged in farming in Missouri 
 and held a position of prominence as a citizen. 
 For sixteen years he filled the of^ce of justice of 
 the peace. In 1879 he removed to Clay Center, 
 from there to Topeka, thence to Lawrence, and 
 in 1887 settled in Leavenworth, where he has 
 been employed as a contracting stone-mason. He 
 is now seventy years of age. He married Harri- 
 ett Roberson, who was born in Iowa, and died in 
 Kansas in 1888. They were the parents of twelve 
 children, all of whom are still living. Mrs. 
 Kripp received excellent educational advantages. 
 She is a graduate of the State Normal School in 
 Kirksville, Mo., and at one time was engaged in 
 educational work. In religion .she is identified 
 with the Presbyterian Church, which Mr. Kripp 
 also attends and assists in supporting. 
 
 ""DWIN D. F. PHILLIPS, M.D., a leading 
 ^ physician of Lawrence, is a lineal descend- 
 ^ ant of Capt. Josiah Phillips, an officer in 
 the Revolution and a planter in North Carolina, 
 whither the family had migrated from England. 
 The captain's son, Absalom, who was a planter 
 in the same state, removed from there to Martins- 
 ville, Morgan County, Iiid., where he improved 
 a tract of wild land and died at the age of seven- 
 ty-eight. He married a Miss Thomas, whose 
 parents settled in Virginia when she was a girl. 
 
 but later removed to North Carolina. Their son, 
 Rev. J. S. Phillips, a native of North Carolina, 
 was in the Methodist ministry all through his 
 active life, but gave his services gratuitously, 
 supporting his family by the cultivation of his 
 farm. Some years ago he retired, and now, at 
 eighty-four years of age, is making his home 
 with his son, Isaac Q. He married Sarah Ed- 
 wards, who was born in Chatham County, N. C, 
 a daughter of Nathan and Nancj- (Dickinson) 
 Edwards, natives respectivel}' of Ireland and 
 Scotland. Her grandfather, Noah Edwards, who 
 was born in the north of Ireland, settled with his 
 family in North Carolina, where he cultivated a 
 plantation. He was of Scotch descent, and in 
 religion adhered to Presbyterian doctrines. His 
 son, Nathan, removed to Indiana in early days 
 and improved a farm there. Mrs. Sarah Phillips 
 died in 1895, at the age of eighty-one years. Of 
 her six children four sons are living, Edwin D. F. 
 being the oldest. John M., a graduate of' a 
 Kan.sas City medical college, is a practicing phy- 
 sician in Linwood, Kans.; Charles W., who wasa 
 lieutenant in the Civil war, is engaged in farming 
 in Leavenworth County; and Isaac Q. resides in 
 Douglas County. 
 
 Dr. Phillips was born in Martinsville, Morgan 
 County, Ind., August 7, 1841. In 1846 he was 
 taken by his parents to Waverly, the same coun- 
 ty, and from there, in 1S49, to Richland, Keokuk 
 County, Iowa, but after a year his father brought 
 the family back to Indiana and purchased a farm 
 in Hamilton County. In 1870 he came to Kan- 
 sas and bought a farm in Tonganoxie Town.ship, 
 Leavenworth County, but after five years re- 
 turned to Indiana. The education of our subject 
 was acquired principally in the Union high school 
 at Westfield, Ind., where he graduated in 1859. 
 The two following years he devoted to the study 
 of medicine. October 25, 1861, he enlisted in 
 Company H, Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry. 
 Two months later he was made hospital steward 
 of the regiment and continued as such until 1862, 
 when he was detached for similar work at a hos- 
 pital in Gallatin, Tenn. In the fall of 1863 he 
 joined his regiment and was present during the 
 last day at Chickamauga. In the battle of Mis- 
 
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 sionary Ridge he took a sick man's gun and 
 fought until its close. Afterward he was de- 
 tached as clerk in the office of the adjutant- gen- 
 eral of the second division, fourth corps, with 
 which he remained until February, 1865, when 
 he was mustered out at Huntsville, Ala. , after 
 three years and three months of service. 
 
 Upon leaving the army Dr. Phillips spent two 
 years in academic study in Indiana and he then 
 began to teach school. In the spring of 1869 he 
 went to Holden, Mo., and bought a drug store, 
 which he conducted until 1870. He then moved 
 the stock of drugs to Tonganoxie, Kans., where 
 he continued in the business until 1874, mean- 
 time carrying on the study of medicine. In 1874 
 he entered the Kansas City Medical College, 
 from which he graduated in 1876, with the de- 
 gree of M. D. Afterward he engaged in prac- 
 tice in Tonganoxie until 1879, when he came to 
 Lawrence, and here he has since engaged in gen- 
 eral practice, making a specialty of gynecology. 
 He is serving his seventeenth year as a member 
 of the board of education, of which he has been 
 president two different terms; he was chairman of 
 the building committee that erected the high 
 school, also aided in superintending the erection 
 of several grammar schools. When he first be- 
 came identified with the school board, in 1880, 
 there were sixty-five pupils in the high school 
 and three teachers; now there are four hundred 
 students and eleven teachers. He is now presi- 
 dent of the board for the third time. For three 
 years he was chairman of the committee on teach- 
 ers and teachers' salaries. Under President Har- 
 rison, and now under President McKinley, he 
 has served as president of the United States 
 board of pension examiners. For eleven years 
 he was local surgeon for the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road. He has been a member of the Interna- 
 tional Association of Railway Surgeons, has 
 served as vice-president of the Eastern District 
 Medical Association, and is also associated with 
 the State and Douglas County Medical Associa- 
 tions. For seven years he held office as county 
 physician. He is a member of Washington Post 
 No. 12, G. A. R. In religion he is a Methodist. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Phillips, in Peru, Ind., 
 
 united him with Miss Augusta E. Flagg, who 
 was born in New Waverly, Ind., and received 
 her education in Fort Wayne. They have four 
 children. The eldest, Carl, a graduate of the 
 University of Kansas, 1892, with the degree of 
 Ph. G., was for some time hospital steward in 
 the United States hospital at Fort Leavenworth, 
 and is now a student in the Kansas City Medi- 
 cal College. Mrs. Lola M. Russell, the older 
 daughter, is a university graduate and now lives 
 in Jefferson County. Mrs. Ethel Harding re- 
 sides in Kansas City, where her husband is con- 
 nected with the Carl Hoffman music house. The 
 younger son, Fletcher, is a member of the class 
 of 1 901, University of Kansas. 
 
 r"REDERICK HAWN was for years inti- 
 JM mately connected with the geological re- 
 I searches in Kansas. He had the reputation 
 of being the most advanced geologist in the west, 
 and it is undoubtedly true that no one did more 
 than he to advance this science here. His re- 
 ports were the first that had ever been made of 
 geology in Kansas. He discovered and reported 
 several new forms of rocks and in other ways in- 
 creased popular interest in, and knowledge of, 
 this department of science. 
 
 Of German descent, Mr. Hawn was born in 
 Herkimer County, N. Y., a son of Conrad Hawn, 
 who was the son of a Revolutionary soldier. 
 Our subject was interested in civil engineering 
 from his boyhood. For a time he -was employed 
 on the New York Central Railroad, and after 
 coming west held a position with the Hannibal & 
 St. Joe road. It was about 1838 that he removed 
 to the west. He located the coal mines of north- 
 western Missouri on the Hannibal & St. Joe 
 Railroad. During the Civil war he engaged in 
 coal mining, developing some mines that he had 
 located. He organized the Leavenworth Coal 
 Company and located its shaft. This was the 
 first of the coal companies organized in this city, 
 and proved to be the nucleus of what developed 
 into one of the most important industries in this 
 city. 
 
 In the midst of his busy life Mr. Hawn never 
 
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 lost his love for geology and never failed to im- 
 prove every opportunit}- for making geological 
 researches. His reputation as a geologist was 
 not confined to the United States, but extended 
 into Europe, and his opinion upon subjects per- 
 taining to this science was regarded as authorita- 
 tive. He did much of the early surveying in the 
 west, among his contracts of this kind being the 
 surveying of a part of the city of Leavenworth, 
 also the state line between Kansas and Nebraska. 
 He was an active Mason and organized one of 
 the first lodges in Mis.souri. His acquaintance 
 with men of prominence made him a noticeable 
 public figure. He was a brother-in-law of John 
 C. Calhoun and an intimate friend of Stephen A. 
 Douglas. In all his friendships he was firm and 
 stanch, ever loyal to the interest of his friend, 
 and was a man to be trusted under every circum- 
 stance. He had attained the age of eighty-eight 
 when he passed away, February 2, 1897. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Hawn was Abigail Cutler, who 
 was born in Springfield, 111. Her ancestors 
 were originally from Massachusetts, and she 
 was a direct descendant of Gov. John Carver. 
 From New England they removed to Ohio, 
 where her grandfather Cutler owned three 
 hundred and sixty acres, comprising the present 
 site of Cincinnati. Her father was a pioneer farmer 
 of Illinois, where he died at the age of ninety- 
 six years. Mrs. Abigail Hawn passed from earth 
 when eighty-two years of age. She was the 
 mother of two daughters and a son, viz.: Mrs. 
 Maria Hemingwaj% of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. 
 Martha Lamar , of Leavenworth, Kans. ; and 
 Laurens. 
 
 QUDGE LAURENS HAWN, probate judge 
 I of Leavenworth County, was born in 
 Q) Weston, Mo., September 4, 1848. In his 
 youth he was given excellent educational advan- 
 tages. After having prepared for college he en- 
 tered Cornell University and there he took the 
 regular course of studies, graduating in 1875. 
 From boyhood he assisted his father in surveys, 
 thus gaining a practical knowledge of the busi- 
 ness. In 1872 he served on a geological survey 
 of Leavenworth County. Going to Salt Lake 
 
 City in 1876 he studied law under Judge Hem- 
 ingway, and the following year was admitted 
 to practice before the bar of that territory. After 
 engaging in practice there for a short time, in 
 1878 he returned to Leavenworth and opened a 
 law office. His time was given closely to his 
 profession until 1882, when, as the candidate of 
 the Democratic party, he was first elected to the 
 office of county probate judge. He was re-elected, 
 sometimes without opposition, in 1884, 1886, 
 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896 and 1898. The 
 duties of the position he has discharged efficiently 
 and to the satisfaction of all. His thorough 
 knowledge of the law, in the principles of which 
 he is well grounded, enables him to meet the re- 
 sponsibilities of his oflBce and acquit himself hon- 
 orably and ably. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Hawn united him with 
 Miss Lilian Reyburn, who was born in Kentucky, 
 but was reared in Leavenworth. He is identified 
 with the Select Knights, the Knights of Pythias, 
 in which he is past chancellor; and the lodge 
 and encampment of Odd Fellows, being past 
 noble grand of the lodge. 
 
 pCjHlTSED LAMING, Jr., cashier of the 
 \ A / Tonganoxie State Bank, and one of the in- 
 VY fluential business men of Leavenworth 
 County, was born at Lelant, near St. Ives, Coun- 
 ty Cornwall, England, October 20, 1861, a son of 
 Whitsed and Elizabeth (Caulton) Laming, na- 
 tives of Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England. His 
 paternal grandfather, Heurj' C. Laming, a na- 
 tive of Lincolnshire, and a member of an old 
 family, was a farmer by occupation; the mater- 
 nal grandfather, John C. Caulton, was a farmer 
 and a flax-seed raiser in Lincolnshire, and became 
 quite wealthy through his energetic efforts. 
 
 From Lincolnshire Whitsed Laming, Sr., 
 moved to Cornwall and rented the Duchy farms 
 of twelve hundred acres from the Prince of Wales, 
 for which he paid $15 per acre. After continu- 
 ing there for twenty-one years, in 1882 he came 
 to the United States and settled on the Judge 
 Delehay farm of seven hundred and twenty acres 
 in Stranger Township, Leavenworth County, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 683 
 
 which property he had purchased two years be- 
 fore. He had selected this location because the 
 weak eyesight of one of his sons required a dry 
 climate. At first he confined his attention to 
 farming and stock-raising. In 1889 he and his 
 sons bought the Farmers and Merchants' Bank 
 at Tonganoxie and organized the Tonganoxie 
 State Bank, with himself as president, Whitsed 
 Laming, Jr., cashier, J. M. Phenicie, vice-presi- 
 dent, and J. C. Laming assistant cashier. In 
 June, 1894, he retired from business and returned 
 to Spaulding, England, where he is now living 
 retired and robust and hearty, in spite of his sev- 
 enty-two years. He still owns the farm in Leav- 
 enworth County and is also president of the 
 bank. In religion he is a member of the Church 
 of England. 
 
 There were ten children in the family who 
 passed years of infancy. Of these Samuel died 
 in Leavenworth County at thirty-nine years of 
 age; Polly is in England and Lizzie in Austra- 
 lia; Carrie married Henry Tinsley, who rents a 
 crown farm in England; Mrs. Sarah Frier lives 
 at Spaulding, England; Rachel is the wife of H. 
 Schultz, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Kate, who was the 
 wife of Rev. Burt Barrel, died in Bombay, India; 
 Henry Paul died in Cornwall at thirteen years of 
 age; and J. Caultou is the youngest of the 
 family. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was fourth in order 
 of birth among the children of the family. The 
 first eleven years of his life were spent on the 
 duchy farm. Between the years of eleven and 
 fourteen he studied in Bath College. He was 
 then apprenticed to the dry-goods business at 
 Plymouth, where he remained for four years. 
 Later he clerked in London. He came to 
 America seven months before his father, and 
 landed in New York February 22, 1882. From 
 that time until 1888 he remained on the farm 
 bought by his father in 1880, after which he 
 spent a year in Europe. On his return he and 
 his father bought the bank, of which he has been 
 cashier. In 1890, while the population of Ton- 
 ganoxie was still only five hundred, a fine two- 
 story bank building, the first brick structure in 
 the town, was erected; since that year the popula- 
 
 tion of the town has more than doubled. In con- 
 nection with J. M. Phenicie and J. H. Driesbach 
 he bought the Tonganoxie roller mills, put in 
 steam power, remodeled the building, and put in 
 a new sifter plant, so that the mills are modern 
 in every respect. The company operating the 
 mills is incorporated and he is secretary and 
 manager. There is a capacity of two hundred 
 barrels. In the second story of the bank build- 
 ing an opera house has been fitted up, provided 
 with large stage, scenery, etc. Besides his other 
 interests Mr. Laming owns four farms near Ton- 
 ganoxie, comprising an aggregate of four hun- 
 dred and eighty-five acres, and having four farm 
 buildings. One of the farms consists of eighty 
 acres adjoining the city and is used as a dairy 
 farm. Through his efforts was organized the 
 company that built the creamery, an enterprise 
 that has been of inestimable value, both to farm- 
 ers and to the city. For two years he operated 
 the creamery personally and brought it to a high 
 degree of success, but upon taking charge of the 
 mills he retired from the management of the 
 other enterprise, although he still owns his in- 
 terest. The creamery supplies the fort at Leav- 
 enworth, also two large hotels in Kansas City, 
 and has a standing order from Armour & Co. , of 
 Kansas City, for all the output at Elgin prices. 
 Besides all his other interests Mr. Laming started 
 the Tonganoxie Building and Loan Association, 
 of which he is treasurer, and his brother, J. C, a 
 director. 
 
 In Leavenworth Mr. Laming married Martha, 
 daughter of John Foster, who is at the head of 
 the Foster Lumber Company at Kansas City; she 
 is a graduate of an eastern college and is a very 
 accomplished lady. The two children born of 
 this marriage are Foster and Edith. 
 
 Since 1893 Mr. Laming has served as city 
 treasurer. In politics he votes with the Repub- 
 licans. He has always been deeply interested in 
 measures for the benefit of the town, and no citi- 
 zen has been more active than he in promoting 
 public-spirited projects. He laid out Laming's 
 addition to Tonganoxie, which is platted in town 
 lots. He is a member of the State Bankers' As- 
 sociation. Fraternally he is past chancellor of 
 
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 the Knights of Pythias, treasurer of the Modern 
 Woodmen of America, and a member of Tonga- 
 noxie Lodge No. 190, A. F. & A. M. He is not 
 a member of any church, but contributes to the 
 maintenance of the Presbyterian Church, with 
 which his wife is identified. 
 
 (John CAULTON laming, assistant cash- 
 I ier of the Tonganoxie State Bank, was born 
 Q) at Lelant, St. Ives, England, January 12, 
 1870. When twelve years of age he accompanied 
 the family to the United States. His education 
 was obtained principally in the Tonganoxie 
 Academy, and after leaving school he was inter- 
 ested with his father in the management of the 
 home farm, remaining there until 1889. He then 
 entered the Tonganoxie State Bank as assistant 
 cashier, a position he has since filled. In addi- 
 tion to this he has worked up the largest farm 
 fire insurance business in Leavenworth County, 
 and represents eight of the old-line American 
 insurance companies, viz.: ^tna, Continental, 
 German- American, Hartford, Niagara, Pennsyl- 
 vania, Connecticut and St. Paul Fire and Ma- 
 rine. 
 
 Mr. Laming is a stockholder in the Tonga- 
 noxie Building and Loan Association and in the 
 creamery, also is a director in the Tonganoxie 
 State Bank, besides which he has farm interests. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. 
 In Milwaukee, September 12, 1892, he married 
 Daisy, daughter of Charles J. Poetsch, who has 
 been city engineer of Milwaukee since 1882. 
 They have two children, Leonora and Charles. 
 
 fINA A. MASON, who is a well-known far- 
 mer of High Prairie Town.ship, Leaven- 
 worth County, came to Kansas in the fall 
 of 1857 ^"'i fot" ''Ome years worked at the carpen- 
 ter's trade. In the spring of i860 he went to 
 Colorado and during the remainder of the year 
 operated a quartz mill at Central Citj', after which 
 he returned to Kansas and resumed carpentering. 
 In 1S70 he bought forty acres on section 26, 
 
 where he now resides. A few years later he pur- 
 chased an adjoining tract of eighty acres and later 
 forty acres more, so that he now has one hundred 
 and sixty acres. Upon this land he is engaged 
 in raising stock and cereals, his specialty in stock 
 being horses. 
 
 Mr. Mason was born in Summit County, Ohio, 
 January 19, 1837. His grandfather, who was 
 an Englishman, lived for some time in New 
 Hampshire, but finally returned to England and 
 died in Southampton. John R. Mason, our sub- 
 ject's father, was born in New Hampshire in 
 1790, and at fourteen years of age accompanied 
 his parents to England. Soon after he left home 
 and went on board ship, and for thirtj'-three 
 years followed a seafaring life, the last few years 
 being on Lake Erie. He was connected with the 
 merchant marine service and visited manj- of 
 the foreign ports and .several times doubled Cape 
 Horn. For some time he was captain of a coast- 
 ing vessel. Upon retiring from the sea he set- 
 tled in Ohio and was engaged in ship-carpenter- 
 ing and farming. In 1S53 he removed with his 
 familj- to Iowa, where he followed farming. In 
 1866 he went to Nebraska, where four years later 
 he died in the home of his oldest son. His wife, 
 whom he married in Connecticut and who bore 
 the maiden name of Eliza Buell, was the mother 
 of eight children, four of whom are living, viz.: 
 Mary, Mrs. Latta, of Nebra.ska; Zina A.; Wes- 
 ley, of Texas; and Albert, who is in Nebraska. 
 
 The advantages for an education enjoyed by 
 our subject in boyhood were very meagre: how- 
 ever, through his own efforts, he acquired a thor- 
 ough general knowledge that has been most help- 
 ful to him. When nineteen years of age he 
 started out for him.self. For one year he farmed 
 in Iowa. He then went to Nebraska, but after 
 one season, in the fall of 1S57, became to Kan- 
 sas. He is one of the prominent and prosper- 
 ous farmers of High Prairie Township and is a 
 highl}' respected citizen. In 1863 he enlisted 
 in Company I, Fifteenth Kansas Cavalrj', and 
 served until October, 1865, taking part in the 
 fights against Price. At first he was sergeant, 
 but later became lieutenant, which position he 
 held until he was honorably discharged. In pol- 
 
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 itics he votes the Republican ticket and very fre- 
 quently serves as delegate to conventions, where 
 he assists in selecting candidates for local offices. 
 For a number of years he has served as treasurer 
 of the school board, but he has refused other po- 
 sitions, preferring not to fill political offices. Fra- 
 ternally he is a member of the Masonic order. 
 During the existence of the Grange he was for a 
 time its master. 
 
 On Christmas eve, 1869, Mr. Mason married 
 Mary J. Simpson, of Leavenworth County. This 
 estimable lady died May 28, 1898, and was bur- 
 ied May 30, in the High Prairie Cemetery. She 
 left two daughters, one of whom, Elizabeth, is 
 the wife of Dr. R. L- Boling, of Leavenworth, 
 while the other, Mrs. Clara M. Reese, resides in 
 Whitewater, Kans. 
 
 QAMUEL M. HASTINGS, a farmer of Leav- 
 ?\ enworth Count}', owns five hundred and 
 \z/ twenty acres in Alexandria Township. At 
 the time of coming to this place he bought one 
 hundred and eighty-one acres, to which from 
 time to time he has added until the property has 
 reached its present dimensions. He is extensive- 
 ly engaged in stock-raising, for which the three 
 springs and running water on his land render it 
 especially suitable. At one time he made a spec- 
 ialty of fine horses, but now confines his atten- 
 tion to cattle, hogs and sheep. The grain and 
 hay raised on the farm are used for feed in win- 
 ter, while during the summer the cattle and sheep 
 graze in the blue grass pasture that runs for a 
 distance of one mile east from the house. The 
 farm is amply provided with buildings for the 
 shelter of stock and storage of grain, and also has 
 the other improvements of a model estate. 
 
 At the time the Protestants were expelled from 
 Ireland our subject's grandfather came to Amer- 
 ica in company with other exiles. Of his three 
 sons the youngest, William Richard, was born 
 and reared near Whitehouse, Pa., and followed 
 the blacksmith's trade there for eighteen years. 
 He is still living at his old homestead, but, at 
 eighty-five years of age, is living in retirement 
 from business cares. In politics he has always 
 
 voted with the Democrats, and in religion is a 
 Presbyterian. By his marriage to Mary Hissner 
 he had nine children, viz.: Catherine, who mar- 
 ried William Shriver, a captain in the Civil war; 
 John, deceased; Samuel M.; Mary Frances, wife 
 of William Miller, of Steelton, Dauphin County, 
 Pa. ; Ellen Gilbreath, who married Daniel Um- 
 holtz, a merchant of Neely, Kans., but is now 
 deceased; Jennie, whose husband, William 
 McKee, has for eighteen years been with the firm 
 of Richards & Conover, in Kansas City; Annie, 
 who married Harry Miller, of Cumberland Val- 
 ley, Pa.; William Frederick, deceased; and 
 Howard, a farmer in Cumberland Valley, Pa. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Cumber- 
 land Valley, Pa., December 18, 1843. He was 
 educated in grammar and high schools. March 9, 
 1866, found him in Kansas, where for thirteen 
 years he had charge of the government farm at 
 Fort Leavenworth. During that time he also 
 freighted for the government from Kansas to 
 Cheyenne and Santa Fe. In his work he was 
 remarkably successful. Coming to Kansas with 
 only $10, at the end of seven years he had saved 
 up $7,000. While on the plains he had several 
 skirmishes with Indians, but, though there were 
 fatalities in his train, he was never wounded. 
 On retiring from the government employ he 
 bought the land which forms the nucleus of his 
 present farm, and has since given his attention 
 largely to agriculture. 
 
 Everyone who knows Mr. Hastings knows that 
 he stands squarely for Democratic principles. 
 For many years he was a member of the central 
 committee of his party and he also attends the 
 local and general conventions. For several terms 
 he was deputy sheriff and for two terms township 
 treasurer. For three years under President 
 Grant and for a similar period under President 
 Cleveland, he served as postmaster. During the 
 three years he was postmaster at Jarbalo he con- 
 ducted a mercantile business, erecting the first 
 store building in the village. He also carried on 
 a store while postmaster at Ackerland, his present 
 home. He attends the Quaker Church at Spring- 
 dale, of which his family are members. March 5, 
 1S76, he married Ora Buxton, who was born in 
 
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 Leavenworth Count}-, and is a daughter of Solo- 
 mon and Martha (Mason) Buxton. They have 
 four children: Clara, wife of Jesse Wood, of 
 Alexandria Township; Ora Edna, wife of Lester 
 Marklej', also of this town.ship; William and Jen- 
 nie, who are with their parents. 
 
 "HOMAS H. KNAPP was born in Kickapoo 
 Township, Leavenworth County, in the 
 house in which he still resides. He is a son 
 of Adam Kuapp, Jr., a pioneer of Kansas and a 
 native of Hessen, Germany, born November i8, 
 1820. When a child of twelve years he was 
 brought to the United States by his father, Adam 
 Knapp, St., who spent some time in New York 
 and later became a pioneer resident of St. Louis. 
 As a youth, Adam Knapp, Jr., was reared to farm 
 pursuits and throughout life he followed the oc- 
 cupation with which he was most familiar. In 
 1854 he came to Kansas and bought a squatters' 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres in Plum 
 Creek Valley, Leavenworth County. Upon that 
 place he continued to reside during the remainder 
 of his life. Through his energy and persever- 
 ance he was successful, and in time he became 
 known as one of the leading men of his locality. 
 He was a loyal citizen of his adopted country and 
 took an interest in matters for the benefit of his 
 township and county. His life, though unevent- 
 ful, was a busy and useful existence, and when 
 he died, Januarj' 24, 1892, at the age of seventy- 
 two, there were many to mourn the loss of one 
 who had been a good citizen and kind neighbor. 
 He married Eva Barber Dressell, who came from 
 Germany with her parents at the age of twelve 
 years and who became his wife February 15, 
 1844. Of their family, four sons and three 
 daughters are now living, namely: Albert, a 
 farmer of Jefferson County; John, of Leavenworth 
 County; Lewis F. , whose sketch appears on 
 another page; Julia, wife of Hezekiah Edgell; 
 Thomas H.; Sophia E., who married John H. 
 Roche; and Enuna L-, wife of William Drews. 
 Since the death of her husband Mrs. Kuapp has 
 continued to reside on the old homestead, which 
 her son, Thomas H., owns and occupies. 
 
 After completing the studies of the country 
 schools our subject turned his attention to farm 
 work. Prior to the death of his father he bought 
 one hundred and seventy acres in Plum Creek 
 Valley, where he has always made his home. He 
 also owns eightj- acres adjoining. Here he en- 
 gages in general farming and stock-raising. He 
 raises large crops of wheat. It has never been a 
 characteristic of the Knapp faiuilj^ to mingle in 
 politics, and in this respect he is no exception. 
 He prefers to give his attention to his personal 
 affairs, although he does his dut}' as a voter and 
 a citizen, and supports measures of undoubted 
 benefit to his community. In the work of the 
 Kickapoo Baptist Church, to which he belongs, 
 he is deeply interested, and to it, as to other 
 worthy objects, he has contributed as his means 
 have permitted. November 20, 1884, he married 
 Miss Eva Maget, of Wyandotte County, Kans., 
 the daughter of William and Polly Ann (Roach) 
 Maget, formerly of Platte County, Mo., now de- 
 ceased. They have six children: Olive, Michael, 
 Sophia, Laura, Edna and Andrew. 
 
 aNSON C. HARDING, attorney-at-law of 
 Leavenworth, is of southern parentage. His 
 father, Henry Harding, and grandfather, 
 William Harding, were born in Fairfax County, 
 Va., and descended from a colonial family of the 
 Old Dominion. The latter, who was a soldier in 
 the war of 1812, removed in 18 15 to Ohio, .set- 
 tling on a farm near Ripley and continuing to re- 
 side there until his death, at about eighty years. 
 The father, who was also an agriculturist in 
 Brown Count}-, died in Aberdeen at fifty-six 
 years of age; he had married Ann Gash, who 
 was born in Lewis County, Ky., and died in 
 Ohio in 1854. The four sons and four daugh- 
 ters comprising the family are all living, but 
 none except our subject is in Kansas. One son, 
 Frank, now residing in Aberdeen, enlisted dur- 
 ing the Civil war as a private in the Seventieth 
 Ohio Infantry, and at the close of the war was 
 major in command of his regiment. He went out 
 with twelve hundred men, which number was in- 
 creased, by recruiting, to twenty-two hundred. 
 
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 687 
 
 Mr. Harding was born near Ripley, Brown 
 County, Ohio, January 23, 1S44. He was reared 
 on the home farm, and received his primary edu- 
 cation in the public schools. At the opening of 
 the war he responded to a call made, in August, 
 1861, for three years' men. He was then six- 
 teen years of age. He was mustered into service 
 at Ripley, becoming a member of Company G, 
 Seventieth Ohio Infantry. With his regiment he 
 took part in the battle of Shiloh and the siege of 
 Corinth, but, becoming ill, was sent to a hospi- 
 tal in Cincinnati, where he remained until he 
 was discharged, August 20, 1862, on account of 
 physical disability. Returning home, he at- 
 tended the high school at Manchester for one 
 year. At the end of the year he enlisted in the 
 one hundred day service, and was assigned to 
 Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth 
 Ohio Infantry, in which he served the time of en- 
 listment. Shortly afterward he re-enlisted and 
 became a member of Company K, One Hundred 
 and Eighty-third Ohio Infantry, which was as- 
 signed to the Twenty-third army corps under 
 General Schofield. He was commissioned orderly 
 sergeant, and, with his command, took part 
 in engagements at Franklin and Nashville, 
 Tenn., andGoldsboro, N. C. After the surren- 
 der of Johnston's armj' at Raleigh they remained 
 in Salisbury until July 17, when they were mus- 
 tered out and honorably discharged. 
 
 After his return home Mr. Harding assisted in 
 the cultivation of the farm for a year and then 
 took a course in the National Normal School in 
 Lebanon, Ohio, after which he engaged in teach- 
 ing, being principal of schools and also superin- 
 tendent. In 1878 he entered the law department 
 of the University of Michigan, from which he 
 graduated in 1880, with the degree of LL. B. 
 Opening an office in Flora, 111., he began to prac- 
 tice his profession. In 1884 he was appointed 
 special examiner in the pension department in 
 the field and this position he held for three years, 
 meantime traveling in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and 
 Minnesota. Under the Cleveland administration 
 he resigned his position, and, in July, 1887, set- 
 tled in Kansas City, Mo., but two years later re- 
 moved to Leavenworth, where he has his law 
 
 office at No. 113 South Third street, and, in ad- 
 dition to his law practice, also engages in the real- 
 estate business. His political affiliations have 
 always been stanchly Republican. He is con- 
 nected with the Union Veterans' League and Cus- 
 ter Post No. 6, G. A. R. Fraternally he is iden- 
 tified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias. 
 His marriage was solemnized in Kansas City, Mo. , 
 in 1887, and united him with Miss Florence 
 Webster, who was born in Alexander County, 111. 
 
 (7 OSEPH JACKSON HARTNETT, agent for 
 I the Union Pacific Railroad, and trainmaster 
 \Z) for that road and the Leavenworth, Kansas 
 & Western Railroad, was born in Mount Pleasant, 
 Henry County, Iowa, July 8, 1852. He is a son 
 of John Hartnett, a native of County Kerry, Ire- 
 land, who emigrated to the United States in 1848, 
 being led to seek a home in another country on 
 account of his sympathies with the Smith and 
 O' Brien insurrectionists. Settling in Mount Pleas- 
 ant, he began contracting. He remained in that 
 city until his death, which occurred at middle 
 age during the Civil war. His wife, who bore 
 the maiden name of Johanna Leahy, was married 
 a second time and died at seventj'-three years in 
 Iowa. Her first marriage resulted in the birth of 
 four children, now living. Of these our subject 
 was next to the youngest. He was reared in 
 Mount Pleasant and had but limited educational 
 advantages. When about eighteen he studied 
 telegraphy at Batavia, Iowa, and upon the com- 
 pletion of his studies, at Hopkins, Mo. (on what 
 is now a part of the O road) , he was employed as 
 operator, working in this capacity at various 
 places. In the employ of the Kansas City, St. 
 Joe & Council Bluffs (now the Q) Railroad, he 
 went to Kansas City, Mo., in 1875, and remained 
 in that city until 1884, being operator for two 
 years, cashier for five years, and then chief clerk 
 of the Western Railroad Association. He was 
 also connected with the Santa Fe for a short time 
 as clerk. In 1884 he became connected with the 
 Union Pacific Railroad and was first tracing clerk 
 in the Kansas City freight office, afterward be- 
 coming local auditor. 
 
688 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 August I, 1887, Mr. Hartnett was appointed 
 freight agent for the Union Pacific at Leaven- 
 worth, which position he has since held, mean- 
 time becoming known to the people of the city for 
 his thorough familiarity with his duties and the 
 accuracy which is noticeable in even the smallest 
 details of his work. August 5, 1893, t^^^ duties 
 of trainmaster at this point were added to his 
 position, in which capacity he has two hundred 
 men under him and acts in the capacity of division 
 operator. 
 
 During his residence in Kansas City Mr. Hart- 
 nett married Miss Minnie Devine, who was reared 
 there. They are the parents of eight children, 
 Minnie, Gertrude, Antoinette, Joseph J., Jr., 
 John Walter, Ellener, Ralph and Thomas. The 
 family are connected with the Sacred Heart Ro- 
 man Catholic Church, and Mr. Hartnett is also a 
 member of the Catholic Knights of America. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Modern 
 Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of 
 Pyramids. In political belief he is a Jacksonian 
 Democrat, a stanch adherent of free trade and 
 also of the gold standard of currency. As a rail- 
 road official he is very accommodating to the 
 general public, accurate in discharge of everj- 
 duty, prompt, reliable and faithful, and stands 
 high with the officials of the road. 
 
 30HN BAUM started out in life for himself 
 without means or influence, but has worked 
 his way to a front rank in his special line of 
 business, and, through the exercise of sound 
 judgment, has accumulated a valuable propertj'. 
 Coining to the United States a young man, with- 
 out capital, a stranger in a strange land, the out- 
 look might have discouraged some. However, 
 he had energy, perseverance and determination, 
 and through these qualities he has become well- 
 to-do; while, by his service in the Civil war, he 
 also proved himself to be a loyal citizen and 
 patriot. 
 
 The youngest of five children, Mr. Bauni was 
 born in Klonheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, 
 April 29, 1840, a son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Hoffinan) Baum. His parents and the other 
 
 children continued to reside in Germany, he be- 
 ing the only member of the family who crossed 
 the ocean. Under his father, with whom he 
 served an apprenticeship of three years, he 
 learned the blacksmith's trade. lu 1857 he set 
 sail from Havre, France, on the sailer "Trum- 
 bull," which after a voyage of forty-nine days 
 landed in New York. His first work was as a 
 blacksmith in that city, on Twenty-seventh street, 
 near Fourth avenue. In 1859 he came west as 
 far as Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and for a time 
 was employed on the steamer "Chippewa," run- 
 ning on the Missouri River. He was also em- 
 ployed as engineer on steamers between St. Louis 
 and New Orleans. In January, 1861, he made a 
 trip from St. Louis up the Missouri to Fort 
 Benton, returning to St. Louis after three months. 
 
 In July, 1861, Mr. Baum enlisted in Company 
 I, First Missouri Light Artillery (called Buell's 
 battery), and was mustered into service in St. 
 Louis. Among the important engagements in 
 which he participated were the following: Forts 
 Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, 
 battle of luka, second battle of Corinth, Corwin's 
 Ferry, etc. Several times he was wounded, but 
 never seriously. He was mustered out of service 
 and honorably discharged in St. Louis in June, 
 1864. 
 
 Returning to Leavenworth in 1S65, Mr. Baum 
 established his permanent home in this city. For 
 some time he was employed as a traveling sales- 
 man, first with Alexander McDonald & Co., 
 then with Gillett & Insley, and later with Car- 
 ney, Fenlon & Co. In 1872 he formed a busi- 
 ness partnership with John Hannon, and the 
 firm of Hannon & Baum embarked in business in 
 the old market house. Afterward they moved 
 acro-ss the street and finally transferred their 
 plant to No. 511 Delaware street, between Fifth 
 and Sixth streets. In 1887 Mr. Baum bought 
 his partner's interest and removed to East Leav- 
 enworth, but in 1892 returned to Leavenworth. 
 In 1893 lie built the large brick block at No. 305 
 Cherokee .street, where he has two stories and 
 basement, 25x125 feet in dimen.sions. 
 
 The residence of Mr. Baum stands on Maple 
 avenue and is one of the fine homes of the city. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 689 
 
 He has been twice married. His first wife, who 
 was Mary German, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, 
 died in Leavenworth in 1875, leaving two sons: 
 William, of this city; and Otto, who is in San 
 Francisco, Cal. The second marriage of Mr. 
 Baum took place in Leavenworth and united him 
 with Miss Sophia Endebrock, who was born in 
 Hanover and died in Leavenworth in 1886. The 
 four children born of this union are as follows: 
 John, who graduated from the Leavenworth high 
 school in 1893, and now assists his father in busi- 
 ness; Henry, who died at seventeen years; Her- 
 man, a graduate of the high school, class of 
 1898, and now assisting his father; and George, 
 who is a member of the high school class of 1901. 
 Fraternally Mr. Baum is one of the early mem- 
 bers of the Turn Verein, of whose board of trus- 
 tees he is a member. He is also connected with 
 the Knights of Pythias and Germania Lodge 
 No. 123, I. O. O. F. Formerly he was connected 
 with, and commander of, Leavenworth Post 
 No. 120, G. A. R., but is now a member of Cus- 
 ter Post No. 6. 
 
 V >JRS. AFRA KREZDORN. The business 
 
 Y ability displayed by Mrs. Krezdorn in the 
 (9 management of her important and valuable 
 
 interests, and especially in the supervision of the 
 store formerly owned by her husband, the late 
 Henry Krezdorn, proves that she is a lady of en- 
 terprise and sagacious judgment. For some years 
 she has personally superintended the grocerj' 
 business at No. 419 North Second street and has 
 maintained the excellent standing of the store 
 established by her husband. She is the owner 
 of other valuable property, all of which she man- 
 ages personally. 
 
 A resident of Leavenworth .since 187 1, Mrs. 
 Krezdorn was born in Byrne, Germany, a daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Afra (Daniel) Kirmeyer, also 
 natives of Byrne, where the latter died when her 
 daughter was ten years of age; the former, who 
 was born in 1781, attained the age of ninety-three 
 years. There were twelve children in the family, 
 of whom three sons are in Leavenworth, 
 Alois, Joseph and Michael Kirmeyer, all for some 
 years active business men here. Mrs. Krezdorn 
 
 was reared in Germany and came to America in 
 1869, settling in Leavenworth two years later. 
 Here she was married. May 12, 1S73, to Henry 
 Krezdorn, a native of Baden, Germany. 
 
 In early manhood, in 1833, Mr. Krezdorn came 
 to the United States. At first he engaged in 
 mining in Michigan. At the time of the dis- 
 covery of gold in California he went to the Pacific 
 coast, where he successfully engaged in mining 
 for several years. He then returned to Germany 
 and brought the other members of the family 
 back to this country with him, settling in Lex- 
 ington, Mo., in 1858, and opened a mercan- 
 tile establishment. On account of his sympathy 
 with the Union he came to Leavenworth in 1861 , 
 and here his father died. For a time he con- 
 ducted a bakery in this city, but afterward opened 
 a grocery on Fifth and Miami streets, continuing 
 in business at that stand for some years, and then 
 buying the property on Second and Pottawatomie 
 streets, where he continued until his death. In 
 politics he was a Republican. Three times, with- 
 out opposition, he was elected a member of the 
 city council. Fraternally he was connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Turn Verein. One of his brothers, Carl, died 
 in Leavenworth; the other, Herman, is a large 
 jeweler at Saguin, Tex. 
 
 In Lexington, Mo., in 1858, Mr. Krezdorn 
 married Miss Agnes Hensler, who was born in 
 Baden and died in Leavenworth. Four children 
 were born of this union. Amelia is the wife of 
 Alois Kirmeyer, of Leavenworth. Ernst G. is an 
 attorney-at-law, notary public and one of the 
 muster officers in Leavenworth. Otto, a mer- 
 chant, died at the age of thirty; and Bertha is 
 the wife of Robert Beller, of this city. 
 
 The second marriage of Mr. Krezdorn united 
 him with Miss Alfra Kirmeyer, by whom he had 
 five children: Emma, wife of J. C. Davis, of 
 Leavenworth; Laura, wife of John Kirsch, also of 
 this city; Katie, Dominica and Henry, who are 
 with their mother. The death of Mr. Krezdorn 
 occurred December 16, 1883, when he was fifty- 
 one years of age. His long and active connec- 
 tion with the business interests of his city had 
 brought him the confidence of his fellow-citizens. 
 
690 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He was a loyal citizen of his adopted countrj', 
 and public- spirited in his support of all pro- 
 gressive movemeuts for the bene6t of the town. 
 
 NGN. THKODORE A. HURD. During the 
 long and intimate connection of Judge 
 Hurd with the history of jurisprudence in 
 I^eavenworth, he gained a reputation that was 
 not limited to this city, nor indeed to the state of 
 Kansas. He was fitted, by natural gifts and edu- 
 cation, for the profession in which he so long and 
 honorably engaged. His intelligence, his method 
 of logical reasoning, his habitual self-pos.session, 
 whether in the ordinary walks of life or in great 
 emergencies, and his acumen made him a model 
 attorney. Endowed with mental energy, he was 
 prompt in forming and resolute in carrying out 
 any purpose or plan of action on which he de- 
 cided; and this habit of decision and force of will 
 was one of the notable traits of his character. He 
 continued his activity until the time of his death, 
 and, spite of waning years, showed no diminution 
 of his powers. To the last he remained the dig- 
 nified, just, tactful and resourceful man he had 
 ever been. 
 
 Judge Hurd was born in Pawling, Dutchess 
 County, N. Y., December 21, 1819, a son of 
 Jarius Hurd, a farmer of that county. He ob- 
 tained his education in Cazenovia Academy and 
 afterward taught school for two years in Virgin- 
 ia. He read law in the office of ex-Governor 
 Horatio Seymour at Utica, later was with B. 
 Davis Noxon, and graduated in the class of 1847 
 at Utica. For a time he was a partner of Judge 
 Joshua A. Spencer. While at Utica he formed a 
 friendship with Roscoe Conkling, which was 
 terminated only by the death of the senator. Dur- 
 ing the '50s business brought him west, and he 
 was so pleased with the prospects in Leaven\yorth 
 that he decided to locate here. In 1859 he set- 
 tled in this city, and during the same year he 
 formed a partnership with H. Miles Moore, the 
 firm of Moore & Hurd continuing until Mr. 
 Moore entered the army at the opening of the 
 war. After that Judge Hurd continued alone. 
 
 He made a .specialty of constitutional and cor- 
 poration law, in which he was recognized as au- 
 thority. 
 
 Upon the organization of the old Missouri Val- 
 ley Life Insurance Company, Judge Hurd became 
 its attorney, and this position he retained from 
 the incorporation of the company through the 
 long litigation following the appointment of a re- 
 ceiver and the closing up of the company's busi- 
 ness. When the Kan.sas Pacific Railroad was 
 chartered he was chosen attorney for the com- 
 pany, in which office he continued long after the 
 road was merged into the Union Pacific Railway. 
 While looking after the lands of this company he 
 first became associated with W. A. Harris, then 
 civil engineer for the company, now United 
 States senator. He was also attorney for a Ken- 
 tucky .syndicate that owned Fackler's addition to 
 Leavenworth. For many years he acted as gen- 
 eral attorney for the Great Western Manufactur- 
 ing Company. His ability as an attorney brought 
 him into prominence throughout Kansas, and his 
 services were brought into requi.sition in almost 
 every important case in his part of the state. 
 Nor did his activity in the law decrease with ad- 
 vancing years. Only a few days before his death 
 he had completed a tedius case as referee, involv- 
 ing thousands of dollars, and had made his report 
 to the district court. 
 
 In politics Judge Hurd was a stanch Democrat, 
 but he never held an elective office except that 
 of school director. Upon the resignation of Judge 
 Brewer from the supreme court bench to accept 
 an appointment on the bench of the United States 
 supreme court, in April, 1884, Governor Click 
 appointed Judge Hurd to fill the vacancy. He 
 was a member of the Leavenworth and Kansas 
 State Bar Associations, and represented the latter 
 at a convention of the national association, while 
 of the former he was once president. In early 
 days he assi.sted in organizing the Leavenworth 
 Commandery of Knights Templar, and was a 
 charter member of Calvary Lodge of Masons, and 
 when he died.his funeral was conducted with Ma- 
 sonic honors. 
 
 August 25, 1862, Judge Hurd married Miss 
 Clara E. Moak, who was born in Schoharie 
 
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L. 
 
JAMKS I.. BYRRS. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 693 
 
 County, N. Y., a daughter of Reuben and Mary 
 (Taylor) Moak. Her father, who was of Ger- 
 man extraction, was born in Schoharie County 
 iu 1800, and for several years engaged in the 
 mercantile business in Sharon, being the leading 
 man of that village. He died of consumption in 
 Wisconsin in i865. His wife, who was born in 
 Schoharie County August 21, 1807, is still living, 
 and makes her home with Mrs. Hurd. In relig- 
 ion she is a Baptist. She is very well preserved 
 for her years. Of her twelve children all but 
 three attained mature years. She was a daugh- 
 ter of Jacob and Philothete (Frary) Taylor, na- 
 tives of Massachusetts. Judge and Mrs. Hurd 
 had three children, but the only one now living 
 is Clara May. 
 
 The death of Judge Hurd was sudden and un- 
 expected. For some days he had been ill with 
 la grippe, but the illness was not considered seri- 
 ous. Alarming symptoms, however, suddenly 
 developed, and while he was seated in a chair, 
 before a physician had reached him, his head fell 
 against the back of the chair and he passed quiet- 
 ly away, on the morning of February 22, 1899. 
 Besides his immediate family there were many 
 warm friends to mourn his loss. The citizens 
 among whom he had so long made his home had 
 come to esteem him highly for his known integ- 
 rity and ability, and, as a unit, they paid to his 
 memory the last tributes of respect and regard, 
 and tendered to his family the heartiest sympa- 
 thy in their bereavement. 
 
 (lAMES Iv. BYERS, who came to Leaven- 
 I worth in the fall of 1S55 and is now one of 
 (2/ the oldest surviving settlers of this city, was 
 born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1S24, and 
 is of Scotch descent. His father, Robert Byers, 
 emigrated from Belfast, Ireland, to America and 
 settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., but soon removed to 
 Dayton, Ohio, and bought a tract of land near 
 that city. As soon as he was permanently set- 
 tled he sent for his mother and brothers in Ire- 
 land, and they joined him in Dayton. He became 
 a successful farmer and stock-raiser and was a 
 highly esteemed citizen of his community. In 
 
 32 
 
 politics he supported the Whig party and was a 
 warm admirer of Henry Clay. He was a young 
 man at the time of his death. His wife, Nancy, 
 who was a sister of James and Alexander Laugh- 
 lin, of Pittsburgh, Pa., passed away at the age of 
 seventy-six years. They were the parents of 
 seven children, four of whom are living, viz.: 
 James I,., Robert, George, and Agnes, who is the 
 wife of D. D. Marquis. 
 
 The education of our subject was such as the 
 common schools afforded. Being the oldest son 
 at home he took charge of the farm at an early 
 age, remaining with his mother until the younger 
 sons were able to assume the management of the 
 place. In 1851 he went to southern Illinois and 
 for a few j'earswas in partnership with his broth- 
 ers, Alexander and Robert, in a general mercan- 
 tile business in Oluey and Louisville, 111. In 
 October, 1855, he came to Leavenworth, bringing 
 with him from St. Louis a stock of goods and 
 opening a store in the town. The surroundings 
 were unpleasant, owing to border warfare be- 
 tween the free-state and pro-slavery parties. In 
 1857 he sold his grocery, after which he carried 
 on a real-estate business until i860. He then 
 began freighting over the plains to points in 
 Colorado and New Mexico, continuing in this 
 occupation until the Union Pacific Railroad 
 reached Denverin 1868. At that time he loaded 
 his wagons with goods purchased in St. Louis, 
 Mo. , and Leavenworth, Kans. , and drove through 
 to Salt Lake, Utah, where he opened a store and 
 sold his goods, cattle and wagons. It was dur- 
 ing this time that the Union Pacific Railroad 
 was completed to Ogden and Salt Lake City. 
 Later he made a few trips to Boise City. 
 
 In the spring of 1869 Mr. Byers took a stock of 
 goods from Kansas by boat up the Missouri River 
 to Fort Benton and then freighted the goods to 
 Helena, Mont., where he opened a general store 
 and remained for three j^ears, successfully en- 
 gaged in merchandising. On his return to Leav- 
 enworth he began to improve the lots and the 
 several acres of land that he owned in the city. 
 He built a one-story brick block on Shawnee 
 street, which a few years later was destroyed by 
 fire, He then erected a large block, which is one 
 
694 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the best in the neighborhood. At different times 
 he has built other business houses and residences, 
 some of wliich he still owns. He is also the 
 owner of three hundred acres of farm land in 
 Stranger Township. During his younger daj^s 
 he was one of the most extensive buyers and sell- 
 ers of property in Leavenworth. 
 
 While in the main Mr. Byers has been success- 
 ful, yet he has met with some heavy losses, but 
 he has always managed to "keep his head above 
 water," and has never become discouraged, no 
 matter how dark the outlook. His success is 
 commendable when it is remembered that in boy- 
 hood he assisted in caring for other members of 
 the family and had few opportunities for acquir- 
 ing an education. When he started out for him- 
 self he was without means, but by industry and 
 honest dealing he has become well-to-do. He 
 has never cared for office, but, wherever located, 
 he has always taken an interest in local politics, 
 and supports Republican principles. He is gen- 
 erous in his dealings with all, a man of irre- 
 proachable character, kind-hearted and whole- 
 souled, with a good word for all. He has won 
 and retained the confidence of the business men 
 with whom he has dealt and stands high among 
 his fellow-citizens. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. F., in 
 which he has passed all the chairs. 
 
 HON. PERCIVAL G. LOWE, of Leaven- 
 worth, was born in Randolph, Coos Coun- 
 ty, N. H., September 29, 1828, a son of 
 Clovis and Alpha Abigail (Green) Lowe. His 
 father, who vi'as a merchant and dealer in real 
 estate, took a prominent part in local affairs and 
 was a leader of the Democratic party. He served 
 his county in the legislature and for j'ears held 
 office as justice of the peace. He died in Coos 
 County when eighty-two years of age. His wife, 
 who was born in Shelburne, N. H., was a 
 daughter of Thomas Green, whose ancestors 
 came from Scotland to New England and took 
 part in the wars of the Revolution and 18 12. He 
 married a Miss Evans, who was of Welsh de- 
 scent. A man of fine physique, six feet and two 
 
 inches in height, with broad chest and stalwart 
 frame, he withstood the ravages of time and when 
 he died, at ninety-seven years, was still in posses- 
 sion of his faculties. 
 
 The family of which P. G. Lowe was a mem- 
 ber consisted of five children, four of whom were 
 .sous. Of these Oscar died in Cambridge, Mass., 
 in 1898; Pembroke, who was in the quartermas- 
 ter's department in the Civil war, is now living 
 in Phillips Count)', Kans. ; and Thaddeus, who is 
 the most grifted member of the family, has at- 
 tained national renown. During the Civil war 
 he originated the plan of signalling with balloons, 
 also of generating gas in the field, and was placed 
 in charge of the balloon corps in the Army of the 
 Potomac. Afterward he invented water gas and 
 the refrigerator process. Perhaps his crowning 
 work was the building of the railroad from Pasa- 
 dena, Cal. (where he makes his home), up to the 
 top of Mount Lowe, a feat of engineering which 
 has seldom been surpassed. The road is operated 
 by electricity and is visited by all of the eastern 
 tourists as one of the greatest attractions of the 
 Pacific coast. 
 
 At fourteen years of age our subject went from 
 Randolph to Lowell, Mass., where he worked as 
 a newsboy and later as clerk in a dry-goods store. 
 When sixteen he went to sea, and for two years 
 was engaged in the coasting trade. On his re- 
 turn to the life of a landsman he worked for six 
 months at the daguerreotype business in Boston 
 with a Mr. Plumb, after which he was with a 
 Mr. Cannon for eight months. He was very de- 
 sirous of going to California at the time of the 
 discoverj' of gold there, but had not the $300 
 necessary for the voyage, so instead went on a 
 whaling voyage. From January, 1849, until the 
 fall of the year he was on the whaling vessel 
 "Jane Howes," around Porto Rico, Bermuda, the 
 Azores and in the Gulf of Mexico. October 17, 
 1849, he enlisted in the First United States 
 Dragoons and was sent to Carlisle barracks, and 
 was afterward assigned to Troop B. He went 
 down the canal, over the mountains, on to Pitts- 
 burgh, from there via steamer to St. Louis, and 
 next to Fort Leavenworth. When only ninety 
 miles above St. Louis the river froze up, and the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 695 
 
 men were forced to march to Fort l,eaveu worth, 
 where they arrived on Christmas day of 1849. 
 
 In April, 1850, Mr. Lowe joined his regiment 
 at Fort Kearney. There he was mounted and 
 sent on a scouting expedition against the Paw- 
 nees. During the ensuing winter, which was 
 spent at Fort Leavenworth, he was made a cor- 
 poral. In the spring of 1851 he had charge of 
 the paymaster's escort to Fort Laramie, and was 
 there when a treaty was made with the Indians. 
 Returning to Fort Leavenworth, he remained 
 during the winter, and in 1852 was made first 
 sergeant of the troop and campaigned after In- 
 dians on the Arkansas, continuing this in 1853. 
 In 1854 he was honorablj' discharged in New 
 Mexico. Returning to Fort Leavenworth he was 
 employed as wagon master in the quartermaster's 
 department for five years, being master of trans- 
 portation at Fort Riley in 1855; in 1856 in charge 
 of transportation of supplies to troops in Kansas, 
 and was stationed at various points in this state 
 during the Kansas war; in 1857, master of trans- 
 portation at the time of the Cheyenne war; in 
 1858, in charge of trains to Utah during the Mor- 
 mon war, going to Utah in August with a large 
 train and returning in December, after a most 
 remarkable trip, during which they traveled from 
 Salt Lake to five hundred miles east, through 
 snow that was from six inches to two feet deep 
 on the trails. 
 
 Going to Denver in 1859, Mr. Lowe engaged 
 in the mercantile and jobbing business with 
 George W. Clayton. In 1859 and i860 he made 
 four trips from the Missouri River to Denver, 
 hauling the goods purchased by the firm. In 
 December, i860, he sold out to his partner, after 
 which he returned to Leavenworth and began 
 freighting for himself. With thirteen eight-mule 
 teams he traveled over the Platte route to and 
 from the west. Indians were hostile, but he 
 avoided an encounter with them. In June, 1S61, 
 he married and took his wife to Denver, where 
 Governor Gilpin ofiered him a commission as 
 lieutenant-colonel of the Second Colorado Infan- 
 try, but thinking the war would soon be over he 
 declined. On his return to Leavenworth he 
 found the national aspect so serious that he sold 
 
 his train to the quartermaster at Fort Leaven- 
 worth and returned to Denver for his wife. Feb- 
 ruary I, 1862, he entered the employ of the quar- 
 termaster, filling out trains for the government. 
 In August, 1862, he took six hundred horses and 
 one hundred and thirty teams to Fort Union, 
 N. M., returning to Leavenworth. In the spring 
 of 1863 he visited his brother in the army of the 
 Potomac at Chancellorsville. On his return to 
 the west he resumed freighting and ran trains for 
 the government to Colorado, doing a large busi- 
 ness and continuing, with different partners, un- 
 til the close of the war. From 1865 to 1868 he 
 handled horses and mules and engaged in con- 
 tracting for the government. In April, 1868, he 
 took a contract to move all of the government 
 freight from the Union Pacific Railroad to New 
 Mexico and intermediate points, which was the 
 largest freight contract made in the United States 
 up to that time. During the year that he spent 
 in carrying out the contract the gross receipts 
 were nearly $1,000,000. The next year he was 
 underbid by another firm, but at the solicitation 
 of the parties interested Mr. Lowe became a mem- 
 ber of the new firm and had charge of the busi- 
 ness the same as the year before. In April, 1870, 
 the route was made shorter by reason of the ad- 
 vancement of the railroad further west. He se- 
 cured the contract to move freight from Baxter 
 Springs and Fort Gibson, to Forts Arbuckle and 
 Sill, in the Indian Territory, and this contract 
 consumed his time until April, 187 1, while at the 
 same time he also had a contract for furnishing 
 beef to the military post at Fort Leavenworth. 
 In 1872 he obtained the beef contracts for Forts 
 Leavenworth, Larned and Dodge and Camp Sup- 
 ply and these contracts he filled successfully. On 
 account of ill health he sold out his business in- 
 terests in Leavenworth, and afterward traveled in 
 Florida and Texas recuperating. 
 
 During a trip he had made from New Mexico 
 in 1862, Mr. Lowe had measured the military 
 road from Fort Union to Fort Leavenworth, a 
 distance of seven hundred and fifty-two miles, 
 and the estimate he then made was afterward 
 used in paying contractors for moving freight. 
 Afterward, however, a dispute arose regarding 
 
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 the distance and suits were instituted. In 1876 
 Mr. Lowe went as an expert with a government 
 party which chained the road from Fort Leaven- 
 worth to Fort Union. He returned in October 
 and filed his report. Meantime, some of his 
 friends had entered into a contract to furnish beef 
 for the Indians at the time of the Sioux war. 
 Trouble arose, and he was urged to assist them. 
 At first he refused, but afterward consented to 
 go for a month at least. Going to the Red Cloud 
 agency, he investigated and made a report. He 
 was kept there for eight months and the exciting 
 events that meantime occurred would fill a vol- 
 ume. He finally went back to Leavenworth, but 
 was induced to return to the agency, where he 
 spent a most trying winter and spring. 
 
 In the fall of 1877 Mr. Lowe was elected sher- 
 iff on the Democratic ticket, receiving a majority 
 of seven hundred. At the end of the term he was 
 re-elected and served until 18S2. Afterward he 
 gave his attention to the improving of his farms 
 in Kickapoo Township. In the fall of 1884 he 
 was elected to represent the third district in the 
 state senate, and served in the session of 1885, 
 the special session of 1886 and the session of 
 1887. During all of these sessions he was chair- 
 man of the committee on manufacturing and in- 
 dustrial pursuits; he also served as a member of 
 the committees on mines and mining and cities of 
 the first class. At the expiration of his term he 
 retired from office, not being a candidate for re- 
 election. From 1868 to 1870 he was president of 
 the city council. In 1S76 he was again president 
 of the council. He has always shown a deep in- 
 terest in educational matters and for a time was a 
 member of the board of education. For one year 
 and a-half he was police commissioner of Leaven- 
 worth, being appointed by Governor Humphrey. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Leavenworth 
 Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., also the chapter, 
 commandery and mystic .shrine. 
 
 In Clay County, Mo., Mr. Lowe married Miss 
 Margaret E. Gartin, daughter of Andrew Gartin, 
 a native of Virginia, and an early settler of Mis- 
 souri, later a pioneer government contractor and 
 freighter across the plains to California. Four 
 children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 
 Lowe, namely: Wilson G. S. and P. G., Jr.; 
 Jane E., wife of Capt. L. S. McConnick, of the 
 Seventh United States Cavalry; and Ellen, wife 
 of Samuel H. Wilson, who is connected with the 
 Great Western Manufacturing Company in Leav- 
 enworth. 
 
 pG|lLSON G. S. LOWE, who was for some 
 \ A / years engaged in the practice of law in 
 YV Leavenworth, Kans. , but is now an in- 
 structor in the Michigan Militarj' Academy at 
 Orchard Lake, Mich., was born in Leavenworth, 
 Kans., May 7, 1862, a son of Hon. P. G. and 
 Margaret E. (Gartin) Lowe. He traces his an- 
 cestrj- to England, but the family has been repre- 
 sented in New England from a very early period, 
 and in the various wars its members have borne 
 an honorable part. The ancestrj- in this country 
 is traced back to Peregrine White, the first white 
 child born in New England, and whose birth oc- 
 curred on the ' ' Mayflower' ' in Boston Harbor No- 
 vember 20, 1620. Peregrine White was a son of 
 William and Susanna White, the former of whom 
 died verj- shortly after the boat landed, and the 
 latter afterward was married to Edward Winslow. 
 It is said that she was the first mother, the fir.st 
 widow and one of the first brides in New England. 
 Her second husband, Edward Winslow, was the 
 first provincial governor of Massachusetts, and 
 her son, Josiah Winslow, was the first native 
 governor of the colony. In the writings of that 
 period Peregrine White is referred to as of "vigor- 
 ous and manly aspect." He settled at Marsh- 
 field, Mass., where the court, in consideration of 
 his birth, presented him with two hundred acres 
 of land. In that place he died July 22, 1704. 
 
 The education of our subject was begun in the 
 Leavenworth public and high schools. In 1879 
 he entered the Pennsylvania Military College at 
 Chester, from which he graduated in 1883, with 
 first honors and the degree of C. E. He was 
 senior cadet captain and the valedictorian of his 
 class. After graduating he was appointed cap- 
 tain of infantry, N. G. P., by Governor Pattison 
 of Pennsylvania, and was adjutant and assistant 
 instructor in mathematics and militarj' science for 
 one year in his alma mater at Chester. From 
 
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 September, 1885, to June, 1886, he was instructor 
 of military science and mathematicsin the Michi- 
 gan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, Mich. 
 He began the study of law with Hon. L- B. and 
 S. E. Wheat, of Leavenworth, and in 1888 was 
 admitted to the bar, after which he took the regu- 
 lar course of .study in the law department of 
 Washington University, St. Louis, from which he 
 graduated in 1891, with the degree of LL. B. 
 
 After leaving the law school Mr. Lowe spent 
 two years in Pasadena and Los Angeles, Cal., 
 associated with the firm of Wells, Monroe & 
 Lee, of Los Angeles. In 1893 he returned to 
 Leavenworth, where he engaged in the general 
 practice of law and was also attorney for the 
 Union Savings Bank. He acted as military in- 
 structor and captain of the Leavenworth high 
 school cadets for two years. In 1899 he accepted 
 a position with the Michigan Military Academy 
 at Orchard Lake, Mich., as adjutant and tactical 
 officer and instructor in law and civics. While 
 at Chester he was for two years president of his 
 class, and at St. Louis he was chancellor of the 
 Fellows of Equity in the university. On the 7th 
 of September, 1893, he married Miss Rosalie 
 Clarice Holmyard, who was born in England and 
 came with her brother to the United States in 
 1889. Onechild blesses their union, Percy Stuart 
 Lowe. 
 
 EAPT. PERCIVAL G. LOWE, Jr.. of Com- 
 pany F, Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, 
 now in Manila, was born in Leavenworth, 
 Kans., November 18, 1863, the second son of 
 Hon. Percival Green Lowe, Sr. He was edu- 
 cated in the schools of Leavenworth. In 1880 he 
 entered the Penn.sylvania Military College of 
 Chester, Pa., from which he graduated in 1883, 
 with the degree of C. E. Returning to Leaven- 
 worth, he was employed as assistant city engi- 
 neer. For two seasons he made government sur- 
 veys in western Kansas. September 29, 1885, he 
 enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth United States 
 Infantry, with which he served at the now aban- 
 doned military post of Fort Hays, Kans. In due 
 time he was made corporal and afterward pro- 
 moted to be sergeant. February 11, 1889, he 
 
 was commissioned second lieutenant of his com- 
 pany. His successive locations were Forts Hays 
 and Leavenworth, Kans., Clark and Bliss, Tex., 
 Sherman, Idaho, and Sheridan, near Chicago, 
 111. In 1895 he graduated from the infantry and 
 cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth. 
 
 The commission of first' lieutenant was given 
 him April 22, 1896. He was assigned to the 
 Fourth regiment of Infantry, but after a time was 
 transferred, with Lieutenant Gregg, to his old 
 regiment. While in command of Indian scouts 
 he saved one of his men from drowning, and for 
 this heroic act he was given the government life- 
 saving medal. Just prior to the opening of the 
 war with Spain he was ordered to Alaska on a 
 government exploring expedition, and made a 
 successful trip from Valdez inlet up Copper River 
 to Tenna River, thence to Dawson, returning to 
 Seattle in November, 1898, after an absence of 
 about seven months. In the spring of 1899 he 
 was made captain of Company F, Twenty-fifth 
 United States Infantry, and was sent to the Philip- 
 pines. Since then he has been selected by Gen- 
 eral Lawton as his chief of scouts and is in com- 
 mand of a select body of soldiers known as Lowe's 
 scouts. 
 
 (JOHN AARON, a retired farmer and stock- 
 I dealer residing in Leavenworth, was born 
 G) in Clarion County, Pa., April 3, 1828. His 
 father, George, was born in Westmoreland 
 County, Pa., and removed to Clarion County 
 about 1830, settling upon a farm, and devoting 
 the remainder of his life to .stock-raising and the 
 lumber business. He was one of five brothers 
 (the others being Joseph, Conrad, Thomas and 
 Daniel), who migrated from Westmoreland to 
 Clarion County and took up government land, 
 becoming in time the owners of extensive prop- 
 erties and opening up valuable iron works. They 
 became so prominent that the neighborhood in 
 which they located was known as the Aaron set- 
 tlement. Daniel and George were the politicians 
 of the family, and each held positions of trust 
 and responsibility within the gift of their fellow- 
 citizens. Their father, Joseph Aaron, was born 
 in southern Germany, and during the battle of 
 
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 Waterloo served as one of Bonaparte's life guards. 
 When the struggle was over and Wellington had 
 won the day, Mr. Aaron, for the last time 
 saw his illustrious leader, who exclaimed as they 
 met: " Oh, Joe, I thought you were among the 
 missing." Immediately after the battle Mr. 
 Aaron boarded a ship bound for America, and 
 after a long voyage landed in New York. Later 
 he settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., where 
 he became a prominent man and reared a large 
 family. 
 
 At the time of his death, George Aaron was 
 eighty-four years of age. His wife, who bore 
 the maiden name of Mary Rufner, is still living, 
 and makes her home with a daughter in Pitts- 
 l)urgh. Pa. She is now ninety-seven years of age. 
 Of their nine children, six are living, namely: 
 James, who lives in Delaware Township, Leaven- 
 worth County; Thomas H., of Illinois; John; 
 Margaret, who married James Crow; Joseph, of 
 Pennsylvania; and vSabilla, wife of Dr. Burgoon, 
 a physician in Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 In a log schoolhouse in Clarion County, Pa., 
 the subject of this sketch gained the rudiments 
 of his education, and to the knowledge there ob- 
 tained he afterward added by self-culture. He 
 made his start in life by working in the oil wells 
 of Pennsylvania, and by taking small contracts 
 for boring wells. In 1863 he went to Henry 
 County, 111., and purchased a farm, upon which 
 he began to raise cattle and hogs, and also en- 
 gaged in raising cereals. His landed possessions 
 aggregated six hundred acres. In 1875 he sold 
 out in Illinois and came to Kansas, settling in 
 the Salt Creek Valley in Leavenworth County, 
 where he purchased land to the amount of 
 $23,000 in value. He added to his original 
 acreage, and finally acquired five hundred and 
 forty acres of fine land, which he devoted to 
 stock-raising and general farming. Associated 
 with J. F. Taylor, he also farmed one thousand 
 acres of rented land. He made a specialty of 
 raising Poland-China hogs and Durham cattle. 
 For twenty-four years he made his home upon 
 the farm, but, finally, having accumulated a 
 competency for his declining years, he built a 
 comfortable home in Leavenworth and retired to 
 
 private life. He still finds, in the supervision of 
 his moneyed interests, sufficient to occupy his 
 attention. He is the owner of a number of claims 
 near Aspen, Colo., and has engaged in prospect- 
 ing and mining quite extensively. 
 
 January 17, 1849, Mr. Aaron married Mary 
 Newhouse, the daughter of German parents. 
 They are the parents of seven children: George, 
 a farmer in High Prairie Township, Leavenworth 
 County; Ellen, wife of John Davitts, a merchant 
 at Oak Mills; Mary, who married John Hund, a 
 farmer of Salt Creek Valley; Clara, wife of John 
 Bollin, a prominent stock-raiser of Leavenworth 
 County; John Augustine, who is engaged in the 
 breeding of fine stock on the old homestead; 
 Leo, a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, 
 now in St. Benedict's College in Atchison; and 
 Sarah, wife of Michael O'Neill, a retired farmer 
 of Illinois. In politics Mr. Aaron has always 
 been a Democrat, and has manifested an interest 
 in local affairs, but has never sought political 
 offices. 
 
 RICHARD J. WOSSER has spent his entire 
 life in Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth 
 County, where he was born February 22, 
 1869. He is a son of Richard Wosser, who was 
 born in Ireland in 1808 and in early manhood 
 emigrated to the United States, .spending some 
 years afterward in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, later making his home in Santa 
 Fe, N. M. In the different towns where he re- 
 sided he was engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing. From New Mexico he came to Leavenworth 
 about 1853 and was a pioneer of this town, some 
 of whose earliest buildings were erected by him- 
 self. In 1859 he moved to a farm six miles west 
 of Leavenworth, and there he continued to 
 reside, following his trade and cultivating his 
 land, until he became too old to engage in active 
 work. He was not interested in politics and never 
 accepted any ofiBces. During the border rufiian 
 days he stood firmly for the interests of his 
 county, state and nation, displaying the greatest 
 affection for the country of his adoption; but, 
 being a cripple, he was excused from service in 
 the army or militia. His death occurred in 1884, 
 
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 at the age of seventy-six j^ears. In 1858 he mar- 
 ried Miss Anna Donnelly, who is still living on 
 the old homestead. They were the parents of ten 
 children, namely: Mary, wife of Joseph Heintz- 
 elman; Thomas; Johanna, wife of Thomas Cahill; 
 Kate, who married Victor Heintzelnian; Victoria; 
 John; Richard J.; Annie, a Sister of Charity; 
 D. Edward and Nellie. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 district schools and the normal school at Fort 
 Scott. After his education was completed he 
 returned home and, with the assistance of his 
 brothers assumed the management of the home 
 farm of four hundred and fifty acres, which they 
 have since successfully cultivated. They have 
 given much attention to the raising of apples and 
 have on the land an orchard of four thousand 
 trees in good bearing condition. In the Horti- 
 cultural Society he has been secretary and vice- 
 president. Besides his work as a farmer he has 
 been salesman for a hardware company of lycaven- 
 worth and has traveled in its interests through 
 Kansas, where he has sold a large number of 
 harvesting machines and farm implements. 
 
 Politically Mr. Wosser is a Democrat. Upon 
 that ticket he was elected township clerk for two 
 years and constable for one term, also served as 
 township trustee for a term. In 1894 he was the 
 Democratic candidate for the legislature. In 
 1893 he served as clerk of the legislature at To- 
 peka, and while filling this position became well 
 known in the political circles of the state. As a 
 delegate from Leavenworth County he has at- 
 tended a number of state conventions of his party. 
 In the early days of the Farmers' Alliance he was 
 one of its first members, and assisted in organizing 
 a good many lodges throughout his county, serv- 
 ing as secretary and vice-president at different 
 times. Was also business agent. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Industrial Conference at St. Louis, 
 Mo., in 1892, when the People's party was or- 
 ganized. Mr. Wosser has also been a frequent 
 contributor to the local press. He believes it to 
 be his duty to take an intelligent interest in pub- 
 lic aflFairs and to keep posted concerning the 
 issues of the age. He is a worth}' representa- 
 tive of one of the pioneer families of Leaven- 
 
 worth County, and has many warm personal 
 friends among the people here. With his mother, 
 his brothers, John and Edward, and his sisters, 
 Victoria and Nellie, he occupies the old home- 
 stead, which has for so many years belonged to 
 the family and has, through their efforts, been 
 brought to so high a degree of cultivation. 
 
 GJNDREW J. PARNELL, Sr., a retired 
 LI farmer, residing in Lawrence, was born in 
 I I Buchanan County, Mo., August 8, 1841, a 
 son of Andrew and Maria (Wilson) Parnell. He 
 was one of eleven children, six now living: 
 Pleasant, a farmer of Douglas County; Benjamin 
 M., of Jefferson County; Martha J., widow of 
 David Side, of Vacaville, Cal. ; Andrew J.; 
 Nancy M., widow of James N. Sweeney, of Va- 
 caville, Cal.; and Cynthia, wife of Frederick 
 Hartman, of Atchison, Kans. The father was born 
 in Kentucky, March i, 1800, and when a youth 
 of sixteen accompanied his parents to Decatur 
 County, Ind., where he married and engaged in 
 farming. About 1834 he removed to Arkansas, 
 but the surroundings being unpleasant, after two 
 years he went to Missouri, settling near Dekalb, 
 Buchanan County. In 1859 he established his 
 home in Atchison County, Kans., and ten years 
 later settled in Jefferson County, where he died 
 in 1872. In religion he was a member of the 
 Christian Church. He was a Democrat until the 
 campaign of James Buchanan, after which he 
 voted with the Republicans. His father, John 
 Parnell, a native of Ireland, settled in Maryland 
 in an early day and served in the Revolutionary 
 war. 
 
 The schools of the frontier being very poor, our 
 subject had few advantages in youth. February 
 13, 1861, he married Miss Elvira Thompson, 
 who was born in Platte County, Mo., daughter 
 of Benjamin A. and Nancy (Baxter) Thompson. 
 Her father, a native of Kentucky, was in early 
 life a school teacher and later a brick and stone 
 mason. During early days he settled in Missouri 
 and i860 removed to Atchison County, Kans., 
 where he spent his last years. September i, 
 1862, our subject enlisted in Company F, Fif- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 teenth Kansas Infantr}', and saw service in south- 
 western Missouri and northwestern Arkansas, 
 also in the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw 
 nations, taking part in the battles of Prairie Grove 
 and Cain Hill, the capture of Van Buren and the 
 pursuit of Cooper. He was mustered out July 
 20, 1865. Afterward he engaged in farming in 
 Atchi-son Countj% Kans., for two years, then re- 
 moved to Jefferson County, where he bought 
 farm land and spent seventeen years. In 1884 
 he came to Douglas County, and purchased a 
 farm eight miles southwest of Lawrence, in Wa- 
 karusa Township. There he resided until 1891, 
 when he rented the place and removed to Law- 
 rence. In politics a Republican, be has several 
 times been a delegate to county conventions of 
 his party. He is a member of the Chri.stian 
 Church and Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. 
 Of his eleven children, seven are now living, the 
 eldest being Andrew J., Jr., commissioner of 
 Douglas County. The others are: Mary A., 
 wife of Addison M. Bowen, a farmer of Wakarusa 
 Township; Clara, wife of Charles Bunker, a taxi- 
 dermist connected with the University of Kansas; 
 Edward E., a jeweler of Kansas City; Cynthia, a 
 student of the high school, residing with her 
 father; Laura and Ira E., also at home. 
 
 GlNDREW JACKSON PARNELL, Jr., a 
 LA prosperous farmer of Clinton Township, is 
 / I one of the well-known men of Douglas 
 County. In local affairs he has taken a leading 
 part, being especially active in the Republican 
 party. In 1894, 1895 and 1896 he served as 
 township trustee. In 1S98 he was the successful 
 candidate for the ofiBce of county commissioner, 
 being elected by a good majority, notwithstand- 
 ing the fact that the district is Democratic, and 
 he vi'as the Republican nominee. His election, 
 under such apparently adverse conditions, is a 
 proof of his popularity as a citizen and his high 
 standing in the community. The third district, 
 which he represents upon the board, comprises 
 the townships of Willow Springs, Marion, Clin- 
 ton, Kanwaka and Lecompton. Besides his work 
 as commissioner he has also been interested in 
 
 educational matters and has rendered able service 
 as a member of the board of school directors. 
 As a trustee of the United Brethren Church he 
 has been helpful in promoting the welfare of the 
 congregation and the general interests of the de- 
 nomination. 
 
 Mr. Parnell was born in Atchison County, 
 Kans., Februarj- 9, 1864, and is a .son of Andrew 
 J. Parnell, Sr. In the schools near his home he 
 obtained a fair knowledge of the common branches 
 of study, and since leaving school he has in- 
 creased his fund of information bj- reading and 
 observation. September 2, 1886, he married 
 Miss Anna Bowen, who was born in Clinton 
 Township, September i, 1863. After his mar- 
 riage he settled upon a part of his wife's family 
 homestead in Clinton Township. After two 
 3'ears he began to cultivate rented land, spending 
 one year on the Hendry place and another on the 
 Graber homestead in Wakarusa Township. In 
 1891 he purchased a portion of the Bowen estate, 
 and here he has since made his home. He and 
 his wife have three children living: Mabel, born 
 May 12, 1S90; Elroy S., October 29, 1894; and 
 Eunice, August 28, 1898. 
 
 (TOHN AUGUSTINE AARON, who is fa- 
 I miliarly known as " Gus " Aaron, is one of 
 (2/ the influential and prosperous agricultur- 
 ists of Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth Coun- 
 ty, where he occupies and manages the old 
 homestead for years superintended by his father, 
 John Aaron. Having made a life study of the 
 raising of cereals and breeding of stock, he is 
 admirably qualified to succeed as an agricultur- 
 ist. His specialty has been the raising of fine 
 stock, particularly hogs, which he keeps in a 
 health}' condition, thus producing a goodqualit}- 
 of pork. In the raising of cereals he has adopted 
 the plan of rotation of crops, and about once in 
 three years changes his crops, thus securing bet- 
 ter and larger harvests. A progressive farmer, 
 he keeps abreast with every improvement made 
 in agriculture, and is a leading representative of 
 the farming community of Salt Creek Valley. 
 Mr. Aaron was born in Westmoreland County, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD. 
 
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 Pa., February 18, 1861. He was reared in 
 Henry County, 111., and received common-school 
 advantages. He was fifteen when he accom- 
 panied his parents to Kansas. On the farm 
 where he now lives he grew to manhood, and 
 about 1 888 he succeeded to the management of 
 the property, which comprises three hundred 
 and seventy acres of fine farming land. He has 
 since given his attention to the raising of general 
 farm products. In stock, his specialties have 
 been Poland-China hogs and Shorthorn cattle. 
 His attention has been given to his farm work, 
 to the exclusion of politics and public affairs, and 
 he has had no inclination to seek oflBce or posi- 
 tions of local prominence. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Modern Woodmen of America 
 and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, of 
 which latter he was for two years president and 
 is now the recording secretary. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Aaron to Miss Josephine 
 Bollin took place May 19, 1885. They are the 
 parents of six children: Florence, Leo, Benedict, 
 Clarence, Frances and Augustine Michael. 
 
 (John H. whetstone, founder of the 
 I town of Pomona, Franklin County, was born 
 G/ in Hardin County, Ky., in 1829, a descend- 
 ant of German ancestors who settled in Pennsyl- 
 vania in a very early day, and a son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Whetstone) Whetstone, members of 
 different branches of the same family. His father, 
 who was a native of Bedford County, Pa., settled 
 in Kentucky' when that state was still sparsely 
 settled. During the early '30s he moved t® 
 Coles County, 111., where he followed the mechan- 
 ic's trade and farm pursuits until his death at 
 fifty years of age. His wife died in Pomona in 
 1897, when ninety-four years old. They were the 
 parents of five children, of whom two daughters 
 and one son survive. The daughters are Cath- 
 erine, widow of John Van Meter, and Hannah, 
 widow of James Walker. 
 
 When our subject was four years of age his 
 parents settled in Illinois. Early in life he be- 
 came familiar with frontier life on a farm. In- 
 dustrious and capable, he was self-supporting at 
 
 a time when young men are usually in school. 
 For some years he not only followed farm pur- 
 suits, but al.so bought and shipped stock and 
 carried on a mercantile business at Windsor, 111. 
 Coming to Ottawa in 1863, he settled where 
 Ottawa now stands. There was no town there 
 then, but simply what was known as the Ohio 
 Crossing of the Marais des Cygnes. He became 
 a member of the town company which had just 
 been organized, and assisted in laying out and 
 building up the town. From 1864 to 1874 he 
 made his home there, meantime engaging in the 
 real-estate, building and mercantile business. 
 He assisted in building many of the public build- 
 ings still in use, among them the Occidental hotel, 
 the count}' jail, and was the prime mover in the 
 erection of the old brick building known as Cen- 
 tral school, which was built in spite of much 
 opposition. In 1865-66 he owned the principal 
 portion of the tract now comprising Forest Park, 
 and he assisted materially in improving and lay- 
 ing out the park. Perhaps there is no man now 
 living who has done more than he toward the 
 early development of Ottawa. Going to St. 
 Louis, he assisted in making the first map of 
 Kansas and marked out all the railroads that now 
 enter Ottawa. 
 
 In the year 1869 Mr. Whetstone bought fifteen 
 thousand acres of land ten miles west of Ottawa. 
 Two years later he laid out the town of Pomona 
 on this land and organized the town, to which in 
 1S74 he brought his family. Believing he could 
 make a success of the fruit business here, he set 
 out thirty thousand trees, and now has four hun- 
 dred acres in fruit, mostly apples. He is often 
 called the "apple king" of Franklin County. 
 Through careful grafting he has introduced new 
 varieties of fruit, and he is considered an author- 
 ity on the subject of horticulture. His judgment 
 is often sought on matters pertaining to fruit rais- 
 ing, and he has contributed many articles to hor- 
 ticultural journals. In addition to the fruit busi- 
 ness he is engaged in raising and selling trees, 
 and has a large nursery on his property. His 
 sales of fruit are not limited to his own county or 
 state, but he has made shipments across the ocean 
 to Europe. At this writing he owns thirteen 
 
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 hnndred acres of land, of which one hundred and 
 fifty acres are in corn. He is now promoting the 
 organization of a Farmers' Exchange to be estab- 
 lished in Pomona, which will undoubtedly do 
 much to benefit the town. 
 
 Every measure for the development of material 
 resources of town and county receives Mr. Whet- 
 stone's endorsement. He is a very frank, out- 
 spoken man, and in the expression of his opin- 
 ions is always open. He holds to the principles 
 of the People's party, but he has never cared for 
 political prominence or official honors, preferring 
 rather to devote himself wholly to his large busi- 
 ness interests. 
 
 The Pomona Fruit Company is one of the most 
 flourishing industries of Pomona. It was organ- 
 ized in the summer of 1898, when Mrs. J. J. 
 Whetstone and Mrs. J&ssie Maxey began, as an 
 experiment, to put up fruits and jellies for the 
 market. They met with such success that in the 
 summer of 1899 they enlarged the business and 
 furnished employment to sixteen persons. It is 
 their intention, in 1900, to double the capacity of 
 the factory. 
 
 DGAR J. HUMPHREYS. The story of the 
 >) life of Mr. Humphreys is the record of 
 ^ eastern thrift grafted on western energy. 
 Not only was he a pioneer of Leavenworth Coun- 
 ty, but also one of its honored citizens and suc- 
 cessful men. In his early life he did not have 
 many advantages, for his parents were poor, and 
 he was therefore obliged to contribute toward his 
 own support as soon as he was physically able to 
 perform any kind of manual labor. Instead of 
 being injurious to him, however, the trait of self- 
 reliance developed by his early experiences in the 
 world was a prominent factor entering into his 
 subsequent success. 
 
 When about seven years old Mr. Humphreys 
 was taken to Tennessee by his parents, so that he 
 has little knowledge of Virginia, where he was 
 bora in January, 1825. When about fifteen he 
 went north to Peoria, 111., and there he learned 
 the cooper's trade. Working during the day, it 
 was his custom to attend school at night, and in 
 this way he gained a fair education. At the age 
 
 of nineteen he entered a drug store and later 
 opened the first exclusive drug store in the city, 
 which he conducted until 1856. He had no 
 capital with which to start in business and it was 
 solely due to his foresight and industry that he 
 secured a start. He was a tireless worker. The 
 brick used in the building of his store in Peoria 
 was carried by himself, and there was no work so 
 humble that he refused to do it, if hereby his 
 success might be promoted. 
 
 The year 1856 found Mr. Humphreys in Leav- 
 enworth. After a short time he pre-empted one 
 hundred and sixty acres near Atchison. In the 
 fall of 1857 he removed to Bloomington, 111., and 
 there conducted a grocery for three years. Re- 
 turning to Leavenworth in i860, he established a 
 drug store which was operated successfully under 
 the successive titles of E. J. Humphrej's, Humph- 
 reys & Dillworth, and Humphreys & Davis. 
 This business he conducted until his death, which 
 occurred November 27, 1891. It is now carried 
 on by his son, Sylvester E. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Humphreys purchased one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land that now joins the 
 village of Fairmount, in Leavenworth Countj'. 
 This he improved and afterward made his home 
 as long as he lived. At different times he added 
 to the property until it consisted of eight hundred 
 acres of valuable and well-improved laud. This 
 property and his extensive business formed the 
 larger part of his estate, which at his death was 
 divided among his family. He was a man whose 
 life was guided by sincere Christian principles 
 and who lived up to the standard of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, of which he was a member. 
 He never cared for office and was never prevailed 
 upon to accept any political position, his tastes 
 not being in that direction. In politics he was a 
 Republican, but liberal in his views and believed 
 that in local matters the best man should always 
 be supported. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Humphreys married Miss Marilla 
 Decker, of New York state, who died in 1871, at 
 the age of forty-one years. She was a member 
 of the Baptist Church and a ladj' whose life was 
 devoted to the welfare of her family. In 1875 he 
 married Eleanor E. Swain, of Illinois. Of his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 children, the eldest, Sylvester E., is represented 
 elsewhere in this work. John S. and James W. 
 now own the greater part of the old homestead, 
 which they cultivate and on which they engage 
 in raising stock. They have made a specialty of 
 the creamery business, and have from forty to 
 fifty Jersey milch cows on their place. Of more 
 recent years they have turned their attention to 
 the fruit business, and now have an apple orchard 
 covering one hundred and fifty acres, and contain- 
 ing twelve thousand trees. The other members 
 of the family are Laura, wife of S. H. Holmes, of 
 Leavenworth; Edwin J., who is engaged in the 
 mercantile business at Fairmount and also owns 
 an orchard of sixt3'-five acres; and Lulu M., wife 
 of Nathan E. Van Tu3'l, an attorney of Leaven- 
 worth. 
 
