SCOTT AIKEN, carpenter, came to Kansas, March 5, 1877, and located in Franklin County, where he was engaged in farming, and where he remained until January 1878. From there he went to Neosho County, where he remained about four months, then came back to Franklin County and remained a couple of months; then went to Johnson County, where he remained for the same length of time; from there went to Burr Oak, Kan., where he lived eight months, and from there came to Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. Aiken is a member of Castalla Lodge, No. 4. I. O. G. T. He was born in Lawrence County, Pa., February 7, 1858, and remained in his native place until he came to Kansas. He was married in Atchison, May 17, 1882, to Anna Oxandale, who was born in Norton, near Moulton, Yorkshire, England.

EDWIN C. AINSWORTH is a native of New Jersey. In 1848, he removed to Wisconsin, where he resided until he came to Kansas in 1871, and located in Atchison. He is now manager of the extensive business of Hewitt & Rounds, having been with the concern since it was started by A. B. Bradish & Co., in December, 1871.

FRANK P. ALLEN, livery and sale stable, North fourth street, was born in Cass County, Mich., March 22, 1851, but came to Kansas in 1857, with his parents, who settled on a farm eighteen miles west of Atchison. When 15 years of age, the subject of this sketch began freighting across the plains, and made five trips to Salt Lake and one to California. He is doing an excellent business at his livery and sale stable, sometimes keeping as many as fifty horses; also runs a sample room in connection with it. Mr. Allen was married in this city, in 1877, to Miss Jennie, daughter of Peter and Jenette Reid, who came to Kansas as early as 1858.

PHILLIP N. ALLEN, teamster, residence on Fifth street between Division and L streets, was born in Moniteau County, Mo., September 2, 1840. His parents were Alfred H. and Varana - the former of Irish and German extraction, the latter from Switzerland. His father kept a boat store and hotel at St. Joseph, same State, but in 1854, opened the first hotel in the city of Atchison. Here the subject of this sketch lived until 1860, when he left for the mountains -- his employment, freighting across the plains. This he continued six years, then returned to Atchison where he has since made his home, and where hi father died in 1879. Being here during war time, Mr. Allen saw a good deal of and met with various encounters from the Pro-slavery band, and at one time old Pardee Butler was taken from his father's house, and an attempt made to hang him. They changed their plans however, and set him afloat on the Missouri River instead, and after he returned they tarred and cottoned him, as feathers were too scarce.

SAMUEL JESSE ALLEN is a native of Washington County, R. I., and was born April 30, 1821. He was the son of Stephen William Allen, a well-known citizen of Washington County. The subject was raised and educated in his native State, an learned the machinist's trade. He was crippled in the lower limbs when 13 years of age, caused by a fall. He was an operator and builder of machinery in Rhode Island for a considerable length of time, and here for six years has pursued the same vocation. In 1857, came to Illinois, residing for a time in Will County, and for about ten years was a resident of LaSalle County. In 1887, came to St. Joseph, Mo., and for a short time was in business there, coming to Kansas in the spring of 1868, locating in Doniphan County, where he still owns a fine farm. This he made his home while attending to his special line in different parts of the State. In 1873 took up his abode in Atchison. During his sojourn, he has done a large amount of contracting and building. He owns one of the best quarries in Atchison County. At present he is interested in the flour and feed trade, doing a business that will compare favorably with any in the city. Mr. Allen was married in Rhode Island, in 1840, to Miss Alice A. Clark. By this union, they have had five children: Jesse C., Ada (now Mrs. Whitney), Samuel S., Lorinda C. (now Mrs William Anderson), and Frank. Jesse C. and Samuel S. are engaged in conducting a woolen mill at DesMoines, Iowa. Mr. Allen is a member of the I. O. G. T., and is closely identified with the Temperance workers in Kansas.

N. P. ANDERSON, merchant, came to Kansas in July, 1872, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. When Mr. A. first came to Atchison, he was employed for nearly three years in Challiss Bros'. wholesale grocery establishment. In 1876 he was a member of the Atchison police force. From that time to the present he has been engaged in present occupation. Mr. Anderson is a member of Schiller Lodge No. 33, and of Hesperian Encampment, No. 6, I. O. O. F. He was born in Holbeck, near Copenhagen, Denmark, September 5, 1838, and lived in his native place until he came to Kansas. He was married in Rondas, Denmark, November 12, 1871, to Dorothea Bernzen, a native of Denmark. They have two children, one of whom, Atlantic Barth, was born at sea, while his parents was coming to this country. As his birth took place at the exact moment the captain of the vessel had completed his observation for the day, it was easy to ascertain the precise latitude and longitude where the little stranger was ushered into existence, which is latitude 28 deg. 28 min. north, and longitude 48 deg. 34 min. west, which accounts for the first part of his name. Their other son is named Julius Gearhardt.

JAMES ANDERSON, manager of the street railway, for the Atchison R. R. Company, came to Kansas in 1865, and from that time until October, 1880, had an interest in the Transfer Line at Lawrence. He then came to Atchison, and in April of the year following engaged with the above company. Mr. Anderson has the supervision of twenty-five men and nine cars. He was born in Loudoun County, Va., March 16, 1848, where his father followed farming, and was killed in battle, as captain of the Loudoun Rangers in the Confederate army. The subject of this sketch also had an older brother, Fleming, who was a soldier in the same company, and was killed while talking to his mother in his own home at Taylortown, Va. Mrs. Anderson was formerly Miss Josephine, daughter of John and Frances Oliver, who were among the early settlers of Atchison County. They were married at Leavenworth in 1879. Mr. Anderson's mother still resides at Lawrence, this State.

JAMES ANDERSON, wood yard. Business established in September 1880. He keeps wood of all kinds and employs two men. Mr. A. was born in the Island Lowland, Denmark, January 22d, 1844. Was educated in the old country, where he engaged in farming until 1866, when he came to the United States, and located for a time in Wisconsin, Michigan and other points. In 1870 he settled in Washington County, Kan., and engaged in farming until 1876, when he removed to Atchison, and contracted getting out railroad ties until he established his present business.

W. S. ANDERSON is a native of Allborg, Denmark. He was born January 31, 1854, and came to America with his parents, Niels and Sophia Anderson the following year. They first located in Missouri, where they remained until 1857, when they moved to Kansas. Mr. W. S. Anderson was married in Atchison, July 30, 1877, to Emma E. Page, of McHenry County, Ill. They have two children - Grace Sophia, and an infant daughter. Mr. Anderson is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 5 and of Hesperian Encampment, No. 6, I. O. O. F., and is now engaged in the grocery business, No. 505 Commercial street, Atchison, Kan.

R. S. ANDERSON, dealer in wall paper. Among the pioneer painters in Kansas is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of New York, and was born in Otsego County, March 2, 1834. At an early age he removed to Oneida County, thence to Chenango County, where he learned the painter's trade, after which he came to Illinois, and was in the employ of the C., B. & Q. R. R. painting the depots along its line, with headquarters at Galesburg. The spring of 1859 he came to Atchison and bought out a paint shop. Being in limited circumstances it may be said of him that he made his fortune in Atchison, on its bed rock. From that date he has been almost constantly identified with the city's interest, and a large amount of the artistic work in the city has been done by him. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry. Aside from being after Quantrell, in Missouri, he was at Fort Leavenworth, in the Government employ, having charge of the painting at the fort, where he remained for two and a half years, and returned to Atchison. The first house he owned in Atchison he resided in for twenty years. Mr. A. is a pleasing and well informed gentleman, and is one of Atchison's most solid citizens and business men. He married in the autumn of 1859, Miss Lucy Ensign. By the union they have had ten children, six of whom are living - Clara, Winford, Grace, Benjamin, Charles R., Lucy: lost, four - Randolph, Minnie Belle, George and Willie. Mr. Anderson is a deacon in the Baptist Church, and a member of the I. O. O. F.

JOHN S. ANTLE, coal dealer, corner Tenth and Main streets, was born in the city of Praque, the capital of Bohemia, December 6, 1844. His occupation was that of a weaver, in his native country, and this he followed until 1864, when he emigrated to the United States. Came immediately to Atchison, where he began burning lime, which business he successfully operated until 1876. In September of this year he commenced in the retail coal trade, and has by industry and close attention to business, worked up a large and lucrative business, handling between 500 and 600 car loads per year. Mr. Antle is now President of the Atchison Turnverein. He married at this place in 1868, Miss Kate Mohrbacher, who was born in Wisconsin, and by whom he has one son, Richard F.

ARTHUR BROTHERS, sons of the Hon. James Arthur, formerly lumber merchant of Quincy, Ills., now retired from business. Wholesale and retail books, stationery, fancy goods, etc. Firm composed of W. H. and N. W. Arthur. The business was established in 1879. They now keep the best selected and largest stock in their line in the city, and by close attention to business, courteous treatment to visitors and low prices, have established themselves as the leaders in their business. W. H. Arthur, of the above firm, was born in Quincy, Ill., January 6, 1853, received his education in his native city, and at an early age commenced clerking in the stationery business, and with slight exceptions has since continued in it. In 1879 he moved to Kansas, settled in Atchison, and organized the present firm. He was married in Quincy, Ill., May 6, 1880, to Miss Minna Sommer, a daughter of Aldo Sommer, Esq., a leading wholesale druggist, of Quincy, Ill. They have one child - James Sommer Arthur. N. W. Arthur, of the above firm, was born in Quincy, Ill., August 20, 1858. After completing his education he engaged in clerking, in which he continued until he came to Kansas, in 1879. Both brothers are members of the Presbyterian Church.

SAMUEL A. ASHMUN, cashier and correspondent for the firm of Donald Bros., came to Atchison with said firm in 1879. Had formerly been in the employ of H. B. Silliman, Cohoes, N. Y., where he held the position of cashier and bookkeeper for six years. Born in Genesee County, N. Y., January 18, 1849; his parents were the Rev, Silas H. Ashmun, and Mary Van Santvoord, his wife, the latter of German lineage. His father, a Presbyterian minister, was a graduate of Union Seminary, New York. The subject of this sketch received an academical course of education at Ripon, Wis., where he graduated in mathematics and the early portion of his life was devoted to school teaching. His wife was Miss Jessie Donald, whom he married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1875.

W. W. AULD, of Blair & Auld, proprietors of City Mills.

JOHN C. AVERY was born at Groton, Conn. : immigrated to Iowa in 1859; enlisted in Company H., Thirty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, July, 1862, and was mustered out as Sergeant of his company, June 26, 1865. After his discharge from the army he returned to Franklin County, Iowa, and in the spring of 1867, removed to Minnesota, remaining in that State two years. In 1870, he went to Massachusetts, residing at Springfield, Mass,; engaged in merchantile business until 1876, when he came to Mason City, Iowa, and thence to Atchison, where he established the Kansas department of New England Loan and Trust Company, of which he now has charge.

WILLIAM P. AYRES head clerk in the way-bill office of the U. S. Express Company at the Union Depot, Atchison, was born in Richland County, Ohio, February 10, 1838. While in his native State his occupation was that of a merchant, and in 1857 he came to Kansas. His first engagement with the U. S. Express Company was at Lawrence, this State, the same year of his arrival here being deliverer and general helper in the office at that place. After two years' trial at this he was advanced to messenger on the road, his route being changed a number of times, and in 1873 located at Atchison, and in 1878 was appointed to his present position. Mr. Ayers is now among the oldest expressmen in the State, and by strict attention to business, and the adept manner in which his various duties have been performed, has acquired the reputation of a man thoroughly acquainted with his business.