 [5)0TTLIEB MAIER. From a very early 
 l_ period in the settlement of Leavenworth 
 \^ until his death Mr. Maier was closely asso- 
 ciated with the history of Leavenworth County 
 and particularly with Easton Township, of which 
 he was among the most successful stock-raisers 
 and general farmers. When he arrived in Leav- 
 enworth, in March, 1858, the town had only 
 about one hundred and fifty people. During the 
 later days, when freighting across the plains was 
 a profitable source of revenue, he followed this 
 occupation in the employ of the government. 
 Shortly after the close of the Civil war he bought 
 eighty acres in Easton Township, and upon it he 
 began farming. He was so successful that from 
 time to time he added to his possessions, which, 
 at the time of his death, embraced four hundred 
 and sixty acres. The land which comprised his 
 home farm consisted of two hundred and fifty-five 
 acres, seventy-five acres being bottom land. He 
 also had a large tract in blue grass, which was 
 used for pasture land, and ninety acres which he 
 placed under cultivation. The farm was supplied 
 by him with modern machinery, suitable build- 
 ings, good fencing, and all the improvements of a 
 model estate. There was planted, under his 
 supervision, an orchard of apple, pear and peach 
 trees, and he also had a vineyard of five hundred 
 or more vines. Through the southern part of 
 
 the farm the Kansas City division of the Union 
 Pacific road ran. While oats, corn and wheat 
 were raised, the owner's specialty was the stock 
 business, and in it he met with gratifying success. 
 
 Born in Wurtemberg, Germany, January 13, 
 1831, Mr. Maier came to the United States in 
 early manhood and settled in Louisville, Ind., 
 where he was employed as section foreman in 
 railroad building for a number of years. From 
 there he came to Kansas, and was afterward one 
 of the prominent German-American residents of 
 Leavenworth County. In politics a Democrat, 
 he was elected township treasurer on that ticket 
 and filled the office for several years. He was also 
 a member of the school board. In the work of 
 the German Lutheran Church he took an active 
 part, contributing generously to its support. He 
 continued to reside upon his farm in Easton 
 Township until his death, which occurred May 
 26, 1892, at the age of sixty-two years. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. Maier married Johanna Kimmerle, 
 who died in 1883, leaving three children: Lena, 
 wife of Charles Gwartney, a farmer of Easton 
 Township; Frederick, of Texas; and Louisa, 
 wife of John Wonder. The second marriage of 
 Mr. Maier, December 19, 1884, united him with 
 Mrs. Mary (Walter) Koehler, widow of Anton 
 Koehler, and by her fir.st marriage the mother of 
 a daughter, Louisa Koehler, deceased. The 
 three children born of Mr. Maier' s second mar- 
 riage are Annie M., Christian G. and John F. , 
 who, since the death of their father, have re- 
 mained with their mother in the village of Easton. 
 Mrs. Maier is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 0G. OLSON. In point of years of business 
 activity Mr. Olson is the oldest stone con- 
 tractor in Lawrence, and he has also been 
 one of the most prominent and successful as well. 
 He was born in Westrejotlan, Sweden, March 11, 
 1841, a son of O. P. and Anna Maria (Foosborg) 
 Olson. His father, who was born on the same 
 farm as himself, has spent his entire life in one 
 neighborhood and is now the owner of the estate, 
 "Haltorp," where he makes his home. He mar- 
 ried a lady who was a native of the same locality 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and who was a widow at the time of their mar- 
 riage. They became the parents of seven chil- 
 dren, of whom our subject was the only one that 
 settled in the United States. He was reared on a 
 farm and received public school advantages. At 
 the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to the 
 stonecutter's trade, remaining in the employ of a 
 railroad contractor for two years, after which he 
 was engaged in the construction of a large rail- 
 road tunnel near Stockholm. His next work, 
 which occupied a year, was the construction of a 
 stone fort at Waxholm. In common with the 
 custom in Sweden, he entered the army at twenty- 
 one years of age and remained for two years. 
 
 Coming to America in 1868, Mr. Olson settled 
 in Lawrence in April of that year, and here he 
 engaged in stone-cutting. He was first employed 
 by the Kansas City & Fort Scott Railroad, after 
 which he was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
 road. In 1870 he was made foreman of bridge- 
 building in the stone department of the latter 
 road, where he remained for over two years, after 
 which he was employed for a year on a branch of 
 the road from Sedalia. He had made Lawrence 
 his headquarters during all this time and on his 
 return he resumed contracting in this citj\ He 
 was married in Denver, Colo., in 1S74, to Miss 
 Matilda Engstrom, who was born in Smoland, 
 Sweden, a daughter of Nils and Annie Eng.strom, 
 both of whom died within a year of each other. 
 She was the youngest of five children and came 
 to America in 1869, settling in LaPorte, Ind., but 
 30on removing to Lawrence, Kans., and in 1872 
 going to Denver, Colo. 
 
 For six months Mr. OLson was employed by the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company on its 
 eastern division. He then returned to Lawrence 
 md engaged in contracting and building, having 
 1 stone yard on the Santa Fe Railroad. He has 
 "urnished the stone for the Haskell Institute, 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Watkins bank, 
 several university buildings, and many of the 
 inest residences in Lawrence, and has also had 
 contracts for curbing and furnished the cut stone 
 "or the water works. He is a stockholder in the 
 ^Vatkins National Bank and is a successful busi- 
 less man. He and his wife had four children, 
 
 namely: Annie and Mamie, who died in child- 
 hood; Emil, who is a student in the Lawrence 
 Business College; and Carl. At one time Mr. 
 Olson was connected with the Odd Fellows, but 
 of late years he has allowed his membership in 
 that order to lapse. He took an active part in the 
 organization of the Swedish Lutheran Church in 
 Lawrence, and has served as one of its trustees 
 and a member of its building committee. In 
 politics he has been identified with the Repub- 
 lican party ever since becoming a citizen of the 
 United States. 
 
 MOLOMON A. HESTER, a pioneer of 1857 
 ^\ in Kansas, and a soldier in the Civil war, 
 >*J/ has made his home in Ottawa since 1885, 
 during which year he became interested in a hack 
 business here. In September, 1894, he opened a 
 livery barn in partnership with Mr. Kiler, but in 
 February, 1897, lie bought his partner's interest 
 and has since carried on the business alone. He 
 originated the name of Hotel de Hoss for his liv- 
 ery barn, which is the largest in the city, having 
 twentj'-three head of horses, as well as a baggage 
 and omnibus line. 
 
 Born in Flemingsburg, Ky., February 4, 1834, 
 our subject is a son of Christopher and Mary 
 (Secrist) Hester, and a grandson of John Hester 
 and Joseph Secrist. His paternal grandfather, 
 who was born in Pennsylvania and removed to 
 Kentucky, was one of two brothers, the other of 
 whom was captured by the Indians, and by them 
 burned at the stake in what is now Sandusky, 
 Ohio. Christopher Hester was born in Flem- 
 ingsburg, Ky., in 1808, and accompanied his 
 father to Montgomery County, Ind., taking with 
 him his wife and two children, one of whom, 
 Solomon A., was six months old. In 1841 he 
 settled in Jones County, Iowa, whence in 1853 
 he went to Tama County, the same state. In 
 September, 1858, he drove to Kansas, and the 
 next year he moved to this state, buying a farm 
 in what is now Cutler (then Peoria) Township, 
 Franklin County. At this writing he owns and 
 resides upon a large farm in Anderson County, 
 and, though ninety-one j'ears of age, he is in ex- 
 cellent health. He was one of a family of nine. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 three of whom are still living. His wife was 
 born in Kentucky, of Irish descent, and died in 
 Kansas in 1874. Of their ten children seven are 
 living. One of the sons, Joseph was a soldier in 
 the Sixteenth Kansas Infantry during the Civil 
 war. 
 
 At the time the family removed to Iowa the 
 subject of this sketch was seven years of age, and 
 he remembers the trip, which was made by ox- 
 teams, crossing the Mississippi at Burlington. 
 He aided in clearing the home farm, six miles 
 south of Anamosa, and when only eleven years 
 of age he drove five yoke of cattle used in tilling 
 the soil. In 1855, when twenty-one years of age, 
 he broke one hundred and thirty-five acres of 
 prairie land in two mouths. Leaving Tama 
 County early in 1857, he made his way westward 
 via team, crossing the Missouri at Lexington. 
 After a journey of twenty days he reached Frank- 
 lin Couuty March 21, and bought a claim one 
 mile east of what is Rantoul, Cutler Township. 
 Here he found the grass sod less tough than the 
 soil of Iowa, and with two yoke of oxen he 
 broke the prairie and improved the farm. Dur- 
 ing the first year in the west he raised both corn 
 and wheat. The land, which he bought at an 
 Indian sale for $1.75 an acre, he sold at a fair 
 profit in i860. He then spent a year in Palmyra 
 Township, Douglas County, after which he 
 traded for a farm one mile west of Rantoul, and 
 comprising two hundred and sixty acres. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Hester enlisted in Company D, 
 Second Kansas Mounted Infantry, and was mus- 
 tered in at Leavenworth, whence he went with 
 four companies to Fort Union, N. M. Two years 
 later the Second was mustered out of service as 
 mounted infantry, and he then enlisted in the 
 Second Kansas Cavalry and was sent to Fort 
 Smith, Ark. He took part in the battles of Wil- 
 son Creek and Westport, fighting Price as the 
 latter retreated into Arkansas. During Quan- 
 trell'sraid, in a battle on Tower Creek, Franklin 
 County, a bullet grazed his jugular vein, giving 
 him a very narrow escape. He remained in the 
 service until September, 1865, when he was hon- 
 orably discharged at Leavenworth. He then re- 
 turned to his farm, where he afterward engaged 
 
 in farm pursuits for twenty j'ears, and during 
 that time, for two years, he engaged in the 
 manufacture of lumber. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Hester took place in 
 Cutler Township in 1858, and united him with 
 Mary E. Perkins, who died in 1869, leaving three 
 children, Mary E., Zoe and Juda. He was after- 
 ward married in the same township to Miss Olive 
 E. Bartram, who was born in Ohio. They be- 
 came the parents of seven children, who are as 
 follows: Mrs. Cora McCrea, who lives near 
 Richmond, Kans.; Zetta Grace, Elva and Clara, 
 at home; Milo C, now in Miami County; Harry 
 A., in lola, Kans.; and Scott A., who assists his 
 father in business. 
 
 From an early age Mr. Hester has been a stal- 
 wart Democrat. For eleven years he was a trus- 
 tee of Cutler Township, and for two years repre- 
 sented the first ward of Ottawa in the city coun- 
 cil, where he served as chairman of the commit- 
 tee on streets and alleys. He is connected with 
 the Degree of Honor and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, in which he has been an officer. 
 While not identified with any denomination, he 
 aids in the support of the Baptist Church, to 
 which his wife belongs. 
 
 HARRY W. KOOHLER, general manager 
 and a director of the People's Telephone 
 Company of Leavenworth, and coroner 
 of Leavenworth County, was born in Jonesboro, 
 Union County, 111., February 20, 1864, the oldest 
 child of August and Caroline (Rethey) Koohler, 
 natives respectively of Baden and Freiburg, 
 Germany. His father, who came with his parents 
 to America in boyhood, settled in Union County, 
 111., where he engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing and also had mercantile interests. His 
 death occurred in Cobden, Union Couuty, when 
 he was sixty-one years of age. During the Civil 
 war he offered his services to the Union, but was 
 rejected. His wife is still living and makes her 
 home in Cobden. Of their six children three are 
 living. 
 
 From childhood the subject of this sketch lived 
 in Cobden and attended its grammar and high 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 schools. At seventeen he began to study tele- 
 graphy in the office of the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road at Cobden, and after a time he was made 
 operator in that town, later being transferred to 
 Kensington. In 1881 he traveled through Kan- 
 sas and Nebraska, and afterward was in the em- 
 ploy of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in 
 the Indian Territory for a year. The confine- 
 ment of office work having injured his health he 
 resigned, and afterward for two and one-half 
 years he engaged in the construction of telegraph 
 lines. As foreman of construction for the General 
 Electric Company of Chicago he was employed 
 in putting up electric light plants in different 
 parts of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, remaining 
 in this position for eighteen months. After hav- 
 ing put up the electric light plant and works at 
 Independence, Mo., he was made .superintendent 
 of the same, and that position he held for some 
 lime. Later, for three and one-half years he was 
 assistant foreman of construction of the Kansas 
 City Electric Light Company. In 1891 he came 
 to Leavenworth as foreman of construction of the 
 Leavenworth Lighting & Heating Company, 
 which position he filled for a year, and afterward 
 had complete charge of the works until 1895. 
 Since then he has been manager of the People's 
 Telephone Company, in which he is also a di- 
 rector. Under his .supervision the company has 
 been very successful. Over six hundred telephones 
 have been put up in business houses and resi- 
 dences, and the enterprise has been conducted to 
 the satisfaction of all. He was formerly interest- 
 ed in the factory where targets were manufactured, 
 but it is now closed. 
 
 Mr. Koohler is very fond of athletic sports. 
 He is an expert marksman and an unerring shot. 
 On the organization of the Leavenworth Gun 
 Club he became a member of it, and is now its 
 secretery. Frequently he has taken part in vari- 
 ous contests in different states. 
 
 As a Republican, and as a member of city and 
 county executive committees, he has been prom- 
 inent in politics. In the fall of 1898, on the Re- 
 publican ticket, he was elected county coroner by 
 a majority ofone hundred and thirty-nine, against 
 his opponent, who was the candidate of both 
 
 Democrats and Populists. He was the only one 
 elected on the countj- Republican ticket, which 
 fact speaks much for his abilitj' and popularity. 
 He took the oath of office December 21, 1898, 
 and has since filled the position to the satisfaction 
 of all concerned. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and King 
 Solomon's Lodge No. 10, A. F. &A. M. In 
 Sedalia, Mo., he married Miss Ella Leiter, by 
 whom he has a daughter, Nina. 
 
 30HN B. GREEVER. Kansas has proved to 
 be so admirably adapted to the stock busi- 
 ness that it is not surprising many men have 
 engaged in this occupation. Among the leading 
 stockmen of Leavenworth County mention be- 
 longs to Mr. Greever, who owns a fine farm of 
 three hundred and sixty acres, situated in Stran- 
 ger Township. While to some extent he carries 
 on general farm pursuits, the stock bu.siness has 
 been his principal industry, and in it he has met 
 with gratifying success. He buys and feeds 
 cattle to be sold in the markets; also breeds trot- 
 ting horses and owns Ouray, son of Onward, 
 with a record of 2:28^, and Hoke, a fine stand- 
 ard-bred trotting horse. 
 
 Mr. Greever was born in Savannah, Anderson 
 County, Mo., October 21, i860, and is a brother 
 of Charles F. Greever, in whose sketch the fam- 
 ily history appears. When he was eight j'ears 
 of age he accompanied his parents to Leaven- 
 worth County. His education was received in 
 common schools. When twenty-three years of 
 age he left home and secured employment as a 
 guard in the state penitentiary, where he re- 
 mained for twelve years. In 1895 he leased the 
 farm where he now lives, and here he has since 
 given his attention largely to the breeding of 
 horses. His marriage took place in 1888 and 
 united him with Miss Mary Ranus, of Leaven- 
 worth Count}'. They have five children, George 
 D., Paul R., John B., Jr., Charles Francis and 
 Edna. 
 
 Upon the Democratic ticket Mr. Greever has 
 been elected to the various township offices, and 
 as an official he has been prompt, systematic and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 707 
 
 faithful. He and his wife are members of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in which, as in 
 general society, they are popular and prominent. 
 Fraternally he is identified with Lansing Lodge 
 No. 49, A. F. & A. M., in which he is past mas- 
 ter. He is also connected with Lodge No. 277, 
 A. O. U. W. , at Lansing, and is past chancellor 
 of Tonganoxie Lodge No. 125, K. of P., in 
 Tonganoxie. 
 
 QOHN PETER HUESGEN was born in 
 I Cologne, Germany, March 17, 1820. A 
 Q) member of an old family of that country, he 
 was himself its first representative in America, 
 crossing the ocean in young manhood and settling 
 in St. Louis during the '50s. There he em- 
 barked in the grocery business at the corner of 
 Twenty-second and Franklin avenue and was 
 successful. In St. Louis he married Helena 
 Herrig, who was born in Trier, Germany, and 
 who had come to St. Louis with her parents in 
 1855. Four daughters and one son were born of 
 this union. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Huesgen sold out his business in 
 St. Louis and came to Leavenworth with his 
 family. Railroads west of St. Louis were then 
 not known and all travel was with the old-time 
 steamboat, which is now looked upon as very 
 slow in this age of iron. Arriving in Leaven- 
 worth, which was then nothing but a diminutive 
 settlement, he opened a grocery at the corner of 
 Second and Pottawatomie streets, where he pros- 
 pered, and in 1859 moved to the corner of Fifth 
 and Miami streets (in what was then the woods), 
 and conducted a grocery, having put up a build- 
 ing of his own. In course of time he erected 
 the Huesgen block, a substantial structure, 
 125x125 in dimensions. Leavenworth was then 
 nothing but woods, and the lots which he built 
 on had to be cleared ot brush and trees. So Mr. 
 Huesgen was in every sense a pioneer in the set- 
 tlement of Leavenworth and watched its growth 
 with pride. 
 
 During the Civil war he enlisted and was com- 
 missioned captain of a volunteer company which 
 was hastily organized at the time of the memor- 
 able Price raid, when Leavenworth was threatened 
 
 and there was a furore of excitement, such as all 
 old-timers will remember. In religion a Roman 
 Catholic, he was one of the charter members of 
 St. Joseph's Church, on Broadway, and always 
 maintained the deepest interest in its work. 
 Though not active in politics, he was a stanch 
 Democrat and never failed to vote the party 
 ticket. He continued to make his home in Leav- 
 enworth until his death, which occurred March 
 2, 1896. 
 
 His son, John Peter Huesgen, Jr., conducts a 
 drug store at the corner of Fifth and Miami 
 streets. 
 
 HENRY KNOLLMANN. While Leaven- 
 worth owes a debt of inestimable gratitude 
 to its brave pioneers, its early settlers, to 
 whose brave endurance of manifold hardships its 
 growth was almost wholly due; yet, after all, 
 whatever success it may have in the future, 
 whatever standing it may attain, depends upon 
 the younger generation, those who have in recent 
 years entered the field of commerce. As a rep- 
 resentative of these younger business men no 
 one stands higher than the senior member of the 
 firm of H. Knollmann& Co., retail grocers, and 
 dealers in meats, grain, flour and feed. The firm, 
 which consists of H. Knollmann and H. R. 
 Koch, occupies a building of two stories, 50x100 
 feet, at No. 200 Chestnut street, where, under the 
 personal management of Mr. Knollmann, an im- 
 portant and growing business has been estab- 
 lished. 
 
 . As the name indicates, Mr. Knollmann is 
 of German ancestry. His grandfather, Henry 
 Knollmann, a native of Hanover, emigrated to 
 America and settled in Dearborn County, Ind., 
 where he engaged in farming. Fred H. Knoll- 
 mann, our subject's father, was born in Aurora, 
 Dearborn County, and in early life engaged in 
 bridge contracting and in freighting on the Ohio 
 and Mississippi Rivers. In 1866 he settled in 
 Leavenworth County, buying a farm at Mill^ 
 wood, Easton Township, where he improved and 
 cultivated a quarter- section of land. He is still 
 living on this place. In religion he is connected 
 with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. He mar- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ried Clara Niemann , who was born in Hanover, 
 Germany, and accompanied her father, Conrad 
 Niemann, to the United States, settling in Platte 
 County, Mo. ; her father afterward made his home 
 with his children until he died, in 1868. 
 
 The eldest of a family of two sons and two 
 daughters, the subject of this sketch was born in 
 Leavenworth March 17, 1869. He was reared 
 on the home farm and attended the public schools, 
 also Leavenworth Business College, from which 
 he graduated in 1887. For four j-ears he was 
 employed as a clerk and bookkeeper for A. Kir- 
 meyer, then was promoted to be manager of the 
 store, which position he filled for three j-ears. In 
 November, 1896, with H. R. Koch, he estab- 
 lished the business which has since been so suc- 
 cessfully conducted, and which owes its develop- 
 ment to his energy, ability and perseverance. 
 He is a man who wins the confidence of the peo- 
 ple and who never abuses that confidence. He 
 is regarded as an honest and honorable business 
 man, one who, in every tran.saction, acts in a 
 manner above reproach. His time has been given 
 so closely to business that he has no time for pol- 
 itics, even if his inclinations were in the direction 
 of public affairs. In religion he is connected 
 with St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Knollmaun took place in 
 Leavenworth in November, 1S96, and united him 
 with Miss Clara Koch, daughter of Henry and 
 Louisa Koch, and a native of Germany. A son, 
 Walter, blesses their union. 
 
 NERVEY B. PEAIRS, superintendent of Has- 
 kell Institute, has become very prominent in 
 the Indian .service of the government. 
 Original in his plans, full of energy, with an 
 abundance of determination to carry out his pro- 
 jects, he has infused new life in the institution of 
 which he is the head. Through Congressman 
 Curtis he secured an appropriation for the up- 
 building of the school which has rendered possible 
 many improvements, notable among these being 
 the erection of a new auditorium. Under his 
 supervision the course of study has been revised 
 and the industrial department has been placed up- 
 
 on an educational basis, a manual training school 
 has been establi.shed in which theltrades are taught, 
 also a domestic science department, in which girls 
 are instructed in cooking and sewing. When he 
 first became connected with the institute, in 1887, 
 there were only three buildings, two hundred and 
 forty acres and two hundred and fifty pupils; at 
 this writing there are six hundred and fifty acres, 
 supplied with a full complement of buildings, in 
 which instruction is furnished to five hundred and 
 fifty-two pupils. The institute was founded in 
 1883 and opened for students the following year, 
 but its growth at first was slow and for a time 
 interest in it lay dormant. Now, however, its 
 usefulness is apparent to all and its success has 
 been constantly increasing. The erection of the 
 large chapel in 1898 added to the accommodations, 
 while the main building, erected in 1889, with 
 superintendent's residence, laundry, shops, etc., 
 constitute the other buildings utilized for institute 
 work. 
 
 John B., son of John Peairs, was born in Mus- 
 kingum County, Ohio, in 1832, of Welsh descent. 
 He was reared on a farm and early became famil- 
 iar with agriculture. In 1876 he came to Kansas 
 and settled on a farm near Vinland, but after hav- 
 ing cultivated land there for some time he settled 
 in Lawrence three years before his death. He 
 married Jerusha H. Davis, who was born in 
 Philadelphia and died in Kansas in 1898. She 
 was a daughter of Emmor Davis, who came to 
 this country from Wales, settling first in Phila- 
 delphia, but later removed to a farm in Belmont 
 County, Ohio. The children of John B. and 
 Jerusha H. Peairs were named as follows: C. A., 
 formerly a teacher, but now cultivating the home 
 farm in Palmyra, Kans. ; Mrs. Anna E. Andrews, 
 also of Palmyra; H. A. , an attorney in Los Angel- 
 es, Cal.; J. E., who served as superintendent of 
 schools in Douglas County, Kans., for eight 
 years, retiring in January, 1899, and is now in 
 the Kansas City Medical College; F. L., attorney - 
 at-law with the Fraternal Aid Association; Her- 
 vey B., and Maurice E. , w'ho is with the Laud 
 and Abstract Compau}', of Portland, Ore. 
 
 Near Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, 
 our subject was born May 11, 1866. He came 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 709 
 
 to Kansas in 1S76 and attended the high school 
 at Vinland until 1881, after which he spent two 
 j'earsin the University of Kansas and then taught 
 for two years in Osage County. A course of eight- 
 een months in the normal school at Emporia com- 
 pleted his education. In 1887 he became a 
 teacher in Haskell Institute, and after one year 
 was appointed industrial teacher, being trans- 
 ferred from the regular school department. His 
 next appointment was that of assistant principal. 
 For four aud one-half years he served as discip- 
 linarian and for five years was principal teacher, 
 after which he was made assistant superintendent. 
 In April, 1897, he was appointed supervisor of 
 Indian schools and as such traveled for one year, 
 inspecting the schools in different parts of the 
 United States. Returning to Haskell in April, 
 1898, he accepted an appointment as superintend- 
 ent, which position he now fills. He has been 
 active in the United States Indian School Institute 
 since its start and has served as its chairman. 
 He is also a member of the National Educational 
 Association. In the First Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Ivawrence he has been a member of the 
 official board and superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school. He was made a Mason in Lawrence 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. In this city, July 
 30, 1890, he married Miss Carrie E. Reece, who 
 was born here, her father, V. L. Reece, having 
 settled in Douglas County in 1854. They are 
 the parents of four children: Lawrence, Ruth, 
 Helen and Gertrude. 
 
 yyi ICHAEL McCarthy, councilman for the 
 y first ward of Ottawa, was born in County 
 Kerry, Ireland, August 17, 1856, a son of 
 Timothy and Margaret (Shea) McCarthy. He 
 represented the seventeenth generation in direct 
 line that was born on the same old homestead in 
 Fermoyle, and it is said of all of them that they 
 were honorable men, who desired to live peace- 
 ably with all. His father died in 1886, at eighty- 
 seven years of age, but the wife and mother is 
 still living, though now past eighty years of age. 
 The two grandfathers, Mathew McCarthy and 
 Daniel Shea, were farmers by occupation. Our 
 
 33 
 
 subject was the eighth among eleven children, 
 named as follows: John, who occupies the old 
 hqmestead in Ireland; Cornelius, a teacher in 
 Australia; Daniel, who is in Burnside, Conn.; 
 Jerry, also a teacher in Australia; Mrs. Ellen 
 Fitzpatrick, of Ireland; Mrs. Margaret Shea, 
 also living in Ireland; Timothy, a tailor in Ottawa; 
 Michael; James, who died in boyhood; Mrs. 
 Bridget Sullivan, of Ireland; and Mathew, who 
 lives in Connecticut. 
 
 At the age of thirteen years and ten months 
 our subject was apprenticed to the trade of black- 
 smith and horse-shoer in his native place. After 
 serving for three years he went to Killarney, 
 near the beautiful lake of that name, where he 
 engaged in horseshoeing for two years. He then 
 started in journeyman work in County Cork. 
 After his return home he carried on a blacksmith's 
 business for three years. In 1882 he came to 
 America and settled in Connecticut, finding em- 
 ployment as a horse-shoer at New Britain. On 
 account of the ague he was obliged to leave that 
 place. Afterward he was employed at East Hart- 
 ford and Hartford, and for a time was under 
 Professor Huey, a celebrated horse-shoer. Later, 
 in Springfield, Mass., he shod some of the finest 
 horses in that section. He was then employed 
 in Pittsfield, Mass. 
 
 On coming west Mr. McCarthy spent nine 
 mouths in Kansas City, Mo. From there, in the 
 spring of 1892, he settled in Ottawa, and bought 
 a blacksmith's shop from R. A. Thomas. He has 
 become well known as an expert horse-shoer and 
 has shod the finest horses in this county, some 
 being shipped into Ottawa from twenty and thirty 
 miles away, in order that they may be shod by 
 him. He has shod Lurline, 2:141^, and Riley 
 Medium, 2:10%. He has made a calking vise 
 for sharpening heels on shoes, and also devised a 
 hoof filer, with one side sharp and the other 
 blunt, which is the first of that kind ever made. 
 His shop isat No. 112 North Main street, and 
 his residence at No. loi South Hickory street. 
 He was married in Pittsfield, Mass., June i, 1886, 
 to Caroline M. Evans, a native of Wales. They 
 have four living children, William John, Michael 
 Francis, Caroline Elizabeth and Joseph Timothy. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 111 national politics Mr. McCarthy is a Demo- 
 crat. In the .spring of 1898 lie was nominated, 
 on the citizens' ticket, for alderman from the first 
 ward, which is nominally seventy-five Republican, 
 but he came within twenty-five votes of being 
 elected. In the spring of 1899 he was again nom 
 inated and this time was elected by a majority of 
 twelve, being the only candidate on the citizens' 
 ticket that was elected. April 20, 1899, he took 
 his seat in the council. He has since been a 
 member of the committees on police, fire, water 
 and light, cemetery, and streets and alleys, and is 
 also chairman of the committee on printing. He 
 is very active in the Franklin Countj- Fair Asso- 
 ciation and is a member of its board of directors. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient 
 Order of Hibernians, Modern Woodmen, and An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen. In the latter 
 lodge he has been an officer and was a delegate to 
 the grand lodge in Pittsburgh, Pa., in February, 
 1899- 
 
 3 AMES W. GAW. Upon a farm in Delaware 
 Township, Leavenworth County, which he 
 had purchased in 1877, Mr. Gaw settled in 
 1883, and here he has since engaged in stock- 
 raising and general farm pursuits. The place 
 comprises two hundred and sixty acres of fertile 
 land, which, under his supervision, has been con- 
 verted into a highly improved farm. He has 
 made a specialty of raising road horses and Jersey 
 cattle, and at times has a large number of these 
 on his farm. He takes a warm interest in every- 
 thing calculated to promote the stock business 
 and has himself been one of the most successful 
 stockmen in his county. 
 
 A sou of Patrick and Isabella (McMilleu) Gaw, 
 our subject was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Decem- 
 ber 19, 1837. I^is mother was born in Belfast, 
 Ireland, and died in Pittsburgh at the age of 
 seventy-.seven. His father, a native of Belfast, 
 Ireland, came to the United States at an early 
 age and engaged in the manufacture of furniture 
 in Pennsylvania, carrying on a large business. 
 He died in Pittsburgh in 1848, when forty-eight 
 years of age. Of his ten children the following 
 are living: James W.; William; Susan, wife of 
 
 William Patterson; and Helen, who married 
 William Neely. Our subject was educated in the 
 Pittsburgh schools. At seventeen years of age 
 he went to Brownsville, Pa., where he learned 
 the machinist's trade. In 1859 he came to Kan- 
 sas, where he was connected with the quarter- 
 master's department at Fort Leavenworth, re- 
 maining at the fort for twenty-five years. During 
 a portion of the Civil war he was stationed at Fort 
 Scott, having charge of the taking of supplies 
 from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Scott; but with 
 that exception he continued to make Fort Leav- 
 enworth his headquarters. In i860 he made a 
 trip across the plains to Camp Floyd, Utah, a dis- 
 tance of twelve hundred miles, and at other times 
 he also crossed the plains to different parts of the 
 west. During the war he was trainmaster for the 
 Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, on its waj^ to New 
 Mexico. After the war he was trainmaster at 
 Fort Leavenworth. From 1873 to 1883 he served 
 as superintendent of transportation and inspector 
 of horses and mules. In 1883 he left the govern- 
 ment employ and removed to the farm upon which 
 he has since resided and to the cultivation of 
 which his entire time is devoted. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Gaw, in 1865, united him 
 with Jeannette Jeffrey, daughter of Alexander 
 Jeffrey, of Ohio. They are the parents of four 
 children, viz.: Hugh, who is engaged in the elec- 
 trical business in Montana; George A., who is a 
 bridge-builder by occupation ; Emma B. , a teacher 
 in the schools at Lansing; and Carrie. Frater- 
 nally Mr. Gaw is connected with the Leaven- 
 worth Lodge of Masons and the Knights of Honor. 
 In political views he is a pronounced believer in 
 the principles for which the Republican party 
 stands. 
 
 I AMAR H. NETTLETON, grand treasurer 
 I C of the Grand Legion of Kansas, Select 
 I J Knights, is a member of the firm of Fergu- 
 son & Nettleton, who are successfully engaged in 
 the marble business in Ottawa. Since the part- 
 nership was formed, in November, 1883, the firm 
 has had almost all of the work in its line in the 
 citj', having had every contract of $1,000 or 
 more. At first the headquarters of the firm were 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 711 
 
 on west Second street, but in 1896 they were re- 
 moved to the present location, on South Main 
 street. Three salesmen travel in the interests of 
 the business and secure contracts from various 
 parts of the state, a number having been given 
 from Greenwood, Anderson and Osage Counties, 
 as well as all in Baldwin, and the contract for the 
 new soldiers' monument at Garnett, also the gran- 
 ite work of the memorial gate at Forest park. 
 
 The Nettleton family is descended from French 
 ancestors who settled in New England. Jere- 
 miah Nettleton, a native of New Hampshire, 
 moved to Delaware County, Ohio, and thence to 
 Illinois in 1853, settling in Casey, Clark County, 
 where he engaged in farming until his death. He 
 was a Republican in politics and took an active 
 interest in local matters. In religion he was a 
 Baptist. He married Susan Bockover, who was 
 born in New Jersey, of an old Jersey-Dutch 
 family, and who died in February, 1897. O^ 
 their children three are living, viz. : Mrs. Pauline 
 Bancroft, of Casey, 111.; Mrs. Louise Roberts, 
 of Topeka, Kans., and Lamar H. The last- 
 named was born in Delaware County, Ohio, 
 April 25, 1850, and was reared principally in Illi- 
 nois. For two j'ears he attended the high school 
 at South Haven, Mich. At the age of nineteen 
 he was apprenticed to the marble-cutter's trade 
 at Casey, 111., at which he served for three years, 
 and then worked as a journeyman in Terre 
 Haute, Ind., for two years, and at different 
 places in Illinois, for a time carrying on a busi- 
 ness of his own in Casey. 
 
 Coming to Ottawa in 1883, Mr. Nettleton en- 
 tered the employ of George W. Dawson, but in 
 November of the same year bought out his em- 
 ployer and formed a partnership with Mr. Fergu- 
 son. Since then he has built up a trade whose 
 constantly increasing importance speaks volumes 
 for his own and his partner's ability. Politically 
 he is a Democrat. For two years he represented 
 the fourth ward in the city council. Fraternally 
 he is a member of the Woodmen of the World, 
 the Knights and Ladies of Security, and has 
 served as noble grand ofthe lodge of Odd Fellows, 
 which he represented in the grand lodge, and he 
 has also been an officer in the encampment. In 
 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen he is 
 past master workman, and for three years super- 
 intended the sixth district of Kansas, having 
 thirteen lodges in his charge. With the exception 
 of two years he has attended every session ofthe 
 grand lodge of United Workmen since 1887. 
 He is also connected with the Degree of Honor. 
 However, his most important fraternal position is 
 in connection with the Select Knights. He is a 
 charter member of Franklin Legion No. 27, and 
 in 1893 was honored by election as grand treas- 
 urer of the Grand Legion of Kansas, which re- 
 sponsible position he has since filled with the 
 greatest efficiency. 
 
 QJERY REV. CHARLES ROWLAND HILL, 
 \ / B. D., Dean of Atchison, Rector of Grace 
 Y Episcopal Church at Ottawa, and Honorary 
 Canon of Grace Cathedral in Topeka, is of Eng- 
 lish birth and lineage, but by training and travel 
 is a cosmopolitan. He was born near Shrews- 
 bury, April 24, 1864. He was reared in Eng- 
 land and France and studied under private tutors, 
 gaining a broad knowledge of classical and modern 
 history, of which he was a student. 
 
 Desiring to acquire, by travel, a more intimate 
 acquaintance with different nations, their customs, 
 etc.. Dean Hill came to America in 1886 and 
 traveled through Canada and the United States, 
 spending considerable time on the Pacific coast, 
 and spending the summer of 1887 in Alaska and 
 finding much in that then unknown land to 
 awaken his interest. The summer of 1888 he 
 spent in the Hawaiian Islands, where he studied 
 the government ofthe nation, the customs of the 
 people and inspected with admiration the beauti- 
 ful .scenery of various islands forming the group. 
 Upon the opening of St. John's Military School 
 at Salina, Kans., in the fall of 1888, he accepted 
 the position as Professor of Chemistry and Physics 
 in that Institution. At the same time he became 
 interested in ministerial work in that locality. 
 Until 1 89 1 he served as rector of the Church of 
 the Covenant in Junction City, and from that 
 time until 1893 he was rector of Grace Church 
 in Hutchinson. In the spring of 1891 Bishop 
 Thomas ordained him deacon in the Church of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 St. John, Abilene. In 1893 he was appointed 
 Chaplain and private secretary to Bishop Thomas, 
 with whom he made his home in Topeka. On 
 the elevation of Bishop Mill.spaugh to the epis- 
 copate he was made Archdeacon of Eastern 
 Kansas, and this position he held until 1898, 
 when he resigned. At the time of his resignation 
 as Archdeacon he accepted the Rectorship of 
 Grace Church in Ottawa, and the appointment 
 as Dean of Atchison and Honorary Canon of 
 Grace Cathedral. Upon examination by the 
 Kansas Theological Seminary in 1892 the de- 
 gree of B. D. was conferred upon him. For three 
 years he officiated as Assistant Secretary of the 
 Diocese, and for four years was Secretary of the 
 Diocese of Kansas. In the mid.st of his other 
 important work he has continued to hold the 
 professorship in Salina and is the oldest in- 
 structor in the school in point of years of service. 
 His profound knowledge of science fits him for 
 the chair he holds. His training in this depart- 
 ment was most thorough. 
 
 Besides his other responsible work, Dean Hill 
 is the official correspondent of the Diocese of 
 Kansas to the Nczv York Churchman of New 
 York, the Church Standard of Philadelphia and 
 the Livinq; Church of Chicago. Since 1891 his 
 position in the Diocese has been of the greatest 
 importance and he has wielded a large influence 
 in the ecclesiastical polity of his Church. 
 
 y yilSSKS H. D. and M. C. KITTREDGE. 
 y Side by side in their responsibility for the 
 VS training of the young stand the home and 
 the school. It isbeing univer.sally acknowledged 
 that the moral and intellectual status of men and 
 women depends upon the influences thrown around 
 them in childhood. Therefore it is of great import- 
 ance that teachers shall be men and women of large 
 hearts and broad minds. When we say that the 
 Mi.sses Kittredge are in everj^ way worthy of the 
 occupation they have chosen, we are saying no 
 little to their credit. They are devoting them- 
 selves to educational work and, since 1886, have 
 conducted a private school in Ottawa. For a time 
 they had advanced pupils in the morning and 
 
 children in the afternoon, but in 1896 they dis- 
 continued advanced work and turned their atten- 
 tion wholly to children. In addition to the man- 
 agement of this school, since 1896 Miss M. C. 
 Kittredge has acted as a.ssistant in English in the 
 high school of Ottawa. 
 
 The Kittredge family has been connected with 
 New England history since a very early day, 
 when John Kittredge from England settled in 
 Salem in 1635, being the lineal ancestor of this 
 branch of the family. Solomon Kittredge, who 
 served in the Revolutionary war, had a son, 
 Josiah, who was born in Massachusetts and fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits. He, in turn, had a 
 son, Rev. Charles Baker Kittredge, A. M., who 
 was born as Mount Vernon, N. H., graduated 
 from Dartmouth College in 1828 and from An- 
 dover Theological Seminary in 1832, after which 
 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry. 
 For three years he preached at Groton, Mass. , but 
 resigned on account of his strong anti-slavery prin- 
 ciples being objectionable to some of his congre- 
 gation. His next pastorate, at Westboro, Mass., 
 covered nine years, after which he .spent eight 
 years at Monson, Mass., and in 1853, owing to a 
 throat trouble, retired from regular ministerial 
 work. Both in Westboro and Monson he was a 
 member of the school board, and he al.so served 
 as a trustee of Monson Academy. No one was 
 more interested than he in the education of the 
 young. He believed that, with a good education, 
 a young man or woman might achieve success in 
 the world and gain a position that would other- 
 wise be impossible. Politically he was a Repub- 
 lican. His last years were .spent in Westboro, 
 where he died in 1884, at seventy-eight years of 
 age. 
 
 The wife of Rev. Charles Baker Kittredge was 
 Sarah Brigham, who was born at Brigham Hill, 
 Grafton, Ma.ss. , graduated from the first class at 
 Mount Holyoke Seminary and afterward taught 
 school in Massachusetts prior to her marriage. 
 She died in Westboro in 1871, when fifty-five 
 years of age. Her father. Col. Charles Brigham, 
 who was a colonel in the war of 18 12 and a 
 farmer at Brigham Hill, was the son of a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier, whose ancestors emigrated from 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 713 
 
 England in an earlj^ day and settled at Brigham 
 Hill. The sisters are members of the Congrega- 
 tional Church and possess that kind of charitable 
 disposition which finds an outlet in deeds of help- 
 fulness to the poor and needy. Since leaving 
 college they have continued their studies and 
 have acquired a broad and liberal culture that ad- 
 mirably qualifies them for educational work. 
 
 6] UGUST JOHNSON, who is engaged in con- 
 LJ tracting and building in Ottawa, was born 
 I I in Skaraborg Lan, Lidekoping, Hjerpos, 
 Sweden, a son of Jonas and Christine (Pearson) 
 Swanson. For generations his paternal ancestors 
 occupied a family estate known as Godegarden, 
 and there his father and mother were born 
 respectively in 1817 and 1825, have spent their 
 entire lives, engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 
 religious views they are Lutherans. They were 
 the parents of nine children, five of whom are liv- 
 ing, two remaining in Sweden, while three are in 
 this country. Swante is a farmer in Franklin 
 County, Kans., and Helen, Mrs. P. Peterson, 
 makes her home in Kan.sas City. 
 
 On the old homestead, where he was born No- 
 vember 3, 1 85 1, the subject of this sketch passed 
 the years of youth, meantime attending the high 
 school of his native town, from which he gradua- 
 ted. Having decided to seek a home in America, 
 in 1874 he came, via Liverpool, to New York 
 and from there to Franklin Countj', Kans., where 
 he became interested in farming. After some 
 years in that occupation, in 1882 he was em- 
 ployed as a stone-mason under Mr. Pierson, with 
 whom he continued as an employe until 1895, 
 when they formed a partnership as contractors 
 and builders. Among their contracts have been 
 those for the Washington school, Field school, 
 the Rohrbaugh, the foundations for the court 
 house in Ottawa and that in Paola, Kans., the 
 building of the Santa Fe depot and numerous 
 substantial structures in Ottawa. Mr. Pierson 
 also had contracts for the reform school in Beloit, 
 Kans., and some of the finest residences in Ottawa. 
 
 November 16, 1882, in Ottawa, Mr. Johnson 
 married Tilda Pierson, who was born in Fjelkes- 
 
 tad, Sweden, and came to Franklin County in 
 1869. Two children were born of their union, a 
 daughter, Nellie N., and a son that died in in- 
 fancy. Mr. Johnson was made a Mason in 
 Acacia Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Lawrence, but 
 has allowed his membership to lapse. He is a 
 member of the board of stewards in the Finst 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Ottawa, in which 
 he has also served as a trustee. In politics he is 
 a Prohibitionist. 
 
 Sone Pierson, Mr. Johnson's father-in-law and 
 business partner, was born in Sweden, where he 
 learned the trade of carpenter and millwright. 
 In 1869 he came to the United States and after a 
 brief stop in Iowa .settled in Ottawa, Kans., 
 where he began contracting and building. From 
 that he drifted into mason work. As already 
 stated, he has had contracts for many important 
 buildings. The excellence of his work has 
 caused a steadj' demand for his services. In ad- 
 dition to other contracts he has had a number 
 for the moving of houses, of which work he has 
 made a specialty. In his native country he mar- 
 ried Permilla Haroldson, by whom he has eight 
 children now living, one of whom is an instructor 
 in music at Jackson, Miss. 
 
 WILLIAM S. YOHE, who has been identi- 
 fied with western history from early pio- 
 neer days and who is now living, retired, 
 in Leavenworth, was born, of German descent, 
 in Philadelphia, Pa., February 21, 1819. His 
 parents, Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Yohe, were 
 natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New 
 Jersey; the former was a soldier in the war of 
 181 2 and a grandson of General Woolley, an 
 officer in the Revolutionary war, while Mrs. 
 Yohe was a daughter of a sea-captain, who de- 
 scended from Scotch ancestors. He is the only 
 one now living among the three children com- 
 prising the family. His mother died when he 
 was a child and afterward his father, who was a 
 carpenter, was accidentally killed by a fall from 
 a building. 
 
 After having learned the blacksmith's trade, 
 in 1836 Mr. Yohe went to Mississippi and for a 
 
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 year worked for a blacksmith there, but was 
 cheated out of his wages. Returning north, in 
 Pittsburgh he enlisted in Captain Day's company 
 (Company H), First United States Infantry, for 
 service in the Florida war. He spent three years 
 in Florida and took part in a number of battles 
 with the Indians, the most desperate of these en- 
 gagements being the battle of Ockechobie, where 
 one-fourth of the men were killed. He was 
 mustered out as sergeant in June, 1840. Through 
 the excessive hardships of the campaign and the 
 exposure in the swamps he had contracted the 
 swamp fever and had been given up to die. On 
 consulting a physician in St. Louis he was told 
 the case was hopeless and was advised to go to 
 the mountains. Notwithstanding his sickness he 
 was permitted to enlist in Company F, First 
 United States Cavalrj', and was sent to Fort 
 Leavenworth, it being thought that he might be 
 able to reform the companj', who.se reputation 
 was not the best. In 1841 he went to the moun- 
 tains, traveling through what is now Colorado, 
 New Mexico, Arizona, etc., and in 1843 he made 
 another trip to the west. In 1844 he crossed 
 the Snowy range, traveling twenty-six hundred 
 miles in ninety-nine days. In 1845 he was hon- 
 orably discharged at Fort Leavenworth. After- 
 ward he was employed by the government as 
 superintendent of public works, forage master, 
 and superintendent in charge of the government 
 farm. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Yohe settled on a farm in Platte 
 County, Mo., and there engaged in farming, also 
 erected and operated a steam sawmill for the 
 manufacture of lumber. Much of the lumber 
 was used in the building of Leavenworth. In 
 1857 h^ sold his mill and farm and came to Leav- 
 enworth and engaged in the lumber business on 
 Cherokee street. After two years, his wife's 
 health being poor, he took her east, but soon re- 
 turned and settled on a farm near Lansing, Leav- 
 enworth County. From there, in 1865, he re- 
 moved to a farm near Stranger, where he carried 
 on agricultural pursuits much of the time imtil 
 1881 . The next year he settled in Leavenworth, 
 Duying the place at No. 934 South Broadway, 
 which he still owns. He also owns a farm of one 
 
 hundred and sixty acres in Delaware Township, 
 and one of two hundred and forty acres in 
 Stranger Township. 
 
 There is no one now in Leavenworth whose 
 recollections of this part of the state extend to a 
 period antedating tho.se of Mr. Yohe. When he 
 came to Fort Leavenworth for the first time the 
 city had not been started, and he found nothing 
 here except the villages of the Kickapoo and 
 Stockbridge Indians. Game abounded, and much 
 of his time was devoted to hunting. While out 
 in the mountains he saw thousands of buffalo, 
 and one day killed fifty-four without making a 
 special effort to find and shoot them. At the 
 time he settled upon the government farm he was 
 one of the very first who attempted to till the 
 soil here. He opened and improved a farm, 
 which he fenced and cultivated, and was so suc- 
 cessful in the work that, in one year, he made 
 $9,400 for the government, and the next year 
 $7,000. When he retired from the government 
 employ he became a minister in the Christian 
 Church, and, as an ordained preacher, estab- 
 lished the first Christian Church in Leavenworth, 
 also started a church at Nine Mile and another 
 at Stranger. To the congregation at the latter 
 place he ministered until 1897. ^^ July, 1875, 
 he went to Denver, and after a few months there 
 located in Boulder, Colo., where he improved 
 and built upon some property, continuing to re- 
 side there until 1879. 
 
 In Platte County, Mo., Mr. Yohe married Miss 
 Isabella McLaren, who was born in Ireland, and 
 accompanied her parents to Platte County, Mo., 
 where her father died. She passed away on the 
 home farm at Nine-Mile. Of her three children, 
 only one attained maturity, Mrs. Mattie B. Smith, 
 who died in Denver, Colo. , at the age of t%venty- 
 six years. The second marriage of Mr. Yohe 
 took place at Big Stranger and united him with 
 Sarah Charity Wood, who was born in North 
 Carolina and in 1861 came to Kansas with a 
 brother. The two children born of this union 
 are Alfred F. Yohe, M. D., and Lena B., wife of 
 C. H. Lamkin, of Leavenworth. 
 
 The grandfather of Mrs. Yohe was Reuben 
 Wood, who was born in England and from there, 
 
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 with his family, emigrated to Randolph County, 
 N. C, where he resumed the practice of law. 
 His son, James, a native of England, studied law 
 and for a time was clerk of the court of Randolph 
 County. He- removed from there to Texas, 
 where he died. His wife was Susanna Lindsay, 
 who was born in North Carolina and died at 
 Deep River, that state. She was a daughter of 
 Robert Lindsay, a native of Scotland, but for 
 years a farmer in North Carolina; he was a son of 
 John Lindsay, a farmer, who brought his family 
 to the United States, settling in North Carolina. 
 Mrs. Yohe had four brothers, Edwin, William B., 
 R. L. and L. S. Of these, Edwin, who came 
 to Kansas is early life, died at New Market, this 
 state; at the time of his death he was a medical 
 student. William B. was a pioneer of St. Joe, 
 Mo., and died at New Orleans, La., in 1S83. 
 R. L. , also a pioneer of St. Joe, later practiced 
 medicine in Leavenworth, and still resides in 
 this city. The other brother is in California. 
 Mrs. Yohe was born in Randolph County, but 
 was reared in Forsyth County, N. C, and re- 
 ceived a good education. In 1859 she came west, 
 first settling in St. Joe, Mo., and thence coming 
 to Kansas, March 26, i860. She became the 
 wife of Mr. Yohe September 6, 1863. Like him, 
 she is a devoted member of the Christian Church. 
 
 GlLFRED F. YOHE, M. D., has been en- 
 U gaged in the practice of the medical profes- 
 I I sion in Leavenworth since 1892, and has 
 gained a reputation for skill in the treatment of 
 diseases, also for accurac}' of his diagnoses. For 
 four terms he has held the office of county physi- 
 cian, which he still fills. During the administra- 
 tion of President Harrison he received appoint- 
 ment as member of the board of United States 
 pension examiners, and he has since served in 
 this capacity, being now treasurer of the board. 
 He holds the position of professor of anatomy and 
 physiology in the Leavenworth Training School 
 for Nurses, and is a member of the surgical staff 
 of Gushing Hospital; also local surgeon for the 
 Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs Railroad. 
 
 The Eastern District Medical Society and the 
 Leavenworth County Medical Society number 
 him among their members. 
 
 In Delaware Township, Leavenworth County, 
 Dr. Yohe was born in 1865. His education was 
 obtained principally in the Leavenworth grammar 
 and high schools. In 1883 he entered the Kan- 
 sas State University, where he remained until the 
 closeof the junior year, and then left in order to 
 take up the study of medicine. In 1886 he en- 
 tered Rush Medical College in Chicago, where 
 he took the regular course, graduating in 1888 
 with the degree of M. D. Returning to the 
 west he engaged in practice in Leavenworth and 
 in Platte County, Mo. Desirous to extend his 
 professional knowledge, in 1891 he entered the 
 senior class in the Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 College, and in the spring of 1892 graduated with 
 the degree of M. D. Since then he has given his 
 attention to the practice of his profession in Leav- 
 enworth. He takes an interest in the public 
 schools and has served for two terms as a mem- 
 ber of the board of education. His marriage, in 
 this city, united him with Elizabeth I., daugh- 
 ter of Enos Hook, and a native of Colorado. 
 Politically he is a Democrat, and in religion is 
 connected with the Christian Church. Frater- 
 nally he is past officer in the Knights of Pythias, 
 a member of the Fraternal Aid Association; 
 Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M.; 
 Leavenworth Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. ; Leaven- 
 worth Commandery No. i, K. T., and Abdallah 
 Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 nOHN B. HORNE, a stock-raiser and cattle- 
 I feeder residing in Williamsburg Township, 
 (2/ Franklin County, was born in Wayne Coun- 
 ty, Ind., in 1855. His father, Josiah W. Home, 
 a native of North Carolina, removed north to 
 Indiana in 1854 and continued to reside there 
 until 1870, when he came to Franklin County, 
 Kans. During the period of his residence in 
 Indiana he carried on a large milling business 
 and has also extensively engaged in farming. On 
 his arrival in Franklin County he purchased one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land near Williams- 
 
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 burg, besides which he became the owner of two 
 hundred and forty acres in Greenwood Town- 
 ship. In addition to the management of his 
 large tracts of land he also operated the Williams- 
 burg mill for a few years. Had he been spared 
 to old age, undoubtedly he would have become 
 one of the most successful men in Franklin 
 County, but he was called from earth in 1875, 
 after only five years in the west, and at the age 
 of fifty years. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Michel S. Bogue, died in 1890, when 
 sixty years old. AH of their ten children are 
 still living and all but one reside in Kansas. 
 
 When fifteen years of age our subject accom- 
 panied his parents from Indiana to Kansas, and 
 here he grew to manhood on a farm. For nine 
 years he taught school in Osage, Miami and 
 Franklin Counties. However, during all of that 
 time he continued to be interested in agricultural 
 pursuits, and in 1893 he bought his father's old 
 homestead near Williamsburg, where he has 
 since engaged in stock-raising. He is an enter- 
 prising farmer and has met with success. Al- 
 most ever since he attained his majority he has 
 served as a member of the school board. In 
 politics a Republican, he has served as trustee of 
 the township, justice of the peace and in several 
 other offices. In the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen he is past master workman. In 1878 he 
 married Claudia L. Russell, of Miami Count}', 
 by whom he has four sons, Carl R,, who has 
 considerable inventive ability; William A., Wil- 
 bur V. and John W. 
 
 (TJOLOMON ENGLE, of Lawrence, a veteran 
 2S of the Civil war, was born in Union County, 
 \~J Pa., October 20, 1834, a son of John M. and 
 Mary (Beaver) Engle. He is third among the 
 five survivors of the original family of ten chil- 
 dren, the others being Amos, a farmer of Union 
 County, Pa.; Jacob, who resides in Reading, Pa.; 
 Samuel, a farmer of Snyder County, Pa.; and 
 Hettie, who is the wife of Frank Dietrick, of 
 Galesburg, 111. His father, who was born near 
 Philadelphia in 1783, grew to manhood in his 
 native place, and from there accompanied his 
 
 parents to Union County. Buying a tract of tim- 
 bered land, he began the task of clearing a farm. 
 Upon that place the after years of his life were 
 passed. He was several times elected county 
 commissioner and to other local offices. For 
 many years before his death he was a member of 
 the Lutheran Church. His father, John M. 
 Engle, Sr., was a soldier in the Revolution. 
 Born in Germany, he first settled in South Caro- 
 lina, but worked his way toward the north, and 
 finally cast in his lot with the people of Penn.syl- 
 vania. Our subject's other grandfather, George 
 Beaver, was also a native of Germany and came 
 to America shortlj' after the war with England, 
 settling upon a farm in Pennsylvania, where his 
 later j-ears were spent. 
 
 At sixteen years of age our subject was ap- 
 prenticed to the trade of a stonemason, and upon 
 completing his time began to work as a journey- 
 man. In 1856 he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Sarah J. Clemens, of New Berlin, Union 
 County, Pa. After his marriage he removed to 
 Milton, Pa., where he made his home for one 
 year, and thence went to Mifflinburg. Shortlj- 
 after the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in 
 the Union army. September 17, 1861, his name 
 was enrolled in Company E, Fifty-first Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry, and he was soon afterward sent 
 with the Burnside expedition to Roanoke Island, 
 thence to Newbern, N. C, taking part in the en- 
 gagements at both places. Later his command 
 was called to Fredericksburg to reinforce General 
 Pope, and afterward he took part in the second 
 battle of Bull Run. After the battle of Chantilly 
 the command was sent to Washington, thence to 
 Antietam, where he participated in that historic 
 battle, as well as two .skirmishes on South Moun- 
 tain while on the way there. After the battle of 
 Antietam he was taken ill and in December fal- 
 lowing was honorably discharged on account of 
 disability. 
 
 After leaving the army Mr. Engle worked at 
 his trade in Mifflinburg for five years, after which 
 he rented the home farm in Union County and 
 for two seasons cultivated that place. In April, 
 187 1, he disposed of his property in the east and 
 removed to Kansas, settling in the city of Man- 
 
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 hattan, where he opened a boarding house. Five 
 years later he went to Ogden, Riley County, and 
 embarked in the mercantile business, but the ven- 
 ture did not prove a profitable one. In 1876 he 
 settled in Lawrence, where during the inter- 
 vening years he has been engaged in various en- 
 terprises. His home is in Wakarusa Township, 
 near the Haskell Institute. From 1894 to 1896 
 he was a member of the city council of Lawrence, 
 and in politics he is a Republican. The Presby- 
 terian Church numbers him among its members. 
 Like all army veterans he takes an interest in 
 reminiscences of war times, and enjoys the re- 
 unions and meetings of Washington Post No. 12, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Engle 
 all but two are living. Charles E., the oldest, 
 operates a fruit farm in Wakarusa Township, 
 Douglas County. Laura E. and Mary E. are 
 with their parents. Ida May is the wife of Dr. 
 S. M. McCreight, of Oskaloosa, Kans. John 
 M., at the opening of the Spanish- American war, 
 enlisted in Company L, Second Regiment of En- 
 gineers, and was ordered to Honolulu, where he 
 was stationed for some months. 
 
 j UCY HOBBS TAYLOR, D. D. S. To the 
 It women who have been pioneers in the pro- 
 LJ fessions, other women owe a debt of lasting 
 gratitude. For the obstacles they surmounted, 
 the hardships they endured and the criticism they 
 encountered, others have reaped the benefit. 
 They were as pioneers who go through a track- 
 less forest leaving a blazed path for others to fol- 
 low; or as sailors who venture upon an unknown 
 sea and find a channel in which other ships may 
 safely follow. To Dr. Taylor belongs the honor of 
 having been the first woman dentist in the world. 
 This fact tells a whole history in itself; it speaks of 
 frowning professors and cold critics; perseverance 
 in the midst of anxiety and of determination in 
 spite of discouragement. 
 
 While engaged in teaching, a young girl from 
 the east was induced to study medicine under a 
 physician in Brooklyn, Mich. She became at- 
 tracted to professional work and after learning all 
 
 that her preceptor could teach her, she went to 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, the Eclectic College in that city 
 being the only medical institution that admitted 
 women. However, on arriving there she found 
 they had just ruled against the admission of 
 women. The president kindly stated that he 
 would give her instruction and she continued un- 
 der him for a time. On one occasion he asked her 
 why she did not take up dentistry. At that time 
 there was not a woman dentist in the world. She 
 thought the matter over and the next day decided 
 to study dentistry. Obtaining a place with Pro- 
 fessor Taft, dean of the Cincinnati Dental College, 
 she remained with him for three months, but not 
 learning much from him, she secured a place with 
 Dr. Samuel Wardell, a large-hearted Christian 
 gentleman, and one of the finest dentists in the 
 city. There was a great deal of prejudice against 
 women entering the profession, but she persisted. 
 Having very little money, she rented a little attic 
 room and there, when the day's work in the office 
 was done, she toiled with her needle in order to ob- 
 tain needed money. After she had been with her 
 preceptor for three months she made every part 
 of a set of teeth, which received the first prize at 
 the Mechanics' fair. 
 
 In March, 1861, she made application for ad- 
 mission to the Ohio Dental College, but was 
 refused on account of her sex. Dr. Wardell then 
 advised her to begin practice without a diploma, 
 which was the custom of a large majority of the 
 male practitioners in those days. She accepted 
 his advice, and on the 14th of March, 1861 , opened 
 an office in a small room on Fourth street, Cin- 
 cinnati. Unfortunately, the war breaking out at 
 that time rendered it impossible for her to get a 
 start. All was excitement and confusion and 
 even well-established practitioners could not meet 
 their expenses. She then went to northern Iowa, 
 settling at Bellevue, where she worked steadily and 
 slowly gained ground as a dentist. In 1862 she 
 moved to McGregor, where she soon acquired a 
 profitable practice. During the first year of her 
 residence in Iowa she scarcely made her expenses, 
 but the second year she cleared $3,000. 
 
 The Iowa Dental Association was composed of 
 fairminded and liberal men. They sent her an 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 invitation to attend their convention. She did 
 so, and the by-laws of the association were 
 changed to suit her case and she was made a 
 member. With the Iowa delegation she attended 
 the American Dentists' convention in Chicago, 
 and there the Iowa dentists made a formal demand 
 for her admission to college, threatening to with- 
 draw the influence of the state from the college 
 that refused. The Ohio Dental College granted 
 the demand and Dr. Taylor entered it in 1865, 
 being the first woman to enter any dental college 
 in the world. She graduated in 1866 with the 
 degree of D. D. S., and at the final examination 
 stood the highest in her class. The professor of 
 chemistry in the college said of her that "She 
 was a credit to the profession of her choice and an 
 honor to her alma mater. A better combination 
 of modesty, perseverance and pluck is seldom, 
 if ever, seen." For eight years she was the only 
 woman dentist in the world, when a German 
 woman, Henrietta Hersch field, came to America 
 to gain a profe.ssioiial education impossible to se- 
 cure in her own land, and entered the Pennsyl- 
 vania College of Dental Surgeons, from which 
 she graduated in 1869. 
 
 Dr. Taylor practiced for a time in Chicago, but 
 the unhealthful climate induced her to leave and 
 come to the west. She opened an office in Law- 
 rence, December i, 1S67, and afterward built up 
 the largest practice of any dentist in the city. 
 She has become the owner of valuable property 
 here and has succeeded financially. In social and 
 fraternal organizations she has been prominent. 
 For five years she was matron of the Eastern 
 Star of Lawrence, also held the office of treasurer 
 in the Woman's Relief Corps, and was the first 
 sister to become noble grand of the Rebekahs of 
 Lawrence, with which she has been identified for 
 twenty-eight years. At this writing she is pres- 
 ident of the Ladies' Republican Club of Law- 
 rence. 
 
 The parents of Dr. Taylor, Benjamin and Lucy 
 (Beaman) Hobbs, were natives respectively of 
 Worcester, Mass., and Burlington, Vt. Her pa- 
 ternal grandfather, William Hobbs, a native of 
 Ma.ssachusetts, removed from there to Franklin 
 County, N. Y. ; and her maternal grandfather. 
 
 Joshua Beaman, also .settled in that state. She 
 was born in Franklin County, and was one often 
 children who attained mature years. She had 
 four brothers: Benjamin, Joshua, Edward and 
 Edgar, who enlisted in New York regiments and 
 served in the Civil war, Benjamin dying while at 
 the front. Her education was principally ac- 
 quired by self-culture. At sixteen years of age 
 she began to teach school, from which she later 
 entered professional work. While in Chicago, in 
 April, 1867, she became the wife of James M. 
 Taylor, who was born in Attica, N. Y., and was 
 an artist and ornamental painter for some years, 
 but afterward studied denti.stry, which he prac- 
 ticed to such extent as his health permitted. 
 During the Civil war he was a member of Com- 
 pany I, Eleventh Illinois Infantry, and never re- 
 covered from the effects of his army life, although 
 he survived until 1886. At the time of his 
 death he was quartermaster of Washington Post 
 No. 12, G. A. R. He was also a chapter Ma.son 
 and a member of Halcyon Lodge No. 18, 1.O.O.F. 
 
 0AVID ATCHISON, who arrived in Leaven- 
 worth November 4, 1857, is one of the mo.st 
 prominent businessmen of this city, where 
 he has built up a large trade in coal, wood and 
 ice. In 1873 he bought property on the corner of 
 Fourth and Seneca streets, and erected the build- 
 ing in which he has since conducted business. 
 He has built up the largest ice houses in the 
 state, these being forty feet high, and 125x120 
 feet in dimensions. The four houses are on Sec- 
 ond street and have a capacity of twenty thous- 
 and tons. Two steam elevators are used, in which 
 one thousand tons can be put up in ten hours. 
 
 Mr. Atchison was born in County Tyrone, 
 Ireland, in 1842, a son of John and Sarah (Mc- 
 Master) Atchison. His grandfather, John At- 
 chison, Sr. , was a farmer and dealer in stock in 
 County Tyrone; his father had two brothers who 
 emigrated to Virginia in early days and from 
 them descended the Atchisons afterward promi- 
 nent in Missouri. John Atchison, Jr., a native 
 of County Tyrone, in 1846 brought his family to 
 America, .settling in Pawtucket, R. I. He had 
 
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 engaged in farming and the stock business in 
 the old country, but in Rhode Island followed 
 the stone-mason's trade. In the spring of 1857 
 he came to Leavenworth, where he worked as a 
 stone mason for one year, after which he farmed 
 in Platte County, Mo. He died there in 1862, at 
 sixty-three years of age. His wife, whose par- 
 ents were Scotch and who was born in Scotland, 
 removed with the family to County Tyrone in 
 childhood. She died at Lonsdale, R. I., in 1855. 
 Of her seven sons and one daughter, four of the 
 sons are deceased. David was the third of the 
 family and is the only one living iu Leavenworth. 
 He was reared in Rhode Island until fifteen years 
 of age. In 1857 he came with his father to Kan- 
 sas, making the trip by rail to St. Louis, thence 
 by steamer to Leavenworth. 
 
 For a time Mr. Atchison worked on his fa- 
 ther's farm. From 1859 he was on the plains, 
 and, with his father and brothers, engaged in 
 freighting with oxen from Leavenworth to Den- 
 ver. From 1862 to 1864 he was engaged in 
 hauling goods for the government and for the 
 settlers from Leavenworth to Forts Gibson and 
 Smith with Blunt' s army. While on one of these 
 expeditions, in June, 1863, three hundred sol- 
 diers were attacked bj' six hundred Confederates, 
 about five miles from Fort Gibson, and a number 
 of the Confederate troops attacked the rear of 
 Mr. Atchison's train east of Fort Gibson. They 
 were re-inforced by one thousand Cherokees and 
 won out. In 1865 he began freighting with 
 oxen, having ten wagons and using five yoke of 
 oxen for each wagon. He was owner and cap- 
 tain of the train, which freighted to Denver, 
 Forts Collins and Laramie, continuing for three 
 years and making two trips a year. At various 
 places he had fights with Indians. He was at 
 Fort Laramie while the peace commissioners, 
 Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Bovay and San- 
 born, were there, making a treaty with the Sioux 
 Indians. As a member of the firm of Hook & 
 Atchison he engaged in the hay and wood con- 
 tracting business. In the spring of 1867 he went 
 from Denver via Julesburg to North Platte City 
 and en route was attacked by Indians, but 
 escaped in safety. Other smaller parties were 
 
 less fortunate, and many fell victims of Indian 
 hatred. They found three men who had been 
 killed by Indians and buried them at Big Springs, 
 Neb. On the return trip from North Platte City 
 the Indians attacked them again, this time at the 
 old California Crossing and Bovay's ranch, and 
 they succeeded in taking eight head of cattle. 
 Ten men pursued them and, overtaking them, 
 forced the thirty red men to give up the stock. 
 
 Returning to Leavenworth in 1869, Mr. Atchi- 
 son began in the coal, wood and ice business, 
 and has since built up a large trade. During the 
 early days he was a stanch free-state man, and 
 has always voted the Republican ticket. Under 
 Governor Humphrey he served one term as police 
 commissioner. Formerly he was active in the 
 Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor, but 
 has allowed his membership in these organiza- 
 tions to lapse. He was married in Leavenworth 
 to Mi.ss Annie Ward, who was born in Monroe 
 County, 111., and in 1855 came to Leavenworth 
 with her father, Hugh Ward, afterward pro- 
 prietor of the Illinois house here. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Atchison reside at No. 223 Fifth avenue. They 
 are the parents of seven children, namely: Mrs. 
 Clara Mills, of Topeka; Mrs. Mary Black, of To- 
 peka (wife of the general passenger agent of the 
 Santa Fe Railroad); Annie Veronica, at home; 
 Gertrude, wife of Hiram Wilson, who is connected 
 with the Great Western Stove Company of Leav- 
 enworth; Sadie; David W., who is connected 
 with a mining enterprise in Old Mexico; and 
 Lottie L. 
 
 EAPT. JOHN L. HUMMEL. At the time 
 of settling in Kansas, in 1883, Mr. Hummel 
 purchased the Shaw farm in South Centrop- 
 olis Township, Franklin County. A few im- 
 provements had been made, but much yet re- 
 mained to be done. He set himself to the task 
 with a vigor and determination that soon pro- 
 duced results. At this writing he is the owner 
 of four hundred acres of fine land, especially 
 adapted to the stock business, in which he has 
 been successfully engaged. As a farmer he is 
 energetic and capable, and uses sound judgment 
 in all of his work. Aside from voting the Repub- 
 
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 lican ticket he takes no part in politics. He is, 
 however, interested in school work, and has fre- 
 quently been selected to serve as a school director 
 in district No. 76. He is a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church at Centropolis and contributes of 
 his time and means to aid in the spread of the 
 Gospel . 
 
 Born in Grant County, Ind., in 1839, our sub- 
 ject is a son of Charles and Zenobia (Lobdell) 
 Hummel, natives of Ohio. As early as 1830 his 
 father removed to Grant Countj-, Ind., of which 
 he was one of the very earliest settlers. Taking 
 up a tract of raw land he devoted himself to its 
 cultivation, and in time became the owner of val- 
 uable property. For fifty years he remained on 
 the same farm, superintending its management, 
 and there he died at the age of seventj'-eight 
 years. Though he never sought office for him- 
 self, he aided his friends who were candidates 
 and took an active part in local affairs. For 
 years he officiated as an elder in the Christian 
 Church. He was known throughout his entire 
 section of country and was honored as an upright, 
 conscientious man. He was of remote German 
 descent, his ancestors having come from that 
 country to Pennsylvania in an early day. Of 
 his seven children, four are now living: John L.; 
 Ellen J., wife J. B. Bruner; Constantine L. ; and 
 Sylvester C. The wife and mother died when 
 si.xty-five years of age. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one years, when the Civil 
 war opened, our subject enlisted in Company H, 
 Eighth Indiana Infantry, in which he served four 
 years and one month. He had responded to the 
 first call for volunteers and he continued in the 
 service until peace was established, his service 
 being with the western division, taking part in 
 the battles of Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Port 
 Gibson and many others of great importance. At 
 Savannah, Ga., in 1865, he was promoted to be 
 captain of his company, and as such was honor- 
 ably discharged. 
 
 Returning home at the close of the war Cap- 
 tain Hummel remained there for a few years. In 
 1868 he settled in Illinois, where he bought a 
 farm and remained for four years. Next, going 
 to Nebraska, he spent eight years as a farmer 
 
 and stock-raiser in Seward County. In 1881 he 
 went back to Indiana and .spent two years near 
 the old homestead. However, having once had a 
 taste of western life, he found old conditions un- 
 satisfactory, and determined to again seek a 
 home beyond the Missouri. Accordingly, he 
 came to Kansas in 1883 and has since made his 
 home in Franklin County. He is a member of 
 J. W. Mackey Post, G. A. R. , at Pomona, and is 
 past commander of the same. In 1867 he mar- 
 ried Mi.ss Annie Sherwood, a native of Ohio. 
 She died in Nebraska in 1881, leaving a son, 
 Arthur, who is now a farmer in South Centropo- 
 lis Township. After her death Captain Hummel 
 was again married, his wife being Martha A. 
 (Stone) Munden, who was born in Indiana, and 
 by whom he has a daughter, Clara. 
 
 r"RANK G. MARKART, manager of the firm 
 r^ of A. J. Angell & Co., lumber merchants 
 I of Leavenworth, has resided in this city 
 since October, 1878. He was born in Probst- 
 zella, Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, December 6, 
 1845, a son of Adam and Mary Markart, who 
 spent their entire lives in Germany, the father 
 being for some years a schoolteacher, but later 
 a merchant. Of the twelve children compri.sing 
 the family all but three attained years of maturity 
 and four are now living. Frank was one of the 
 j'ounge.st of the children, and was onlj- eight 
 years of age when his father died in 1854. After- 
 ward he was taken into the home of one of his 
 oldest sisters, Mrs. Emily Ritter, now living in 
 Arkansas. He was the first of the family to 
 emigrate to America. In i860 he took passage 
 on a steamer at Hamburg and after a voyage of 
 eighteen days arrived in New York, from which 
 city he proceeded to Muscatine County, Iowa, 
 and secured employment on a farm. 
 
 In August, 1862, when sixteen years of age, 
 Mr. Markart enlisted in Company C, Thirty-fifth 
 Iowa Infantry, and was mu.stered into .service at 
 Muscatine, thence ordered to Columbus, Ky., 
 where he spent the winter in camp. He took 
 part in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and 
 the battles of Jack.son, Champion Hill and Black 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 721 
 
 River Bridge. After the second battle of Jack- 
 son he was taken ill as the result of exposure and 
 for some weeks suflfered from tj^phoid fever. 
 When he had recovered sufficiently to return 
 home he was discharged from the hospital and 
 also from the army, being unable to continue in 
 the service by reason of impaired health. He 
 went from Vicksburg to Iowa in October, 1863. 
 As soon as he was able to resume work he became 
 an employe in a lumber business, being first a 
 shipping clerk and later placed in charge of the 
 yards. He continued in the same business until 
 his removal to Leavenworth. 
 
 For five years after coming here he was clerk 
 in the retail lumber yard of A. J. Angell. In 
 1SS3 he was admitted into partnership and the 
 firm of A. J. Angell & Co. was organized. Upon 
 the death of Mr. Angell, in June, 1885, his widow 
 succeeded to his interest, and the business was 
 continued under the old name. This yard was 
 started by Mr. Angell in 1870, his first location 
 being about one block north of the present site 
 on Cherokee street. Since 1883 the location has 
 been at No. 603 Cherokee, where the firm owns 
 good buildings and one-half block of ground. In 
 addition to this business Mr. Markart is a director 
 in the Leavenworth Mutual Building, Loan & 
 Savings Association; and is a stockholder in other 
 enterprises. 
 
 While in Iowa Mr. Markart was married to 
 Miss Margaret A. Haigh, who was born in Penn- 
 sylvania and at an early age accompanied her par- 
 ents to Iowa. Thirteen children were born of 
 their union, and nine of these are now living, 
 namely: Mrs. Mary Maggard, of Salt Lake City; 
 Louis J., who was in the United States navy 
 from seventeen to twenty-one years of age, and is 
 now foreman of the yards of A. J. Angell & 
 Co.; Mrs. Emma Ackenhausen, of Leavenworth; 
 Frank C, who is with his father in business; 
 Agnes, William, Helen, Margaret and Robert. 
 
 A stalwart Republican, Mr. Markart has served 
 on city and county committees and in other ways 
 has helped his party. Under Governor Hum- 
 phrey he was police commissioner for one term 
 and served as secretary of the board. He has 
 been an ofi&cer in Alemania Lodge No. 123, 
 
 I. 0.0. F. , and its representative in the grand 
 lodge. He is also a past officer in the encamp- 
 ment. For fifteen years he has been receiver of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is 
 a member of the Iowa Veterans' Association. 
 In Custer Post No. 6, G. A. R., he served as 
 commander for four years and was an aide on 
 General Alger's staff, also an aide on the depart- 
 ment staff. 
 
 QrOF. ROBERT S. SAUNDERS, leader of 
 L/' Saunders' Mandolin Orchestra and member 
 Y^ of Bell's Band, is one of the most prominent 
 musicians in Lawrence, and has gained a large 
 patronage as a teacher of the mandolin, banjo, 
 guitar, violin and zither. His time is entirely 
 taken up with his work as an instructor and with 
 the composition of music adapted to various in- 
 struments. Not only was he one of the first man- 
 dolin players in the city, but he has also raised the 
 standard of his line of music. His studio is at 
 No. 839 Massachusetts street. He is the author 
 of Saunders' Modern Guitar Studies and has also 
 composed some sixty compositions, among them 
 the Deliciosa waltz. Vera May Polka, Malvolio 
 waltz, Bonebroke schottische. Star of the Night 
 quadrille, Return quadrille and Bay State march, 
 and has charge of the arrangement of almost all 
 of Mr. Bell's music in this line. 
 
 The record of the Saunders family can be 
 traced back to 1170, in England. They were 
 early settlers in Massachusetts, where the pro- 
 fessor's father, Capt. H. F. Saunders, was born 
 and Beared. By trade a carpenter, he devoted 
 considerable time, however, to the employment 
 of traveling salesman. Soon afterward became 
 to Kansas with the original Boston party and 
 settled as a farmer at Sibley Station. Subse- 
 quently he traveled for his uncle's boot and shoe 
 house in Massachusetts. During the Price raid 
 he was captain of a company of Kansas militia. 
 He now makes his home in Wakarusa Township, 
 in the Kaw Valley. He married Martha E. 
 Morse, who was born in Salem, Mass., and by 
 whom he had five sons and three daughters now 
 living. 
 
 Our subject was the youngest of the sons. He 
 
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 was born in Lawrence, Kans. , August 25, 1866, 
 and attended the public schools of this citj'. 
 From childhood he showed an aptitude for music, 
 having a special fondness for stringed instru- 
 ments, and he studied by himself for some time, 
 but later was privileged to carry on his studies in 
 Chicago. For a time he was with the Lawrence 
 Cornet Band, later for ten years was with the 
 First Regiment Band of the Kansas National 
 Guard, from which he holds two honorable dis- 
 charges. In 1 89 1, 1892 and 1893 he was teacher of 
 stringed instruments in the University of Kansas, 
 and had charge of the university orchestra. Since 
 leaving the university he has given his attention 
 to personal instruction in the citj'. Politically he 
 is a Republican, but has never been active in pub- 
 lic affairs, his tastes not lying in that direction. 
 He was married in this city to Miss Emma 
 Gathers, who was born in New York City. 
 
 n OHN F. TAYLOR. Among the farmers of 
 I Leavenworth County Mr. Taylor occupies a 
 Q) position of influence. When he came to 
 Kansas in i860 he settled upon land in Kickapoo 
 Township, this county, and here he now resides, 
 superintending his property. He owns two hun- 
 dred and eighty- six acres comprising one of the 
 most fertile farms in the township and containing 
 a neat residence and substantial outbuildings 
 such as are necessary for the shelter of stock and 
 the storage of grain. While much of his time 
 has been spent here during the past forty years, 
 he has also been identified with the business in- 
 terests of Kan-sas City and did much to develop 
 the stock yards there. 
 
 Mr. Taylor was born in St. Lawrence County, 
 N. Y.,July 7, 1840, a son of John and Mary 
 (Drew) Taylor, natives of England, but for years 
 residents of St. Lawrence County. The father 
 engaged in farming until his death, in 1851, at 
 sixty years of age; the mother died in Chicago, 
 in 1S93, aged ninety-three. They were the par- 
 ents of eight children, five of whom are living, 
 namely: David, of Wyandotte County, Kans.; 
 John F. ; Christopher, who makes his home in 
 Jackson County, this state; William, who is a 
 
 partner of his brother, John F., in the live-stock 
 business in Kansas City ; and Annie, widow of 
 William Lunn, of Chicago. 
 
 When fifteen years of age Mr. Taylor went 
 from New York to Wisconsin and after four years 
 proceeded from that state to Chicago, 111. In 
 i860 he established his home in Leavenworth 
 County, Kans., where he is now living. He con- 
 tinued on his farm until 1887, when he rented 
 the place and went to Kansas City, entering the 
 firm of Taj-lor, Taylor & Houston, and starting 
 in the live-stock business which he has since con- 
 ducted. At the same time he also carried on a 
 general commission business. Meantime his 
 family divided the time between Kansas City and 
 the farm. From 1881 to 1887 he acted as super- 
 intendent of the L. T. Smith stock farm of four 
 thousand acres, in Jackson Count}'. As a Demo- 
 crat he has been active in politics and interested 
 in local matters. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias at Kickapoo. For 
 some years he has been a member of the official 
 board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
 His success in life proves his ability and wi.se 
 judgment. When he came to Kansas he had no 
 means whatever, but during the years that have 
 since elapsed he has accumulated a competency 
 and become the owner of valuable business and 
 farm interests. Politically he is a Democrat. 
 
 January 26, 1862, Mr. Taylor married Susan 
 C, daughter of Rev. Joel and Lorinda Grover, 
 and who, like himself, is identified with the 
 Methodi.st Episcopal Church South. Her father, 
 Rev. Joel Grover, was born in Massachusetts and 
 went to Kentucky, vi'here he engaged in preach- 
 ing for several years. During the latter part of 
 the '30s he removed to Platte County, Mo., 
 where he worked as a missionary among the 
 Kickapoo and Pottawatomie Indians, continuing 
 in that county until his death, in 1854, at the age 
 of sixty-three years. During his long life on the 
 frontier his influence did much to elevate the 
 condition of the people around him. He was a 
 conscientious man, an earnest worker, and never 
 wearied in his labors for the church. When he 
 went to Platte County he took up a tract about 
 three miles square. In addition to clearing his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 723 
 
 tract and working as a missionary he also fur- 
 nished hay and wood for the government at Fort 
 lycavenworth. He was a descendant of a pioneer 
 family, whose history in Massachusetts dates 
 back two hundred years, and whose extraction is 
 English and Scotch. Several of the family took 
 part in the French and Indian and the Revolu- 
 tionary wars. Mount Tom, near Holyoke, Mass., 
 was named in honor of Thomas Grover, a bache- 
 lor, who for many years was one of the leading 
 citizens of Holyoke. The Grover family have al- 
 ways been noted for patriotism and devoted loy- 
 alty to country and home. In war they have 
 been brave and fearless. In civic affairs, stirred 
 by the same principles that made them valiant on 
 the battlefield, they have risen to positions of 
 worth and gained the respect of all associates. 
 
 30SEPH MARSH, who came to Ottawa 
 shortly after the town was started, is the 
 proprietor of the Marsh hotel, occupying a 
 convenient location across from the Santa Fe 
 depot. At the time he purchased the house, in 
 1889, it contained only fourteen rooms, but he 
 has added to it from time to time, and now has a 
 building of several stories, containing forty bed- 
 rooms for guests, and having all the conveniences 
 of a modern hotel. He is a member of the city 
 council from the fourth ward, having been elected 
 in the spring of 1898, and has rendered excellent 
 service as chairman of the committees on license 
 and memorial gate, and member of the commit- 
 tees on health, police and cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Marsh was born in Circleville, Pickaway 
 County, Ohio, August 15, 1836, a son of John 
 and Eliza Marsh, natives respectively of Ohio 
 and Pennsylvania. His grandfather, David 
 Marsh, a native of England, was a pioneer farmer 
 of Clark County, Ohio, and a soldier in the war 
 of 181 2. For several years John Marsh culti- 
 vated a farm on Deer Creek, near Circleville, 
 Ohio, but in 1840 he removed to Illinois and set- 
 tled in DeWitt County, twelve miles east of Clin- 
 ton. In 1882 he sold his farm there, and coming 
 to Kansas, spent his last days near Centropolis, 
 where he died at seventy -five years. Fraternally 
 
 he was a Ma.son. His wife died in Illinois. 
 Their ten children attained years of maturity and 
 eight are still living. One of the sons, George, 
 now residing in Nebraska, was a soldier in the 
 Twentieth Illinois Infantry and was twice wound- 
 ed while in service. 
 
 The oldest of the family, Joseph, was reared 
 on the frontier of Illinois and had few advantages. 
 During about two months of the year he attended 
 school in a primitive building, with crude fur- 
 nishings, but the remainder of the time he was 
 obliged to assist in the clearing of the farm. With 
 four and five yoke of oxen he helped to break 
 the prairie land. When twenty-one years of age 
 he began to cultivate a farm for himself. Au- 
 gust 6, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One 
 Hundred and Seventh Illinois Infantr}', and was 
 mustered in at Camp Butler, as orderly sergeant. 
 His regiment pursued Morgan into Indiana, and 
 then went south, taking part in the siege of 
 Knoxville and the Atlanta campaign, including 
 the battles of Resaca, Ringgold, Flat Rock, Lost 
 Mountain and Lovejoy Station. Under General 
 Thomas the regiment returned to Nashville and 
 took part in the battle of Franklin, where his 
 company, on the 30th day of November, 1864, 
 under his command, won glorj' and recognition, 
 its twenty armed men being in the thickest of 
 the fight and carrying the colors of the regiment. 
 Of nine commissioned officers that took part in 
 this conflict six were killed. Prior to this our 
 subject had been offered the commission as first 
 lieutenant of a colored company, but had refused. 
 Afterward he was commissioned first lieutenant 
 by Governor Yates. His regiment followed 
 Hood to Columbia, Tenn., thence went to Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, and next by rail to Washington, 
 D. C, arriving there February i, 1865. On the 
 nth of February they were sent to Fort Smith- 
 land and took part in the battle of Fort Sanders, 
 which was the last time Mr. Marsh was under 
 fire. They were next ordered to Wilmington, 
 then to Kingston, and were present at Johnston's 
 surrender. They were mustered out June 21, 
 and discharged July 10, 1865. 
 
 After a visit of four weeks at home Mr. Marsh 
 came to Kansas, in company with three others. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 At first he was in Linn County, but not liking it 
 went to Paola, thence came to Ottawa and was 
 so pleased that he decided to seek for work. He 
 secured emploj'ment the same day at carpenter- 
 ing, his first work being the bridging of the 
 joists of the old college building. In the fall of 
 1S65 he began contracting, his first job being in 
 the countrj-. He continued to take contracts 
 until the grasshopper siege of 1874. He then 
 began the improvement of his farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres seven miles northwest of 
 Ottawa. After five years he sold that place and 
 bought two hundred and twenty acres near 
 Homevvood, where he remained for two years. 
 For a similar period he conducted a hotel in Bur- 
 lington and the Peters house in Ottawa, after 
 which, in 1889, he bought the place he has since 
 conducted. In Ottawa he married Miss Sarah K. 
 Woods, who was born in Washtenaw County, 
 Mich., and accompanied her father, Moses 
 Woods, to Burlington, Kans. Of their marriage 
 nine children were born. 
 
 As a member of the Republican party Mr. Marsh 
 has been active in local affairs. While on the 
 farm he served as clerk of the school board at the 
 time of the building of the schoolhou.se. He is a 
 member of the One Hundred and Seventh Illi- 
 nois Veterans' Association, and is past command- 
 er of George H. Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R. 
 When twenty-one years of age he was made a 
 Mason in Anion Lodge No. 261, at DeWitt, 111., 
 and is now identified with Ottawa Lodge No. 128, 
 A. F. & A. M., and past oflScer of Chapter 
 No. 7, R. A. M. In 1874 and 1875 he served as 
 an officer of the grand lodge of Kansas. 
 
 QlCHOLAS VOLNEY HUDELSON, senior 
 fy member of the firm of Hudelson & Sons, 
 I /j stockmen of Greenwood Township, Frank- 
 lin County, was born in Orange County, Ind., 
 August 24, 1842, and is the son of William H. and 
 Elizabeth (Springer) HudeLson. The latter be- 
 came the parents of ten children, of whom seven 
 survive, viz.: David M.; Mrs. Sarah Bellinger; 
 Henry H. ; N. V.; Albert T. ; Emma and Mrs. 
 Addie Simpson. All live in Indiana excepting 
 
 the subject of this sketch. His paternal great- 
 grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 war, and while in battle his right arm was shot 
 off. After six years of service he was honorably 
 discharged, owing to disabilitj', and six years later 
 he settled in Kentucky, where he died. His son, 
 David, was born and reared in Kentucky, and mi- 
 grated to Indiana in 1818, .spending the remain- 
 der of his life upon a farm in that state. William 
 H., son of David Hudelson, was foryears a large 
 stock-dealer and larmer in Indiana, to which 
 state he had removed with his parents from Ken- 
 tuckj- at the age of ten years, and in which he 
 continued to live until his death, at the age of 
 seventy-five. 
 
 Reared on an Indiana farm and educated in 
 common schools, our subject was about nineteen 
 years of age when the Civil war broke out. He 
 at once enlisted in Company B, Twenty-fourth 
 Indiana Infantry, in which he served for seven- 
 teen months. During the battle of Shiloh he was 
 wounded so seriously that he was unable to con- 
 tinue in the service, and consequently was hon- 
 orably discharged. As soon as he was able to 
 engage in business he opened a general store at 
 Paoli, Orange County, Ind., where he remained 
 for six years. He then sold out the business, and 
 after acting as proprietor of the Albert hotel at 
 Paoli tor a short time, in 1874 came to Kansas, 
 first stopping iu Ottawa. The following year he 
 purchased one hundred and sixty acres in Green- 
 wood Township, where he began farming and 
 feeding stock. From that time to this he has 
 conducted an increasing business. During the 
 winter of 1898-99 he fed over a thousand head 
 of cattle, and it is probable that he has handled 
 more stock than any other man in the county. 
 He owns eight hundred acres of fine land, which 
 he has improved from the raw prairie, and which 
 ranks among the best stock farms in the locality. 
 Having made a special study of the stock business, 
 he is thoroughly qualified to conduct it in a prac- 
 ticr 1 and successful manner. As he does not raise 
 enough feed for his stock on his place, he fur- 
 nishes a market for the farmers of the township 
 by buying their corn to be used as feed. Con- 
 nected with him in the stock business are his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 725 
 
 only children, two sons, John W. and James A., 
 who are managers of a large cattle ranch, con- 
 taining over two thousand acres, situated near 
 Pomona. 
 
 Always a Republican, Mr. Hudelson has kept 
 well posted concerning public matters and is a 
 leader in his township, but his work is done in 
 the interests of others, for he has never sought 
 political office for himself. In fact, his attention 
 is necessarily given so closely to his large private 
 interests that he has not had the leisure to fill 
 positions of responsibility. While living in Paoli, 
 Ind., September 5, 1865, he married Miss Mary 
 Albert, who has aided him in the accumulation 
 of his propertj', and to whose counsel and co- 
 operation not a little of his success is due. 
 
 •JJEORGE FRED KAISER, who is success- 
 _ fully engaged in the drug business in Otta- 
 J wa, of which city he is a progressive and 
 public-spirited citizen, was born here Decem- 
 ber 13, 1869, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Daab) 
 Kaiser. He attended the high school of Ottawa, 
 from which he graduated in 1885. Afterward 
 for two years he carried on a course of study in 
 Ottawa University. In 1887 he entered the de- 
 partment of pharmacy. State University of Kan- 
 sas, where he took a complete course, graduating 
 in 18S9, with the degree of Ph.G. He stood high 
 in his class and was honored by being made vale- 
 dictorian at the commencement exercises. He 
 was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta and one of 
 its leading workers. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Kaiser became registered pharma- 
 cist in the drug store of S. H. lyucas, with whom 
 he continued for a number of years, gaining 
 meantime a thorough knowledge of the business. 
 In 1897 he purchased his employer's store, at No. 
 232 South Main street, and established Kaiser's 
 pharmacy, which is well known as one of the 
 reliable establishments of its kind in the city. 
 A complete assortment of drugs is carried, as well 
 as the other articles usually found in a drug store. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the blue lodge 
 and chapter of Masonry in Ottawa, is also a mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Pythias and regent of the 
 
 34 
 
 Royal Arcanum. At the organization of the Otta- 
 wa Camp Sons of Veterans he became one of its 
 charter members, and continued with it until its 
 disbandment. He is identified with the State 
 Pharmaceutical Association and is a charter mem- 
 ber of the Commercial Club. In his political 
 views he is in sympathy with Republican princi- 
 ples and has become actively connected with the 
 party in his home town. At this writing he is a 
 member of the city committee and during 1896 
 he served as secretary of the county committee. 
 
 r^ETER KAISER, justice of the peace in Ot- 
 L/' tawa, came to this city in July, 1869, and 
 Y^ started in the harness and saddlery business, 
 which he has since conducted, building the block 
 which he now occupies. In politics he has al- 
 ways been allied with the Republican party. 
 Both as a member of the school board and the 
 board of health he has rendered efficient service 
 in behalf of local interests. He is a charter mem- 
 ber of George H. Thomas Post No. 18, G. A. R., 
 in which he is past commander. Fraternally he 
 is connected with the Select Knights, Knights of 
 Honor, Knights and Ladies of Honor and Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 Christian Kaiser, our subject's father, was born 
 in Bavaria, Germany, and settled in St. Clair 
 County, 111., about 1S38. While he was a black- 
 smith by trade, his attention was given princi- 
 pally to farming. However, after he went to St. 
 Louis he worked as a contractor. He died in 
 that city in 1849, and his wife, Margaret 
 (Dahlem) Kaiser, died there in 1857. They were 
 the parents of four children. Peter was born in 
 St. Clair County, 111., April 11, 1844. At four- 
 teen years of age he was apprenticed to the har- 
 ness-maker's trade, and he was serving his time 
 when the Civil war opened. June i, 1861, he 
 enlisted in Company A, Third Missouri Infantry, 
 and served for three months, taking part in a 
 number of engagements, among them that at 
 Wilson's Creek. In December, 1861, he again 
 enlLsted, returning to the same regiment and 
 company. He took part in the battles of Look- 
 out Mountain, Chattanooga, Ringgold, siege of 
 
726 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Vicksburg and Atlanta campaign. At the ex- 
 piration of his term he was mustered out in St. 
 Louis, and honorably discharged in December, 
 1864, after three years of service. He was once 
 wounded by a piece of shell, but remained with 
 the regiment and soon recovered. 
 
 After the war he followed his trade in St. Louis, 
 and in 1867 opened a shop at Bridgeton, Mo. 
 From there he came to Ottawa. He was married in 
 St. Louis to Elizabeth Daab, who was born 
 in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. They have two 
 daughters and two sons: Mrs. Maggie Dietrich, 
 of Kansas City; George Frederick, of Ottawa; 
 Clara and John. 
 
 I EO HUND, who is one of the energetic and 
 It capable farmers of Leavenworth County, re- 
 LJ sides in Kickapoo Township, where, in 1896, 
 he purchased a tract of two hundred acres of fine 
 farming land. Upon this place he has since re- 
 sided, engaging in the raising of cereals and also 
 giving considerable attention to the raising of 
 Shorthorn cattle and other stock. Besides this 
 property he is the owner of an eighty-acre tract 
 in High Prairie Township, which makes his 
 landed possessions aggregate two hundred and 
 eighty acres. 
 
 Reference to the history of the Hund family 
 appears in the sketch of our subject's uncle, 
 Wendlin Hund. He is a son of Michael Hund, a 
 native of Germany, who emigrated to the United 
 States in 1836 and settled in St. Charles County, 
 Mo. Later he removed to Blue Earth County, 
 Minn., and it was during his residence there that 
 his son, Leo, was born August 22, 1859. In 1872 
 he came to Kansas and established his home in 
 Wabaunsee County, where he became a promi- 
 nent farmer and representative citizen. His death 
 occurred there in 1898, when he was seventy- 
 three years of age. Twice married, his first 
 wife was Miss Burgmeyer, a native of Germany, 
 who died, leaving three children, namely: Mau- 
 rice, a resident of Paxico, Wabaunsee County; 
 Michael, and Mary, Mrs. Robert Guth, also of that 
 county. After the death of his first wife he 
 married Otelia Peters, who now resides at the 
 old hoinestead in Wabaunsee County. To this 
 
 union five children were born: Joseph, of Wabaun- 
 see County; Leo; Frances, wife of August Mein- 
 hardt; Philip, who makes his home in Wabaun- 
 see County; and Teresa, Mrs. William Glotzback. 
 At the time the family removed from Minne- 
 sota to Kan.sas the subject of this sketch was a 
 lad of thirteen years. He grew to manhood on a 
 farm in Wabaunsee County and there he con- 
 tinued to make his home until his removal to 
 Leavenworth County. In 1895 he bought a farm 
 in High Prairie Township and the next year 
 purchased the place upon which he has since en- 
 gaged in general agricultural pursuits. In mat- 
 ters pertaining to the welfare of the county he 
 maintains an interest, and politically gives his 
 support to the Democratic party. He is a mem- 
 ber of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Leaven- 
 worth, to the work of which he contributes. 
 While living in Paxico he was a member of the 
 church committee for sometime and took a lead- 
 ing part in church work. May 10, 1886, he mar- 
 ried Miss Eva Emge, of Wabaunsee County, and 
 they are the parents of five children : Mar}', Alice, 
 Christian. Julia and Edward. 
 
 [7 REDERICK SAMS, M. D., of Lawrence, a 
 r3 physician of the physio-medical school, was 
 I ^ born near Weldon, Iowa, in 1871, a son of 
 Daniel and Addie (Weston) Sams, natives of Illi- 
 nois. His father, who served in an Illinois regi- 
 ment during the Civil war, afterward settled in 
 Iowa and there made his home until 1872. Dur- 
 ing the latter year he came to Kansas and settled 
 near Stockton, on the Solomon River, where he 
 had no neighbors except the Indians and buffa- 
 loes. He began to clear and improve a farm in 
 that locality, but after a few years removed to 
 Rooks County, this state. From 1880 to 1890 
 he made his home in Hiawatha, but in the latter 
 year removed to Topeka; and there he has since 
 resided. He is a Republican and active in local 
 politics. He and his wife are the parents of five 
 sons and one daughter, all living. 
 
 Frederick, who was third in order of birth, 
 was reared in Kansas, and his earliest j-ears were 
 spent upon the frontier, amid primitive surround- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 727 
 
 iiigs. In 1889 he became interested in evangelis- 
 tic work and this he followed for some years, being 
 in 1892 ordained an elder in the Wesleyan Method- 
 ist Church. He held pastorates at Grover, Otta- 
 wa County, Laban, Mitchell County, Girard, 
 Milford and Pittsburgh, all in Kansas. From 
 boyhood he has been interested in medicine, 
 which he studied under different preceptors. At 
 the time of the Wellington cyclone. May 27, 
 1891, he was reported among the dead; he was 
 fortunate, however, in escaping, but was seriously 
 injured, and this caused him to renew his medi- 
 cal studies. In 1895 he entered the Independent 
 Medical College in Chicago, 111., from which he 
 graduated in 1897, with the degree of M. D. On 
 receiving the degree he retired from the ministry 
 and April 9, 1898, opened an office at No. 157 
 Bridge street, Lawrence, where he has since car- 
 ried on a general practice and drug business. He 
 is a member of the National Union Medical So- 
 ciety of Chicago and is treasurer and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Kansas State Physio-Medical Society. 
 In national politics he votes the Republican ticket. 
 He is connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America and the Fraternal Aid. He was mar- 
 ried in Topeka, Kans., in May, 1894, to Miss 
 Florence Reeve, who was born in Indiana, but 
 has resided in Kansas from early girlhood. 
 
 WILLIAM W. JORDAN, who has made his 
 home in Ottawa since April, 1870, was 
 born in Fredericktown, Washington Coun- 
 ty, Pa., June 8, 1825, a son of Jacob and Rebecca 
 (Arvecost) Jordan, natives respectively of Mary- 
 land and Washington County, Pa. His paternal 
 grandfather, Jarman Jordan, who was of English 
 descent, was born near Winchester, Va., and at 
 an early age removed to Maryland, but about 
 1790 settled in western Pennsylvania, where he 
 engaged in the harness and saddlery business. 
 Jacob Jordan, who was a soldier in the war of 
 181 2, followed the tinsmith's trade in Frederick- 
 town, Pa., and Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, 
 in which latter place he died at the age of ninety 
 years. His wife, who died in Pennsylvania in 
 i833> was a daughter of Joseph Arvecost, a na- 
 
 tive of Pennsylvania and a farmer there; her 
 grandfather, John Arvecost, came from Holland 
 and settled in western Pennsylvania, where he 
 obtained one of the first grants to land lying on 
 the Monongahela. 
 
 Of nine children, six of whom attained matur- 
 ity, the subject of this sketch was the youngest 
 son and is now the sole survivor. He learned 
 the tinsmith's trade in Ohio, and in 1842 re- 
 turned to Pennsylvania and worked for a brother 
 at Bellsville. On his return to Ohio he started a 
 tinsmith's shop at Woodsfield and continued in 
 business there until 1870, the shop being in 
 charge of a nephew while he was in the army. 
 (In June, 1861, he enlisted in the Twenty-fifth 
 Ohio Infantry, with which he served for two 
 years in the army of the Potomac. ) Selling out 
 in 1870, he moved from Ohio to Kansas and set- 
 tled in Ottawa, where, with a son-in-law, C. C. 
 Mechem, he carried on a hardware business for 
 four years. In 1874 he sold out to George Ham- 
 lin and embarked in the real-estate business with 
 his son-in-law, since which time he has built up 
 a large business in the handling of real estate, 
 renting of houses, sale of propertj', etc. In 1893 
 they began a real-estate business in Mobile, Ala., 
 of which Mr. Mechem is now in charge. 
 
 In St. Clairsville, Ohio, Mr. Jordan married 
 Rachel Waters, who was born in Howard Coun- 
 ty, Md., and died in Woodsfield, Ohio. Of the 
 three children born to this iniion the only one 
 living is Mrs. Ellen Mechem, of Mobile, Ala. 
 The second marriage of Mr. Jordan took place in 
 Woodsfield, Ohio, and united him with Laura A. 
 Bloor, who was born in St. Clairsville. Two 
 children have been born to them. The son, 
 George B., who resides in Spokane, Wash., is a 
 traveling salesman with M. D. Wells & Co., of 
 Chicago. The daughter, Laura May, is at home. 
 The family is connected with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, in which Mr. Jordan was for fif- 
 teen years chairman of the board of trustees and 
 is still a member of the same. In former years 
 he voted with the Republicans, but in 1896 he 
 identified himself with the silver forces and cast 
 his ballot for W. J. Bryan. Since coming to 
 Ottawa he served one term as school director. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He was made a Mason in Woodsfield in 1852, 
 and is now identified with Ottawa Lodge 
 No. 128, A. F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 7, 
 R. A. M. He is also connected with the 
 Knights of Honor. 
 
 0S. ALFORD. The family represented by 
 Mr. Alford was founded in America in 1632 
 , by Alexander Alford, who emigrated from 
 Somersetshire, England, to Windsor, Conn., and 
 later, with his brother, Benedict, served in the 
 Pequod war. After him, in line of descent, were 
 Josiah, Nathaniel (i.st), Nathaniel (2nd), a sol- 
 dier in the Revolutionary war; Arba, Alfred and 
 D. S. Alford. Alfred was a prominent manufac- 
 turer of Riverton, Conn., from 1845 to i860, and 
 was active in public affairs, serving several terms 
 in the state legislature. His death occurred when 
 he was seventy-nine years of age. His wife, 
 Sylvia, was a daughter of Daniel Stillman, and a 
 granddaughter of Roger Stillman, who served in 
 the Revolution, as did also other members of the 
 family. The Stillmans were of English extrac- 
 tion and were early settlers of Connecticut. Dan- 
 iel Stillman was a prominent farmer and a deacon 
 in the Congregational Church at Colebroak, 
 Conn. Alfred and Sylvia Alford were the parents 
 of six children, four of whom are living. 
 
 After having spent his boyhood years at River- 
 ton, Conn., where he was born October 2, 1848, 
 and having prepared for college at Wilbraham 
 Academy, D. S. Alford entered Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity at Middletown, Conn., and there con- 
 tinued until his graduation in 1871, with the 
 degree of A. B. Some years later the degree of 
 A. M. was conferred upon him. While in the 
 university he was a member of the Alpha Delta 
 Phi fraternity and also assisted in establishing 
 and conducting the College Argits, which is still 
 published. In 1871 he began the study of law 
 with Judge Hiram Goodwin, of Riverton. In 
 October, 1872, he came to Lawrence, where he 
 finished his studies and was admitted to the 
 Kansas bar in 1873. The year following he be- 
 came a partner of his former preceptor, Judge 
 Nevison, under the firm name of Nevison & Al- 
 
 ford, which title was afterward changed to Nevi- 
 son, Simpson & Alford, and later returned to its 
 former name for six years. From 1894 to 1896 
 he was a member of the firm of Alford & Savage. 
 In 1897 the firm name became Alford & Alford, 
 his son, Alfred Cecil, being admitted, and re- 
 maining with him until his enlistment in the 
 Spanish-American war. 
 
 Mr. Alford is attorney for many companies and 
 corporations. Since 1889 he has acted as local at- 
 torney for the Santa Fe Railroad. He has made 
 a specialty of corporation law, with which he has 
 a thorough familiarity and in which he has ac- 
 quired a broad knowledge. His practice in the 
 federal courts is large and important. He is a 
 member of the State Bar Association of Kansas. 
 In politics he is a stanch Republican. By virtue 
 of Revolutionary descent he is connected with 
 the Kansas City Chapter, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, and with the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion of Kansas. In Plymouth Congregational 
 Church he was for years a member of the board 
 of trustees and a deacon. For about eight years 
 he was proprietor of the Lawrence Daily and 
 Weekly Tribune. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Alford, in Lawrence, 
 united him with Miss Susan D. Savage, and six 
 children were born of their union, viz.: Alfred 
 C, who was killed in a battle with the insurgents 
 at Manila, February 7, 1899, during the Spanish- 
 American war; Anna M. and Donald S., students 
 in the University of Kansas; Joseph S., member 
 of the class of 1900 in the high school; Theodore 
 and Sylvia. Mrs. Alford was born in Hartford, 
 Vt., the only child of Joseph and Amanda (Cran- 
 dall) Savage. The Savage family was founded 
 in America by John Savage, who crossed the 
 ocean prior to 1652 from his native land, England, 
 and settled in New England. Some of his de- 
 scendants served in the Revolutionary war. His 
 son, Capt. John Savage, settled in Middletown, 
 Conn. One of the family, Abijah Savage, ac- 
 companied Arnold's expedition to Quebec and in 
 the Revolution served as captain of a company; 
 Thomas, son of Seth Savage, also served in the 
 war with England, after which he engaged in 
 farming in Hartford. His son, William, who was 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 729 
 
 a farmer, when advanced in years joined his 
 sons, Joseph and Forrest, in Lawrence, Kans. 
 These two sons were among the very earliest 
 settlers of Lawrence and were among the founders 
 of Plymouth Congregational Church, in which 
 William served as a deacon until he died. Four 
 generations of the Savage family have made Law- 
 rence their home, and all of the name have proved 
 themselves to be honest and honorable, capable 
 business men and progressive citizens. Some of 
 the family still remain in the east and one of the 
 descendants occupies the old homestead at Hart- 
 ford. 
 
 Joseph Savage, father of Mrs. Alford, was 
 reared in Vermont, and became one of the founders 
 of Lawrence, where he was a prominent citizen. 
 In addition to farm pursuits he was interested in 
 geology, and his collection of geological and min- 
 eralogical .specimens was one of the largest in the 
 state. Fond of music, he frequently entertained 
 the early settlers of the town in this wa}'. His 
 abilit)' brought him into prominence among the 
 pioneers of Kansas, and, had his tastes been in 
 that direction, he might have become an influen- 
 tial factor in state politics. He was a member of 
 the United States geological survey of Yellow- 
 stone Park, and was also employed by Yale Col- 
 lege to make geological collections in western 
 Kansas and Wyoming. His wife, who was a de- 
 scendant of an English family that became pio- 
 neers of Massachusetts and Vermont, died in Law- 
 rence when she was in middle life. Their daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Alford, was reared on the then frontier 
 and received her education in the University of 
 Kansas. She was in Lawrence at the time of the 
 various raids during the Civil war (notably the 
 Quantrell raid) and witnessed many of the stirr- 
 ing scenes of those days, as well as the city's 
 subsequent commercial development and social 
 progress. 
 
 I lEUT. ALFRED C. ALFORD. An un- 
 liL usual combination of circumstances seems to 
 LJ mark Lieut. Alfred C. Alford as the heroic 
 figure of the Twentieth Kansas; and the splendid 
 fighting spirit of this regiment was doubtless first 
 
 aroused by the tragic death of this ofiicer, so be- 
 loved and so young, the youngest, indeed, of his 
 rank in the regiment, and the first to fall in bat- 
 tle. It is certain that his company, B, from the 
 date of his death, was second to none in dis- 
 tinguished deeds of valor. 
 
 Alfred Cecil Alford was by birth and education 
 an ideal young Kansan. His grandfather came 
 out from New England in the first party that 
 founded Lawrence to make Kansas a free state; and 
 from earliest colonial days his ancestors, though 
 a peaceful, God-fearing race, have never failed to 
 furnish volunteers for every war in which the 
 country has been engaged. An uncle, also named 
 Alfred Cecil Alford, fell in the battle of Win- 
 chester during the Civil war of a similar wound 
 and at nearly the same age. 
 
 Lieutenant Alford was born in Lawrence in 
 January, 1875, and was educated in the public 
 schools, graduating from the department of arts 
 and later from the department of law in the State 
 University at the age of twenty-two. Chancellor 
 Snow of the University said at the funeral exer- 
 cises of Lieutenant Alford that "no more perfect 
 specimen of young manhood had ever gone forth 
 from the University. ' ' Although a lover of books 
 and of music he was also possessed of excellent 
 business abilitj^; with a keen sense of humor, he 
 was profoundly serious; although first of all a 
 student, he was fond of athletic sports and so- 
 cial rela.xation; with deep convictions of truth 
 and duty, he was to a marked degree broad- 
 minded and tolerant. Indeed, he ma)- be said to 
 have been an all-round man. 
 
 Immediately after graduation young Alford en- 
 tered into partnership with his fatherin the prac- 
 tice of law, with the brightest prospects for a suc- 
 cessful business career, but before the first year 
 of this partnership had expired war was declared 
 with Spain. Holding a second lieutenant's com- 
 mission in the National Guards, with the advant- 
 age of five years' drill in that organization, he 
 felt that it was his duty to go to the front with his 
 company. "No one can realize," he wrote to a 
 friend, "how hard it was for me to leave just 
 when I did, for this war will leave me just where 
 it found me as far as business is concerned. I 
 
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 consider it only a temporary matter, an inter- 
 ruption of my natural life." 
 
 In August, following his enlistment, Lieuten- 
 ant Alford was promoted to first lieutenant and 
 transferred to Company B, in which company he 
 was the acting captain, and the only commissioned 
 officer for five months before his death, the cap- 
 tain and second lieutenant being detailed for 
 other duties. 
 
 Colonel Fun.ston wrote of him, "He was one of 
 the first officers in the regiment to receive pro- 
 motion on my recommendation, on account of his 
 devotion to duty, his earnestness, and his exem- 
 plary conduct." "As for myself," wrote the 
 young officer to Miss Vesta McCurdy, his 
 fiancee, "I intend to give my country no half- 
 hearted service; until the war is over she has the 
 very best I am capable of; this is a time when 
 every effort is being made to get troops into shape, 
 and I feel that I owe it to my country to do the 
 best I can." 
 
 He took up his new duties with earnestness 
 and efficiency, improving the diet and consequent 
 health of his luen, and laboring for better drill, 
 discipline and moral character in the company. 
 The men generously responded to his efforts and 
 their superior officers testify to the improved 
 efficiency of Company B under his command. 
 As one of the enlisted men wrote, "Lieutenant 
 Alford endeared himself to us by many kind acts. 
 He was strict in discipline, but always ready, 
 whenever possible, to show brotherly kindness to 
 his men." When the supreme test came the young 
 commander did not flinch in the face of danger, 
 and his men followed him into battle with loyal 
 devotion and courage. 
 
 Chaplain Cressy, of the Thirteenth Minnesota 
 Volunteers, in an address delivered on the first 
 Decoration Day observed at Manila, said among 
 other things, "That the mortal remains of these 
 men rest here is one evidence of their bravery. 
 They went where duty called them. This bravery 
 is wonderfully exemplified in Lieutenant Alford, 
 of the Twentieth Kansas. He was leading his 
 company in an impetuous charge, and just after 
 saying to his men, 'move along, but more. steadj-,' 
 
 received a mortal wound. And after he had fal- 
 len the men kept moving on until victory came." 
 Kansas University has sent many students to 
 the Spanish-American war, including General 
 Funston, Colonel Metcalf, Lieutenant-Colonel Lit- 
 tle, several captains and lieutenants, non-commis- 
 sioned officers and enlisted men of the Twentieth 
 Kansas, as well as others who were assigned to 
 duty in Cuba; yet of all this number, but this 
 one has fallen from wounds or disease, and a tab- 
 let will be placed in the hall of the university 
 to his memory, with the inscription thereon, 
 "Duke el decorum est pro patria tnori." 
 
 G\ BSALOM LEEDS. During the period of 
 LI his residence in Franklin County Mr. Leeds 
 I I has been especially identified with the inter- 
 ests of Princeton and vicinity. Upon settling in 
 the state in 1876 he established his home in the 
 town of Princeton. After two years in the vil- 
 lage he purchased some five acre lots on the edge 
 of the town, and there he built the house which 
 he has since occupied. About 1888 he purchased 
 one-half section of laud in the southeastern part 
 of Ohio Township, which property he has since 
 rented, being himself retired from active farm 
 labors. 
 
 One of a family of eight children, our subject 
 was born in Burlington (now Atlantic) County, 
 N. J., August 13, 1810, a son of Robert and Dor- 
 cas (Chamberlain) Leeds. His father, who was 
 born, reared and married in New Jersey, was a 
 very well-informed man, and, while he was never 
 admitted to the bar, he practiced law quite ex- 
 tensively. He was also a practical surveyor and 
 surveyed much of the land in his locality. How- 
 ever, surveying and the practice of law were both 
 made subservient to agricultural pursuits, in 
 which he engaged throughout his life and from 
 which he acquired a competency. 
 
 As the schools of his day and locality were 
 poor and held at infrequent intervals our subject 
 had no advantages when he was a boy, but being 
 a quick observer he has become the possessor of 
 a broad fund of valuable information. After his 
 
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 marriage he engaged in farming and teaming, 
 and, as was then the custom, he also spent much 
 of his time fishing in the bay. In 1835 he emi- 
 grated to Morgan County, 111., where he took up 
 land, improved a farm and made his home for 
 some years. From there he went to Macon 
 County, the same state, where he remained until 
 his removal to Kansas. On going to that countj^ 
 he bought eighty acres at eighty cents an acre 
 and forty acres at $1.25 an acre, all of which, at 
 the time he sold out, brought him $30 an acre. 
 The first wife of Mr. Leeds was Miriam Blake, 
 by whom he had eight children. Five of these 
 are still living, viz.: Gideon, a grain dealer in 
 Illiopolis, 111.; Louise; Emma, wife of James R. 
 Thornbury, M. D., of Princeton, Kans.; Mary, 
 who is the widow of Frank Lanham, and resides 
 in Princeton; and Edward S., a farmer of Taze- 
 well County, 111. Mrs. Miriam Leeds was born 
 in New Jersey, where her father, Edward Blake, 
 was a farmer. The .second marriage of Mr. Leeds 
 united him with Miss Sarah Sayer, daughter of 
 Alexander Sayer, of New Jersey. Three chil- 
 dren blessed their union, but all are now de- 
 ceased. In spite of his venerable age Mr. Leeds 
 retains possession of his mental faculties and is 
 also robust physically for one of his years. He 
 takes an interest in public affairs, votes the Re- 
 publican ticket, and has served for several terms 
 as a member of the school board. He is a be- 
 liever in the doctrines of the Methodist Church 
 and has endeavored to exemplify by an upright 
 life the doctrines of which be has been a lifelong 
 supporter. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM F. ASHBY, one of the early 
 settlers of Kansas, is now living in the 
 village of Easton, retired from farm pursuits 
 hat engaged his attention during active years. 
 He has been identified with the history of this 
 state since 1854, when it was first opened for set- 
 tlement. During that year he crossed over from 
 Missouri and took up a claim, which, afterward 
 proving to be on the Delaware reservation, he 
 was obliged to abandon. In 1855 he brought 
 his family to Leavenworth County and purchased 
 a claim in Alexandria Township, where he 
 
 made his home for ten years. In 1865 he moved 
 to Easton Township, where he has since resided. 
 As a farmer he was successful from the first. 
 Being energetic and persevering, his efforts were 
 prospered, and his farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres became one of the best-improved in the 
 township. In 1892 he rented the place and built 
 a house in Easton, where has since been living in 
 retirement, with no business cares except such as 
 are connected with his monej'ed interests. 
 
 The A.shby family came from England to Vir- 
 ginia in an early day. Later generations moved 
 to Kentucky. They were represented in the 
 Revolution and the war of 181 2. Our subject 
 was born in Shelby County, Ky., December 19, 
 1830, a son of Levi Ashbj^, also a native of Ken- 
 tucky, where he was a dealer in horses and 
 mules. The grandparents were killed by Indians 
 and their children were captured. One of them, 
 Thomas, was kept in captivity by the red men 
 for seven years, but finally made his escape. At 
 the time of his death Levi Ashby was sixty-seven 
 years of age. His wife, Mary, daughter of Jacob 
 Fry, was a member of a Kentucky family whose 
 ancestors came from Scotland to Virginia in an 
 early day. She died in 1866, at the age of seven- 
 ty-four. Of her children James, deceased, served 
 in the Mexican war; Mary is deceased; and 
 Washington is living in Oklahoma. 
 
 When the last call was made for volunteers in 
 the Mexican war the subject of this sketch en- 
 listed in 1847 and for eleven months he remained 
 at the front. In 1850 he left Kentucky for Mis- 
 souri and outfitted for California in Platte Coun- 
 ty, making the trip across the plains via ox-team. 
 For eight months he engaged in mining in the 
 far west, but the results were not sufficiently flat- 
 tering to induce him to remain, and in 1851 he 
 returned to Missouri. Settling upon a farm in 
 Buchanan County he engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits for three years. Then he removed to Leav- 
 enworth County, with whose interests he has 
 since been identified. In addition to farming, 
 for five years he carried on a general store at 
 Easton. During the Civil war he was a member 
 of the Kansas state militia and took part in the 
 battles of Westport and Little Blue. 
 
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 Politically Mr. Ashbj- has always been a Demo- 
 crat. Upon that ticket he was elected county 
 commissioner, filling the office for two years. He 
 served for several terms as a member of the state 
 legislature, being elected in 1870 and 187 1 and 
 again in 1885 and during the latter term served 
 for two sessions, the last of which wasa special ses- 
 sion. During his residence in Buchanan County, 
 Mo. , in October, 1853, he married Melvina, daugh- 
 ter of Ludy Martin, formerly of Kentucky. He 
 and his wife are earnest workers in the Baptist 
 Church and for forty years or more he has officiated 
 as a deacon and Sunday-school superintendent. 
 For forty-six years he has been a member of the 
 church, while his wife has been a member for 
 fifty years. Fraternally he is connected with 
 Easton Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., of which 
 he is treasurer. Among the people of his com- 
 munity he .stands very high as an intelligent citi- 
 zen and public-spirited man. 
 
 30HN F. LAMB. Believing that Kansas 
 presented greater opportunities than his Illi- 
 nois home, Mr. Lamb came to this state in 
 1871 and settled in Peoria Township, Franklin 
 County, purchasing four hundred and eighty 
 acres on sections 34 and 27. The land was raw 
 prairie, destitute of improvements, and almost in 
 the primeval condition of nature. He at once be- 
 gan the breaking of the land and preparing it for 
 cultivation. At first he engaged principally in 
 raising grain, but after a time he also gave con- 
 siderable attention to buying and feeding cattle 
 and hogs. He has bought and .sold considerable 
 land in this neighborhood and now owns two 
 hundred and forty acres, the value of which is in- 
 creased by running water through the land. 
 
 Mr. Lamb was born in Williamsport, Pa., July 
 17, 1833, the oldest of the ten children of Benja- 
 min F. and Julia A. (Moyer) Lamb, himself and 
 two sisters being the only members of the family 
 in Kansas. His grandfather, John Lamb, fur- 
 nished .supplies to the Perry fleet during the war 
 of 1812. During his active life Benjamin F. 
 Lamb engaged in contracting, digging canals in 
 Pennsylvania and Illinois, and he also held ex- 
 
 tensive farm interests. In 1833 he settled in 
 Illinois, where he died in 1855. Reared in Illi- 
 nois, our subject for a time engaged in farming, 
 afterward carried on a grain business in Ottawa 
 for three years. Subsequently he resumed farm- 
 ing. Since then he has lived on his farm in 
 Franklin Countj-, with the exception of a year in 
 town, and he is still actively superintending this 
 property. He has served as president and treas- 
 urer of the Fair Association and is now a member 
 of the board of directors. 
 
 Active in local affairs of the Democratic partj', 
 Mr. Lamb has served for six consecutive years 
 as county commissioner and during a part of this 
 time acted as chairman. One of the most im- 
 portant acts of the administration was the refund- 
 ing of county bonds at a lower rate of interest. In 
 1892 he was elected county treasurer, which office 
 he filled for a term. For forty-two years he has 
 been a member of the Masonic order and he was 
 a charter member of the Knights Templar com- 
 mandery at Ottawa. A deacon in the Baptist 
 Church, he donated the land on which was 
 erected the house of worship owned by the con- 
 gregation. For years he has been a member of 
 the school board, and he also served on the board 
 of trustees for the Ottawa university. At Ottawa, 
 111., March 6, 1856, he married Mary A. Olmstead, 
 and they have three children living: Florence E., 
 wife of George Demorest, of Miami County, 
 Kans. ; Mrs. Julia H. Thayer; and Charles F., a 
 farmer and stock-raiser of Peoria Township. 
 
 niR. JACOB KUSTER, a pioneer of Williams- 
 1^1 burg, was born in Nassau, Germany, Octo- 
 \(*) ber 28, 1825, a son of Godfrey and Susannah 
 Kuster. He attended school until fourteen years 
 of age, then attended college for four years; after- 
 ward he began the study of dentistry, at which 
 he continued for four years. He then went to 
 Paris, France, where he was engaged in profes- 
 sional work for five years. At the breaking out 
 of the French revolution, in 1848, he left France 
 and came to the United States, landing in New 
 York and going from there to Buffalo, where he 
 worked for ten months at his trade and afterward 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 for several years engaged in the jewelry business 
 and also carried on a dental office. The year 
 1853 found him in Wisconsin, where he resumed 
 the business in which he had previously engaged 
 in the east, and also carried on a vinegar factory. 
 
 From Wisconsin in 1878 Dr. Kuster came to 
 Kansas and settled in Franklin County, purchas- 
 ing over sixteen hundred acres of prairie land 
 with the intention of embarking in the stock 
 business. However, after the expiration of a year 
 he turned his attention to dentistry, in which he 
 engaged in Williamsburg. He also purchased a 
 drug business, which he conducted until he re- 
 tired from active life, during the early '90s. He 
 is the owner of several houses in Williamsburg, 
 and ranks among the prosperous retired business 
 men of the place. The success he has gained rep- 
 resents his unaided efforts. He had no one to 
 assist him in starting in the world of business. 
 When he landed in New York he had little 
 money and no friends among the people of Ameri- 
 ca, but during the long period of his residence in 
 the United States he has gained both means and 
 friends. 
 
 During the period of his residence in Wiscon- 
 sin Dr. Kuster was prominent in politics and 
 active in local affairs. Interested in educational 
 affairs, he was elected a member of the school 
 board of Sheboygan, April 8, 1867, and for a 
 time served as secretary, later became president 
 of the board. In the same town he served as a 
 member of the city council, and, while filling 
 the po.sition (to which he was elected April 3, 
 1865), was chosen by the council as a member of 
 the board of commissioners having in charge the 
 building of a plank road through the county. 
 The board elected him their president, and dur- 
 ing his service in that position he had the entire 
 responsibility of the completion of the road. 
 
 Dr. Kuster was married in 1850 to Anna 
 Maria Seibert and of this union seven children 
 were born, of whom three are now living. They 
 are: Albert J., a jeweler of Chicago; AnnaMaria, 
 wife of Isaac Springer, retired, of Chicago; Amelia 
 Susanna, wife of Charles Silverson, of West Bend, 
 Wis. Six years after the death of his first wife 
 Dr. Kuster married Anna Stresser, to whom two 
 
 children were born: Anna S. Hardaker, now of 
 Kansas City, and Edward Jacob. Five years af- 
 ter Dr. Kuster' s second wife died he married 
 Augusta B. Dehn, to whom four children were 
 born. 
 
 gARCLAY THOMAS. The long period of 
 his residence in Eudora Township, Douglas 
 County, and his prominence in local affairs, 
 has made Mr. Thomas one of the best-known 
 men of his vicinity. In 1864 he came to Kansas 
 and purchased a quarter-section of land in part- 
 nership with William Stroud, each having an 
 eighty-acre tract. Upon his part of the estate he 
 began the task of transforming the raw land into 
 cultivated fields. The land was one of the most 
 fertile tracts in the Shawnee reservation, and the 
 results of the owner's energj^ are apparent in the 
 present fine farm, comprising three hundred and 
 twenty acres. In addition to general farming 
 he is engaged in feeding cattle and hogs. 
 
 Though inclining toward the Republican party 
 Mr. Thomas is of a nature too independent to ad- 
 here strictly to the tenets of any political organi- 
 zation. At one time he was the Republican can- 
 didate for representative. He was one of the first 
 men in the state to join the Grange and is now 
 identified with this organization in Johnson 
 County. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. Among the 
 members ofthe Society of Friends he is a leader. 
 He took an active part in the building of the 
 Friends' Academy at Hesper and has been treas- 
 urer of the institution since its establishment. 
 Realizing the value of a good education, he has 
 always given his influence toward the mainte- 
 nance of good schools. Since 1884 he has served 
 as treasurer of his .school district. He was elected 
 a member of the board of directors of the Friends' 
 State University, but declined to serve. Local 
 business enterprises have received the impetus 
 of his energetic nature and excellent judgment. 
 He was active in the organization of the Eudora 
 creamery, of which company he is now president. 
 Mr. Thomas was born in Wayne County, Ind., 
 July I, 1 84 1, a son of Nathan and Caroline 
 (Diggs) Thomas, natives of Indiana. His pater- 
 
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 nal great-grandfather emigrated from Wales to 
 North Carolina prior to the Revolutionary war. 
 The grandfather, Benjamin Thomas, was born in 
 North Carolina and became one of the very first 
 settlers of Wayne County, Ind., where he carried 
 on a farm. He was buried on the same day with 
 his son, Nathan. The last-named, who was a 
 farmer and merchant, traveled through the south 
 buying free-labor cotton for Levi CoflBn, and was 
 very active in the anti-slavery movement. He 
 died at Newport (now Fountain City), Ind., at 
 forty-eight years of age, and his wife died there 
 in 1838. Of their four children, Ahirah is de- 
 ceased; William died in Indiana in 1863; Lydia 
 is the wife of Nathan Hinshaw; and Barclay 
 forms the subject of this sketch. He was educa- 
 ted in the common schools of Indiana and for six 
 years followed carpentering. In 1864 he settled 
 on a portion of his present farm in Douglas 
 County. His means were limited, but by energy, 
 econo'my and perseverance he has become pros- 
 perous. Besides the management of his own 
 property he acts as agent for James M.Davis, 
 who owns one thousand acres in this vicinity. 
 January, 21, 1869, he married Phoebe Randall, a 
 native of Bolton, Mass., and daughter of Joseph 
 and Mary (Aldrich) Randall, natives of New 
 Hampshire and Rhode Island respectively. They 
 have four children, viz.: Lucian J., now living 
 in Toronto, Canada; Ralph W., in Texas; Mabel 
 and Lloyd, who are with their parents. The 
 family are members of the Friends' Church. 
 
 IILLIAM H. MOHERMAN established his 
 permanent home in Franklin County in 
 1S87. Since then he has been one of the 
 most enterprising stockmen of Peoria Township. 
 During the first year of his settlement here he 
 built a hou.se and barn on section 28, but they 
 were destroyed by a cyclone soon afterward, and 
 he then rebuilt them on the same foundations. 
 To each of his children he has given a farm, re- 
 taining one hundred and sixty acres for his own 
 use, and, with his sou, is interested in the cattle 
 business, handling black and red Polled- Angus 
 and some thoroughbred stock. He was one of 
 
 the organizers of the bank at Wellsville, of which 
 he holds o65ce as vice-president. For nine years 
 he has served as president of the Agricultural 
 Association. 
 
 Born in Mahoning County, Ohio, April 13, 
 1837, our subject is a son of Abraham and Anna 
 (Rush) Moherman, of whose seven children three 
 are living, two in Ohio and one in Kansas. His 
 father, who was a large land owner and extensive 
 stock-raiser, was a son of Frederick Moherman, 
 who emigrated from German}^ in the earlj- part of 
 the nineteenth century, settling in Ohio, where he 
 cultivated a farm and also raised stock. When 
 fourteen years of age our subject was taken into 
 partnership with his father in the stock business. 
 In 1856 he came to Kansas and bought the first 
 land that was sold in the land office in the .state, 
 paying $1,255 for twenty acres, on which now 
 stands the city of Leavenworth. Three days 
 later he sold the land at a profit of $500 and 
 bought three hundred and twenty acres on Little 
 Stranger Creek, which he fenced, placed under 
 cultivation and improved with two houses, but 
 did not make his home there. In 1887 he came 
 to Franklin County and began to make purclia.ses 
 of property. 
 
 At the time of the border warfare Mr. Moher- 
 man took an active part in the free-state move- 
 ment, working with "Jim" Lane. " On one occa- 
 sion he was driven out of the state by pro-slavery 
 men, but returned after six weeks and was then 
 left unmolested. His father was anxious that he 
 should return to Ohio, and as an inducement, 
 offered to deed him a farm, provided he would 
 settle upon it. He consented and returned home. 
 During the Civil war he handled army horses, 
 and his father was so injured by one that he re- 
 mained an invalid from that time until his death, 
 in 1886. Continuing at the old home until after 
 his father and mother had both passed away, Mr. 
 Moherman then determined to return to Kansas, 
 and accordingly closed out his interests in Ohio 
 and once more came to the west. 
 
 Both in Ohio and Kansas our subject has been 
 active in local Republican politics and has at- 
 tended county conventions. In 1890 he was 
 elected commissioner of Franklin County and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 735 
 
 served for six years, being president of the board 
 during four years of the time. His election as 
 commissioner was for the special purpose of hav- 
 ing a court house erected to replace the unsightly 
 structure then in use. By a great amount of 
 hard work he succeeded in securing the erection 
 of the present substantial building, which many 
 believe to be the finest court house in the state. 
 He gave a great deal of time to arranging for the 
 building and borrowing the necessary money, 
 but the result amply repaid him for his efforts. 
 
 While in Ohio he was identified with the 
 Christian Church, and after coming west united 
 with the Congregational Church at Wellsville. 
 In Ohio, on January 8, 1858, he married Eliza- 
 beth Lynn, by whom he has three children: 
 Calvin A., who is a farmer and stock-raiser in 
 Peoria Township; Scott D., who is in partner- 
 ship with his father in the stock business; and 
 Lottie B. , who married Frank Cayot, a merchant 
 of Wellsville. 
 
 HON. HARLAN PYLE WELSH. To those 
 who are familiar with the history of Frank- 
 lin County and Ottawa, the name of Mr. 
 Welsh is well known. Having been identified 
 with the history of this section from pioneer days, 
 a record of his life will possess especial interest 
 for our readers. He was born in Roscoe, Coshoc- 
 ton County, Ohio, July 26, 1834, a son of Rev. 
 Joseph and Lydie (Pyle) Welsh, natives of Wash- 
 ington County, Pa. His grandfather, John 
 Welsh, was born in Ireland, and engaged in farm- 
 ing in Washington County, Pa. , but moved from 
 there to Knox County, Ohio, settling on a farm 
 near Mount Vernon. Joseph Welsh was born 
 May 2, 1800, and for some years engaged in the 
 mercantile business in Coshocton County, but 
 later turned his attention to farming. About 1840 
 he settled near Charleston, Lee County, Iowa, 
 and from there in 1857 came to Kansas, locating 
 on and improving a claim west of .Centropolis, 
 Franklin County. On the resignation of his son, 
 our subject, as clerk of the district court of Frank- 
 lin County in 1858, he was appointed to the position 
 and served until the expiration of the term. 
 For many years he held ofiice as justice of the 
 
 peace at the old town of Minneola. During war 
 days he sold his farm and moved to Bates Coun- 
 ty, Mo., thinking he could live in peace, even in 
 the midst of southern sympathizers; but he was 
 robbed on two difierent occasions and suffered so 
 much from depredations that he sold out and re- 
 turned to Kansas. For more than forty years he 
 was an ordained minister of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and did considerable work in the 
 organization ] of churches in various localities. 
 For more than fifty years he was identified with 
 the Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the 
 Royal Arch degree. He was 'a man of far more 
 than ordinary abilit3^ Religion formed the key- 
 note of his life. In the midst of business inter- 
 ests he maintained his close connection with 
 church affairs, and his life was ever that of an 
 earnest, faithful and enthusiastic Christian. Late 
 in life he moved to Greelej', Anderson County, 
 Kans., and there he died January 10, 1874, at the 
 age of seventy-three years. He was buried in 
 Mount Hope cemetery. 
 
 Twice married, the first wife of Joseph Welsh 
 was Lydia Pyle, and his second wife Mrs. Sarah 
 Jones, of Unionville, Ohio. His first wife was 
 born December 5, 1800, and died in Knox Coun- 
 ty, Ohio, August 5, 1842. Of English descent, 
 she represented the sixth generation from the first 
 of her ancestors in Pennsylvania. She was a 
 daughter of Job Pyle and Amy (Palmer) Pyle, 
 the latter of the fifth generation from John and 
 Mary Palmer, who came from England and 
 settled in what is now Delaware County, Pa. 
 The genealogy of the Palmers is traced back to 
 the crusaders of the twelfth and thirteenth cen- 
 turies. The family were Friends and some of its 
 members were distinguished. One, Samuel Pal- 
 mer, was an eminent printer of Loudon, with 
 whom Benjamin Franklin was for some time em- 
 ployed. A record is given of a deed to John 
 Palmer, dated ' 'Att Philadelphia ye 26th day of 
 seventh month, fourth yeare of ye reign of James 
 ye second over England, and being eight of ye 
 proprietors government anno domini 1688." 
 Signed by William Markham, by virtue of a com- 
 mission granted to him by William Penn. 
 
 Four daughters and two sons were born to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Joseph and Lydia (Pyle) Welsh. Of these two 
 daugliters and one son are living. One son, Dr. 
 John Welsh, who was a surgeon in a Kansas 
 regiment dnring the Civil war, died in Dauphin 
 County, Kans. The two living daughters reside 
 in Iowa. The second marriage of Joseph Welsh 
 resulted in the birth of a son and daughter, of 
 whom the former. Dr. Lynn Welsh, a practicing 
 physician, died in Anderson County, Kans. When 
 a boy our subject had meagre advantages, for, 
 being the only son at home, he was obliged to as- 
 sist on the farm. When fifteen years of age he 
 had the misfortune to lose his right leg by ery- 
 sipelas of the bone. As soon as he recovered his* 
 father apprenticed him to the tailor's trade, but 
 it was uncongenial and he determined to secure 
 an education. He studied nights and at the end 
 of a year quit tailoring and accepted a clerkship 
 in a store. In this way he secured the means 
 necessary to pay his expenses in the Friends' 
 Seminary at Salem, Iowa, for a year. Afterward 
 he returned to the home of his parents in Center- 
 ville, Appanoo.se County, Iowa. In the fall of 
 1852 he studied in the public school and in the 
 spring taught in the western part of the county, 
 receiving $15 a mouth and "boarding round." 
 In 1853 he began to study law with Harvey Tan- 
 nehill, boarding at his father's and walking two 
 and one-half miles into town each morning. The 
 following winter his preceptor procured for him the 
 Centerville school and he was the first teacher in 
 the new school building, where he taught for five 
 months at $45 a month, having an av-erage at- 
 tendance of one hundred and fiftj' scholars. At 
 night he applied himself to the studj* of law. For 
 three years he taught in the winters and read law 
 in the summers. 
 
 The first connection of Mr. Welsh with public 
 affairs was in 1854. The Democratic party had 
 always carried Appanoose CountJ^ but that year 
 the Know-Nothings formed a secret political or- 
 ganization and nominated a ticket, on which Mr. 
 Welsh was selected for county attorney, and 
 there was no opposition lawyer to run for the 
 office. Mr. Welsh was not of age, but would be 
 before the time to take the office. The main dif- 
 ficulty was that he had not been admitted to the 
 
 bar. Nevertheless he was secretly nominated with- 
 out his knowledge, and when the votes were count- 
 ed he was found to have a fine majority. The 
 Democrats determined to circumvent him by de- 
 feating his admission to the bar. Finding that they 
 had succeeded in packing a committee of Demo- 
 crats against him, he quietly drove over to Bloom- 
 field, Davis Countj', and was admitted to the bar 
 at the court held September 5, 1S55. He returned 
 home, keeping his own counsel as to the admis- 
 sion. When court was held in hiscount^' and the 
 criminal cases were called, he answered, as county 
 attorney, for the state. A Democratic attorney at 
 once arose and interposed the objection that Mr. 
 Welsh was not a regular practicing attorney. 
 The court proniptlj- demanded of Mr. Welsh his 
 authoritj' and he as promptly produced his 
 certificate of admission to practice in all the courts 
 of Iowa. There was a general laugh in the 
 court room and the judge remarked "Mr. Welsh 
 will proceed." He tried from ten to fifteen cases at 
 that court with success in each case, and during the 
 two years of his official term he lost but one case. 
 His last case was quite celebrated as the case of 
 the State of Iowa vs. Hinkle, for the murder of his 
 wife, which was brought from Davis County bj' 
 change of venue, and resulted in the conviction 
 and execution of the murderer, the supreme court 
 confirming the decision of the lower court. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Welsh removed to Franklin Coun- 
 ty, Kans., accompanied by his wife and child, 
 and making the trip with a wagon and three yoke 
 of oxen. After a journey of four weeks he ar- 
 rived at Minneola, but learned that what was 
 afterward known as the Leavenworth constitu- 
 tional convention had indignantly adjourned from 
 Minneola to Leavenworth. He sold a yoke of 
 oxen for $80 and drove to Lawrence, where he 
 purchased household necessities. There being no 
 opening for a lawyer in Lawrenceat that time, he 
 and a hired man began to cut and haul logs to the 
 sawmill at Centropolis, giving one-half the lumber 
 for the sawing. He built a frame house, then 
 went to Kansas City with his two yoke of oxen, 
 sold one yoke, invested the money in doors and 
 windows for the house, and returned with one 
 yoke of oxen and the finishings for his home. 
 
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 737 
 
 He was appointed the first district clerk of Frank- 
 lin County, but soon resigned. At the first ses- 
 sion of the court the grand jury found about 
 thirty indictments, and he defended nearly all of 
 them, realizing therefrom $600. The drought of 
 i860 destroyed business and brought him misfor- 
 tune. He sold his home and moved to a farm, 
 where, during the next three years, he made 
 $3,000. In 1863 he went to Topeka and was 
 unanimously elected journal clerk of the house of 
 representatives and in 1864 was re-elected without 
 opposition. In 1862 he was made chairman of 
 the board of commissioners of Franklin County, 
 of which he had been a member for two terms. 
 In 1865 he was elected county attorney and during 
 his two years of office tried many important cases. 
 In 1867 he was a candidate for the state senate. 
 The next year he was elected, without opposition, 
 to the house of representatives, where he served 
 on the judiciary committee and the committee on 
 ways and means. In 1869 and 1870 he served as 
 mayor of Ottawa. In 1871 he was again elected 
 to the legislature, where he was chairman of the 
 committee on elections and appropriations, and a 
 member of the judiciary committee. In 1894 he 
 was elected county attorney and served for one 
 term. Since 1865 he has made his home in Ot- 
 tawa, of which he was one of the organizers and 
 a member of the first and second boards of trustees. 
 Under his supervision the city ordinances of 
 Ottawa were compiled. He has been one of the 
 influential attorneys and citizens of Ottawa and 
 is well known to all the people of the city. 
 
 In Iowa, in 1855, Mr. Welsh married Mi.ss 
 Mary Shaw, who was born in Virginia, and died 
 in Ottawa, Kans., May 25, 1870. Five children 
 were born of this union: Harlen, a merchant in 
 Hiawatha, Kans.; L,aura, wife of John Plunket, 
 of Ottawa; Mrs. Minnie Merritt, who died in 
 Buffalo, N. Y.; Florence, who died in Ottawa; 
 and Rosa, also deceased. In Ottawa, June 5, 
 1871, Mr. Welsh married Mrs. Isadora (Johnson) 
 Crawford, who was born in Erie County, Pa., and 
 came to Kansas with her father, Benjamin John- 
 son, in 1854. Two sons were born of Mr. Welsh's 
 second marriage, Roy and Earl. The latter son 
 died at two years of age. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Welsh is identified with the 
 Western Knights, Knights of Honor and the 
 lodge and encampment of Odd Fellows, in both 
 of which he has held office, and in 1874-76 was 
 the representative to the grand lodge. He and 
 his wife are members of the First Baptist Church 
 of Ottawa. For seven years he was chairman of 
 the board of trustees, and during that time the 
 edifice was built on Fourth and Hickory streets, 
 which is one of the finest churches in the state. 
 His wife was a member of the building committee 
 and both aided largely in securing the completion 
 of the well-appointed and equipped house of wor- 
 ship. 
 
 y yi ARTIN M. HUNTER, who is the owner 
 y of a fine farm in Pomona Township, Frank- 
 er lin County, was born in Sandwich, Onta- 
 rio, Canada, September i, 1851. His father, 
 Richard Hunter, was known as "Old Honesty," 
 a title significant of his upright life and irre- 
 proachable character; a native of the south, he 
 went to Ontario prior to tte Canadian rebellion, 
 in which he served as a soldier under Colonel 
 Prince. By trade an engineer, he not only fol- 
 lowed that occupation, but also gave some atten- 
 tion to superintending his two farms. His death 
 occurred in Canada when he was sixty-five years 
 of age. 
 
 At the age of seventeen 3-ears our subject left 
 his home and started out to make his own way in 
 the world. His father had intended to remove to 
 the west and had traveled through the States 
 looking for a suitable location, but before he had 
 closed up his interests in Canada preparatory to 
 removal, he died. The plan which the father had 
 been prevented from carrying into effect was 
 taken up by the son, who came to Kansas and 
 purchased a farm in Michigan Valley, Osage 
 County. In addition to bringing the land under 
 cultivation he also followed the carpenter's trade. 
 During the grasshopper siege of 1874 he bought 
 his present farm from the Indians. For some 
 time he worked at carpentering in order to secure 
 the money with which to improve his land, and 
 as time passed by he placed the property under 
 cultivation, erected needed buildings, built fences 
 
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 and made other important improvements. From 
 time to time he added to his farm, which now 
 comprises two hundred and fiftj- acres, and on 
 which he raises general farm products and some 
 stock, principally Poland- China hogs. He was 
 engaged extensively in contracting and building 
 in Topeka, Kansas City, Ottawa and Lawrence, 
 and owns property in Ottawa and Topeka. In 
 Canada, when fifteen years of age, he united with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has 
 since been a faithful member. May 29, 1882, he 
 married Mary A. Buckner, a native of Canada, 
 who died July 24, 1883. Of that union one child, 
 Eliza, was born. April 26, 1888, he married 
 Nannie Rhodes. 
 
 ""UGENE E. H. BIART, a well-known vet- 
 'j erinary surgeon of Leavenworth, was born 
 _ in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1852, and in boy- 
 hood days was a pupil in the schools of his na- 
 tive city. At the age of twenty he entered the 
 Belgian army as an assistant veterinary surgeon, 
 for which work his study in a famous veterinary 
 college of Belgium had fitted him. Just before 
 the time for his graduation, in 1S70, he was ap- 
 pointed to this position in the arm^-, and served 
 through the Franco-Prussian war. He was grad- 
 uated in 1872, and came to the United States, pro- 
 ceeding to Kansas and joining an uncle, Augus- 
 tus Biart, in Leavenworth. Not being familiar 
 with the English language, he was deterred from 
 beginning work in his chosen occupation. For a 
 time he worked in a jewelry store, and studying 
 our language closely, he soon became able to use 
 it with ease and accuracy. He then entered upon 
 the practice of veterinary surgery. The fact that he 
 was a graduate of Cureghem Veterinary College 
 meant much in his favor, as that college is noted 
 for the thoroughness of its graduates and their 
 fitness for successful work. In 1883 he settled in 
 Delaware Township, but later moved to Lansing, 
 where he made his home for seven years. When 
 he came to Leavenworth to practice in 1894 he 
 opened an office at Cranston's stable, but in 
 1897 he moved to his present quarters on Shaw- 
 nee street. While in Delaware Township, in 
 connection with his practice he conducted a fruit 
 
 farm, but- gradually the demands upon his time 
 as a surgeon made it impossible for him to en- 
 gage in any other occupation. He has a large 
 stable and yards, known as the Broadway stock 
 yards, where he has a veterinary hospital. He 
 is considered one of the most efficient veterinary 
 surgeons in the state and is very successful in 
 practice. 
 
 In 1876 Dr. Biart married Salina Seichepine, 
 the daughter of French parents, who resided in 
 St. Louis. They are the parents of eight chil- 
 dren, Adell, Hortense, Frank, Henry, Mary, 
 Charles, Joseph and Eugene E. H., Jr. The 
 family home is on Kingman street, where Dr. 
 Biart owns property. Since 1889 he has been 
 identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, 
 in which lodge he has held all of the elective 
 offices. He gives his attention closely to veteri- 
 nary work, takes no part in politics, is indepen- 
 dent in his vote, yet is interested in matters cal- 
 culated to benefit the city and county. 
 
 HENRY TISDALE, who dates his residence 
 in Lawrence from February, 1857, was 
 born in Norfolk, St. Lawrence County, 
 N. Y., a son of James and Luenna (White) Tis- 
 dale, natives of Georgia, Vt. His paternal grand- 
 father was accidentally drowned when in middle 
 age, and his maternal grandfather, Sylve.ster 
 White, a life-long resident of Vermont, died at 
 ninety years of age. After the vi'ar of 1812, in 
 which he served, James Tisdale learned the 
 moulder's trade and conducted this business dur- 
 ing the remainder of his life in Canada and else- 
 where. When sixty-eight years of age he re- 
 moved to St. Albans, Vt., and there he died five 
 years later. He was a member of the Masonic 
 fraternity and a man of upright character. His 
 wife died when fifty-six years of age. They 
 were the parents of three sons and one daughter, 
 of whom Henry is the only survivor. He was 
 reared in Canada and Vermont and learned the 
 moulder's trade under his father, for whom he 
 worked until he was twentj'-one years of age. 
 He then went to Malone, N. Y., and worked at 
 his trade for a year. Returning home, he at- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 739 
 
 tended a private school at Bedford, Canada, for a 
 year and worked for his father about two years. 
 In the summer of 1856 he went to Davenport, 
 Iowa, where he found employment as a moulder. 
 In company with two young Scotchmen Mr. 
 Tisdale started for Kansas early in 1857, going 
 via the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Park- 
 ville, thence bj' wagon to Westport, Leavenworth 
 and Lawrence. He took up a claim at Osawato- 
 mie which he improved, and held it for fifteen 
 years, when he sold the place. After he had filed 
 the claim he went into the village of Osawatomie, 
 where he found a friend from Canada engaged in 
 driving stage. With him he came to Lawrence. 
 After two weeks he became an employe of Samuel 
 Reynolds, driving stage between Lawrence and 
 Osawatomie, continuing until February, 1858. 
 On account of his brother's illness he returned to 
 his eastern home and remained there until the 
 spring of 1859, when he again came to Law- 
 rence. For a few months he acted as agent for 
 the stage business owned by Colonel Eldridge, 
 and when the line was bought by the Kansas 
 Stage Company he continued with them as agent 
 for nine years, being assistant superintendent 
 during part of this time. About 1862 he started 
 a stage line of his own between Lawrence and 
 Emporia. In 1S63 Ouantrell burned some of his 
 property, but fortunately his teams were all on 
 the road, so escaped. He was in Leavenworth 
 at the time of the massacre, but hastened back to 
 Lawrence to lend his aid to the people of the 
 stricken city. Resigning his position with the 
 Kansas Stage Company in 1868, Mr. Tisdale 
 formed a partnership with J.W. Parker, as Parker 
 & Tisdale, and continued staging, increasing the 
 business until they had over one thousand head 
 of stock on the road and were interested in every 
 stage line in Kansas, besides many in Texas, 
 Indian Territory, New Mexico, Colorado and 
 Wyoming. They pushed their lines into the 
 frontier and did much pioneer work, some of 
 which was under very adverse and trying circum- 
 stances, in constant peril from Indians and ruf- 
 fians. The majority of the railroads of to-day 
 follow the old stage trails which they established. 
 They had a line from Newton to Fort Sill, two 
 
 hundred miles. Their longest run was from 
 Leavenworth to Fort Larned, three hundred 
 miles. Their best line, both in the quality of the 
 rolling stock and financial returns, was the one 
 from San Antonio to Eagle Pass, Tex., a distance 
 of one hundred and fift}' miles. In all of their 
 enterprises they met with encouraging success. 
 When they first started out the Kansas Stage 
 Company returned to business and endeavored 
 to "freeze" them out, but they retaliated with so 
 much energy and determination that the company 
 was glad to sell out to them. 
 
 In July, 1898, Mr. Tisdale abandoned his last 
 stage line. This was from Wolcott, on the Den- 
 ver & Rio Grande Railroad, six miles west of 
 Leadville, to Steamboat Springs, and on the ex- 
 piration of his mail contract he gave up the 
 stage. He started the first omnibus line in Law- 
 rence and later built the Lawrence street rail- 
 ways, which were consolidated under the Law- 
 rence Transportation Company, and of this he 
 was president until he sold his stock. He started 
 the Topeka omnibus line, which was sold back 
 and forth afterward, but in October, 1891, he 
 bought it back and has since operated it. Heal- 
 so has omnibus lines in Winfield, Arkansas City, 
 Wellington, Harper and Medicine Lodge, Kans., 
 and Alva, Oklahoma. He has always been in- 
 terested in matters pertaining to the advancement 
 of Lawrence and the extension of its business in- 
 terests. He made the first castings in the foundry 
 owned by the Kimballs', which was the first built 
 in this city. A moulder had been brought from 
 Boston to take charge of the work, but he did 
 not understand the melting of iron, so Mr. Tis- 
 dale's services were solicited. At that time he 
 was in the employ of Colonel Eldridge, who al- 
 lowed him to have one-half of each day in order 
 to show the factory operatives the mode of melt- 
 ing iron. He made three casts for them and 
 started the business successfully. 
 
 In Detroit, Mich., May 13, 1862, Mr. Tisdale 
 married Miss Betsey A. Bangs, who was born in 
 Stanbridge, Canada, a daughter of John E. 
 Bangs, who removed to Boston and later to Law- 
 rence, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Tisdale 
 have an only daughter, Mary Luenna, a gradu- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ate of the University of Kansas, with the degree 
 of A. B. During the days of slavery agitation 
 our subject always gave his influence toward the 
 free-state movement, and when the Republican 
 party was organized he became one of its ad- 
 herents. He is connected with the Masonic fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 r^ETER BERRY. During the days of the 
 L/' Civil war Mr. Berry was one of those who, 
 yS led by his devotion to his adopted country 
 and loyalty to its institutions, enlisted in the de- 
 fense of the Union, and followed the stars and 
 stripes through hardships and exposure to vic- 
 tory. In the fall of 1861 he volunteered in the 
 First Wisconsin Light Artillerj^ Batter}^ No. 2, 
 and was mustered into service at Racine, from 
 which point he was ordered south to join the 
 army of the Potomac. Detailed to duty at For- 
 tress Monroe and stationed on the bar, he took 
 part in the battle of the Merrimac and the Moni- 
 tor, when the battery, having no breastworks and 
 being in deadly peril on the bar, was saved by 
 the Monitor. Later he was ordered to Big and 
 Little Bethel. In the battle of Yorktown he was 
 so .seriously injured that he was obliged to re- 
 main in the hospital for six months. On his re- 
 covery he joined the battery at Point Lookout. 
 After three years of service, in the fall of 1864, 
 he was mustered out at Washington. 
 
 Mr. Berry was born at Luxemburg, Germany, 
 September 23, 1832. The family is one of the 
 oldest in that duchy. His father, Peter, and 
 grandfather, John Berrj^ were born there, and 
 the latter was a soldier in the French army. 
 The father, who followed the trade of cabinet fin- 
 isher in his native country, brought his family to 
 America in 1835, sailing from Antwerp on the 
 "Wolfe" and after a long voyage landing in New 
 York. From there he went to Albany, and thence, 
 via the Erie canal and the Lakes, to Milwaukee, 
 Wis. He settled at what afterward became Port 
 Washington, Ozaukee County, and improved a 
 farm which he sold in 1855. His last days were 
 spent in retirement in Port Washington, where he 
 died at seventy-six years. His wife, who was 
 Catherine Schultz, was born in Luxemburg and 
 
 died in Wisconsin in 1839. They were the par- 
 ents of two sons and three daughters. One of 
 the sons, Nicholas, enlisted as a corporal in the 
 Fifth Wisconsin Cavalry, and was seriously 
 wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, since 
 which time he has been an invalid. He is now 
 living in Milwaukee. 
 
 The family name was originally Burrye and 
 so continued until the brothers, Nicholas and 
 Peter, enlisted in the army, when the officers put 
 the name down Berry, and as such it was given 
 at the roll calls. From that time the name has 
 been called Berry. 
 
 When a boy the subject of this sketch had no 
 school advantages, as in his section of country 
 public schools had not yet been introduced, and 
 when they were finally opened he was almost a 
 man and too bu.sy to spare the time for study. 
 However, his parents taught him the three 
 " R's" and afterward, by self-culture, he ac- 
 quired a fund of information that makes him a 
 well informed man. His boyhood days were 
 passed in Wisconsin. At eighteen years of age 
 he engaged in teaming and afterward became a 
 large dealer in wood, continuing in that employ- 
 ment until he entered the army at the opening of 
 the war. 
 
 The year 1864 found Mr. Berry in Kan.sas. He 
 had just been mustered out of the army, and leav- 
 ing Washington came to Fort Leaven worth, where 
 he was employed by the government to drive the 
 headquarters ambulance. He continued in that 
 capacity until 1867, when he entered the employ 
 of H. W. Gillett, a wholesale whisky dealer, 
 with whom he remained until Julj', 1878, and 
 then embarked in a wholesale and retail busi- 
 ness across the street from his present location. 
 He is now at Nos. 214-216 Shawnee street. In 
 addition to his large plant he owns other business 
 property and has also built and improved resi- 
 dence property. In 1886 he erected the National 
 hotel, the finest hotel property in Leavenworth. 
 He also built the elegant residence which he oc- 
 cupies, at Seventh and Ottawa streets. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Berry took place in Leav- 
 enworth and united him with Miss Coanza Kee- 
 gans, who was born in Platte County, Mo., a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 741 
 
 daughter of John and Susan (Callowa}') Keegans. 
 Her father moved from Kentucky to Missouri and 
 during the war enlisted in a Missouri regiment, 
 U. S. A., serving in numerous battles until Cor- 
 ith was taken. He died of Swamp fever in Jef- 
 ferson Barracks, St. Louis. His wife was a mem- 
 ber of one of Kentucky's very oldest families, the 
 Calloways having come with the Boones from 
 Virginia to Kentucky. Descended from Revolu- 
 tionary ancestors, and from noted Indian fighters, 
 Mrs. Keegans was also a second cousin of Kit 
 Carson, the noted scout and frontiersman. She 
 died in Boonesboro, Howard County, Mo. Of 
 her four children Mrs. Ellen Wells lives in How- 
 ard County; William died at Tucson, Ariz.; 
 John makes his. home in St. Louis. The five 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Berry are as follows: 
 Henry, who is a graduate of St. Mary's college 
 and is now engaged in the paint and oil business 
 in Leavenworth; Robert, who was educated in 
 Christian Brothers College in St. Louis and is 
 now with his father in business; Edward, a stu- 
 dent in St. Mary's College; Frank and Esther. 
 Fraternally Mr. Berry is a member of Custer 
 Post No. 6, G. A. R., at Leavenworth, which he 
 assisted in organizing. He is a Knight Templar 
 Mason and a charter member of Abdallah Tem- 
 ple, N. M. S. From the time of coming to man's 
 estate he has been a firm believer in Republican 
 principles and has never wavered in his allegiance 
 to this party. He has been identified with most 
 important enterprises in Leavenworth and has 
 fostered plans for the benefit of the people, aiding 
 liberally educational, religious and commercial 
 projects. 
 
 0TEPHEN E. LEMON, who has resided in 
 ?\ Ottawa since the spring of 1867, was born in 
 \zJ Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, Feb- 
 ruary 23, 1844, a son of John M. and Amanda 
 M. (Stout) Lemon. His grandfather, Samuel 
 Lemon, some years after his marriage removed 
 from Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling in Highland 
 County, where he died at eighty years. He was 
 of German descent, and the family name was 
 originally Leamon. John M. Lemon, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, carried on a blacksmith shop in 
 
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 Hillsboro, where he was a member of the town 
 council and a highly respected citizen. He was 
 a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and was identified, fraternally, with the 
 Odd Fellows. His death occurred when he was 
 sixty-one. His wife was born near West Liberty, 
 in Mad River Valley, and died at Hillsboro. 
 They were the parents of seven children, all of 
 whom attained maturity. Samuel J., who was a 
 member of the Twenty-fourth Ohio Battery, died 
 in Ohio; William H., a member of the Fourth 
 Ohio Cavalry, resides in Hillsboro; James, who 
 enlisted in the Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, but 
 was soon discharged on account of physical dis- 
 ability, died at West Union, Ohio; Stephen E. 
 was for three years a member of Companj' I, 
 Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and later an officer 
 of Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-fifth 
 Ohio. The three youngest sons, Oscar S., Mor- 
 gan and Joseph A., all residents of Hillsboro, 
 were too young at the opening of the Civil war to 
 enlist in the army, but, had they been older, 
 every member of the family would probably have 
 served in defense of the Union. 
 
 At the beginning of the Civil war our subject 
 was serving an apprenticeship to the carriage- 
 maker's trade. In 1861 he enlisted as a musician 
 and marched to the front with his regiment. At 
 Stone River he was shot through both legs, just 
 above the knees, by two different bullets. He 
 succeeded in crawling ofi" the field, and finding a 
 small rail, used it for a crutch, by the aid of 
 which he walked four miles to the field hospital. 
 As soon as he had recovered sufficiently he re- 
 joined his regiment. At the expiration of his 
 term he was discharged in Indianapolis in 1S64. 
 Soon he re-enlisted, being commissioned second 
 lieutenant of Company A, One Hundred and 
 Seventy-fifth Ohio Infantry. He took part in 
 the battles of Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin 
 and Nashville. After Franklin, on the battle- 
 field he was commissioned first lieutenant in 
 recognition of his bravery. He remained in Ten- 
 nessee until the close of the war, and was 
 mustered out at Nashville in 1865 and honorably 
 discharged at Camp Deunison, Ohio. 
 
 InJ^i865 Mr. Lemon settled in Kansas City, 
 
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 Mo., where he engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness. In the spring of 1867 be came to Ottawa, 
 where he worked as a carpenter under Joseph 
 Marsh for a year. In 1868 he was elected mar- 
 shal of Ottawa, which position he filled for five 
 years, and during two of these years he was also 
 deputy sheriff under C. L. Robbins. The posi- 
 tion of marshal was one that required consider- 
 able courage and a large stock of determination, 
 for the town was new, and like all new towns, 
 had attracted to it a number of desperadoes, horse 
 thieves, etc. After the expiration of his term as 
 marshal he was for nine years a clerk for C. L,. 
 Robbins, later served as street commissioner for 
 a year, and then for two j'ears was a member of 
 the grocery firm of S. E. Lemon & Co., his part- 
 ner being C. H. Penny. During this time he 
 built the Lemon block. After his partnership 
 was dissolved he continued in the same location 
 until 1885, when he sold out. His next venture 
 was the buying of the stock of Smith Brothers & 
 Sumner, which business he carried on for three 
 years. Later he was again appointed street com- 
 missioner, and had charge of the macadamizing 
 of Main street. For three years he was as- 
 sociated with Capt. J. H. Ransom in the coal, ice 
 and freitjliting business, but afterward sold out to 
 his partner, although he remains with him as 
 manager and collector. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Lemon united him with 
 Lola J., daughter of E. S. Gott, a carjienter and 
 builder, who .settled in Ottawa in 1872, but now 
 resides in Kansas City. A stanch Republican, 
 Mr. Lemon has served for years as a member of 
 the county committee, and has also been on the 
 city committee. In 1899 he was elected to repre- 
 sent the fourth ward in the city council, in which 
 he is chairman of the health committee and the 
 committee on .streets and alleys, also a member 
 of the committees on sidewalks and ordinances. 
 He is a charter member of the George H. Thomas 
 Post No. 18, G. A. R. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with Ottawa Lodge No. 128, A. F. & 
 A. M.; Chapter No. 7, R. A. M.; and Tancred 
 Commandery No. 11, K. T. He organized the 
 Ottawa silver cornet band, of which he was for 
 twelve years the leader, and which was the first 
 
 band in the city. In 1897 the Commercial band 
 was organized and he was requested to become 
 the leader. He accepted, donating his services 
 as instructor. In recognition of his kindness, in 
 1898 the band surrendered its charter and took 
 out a new one under the name of Lemon's band. 
 This is one of the finest bands in eastern Kan- 
 sas and consists of twenty-two pieces. In addi- 
 tion to acting as its leader, he is also a member 
 of Leonard's orchestra. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM E. KIBBE owns three hundred 
 
 \ A / and twenty acres of land in Ohio Tovvn- 
 VY ship, Franklin County, where he is en- 
 gaged in general farm pursuits. He is a man of 
 prominence in his community and has been 
 selected to serve in positions of trust. A public- 
 spirited citizen, he proved his patriotism during 
 the Civil war b\' offering his services to his coun- 
 try as a defender of the Union. In September, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Twelfth Kansas 
 Infantr5^ and for a year was principallj- engaged 
 in settling border troubles, after which he was at 
 Little Rock, Fort Smith and Camden, Ark., re- 
 maining in the army until the close of the war. 
 Shortly after returning home he was elected to 
 the legislature, in which he served creditably for 
 one term. Later his name was mentioned as a 
 strong candidate for senator, but, owing to the 
 circumstances at the time, some one else was 
 nominated. For years he affiliated with the Re- 
 publicans, but since 1892 he has been a Populist 
 in politics. 
 
 Levi Kibbe, our .subject's father, was born 
 March 17, 1802, at Woodstock, Conn. In young 
 manhood he removed to Jefferson County, N. Y., 
 where he purchased and improved farm land. 
 In 185 1 he removed from there to Erie County, 
 Pa., and became interested in farm pursuits 
 there. In politics he was a Whig and in religion 
 a member of the Baptist Church. He died in 
 Erie County when eighty-nine years of age. His 
 father, Levi Kibbe, Sr. , also a native of Con- 
 necticut, was a lifelong fanner and died at ninetj' 
 years of age. He had a brother, Amri.sh, who 
 served in the Revolutionarj' war. The marriage 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 743 
 
 of Levi Kibbe, Jr., united him with Nancy 
 Smith, who was born in Woodstock, Conn., and 
 died at eighty years of age. Of the children born 
 to their union five attained mature j'ears, the 
 eldest being William E., who was born in Jeffer- 
 son County, N. Y., October 17, 1833. Of the 
 others, George H. died at twenty-five years; 
 Lyman S. was a pioneer of Cowley County, 
 Kans. , where he is still living; Warren W. re- 
 sides on the old homestead in Pennsylvania; and 
 Mary E. married Judson Haskell, of Bradford, Pa. 
 When twenty-one years of age our subject left 
 home and went to Kentucky, where he taught a 
 district school in Cassius Clay's neighborhood. 
 He had received a good education in the academy 
 at Watertown, N. Y. , and was fitted for the 
 responsibilities of life. In 1857 ^^ settled upon 
 the farm where he now lives. Few people at that 
 time had settled in Franklin County, the land 
 was wholly unimproved, towns were sparsely 
 populated and, altogether, there was little to in- 
 dicate a future condition of prosperity. He built 
 the first frame house in the county and made 
 some of the first improvements in the cultivation 
 of the land. His first wife, who was Pamelia 
 Weatherwax, a native of Indiana, died in Frank- 
 lin County at twentj^-eight years of age, leaving 
 four children. They are: Jennie M., wife of 
 William Service; Fannie, who married David 
 Flaherty; Mary, Mrs. Charles Bledsoe; and Milo 
 W., a farmer in Franklin Count3\ In Decem- 
 ber, 1874, Mr. Kibbe married Miss Anna M. 
 Davis, who was born in New York state, but has 
 spent much of her life in Illinois. One son was 
 born of this union, Levi N., who is with his 
 parents. 
 
 HIRAM NOSS is the owner of a farm of one 
 hundred acres near Wellsville, besides a 
 neat residence and twenty lots in this vil- 
 lage and also a small grist mill which he operates 
 personally. 
 
 A son of Jacob and Mar}' (Copeland) Noss, 
 our subject was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., 
 April 16, 1823. His father, a native of Lancas- 
 ter, Pa., was reared at Cox's Ferry, on the Sus- 
 quehanna river, and in youth learned the 
 
 weaver's trade, at which he worked in earl}' life. 
 After his marriage he engaged in farming in 
 Huntingdon County until fifty years of age, 
 when he moved to Beaver County, Pa., in 1825, 
 and bought a raw unimproved tract of land. 
 This he transformed into a good farm. In the 
 war of 1812 he joined a company and was on the 
 way to the front when word came that peace had 
 been declared. He was a Henry Clay Whig and 
 an admirer of that statesman. His death occurred 
 on his homestead in 1858, when he was ninety- 
 eight years of age. He was a son of Philip 
 Jacob Noss, who was born in Germany and in 
 young manhood settled in Lancaster, Pa. 
 
 The maternal grandfather of our subject was 
 born in England and married a German lady after 
 he settled in the United States. His home was 
 on what later became famous as the battleground 
 of Antietam, Md., and there he engaged in mill- 
 ing. He was also a. wagoner and hauled freight. 
 From Maryland he moved to New York, where 
 he built and operated a mill. He lived to be one 
 hundred and two years of age. His daughter, 
 Mrs. Noss, was seventy at the time of her death, 
 in 1859. In her family there were nine sons 
 and two daughters, but Hiram and one sister 
 alone survive. The former was two years of age 
 when the parents removed to Beaver County, 
 Pa. , and there he grew to manhood. At eighteen 
 years of age he began steamboating on the Ohio 
 and Mississippi rivers. In 1 858 he came to Kansas 
 in charge of a ferry boat from Pennsylvania to 
 Iowa Point, he being an engineer and thoroughly 
 competent to take entire charge of a boat. With 
 the aid of his brother he brought the boat down 
 the Ohio river and up the Mississippi and Mis- 
 souri (although wholly unacquainted with the lat- 
 ter river), and placed it in the dock at Iowa 
 Point, where its owner lived. During the sum- 
 mer of 1858 he ran this boat as engineer and 
 collector. On his return to the east he resumed 
 steamboating on the Ohio. Later he manufac- 
 tured brick in the east until 1865, when he came 
 to Kansas, settling in Baldwin, Douglas County, 
 where he manufactured brick during the summer 
 of 1865 and had charge of a saw mill for two years. 
 
 Purchasing one hundred and sixty acres in 
 
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 Ottawa Township, Franklin Count3', from the 
 Ottawa Indians, Mr. Noss settled upon the land 
 and began its improvement. He remained there 
 for eighteen years, when he sold out and settled 
 in Wellsville. Here he operated the first steam 
 grist mill, which he has since conducted. In 
 early life he adhered to the Greenback party and 
 later became a Democrat. For forty-five years 
 he has been connected with the Baptist Church 
 and his wife has been a member of the same de- 
 nomination for more than fifty years, both being 
 earnest Christian workers. He married Sarah 
 Bennett, who was born in Beaver County, Pa., 
 and by whom he has three children, namely: 
 Mary, wife of Dawson Thayer; Albert, a farmer 
 in Ottawa Township; and Elizabeth, wife of Dr. 
 Bennett, of Wellsville. 
 
 0TTO C. BEELER, city treasurer of Leaven- 
 worth, was first appointed to this office in 
 June, 1888, by the then mayor, S. F. Neely, 
 and held the office for one year, after which he 
 engaged with A. L. Salinger in the boot and shoe 
 business for about eight years. In the spring of 
 1897 he was elected city treasurer for a term of 
 two years. Besides serving as treasurer he has 
 also been clerk, having held one position or the 
 other for nearly ten years. As a Democrat he 
 is active in local affairs and takes a warm interest 
 in all matters pertaining to his party. 
 
 Since he was made a Mason in 1863 Mr. Beeler 
 has been prominent in this fraternitj-. One j'ear 
 after becoming a member of Leavenworth Lodge 
 No. 2, A. F'. & A. M., he was chosen secretary 
 of the lodge; the next year (1865) served as sen- 
 ior warden, in 1866 was master of the lodge and 
 by virtue thereof a member of the grand lodge. 
 In 1865 he became a member of Leavenworth 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., in which he served as 
 .scribe and high priest. During 1866 he identi- 
 fied himself with Leavenworth Council No. i, 
 R. S. M., and was elected the first recorder of 
 the council, serving until 1882, when he was 
 chosen illustrious master of the council. In the 
 latter position he continued until 1889, and was 
 then re-elected recorder, which position he still 
 
 holds. In 1867 he was chosen grand recorder of 
 the grand council of the state of Kansas, an office 
 which he filled efficiently for four j-ears. In 1866 
 he became connected with Leavenworth Com- 
 raanderj' No. i, K. T., in which he has held va- 
 rious offices up to that of eminent commander. 
 His record in masonry is one of which he may 
 well be proud. 
 
 Mr. Beeler was born in Germany in 1837, ^ 
 sou of Frederick and Maria Anna (Stolz) Beeler, 
 the latter of whom died in Kansas in 1 881, at the 
 age of seventy-one. The former, who came to 
 the United States in October, 1846, settled in 
 Ripley County, Ind., and there engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes. He was a suc- 
 ces.sful business man and continued a manufac- 
 turer until his death, which occurred in Ripley 
 County at fifty-six years of age. He had five 
 children, viz.: Frederick, now living in Madison 
 County, Iowa; Otto C; Adolph, of Junction 
 City, Kans. ; Henry and Louisa, who died re- 
 spectively in 1853 and 1862. 
 