THOMAS BAILY, foreman for Washer & White, Elevator A. Is a native of England, and was born in Warwickshire, March 16, 1834. When quite young came to the United States, and was reared in Boston, Mass., where he learned to be a practical optician. For a time was a resident of New York City. In 1859 came West, locating in Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1860 he enlisted in Company E, Seventh Kansas Infantry, serving three years and four months, being on duty in the Southwest, a portion of the time in Texas. In 1871, came to Atchison, and followed various pursuits until February 11, 1876, when he took his present position. Mr. Baily is one of the most competent elevator and grain men in the State, and is held in high esteem by his employers. He married in 1875, Miss Ann Ests, of Atchison. They have by this union four children - Louisa, Adella A., Thomas Jr. and Asa.

LIEUTENANT DAVID BAKER. One who has figured conspicuously in the growth and development of the Western country is David Baker. He is a native of Indiana and was born in Tippecanoe County, July 7, 1833, near the town of Dayton. He is the son of William and Hannah Baker, the former being of English extraction. The first of the family to come to America was Thomas Baker, a Colonel in the English army, who resigned from that position to come to the colonies, settling on Long island, while it was yet in possession of the Dutch. William Baker was born in New jersey, and emigrated to Ohio, settling in Buter County, in 1807. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1827 he moved to Indiana, being among the pioneers of Tippecanoe County. There he opened a farm in the timber, and endured the hardships and privation subsequent to the first settlement of a new country. He was a man closely associated with religion, and class leader in the United Brethren Church, and his house, for a number of years, was used to hold services in. His death occurred February 19, 1844. He was married twice. By his first wife he had six children. One son - Robert, lived in Dayton, Ind. The other - Thomas, is proprietor of the Grand Hotel in Indianapolis. Mary Ann was married to Moses Graft, a prosperous farmer. Had a large family. Rachel married a well known physician - Dr. D. H. Crouse, of Dayton, and is now deceased. Two of her children are living, one of whom is Rev. M. V. Crouse, an able clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, of Franklin, Ohio. The other two children of William Baker died when they were young. His second marriage was with Hannah Moore, a native of this country, but of Irish parentage. William Moore was in the war of 1812, and in General Hill's surrender, and then paroled, but in a short time returned to the army, and fought until the close of the war. Hannah Moore Baker was the mother of six children, three of her sons being farmers - Abner in Kansas, Josiah in Illinois, and Samuel in Indiana. The youngest - George W., died in infancy. Her only daughter - Martha Jane, married Dr. J. A. Wood, who, for a number of years, was a resident of Atchison County, Kansas, but since the war has been a resident of Monticello, Ind., at which place he died in 1878, leaving a family of five children. Mrs. Baker, after the death of her husband, married Henry Goble, and removed to Clinton County, Ind. She was a pious woman, and a faithful adherent to the United Brethren church. Her death occurred in 1851, in the full triumph of her faith. Her last words were: "Glory! Glory!" As she opened her eyes once more, to behold her son David, for whom she had seemed to be waiting for hours just at the door of death, then she sank peacefully away. The education of David baker and his brothers was limited, owing to the poor school facilities in Indiana at that early day. His chief amusement while pursuing the routine of the farmer boy, was that of hunting and fishing. When fourteen years of age, he went to Dayton to learn the carpenters' trade with his brother Robert, serving an apprenticeship of three years, when he followed the trade for about the same length of time in Lafayette, Ind. On the 4th of June, 1855, he married Margaret J. Alexander. She lived only until the following year, June 20th, when her death occurred, leaving one infant daughter - Alfaretta Jane, who died a few months later. She was a religious and educated lady, fond of literature, and an admirer of poetry. A few months after this, Mr. Baker came to Kansas, arriving in Atchison County September 19, 1857. He purchased a share in the Sumnertown Company, and pre-empted 160 acres of land near Lancaster, ten miles west of Atchison. He left Kansas December 5, in company with thirteen others, in a skiff, and rowed to Jefferson City, where they took the cars, he returning to Indiana. The 9th of March, 1858, he married Rebecca Foresman, daughter of John Foresman, a pioneer of Indiana. Returned to Kansas with his wife, arriving at Sumner April 29. There he worked at his trade two years. In 1858-59 was township collector and treasurer, and in 1859-60 was marshal of the town of Sumner, an unenviable position at that day, owing to the border element, and Mr. Baker had in many instances some of the most noted outlaws to deal with. Being a Free-state man he took an active part in the affairs of the time, and was a delegate to the first Republican County Convention. His life is replete with incidents too numerous to mention, but A. D. Richardson, the author of "Beyond the Mississippi," who was a personal friend of his, has pictured the scenes of those times to perfection. In 1861, he began to open his farm, but as the war of the Rebellion was fully upon us, he entered the military service. He was mustered into the volunteer service as a private soldier, in Company G, Eighth Kansas Infantry, November 11, 1861, and on the 14th was ordered to Lawrence for drill. While there, November 21, 1861, was promoted to the rank of First Sergeant of the company. From December 20, 1861, until January 16, 1862, the regiment was guarding the border. Three companies, A, D and G, were ordered to Fort Kearney, where they arrived on March 12, and remained until April 15, when Company G was detached, and sent to Scott's Bluff, on the overland mail route, to quell Indian troubles. On May 28, the company was ordered to Fort Laramie, where they remained on garrison duty until January 15, 1863, when they were ordered to join the regiment at Nashville, Tenn, marching from Fort Laramie to Leavenworth, thence by rail and water to Nashville. They assisted the regiment on provost duty in the city until June 7, 1863, when all the companies were ordered to Murfreesboro, Tenn., where the regiment was assigned to Third Brigade of the First Divison, Twentieth Army Corps, and on June 24 marched under General Rosecrans to Tullahoma, then to Winchester and Stephenson, Ala., and across the river to skirmish with the enemy. While at Winchester, July 25, 1863, Mr. Baker was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company G, but as it was then below the minimum number, he was not mustered on his commission, and on September 9 received a commission as First Lieutenant, but was again not mustered, as the army was on the move, but acted as First Lieutenant in his company, and on September 19, 1863, was engaged in the battle of Chichamauga, where he was severely wounded in the left leg, and taken prisoner, lying four days on the field without any attention. His leg was amputated by a surgeon of the U. S. Army, who was also a prisoner. After twelve days he was paroled and sent through the lines, and was taken to the officers' hospital in Chattanooga, where he remained until sent to Nashville, Tenn., November 10, 1863. November 30 he received leave of absence for thirty days, to visit his wife and friends at Lafayette, Ind., when he returned and made application to be mustered in on his commission, which was granted by the War Department, and he was mustered November 21, 1864, to date from September 9, 1863. He was then ordered to report to Major A. W. Gazzona, commanding the Veteran Reserve Corps at Nashville, Tenn. Was detailed for duty with detachment of the 148th and 151st companies of the Second Battalion of the Veteran Reserve Corps, at general hospital No. 19, on the 12th of January, 1865. He was released and ordered to report to Captain J. H. Meyer, at the Cumberland Hospital, January 18, 1865. He assumed command of the 154th company of the Second Battalion of the Veteran Reserve Coprs, and in addition had command of the 152nd company of the same battalion. May 31, 1865, he was released from duty from the hospital, and assigned to duty as acting assistant quartermaster and acting assistant commissary of subsistence of the Veteran Reserve Corps. June 27, 1865, he also assumed the duties of acting assistant adjutant of the corps. He served on general court martial duty for some time, and continued in his duties for the Veteran Reserve Corps until the close of the war. December 11, 1865, he left Nashville and returned to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was mustered out January 10, 1866. He is deserving of special mention and the commendation of all true patriots, for the active part he took in quelling the Rebellion. Mrs. Baker also is to be complimented as a woman who shared the hardships of camp life with her husband. With two children she accompanied him to Fort Laramie. At this place was born their third child, November 24, 1862, a son whom they named Robert Laramie, in honor of the birthplace. When her husband was sent to Nashville she left him at St. Louis and went to her parents in Indiana; remained about one year; while there Robert Laramie died, his sickness beginning the evening of his father's return on leave of absence, after being wounded, and his death occurred six weeks later, February 12, 1864, when Mrs. B. went South with her husband; was an eye-witness to the battle of Nashville and remained with him to the close of the war. Her two oldest children were born in Sumner, Kansas - Addie L., March 12, 1859; Solon Byrd, September 8, 1860. The others were all born in Atchison - Mary Eldora, April 4, 1867; Edwin M., February 5, 1869; Eva Hortense, January 24, 1870; David H., January 30, 1873; Estella, July 13, 1876; Ruth, March 30, 1878, and Blanche, born January 28, 1881. Addie L. married December 15, 1880, to William Carlyle, one of Atchison's well known business men. At the close of the war Lieutenant Baker returned to Kansas, locating in Atchison. He entered the drug business with Dr. Horn, but lost his whole stock by fire in 1868. At present he is engaged in the grocery trade, in connection with a meat market, and doing a thriving business. Mr. B. is a member of the Methodist Church. Politically, he is a strong Republican, and in 1871 was elected by that party to the office of County Treasurer, discharging the duties creditably to himself and the satisfaction of his constituents. He was a prominent candidate for the following term, but was defeated by a small majority. He was also a candidate in 1874 for State Treasurer, but finally withdrew in favor of one of the opponents. Since that time he has been leading a quiet life, the surroundings of his home and happy family indicating comfort and prosperity.

H. W. BARKOW, of the firm Barkow & Ash, boot and shoe dealers. This gentleman is a native of Germany, and was born in Prussia, October 16, 1830; was reared and educated in his native country. In 1869 came to the United States, locating temporarily in Milwaukee, Wis., after which he came to Atchison. Mr. Barkow being in meager circumstances on arriving in Kansas, engaged in working on a farm outside of Atchison, and the first money he earned in this country was in tilling the soil. For three years he was in the employ of Judge Otis, in Atchison. In 1877, he engaged in the boot and shoe trade in company with H. A. Nore (now deceased); his present partner, Mr. A. J. Ash, joined him in 1880. Mr. Barkow is one of the most genial gentleman, and has a host of friends throughout Atchison County. He married January 10, 1878, Miss Katie Sutter. By this union they have three children - Minnie, Frank and Lillie.

F. M. BARNES, hardware salesman, came to Kansas August, 1871, located in Penn Township, Osborne Co., and engaged in farming there until March, 1881, then removed to Osborne City in the same county, where he remained until he came to Atchison, March 1, 1882. Employed in the same position which he now fills since he came to this city. He was married at Osborne City, September 18, 1879, to Clara S. Bliss, a native of Illinois. They have two children - Lena and Albert. Mr. Barnes was born in Middleburgh, Pa., November 25, 1852. Removed from there in infancy with his parents, John L. and Catherine L. Barnes to Reading, Pa. They lived there until August, 1871, when the family came to Kansas, where they resided until the mother died in 1874; the father now resides in Osborne City, Osborne Co.

REUBEN C. BARNES, proprietor of the Atchison Conservatory and Green House, 1717 Main Street, was born in Middlesex County, Conn., October 31, 1814. In early life was a manufacturer of paper hangings, and in 1859 came West and farmed in the neighborhood of Atchison for four years. Removing to the city he at once commenced keeping hotel, known as the Avenue House, but since changed to Fifth Street House. In 1878, embarked in his present venture, and has by close attention to business, and careful study of the wants of the people, gained the liberal patronage of the same. He has three houses, one for an entrance room, the others 260X14 and 130X16, are for floral culture, provided with a Hitchings New York Patent Boiler. Keeps a full assortment of house and garden plants, and furnishes floral designs to any part of the State on short notice. Mr. Barnes married at Middletown, Conn., in 1835, Miss Chloe Beach, of Massachusetts.

M. BARRETT, Cashier of the Atchison National Bank, was born in Springfield, Ohio; removed to Iowa in 1854, locating in Louisa County, at Washington, Washington Co., and at Columbus in that state, before locating at Atchison. While at Washington, Mr. Barrett was in the lumber business, and prior to that time resided at Perrysville, Ind., being connected with a bank in that village, and is a stockholder in the First National Bank at Washington. Since locating at Atchison, he has confined himself to banking, except that during one year with a partner he was employed in packing hogs. Mr. Barrett is a thorough and energetic business man.

S. V. BARTH, clothing merchant, of the firm S. V. Barth & Co., who are old established merchants at Trenton, Grundy Co., Mo., and opened this branch house at Atchison, in March, 1880. They now rank among the first merchants in this line in the city, and to them may be given a great deal of credit in working up so good a trade in a city already so well represented in that line of business. Mr. Barth was born in Germany, Rhine province, October 24, 1851, but came to the United States with his parents in 1866, locating in Columbia, Mo., where for six months he was employed with his two elder brothers at peddling on horseback through that portion of the State. Then clerked in a dry goods store until 1871, at which time he removed to St. Joseph, same State, where he was engaged as traveling agent for four years, and was there married in August, 1879, to Miss Pauline Steiner. Mr. Barth is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the Knights of Pythias.

HALLER H. BAYLEY, druggist, came to Kansas in March, 1874, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. Bayley has been city clerk of Waukesha, Wis., and a member of the city council of Greeley, Col. Mr. B. was born in Waukesha, Wis., June 14, 1849, and lived in his native place until his twenty-first year, when he went to Cheyenne, Wy. T., where he remained a few months and then went to Greeley, Col. At the latter place he remained two years, and then went to Boulder, Col., where he remained one year and four months and then came to Kansas. Mr. Bayley is connected with the extensive wholesale drug house of McPike & Fox, where he holds an important and responsible position, and possesses the respect of all who are fortunate enough to be acquainted with him. Mr. B. was married November 4, 1874, at Willimantic, Conn., to Miss Hattie E. Clark, a native of Connecticut. They have one child, a daughter, named Maybelle. 

 M. M. BEAN, superintendent of the county poor farm, was born in Clark county, Ky., in 1828. In 1833 his parents moved to Indiana, and shortly afterwards to Scott County, Ill., where he remained until 1849, when he went to Hancock County, Ill., and followed farming until 1851, when he went to Jackson County, Mo., and farmed until 1857, when he located in Atchison County, Kan., on Section 28, Town 6, Range 20, Mount Pleasant Township and commenced to improve his claim. In 1860 and 1861 followed freighting to Denver. In the fall of 1862 enlisted in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, and took part in the battles of Cain Hill, Prairie Grove and Van Buren, and all the engagements of his regiment. Was discharged at Little Rock, Ark., in June, 1865, when he returned to his farm in this county, where he remained until March, 1882, when he took charge of the poor farm as superintendent. Was married January 8, 1849, in Scott County, Ill., to Miss Rebecca A. Northcut, and has seven children, viz: John H., William H., Paul, Ida and Minnie (twins), Alvin and Barbara E. Is a member of Echo Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., of Mount Pleasant, Kan.

ALBERT BEAUCHAMP, shipping clerk, was born in Doniphan County, Kan., September 15, 1856, and has resided in the State ever since. He is a member of the N. T. R. Union, and has been secretary of this association. Mr. B. came to Atchison in March, 1878, and immediately secured a position as clerk in the large wholesale grocery house of A. B. Symms, with whom he remained three years. Since then to the present time, he has held the position of shipping clerk in the large furniture manufacturing establishment of Kelsey & Simpson. Mr. Beauchamp was married in Atchison, June 6, 1882, to Miss Nellie I. Edgerton, a native of Atchison County.

JOHN ALFRED BECK, railroad employee M. P. R. R., came to Kansas in September, 1871, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the Burksville Benevolent Society and of the Baptist Church. Mr. B. was born in Marrowbone, Cumberland Co., Ky., July 18, 1861, and resided at his birthplace until he came to Kansas. Mr. Beck was married in Cumberland Co., Ky., December 26, 1978, to Mary Robney, a native of Kentucky.

PETER BECKER, wine manufacturer, is a native of Germany, and was born in Prussia, September 18, 1842. When six years of age came to America with his parents, locating in Ohio. Peter spent his youthful days and was raised to manhood in the Buckeye State. In 1864, he tendered his services to the Union cause, enlisting in Company D, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in a number of stirring skirmishes toward the wind-up of the rebellion. Was taken prisoner September 24, 1864, and retained by the Confederates until March, 1865, when he was paroled. Was honorably discharged at the close of the war. Returning to Ohio, he engaged in business, and in 1869 came to Atchison, engaging in the liquor trade, in which line he has since been identified. Mr. Becker has a fine vineyard in a high state of cultivation, and in the growing of grapes and in the manufacture of wine does a large business. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Friendship Lodge. He married, in 1867, Miss Louisa Gribling. By this union they have eight children living - William, Ametta, Lizzie, Dora, Emma, Carrie, Gusta, Ida. Lost one Mary.

J. H. BEESON, railroad contractor, and owner and proprietor of the Atchison Street Railway, one of the most prominent and representative citizens of Atchison, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Hopkins County, August 13, 1844. At an early age he removed to Chattanooga, Tenn. When thirteen years of age he embarked on the Mississippi river for the purpose of becoming an engineer. Becoming proficient in his adopted profession, he acted in that capacity for a number of years in the employ of the Davis Packet Company, plying between Nashville, Memphis and St. Louis. He eventually drifted West, in order to find a locality where he could find a wider scope for his abilities as a manager and a speculator. When the Union Pacific Railroad was in course of construction Mr. Beeson ranked among the leading contractors along the route, and built a number of miles of that well-known road; also of the Central Branch of the same line he also constructed upwards of 200 miles. Of other railroads that Mr. B. has been interested in developing, are the Missouri Pacific, the C., B. & Q. in Iowa, and the B. & M. in Nebraska, the Ft. Scott & Gulf, the International & Great Northern, and others in the West and Southwest. He is also largely interested in the railroad enterprises in Illinois, his headquarters in that State being Edwardsville. In 1881, Mr. Beeson came to Atchison, and inaugurated a system of street railways. It was an undertaking of considerable magnitude, and an enterprise that few capitalists would undertake. He individually built the railways and equipped them in first-class style; and to Mr. B., Atchison is indebted for as superior a system of street railways as is to be found in the Northwest. It was opened to the public July 3, 1881. In 1882, Mr. B., in connection with his other enterprises, embarked in the wholesale boot and shoe trade, purchasing Famous Boot and Shoe House, the largest in Atchison. His trade in this branch extends throughout Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. He is a man of excellent judgement, a good financier, and very successful in all his undertakings. He is a gentleman possessing commendable traits, and popular in social and commercial circles. He was married June 15, 1854, to Miss C. M. Hard, of New York State. They have two sons, L. W. and J. W., who are large real estate owners and stockmen of Mitchell Co., Kan. Mr. B. is a member of the K. of P. Golden Cross Lodge of Atchison.

ANDREW BELINDER, bookkeeper and surveyor, came to Kansas, July 4, 1878, and located in Concordia, where he lived about two years. During this time he was engaged for about three months on the plains in Kansas, in hunting buffalo. From Concordia he came to Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He was born July 8, 1855, in Orebro, Nerkey, Sweden, and remained in his native town until his 17th year, when he went to Arboga, Sweden, and entered the university, where he remained two and one-half years. From there he went to Stockholm, where he remained until he emigrated to America in 1878. His father is still living in Orebro, Sweden.

JOHN S. BELL, clerk, came to Kansas in the fall of the year 1860, and located in Atchison where he has lived since. Mr. Bell was in the army as a member of Company H, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and was enlisted at Leavenworth, in October, 1861, and mustered out October, 1862. He participated in all of the engagements of his command. Mr. Bell was born in Branton, Cumberland Co., Eng., October 26, 1838, and lived in his native place until he reached the age of three years, when his parents came to America, settling first in New York City, where they remained only two years, and then removed to West Farms, Westchester Co., N. Y., where they lived ten years. From here they removed to Whitehall, Washington Co., N. Y., where they lived but a short time, and from there to Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y., where they lived until 1861, when they removed to Atchison. During this time Mr. Bell was employed, except while in the army, in farming. While in Atchison, Mr. Bell was connected with the wholesale lumber firm of Gillespie & Co., in whose employ he was engaged for about six years. He was afterwards engaged for about the same length of time with the large wholesale and retail grocery house of John Perkins, of Atchison. He was married in Atchison, in March, 1871, to Miss Annie Trussell, a native of Canada. They have three children living, whose names are Carrie, Gracie and George.

JOHN BELZ, cashier of the German Savings Bank, and connected with it since 1873, came to Atchison, June, 1857, and started business as contractor and carpenter, which he continued until 1860. He then opened a grocery store which he kept until 1873, when he became connected with the bank. He was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, August 15, 1833. In December, 1853, he came to America, locating in New York and Iowa prior to coming to Kansas. In 1859, he was married at Atchison, to Sophia D. Binde, a native of Prussia. Their two children are named Emma and Ida. Mr. Bels (sic) is a member of A. F. & A. M. and of I. O. O. F.

JOHN BEMER, manufacturer of and dealer in boots and shoes, came to Kansas February 26, 1859, and located in Atchison, where he has resided since. He is a member of the N. T. R. Union of St. Joe, Mo., and has been a member of the City Council and School Board of Atchison. Mr. Beemer (sic) was born in the Province of Nassau, Germany, December 8, 1818, where he lived until his fourteenth year, when he traveled through the various States of Germany, until the year 1846, when he emigrated to this country and settled in St. Louis, Mo., where he lived for ten years, and was engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. From St. Louis, he moved to Weston, Mo., where he resided until he came to Atchison. Mr. Beemer was married in Atchison, March 13, 1873, to Mrs. Mary A. Fortune, a native of Maryland.

GEORGE C. BENEDICT, engineer on the Mo. Pac. Ry., residence West Main street, has been engaged in railroading since 1843, first employment being with construction forces on the Mich. Cent. R. R., and in 1847 became an engineer on the same road. Learned machinist's trade at La Porte, Ind. Was employed on construction force of the Mich. South R. y., during the extension of the line from Hillsdale to Chicago. Was engineer on same railroad. In 1854, accepted position of foreman in shops of the C. & A. R. R., at Bloomington, Ill.; was also in the employ of the Mo. Pac. Ry. in 1855. Afterward accepted position of foreman in C. B. & Q. R. R. shops at Quincy, Ill.; also ran an engine on same road. From 1857 to 1859, was employed as engineer on the O. & M. R. R. From 1859 to 1865, was foreman in H. & St. J. R. R. shops at Hannibal, Mo. Since 1865, has been in service of the C. B. U. P. R. R., or what is know known as the Cen. Branch of the Mo. Pac. Ry., in various positions of engineer roadmaster, superintendent of bridges and master mechanic, and at present is employed on construction force of the Nebraska Extension of the Mo. Pac. Ry. Was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., December 27, 1827. Was volunteer in Company C., of the Thirty-eighth Missouri Infantry, engaged in detached service. Is a member of the Masonic order, in St. John Lodge, No. 28, Hannibal, Mo. His wife's maiden name was Eliza A. Perkins, of Lenawee County, Mich. They were married June 7, 1854.