 When a boy Otto C. Beeler learned the car- 
 riage-maker's trade, which he followed until 
 1856 in his native county. He arrived in Leav- 
 enworth July 18, 1855, and here secured employ- 
 ment with a carriage manufacturing concern. 
 Later he was employed as clerk in a wholesale 
 grocery. In September, i860, he was appointed 
 deputy city clerk, and the following year became 
 city clerk, to which office he was re-elected in 1862, 
 serving until April, 1863. In September, 1863, 
 he formed a partnership with his cousin, William 
 Beeler, and opened a boot and shoe store. Dur- 
 ing the war Governor Carney commi-ssioned him 
 captain of Company C, Kansas State Militia, and 
 he was in active service during the Price raid, 
 spending one night upon the battlefield of Brush 
 Creek. 
 
 In 1869 William Beeler withdrew from the 
 firm, after which our subject carried on the store 
 alone, but sold out in 1877. From that time until 
 1881 he was connected with various shoe firms. 
 Under William M. Fortescue, mayor, he was ap- 
 pointed city clerk in 1881, which office he held 
 until June, 1883. For one year he acted as trav- 
 eling salesman for the Standard Shoe Company, 
 
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 of Jefferson City, Mo., after which he was with 
 George A. Green, a shoe merchant. This posi- 
 tion he resigned in June, 1888, in order to accept 
 that of city treasurer. Both as business man and 
 as city official he has been energetic, judicious 
 and faithful to every trust reposed in him, win- 
 ning the confidence of the people by his honora- 
 ble dealings with all. In 1875 he married Mrs. 
 Rosetta M. Beeler, widow of William Beeler, by 
 whom she had two children: William T. and 
 Amelia R., wife of Peter F. Bubb. Our subject 
 and his wife have three children, Maude O., 
 M. Garver and Kate May. 
 
 EAFT. GEORGE W. LAWRENCE, of Ot- 
 tawa, is a descendant of one of four brothers 
 who came from England early in the seven- 
 teenth century and settled in New England. 
 His father and grandfather, both of whom bore 
 the name of Daniel, were born in Dutchess 
 County, N. Y., and were farmers by occupation. 
 About 1834 the former removed to Michigan, be- 
 coming a pioneer farmer of Kalamazoo County, 
 where he improved a tract of raw land and con- 
 tinued to reside until his death, at eighty-seven 
 years. Through his mother he was of French 
 stock. His wife, who bore the maiden name of 
 Amy Eldred, was born in Oswego Count)', N.Y., 
 her father, Caleb Eldred, having removed to that 
 county from Massachusetts, and later settled in 
 Kalamazoo Countj', Mich., where he died at 
 ninety-five years. Mrs. Amy Lawrence died in 
 Michigan when eighty-four years old. Of her six 
 children three are' living. One of the sons, 
 Blackman E., who is deceased, was a soldier in 
 an Indiana regiment during the Civil war. 
 
 On the home farm near Climax, Kalamazoo 
 County, Mich., where he was born January 25, 
 1839, the subject of this sketch passed the years of 
 youth. His education was begun in public schools 
 and completed in Kalamazoo College. While he 
 was a student in the junior class at college the war 
 opened. He enlisted August 22, 1861, in Com- 
 pany F, Third Michigan Cavalry, and was mus- 
 tered into service at Grand Rapids, being com- 
 missioned sergeant of his company. He remained 
 
 in camp at St. Louis during the winter. In April, 
 1862, he was ordered to New Madrid, Mo., and 
 took part in the battles of Island No. 10, Sliiloh, 
 siege of Corinth, Holly Springs (where his horse 
 was shot from under him), luka (where he al.so 
 lost his horse), CofFeyville, Water Valley, Poca- 
 hontas, Rienzi, Booneville and Oxford. During 
 this time he was promoted to be first sergeant and 
 later second lieutenant. When he veteranized, in 
 the spring of 1863, he was commissioned first 
 lieutenant of Company G by Governor Blair, and 
 later was commissioned captain of the same com- 
 pany. He was ordered to Duval's Bluff, Ark., 
 and took part in the guerilla warfare, aiding in 
 clearing the country of the guerillas. In March, 
 1865, he was ordered to New Orleans and re- 
 mained there until after Lee's surrender. At the 
 time of the surrender of Dick Taylor he was in 
 Mobile and served as escort to General Canby. 
 In May he was transferred to Baton Rouge; 
 thence to Shreveport, La., July 10, 1865, and 
 from there started overland for San Antonio 
 August 4. His company was continued in Texas 
 as an army of occupation until February, 1866, 
 when the men were mustered out, and in March 
 were honorably discharged at Jackson, Mich. 
 
 After a service of four years and seven months 
 in the army, Captain Lawrence resumed the pur- 
 suits of civic life. He engaged in merchandising 
 at Brookston, White County, Ind., until 1874, 
 when he was elected clerk of the circuit court and 
 for four years he discharged the duties of that 
 office. At the clo.se of his term he came to Kan- 
 sas and settled four miles north of Ottawa, buy- 
 ing a sheep ranch, which he operated for two 
 years. On selling out he came to Ottawa, where 
 he has .since carried on a real-estate and loan 
 business, and has also represented the Phoenix 
 of Hartford and the Delaware of Philadelphia,^ 
 having built up a large fire insurance business. 
 His office is at No. 206 South Main street and his 
 residence at No. 604 Willow street. In addition to 
 his city property he owns a farm in Peoria Town- 
 ship and two farms in Pomona Township, Frank- 
 lin County, the management of all of which he 
 superintends. In politics he is a believer in free 
 silver and has allied himself with that wing of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the Republican party. He is a member of George 
 H. Thomas Post No. iS, G. A. R., and Ottawa 
 Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 While clerk of White County, Ind., Captain 
 Lawrence had the pleasure of issuing his mar- 
 riage license at Monticello. He was there married 
 to Miss Sarah A. Brown, who was born in Tip- 
 pecanoe County, Ind., a daughter of Edward A. 
 Brown, a large grain and stock dealer in that 
 county. Captain and Mrs. Lawrence have an only 
 daughter, Eldred Brown Lawrence. 
 
 (7 OHN NELSON. The largest store in Frank- 
 I lin County is situated at Nos. 119-123 West 
 O Second street, Ottawa, and is owned and 
 conducted by Mr. Nelson. The building, which is 
 100x125 ^^^^ i" dimensions, is three stories in 
 height, and is equipped with modern improve- 
 ments, including passenger elevator service. In 
 the main floor may be seen a complete assort- 
 ment of china, glass and stone ware, cutlery and 
 silverware, lamps, bric-a-brac, pictures, sewing 
 machines and musical instruments of every de- 
 scription, trunks and traveling bags of all sizes. 
 On the same floor in an adjoining building is a 
 display of ranges and stoves of everj^ kind, also a 
 variety of bicycles of standard makes. The sec- 
 ond floor is stocked with bedroom sets and furni- 
 ture of all styles and prices, also a display of car- 
 pets, mattings, oilcloths, etc. The third floor 
 contains tables of everj' description, from the 
 fancy mahogany of a lady's drawing-room, to the 
 solid oak extension dining-room tables; also babj' 
 carriages, baby chairs, etc. The basement con- 
 tains the mechanical and repairing department 
 of the store, the machinery comprising all the 
 appliances found in a first-class machine shop, su- 
 perintended by .skilled mechanics. The power 
 for running the elevators and machinery is fur- 
 nished by a stationary gas engine of four-horse 
 power, which runs sixteen hours out of every 
 twenty-four. In addition to his main brick build- 
 ing he occupies an adjoining building, 25x125, 
 of two stories, in which he carries second-hand 
 goods of every variety, including all articles of 
 household furniture in common use. 
 
 Including Mr. Nelson, who is always to be 
 found attending to details of business, fifteen men 
 are required to meet the requirements of the cus- 
 tomers. Among these are six salesmen, two 
 machinists, two tinners, two cabinet-makers and 
 two teamsters. Several drays and horses are 
 utilized in the deliver}- of goods to customers. 
 As may be imagined the management of this 
 large business consumes Mr. Nelson's entire time 
 and attention. He is a man of great energy and, 
 by his unaided efforts, has built up a large and 
 growing trade among the people of the county. 
 He owns, altogether, one-half block, excepting 
 four lots, the dimensions being 150x350, on which 
 are three houses, a livery barn and a wagon yard. 
 In addition he owns his residence on the corner 
 of Locust and Second streets. 
 
 Mr. Nelson was born in Jutland, Denmark, on 
 the Cattegat, May 31, 1857, a son of Nils and 
 Maren (Jensen) Nelson, natives of the same pen- 
 insula, where the father died in 1898, at seventy- 
 four years, and the mother in 1897. Both were 
 Lutherans in religion. Of their ten children five 
 are living, John being the oldest son and the only 
 one in Ottawa. He was given good educational 
 advantages and graduated from an agricultural 
 college in Falster in 18S0, after which for two 
 years he was superintendent of a large farm and 
 water and wind mills. In 1882 he came to 
 America and sojourned for a short time in Grand 
 Island, Neb., but in October of the same year 
 came to Kansas. For one year he was employed 
 by W. H. Pendleton in the produce business at 
 Lawrence. Returning to Denmark in Novem- 
 ber, 1883, he was married there, in March, 1884, 
 to Miss Koren Sorenson. With his bride he re- 
 turned to Lawrence. There he continued with 
 Mr. Pendleton until December, 1S84, when he 
 came to Ottawa, looking for suitable employment 
 in this place. In January, 1885, he bought a 
 second-hand store for $300, occupying a small 
 building on the site of his present large store. 
 As soon as possible he bought a stock of new 
 goods and built a new store, with residence apart- 
 ments above. From that time he has steadily 
 pro.spered, and through his energy and determi- 
 nation has gained a success which not every man 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 747 
 
 could secure, unaided by capital or friends. He 
 is a Republican in politics, but is too busy to 
 identify himself with party affairs. In the Luth- 
 eran Church he serves as elder and treasurer. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights 
 and Ladies of Security, the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Aid Association. 
 He and his wife have three children: Edward, 
 Cecil and Mary. 
 
 HENRY BERGER, whose farm in Stranger 
 Township is one of the best in the neigh- 
 borhood, was born in Hanover, Germany, 
 May 25, 1835. His father died when he was 
 small and so early in life he was obliged to de- 
 pend upon himself for a livelihood. At sixteen 
 years of age he came to America on the sailing 
 vessel "Berta," which spent eight weeks on the 
 ocean. After looking for work in Baltimore for 
 a few days he went to Wheeling, W. Va., and 
 secured employment in the coal mines, remaining 
 for six months. Later he learned the baker's 
 trade in Wheeling, where he served an apprentice- 
 ship of two years, and afterward worked at the 
 trade there. In 1856 he went to Chicago, where 
 he was employed for six months. Thence going 
 to St. Louis, he worked there until the fall 
 of 1857, the date of his removal to Kansas. Set- 
 tling in Leavenworth he worked at his trade. 
 
 In May, 1861, Mr. Berger enlisted in Com- 
 pany I, First Kansas Infantry, as a private, and 
 served until August 10 of the same year, when 
 he was wounded through the back by a gun.shot 
 in the battle of Wilson Creek. The wound dis- 
 abled him so that he was confined to a hospital 
 for some time. On finally recovering his strength 
 he left the hospital in St. Louis and returned to 
 Leavenworth, where he resumed work at his 
 trade. In 1862, crossing the plains to Colorado, 
 he started a bakery at Buckskin Joe, where he 
 remained for six months. On his return to Leav- 
 enworth he clerked in a gunshop. In the spring 
 of 1863 he again became employed at his trade. 
 In September of that year he started overland to 
 Arizona, with a compaiij' that was looking for 
 gold. With him he had the first printing press 
 ever taken to that territory. After an absence of 
 
 one year and twenty daj's he arrived in Leaven- 
 worth from his long trip. The year 1864 found 
 him a second time in Colorado, where he sold a 
 stock of rifles, revolvers, knives, etc. Returning to 
 Leavenworth in the fall he remained there until 
 the fall of 1S65, when he went back to Germany 
 on a visit, spending a year in his native land, 
 among his childhood friends. 
 
 In the fall of 1867 Mr. Berger settled in Stran- 
 ger Township, Leavenworth County, where he 
 bought eighty acres and, while improving this 
 property, al.so carried on a small store. After 
 a year he married, sold his place and bought the 
 farm where he has since made his home. He was 
 thrown upon his own resources at an early age 
 and had to make his way unaided, but in spite of 
 this he has become a large land owner, and now 
 has four hundred acres, besides which he has 
 aided his older children in the purchase of farms. 
 In national politics he has voted with the Repub- 
 licans. Reared in the Lutheran faith, he has al- 
 ways adhered to this church. By his marriage 
 to Minnie Pappenhausen, a native of Germany, 
 he has eight children, namely: Dora, wife of 
 George Cochran; Otto, a farmer in this township; 
 Bertha, wife of John Bernard; Ida, who is the 
 widow of Edward Seifert; Lena, Albert, Millie, 
 and Minnie, at home. 
 
 (John McFARLANE. since 1866 Mr. Mc- 
 I Farlane has been the proprietor of a brick- 
 Q) yard in Lawrence. At first he owned a 
 block within the limits, where he manufactured 
 brick by hand. After a time he bought a farm, 
 twenty acres ofwhich were within the limits and 
 eighty acres immediately adjoining. Through 
 his perseverance and determination he built up a 
 large brick plant, in which for some years past 
 his .son, Benjamin W., has been his partner, the 
 firm title having been John McFarlane & Son 
 until May, 1899, when the McFarlane Vitrified 
 Brick Company was organized, with Benjamin 
 W. McFarlane as manager. The plant has a 
 capacity of twenty thousand brick a day, and is 
 operated by a boiler of fifty-horse power and an 
 engine of thirty-five horse power, there being 
 
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 three stationar)- kilns. The products are pressed 
 and building brick, vitrified brick, pressed brick 
 clay, tile clay and porous tile. Brick and tile 
 are shipped by the carload throughout the state 
 and to Kansas City. After tests in other places, 
 the clay bank connected with their yard is con- 
 sidered one of the best in the country. Such por- 
 tion of the farm as is not utilized for the brick 
 plant is turned into a garden, in which potatoes 
 chiefly, but all common vegetables also, are raised, 
 and a number of Jersey cattle are also kept. 
 
 The history of the McFarlane family can be 
 traced back to the year 400 in the lowlands and 
 highlands of Scotland. Our subject was born in 
 Edinburgh, Scotland, in June, 1836, a son of 
 James and Margaret (Bowman) McFarlane. His 
 father, who was born near Glasgow, was the son 
 of an officer in the British army, who accompa- 
 nied his command to America at the time of the 
 Revolutionary war and at the battle of Bunker 
 Hill was killed while trying to .save the British 
 colors when the color bearer was killed. James 
 McFarlane was a bookkeeper at Port Bellar, 
 and there he died when almost .seventy years of 
 age. His wife, who was born in Aberdeen, the 
 daughter of a tea merchant of that city, died at 
 the same place as her hu.sband, and their oldest 
 children, Janet and James, also died there, leav- 
 ing John the only survivor of the family. 
 
 At thirteen years of age our subject was ap- 
 prenticed to the fire brick and terra cotta trade, 
 and in due time was made foreman and superin- 
 tendent of outdoor work. In 1S49 he was 
 employed at the Cowen terra cotta works, in 
 Newcastle, England, as outdoor superintendent, 
 remaining there until he made arrangements to 
 go to Calcutta. In 1851 he sailed via the Med- 
 iterranean and Red seas and the bay of Bengal, 
 crossing seventy miles of the Arabian desert from 
 Cairo to the sea, and reaching Calcutta via the 
 Ganges River. He at once began to manufac- 
 ture brick for the East India government as su- 
 perintendent at Monger, later was superintendent 
 at Buglapore, Colgon, Canpore and other places, 
 remaining with the company for six years. For 
 one year he was ill in Calcutta from jungle fever, 
 and unable to work. On his recovery he sailed 
 
 for England on the ship "Harriet," three thou- 
 sand tons, which rounded the Cape of Good Hope 
 and made the voj'age of almost eight thousand 
 miles in one hundred and forty-three days. Dur- 
 ing the voyage the vessel sprung a leak, but all 
 manned the pumps and were saved from ship- 
 wreck. While in Hindoo.stan he learned the lan- 
 guage of that country. 
 
 After a short visit in Scotland Mr. McFarlane 
 again started on an ocean voyage, this time taking 
 pa.ssage on the ship "Martin Luther," April 6, 
 1857, from Liverpool to Quebec. Two days 
 after starting the ship was wrecked off the coast 
 of France and five men were lost, the rest being 
 picked up and taken to Plymouth. The vessel 
 was repaired and the passengers proceeded in it, 
 arriving in Quebec after seven weeks. He spent 
 three weeks in Toronto and then went to the 
 pine regions of Hastings County, where he took 
 up five hundred acres for himself and father, and 
 engaged in the lumber business. In 1863 hesold 
 out and came to the United States, accompany- 
 ing some other men to Lawrence, Kans. For 
 three months he was employed on the Union Pa- 
 cific, after which he was emploj'ed as foreman 
 in Mr. Wilder' s brickyard until he began in busi- 
 ness for himself in 1866. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and fraternally is connected with Hal- 
 cyon Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F., and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. He was reared in 
 the Presbyterian faith, but the family attend the 
 Congregational Church in Lawrence. Through 
 his travels he has gained a broad knowledge of 
 the world. He has visited many points of inter- 
 est in the old and new world, has passed through 
 the straits of Gibraltar, been in Alexandria, Malta, 
 Cairo, and touched anchor at San Francisco, Cal. 
 Three times he has rounded the Cape of Good 
 Hope and he has also passed the island of St. 
 Helena. For some years, however, he has lived 
 the quiet, though active, life of a business man, 
 devoting himself closely to the conduct of his 
 business affairs. 
 
 In Port Bellar occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 McFarlane to Miss Ellen Yoman, who was born 
 in Aberdeen, Scotland, a daughter of Benjamin 
 and Anne (McLean) Yoman. They became the 
 
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 parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom are 
 deceased. Two sons attained mature j'ears. 
 Benjamin W., who is his father's partner, is serv- 
 ing his fourth year as a member of the city coun- 
 cil, and is prominent in the blue lodge of Masonry. 
 Albert is assistant manager of the brick yard. 
 
 ^EORGE I<EIS, president and general mana- 
 — ger of the George Leis Drug Company, 
 ^ president and general manager of the Law- 
 rence Investment and Loan Company, both of 
 Lawrence, Kans., and president of the Nancy 
 Helen Gold Mining and Milling Company, of 
 Cripple Creek, Colo., was born in New York 
 City, February i8, 1842. When ten years of age 
 he accompanied his parents to Providence, R. I., 
 and in 1854, with them, moved to Kansas, join- 
 ing the second emigrant party that left Boston 
 and settled in Lawrence. The trip was made by 
 rail from Providence to St. Louis, and thence by 
 steamboat to Kansas City. The latter place was 
 then a mere landing place, with a few shabby 
 buildings on the water front. From there he 
 walked to Lawrence, Kans., a distance of forty- 
 five miles, and with his father, mother and two 
 brothers, established himself in a tent. The vil- 
 lage had only one log cabin, the most of the peo- 
 ple living in dugouts, sod shanties and tents. 
 
 Beginning life in a new country, Mr. Leis was 
 glad to work at any honorable occupation that 
 offered itself, such as sawing wood at $1 a cord, 
 or digging cellars and hauling water. Not long 
 after the family settled here his father, Henry 
 Leis, returned to St. Louis, and there he died in 
 1856, while working as a machinist and boiler- 
 maker. Afterward George provided for his 
 mother, Catharine (Ana) Leis, until her death, 
 in Lawrence, July 21, 1870, at the age of fifty- 
 seven and one-half years. One of the sons of the 
 family, Henry Leis, Jr., a printer by trade, served 
 with distinction in the Second Colorado Cavalry 
 during the Civil war, and died in Lawrence July 
 22, 1879, at the age of forty-two and one-half 
 years. Another son, William J., who was born 
 January 11, 1845, is engaged in the life insurance 
 business in Chicago. 
 
 In 1855-56 George Leis worked in the Herald 
 of Freedom printing office, under Preston B. 
 Plumb, who served as major during the Civil 
 war and later as United States senator from Kan- 
 sas for a term of years, and who was then foreman 
 of the office; George W. Brown was proprietor of 
 the paper, which was generally hated by the 
 border ruffians of Missouri. George went through 
 all the privations of frontier life and the border 
 ruffian war, which can never again be experienced 
 in the history of our country. He was on the 
 ground and witnessed the sacking and destruction 
 of the Free State hotel and the two printing 
 offices, on Wednesday, May 21, 1856, by United 
 States Marshal J. B. Donaldson and Sheriff Jones. 
 The type and material were emptied into the 
 Kansas River. A few days later, George with 
 Captain Bickerton and other townsmen, gathered 
 up all the type metal and run it into bullets and 
 cannon balls for "Old Sacramento" and waged 
 war against the border ruffians of Missouri. 
 August i6, 1856, he participated in the battle of 
 Fort Titus near Lecompton, then the capital of 
 the territory, which fort was captured and the 
 prisoners taken to Lawrence in the presence of 
 United States troops. He was also with John 
 Brown on that memorable Sunday, September 14, 
 1856, advancing toward Franklin against twenty- 
 seven hundred Missourians who were well armed 
 and equipped with several pieces of cannon and who 
 were planning to destroy Lawrence. Only three 
 hundred persons, including women, were in the 
 town, and their weapons of defense consisted of 
 hatchets, pitch forks, a few Sharp's rifles and 
 flintlock muskets. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Leis became connected with Messrs. 
 Woodward & Finley, then the leading druggists 
 of Lawrence, and with them he clerked until the 
 fall of 1862, meantime studying medicine and 
 surgery under Drs. Fuller and Miner, eminent 
 physicians, with a class of two other students, 
 Abraham Wilder and George W. Smith, both of 
 whom graduated in medicine and reached high 
 positions in the United States service. On Tues- 
 day, January 29, 1861, the welcome news came 
 that Kansas had been admitted into the Union. 
 Immediately Mr. Leis, with Captain Bickerton, 
 
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 unearthed the old Mexican cannon (Old Sacra- 
 mento) and celebrated. This gun has a singular 
 history. It was captured bj' the American army 
 during the Mexican war and held by the state of 
 Missouri; during territorial days it was brought 
 to Lawrence by pro-slavery men and used to bat- 
 ter down the Free State hotel. Later it was cap- 
 tured at the battle of Franklin, four miles east of 
 Lawrence, and was used with telling effect at the 
 capture of Fort Titus and the battle of Hickory 
 Point. Finally the cannon which had been used 
 by the pro-slavery party under Buchanan's ad- 
 ministration to plant slavery in Kansas boomed in 
 exultation over the admission of Kansas as a free 
 state. 
 
 During the fall of 1862 Mr. Leis served in the 
 state militia as private in Company A, of which 
 Holland Wheeler was captain. During the re- 
 bellion and Price raid in the earlj- part of 1863 he 
 assisted in recruiting and enlisting the colored 
 volunteers for the First and Second Colored 
 Regiments, using the sabre while drilling the 
 boys which was carried by Col. E. V. Sumner, 
 of the United States army, through all the Kan- 
 sas troubles of 1856 and which had beeu presented 
 by the colonel to Maj. G. W. Smith and by the 
 latter to Mr. Leis to be used against slaver3^ 
 The sabre is now deposited with the State His- 
 torical Society as a Kansas relic. Through Gen. 
 James H. Lane, then United States senator, Mr. 
 Leis received an appointment as assistant surgeon, 
 ranking second lieutenant in the Second Colored 
 Regiment. The First and Second Colored Regi- 
 ments were the first colored soldiers ever mustered 
 into the service of the United States. They 
 served with distinction in Indian Territory, Ar- 
 kansas and Texas. 
 
 In December, 1863, Mr. Leis left the army and 
 returned to Lawrence, to find that during the 
 Quantrell raid, August 21, 1863, all of his person- 
 al effects had been destroyed, including his war 
 relics of 1856, a ball and chain with which John 
 Brown's son was manacled by the United States 
 troops and then taken to Lecompton, and two iron 
 cannon sent by the Boston Emigrant Aid Societ}- 
 for freeing Kansas. These guns were used on 
 many occasions to celebrate the coming of steam- 
 
 boats on the Kansas River, which was then nav- 
 igable as far as Fort Riley, Kans. One of these 
 guns has been donated by Mr. Leis to the Kansas 
 State Historical Society. 
 
 Having saved $75, with this as his sole capital, 
 but with a large fund of determination and energy, 
 Mr. Leis established himself in the wholesale and 
 retail drug and manufacturing business, under 
 the firm name of George Leis & Co. The busi- 
 ness was conducted in a two-story building 
 erected by him on the north half of lot No. 42, 
 east side of Massachusetts street, the money fot 
 the con.struction of building being furnished by 
 ex-Congressman Marcus J. Parrott. April 14, 
 1870, he bought his partner's interest inthebusi- 
 ness and later Mr. Parrott 's interest in the building, 
 and afterward was the sole owner of the business, 
 at the same time carrying on a chemical manufac- 
 turing and proprietary medicine business, erecting 
 a laboratory on lot No. 42, New Hampshire 
 street, in the rear of the store building. January 
 I, 1871, his brother, William J., wasadmitted as 
 a partner, the firm becoming George Leis & Bro. 
 January i, 1875, William J. Leis severed his con- 
 nection with the firm and the business was then 
 conducted under the name of George Leis again. 
 The object of the separation was in order that 
 William J. might connect himself with the Leis 
 Chemical Manufacturing Company, about to be 
 incorporated, separating the manufacture of pat- 
 ent medicines and chemicals from the wholesale 
 and retail drug business, which had reached such 
 a magnitude that it was deemed best to separate 
 them. May 6, 1878, Mr. Leis purchased the 
 handsome three-storj' and basement brick build- 
 ing, No. 747, at the corner of Massachusetts and 
 Henry streets, and moved his entire wholesale 
 and retail drug business into it, fitting it up hand- 
 somely and making it the finest drug establishment 
 in the state. This change caused the business to in- 
 crease rapidly, while the manufacturing business 
 at the old quarters on New Hampshire street also 
 benefited by the .separation. 
 
 Each year the manufacturing businessincreased 
 enormously. For want of more room, larger 
 quarters and increased capital, Mr. Leis was en- 
 couraged V)j' manj- citizens to incorporate the 
 
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 manufacturing department of his business into a 
 stock company, and February 4, 18S0, he incor- 
 porated under the Kansas law the lycis Chemical 
 Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $50, 000 
 with Hon. J. P. Usher, ex-secretary of the in- 
 terior under President Lincoln, as its president; 
 George Leis, secretary and general manager, and 
 Henry E. Benson, treasurer. The business was 
 carried on successfully in the old quarters on the 
 east side of Massachusetts street until the year 
 1882, when the business had again increased to 
 such an enormous extent that the two-story 
 and basement brick store room, with the addi- 
 tional quarters on New Hampshire street, was not 
 nearly large enough to accommodate the enlarged 
 business. The company purchased the lots on 
 the corner of Massachusetts and Pinckney streets, 
 commanding a prominent view of the river near 
 the bridge and constructed a four-story brick 
 building, 100x60. A service was held at the lay- 
 ing of the corner stone at the northeast corner of 
 the building, and a tin box was placed in the 
 stone, filled with a history of the business, news- 
 papers and cards of business men of the city. 
 While under construction this corner was struck 
 by lightning and considerable damage was done, 
 but the building was saved from destruction by 
 the passing oif of the lightning through a drain 
 to the river. The walls were built in such a way 
 as to permit the company, as business increased, 
 to add two more stories. In these new quarters 
 the manufacturing business increased at such a 
 rapid rate that it became necessary, within two 
 years, to increase the capital, which was increased 
 to $100,000, with $90,000 cash paid into the 
 treasury. It became the leading medical and 
 chemical manufacturing establishment west of the 
 Mississippi and was known far and wide, selling 
 its goods in Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, 
 Utah, New Mexico and California, and supplying 
 the United States army as well. A large num- 
 ber of hands were employed, Through this 
 enterprise Lawrence reaped a great deal of free 
 advertising. The newspapers throughout the 
 state were well patronized and Mr. Leis was rec- 
 ognized as a successful advertiser by the Kansas 
 editors. Leis Dandelion Tonic, Leis Concentra- 
 
 ted Fruit Flavoring Extracts, German Baking 
 Powder and handkerchief extracts were some of 
 the leading articles manufactured by the company, 
 aside from their many pharmaceutical prepara- 
 tions. December 16, 1884, Mr. Leis resigned 
 his position as secretary and general manager of 
 this enormous business to devote his personal at- 
 tention to his wholesale and retail drug business, 
 and soon after he disposed of his holdings in the 
 Leis Chemical Manufacturing Company, dropping 
 his interest therein entirely, after which its man- 
 agement passed into the hands of Kansas Cit5% 
 Mo., parties. 
 
 In November, 1888, Mr. Leis incorporated the 
 George Leis Drug Company under Kansas laws 
 with a capital of $50,000, with himself as presi- 
 dent. The drug business, with building, was 
 transferred to this company, which was carried 
 on successfully under that name until December 
 31, 1897. He was one of six who were delegated 
 at a meeting held February 8, 1888, by the Com- 
 mercial Club of Kansas City, Mo., to proceed to 
 Washington, D. C, to lobby through the bill for 
 opening to settlement the Oklahoma lands. March 
 8, 1889, he incorporated under Colorado laws, 
 the Oklahoma Homestead and Townsite Com- 
 pany, with a capital of $100,000, with ex-Gover- 
 nor T. T. Crittendon, ex-consul to Mexico, as 
 president; George Leis, secretary; Frank N. 
 Chick, treasurer; and Hon. Winfield Freeman, 
 attorney. This company located and platted the 
 city of El Reno at the time of the opening of Ok- 
 lahoma; the town is now a flourishing city of over 
 eight thousand inhabitants, with the Rock Island 
 and Choctaw Railway lines running through it, 
 and is destined to become the capital when the 
 territory is admitted into the union. While lay- 
 ing out this town Mr. Leis had many adventures. 
 His experience in early Kansas aided him great- 
 ly in handling the many rough characters he had 
 to deal with. Many times his life was threatened, 
 but he escaped as he did in former days. 
 
 November 20, 1896, Mr. Leis incorporated the 
 Lawrence Investment and Loan Company under 
 Colorado laws, with a capital of $150,000. In 
 March, 1896, he incorporated also under Colorado 
 laws, the Nancy Helen Gold Mining and Milling 
 
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 Conipaii}', with $2,000,000 capital stock, with 
 himself as president of the company. He is one 
 of the foremost citizens of Lawrence, and active 
 in every enterprise to build up the city'sinterests. 
 He has seen every building erected and has been 
 interested in securing almost every enterpri.se in 
 the manufacturing line, in many of which he has 
 invested his own capital. An organizer of the 
 Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, he was its 
 treasurer for many years; this organization built 
 up many industries in Lawrence. September 18, 
 1870, he assisted his brother, Henry Leis, to es- 
 tablish in Lawrence the Democratic Standard, for 
 many years edited by ex-Senator E. G. Ross. 
 
 Mr. Leis is a charter member, with all degrees, 
 of the Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. In 1880-81 he was active in the organiza- 
 tion of the National Fair Association of Kansas, 
 of which he was a director and officer and which 
 had charge of the fairs held annually at Bismarck 
 Grove near Lawrence. He is a prominent mem- 
 ber of the Kansas State Pharmaceutical Associa- 
 tion, member of the American Pharmaceutical 
 Association of the United States (of which he has 
 been vice-president), a director of the Kansas 
 State Historical Society, and for many years 
 treasurer of the Handel and Haydn Societ}'. He 
 was a heavy contributor to the first University 
 building constructed on Mount Oread (now known 
 as North College) of the Kansas State University. 
 Through the state legislature, in the year 1887, 
 he secured a bill establishing a chair of pharmacj' 
 at the state university. For several j^ears he and 
 Robert J. Brown of Leavenworth, Kans. , were on 
 the examining board of the graduates of the 
 school of pharmac}'. During 1886, together 
 with Hon. J. S. Emery, he secured manj- valua- 
 ble appropriations for the U. S. Indian school, 
 in which work he had the assistance of Hon. E. 
 H. Funston and Hon. P. B. Plumb. Through 
 President Adams of the Union Pacific Railroad, 
 and with the assistance of Congressman Funston, 
 he was the means of locating and constructing 
 the present Union Pacific depot. With Kansas 
 City parties he e.stablished the addition to the city 
 of Lawrence known as University Place, south 
 
 of the university, at an expense of over $22,000, 
 all of which is beautifully set out with shade trees 
 (elms) and is destined to be the elite part of the 
 city, where families will locate for the education 
 of their children. 
 
 As his home Mr. Leis purchased, October 14, 
 1S90, the handsome two-story brick residence at 
 the corner of Quincy and Louisiana streets, on 
 Mount Oread. This property, which has cost up- 
 wards of $25,000, is known as Elm Terrace and 
 commands a fine view of the city and surrounding 
 country. In Lawrence, October 25, 1876, he 
 married Miss Lillian Ross, who was born in 
 Sandusky, Ohio, October 14, 1849, ^"d i^ ^ mem- 
 ber of the Plymouth Congregational Church, of 
 Lawrence. Her father, Maj. E. G. Ross, served 
 with distinction through the Civil war and later 
 as United States senator and governor of New 
 Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Leis have six children: 
 Kate, Zoe, George Kay, Edmond Ross, Tracy 
 Flint and Sylvester Frank. 
 
 From April 21, 1891, to March, 1898, Mr. Leis 
 acted as up-town city ticket agent for the Atchi- 
 son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, holding the 
 office in connection with his business, and resign- 
 ing as agent on selling out his retail drug interests 
 in Januarj', 1898. 
 
 Having followed Horace Greeley's advice, "Go 
 west, young man," and thereby enduring all the 
 many misfortunes and panics, failures and mis- 
 haps through which Lawrence has passed during 
 its eventful historj', besides passing through the 
 border ruffian war of 1855-56, the drought of 
 i860, the war of the Rebellion with its Quantrell 
 and Price raids, the three famines caused by 
 drought and grasshoppers, the financial panic of 
 1873, and the financial crisis of 1893 to 1S99, it 
 is his testimony that he has always paid and is 
 still paying one hundred cents on the dollar. 
 
 *VSAAC BOWEN. While the cities of eastern 
 I Kansas have attracted a large population, the 
 X country territory has at the same time, by 
 reason of the excellence of the soil, become the 
 home of many energetic and capable men, and 
 among these citizens is Mr. Bowen, an enterpri.s- 
 
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 ing farmer of Reno Township, Leavenworth 
 County. When became here, in 1870, he formed 
 a partnership with his brother-in-law, S. B. Can- 
 trell, the two purchasing and cultivating a farm 
 of two hundred and forty acres. After a few 
 years the partnership was dissolved, and since 
 then Mr. Bowen has followed farming and stock- 
 raising upon one hundred and forty acres which 
 he owns. 
 
 Mr. Bowen was born in Habersham County, 
 Ga., July 25, 1819, a son of Thomas and Betsy 
 (Hunt) Bowen, natives of South Carolina. His 
 father moved to Georgia in early manhood and 
 afterward engaged in farming there. He was a 
 man of fixed convictions, a typical southerner, 
 firm in his friendships, hospitable and generous, 
 and on his plantation had a number of slaves. 
 In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat of the 
 old school. During the Civil war his sympathies 
 were entirely with the south. At the time of his 
 death he was almost one hundred years of age. 
 His wife was ninety-four at the time of her death. 
 They were the parents of fourteen children, six 
 of whom are living, Isaac being the only one in 
 Kansas. 
 
 Reared upon a farm in Georgia, our subject 
 adopted agriculture for his life work, and this 
 occupation he has alwaj's followed. After some 
 years on the old homestead, in 1865 he came 
 west as far as Missouri, and from there, in 1870, 
 removed to Kansas. During the Civil war he 
 served for eighteen months as a cavalryman in 
 Tom Cobb's Dragoons, and at the same time 
 his brothers, Richard and Helan, were in the in- 
 fantry; while his brother-in-law, Alfred Cantrell, 
 served throughout the entire war. Fraternally 
 he is a Mason. During his residence in Georgia 
 he was for years a deacon in the Baptist Church, 
 with which he has long been identified. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Bowen married Mary Ann, daugh- 
 ter of John and Martha A. (Porter) Cantrell, 
 natives of South Carolina, but for years residents 
 of Georgia, where they died. They were the 
 parents of twelve children, of whom seven are 
 now living, Mrs. Bowen and Harris Cantrell 
 being the only members of the family in Kansas. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bowen have six children, namely: 
 
 Evaline, wifeof James Downing, of Salida, Colo.; 
 William Brannon, of Poplar Springs, Mo.; 
 Emma, wife of John Dunham, and a resident of 
 the Indian Territory; Alfred, of Leavenworth 
 County; Starling, who is with his parents; and 
 Isaac Hampton, of Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM NIGHTINGALE, who was one 
 \ A / of the first to take up his home among the 
 VV Indians in Kansas, was born in Preston, 
 Lancashire, England, March 7, 1828, a son of 
 John and Ellen Nightingale. About 1837 he 
 was brought to America by his parents, who set- 
 tled in Lee County, Iowa. There he grew to 
 man's estate, meantime becoming familiar with 
 life on the frontier. At the time of the agitation 
 regarding the admission of Kansas as a free or 
 slave state he cast in his fortunes with the free- 
 state movement in the then territory. In the 
 spring of 1858 he settled in what is now Green- 
 wood Township, PVanklin County. At that 
 time, however, the county had not been organ- 
 ized, but was a portion of the Sac and Fox reser- 
 vation, and the population consisted almost 
 wholly of Indians. For several years he kept the 
 old Greenwood hotel and at the same time he was 
 postmaster and merchant, his place being also 
 used as a changing post for the old-time stage 
 coaches. In trading with the Indians he built 
 up a large business, making weekly trips to Law- 
 rence for goods which he sold at his store and to 
 the Indians. In those early days white settlers 
 were few and at remote distances from one an- 
 other, but, as the Indians were peaceable, the 
 scarcity of whites was no occasion for alarm. As 
 settlers began to come in the country was rapidly 
 developed and improvements were made. While 
 these pioneers were obliged to work very hard, 
 yet they were not without their amusements and 
 recreations, and many a merry evening was 
 passed dancing to the music of Mr. Nightingale's 
 fiddle, for "Uncle Billy" was a "fiddler of ye 
 olden time." 
 
 When Mr. Nightingale drove his ox-team from 
 Iowa to Kansas he passed through Ottawa. The 
 white men had not as yet taken [possession of 
 
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 what is now the business center of Franklin 
 County. In the now beautiful and prosperous 
 city there was then only one house, and it was 
 occupied by an Indian. The surrounding coun- 
 try, too, was in the primeval condition of nature. 
 In the soil scarcely a furrow had been turned, 
 no trees had been planted, and the prairie 
 stretched, in unbroken lengths, as far as the eye 
 could sweep in its vision. He has lived to see 
 the wonderful transformation wrought in the past 
 forty years and has himself contributed his quota 
 to the development of material resources. In 
 1869 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 in Greenwood Township and afterward added 
 more land, so that he now owns two hundred 
 acres altogether. Here he has since resided, en- 
 gaged in raising stock and farm produce. In his 
 younger years every election day found him at 
 the polls, working in the interests of the Demo- 
 cratic party and winning converts to the old Jef- 
 fersonian doctrines. For two years he was town- 
 ship treasurer and for several years served as a 
 member of the school board. Before leaving 
 Iowa, in April, 1852, he married Miss Mary Bal- 
 lance, by whom he has a son, William H., and a 
 daughter, Lucy, Mrs. John Davidson, of Quenemo. 
 
 r~ REDERICK B. PONTIOUS, who is engaged 
 rS in farming in Kanwaka Township, Douglas 
 I County, was born in Ross County, Ohio, be- 
 tween Circleville and Chillicothe, March 7, 1830. 
 His grandfather, Frederick Pontious, who re- 
 moved from Berks County, Pa., to Ohio in an 
 early day, built from native timber a remarkably 
 large barn, which still stands, with the date 
 (1808) carved by himself in one corner of the 
 building. The land was in its primitive condition 
 and he "grubbed" and cleared it, then brought 
 it under cultivation. To each of his six children 
 he gave one hundred and si.xty acres, after which 
 he still had three hundred acres left. His death 
 occurred in Ross County some time during the 
 '50s. Twice married, his first wife left two chil- 
 dren at her death. By his second wife, Catherine 
 Reedy, he had six children, of whom Andrew 
 was the father of our subjeet. A daughter by 
 
 the first marriage became the mother of J. S. 
 Rarey, the noted horse-trainer, and our subject 
 remembers having seen the famous horse, "Crui- 
 ser," which no one but Mr. Rarey was ever able 
 to'handle. 
 
 Born in Pennsylvania, Andrew Pontious was 
 eight years of age when the family moved to 
 Ohio. He assisted in cutting timber and clearing 
 a farm. His boyhood years were passed in the 
 large double log house which his father had 
 built. Few educational advantages were possible 
 to him. He continued to reside on the home 
 farm until his death, which occurred at .seventy- 
 six years. Active in politics, he was a champion 
 of the Democratic party. In 1842-43 he erected 
 a handsome brick residence. To aid in the work, 
 he hired a man to go there and burn two hun- 
 dred thousand brick, and from these he built the 
 house and the United Brethren Church (of which 
 he was a member). By his marriage to Mary 
 Ann Betser he had six sons and six daughters, 
 of whom all but one attained maturity, and two, 
 Frederick B. and William Allen, reside in Kan- 
 sas. The third of the children, our subject, grew 
 to manhood on the home farm and early learned 
 to be helpful around the house and in the field. 
 At twenty-seven years of age he left home and 
 rented a farm, where he remained for six years. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Pontious removed to Kansas and 
 bought a quarter section that he had selected in 
 187 1. At once he began the task of placing the 
 land in shape for cultivation. From the first he 
 met with success. A diligent worker, he gave 
 all his time to the cultivation of the land. He 
 employed methods that were the marvel of his 
 neighbors, but his success was such as to justify 
 the wisdom of his methods. In 1895 he sold his 
 property and bought one hundred acres, mostly 
 in grass, situated on section 29, Kanwaka Town- 
 •ship. To the improvement of this land he gives 
 his personal attention. He is a man who has won 
 the confidence of the people, and his standing is 
 so high and his reputation for honesty so great 
 that, when borrowing money, either from a bank 
 or from private parties, he has never been asked 
 to give any security except his own name. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Pontious was once 
 
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 active in local affairs. He was a delegate to the 
 convention at Columbus in 1863, and also served 
 as delegate to many county conventions. He 
 has held office as township trustee and clerk. 
 During the Civil war he was made captain of a 
 company organized in his township at the time of 
 the Morgan raid, but as the Confederates re- 
 treated before the men were fitted out with arms, 
 he and his twenty men were discharged. For 
 twenty-five years he was connected with the Odd 
 Fellows, but his home being a considerable dis- 
 tance from town, he finally withdrew from the 
 lodge. His interest in religious work has ever 
 been a noticeable trait of his character. He 
 secured the erection of the United Brethren 
 house of worship and on the completion of the 
 building advanced $525 to avoid the necessitj^ of 
 the church borrowing from outside parties. For 
 many years he has been interested in Sunday- 
 school work, but poor health of late years has 
 prevented him from being actively connected with 
 the school. In Ohio he married Jane C. New- 
 house, daughter of Isaac Newhouse, a prominent 
 farmer of Pickaway County, Ohio. Of their six 
 children two died in infancy. Walter D. and 
 Arthur C. are farmers in Kanwaka Township. 
 Julia C. and Ina C. were married on the same day 
 to brothers, the former becoming the wife of 
 Frederick Richardson and the latter the wife of 
 Herman Richardson. Ina C. died Augu.st 23, 
 
 1899- 
 
 30SEPH M. SHIVELY, a pioneer of Douglas 
 County, residing in Marion Township, was 
 born in Stark County, Ohio, September 21, 
 1836, a son of Isaac and Susannah (Snyder) 
 Shively. His paternal grandparents, Jacob and 
 Barbara (Thomas) Shively, both American-born, 
 spent the most of their lives in Pennsylvania, but 
 finally removed to northeastern Ohio, settling in 
 the midst of forests filled with Indians and wild 
 animals. The grandfather, who was a preacher, 
 often rode to the place of meeting carrying a shot 
 pouch and gun on his shoulder, in order to pro- 
 tect himself from the beasts of the forests. He 
 wielded great influence over the red men of his 
 locality, which fact was due not only to his work 
 
 as a preacher, but also to his remarkable size and 
 strength. He was six feet and eleven inches in 
 height, of stalwart proportions and unusual 
 strength. At one time, when putting up a log 
 building, two men were starting to fight a sham 
 battle in order to keep others from work. Seeing 
 them, he climbed down a corner of the building, 
 made his way through the large crowd to where 
 the men stood, caught them by the back of their 
 necks, raised them both up and slapped their 
 foreheads together, then brought them down to 
 the ground again with a command to get to work, 
 which order the men probably hastened to obey. 
 During the whiskey insurrection, to escape mili- 
 tary duty, he swam across the Ohio River, with 
 a gun and overcoat on his back. Meeting some 
 Indians on the other side, he dried his clothes by 
 their camp fire; however, the exposure brought 
 on a sickness, from which he never recovered. 
 In his family there were eight sons (of whom all 
 but one were more than six feet tall) and eight 
 daughters; those who attained mature years be- 
 came large women. 
 
 The maternal grandparents of our subject were 
 Joseph and Susannah (Snyder) Snyder, both of 
 whom, like the paternal grandparents, were born 
 in America and possessed great physical strength 
 as well as sterling mental endowments. It is 
 said that Mr. Snyder could shoulder four bushels 
 of wheat and stand on the rim of a half- bushel 
 measure, while his daughter, Mrs. Shively, was 
 seen by her children standing inside of a half- 
 bushel measure shouldering three bushels of 
 ■wheat. The Snyders were members of the Breth- 
 ren (or Dunkard) Church. 
 
 Isaac Shively was born and reared in Bedford 
 County, Pa., and, in company with other mem- 
 bers of the family, moved to Stark County, Ohio, 
 before that region was settled by white men. In 
 1842 he removed to Elkhart County, Ind., where 
 he died (the result of an accident) at forty-six 
 years of age. While farming was his principal, 
 it was not his only, occupation, as he also followed 
 the blacksmith's trade and carried on a sawmill. 
 Politically he was a Whig, and in religion a 
 Dunkard. His wife died in Indiana when fifty- 
 six years of age. Of their ten children one died 
 
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 young, and Mrs. Margaret Warntz died in Au- 
 gust, 1899. Eight are living, the eldest being 
 seventj--four and the j-oungest fiftj'-seven. They 
 are named as follows: Jonas, of Goshen, Ind.; 
 Daniel, also of that place; Marj' P., wife of Paul 
 H. Kurtz; Barbara, wife of George W. Cripe; 
 Susannah (twin of Barbara), wife of J. J. Baker; 
 Joseph M. ; Lydia, who married Elias Harshmann; 
 and Easter, wife of Benjamin Ulrich, of Douglas 
 County. 
 
 Being quick to learn, our subject picked up a 
 good knowledge of carpentering when he was a 
 boy. In April, 1857, he came to Kansas and 
 took up a claim in Franklin County, but the fall 
 of the same year found him in Douglas County, 
 where he took up a claim on sections 21,14 ^"d 
 18, in Willow Springs Township. After Quan- 
 trell's raid he went to Lawrence and worked at 
 his trade, assisting in rebuilding many of the 
 business blocks destroyed by the raiders. In 
 1867 he purchased his present farm of five hun- 
 dred acres, where he has since engaged in general 
 fanning and stock-raising, at the same time do- 
 ing considerable work as a builder. In 1884 he 
 erected his residence, which is one of the finest 
 rural homes in this county. He has also put up 
 other farm buildings and made valuable improve- 
 ments on the place. For twelve seasons he ran a 
 threshing machine. 
 
 Mr. Shively has invented and patented a corn- 
 cutting and shocking machine, which is now in 
 process of manufacture by the Deering Harvester 
 Company of Chicago. The machine was ex- 
 hibited on Mr. Shively's farm during the season 
 of 1899, and tho.se who examined it were unani- 
 mous in declaring that it could have been devised 
 only by a mechanical genius. Mr. Shively also 
 manufactured the first suction pumps ever used 
 in Kansas, by boring logs and fitting them with 
 valves. In 1884 he retired from active bu.siness, 
 giving the supervi.sion of the farm into the hands 
 of his only son, Edward. Since then he has 
 spent considerable time in travel to the Pacific 
 coast and other parts of the country, and being a 
 man of close observation he has gained a thorough 
 knowledge of people and customs in different parts 
 of the laud. Notwithstanding that he began 
 
 without means, he is now well-to-do, in a position 
 that will enable him to pass his declining years 
 in comfort. He is a supporter of the Dunkard 
 religion. In politics he votes with the Repub- 
 licans, and during his several years of service on 
 the school board assi,sted in building schools and 
 promoting their welfare. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Shively married Miss Mary Ulrich, 
 daughter of Jacob Ulrich, a pioneer of Douglas 
 County. They have five children living and one 
 dead: Sarah, the widow of Abraham L. Hart- 
 man; Lutitia, who married William M. Stuts- 
 man; Edward, who married Ella Stutsman; 
 Minnie, wife of Elijah A. Stutsman; Lydia, who 
 died of the measles May 20, 1887, at the age of 
 fifteen years and two months; and Alice, who 
 married Samuel S. Garst. 
 
 30HN BRANDON, senior member of the firm 
 of Brandon & Beal, of Leavenworth, was 
 born in England, August 27, 1831, a son of 
 William Brandon, who followed the machinist's 
 trade and civil engineering in his native land. 
 When sixteen years of age he came to the United 
 States, joining a brother in Massachusetts, but 
 soon proceeded west to St. Louis, and was en- 
 gaged in running a steam engine in that city. 
 Two years later he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 where he served an apprenticeship to the black- 
 smith's trade. At the expiration of his time he 
 returned to St. Louis, where he engaged in 
 horseshoeing and general blacksmithing. In 
 1857 he was interested in the manufacture of soda 
 water. 
 
 The year 1858 found Mr. Brandon in Leaven- 
 worth, Kaiis., where he began a soda manufac- 
 turing business. The town, though then small, 
 was the centre of a large amount of business, 
 owing to the fact that trains outfitted here for the 
 west. From the first his business was a success. 
 In 1862 he commenced brewing as a member of 
 the firm of Block, Brandon & Kirmeyer. When 
 Mr. Block entered the army the title was 
 changed to Brandon & Kirrae}-er. This con- 
 tinued until 1885, when the prohibition law 
 closed his business, and his building was burned, 
 
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 causing the loss of all he had accumulated in 
 twenty-five years. In 1893 the firm of Brandon 
 & Beal was organized. They employ twelve 
 hands and have built up a large business. The 
 factory has a capacity of ten thousand barrels. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Brandon votes with 
 the Democrats, but in local matters he is inde- 
 pendent, preferring to vote for candidates best 
 fitted for office rather than adhere strictly to par- 
 ty lines. He has served in the city council. He 
 has done considerable building in the city, in- 
 cluding his residence at No. 210 Dakota street 
 and a store building on Pottawatomie street. 
 While he keeps in touch with the firm's business, 
 the active superintendent of the establishment is 
 his son, Henry L,., a capable young man, who is 
 a graduate of the Milwaukee Brewers' Academy 
 and the Chicago College of Pharmacy. 
 
 QOHN LLrOYD. Upon coming to Kansas in 
 I 1879 Mr. lyloyd took up his residence in 
 (2/ Ohio Township, Franklin County, where 
 he bought land from time to time as his finances 
 permitted. While he followed general farming 
 to some extent, the cattle business was his prin- 
 cipal occupation. During the '80s he was par- 
 ticularly successful, and investing his money in 
 land, he acquired large possessions. He is now 
 the owner of eleven hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, besides which he leases five hundred acres. 
 The land is used principally for pasturage, such 
 grain as is raised being only for feed and not for 
 sale. As a cattle-feeder he has the largest busi- 
 ness of any man in Franklin County, and his 
 work has been so successful that he is one of the 
 most prosperous men for miles around. The 
 residence which he owns and occupies was built 
 in the fall of 1888 and is one of the largest farm 
 houses in Ohio Township. 
 
 Born in South Wales, April 5, 1840, our sub- 
 ject is a son of John and Catherine (Richards) 
 Lloyd. He was one of eight children and the 
 second of five now living, the others being 
 Thomas, a farmer in Mills County, Iowa; Evan, 
 a stockman in that county; Caleb, of Wichita, 
 Kans.; and Katie, at home. The father, who 
 
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 was born, reared and married in South Wales, 
 acquired a competency through farming, but 
 after a time met with business reverses and lost 
 his fortune. In 1848 he came to America and 
 settled in Morgan and Macoupin Counties, succes- 
 sively, but in 1863 removed to Mills County, 
 lov/a, where he died. He was a highly educated 
 man and a graduate of Oxford University. His 
 boyhood days were spent in an old French castle 
 in South Wales, where his ancestors had lived 
 for many generations, and he was the first mem- 
 ber of the family who had been buried outside of 
 the family cemetery for three hundred years. 
 After coming to America he became a devoted, 
 patriotic citizen of his adopted country, and did 
 much to advance the cause of Abolition. In 
 politics he was first a Whig and later a Republi- 
 can, and kept well posted concerning all political 
 subjects. He was an active member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. His wife, like himself, was 
 a member of an old farming family of South 
 Wales. 
 
 Reared in the country, and where schools were 
 few and poor, our subject did not receive any 
 educational advantages, but, in spite of disadvan- 
 tages, he has gained a broad knowledge of men 
 and things. He began in the world for himself 
 at twenty-one years of age and for some time 
 worked as a farm hand. After a few years he 
 began buying and selling cattle. In 1866 he 
 made his first trip to Kansas, coming out to buy 
 cattle for his employer and bringing with him be- 
 tween six and seven thousand dollars of his em- 
 ployer's money to be used in the purchases. He 
 discharged his responsible task satisfactorily and 
 returned home. In 1870 he began driving cattle 
 from Missouri into Illinois, where he disposed of 
 them as feeders. In 1879 he settled permanentlj' 
 in Kansas, where he has since devoted his atten- 
 tion almost exclusively to the cattle business. 
 He has had little leisure for public affairs and 
 has never identified himself with politics, but is 
 a stanch Republican nevertheless. In religion he 
 is a Baptist. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Lloyd married Miss Martha Kitz- 
 miller, a native of East Tennessee. They have 
 had five children, Walter E., Albert M., James E. 
 
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 and John Arthur, at home, and Elizabeth, de- 
 ceased. Mrs. Lloyd is a daughter of Martin V. 
 Kitzmiller, who was one of the earliest settlers of 
 Macoupin County, 111., and was for years a 
 prominent Baptist minister, but is now living 
 retired. 
 
 (lESSE W. BROCK, M. D. Fewofthephy- 
 I sicians of Leavenworth have been so con- 
 (2/ tinuously and honorably identified with the 
 history of the city as has Dr. Brock, who from 
 the time of coming here, in October, 1865, has 
 been associated with many of the movements that 
 have contributed to the progress of the town. 
 His recognized prominence in the profession led 
 to his election as president of the Leavenworth 
 County Medical Societj' and vice-president of the 
 Kansas State Medical Association, both of which 
 offices he filled with credit to himself. His con- 
 tributions to medical literature have been im- 
 portant and have extended over a long period of 
 years. Associated with Dr. C. A. Logan, he 
 founded the Medical Herald, which he edited and 
 published, monthly, in Leavenworth, for a num- 
 ber of years. In many other ways he has con- 
 tributed to the progress of the science to which 
 his active years have been devoted. 
 
 The Brock family was founded in Virginia by 
 English ancestry. George S. Brock, son of 
 Thomas Brock, a native of England, was born in 
 Culpeper County, W. Va. , and from there re- 
 moved to F'lushing, Belmont County, Ohio, where 
 he first taught school and later cleared a farm. 
 During the war of 1812 he served as lieutenant 
 of a company. His death occurred in Ohio when 
 he was sixty years of age. He married Cather- 
 ine Carpenter, a native of Loudoun County, Va., 
 and a descendant of Revolutionary stock, of Eng- 
 lish extraction. She was married in Virginia, 
 whence she accompanied her hu.sband to Ohio, 
 and there remained until death. Of her eleven 
 children, all but one attained mature years, and 
 two are now living, a daughter, Mrs. Caroline 
 Packer, of Iowa, and the subject of this sketch. 
 The latter was born at Flushing, Ohio, June i, 
 1830, and in boyhood attended public schools, 
 later was a student in Granville College in Lick- 
 
 ing County, Ohio, until the completion of the 
 sophomore year. It was from childhood his de- 
 sire to study medicine, and when the way was 
 opened for him to do so he entered the office of 
 Dr. Benjamin Bethel. Afterward he was a stu- 
 dent in the Maryland University at Baltimore, 
 from which he graduated in 1835, with the de- 
 gree of M. D. 
 
 Opening an ofiice at North Lewisburg, Cham- 
 paign County, Ohio, in 1856, Dr. Brock began 
 the practice of medicine. He remained there 
 until the Civil war began. In September, 1861, 
 he was commissioned surgeon of the Sixty-sixth 
 Ohio Infantry by Governor Todd and continued 
 in that capacity until the close of the war, being 
 two years in the army of the Potomac and a 
 similar period in the army of the Cumberland. 
 He was present at many important engagements, 
 among them those of Winchester, Gettysburg 
 and Antietam, also in the battles of the Atlanta 
 campaign. While performing a surgical opera- 
 tion he was injured in such a way that blood- 
 poisoning resulted, and he lost a finger of the 
 left hand. As soon as able to rejoin the army he 
 left the hospital in Cincinnati and returned to the 
 front. At the close of the war he took part in 
 the grand review at Washington, from which 
 city he was .sent to Louisville, Ky., and was 
 mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in July, 1865. 
 He returned home, with the rank of major and 
 a most creditable record as an army surgeon. In 
 October of the same year he opened an office in 
 Leavenworth, where he has since carried on a 
 general practice in medicine and surgery. He has 
 been called upon to perform many difficult opera- 
 tions and has also for many years acted as local 
 surgeon for the Rock Island Railroad Company. 
 While in Ohio he was made a Mason, and he has 
 identified him.self with the Knights of Pythias 
 and Knights of Honor. He was one of the first 
 members of the Kansas Commandery of the Mili- 
 tary Order of Loyal Legion, with which he is still 
 identified. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Brock, in North Lewis- 
 burg, Ohio, united him with Miss Eliza Jane 
 Gunn, who was born in that city. She was a 
 graduate of Delaware (Ohio) College, and by 
 
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 study and travel acquired a broad knowledge of 
 the world. Hers was a most gifted mind; her 
 tastes were refined, her disposition amiable. She 
 possessed unusual ability as an architect and 
 planned her residence in L,eavenworth, "Terrace 
 des Italiens," modeling it on the style of an 
 Italian castle. Within and without are evidences 
 of refined tastes and culture. The apartments 
 are finished with delicate woodwork and are 
 adorned with oil paintings, the work of Mrs. 
 Brock. She was so absorbed in this fascinat- 
 ing work that her health became undermined, 
 and, hoping a trip to California would prove 
 beneficial, Dr. Brock started with her for the west 
 in January, 1896. While en route, a sudden 
 lurch of the train, as she was walking down the 
 aisle, caused her to fall and break her left thigh. 
 She was taken to Albuquerque and given the 
 best attention which ample means and loving 
 foresight could suggest. From Albuquerque Dr. 
 Brock started to return home with her, but she 
 died before reaching lyeavenworth. Her sudden 
 and accidental death was a sad blow to the many 
 who loved and admired her for her beautiful life 
 and gentle character. 
 
 (SlLVA E. B. WHITE, who resides upon a 
 LA valuable farm adjoining the village of Ton- 
 I I ganoxie, Leavenworth County, was born 
 near Indianapolis, Ind., May 12, 1858, a son of 
 David and Malinda (Hodson) White, natives re- 
 spectively of North Carolina and Indiana. His 
 paternal grandparents were David and Ruth 
 White, and his maternal grandmother was Delilah 
 Hodson, who died May 29, 1875, aged sixty 
 years, four months and twenty-three days. Our 
 subject's father was born May 10, 1832, and in 
 childhood accompanied his mother to Indiana, 
 where he grew to manhood on a farm. He fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits in Indiana until 1866, 
 when he brought his family to Kansas and pur- 
 chased a farm near Tonganoxie. From that time 
 he was identified with farming interests of this lo- 
 cality. He was a believer in Republican principles 
 and on that ticket was elected to numerous town- 
 ship offices. In 1854 he married Miss Hodson, 
 
 who, like himself, was a member of the Quaker 
 Church. She died May 24, 1874, and he passed 
 away June 24, 1898. 
 
 The oldest daughter of David and Malinda 
 White is Cynthia, born at Plainfield, Ind., Oc- 
 tober 11, 1855. She was about eleven years of 
 age when the family moved from there to Kansas. 
 April 12, 1878, she was married to Robert L. 
 White, also from Indiana, who though bearing 
 the same family name was not related. They 
 have lived on a farm almost all of the time since 
 their marriage and now reside two miles south of 
 Tonganoxie. They have four sons and one 
 daughter: Truman, nineteen years old; Alonzo, 
 seventeen; Mae, fourteen; Ora, twelve; and 
 Leonard, five. 
 
 The second daughter of David White, Del- 
 phina, was born August 10, i860. She was 
 married October 10, 1883, to Rees Cadwallader, 
 of Cadiz, Ind. They now reside in Tonganoxie, 
 where he is engaged in the undertaking business. 
 They have four children, namely: Leta, twelve 
 years of age; Izola, nine; Irena, six; and David, 
 two. Eva White was born July 19, 1863. Nora 
 E. White, born November 10, 1866, was married 
 March 4, 1892, to George Russell and they live 
 on a farm three miles northwest of Tonganoxie. 
 They are the parents of three children, viz.: 
 Eryin T. , born January 30, 1893; Rachel V., 
 August 9, 1894; and Neola, August 25, 1898. 
 Willie L- White was born in 1869 and died on 
 Christmas day of 1874. Almina White, born on 
 Christmas day of 1873, became the wife of Fred 
 Mark June 12, 1896, and they reside on a farm 
 five miles north of Tonganoxie. They have two 
 children, Ray, three years of age, and Stella, one 
 year old. 
 
 At the time the family came to Leavenworth 
 County our subject was about nine years of age. 
 He continued at home, assisting his father in the 
 cultivation of the farm. Upon the death of his 
 father he was made administrator of the estate, 
 which he is now settling. Being the only living 
 son, he has succeeded to the management of the 
 homestead and is maintaining it at the high stan- 
 dard of cultivation to which it was brought by 
 his father. Besides a one-fifth interest in this 
 
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 place he has other laud, owning one hundred 
 and sixt}' acres, half of which he cultivates, and 
 the other half rents. He is a capable j^oung man, 
 and is managing the estate in a manner satisfactory 
 to all concerned. Like his father he is energetic 
 and possesses keen judgment and sound common 
 sense. Like him, too, he is of a quiet, retiring 
 disposition, little inclined to mingle in public 
 affairs or seek public positions of prominence. 
 In this locality, where almost his entire life has 
 been passed, he has many warm friends, and oc- 
 cupies a high position socially. 
 
 VyiAJ. LEVI PEMBROKE MASON, de- 
 Y ceased, was born in Penfield, N. Y., April 
 is 12, 1833, a son of Jarvis G. and Nancy 
 (Pierce) Mason, who lived upon a farm in that 
 state. When he was a child his parents moved to 
 Michigan, settling in Romeo, Macomb Count}', 
 and there he was a pupil in the common schools. 
 From an early age it was his ambition to become an 
 attorney. As soon as po.ssible he began the study 
 of law, and in due time was admitted to the bar. 
 He then went to Missouri an opened an office in 
 Caledonia. At the opening of the war he enlisted 
 in Company I, Twelfth Missouri Cavalry, which 
 he assisted in raising in August, 1861, and in 
 which he served for six months. At the expir- 
 ation of his time, in March, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company H, Twelfth Missoari Regiment, in 
 which he continued for two and one-half years. 
 In October, 1864, he was transferred to Company 
 I, Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, and was com- 
 missioned second lieutenant at Denver, Colo., in 
 December, 1865. He was honorably discharged 
 at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., July 3, 1866. 
 
 Coming to Lawrence immediately after his 
 discharge from the army. Major Mason continued 
 to make this place his home until he died. In 
 Masonry he was for years a prominent figure. 
 He was a charter member of Valley Lodge No. 
 30, A. F. &A. M., of which he was master in 
 1867, 1868 and 1869; treasurer in 1870, 1871, 
 1872 and 1873; senior warden in 1874, and master 
 in 1875. In 1875 he became a member of Law- 
 rence Lodge No. 6, of which he was master in 
 
 1879, and from which he was demitted April 11, 
 1 88 1. He was a charter member of the defunct 
 Valley Lodge No. 30, of which he was ma.ster in 
 188 1, secretary in 1882 and tyler in 1883. He 
 was assistant lecturer in 1874, 1882 and 1883, 
 and custodian from 1874 to 1881 inclusive. He 
 was al.so connected with the chapter and Knights 
 Templar. In the organization of the Indepen- 
 dent Order of Odd Fellows he took an active part, 
 and was one of the officials of the lodge in Law- 
 rence. In politics he was a Republican. He was 
 a well-educated man, with literary tastes and high 
 culture, and his death, January 6, 1885, was 
 mourned by his many friends whose respect he 
 had won by his upright life and noble principles. 
 
 i yiRS. EMELIE H. MASON, the widow of 
 y Maj. L. P. Mason, is a member of an old 
 (9 and well-known eastern family. Her father, 
 Cyrus Anson Robinson, who was a son of Jona- 
 than Robinson and a brother of ex-Governor 
 Robinson of Kansas, was born in Hardwick, 
 Mass. , and in early life followed the occupations 
 of farmer and builder. At the time of the dis- 
 covery of gold in California he and his brother 
 started for the west, crossing the plains to the 
 Pacific coast. Unfortunately he became sepa- 
 rated from his brother, who was a successful phy- 
 sician, and falling sick with the cholera he had 
 no medical attention, and died November 12, 
 1850, in Sacramento, where he was buried. At 
 the time of his death he was thirty-four years 
 of age. Had his life been spared, he would prob- 
 ably have attained an eminence equal to that 
 reached by his brother, for he was a man of 
 great ability, a stanch advocate of anti-slavery 
 and possessed the determination and force of 
 character that bring success. 
 
 The mother of Mrs. Mason bore the maiden 
 name of Jane Ann Mandell, and was born in 
 Barry, Mass., May 28, 182 1, a daughter of Mason 
 and Luthera (Gorham) Mandell, and a grand- 
 daughter of Moses and Abigail (Mason) Mandell. 
 At the opening of the Revolutionary war, Moses 
 Mandell enlisted in the continental army and was 
 made aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law, Major- 
 
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 General Warner. At the alarm of L,exington 
 he hastened to the protection of that town. While 
 he was serving in the battle ofBrandywine he found 
 a gun unmounted because the men had all been 
 shot down. He at once dismounted and served 
 alone at the gun. He was known as Major 
 Mandell. 
 
 In November, 1867, Mrs. Robinson came to 
 Lawrence, Kans., accompanied by her two daugh- 
 ters, Emelie H. and Mary Lawton. She con- 
 tinued to make her home in this city until her 
 death, which occurred March 3, 1899. Eight 
 days later her younger daughter passed from 
 earth, leaving Mrs. Mason the 'only representa- 
 tive of the family. Her sister was a very cul- 
 tured woman, and took a prominent part in the 
 work of the Daughters of the Revolution, also 
 in the Republican Club of Kansas. The educa- 
 tional advantages enjoyed by Mrs. Mason were 
 such as to qualify her for successful work as a 
 teacher, which profession she followed for five 
 years in Massachusetts and for two years in Law- 
 rence. In this city, May 29, 1870, she became 
 the wife of Major Mason, whose faithful help- 
 mate she remained until his death fifteen years 
 later, and since that time she has devoted herself 
 to the education and training of her three sons. 
 The eldest of these sons, Myron Robinson Mason, 
 graduated from the University of Kansas in 1896 
 with the degree of Ph.G., and is now hospital 
 steward in the marine hospital at Portland, Me. 
 The second son, Ernest Gladden Mason, is agent 
 for the Santa Fe road at Burden, Kans. The 
 youngest, Lynne Emerson Mason, is studying 
 electrical engineering in the University of Kansas. 
 
 r^IUS H. BAUER, of Leavenworth, was born 
 L^ in this city July 9, 1861, a son of Sebastian 
 1^ and Annie (McHale) Bauer. His father, 
 who was a native of Germany, emigrated to 
 America in early life and has since made his home 
 in Leavenworth. During his residence in Ger- 
 many he followed the rope-maker's trade, but 
 since coming to Kansas he has engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits, and is now the proprietor of a 
 grocery on Shawnee street. Of three children. 
 
 the subject of this sketch is the eldest. He was 
 educated in private schools in Leavenworth and 
 when very young began to be interested in pho- 
 tography, with which business he has since been 
 identified. When twenty years of age he began 
 in business on his own account, since which time 
 he has steadily striven to learn all the improve- 
 ments made in the science and keep in touch 
 with its developments. Beginning on a small 
 scale, he was greatly hampered in getting a start, 
 but worked earnestly and with determination, and 
 put all the money he could spare into the latest 
 appliances. He finally overcame all the obsta- 
 cles with which he had to contend and earned 
 a reputation for excellence of work. By artistic 
 posing of subjects and by the fine finish of 
 photographs, he won the admiration of his cus- 
 tomers. As a result of his energy and persever- 
 ance he has gained a reputation as an artist sec- 
 ond to none in the city. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Bauer made a display of his work 
 at the meeting of the Photographers' Association 
 of America. There, in competition with the finest 
 artists in his line from all parts of the country, 
 he was awarded the first medal in the class in 
 which he exhibited. At the convention of 1898 
 of the same association (which is the only na- 
 tional organization of photographers) he was 
 awarded the medals in two different classes. In 
 competition, in 1897 and 1898, at the meeting of 
 the Photographers' Association of Kansas, he 
 was also awarded medals. In July, 1899, the 
 Photographers' Association of America awarded 
 him two medals, first prizes on two entries. His 
 work has stood the test of comparison , both with 
 the best of its kind in the state, and also with 
 the exhibits at the national meetings, where the 
 judges are experts. He makes a specialtj' of 
 genre work, in series of character pictures. Be- 
 sides his exhibits at conventions, he has also had 
 displays at various fairs, and has always received 
 premium or high commendation. 
 
 Interested in fraternal organizations, Mr. Bauer 
 has joined the Improved Order of Red Men, 
 Maccabees, Foresters of America (of which he 
 was secretary for some time), Knights of Pythias 
 and National Union, and has held the chairs in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mostofthem. In 1890 he married Miss Virginia 
 Cook, of Kickapoo, Kans. Of their three chil- 
 dren, two are living, Virginia and Ruth. Mr. 
 Bauer has recently purchased a home at No. 214 
 North Broadway, where he now resides. 
 
 (TOHN McCURRY, who is one of the pioneers 
 I of Franklin County, is engaged in farming 
 (2/ and stock-raising on section 13, Ottawa Town- 
 ship. He was born in Montgomery' County, 111., 
 June 9, 1839, a few months after the death of his 
 father, John McCurrj', Sr. ,a native of Indiana. 
 He grew to manhood on a farm and received a 
 common-school education. While he was en- 
 gaged in farming the Civil war broke out, and at 
 the first call for volunteers he determined to en- 
 list. April 19, 1861, his name was enrolled in 
 the Union army and he was ordered to Spring- 
 field, 111., where, however, he was rejected. 
 Later, he met with better success. August 12, 
 1862, he was as.signed to Company L, Third Illi- 
 nois Cavalry. With his regiment he took part in 
 the battles of Arkansas Post, and those around 
 Vicksburg, Champion Hill and Black River. In 
 a cavalry skirmish in Louisiana he was shot 
 through the ankle and fell into the hands of the 
 enemy, but was recaptured by his own forces the 
 same daj'. His wound proved to be a serious 
 one, and pieces of the bone were taken out at 
 various times during the following year. He 
 was honorably discharged May 23, 1865. 
 
 In August, 1865, Mr. McCurry came to Kan- 
 sas and bought eighty acres of bare prairie land 
 in Ottawa Township, Franklin Countj'. He put 
 up the first shanty and broke the first land in his 
 neighborhood. With another man he "bached" 
 for some time, and often, for weeks at a time, 
 they were without even a glimpse of any white 
 men but themselves. His most difficult task was 
 the securing of a start, but at last he found him- 
 self making satisfactory progress. By subsequent 
 purchase he has become the owner of two hun- 
 dred acres. All of the trees on the farm were 
 set out by him, and the shade trees surrounding 
 the house were raised from the seed. At one 
 time he had a large number of stock, but now he 
 
 has only about twenty head of cows, and sells the 
 milk to the creamery. Though he has accumu- 
 lated a competency that would enable him to live 
 comfortably in retirement, he prefers to be busj', 
 and has no desire to give up the activities of life. 
 The Republican party has the stanch support 
 of Mr. McCurry. For twenty years or more he 
 has sen'ed as clerk of the school board and he 
 has also filled the offices of township clerk and 
 trustee. By membership in the Grand Armj' of 
 the Republic he keeps in touch with the veterans 
 of the Civil war. In religion he is connected 
 with the Congregational Church. His marriage, 
 February 7, 1867, united him with Eunice M. 
 Seward, who was born in Albany County, N. Y., 
 the daughter of John and Harriett (Painter) 
 Seward. Her parents moved to Montgom- 
 ery County, 111., when she was a child, but 
 at the time of her marriage she was living in 
 Franklin County, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. McCurry 
 have three children: George G., who married 
 Jennie Diven and farms a part of the homestead ; 
 Nettie D., at home; and Fannie E., wife of Willis 
 Rodgers, a farmer in the northwestern part of 
 Ottawa Township. 
 
 HENRY G. BREESE is the owner of a large 
 farm in Reno Township. In 1883 he re- 
 moved from Illinois to Kansas and bought 
 the Burr Oak farm in Leavenworth County. 
 Upon this place, which consists of four hundred 
 and eightj' acres, he has since engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising. In the stock business 
 his specialty has been Poland-China hogs, but he 
 has also been interested in feeding cattle. On 
 his farm he has a large orchard, planted to the 
 various varieties of fruit trees, and he has found 
 horticulture a valuable adjunct to general farming. 
 The Breese family came from Holland to New 
 York state in colonial days. Maj. Henry G. 
 Breese, our subject's father, was born near Hoo- 
 sick, N. Y., and during the war of 1812 he 
 served in the American army, receiving a com- 
 mission as major in recognition of his bravery. 
 He remained a resident of New York state until 
 1863, when he moved to Greenville, Mich., and 
 
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 there the remainder of his life was spent. His 
 principal occupation was that of mechanical en- 
 gineering, and he had many important contracts 
 from states and counties for the building of 
 bridges. In politics he was a Democrat. He 
 married Lana Martin, who died in New York at 
 forty years of age. They were the parents of 
 five children, four of whom are living, two, 
 Henry G. and DeWitt C, being residents of 
 Reno Township. 
 
 In Washington County, N. Y., where he was 
 born December 7, 1824, the subject of this sketch 
 received such advantages as the schools of his 
 neighborhood afforded. In 1847 he settled in 
 Fulton County, 111., where he engaged in car- 
 pentering and farming. From there, in 1852, he 
 removed to Marshall County, 111., where he 
 owned and operated a farm for many years. He 
 continued to reside in that county until his re- 
 moval to Kansas. The principles of the Repub- 
 lican party have received his .support and he has 
 been actively identified with local politics. 
 Through his service upon the school board he has 
 been instrumental in promoting the welfare of 
 the local schools. He and his family are members 
 of the German Baptist Church, in the work of 
 which he has been warmly interested. March 31, 
 1 858, he married Mar}^ daughter of John Phenicie, 
 of Leavenworth County. The children born of 
 their union are named as follows: Charles E. ; 
 Joseph P.; John H.; Frank S.; Eva A., who is 
 the wife of Henry W. Benton; Emma J., who 
 married A. W. Scott; and Hattie B., who is with 
 her parents. 
 
 "HOMAS McFARLAND. Having resided 
 in the Kaw Valley since 1864, Mr. McFar- 
 land is familiar with its progress and has 
 contributed his quota to the development of its 
 resources. On settling here he purchased forty 
 acres of Shawnee land in Eudora Township, 
 Douglas County, and has since added to it until he 
 now owns two hundred and twenty acres. Upon 
 this place he has since resided, engaged in raising 
 stock (with a specialty of hogs) and also in rais- 
 ing such farm products as best suit the soil. He 
 was one of the organizers of school district 
 
 No. 12, of which he has since served as a direc- 
 tor. In politics he votes with the Republicans. 
 During the Civil war he served for ninety days 
 as a member of the home guard, which helped to 
 drive Price out of Kansas. Both in times of 
 peace and war he has done his part to preserve 
 the honor of Kansas and enlarge its influence in 
 the west. 
 
 Robert McFarland, our subject's great-grand- 
 father, came from Scotland and settled in eastern 
 Pennsylvania, but later moved to Indiana Coun- 
 ty, the same state. Crossing the ocean prior to 
 the Revolutionary war, when he was a young 
 man, he was one of the pioneers of his part of 
 Pennsylvania, and became an exten.sive miller 
 and farmer, owning several hundred acres of land 
 which he took up from the government. His 
 grandson, Robert, Jr., was born in Indiana 
 County, where he engaged in farming in early 
 and middle life. The year 1854 found him in 
 Kansas City, Mo., but he remained there six 
 months only. In September of the same year he 
 came to Kansas and settled near old Franklin, 
 where he entered and improved eighty acres of 
 government land. Selling the property in 1861, 
 he moved to Tonganoxie Township, Leavenworth 
 County, where he purchased three hundred acres 
 and engaged in farming during the remainder of 
 his life, meeting with fair success. As a Repub- 
 lican he was active in politics, and for two terms 
 he served as township trustee. Before Kansas 
 was admitted to the union he served in the terri- 
 torial legislature and, with the other members of 
 the house, was arrested at the time of the Big 
 Springs constitutional convention. He was a 
 stanch advocate of the abolition of slavery and 
 the admission of Kansas as a free state, and never 
 hesitated, whatever his surroundings, to express 
 his opinions boldly. He died in 1886, when sev- 
 enty-three years of age. 
 
 The marriage of Robert McFarland, Jr., united 
 him with Rosanna, daughter of Abram Lowman, 
 of Indiana County, Pa., the latter being a soldier 
 in the war of 18 12, and by occupation a farmer 
 and also a tanner. She died at the old home- 
 stead in Leavenworth County in 1884, when 
 seventy years of age. Of her eleven children only 
 
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 two are now living, Thomas and Winfield Scott, 
 the latter living in Leavenworth County. The 
 former, who is the subject of this sketch, was 
 born in Indiana County, Pa., December 25, 1833, 
 and in boyhood attended common schools. At 
 the age of nineteen he accompanied his parents 
 to Kansas and .settled with them near Franklin. 
 In 1864 he came from there to his present loca- 
 tion in the Kaw Valley. June 16, 1863, he mar- 
 ried Nancy J. Garven, who was a daughter of 
 Thomas and Mary Garven, the former of Scotch 
 and the latter of Irish descent. Mrs. McFarland 
 was born in Illinois, and has two sons: William 
 G., who a.ssists in the cultivation of the home 
 farm; and Fred, deceased. William G. married 
 Rertha Van Tries, and they have two children 
 living, Bernice and Paul. The family is connected 
 with the Methodist Episcopal Church and con- 
 tributes to its maintenance. 
 
 NGN. T. G. V. BOLING, M. D., deceased, 
 was born in Holmes County, Ohio, the son 
 of a pioneer farmer of that section of the 
 state. His education was thorough and prepared 
 him for the successful practice of the medical pro- 
 fession. After having graduated from the Cleve- 
 land Medical College he opened an office in 
 Holmes County and there became a well-known 
 physician and surgeon. During the Civil war he 
 acted as examining surgeon of those who had 
 been drafted into the service. Coming west, in 
 1865, he settled in Leavenworth, but soon re- 
 moved to a farm in High Prairie Township. 
 When the Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwest- 
 ern Railroad was built through the county, a sta- 
 tion was established near his farm and was named 
 Boling, in his honor. In connection with the 
 management of his property he continued medical 
 practice. He became influential in public affairs. 
 The high standing which he had attained among 
 his fellow-citizens made him an excellent candi- 
 date for his party to select for positions of trust. 
 He accepted a nomination for the state senate in 
 1884 and was elected to that body. In the re- 
 sponsible position to which he was called he 
 maintained the reputation for honestj' and ability 
 
 he had previously established. His service was 
 such as to reflect credit upon himself and give 
 satisfaction to his constituents. On his retire- 
 me!it from office he resumed professional and ag- 
 ricultural duties, and in these he continued until 
 his death in June, 1893. His body was interred 
 in a cemetery near his home in High Prairie 
 Township. 
 
 Dr. Boling married Mary F. Long, who was 
 born in Ohio and died in Kansas in 1871. Of 
 their three children, only one is now living, 
 Robert L. Boling, M. D. Mrs. Boling was a 
 daughter of Robert Long, a native of Fayette 
 County, Pa., and of Scotch-Irish descent. An 
 early settler of Ohio, he there built and operated 
 a mill, also engaged in the mercantile business, 
 and later became the head of the Long & Brown 
 Banking Compan}^, at Millersburg, Ohio. On 
 withdrawing from that concern he established 
 the Commercial Bank of Millersburg, of which 
 he was president and sole proprietor, and which 
 is now conducted by a son-in-law and wife. 
 
 ROBERT L. BOLING, M. D., of Leaven- 
 worth, one of the rising young physicians of 
 this citjr, was born at Boling Station, Leav- 
 enworth County, Februarj^ i, 1867, and is the 
 son of Hon. T. G. V. Boling, M. D., late of this 
 county. In youth he was given good educational 
 advantages, both in the common schools and the 
 Lawrence Business College. His rudimentary 
 knowledge of the medical profession he obtained 
 under the preceptorship of his father. In 1894 
 he matriculated in the University Medical Col- 
 lege, of Kansas City, Mo., from which he grad- 
 uated in 1897, with the degree of M. D. On his 
 return to Leavenworth he opened an office for 
 general practice and has since devoted himself to 
 professional work. He holds the position of 
 treasurer in the Leavenworth Hospital Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 In fraternal organizations Dr. Boling is promi- 
 nent and influential. He is past chancellor of 
 Ivanhoe Lodge No. 14, K. of P., and assistant 
 surgeon (with the rank of captain) in the First 
 Regiment of Kansas, U. R. In Masonry he is 
 
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 also active, being a member of King Solomon 
 Lodge No. ID, A. F. & A. M., and Topeka Con- 
 sistory, Scottish Rite. While he has never taken 
 a prominent part in politics, yet he is firm in his 
 convictions upon all matters pertaining to the na- 
 tional progress or local prosperity, and he sup- 
 ports Republican principles. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Boling took place in High 
 Prairie Township and united him with Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Zina A. Mason, who was born, in 
 Ohio, and during territorial days migrated to 
 Kansas, settling in High Prairie Town.ship, 
 Leavenworth County, where she was born. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he was a lieutenant in a Kansas 
 regiment, which took a very active part in driv- 
 ing Price out of the state. 
 
 ©AMUEL COCHRAN. The life and charac- 
 vA ter of Mr. Cochran, for years inseparably 
 VjJ/ associated with the history of Leavenworth, 
 left an impress upon the business interests and 
 the religious standing of his city. He was a man 
 whose principles of honor were the highest and 
 whose reputation remained untarnished through- 
 out a long, active and successful career. Relig- 
 ion formed the keynote of his life. He was a 
 member of the old Covenanter Presbyterian 
 Church, and took a deep interest in the various 
 institutions supported by his denomination at 
 home and abroad. In common with the mem- 
 bership of that church he was strict in the ob- 
 servance of the doctrines and forms of religion. 
 Especially was he careful in the observance of 
 the Sabbath day and carried out in his life the 
 command, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep 
 it holy." No stress of business and no offered 
 social relaxation ever tempted him to do the 
 least thing not in strictest accord with the tenets 
 of his faith. He was a daily reader and student 
 of the Bible. While firm in his doctrinal belief, 
 he was not narrow, but admired a man for his 
 own merits, even if differing from him in religious 
 views. 
 