CHARLES W. BENNING, contractor and builder, came to Kansas, January 16, 1863, and located in Atchison where he has resided since. He is a member of the City Council of Atchison, and was City Marshall of the same city, in 1877-8. He is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F., and Golden Cross Lodge, No. 7, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Benning was born in Clyde, Wayne County., N. Y., May 12, 1851, and resided there until his 12th year, when his parents removed to Atchison where they reside at present. Mr. Benning has but few equals and no superiors in his business calling, and as a politician he is one of the most popular in the city of Atchison. He was strongly urged to become a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Atchison County, at the last general election, but with his usual modesty declined, preferring to give his personal attention to his rapidly increasing business. He has a bright future before him, and will yet be heard of in the political arena.

T. A. H. BERKEY, foreman of locomotive and car department, A. & N. Dicision, B. & M. R. R. in Nebraska. Mr. Berkey was born in Monticello, White Co., Ind., August 4, 1846. Educated at Monticello and at Ashbury University, Crawfordsville, Ind. In 1862, he enlisted in Company G (Capt. John Holloway), Sixty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Was attached to the Twenty-third Army Corps, under Gen. Schofield. Was with Sherman up to Atlanta, then returned to Nashville to take part in that campaign. Was mustered out in 1865, and returned to Indiana. In 1867, he moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he learned the carpentering and undertaking trade, and remained there until 1869, when he settled in Atchison and engaged with Crookham & Neal. In 1875, he took the position of master car-builder, with the A. & N. R. R. Appointed to present position December, 1880. Mr. Berkey was married in Holden, Mo., May 22, 1873, to Miss Ann E. Smith, of Alexander, Ohio. They have three children, Maud L., Frank E., Charles T. Mr. Berkey is a member of the subordinate lodge and encampment, I. O. O. F. Passed all chairs in both.

JOSEPH H. BERLIN, grocery and provision store, corner Fourth and Park streets, was born in Northampton County, Pa., December 17, 1839, and since he was fifteen years old was employed in merchandise trade in his native State until 1879; then came to Atchison, and in the spring of the following year, opened the above store with a cash capital of $275 - stock was $500, balance on credit. His first year's sales amounted to $12,000, and the past year increased to $22,000, with an increase of capital to $2,400. He employes a clerk and deliverer, and keeps a first-class grocery store. He has a property in Pennsylvania worth net $1,100, and one in East Atchison worth $600. Mr. Berlin married Miss Sarah A. King, of Pennsylvania, March 19, 1859. He and his wife are original members of the English Lutheran Church, of which society he is elder, secretary and treasurer. He is also a member of K. of H.

HERSCHEL BERRY, bookkeeper and inside salesman for the firm of Nave & McCord Merchantile Co., wholesale grocers, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., August 30, 1856. His education was acquired in his native State, and in 1870 he came West and settled on a farm in Atchison County. In the fall of 1869, the subject of this sketch came to Atchison and engaged with the above firm as porter, then as shipping clerk, and finally as bookkeeper. Mr. Berry is a young man of ability and enterprise, as will be seen in his steady advancement with the above firm, and during the long continuance with them has won the confidence and respect of his employers.

FRANK BIER located in Atchison in March, 1858. He was engaged in the furniture business until 1860, when he was elected County Treasurer and served in that position two years. He then became Cashier of the Bank of the State of Kansas, and in 1864 entered into partnership with Mr. Brown, with whom he still remains. They do a general contracting business.

EDMUND BILIMEK, proprietor of Washington House, Atchison, came to Kansas, September 19, 1865, and located in Atchison, where he lives at present. When Mr. B. first located in Atchison, he was barkeeper for Henry Lipps for a short time, and then started in business for himself. He followed various occupations until 1867, when he went to Central City, Colorado, where he remained until 1868. In May of the same year, he went to Doniphan, where he kept a saloon, in which business he continued until 1874, when he went into the business of grape growing and manufacturing native wines. He continued in this business until 1878, when he opened a grocery and drug store in Doniphan, and afterwards embarked in the general merchandise business, in which he continued until February, 1882, when he again went to Colorado, from whence he returned in May of the same year and removed to Atchison. On the 4th day of June, 1882, he took charge of the Washington House. Mr. Bilimek was born in Fredeck, Austria, November 16, 1837, and was a musician and followed various occupations until he came to America in June, 1863. He located in New York City, where he lived until he came to Kansas. He was married in 1860, in Vienna, Austria, to Theresa Yordin, a native of Vienna. They have five children living, whose names are as follows: Hugo, Frederic, Joseph, Annie, Edmund. Mr. B. is a member of Arcana Lodge, No. 31, A. F. & A. M. of Doniphan.

J. W. BLACKBURN, general foreman of the car department, M. P. R. R. shops. Was born in Bedford County, Pa., August 26, 1848. He lost his father when young and was raised by an uncle. At the age of fifteen years he commenced to take care of himself and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1869 he moved to Kansas and located in Lawrence. Afterward engaged in carpentering at Kansas City, then worked in the bridge and building department of the Ft. S. & G. R. R. Was then on the construction of the M. K. & T. R. R.; also same year in the A., T. & S. F. R. R. construction department. Then moved to Atchison and was in the A. & N. shops a few months when appointed to present position in February, 1879. He was married in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kan., August, 1873, to Miss Eva Stacey, of Hutchinson. They have two children, George and Amy.

WILLIAM BLAIR, sheriff of Atchison County for two successive terms, came to Kansas in the fall of 1863, and located in Atchison County, where he has since resided. Sheriff Blair was born in Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pa., May 18, 1833, and lived there until the spring of 1856, when he removed to Fulton County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming. He lived in Fulton County until he removed to Kansas. Mr. Blair was married May 14, 1857, in Vermont, Fulton County, Ill., to Miss Alcinda McCormick, a native of Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pa. They have three children living, whose names are: Albert H., William B., and Daisy.

J. L. BLISS, dealer in jewelry, silverware, watches, diamonds, etc. Represents the "Domestic" sewing machine business, established in 1866 by Willis & Bliss. Willis retired January 1, 1872. Mr. Bliss carries a stock of $12,000 to $15,000. Mr. B. was born in Royalston, Worcester Co., Mass., October 16, 1833; was educated in the city of Worcester; left home in 1858, and located at St. Croix County, Wis., where he engaged in general occupations until the breaking out of our late war. He enlisted June 4, 1861, in the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; about 1862 the regiment was reorganized as a cavalry regiment. Mr. B. served until mustered out at expiration of term of enlistment, July 4, 1864. During the years 1862 and 1863 was detailed as steward in hospital at New Orleans. After visiting various places looking up a location, he finally settled in Atchison, Kan., in 1866, and opened a jewelry store. He was married in Chesterfield, N. H., December, 1872, to Miss Carrie M. Pierce, of Chesterfield. They have one child, Grace P. Mr. B. is a member of I. O. O. F., has held all the chairs in the lodge and encampment. Is also a member of Washington Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He was a member of the Board of Education two years.

H. L. BOSTWICK, clerk of the city of Atchison.

JOHN M. BOWEN, merchant, came to Kansas in the spring of 1870, and located at Atchison, where he has lived since. He is one of the prominent and well known citizens of the place. He is a member of the St. Mary's Branch, No. 207, Catholic Knights of America. Mr. Bowen was born in County Monegal, Tipperary Ireland, May 30, 1840, where he lived until his twelfth year, when his parents emigrated to this country and settled in Herkimer County, N. Y. Here Mr. Bowen remained until his nineteenth year when he went to Downville, Cal. He lived in California and Idaho ten years and then returned to New York State, where he remained four months and then came to Kansas. He was married in Utica, N. Y., July 13, 1871, to Miss Mary A. Hennessey, a native of Utica. They have three children - Mary A., Willie J., and Ethel Loretto.

WILLIAM BOWMAN, of Bowman & Kellogg, proprietors of Central Mills, is a native of New Hampshire. He was born in the town of Littleton, Grafton County, November 6, 1828 and educated in his native county. At the age of twenty-one he entered the works of E. and T. Fairbanks & Co., of St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he spent about two years learning scale making. In 1852 he was sent out traveling in their interest, having his head-quarters in Chicago, and in 1855 he returned east to Lowell, Mass., and was employed in the Lowell Machine shops. In 1856 was married there to Miss Drusilla Richards, of Chesterville, Me., after which he settled in Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio, where he was engaged in building and contracting until 1860, in which year he moved to Atchison, Kansas, and at once engaged in active business. Was in the lumber firm of Wright & Bowman until 1862; then commenced the milling business under the firm name of Woodard & Bowmen. Mr. W. retired in 1867, and Mr. B. has since continued the business under various firm names. Mr. B. was a member of the Legislature in 1866-7, was President of the Board of State House Commissioners for the building of the east wing of the State House at Topeka; has been a member of the City Council, and was City Treasurer for five or six years; is at present President of the Board of Trade.

PETER BOYER, farmer, five miles north of Atchison. Was born in 1811, in York County, Pa., where he was raised. In 1826 went to Dover, Pa., and went to work at the shoemaker's trade, which trade he followed at that place until 1836, when he went to Montgomery County, Ohio, and settled near Dayton, on the turnpike road, where he kept a hotel and ran a saw mill until 1848. He then moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, and kept hotel until his removal to this State in 1857. He located at Doniphan and ran a boarding house for a short time, when he moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where he remained until 1858, when he moved to Atchison, Kan., and ran the American House for some time; then the Planter Hotel until 1861, when he moved to his farm, five miles north. He has 160 acres with seventy acres under cultivation. Was married in 1832 in York County, Pa., to Miss Mary A. Meiselter. They have seven children, viz - Ambrose G., Carolina, Jennie, Josephine, Angeline, Henry M., and Sallie. In 1834-35 was assessor of York County, Pa. In 1844 to '47 was assessor of Clarke County, Ohio. Is a member of the I. O. O. F.

PROF. D. T. BRADFORD, dealer in musical merchandise, prominently identified with the educational interests of Atchison, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Maine, and was born in Cumberland County, August 14, 1828. He received a good education, graduating at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., in 1854, the same college that the poet Longfellow and other distinguished men of the time were graduates of, and at the same time. Prof. B. had been a teacher during his vacations at the college, and after graduating came to Pennsylvania and accepted the position of associate principal of the Mt. Joy Academy at Mt. Joy, in which capacity he acted a few years, when he was appointed instructor of language in the Lancaster County Normal School; the duties of this important trust he discharged for several terms. In 1857 he came west locating temporarily at Sterling, Ill., and soon after established the graded school system at Havana, Ill., and for upward of two years was associated with the educational interests of that town. He was next called to Kewanee, Ill., and established a graded school. In the Kewanee and Weathersfield Union School, of which he was principal upward of four years, among the pupils were Albinus Nance, the present Governor of Nebraska. From Kewanee he returned to Portland, Me., to rest from the arduous duties he had passed through; residing there until 1865, when he came west, locating in Atchison, and took charge of the school which at that time was in an unfavorable condition. He established the graded system, and was closely associated with the city's educational development for four years. He was also called to Western Missouri for a term, and in the same capacity was one year at Paola, Miami County, Kansas. November 11, 1872, he established his present business, carrying one of the largest stock to be found in the Northwest, and his trade is in conformity. Prof. B. has been a success not only as an educator, but also as a business man. In commercial circles there are few that are more highly respected. He is a finished gentleman, and takes a live interest in all matters that tend toward elevating the morals of the State. The professor has furnished us with much valuable information pertaining to the early school history of Atchison, which is contained in this work. He is a member of the I. O. G. T., has held several of the higher offices in the lodge, and has done much toward the temperance cause in Kansas; if in any instance his efforts were in vain, he has had the satisfaction of knowing that he contributed an ample share of his power for a good cause. He also is a member of the K. of H., I. O. O. F. and K. and L. of H.

J. P. BROWN is one of the oldest settlers of Atchison, having settled in the place March 23, 1859, and resided there since that time. He has been quite prominently identified with the construction of railroads in the State, and also done work of the same kind in Missouri - grading, bridging and finishing ties for the A. & N., a distance of about forty miles. The firm (composed of Messrs. Brown & Bier) did forty miles grading on fifty-three miles of the first one hundred constructed of the C. B. U. P. and also did the grading, furnished the ties, and laid the track on the L. A, & S. W., now at par of the Missouri Pacific. A. J. McCausland, formerly engaged with Mr. Brown in government and probate freighting, was killed and robbed in 1864, near Gibson's Ferry, between Virginia City and Salt Lake, while returning over the plains in one of Holiday's stage coaches. Besides Mr. McCausland, Mr. Parker, of Kansas, and several others were killed. Messrs. McCausland and Parker were robbed of $60,000 in gold dust. Messrs. Brown & McCausland had carried on the freighting business across the plains for several years prior to this event.

C. C. BURNES has been a resident of Atchison for the past eight years. His father was one of the original proprietors of the town, and since its first settlement has been actively interested in its welfare. He was the builder of eleven of the business blocks of the city, nine of Canal street and two on Fourth street; the Otis House block, and many private residences. He is a native of Indiana, lived at Weston from 1838 to 1873, and then removed to St. Joseph, Mo. C. C. Burnes was born in Weston, Mo., May 17, 1856, and lived in that town until he located in Atchison. His wife was Fannie A. Byram, born in Nebraska, and daughter of Augustus Byram, an early settler in Atchison. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have two children - Byram and Eleanor Margaret. Mr. B. is a member of A. F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F. and K. of P.

THOMAS BUTCHER, retired farmer, residence on Sixth street, between R and S South Atchison, is a Pennsylvanian, born at Brownsville, Fayette County, June 6, 1809. In his younger days he learned his trade of a brick mason, which he was employed at in his native State. Came to Atchison in December, 1858, and purchased a farm ten miles southwest of the city, where he lived improving his land till after the great Rebellion. Removing to the city, he became connected with the firm of Butcher, Auld & Co., who contracted for and constructed railroads in Missouri and Kansas. During his early residence in Atchison, Mr. Butcher made some of the finest improvements in the city for those early times , and has always taken an active part in the public enterprise of his town and State, often sacrificing his own interests in advocating his principles. He was elected member of the first State Legislature of Kansas, serving one term. During the pro-slavery time he was a thorough Anti-slavery man, often protecting slaves who came to his house, at the personal risk of life and property. His wife was Miss Jane Auld, whom he married at Brownsville, Pa., January 19, 1840, and who died July 6, 1881. They had six children, only two of them living, George W. and Josephine.

EPHRAIM BUTCHER, retired farmer, was born in Fayette County, Pa., November 23, 1818, son of Ephraim and Mary Burcher, the former of English, the latter of German lineage, her maiden name Fierce. He attended school till sixteen years of age, then began steamboating on the Monongahela River, and afterwards on the Mississippi and Missouri. Continued this until 1848, and in the meantime owned an interest in some eight different boats. After this he was employed at railroad constructing in Ohio and Wisconsin. Mr. Butcher came to Atchison in 1858 and was one of the pioneers of the city. For some time after his removal here, his attention was given to contracting for grading and furnishing ties for railroads, but since then he has been dealing in real estate. Mr. Butcher has taken a great deal of interest in railroad advancement, and has been connected with various railroad corporations.

GEORGE E. BUTTS, farmer, small fruits and grape grower. Is a native of England and was born in 1849. He was brought up to the trade of stone-mason. In 1869 he emigrated to America and located in Atchison County, Kas., and engaged in farming and fruit-growing. He has eighty acres of well-improved land, with good stone house and other buildings, orchard, hedge fences, etc. He was married July 25, 1882, to Miss Alice Louisa Bowen, of Atchison.

JAMES W. BURKHART, ice dealer, has been a resident of Kansas since the fall of 1856. Took a claim in Doniphan County, but afterwards became proprietor of the first steam ferry run across the Missouri River at Iowa Point. In 1863 he came to Atchison and two years later opened business as an ice dealer, which he has since successfully carried on, being now the oldest dealer in that line in the city. The subject of this sketch was born in Marion County, Ind., near the city of Indianapolis, June 17, 1825, son of David and Schakrisa Burkhart, both of German lineage but American born. At fourteen years of age he learned the painter's trade. Mr. Burkhart has been married twice. His first wife, Harriet E. White, of Springfield, Ill., died in 1866, twenty-three years after their marriage. His present wife was Mary A. Schwartz, whom he wedded in November, 1872. 

 CLAUDE M. BYRAM, M. D. physician and surgeon, came to Kansas in 1864, and first located in the city of Atchison, where he has ever since resided. He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was born in Nebraska City, Neb., April 9, 1861, and lived there until his third year, when his parents removed to the city of Atchison. Dr. Byram attended the State University at Lawrence for one year, and then attended the William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., for two years. After completing his course at this institution of learning, he commenced reading medicine in the office of Dr. D. J. Holland, the eminent surgeon and physician of Atchison. He remained in this office as a student for two years, and then attended medical lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1882, at the age of twenty. Immediately after his graduation he was appointed one of the resident physicians of Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, by the directors of this institution, he being selected by them with eight other graduates for this important and responsible position from among eighty applicants. Dr. B., however, declined this position in order to become associated in practice with his former preceptor, Dr. Holland. For a young physician, Dr. Bryam has attained a fine and lucrative practice, and is already known as a successful practitioner.

PETER BYRAM, stock dealer and farmer, five miles west of Atchison on Parallel road, is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Bath County, August 31, 1824. In 1845 he went to Westport, Mo., where he followed farming until 1853, when he engaged in freighting from Leavenworth to El Paso, Texas, with headquarters at the latter place, and also freighted to Fort Kearney, Neb. from Leavenworth. In 1859 freighted from Nebraska City to Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Col., until 1864, when he came to Atchison and freighted to New Mexico from Atchison and Leavenworth, until 1868, when he bought 1,000 acres of land five miles west of Atchison. This he divided into eighty-acre fields, and has ten miles of hedge, 400 acres tame grass, 1,000 forest trees, and 800 acres under cultivation. Was married in 1859, at Nebraska City, Neb., to Miss Emma Meeker, a daughter of the Rev. Jotham Meeker, the well-known Indian missionary. Mrs. Byram died April 22, 1880, leaving six children - Claude, Nellie, Edward, Theodora, Ruth, Paul, Virgil, and Peter.

ALFRED D. CAIN, of the firm "Cain Bros.," grain dealers, came to Kansas in 1867, from the Isle of Man, his birth place. His father and two brothers, William S. and John M., had emigrated from the same place in the fall of 1856, and coming directly to Kansas, settled in Mount Pleasant Township, Atchison Co., where they resided ten years, engaged in farming. In 1873, Alfred D., and brothers commenced a grain and grocery business in Atchison, but discontinued the grocery branch about 1877. They first bought grain from the farmer's wagons, their business amounting to about $400 per day. It 1881 it had increased to about $2,500 per day. Alfred D. Cain was born on the Isle of Man, May 11, 1845, and was married at the same place in 1868, to Mary A. Molyneux, a native of the Island. They have eight children - Nellie, Emma M., Douglas M., Mona Q., Victor A. and Herbert S.

JOHN WYLCRREEST CAIN, a native of the Isle of Man, emigrated to Kansas with his father, John W. Cain, in 1856. They pre-empted land between Atchison and Sumner, and were prominent Free-state men of the time. They are now residents of Atchison.

JOHN M. CAIN, was born July 30, 1839, on the Isle of Man. In November, 1856, he emigrated to America, proceeding directly to Atchison and locating in Mount Pleasant Township, where he pre-empted land and engaged in farming. About 1872, he removed to Atchison and went into the grain business, in which he is now largely engaged. In September, 1862, Mr. Cain enlisted in Company K of the Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, in which company he served about three months. He then raised Company G, Eighty-third United States Colored Infantry, of which company he was the captain. He was mustered out in Fort Leavenworth, in November or December 1865, having participated in all the battles of his command. His company originally numbered 100, of whom twenty were killed in action, and forty lost through disease and other casualties. In 1868, he served as First Lieutenant of one of the companies of the Eighteenth Kansas Calvary, a regiment raised for frontier service against the Indians. J. M. Cain is now the senior member of the firm of Cain Bros. of Elevator B, Atchison, and does an immense and growing business in grain and flax seed.

CAPT. WILLIAM S. CAIN, proprietor of the West Atchison store, north side of Main street, was born on the Isle of Man, Eng., April 17, 1836. When sixteen years old he went to Australia, remained there until 1854, when he returned to England, and in the year following came to America, locating in Mineral Point, Wis. He remained there only one year, and in 1856 came to Kansas. Took up a claim of 160 acres, seven and one-half miles west of Atchison and commenced improving his land. Capt. Cain took an active part in the great rebellion, volunteering as a private with Company C, of the Eight Kansas Infantry. But shortly after the company was organized he was appointed Sergeant. During the war he was promoted Sergeant-Major at Nashville, Second Lieutenant at Tullahoma, and in August, 1863, to First Lieutenant and adjutant of the Twelfth Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. One year later, he was commissioned Captain of Company C, same regiment, serving as such until the close of the war. Then returned to his farm, and in the fall of 1865, was elected to the Legislature from the Eight District. Capt. Cain moved to the City of Atchison in 1875, and started his present business in 1876. He married his first wife, Ann Cowley, while on leave of absence from the army, in 1864. She died April 26, 1870. His present wife was Susan A. Crouch, whom he married in 1871. They are members of the Episcopal Church.

MICHAEL J. CALLAHAN, clerk, came to Kansas in June, 1879, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. While in Atchison has been in the grocery business. Mr. Callahan is a member of the A. O. Hibernians, and has been secretary of his division. He was born in Bloomington, Ill., June 8, 1863, and lived there until July, 1877, when he left and came to Burlington, Iowa. In the spring of 1878, he went Denver, Col., and from thence to Atchison.

JAMES MADISON CALVERT, carpenter, came to the Territory of Kansas in 1854, and settled in Salt Creek Valley, Leavenworth Co., where he lived until the fall of 1861. From there he went to Weston, Mo., where he lived until 1871, when he returned to Kansas and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. When Mr. Calvert first located in Kansas, he was engaged in farming at Salt Creek Valley; while living in Missouri, he was in the grocery business. Mr. Calvert was Justice of the Peace in Jackson County, Mo., in 1852-53, was Deputy Clerk of Leavenworth County in 1865. He was elected to the Legislature of the State of Kansas in 1860. He is a member of the Washington Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Atchison. He was born in Mason County, Ky., April 14, 1814, and lived there until his nineteenth year. He located and subsequently married in Jackson County, Mo., in 1850. He went to Sacramento Cal., came back to Missouri, where he remained until 1854. Mr. C. has been twice married, his first wife was Mary Hughes Bagby, a native of Campbell County, Ky., to whom he was united December 20, 1844. By this union he had Lycurgus, Annie, James, Madison, Thomas and Edward Lee. He was married the second time to Marion Herndon Calvert, a native of Kentucky, in January, 1860. By this marriage he has two children Celsus and Charles.