 In the north of Ireland Mr. Cochran was born 
 February i, 1829. He came to America in boy- 
 hood with his brother, William, following their 
 
 older brother, John, who had come to the United 
 States a few years before. He apprenticed him- 
 self to the carpenter's trade in New York City, 
 where he remained for some years. His brother, 
 John, had established a business at Enterprise, 
 Miss., and in 1843 he joined him and was inter- 
 ested in a department store for twelve years. 
 Later he engaged in the grain business for him- 
 self in St. Louis. From there he came to the 
 new town of Leavenworth, of which he was one 
 of the first settlers, finding the place a small 
 hamlet, overgrown with brush and destitute of 
 sidewalks. He opened a grocery on the corner 
 of Third and Shawnee streets in a building that 
 is still standing. Here he built up a profitable 
 business. After a few years he decided to en- 
 gage in the wholesale grocery business, so dis- 
 posed of the retail store, and, with a partner, 
 started under the firm name of Cochran & Bitt- 
 man. Later O. B. Taylor was taken into the 
 firm. This partnership was continued until 1878, 
 when Mr. Cochran sold out his interest and or- 
 ganized the wholesale grocery firm of Cochran, 
 Carroll & Beckham at Kansas City. After sev- 
 eral years of successful business there he retired 
 from that line of business and invested in Kansas 
 City real estate, continuing interested in property 
 matters up to the time of his death, which oc- 
 curred November 24, 1889. For several years 
 he was president of the German Savings Bank in 
 Leavenworth. 
 
 His summers for three years prior to his death 
 Mr. Cochran spent in Los Angeles, Cal., where 
 he was interested in property and had planned to 
 establish his home. His last day on earth was 
 spent in looking after and settling up with some 
 workmen who had been repairing a bank build- 
 ing in Kansas City. On his return home he had 
 a six o'clock dinner and retired in his usual 
 health. At four o'clock the next morning his 
 spirit took its flight. Many instances of his char- 
 ity are known, but the greater part of his kindly 
 deeds were never known except to the recipient, 
 as he abhorred any show or ostentation, and what 
 he gave was never alluded to by himself. He 
 was much more disposed to help the poor per- 
 sonally than through the medium of organized 
 
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 charities, believing the relief would be more effec- 
 tive and prompt. Many deserving young men 
 received aid from him. His own relatives, too, 
 were the recipients of his bounty. Upon the 
 death of his brother, William, he assisted the lat- 
 ter's children, whom he helped to rear and edu- 
 cate. One of them, William, is now in New York 
 City, John K. lives in Leavenworth, and Marga- 
 ret is a teacher in the Leavenworth schools. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Cochran united him with 
 Miss Nettie Wilson, who was born in Westfield 
 (near Buffalo), N. Y. , where she was reared and 
 educated. She is a cultured lady and was for 
 some years a member of the Art League, the Or- 
 phan Asylum board and connected with other 
 charities; but upon the death of her husband, it 
 required so much of her time to attend to the 
 settlement of the estate that she was obliged to 
 relinquish outside matters. She is a member of 
 the First Presbyterian Church and a liberal con- 
 tributor to religious and charitable work. 
 
 30HN M. Mccormick, m. d., who for 
 years has been successfully engaged in the 
 practice of medicine in Leavenworth, was 
 born on a farm lying on the banks of the Susque- 
 hanna River in Pennsylvania, near the city of Lock- 
 haven. His father, Robert, a native of the same 
 place, spent his entire life on the home farm, and 
 in addition to the management of the estate took 
 an active part in local affairs. In politics he was a 
 Whig and on that ticket was elected county com- 
 missioner. His religious faith was in sympathy 
 with the Presbyterian Church. He died when 
 sixty-five years of age. The farm where he lived 
 had been entered by his father, John McCormick, 
 a native of the north of Ireland, but from sixteen 
 years of age a resident of Pennsylvania, where he 
 took up land from the government, cleared a 
 farm, and there .spent the remainder of his life. 
 
 When a boy Dr. McCormick attended the pub- 
 lic school and an academy in Lockhaven. At 
 twenty years of age he began to read medicine 
 with Dr. A. B. Massey, of that city, under whose 
 supervision he gained a rudimentary knowledge 
 of the profession. Afterward for three years he 
 
 was a student in Jefferson Medical College of 
 Philadelphia, from which he graduated. Begin- 
 ning practice in Lycoming County, Pa. , he, how- 
 ever, soon returned to Lockhaven, and there 
 practiced for several years. Next he went to 
 California, stopping for a short time in Cuba 
 while en route to the west. He located in Ne- 
 vada City, opened an office there and engaged 
 in practice. He also owned mining interests in 
 California. In both mining and professional 
 work he was successful. On his return east 
 he practiced for a time in partnership with Dr. 
 Lichtenthaler, of Lockhaven, but in 1862, when 
 the latter resigned his commission as surgeon in 
 the army, Dr. McCormick determined to come to 
 Kansas. During that year he settled in Leaven- 
 worth, where he has since been in continuous 
 practice. For a time in the Civil war he filled a 
 vacancy as surgeon and also acted as .surgeon for 
 the volunteers in Leavenworth. His practice is 
 general and he has gained an enviable reputation 
 for skill in his profession. He is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church and in politics ca.sts his vote 
 with the Republicans, whose party principles he 
 upholds. 
 
 In 1864 Dr. McCormick married Mi.ss Anna 
 P. Massey, of Lockhaven, a daughter of Dr. A. B. 
 Massey. 
 
 Dr. McCormick has had the benefit of travel 
 through many parts of the western continent. 
 Several years ago, while on a tour through the 
 Spanish-American countries, including the West 
 Indies, he visited many points of great historic 
 interest, among them the tomb of Christopher 
 Columbus. He has also had a great and varied 
 experience as a surgeon, in which he has met 
 with almost unbounded success, frequently saving 
 members of the human body in cases where most 
 surgeons would unhesitatingly have resorted to 
 amputation. His disposition is of the kindest, 
 and his cheerful presence in the sick room has 
 frequently resulted in as great benefit to the 
 sufferer as the medicine administered. 
 
 In the possession of Dr. McCormick is a collec- 
 tion of curios well calculated to excite the interest 
 of all who are privileged to view them. Many of 
 these have been obtained from time to time in the 
 
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 course of his long and varied career as a prac- 
 titioner, and all are highly prized by this eminent 
 pioneer physician and surgeon. 
 
 (TOHN BOLLIN. Having been born and 
 I reared on the farm where he now lives, Mr. 
 (2/ Bollin is familiar with this section of country 
 and has witnessed the changes made here during 
 the past thirty or more years. Since he pur- 
 chased the old homestead from the other heirs 
 he has given its cultivation and improvement the 
 closest attention, and by industry and intelligence 
 has increased its value. Tlje property consists 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, situated on sec- 
 tion 29, Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth 
 County. Through careful selection of seed to be 
 planted, and through a judicious rotation of crops, 
 the best results have been secured in the cultiva- 
 tion of the land. All of the cereals are raised, 
 but a specialty is made of wheat and corn. In 
 addition to general farming he engages in stock- 
 raising, and owns a number of Poland-China 
 hogs and jacks, also cattle and horses. He is a 
 progressive farmer, and avails himself of every 
 opportunity for promoting the interests of his 
 farm and increasing the returns therefrom. 
 At the same time he does not neglect his duty 
 as a citizen, but supports measures calculated 
 to benefit the people of his community, and 
 has been especially active in his advocacy of a 
 system of good roads, realizing that nothing so 
 enhances the prosperity of a community as the 
 excellent condition of its roads. In politics he is 
 a Democrat and frequeutly attends the conven- 
 tions of his party. 
 
 Born December 29, 1862, Mr. Bollin is a son 
 of Jerome and Jacobine (Schultheis) Bollin, both 
 natives of Germany, who emigated to America 
 and settled in Weston, Mo., thence came to Kan- 
 sas in i860. From that time they made their 
 home on a farm one-half mile west of Kickapoo, 
 where their father engaged in grain and stock 
 farming. A leading Democrat of his vicinity, he 
 served as township treasurer and in other local 
 positions of trust. In religion he was a Roman 
 Catholic. His death occurred in 1873. when he 
 
 was forty-five years of age. By his marriage to 
 Jacobine Schultheis he had six children, of whom 
 four are living: Mrs. Mary Klasinski; Josephine, 
 .wife of J. A. Aaron; Lucy, Mrs. Michael Molloy; 
 and John. Mrs. Bollin is still living and makes 
 her home with Mrs. Molloy, in Kickapoo. 
 
 The marriage of our subject took place Novem- 
 ber 14, 1888, and united him with Clara Aaron, 
 daughter of John Aaron, of Leavenworth. They 
 have five children, viz.: John J., Aloysius R., 
 Frank J., Clara H. and George A. The family 
 are members of the Kickapoo Catholic Church, 
 and Mr. Bollin is active in the work of the Cath- 
 olic Mutual Benefit Association, being a promi- 
 nent worker in the local lodge, in which he has 
 filled the ofiices of president and recording secre- 
 tary. Fraternally he is connected with the Mod- 
 ern Woodmen of America. 
 
 EAPT. EDWARD MUNK, proprietor of the 
 Lawrence Roofing Company's business in 
 Lawrence, was born on Kirkland Flats, near 
 Cleveland, Ohio, in 1836, a son of Edward and 
 Sarah (Baker) Munk. His father, who was born 
 eighteen miles from London, England, was a 
 teamster for a large land owner there. After his 
 marriage he came to America and settled in 
 Ohio, but about 1842 removed to Illinois, settling 
 upon an unimproved tract in DuPage County, 
 from which he improved a fine farm. On selling 
 his land he retired from business cares and estab- 
 lished his home in Nunda, 111., where he died. 
 He was a member of the Christian Church and a 
 contributor to its enterprises. His wife was born 
 near London and died in Batavia, 111., in 1897. 
 They were the parents often children, who grew 
 to manhood and womanhood, of whom Edward 
 was the oldest son and third child. One of the 
 sons, Joseph, who was a lieutenant in the Union 
 army, died at Little Rock, Ark. Another son, 
 James C, was a member of the One Hundred and 
 Fifth Illinois Infantry and was killed at Resaca. 
 Six of the family are now living, viz.: Mrs. Jen- 
 nings, of Lawrence; Betsey and Sarah, in Illinois; 
 Lewis B. , who lives in Republic County, Kans. ; 
 Susan, of Illinois; and Edward. 
 
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 From the age of six years Captain Munk was 
 reared in Illinois, where he attended public school 
 and Warrenville Seminary. He worked on a 
 farm until nineteen years of age, after which he 
 learned the carpenter's trade and later followed the 
 millwright's trade in Illinois, Kentucky, Ten- 
 nessee and Mississippi. When the war broke 
 out he was working in the south, where he was 
 building a house under contract. He attempted 
 to finish the job, but finding it impossible, he 
 left, although by so doing he lost considerable 
 money. He went to St. lyOuis on the steamer 
 "Silver Moon," and from there proceeded home. 
 In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, 
 One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry, and 
 was mustered in at Dixon, after which he was or- 
 dered to Gallatin, Tenn. He held the commis- 
 sion of first sergeant for a time and in 1863 was 
 commissioned captain in the Fourteenth United 
 States Colored Troops, which were detailed at 
 Chattanooga. After the battle of Resaca he took 
 his brother's body back to Illinois for burial. 
 Later he was at Knoxville and Nashville, where 
 five holes were shot through his coat and where 
 Hood's army was demoralized. He followed 
 Hood and assisted in driving him out of the 
 country, after which he fought guerillas. In the 
 summer of 1865 he" was mustered out at Nash- 
 ville. 
 
 On returning home Captain Munk became 
 master mechanic in Holliday's windmill works 
 at Batavia. In 1871 he came to Kansas and for 
 a year worked as a carpenter in Lawrence, after 
 which he was for twenty-one years master me- 
 chanic and millwright in the Douglas County 
 flour mill. As superintendent he had charge of 
 the building of the dam from the first cribs, a 
 work for which he is entitled to great praise. In 
 March, 1896, he resigned his position and started 
 the Lawrence Roofing Company, which takes 
 contracts for roofs, and al.so does some building. 
 The shop is on West Henry street. He was 
 married in DuPage County to Miss Addie Ger- 
 maine, who was born in Vermont, but at an early 
 age settled on a farm in Illinois. Both he and his 
 wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He is connected with Washington Post 
 
 No. 12, G. A. R., and the One Hundred and 
 Fifth Illinois Veterans' Association. In politics 
 he is a true-blue Republican. On that ticket 
 he was elected to represent the first ward in the 
 city council, and during his term of two j^ears 
 served as chairman of the committee on streets, 
 alleys and bridges. During his residence in 
 Illinois he was active in Masonrj-, but has since 
 been demitted. 
 
 HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN. Though many 
 years have passed since the death of Mr. 
 Calhoun his prominence in public life was 
 such that he still lives in the annals of our coun- 
 try. He was born in Boston, Mass., October 14, 
 1806, and settled in the Mohawk Valley in New 
 York during 1821. After completing his studies 
 at the Canajoharie Academy he studied law and 
 was admitted to the bar. In 1830 he established 
 his home in Springfield, 111., and after serving in 
 the Black Hawk war taught school for a time, 
 then took up engineering and surveying, and was 
 appointed surveyor of Sangamon County. His 
 fitness for positions of trust led to his selection for 
 numerous posts within the gift of his fellow-citi- 
 zens. In 1838 he was elected to the legislature 
 on the Democratic ticket, and two years later he 
 was clerk of the house. In 1842 he was elected 
 circuit clerk and two years afterward served as 
 Democratic presidential elector. In 1 846 he was 
 a candidate for governor of Illinois before the 
 Democratic state convention. From 1849 to 185 1 
 he held the office of mayor of Springfield. In 1852 
 he was a candidate for congress and a presidential 
 elector. Under the administration of President 
 Pierce, in 1854, he was appointed surveyor-gen- 
 eral of Kansas and Nebraska, and afterward held 
 a conspicuous position in western politics, being 
 a Democratic leader. He was president of the 
 Lecompton convention, and served in other posi- 
 tions where executive ability and sound judg- 
 ment were necessary qualifications. 
 
 December 29, 1831, Mr. Calhoun married Miss 
 Sarah Cutter, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 August 24, 1812. She was a daughter of Seth 
 Cutter, who at one time owned large tracts of 
 property in Cincinnati, some of which he leased 
 
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 for one hundred years. In an early day he re- 
 moved to Sangamon County, 111., where he en- 
 gaged in farming and where his daughter, Sarah, 
 was reared. Nine children were born to the 
 union of Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun, of whom the 
 following survive: Elizabeth, Martha, Mary 
 Brayman, James and Seth. The oldest daughter 
 married Henry H. Jackson, who served as major 
 of the Third United States Cavalry in the Spanish 
 war and was breveted lieutenant-colonel for brav- 
 ery on the field of battle at Santiago. He now 
 has command of Fort Meyer, opposite Washing- 
 ton, D. C. The daughters were educated in the 
 Sacred Heart Convent at St. Joseph, Mo., and St. 
 Mary's Academy at Leavenworth, Kans. , and all 
 are cultured ladies and earnest members of the 
 Catholic Church. While the family were living 
 at St. Joseph, Mo., Mr. Calhoun died there Octo- 
 ber 25, 1859. The following year the widow and 
 children removed to Leavenworth, where Mrs. 
 Calhoun died June 10, 1887. 
 
 One of the most interesting chapters in the life 
 of Mr. Calhoun was that pertaining to his con- 
 nection with Abraham Lincoln. He knew this 
 famous man when he was poor and unknown, 
 and recognized in him those magnificent traits 
 that in later years attracted world-wide attention. 
 The two were opposed politically and often met 
 in debates and campaigns, where each main- 
 tained his position with tenacity and skill. In 
 spite of their difference in politics they were 
 stanch friends, and Mr. Lincoln always remem- 
 bered with gratitude Mr. Calhoun's kindness in 
 instructing him in surveying. The history of 
 Abraham Lincoln, published in McClure's Maga- 
 zine in 1896, contains a portrait of Mr. Calhoun 
 and a notice of his timely assistance given Lin- 
 coln, when the latter was without means. It 
 publishes a letter from Frederick Hawn, who 
 married a sister of Mrs. Calhoun, and who wrote, 
 among other things, the following: "It has been 
 related that Calhoun induced Lincoln to study in 
 order to become his deputy. Presuming he was 
 ready to graduate and receive his commission, he 
 called on Calhoun, then living with his father- 
 in-law, Seth R. Cutter, on Upper Lick Creek. 
 After the interview was concluded Mr. Lincoln, 
 
 about to depart, remarked: ' Calhoun, I am en- 
 tirely unable to repay you for your generosity at 
 present. All I have you see on me, except a 
 quarter of a dollar in my pocket. ' This is a family 
 tradition. However, my wife, then a girl of six- 
 teen, says she distinctly remembers this inter- 
 view. After Lincoln had gone, she says she and 
 her sister, Mrs. Calhoun, commenced making 
 jocular remarks about his uncanny appearance 
 in the presence of Mr. Calhoun, to which, in sub- 
 stance, he made this rejoinder: ' For all that, he 
 is no common man.' " 
 
 I O. McINTlRE. During the early settle- 
 I C ment of America John Mclntire, a Scotch- 
 l_2f man, crossed the ocean and settled upon a 
 farm in Lancaster, Pa., but later removed to 
 Wooster, Ohio. His son, Cornelius Mclntire, 
 who was born in Beaver County, Pa., and settled 
 in Wooster, Ohio, engaged in farming during his 
 entire life and died at eighty-four years. Cor- 
 nelius had a son, R. B., who was born and reared 
 in Wooster, and there carried on a grain and gro- 
 cery business, but in 1876 removed to the west, 
 settling in Lyons, Rice County, Kans. Some 
 years later he came to Lawrence and now makes 
 his home at No. 1321 Massachusetts street. He 
 married adaughterof John andTabitha (Thomas) 
 Culbertson, the latter a daughter of William 
 Thomas, who built on his farm the first Presby- 
 terian Church in Wayne County, Ohio. The two 
 sons of R. B. Mclntire are L. O. and H. R., the 
 latter a dry-goods merchant of Newton, Kans. 
 
 After having spent some years in the grammar 
 and high schools of Wooster, at eighteen years of 
 age our subject secured a position as clerk in a 
 store, and during the years that followed he 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the dry-goods 
 business. He remained in his native city, Woos- 
 ter, until he was twenty years of age. He then 
 came to Kansas. In September, 1878, he ar- 
 rived in Lawrence, where he clerked in George 
 Innes' dry-goods store. Mr. Mclntire and J. B. 
 Shearer opened a dry-goods and carpet store 
 at Ottawa, under the firm name of L. O. Mclntire 
 & Co., where they remained from 1880 to 1886. 
 
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 Meantime, in 1883, they started a store in Law- 
 rence under the same firm name, opening a stock 
 of dry goods, carpets and house furnishing goods 
 at No. 919 Massachusetts street. After selling 
 the Ottawa business he gave his entire attention 
 to the store at Lawrence, remaining its manager 
 until he sold his interest, in 1893, and opened a 
 department store in Springfield, Mo. , occupying 
 a four-story building, 50x130. However, the 
 management of the large business demanded such 
 intense application and constant thought that his 
 health broke down beneath the strain, and in 1S96 
 he sold his interest in the business. Afterward, 
 accompanied by his wife, he made a tour of Europe, 
 visiting Great Britain, Germany, France, Swit- 
 zerland, Austria, and Italy as far south as Naples, 
 returning via the Netherlands and England and 
 thence home. The trip occupied nine months of 
 travel and was not only delightful intellectually 
 but beneficial physically. Since his return home 
 he has taken a number of shorter trips, and has 
 spent much of his time in visiting points of his- 
 torical interest in old Mexico, has traveled through 
 the south and into California, where he has en- 
 joyed the benefits of a perfect climate and beautiful 
 scenery. While he is no longer personally en- 
 gaged in business as heretofore, he is by no 
 means retired. He is interested in the Cripple 
 Creek gold district in Colorado, owns considerable 
 property in Excelsior Springs, Mo., as well as 
 large real-estate interests in Lawrence, Kansas 
 City and different parts of Missouri. 
 
 The success which Mr. Mclntire has attained 
 is remarkable when it is considered that he started 
 for himself in Kansas a stranger, with but limited 
 means. He had his own way to make in the 
 world. Possessing a faculty for business, he was 
 so sagacious in his judgment that he was fortu- 
 nate from the first. When he began in Ottawa 
 he had a capital of only $1 ,200, but within three 
 and one-half years he had cleared almost $20,000, 
 a result of energy, determination and wise judg- 
 ment. The stores that he conducted in that city 
 and Lawrence were as large as any either town 
 possessed and were conducted with a keen super- 
 vision and wise oversight characteristic of the 
 owner. In Springfield he started the first large 
 
 department store in the city, with a capital of 
 nearly $125,000, the business being conducted 
 under the firm title of the Mclntire, Grubbs & 
 Anderson Dry Goods Company. 
 
 In Lawrence Mr. Mclntire married Miss Clara 
 E. Shearer, who was born in Prairie City, 111., 
 and reared in Lawrence, receiving an excellent 
 education in the University of Kansas. Her 
 father, Hon. George Shearer, who was the largest 
 real-estate owner in this citj' in early days, en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business here and con- 
 tinued successfully until he was burned out at the 
 time of Quantrell's raid. Later he officiated as 
 president of the Ottawa State Bank until his 
 death. He was one of the original stockholders 
 in the Farmers' State Bank, which was merged 
 into the Merchants' National, and he was also a 
 stockholder in the Lawrence National Bank. His 
 death occurred in this city January 4, 1890. 
 
 For many years Mr. Mclntire served as a trus- 
 tee in the Presbyterian Church, and at this 
 writing he is serving as deacon. At the time of 
 the building of a new house of worship he served 
 as chairman of the building committee having 
 charge of the same, and he laid the corner stone 
 of the new church July 12, 1S99. Politicallj' he 
 has always been an adherent of Republican prin- 
 ciples, and has voted that ticket at every presi- 
 dential election since he attained his majority. 
 
 HERMAN BLOCHBERGER, deceased, for- 
 merly one of the successful business men of 
 Leavenworth, was born in Saxe, Germany, 
 January 22, 1846, a son of Wilhelm and Wilhel- 
 mina ( Wohlfrom) Blochberger. His father, who 
 was a member of an old and prominent Lutheran 
 family of Germany, followed the occupation of a 
 stock-dealer and also served in the army at two 
 different times, taking part in the war with 
 France. Of his eight sons, five came to Amer- 
 ica, two of whom, Edward and Herman, settled 
 in Leavenworth, while three remained in the 
 east. 
 
 In youth our subject learned the butcher's 
 trade. He volunteered in the army and served 
 in the war of 1866. During one battle in that 
 
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 war he and sixty comrades were ordered to the 
 front. They obeyed the order and went into the 
 thickest of the fight. When the battle was ended 
 only he and one comrade were left out of the 
 sixty. He received a sabre wound in the head, 
 which confined him in a hospital for a time; his 
 comrade also was wounded. Of all of the sixty 
 they alone lived to tell the story of that battle. 
 Upon the close of the war he was honorably dis- 
 charged. Afterward he came to America and for 
 a few years worked in Chicago. In the spring of 
 1870 he came to Leavenworth, arriving in the 
 city with only $ I in his possession. He secured 
 employment at his trade, and worked in this way 
 for two years, after which he started a butcher 
 shop in North Leavenworth. On selling out that 
 business he started a market on the corner of 
 Fifth and Olive streets. For $ i , 600 he purchased 
 two lots with a small frame building. As soon 
 as he was able to do so he built a brick store of 
 three stories, 24x90, at a cost of more than 
 $6,000. In this place he carried on business dur- 
 ing the remainder of his life. To assist him in 
 his business he bought and fed cattle and also 
 carried on a packing house. Uniform success 
 rewarded his eSbrts. He became well-to-do. 
 The lots that he purchased in the west part of 
 the city increased in value, thereby benefiting 
 him materially. He bought the remainder of the 
 half-block between Chestnut and Walnut on Fifth 
 street, and built a double brick structure, 48x90, 
 three stories in height, at a cost of $9,000. He 
 also erected a number of frame buildings. Both 
 in the meat business and the real-estate improve- 
 ments he was unusually successful. He did not 
 take an active part in politics, although he al- 
 ways voted the Democratic ticket. Fraternally 
 he was a past ofiicer in Germania Lodge No. 9, 
 I. O. O. F. His death occurred at his home in 
 Leavenworth, February 27, 1896. 
 
 The lady who, in 1872, became the wife of our 
 subject was Miss Martha Wendel, a native of 
 Rheinpfalz, Germany, the daughter of Frederick, 
 and granddaughter of Frederick Wendel, Sr. , 
 both of whom were engaged in the meat business. 
 Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Bar- 
 bara Huhn, was born in Germany and died in 
 
 Leavenworth in 1886; she was a daughter of John 
 Huhn, a cabinet-maker. Mrs. Blochberger was 
 one of six children, viz.: Katie, who lives in 
 Germany; Frederick, deceased; Martha; Mar- 
 garet, Barbara and Jacob, who are in the old 
 country. The children born to the marriage of 
 our subject and his wife are named as follows: 
 Herman F. , who has charge of the meat business 
 started by his father; Edward, who has a bakery 
 in Joplin, Mo. ; Henry, who is assistant foreman 
 for the Armour packing house in Kansas City; 
 Carl, a graduate of the University of Kansas law 
 department, class of 1899, with the degree of 
 LL. B.; Martha, a graduate of the Lawrence 
 Business College and now employed as a stenog- 
 rapher. The family are connected with the 
 German Evangelical Lutheran Church and Mrs. 
 Blochberger is an active worker in the Woman's 
 Society of that congregation. She is a lady of 
 earnest character, whose active life has been 
 given to the rearing of her children and the 
 management of her home. 
 
 pCjlLLIAM CORLETT was a pioneer of '58 
 \ A / in Kansas. During the early years of his 
 V V residence here he endured all the hard- 
 ships and privations incident to life in a new 
 country, in addition to the dangers connected 
 with border warfare. Nor did these represent 
 the entire aggregate of his hardships; for he also 
 had to endure three sieges of grasshoppers, in 
 each of which he lost all he had. Sometimes he 
 grew discouraged, but his brave wife by his side 
 worked so courageously and spoke so hopefully 
 that he began again with renewed energy. Now, 
 in the twilight of his life, he is retired from ac- 
 tive cares, and is living quietly on his farm in 
 Tonganoxie Township, Leavenworth County. 
 
 A native of the Isle of Man, born in 1830, Mr. 
 Corlett spent his boyhood in that region made fa- 
 mous by the noted author, Hall Caine. When 
 nineteen years of age he took passage on a sailing 
 vessel, which after a voyage of more than five 
 weeks anchored in New York City. From there 
 he went to Illinois, and engaged in farming and 
 blacksmithing at Kankakee. Afterward he spent 
 
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 a short time in Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. 
 In 1854 he returned to the Isle of Man, where he 
 was married, in the Episcopal Church, to Sophia 
 Cowen. Four 5'ears afterward he and his wife 
 settled in Kansas. For two years he worked as 
 a blacksmith in Anderson County, after which 
 he came to Leavenworth County and began farm- 
 ing and gardening. He owned a market garden 
 near Leavenworth, and raised vegetables which 
 he sold in town; at the same time his wife made 
 and sold butter. In 1879 he bought one hundred 
 and thirty acres on section 13, Tonganoxie Town- 
 ship, where he has since made his home. On his 
 place he has some cattle and hogs, but not enough 
 to demand his constant attention, and he there- 
 fore has leisure for the enjoyment of the comforts 
 his former activitj' renders possible. During the 
 war he served for three j'ears in the army. He 
 has never been identified with any party and 
 always refuses oiBcial positions; at one time he 
 was elected justice of the peace, but refused to 
 serve. Reared in the Methodist faith, he is a be- 
 liever in Christianity and has aided various Prot- 
 estant churches. 
 
 Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Corlett 
 five are living, namely: John W.; Mary J., wife 
 of D. V. Umholtz, a merchant at Neely; Charles 
 Wesley, a farmer of Tonganoxie Township; Mar- 
 garet, wife of P. Sanders; and Sophia, who mar- 
 ried Edwin Carr. 
 
 WILLIAM NADELHOFFER, a contractor 
 of Lawrence, was born in Chicago, 111., 
 September 22, 1845, a son of William and 
 Mary (Wolfersheim) Nadelhofifer, natives of Al- 
 sace. His father came to America in 1844 and 
 settled in Chicago, but two j'ears later went to 
 Naperville, 111., where he was an undertaker and 
 was also interested in the organization of the 
 Northwestern College, being one of its officers for 
 a time. He died there at eighty- four years, and 
 his widow is still living in the same town. Of 
 his five sons and three daughters, William, the 
 eldest, was reared in Naperville and completed 
 his education in the academy there. At the 
 opening of the Civil war he was anxious to en- 
 list, but his parents refused. In 1862 he ran 
 
 away from home and on the 7th of March en- 
 listed in Company H, Seventeenth Illinois Cav- 
 alry, which was sent to Alton, 111., to guard the 
 old state prison. In August they were trans- 
 ferred to the army of the west, and helped to drive 
 Price out of Missouri, taking part in the battle of 
 Big Blue. Afterward tliej' were sent against the 
 Indians in Kansas and Colorado, going as far west 
 as Salt Lake City. While bushwhacking in Mis- 
 souri Mr. Nadelhoffer was wounded in the shoul- 
 der and knee, and for two months was confined 
 in a hospital at Kansas City. He was mustered 
 out at Leavenworth, Kans., and honorably dis- 
 charged at Springfield, 111., December 29, 1865. 
 
 Returning to Naperville, Mr. Nadelhoffer 
 learned the cabinet-maker's trade, under his 
 father. In the spring of 1867 he came to Law- 
 rence. He had visited this city twice before, the 
 first time being in the fall of 1862 and the second 
 time August 22, 1863, when, having just heard 
 of the Quantrell raid, his regiment was sent from 
 Missouri to assist in restoring order in the burned 
 city. On settling here he worked at the carpen- 
 ter's trade, and in 1883 began contracting. He 
 had the contract for the Fowler shops, the first 
 buildings of the Haskell Institute, the office 
 building and the large barn there, two stores for 
 Barthlow, Albach's block, the rebuilding of the 
 opera house after the first fire, the building of the 
 Johnson block and Donnelly's barn in Lawrence, 
 the Santa Fe depot at Kingsley, Kans., the 
 academy in Labette County, the schoolhouse and 
 academy at Hesper, a fine residence for Charles 
 Pilla at Eudora and numerous houses and busi- 
 ness blocks in his home city. He was married in 
 Lawrence to Mary A., daughter of George Mos- 
 ser, and they have three children, Carrie, Emma 
 and Minnie. 
 
 Politically Mr. Nadelhofier is a Republican. 
 From 1895 to 1899116 represented the third ward 
 in the common council, where he was chairman 
 of the committee on streets, alleys and bridges. 
 He has the credit of starting the curbing of 
 streets and condemning wooden sidewalks. He 
 is a member of the Commercial Club. In the 
 English Lutheran Church he is clerk of the board 
 of trustees and contributes generously to the 
 
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 work. He is past officer of Lawrence Lodge 
 No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and a member of the Fra- 
 ternal Aid Association, the Modern Woodmen 
 and Washington Post No. 12, G. A. R. 
 
 ["ORREST SAVAGE, one of the earliest set- 
 r^ tiers of Lawrence, was born in Hartford, Vt. , 
 I September 27, 1826, a son of William and 
 Polly (Hazen) Savage, and a descendant of 
 Scotch-Irish ancestry represented among the pio- 
 neers of New England. His grandfather, Seth 
 Savage, a native of Connecticut, was one of the 
 first to settle at Hartford, Vt., where he engaged 
 in farming until he died. During the war of 18 12 
 he served in the American army. William Sav- 
 age, who was a farmer in Vermont and a select- 
 man there, first came to Kansas in 1855, and 
 three years later settled in Lawrence, where he 
 died at eighty-two years. His wife was born in 
 Hartford, Vt. , and died in Lawrence aged eighty 
 years. She was a daughter of Hezekiah Hazen, 
 who was born in Connecticut and served in the 
 war of the Revolution. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the third of four 
 children. The eldest, Mrs. Maria Hood, now of 
 California, formerly lived at Springfield, Mass., 
 where her husband was associated with Dr. J. G. 
 Holland in the publication of the Springfield 
 Republican. Joseph, who came to Kansas with 
 our subject, and was an early and prominent 
 mineralogist here, died in Lawrence. Daphne 
 died at ten years of age. Our .subject was educa- 
 ted in the public .schools of Hartford. When he 
 was a young man public attention was being 
 called to the crisis in Kansas. One man, S. N. 
 Wood, through his articles in the National Era, 
 aroused a widespread interest in that region and 
 induced many people to emigrate to the west. 
 Our subject and his brother joined a party of one 
 hundred and twenty that started from Boston in 
 1854. Just before starting he went into a gun 
 shop and was shown a Sharp gun, one of the first 
 installment brought to Boston. Purchasing one 
 of these, he took it with him, and as it was differ- 
 ent from any ever seen and so superior to all 
 others, it caused universal admiration and aston- 
 
 37 
 
 ishment, and led a company of militia to send in 
 an order for the same make. No doubt this rifle 
 saved their lives many a time. 
 
 The party of emigrants went from Boston to 
 Albany, where they stopped at the Delavan house. 
 They proceeded by rail to Buffalo, crossed the 
 lake to Detroit, thence went by rail to Chicago. 
 The Chicago & Alton road had recently been 
 completed to Alton, and they were among the 
 first to travel over it, finding it very rough and 
 jolty, presenting a marked contrast to the fine 
 road of to-day. From Alton by boat they reached 
 St. Louis, enjoying a ride down the Mississippi 
 on one of those early river steamboats that were 
 unrivalled for comfort and elegance. They pro- 
 ceeded by boat from St. Louis to Kansas City, and 
 there bought teams and wagons with which to 
 complete the journey to Lawrence. It was for 
 this party that the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, 
 composed the poem, "The Kansas Emigrants," 
 from which we give a brief quotation: 
 
 "We cross the prairies as of old 
 
 The Pilgrims crossed the sea, 
 To make the west, as they the east. 
 
 The homestead of the free. 
 
 "We go to rear a wall of men 
 
 On Freedom's southern line, 
 And plant beside the cotton-tree. 
 
 The rugged northern pine." 
 
 Arriving in Douglas County, Mr. Savage and 
 his brother took up claims, but soon he returned 
 to Vermont; for, not knowing of his trip to the 
 west until the morning he started, he had not left 
 his business affairs in satisfactory' condition. He 
 remained in Vermont until the fall of 1S55, when 
 he moved his family west and took up a claim 
 four miles southwest of Lawrence, proving up on 
 one hundred and sixty acres for which he has the 
 government deed and which he still owns. By 
 subsequent purchase he now owns three hun- 
 dred and eighty- five acres of improved land. In 
 1895 he left this place and moved to Lawrence, 
 where he now lives, and where he owns a home 
 place of four acres. During the Civil war he was 
 mustered into the Third Kansas Militia for serv- 
 ice in the Price raid, and, like many others, never 
 received a discharge. When he came to Law- 
 
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 rence, he and his brother and several other mem- 
 bers of the party organized a baud, which was 
 the first band in Kansas. They plaj-ed at Topeka 
 and different parts of the state and were well 
 known; during part of the time he was leader. 
 Of those who were original members of the band 
 only two are living, himself and Leonard Wor- 
 cester, now of Leadville. He continued a mem- 
 ber of the band until about 1879. Politically he 
 was a Republican until the Hayes campaign, 
 since which time he has been independent, favor- 
 ing free trade and free coinage as national issues. 
 He is a member of Plymouth Congregational 
 Church. Interested iu educational affairs from 
 an early day, he was a member of the school 
 board when an old log house was used for a 
 school building and continued until after a frame, 
 then a brick, and lastly another frame building, 
 had been erected. 
 
 In Hanover, N. H., March 8, 1849, Mr. Sav- 
 age married Miss Lydia Worth, daughter of Na- 
 thaniel and Martha (Chandler)Wortli, her father 
 being a miller of Hanover, where she was born. 
 They are the parents of four children: William, 
 who is engaged in the grocery business in Law- 
 rence; Emma; Mary; and Frank, a graduate of 
 the University of Kansas and an attorney in this 
 city. On the 8th of March, 1899, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Savage celebrated their golden wedding, on 
 which occasion they were the recipients of the 
 hearty congratulations of their friends and rela- 
 tives. 
 
 (pi DAM D. McCUNE, a pioneer of 1857 a"d 
 l\ one of the framers of the constitution of 
 / I Kansas, is remembered by the surviving 
 settlers of that early day in Leavenworth County, 
 but was known only by reputation to later 
 comers, as he died nine years after locating in the 
 west. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
 November 26, 1827, a descendant of Scotch an- 
 cestors, by whom the name was .spelled McCuen. 
 Of the Quaker faith, they were prominent in pub- 
 lic affairs in Philadelphia, but were expelled from 
 their church because they fought for independ- 
 ence during the Revolution, during which war 
 Col. Thomas McCune won his apaulets. A 
 
 brotherofthecolonel, Joseph, hadason, Thomas, 
 who was born May 30, 1799, and removed to 
 Ohio, where he died December 10, 1847. ^^ 
 was engaged in farming in that state. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired in 
 Ohio, and his boyhood years were spent upon a 
 farm there. In 1857 he came to Kansas, making 
 the trip by water and spending fifteen days en 
 route. On his arrival in Leavenworth County 
 he purchased five hundred and forty acres, all but 
 one hundred and sixty acres of which he bought 
 of a squatter, receiving a deed direct from the 
 government. The land was entirely unimproved 
 and not even fenced. He broke some of the 
 ground and cut considerable timber. Turning 
 his attention to general farm pursuits, he engaged 
 in raising wheat, oats, barley and millet, and al.so 
 raised stock. He was a strong free-state man. 
 He attended the meeting of the legislature at 
 Wyandotte which framed the state constitution. 
 All helpful enterprises received his support, par- 
 ticularly the educational interests of High Prairie 
 Township. He assisted in laying out the roads 
 in his township and was an enterprising man and 
 good citizen. 
 
 In Ohio, October 2, 1S51, Mr. McCune married 
 Margaret A. Medill. Her father, Joseph Medill, 
 came to this country from Ireland in boyhood and 
 settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising. He was 
 very prosperous and accumulated a large fortune. 
 In his community he was prominent and in- 
 fluential, and in religion was actively connected 
 with the Presbyterian Church of Mount Pleasant, 
 Ohio. The eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
 Cune were named as follows: Joseph A., now de- 
 ceased; Harry Russell, a contractor in Leaven- 
 worth; Martha M., wife of William Smith, and a 
 resident of California; William O., a farmer of 
 High Prairie Township; Ida B., who is the wife 
 of Charles Van Tuyl, of Leavenworth; Nancy 
 Evelyn, who married William M. Larson, and 
 lives in Oakland, Cal.; Thomas L-, who is in 
 Colorado; and Adam D., who conducts the home 
 farm. 
 
 Nine years after he came to Kansas Mr. Mc- 
 Cune passed away, August 18, 1866. His widow 
 
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 was left with five hundred and forty acres, upon 
 a part of which a mortgage rested. The oldest 
 of her children was then only fourteen years of 
 age. The family had only a log cabin for their 
 home, and the outlook might have been dis- 
 couraging to some, but not so to her. With in- 
 domitable spirit, and assisted by her children, she 
 conducted the farm, superintended the planting 
 and harvesting of the crops, and finally suc- 
 ceeded in clearing the debt. Since then she has 
 been uniformly prosperous. She has given con- 
 siderable attention to the raising of stock, though 
 not neglecting the crops of grain. In religion 
 she is a member of the Presbyterian Church. As 
 her children became old enough to assist her they 
 relieved her of many responsibilities, and now 
 she is enabled to pass the twilight of her busy, 
 active life in the enjoyment of the comforts she 
 has justly earned. 
 
 p GJlLLIAM O. McCUNE, who is engaged in 
 \ A / farming in High Prairie Township, Leav- 
 VV enworth County, was born July 28, 1858, 
 upon the farm where he now resides. At an early 
 age he began to assist in the cultivation of the 
 land, and when nineteen he started out for him- 
 self, renting a part of the home place. Two 
 years later he became the owner of thirty-two 
 acres, his share of the estate, and with this small 
 acreage he laid the foundation of his present suc- 
 cessful agricultural operations. From time to 
 time he added to his property, and is now the 
 owner of two hundred and ten acres, besides 
 which he cultivates other land, his total holdings 
 being three hundred and twenty acres. He has 
 given special attention to stock-raising, and in 
 cereals raises wheat, corn and oats. The land 
 which he owns is improved by a neat residence, 
 good fences, agricultural implements and the 
 other equipments of a modern farm. Running 
 water adds to the value of the place. 
 
 In matters political Mr. McCune is independent, 
 giving his vote for the man he considers best 
 qualified to represent the people in offices of trust. 
 In no sense of the word is he a politician. He is 
 especially interested in educational work and for 
 
 nine years has served as a member of the school 
 board. He is identified with the Gospel Taber- 
 nacle of High Prairie. His marriage took place 
 December 24, 1884, and united him with Minnie 
 Margaret Murray, of Leavenworth County. They 
 are the parents of five children, to whom they are 
 giving the best advantages possible; and who are 
 named as follows: Blanche Viola, Forest Earl, 
 Malcolm Lloyd, William Orval and Margaretta 
 Ellen. 
 
 . DWARD E. COOMBS, general manager of 
 ^ the Leavenworth electric railroad, was born 
 __ in Des Moines, Iowa, May 26, 1S69, a son 
 of Charles Thomas and Elvira Jane (Coombs) 
 Coombs, both natives of Maine, but, so far as 
 known, members of entirely different families. 
 His paternal ancestors came to America in the 
 "Mayflower" and were of Scotch and English 
 extraction; his grandfather was a soldier in the 
 warofi8i2. During the Civil war his father 
 served for three and one-half years in the Union 
 army, being in the fourth battery, army of the 
 Potomac. Among the battles in which he took 
 part were those at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, 
 Richmond and Bull Run. At one time he swam 
 across the Potomac with others and pushed a 
 craft with a piece of artillery on it. When dis- 
 charged, he held a second lieutenant's commis- 
 sion. His principal business was shipbuilding, 
 but after coming west he engaged in the stock 
 business and later in contracting. He is now liv- 
 ing retired in St. Louis. His four sons are 
 Charles Franklin, of Chicago; Edward E.; A. H., 
 of St. Louis; and George A. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired less 
 in schools than by observation and experience. 
 At eighteen years of age he entered the employ 
 of the Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad Company, 
 in the road and general freight department; later 
 became general bookkeeper for the receiver of 
 the Kansas City, Wyandotte & North- Western 
 Railroad. Going to Chicago, he was employed 
 in the accounting department of the American 
 Debenture Company, in whose interests he went 
 to Crawfordsville, Ind., as manager of the water 
 works company. His next enterprise was as a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 real-estate and insurance agent in St. Louis. He 
 went to Oklahoma during the opening of the 
 Cherokee strip, remaining about eight months. 
 
 After a year in Kansas City Mr. Coombs came 
 to Leavenworth, where he became cashier of the 
 Leavenworth Electric Railroad Company. In 
 August, 1897, he became general manager of the 
 road, which he has since superintended with 
 success. In his politics he is independent. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Masonic order 
 and the National Union. He is fond of athletic 
 games and sports, and his vacations are spent 
 with his gun and his fishing tackle in the woods 
 or on the banks of the river. November 2, 
 1892, he married Jessie Irene Peak, daughter of 
 James Peak, of Kansas City. They have two 
 daughters, Helen E. and Olive Elvira. 
 
 30HN H. MAGERS has spent his entire life 
 in Leavenworth, in which city he was born 
 May 30, 1861. His father, Frederick (bet- 
 ter known as Fritz) Magers, was a native of 
 Hanover, Germany, and at thirteen years of age 
 came to America in company with his parents, 
 who settled on a farm in Platte County, Mo. 
 When twenty-one years of age he secured em- 
 ployment in a bank at Weston, that county, 
 where for several years he was bookkeeper and 
 clerk, but after a time he bought an interest in 
 the business and became a partner in the bank. 
 The company owning the bank started a store at 
 Hickory Point, Jefferson County, Kans. , and 
 Mr. Magers took charge of the same for a few 
 months. Later, coming to Leavenworth, he 
 bought an interest in a grocery business, but after 
 a few years he embarked in the fruit and com- 
 mission business and continued in this until 1872. 
 His next venture was the purchase of a small 
 fruit farm in the suburbs, where he made his 
 home during the remainder of his life. As a 
 Democrat he was active in local affairs. He 
 was a believer in universal education, and did all 
 within his power to promote the interests of local 
 schools, and served as a member of the school 
 board for twenty years. Prominent in Masonry 
 throughout Kansas aud Missouri, he was identi- 
 
 fied with the blue lodge, chapter, commanderj' 
 and Scottish Rite, and was an officer in the lodge 
 at Leavenworth for almost a quarter of a century. 
 He was a man of energy and resolute force of 
 character, and activelj- promoted enterprises for 
 the advancement of Leavenworth in important 
 directions. His death occurred August 21, 1895, 
 when he was sixty-six years of age. He left four 
 children, Sophie, William, John H. and Rosie, 
 who were born of his union with Sophia Shorn- 
 horst, a native of Hanover, but from one year of 
 age a resident of the United States. In religion 
 he was a faithful member of the German Lu- 
 theran Church. 
 
 When twenty-four years of age our subject 
 started out in life for himself, and for eleven years 
 he engaged in the grocerj' business in Leaven- 
 worth. This, however, he sold in 1897 in order 
 to give his entire attention to the duties of depu- 
 tj' .sheriff. After a year in the latter position he 
 resigned and became interested with the Stand- 
 ard Publishing Company as solicitor and col- 
 lector, in which business he is still engaged. He 
 is married and has two children, John and Rosie. 
 
 In politics Mr. Magers has always supported 
 Democratic principles. In the spring of 1897 ^i^ 
 was elected alderman of the fifth ward, receiving 
 the largest majority ever given any candidate in 
 this ward. He has long been identified with 
 Leavenworth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and 
 at one time was the youngest member of the blue 
 lodge in the state. He is also connected with the 
 Improved Order of Red Men, the Foresters and 
 Ivanhoe Lodge No. 14, K. P. 
 
 (TOHN A. BIEDERMAN.a well-known farm- 
 I er of Salt Creek Valley, and deputy sheriff of 
 Q) Leavenworth County, was born in Germany 
 November 5, 1858, a son of Moritz and Susan- 
 nah Biederman, the former a miller by occupa- 
 tion. He was educated in local schools and for a 
 year was employed as traveling salesman for a 
 wholesale milling house. In order to avoid serv- 
 ice in the German army he left his native land 
 and came to America, landing in New Orleans 
 January 6, 1877, when eighteen years of age. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 The trip across the ocean and gulf was made on 
 the steamer "Elbe," and occupied thirty days; 
 some years afterward his vessel was lost at sea. 
 At the time he boarded the vessel at Bremen 
 a ship was exploded in the harbor there by Mr. 
 Thomas, who was quite prominent on account of 
 work of that kind. 
 
 After spending six months in New Orleans 
 Mr. Biederman proceeded to St. Louis, Mo. , and 
 there remained until iSyg.whenhecame to Leav- 
 enworth, Kaus. Near this city he secured work 
 on a farm. In 1881 he began farming for himself 
 in Salt Creek Valley, renting land owned by J.F. 
 Taj'lor, and continuing there until 1889. He 
 then moved to the city and began in the grocery 
 business at No. 19 Kickapoo street. One year 
 later he bought the old valley water house on 
 military road and there opened a general store, 
 besides which he carried on general farming. In 
 1895 he opened a live-stock yard and livery sta- 
 ble on Shawnee street in Leavenworth, and this 
 be conducted for three years. Since 1898 he has 
 given his attention largely to his duties as depu- 
 ty sheriff; but in addition he carries on a farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres in Kickapoo 
 Township. For one year he operated a thresh- 
 ing machine for J. F. Taylor. In his various en- 
 terprises he has shown him.self to be a man of en- 
 ergy, industry and perseverance. He has been 
 especially successful in the stock business, and 
 feeds cattle in large numbers, afterward shipping 
 them by the carload to the market. 
 
 Ever since becoming a citizen of the United 
 States Mr. Biederman has voted the Democratic 
 ticket. He has been active in local politics. For 
 two years he was township trustee. He has been 
 a member of the school board of district No. 77, 
 and has assisted in promoting the interests of the 
 school here. In January, 1882, he was united 
 in marriage with Mrs. Elizabeth (Taylor) Phile, 
 and they have a pleasant home in Kickapoo 
 Township. Fraternally he is identified with Hi- 
 ram Lodge No. 68, A. F. & A. M., in which he 
 has passed the chairs; Kickapoo Lodge No. 68, 
 K. P.; and Lowemont Camp, Modern Woodmen 
 of America. In 1893 he returned to Germany to 
 visit his parents and friends, and remained abroad 
 
 for six months renewing the associations of boy- 
 hood. His parents were then living, but they 
 died during the same year, shortly after his re- 
 turn to the United States. 
 
 HENRY BRUCE CALLAHAN, M. D., was 
 born in Louisville, Ky., July 21, 1819, and 
 died in his old arm chair in his ofEce at 
 Leavenworth November 23, 1895, after an honor- 
 able and useful life of seventy-six years. He 
 was a member of an old Kentucky family and 
 was the only child of his parents. When he was 
 quite small his father died, but his mother was 
 spared to the age of eighty-three years. After 
 having graduated from the Ohio Medical College 
 of Cincinnati with the degree of M. D., about 
 1842, he began the practice of his profession in 
 Kansas City, and he also engaged in the sawmill 
 business there. In an early day he came to 
 Leavenworth, where he built one of the first 
 houses in the town. Afterward for many years 
 he practiced in Platte City, Mo., and was in that 
 city during a part of the Civil war, but went from 
 there back to Ohio, practicing for two years in 
 Cincinnati, and later spent a year in Indiana. 
 Shortly after the close of the war he returned to 
 Platte City. 
 
 In 1866 Dr. Callahan established his home per- 
 manently in Leavenworth, and in time he became 
 one of the foremost citizens and most successful 
 physicians of the city. For years he was a mem- 
 ber of the pension board here. He was also 
 actively identified with the State and Eastern 
 District Medical Societies. At one time he held 
 the office of police commissioner. For fifty years 
 he was a member of the Masonic fraternitj-, being 
 connected during much of that time with Leav- 
 enworth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M. He was 
 one of the most active members of the Baptist 
 Church in Leavenworth and was one of its 
 deacons. Recognizing the awful ruin wrought 
 by intoxicating drinks, he ca,st his influence with 
 the Prohibitionists and ever afterward, both in 
 precept and example, gave his support to that 
 movement. The Prohibition part}- received his 
 vote and his allegiance, and he was one of its 
 
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 most prominent members in Kansas. After he 
 had engaged in the practice of medicine for fifty- 
 two years he was given a reception in celebration 
 of his long and honorable connection with the 
 medical fraternitj', and the occasion was made 
 even more memorable by the presentation of an 
 ebony gold-headed cane to him. When he passed 
 away resolutions were passed by the Masons and 
 the physicians of Leavenworth, testifying to the 
 high esteem in which he was held and to the loss 
 sustained in his death. His body was taken to 
 his former home in Platte City and there laid to 
 rest beside the remains of his wife, Sarah H. 
 (Metcalf) Callahan, who had died during the 
 war, her death resulting from a fright received on 
 the night the Platte County court house was 
 burned. 
 
 In the family of Dr. Callahan there were six 
 children. The eldest, Henry Thomas, was a 
 farmer in Platte County and died there. Those 
 now living are Pickett L-, of Rocky Ford, Colo.; 
 Elizabeth Jane, of Marceline, Mo.; Alfred; Mrs. 
 Mary Early, of Marceline; and William Paxton, 
 also of Marceline. 
 
 GlLFRED CALLAHAN. One of the well- 
 L_l known business men of Leavenworth, who 
 / I during business activities covering a con- 
 siderable period has gained prominence in his 
 special occupation, is the subject of this sketch, 
 the proprietor of a men's furnishing and merchant 
 tailoring establishment at Np. 114 South Fifth 
 street. Since he bought out the business of C. H. 
 Durfee, in 18S3, he has built up an extensive 
 trade and established a reputation for efficiency 
 in his work. His establishment is the finest of 
 its kind in the city, and is conducted systematic- 
 ally and with sound business judgment. 
 
 Mr. Callahan was born in Platte City, Mo., 
 May 5, 1854, a son of Henry Bruce Callahan, 
 M. D. He was a boy when the family settled in 
 Leavenworth, and here he attended the public 
 schools. When eighteen he began to clerk for a 
 dry-goods firm in this city, and he continued as 
 an employe of various establishments until he 
 started in business for hiuLself in 1SS3. His 
 attention is given quite closely to the management 
 
 of his business interests. In politics he has not 
 been active, although always interested and well 
 posted. Prior to 1896 he was a Democrat, but 
 now votes independently. In religion he is con- 
 nected with the Baptist Church. 
 
 As a blue lodge and chapter Mason Mr. Cal- 
 lahan is actively connected with that order. He 
 is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and 
 past first lieutenant of the Uniform Rank. He is 
 also connected with the National Union and the 
 National Reserve Association, of which latter he 
 is the secretary. His marriage took place in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., and united him with Miss Belle 
 Leidy, who was born in Keokuk, Iowa, and lived 
 in the east until her marriage. 
 
 30HN K. FAULKNER. When Mr. Faulk- 
 ner first arrived in Kansas, June 20, 1849, it 
 was one of the unknown regions of the 
 United States, for the free-state agitation had not 
 yet brought it into national prominence. His 
 early life on the plains was replete with excite- 
 ment and not a little danger, but being absolutely 
 fearless, he remained undaunted in the midst of 
 perils, and looks back upon that period of his life 
 as one of the most interesting. After an exist- 
 ence more than ordinarily active he has retired 
 from business cares and is spending his declining 
 years quietly in the citj' of Leavenworth. 
 
 Mr. Faulker was born in Monongolia County, 
 W. Va., October 10, 1826. His father, Alexan- 
 der Faulkner, immigrated to America at an early 
 age and settled in Virginia, where he engaged in 
 the manufacture of nails and other articles. 
 These he afterward shipped down the river and 
 sold in Pittsburgh. Our subject's education was 
 obtained in subscription schools. When eighteen 
 he began to teach school, in which occupation he 
 gradually worked his way west, teaching in Ohio 
 and Missouri. Having clerked in a store for 
 three years and thus gained valuable experience, 
 he started in the mercantile business at Farley, 
 Platte County, Mo., where he continued for fif- 
 teen years. When the war broke out he settled 
 his accounts in the best way possible, transferring 
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 ranch in High Prairie Township. He then bought 
 twenty heavy wagons and started for Denver in 
 1 86 1 with a load of merchandise for Kiscaden & 
 Co., of Leavenworth. While crossing the plains 
 he had considerable trouble with the Indians, but 
 finally reached his destination in safety. Later 
 he made several trips with ox-teams from Leav- 
 worth to Salt Lake City. The return trips were 
 usually made by stage. On one of these trips he 
 came up with a train that had been attacked by 
 Indians, and as Governor Gilpin and his wife, of 
 Colorado, were on the stage he pulled some ar- 
 rows out of the cattle and gave them to Mrs. 
 Gilpin for mementoes. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Faulkner went to Texas and 
 started in the cattle business with one thousand 
 head. He sold several hundred head to Chicago 
 and St. Louis parties and drove others to his 
 ranch in Leavenworth County, while some he 
 shipped to Buffalo, N. Y. Afterward he engaged 
 in cattle-raising on his ranch, which he trans- 
 formed from bare prairie land to a fine farm. He 
 also bought other lands until finally he owned 
 one thousand acres. The corn and hay raised 
 were used principally for feeding to his stock 
 during the winter. There being no market in 
 Kansas City then, he sold in St. Louis and Chi- 
 cago. In the spring of 1895, owing to trouble 
 with rheumatism, he gave up the control of his 
 farm to his sons and went to Excelsior, Mo. 
 There he bought the Saratoga house, which he 
 rebuilt and furnished, and this he still owns. 
 After two years he returned to Leavenworth and 
 bought a home on the corner of Spring Garden 
 and Vilas streets, where he has since resided. In 
 the care of his garden and the oversight of his 
 property he finds sufficient to engage his attention. 
 
 While not a politician in the usual accept- 
 ance of that term, Mr. Faulkner has always 
 been interested in municipal and general affairs. 
 For four terms he was a member of the state 
 legislature, once by appointment and three times 
 by election. Office has never had any attraction 
 for him, and he has usually refused nominations. 
 But the positions which he accepted and to which 
 he was nominated without his knowledge, he 
 consented to fill only after considerable urging 
 
 and when he was told that his acceptance was 
 necessary for his party's sake. He has always 
 voted the Democratic ticket. He is interested in 
 school work and for thirty years was treasurer of 
 the Faulkner school district, which was named in 
 his honor. He has assisted in erecting several 
 school buildings. By his marriage, April 4, 
 1858, to Margaret Stearnes, of Leavenworth 
 County, he has five sons: William K., Charles, 
 Reese, Clarence and James, all in Leavenworth 
 County except Charles, who is in Oklahoma. To 
 each of his sons he gave a farm excepting Charles, 
 whom he assisted in other ways. 
 
 EHARLES W. HIGGINS, manager of J. P. 
 Usher's cattle ranch near Pomona, Frank- 
 lin County, was born in Sedalia, Mo., in 
 1866, a son of Abraham and Julia (Harvey) Hig- 
 gins, and a nephew of Moses Harvey, of Leaven- 
 worth County. He was one of three children, 
 the others being James, of Brighton, Colo., and 
 Elizabeth D., wife of J. P. Larkin. His father, 
 who was a native of Missouri, devoted his entire 
 active life to agricultural pursuits, and was con- 
 sidered one of the most extensive and enterpris- 
 ing farmers near Sedalia. In the latter city he 
 died in 1871. 
 
 When our subject was a boy of fourteen years 
 his mother removed to Colorado and he grew to 
 manhood near Denver, receiving his education in 
 common schools. While still quite young he be- 
 came interested in the stock business, and for 
 years engaged in buying and selling cattle in the 
 vicinity of Denver. Having followed the cattle 
 business during so nuich of his life, and being a 
 man of good judgment, he is well versed in all 
 the details of this industry, and few are better 
 judges of stock than he. In 1897 ^^ came to 
 Kansas, where he has since had charge of the 
 Usher cattle ranch of twenty-three hundred acres. 
 The land is used principally for pasturage, al- 
 though some four hundred acres are planted in 
 corn, to be used as feed. In the winter of 189S- 
 99 ten hundred and twenty-eight head of beef 
 and stock cattle were fed on the ranch, in addi- 
 tion to which a large number of Poland-China 
 
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 hogs are raised. The place is the largest stock 
 ranch in Franklin County, and an immense 
 amount of responsibility is involved in its man- 
 agement, but the present manager has used dis- 
 cretion and sagacity in all of the work, and as a 
 consequence the results have been satisfactory to 
 the owner. 
 
 In politics Mr. Higgins is independent. While 
 in Colorado he was actively connected with Fi- 
 delity Lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F. He was mar- 
 ried March 18, 1896, to Miss Mary Ficker, who 
 was born in Germany, and by whom he has two 
 children, James and Julia. 
 
 IILLIAM MOYS, deceased, who was one of 
 the pioneers of 1857 in Lawrence, was born 
 in Kent, England, in 1839, and atsix j^ears 
 of age was brought to America by his parents, 
 John and Elizabeth Moys. His father, who was 
 a brickmason and contractor, settled in Indiana, 
 but in 1857 brought the family to Kansas, lo- 
 cating on a farm near Americus, but later moved 
 to Pullman, Wash., and at an advanced age dy- 
 ing at Colfax, that state. His wife also passed 
 away there. They were the parents of eight 
 children, of whom John and William served in 
 the same regiment during the Civil war. John 
 was a corporal and was wounded in the .service. 
 William, who was fourth among the children, 
 learned the brickmason's trade under his father, 
 and this occupation he followed until the opening 
 of the war. June 3, 1861, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany D, First Kan.sas Infantry. In the battle of 
 Wilson's Creek, that year, he was severely 
 wounded by a gunshot that passed through his 
 left side. He was left on the battlefield for dead, 
 in the hands of the Confederates, but was finally 
 picked up by an ambulance and brought to a 
 hospital. As soon as able he returned to his home 
 for recuperation, and in time rejoined his regi- 
 ment in Tennessee, but was physically too weak 
 to endure the strain of army life. For this rea- 
 son he was honorably discharged September 17, 
 1862. The injury received in the war he con- 
 tinued to suffer from, but, being ambitious b}' 
 nature, he worked at his trade and engaged in 
 
 contracting. Finall)-, however, he became too 
 ill to work any longer, and on the 5th of Novem- 
 ber, 1870, he died, a martyr to the cause of the 
 Union. He was a man of energetic disposition, 
 kind heart and great perseverance, and had he 
 lived would undoubtedly have been very success- 
 ful in his chosen occupation. In religion he was 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Near Lawrence, June 5, 1859, Mr. Moys mar- 
 ried Miss Emily J. Tabor, who was born at Hol- 
 land, Orleans County, Vt., a daughter of Cor- 
 nelius D. and Sarah (Ferrin) Tabor, natives of 
 Vermont. The former, who was the son of a 
 Revolutionary soldier, settled in Kansas in 1857 
 with his son, John, and afterward, when his sons, 
 John and Horace A. W., moved to Denver, he 
 joined them in that citj', where he died. His 
 body was brought to Lawrence for burial. One 
 of his sons, Lemuel, remains in Holland, Vt.; 
 another, John F. , died in Denver, in November, 
 1898; and the third, Horace A. W., whose name 
 is known throughout the entire country, died in 
 Denver, April 10, 1899, and his funeral, held a 
 few days later, was the largest service of the 
 kind ever held in Colorado. The history of this 
 man is the record of a remarkable life. Born in 
 Vermont in 1830, he came to Kansas in 1855, 
 and soon gained prominence in the free-soil party. 
 He was elected a member of the Topeka legis- 
 lature in 1857, but that body was dispersed by 
 Federal troops, acting on the orders of the war 
 department. 
 
 At the time of the discovery of gold in Colo- 
 rado Mr. Tabor went to the mountains, where, 
 until 1879, he met with only ordinary success. 
 During that year two men working in his employ 
 discovered the Little Pittsburgh mine, which was 
 soon producing $8,000 a week. The Little Pitts- 
 burgh Consolidated Company was organized with 
 a capital of $20,000,000, and afterward Mr. Tabor 
 sold his interest to his partners. Senator Chaffee 
 and David MoiTat, for $1,000,000. He had also 
 become the owner of other valuable interests. 
 The Matchless alone yielded him an income of 
 $2,000 a day. For a time he was the wealthiest 
 man in the state; everything he touched .seemed 
 to turn to gold. In 1878 he was elected lieuten- 
 
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 ant-governor of Colorado. Later he filled an 
 unexpired term as United States senator. He 
 built the Tabor block in Denver and an opera 
 house that was at the time unsurpassed by an}^ in 
 the country. He did much to promote the wel- 
 fare of his state, and, although during his later 
 years unfortunate investments caused the loss of 
 almost his entire property, he never lost the 
 respect of the people to whom his genial, kindly 
 ways had endeared him. 
 
 Mrs. Moys was reared in Vermont and was a 
 young lady of twenty when the family came west. 
 Since her hu.sband's death she has spent con- 
 siderable time in travel, visiting frequently^in 
 Denver, but making her home in Lawrence, where 
 she owns valuable property. She is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church and connected 
 with some of its societies. For several years she 
 served as president of the Woman's Relief Corps, 
 and was several times its representative in de- 
 partment and national encampments. She is also 
 connected with the Eastern Star. In her family 
 there are four children. Her older son, William 
 H., has for some years been the popular general 
 delivery clerk at the Lawrence postoffice and is 
 now at the head of the distributing department. 
 The daughters are Mrs. Mary Simpson, of Gallup, 
 N. M.; and Mrs. Blanche Wiley, of Lawrence. 
 The younger son, Frederick C, is president and 
 manager of the Moys Hardware Company, own- 
 ers of a large hardware store at Cripple Creek, 
 Colo. 
 
 (Joseph Alexander cranston, city 
 
 I marshal of Leavenworth, and a resident of 
 (2) this city since June 3, 1874, was born in the 
 city of Sandusky, Ohio, October 26, 1850, a son 
 of Alexander and Edith (Johnson) Cranston, 
 natives of the north of Ireland. The former, 
 who was the son of a Scotchman, was a contract- 
 ing mason, and followed that occupation in San- 
 dusky. During the '70s he had a contract for 
 building the Missouri Pacific Railroad between 
 Kansas City and Leavenworth, and he also had 
 other contracts for building railroads through the 
 west. He died in Leavenworth and was buried 
 in Mount Muncie cemetery. His wife, who was 
 
 a sister of L. B. Johnson, owner of Johnson's 
 Island, in Lake Erie, died at the home of her son, 
 our subject, in 1896. Of her five children two 
 are living, one son, William, being in Chicago. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the Sandusky schools. In 1880 he started in the 
 hack and livery business, and has since built up 
 a large trade in this line. He has his stables at 
 Nos. 320-322 Cherokee street. In addition to 
 the general management of this business he is 
 serving his third term as city marshal, a position 
 which, since the abolishment of the metropolitan 
 police service, is one of great responsibility, it 
 being a difficult task to adequately protect the 
 city. He is stanch in his adherence to Demo- 
 cratic principles and always gives his allegiance 
 to the candidates of the regular party ticket. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias. 
 
 The marriage of Captain Cranston took place 
 in Leavenworth and united him with Miss Sadie 
 Hollowkamp, who was born in Pennsylvania and 
 accompanied her parents to Kansas. She is an 
 active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 The three children comprising the family of Cap- 
 tain and Mrs. Cranston are William A., Edith 
 and Joseph Albert. 
 
 (Tames a. hill, in the character of its 
 I farming population Fairmount Township 
 C2/ ranks with the best townships in Leaven- 
 worth County, and none of its farmers is more 
 highly respected than Mr. Hill. He is a pioneer 
 of '59 in this county, where for a few years he 
 made his home upon a farm of one hundred acres 
 in High Prairie Township, but in 1864 he pur- 
 chased one hundred and sixty acres in Fairmount 
 Township, which property has since been in- 
 creased by purchase to two hundred acres. Dur- 
 ing the years he has made his home here he has 
 planted trees that greatly add to the desirability 
 of the farm, and has also built a neat residence 
 and other farm buildings. He is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising and has met 
 with success that is gratifying. 
 
 Our subject's grandfather, James Hill, was 
 
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 born in Ireland and when a small bojcameto the 
 United States with his parents, settling in Vir- 
 ginia. At the opening of the Revolutionarj- war 
 he enlisted under George Washington and took 
 part in many battles, remaining in active service 
 until the close of the war. Samuel, son of James 
 Hill, was born in Virginia and from there moved 
 to Tennessee, where he remained for a few years. 
 During his residence there he started south with 
 General Jackson, but, meeting with an accident, 
 was obliged to return home. Shortly afterward 
 lie moved to Garrett County, Ky., and from there 
 moved to Casey County, the same state. His last 
 years were spent in Lincoln County, Ky., where 
 he owned a fine farm. He died in 1838, at fifty- 
 six years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Rebecca Bollin, was born in Virginia, 
 where her ancestors had come from Ireland; her 
 father was a soldier under Washington during 
 the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Rebecca Hill died 
 in Kentucky at ninety years of age. Of her ten 
 children Mrs. Wood and James A. Hill are the 
 only survivors. The latter was born in Casey 
 County, Ky., August 5, 1825, and spent his boy- 
 hood days in Lincoln County, where he received 
 a common-school education. At the age of 
 twenty he began to farm on the old homestead, 
 but in 1857 removed to Buchanan County, Mo., 
 where he remained for eighteen months. From 
 there he came to Kansas, where he has since 
 built up a reputation as one of Leavenworth 
 County's mo.st energetic farmers. 
 
 Politically Mr. Hill is a Democrat, interested 
 in party succe.ss, but not partisan in his views. 
 He has frequently been selected to serve as a 
 member of the school board, in which capacity 
 he has worked to promote the interests of the 
 school in his district. During the Civil war his 
 sympathies were with the Union. At the time of 
 Price's raid he went out with the militia to fight 
 the .southern raider and took part in the battle of 
 Westport, where he was taken prisoner. During 
 the eight days of his retention by the Confeder- 
 ates he was forced to take part in a hurried march 
 of two hundred miles toward the Arkansas River 
 and was paroled in southern Missouri. 
 
 February 10, 1848, Mr. Hill married Mary A. 
 
 Vostick, who was born in Kentucky. Thej- be- 
 came the parents of five children, namely: John 
 T.; MoUie, who is the wife of Robert Sopher; 
 George T., James P. and Andrew J. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hill are members of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. During their married life of more 
 than fifty years they have made many friends in 
 the various localities where they have resided, 
 and by their nobility of character have always 
 been esteemed by their acquaintances. 
 
 (TOHN B. HALLAUX, who is engaged in 
 I gardening and fruit-raising in the suburbs 
 (Z/ of Leavenworth, was born in 1831 on the 
 line of Belgium and France, being a son of John 
 B. and Catherine (Ferdinand; Hallaux, natives 
 respectively of France and Belgium. He was 
 one of three children, the second of whom, Jacob, 
 is a gardener in Leavenworth, while the only 
 daughter, Henrietta, is married and lives in Illi- 
 nois. His education, owing to lack of opportu- 
 nities, was very meagre, but he has traveled ex- 
 tensively and by observation has gained a large 
 fund of information of a varied nature. During 
 boyhood he became familiar with the mason's 
 trade under his father. He sejfved in the Crimean 
 war as a corporal, and upon being honorably dis- 
 charged from the army came to America, where 
 for two years he was employed in Wisconsin and 
 for one year in Illinois. 
 
 A pioneer of 1857 in Leavenworth, Mr. Hal- 
 laux, soon after his arrival, purchased the six- 
 teen acres upon which he has since made his 
 home. The land was then covered with brush 
 and contained no improvements whatever. He 
 has transformed it into a fine market garden and 
 fruit farm and has engaged in raising blackberries 
 and strawberries, as well as vegetables, for which 
 he finds a sale in the city. The land lies partly 
 in the city limits and partly in Delaware Tow)i- 
 ship, and is improved with a two-story stone 
 house built by Mr. Hallaux. When a company 
 of militia was formed in Leavenworth he joined 
 the same and was made a lieutenant. When the 
 company was sent out to repulse General Price he 
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 with the Republican party, both in national and 
 local elections. His marriage took place in 1856 
 and united him with Eugenia Bero, who at that 
 time was living in Wisconsin. They are the 
 parents of two children, Herman and Emil, both 
 of whom reside in Leavenworth. 
 
 3AC0B SCHWAGLER, a farmer of Delaware 
 Township, Leavenworth County, was born 
 in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 in 1827, being the son of George Schwagler, a 
 wine-grower there. He was educated in Ger- 
 many and at eighteen years of age came to 
 America in the sailing-vessel "Elizabeth," 
 which was eighty -five days in crossing the ocean. 
 His first act on arriving in this country was to 
 enlist on a United States man-of-war, but a man 
 to whom his father had written regarding him 
 secured his release from the service, as he was 
 under age. He then hired out to a farmer at 
 New Brunswick, N. J., receiving $5 a month. 
 After a year he went on the canal to Pittsburgh, 
 thence worked his way to St. Louis, and from 
 there went up the river to Galena, 111., later to 
 Fort Snelling. On the boat "Senator" he formed 
 the acquaintance of Captain Schmidt, who in- 
 duced him to learn the pilot's business and se- 
 cured him work between Galena and Fort Snel- 
 ling. For twelve years he was employed as a 
 Mississippi River pilot. He piloted down the 
 river a raft bearing from Houston County, Minn., 
 the timber used in the construction of the first 
 bridge across the river at Rock Island. On 
 resigning as pilot he went to Europe, where he 
 spent seven months. 
 
 The year 1858 found Mr. Schwagler in Kansas. 
 He had been at Fort Leavenworth in 1848, as 
 an interpreter for the government in its communi- 
 cations with the Winnebago Indians, and again, 
 in 1854, he visited the state. On finally coming 
 here as a permanent settler he squatted on land 
 north of Leavenworth, but was driven ofi". In 
 1862 he bought the place on section 10 where he 
 now lives, and added to his property in 1866 by 
 the purchase of forty-four and one- half acres 
 adjoining, for which he paid $1.25 an acre. The 
 
 land was covered with brush and he made all of 
 the improvements. For some time he had a 
 tavern, but it burned down in 1898 and he then 
 erected his present residence. In 1859 he crossed 
 the plains on the old Smoky Hill route with ox- 
 teams and mined at Central City and Russell 
 Gulch, Colo., returning home in the fall. Again, 
 in the spring of i860, he crossed the plains with 
 team and mined at California Gulch, where he 
 was successful. 
 
 In politics Mr. Schwagler is a Democrat. He 
 served as road overseer for twenty-eight years. 
 At Brownsville, Minn., he married Hannah Cox, 
 who was born in Harrison County, Va. They 
 became the parents of eleven children, but only 
 three are li'ving. The oldest, MoUie, who was a 
 high school teacher, married a gentleman who is 
 now in the government employ in Cuba. The 
 second daughter, Jennie, resides with her sister 
 in Arizona. The son, Scott, assists his father 
 in the cultivation of the home farm. 
 
 ~ DWIN L. CARNEY. The Carney family 
 ^ was founded in America by four brothers 
 __ from Ireland, who first settled in New York 
 and afterwards two went to Pennsylvania and two 
 to Ohio. From the Ohio branch descended James 
 Carney, a farmer, and a lifelong resident of the 
 Buckeye state. His oldest son, Dr. Theodore 
 Carney, died at Boonville, Mo. The second and 
 third sons, LeRoy and Thomas, came to Kansas 
 and embarked in business at Leavenworth, where 
 the former died in i860, and the latter afterward 
 became governor of the state. The remaining 
 son, Craton, first settled in northwestern Mis- 
 souri, but about the opening of the Civil war he 
 removed to Leavenworth, and his death occurred 
 in High Prairie Township in 1886. 
 
 The birth of the subject of this sketch occurred 
 in Kenton, Ohio, August 16, 1852, his parents 
 being Hon. Thomas and Rebecca Ann (Canaday) 
 Carney. His education was begun in Ohio, but 
 was obtained principally in the schools of Leaven- 
 worth, where the family established their perma- 
 nent home in i860. He was the first graduate 
 of the Leavenworth high school. Afterward he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 entered the literary department of Harvard Col- 
 lege, from which he graduated, after a four j-ears' 
 course, in 1875, with the degree of A. B. Return- 
 ing to Leavenworth, he at once began the study 
 of law, and in 1877 was admitted to practice at 
 the bar of Kansas. Since then he has given his 
 attention closely to professional work and has 
 built up a large and important practice, especially 
 in civil law. For two years (1879-81) beheld 
 the office of city attorney, and during the latter 
 part of his term took a very active part in the re- 
 vision of the city charter. 
 
 The interest which Mr. Carney maintains in 
 public affairs is that of a loyal, progressive citizen, 
 who desires to see his home town advance in ma- 
 terial prosperity, and who also has at heart the 
 welfare of his state. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican. He has never deviated from his allegiance 
 to his party and his support of its men and meas- 
 ures. He is a prominent Mason, having attained 
 the degree of Knight Templar. His marriage in 
 Leavenworth united him with Marj-, daughter 
 of F. P. FitzWilliam, one of the pioneers of 
 this citj'. 
 
 (Tames H. BEDDOW, range rider and in- 
 I spector of the military reservation at Fort 
 (2/ Leavenworth, is probably the oldest surviv- 
 ing .settler of this part of Kansas, having come 
 hereabout 1848. His has been a very eventful 
 life, filled with adventure, hardships and frontier 
 experiences, and now, in his declining years, he 
 enjoys the respect and good will of all with whom 
 he has been associated. He was born at Har- 
 rodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., January 4, 1826, 
 a .son of James H. and Elizabeth (Cruse) Beddow, 
 natives of Lynchburg, Va. His paternal ances- 
 tors came from France and were earlj' settlers of 
 Virginia. His father, who fought during the 
 war of 18 12 as midshipman in the navy, .served as 
 county clerk and probate judge of Mercer Coun- 
 ty, Ky. He and his wife died in Mercer County 
 and were buried at the old homestead there. Of 
 their four children the subject of this sketch is 
 the only one known to be living. He was reared 
 on the liome farm, and learned the tailor's trade 
 in youth, but followed it for a short time only. 
 
 At the breaking out of the Mexican war Mr. 
 Beddow enli.sted in the First Dragoons, U. S. A., 
 Troop K, and was sent to the practicing school 
 at Carlisle Barracks. During the four years that 
 he remained in the regular army he had consid- 
 erable hard .service on the plains in Kansas, Colo- 
 rado, Dakota and New Mexico. He came with 
 his company to Kansas about 1848. On being 
 discharged from the army, Augu.st 24, 1850, he 
 became connected with the quartermaster's de- 
 partment at Fort Leavenworth, where he was 
 under civilian law, and held all the positions to 
 which a civilian was eligible. In 1877 he was 
 appointed to his present position, that of range 
 rider for the quartermaster's department, having 
 charge of all the government lands under orders 
 from the commanding officer of the post. His 
 entire time is spent in inspecting the range, which 
 consists of fifty-eight hundred acres in Kansas 
 and nine hundred and ninety-nine acres across 
 the river in Missouri. He is in point of years of 
 service the oldest employe of the government at 
 Fort Leavenworth, and is probably the oldest 
 surviving resident of eastern Kansas, where he 
 first arrived on Christmas eve of 1848. 
 
 During the Kansas war of 1856 Mr. Beddow was 
 messenger for Major Sedgwick and Col. E. V. 
 Sumner: also for Colonel Johnson, and carried 
 all dispatches from the fort to the commanding 
 officers in the field. From the United States 
 marshal he received appointment as deputy mar- 
 shal at the fort, which position he held for twelve 
 years. During the opening months of the Civil 
 war he went to Nebraska to look after a large 
 tract of land he owned there. While there he 
 was attacked by highwaymen , who supposed he 
 had with him money to pay off his men. He 
 was so brutally attacked by them that he lost his 
 right eye and lay uncon-scious for eleven days, 
 after which for ninety days he hovered between 
 life and death. It was months before he regained 
 his strength and was able to resume work. He 
 had given considerable attention to his property 
 in Nebraska, where he had extensively engaged 
 in raising stock and in general farming, but after 
 this he disposed of the land. In politics he has 
 always been a Democrat, but by military regula- 
 
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 tions is not allowed to vote; however, he served 
 as judge of elections for Kickapoo Township 
 several times during the Civil war. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Army and Navy Union at Fort I<eav- 
 vvorth. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Beddow married Mary Ruder, sis- 
 ter of Frederick Ruder, of L,eavenwortli. They 
 have four children: James H., Jr., of Kansas 
 City; William A., who went to Santiago with the 
 Twentieth Regulars and served as teamster until 
 the troops were returned to the United States, 
 since which time he has been employed at the 
 fort;- Robert J. and May, both of whom are in 
 Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Beddow reside at 
 the fort, but expect on his retirement from work 
 to settle upon their farm in Wyandotte County, 
 which they now rent to tenants. 
 
 July 21, 1899, Mr. Beddow celebrated the fifty - 
 third anniversary of his connection with the gov- 
 ernment service. During this long time, all of 
 which has been spent in the west, he has wit- 
 nessed the settlement and progress of this section 
 of country and has labored to promote its inter- 
 ests. Many a time in earlj' days he took part 
 in fights with the Pawnee and Cheyenne In- 
 dians. The life was one of exposure and hard- 
 ship. Many a night he slept on the ground 
 wrapped in a blanket. However, his robust con- 
 stitution was not injured, and through all of his 
 long and active life he has had excellent health. 
 
 /^EORGE W. MAFFET, proprietor of the 
 l_ Elkhorn fruitery at Lawrence, was born in 
 \^ Wilkesbarre, Luzerne County, Pa., June 10, 
 1856, aud is a descendant of ancestors who bore 
 a patriotic part in the early history of America. 
 The first of the Maffet family in this country was 
 John Maffet, a native of Duncannon, County 
 Tyrone, north of Ireland, who came to America 
 in 1774 and settled in Lycoming County, Pa. 
 His son, Samuel, who was born in Linden, that 
 county, served from 18 15 to 1821 as register and 
 recorder of Luzerne County, Pa., to which he 
 was appointed by Governors Snyder and Findlay. 
 February 8, 1821, he became prothonotary, which 
 position, together with those of clerk of the court 
 
 of quarter sessions, oyer aud terminer, and clerk 
 of the orphans' court, he held until 1828. He 
 started the Susquehanna Democrat, which was 
 the first Democratic paper established in his 
 town. Active in military affairs he was commis- 
 sioned ensign August I, 18 14, aud captain May 
 22, 1818, of the Eighth Company, Second Penn- 
 sylvania Militia, each commission running for 
 seven years. 
 
 William Ross Maffet, son of Samuel Maffet, 
 was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 29, 18 17, 
 and became a civil and mining engineer and coal 
 operator, developing and operating two mines at 
 Wilkesbarre, and owning one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land containing large beds of anthracite 
 coal. For some time he engaged in railroad en- 
 gineering, but finally his coal operations con- 
 sumed his entire time. He was the first super- 
 intendent of the Pennsylvania canal, and planned 
 and built a switchback at Summit, Pa. Among 
 the citizens of his town he held a high position. 
 From Governor Hartranft, who had been a pupil 
 under him in boyhood, he received a commission 
 to revise the ordinances of the various cities of 
 the state and to prepare a universal code for the 
 same. Fraternally, like his father, he was prom- 
 inent in Masonry. His death occurred June 14, 
 1890. 
 
 The mother of William R. Maffet was Caroline 
 Ann, daughter of Gen. William Ross. The lat- 
 ter was born in New London, Conn., March 
 29, 1761, migrated to the Wyoming Valley in 
 1775, arriving there the day before the massacre 
 by the Indians. Enlisting at the opening of the 
 Revolutionary war, he rose from major to brigad- 
 ier-inspector and then general of militia, and in 
 recognition of his bravery was presented by the 
 state with a sword and a brace of pistols, July 4, 
 1788, the letter of presentation containing these 
 words: ' ' The supreme executive council present 
 this mark of their approbation acquired by your 
 firmness in support of the laws of the common- 
 wealth." His well-known fitness for public 
 office led to his election as state senator, in which 
 position he greatly advanced the welfare of his 
 constituents. He married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Samuel aud Elizabeth (Perkins) Sterling. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 One of their sons, Gen. William Sterling Ross, 
 served as judge for many years, held a prom- 
 inent place in the citizenship of his state, and 
 died respected and honored by all who knew 
 him. The death of General Ross occurred Au- 
 gust 9, 1842, when he was eighty-two years of 
 age. He had two brothers, Lieut. Perrin Ross 
 and Jeremiah Ross, who were slain in the Wy- 
 oming massacre. They were sons of Jeremiah 
 Ross, Sr. , sons of James and Sarah (Utley) Ross. 
 
 The wife of William Ross Maffet was Martha 
 Washington Adelia We.st, who was born at the 
 family home on Christian street, Philadelphia, 
 Pa., September 7, 1825, and died at Summit Hill, 
 Pa., August 29, 1864. She was the daughter of 
 G. G. and Martha (Kessler) West, a grand- 
 daughter of John and Martha (Berrill) Kessler, 
 and a great-granddaughter of Leonard and Mary 
 (Ritchover) Kessler. Mr. West was a success- 
 ful business man and banker in Philadelphia. 
 John Kessler was an officer on the ship that car- 
 ried La Fayette back to France, and spent his en- 
 tire life upon the high seas, where he was more 
 than once shipwrecked and also suffered injury 
 during various battles in which the navy en- 
 gaged. 
 
 In the family of William Ross and M. W. 
 Adelia (West) Maffet there were eight children, 
 namely: Ann Kliza, wife of Capt. T. Connell, of 
 San Diego, Cal.; Rosalie West, wife of Lathan 
 W. Jones, residing near Denver, Colo. ; Martha 
 Adelia, who lives in Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Ruth 
 Ross, wife of Horace See, a prominent naval 
 designer expert; George W.; Adelaide W., wife 
 of George Romage, who is connected with the 
 Rand-McNally Company of Chicago; Sarah C, 
 wife of Capt. Charles Stevens, U. S. A., who 
 participated in the Spanish-American war; and 
 William Ross, Jr., who is engaged in the lumber 
 business at Rooster Rock, Ore. Through the 
 mother the genealogy of the family is traced back 
 to Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert. 
 
 The education of our subject was acquired in 
 public schools and Wyoming Seminary. His 
 health being poor, he decided to come west for a 
 change of climate. The year 1876 found him in 
 Wichita, Kans. Two years later he went to a 
 
 " boom" town on the prairies of Harper County. 
 Of this town, Anthony, he was the first post- 
 master, and he took an active part in all local 
 affairs, including the county-seat struggle. In 
 1880 he established the Anthony Republican, 
 which under his able editorship gained weight in 
 the seventh congressional district, and, indeed, 
 in the entire state. However, his close attention 
 to business seriously impaired his health and it 
 became necessary for him to seek an occupation 
 that would give him outdoor exercise. For this 
 reason he sold the paper in 1893. During 1881, 
 leaving the paper in care of a partner, he went 
 into Indian Territory, and bought the Cheyenne 
 Transporter at Darlington, which he conducted 
 in the interests of the Indians and range cattle- 
 men. He remained among the Indians until De- 
 cember, 1885, when he returned to Anthony. In 
 the spring of 1S90 he became the president and 
 secretary for the Anthony Salt Companj' and re- 
 mained at the head of this business until he re- 
 moved from the town. At one time he was 
 elected register of deeds in Harper County, but 
 did not qualify. 
 