W. W. CAMPBELL, M. D., son of Farquehard and Mary(Buchanan) Campbell, was born in Elgin County, Canada, Nov. 7, 1847. He received his literary and scientific education at the University of Toronto, and on deciding afterwards to enter the medical profession, he studied with an elder brother who was a physician, and then entered the State University of Michigan, graduating from the medical department in 1873. These studies were supplemented by a course at Long Island College Hospital, in Brooklyn, N. Y., from which institution he received an ad eundem degree. In the latter part of 1873 he commenced active practice in Mason, Mich., where he remained four years, and achieved marked success. In the fall of 1877 he immigrated to the West; remained at Falls City, Nebraska, somewhat over a year, and in the early part of 1879, located at Atchison, and entered upon the practice of his profession in association with Dr. D. J. Holland. Dr. Campbell was married September 8, 1878, at Mason, Mich., to Helen G., daughter of George G. Mead, of that city, and a native of Norwalk, Ohio.

A. W. CAREY, came to Atchison, Jan. 1, 1879, and has been a partner with Mr. McNeil since July, 1880, and was formerly with Henry Barker & Co.

WILLIAM CARLISLE is a native of Lower Canada, his birth place being near Montreal. In 1868, he emigrated to Illinois and engaged in milling business in Chicago. In January, 1879, he came to Atchison, and became connected with the lumber firm of Howell, Jewett & Co., as traveling salesman, which position he now holds.

LUTHER C. CHALISS, was born June 26, 18?9 at Imlaystown, N. J. His father was the late Rev. James M. Challiss, a distinguished Baptist clergyman, of whom a memoir was published in 1870. The education of Luther was limited to the common schools of that early day, consequently his success of later years can be attributed to natural ability. At an early age he left the home of his childhood and went to Philadelphia, where he was apprenticed to the mercantile business, and remained until nineteen years of age. Then having a desire to try his fortune in the West, he emigrated to Booneville, Mo., where he entered the mercantile house of Caleb, Jones & Co., as clerk, but after serving one year as such he was taken into partnership. In 1855 he sold his interest with that firm and came to Atchison, Kan., and was among the first settlers of that place. His brother George had preceded him and in 1854 erected the first building and opened the first store at this place. Upon arriving here, Luther purchased his brother's store, and did a large business, a good deal of his trade coming from various Indian tribes. He was also commission merchant for the Mormons and for Major Russell & Co., government freighters. Mr. C. was afterward a banker and a member of the first Free-state Council in 1859-60, exercising a controlling voice in some of the most important measures. He was a member of the first City Council, and proprietor of what is now known as L. C. Challiss' addition to the City of Atchison, now one of the most important parts of the city. In 1857, in connection with his brother William, he established the ferry across the Missouri River, and owned it until the erection of the bridge in 1875. Among the many acts which gave Mr. Challiss prominence in the State Legislature, while he was a member of the Senate, was the plan which he projected and completed for the building of the Central Branch of the M. P. R. R. Indeed it is conceded that he is the father of this great enterprise. He framed the bill to authorize its construction, and secured its passage, and negotiated the famous treaty with the Kickapoo Indians for their reservation to aid in the construction of the road. He was elected president of the same, which position he retained several years. He was also an incorporator and director of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the most important railroad in the State, and was from the start among the foremost in shaping the railroad system of the State, especially, the roads which center at Atchison. In the exercise of his political power in the State, Mr. C. became intimate with United States Senator Pomeroy, and was mainly instrumental in electing the gentleman to the Senate. In 1862 Mr. Challiss began to divide his time between Atchison and New York City, and during the gold excitement incident to the war, he was intimately associated with A. G. Jerome and Anthony Morse in their numerous operations, and with them was accounted one of the heaviest dealers in the stock and gold market. His success was such that he ranked among the most opulent of that great city and was among the foremost in enterprise and financial ability. Mr. Challiss is now leading a quiet life in Atchison in the management of his estate.

GEORGE T. CHALLISS, one of the pioneers of Atchison, settled in the town, August, 1854, and built "on the Levee" the first storehouse on the town site. He engaged in general merchandising, remaining alone in the business until the spring of 1856, when he formed a partnership with his brother Luther, with whom he associated until the spring of 1857, at which time he sold his interest to Luther and was out of business one year. In the spring of 1858, he built another storehouse, and again commenced and continued business alone until 1860, when he sold out and engaged in dry goods trade with S. P. Walters, under the firm name of S. P. Walters & Co., this partnership continuing until Mr. Challiss sold out his interest to Mr. Walters in the summer of 1864. In 1866 he was engaged in freighting to Salt Lake City, and in the fall of 1867, commenced a wholesale and retail trade in groceries in partnership with his brother, Dr. C. Challis, - firm of Challiss Bros., which has been the firm name since that time, excepting two years when they had a partner. Challiss Bros. discontinued the retail department in 1870, since that time doing exclusively a jobbing business, which now amounts to about $500,000 per annum and gives employment to nine men - three of whom are traveling salesmen. Their sales are principally in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. Mr. Challiss was born in Imlaystown, Monmouth Co., N. J. His parents moved to Burlington, N. J., when he was quite young, and that place remained his home until 1851. He then came to the West, living in Booneville, Mo., three years until he located in Atchison.

R. G. CHENEY, mechanical engineer, is a native of Vermont, was born in Waterford May 3, 1850, was raised and educated in his native city, and for several years was in the employ of Fairbank's Scale Co., in St. Johnsbury. In 1872 he came West and entered the employ of the H. & St. J. R. R. Co., with which company he remained several years. He was with the company in extending the branch from St. Joe to Winthrop. In 1878 he came on the A., T. & S. F. R. R., and after three years engaged as engineer on the road, took charge of the elevator in Atchison for the Santa Fe Co. Mr. C. is one of the most thorough and accomplished mechanics and engineers in the State, and stands at the head of the craft. In 1871, he was married to Miss Mary Harriman of St. Johnsbury, Vt. They have three children, Cora J., Charles R., Leota M. Mr. Cheney is a Master Mason.

A. M. CHRISTIE, foreman painting M. P. shops, was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, May 23, 1830. Received his education in Scotland. In 1853, he came to the United States, and settled at Cleveland, Ohio, where he took a position in the office of C. C. & C. R. R., remaining a number of years. he also while in this city ran a paint shop for a time. In 1863, he removed to Kansas, located in Leavenworth, and engaged in sign writing and house painting, remaining a few months; then removed to Atchison, and engaged in same business. Mr. C. painted the first locomotive and car on the Central Branch R. R. He was appointed to present position July, 1881. Mr. C. was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1859, to Miss Johnson, of Cleveland. They have four children - Alexander, Henry, Nettie, Annie. Mr. C. is a member of the A. O. of U. W.

A. D. CLARK, foreman wood-work department M. P. Shops, was born in LaSalle, Ill., February 16, 1840. Was educated in LaSalle and Chicago; then learned the millwright trade, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. He enlisted, in 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteers; was discharged on account of disability caused by a wound received at the battle of Chickamauga. Re-enlisted in 1864, in the United States Marine Service, and served until the close of the war. He returned to Illinois, then removed to Iowa, where he engaged in carpentering about two years, then returned to Illinois. In December, 1871, he settled in Kansas in the position of station agent on the Central Branch at Vermillion, Marshall County, a position he retained about four years; then removed to Atchison and engaged in the wood-working department of M. P. R. R. Was appointed to present position in October, 1880. Mr. C. was married in Fort Dodge, Iowa, July 3, 1865, to Miss Mary Conlee, of that city. They have six children - Leslie W., Annabelle, Norval, Harry, Roy, Frank.

CHARLES W. CLARK, head bookkeeper for the firm of Howell, Jewett & Co., wholesale lumber dealers, was born in New York City, where he graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, in 1869. Was afterwards employed in a diamond and jewelry wholesale house. Came with his parents to Kansas, in 1870, locating at Eldorado, where his father followed farming for some time, but is now a merchant in that place. For three years the subject of this sketch was money-order clerk at Witchita, this State, and in 1879 came to Atchison, and was engaged by the above firm as head bookkeeper. This is a position of trust, requiring business capacity and competence, and Mr. Clark is well calculated to fill it satisfactorily in every respect. He is a member of K. of P., Golden Cross Lodge, No. 7. He married at Eldorado, Kan., October, 1879, Miss Clara Jones, of that place.

RICHARD F. CLARK came to Kansas in 1872, as the agent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph R. R. Co., representing the Vice-President of the road, with which he was connected for seven years. He was afterward engaged in the grain business, and has been for one year with J. P. Pomeroy. Mr. Clark is a native of Hudson, N. Y., where he was born September 29, 1813, and lived there until his removal to Kansas.

H. AYLMER COATES came to Kansas in the summer of 1871, and was employed as government surveyor for about two years, principally on the Republican and Solomon rivers, during the time writing up the notes for fifty-seven townships in Decatur, Rawlins and Cheyenne Counties, and riding over seventy miles of the territory which he surveyed. In 1872, he located at Atchison, being absent on surveying expeditions five or six months in each year, until 1875, when he commenced abstract business, coming into possession of his present set of complete abstracts in 1876. He conducted the business alone until 1879, when Mr. Manley became his partner, with whom he is still associated in real estate and loan business. Mr. Coates is a native of England, where he received a thorough military cadet's education, and was in the service of Her Majesty for eight years prior to emigrating. He came directly from his native country to Kansas, his education fitting him especially for engineering and surveying.

JOHN COMPTON, foreman Atchison Fire Department, came to Kansas in the spring of the year 1874, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since. In 1875, he commenced his apprenticeship at the Atchison Foundry as a boiler- maker; served his time, and worked at his trade up to the year 1879, when he became a member of the Atchison Fire Department, to which he belongs at the present time, and of which he has been foreman since April, 1881. Mr. Compton was born in Lyndyn, Scotland, July 21, 1859, and remained in his native place until his thirteenth year, when he emigrated to America, and located at White Cloud, Kan., where he remained two years, when he came to Atchison, where he has lived since. He was married in Atchison, October 14, 1881, to Emma Backus, a native of the State of New York.

HUGH CONNAUGHTON, 1416 Main street, corner Liberty. This gentleman is engaged in a business which has its origin in 1875, and came into his possession in 1878. He carries a full and complete line of family groceries, making only one specialty, that of keeping everything in the grocery line, and selling at the lowest possible price. In consequence of this enterprising and honorable policy, he enjoys a lucrative trade, keeping one team busy in making deliveries. Four years of such business has only served to make him more popular, and each year his business foots up handsomer totals. The name Hugh Connaughton almost anywhere in Wisconsin would indicate his former place of residence, as few men were more closely allied to any particular place than was he for eighteen years to Mineral Point, Wis., where during that time he served constantly in the capacity of sheriff, deputy sheriff, or city marshall, always conducting himself as a brave, honest officer of the commonwealth. Mr. Connaughton's friends in Mineral Point will be glad to know that their old townsman is doing so well. Mr. Connaughton belonged to the secret service of the United States under J. G. Shattock, of Dubuque, Iowa, for a term of ten years, while also holding the office of sheriff, deputy sheriff, etc. Mr. Connaughton is a native of Ireland, born March 18, 1830; but in 1854, came to America, his destination being Mineral Point, Wis. Here he lived until March 16, 1879, then came to Atchison, and established the above business; has the oldest stand in West Atchison. Mr. Connaughton was married at Mineral Point, Wis., February 19, 1859, to Margaret Grant, daughter of John Grant and Mary Butler, who settled in that city as early as 1834. Both are members of the Catholic Church, Atchison.