 In 1894 ^^''- Maffet came to Lawrence and 
 bought thirty-two acres, which he planted to 
 fruits of various kinds, and this place he has 
 since conducted. While he entered horticulture 
 more from a desire to regain his health than from 
 choice, he has found the occupation congenial 
 and has proved himself well adapted to it. He 
 has made a .specialty of strawberries, apples and 
 cherries for commercial purposes. Upon his 
 place is an experimental .strawberry bed contain- 
 ing .sixty-five varieties from nearlj' every state in 
 the Union, which he is giving an actual test to 
 learn exactly what they will do upon his soil. 
 He is also breeding twenty-three female varieties 
 of strawberries with one male variety, hoping to 
 originate something superior. Five acres are 
 planted to strawberries, and the products are 
 shipped to various points in Nebraska and Colo- 
 rado. The fruitery is an attractive homestead 
 and bears evidence of close oversight and super- 
 vision. Over the gate a visitor will notice a 
 large pair of elk horns, illustrating the name 
 given to the place. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 7S7 
 
 111 addition to horticulture Mr. Maffet is inter- 
 ested in stock. He has on his place registered 
 Jersej's, registered Poland-China hogs and stan- 
 dard-bred registered trotting horses, including a 
 fine pair of mares, one a sister to Joe Patchin, 
 and the registered Kentucky trotting stallion, 
 Appamantus, 22,308, bred by the great veterin- 
 arian, Dr. L. Herr, of Lexington, Ky. (owner of 
 Mambrino Patchen 58). This fine stallion is fif- 
 teen and one-half hands high, a handsome chest- 
 nut, gentle enough for a lady to drive, yet has 
 been driven a mile in 2:23 by his trainer. His 
 pedigree can be traced back five generations. 
 His sire, Allandorf 7462, was sold in the France 
 sale in 1893 for $10,000, and at thesanie time his 
 dam, Frankie Lyon, was sold for $610. In the 
 pedigree are many horses that have been promi- 
 nent on the track of recent years. His paternal 
 grandmother, Alma Mater, sold in her prime for 
 $15,000, and her twelve foals brought their breed- 
 ers $79,075. Others in the pedigree have also 
 commanded prices equally high. On his place 
 Mr. Maffet also has a flock of fine white Plym- 
 outh Rock chickens. He is a member of the 
 Douglas County Horticultural Society, the Law- 
 rence Fruit Growers Union, and the Kansas State 
 Horticultural Society. 
 
 The political views of Mr. Maffet have always 
 been those of the Republican party. In 1885 he 
 held appointment as United States commissioner 
 for the district of Kansas in the Indian Territor)^ 
 but resigned upon leaving Darlington. He is con- 
 nected with Lawrence Chapter, Sons of the Revo- 
 lution ; the lodge and encampment of Odd Fellows; 
 and the Degree of Honor, A. O. U. W. During his 
 residence in Darlington, I. T., June 26, 1884, he 
 married Miss Lizzie Kable, who was born in Ce- 
 lina, Ohio, and received a thorough education, 
 after which she engaged in teaching. For five 
 j'ears she held the principalship of the Cheyenne 
 Indian schools at Darlington, and it was while fill- 
 ing this position that she made the acquaintance 
 of Mr. Maffet. Their union has been blessed by 
 two children, Maud A. and Samuel Ross. Mrs. 
 Maffet is identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and is a prominent member of the Ladies 
 Literary League; also, with her husband, holds 
 
 membership in the lodge of the Rebekahs and the 
 Degree of Honor. She was one of five children, 
 and has two sisters now living, viz. : Mrs. Hulda 
 Wells, of Ohio; and Mrs. Amelia Collins, of 
 Rapid City, S. Dak. Her father, Daniel Kable, 
 was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and set- 
 tled in Ohio, where he followed merchant tailor- 
 ing. He died in 1896. Her mother bore the 
 maiden name of Margaret Deitz, and was born in 
 Carlisle, Pa. Left an orphan in early childhood, 
 she was reared in Indiana, but passed her life 
 mainly in Celina, Ohio, where she still resides. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM KENNEDY FAULKNER, who 
 \ A / is engaged in farming and stock-raising in 
 VV High Prairie Township, Leavenworth 
 County, his home being on section 5, was born in 
 Platte County, Mo., January 23, 1859. When he 
 was two years of age he was brought to Kansas 
 by his parents. He grew to manhood in the 
 home of his father, John K. Faulkner. During 
 the years of boyhood he spent the winter months 
 in school and the summers in working upon the 
 home farm, where, being the eldest of the family, 
 his services were early called into requisition. 
 At the age of twenty-four he started out for him- 
 self, and has since cultivated the same farm, 
 comprising one hundred and sixty acres, on which 
 are raised wheat, corn and hay. 
 
 In conjunction with farming Mr. Faulkner has 
 become interested in the stock business. On his 
 place are about one hundred head of hogs and 
 fifty head of cattle. The products of the farm 
 are used mostly for feed for his stock in winter. 
 In his work he has been successful. He is ener- 
 getic and judicious, and knows how to manage a 
 farm so as to secure the best results. When he 
 bought the land, in 1881, it was raw and unim- 
 proved, but under his energetic efforts the place 
 has been improved and brought to a high state of 
 cultivation. During the first year of his occu- 
 pancy he raised enough on the place to pay for 
 the land. In the spring of 1883 he erected a neat 
 hou.se, which he has since occupied. At other 
 times, as needed, he has built barns and other 
 buildings for the shelter of stock or storage of 
 grain. 
 
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 As a Democrat Mr. Faulkner has taken an ac- 
 tive part in local politics, and has attended county 
 and state conventions. He is a member of the 
 school board, of which he has served as treasurer 
 for some years. In the Christian Church he of- 
 ficiates as an elder. Local projects receive his 
 support and assistance, prominent among these 
 being the building of the schoolhouse in 1886, a 
 work in which he took a warm interest. In 1882 
 he married Margaret Sanders, of this county. Of 
 the four children born of their union, three are 
 living, Edward, Ralph and Arthur. 
 
 Gl RTHUR C. PONTIUS, who is a leading and 
 Ll progressive farmer of Douglas County, has 
 / I made agriculture his life work. After his 
 marriage he rented a farm in Kanwaka Town- 
 ship for two years and then purchased a portion 
 of his present place, situated five miles due west 
 of Lawrence. Here he has since engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising. He has added 
 to his property, which now comprises one hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land as valuable as any in 
 Kanwaka Township. Although he is still a 
 young man, he is regarded as one of the most 
 prosperous farmers of his locality. 
 
 Mr. Pontius was born in Ross County, Ohio, 
 on the 4th of July, 1863, and is the son of Fred- 
 erick B. Pontious, to whose sketch the reader is 
 referred for the family history. He obtained his 
 education in the common schools and Lawrence 
 Business College. May 10, 1887, he married 
 Miss Mabel E. Richardson, who was born in 
 Wisconsin. She is a daughter of Asa Richard- 
 son, who was for some years a member of a prom- 
 inent firm of bridge builders, but for some years 
 prior to his demise was living retired upon a 
 farm in Kanwaka Township, where he died in 
 1888. He was the owner of valuable mining in- 
 terests in Old Mexico, and at one time was presi- 
 dent of a bank in Monroe, Wis. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Pontius settled upon a 
 farm in Kanwaka Township, and he has since 
 devoted himself to stock-raising and general 
 farming, in both of which he has met with suc- 
 cess. He has been fortunate in his undertakings 
 
 and has shown good judgment in all of his deal- 
 ings. In his character he combines those quali- 
 ties of mind and heart that render him deservedly 
 poptdar. He is a stanch advocate of the Demo- 
 cratic party and always votes for its men and 
 measures. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Knights of Pythias in Lawrence. He and his 
 wife |are the parents of five children, nariiely: 
 011a R., born April 30, 1888; Clayton R., Janu- 
 ary 4, 1890; Mabel lua, October 28, 1891; Alma 
 C, January 16, 1896; and Carroll H., January 
 24, 1898. The family are connected with the 
 Congregational Church, and Mr. Pontius was 
 one of the liberal contributors toward the build- 
 ing of the house of worship occupied by this de- 
 nomination, as well as the United Brethren 
 Church recently constructed. As a member of 
 the school board of this district Mrs. Pontius has 
 rendered excellent service in the interests of this 
 neis^hborhood. 
 
 J T. CARR, who was one of the earliest set- 
 ^ tiers of Leavenworth, is descended from 
 ^ , Scotch ancestors who early settled in the 
 north of Ireland and from there the family was 
 transplanted to Rhode Island nianj' j'ears before 
 the Revolutionary war. His father, Almond 
 Carr, was born in 1800 and was a cousin of Hon. 
 Rufus King, the distinguished New York states- 
 man. He was a skilled mechanic and builder 
 and an industrious workman. When advanced in 
 years he settled on a farm in Onondaga County, 
 N. Y., where he died in 1880. He had married 
 Arethusa Maria Moore, who was born in 1803, 
 of Scotch and English descent; she was a woman 
 of excellent education and gentleness of charac- 
 ter, and in religion was a member of the Baptist 
 Church. Her home is still on the old farm where 
 for so many years she has resided. 
 
 Of twelve children who attained mature years 
 (and of whom nine are living) the subject of 
 this sketch was the oldest. He was born in 
 Greenfield, Saratoga County, N. Y., October 28, 
 1825. A diligent student, and a close observer 
 of men and things, the education which he ac- 
 quired was thorough and broad. The early dis- 
 play of mechanical skill caused him to turn his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 789 
 
 attention to architecture, which he studied, from 
 the best text-books, while he was learning the 
 trades of bricklaj-er and stone-mason under his 
 father. He also became familiar with the car- 
 penter's trade, so that, in his work as an archi- 
 tect, he has had the advantage of a thorough 
 knowledge of the many minor details that often 
 demand consideration. 
 
 In the spring of 1855 Mr. Carr went to St. 
 Paul, Minn. In September of the same year he 
 arrived in Fort Leavenworth, where he was em- 
 ployed in the erection of barracks and stables. 
 At that time the fort had only a few buildings, 
 and these were of wood. He began the con- 
 struction of buildings that were substantial, ap- 
 propriate and sightly. Maj. E. S. Sibley was 
 quartermaster and showed the greatest apprecia- 
 tion of Mr. Carr's services. In December, 1856, 
 Mr. Carr returned to New York to settle up some 
 business there. In the spring of 1857 he returned 
 to Leavenworth, where he engaged in building 
 with W. H. Russell and others. In the third 
 year he opened an oiSce as builder and gradually 
 his attention was given to the drawing up of 
 plans. In the fall of i860 he began the erection 
 of the arsenal and ordnance depot for the govern- 
 ment, and this work engaged his attention until 
 the outbreak of the war. 
 
 When the commander of the fort was ordered 
 to St. Louis for duty he asked Mr. Carr, who 
 was a member of the local military company, to 
 protect the post. The latter consenting, the fort 
 was turned over to him and he and his comrades 
 fortified it and did guard duty. Although very 
 anxious to go to the front in the war. General 
 Reno needed his services and persuaded him to 
 remain. As superintendent of the ordnance de- 
 partment at the fort he had charge of its entire 
 work, and continued in the position until 1871. 
 Meantime he planned the Morris school, Leav- 
 enworth courthouse, and many of the other sub- 
 stantial buildings of the city; also the State Nor- 
 mal at Emporia, asylum for the blind at Wyan- 
 dotte, Agricultural college at Manhattan, and 
 many courthouses in Kansas. He drew the plans 
 for the Kansas state penitentiary. Soldiers' Home, 
 Leavenworth high school, and Kansas asyluqi fpj: 
 
 38 
 
 insane at Topeka. In addition to his private en- 
 terprises he was interested in public affairs, and 
 for one term was a member of the citj- council, 
 also served on the school board for many years. 
 From 1 89 1 to 1893 he engaged in the profession 
 of architect in Denver, after which he removed 
 to Miles City, Mont., where, besides his work at 
 his chosen occupation, he engaged in the hard- 
 ware business with his son-in-law, Mr. Ryan. 
 Recently he returned to Leavenworth, where he 
 expects to reside permanently. He was married 
 in this city, December 8, 1859, to Miss Margaret 
 Redferu Cabbin, who was born in England, and 
 in childhood accompanied her parents to Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, thence to northwestern Missouri, and 
 finally to Leavenworth. Mr. and Mrs. Carr have 
 one daughter, Addie Belle, wife of Jepp Ryan. 
 
 July 2, 1856, in Leavenworth, Mr. Carr was 
 made a Mason. He became connected with the 
 Royal Arch chapter in Syracuse, N. Y., and af- 
 terward organized a chapter in Miles City, Mont., 
 of which he was grand high priest. He is also 
 a member of Commandery No. i , K.T. For many 
 years he was secretary of the grand chapter and 
 recorder of the grand commandery ; also for ten 
 years grand secretary of the order. He was the 
 first to institute the Scottish Rite in Kansas and 
 was actively interested in the development of 
 this order in the state. 
 
 (TONATHAN FLANDERS MORGAN, de- 
 I ceased, who was one of the very earliest 
 (2/ settlers in Lawrence (being a member of 
 the Branscombe party), was born in New Lon- 
 don, N. H., April 3, 1818, a son of Henry and 
 Dolly (Harvey) Morgan, being next to the 
 j'oungest of their nine children. His mother was 
 born October 11, 1781, married September 22, 
 1800, and died June 24, 1865. His father, a na- 
 tive of the same town as himself, born August 
 24, 1774, followed farm pursuits, and was ac- 
 cidentally killed, April 3, 1820, by a log rolling 
 on him while he was engaged in logging. Reared 
 in New Hampshire, our subject was a j'oung 
 man when he removed to Massachusetts, where 
 he engaged in the manufacttire of shoes in Hollis. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ton. In July, 1854, he left the east with a party 
 from Boston. He and a Mr. Mallory were ahead 
 of the others and arrived in Lawrence a day be- 
 fore them. He was one of those who laid out 
 the town of Lawrence. He entered one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land, the north line of which 
 runs through the center of the main building of 
 the Univ-ersity of Kansas. During the winter of 
 1854-55 he was proprietor of the old Gillis house, 
 Kansas City, Mo. On selling his claim he bought 
 in Grant Township a tract adjoining Governor 
 Robinson's farm and there he engaged in the 
 stock business. After a time he became inter- 
 ested in contracting, and his death occurred 
 while he was filling a railroad contract in Texas, 
 October 19, 1873. 
 
 In HoUiston, Mass., May 6, 1840, Mr. Morgan 
 married Miss Asenath P. Howe, who was born 
 in Framingham, Mass., February 17, 181S. Her 
 ancestors came from England and settled in Sud- 
 bury, Mass., later removing to Framingham. 
 Perley Howe, a farmer, took part in the battles 
 of Lexington, Concord and other memorable en- 
 gagements of the Revolution. His son, Elias, 
 was born in Framingham August 16, 1780, and 
 was a shoe manufacturer. He married Hannah 
 Perry, who was born August 15, 1791, a daugh- 
 ter of Abel Perry, who, with his father, Abel, 
 Sr., took part in the first war with England. 
 The Perrys were Puritans and early settlers of 
 Massachusetts. Elias Howe and Hannah Perry 
 were married March 27, 181 1; he died September 
 3, 1844, but she survived until February 6, 1870. 
 The)' were the parents of eight sons and four 
 daughters, but of this family only three are liv- 
 ing. One of the three survivors is Mrs. Asenath 
 P. Morgan. She was reared in Framingham and 
 remained in Massachusetts until the fall of 1854, 
 when she brought her children to Kansas. The 
 first winter was spent in Kansas City, and in the 
 spring she joined her hu.sband in Lawrence. 
 During the summer they erected the stone house, 
 which remained their home until destroyed by 
 Quantrell's men. 
 
 At the time of the raid Mr. Morgan was at 
 Fort Scott on a government contract, hence he 
 escaped with his life. At home, however, Mrs. 
 
 Morgan and the children fared badly. A party 
 of raiders came to their house and said if she 
 would give them all the money she had they 
 would not burn the house. She did so, and they 
 went on. Unfortunately, a second party came 
 and demanded money. She had none left, at 
 which they became so indignant that they pro- 
 ceeded to abuse her son, Gilbert, the oldest of 
 the family at home, and a boy of eleven years. 
 They choked and dragged him, held a revolver 
 to his temple, and left him exhausted and almost 
 lifeless. They then set fire to the house and it 
 burned down. Deprived of even the necessities 
 of life, the family found .shelter in a small frame 
 house that had been occupied by a colored family. 
 Soon afterward, however, they sold the property 
 and moved across the river. Mrs. Morgan is now 
 living at No. 1121 Pennsylvania street, Law- 
 rence. She is the mother of three .sons and one 
 daughter now living. Edward \V., of Kansas 
 Citj-, was a soldier in Company M, Eleventh 
 Kansas Cavalry, during the Civil war; Gilbert 
 H., the second son, is represented on another 
 page; John F. is a farmer in Grant Township; 
 and Mrs. Anna Ward resides in Lawrence. 
 
 pGJiLLIAM I. R. BLACKMAN, deceased, 
 \ A / one of the prominent men of Douglas 
 Y V County during the early days of Kansas, 
 was born in Miami County, Ohio, December 12, 
 1824, a son of Hurlbert and Sarah (Rollins) 
 Blackman. He was the second of nine children, 
 all of whom have passed from earth. He grew 
 to manhood in his native county, and obtained 
 his education in the common schools and in an 
 academy at Troy, Ohio. When only seventeen 
 years of age he secured a position as teacher in 
 the public schools at Troy. After he had taught 
 for two years the Mexican war broke out and he 
 decided to enlist in the service. He and his par- 
 ents were strong anti-slavery sympathizers, but, 
 notwithstanding the opposition of many Aboli- 
 tionists to the Mexican war, his patriotism, per- 
 haps not unmingled with a love of adventure and 
 military enthusiasm, prompted him to enlist. 
 Indeed he came of old fightingstock. His grand- 
 
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 father, Elisha Blackmail, Jr., when a youth of 
 eighteen years, was a lieutenant in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and his great-grandfather, Elisha 
 Blackman, Sr. , was second in command in a 
 company called "The Refounadoes," which 
 defended the fort at Wilkesbarre during the 
 Wyoming massacre. Elisha Blackman, Jr., was 
 the last survivor of this terrible slaughter. He 
 died December 5, 1845, aged eighty-six. These 
 men were the descendants of an old Connecticut 
 family, whose first representative in America, 
 Rev. Adam Blackman, a Puritan clergyman, 
 came to this country in 1638. 
 
 Although Mr. Blackman was a mere youth at 
 the time of the Mexican war he did not dishonor 
 his ancestry, but distinguished himself by his 
 courage in battle and won the love of his com- 
 rades by his generous, genial nature. He par- 
 ticipated in the battle of Buena Vista, as well as 
 in the battles around the city of Mexico, and was 
 finally one of the body of troops that entered the 
 city after its conquest. 
 
 Returning home at the close of the war, Mr. 
 Blackman assisted his father in the furniture 
 business. Here he became a member of the anti- 
 slavery party, and the first vote he ever cast was 
 for its candidate. In 1854 became to Lawrence, 
 where he established the first furniture business 
 in this city. He resided here during all the early 
 traubles of Kansas. He raised the first company 
 of Sharp's Rifles in Lawrence, which during the 
 fall and next summer gave the pro-slavery party 
 so much trouble; and used every effort in his 
 power to prevent the establishment of slavery and 
 to make Kansas a free state. In 1856 he went to 
 Ohio on a visit and after the presidential election 
 attempted to return to his home, but he found 
 the Missouri River guarded by the border ruf- 
 fians, and was obliged to go around through 
 Iowa. He had his revenge, however. On the 
 15th of November he left Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 
 and traveled the entire distance to Lawrence, four 
 hundred miles, on foot, establishing at conven- 
 ient intervals depots for the Western Under- 
 ground Railroad; and keeping his headquarters 
 at Lawrence he forwarded by this route hundreds 
 of runaway slaves to Canada and freedom. Many 
 
 times his home was surrounded by negro hunters 
 and more than once searched by United States 
 troops, but no slave once in his possession was 
 ever recovered. At the time of the Quantrell 
 raid he was visiting in Ohio, but his store build- 
 ing and nearly all of his stock of furniture were 
 destroyed. 
 
 An active, public-spirited man he did much 
 toward the upbuilding of Lawrence in its earlj' 
 days. Two years before his marriage he bought 
 railroad land in Grant Township, four and one- 
 half miles north of Lawrence, and settled down 
 to farming. Upon this place he continued to re- 
 side until his death, which occurred March 2, 
 1882. 
 
 The lady who for years was the helpmate and 
 devoted companion of Mr. Blackman, and who 
 has made her home in Lawrence since 1884, bore 
 the maiden name of Thomas Anna Amoss, and 
 was born in Baltimore, Md., September 11, 1846, 
 a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Maulsby) 
 Amoss, being the only survivor of two children. 
 Her father, who was born near Fallston, Md., 
 engaged in farming there for some years, but 
 later removed to Baltimore and engaged in the 
 dry-goods business, continuing in that occupa- 
 tion until his death, in 1844. His wife was born 
 in 1816 near Fallston, a daughter of Capt. Morris 
 Maulsby, who won his title in the Revolutionary 
 war. He was an active business man, and con- 
 ducted a cooperage establishment, a blacksmith's 
 shop and a pottery on his farm near Fallston. 
 The other grandfather of Mrs. Blackman was 
 William Amoss, a Quaker preacher and a member 
 of an old family of New England. 
 
 After the death of Thomas Amoss his widow 
 was again married, becoming the wife of Jeffer- 
 son B. Conway, a carpenter of Baltimore, and 
 one of the earliest settlers of Lawrence, Kans. , 
 having come to this state in 1854, although his 
 family remained in the east until 1858. He was 
 an active participant in the border warfare trou- 
 bles and was captain of a company of volunteers 
 called the "Stubbs," that enlisted in the free- 
 state cause. His brother, M. F. Conway, was 
 the first representative from Kansas Territory, 
 and at different times in early days held high of- 
 
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 fices. lie was the only free-state man elected to 
 the council of the First Territorial Legislature, 
 was chief justice of the state and was president of 
 Leavenworth Cons. Convention, besides holding 
 many other honorary offices. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Conway were born three children, namely: Mari- 
 ness W., an attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio; Oscar 
 C, a farmer of Oklahoma; and Inez, deceased. 
 Mrs. Conway died in Kansas in 1896. 
 
 Miss Anioss was educated in common schools 
 and the Lawrence high school. In Lawrence, 
 June II, 1864, she became the wife of William 
 I. R. Blackmail, and seven children were born to 
 them, five of whom are living. Miriam A. mar- 
 ried Valorous Brown, a farmer of Thorn pson- 
 ville, Kans. , since deceased; Rollin E., a Presbj-- 
 terian minister, has a pastorate at Orleans, Neb. 
 Cora H. is the wife of George Eddy, a fruit 
 grower at Escondido, Cal. Mary I., a successful 
 educator, has been connected with Arkansas Col- 
 lege in Little Rock. Maulsby W. is a student in 
 the University of Kansas. The family is ident- 
 ified with the Presbyterian Church, to which Mr. 
 Blackmau was a liberal contributor, and in which 
 he maintained a warm interest. 
 
 rDGjlLLIAM EDWIN THOMAS, of Leaven- 
 
 \ A / worth, is president of the Southwestern 
 VV Fuel Company, with headquarters in To- 
 peka, Kans.; the Kansas City Coal and Coke 
 Company, of Kansas City, Mo.; and the Kansas 
 and Nebraska Coal Company, of Omaha, Neb. 
 The family of which Mr. Thomas is a member 
 originated in England, but has been represented 
 in America since 1700, when Lewis Walker 
 Thomas, an officer in the army of William of 
 Nas.sau, Prince of Orange, settled about twenty 
 miles from Philadelphia. The genealogy of the 
 family is presented in the sketch of M. Shaw 
 Thomas, M. D., deceased, which appears else- 
 where in this volume. 
 
 The father of our subject, Daniel Walker 
 Thomas, M. D., was born near Baltimore, Md., 
 and in youth studied medicine, graduating from 
 the medical department of the Maryland Uni- 
 versity. For a short time he practiced at Mar- 
 
 tinsburg, Va. During the Civil war he was a 
 surgeon in the Confederate army stationed at 
 Richmond. In 1866 he came to Leavenworth, 
 Kans., and here he built up a valuable practice, 
 remaining in this city until his death. May 11, 
 1896, at seventy-one years of age. During the 
 j'ears of his residence in Leavenworth he proved 
 himself a progressive citizen, and aided enter- 
 prises for the benefit of the people. In politics 
 he was a Democrat. He was interested in edu- 
 cational matters, and for several years served as 
 a member of the school board. In religion he 
 was of the Roman Catholic faith. He and his 
 brother, M. Shaw Thomas, M. D., were among 
 the most prominent professional men of eastern 
 Kansas. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Daniel W. Thomas united 
 him with Miss Meredith M. Piet, who was born 
 in Virginia in 1S30, and is .still living, making 
 her home in Kansas City, Mo., and in New 
 Mexico. Eight children were born of their union, 
 of whom the oldest son died in infancy, and W. 
 Edwin is the oldest now living. Mary Ellis mar- 
 ried Harry W. Kelly, of Las Vegas, N. M.; Clara 
 Virginia is the wife of M. D. Kittell, of Pennsylva- 
 nia; Anna Louisa (twin of Clara Virginia) is the 
 wife of J. T. Broughal, of Kansas City, Mo.; 
 Frank J. is interested with our subject as secre- 
 tary of the various fuel companies, and is also 
 president of the Thomas Fuel and Ice Company, 
 of Atchison, Kans.; Susan C. is in a convent at 
 Wilmington, Del.; and Bernard is associated with 
 our subject in business at Omaha. 
 
 Born in Richmond, Va., November 3, 1857, 
 W. Edwin Thomas was nine years of age when 
 his parents brought him to Leavenworth, and his 
 education was for some years carried on in the 
 schools of this city. Later he was a student in 
 St. Mary's (Kans.) College. For four years he 
 was employed as clerk in the passenger and 
 freight offices of the Burlington road in Leaven- 
 worth, and afterward he held a clerical position 
 with the Kansas Central Railroad. He was act- 
 ing in the capacity of auditor of the latter road 
 when it was absorbed by the Union Pacific sys- 
 tem. He then turned his attention to the coal 
 business and handled the product of the state 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 mine at Lansing, Kans. In 1892 he bought out 
 the Southwestern Fuel Companj' at Topeka, and 
 a short time afterward established the other com- 
 panies of which he is president. He is a man of 
 genuine business ability and has been notably 
 successful in his undertakings. He is not active 
 in politics, but always votes and works with the 
 Democratic party (gold wing) in national affairs, 
 while in local matters he is liberal. In religion 
 he is identified with the Roman Catholic Church. 
 He married Miss Kate Shire, one of the popular 
 young ladies of Leavenworth, whose father, the 
 late Daniel Shire, was once prominent in this 
 city. They have two daughters, S. Ellis and C. 
 Meredith. 
 
 Gl DAM L. WILKE, principal member of the 
 M firm of A. L. Wilke & Co., is identified 
 I I with one of the important industries of 
 Leavenworth. When he came to this city in 
 1895 he embarked in the packing-house busi- 
 ness, as a member of the firm of Wilke, Bosch 
 & Co. After a time he bought the interests of 
 the other members of the firm, and took Herman 
 Koch into partnership, establishing the house of 
 Wilke & Co. The first location was on Seventh 
 and Kiowa streets, but the building there burned 
 down, and afterward he built at No. 15 17 South 
 Second street, where he has a two-story build- 
 ing, 125x125. Under his management, as super- 
 intendent, a large business has been established, 
 particularly in the packing and shipping of pork, 
 and the reputation of the house has been built up 
 in the south and west. He makes a specialty of 
 the Morning Glory and Kansas King sugar-cured 
 bacon, both of which varieties have gained a 
 wide reputation for excellence. 
 
 Mr. Wilke was born in Berlin, Germany, Sep- 
 tember 19, 1853. His father. Dr. Adolph L. 
 Wilke, a native of Ireland, was for years engaged 
 in the practice of medicine in Berlin, where he 
 died at sixty-four years of age. His wife also 
 died in that city. Their five children are still 
 living, our subject being next to the oldest and 
 the only one in Leavenworth. The first eighteen 
 years of his life he spent in Berlin, where he at- 
 tended common schools and a gymnasium. When 
 
 fourteen he was apprenticed to the butcher's 
 trade in Berlin. In 1873 he came to the United 
 States, and for a time worked at his trade in 
 Philadelphia and New York. In 1878 he came 
 west as far as Chicago, where he was employed 
 by the Armour packing house, and was also with 
 Fowler, Booth, Underwood and Wilson. He 
 became interested in a packing house in Fort 
 Wayne, Ind., and Sioux City, Iowa. In 1885 he 
 became foreman for the Dold Packing Company 
 in Kansas City, later was superintendent of the 
 Charles Wolfe Packing Company in Topeka, 
 Kans., and superintendent of the Burlington & 
 Missouri Packing Company in Denver, Colo. 
 Since 1895 he has been actively engaged in busi- 
 ness in Leavenworth. 
 
 In spite of engrossing business cares, Mr. 
 Wilke has several times returned to Germany to 
 visit his old home and the friends of his youth. 
 He has crossed the ocean seven times, each trip 
 being a pleasant and profitable excursion and af- 
 fording him an enjoyed vacation from business 
 duties. He has traveled in England and France, 
 and has gained a broad knowledge of peoples 
 and business methods in other countries. He 
 was married in Berlin to Miss Ida Kreider, who 
 was born near that city, and by whom he has 
 three children, Robert, Ida and Theodore. The 
 family reside on Grand avenue. The only fra- 
 ternal association with which he is identified is 
 the Order of Sons of Herman. His attention is 
 given quite closely to his business interests. 
 There is no detail of the pork-packing business 
 with which he is unfamiliar. With acute dis- 
 crimination and quick comprehension, he grasps 
 every department of the work. Coming to the 
 United States wholly without means he deserves 
 credit for the business he has established and the 
 success he has gained. 
 
 HERMAN KOCH is the junior member of 
 the firm of Wilke & Co., pork-packers of 
 Leavenworth, and is one of the successful 
 young business men of the city. Born in Min- 
 den, Germany, September 23, 1865, he received 
 his education in the schools of that city, and 
 
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 early in life began to be self-supporting, secur- 
 ing employment wherever possible. When he 
 came to Kansas in 1881 he was given work in a 
 sugar factory and afterward, for five years, he 
 was interested in the milling business. He then 
 bought out a grocery, which he conducted for a 
 time alone and later with another gentleman 
 under the title of Koch & Co.; afterward his 
 brother-in-law became associated with him in the 
 business, which is now operated under the firm 
 name of Knollman & Co. In 1896 a butcher 
 shop was opened by the firm, and soon a large 
 trade was established in this line. From a small 
 business, where a single horse and wagon about 
 twice a week served for all the needs of the 
 trade, there has grown up a valuable business in 
 which four teams are given constant use. 
 
 In i8y5 Mr. Koch started in the packing busi- 
 ness with Mr. Wilke, their location being on 
 North Seventh street. In the spring of the fol- 
 lowing year their building was burned and they 
 removed to their present location, on South Sec- 
 ond street, where they have all conveniences for 
 the proper management of their business. They 
 kill on an average thirty hogs a day, selling 
 in Leavenworth, Atchison (where they have a 
 branch house) and Kansas City. His business 
 has taken his entire time and thought and hence 
 he has never mingled in public affairs, nor has 
 he allied himself with any political party, but has 
 been independent in his vote. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Turn Verein in Leavenworth. 
 He is not connected with any denomination, but 
 was reared in the Lutheran faith and inclines 
 toward that church. 
 
 IILLIAM D. HARDING came to Kansas 
 in the fall of 1867 and settled in Douglas 
 County, purchasing one hundred and twen- 
 ty acres at Twin Mound, Marion Township. 
 Upon this place he has since resided, having in- 
 creased its size by purchase, until he now owns 
 two hundred and ninety-three and one-third 
 acres. Mr. Harding is of Virginian descent. He 
 was born in Shelby County, Ky., March 22, 
 1824, a son of Mason and Margaret (Shelton) 
 
 Harding, the latter a daughter of a Revolutionary 
 soldier. When a young man, Mason Harding 
 moved from Virginia to Kentucky, where he 
 made his home for several years. About 1836 he 
 settled upon raw land in Parke County, Ind., 
 where he engaged in farming and teaming. He 
 died there at sixty-eight years. He was a soldier in 
 the war of 18 12 and ever displaj^ed the spirit of a 
 true patriot. His wife came to Kansas after his 
 death and died in our subject's home, at the age 
 of eighty-seven. Three of the family are now 
 living, namely: Mason, a farmer in Iowa; Will- 
 iam D.; and Pearlina, widow of Clinton Searing. 
 When twelve years of age our subject accom- 
 panied his parents to Indiana, where he assisted 
 in clearing and cultivating a farm. His older 
 brother leaving home he became the main sup- 
 port of his mother and sister, for whom he affec- 
 tionately provided until the necessity for so doing 
 no longer existed. In the fall of 1867 he brought 
 them to Kansas and at the same time was accom- 
 panied to this state by his wife and children. 
 While in Indiana, in 1850, he married Mary C. 
 Searing. Of the children born to their union we 
 note the following: James C. resides in Topeka, 
 Kans. ; Thomas P. is a lumberman in Oklahoma; 
 Mason T. cultivates a farm in Douglas County; 
 Elba F. is the wife of Benjamin F. Metsker; 
 Mary married John L. Metsker and lives in 
 Washington state; William Scott is in Texas and 
 Edward S. in Washington state; Mattie married 
 James Williams, of Oklahoma; Elmer is a farmer 
 in Marion Township: Charles P. and Fern are at 
 home. All of the children were given excellent 
 educations and the married daughters have taught 
 school and are also natural mu.sicians. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Harding enlisted in the Forty- 
 second Indiana Infantry and served for nine 
 months without losing a day from active service. 
 During most of this time he was on garrison duty, 
 under General Sherman, in the western division 
 of the army. In politics he is a Republican and 
 has held office on the school board. While in 
 Indiana he was identified with the Baptist 
 Church. He assisted in organizing Clinton Lodge 
 A. F. & A. M., in which he is an ofiicer, and he 
 is also connected with Richland Post No. 170, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 795 
 
 G. A. R. A hard-working man, he richly de- 
 serves his present prosperity. Not only had he 
 no means to aid in starting in life, but he was 
 handicapped in many ways and was obliged not 
 only to care for his own large family, but also for 
 many relatives. However, the ' 'bread cast upon 
 the waters' ' returned to bless the liberal giver, 
 and now, in the twilight of his life, he can enjoy 
 the fruits of former j^ears of labor, ministered to 
 by his children, of whom he is justly proud. 
 
 y yi ANFORD H. CARR. A list of the busi- 
 y ness enterprises which are contributing to 
 is the growth of Leavenworth should include 
 the name of the Leavenworth Paving Brick Com- 
 pany, the members of which are the firm of Nesch 
 & Carr. When Mr. Carr came to this city in 
 1895 he associated himself with Robert Nesch in 
 the establishment of the company, which has 
 since engaged in the manufacture of all varieties 
 of paving and building brick. During the sum- 
 mer of 1895 the firm bought the government 
 brick plant at the Soldiers' Home, and there 
 they continued for two years, when they removed 
 to their present location, Marion and Second 
 streets, within and near the city limits. They 
 own four blocks of clay land for brick manufac- 
 turing and are equipped with every facility for 
 the successful prosecution ofthe business. 
 
 Mr. Carr was born in Fayette County, Ohio, 
 in 1855. His grandfather, Michael Carr, mi- 
 grated from Virginia to Ohio, accompanied by his 
 brother, about 18 15, and settled upon land which 
 he had been given by the government in return 
 for his services in the war of 18 12. He was one of 
 the earliest settlers of Fayette County, where he 
 became a large farmer and where the family name 
 is still known. The youngest of his thirteen 
 children was Evan H. Carr, who for years was 
 one of the leading farmers in Fayette County, but 
 suffered severely in finances during the Civil war. 
 Of the large family to which he belonged only 
 one is living, William, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, 
 formerly the proprietor of a large mill. The 
 mother of our subject bore the maiden name of 
 Sarah Haymaker, and was a member of a family 
 
 that removed from Virginia to Ohio. She is now 
 living with her second son, William, who is a 
 member of the large vi^holesale grocery firm of 
 Green, Carr & Co., in Dayton, Ohio. Her only 
 daughter. Amy, is the wife of James Littleton, of 
 Casey, 111., while the youngest son, Harry, lives 
 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. 
 
 When eighteen years of age our subject en- 
 tered Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, 
 where he carried on his studies for a time. Upon 
 leaving college he went to Cincinnati and studied 
 law. In 188 1, upon examination before the su- 
 preme court, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio, 
 and afterward he practiced law in that state for 
 two and one-half years. In October, 1883, he 
 came to Kansas, accepting the position of state 
 agent for the.Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, of Philadelphia. With Atchison as his 
 headquarters, he began active work in connection 
 with his position. At the same time he built up 
 a large local fire insurance business. For five 
 years he was adjuster of fire insurance losses for 
 the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, of San 
 Francisco, Cal., meantime traveling over the 
 middle west. He still owns property in Atchi- 
 son, but since 1895 has made his home in Leav- 
 enworth, where he devotes his attention to the 
 manufacture of brick and to the supervision of 
 Captain Insley's property. He has not been ac- 
 tive in politics, taking no part aside from voting 
 the Republican ticket. While in Atchison he be- 
 came identified with the blue lodge, chapter and 
 comraandery ofthe Masonic fraternity, and he is 
 now connected with Abdallah Temple, N. M. S., 
 of Leavenworth. December 21, 1893, he mar- 
 ried Lillian, daughter of Capt. M. H. Insley, and 
 they have one child, Merritt Virginia. The fam- 
 ily attend the Methodist Church. 
 
 SILBERT H. MORGAN was born in South 
 Framington, Mass., February 27, 1852. In 
 August, 1854, he accompanied his father, 
 Jonathan Flanders Morgan, as far as Kansas City, 
 where he and the other members of the family 
 spent the winter, his father meantime proceeding 
 to Lawrence and taking up a claim there. In 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 February they joined him and settled upon a 
 farm, continuing to reside there until 1864, when 
 removal was made to Grant Township. He at- 
 tended local schools and also the preparatory de- 
 partment of the Uni%'ersity of Kansas. After- 
 ward he assisted his father in railroad contracting 
 for two years, and later gave his attention to 
 farm pursuits. The death of his father thrust the 
 responsibilities of life upon him before he was 
 tvveuty years of age. He bought a farm of one 
 hundred and fifty-five acres lying immediate]}' 
 east of Governor Robinson's place, and there he 
 engaged extensively in general farming and stock- 
 raising. He made a specialty of feeding stock, 
 and was so successful in it that he has continued 
 it to the present. He ships stock of all kinds to 
 various markets, and has built up a large and im- 
 portant business, aggregating a large amount in 
 cash values annuallj'. In addition to the land 
 that he owns he leases large tracts, farming eight 
 hundred acres altogether. His specialty in stock 
 has been Shorthorn cattle, and he has met with 
 noteworthy success in this strand. During 1893 
 he removed from the farm into Lawrence, and 
 now makes his home at No. 516 Ohio street. 
 However, his removal to town has not in the least 
 affected his business, which is continued on a 
 large scale, demanding his entire time and over- 
 sight. 
 
 In Lawrence, in March, 1876, Mr. Morgan 
 married Rachael, daughter of John and Olivia 
 (Hill) Simmons, and a native of Randolph 
 County, Ind. Her father, who was born in Ohio, 
 spent some years in Indiana, but in 1868 came to 
 Kansas and settled on a farm in Sarcoxie Town- 
 ship, Jefferson County. The Simmons family is 
 of Swiss descent, the first of the name in this 
 country having settled in Pennsylvania. Her 
 mother was born in Fletcher, Miami County, 
 Ohio, and was a descendant of a New England 
 family. Mrs. Simmons died in Indiana and Mr. 
 Simmons is now making his home in Douglas 
 County. He had four children by his first mar- 
 riage, and two of these are living. Mrs. Mor- 
 gan, who was the j-oungest of the family, was 
 educated mainly in Kansas. By her marriage 
 she is the mother of three children: Milo E-, a 
 
 graduate of the University of Kansas in 1899, 
 with the degree of LL. B. ; Gladys F. , a graduate 
 of the Lawrence high school and now a student 
 in the university ; and Matie B., a member of 
 the high school class of 1901. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Morgan is a Democrat. 
 While living in the country he took an active 
 part in township affairs and served as justice of 
 the peace for several years. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Modern Woodmen and in re- 
 ligion is a Universalist. 
 
 (Jordan NEAL, one of the earliest settlers 
 I of Kansas, is engaged in stock-raising and 
 G/ general farming in Wakarusa Township, 
 Douglas County, where he has made his home 
 since 1854. He was born in Franklin County, 
 111., July 18, 1824, a son of Jeremiah and Eliza- 
 beth Neal. His father, a native of North Caro- 
 lina, was married in Kentuckj' and afterward 
 settled on a farm in Illinois. In politics a Demo- 
 crat, he was elected sheriff on that ticket and 
 also for ten years served as county commissioner. 
 Of his twelve children the third, Jordan, was 
 reared in Franklin County amid pioneer sur- 
 roundings. Schools were few and poor, and the 
 nearest to his home was three miles distant. He 
 engaged in farming in his home countj- until his 
 removal to Kansas in 1854, when he took up one 
 hundred and sixty acres on sections 5 and 8, 
 Wakarusa Township, Douglas County. Begin- 
 ning with this tract of raw land he made the 
 necessary improvements, broke the ground, 
 placed the soil under cultivation, erected build- 
 ings and built fences. Within eight years after 
 his .settlement on the land he had it under culti- 
 vation, but he now has the greater part of the 
 property in pasturage, as he has of recent years 
 given special attention to the raising of stock. 
 On his farm he has about one hundred and fifty 
 head of Poland-China hogs and a herd of Jersey 
 cattle. For twenty j'ears or more he has given 
 the manual work into the hands of others, while 
 he superintends the shipment of stock and pro- 
 duce. 
 
 During the border troubles of 1S55-56 Mr. 
 
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 Neal endured all the hardships and anxieties 
 incident to life in this locality. When Quantrell 
 made his famous raid, in 1863, he escaped un- 
 harmed; however, he had been less fortunate in 
 previous 5'ears, for, during a raid by a party of 
 Missouri pro-slavery men, in 1856, all of his 
 stock, consisting of twenty head of horses and 
 ninety head of cattle, were stolen, only about 
 ten calves escaping. However, a number of the 
 horses were lost by the thieves and afterward re- 
 turned to the rightful owner. In i860 Mr. Neal 
 drove a herd of cattle from Texas to Nebraska 
 City. From 1861 to 1865 he was engaged in 
 trading with the Osage Indians, and was quite 
 successful in this work. Until recent years he 
 took a very active part in Democratic politics, 
 but his work was not for himself, but for the 
 benefit of his county or his friends. Among the 
 men of his party he is known as the ' 'old wheel- 
 horse of the Democracy in Wakarusa." 
 
 While living in Illinois, and just before he 
 was twenty-three years of age, Mr. Neal married 
 Miss Emeline Taylor, by whom he had two chil- 
 dren. The only son, John Calvin DeKalb, died 
 at four years of age. The daughter, Louisa, is 
 the wife of Charles C. Curtis, who is now con- 
 ducting Mr. Neal's farm. 
 
 HENRY SHELTON BURR. The entire life 
 of Mr. Burr, from the age of seventeen 
 years, was spent in Leavenworth, among 
 whose citizens he had a high standing and in 
 whose business circles he held a position of 
 prominence. He was a member of an eastern 
 family whose first representative in this country 
 emigrated from England in 1630, and, as a mem- 
 ber of the Connecticut colony, settled in the 
 vicinity of Bridgeport. In the colonial history 
 of Connecticut John Burr figured prominently, 
 and in the colonial army he was commissioned 
 an ofiicer in 1776. His son, John Burr, who was 
 our subject's father, was born in Bridgeport, 
 Conn., November 27, 1800, and for some years 
 followed the mercantile business in New York 
 City, but in 1S34 removed to Columbus, Ohio. 
 In that city, in addition to his mercantile in- 
 
 terests, he devoted much of his time to horticul- 
 ture. He introduced Burr's seedling and Burr's 
 new pine strawberries, and was well known 
 throughout his entire section of country as a suc- 
 cessful horticulturist. Coming ,to Leavenworth 
 in 1858, he here continued the business he has so 
 successfully established in the east. Among 
 other varieties of grapes he introduced the Earl)' 
 Victor and Standard, which have since been 
 quite popular. In politics he always gave his 
 influence to the Republican party. He was a 
 member of the Episcopal Church, in which he 
 served for some time as a warden. He died in 
 Leavenworth, December 13, 1892. 
 
 The children of John Burr were John H., 
 deceased; Edmund, of Leavenworth; Henry S., 
 deceased; Elizabeth and Sarah, also deceased. 
 His wife was Eliza Whitman Hooker, a cousin of 
 General Hooker. She died December 30, 1891, 
 at the age of eight3'-one years. The family of 
 which .she was a member was noted for longevity. 
 She was a direct descendant of Thomas Hooker, 
 known far and wide as the great preacher of 
 Connecticut during the days of witchcraft. Her 
 mother was descended from Peter Vanderwater 
 Muellen, who emigrated from Rotterdam, Hol- 
 land, to Windsor, Conn., about 1640. Afterward 
 the name was changed to Mills and the famil)' 
 took a part in the early history of Connecticut. 
 
 Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1839, Henry 
 Shelton Burr received his early business training 
 in that city. At the age of seventeen he came to 
 Leavenworth, and from that time until the Civil 
 war he acted as chief clerk in the surveyor's 
 office under Webster Wieder. About 1865 he 
 became a member of the firm of H. W. Gillett 
 & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, in the manage- 
 ment of whose affairs he bore an active part until 
 1876. He then sold out and turned his attention 
 to the manufacture of men's shoes. Under the 
 firm name of H. S. Burr & Co. he carried on a 
 large business, and was the sole representative in 
 Leavenworth of his line of manufacturing. He 
 continued actively engaged in business until his 
 death, which occurred in October, 1897. He 
 was considered one of the best business men of 
 the city and his judgment was often sought by 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 less experienced men. Quiet and reserved, he 
 cared nothing for pubHc life, but preferred to 
 spend his leisure hours in his home. Political!}' 
 he supported the Republican party, but never 
 consented to hold any political ofiBce. The onlj- 
 public position he held was that of school director, 
 in which capacity he served for fifteen years. 
 He made friends easily and was respected by all 
 with whom he had business or social relations. 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Burr married Eleanor Hart Couch, 
 daughter of Capt. Simon Andrews Couch, who 
 was a first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Wisconsin 
 Infantry during the Civil war and served on de- 
 tached duty under General Hooker. After the 
 war ended he was commissioned a captain in the 
 regular arm}'. He spent his last days in Leaven- 
 worth, where he died in 1896. Mr. Burr is sur- 
 vived by his widow and two sons, Shelton C. 
 and Eugene H., who have succeeded their father 
 as the heads of the firm of H. S. Burr & Co. 
 
 (ILLIAM MORGAN ORvSBOURN, who 
 owns a farm of two hundred and fifty acres 
 on the MaraisdesCygnes, in Peoria Town- 
 ship, Franklin County, was born April 11, 1866, 
 in a house that stood about two hundred yards 
 from the site of his present home. His father, 
 Madison, was born in Henry County, Ky., Au- 
 gust 13, 1827, and received a common-school ed- 
 ucation. Learning the saddler's trade he followed 
 it in Kentucky until 1849, when he settled in 
 western Missouri. After two years there he 
 went to another part of the state. In 1855 he 
 came to Kansas and took up a claim in Brown 
 County, but owing to poor health he sold it in 
 1 857. The nextyear he came to Franklin Countj'. 
 At the land sale in Paoli in 1858 he bought four 
 hundred acres situated in Peoria Township. Of 
 this, one hundred and sixty acres were in timber 
 land on the Marais des Cygnes. He put two 
 hundred and forty acres under fence and later 
 planted a hedge. Fifteen acres he set out in an 
 orchard, which became the finest orchard in the 
 county, and on the place may be .seen now some 
 pear trees that were brought from Kansas City 
 (then known as Westport Lauding) and planted 
 
 here forty years ago. As he met with success 
 he added to his holdings until he had at one time 
 six hundred acres. For a time he made a specialty 
 of breeding Durham stock. Later he became in- 
 terested in Shorthorn cattle, Poland-China hogs, 
 and Clydesdale and Norman horses. Our .subject 
 now has on his farm a horse that descends from 
 an Indian pony bred to Norman .stock, and that 
 weighs fifteen hundred and twentj' pounds. It 
 was his pride to improve everything he handled, 
 whether potatoes or Norman horses. All of the 
 shade trees on the homestead were set out by him. 
 During the war Madison Orsbourn was a .stanch 
 Union man and a war Democrat. While his large 
 business interests prevented him from enli.sting 
 in the arm}-, he became a member of the .state 
 militia and a.ssisted in driving Price out of Kan- 
 sas. In the latter part of the war he began to 
 erect the present residence, but was not able to 
 complete it until 1867. At the time of Ouan- 
 trell's raid the Confederate raiders passed over 
 the ridge immediately south of the farm house. 
 In common with all .settlers, Mr. Orsbourn suf- 
 fered from the heavy drought of i860 61, when 
 for eighteen months no rain fell. His crop of corn 
 in 1859 furnished him seed for i860, but that 
 season the corn only grew knee-high, and the 
 1859 crop also furnished the seed for 1861. 
 Grasshoppers came in swarms and even ate the 
 leaves oflf the trees in the orchards, the years 1869 
 and 1874 being the worst years of that plague. 
 The present barn was built in 1873. In 1881 he 
 had an attack of pneumonia, which, combined 
 with neuralgia, left him incapacitated for work. 
 In the fall of 1884 he went to California for his 
 health and spent the winter there, returning to 
 Kansas much improved by the trip. He had been 
 a very energetic man prior to his illness, with 
 ambition much beyond his physical powers, but 
 although he regained his health to some extent, 
 he was never afterward able to engage in active 
 business. In 1896 he went to Colorado, where 
 he remained from June to September, and, re- 
 turning home ill with mountain fever, he died on 
 the 1 6th of the latter month. He was an upright, 
 moral man, and his death was a loss to the 
 community. 
 
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 In Doniphan, Brown County, Kans., in 1856, 
 Mr. Orsbourn married Elizabeth Harden, by 
 whom he had two sons and five daughters, and 
 who died March 8, 1886. Their children are as 
 follows: Mary L., who is with our subject; Nancy 
 Rebecca, who has been twice married, and now 
 the wife of W. M. Langdon; John S., a farmer 
 and stockman in Atchison County, Kans. ; Lizzie 
 and Sarah (twins), the former deceased in 1882 
 and the latter in 1898; William Morgan; and 
 Effie A., who died in 1883. Our subject was 
 educated in common schools and Baker Universitj^ 
 at Baldwin. He taught school for a j'ear, then 
 worked for a year in the asylum at Topeka, spent 
 a similar period in the Little Rock asylum, and 
 later was employed in St. Joseph, Mo. April 2, 
 1891, he married Nona Gwyn, of that city, after 
 which he engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 in Atchison County, Kans., for five years. Upon 
 the death of his father, in 1896, he was appointed 
 administrator, and returned to Franklin County 
 to superintend the home place. He was successful 
 in collecting all amounts due the estate, which 
 consisted of $13,000 in personal property, besides 
 the estate of six hundred acres. Final settlement 
 was made in August, 1899. He is a man of ex- 
 cellent business ability and is superintending his 
 part of the estate successfully. Though urged 
 by his Democratic friends to accept ofiice he has 
 always refused to become a candidate, preferring 
 to give his time to private aSairs. He and his 
 wife have three children: Ethel Gertrude, Laura 
 Myrl and Eveline Gladys. 
 
 3W. WARRING, M. D. During the long 
 period of his connection with the medical 
 profession in Leavenworth County, Dr. 
 Warring has gained a reputation for professional 
 skill and information. His home, in the early 
 years of his residence in this county, was upon a 
 farm on the Delaware trust land, twelve miles north 
 of Linwood, where he combined the supervision 
 of his property with the practice of medicine. 
 Finding, however, that his increasing practice de- 
 manded his entire time, in 1884 he sold the farm 
 and took up his residence in Linwood, where he 
 
 now lives. Besides his private practice, he is 
 assistant surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad 
 at Linwood and examining physician for the 
 New York Life Insurance Company. 
 
 The Warring family came from Scotland to 
 Delaware in an early day, and from that state the 
 doctor's father migrated to Kentucky, settling in 
 Scott County, of which he was later the judge. 
 Dr. W. C. Warring, a son of Judge Warring, 
 was for many years a practicing physician in 
 Owen County, Ky. , and there he died, in 1852, 
 at the age of thirt3'-four. He married Martha, 
 daughter of Lewis and Mary F. (Gano) Bryan, 
 the former of whom was a captain in the war of 
 181 2. Mrs. Bryan was a daughter of a captain 
 in the Revolutionary war and a niece of "fight- 
 ing" Chaplain Gano, who also won prominence 
 during the struggle for independence. She is 
 living and is now ninety-eight years of age; her 
 home is near Kokomo, Ind. She is one of six 
 ' 'daughters' ' of the Revolution now living. Her 
 husband was twice married and by his first 
 union had a son, George Bryan, who was the 
 grandfather of William Jennings Bryan. The 
 mother of Dr. Warring died in Kentucky while 
 still a young woman. She left three children, of 
 whom Mary F. became the wife of Alfred A. 
 Cobb; and Louis died while serving in the Con- 
 federate army. 
 
 Dr. Warring was born in Scott County, Ky., 
 in 1847. He was educated in public schools and 
 the Louisville University. Taking up the study 
 of medicine, he graduated from the College of 
 Physicians and vSurgeons in Kansas City in 1873. 
 Prior to this he had located on land twelve miles 
 north of Linwood, Kans., and there he made his 
 home for about fourteen years, but in 1884 set- 
 tled in town, where he has since engaged in 
 practice. In municipal affairs he has been quite 
 active. He was a member of the first council of 
 Linwood, served for one term as township trus- 
 tee, and for several years was a member of the 
 school board of the fifty -eighth district. He still 
 holds membership in the Alumni Association of 
 the medical college from which he graduated. 
 Fraternally he is a charter member of Linwood 
 Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he is past- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 master, and which he has frequently represented 
 in the state grand lodge. He is a member of the 
 Fraternal Aid Association, in which he is medi- 
 cal examiner, and is also past chancellor of Lin- 
 wood Lodge, K. P. He is married and has five 
 children. 
 
 r^OBERT W. GORRILL, who is a prosperous 
 U^ and prominent citizen of Lecompton Town- 
 r\ -ship, Douglas County, and the owner of a 
 valuable farm comprising about three hundred 
 acres, was born in Wood County, Ohio, January 
 24, 1842, a son of Thomas and Eliza (Barr) 
 Gorrill. He was one of eight children, of whom 
 three survive, viz.: Martha, wifeofW. S.Thurs- 
 ton, of Toledo, Ohio; Robert W. ; and Marshall, 
 a farmer and oil producer residing in Dowling, 
 Ohio. His father, a native of Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land, born in 1803, came to America at the age of 
 about twenty years, and for two years was em- 
 ployed by a mercantile firm in Boston. He then 
 went to Wood County, Ohio, where he bought gov- 
 ernment land and settled down to a farmer's life. 
 Notwithstanding his lack of education (for he 
 never attended .school after he was ten years old) , 
 he acquired a large fund of general information. 
 His ability caused him to rank high among the 
 people of Wood County. For seventeen years he 
 served as a justice of the peace and for four suc- 
 cessive terms held office as county commissioner. 
 While he never connected himself with any de- 
 nomination, he was for years superintendent of a 
 Sunday-school and contributed liberally to all 
 church work. His death occurred in Wood 
 County December 23, 1874. His wife, who was 
 born in Woo.ster, Ohio, in 181 1, died in Wood 
 County August 5, 1879. She was an active mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Church and a woman of ex- 
 emplary character. 
 
 The education of our subject was obtained in 
 the Wood County schools. November 23, 1865, 
 he was united in marriage with Miss Helen Bald- 
 win, who was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, a 
 daughter of William and Caroline (Kelsey) Bald- 
 win, natives of New York state. Shortly after 
 his marriage he began to cultivate a rented farm. 
 In 1867 became to Kansas on an investigating 
 
 tour and was so pleased with prospects here that 
 he decided to locate in this state. In the spring 
 of 1868 he removed with his wife to Douglas 
 County, buj'ing eighty acres ofland in Kanwaka 
 Township, ten miles west and .south of Law- 
 rence. At once he began the improvement of 
 his property. After four years he sold the place 
 and purchased his present home in Lecompton 
 Township, where he removed with his family and 
 has since resided. His farm is one of the best in 
 the county and he is numbered among the most 
 progressive and successful farmers of his town- 
 ship. In addition to farming he has given .some 
 attention to railroad contracting, in which he has 
 met with success. Politically he votes with the 
 Republicans, adhering to the principles of this 
 party. He is a member of Lawrence Lodge No. 
 4, I. O. O. F. All measures for the benefit of 
 his township and county receive his co-operation. 
 He and his family are people of culture and re- 
 finement, whom it is a pleasure to meet and asso- 
 ciate with. Of the seven children born to his 
 marriage, Thomas E , Libbie B. and Libbie M. 
 are deceased. Those now living are Marshall A., 
 Robert W., Maud M. and Barr S. 
 
 y/lARION A. WOHLFROM. Few among 
 y the business men of Leavenworth are better 
 (^ known than Mr. Wohlfrom, who enjoys 
 the distinction of being, in point of years of busi- 
 ness activity, the oldest merchant in the cit}-. 
 He came here in September, 1858, having made 
 the voyage from St. Louis, on the steamer 
 " Skylark," in sixteen days. With his cousin, 
 Anton Wohlfrom, he at once began in the gro- 
 cery business on Fifth street, and continued with 
 him until 1861, when he sold out to his cousin. 
 He then bought the property at Nos. 404-406 
 Shawnee street, and in the frame building that 
 stood on the ground he opened a grocery. In 
 1867 that building burned down and he immedi- 
 ately rebuilt on the same site, erecting a two- 
 story and basement building, 48x125. During 
 the thirty-two years that have since elapsed he 
 has continued business at the same stand, and 
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 and fish. The success he has gained may be at- 
 tributed to his energy, perseverance and economy. 
 Besides the prosperous management of his busi- 
 ness he has made several fortunate investments 
 in real estate and has built a number of residences 
 in his home town. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Wohlfrom took place in Al- 
 sace, formerly a French province, but now a part 
 of Germany. His father, John Pierre Wohl- 
 from, was a soldier .in the French army and 
 served in Spain under Sully. After his retire- 
 ment from the service he retured to Al.sace, where 
 he engaged in the bakery business. He died 
 there at eighty-four years of age. In 1877 he 
 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage 
 to Mary Cline, member of an old Alsacian family, 
 and who died at eighty-one years of age. His 
 paternal ancestors were from Sweden, and came 
 to France at the time the Swedes invaded Alsace; 
 remaining there, they have become identified 
 with French interests. 
 
 The family of which our subject is a member 
 consists of five sons and two daughters now liv- 
 ing. The eldest son, who died in Alsace, was 
 for seven years (1848-55) in the French army 
 under Napoleon. When a boy our subject 
 served an apprenticeship to the carriage-maker's 
 trade in Erkersheim. In 1853 became to Amer- 
 ica, taking passage on a sailing vessel that made 
 the voyage from Havre to New Orleans in sixty- 
 four days. From New Orleans he proceeded up 
 the Mississippi on the steamer which after a week 
 on the river arrived in St. Louis. There he 
 joined his brother, Joseph, who had settled in 
 that city in 1852. He secured work at his trade, 
 which he followed in the same place until 1854. 
 He then went to Hickman, Ky. , where he was 
 similarly engaged for three years. On his return 
 to St. Louis he remained there for a year, and 
 then came to Leavenworth, of which he was a 
 pioneer. 
 
 Mr. Wohlfrom was one of the charter members 
 of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and assisted in 
 building the frame structure in which the congre- 
 gation first worshipped. Later he assisted in 
 erecting the splendid buildings now owned by 
 the church. He is a worker in various organiza- 
 
 tions connected with the church. Through his 
 efforts was organized the St. Joseph's Benevolent 
 Society, which was started in 1868 and was the 
 first organized in Kansas. For twelve years he 
 served as the president of that association. He 
 is now connected with the Catholic Mutual Be- 
 nevolent Association. In politics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. 
 
 In Leavenworth, February 11, 1866, occurred 
 the marriage of Mr. Wohlfrom to Miss Josephine 
 Kroll, who was born in Prussia, and came to 
 Leavenworth at nineteen years of age. She was 
 a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kroll, and 
 came to America in 1861, spending a year in 
 Baltimore, and from there removing to Leaven- 
 worth. The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Wohl- 
 from, all of whom are at home, are named as 
 follows: Annie, Alphonse J. and Joseph F. , who 
 assist their father in business; Eugene P., who is 
 connected with a drug business in Leavenworth; 
 and Mary. 
 
 30HN M. CORY. The stock business, when 
 under the supervision of a capable man, has 
 proved one of the most profitable industries 
 in Kansas; and, as Mr. Cory has displayed both 
 energy and sound judgment in the management 
 of his stock interests, he has found the business 
 a profitable one. He is the owner of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of fine grass land in Easton 
 Township, Leavenworth County, and here he is 
 interested in the cattle business, buying, feeding 
 and selling cattle, which are shipped to the east- 
 ern markets. Usually he has from two to three 
 hundred head on his place, and so large a num- 
 ber necessarily consume much of his time in giv- 
 ing them the attention they need. Farming has 
 been a secondary occupation with him, his land 
 being mostly used for pasturage or for the raising 
 of corn for feed. 
 
 The Cory family came from Scotland to Mary- 
 land, thence removed to Virginia, and were rep- 
 resented in both wars with England. Jonathan 
 D. Cory was born and reared in Virginia. He 
 married Clara E. Fisher, a native of Ohio, and 
 their oldest son, John M., was born in Hancock 
 County, W. Va., in 1861. Their other children 
 
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 are: Lydia, wife of C. P. Rutherford; William A., 
 of Leavenworth; and Bessie C, deceased, for- 
 merly the wife of W. vS. Weir. In 1867 the 
 family left their eastern home and settled in Kan- 
 sas, buying a farm in Easton Township. Here 
 the father died in 1872, when forty-seven years 
 of age, and his wife, in 1884, when the same age. 
 He was a man of upright character, a hard 
 worker, and painstaking farmer. During the 
 Civil war he had served in the Union army for a 
 year. 
 
 As soon as old enough to do so, our subject 
 took charge of the farm which his father had 
 owned. Here he has since remained, but, in- 
 stead of giving his attention to farming, as his 
 father did, he has turned his attention to stock- 
 raising, and is also interested in real estate. 
 As a Republican he is active in local politics. 
 Twice he was his party's candidate for the legis- 
 lature and once for the county commissioners' 
 board. For a number of years he has been a 
 member of the county central committee and he 
 has also acted as delegate to several state con- 
 ventions of his party. He has been an advocate 
 of measures for the benefit of his county. Espe- 
 cially has he been active in endeavoring to secure 
 good country roads in his town.ship, for he real- 
 izes that these are indispensable to local pros- 
 perity. Fraternally he is senior warden of Ea.ston 
 Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., and a member of 
 Topeka Valley of Orient Temple, and has at- 
 tained the thirty-second degree. He is also con- 
 nected with the Modern Woodmen of America. 
 In religion he is of the Presbyterian faith. In 
 1S90 he married Nannie E., daughter of Asa E. 
 Cleavinger, and they have two children. Homer 
 D. and Luella E. 
 
 y yilLTON R. WINTER, who is a leading 
 y farmer and stockman of Lecompton Town- 
 er .ship, Douglas County, was born in this 
 county November 17, i860, a son of Mathias S. 
 and Mary E. (Brooke) Winter, and one of six 
 survivors in a family often children. His brothers 
 and sisters are as follows: George S., a farmer 
 and .stockman of Wabaun.see County, Kans. ; 
 LeoraL., wife of W. D. Pontius, a farmer and 
 
 stock-raiser of Douglas County; Thomas K., a 
 stock-dealer of Oklahoma; William H., who is 
 engaged in the practice of law in New Mexico; 
 and Lizzie B., wife of W. V. Ingham, of Platte 
 County, Mo. His father, who was a native of 
 Harri.son County, W. Va., born in 1833, grew 
 to manhood upon a farm there. In the winter 
 of 1854-55 he came to Kansas and settled in 
 Douglas County, buying land in Lecompton 
 Township, and engaging in its improvement and 
 cultivation. In time he became one of the most 
 successful men of his township, and at his death 
 he left to his family a finelj' improved farm of 
 eight hundred acres. Twice he was elected com- 
 mis.sioner of Douglas Countj^ and his death oc- 
 curred in 1896, while he was serving his second 
 term. Fraternally he was a Mason and an Odd- 
 fellow. He was a faithful member of the United 
 Brethren Church, and in his life exemplified the 
 doctrines which he professed. He was one of 
 the highly esteemed men of his township. His 
 father, Joseph Winter, was of Pennsylvania-Dutch 
 stock, and prior to the Civil war was a slaveholder 
 in West Virginia. 
 
 In the acquirement of an education our subject 
 was limited to the advantages offered by common 
 schools. On reaching his majority he rented one 
 of the farms belonging to his father. When a 
 mere boy he had become interested in the cattle 
 business and had acquired a thorough knowledge 
 of stock-raising, which he has made his specialtj^ 
 since starting out for himself. His success has 
 been pronounced, and he is to-day quoted as the 
 leading authority in the cattle business in this 
 section. In 1897 he took charge of the home 
 farm of eight hundred acres, of which he has 
 since had the management. He is the owner of 
 five hundred and eighty-seven acres of valuable 
 land in Kauwaka Township, which he rents to 
 a tenant. He is recognized as one of the sub- 
 stantial farmers of Lecompton Township. He is 
 interested in educational matters and has devoted 
 considerable time to the same since his election 
 to the school board. 
 
 In 1 88 1 Mr. Winter married Miss Hattie Lee 
 Prim, who wan born in West Virginia and died 
 in Arkansas March 15, 1892. Four children were 
 
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 born of this union: Bertie, Cleveland (deceased), 
 Hazel and Robert (deceased). In 1S94 Mr. 
 Winter was united in marriage with Miss Louise 
 Heise, daughter of John Heise, who was a pioneer 
 of 1854 i" Kansas, and resided in Lecompton 
 Township until his death. Three daughters were 
 born of this union, Mary (deceased), Eugenia 
 and Leora. In politics Mr. Winter is a stanch 
 Democrat. He is a member of Lecompton Lodge 
 No. 413, I. O. O. F., and Lecompton Council, 
 Fraternal Aid Association. As a citizen he stands 
 high and deservedl}' enjoys the esteem of those 
 with whom he has been associated in his town- 
 ship and county. 
 
 (TOEL GUSTAFSON, one of the most success- 
 I ful stone contractors of Lawrence, has had 
 G/ the contracts for many of the best buildings 
 in eastern Kansas. July 11, 1884, he began work 
 on Snow Hall, University of Kansas, which was 
 the first building he ever figured on and the first 
 contract he ever filled. On the erection of the Sol- 
 diers' Home buildings, Leavenworth, he was the 
 first stone cutter on the ground. He has had the 
 contracts for the stone-cutting on the Watkins 
 building. Merchants Bank, opera house, high 
 school building, Teasdale building, and the Fow- 
 ler shops at the University of Kansas; built the 
 General Roberts building and the Donnelly liv- 
 ery stable, which is the finest in the state; has 
 superintended the stone work on the best resi- 
 dences of Lawrence; had the contract for the first 
 paving and most of the curbing in this city; built 
 a bank at Hiawatha and the high school build- 
 ing at Tonganoxie, a bank at Eudora and other 
 public or business blocks. In his stone yard at 
 the foot of Walnut street, on the Santa Fe tracks 
 may be found all kinds of stone and building and 
 paving brick. 
 
 Our subject was born in Sweden, on the 19th 
 of May, 1856, a son of Gustav Magnuson. His 
 paternal grandfather, who died at ninety-seven 
 years, was the owner of an estate, "Linneryd," 
 to which his son Gustav succeeded. The latter 
 was a farmer and died in 1883, at sixty-five years 
 of age. His wife, who was a member of a wealthy 
 family, resides at the old homestead and is now 
 
 seventy-nine "years of age. In religion she has 
 always been a Lutheran and reared her eight 
 children in that faith. 
 
 When sixteen our subject entered the employ 
 of a railroad contractor and assisted in building 
 the railroad running from Sweden into Norway. 
 From twenty -one to twenty-three years he served 
 in the army. In 1879 he crossed the ocean via 
 Hull and Glasgow to New York, making the 
 voyage on a steamer that went down on its next 
 trip to America. He had learned stone-cutting 
 in Sweden, and on his arrival at Lawrence he at 
 once secured employment at that trade, which he 
 has since successfully followed. He has been 
 prospered and is now the owner of five resi- 
 dences in Lawrence. He was married in Ottawa 
 to Miss Mathilda Anderson, daughter of Gustav 
 Andenson, who was formerly a railroad contrac- 
 tor, but now a farmer in Sweden. She came to 
 America in 1879 and has since lived in Kansas. 
 The children born of her marriage are; Broer, 
 Edna, Luther and Albert. The family are con- 
 nected with the English Lutheran Church. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Gustafson is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, the lodge and 
 encampment of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Aid 
 Association, and is also an active worker in the 
 Commercial Club and the Merchants' Athletic 
 Club. Besides his private business affairs he 
 has been selected to act as administrator in nu- 
 merous estates and as guardian for orphans, and no 
 one has a more honorable record in the probate 
 judge's office than he. 
 
 Q URDINE EATON, who has engaged in farm- 
 IC\ ing in Leavenworth County since the fall of 
 d/ 1867, was born in Estill County, Ky., in 
 1840. His father, Albert Eaton, anativeofthesame 
 county , removed from Kentucky tolowa in 1 844 and 
 settled in Davis County, where he was a pioneer 
 farmer. In 1857 he removed to Taylor County, 
 Iowa, and five years later established his home in 
 Cass County, Neb., where he did a great deal of 
 pioneer work as a farmer. He was a man of up- 
 right character and many striking intellectual 
 gifts. Fond of pioueer life, its hardships did 
 
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 not daunt, nor its privations discourage him. He 
 was a member of the first colony that settled in 
 Iowa, where he became the owner of five hundred 
 and twenty acres and carried on farm pursuits 
 successfully. When that region became settled, 
 he once more sought the frontier, and became a 
 pioneer of Nebraska. In both states, in addition 
 to his agricultural operations, he was a worker 
 in the Baptist Church and organized many con- 
 gregations of that denomination. For years he 
 officiated as a preacher, serving gratuitously con- 
 gregations that were unable to employ a pastor. 
 He died at his home in Nebraska in 1873, at the 
 age of seventy-three years. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, Samuel Eaton, 
 was born in Charleston, S. C, and went to Ken- 
 tucky in company with Daniel Boone, settling at 
 the old fort of Boouesboro, where he died at 
 forty-seven years of age. He was a son of Daniel 
 Eaton, who emigrated from Ireland to America 
 in early manhood and settled upon a farm on the 
 island in Charleston Harbor, S. C, where he 
 owned two hundred acres. He also owned prop- 
 erty where the city of Charleston now stands. 
 Our subject's mother was Sarah Barnett, a native 
 of Kentucky. Of her nine children, six are now 
 living, namely: John, who lives in Nebraska; 
 Burdine; Eli, a resident of Nebraska; Sallie Ann, 
 wife of James Edraisten; George Washington, of 
 Nebraska; and William Henry H. 
 
 At the time the family settled in the then 
 frontier of Iowa the subject of this sketch 
 was four years of age. He was reared on a 
 farm, in a section of country where school 
 privileges and other advantages were meager. 
 However, he availed himself of such opportu- 
 nities as the common schools afforded. At nine- 
 teen years of age he began to farm for himself 
 and has since followed agricultural pursuits. In 
 1862 he went to Nebraska, and for some years, 
 while superintending a farm, also engaged in 
 freighting between Nebraska City and Colorado. 
 In the fall of 1867 became to Kansas and settled 
 in Lenape, Leavenworth County, where he re- 
 mained for two years. Afterward he engaged in 
 cultivating rented land. In 1S74 he bought his 
 first farm, comprising forty acres, in Sherman 
 
 Township. Since then he has added to his prop- 
 erty- until he owns one hundred and twenty acres. 
 He is engaged in raising cereals and .stock, and 
 has met with a success that is especially com- 
 mendable when it is remembered that he started 
 without capital. 
 
 Politically Mr. Eaton has for some years voted 
 with the Populists. He is active in supporting 
 enterprises for the benefit of the people and the 
 county. For two years he held the office of 
 township treasurer. Fraternally he is connected 
 with Linwood Lodge, K. of P. He has been 
 twice married; first, in 1S67, to Alcinda J. Booz, 
 who died in 1873, leaving three children: Sarah, 
 Melger S. and Albert. His second marriage 
 took place in 1873 and united him with Miss Mary 
 Hickman, by whom he has four children. Lulu 
 O., Elizabeth M., Charles and Edward. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM C. WILSON, who has been a 
 
 \ A / resident of Leavenworth County for a 
 V V quarter of a century, is engaged in general 
 agricultural pursuits in Fairmount Township, 
 where he and his wife own three hundred acres 
 of fine farming land. In addition to this prop- 
 erty they also own one half section of land in 
 Oklahoma. Mr. Wilson was born in Berkeley 
 County, W. Va., July 14, 1844, and is a son of 
 James and Rose Ann (Snyder) Wilson, natives 
 of the same county as himself. His grandfather, 
 James Wilson, who was born in the Old Domin- 
 ion, engaged in farming and died when eighty- 
 six years of age. He was the son of an Irish- 
 man, who emigrated to this country and took 
 part in the Revolutionary war. James Wilson, 
 Jr., who has spent his entire life in the same lo- 
 cality, is still active, at eighty-two years. In 
 politics he affiliated with the Democrats until the 
 Civil war, since which time he has been a Repub- 
 lican. His wife, who was a faithful member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at sixty- 
 five years. They were the parents of five chil- 
 dren: William C; Eliza; Idella and Isaiah, de- 
 ceased; and Annie. 
 
 When ahoy upon his father's farm our subject 
 became familiar with agricultural pursuits. Liv- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing in the south and surrounded by southern 
 S5'mpathizers, he nevertheless sided with the 
 Union at the time of the Civil war. Against his 
 wishes he was pressed into the Confederate army, 
 but served only a short time. While in the 
 guard house at Winchester, he and forty others 
 escaped, and, after having been two days and 
 nights without food, reached the Federal lines in 
 Maryland. He went from there to Ohio and for 
 three years worked by the month on a farm. 
 After a short visit at his old home he came west 
 as far as Des Moines County, Iowa, where for 
 eight years he tilled the soil of a rented farm. In 
 1874 he came to Kansas, and bought the farm 
 where he has since made his home. 
 
 By the first marriage of Mr. Wilson six chil- 
 dren were born, viz.: James, William E., Frank- 
 lin, Rose Ann and John, all of whom are in 
 Oklahoma; and Maude, wife of Chet Dunbar. 
 The present wife of our subject bore the maiden 
 name of Alfrette Hoskins, and was born in Illi- 
 nois. Both are members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church and stand high socially. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Wilson is a liberal Republican. He has 
 been a member of the school board and is inter- 
 ested in educational matters. 
 
 Gl LFRED B. BARTHEL, for many years head 
 U miller for the Rush Milling Company of 
 I 1 Leavenworth, was born in the kingdom of 
 Saxony, German}', in 1840, a son of George Bar- 
 thel. He was one of a family of sixteen children, 
 all of whom reside in this country. In 1851 the 
 father, who was a merchant and manufacturer in 
 Germany, brought his family to America and set- 
 tled upon a farm near Fort Wayne, lud. There 
 his wife died when forty-four years of age. He 
 survived her for many years, dying when seventy- 
 six. The subject of this sketch was reared on 
 the home farm and educated in common schools. 
 At the age of fifteen he began to learn the miller's 
 trade in his home county, but afterward went to 
 St. Louis, where he remained for two years. In 
 1864 he took charge of the Standard flour mill in 
 St. Louis, but the following year the mill was de- 
 stroyed by fire, and he was then for a year in 
 
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 charge of the mill in Illinois. In 1866 he bought 
 a mill at Big Spring, Mo. , forty miles from St. 
 Louis, and this he conducted for two years, but 
 was obliged to sell out on account of poor health. 
 After spending a short time in recuperating his 
 health he went to Kirksville, Mo., in 1868, and 
 started a mill in that town, where he continued 
 until his removal to Kansas in 1870. 
 
 Arriving in Leavenworth, Mr. Barthel became 
 head miller for W. H. Plummer, and afterward 
 was with H. D. Rush and the Rush Milling Com- 
 pany, being with the last-named for twenty-six 
 years. He has always been faithful at his post 
 of duty, allowing nothing to interfere with busi- 
 ness affairs. Having made a study of all branches 
 of milling, including the roller system and other 
 modern improvements, he is admirably qualified 
 to carry on a mill, to the financial advantage of 
 its owners. At the St. Louis exposition in 1872 
 he was awarded a premium for the excellent qual- 
 ity of flour exhibited. He takes a deep interest 
 in his work and always aims to produce the best 
 possible results from the mill. Besides his other 
 interests he owns farming land in the western 
 part of Kansas, has built a number of houses in 
 Leavenworth and owns a substantial residence on 
 Ninth avenue. 
 
 During the Civil war Mr. Barthel was captain of 
 Company A, Thirteenth Regiment of Missouri 
 Infantry, and served until the expiration of his 
 term, ninety days. His brother, Charles, was 
 also a war officer, being captain of a company in 
 the Seventh Ohio Cavalry; another brother was a 
 surgeon in the Seventh Illinois Infantry. The 
 three brothers had excellent war records, each 
 being conspicuous for fidelity to duty and for effi- 
 ciency. Another brother, Albert G. Barthel, 
 has been a teacher in a Lutheran school in St. 
 Louis since 1853. The family for several genera- 
 tions have been connected with the Lutheran 
 Church, which is the rehgious faith of the subject 
 of this sketch. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen 
 of America. In 1866 he married Emelie Helm- 
 irg, by whom he has six children, viz.: Alfred 
 George, who is cultivating his father's farm in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 western Kansas; Mrs. Emma Snj'der; Mildred, 
 who married Harry Bell and lives in San Antonio, 
 Tex.; Arthur, of Galveston, Tex.; May and 
 Walter. 
 
 ["ERRIS K. TAYLOR, police judge of Leav- 
 r^ enworth, was born in Goshen, Orange 
 I County, N. Y., April 14, 1847, and was 
 reared near Flint, Mich., attending the grammar 
 and high schools of that city, and graduating 
 from the latter. In January, 1862, he enlisted in 
 Company L, Fourth Michigan Infantry, and, 
 being a recruit, went to Nashville to join his 
 regiment. Afterward he took part in a number 
 of engagements from Resaca to Atlanta, and after 
 the capture of Atlanta he served under Thomas 
 in the battles of Nashville and Franklin, where 
 Hood's army was utterly routed. Next he was 
 ordered to Alabama. When Wilson organized 
 the cavalry corps he was assigned to duty in it 
 and assisted in the capture of Selma and Mont- 
 gomery. In the spring of 1865 news was re- 
 ceived that JefiFerson Davis was marching in that 
 direction. The Fourth was instantly on the 
 alert and he was with that regiment when it had 
 the honor of capturing the famous Confederate 
 leader. At the close of the war he was mustered 
 out at Nashville, August 19, 1865, and immedi- 
 ately returned to Flint. 
 
 While Mr. Taylor was valiantly defending the 
 old flag his father was, in another part of the 
 country, also fighting for the stars and stripes. 
 William Lansing Taylor was born in New York 
 state and in his youth studied both law and 
 medicine. He married Susan Elliott, who was 
 born in Goshen, N. Y. She died in Flint in 
 1889, leaving an only child, the subject of this 
 sketch. Some time during the '50s William 
 Lansing Taylor settled in Oskaloosa, Iowa, but 
 later moved to Missouri, and was engaged in 
 business in that state at the time of the opening 
 of the war. At once he enlisted in the Seventh 
 Missouri Infantrj'. Soon afterward he was taken 
 prisoner, but later was placed on parole. He 
 violated his parole and enlisted, as hospital 
 steward, in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, under 
 the assumed name of James William Lansing, 
 
 continuing in active service until the close of the 
 Rebellion. Afterward he settled upon a farm 
 near Lawrence, but later, for many years, he 
 was hospital steward at the state penitentiary. 
 Upon resigning that position he opened a general 
 mercantile store in what is now the village of 
 Lansing, Leavenworth County. He established 
 the first postofEce there and the town was named 
 in his honor, Lansing. He became owner of an 
 interest in ninety acres, now platted in town lots. 
 Politically he voted the Republican ticket, and 
 fraternally was a member of Nine Mile Lodge, 
 A. F. & A. M. When he died, March 21, 1886, 
 he left all of his property to his only child. He 
 had a brother, James M. Taylor, who served in 
 an Illinois regiment in the Civil war and who 
 afterward became a pioneer of Douglas County, 
 establishing a dental oflBce in Lawrence and con- 
 tinuing in practice until his death, in 18S7. 
 While he was eccentric in manj' respects, William 
 Lansing Taylor was nevertheless the soul of 
 honor, and was respected by those who knew 
 him. On account of his long service as hospital 
 steward and the fact of his having a drug store 
 in connection with his mercantile business, he 
 was usually called doctor. 
 
 During his residence in Michigan our subject 
 was township superintendent of instruction for 
 some years. In 1881 he went to northern Mich- 
 igan and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, 
 having a mill near Frederick, Crawford County, 
 with which, as a member of the firm of Babcock 
 & Taylor, he continued until 1886. Upon re- 
 ceiving word that his father was dead he came 
 immediately to Kansas and administered the 
 estate at Lansing. It was his intention to return 
 to Michigan, but becoming interested in Leaven- 
 worth County, he has remained here since. He 
 built the Taylor hotel at Lansing and a number 
 of residences, besides which he owns fourteen 
 acres there. For three years he served as justice 
 of the peace in Lansing. He was a member of 
 Grant Post, G. A. R., in that town, an organiza- 
 tion since disbanded. In 1893 he established his 
 home in Leavenworth, where he became con- 
 nected with the police department. For eight 
 months he was patrolman, for sixteen months a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 night sergeant, and in February, 1897, was ap- 
 pointed judge of the police court of Leavenworth 
 by Governor Leedy. When the metropolitan 
 police law was affected by proclamation, he was 
 reappointed by the mayor and city council, in 
 July, 1898. This office he has filled faithfully 
 and with efficiency. In national politics he is a 
 Populist, and he has been chairman, and is now 
 secretary, of the county central committee. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Modern Wood- 
 men of America and the Knights of Pythias, and 
 was formerly active in the blue lodge of Masonry, 
 of which he was a member in Linden, Mich. 
 During his residence in Michigan he married 
 Miss Jennie Smith, who was born and reared in 
 Fenton, that state, and is a member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. Two children were born of 
 their union: Homer W., who died in Leaven- 
 worth at twenty-three years of age; and Clinton 
 A., at home. 
 
 REV. J. W. KIMMEL, pastor of the First 
 English Lutheran Church of Leavenworth, 
 was born near Magnolia, Carroll County, 
 Ohio, a son of John Joseph and Sarah Ann 
 (Alexander) Kimmel, natives respectively of 
 Germany and Illinois. His paternal grandfather, 
 Daniel Kimmel, brought the family to America in 
 1806 and settled in Pennsylvania, but about 1824 
 removed to Ohio, where he died. The maternal 
 grandfather, John Alexander, was a farmer in 
 Illinois and was of Scotch descent. John Joseph 
 Kimmel grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and 
 after removing to Ohio he worked on the canal, 
 later improved a farm from a tract of timber land. 
 When a young man he made a trip to Illi- 
 nois, but returned to Ohio, and there resided un- 
 til his death, in 1867. His wife died in 1878. 
 They were the parents of six sons and six daugh- 
 ters who attained mature years, and of these 
 three sons and three daughters are still living. 
 
 The fourth of the family, Joseph W., was born 
 June 26, 1S46. When a boy he attended school 
 in a log building, with slab benches and punch- 
 eon floor. When seventeen, in February, 1864, he 
 volunteered in Company K, Fifty-first Ohio In- 
 fantry, and was mustered in at Camp Chase, after 
 
 which he was ordered to Chattanooga. He took 
 part in the march through Georgia, and was 
 present at the battles of Resaca, Dalton, Dallas, 
 Kingston, Marietta, Peach Tree Creek, Chicka- 
 mauga. Snake Creek Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, 
 siege and battle of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy 
 Station, Franklin, Spring Hill, first and second 
 battle of Nashville, after which he wintered at 
 Decatur, Ala. In March, 1865, he took part in 
 a wild march into Knoxville, Tenn., thence re- 
 turned to Nashville and took part in Hood's re- 
 view. In July, 1865, he was sent to Indianola, 
 Tex., thence to Victoria, where he remained in 
 camp until November 3, 1865, and then started 
 for home. He was honorably discharged at Co- 
 lumbus, Ohio, November 25 of that year. Dur- 
 ing his term of service he was in a camp hospi- 
 tal for four weeks, his illness being caused by two 
 strokes of paralysis. When mustered out he 
 was only nineteen years of age. Afterward he 
 attended college and also taught school. After 
 his marriage, in 1869, he farmed in Tuscarawas 
 County. In 1874 he entered Wittenberg Theo- 
 logical Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, from which 
 he graduated in 1876. He was ordained to the 
 ministry in Wooster in September of that year, 
 after which, from 1876 to 1879, he officiated as 
 pastor at Arcadia. 
 