ASA B. CONSER, proprietor of the "Old Reliable Steam Laundry" came to Atchison in 1877, working a tailoring till July 1, 1879, when he opened a laundry, which was the first in the city. He has all of the late improvements now in use in steam laundries, employing eight men, and in '81 invented the Conser patent hand iron. The subject of this sketch is a Pennsylvanian, born in Clinton County, December 5, 1846, and when old enough learned the tailor's trade, at which he worked previous to starting in his present business. He married in 1871 at Lock Haven, Pa., Miss Sarah Weltmer, born in Harrisburg, same State.

JOHN E. CONSIDINE, merchant, the first male child born on the town site of Valley Falls, Kan., which event took place September 4, 1857; came to Atchison in the spring of the year 1866, where he has since lived and carried on business. Mr. Considine is a member of the A. O. Hibernians, Division No. 1, of Atchison, of which association he is County Delegate and State Treasurer. Mr. C. is an active and successful business man, and has a bright career of usefulness before him. His mother is still living in the city of Atchison.

DR. JOEL S. COOPER, senior member of the firm of Cooper & Foristall, homoeopathic physicians, was formerly from Indiana, born in Putnam County, November 30, 1836; received his literary education in the high schools of the State, and in 1866 was a graduate from Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, as an old school physician. During the Rebellion he was appointed by Gov. Morton, of Indiana, Surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Regiment, and was in Government service for three years. After the war he practiced his profession at Greencastle, Ind., until 1869, then came to Missouri and continued the same at Brookfield for six years, and during that time graduated, in 1874, from the St. Louis Medical College, as a new school physician; then returned to Indiana, where he lived until his removal to Atchison, in 1879. He is next to the oldest resident homoeopathic physician in the city. Dr. Cooper's wife was formerly Miss Katie I. Davis, of St. Jo., Mo., whom he married July 7, 1879. He is a member of the State Homoeopathic Medical Society of Kansas.

THOMAS CRICK, now a resident of Atchison, Kansas, is a native of England. He was born at Towcester, Northamptonshire, in 1834. He is a descendant of the ancient family of Crick Village, near Rugby; the trains pass through Crick's tunnel, two and one-half miles long, on the main line from London to Liverpool. He left school at fourteen years of age and his father apprenticed him to the grocery business at Willingboro, Northampton, for five years, paying a premium of $250. 00 in gold. After serving his apprenticeship , he went to London, where he engaged with the firm of North & Company. They had three stores in London. After living two years in the city he commenced business at Coventry, England, and was married at St. John's church of that city, to Miss Spencer, of Addington Lodge, Northamptonshire, in the year 1858. She was born at that farm in 1838. They had conceived the idea of coming to America for some years previous to that, and finally made up their mind to start in the year 1864. They landed at Castle Garden after encountering a rough passage of fourteen days. Cleveland, Ohio, was their destination and they lived there fifteen years, then moved to Kansas. Six children have been born to them, three of whom only are now living; Thomas S., Barnett I. and John P. Georgie and Eddie died at Cleveland in childhood; their daughter Lizzie, fifteen years of age, died in Atchison three weeks after their arrival. They took her back to Cleveland for burial, to be laid by her dear brothers at Woodland Cemetery.

CROOKHAM & NEAL, contractors and builders, and undertakers; business established in 1858, by Wise & Crookham, they having the first undertaker's department in town. Mr. Neal entered the firm; it was then Wise, Crookham & Neal, until the former's death, in 1873; since that time it has been Crookham & Neal. The firm have put up some of the largest buildings in town, among which we may enumerate the Central School, Court House, Academy, residences of F. W. Dolan and John M. Price. They employ from fifteen to twenty men, and carry in the undertaking department a full line of caskets, etc., the stock amounting to some $2,000 to $3,000.

W. H. CROOKHAM, of Crookham & Neal, was born in Allegheny County, Pa. November 20, 1818. He was educated in his native county, and learned the carpentering trade which he followed there until 1846, when he moved to Pittsburg, Pa., and engaged in contracting and building until 1850; then returned to Brownsville. In 1853, he went to Clifornia, where he remained, engaged in mining, until 1857. He then returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1858 settled in Atchison, Kan., and organized present business. He was married in Fayette County, Pa., December 8, 1846, to Miss Mary C. Auld, of that county. Mrs. Crookham died in Atchison, leaving four children, of whom there survives Lizzie, now Mrs. I. A. Frazer, Ettie, now Mrs. W. Taggart. 

 E. C. DAVEY, road-master of the Atchison Division of the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence Third street, between Kansas avenue and Atchison street. He was born August 3, 1844, in Montreal, Can., and during his early life learned the painter's trade. This he followed until he began railroading on the Grand Trunk Line as assistant civil engineer, on the preliminary survey between Montreal and Lake Champlain. In 1866, he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was employed with the I. C. & L. R. R. Co., until 1870, this being the date of his removal to Kansas; located at Topeka and commenced constructing railroads to the A., T. & Santa Fe R. R. Co., and was afterward appointed roadmaster of the Cottonwood Valley Division, where he remained three years. Was then put in charge of the Colorado Division for another three years, and at the expiration of that time returned to Topeka and commenced the construction of the K. & M. R. R., now the K. C. Div. of A., T. & S. F. and remained on that division as roadmaster until July, 1879. Mr. Davey went to the mountains and laid the railroad track from Trinidad, Col. down into Otaria, New Mexico, after which he returned to Atchison and accepted his present position. Mr. Davey has had a great deal of experience in this line for a number of years and thoroughly understands his business.

WILLIAM EDWARD DAWES, carpenter and builder, came to Kansas, March 28, 1879, located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of St. Mary's Sodality of St. Mary's Branch, No. 207, Catholic Knights of America, and of the Diocesan Life Insurance Company of Kansas. He has been treasurer of St. Mary's Sodality. Mr. Dawes was born in Newburgh, Orange Co., N. Y., August 15, 1855. He remained in his place of nativity until his nineteenth year when he went to Hastings, Westchester County, N. Y., where he served an apprenticeship of three years to the carpenter's trade, when he left and went to Manhattan Beach, N. Y., where he remained eight months, working at his trade. From there he went to Newburgh, N. Y., where he remained one year and four months, and then came to Atchison, where he has since lived. His parents are both living in Plattskill, Ulster Co., N. Y. His father is a native of England and is a farmer. His mother is a native of the Island of Madeira.

JOHN DAWSON, pattern-maker and locomotive carpenter in the shops of the Central Branch of the M. P. R. R., residence Kansas avenue between Federal and Constitution streets, came to Atchison in 1858 and engaged at house-carpentering. This he followed for a time, then took charge of the contracting and building along the line of the Central Branch of the above road, which he continued a number of years, and has been in the employ of this company since 1867. Mr. Dawson is a native of Lincolnshire, Eng., born December 27, 1828. Learned his trade and also married in his native country, in 1852, to Miss Ann Ellis. His first location in this country was Newark, N. J., in 1854. From there removed to Chicago in 1856, from there to LaSalle County, Ill., and finally to Kansas in 1858, which has since been his home. Mr. Dawson and wife are members of the Episcopal Church, while the former is connected with the American Temperance Union Insurance Society.

HENRY DENTON, was born in Green County, Ind., and when quite young moved, with his parents, to Northern Wisconsin - his home, for many years, being at LaCrosse. He came to Kansas January 1, 1869, and was for several years with G. C. Hixon & Co. His home is still in Atchison, in which city he once served as Alderman of Third Ward. Mr. Denton was married in Victory, Vernon Co., Wos., May 12, 1864, to Alice C. Defrees, who was born in Illinois near Rock Island. They have two children - Daisy L. and Albert D. Mr. D. is a member of K. of H.

H. E. DESMOND, M. D., physician and surgeon, came to Kansas in the spring of the year 1873, and located in Grenada, Nemaha Co., and remained there until spring of 1879, and then moved to Lancaster, Atchison Co., where he lived until the spring of 1882, when he removed to the city of Atchison, where he resides at present; is engaged in practicing his profession. Dr. Des Mond was born in Boston, Mass., December 18, 1849, and lived in his native city, where he remained until his eleventh year, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he lived until the year 1869, and then removed to Rockport, Atchison Co., Mo., where he lived until he came to Kansas. Dr. D. graduated in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Ohio Medical College, in the fall of 1871, and has been practicing his profession continually since, and is well known as a successful physician and surgeon. He was married October 2, 1878, in Atchison County, to Miss Alice M. Streeper, a native of New Jersey.

CAPT. JAMES B. DeWITT, engineer on Engine No. 184, passenger train, on the C. B. of the M. P. R. R., residence Utah avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets. The subject of this sketch was born in Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. Y., August 12, 1841. In early life he learned the trade of glove-making, and in 1861 enlisted with Company C. of the First Volunteer Cavalry, recruited at Albany, N. Y., but was afterwards transferred to the Thirty-second New York Infantry, serving two years. In 1863 he re-enlisted with the Fourth New York Heavy Artillery and served in the same until the close of the Rebellion. He took a prominent part in all the principal engagements of his regiment, and at the battle of the Wilderness was promoted to Captain for the meritorious manner in which he conducted himself through that trying time. Capt. DeWitt began railroading on the C., B. & Q. R. R., as fireman, but in less than one year was put in charge of an engine, and was afterwards engineer on the Hannibal & St. Joe and the Missouri Valley roads. In 1870 he came to Atchison and engaged with the C. B. of the M. P. R. R., where he has been engineer ever since and is now the oldest employee in that capacity on this road, never having met with an accident during his whole railroad career. In 1878, Captain DeWitt made a run with Gen. Grant and party, from Whitmore to Atchison, a distance of forty-eight miles, in forty-seven minutes. At the completion of the Omaha branch of the M. P. road, he drew the first train over the road which was that containing the excursionists from Nebraska and Kansas on the 15th of June, 1882. He belongs to the Masonic Fraternity, and has taken all the degrees from the Blue Lodge to the Knights Templar. Is also a member of the Locomotive Engineer's Brotherhood, No. 164. He married Miss Sarah Bradt on the 25th of February, 1869.

LUTHER DICKERSON, farmer, gardener, and fruit grower, two and a half miles north of Atchison, was born in Washington County, Ohio, in 1825, and lived on the farm until he was fifteen years old, when he went to learn the coach and carriage builder's trade at Marletta, Ohio. Here he remained until 1842, when he went to Missouri, and worked at his trade until 1844, when he went to Oregon Territory, but returned in 1845 to Saline County, Mo., where he remained, working at his trade until 1854, settling on the northeast quarter, Section 19, Township 5, Range 21, being the first settler in that section. In 1858 was elected county commissioner of this county, and in 1859 was a member of the territorial legislature, and introduced and had passed quite a number of important bills, all tending to advance the general prosperity of the territory. In 1861, on the breaking out of the war, was actively engaged in enlisting men for the State militia, and was commissioned Captain of Company B, First Kansas Militia. In 1862 helped raise a company of colored troops, and held a first lieutenant's commission in Company B., Eighty-Ninth Regiment Colored Troops. Was in the battles of Cabin Creek and Honey Creek in the Indian Territory, and was with his regiment in all battles and skirmishes until the fall of 1863, when he was discharged at Fort Smith, Ark., for disabilities received while in service, when he returned to his farm in this county, and has followed that pursuit ever since. He has 310 acres, 200 of which are under cultivation; has 1,500 bearing fruit trees, and ten acres in small fruits. Was married in Saline County, Mo., to Miss Margaret Fizer, and has eight children - D. R., J. B., Mary M., Aurelias and Aurelia (twins), Luther, J. H. C., and Sallie.