 Coming west in 1879, Mr. Kimmel took charge 
 of a congregation of eleven members at Teka- 
 mah, Burt County, Neb. , where he built a church. 
 He also organized congregations and built houses 
 of worship at Oakland and Grace. In 1884 he 
 was called to take up missionary work in Nemaha 
 County, which at that time did not have any 
 Lutheran congregations. He organized St. Paul's 
 Lutheran Church in Auburn and built a church; 
 also Trinity Lutheran Church at Stella, Richard- 
 son County, Neb. ; reorganized the congregation 
 and built a church at Morrill, Brown County, 
 Kans; and in 1886 was appointed missionary to 
 the Republican Valley, with headquarters at 
 McCook, Neb., and ministering to congregations 
 over a tract of land three hundred miles long 
 and two hundred and fifty miles wide. For four 
 and one-third years he devoted himself to his 
 work it; that large field, going meantime as far 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 west as Cheyenne, Wj-o., Akron, Colo., and 
 Oberlin, Kans. He organized and built churches 
 at McCook, Franklin and Bloomington, Neb.; 
 Long Island, Norcatur and Oberlin, Kans.; 
 Orleans and Stamford, Neb., and Akron, Colo.; 
 besides which he preached occasionally at Has- 
 tings, Red Cloud, Holdrege, Oxford, Curtis and 
 Grant, Neb. This immense work was accom- 
 plished in little more than four years. 
 
 June I, 1890, Mr. Kimmel was recalled to his 
 first field in Nebraska, where the church had 
 gone down during his absence. He placed it up- 
 on a substantial basis again, and when he left 
 four years later it was in good condition. In 
 May, 1894, hfe came to Leavenworth, and pub- 
 lished the Luthcrati Era, which he had started 
 during his residence in Nebraska. However, in 
 December, 1896, he discontinued this paper, his 
 other work having grown to such proportions as 
 to necessitate his entire attention. It was the 
 agreement, when he came to Leavenworth, that 
 a church should be built the first year. The fir.st 
 year the board of missions paid $500 on the pas- 
 tor's salary and the congregation $200, but after- 
 ward there was nothing to depend upon except 
 the small contribution from the congregation. 
 The church had no property except a lot on the 
 corner of Spruce and Sixth streets, which was 
 worth $500 and had an encumbrance of $1,500. 
 In September work was begun. A subscription 
 of $1,000 was secured. A church was erected at 
 a cost of $8,500, but left an indebtedness, Janu- 
 ary i, 1895, of $9,500. In March, 1895, there 
 was a division in the congregation on the subject 
 of the debt, some wishing to .sell the property 
 and settle with the creditors pro rata, paying 
 them about forty per cent. , and thus saving for the 
 congregation about $6,000. This plan the pastor 
 did not favor, it being his desire to pay the entire 
 indebtedness, and enough were of his opinion 
 to outvote the other faction. At the same time 
 (March, 1895) the pastor began to sell matches 
 at wholesale, buying in carload lots and selling 
 through Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. 
 Meantime the creditors had agreed to extend the 
 time of payment on a promise of receiving one 
 hundred cents on the dollar. Since then he has 
 
 engaged constantly in the match business, travel- 
 ing from one place to another, while his wife had 
 charge of the ofl5ce work. In this way, during 
 the past four years, he has paid off $6,000, in- 
 cluding the interest. Meantime the congregation 
 has grown, the various societies have taken on 
 new life, and every branch of the work is in a 
 state of activity. This remarkable record speaks 
 volumes for his energy and good judgment. No 
 matter how busy his week may have been, he 
 always returns to Leavenworth to preach on 
 Suudaj', and keeps a constant oversight of the 
 work, whose success is due to his self-sacrificing 
 efforts. 
 
 Politically Mr. Kimmel is a Republican, and 
 has always voted that ticket since casting his first 
 ballot for Abraham Lincoln. He is a member of 
 Custer Post No. 6, G. A. R. His first marriage 
 was solemnized in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 
 and united him with Miss Martha E. Bailey, who 
 was born there and died in Arcadia, that state. 
 The five children born of this union were named 
 as follows: John, now living in Leavenworth; 
 Alfred, who died in Ohio; Harry, in Oklahoma; 
 Olive, who is in Leavenworth; and Elizabeth, 
 deceased. The present wife of Mr. Kimmel, 
 whom he married in 1878, was Miss Jennie 
 Moser, of Altooua, Pa., and to this union five 
 children were born, viz.: Katie, Joseph M., Mar- 
 tin L-, Althea M. and Jennie Grace. 
 
 30SEPH B. INSLEY, who resides in Leaven- 
 worth and is exteusivelj' engaged in the 
 stock business, was born in Tippecanoe Coun- 
 ty, Ind., in 1842, a descendant of Scotch ances- 
 tors, by whom the name was spelled Ainsley. 
 At an early period in the history of Ohio they 
 settled there and became interested in farming. 
 He is a son of Andrew and Isabella (Johnson) 
 Inslej', both of whom were natives of Ohio and in 
 whose family were nine children, five now living. 
 His father, who was born in 1805, engaged in 
 farming and .stock-raising, and was one of the 
 pro.sperous agriculturists of his neighborhood. 
 From 1827 until his death, in 1863, he made his 
 home in Indiana, where he was a leading citizen 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
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 of Tippecanoe County, and, during war times, a 
 stanch Abolitionist. His wife died in Kansas 
 when eighty-two years of age. 
 
 The summer of 1863 our subject spent in Kan- 
 sas, being with his brother, Capt. M. H. Insley, 
 at Fort Scott. On his return to Indiana he em- 
 barked in the stock business, in which he met 
 with fair success. In 1873 he settled permanent- 
 ly in Kansas, establishing his home in Leaven- 
 worth, where, in 1876, he bought a residence in 
 the suburbs of the city, but within the limits. 
 Here, as in his former home, he engaged in the 
 stock business. In the fall of 1876 he went to 
 Oregon, where he devoted the winter to the pur- 
 chase of cattle. In the spring he took two 
 thousand head to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he sold 
 them. In the fall of 1878 he made another trip 
 to the coast, and from there shipped five hundred 
 head of cattle to Kansas. During the last trip 
 the Indians broke out against the white men. 
 Sixty miles east of Boise City his party en- 
 countered the savages and they captured an 
 Indian spy, who was surveying the country. 
 This spy they turned over to the cavalry troop 
 from Fort Boise and the commander of the troops 
 compelled him to guide them to the hiding place 
 of the Indians. About that time the Indians 
 captured the stage and cut the cable over the 
 Smoke River. 
 
 After an absence of seven months Mr. Insley 
 returned to Kansas, where he followed the cattle 
 business. In 1882 he went to Routt County, 
 Colo., and homesteaded one-quarter section of 
 land. The following year his family took up 
 their residence on the ranch. In time he became 
 one of the heaviest tax-payers of that county. He 
 formed a stock company and acted as general 
 manager of the Leavenworth Cattle Company, 
 which owned from ten to twelve thousand head of 
 cattle. In 1890 he returned to Kansas, but still 
 retains his interests in Colorado, where he owns 
 six hundred and forty acres of fine grazing land. 
 His principal interests are in Colorado, but he also 
 has property in Kansas and is extensively engaged 
 in the buying and selling of stock, of which busi- 
 ness he has made a life study. At one time he 
 served as county commissioner of Routt County, 
 
 Colo. Politically he votes the Republican ticket. 
 He takes a warm interest and an active part in the 
 work of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, 
 to which he belongs. His marriage, in 1869, 
 united him with Mary E. , daughter of Rev. 
 Amasa Johnson, a minister of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church in Indiana. The two children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Insley are Anna, in Leaven- 
 worth; and Edwin, who resides in Routt County, 
 Colo. 
 
 30HN GEARY CASEBIER, who is en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of sorghum and in 
 general farm pursuits in Tonganoxie Town- 
 ship, Leavenworth County, was born near Clin- 
 ton, Douglas County, Kans., November 14, 1856. 
 He is a son of Samuel B. Casebier, to whose sketch 
 the reader is referred for the family history. 
 His education was obtained principally in Jeffer- 
 son, Leavenworth County, concluding with one 
 term in the state university at Lawrence. After 
 having been with his father for two years, in 1879 
 he started out for himself, beginning with eighty 
 acres where he now resides. The land was 
 fenced, but much of it had not been broken and 
 no attempt had been made at cultivation or im- 
 provement. Desiring that the place might be at- 
 tractive as well as profitable, he set out the grove 
 of maple trees that now add so much to the ap- 
 pearance of the homestead. He also erected a 
 comfortable residence in 1884. From time to 
 time he added to the size of the farm, which now 
 embraces one hundred and sixty acres. 
 
 After having engaged in raising grain, Mr. 
 Ca.sebier decided that the manufacture of sorghum 
 would be more profitable. Accordingly he has 
 since given his attention chiefly to the raising of 
 cane and has made large shipments of sorghum 
 to the various markets, finding this industry a 
 profitable one. Besides raising cane he also 
 manufactures sorghum on shares. He manufac- 
 tures from one hundred and twent}' to one hun- 
 dred and thirty-five barrels of sorghum per an- 
 num, shipping mostly to Kansas City. By actual 
 practical experiments he has found that cane can 
 be raised here, even when a scarcity of rain ruins 
 other crops, and there is also the additional ad- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 vantage of less fluctuation in price. He owns a 
 threshing machine and does most of the threshing 
 in hislocahty; he also has a sorghum crusher run 
 by steam power, with a capacity of thirty tons. 
 
 Mr. Casebier has represented the Democratic 
 party in local conventions and has worked on its 
 committees. He is active in educational affairs 
 and has been a member of the school board. He 
 is connected with the Masonic blue lodge and the 
 Fraternal Aid Association at McLouth. In 1880 
 he married Oma French, daughter of a minister 
 in Anderson County. They have had three 
 children, two now living, viz.: Ernest, who as- 
 sists his father; and Charles. 
 
 PJiNCENT A. KELIvY, son of John V. and 
 W Dora Kelly, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 V January 6, 1854. At the age of three years 
 he moved with his parents to Leavenworth, 
 Kans. , where he has since made his home. He 
 received a common-school education, with the 
 exception of two years .spent at St. Mary's Col- 
 lege, St. Mary's, Kans. At the age of fourteen 
 years he began to learn the carpenter's trade under 
 his father, who was then employed by the gov- 
 ernment at Fort Leavenworth. 
 
 When eighteen years of age he made a trip to 
 England and Ireland, where he visited his grand- 
 parents and other relatives. On his return in 
 1873 he enlisted in the regular army and for five 
 years served in the Eighth United States Cavalry, 
 being on duty principall}' in Texas near the line 
 of Mexico, where he was engaged in patroling 
 the border to prevent cattle thieves from driving 
 stock over into Old Mexico. 
 
 On his retirement from service he worked at 
 his trade for several years, and then began con- 
 tracting, in which business he is still engaged. 
 His work as contractor and builder has not been 
 confined to the immediate locality of his home. 
 Most of his contracts have been for the govern- 
 ment, not only at Fort Leavenworth, but also at 
 Forts Reno, Riley and Supply. 
 
 Among the most important buildings erected 
 by Mr. Kelly at Fort Leavenworth are Drill 
 Hall, built in 1889, Bachelor OflScers' Quarters 
 
 in 1891, Cavalry stables in 1892, remodeling of 
 General Merritt's residence in 18S7 and Cavalry 
 School in 1895; ^t Fort Supply in 1892 a guard 
 house; at Fort Reno in 1890-91 a hospital, cav- 
 alry' stables, and remodeled the residence of 
 Colonel Wade, the commanding officer of Fort 
 Reno. At Fort Riley in 1896 and 1S97 he built 
 stone buildings, two double sets Officers' Quar- 
 ters, one Artillery Barracks and five stable guard 
 buildings. 
 
 Among the buildings erected by Mr. Kelly in 
 the city are Cretor's mill, Kelly & Lysle's mill, 
 German Catholic school, remodeled Morris 
 school, McGlynn building, corner Fifth and 
 Miami streets, Bradley's (Fourth and Olive), 
 Larimer's (Fifth and Olive), and P. J. McDon- 
 ald's (Second and Cherokee streets); St. Vin- 
 cent's Orphan Asylum in 1888, priest's residence 
 at Mt. St. Mary's Academy in 1898, and in 1899 
 elevator and warehouse in Kansas City, Mo.; at 
 the National Military Home in Leavenworth 
 County a nurses' cottage, insane ward, and at 
 this writing has contracts for the erection of a 
 barrack, theatre and hotel building. 
 
 Mr. Kelly is so interested in business matters 
 that he has never identified himself with political 
 affairs, having little taste for politics. In 1882 
 he was married to Miss Martha D. Casserly, of 
 Mineral Point, Wis. 
 
 |ILLIAM MAYER, a pioneer of Leaven- 
 worth, has made his home in this county 
 since March 14, 1857, and has witnessed 
 its steady growth in population and importance, 
 to which he has personally contributed. He has 
 been an industrious, per.severing man, and 
 through his energy has accumulated a compe- 
 tency. A native of Germany, born in Baden 
 May 5, 1836, he was eleven years of age when, 
 in the spring of 1847, he came to America with 
 his parents, Dominick and Regina (Sadler) 
 Mayer, natives of Baden. The family settled on 
 a farm near Burlington, Iowa, being pioneers of 
 that section of country, where the father cleared 
 and placed under cultivation a tract of raw land. 
 After some years he retired and settled in Bur- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lington, where he died at the age of seventy -two 
 years. His wife was forty-seven at the time of 
 her death. They were the parents of four chil- 
 dren, Barbara, William, Nicholas and Joseph. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our subject began 
 to learn the blacksmith's trade in Burlington. 
 He had served about eighteen months when his 
 employer failed. He then went to Quincy, 111., 
 where he finished learning the trade and later 
 worked there about two years. From there he 
 returned home and soon afterward came to Leav- 
 enworth. His first work in Kansas was in Kicka- 
 poo, where he ran a shop for three years. In 1861 
 he opened a shop in Leavenworth and here for some 
 years he carried on general blacksmithing, but 
 since 1879 he has limited himself to horseshoeing. 
 He had been fairly successful and could, if he de- 
 sired, retire entirely from business, but being of 
 an industrious temperament, he is happiest when 
 employed. He is an expert at his trade, which 
 he understands thoroughly and in which he has 
 no superiors in the city. 
 
 Politically Mr. Mayer is a Democrat, and fra- 
 ternally a member of the Knights of Pythias and 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. He mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Hoch, of Burlington, Iowa. 
 They are the parents of two children, their son 
 being William F., who is with his father in the 
 shop. 
 
 nOHN P. BELL, a successful farmer of Pal- 
 I myra Township, Douglas County, was born 
 C2/ in Indiana County, Pa. , in 1842. His father, 
 John, who was born in Ohio, of Scotch descent, 
 removed to Pennsylvania with his parents in 
 childhood and there learned the millwright's 
 trade. He was an expert machinist and also 
 worked at bridge-building for some years. In 
 politics he was a Republican, and in religion a 
 Presbyterian. In disposition quiet and retiring, 
 he never cared to identify himself with public 
 affairs. He reared a large family to fill positions 
 of honor and usefulness, and was successful in 
 gaining the esteem of associates, but never accu- 
 mulated much property. 
 
 May 30, 1 86 1, our subject enlisted in the Penn- 
 sylvania Reserves, but was soon transferred to 
 
 Company E, Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, 
 in which he served as a private until May 30, 
 1864. During the seven days' fight in front of 
 Richmond his entire regiment was captured by 
 the Confederates and he was wounded by a gun- 
 shot, which he still carries in his left leg. For 
 forty days he was confined in Libby prison, after 
 which he was paroled and taken to Harrison 
 Landing, thence to Newport News, and six 
 weeks later was exchanged and returned to his 
 regiment. At Fredericksburg his company went 
 in with thirty men and came out with only nine, 
 and at that battle he himself narrowly escaped 
 death. Later he was assigned to recruiting near 
 Washington, D. C. , where he also did guard duty 
 on a railroad. He took part in the battle of 
 Gettysburg, after which he pursued the Con- 
 federates into Virginia and engaged in the battle 
 of the Wilderness. 
 
 After his discharge from the army Mr. Bell re- 
 turned home and secured work in the building of 
 a telegraph line from Pittsburgh to Altoona, Pa. 
 In September, 1865, he started for Kansas and 
 "squatted" on the farm he now owns. With him 
 he brought $260, which enabled him to get a 
 start in his new home. He bought his land from 
 the government, paying $2.50 an acre. It was 
 wholly destitute of improvements, and one of his 
 first tasks was the building of a frame house. 
 From time to time he made other improvements 
 that added to the value of the place. He now 
 owns five hundred and twenty acres in his home 
 farm, which he operates personally. In addition 
 to this he has given one hundred and sixty acres 
 to his older son and eighty acres to each of his 
 daughters, thus enabling them to get a good 
 start in life. For years he has been interested in 
 feeding cattle, a branch of agriculture in which 
 he has been quite successful. 
 
 April 13, 1865, Mr. Bell married Miss Millie J. 
 Waterman, of Westmoreland County, Pa. They 
 are the parents of four children, namely: Frank, 
 who is engaged in farming near the old home- 
 stead; Jennie R., wife of William Fuhs; Eva D., 
 who married Charles Skinner; and John, at home. 
 The family are identified with the Presbyterian 
 Church, to the maintenance of which Mr. Bell 
 
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 has been a regular contributor. While he has 
 always refused political office he has been active 
 in the interests of such of his friends as are can- 
 didates, and has always been a stanch Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 NGN. JOHN CRIMP WATTS, who has 
 made his home in Kansas since the fall of 
 1856, was born near Plymouth, Devonshire, 
 England, September 3, 1835, a son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Crimp) Watts, natives of the same 
 shire. His father, who was the son of a stone 
 mason, learned that trade at an early age and 
 after a time began to take contracts. While en- 
 gaged in filling a contract he accidentally fell from 
 the belfry of a church and was so injured that he 
 died six months later. Besides his wife (who 
 came to Kansas and died here at the age of fifty- 
 six years) he left four children, of whom John 
 Crimp is the oldest and the only survivor. Isaac, 
 the second son, was a soldier in the British 
 army and served in India, but resigned, came to 
 America and settled in Kansas, where he died. 
 Thomas, who was also a soldier in India, came 
 to Kansas in the early days and remained here 
 until 1879, when he went east, and since then all 
 trace of him has been lost. Mary, the only daugh- 
 ter, married A. Woods, and died in Lawrence. 
 
 After his father's death our subject was ap- 
 prenticed to his partner, with whom he remained 
 until he was eighteen. In 1853 he came to 
 America on the sailer "Rose," and landed in 
 Quebec after a voyage of eight weeks. Going to 
 Cleveland, Ohio, he worked as a stone mason 
 and bricklayer. In 1854 he went to Chicago and 
 Waukegan, 111., in both of which places he found 
 employment and began contracting. In the fall 
 of 1856 he came to Kan.sas. He was then a j^oung 
 man of twenty-one years. With all the enthusi- 
 asm of youth he began life in a new countrj- 
 amid hardships and difficulties. Going to Potta- 
 watomie County he took up the first claim near 
 Louisville, and there he built a house and made 
 improvements, retaining the place for four years. 
 As he passed through Lawrence he had noticed 
 some stone buildings, and thinking it might be 
 possible for him to secure work, he returned to 
 
 this city in February, 1857, and began contract- 
 ing and building. In order to hold his claim on 
 Rock Creek, every six months for two years he 
 made a trip to it, starting from Lawrence on foot 
 at noon and walking twenty-five miles that daj% 
 and twenty-nine the next, reaching the land after 
 dark. Four j'ears after he had settled in Law- 
 rence a man offered him $1 ,000 for it. He accepted 
 the ofier, deposited the money in a bank which 
 failed three days later, entailing a total loss to 
 hira. Undiscouraged, however, he continued his 
 work as contractor, and in time became success- 
 ful, he and his uncle, Abraham Watts, being 
 partners. He built the Miller block, G. A. R. 
 building, Poehler block, the grocery building 
 owned by John Jones, and many residences in 
 this city. About 1890 he practically retired from 
 business, although since then he has consented 
 to take a few important contracts, among them 
 that of the library building in the University of 
 Kansas (1894), and the Fowler shops at the uni- 
 versity (1898). He is the owner of considerable 
 valuable property in Lawrence, and has dealt ex- 
 tensively in real estate. During the antebellum 
 days he experienced all the terrors of border war- 
 fare, and remembers well the perils of the Quan- 
 trell raid that brought death and disaster to the 
 people of Lawrence. At the time of the Price 
 raid he was mustered into Company A, Third 
 Kansas Militia, under Captain Wheeler as cor- 
 poral, and went with his regiment down to the 
 Blue. 
 
 In Lawrence Mr. Watts married Fannie, 
 daughter of Thomas Collier, who came from 
 Pennsylvania to Lawrence in 1857. They be- 
 came the parents of six children, of whom Mary 
 died at fourteen years, and the others are at 
 home. Mr. Watts voted the Republican ticket 
 until the Tilden campaign, since which time he 
 has been a Democrat. He is serving his third 
 term as chairman of the Democratic county com- 
 mittee. For three terms he represented the third 
 and fourth wards in the city council, where he 
 was chairman of the committee on streets, alleys 
 and bridges. For two years he held the oSice of 
 street commissioner. On the Republican ticket, 
 in 1874, he was elected to the legislature, receiv- 
 
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 ing a majority of six hundred over Alexander 
 Banks. In the session of 1875 he secured the 
 passage of a bill assessing propertj' and stock at 
 the place of their location. Not wishing to be 
 the recipient of anj^ favors from the railroads, he 
 sent back all passes presented to him. For two 
 years he was a director of the state penitentiary 
 under Governor Glick. After becoming a Demo- 
 crat he was a candidate for sheriff and treasurer 
 of Douglas County, but his party being in the 
 minority he failed of election. However, he over- 
 came a majority of one thousand and was defeat- 
 ed by only one hundred votes. He is a demitted 
 member of the Odd Fellows, and belongs to the 
 Fraternal Aid Association, the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and Washington Post No. 12, 
 G. A. R. 
 
 (TOHN B. LAMBER was one of those early 
 I settlers who, through self-sacrifice, toil and 
 Q) hardship, have made possible the degree 
 of culture and prosperity the present generation 
 enjoys. Coming to Leavenworth in 1857, he 
 identified himself with the history of the then 
 little town and assisted in developing its re- 
 sources, rendering possible its high standing 
 among the cities of the west. Indirectly, too, 
 he aided in the development of the region then 
 known as "bleeding" Kansas, which is now one 
 of the most prosperous states in the Union. 
 While he was quiet, unpretentious and unassum- 
 ing, he was nevertheless alive to every need of 
 his home town, and was a loyal, public-spirited 
 citizen. When, after the toil and battle of life, 
 he passed away, August 2, 1895, he was followed 
 to the grave by the affectionate remembrances of 
 the pioneers who survived him, and by the grati- 
 tude of the younger generation that had grown 
 up around him. 
 
 Both the paternal and maternal ancestors of 
 Mr. Lamber were of English lineage. His 
 mother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Sir John 
 Missing, of England. He was born in New 
 York City July 24, 1828, and was two years of 
 age when his father died. He passed his boy- 
 hood years in his native city. His first position 
 was that of a messenger on the New York & 
 
 Erie Railroad. In 1850 the Adams Express 
 Company sent him to Australia, appointing him 
 their agent at Melbourne. The trip both ways 
 was made on sailing vessels and, going out, he 
 spent one hundred and seventy-five days on the 
 ocean. In 1855 he returned via Europe to the 
 United States. The experiences that he had 
 abroad were most helpful to him and gave him a 
 profitable cosmopolitan knowledge of men and 
 countries. After two more years in New York 
 City, in 1857 he came to Leavenworth, where he 
 remained for two years at that time, and then 
 went further west. 
 
 About 1863 Mr. Lamber returned to Leaven- 
 worth and in 1866 he bought an interest in the 
 Planter's hotel, which was carried on under the 
 firm name of Rice, Lamber & Pleas. In 1875 
 Mr. Pleas retired from the firm and the following 
 year Mr. Rice sold his interest to Mr. Lamber, 
 who continued to be the sole proprietor of the 
 hotel until 1888. He then retired from business. 
 During the remaining years of his life he lived 
 quietly at his home. No. 311 North Broadway, 
 where, in the enjoyment of every comfort, he 
 could fully enter into domestic and social pleas- 
 ures. He was never active in politics, although 
 a stanch Republican, always voting that ticket. 
 
 In Bethany, N. Y., January 10, 1866, Mr. 
 Lamber married Mary J., daughter of Thomas G. 
 Smith, and a sister of Leonard T. Smith and Mrs. 
 Jasper S. Rice, of Leavenworth. The ancestry 
 of the family appears in the sketch of Leonard 
 T. Smith. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lam- 
 ber is John B. Lamber, Jr. , of San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 r\ATRICK McKEEVER, who is engaged in 
 L/ farming at the head of Salt Creek Valley in 
 JD Leavenworth County, has resided on his 
 homestead since 1861. During that year he 
 bought a squatters' claim to one hundred and 
 sixty acres, on which he began the work of im- 
 provement and cultivation. He built what was 
 known as the "Big" house, a building 16x16, 
 which was large for those days, and was the first 
 frame house erected in the district. While he 
 has always given attention to the general lines of 
 
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 farming, at one time he made a specialty of stock- 
 raising, and had on his place about one hundred 
 head of cattle. In 1897 he erected a residence 
 which is considered one of the finest in the val- 
 ley, and here he has a pleasant and comfortable 
 home. 
 
 Born in Ireland in 1833, Mr. McKeever ran 
 away from home when fifteen years of age and 
 came to the United States, lauding in New York 
 and thence proceeding to Philadelphia. For two 
 years he made his home with Dr. Walker, a 
 Quaker physician, and while working there he 
 also attended school. In 1848 he began to work 
 for the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company. 
 Two years later he went to Richmond, Va., and 
 from there proceeded to Baltimore, Md., where 
 he bound himself to the machinist's trade, but 
 after twenty-one months the shop closed down. 
 He then secured work on the Baltimore & Ohio 
 Railroad. In 1852 he began farming in Perry 
 County, Ohio, and at the same time he resumed 
 his studies, attending St. Joseph's College in 
 Somerset, where he received a good academic 
 education. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. McKeever came to Leavenworth, 
 Kans., and secured employment in the quarter- 
 master's department at the fort. In 1859 he went 
 to California Gulch, Colo., where he spent the 
 summer, returning to Leavenworth in the fall, 
 and resuming work at the fort. During the bor- 
 der ruflSan wars he conducted an express service 
 between different forts and experienced all the 
 dangers of those days. Since then he has de- 
 voted himself entirely to agricultural pursuits. 
 In 1863 he was united in marriage with Sarah 
 Ann Walls, who died in 1867, leaving three chil- 
 dren, viz.: Harry, who is employed on a railroad 
 in Mexico; Robert?., who is a graduate of St. 
 Benedict's College in Atchison, and is a musician 
 of some note, being the author of the song, "A 
 Broken Promise," and other selections; and 
 Mary, who has charge of the home. ■ 
 
 Actively interested in the welfare of his com- 
 munity, Mr. McKeever supports the Populi.st 
 party and has attended its conventions. He has 
 held office as treasurer of Kickapoo Township. 
 He is loyal to the institutions of his adopted coun- 
 
 try, and is proud of its army and navy, and in 
 the splendid record it has made in the recent war 
 with Spain. He is a man of quiet disposition, 
 kind-hearted and generous, and is respected by 
 all who know him. 
 
 WlAJ. W. B. CARPENTER, M. D., for 
 y years one of Leavenworth's most prominent 
 (9 citizens, but now deceased, was born in 
 Delaware, Ohio, and descended in direct line 
 from William Carpenter, of Rehobeth, Mass., a 
 native of Herfordshire, England, and a cousin of 
 William Carpenter, who was an associate of 
 Roger Williams. He came to America in the 
 sailing vessel "Bevis," in 1638, and assisted in 
 the founding of Providence, in Rhode Island. 
 Ira Carpenter, who was the son of a Revolution- 
 ary soldier, was born in New York state and in 
 early days acted as a surveyor. He became a 
 pioneer of Delaware, Ohio, which town he assist- 
 ed in laying out. He met with an accident that 
 caused him to abandon civil engineering. He 
 then turned his attention to the study of medi- 
 cine and subsequently engaged in the practice 
 of that profession, dying at the age of eight}'- 
 three. 
 
 Major Carpenter, who was a son of Dr. Ira 
 Carpenter, studied medicine under Dr. Scott, 
 also in the Columbus Medical College and the 
 Cleveland Medical College, graduating as an 
 M. D., in 1853. Afterward he started for Cali- 
 fornia, but, changing his plans, spent one winter 
 in Iowa, and in the summer of 1857 settled in 
 Linn County, Kans., where he located a claim; 
 built a house, improved the land and al.so carried 
 on a general practice. At the opening of the 
 Civil war he volunteered as a private in the Sixth 
 Kansas Infantry, but was soon transferred to the 
 Fifth Kansas Regiment, of which he was com- 
 missioned assi.stant .surgeon. Later he was made 
 surgeon with the rank of major, and as such 
 served until the close of the war. On being mus- 
 tered out he settled in Leavenworth, where he 
 engaged in a general practice until 1876. After- 
 ward, for six years, he was attending physician 
 to the Kansas state penitentiary, of which he was 
 
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 later the first resident physician for eight years. 
 His death occurred in I<eavenworth in December, 
 1893, at the age of sixty-five years. Fraternally 
 he was identified with the Masons. 
 
 The marriage of Major Carpenter united him 
 with Miss Harriet E. Woodward, who was born 
 near Delaware, Ohio, and is now living in Leav- 
 enworth. Her father, Joel Woodward, was born 
 in Maryland, and removed from there to Ohio, 
 settling in Cleveland, where he engaged in the 
 manufacture of paper. The family of Major and 
 Mrs. Carpenter consisted of four children, two of 
 whom are living. 
 
 EHARLES R. CARPENTER, M. D. Among 
 the physicians of Leavenworth a prominent 
 place is held by the subject of this article, 
 who is one of the popular professional men of the 
 city, and has attained recognition through his 
 skill in the treatment of intricate forms of dis- 
 ease. He is a member of the Leavenworth City 
 and County Medical Society ; the Kansas Eastern 
 District Medical Society, of which he served as 
 secretary for several years; the Missouri Valley, 
 Kansas State and American Medical Associa- 
 tions, and through his connection with these so- 
 cieties keeps in touch with the progress made in 
 the science of medicine. He has contributed 
 articles to medical journals bearing upon subjects 
 that pertain to the profession, and these articles 
 have received favorable mention on the part of 
 his professional contemporaries. 
 
 Dr. Carpenter was born in Hardin, Iowa, Feb- 
 ruary ID, 1857, a son of Maj. William B. Car- 
 penter, M. D., deceased, late of Leavenworth. 
 He was an infant when his parents settled in 
 Linn County, Kans., where he remained until 
 the war, and was then sent to school at Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. In 1863 the family joined his father 
 at Helena, Ark., and afterward followed the army 
 in its movements in that region. In 1865 he 
 came with his parents to Leavenworth, where he 
 was educated in the public and high schools. In 
 1876 he entered Cornell University, from which 
 he graduated in 1880. The study of medicine he 
 began under his father and afterward carried on 
 in Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which 
 
 he graduated in 1882, with the degree of M. D. 
 Returning to Leavenworth, he began the practice 
 which he has since conducted, his location being 
 in the Manufacturers' Bank building. For seven 
 years he was secretary of the board of health of 
 this city. He assisted in organizing the Leaven- 
 worth Hospital Association, which is one of the 
 finest in the state. He has since been secretary 
 of the association and a member of the hospital 
 staff. Fraternally he is connected with Leaven- 
 worth Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., at Leaven- 
 worth, and is also connected with the Sons of 
 Veterans. In politics he affiliates with the Re- 
 publican party. He is an elder in the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Leavenworth. His 
 marriage took place in Princeton, Ky., and 
 united him with Miss Nina Garrett, who was 
 born in Kentucky. They have one child now 
 living, Anna Louise. 
 
 yyilCHAEL KIRMEYER, who was one of 
 Y the early settlers of Leavenworth, and is 
 (9 still living in this city, was born in Munich, 
 Bavaria, February 23, 1826. He spent his bo}'- 
 hood years upon a farm owned by his father, who 
 was an extensive farmer and stockman, and made 
 a specialty of raising race horses. When thirteen 
 years of age he began to learn the butcher's 
 trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of 
 two years, and later followed the business until, 
 in accordance with the laws of his country, he 
 entered the army. His entire period of service 
 in the army covered six years. 
 
 In 1857 ^^- Kirmeyer came over to our coun- 
 try on the "Little Conquerer" with his brother 
 Joseph, and the two proceeded at once to Leav- 
 enworth, where they opened a butcher shop. 
 After a year our subject purchased his brother's 
 interest, and for two years continued alone, after 
 which he engaged in the manufacture of soda 
 and ginger ale for eighteen months alone and 
 later with John Brandon as a partner. From that 
 business he gradually drifted into the brewer's 
 trade, and continued in the latter until 1888, 
 when the prohibition laws caused him to close 
 out and retire to private life. He is a member of 
 
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 the Turner societj- and a charter member of the 
 Leavenworth Lodge, I. O. O. F. During war 
 times he voted with the Republicans, being in 
 sympathy with their policy as to the abolition of 
 slavery; but of more recent years he has affiliated 
 with the Democrats. 
 
 November 24, 1858, he married Miss Nieder- 
 weiser, who was born in Ausburg, Germany, in 
 1834. They became the parents often children, 
 but four died at an early age. The others are 
 named as follows: Agnes, who is married and 
 lives in I^eavenworth; Michael, Jr., a traveling 
 salesman; John H., deputy district clerk, resid- 
 ing in this city; Joseph, who is a photographer 
 by occupation and is now in Memphis, Tenn.; 
 Dolly A. and Bertha M., who are with their 
 parents. 
 
 pCJiLLIAM G. FULLER, who is engaged in 
 \ A / contracting and building in Leavenworth, 
 V V was born in Taylor County, Iowa, in 1858, 
 a son of Oak P. and Elizabeth (Hicks) Fuller. 
 His father was a member of a pioneer family of 
 Ohio and was born in that state, where his father, 
 Gabriel Fuller, was killed when he was a lad of 
 ten years. When a young man, in 1856, he 
 removed to Iowa and there became interested in 
 farming, while at the same time he also did con- 
 siderable business as a carpenter and builder. 
 For seven years he made his home in Bedford 
 and from there removed to Mahaska. In 18S1 
 he established his home in Ottawa County, Kans. , 
 where he has since resided upon a farm. He is 
 a Democrat in politics and actively interested in 
 public affairs. To his marriage thirteen children 
 were born, nine of whom are living. 
 
 In his youth the subject of this sketch learned 
 the trade of miller and millwright, which he 
 followed for a short time, and afterward, for sev- 
 eral years, engaged in railroad work in Missouri. 
 In 1880 he went to western Kansas and took up 
 a claim to government land in Pratt County, 
 where he began farming. After two years he 
 •vcame to Leavenworth, where he began carpen- 
 tering and aLso engaged in railroad work. While 
 employed on railroads, he was in Missouri, 
 Texas, Indian Territorj- and Kansas. He 
 
 assisted in erecting a large depot for the Missouri, 
 Kansas & Texas Railroad in Dallas, Tex. In 
 other places he also built depots for the same 
 road, and in 1893 built the Missouri Pacific depot 
 in Leavenworth. 
 
 Besides his railroad contracts, Mr. Fuller has 
 erected buildings for the government at Fort 
 Leavenworth. He has also had contracts for 
 some of the finest business blocks, churches and 
 private residences in the city. The nature of his 
 work is such that it invariably proves satisfactory. 
 People competent to judge in the matter believe 
 him to be one of the most expert contractors in 
 the city. His work keeps him so engrossed that 
 he has no leisure for public affairs or official 
 positions, and, aside from voting the Democratic 
 ticket he takes no part in politics. He is inter- 
 ested in mining in Arizona and is a stockholder 
 in the Arizona Gold Mining and Milling Com- 
 pany. He and his family are active members of 
 the Baptist Church and he is one of the deacons 
 of the congregation. His marriage, which took 
 place in 1881, united him with Christina, 
 daughter of James W. Bedwell, who came from 
 Missouri to Kansas in 1866 and is still living in 
 Leavenworth, where he has followed the black- 
 smith's trade for years. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are 
 the parents of six children. 
 
 GlUGUST SCHANZE, who is one of the suc- 
 Ll cessful business men of Leavenworth, was 
 / I born in Schwartzenberg kies Meltzing, fif- 
 teen miles from Cassel, Kur-Hessen, Germany, 
 July 30, 1840, a son of John and Elizabeth (Bach- 
 man) Schanze, natives of the same place as him- 
 self. He was the j-oungest of four children, of 
 whom his sister died in Michigan; one brother, 
 John, lives in Kansas City; and the other, Mar- 
 tin, is in Texas. When fourteen years of age he 
 was apprenticed to the wagon-maker's trade in 
 his native village, and for two and one-half years 
 served as an apprentice. In 1856 he left Bremen 
 on a sailing-vessel that reached New York after 
 a voyage of thirty-seven days, and from New- 
 York he went to Chicago, where he secured work 
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 Kansas, joining his brother, John, who had set- 
 tled at Sumner the preceding year and had been 
 engaged in making wagons for Russell, the 
 freighter. In the fall of 1858 he voted for the 
 admission of Kansas into the Union as a free 
 state. He experienced many of the perils and 
 hardships of border warfare, when the whole 
 country was in a state of excitement and none 
 knew what a day might bring forth. He was a 
 member of the Turn Verein, a society of forty 
 members, organized into a company, for whom 
 the blowing of a horn was a signal to assemble. 
 
 From 1859 to 1861 Mr. Schanze carried on a 
 shop in Winthrop, Mo. At the opening of the 
 war he came to Leavenworth and enlisted in the 
 service of the government. He was assigned to 
 the army of the Potomac and was sent to Hagers- 
 town, Md., thence to Frederick, the same state, 
 from there to Washington, D. C, and Virginia, 
 where he was assigned to work in the army shop. 
 He was connected with the repair department of 
 the army and was present at the battle of Bull 
 Run (2d) and other important engagements. 
 Still in the government employ he returned to 
 Leavenworth in 1863, and was later ordered to 
 Helena, Ark., as a mechanic. On account of 
 illness he did not remain long in Helena. In 
 1865 he was sent to Denver, where he was em- 
 ployed in the government shop for fourteen 
 months. 
 
 On his return to Leavenworth Mr. Schanze 
 started a shop on the corner of Fourth and Cher- 
 okee streets, where he engaged in the manufac- 
 ture and repair of wagons and carriages. From 
 1873 to 1883 he was in the government employ 
 at Fort Leavenworth, but during the latter year 
 he resumed business for himself at No. 608 Cher- 
 okee street, where he has a three-story and base- 
 ment building, 48x125 feet in dimensions, built 
 of brick, and stocked with a full line of hard- 
 ware, agricultural implements, wind mills, pumps, 
 seeds, etc. He is still engaged in the manu- 
 facture of wagons and buggies, with which work 
 his long years of successful experience have made 
 him thoroughly familiar. Since 1889 he has 
 handled farm and garden seeds of all kinds, and 
 has also made a specialty of builders' hardware. 
 
 Besides his business block he is the owner of four 
 residences which he erected, and has other valua- 
 ble property in the city. 
 
 In Leavenworth, in 1867, occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Schanze to Miss Kate Schaffer, who 
 was born in Prussia, and at one year of age was 
 brought to America by her parents, who settled 
 in Kansas in 1854. She is a sister of Jacob 
 Schaffer, the champion billiard player of the 
 world. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Schanze 
 are Jacob, a graduate of the commercial college, 
 and now bookkeeper for his father, and John, who 
 also assists in the store. Mr. Schanze is a mem- 
 ber of the Turn Verein, and is past officer of the 
 Odd Fellows' lodge, which he has represented in 
 the grand lodge, also is past officer in the en- 
 campment. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 KOBERT ARMSTRONG. There are no citi- 
 zens of Leavenworth who have taken a 
 deeper interest in the development of its 
 resources and the extension of its influence in 
 commerce and agriculture than have the pioneers 
 of the city. Coming here in the early days, they 
 have been potent factors in all worthy enterprises. 
 Not only have they striven for personal success, 
 but, with admirable public spirit, they have en- 
 deavored to promote all beneficial causes. Among 
 these early settlers is Mr. Armstrong, who came 
 to Kansas during 1857, and, identifying himself 
 with the free-state movement, gave that cause his 
 ardent support during the trying days previous 
 to and during the Civil war. From the time of 
 his settlement to the present he has supported 
 measures for the benefit of the people. During 
 the first years of his residence here he assisted 
 on government surveys, in which way he gained 
 a practical knowledge of the state, the condition 
 of its lands and their prospective value to the 
 settlers. 
 
 The family of which Mr. Armstrong is a mem- 
 ber has been identified with Scotch history as far 
 back as the genealogy can be traced. He was 
 born in Scotland, October 23, 1832, and grew to 
 manhood upon the farm owned by his father, 
 Robert Armstrong, Sr. With a desire to avail 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 himself of the advantages offered by the new 
 world, he determined to cross the ocean to Amer- 
 ica. It was in 1853 that he emigrated from his 
 native land and cast his fortunes in with the peo- 
 ple of the United States. Landing in New York, 
 he proceeded to Illinois, and for four years he en- 
 gaged in tilling the soil there, meantime saving 
 his earnings in order that he might invest in farm 
 property for himself. From Illinois he came to 
 Kansas at the time the tide of emigration was 
 turning toward Kansas, and on arriving here he 
 entered claims in Marshall and Nemaha Counties. 
 From that time to this he has made agriculture 
 his occupation, and has made a specialty of stock- 
 raising. 
 
 Realizing the advantages to be derived from a 
 good education, Mr. Armstrong has always been 
 a friend of the public school system and has done 
 all within his power to promote the standard of 
 scholarship. Other movements, too, that are for 
 the public good and will conserve the prosperity 
 and happiness of the people receive his co-opera- 
 tion and support. He has been so fortunate in 
 his undertakings that he has acquired large pos- 
 sessions, including a stock farm of seven hundred 
 and seventy acres in Marshall County, a large 
 tract in Ottawa County, also his residence at No. 
 1806 Shawnee .street, Leavenworth. He and his 
 wife have four children: Agnes, Rose, Camelie 
 and Leonie. 
 
 REV. JAMES M. PAYNE, Protestant chap- 
 lain at the National Military Home in Leav- 
 enworth, was born in Parke County, Ind., 
 April I, 1843, a son of Gustavus and Mary 
 (Nevins) Payne. When he was four years of age 
 his parents became pioneer settlers of Hancock 
 County, 111., from which a short time before the 
 Mormons had been driven out. In the common 
 schools of those days and that localit}^ his educa- 
 tion was obtained. When he was eighteen years 
 of age the Civil war broke out, and, fired with a 
 patriotic zeal, he at once enli,sted in the Union 
 army, becoming a member of Company G, Second 
 Illinois Cavalry, which was assigned to the Thir- 
 teenth Army Corps under John A. McClellan. 
 Among the battles in which he took part were 
 
 those at Vicksburg, Jackson and Champion Hill, 
 Miss. , as well as others that had a part in deciding 
 the fate of the war. His entire period of service 
 was four years, five months and twelve days, and 
 during all that time he was not once wounded, 
 but his brothers, William and Henry, are both 
 buried in southern soil, having fallen as martyrs 
 to the Union cause. 
 
 At the close of the war Mr. Payne came to 
 Kansas, where he engaged in farming in Miami 
 County. Five years later he was converted and 
 became a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. At once he became activel}^ interested 
 in the work of the church and after four years he 
 dedicated his life to the ministry. His first pas- 
 torate was at Osawatomie, where he was pastor 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Later he 
 had a charge at Galena, Kans. , for five years; and 
 while serving his fifth year as pastor of the Grace 
 Methodist Episcopal Church at Fort Scott, he was 
 appointed, June 28, 1898, Protestant chaplain of 
 the National Military Home, and he has since 
 given his attention to the conscientious and effi- 
 cient discharge of his duties. During the long 
 period of his connection with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal ministry in Kansas he has done much to 
 promote the success of this denomination and has 
 proven himself a faithful and capable worker in 
 this part of the Lord's vineyard. Through his 
 entire life his acts have been in harmony with his 
 professions. In his long and honorable career, no 
 word of reproach has ever been uttered against 
 him. He has maintained the respect of his ac- 
 quaintances and the warm regard of his as.sociates. 
 By his marriage, in 1864, to Miss Mary A. Cant- 
 well, of Illinois, he has one son, Dr. E. B. Payne, 
 of Galena, Kans. 
 
 (Tames H. WEIMER, a farmer and stock- 
 I raiser of Marion Township, Douglas County, 
 (2/ was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1850. 
 He is a descendant of Joseph Weimer, a native of 
 Germany, who emigrated to Pennsylvania, set- 
 tling near Harrisburg. He was one of the 
 organizers of the Dunkard Church in that locality. 
 At the great age of one hundred and eleven years 
 he died in Darke County, Ohio. His sou Michael, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 who was born in Pennsylvania, took up land in 
 Randolph County, Ind., where Union City now 
 stands. Afterward he made his home in Preble 
 County, Ohio, where he carried on a grist mill 
 and engaged successfully in farming for many 
 years. For some time he served as a deacon in 
 the Dunkard Church, in which organization he 
 was active. 
 
 Daniel, son of Michael Weimer, and father of 
 our subject, was born in Darke County, Ohio, 
 and resided there until 1866, when he moved to 
 Jackson County, Mo. In 1871 he came to Kan- 
 sas, settling in Palmyra Township, Douglas Coun- 
 tj^ where he spent the remainder of his life. A 
 skilled mechanic, he followed the trades of car- 
 penter and painter, which he had learned in Day- 
 ton, Ohio, and in which he was considered an ex- 
 pert, lyike his forefathers, he worshiped with the 
 Dunkards and took an active part in their 
 labors. He died in^iSyg, at'_fifty-six years of age. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Martha 
 Alexander, was born in Ohio and died in Kansas 
 in 1895, at sixty-three years of age. They were 
 the parents of four children: James H.; Sarah E., 
 who is the wife of E. B. Kincaid; Noah S. and 
 Maggie A., both of whom live in Palmyra Town- 
 ship. 
 
 When our subject was a little less than sixteen 
 years of age he went with his parents to Missouri , 
 and in 187 1, when they came to Kansas, he 
 settled in northern Missouri, on the border of 
 Iowa. However, the following year he settled on 
 a rented farm in Palmyra Township, Douglas 
 County, and this place he operated until, by 
 carefully saving his earnings, he was able to buy 
 a home of his own. In 1884 he bought the 
 place where he has since engaged in farming and 
 dealing in stock, making a specialty of raising 
 Hereford cattle. The success that he has at- 
 tained proves him to be a man of energy and per- 
 severance. Everything connected with agricul- 
 ture is of interest to him and, at the organization 
 of the Grange, he became identified with it. He 
 is a stockholder in a grain business at Overbrook, 
 Kans. 
 
 In the local lodge of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen Mr. Weimer has held the highest of- 
 
 fices. The Democratic party always receives his 
 support, for its principles represent his ideas as to 
 national government. During his connection 
 with the school board he served as its clerk. For 
 six years he was a constable in Marion Township. 
 November 20, 1879, he married Clemmie, daugh- 
 ter of John and Barbara (Anderson) Bailey. 
 They have six children: Guy, L,utie, Ethel, Jay, 
 Earl and Mabel. 
 
 ~ N. O. CLOUGH. It is scarcely possible 
 ^ for the present generation to gain an ade- 
 ^ quate conception of the hardships endured 
 by the pioneers of Kansas. Those who settled 
 here in the early days were led to do so, less in 
 hope of worldly advancement, than in defense of 
 a principle. From the north and east men came 
 to assist in the movement looking toward the ad- 
 mission of Kansas into the Union as a free state. 
 Among those who took an active part in the bor- 
 der warfare and who assisted in the organization 
 of the Union party was Mr. Clough, of Leaven- 
 worth. So prominent was he in the anti-slavery 
 movement that it is said of him that he was the 
 most deeply loved, and the most deeply hated, 
 man in the entire region. He was opposed to 
 the extension of slavery, but did not favor inter- 
 fering with it in states where it was already es- 
 tablished; however, when the crisis came he 
 stood stanchly on the side of President Lincoln, 
 whom he knew personally and admired greatly, 
 and favored the emancipation of the slaves. 
 
 The great-grandfather of our subject, John 
 Clough, was born in Massachusetts in 17 19, was 
 twice married, reared a large family, and died in 
 1798. His son, Ebenezer, was born in Boston, 
 April 8, 1767, and in that city engaged in manu- 
 facturing wall paper. At the time of his death 
 he was eighty-one years of age. Of the thirteen 
 children born to his marriage with Catherine 
 Frothingham, the fourth child and third son was 
 William, who was born in Boston, June 23, 1797. 
 While a mere lad he served in the war of 181 2, 
 leaving school to enter the army, and assisting in 
 building the forts in Boston harbor. About i8i6 
 he graduated from Harvard, after which he went 
 to Virginia and taught school. On his return to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Boston he was principal of the Ma5hew public 
 school, also a Latin school in the citj'. In 1833 
 he settled in St. Charles Countj', Mo., where he 
 improved and operated a farm. After the death 
 of his wife he made his home with his two sons at 
 Parkville, Platte County, Mo. and he died in 
 Leavenworth, Kans., August 10, 1866. 
 
 During his residence in Virginia, William 
 Clough married Mary Ann Orrick, who was born 
 in Berkeley County in 1797. She was a daugh- 
 ter of Nicholas and Mary (Pendleton) Orrick, na- 
 tives of Virginia, the former a planter, justice of 
 the peace and sheriff of Berkeley County. The 
 four children of William and Mary Ann Clough 
 were E. N. O., William McNeil, Mary Catherine- 
 and James S. Of these, William McNeil Clough, 
 who was born in Boston, was married at Park- 
 ville, Mo., May 31, 1855, to Mrs. Mary Ann 
 (Scott) Embrey. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Missouri and practiced law in Parkville with his 
 older brother, whom, in 1862, he joined in Leav- 
 enworth. His death occurred in this city Janu- 
 ary 26, 1883. The only daughter was born in 
 St. Charles County, Mo., in December, 1835, 
 and died there in July, 1845. The youngest 
 child, James S., was bom in St. Charles County, 
 January 14, 1841, and died there in July, 1844. 
 
 At Aldrich, near Berry ville, Va., the subject 
 of this sketch was born on Saturday, May 28, 
 1825. In July of the same year he was taken to 
 Boston by his parents, and, while en-route, passed 
 through New York City at the time of General La- 
 fayette's memorial visit. The illustrious French- 
 man took the infant in his lap at Bunker's hotel, 
 but unfortunately the child slept through all the 
 honors. After a short time in Boston, the family 
 went back to Virginia, but in 1828 returned to 
 Boston, and thence in 1833 went to St. Charles 
 County, Mo., where the boy was educated in his 
 father's boarding school at Avondale. From the 
 age of seventeen he assisted his father in teach- 
 ing, and at twenty he was employed as teacher in 
 the fourth ward school in St. Louis, after which 
 he taught in a private school in the same city. 
 Meantime he studied law. He was admitted to 
 the bar in Boonville, Mo., October 20, 1853; at 
 Wyandotte, Kans., June 6, 1859; to the supreme 
 
 court of Kan.sas, at Topeka, January 12, 1871; 
 and to the supreme court of the United States, at 
 Washington, D. C, January 21, 1874. 
 
 During the Mexican war Mr. Clough enlisted 
 May 24, 1847, in Company D, Second Missouri 
 Volunteers, of which he served as orderly ser- 
 geant, continuing until the close of the war. He 
 was mustered out at Independence, Mo., Octo- 
 ber 10, 1848. From 1853 to 1857 he practiced 
 law in Columbia, Mo. Afterward he located at 
 Parkville, Mo. From 1853 to 1861 he rode the 
 circuit, practicing in Kansas, principally in Leav- 
 enworth, Wyandotte and Topeka. During 1861 
 he removed his oiBce to Leavenworth, where he 
 continued the practice of law. While in Platte 
 Countj' he was in a hotbed of secession and his 
 sympathy with the Union made him unpopular, 
 in fact, imperiled his life. He and his family 
 were obliged to go armed. At a meeting in Park- 
 ville he assisted in organizing the Union party 
 for the enforcement of all laws. No one would 
 consent to open the meeting for the purpose of 
 organization; he was called on and at once bold- 
 ly expressed his opinions, at the same time de- 
 claring that he was armed and it would be best 
 for those who wished to attack him to refrain 
 from doing so, if they valued their lives. He was 
 listened to quietly and afterward presented the 
 resolutions framed by the Union party, which 
 were later published throughout the entire coun- 
 try. 
 
 When Sumter was fired on Mr. Clough assisted 
 in raising a large body of soldiers for the Union. 
 These he enlisted on the regular enlistment pap- 
 ers, but afterward received orders to send the 
 men to Washington to be placed in the regular 
 army, and this he did, but at the same time re- 
 fused to enlist, as ordered, as an orderly under 
 General Elliott. He found too much politics in 
 the army and would not muster into the service, 
 although he served in different capacities and 
 was recognized by the rank of colonel. His serv- 
 ice was principally in Missouri and the west. In 
 St. Louis, Mo., November 9, 1848, Bishop Hawks 
 performed the ceremony which united in mar- 
 riage Mr. Clough and Rebecca M. Seltzer, who 
 was born in Lebanon County, Pa., and was a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
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 grand-daughter of General Wiser, who served in 
 the Revolutionar}' war. Seven children were 
 born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Clough. The 
 eldest, Mary Rebecca, is the wife of Martin L. 
 Bulkley, who is engaged in the real-estate busi- 
 ness in Leavenworth. Emma Frances is the 
 wife of James E. Hall, of Leavenworth. Marga- 
 ret Alice is the widow of M. Montville, Jr. , of 
 Leavenworth. William, of Kansas City, is ser- 
 geant-at-arms of the upper house of the city gov- 
 ernment. Minnie Orrick and Ebenezer died in 
 childhood. Charles Prescott Allen is manager 
 of a coal and coke business in Kansas City. The 
 golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Clough, No- 
 vember 9, 1898, was appropriately celebrated, 
 and brought to them the congratulations and 
 best wishes of hosts of friends. 
 
 In the organization of the Mexican War Vet- 
 erans' Association Mr. Clough took an active 
 part, and he has since been vice-president for 
 Kansas. Politically he was an old-line Whig 
 during the existence of that party and has since 
 been a Republican. For thirty years he held 
 the office of United States commissioner, and for 
 several terms he served as justice of the peace. 
 During the existence of the Union League he 
 was its grand secretary. He and his family are 
 members of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 ^AMUEL P. MOORE, treasurer of Douglas 
 /JS County, has been connected with his present 
 \yj office, either as treasurer, deputy or clerk, 
 for twenty out of the past twenty-two years. In 
 1878 he secured a clerkship in the office under 
 Oliver Barber, and under Paul R. Brooks served 
 as deputy. The next treasurer was Colonel 
 Moore, who was opposed to Mr. Moore in politics; 
 consequently the latter resigned, and, going to 
 Kansas City, was for two years a clerk with the 
 Lombard Investment Company, returning once to 
 assist Colonel Moore during a pressure of busi- 
 ness. When J. C. Walton succeeded Colonel 
 Moore our subject was appointed deputy treas- 
 urer in October, 1888, and served for four years 
 under him, then for a similar period under A. L. 
 Cox. In the fall of 1895 he was the Republican 
 40 
 
 nominee for the office, to which he was elected by 
 a majority of almost one thousand. In 1897 he 
 was re-elected by about twelve hundred majority, 
 his term to expire in October, 1900. 
 
 The father of our subject, Hugh Moore, was 
 born in Belfast, Ireland, October 5, 1804, the 
 youngest child and only son of William Moore 
 the twelfth. He served an apprenticeship with 
 Robert Burns in Newton Ords, under whom he 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the hat business. 
 At the conclusion of his time he went to Scot- 
 land, secured employment and induced his mother 
 and sisters to sell the property in Ireland and 
 join him in Scotland. He was married at Pais- 
 ley, seven tniles from Glasgow, January i, 1827, 
 to Miss Catherine Moffet. April 9, 1832, he left 
 Glasgow and crossed the ocean to Montreal, 
 where he remained for three years. In February, 
 1835, he moved to New York, via Lake Cham- 
 plain and the Hudson, the journey being made in 
 mid-winter in sleighs. He engaged in the hat 
 business on Hudson street, New York City. His 
 first wife died March 20, 1838, and the following 
 year he married Eleanor Robinson, who was 
 born in Switzerland, settled in New York state in 
 girlhood, and is now, at eighty-six years, living 
 in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 In 1841 Hugh Moore settled in Cincinnati, 
 where he was first foreman in a hat store, but in 
 1843 built a factory on Pearl street and continued 
 manufacturing there until July i, 1852. He then 
 sold and began steamboating. In 1853 he built 
 the steamer "Union," a side- wheeler, at a cost of 
 54,000, and was employed by the government in 
 carrying blankets, etc., to the Indians and sol- 
 diers. After seven years he sold the vessel for 
 $13,000. When the war broke out he was em- 
 ployed by the government on the steamer "St. 
 Charles' ' in carrying military stores to the fron- 
 tier. At the close of the war he retired, and un- 
 til 1870 made his home on Mount Adams, Cincin- 
 nati, where he had built a fine residence and store 
 in 1845. In 1870 he settled in Lawrence, where 
 he died at the age of seventy-five years. Of his 
 family, William Moore is a machinist in Cincin- 
 nati; Robert R. is connected with the gas and 
 electric light company in Los Angeles, Cal.; Al- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 bert died August 13, 1887, at the age of forty-one 
 j'ears; Annie is the wife of S. G. McConnell, of 
 L,os Angeles; and Arabella married John Barber, 
 of Lawrence. Robert and Albert served in an 
 Ohio regiment during the Civil war. 
 
 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 13, 1858, 
 the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age 
 when the family settled in Lawrence, and three 
 years later he began to work as a clerk in this 
 city. Having spent so much of his life in Doug- 
 las Countj', he is well known among the people, 
 whose confidence he has won by his integrity, in- 
 telligence and devotion to official duties. Active 
 in the Republican party, he has been a delegate 
 to various conventions and has served on the 
 county committee. He belongs to Lawrence 
 Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M.; Lawrence Chapter 
 No. 4, R. A. M.; De Molay Commandery No. 4, 
 K. T.; Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Moore, in July, 1890, 
 united him with Gula E., daughter of John Hen- 
 ley, a member of the Society of Friends, who 
 came from Indiana to Kansas and engaged in 
 farming nearHesper, Douglas Countj, but finally 
 returned to Westfield, Ind. , where he died. Mrs. 
 Moore was born in Indianapolis, and received 
 her education in the University of Kansas, re- 
 maining in Douglas County until her marriage. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Moore occupy the residence which 
 he built at No. 1025 Kentucky street, Lawrence. 
 
 REUBENS. EDMINSTER. Near the eastern 
 boundary of vStranger Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, lies the farm owned and oc- 
 cupied by Mr. Edminster, who is one of the pros- 
 perous farmers of his neighborhood. At one time 
 he owned four hundred and forty acres in this 
 county, but his gift of land to his sons diminished 
 his personal holdings considerably, although he 
 still retains enough land to engage his attention 
 and remunerate his efforts. All that he ac- 
 cumulated was by his unaided exertions. He 
 started for himself without means and assisted 
 in caring for his younger brothers and sisters 
 until they were able to become self-supporting. 
 
 He also gave his children good educational ad- 
 vantages and fitted them for positions of u.seful- 
 ness and honor. 
 
 A son of Henrj' and Mary (Barnes) Edminster, 
 our subject was born in Tompkins County, N.Y., 
 July 8, 1822. The family dates back in this 
 country to three brothers who emigrated from 
 England. His grandfather, Henry Edminster, 
 a native of Massachusetts, and a farmer by oc- 
 cupation, died in New York state when eighty- 
 two 3'ears of age. The father was seventeen years 
 of age when the family removed from Massa- 
 chusetts, and the active years of his life were 
 spent in New York, where he died at fifty-seven 
 years. In politics he was a Whig, but not active. 
 His wife was about sixtj- at the time of her death. 
 Of their eleven children seven are still living. 
 Our subject was earlj' obliged to gain his own 
 livelihood. His first employment was as a farm- 
 hand. At thirtj'-three years he removed west 
 to Bureau County, 111. , where he bought a farm 
 and remained until 1873. He then sold his place 
 and came to Kansas, buying three hundred acres 
 of partly improved land, where he resided for 
 years. Afterward he rented the farm and bought 
 one hundred and twenty acres comprising his 
 present homestead. 
 
 July 6, 1844, Mr. Edminster married Miss 
 Adelia M. McCuUough, who was born in Con- 
 necticut. Of their nine children two died in in- 
 fancj'. The following are living: Mary Jane, 
 who married Owen L- Dunbar, a farmer in 
 Stranger Township; Howard, a farmer in Illinois; 
 Austin, a farmer in Stranger Township; Mrs. 
 John Griswell, of Iowa; Mandana, who married 
 Professor Ramsey, a teacher in a Massachusetts 
 high school; Herbert, who cultivates a farm in 
 Stranger Township; and Charles, who owns a 
 part of his father's old homestead. 
 
 In politics a stanch Republican, Mr. Edminster 
 has been active in township and count}- affairs, and 
 has held various local offices. For fifty-six years 
 he has been an active member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and during that time he has 
 aided in building a number of churches and as- 
 sisted in organizing the Glen wood congregation. 
 The various church offices, such as class-leader. 
 
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 steward and trustee, he has filled with eflBciency, 
 and he has also been active in Sunday-school 
 work, and in early life served as superintendent. 
 
 (Tames COURSEY, a retired farmer andbusi- 
 I ness man residing in Eeavenworth, and one 
 Q) of the pioneers of Kansas, was born in Ban- 
 gor, Me., in 1828, a son of James and Hannah 
 Coursey. When he was a child his parents 
 moved to New Orleans, La., and he attended 
 school in that city. After a short time the family 
 went to Chicago, and there lived from 1838 to 
 1 84 1. From there he went to Stephenson Coun- 
 ty, and later to Jo Daviess County, 111. The 
 mining excitement in California led him to go to 
 the Pacific coast in 1850, and there he engaged in 
 farming and mining, being successful in both. 
 Seven years were spent in the far west. On 
 his return to the east he took up land in John- 
 sou County, Kans., and also purchased land 
 in Leavenworth County. Since then he has 
 added to his property until he now has two 
 hundred and forty acres in one tract and one 
 hundred and sixty in the other. Improving the 
 property in Johnson County, he made his home 
 on it for four years, and then sold and came to 
 Leavenworth County. 
 
 While he engaged in general farming, Mr. 
 Coursey's specialty was fruit-growing and dairy- 
 ing. He also carried on a live-stock business, 
 having about one hundred and twenty-five head. 
 The products of his dairy were sold mostlj' in 
 Leavenworth, although frequently he made ship- 
 ments to Kansas City. The business was con- 
 ducted under his personal supervision and proved 
 the source of a fine income. In October, 1897, 
 he sold all of his stock and has since rented 
 his farms. He started the Leavenworth Dairy 
 and Creamery Company in Leavenworth, but has 
 turned the business over to his sons, and is now 
 living retired, enjoying, in the twilight of his life, 
 the fruits of his early labors. 
 
 Politically Mr. Coursey is a Democrat. He 
 was a warm admirer of Horace Greeley, whom he 
 supported for the presidency. In religion he is 
 identified with the Roman Catholic Church, 
 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias. He erected a couple of residences in 
 Leavenworth, but these he has since' sold. In 
 1857 ^^ married Mary Murphy, of Illinois. They 
 became the parents of six children , of whom five 
 are living, viz. : Edward, a miner in Colorado; 
 Mary, wife of Charles Barrett; James, who is en- 
 gaged in the creamery business; Harry, who is 
 assistant superintendent of the electric railroad; 
 and Charles, who is interested in the creamery 
 with his older brother. 
 
 r" RANCIS M. KELLER, who is engaged in 
 Yo general farm pursuits in Leavenworth 
 I County, owns a farm of eighty acres in Ton- 
 ganoxie Township and devotes himself to its cul- 
 tivation. He is a native of Indiana, born near 
 Brownstown, Jackson County, March 4, 1S33, a 
 son of George and Sarah (Cox) Keller, natives 
 respectively of Lancaster County, Pa., and Ken- 
 tucky. His paternal grandfather was born in 
 Germany and shortly after coming to this country 
 served in the American armj' during the Revolu- 
 tionary war. When George Keller was ten 
 years of age he settled with his parents in 
 the then wilderness of Indiana. He was reared 
 on a farm in Harrison County. In young man- 
 hood he removed to Jackson County, Ind., 
 where he spent the remainder of his life upon a 
 farm, dying at the age of sixty-six. He took an 
 interest in politics and identified himself with the 
 Democratic party. His wife was seventy-three 
 years of age at the time of her death. She was a 
 woman of sincere Christian belief, of noble char- 
 acter, and a faithful member of the Baptist Church. 
 Of seven sons, the subject of this sketch alone 
 survives. His boyhood years were spent in Indi- 
 ana, where he received a common school educa- 
 tion. In October, 1870, he came to Leaven- 
 worth County and bought the farm where he has 
 since made his home. Starting out with nothing, 
 he has always worked with energy and persever- 
 ance, and has become the owner of a nicely im- 
 proved farm. He is a friend of the public school 
 system and takes a warm interest in the promo- 
 tion of educational interests in his district. For 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 several years he served as a member of the school 
 board. While he has never sought office nor 
 cared for political prominence, he has been active 
 in the Democratic party and one of its local 
 leaders. By his marriage to Arminda Berrj^ of 
 Indiana, he has seven children: George A., John 
 A., Sarah, Emma, Ida 1,., Esther and Elizabeth. 
 
 3 AMES M. PHENICIE. A resident of Kan- 
 sas since the close of the Civil war, Mr. 
 Phenicie has been successfully engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits, and through the energetic 
 and business-like manner in which' he has con- 
 ducted his affairs he has become the owner of 
 nine hundred and sixty acres of fine land, de- 
 voted to haying, general farming and stock- 
 raising. Through industry and integrity he has 
 gained a competence. He has not sought official 
 positions, preferring the part of a private citizen, 
 whose duties he has at all times striven to fill. 
 However, he has been called to serve in local 
 posts of trust and responsibility. For .several 
 years he held office as township trustee and from 
 1884 to 1899 he .served as county commissioner, 
 during which time he was for a number of years 
 chairman of the board. 
 
 Mr. Phenicie was born in Muskingum County, 
 Ohio, in 1840, a son of George W. and Mary N. 
 (Houck) Phenicie, and a descendant of pioneers 
 of Franklin County, Pa. His father, who was a 
 native of Pennsylvania, engaged in farming in 
 Indiana for years, but in 1885 came to Kansas, 
 where he died at eighty years of age. Hiswifewas 
 eighty-three at the time of her death. Of their 
 twelve children all but two are living, and four of 
 the family, James M., William C, George W. 
 and Emma J., reside in Leavenworth Count}'. 
 Our subject was reared on a farm in Indiana. At 
 the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in 
 Company A, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, in 
 which he served until the battle of Chickamauga. 
 He and his brother, William C. , were captured 
 by the Confederates there and were confined in 
 prison at Danville and later as Andersonville. 
 He was finally exchanged and rejoined his regi- 
 ment. At the close of the war he returned to 
 
 Indiana. In the fall of 1865 he removed to Kan- 
 sas and settled in Leavenworth County. Two 
 years later he formed a partnership with his 
 brother, William C. , with whom he remained for 
 five years, but since then has been alone. He is 
 a stockholder and director in the Tonganoxie 
 State Bank. As a Republican he is interested in 
 local and general elections. Fraternally he is a 
 member of Lodge No. 190, A. F. & A. M., and 
 Tonganoxie Lodge, K. of P. 
 
 In 1 87 1 Mr. Phenicie was united in marriage 
 with Miss Georgia Eraser, who died in 1896. 
 The children born of their union are as follows: 
 Jessie, who is married; Mary K., who is a school- 
 teacher in this township; Roscoe A., Ruth E. and 
 Grace H. 
 
 EAPT. JAMES W. GILGES, who is one of 
 the honored veterans of the Civil war, was 
 born in Rome, Adams County, Ohio, No- 
 vember 8, 1842, a son of William and Ellen 
 (Woodworth) Gilges; and a grandson, on his fa- 
 ther's side, of John Gilges, a resident of Ohio 
 and later of Lexington, Ky.; also a grandson of 
 Richard Woodworth, a native of Maryland, a 
 soldier in the war of 18 12 and for years a farmer 
 in Ohio. William Gilges was born in Brown 
 County, Ohio, but was reared in Lexington, Ky. 
 In early manhood he .settled in Adams County, 
 Ohio, and in 1847 established his home in Cedar- 
 ville, Stephenson County, 111., where he re- 
 mained eleven years. In 1858 he came to Kan- 
 sas and settled near Lawrence, in Douglas Coun- 
 ty', where he bought and improved a fine farm of 
 two hundred and forty acres. For years a Whig, 
 on the organization of the Republican party he 
 entered its ranks in Illinois and always afterward 
 identified himself with its principles. In religion 
 he was connected with the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. His death occurred in 1893, when he 
 was eighty-three years of age, and two months 
 afterward his wife, who was eightj'-two, also 
 passed away. They were the parents of ten 
 children, of whom seven are living, James W. 
 being the fourth in order of birth. Several of the 
 sons participated in the Civil war. Wheeler, 
 who now lives in Agricola, Kans., was a member 
 
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 of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry. John, who 
 served throughout the entire war in Company E, 
 Twelfth Kansas Infantry, afterward enlisted in 
 the Eighteenth Kansas to fight the Indians on 
 the frontier, and, while thus serving, died of 
 cholera in 1867. L,aban, now a large stock- 
 raiser and land-owner in Osage County, Kans., 
 was a member of Company B, Twelfth Kansas 
 Infantry. 
 
 While a member of the sophomore class of 
 Baldwin University, in 1862, the subject of this 
 sketch enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Kansas 
 Infantry, and was mustered into service at Fort 
 lyincoln. He was assigned to the Seventh army 
 corps and ordered to the front in Missouri, 
 Arkansas and on the Red River. In February, 
 
 1864, he was commissioned by President Ivincoln, 
 at Fort Smith, Ark., first lieutenant of Company 
 E, Eleventh United States Volunteers. April 8, 
 
 1865, he was promoted to be captain, upon the 
 consolidation of the Eleventh, One Hundred and 
 Twelfth and One Hundred and Thirteenth regi- 
 ments into one regiment, under the name of the 
 One Hundred and Thirteenth Veterans. After a 
 competitive examination he was commissioned 
 
 ^captain of Company G by President Lincoln. He 
 took part in the engagements at Prairie de Anne 
 and Saline River, Ark., and a desperate en- 
 counter with the enemy ten miles west of Fort 
 Smith, where, out of two hundred and fifty men, 
 thirty privates and two officers were lost. There 
 was another hard fight at Dardanelle, Ark. Dur- 
 ing the last six months of his service he was 
 judge-advocate on General Shaler's staff at 
 Duval's BlufF, Ark. At that place he was mus- 
 tered out April 9, 1866. 
 
 After his retirement from the army Captain 
 Gilges gave his attention to railroad contracting. 
 While connected with that business he came to 
 Leavenworth in 1871. Five years later he en- 
 tered the railway mail service as mail clerk be- 
 tween Kansas City and Denver, Colo. After 
 seven years in that position he became mailing 
 clerk in the postofiBce at Leavenworth, and this 
 position, together with that of superintendent of 
 carriers, he has since held. October 15, 1898, 
 D. R. Anthony, Jr., appointed him assistant 
 
 postmaster, a position for which his long connec- 
 tion and thorough familiarity with the ofiice ad- 
 mirably qualifies him. 
 
 While serving in the ami}', in 1865, Captain 
 Gilges married Miss Leonora Rhyne, who was 
 born at Fort Smith, Ark., a daughter of Miles 
 Rhyne, one of the pioneers of Arkansas. The 
 four children born of the union are as follows: 
 Carrie E., wife of George E. De Wolf, of Kansas 
 City, Kans.; James W., Jr., a graduate of the 
 Leavenworth high school, and now postal clerk 
 on the Kansas and Wellington route; Robert, who 
 is with the Leavenworth Street Railway Com- 
 pany; and Roscoe C. , a student in the high school 
 here. In politics Captain Gilges is a stanch Re- 
 publican. Interested in all that pertains to the 
 old days of army service he holds membership 
 in Custer Post and in the Kansas Commandery of 
 the Loyal Legion; was also one of the organizers 
 of the Twelfth Kansas Veterans' Association, of 
 which he has been president since 1895. 
 
 yyiAJ. THOMAS B. ELDRIDGE. During 
 y the days of border warfare in Kansas Ma- 
 SS jor Eldridge was one of the conspicuous 
 figures in the free-state party. He was born in 
 Southampton, Mass., August 7, 1826, the fifth 
 among the eight children of Lyman and Phoebe 
 (Winchell) Eldridge, members of old families of 
 Massachusetts. When sixteen years of age our 
 subject started in business for himself at Chico- 
 pee, Mass., and later carried on a boot and shoe 
 business at Greenfield, then at Waterbury, Mass. 
 At the time of the Kansas free-state excitement 
 he and two of his brothers were among the first 
 to respond to the call for emigrants. Coming to 
 Lawrence they kept the Free State hotel, owned 
 by the Emigrant Aid Society. The first dinner 
 in the hotel was ordered by Jones and his gang, 
 who, when through eating, bombarded the 
 house, and where the cannon failed in its effect, 
 they kindled flames, inflicting a total loss. On 
 rebuilding the new hotel was called the Eld- 
 ridge house, and this was burned down b}' 
 Quantrell August 21, 1863. At that time Mr. 
 Eldridge had gone east for goods, purchasing his 
 
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 fall stock of general merchandise and clothing. 
 The gang, entering the store, exchanged their 
 old garments for new suits and killed his nephew, 
 James Eldridge, and a clerk, after having prom- 
 ised them freedom and life. When thej' left they 
 fired the building, but citizens saved the place 
 from destruction; the barn, however, was burned 
 and the hor.ses stolen. 
 
 After the raid Major Eldridge built a store on 
 the corner of Massachusetts and Henrj' streets, 
 the building now owned by Dick Brothers. He 
 also erected at No. 1683 Tennessee' street a resi- 
 dence known as the Thatcher home, which was 
 then the finest mansion in the city, and is still 
 beautiful and worthy of admiration. During the 
 war he engaged in staff duty for a time with the 
 rank of major, and raised two companies for serv- 
 ice. Illness caused him to be honorably dis- 
 charged from the .service. For the same reason, 
 in 1865, he .sold out his business and gave his at- 
 tention to the recuperation of his health. He 
 then built the Broadwa}' hotel in Kansas City, 
 which he couducted for three years, and after- 
 ward sold to Mr. Coates, by whom its name was 
 changed. Going to Cofifeyville, Kans., he en- 
 gaged in the banking business from 1871 to 1877, 
 and also, with his brother, built the Eldridge 
 house there, but after a time retired from busi- 
 ness and settled upon a farm near CofTeyville. 
 His next po.sition was that of claim agent and tax 
 commissioner for the old Leavenworth, Lawrence 
 & Galveston, and Fort Scott & Gulf (now Santa 
 Fe) roads, in which capacity he was engaged at 
 the time of his death, December 3, 1882. He 
 died at his home in Lawrence, having returned 
 to this city in 1881. While in Cofifeyville he 
 served as maj'or for one term. In 1873 he was 
 elected to the legislature, where he rendered able 
 service, and in 1878 he was a candidate for lieu- 
 tenant-governor of Kansas. He was made a Ma- 
 son at Cofifeyville. In religion an Episcopalian, 
 he was for years vestryman of his church and as- 
 sisted in building houses of worship in Lawrence 
 and Cofifeyville. 
 
 At Mount Pleasant, Iowa, January 27, 1857, 
 Major Eldridge married Miss Lida Wharton Tif- 
 fany, who was born in Fredericksburg, Va., a 
 
 daughter of Joseph and Amy (Berrj') Wharton, 
 natives of Virginia. Her father, who was a 
 planter and slave owner, was a strong Confeder- 
 ate and in thorough sympathy with the south 
 during the war. He moved west to Iowa, from 
 there to Missouri, and became one of the largest 
 and wealthiest farmers of Platte County. Finally 
 he moved to Kansas, and died in Burlington, this 
 state, in 1880. His wife died when Mrs. Eldridge 
 was le.ss than one year of age, and she was then 
 taken into the home of Palmer C. Tiffany, who 
 was a member of a New England family from 
 Southbridge, Mass., of early Puritan stock. Mr. 
 Tififany was an early settler of Iowa, settling in 
 Mount Pleasant in 1839 and engaging as a hotel- 
 keeper there. He is still living, in the enjoyment 
 of excellent health for one of ninety j-ears. His 
 wife died in 1896. They having no children of 
 their own, cared with the deepest tenderness for 
 their adopted daughter, whom they would not 
 consent to give up, nor would she consent to 
 leave them. She was educated in Howe's Semi- 
 nary at Mount Pleasant aud is a refined and cul- 
 tured lady, whose friends are as numerous as her 
 acquaintances. Since her husband's death she 
 has continued to reside in Lawrence, and gives 
 her attention to the management of her property 
 in this city. In her family there were four daugh- 
 ters, but one of them, Delia Morse, died in Law- 
 rence in 1893. Jennie B. graduated from Beth- 
 any College at Topeka, Kans., and is the wife of 
 Thomas Scurr, of Cofifeyville; Hattie G. married 
 William T. Sinclair, of Lawrence; and Victoria 
 A., who is a graduate of the high .school, is the 
 wife of Logan Dick, of Douglas County. 
 
 (TAMES KILGORE, who resided in Leaven- 
 I worth from boyhood until his death and who 
 (2/ was for years an active business man of this 
 city, was born in Portland, Me., April 8, 1846, a 
 son of Alpheus and Lucia W. (Swain) Kilgore, 
 and a grandson of Capt. John Swain, an ofiScer 
 in the war of 18 12. His father, who was born 
 in Saco, Me., March 9, 1819, learned the cooper's 
 trade in youth, and this occupation he followed 
 in his eastern home. From there he removed to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 827 
 
 Wisconsin, but a few years later, in 1857, he set- 
 tled in the then new town of Leavenworth, where 
 he engaged in contracting and the house-moving 
 business. His wife, who was born in Saco, June 
 27, 1821, is now living in Kansas City. They 
 were the parents of three sons and two daugh- 
 ters, of whom James was third in order of birth. 
 
 At an early age the subject of this sketch en- 
 gaged in teaming and the transfer business in 
 Leavenworth. He did all the teaming and haul- 
 ing for the Great Western Stove Company and 
 the Great Western Manufacturing Company, and 
 this business has, since his death, been continued 
 by his widow, who employs a foreman and five 
 teams to do the transferring. He rebuilt the 
 house at No. 419 Linn street, where his family 
 still live, and he also erected four houses across 
 the street. Twice he crossed the plains to Den- 
 ver, being employed in freighting. He was a 
 splendid manager, with executive ability and 
 great energy, and laid the foundations of a large 
 and prosperous business. Had his life been 
 spared, he would undoubtedly have become 
 wealthy; as it was, when he died, December 9, 
 1889, he left his affairs in good shape, so that his 
 widow could continue them successfully. He 
 was a generous and liberal man, honest and kind, 
 and had many friends in his home town. 
 
 On New Year's day of 1876, in Leavenworth, 
 occurred the marriage of Mr. Kilgore to Miss 
 Laura A. Prather,who was born in Davis County, 
 Iowa, a daughter of James H. and Louisa (Don- 
 ovan) Prather, natives respectively of Kentucky 
 and Tennessee. Her father, whose parents re- 
 moved from Virginia to Kentucky in an early 
 day, was reared in Kentucky and from there mi- 
 grated to Davis County, Iowa, where he improved 
 farm land. About 1858 he settled in Leaven- 
 worth, where he took contracts for house-moving; 
 he also engaged in freighting to different forts. 
 He is now retired from active business cares, and 
 still resides in Leavenworth. Of his nine chil- 
 dren now living, Laura A. was one of the young- 
 est; the oldest was John A. Prather, a soldier in 
 a Kentucky regiment during the Civil war. Mrs. 
 Kilgore received a good education and was care- 
 fully trained for the responsibilities of life. In 
 
 religion she is connected with the Christian 
 Church, whose doctrines she supports and to 
 whose maintenance she is a liberal contributor. 
 Possessing superior business ability, she has con- 
 tinued the management of the business left by 
 her husband, and besides the transfer business, 
 also carries on a store at No. 710 South Fifth 
 street, where she keeps a stock of books, station- 
 ery, toys, dishes, etc. The property left by her 
 husband has been improved under her oversight; 
 she rebuilt the residence she occupies, as well as 
 two others. While necessarily giving considera- 
 ble attention to ^business matters, she has never 
 neglected her home, but has given to her familj'' 
 loving care and the most careful training. Her 
 seven children are Mrs. Angela Mace, of Kansas 
 City; Isabella; John S., who is with the Great 
 Western Manufacturing Company; Susie, Alph- 
 eus, Nellie and Fred. 
 
 EHARLES GREEN CASEBIER. In the list 
 of representative business men of Leaven- 
 worth County a prominent position is held 
 by the subject of this article, who is one of the 
 influential men of Tonganoxie Township. He 
 was born near Winterset, Iowa, April 5, 1853, a 
 son of Samuel B. Casebier, and brother of John 
 Geary Casehier, represented elsewhere in this 
 work. When he was three years of age his 
 family came to Kansas and his education was ob- 
 tained in public schools here and in the Kansas 
 State University at Lawrence. After the comple- 
 tion of his studies he taught school in Leaven- 
 worth County for three years. He then began the 
 manufacture of sorghum, of which he is the 
 heaviest shipper in this section, having shipped, 
 in 1898, forty car-loads, which is about three- 
 fourths of the entire shipment from this locality. 
 On his farm he erected a factory, in which he 
 makes from one hundred to one hundred and fifty 
 barrels of sorghum per annum. When an organi- 
 zation was formed among the farmers here for the 
 purpose of mutual assistance he was the buyer, 
 but when the association disbanded he continued 
 on his own account. His shipments are made 
 niostlj' from Neely. The mill which he owns was 
 
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 erected in 1893 and is operated by steam power. 
 It has a capacit)- of about seven barrels daily. 
 The products of the mill are shipped to Kansas 
 City, St. Joseph, St. Paul, and he also supplies 
 the wholesale firms of Leavenworth. 
 
 Besides his interest in the sorghum industry 
 Mr. Casebier is also engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising. He has fine pasture lands and 
 generally feeds from seventy-five to one hundred 
 head of cattle each winter, the most of the stock 
 being Shorthorn cattle. His original purchase of 
 eighty acres has been increased to one hundred 
 and ten acres in the home place and one hundred 
 and fifty acres in a farm northwest of town. Of 
 the latter place, one hundred acres were not even 
 fenced at the time of purchase, and all of the im- 
 provements have been made under his personal 
 oversight. When he came to the farm where he 
 now lives he built a house of two rooms, but he 
 now owns and occupies a comfortable ten- room 
 residence. 
 
 In politics Mr. Casebier was formerly a Demo- 
 crat, but now votes with the Republican party. 
 He is a believer in expansion and supports the 
 present (McKinlej') administration in its policy. 
 He has served as justice of the peace, but does 
 not care for ofi&ce, preferring to devote himself to 
 his business affairs. He is a member of the 
 Fraternal Aid Societj-. Maj' 20, 1879, he mar- 
 ried Miss Sarah Bell. They became the parents 
 of six children, five of whom are living, namely: 
 Samuel O., Charles E., John Arthur, George M. 
 and Allen Lee. 
 
 30HN C. FELLER. The history of every 
 community is made up, so far as its most in- 
 teresting features are concerned, of events in 
 the lives of its prominent citizens. For years the 
 life of Mr. Feller has been closely identified with 
 the business interests of Leavenworth. He is 
 one of the city's oldest business men. Whe» he 
 fir.stcame here, in 1858, the town was small, and 
 its resources undeveloped. He has lived to see 
 the present large and important city become a 
 power in the commerce of the west, and his own 
 efforts have aided in .securing this result. 
 
 Mr. Feller was born in Oberlaningen oberaut 
 
 Kirkheim, Wurtemberg, Germany, July 2, 1832, 
 a son of Jacob Feller, a paper manufacturer. In 
 the family of ten children six attained mature 
 years and emigrated to America and three are 
 living, one sister being in Philadelphia and an- 
 other in Leavenworth. The oldest of the family, 
 John C, was reared in his native province, and 
 attended the local schools until fourteen years of 
 age, when he was apprenticed to the glazier's 
 trade. After serving his time he worked as a 
 journeyman in Germany and Switzerland. In 
 1853 he came to America, desiring to escape mili- 
 tary oppression and hoping to better his fortunes. 
 Leaving Bremen on the .sailer "Adonis," he ar- 
 rived in New York after a voyage of fifty-six 
 days. He was accompanied bj' a sister. Pro- 
 ceeding to Philadelphia, he was employed at the 
 cabinet-maker's trade there until 1858, the year 
 of his removal to the west. For a j^ear he was 
 engaged in building houses in Leavenworth, 
 using in his work the native timber. 
 
 During the gold excitement of Pike's Peak, in 
 1859, Mr. Feller started west across the plains 
 with an ox-team and followed the old government 
 route west. On the waj^ he decided to change 
 his intended destination and, with the others of 
 his party, traveled along the road laid out by 
 John C. Fremont to Salt Lake Citj', thence via 
 the Truckee route to California, where they ar- 
 rived in September, after a journey of six months. 
 In Sacramento Mr. Feller secured employment 
 on a farm, but in the spring of 1S60 he returned 
 as far as Nevada, where he worked on a farm. In 
 the fall of 1864 he cast his vote for Abraham 
 Lincoln for president. During the same year he 
 returned to Philadelphia via San Francisco and 
 Panama. In 1865 he was married in Philadel- 
 phia to Miss Louise Schieber, who was born in 
 Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to America at 
 the age of si.xteen years. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Feller returned to 
 Leavenworth, where for a year he engaged in the 
 manufacture of furniture. His next venture was 
 the starting of a grocery on Shawnee street. In 
 March, 1869, he located on the site where he now 
 conducts business, No. 900 South Broadway. 
 Here he built a brick block of three stories, 
 
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 50x75 feet in dimensions; also an adjoining store, 
 20x60, for his pork-packing and meat business. 
 He also owns a slaughter-house, barns and ware- 
 house, and conducts a very important wholesale 
 and retail business. Besides groceries and meats 
 he has also on sale feed and grain. In 1890 his 
 son, Harry C, was admitted into partnership, 
 and five years later the second son, Louis C, be- 
 came a member of the firm, the title of which 
 has since been J. C. Feller & Sons. In addition 
 to the Broadway stores he owns considerable va- 
 cant property and a substantial residence. He is 
 interested in the Merchants' Oil Tank Company 
 and a large stockholder in the Citizens' Mutual 
 Building & Loan Association. He has able as- 
 sistants in his sons, Harry C. and Louis C, both 
 of whom are graduates of the commercial college 
 here and are young men of exceptionally fine 
 business qualifications. The older son, Harry C, 
 is married and has two sons, John and Louis. 
 
 The political affiliations of Mr. Feller are with 
 the Republican party. He is a member of the 
 Delaware Tribe of Red Men and the Knights of 
 Pythias. He and his family are faithful mem- 
 bers of the Lutheran Church, and stand high in 
 the regard of their acquaintances in their home 
 town. 
 
 (TOSEPH A. WOEBER. Among the earlier 
 I residents of Leavenworth mention belongs 
 (2/ to Mr. Woeber, who for years was one of the 
 influential and prosperous business men of the 
 city. It was in 1867 that he came here and 
 bought and improved property. Starting a whole- 
 sale grocery business on Delaware street he 
 gradually built up a valuable trade, which ex- 
 tended through this entire section of country. In 
 the brick block that he erected he carried on his 
 business for years, meantime gaining a wide 
 reputation for integrity and honesty. It was the 
 universal testimony of those who had dealings 
 with him that he was a man of irreproachable 
 honesty and integrity, and no one stood higher 
 than he, both among retailers and among manu- 
 facturers and shippers. He continued at the 
 head of his wholesale business until his death, 
 February 10, 1888, after which he was succeeded 
 
 by a son of his sister, Joseph V. Stoltz, whom he 
 had reared, and who still carries on the business. 
 
 Mr. Woeber was born at Frankfort-on-the- 
 Main, Bavaria, Germany, May 23, 1820, one of 
 three children (two sons and one daughter), 
 whose father, Joseph Woeber, a farmer, brought 
 the family to America and settled in Alabama, 
 thence removed to Louisville, Ky., where he 
 died. When a boy our subject gained his first 
 idea of the grocery business by clerking in a store 
 in Louisville, and after a time he became a part- 
 ner of his former employer, the two carrying on 
 a large business as grocers and rectifiers. His 
 health became impaired through constant atten- 
 tion to business and he finally sold out and took 
 a trip to Europe, where he spent six months. The 
 visit to his old home, while pleasant, did not 
 benefit his health, and he soon after his return to 
 Louisville started for California. He bought 
 property in San Francisco and remained in the 
 west for eight years. He engaged in business at 
 Nappa, Cal. , where the Spaniards and Indians 
 called him the most honest man they had ever 
 met. It was in that town that he was robbed 
 one night of $6,000, a very heavy loss and one 
 that he could ill afford, but it did not discourage 
 him in the least. 
 
 From California Mr. Woeber returned to Louis- 
 ville, where he engaged in business for a time. 
 The climate, however, did not agree with him, 
 and he sold out and came to Leavenworth in 
 1867. Afterward he was identified with the 
 growth of the city, where he bought and im- 
 proved property and gained a high place as an 
 honorable and capable business man. In politics 
 he was a Democrat. He assisted in the building 
 of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of which he was 
 an earnest member and to which his wife belongs. 
 
 In Louisville, Ky., in January, 1851, Mr. 
 Woeber married Miss Anna Muchman, who was 
 born in Bavaria March 23, 1823. Her father 
 was a brewer, distiller and baker, also owned a 
 farm, engaged in the cattle business and was a 
 town oflBcial. As a citizen he stood very high in 
 his home town. In 1840 he brought his family 
 to America and settled first in Indiana, thence 
 going to Louisville, where he died at fifty-five 
 
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 years. His wife died iu 1842. They were the 
 parents of three sons and three daughters, of 
 whom Mrs. Woeber and a brother are living. 
 The family of Mr. and Mrs. Woeber consists of 
 five daughters and one son, of whom the three 
 eldest daughters are married. 
 
 (TOSEPH BLACK, deceased, was a pioneer 
 I and for many years a resident of Peoria 
 G) Township, Franklin County. His father, 
 Frederick, was the son of a German named 
 Schwartz who emigrated to Virginia, and changed 
 his name from its German form to its English 
 meaning. To the same stock belonged Samuel 
 Black, the great jurist. The subject of this 
 sketch was born in Botetourt County, Va., in 
 1813 and in 1825 accompanied his parents to 
 Breckenridge County, Ky., where he married 
 Mary V. Moorman in 1835. From Kentucky he 
 removed to Missouri in 1850, settling in Cass 
 County and remaining there for seven years. 
 April I, 1857, he arrived in Franklin County and 
 settled on a claim five miles south of the present 
 site of Wellsville, in what was then Franklin 
 (now Peoria) Township, entering upon a farmer's 
 life amid the frontier scenes of the then unsettled 
 west. He endured all the hardships of the days 
 when Kansas was the seat of constant warfare 
 between the pro-slavery and free-state men, and 
 when danger lurked constantly in the air. In 
 the midst of perils he remained faithful to the 
 Union and the old flag. 
 
 In 1839 Joseph Black and his wife became 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 with that denomination they were afterward 
 identified. The lady whom he married in 1835 
 was a native of Tennessee and a daughter of 
 Samuel Moorman, who removed from Tennessee 
 to Kentucky and, dying, left a large estate, in- 
 cluding eleven .slaves which were inherited by 
 Mrs. Black. Being opposed to slavery, she at 
 once freed the slaves. She died in 1872. Of 
 her twelve children ten attained mature years, 
 namely: Mrs. Sarah Kirkham, who died in Ot- 
 tawa; Susan, who died on the home farm; James 
 \V., who served in the Missouri state militia dur- 
 
 ing the Civil war, and died in Ottawa; John H., 
 who died at twentj'-three years; Peter F., a large 
 farmer in Woodson County, Kans.; Mrs. Mary 
 A. Adams, in Ottawa; Jo.seph Thomas; Mrs. 
 Laura Evans, on the home farm; Lucy I. and 
 Lizzie, who died in girlhood. 
 
 After the death of his first wife, Joseph Black 
 married Mrs. May Johnson, who is still living. 
 He passed away on his home farm January 9, 
 18S9, leaving the memorj' of an honorable life 
 filled with deeds of kindly helpfulness to those 
 less fortunate than himself. 
 
 (TOSEPH THOMAS BLACK, assistant chief 
 I of the fire department of Ottawa, is a well- 
 (2/ known business man of this city, where he 
 is engaged in contracting and building, with shop 
 and office at No. 423 South Walnut street. He 
 was born in Hardinsburg, Ky., May 4, 1846, 
 and was four years of age at the time the family 
 settled in Cass County, Mo. April 1, 1857, he 
 accompanied his parents to Kansas, and the sub- 
 sequent days of his boyhood were spent on his 
 father's claim, which he assisted in improving. 
 Schools were few and poor and the work at home 
 was heavy, for which reasons he had few advan- 
 tages, but of such as he had he availed himself 
 to the utmost. He was a member of Company 
 E, Kansas state militia, under Colonel Pennock, 
 and was called to the front at the time of Price's 
 raid, taking part in the battles of the Blue and 
 Westport, and aiding in driving Price out of the 
 state. For three days and nights, when in pur- 
 suit of the Confederates, he and other men in the 
 regiment had nothing to eat except such corn as 
 they could find in the fields they passed through. 
 In the advance on Westport he was one of fifteen 
 volunteers from his company (his brother James 
 being one of the others) who acted as a body 
 guard to General Lane and Colonel Moonlight, 
 and in the advance one of these men was killed. 
 Under the instruction of his father, who was a 
 general mechanic, our subject early became fa- 
 miliar with carpentering. In 1870 he began to 
 take contracts for buildings in Wellsville and 
 other parts of Franklin County. Three years 
 
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 later he settled in Ottawa, and here he has since 
 engaged in contracting and building, having oc- 
 cupied his present location since 1882. Among 
 the contracts he has liad may be mentioned those 
 for the residences of Lyman Reed, Judge Benson, 
 K. M. Sheldon, Professor Ball and H. C. Bran- 
 son of Ottawa. He has been connected with the 
 erection of every business block in the city, not- 
 able among these being the Bank of Ottawa, 
 J. D. Chamberlain's block, the Harrison build- 
 ing, etc. He was the architect and builder of 
 the bank building and Woodson hotel at Yates 
 Center, a large double store at Weir and numer- 
 ous residences in various parts of his county and 
 adjacent counties. 
 
 Since 1882 Mr. Black has been connected with 
 the fire department. For fourteen years he was 
 foreman of the hook and ladder department, and 
 since then he has acted as assistant chief. In 
 1896 he was a delegate to the state Republican 
 convention, which chose a delegate to the na- 
 tional convention at St. Louis. He is a member 
 of Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M. ; past officer in 
 the Knights of Honor, representative to the 
 grand lodge and assistant grand dictator of Kan- 
 sas; past officer in the Knights and Ladies of 
 Security; past officer in the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and a member of the Western 
 Knights Protective Association. Since 1889 he 
 has served as a trustee of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, in whose Sunday-school he has 
 been a teacher for fifteen years and has also held 
 the position of librarian. He and his wife had 
 no children of their own, but adopted a daughter, 
 Mary, who is now the wife of R. C. Stewart. 
 
 gEORGE F. NEALLEY, M. D., of Lansing, 
 Leavenworth County, was born in Cook 
 County, 111., in 1842, a son of Ezra R. and 
 Mary (Butterfield) Nealley. His paternal grand- 
 father, Joseph Nealley, descended from ancestors 
 who settled in New Hampshire prior to 1776 and 
 took part in the Revolutionary war. He was a 
 devoted member of the Baptist Church and was 
 religiously opposed to war, but when he was 
 drafted into the war of 181 2 went to the front 
 
 with his regiment; however, when on the battle- 
 field he fired his gun into the air, feeling that to 
 kill another, even in battle, would leave upon 
 his soul the stain of murder. 
 
 Lyman Butterfield, the doctor's maternal 
 grandfather, moved from New York to Chicago 
 in 1824 and afterward took part in engagements 
 with the Indians on the frontier. Being well ac- 
 quainted with the country he acted as govern- 
 ment scout for the troops. At one time he went 
 to Naperville to secure relief for Fort Dearborn. 
 He was accompanied by two men, but he alone 
 returned, the others having been killed by sav- 
 ages. After the war was over he took up land 
 north of the river in what is now the northern 
 part of Chicago, and there he owned eighty 
 acres. About 1830-32 he was proprietor of the 
 Green Tree hotel, one of the fir.st taverns in 
 Chicago. Afterward he gave his attention largely 
 to trapping and hunting and had on his large 
 farm a herd of deer. His death occurred on his 
 home place about 1847. 
 
 Born in Rockingham County, N. H., in 1812, 
 Ezra R. Nealley moved west to Chicago in 1832, 
 and became one of the first settlers of that city. 
 For some years he carried on a cooper shop 
 there. Later he moved twelve miles north and 
 took up a claim to government land, where he 
 began raising fruit and also engaged in the nur- 
 sery business. He was active in local affairs and 
 served as commissioner of Cook County. A 
 stanch Abolitionist in principle, he was often 
 accused of running an underground railroad. He 
 died at his homestead in 1887, aged seventy-four. 
 His widow is still living at the old place, twelve 
 miles north of Chicago. They were the parents 
 of six children, viz.: George F., Albert L., 
 Laura, Mattie, Jennie and Helena. The educa- 
 tion of our subject was acquired principally in 
 Northwestern University, of which he was one of 
 the first students. He was very fond of hunting 
 and often hunted deer on the present site of Fort 
 Sheridan and Evanston. For a few years he 
 taught school, but at the same time continued 
 his studies. At the age of twenty he enlisted in 
 Company A, One Hundred and Thirteenth Illi- 
 nois Infantry, in which he served until the sur- 
 
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 render of Vicksburg, and was then discharged 
 on account of disability. Returning to the uni- 
 versity he assisted in raising a company of in- 
 fantry, of which Professor Lynn became captain 
 and he was sergeant, continuing in that company 
 until the close of the war. Among the battles in 
 which betook part were those of Vicksburg and 
 Arkansas Post. 
 
 At the close of the war he returned to the uni- 
 versity, from which he graduated in 1867. He 
 then began stud3'ing medicine, entering the Chi- 
 cago Medical College, from which he graduated 
 in 1870. During his college course he was in- 
 timately associated with Dr. N. S. Davis, presi- 
 dent and founder of the college, and in his last 
 year there he was appointed house surgeon of 
 Mercy Hospital. After graduating he began to 
 practice in Chicago, having hisofiSce at No. 299 
 West Randolph street, and remained there until 
 the great fire burned him out. He was a trustee 
 in the Tabernacle Church and on the night 
 of the fire opened that church to house and feed 
 the sufferers of the fire. For a week he continued 
 in this work. He then accepted the superin- 
 tendency of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, 
 district No. 2, in which capacity he continued 
 until January i, 1871. At that time he was 
 given charge of the medical department on the 
 north side and located at his old office, establish- 
 ing a dispensary, which received an endowment 
 of $15,000. 
 
 On account of failing health Dr. Nealley left 
 Chicago in 1878. Going to western Kansas he 
 founded the town of Collyer, in Trego County, 
 where he engaged in the lumber business, also 
 carried on a ranch and bought and sold cattle 
 and sheep. Through his influence a progressive 
 village was built up. He was elected the first 
 representative from the county to the state legis- 
 lature. While there he also acted as examining 
 surgeons for pensions. In 1883 he was ap- 
 pointed surgeon to the Kansas penitentiarj' at 
 Lan.sing. April i of that year he entered upon 
 the duties of this position, and for ten years and 
 one month he continued in the same capacity, re- 
 tiring May I, 1893. For one year he conducted 
 the "Elnora," a brick hotel which he had built, 
 
 and afterward he established a drug business, in 
 which, in connection with his practice, he has 
 since engaged. In politics a Republican he has 
 always supported the principles of that party. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of 
 Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 Modern Woodmen of America, Nine Mile Lodge 
 No. 49, A. F. & A. M., and the Grand Army 
 Post at Lansing, of which he was commander for 
 some time. October i, 1872, he married Elizabeth 
 Sticknej', of Montgomerj', Ga. ,by whom he had 
 two children, Jessie (who died in childhood) and 
 Lynn. The latter assists Dr. Nealley in the drug 
 store. 
 
 (Sylvester e. Humphreys, one of 
 
 /\ the leading and well-known business men of 
 \zJ Leavenworth is the subject of this article, 
 who is proprietor and owner of the E. J. Hum- 
 phreys & Sons' drug store, on the corner of Third 
 and Delaware streets. The business was estab- 
 lished and for some 3-ears conducted bj' his fa- 
 ther, who was a man of superior ability and 
 easily ranked among the prominent pioneers of 
 the city. Since his death it has been owned and 
 conducted by his oldest son, who has maintained 
 the high standard established by his father and 
 has conducted the business systematically and 
 successfully. 
 
 During the residence of his parents in Peoria, 
 111., the subject of this sketch was born Feb- 
 ruary 1 , 1850. He was six years of age when the 
 family first came to Kansas. His education was 
 obtained in public schools and was supplemented 
 by private reading and studj-. When twenty 
 years of age he began to clerk in his father's drug 
 store, where he became familiar with all the de- 
 tails of the business. On the death of his father 
 the store fell to him as his share of the estate, 
 and he has since given his attention to its man- 
 agement. Through his integrity of character and 
 the reliable manner in which he conducts every 
 business enterprise he has won the confidence of 
 the business men of Leavenworth. He has an 
 excellent trade and retains the same customers 
 from year to year. 
 
 As a citizen Mr. Humphreys takes an intel- 
 
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 ligent interest in affairs pertaining to the welfare 
 of his city and county. His co-operation and 
 sympathy are given to movements looking 
 toward the development of his city's resources 
 and the extension of the commercial interests of 
 the place. In politics he is a Republican. Fra- 
 ternally he is identified with the Knights of 
 Pythias in Leavenworth, and at one time he was 
 prominent in the state work of this order. He 
 is married and has three children. 
 
 Vyi ORGAN JONES, deceased, who was an 
 Y early settler of Douglas County, was born 
 (9 in Montgomeryshire, Wales, September 4, 
 1819, and was the son of a farmer in that shire. 
 Becoming familiar with agricultural pursuits at 
 an early age he made farming his occupation dur- 
 ing many of the later years of his life. In 1846 
 he crossed the ocean, landing in New York and 
 proceeding from there to Cincinnati, where he 
 learned the boiler- maker's trade. This occupa- 
 tion he followed in that city and in Pomeroy, 
 Ohio, until 1858, when he came to Kansas and 
 settled in Willow Springs Township, Douglas 
 County. For three years he cultivated a rented 
 farm. Next he moved to Wakarusa Township, 
 where he spent three years as a renter. During 
 this time he purchased eighty acres, now a 
 part of the homestead of two hundred and forty 
 acres. To this place he removed in 1864 and 
 here he continued to reside until his death. An 
 active, public-spirited man, he was always fore- 
 most in enterprises for the upbuilding of this sec- 
 tion of Kansas, and gained a position among the 
 honorable citizens and efficient farmers of his 
 county. 
 
 May 14, 1847, Mr. Jones married Miss Eliza- 
 beth GriflSth, who was born in Wales October i, 
 1826, and came to America on the same ship that 
 brought Mr. Jones to these shores. Eight chil- 
 dren were born to their union, namely: Joseph, 
 deceased; Robert M. , a prominent farmer of 
 Wakarusa Township; Jane M., deceased; John 
 M.,who in connection with Thomas C. has the 
 management of the home farm; Margaret, de- 
 ceased; ^^Elizabeth A., wife of J. W. Dunn, of 
 
 Clinton Township, Douglas County; Thomas C. ; 
 and Morgan R. , deceased. The sons who have 
 the management of the homestead are among the 
 most progressive young farmers of the county. 
 Being men of good business ability, they have 
 not only maintained the excellent condition of 
 the farm as left by their father, but have even 
 enhanced its value by their improvements made 
 from year to year. 
 
 During the war our subject was connected 
 with the state militia, and served in Captain 
 Dickinson's company at the time of the Price 
 raid. For years he was a member of the school 
 board, in which position he did much to promote 
 the welfare of educational interests in his dis- 
 trict. In religious views he was in sympathy 
 with the Congregational Church, and for years 
 was one of its active workers. The Republican 
 party represented his political principles and its 
 candidates received his support. For his in- 
 tegrity and upright character he was known 
 and esteemed throughout his county, and his 
 death was mourned by his entire circle of ac- 
 quaintances. 
 
 r~REDERICK ODE. Not a few of the farm- 
 ly ers of Leavenworth County came to our 
 I country from Germany, hoping to gain 
 greater success here than would be possible in 
 their native land. To this class belongs Mr. 
 Ode, who, on settling in Easton Township, pur- 
 chased one hundred and sixty acres of farm land. 
 Since then he has bought an eighty-acre tract, so 
 that he now owns two hundred and forty acres. 
 He has made a specialty of raising Hereford cat- 
 tle and Poland-China hogs, and is interested in 
 the breeding of high-grade stock. The land is 
 mostly in corn and grass, and is kept in excellent 
 condition. 
 
 Born in Germany in 1849, the boyhood years 
 of Mr. Ode were passed in the usual manner of 
 German youths. At the age of nineteen he en- 
 tered the German army and for one year he served 
 as hospital steward in the Franco- Prussian war. 
 Afterward he went to London, where he was em- 
 ployed in a sugar factory. In 1873 he crossed 
 the ocean and settled in America. For two years 
 
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 he worked as a farm hand in Platte Count}-, Mo. , 
 during which time he saved $400. He then re- 
 turned to Germany and brought his parents back 
 with him. Afterward, for thirteen years he 
 rented farm land in Platte County and was so suc- 
 cessful that he saved about $5,000. With this 
 money he came to Leaven worth County and bought 
 the farm which he now occupies. His first wife, 
 whom he married in 1S77, died the following 
 year. His second marriage took place in 1881 
 and united him with Lizzie Beute, a sister of 
 Henry Bente. They have two sons, William and 
 Henry. 
 
 A Lutheran in religion, Mr. Ode took an active 
 part in the building of the church of this denom- 
 ination near his home, being chairman of the 
 building committee and the largest contributor to 
 the building fund. In politics he is independent, 
 voting for the best man. He is prominent among 
 the German-American residents of Easton Town- 
 ship, and has many friends among the people of 
 his locality. 
 
 r"ERDINANDO MILLER. Lying on the 
 JM north bank of the Marais des Cygnes, in 
 I Greenwood Township, Franklin County, is 
 the farm owned and occupied by Mr. Miller, who 
 purchased sixty acres of the property in 1866 and 
 afterward, by the purchase of an adjoining tract, 
 increased the size of his farm to one hundred and 
 thirty acres. He has been energetically engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising, and at the 
 same time has devoted some attention to the car- 
 penter's trade. When he came to Kansas in i860 
 and settled down on the Sac and Fox Indian 
 reservation, he took a contract from the govern- 
 ment for the building of houses for the Indians, 
 and did considerable work along this line up to 
 the time of the treaty with the Sac and Fox In- 
 dians. Under contract with the government he 
 erected several houses in Franklin and Osage 
 Counties. 
 
 Mr. Miller was born in Hardin Count3^ Ky., 
 in 1834, a son of John W. and Julia Ann Miller. 
 His father, who was a son of Robert Miller and a 
 descendant of a pioneer family of Kentucky, was 
 born in Hardin County, and continued to reside 
 
 there until 1866, when he removed to Indiana. 
 His active life was devoted to the carpenter's 
 trade. He died in Indiana when seventy-four 
 years of age. His wife, who was a native of 
 Tennessee, died in Indiana when sixty-eight 
 years old. They were the parents of five chil- 
 dren, all but one of whom are still living. Ann 
 is the wife of John Cox, of White County, Ind.; 
 William makes his home in Michigan; and 
 Josephine is the wife of Hans Woodward. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended the schools 
 of Louisville, Ky. He served an apprenticeship 
 to the carpenter's trade in Kentucky, and later 
 was employed as a journeyman in that state. In 
 1855 he went to Marathon County, Wis., where 
 he secured employment at carpentering. From 
 there, in i860, he came to Kansas and has since 
 made his home in Franklin County. During war 
 times he experienced all the excitement and 
 danger incident to life in a state that was the 
 scene of bloodshed and strife. At the time of the 
 Quantrell raid, and also when Price invaded Kan- 
 sas, he joined with others in pursuit of the raid- 
 ers, but did not succeed in overtaking them. As 
 a Republican he has been warmly interested in 
 national progress and problems, and, while he 
 has never sought local offices, his interest in 
 education has led him to take an active part in 
 school matters. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Miller married Miss Melinda Lut- 
 ton, a si.ster of R. C. Lutton, of Franklin Count}-. 
 They are the parents of four children, namely: 
 Charles and T. F. , who are in California; John; 
 and Frank, who manages the old homestead and 
 superintends its general farm and stock interests. 
 
 (lOHN F. WEAVER, the pioneer of that part 
 I of the Kaw Valley known as the Weaver bot- 
 Q) torn, and one of the leading men of Eudora 
 Township, Douglas County, resides in Baldwin. 
 He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, on the 
 last day of 1848, a descendant of remote German 
 ancestry who settled in Washington County, Pa., 
 in an early day. He is a son of Henry and 
 Nancy (Hill) Weaver, natives of Washington 
 County, the latter of Scotch-Irish descent. The 
 
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 family of which he was the youngest consisted 
 of seven children, of whom those beside himself 
 now living areas follows: Jonathan, who lives in 
 Kansas; James, of Ohio; Frank 1^., who makes 
 his home in Salina, Kans.; and Frances A., wife 
 of E. J. Wherry. 
 
 About 1845 Henry Weaver removed to Ohio, 
 where he took up land and resided for twenty 
 years. In 1865 he came to Kansas, becoming 
 the second white settler in the Kaw Valley, where 
 he took up five hundred acres of Shawnee Indian 
 land. From time to time he added to his pos- 
 sessions, and when he died he was the owner of 
 thirteen hundred acres. The entire property was 
 heavily timbered at the time of purchase and re- 
 quired considerable clearing before it was in a 
 condition for cultivation. Without doubt he was 
 the most extensive farmer in the county. Besides 
 general farming he engaged in feeding stock. 
 During the existence of the Whig party he voted 
 for its candidates and afterward identified himself 
 with the Republicans. Though a constant worker 
 for his party, he never sought office for himself. 
 Educational and religious movements felt the 
 quickening impulse of his assistance. He was a 
 public-spirited and benevolent man, and an 
 earnest worker in the Christian Church. In the 
 organization and establishment of the Christian 
 College in Lincoln County, Kans., he took a 
 prominent part, and for some time afterward he 
 served as a director of the same. He died Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1893, at eighty-one years of age. His 
 wife passed away in 1878 on their Kansas home- 
 stead. 
 
 When seventeen years of age our subject ac- 
 companied his parents to Kansas, where he taught 
 during the winter months from 1866 to 1869, the 
 intervening summers being given to farm work. 
 From 1876 to 1878 he made his home in Saline 
 County, Kans., where he engaged in breaking 
 prairie land. On his return to Douglas County 
 he began farming for himself. His first purchase 
 comprised one hundred and sixty acres, to which 
 he has since added until he is now the owner of 
 six hundred acres in the Kaw Valley. In ad- 
 dition to raising potatoes, farm produce and 
 stock, for years he has operated a stone crusher, 
 
 which, in 1898, he moved to Lecompton, where 
 stone ballast is being furnished for railroads and 
 bridges, the business being conducted under his 
 name. In 1892 he obtained from the Santa Fe 
 Railroad the location of a station on his farm and 
 this was named in his honor. During the same 
 year he opened a general store near his residence, 
 and here he carried a full line of general mer- 
 chandise until he disposed of the stock in 1899. 
 He was also station agent for the Santa Fe at 
 Weaver from 1891 to 1899 and for the same time 
 held the office of postmaster, serving under both 
 Republican and Democratic administrations. 
 
 Not the least of Mr. Weaver's activities has 
 been his connection with the potato industry. 
 He was the first promoter of potato raising in 
 this valley, and has engaged extensively in the 
 industry. A charter member of the Potato 
 Growers' and Co-operative Dealers' Association, 
 he has been a director in the same. He received 
 a patent on a potato sorter, many of which he 
 sold to people of the county, thereby doing much 
 to reduce the manual labor of the growers. It 
 was due entirely to his effiDrts that a schoolhouse 
 was built in his district, and he has been very 
 helpful in promoting the interests of the schools. 
 For twenty-one successive years he was a mem- 
 ber of the school board, in which he served as 
 treasurer until 1899. Prior to 1892 he was a 
 worker in the Republican party, but he then be- 
 came a Populist. In the fall of 1898 he was a 
 candidate for representative and, although this 
 district is largely Republican, he was defeated by 
 only eight votes, reducing the usual Republican 
 majority more than four hundred votes. The 
 temperance movement has in him an ardent sup- 
 porter and he is one of the trustees of the Tem- 
 perance tabernacle. Fraternally he is connected 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen at 
 Eudora and Halcyon Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F., 
 at Lawrence. He is one of the trustees and act- 
 ive members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 which his family also attend. December 31, 1877, 
 he married Australia C, daughter of William 
 Speaks, of Salina, Kans. They have had seven 
 children, of whom the third, Cornelius, is de- 
 ceased. Those living are William H . , Jennie V. , 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Homer and Hallie (twins), Lucile Maj^ and 
 Helen Winnifred. September i, 1899. Mr. 
 Weaver removed to Baldwin for the purpose of 
 giving his children theadvantagesof education in 
 the high school and Baker University. 
 
 (7) HERMAN W. RANDALL owns three hun- 
 2\ dred and twenty acres in Douglas County 
 \Z/ and is numbered among the leading farmers 
 of Palmyra Township. In addition to the rais- 
 ing of cereals such as are adapted to the soil he 
 has given some attention to the stock business 
 and has also successfully engaged in dairying and 
 in the raising of large and small fruits. He was 
 born in Chautauqua County, N. Y. , August 6, 
 1845, a son of William S. and Polly (Youngs) 
 Randall, natives respectively of Trenton Falls, 
 N. Y., and Ohio. His father, who was a farmer 
 and also a wagon manufacturer, spent the greater 
 part of his life in New York, although for a time 
 he also resided in Pennsylvania. In 1879 he 
 came to Kansas, purchased a city home in Law- 
 rence and a farm in Willow Springs Township, 
 Douglas County. He died in Lawrence in March, 
 188 1, at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife, 
 who is now seventy-seven years of age, is still 
 living in Lawrence. His father, a native of 
 France, emigrated to the United States in 1826, and 
 settled at Trenton Falls, N. Y., where he followed 
 the millwright's trade and built the works at that 
 place; he married Ruby Sherman, who was born 
 on the Genesee Indian reservation in New Eng- 
 land. 
 
 In early life our subject worked as a wagon- 
 maker, butcher and stonemason. At twenty-five 
 years of age he began to sell a patent glove pat- 
 tern, in which business he continued for five 
 years, traveling in Pennsylvania, New York, Illi- 
 nois and Michigan. In 1876, through a trade, 
 he became the owner of his present farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, and in the spring of 
 1S78 he removed from Pennsylvania to this place, 
 at once beginning its improvement. He has de- 
 voted himself very closely to his work, and has 
 never identified himself with politics, although 
 he has always supported Democratic principles. 
 
 December 29, 1880, Mr. Randall married Miss 
 Sarah L. Walker, who was born in Charleston, 
 S. C, August I, 1848, a daughter of Charles M. 
 and Jeannette (Miller) Walker, and a grand- 
 daughter of Robert H. Miller, who belonged to 
 an old southern family. Her father died in 1862 
 and her mother three years later came to Kansas 
 and settled near Lawrence, where she resided until 
 her marriage. The three children born of their 
 union are Maggie J. , Walker S. and Delia J. , all 
 at home. 
 
 (1 AMES C. SINCLAIR. Starting in business 
 I life as he did without means, Mr. Sinclair has 
 \Z/ by his force of character and perseverance 
 risen to a position of influence among the people 
 of Wellsville, Franklin County. He deservedly 
 ranks as one of the best citizens of his town and 
 as one who, by his strict sense of honor, has won 
 the position for himself. In 1882 he erected the 
 store building in which he has since carried on a 
 large hardware business and, in addition, he is 
 treasurer of the Wellsville Grain & Lumber Com- 
 pany, in the organization of which he assisted. 
 He is also the owner of one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land in Sedgwick County. All of his 
 property has been accumulated by his own efforts. 
 Mr. Sinclair was born in Fayette Count}', Pa., 
 February 25, 1840, a son of Presley N. and Re- 
 becca Sinclair. Retraces his ancestry to Robert 
 Sinclair, who came from Scotland to America in 
 an early day. Samuel, son of Robert, was born 
 in New York state, and his son, Robert, was a 
 farmer in that state. The latter's son, Presley 
 N. , was boru in McKeesport, Allegheny County, 
 Pa., and was reared on a farm. When thirty- 
 five years of age he removed to Fayette County, 
 Pa., where he died upon a farm three years later. 
 He was a member of the Church of God and in 
 politics adhered to Whig principles. His wife, 
 who was a member of the same denomination as 
 himself, was a lady of gentle character and ami- 
 able disposition. She was spared to advanced 
 years, dying August 4, 1S99, when eighty-five 
 years of age. 
 
 Of six children the subject of this sketch was 
 fourth in order of birth. He remained at home 
 
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 until the opening of the Civil war. August 19, 
 1 86 1, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-seventh 
 Illinois Infantry, and served as a private for four 
 years, re-enlisting at the expiration of three years 
 and continuing in the army until the close of the 
 war. Among his most important battles were 
 those of Pea Ridge, Ark., Prairie Grove, Vicks- 
 burg, Brownsville, Tex., and Fort Blakely, be- 
 sides which he was in many skirmishes. After 
 peace was declared he was retained in the service 
 for a time, guarding railroads in Texas, and 
 received an honorable discharge in May, 1866. 
 Returning home he remained there until March, 
 1868, when he came to Kansas and settled in 
 Franklin County. For three years he worked as 
 a farm hand, after which he began buying and 
 shipping cattle and hogs, and continued in the 
 latter business until he opened his hardware store 
 in Wellsville in 1882. He is a charter member 
 of Lookout Post No. 96, G. A. R. , of Wellsville, 
 in which he has held all of the offices. He is also 
 connected with Wellsville Lodge No. 135, 
 in which he has filled the various chairs. He 
 and his wife, who was formerlj^ Agnes Williamson 
 of this county, have a comfortable home in Wells- 
 ville and are honored wherever known. 
 
 (TASPER S. RICE, who is best known as 
 I "Jepp" Rice, has been identified with the 
 O history of Leavenworth for many years. 
 When he first came here, in 1856, Kansas was in 
 the throes of its free-state struggles. People had 
 come here from the east and the south, and already 
 the work of developing a great commonwealth 
 had been begun. The way was being pioneered 
 for the prosperity of an oncoming generation. 
 In the growth of Leavenworth and the prosperity 
 of Kansas he has been deeply interested and has 
 been a large contributor, his business energy and 
 judgment having contributed to the progress of 
 his locality. 
 
 The father of Mr. Rice was Col. George W. 
 Rice, a native of Vermont, who in 1841 removed 
 with his family to Michigan and settled in Kala- 
 mazoo, where he engaged in farming. For several 
 years he was sheriff of Kalamazoo County, and 
 
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 for one term he served as United States marshal. 
 His death occurred in that county when he was 
 sixty-six years of age. By his marriage to Beth- 
 sheba Spooner, who was born in Vermont and 
 died in Michigan, five sons and one daughter 
 were born who lived to maturity. Of these Will- 
 iam K. is engaged in the hotel business in Texas; 
 J. B., who was a railroad man, died in St. Paul; 
 Bushrod F., who was an attorney in New York, 
 died in that city; Charles makes his home in 
 Kalamazoo. The oldest of the surviving sons is 
 Jasper S., who was born in Woodstock, Windsor 
 County, Vt., February 7, 1833, and was reared 
 in Kalamazoo, where he attended the public 
 .schools. On starting out for himself he was em- 
 ployed as a clerk in his home town, later as ex- 
 press messenger on the Kalamazoo & Grand 
 Rapids road for Wells, Fargo & Co., for two 
 years, and for two years was clerk in a hotel. In 
 1856 he made a trip west to Omaha and Leaven- 
 worth, and the next year settled in this city, 
 where he engaged in the hotel business, with 
 several others buying the old Planters' hotel. The 
 hotel was carried on successfully until the war 
 came on. Mr. Rice, being proprietor, was in 
 touch not only with the business itself, but also 
 with affairs in general. 
 
 The hotel became so popular, and the number 
 of travelers through Leavenworth increased to 
 such an extent that it was necessary to increase 
 the accommodations of the building. An addition 
 of about fifty rooms was built, which gave the 
 hotel one hundred and forty rooms. From 1864 
 to 1866 Mr. Rice was not connected with the 
 business, his attention being given to freighting 
 across the plains to Denver and the frontier posts. 
 In 1866 he again became a partner in the hotel, 
 with which he was connected until 1877. He 
 then started in the cattle business near Wallace, 
 on the Union Pacific Railroad, and was also en- 
 gaged in carrying on restaurants along the line 
 of that road, being a partner of Fred Harvey, 
 under the name of Harvey & Rice. The firm 
 had eating houses at Lawrence, Wallace and 
 Hugo, and on the Santa Fe at Topeka, conduct- 
 ing these until 1882, when they sold out. About 
 that time Mr. Rice became interested, as a di- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 rector, in the Leavenwortli Cattle Company, 
 which had its ranch and range in Routt Countj', 
 Colo., and owned about fifteen thousand head of 
 cattle. The company carried on a large and 
 successful business, which, however, it has now 
 about closed out. 
 
 In lyinden, Genesee County, N. Y., Mr. Rice 
 married Miss Maria C. Smith, daughter of Thomas 
 G. Smith and sister of L. T. Smith. One child 
 was born of their union, Helen, who graduated 
 from the seminary in Elmira, N. Y., and is now 
 the wife of Frank Phelps, of Leavenworth. In 
 politics Mr. Rice has never allied himself with 
 any party, and he has never held any oflSce ex- 
 cept that of councilman for one term. He is a 
 member of the Sons of Malta. At one time he 
 served as paymaster of the first Kansas Militia, 
 with the rank of major. 
 
 EHARLES H. BOYD, a general contractor 
 and builder, is one of the rising young busi- 
 ness men of Leavenworth. In his special 
 line of contracting he has built up a large busi- 
 ness and has become known for the reliability and 
 honesty displayed in every transaction. He has 
 had contracts for the erection of many of the im- 
 portant buildings and substantial residences of his 
 city. He had charge of the rebuilding of the old 
 Continental, now known as the Imperial, and the 
 building of the City hotel. The changing of the 
 fronts and the remodeling of Cherokee street were 
 done under his supervision. Recently he com- 
 pleted a store building on the corner of Shoemaker 
 avenue and Quincy street. He has his shop at 
 No. 422 South Fifth street, at the north end of 
 the bridge. The residence which he owns and 
 occupies, at No. 931 Spruce street, was built un- 
 der his supervision, and he also owns a residence 
 on Grand avenue and Quincy street. 
 
 Mr. Boyd was born in Leavenworth, July 9, 
 1862, the oldest of six children of A. R. and 
 Mattie E. (Adams) Boyd, of this city. When 
 fifteen years of age he began to learn the miller's 
 trade in Lisle's mill, but after two years he was 
 obliged to leave on account of his health being 
 injured by the dust. He then served an appren- 
 
 ticeship of three years at the carpenter's trade, at 
 which he afterward continued, being employed as 
 foreman for three contractors in Leavenworth for 
 a period often years. In 1886 he began to take 
 contracts for himself. From 1887 to 1890 he was 
 engaged in contracting in Wichita, as a member 
 of the firm of Case & Boyd. On his return to 
 Leavenworth he resumed contracting and build- 
 ing here, and has since had charge of about one- 
 half of the city contracting. With the exception 
 of the three years in Wichita and eighteen months 
 in New Mexico (when he was hardwood finisher 
 at the Las Vegas Hot Springs) , he has spent his 
 entire life in Leavenworth, and is therefore well 
 acquainted in the city, having many friends 
 among its business men. 
 
 In Alton, 111., Mr. Boyd married Miss Annie 
 Snyder, who was born in Louisiana, and by whom 
 he has two children living, Sadie and Laura. In 
 national politics he is a Democrat, and in local elec- 
 tions votes for those he believes best qualified to 
 represent the people, irrespective of political ties. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights 
 and Ladies of Security, the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and the Degree of Honor. 
 
 (TOSEPH E. WALTER, who is living retired 
 I in Leavenworth, was born in Pennsylvania, 
 v2/ May 14, 1828, a son of Andrew and Nancy 
 (Smith) Walter, the latter a daughter of a Revo- 
 lutionary soldier, the former a fifer in the war of 
 18 12. In after years the fife which he had used 
 on the battlefield and by the camp fire was one 
 of his most prized relics and many an evening he 
 spent playing upon it the old war tunes. In pol- 
 itics he was a Democrat. 
 
 Owing to his mother's death when he was a 
 small child the subject of this sketch was early 
 obliged to start out for himself. He learned the 
 miller's trade, at which he worked in various 
 places. With the money thus earned he paid for 
 text books and carried on the studies of the com- 
 mon schools. During the war with Mexico he 
 enlisted in the army as a member of the Second 
 Regiment Dragoons, which he accompanied to 
 Texas. From the ranks he was promoted to be 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 839 
 
 second sergeant soon after joining the army. After 
 the close of the war with Mexico he continued in 
 service, and fought a number of battles with the 
 Indians. With the exception of a year spent at 
 home, on sick furlough, he remained in the army 
 until 1853, during which year he resigned his 
 commission and came to Kansas. During the 
 Civil war he re-entered the army, and was em- 
 plo3'ed by the government as wagon-master of a 
 train going to Colorado, New Mexico and other 
 western territories. 
 
 During the earlier j'ears of his residence in 
 Kansas Mr. Walter engaged in farming at Island 
 City and owned the island on which he lived. 
 In 1865 he removed to Leavenworth County and 
 settled in High Prairie Township, where he oper- 
 ated a farm. Later he also had charge of the 
 government farm for twelve j'ears. For two 
 years he served as chief of police in L-aven- 
 worth, after which he traveled for some years in 
 the interests of Fred Harvey's railroad restau- 
 rants. He is now living in retirement from busi- 
 ness cares, although he still finds sufficient to oc- 
 cupy his time in the management of his personal 
 interests. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Masonic Order and the Knights of Honor. Sep- 
 tember, I, 1853, Mr. Walter married Miss Sarah 
 Tash, of Baltimore, who died January 16, 1892. 
 
 r^ P. PHILLIPS, who is engaged in the real- 
 L/^ estate business In Lawrence and is also a 
 l^ justice of the peace in this city, was born in 
 Rochester, N. Y., November 17, 1825, a son of 
 John A. and Anna (Williams) Phillips. He was 
 one of three children, of whom he and his sister 
 Delia A., of Leroy, N. Y., are the survivors. 
 His father, a native of Keene, N. H., born in 
 1793, was four years of age when his parents re- 
 moved to Rochester, N. Y., and there he grew 
 to manhood, married and embarked in farming. 
 During his entire active life he conducted a farm 
 near that city, where he died in 1882. His wife 
 was born in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1803, and died at 
 Rochester in 1874. 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, John 
 
 Phillips, was born in Keene, N. H., and was a 
 farmer. He descended from ancestors who came 
 from Wales to America about 1720, and settled 
 at Roxbury, Mass. The maternal grandfather, 
 Davenport Williams, was born in Connecticut, 
 to which state his ancestors had come in a very 
 earlj' day from England. He was a man of up- 
 right character and a strict Presbyterian. In the 
 common schools and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary 
 our subject acquired his education. Having de- 
 termined to cast in his fortunes with the west, in 
 1857 he joined a company of two hundred families 
 known as the Geneva colony, which arrived in 
 Allen County, Kans., April i of that year, and 
 took up one hundred quarter sections of land 
 there. He remained there until the fall of 1863, 
 when he returned east, and there, on the 19th of 
 October, he married Helen S. Beebee, a native 
 of Lima, N. Y. Immediately after his marriage 
 he brought his wife to Kansas and began house- 
 keeping in Allen County. 
 
 In the spring of 1867 Mr. Phillips settled in 
 Lawrence, and directly afterward he laid out 
 the South Park farm (now the center of the city 
 of Lawrence). This farm he conducted for fifteen 
 years as a nursery and fruit farm, after which it 
 was turned over to the city. Until recent years 
 Mr. Phillips has engaged in the nursery business, 
 and has also been interested in fruit-growing and 
 farming. Now, however, he gives his attention 
 to the real-estate business, although he continues 
 to make his home on a fruit farm just outside the 
 city limits. He and his wife became the parents 
 of five children, namely: John L. , deceased; 
 Charles W., who manages a fruit farm owned by 
 his father; Eddie E. and Randall, deceased; and 
 Anna M., who since the death of her mother, 
 January 5, 1899, has kept house for her father. 
 The family are connected with the Congregational 
 Church, in all the good works of which Mrs. 
 Phillips took a warm interest. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Phillips is a member of Pacific 
 Lodge No. 28, A. F. & A. M., of Humboldt, 
 Kans. In politics he is an advocate of the Pro- 
 hibition party, with a leaning toward Republican- 
 ism. Since 1889 he has held office as justice of 
 the peace, which position he has filled to the 
 
840 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 satisfaction of all. Among the energetic and re- 
 spected business man of Lawrence he holds a 
 prominent place. 
 
 EHRISTIAN RODENBURG, deceased, was 
 born in Nassau, Germany, September 10, 
 1832, the onlj' son of John Rodenburg, a 
 farmer of Germany. When fifteen years of age 
 he took passage at Hamburg for the United 
 States and after a voyage of six weeks on a sailing 
 vessel arrived in New York, whence he pro- 
 ceeded to Albany. There he learned the trades 
 of machinist, engineer, sawyer and saw-filer. 
 Afterward he was employed as second engineer 
 on the Ohio and Mississippi river steamers, from 
 Louisville to New Orleans. His next position 
 was that of machinist in car shops at Columbus, 
 Ohio. In 1854 he settled in DesMoines, Iowa. 
 Two years later he came to Kansas, becoming a 
 pioneer farmer of Leavenworth County and 
 buying a tract of land in Easton Township. 
 There he engaged in farm pursuits until 1869, 
 when he sold the place and removed to a farm 
 near Lansing, Delaware Township. He had but 
 begun the improvement of that property when he 
 died, in 1870. In religion he was connected 
 with the Evangelical Church, and in politics was 
 a Republican. 
 
 While in Columbus Mr. Rodenburg married 
 Anna Schmale, who was born in Hanover, Ger- 
 many, October 18, 1832, a daughter of Chri.stian 
 Schmale. Her father, who was a member of an 
 old family of Hanover, followed the shoemaker's 
 trade until his death, at fifty-three years; he 
 had married Charlotte Alborn, a native of Han- 
 over, who accompanied her children to America 
 and died in Leavenworth County when eight}^- 
 one years of age. The four children who came 
 to the United States are still living, three sisters 
 being in Leavenworth, while a brother, Fred, 
 lives in Rock Island, 111. In 1852 Miss Schmale 
 came to America, crossing the ocean in a sailing 
 vessel that .spent thirty-two days on the waters 
 between Bremen and New York. After about 
 six months in New York she went to Columbus, 
 Ohio, where she met and married Mr. Rodenburg. 
 She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church 
 
 of Leavenworth. In her family there are three 
 children, namely: Christian, a farmer in Dela- 
 ware Township; Henry L. ; and Mrs. Hughes, 
 of Leavenworth. 
 
 HENRY L. RODENBURG, an enterprising 
 and successful business man of Leavenworth, 
 was born in Easton Township, Leaven- 
 worth County, May 16, 1857, a son of Christian 
 and Anna (Schmale) Rodenburg. He was edu- 
 cated in private schools in Leavenworth, which 
 he attended for two years. At sixteen years of 
 age he left the home farm and went to Rock 
 Island, 111., where he served an apprenticeship 
 of three years to the carriage-blacksmiths' trade, 
 and afterward continued for two years as a jour- 
 neyman. Meantime he attended a night school 
 and a business college, thus broadening the some- 
 what limited education he had obtained at home. 
 He spent a short time at work in Davenport and 
 Muscatine, Iowa, and then visited in Leaven- 
 worth for three months, after which he worked 
 at his trade in Kansas City, Mo., for two years, 
 being foreman of his department. From that 
 city he returned to Leavenworth, where for nine 
 months he was foreman for the Kansas Wagon 
 Manufacturing Company, of which Alexander 
 Caldwell was president. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Rodenburg started in business on 
 the corner of Spruce street and Fifth avenue, 
 where he rented a small frame building and 
 opened a grocery. Three years later he bought 
 the corner and erected a three-story brick block, 
 with a frontage of forty feet, a depth of seventy- 
 four feet, and a rear breadth of ninety feet. This 
 entire building he occupies with his stock of 
 goods, which he sells both at wholesale and 
 retail. His residence adjoins his store at No. 706 
 Spruce street, and besides his store and house he 
 owns other residence properties in the city. In 
 1897 he started in the wholesale commission 
 business at No. 511 Cherokee street. In the fall 
 of 1898 the Leavenworth Fruit and Commission 
 Company was incorporated, with himself as 
 president and principal stockholder. Prior to 
 this he had engaged in packing and handling 
 apples in connection with his grocery business, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 841 
 
 but wishing to separate the two, he organized 
 the commission company, which has since 
 shipped about thirty thousand barrels of apples 
 annually, besides packing a variety of other fruits. 
 Fraternally Mr. Rodenburg is connected with 
 the Modern Woodmen of America, Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and the Tent of the 
 Maccabees, and formerly was identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics 
 he has always voted the Republican ticket. His 
 marriage, which took place in Leavenworth, 
 united him with Miss Mary Lambert, who was 
 born in Ohio, a daughter of Jacob Lambert, now 
 of California. The two children born of this 
 union are Walter and Hortense. Mrs.' Roden- 
 burg is a member of the Lutheran Church, which 
 the family also attend. 
 
 pCJlLLIAM W. WALTER, M. D., of Leav- 
 \ A / en worth, was born at Island City, Riley 
 VV County, Kans., in i860, and was the 
 youngest of three children and the only son of 
 Joseph E. and Sarah (Tash) Walter. His edu- 
 cation was acquired principally in Leavenworth 
 County, where his father settled at the close of 
 the Civil war. In 1879 he graduated from the 
 Leavenworth high school, and afterward turned 
 his attention to the study of medicine, which he 
 carried on for a year under private preceptor- 
 ship. In 1880 he entered the medical department 
 of the University of Pennsylvania, from which 
 he graduated in 1883. Returning to his home 
 town, he began the general practice of his pro- 
 fession, and during the years that have since 
 elapsed he has become known as an accurate and 
 skillful physician, who justly occupies a high 
 place among his professional co-workers and in 
 the confidence of the public as well. Besides his 
 private practice he holds the position of local 
 surgeon for the Union Pacific, Atchison, Topeka 
 & Santa Fe and Leavenworth, Topeka & South- 
 western Railroads; also a member of the medical 
 staffofCushing Hospital, and professor of obstet- 
 rics in Cushing Training School. For ten years he 
 served as a member of the board of health, for 
 six years was a member of the school board, and 
 
 for some time acted in the capacity of first surgeon 
 at the Soldiers' Home. His ofiice is in the Man- 
 ufacturers National Bank building. 
 
 Interested in everything bearing upon his pro- 
 fession, directly or indirectly. Dr. Walter keeps 
 abreast with every development in therapeutics, 
 and by thoughtful study of current medical liter- 
 ature and by experience and observation he has 
 gained a broad prof essional knowledge that places 
 him at the head of the medical fraternity in his 
 city. He is a member of the Leavenworth 
 County, State and Eastern District Medical So- 
 cieties, in the work of each of which he takes an 
 interest. Politically he affiliates with the Demo- 
 crats. He is identified with the Episcopal Church, 
 in which he now holds the office of junior warden. 
 
 Gl R- BOYD, who is living retired in Leav- 
 Ll enworth, was bom near Indianapolis, Ind., 
 I I, the son of J. R. Boyd, a Scotchman, who 
 settled upon a farm in Indiana. When he was a 
 boy he served an apprenticeship of seven years 
 as engineer, machinist and millwright. Previous 
 to his apprenticeship he ran away from home, 
 fired with a boy's desire to become a sailor, and 
 for two 3'ears he sailed the high seas, once being 
 shipwrecked on an island, where, after nearly 
 starving, he was picked up by a boat and brought 
 back to the United States. On the completion 
 of his apprenticeship he became an engineer on 
 a railroad. In 1844 he came to Fort Leaven- 
 worth. For three years he was employed as an 
 engineer on the boat that .ran between the fort 
 and Weston, Mo. Later he freighted across the 
 plains to Salt Lake City, being for a year em- 
 ployed as a mule driver, next becoming wagon 
 boss, and after two years being transfered to the 
 work of shoer. For five years he was employed 
 by the government in these various positions. 
 From 185 1 to 1853 he engaged in farming in 
 Leavenworth County. Next he went to Platte 
 County, Mo., where he was overseer for Clinton 
 Cockrell, of Platte City. At the opening of the 
 war he was commissioned lieutenant of a company 
 in the First Kansas Infantry, in which he 
 served for a time. Afterward he engaged in 
 
842 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 burning lime and in farming in High Prairie 
 Township. During 1863 he operated a saw mill 
 for the government at Manhattan. 
 
 After farming in Neosho County, Kans. , for 
 .several years, in 1869 Mr. Boyd returned to 
 Leavenworth County and for seven years he car- 
 ried on a farm in High Prairie Township. He 
 then removed to the city of Leavenworth, where 
 for eleven years he was engineer in a mill owned 
 by Kelly & Lisle; later was employed in an- 
 other mill for three years. Of recent years he 
 has lived in retirement from business duties. 
 His wife, who is also living, was Mattie E. 
 Adams, a native of Kentucky, whence she ac- 
 companied her father, James Adams, to Leaven- 
 worth County, in early days. For many years 
 Mr. Adams owned a farm in High Prairie Town- 
 ship, which he operated, besides carrj-ing on work 
 as a huckster. 
 
 0TTO SCHMECKEL has engaged in the 
 grocery business at his present location in 
 Leavenworth since 1877. During that year 
 he opened a store in a small frame building at 
 No. 514 Fifth avenue, and embarked in business 
 for himself. From the first he met with success. 
 After four years he had saved enough to enable 
 him to secure more adequate accommodations for 
 his enlarged trade. He bought two corner lots and 
 erected a two-story brick building, 24x140 feet in 
 dimensions, where he has since carried on a gen- 
 eral grocery business, having a large trade among 
 the people of that part of the city. He is the 
 
 owner of a rock quarry, comprising forty -five 
 acres on Ohio street beyond Fourteenth, where he 
 has successfully quarried lime building stone, the 
 finest of its kind quarried here. 
 
 Mr. Schmeckel was born in Prussia, Germany, 
 February 12, i860. His father, who was the 
 youngest son of a wealthy German of a noble fam- 
 ily, became a government ofiBcial, holding a posi- 
 tion .similar to that of county clerk in this coun- 
 trj'. At the time of his death he was thirtj'-seven 
 years of age. His wife, accompanied bj' her 
 youngest son, Otto, came to the United States in 
 1 87 1, and settled in Leavenworth, where she died 
 in 1893. 
 
 When a boy our subject attended the common 
 schools in Colmar, Germany. With his mother 
 he came via steamer to America in 1871, and at 
 once settled in Leavenworth, where for a j-ear 
 he clerked in a book store. Later he engaged as 
 a clerk for his brother, .Gustav, in the latter's 
 grocery, and after eighteen months there became 
 connected with another grocer in this citj'. His 
 next position was with Joseph A. Woeber, the 
 wholesale grocer, with whom he remained until 
 he resigned to engage in business for himself. 
 He has given his attention very closely to busi- 
 ness matters and has not taken any part, aside 
 from voting the Democratic ticket, in public or 
 political affairs. He was married, in Leaven- 
 worth, to Miss Annie Rodenhaus, who was born 
 in this city, and is a daughter of Jacob Roden- 
 haus. They are the parents of three children, 
 Gertie, Carrie and Otto, Jr. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 Aaron, John 697 
 
 Aaron, Johu A 700 
 
 Abdelal, Maj. A. G., M. D,.4I6 
 
 Abernathy, S. W 570 
 
 Adams, John 22 
 
 Adams, John Q 38 
 
 Adams, John y 539 
 
 Aitchison, John R 509 
 
 Akers, Jonathan 225 
 
 Alder, John William 531 
 
 Alexander, John C 639 
 
 Alford, Lieut. A. C 729 
 
 Alford.D. S 728 
 
 Allen, Dr. A. A 279 
 
 Allendorph, Charles W....315 
 
 Anderson, A. J., M. D 519 
 
 Anderson, David H 496 
 
 Anderson, George A 522 
 
 Anderson, Mrs. Hanora 516 
 
 Andrews, Capt. .S. H 510 
 
 Anthony, Col. D. R Ho 
 
 Anthony, D. R, Jr 269 
 
 Anthony, Hon. G. T 195 
 
 Anthony, Henry 408 
 
 Apitz, Charles 528 
 
 Appletou, G. C 568 
 
 Armstrong, Beatty 501 
 
 Armstrong, Robert 817 
 
 Armstrong, William H 515 
 
 Arthur, Chester A 98 
 
 Ashby, Charles A 435 
 
 Ashby, Hon. William F....731 
 
 Atchison. David 718 
 
 Atkinson, Rev. Robert 377 
 
 Atwood, John H 621 
 
 Avenarius, Charles F 666 
 
 Averill, Narcisse N fi02 
 
 B 
 
 Babcock, Hon . C. W 354 
 
 Baker, Col. J. J 333 
 
 Baker, John W 693 
 
 Baker, Thomas N 603 
 
 Baldwin. Andrews 578 
 
 Baldwin, Eben 323 
 
 Baldwin, Lafayette P 315 
 
 Bales, Elbert 489 
 
 Barker, Hon. George J 314 
 
 Barley, Isaiah N 400 
 
 Barnes, Delos N 451 
 
 Barthel, Alfred B 805 
 
 Bass, Hon. W. B 535 
 
 Bauer, P. H 761 
 
 Baum, John 688 
 
 Beddow, James H 784 
 
 Beeler, Otto C 744 
 
 Bell, JohnP 811 
 
 Bell, 'Olin 389 
 
 Berger, August 614 
 
 Berger, Henry 747 
 
 Berry, Peter 740 
 
 Beumiann, Louis 607 
 
 Biart, E. EH 738 
 
 Biebusch, Henry 537 
 
 Biederman, John A 776 
 
 Bigsby, Ambrose 327 
 
 Birney, William L., M. D. .648 
 Bishoff, Hon. C. N.,M. D..599 
 
 Black, Joseph 830 
 
 Black. Joseph T 830 
 
 Blackman, W. I. R 790 
 
 Blochberger, Herman 770 
 
 Boling, R. L., M. D 764 
 
 Boling, Hon. T. G. V 764 
 
 Bollin, John 767 
 
 Bonebrake, Hon. J. H 316 
 
 Bosworth, Charles 563 
 
 Bough ton, Joseph S 405 
 
 Bowen, Isaac ■ 752 
 
 Bowersock, Hon. J. D 132 
 
 Boyd, A. R 841 
 
 Boyd, Charles H 838 
 
 Brandon, John 7.56 
 
 Branson, Henry C 589 
 
 Breese, Henry G 762 
 
 Brewer, Hon. David J 591 
 
 Brewer, Eugene 596 
 
 Brock, J. W., M. D 758 
 
 Bromel.sick, William 397 
 
 Brooks, Hon. Paul R 293 
 
 Brown, Felii C 533 
 
 Brown, William W 407 
 
 Bruce, Robert M 423 
 
 Brune, S. Edward 3»6 
 
 Buchanan, James 74 
 
 Bunn. John W 413 
 
 Burr. Henrys 797 
 
 Bush, Jacob 601 
 
 Butell, Adolphus D 446 
 
 Byers, James L 693 
 
 Byington, Dwight 205 
 
 Byington, Mrs. Emily J 206 
 
 Byrd, MacC. 635 
 
 c 
 
 Caldwell, Hon. Alex l.SS 
 
 Caldwell, Hon. E. F 225 
 
 Calhoun, Hon. J. C 768 
 
 Callahan, Alfred 778 
 
 Callahan, H. B., M. D T77 
 
 Campbell, Maj. R. C 655 
 
 Carmean, Samuel H 236 
 
 Carney, Edwin L 783 
 
 Carney, Hon. Thomas 126 
 
 Carpenter, C. R., M. D 815 
 
 Carpenter, Capt. Robert... 276 
 
 Carpenter, W. B., M. D 814 
 
 Carr, E. T 788 
 
 Carr, Manford H 795 
 
 Carter, William R 257 
 
 Casebier, Charles G 827 
 
 Casebier, John G 809 
 
 Chambers, Nelson A 360 
 
 Chandler, Nelson M 572 
 
 Chapin, Charles H 569 
 
 Charlton, Judge John 192 
 
 Churchill, Col. S. J 200 
 
 Clark, John Z 653 
 
 Clark, Malcolm 246 
 
 Clarke, Nicholas S 230 
 
 Cleveland, S. Grover 102 
 
 Clough, E. N. 819 
 
 Cochran, Samuel 765 
 
 Colman, Osgood A 259 
 
 Conard. JohnM 671 
 
 Conger, Charles L 328 
 
 Conley, Michael 576 
 
 Coomb.s, Edward E 775 
 
 Cordley, Rev. Richard,D.D.136 
 
 Corlett, William 771 
 
 Cory, John M 801 
 
 Coursey, James 823 
 
 Cowdery, C. L., M. D 288 
 
 Cox, EdmundH 620 
 
 Cox, Hon- Joseph J 256 
 
 Cradit, Capt. N. C 608 
 
 Cramer, John 546 
 
 Crancer, John W 284 
 
 Crane, Charles D 345 
 
 Crane, Henry D 588 
 
 Cranston. J. Alexander 781 
 
 Crawford, Levi Russell 316 
 
 Cummings, Patrick 237 
 
 Cunningham, Joseph B 261 
 
 Cutler, Charles C 514 
 
 D 
 
 Dassler, C. F. W 411 
 
 Davenport, J. A., Jr 556 
 
 Davenport, J. A., Sr 555 
 
 Davis, George H 401 
 
 Davis, Winslow .507 
 
 DeFord, H. S., M. D ,585 
 
 Deichmann, Frederick 538 
 
 Denholm, George A 619 
 
 Denholm, William 618 
 
 Denton, Oliver 375 
 
 Dickey, Samuel R 387 
 
 Dicks, Capt. Henry B 406 
 
 Diestelhorst, Henry T .570 
 
 Dodsworth. Samuel 435 
 
 Dolphin, Miss Mary E 428 
 
 Donnelly, James 540 
 
 Donovan, Benjamin J 393 
 
 Donovan, Martin B 394 
 
 Doolittle, Reuben R 517 
 
 Downey, Very Rev. T. J. . .250 
 
 Dreisbach, Joseph H 444 
 
 Duffee, Lloyd 495 
 
 Duffin, John 427 
 
 Dyer, John M 514 
 
 Dyer, Thomas 492 
 
 E 
 
 Eaton, Burdine 803 
 
 Eaton, Calvin F 502 
 
 Edminster, Reuben S 822 
 
 Edmond, Hon. John D 223 
 
 Edmonds, Hon. M. W 501 
 
 Edwards, Benjamin F 662 
 
 Edwards, Maj. C. L 465 
 
 Edwards, Julius S 431 
 
 Eggleston, A.. P 437 
 
 Elder, Aldamar P: 561 
 
 Elder, Hon. P. P 278 
 
 Eldridge, E. W,, M. D 567 
 
 Eldridge, Maj. T. B 825 
 
 Elwell, Mrs. Mary G 418 
 
 Emery, Charles C 627 
 
 Emery, Hon. James S 233 
 
 Engle, Solomon 716 
 
 Evans, David 477 
 
 Everhardy, Peter 445 
 
 Ewing, Charles W., M. D. .548 
 
 F 
 
 Farnsworth, Oliver J 313 
 
 Faucett, John F 436 
 
 Faulkner, John K 778 
 
 Faulkner, William K 787 
 
 Feller, John C 828 
 
 Ferguson, Robert M 522 
 
 Ferris, Judge John 480 
 
 Fevurly, William 488 
 
 Few, Samuel P., M. D 415 
 
 Fillmore, Millard 66 
 
 Finley, William S 411 
 
 Fischer, Capt. Julius 478 
 
 Fisher, Hon. George A 394 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Michael T 248 
 
 FitzWilliam, Hon. F. P ...284 
 FitzWilliam, Frank P 280 
 
344 
 
 Fletcher, Josiah 8 287 
 
 Plinner, John 446 
 
 Flintjer, Arnold 441 
 
 Flora. Chauncey 482 
 
 Flora. Reazin V 448 
 
 Flory, Cyrus W 558 
 
 Fogle. Daniel 600 
 
 Poulkrod. Rev. J. W 828 
 
 Fraser,.\Villiam W 286 
 
 Freienmulh, William 442 
 
 Fritzel, John 646 
 
 Fuller, William G 816 
 
 G 
 
 Gardner. William 507 
 
 <;ar6eld, James A 94 
 
 Garrett, Robert 447 
 
 Gates. August 456 
 
 Caw, James W 710 
 
 Gentry-. Nicholas 313 
 
 Gelchcll.Capt. Thomas, ...676 
 
 Getker. Anton 494 
 
 GilRes, Capt. J. W 824 
 
 Gill. William H 488 
 
 Gillham.John H 511 
 
 Gilniore, John 491 
 
 Glathart, Jeremiah H 532 
 
 Glenn, Alexander G 534 
 
 Goddard, C. C. M. D 425 
 
 Godding, George F 508 
 
 Gorrill, Robert W 800 
 
 Gould, Hon. G, R 141 
 
 Graeber, G. A 179 
 
 Grant, Dlysses S 88 
 
 Gray, James 264 
 
 Grelie, Maj. M, R. W 637 
 
 Green, William R 229 
 
 Greene, Hon, H. M 148 
 
 Greenlee, M. D 188 
 
 Greever. Charles F 183 
 
 Greever, JohnB 706 
 
 Griesa, Adolph C 228 
 
 Griesa, Augustus H 266 
 
 Griesa, Theodore 229 
 
 Griffin. AllKsrt 260 
 
 Grist, NorrisM 6.36 
 
 Greener, Rev. R. B 239 
 
 Grovenor. Gurdon 258 
 
 Grover, Hon. Joel 197 
 
 Gucnther, Rev. Louis l.W 
 
 Gustafson, Joel 803 
 
 H 
 
 Hackbusch. H. C. F 356 
 
 Hallaui, John B 782 
 
 Hambliu. George W 677 
 
 Harding, Anson C 686 
 
 Haiding, William D 794 
 
 Harris, Hon. J. P 168 
 
 Harris. Hon. William A. ...213 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin 106 
 
 Harrison, Hon. J. H 669 
 
 Harrison. Joseph H 178 
 
 Harrison. Thomas W 672 
 
 Harrison, William Henry.. .W 
 
 Hartman. Frederick W 433 
 
 Hartnett, Joseph J ...687 
 
 Har%-ey, MosesC 238 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Haskell, Hon. D. C 139 
 
 Haskell, Col. J. G 166 
 
 Hastings, Samuel M 685 
 
 Havens, Paul E 295 
 
 Hawn, Judge I^nrens 682 
 
 Hawn. Frederick 681 
 
 Hayes, Rutherford B 90 
 
 Hays, Martin P 575 
 
 Heaston, Daniel F &)2 
 
 Heimann, Father Albert. ..460 
 
 ^^-flenderson, Howard W 605 
 
 ^Jlenderson, John A 644 
 
 Heasley. Abel 651 
 
 Herning. John Albert 218 
 
 Herr, Francis C, M. D 615 
 
 Herries. David 476 
 
 Herries, John 426 
 
 Hesse, William G 427 
 
 Hester, Solomon A 704 
 
 Hetrick, Frank 307 
 
 Hetrick, Rev. Isaac 307 
 
 Higgins, Charles W 779 
 
 Hill, Rev, C.Rowland 711 
 
 Hill.D. Mark 249 
 
 Hill. James A 781 
 
 Hindman. John C 457 
 
 Hindman, Lorenzo W 453 
 
 Hines. Thomas J 412 
 
 Hitzemann. John 460 
 
 Hon n old, AmosG 191 
 
 Hoover, l.saac L 190 
 
 Home, John B 715 
 
 Houston, Samuel A 515 
 
 Howard, Hon, W, C 169 
 
 Hudelson, N. .V 721 
 
 Huesgen.J. P 707 
 
 Hughes, Isaac F 490 
 
 Hughes, William 172 
 
 Hummel. Capt. J. L 719 
 
 Humphreys. Edgar J 702 
 
 Humphreys, Sylvester E.. .832 
 
 Hund, John M 370 
 
 Hund, Leo 726 
 
 Hund, Wendlin 373 
 
 Hunt, Col. F. K 156 
 
 Hunt. Hon. McCown 605 
 
 Hunter, Martin M 737 
 
 Hurd, Hon. T. A 600 
 
 Hutson, Harry T 545 
 
 I 
 
 Ide. Judge Harvey W 251 
 
 Igel, Capt. Richard L 227 
 
 Ingle, Charles W 472 
 
 lusley, Joseph B 808 
 
 J 
 
 Jackson, Andrew 42 
 
 Jackson, William 590 
 
 Jacobs. J, H 519 
 
 Jameson, Edward 235 
 
 Jansen, Henry 141 
 
 Jardon, Augustus M 475 
 
 Jardon, Francis X 383 
 
 Jeflcrsou, Thomas 26 
 
 Jenkins. Francis M 417 
 
 Jennings, Capt. A. J 240 
 
 Jewett. M. M 217 
 
 Johns, John H 178 
 
 Johnson, Andrew 82 
 
 Johnson, August 713 
 
 Johnson. Capt. Thomas I.. 181 
 Jones, Maj. D. C, M. D....202 
 
 Jones, Morgan 833 
 
 Jordan, William W 727 
 
 K 
 
 Kahn. William 468 
 
 Kaiser, George F 725 
 
 Kaiser, Peter 725 
 
 Kaufniann, George W 171 
 
 Keck, Ethan B 611 
 
 Keller, Francis M 823 
 
 Keller. Fred W 613 
 
 Kelly. Vincent A 810 
 
 Kelly, Washington D 626 
 
 Kibbe, William E 742 
 
 Kier, Robert A 551 
 
 Kilgore, James 826 
 
 Kimmel, Rev. J. W 807 
 
 Kindred. John W 547 
 
 Kindred, L. P 458 
 
 King, Albert H 682 
 
 Kingsley, Richard H 615 
 
 Kirk, Alexander 611 
 
 Kirmeyer, Michael 815 
 
 Kittredge, Miss H. D 712 
 
 Kittredge. Miss M. C 712 
 
 Klinkcnberg. Kufus 247 
 
 Knapp, Lewis F 654 
 
 Knapp, Thomas H 686 
 
 Knipe. Hubert 858 
 
 Knollman, Henry 707 
 
 Koch, Herman 798 
 
 Koohler, Harry W 7W) 
 
 Krezdoru. Mrs. Afra 689 
 
 Kripp. August L 679 
 
 KroU. August 376 
 
 Kuster. Jacob 732 
 
 Kyle, Andrew T 369 
 
 L 
 
 Lahue, Marshall G ., 247 
 
 Lamb. John F 7.12 
 
 Lamber, J. B 813 
 
 Lambert. William 397 
 
 laming, J. Caulton 684 
 
 Laming. Whitsed, Jr ftS2 
 
 - Lane, Gen. James H 130 
 
 , Lane. James A., M. D 243 
 
 Longwortliy, S. B., M. D...379 
 
 Laptad. Peter .S80 
 
 Lawrence. Capt. G. W 715 
 
 Leahy. Daniel 633 
 
 Leavenworth Anglers As- 
 sociation 606 
 
 Leeds, Absalom 730 
 
 Legate. Judge J. F 675 
 
 Leibey. Mrs. Nancy A. G..421 
 
 Leibey. J.Tnies. M. D 121 
 
 Leis. George 7 19 
 
 Lemon. Stephen K 711 
 
 Leonard. W. Y., M. D 123 
 
 Lewis, .\lexander 613 
 
 Lewis, P. M.. M. D 556 
 
 Li nek. George H 652 
 
 Lincolu, Abraham 78 
 
 Lindley, William M 587 
 
 Lindsey. James P 617 
 
 Lingard, Amos L 375 
 
 I^ingard, James 374 
 
 Lister, Edmund 365 
 
 Liltell, David W 461 
 
 Lloyd, John 757 
 
 Loar.John W 654 
 
 Love, Hon. Alexander 619 
 
 Lowe, Capt. P. G 697 
 
 Lowe, Hon. P. G 684 
 
 Lowe. Wil-son G. S 696 
 
 Ludington. Hon. R. W 6.31 
 
 Luther, Caleb M 577 
 
 M 
 
 McCarthy, Michael 709 
 
 McClanahan, John G .'>86 
 
 McClelland, C. B ,583 
 
 McCormick, John 656 
 
 Mccormick, J. M., M. D...766 
 
 McCune, Adam D 774 
 
 McCune, William 775 
 
 McCurry. John 762 
 
 McDonald. James 612 
 
 McElheny, Wilson 678 
 
 McFarland, Charles W .SSI 
 
 McKarland, Robert S 610 
 
 McFarland, Thomas 763 
 
 McKarlane. John 747 
 
 McGill, George E 870 
 
 Mclntire, L. 769 
 
 McKee. Hon. John 265 
 
 McKeever. Patrick 813 
 
 McKinley . William 110 
 
 McNar)-. Capt. O. C 579 
 
 McNaughton. Samuel J 629 
 
 Macomb. John N 296 
 
 Madison, James 30 
 
 Maffet, George W 785 
 
 Magers, John H 776 
 
 Maier, Gottlieb 70S 
 
 Manwaring. Henry .S81 
 
 Markart, Frank G 720 
 
 Marsh. Joseph 723 
 
 Martin, W. D., M. D 2'.'0 
 
 Mason. Mrs. F'. H 7ti0 
 
 Mason, Maj. L. P 760 
 
 Mason. Ziua A 684 
 
 Mayer. William. ^ 810 
 
 Mcdill, Hon. Sherman 303 
 
 Meeker. Silas;B 407 
 
 MchI, Lo\iis C 471 
 
 Merchant, Nelson 388 
 
 Mero, Oliver ....577 
 
 Merritt, Edward B »10 
 
 Melz, Henr>' 628 
 
 Meyers, Stance L 652 
 
 Miller, Ferdinando 8.34 
 
 Mills, LaFayette 399 
 
 Mintier, Kot>ert J 634 
 
 Moherman, William H 734 
 
 Monroe. James 34 
 
 Moonlight. Col. Thomas.. .142 
 
 Moore, Benjamin B 283 
 
 Moore, Charles 28S 
 
 Moore, Col. H. L 278 
 
 Moore. Hon. H Miles 123 
 
 Moore, Samuel P 821 
 
 Morgan, Gilbert H 795 
 
 Morgan, Jonathan F 789 
 
INDEX. 
 
 845 
 
 Moys, William 780 
 
 Miindey, David E 330 
 
 Munk. Capt. Edward 767 
 
 Murliu, Lemuel H., D.D...199 
 
 Murphy, Edward E 267 
 
 Murray, Rev. James 554 
 
 N 
 
 Nadelhoffer. William 772 
 
 Naelier, Stephan 393 
 
 Neal, Jordan 796 
 
 Nealley, G. F.. M. D 831 
 
 Nelson, Andrew P 464 
 
 Nelson, John 746 
 
 Nettleton. Lamar H.. ..710 
 
 Newsome, Joseph 617 
 
 Nightingale, William 753 
 
 Noss, Hiram 743 
 
 o 
 
 Oakes, Capt. Henrv A 622 
 
 Oatman, Adolphus G 616 
 
 Oatraan, H. C. M. D 150 
 
 Ode. Fred 833 
 
 Oldroyd, Charles W 338 
 
 O.ds, Rev. Frank B 601 
 
 Olin, Walter H 334 
 
 Olson, O. G 703 
 
 Orsbonro, William M 798 
 
 P 
 
 Parcels, John W — 170 
 
 Pardee, William A 476 
 
 Parker, Dillwyn 204 
 
 Parnell, Andrew J., Jr 700 
 
 Parnell, Andrew J., Sr. .699 
 
 Patter.son, William 441 
 
 Payne, Rev. J. M 818 
 
 Peairs, Hervey B 708 
 
 Pearson, Robert H 339 
 
 Penny, Prof. George B 180 
 
 Petherbiidge, J. C 161 
 
 Pettibone, Capt. .Milton. ...255 
 
 Phenicii. James M 824 
 
 Phillips, E. D. F., M. D....680 
 
 Phillips, J. M., M. D 357 
 
 Phillips, P. P 839 
 
 Pierce, Franklin 70 
 
 Pilla, Charles 25S 
 
 Planz, Jacob 434 
 
 Poitrey. Joseph 512 
 
 Polk, James K 58 
 
 Pontious, Frederick B 754 
 
 Pontius, Arthur C 788 
 
 Porter, Joh u A 367 
 
 Porter, William A 545 
 
 Powell, Alfred B 536 
 
 Prang, Hejiry C 518 
 
 Przybylowicz, M. A 526 
 
 Rabinovitz, Harrj' 520 
 
 Randall, Sherman W 836 
 
 Rankin, Col. John K 385 
 
 Ransom, James H 310 
 
 Rathhone. J. Cass 529 
 
 Ray, Marcelmus B 473 
 
 Raymond, Joseph M 275 
 
 Reed, Fitch 390 
 
 Reedy, Michael 424 
 
 Rees, Edwin T 402 
 
 Reid, Lyman 318 
 
 Reynolds, Maj. Clarkson. .442 
 
 Reynold,*. Samuel 462 
 
 Rhea, Heury W .380 
 
 Rice, Jasper S 837 
 
 Richardson, George C 289 
 
 Richardson, Jason P 1,59 
 
 Ridgway, Charles H 403 
 
 Riggs, Hon. Samuel A 185 
 
 Roberts, Gen. J. N 138 
 
 Robert.son. John W 465 
 
 Robbins, Judge C. L 324 
 
 Robinson, Hon. C, M. D. .121 
 Robinson. Mrs. Sara T. D..121 
 
 Rodenburg, Christian 840 
 
 Rodeuburg. Henry L 840 
 
 Rodenhau'i, Jacob 667 
 
 Rodgers, Henry H 329 
 
 Rothenberger. Jacob H. . . .487 
 
 Ruder, Fred 562 
 
 Ruediger, Theodore H 398 
 
 Russell, Mrs. Clarinda L- 359 
 
 Rujsell, Gen. Edward 128 
 
 Ryan. Jepp 207 
 
 Ryan, Matthew, Jr 263 
 
 Ryan, Hon. Matthew, Sr. .151 
 Ryan, Thomas C 365 
 
 St. John, Marcena 308 
 
 Sams, Frederick, M. D 726 
 
 Sanders, Meshack 596 
 
 Saunders, Prof. R. S 721 
 
 Savage, Forrtst 773 
 
 Schaake, Christian 597 
 
 Schanze. August 816 
 
 Schmeckel, Otto. 842 
 
 Schnebly, J. G., M. D 404 
 
 Schneider. E. H. F 594 
 
 Schulte, F. C 660 
 
 Schwager, Jacob 783 
 
 Schwartz, Andrew 528 
 
 Scott, John W 337 
 
 Sears, Gen. W. H 353 
 
 Seidel, Herman 677 
 
 Selig. August L 571 
 
 Ser\atns, Mrs. Delia F 525 
 
 Servatus, William 525 
 
 Seufert, George Adam 559 
 
 Seufert. Lewis. . 530 
 
 Seymour, George W 491 
 
 Shannon, Hugh 4.55 
 
 Sharpe. Alvin V 557 
 
 Sharpe, Araasa T 325 
 
 Shaw, Alexander 604 
 
 Shearer, James Bruce 625 
 
 Shearer, Lawrence P 625 
 
 Sheldon, Edwin M 309 
 
 Shepherd, William 495 
 
 Shinn, Albert C 664 
 
 Shiras, William M 463 
 
 Shively, Edward 574 
 
 Shively, Joseph M 765 
 
 Short, Harold C 864 
 
 Short, Oliver F 363 
 
 Simmons, C. J., M. D 653 
 
 Simmons, James C 558 
 
 Simmons, Hon. N., M. D..551 
 
 Sinclair, James C 836 
 
 Singer, Samuel v.. 608 
 
 Skourup, N. H 366 
 
 Slater, Alfred H 285 
 
 Small, William 270 
 
 Smith. Frank P ,549 
 
 Smith, Hon. Horace J 165 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Lurenda B 345 
 
 Smith, Leonard T 647 
 
 Smith, Malcom F 344 
 
 Smith, Hon. Martin 209 
 
 Snow, Francis H., LL. D. . .175 
 
 Snyder, Elmore W 186 
 
 Snyder, George W 290 
 
 Sparr, Ripley W 158 
 
 Spencer, Charles C 4.56 
 
 Spencer, William F 355 
 
 Spratley, John W 203 
 
 Spurgeon. William .560 
 
 Stannard, F. H 374 
 
 Slayman, Dr. Joseph 493 
 
 Steele, Judge L. S 564 
 
 Stephens. Richard 334 
 
 Sterubergh, Hon. T.J 146 
 
 Stevens, Capt. J. T 208 
 
 Stevens, Nelson O 140 
 
 Stigglem.in, Martin L- ■ - -614 
 
 Stiue, Louis C 317 
 
 Slinebaugh, George D 3.58 
 
 Stokely. P. D 454 
 
 Stonebraker, Samuel A 474 
 
 Stratton. John L 304 
 
 Strong, Charles B 592 
 
 Slump, John B 550 
 
 Sullivan, Rev, John M 666 
 
 Swift, Walter F .512 
 
 Swisher, Robert 498 
 
 Tawney, Horatio 479 
 
 Taylor. Judge F. K 806 
 
 Taylor, John F 722 
 
 Taylor, Mrs L. H., D.D.S..717 
 
 Taylor, Thomas T 585 
 
 Taylor, Zachary 62 
 
 Teflft, Clark 513 
 
 Thomas, Barclay 733 
 
 Thomas, F .M, M. D 245 
 
 Thomas, M. Shaw, M. D.. .214 
 
 Thomas, Theodore C 246 
 
 Thomas, W. Edwin 792 
 
 Thompson, L. M 573 
 
 Thornbury, J. R., M. D. .368 
 
 Tisdale, Henry 738 
 
 Todd, William N 497 
 
 Trackwell. Benjamin F 643 
 
 Trackwell, LeRoy 500 
 
 Tucker, Hon. C. H 661 
 
 Tucker, Rev. Dexter 595 
 
 Tudhope, John 565 
 
 Turner, James L 526 
 
 Tyler, Freeman 336 
 
 Tyler, John .54 
 
 u 
 
 Cmmethuu, George 521 
 
 Underwood, Junius 547 
 
 Usher, Hon. John P 135 
 
 Van Buren, Martin 46 
 
 Van Neste, H. G 657 
 
 Van Voorhis, Lansing 663 
 
 w 
 
 Wade, Hon. A. B 659 
 
 Walter, Joseph E 838 
 
 Walter, W. W., M. D 8(1 
 
 Warring, J. w., M. D 799 
 
 Washburn, George P 482 
 
 Washington, George 18 
 
 Watts, Hon. J. C 312 
 
 Weaver, John F gSl 
 
 Weeks, p. H ....5SS 
 
 Weelborg, Frederick 535 
 
 Weimer, James H 818 
 
 Wells, George 499 
 
 Welsh, Hon. H. P 735 
 
 WesthefTer, Eli 634 
 
 Wherry.Eli J 669 
 
 Whetstone, John H 701 
 
 White, AfvaE. B 7,59 
 
 Wiggin, Dudley H 660 
 
 Wilber, Clark 350 
 
 Wilke, Adam L .793 
 
 Williams. William H 318 
 
 Williams, William R 665 
 
 Williams, W. Stanley 496 
 
 Willis, Arthur .470 
 
 W^ilson, Allen L 640 
 
 Wilson, William C 804 
 
 Winkelman, Jacob 646 
 
 Winter, Milton R 8o2 
 
 Woeber, Joseph A 829 
 
 Wohlfrom, Marion A 800 
 
 Wolf, Charles F 3O6 
 
 Wolfsperger, G. J 363 
 
 Wood, Edwin S., M. D. .350 
 Wood, Robert L., M. D... 349 
 
 Wood, Rev. W. R 383 
 
 Woodlief, Hon. W. H 319 
 
 Woodruff, W. G., M. D....626 
 
 Wosser, Richard J 698 
 
 Wright, A. H.. M. D 326 
 
 Wright. John W 609 
 
 Wright, Marks 543 
 
 Wulfeknhler, F. W 637 
 
 Wulfekuhler, H. W 269 
 
 Wulfknhle, August 598 
 
 Yewdall, Joseph 630 
 
 Yohe, A. F., M. D 715 
 
 Yohe, Williams 713 
 
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 Ziesenis, August 575 
 
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