MARTIN L. DILGERT, baker, came to Kansas in the fall of the year 1866, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Dilgert was born in St. Joseph, Mo., October 23, 1864, and lived there two years, when his parents moved to Kansas.

DONALD BROS. This great dry goods firm consists of three brothers - Walter F., William T. F., and James F. They are all young men and thorough workers. Having been reared in the business they are to-day as conversant with the details of, and possess the necessary requisites to manage such an extensive business as many older heads, and have shown by every move they have made that shrewdness, wisdom and energy are not lacking. Their progress is little less than wonderful, and is the best possible example of what unflinching work and common sense, coupled with economy and watchfulness, will do. As this establishment is the largest dry goods house in Kansas, and forms a very important factor in the growing industries of the State, and at the same time fast assuming proportions and gaining patronage that will place it at the very head of this line of business in the West, we deem it not at all out of place to give a brief description of the same, and a short sketch of the brothers. Both stores are thoroughly metropolitan in their appointments. The Atchison establishment includes four entire floors with a frontage of fifty feet and depth of 150 feet, supplied with elevators, electric light, and modern heating and ventilating process. Employs thirty salesmen and four cash boys. S. A. Ashmun, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work, is cashier and credit man; audits all accounts, and has general supervision of this branch of the business. Everything is conducted in an orderly, clock-work manner; and, although "strike while the iron is hot," is one of their mottoes, there is no tumult or confusion so often incident to a large business and frequent rush of custom. While it is not our mission or intention to flatter or puff any particular individual or concern, we can unhesitatingly say that, to the spirit, pluck and industry of such men as the Donald Bros., is much of the prosperity of these river towns due. Their parents, James Donald and Susan Ferguson, his wife, are natives of Scotland, the former being born and reared in Glascow; while Mrs. Donald first saw the light of day in historic Sterling, under the eaves, as it were, of the famous castle bearing that name, and in the shadow of the weird walls of the once grand Dumbarton, which the pen of Scoth has forever immortalized. Both parents imparted to their children the best of Scottish traits and teachings for both having received a liberal education, they knew the importance to be attached to it, and the three sons in their boyhood completed an academic course in the eastern schools of this country. Walter F. was born in New York City, September, 1852, and, after finishing school, was immediately placed under the tutorship of his uncle, William T. Ferguson, of the well-known dry goods house of Sheperd, Norwall & Co., of Boston. This uncle, a young man scarcely thirty years of age, was as competent a man in his business as Boston contained; and, although commencing but a few years prior to this as salesman in the linen department at A. T. Stewart's wholesale house in New York, had accumulated a fortune of $100,000 ere he reached the above age. But he had overestimated his physical powers, and the great strain he had undergone mentally, undermined his health, and at an early age he to whom the brothers of whom we write owe much of their success on account of his teachings and example, passed to a better home. After the death of his uncle, Walter F. remained in the Boston house but a few years, then entered the employ of his uncle's friends, Taylor, Kilpatrick & Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained until his advent at Atchison, as senior member of this firm, and is, perhaps, the most competent dry goods expert in the West. William T. F. was born in November, 1854, at Cohoes, N. Y., and after finishing a preparatory course of study in the High School of the city, completed a thorough mathematical course at Troy, same State. Forty-eight hours had not elapsed after getting his diploma ere he was behind the counter of Cleveland's great dry goods house of Taylor, Kilpatrick & Co. He remained with this firm until 1879, when he came to Atchison. His Cleveland experience was alike both pleasing and profitable to himself and employers, and at the time of leaving for the great West, to drive the stakes for his own store, had attained a high position there, being at the head of the dress goods department, and also buyer for that class of goods. In the firm of Donald Bros. he devotes most of his attention to the wholesale house, and is general business manager. James F. is also a native of Cohoes, N. Y., born in October, 1858. Commenced his education in that city, but most of his school days were passed in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to coming to the State had been attending Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. He is a very competent business man, and everything outside of his work has no attraction for him whatever. Although perceptibly Scotch in discipline, and considered by indifferent people as severe in manner, is just and open-handed in all his transactions. He has charge of the Witchita branch of the business, which is fast growing in importance.

JAMES R. DOUGLAS, druggist and pharmaceutist, came to Kansas, October 12, 1871, and located in Leavenworth, where he remained nearly four years, and was engaged with R. J. Brown, druggist. From there he went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was for two years more in the employ of R. J. Brown. From St. Joseph he went to Omaha, Neb., where he remained about one year and a half and was in the employ of C. F. Goodman, wholesale and retail druggist, as chief prescription clerk, in February, 1879, he came to Atchison, and has resided here since. From his arrival in Atchison to the present time, he has been employed as chief prescriptionist and manager of the retail department in the extensive drug establishment of Messrs. Pike & Fox. Mr. D. is a member of Golden Cross Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Atchison Baptist Church. He was in the United States Navy Services in 1864-65, on Admiral Dahlgren's Flag Ship, "Philadelphia," and was mustered out of service in the year 1865. Mr. Douglas was born in New York City, April 26, 1840, and lived in his native city until his eighth year, when his parents removed to New London, Comm., where he remained twelve years, when he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and was engaged in the drug business there, until he came to Kansas. Mr. Douglas engaged in the drug business in New London, Conn., in 1857, and with the exception of the year and a half spent in the United States Navy, has been engaged for a quarter of a century continuously behind the counter of a drug store. He was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., in October 22, 1863, to Miss Jennie Terry, a native of Orange County, N. Y.

JNO. C. DOWD, gravel roofer and mover of buildings, residence on T street between Sixth and Seventh, was originally from New York, born December 21, 1852, in Chautauqua County; after obtaining a practical education, he learned the carpenters' trade with his father and pursued that vocation previous to coming to Kansas. Mr. Dowd came to Atchison December 27, 1880, and worked at his trade until the spring of 1882. Then he purchased the gravel roofing business of one Mr. Sanders, which he has since successfully conducted. He employs from four to ten men, as the time of the season demands. A part of his business being the moving of buildings, also general carpenter work. His work extends through Atchison and the surrounding counties. Mr. D. and wife are members of the Baptist church, and he belongs to the A. O. U. W. Mrs. D. was formerly Miss Ella C. Rockwood of Pennsylvania, whom he married in 1873.

CORNELIUS H. DUFFY, merchant, came to Kansas, February 9, 1870, and located at White Cloud. He is a member of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Society of Atchison, and has been president of this society for two terms, and is at present treasurer thereof. He is also a member of the St. Mary's Branch, No. 207, Catholic Knights of America, of the same city, of which he is the financial secretary. Mr. Duffy was born in Corranghfeghn, County Donegal, Ireland, March 15, 1847. He remained in his native place until his sixteenth year, when he went to Greenock, Scotland, where he lived about four years, and then went to the city of Glascow, where he remained until he emigrated to this country in the fall of 1868, and located in St. Louis, Mo., where he remained two months, and then went to St. Joe, Mo., where he was engaged in his present occupation for about two years, when he went to Forest City, Mo., where he remained about nine months, and from there to White Cloud, Kas., where he remained about one year, and then returned to St. Joe, where he remained until February 9, 1873, when he located in Atchison, where he has since resided and done business. Mr. Duffy was married at St. Benedict's Church in Atchison, July 4, 1875, to Miss Mary Ann Brady, a native of Maryland. They have four children living, whose names are Mary Ann, Cornelius Bernard, Kate and Thomas Joseph.

P. P. DUNKIN, contractor and plasterer, Atchison, Kan., was born in 1836. In 1845, went to Morgan County, Ill. In 1855, went to Virginia, Ill., where he learned the trade of plain and ornamental plasterer. In 1857, commenced taking contracts. In 1863, went to Missouri, where he followed his trade, and in 1865 came to this place, and has plastered many of the largest blocks, among these the Ogden block, Price block, and a large number of the best residences. He employs twenty men in the various capacities of his business, and last year paid out $10,000 for labor alone. Was married in 1859, at Randolph, Mo., to Miss Sarah Palmer. They have six children - Dora I., Squire W., John W., Mary, George and Ollie. In 1869, he was appointed Deputy Marshal of this place and held the office two years. Is a member of the Atchison Lodge, K. of H.

JACOB H. EARLY, gunsmith, a well-known pioneer in the Northwest is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Tennessee, was born in Washington County, February 23, 1816, resided in his native State until 1839, when he went to the Rocky Mountains and remained in the far West for ten years. For three years he was in Mexico, and served eleven months in the Mexican war. For three years he was a resident fifteen miles from where the city of Denver now stands. In 1848, he moved to West Point, Mo., being one of the first settlers in that section. From 1853 to 1860, he was at Maradezene, Franklin Co., Kas., with the Sac and Fox Indians as gunsmith, being employed by the Government. In 1864, he took up his abode in Atchison. There are but few residents of the State that have endured more hardships or have had more narrow escapes in the Western wilds than Mr. Early. He has seen the growth and development of mighty States, and has been closely associated with their progress. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Adkins in 1849. They have one son - Benjamin.

ALONZO B. EASTERDAY, salesman, came to Kansas September 22, 1881, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the German Reformed Church. He was born in Cherryville, Northampton Co., Pa., November 4, 1857, and lived in his native place until his twenty-first year, when he went to Mulberry, Clinton Co., Ind., where he remained two years, and then returned to Cherryville, where he remained until he came to Kansas.

JAMES L. EGGLESTON, painter, came to Kansas May 3, 1879, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived, and commenced business. Is a member of Washington No. 5, A. F. & A. M., of Atchison; of the Grand Army, Sedgwick Post, or Norwich, Conn.; also of Castaha Lodge, No. 4, I. O. G. T. Mr. E. was in the army as Sergeant of Company B, First Connecticut Cavalry, October 26, 1861, and participated in all engagements of his command, and was mustered out of the service in Middleton, Va., October 26, 1864. Mr. Eggleston was born in Griswold, Conn., July 24, 1843, and lived in his native town about one year, when his parents removed to Mystic, Conn., where he lived until he entered the army. After his discharge he returned to his home, and lived there about one year, and then removed to New London, Conn., where he lived about two years, and then removed to Norwich, Conn., where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. Eggleston was married December 25, 1866, to Miss Kate Haven, a native of New London, Conn. They have three children, whose names are, Lizzie B., Mattie S., and James T.

THADDEUA EIGEL, clerk, came to Kansas in January, 1877, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of Atchison Turnverein. He was born in Carlsbrun, Austria, January 10, 1857, where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. Eigel was married in Atchison June 13, 1882, to Miss Christiana Grisswelle, a native of Missouri.

HENRY M. ELLIOTT, head bookkeeper for the firm of Quigg & Allen, wholesale grocers, Burnes' Block, South Fourth street, came to Atchison in 1869, a poor man, devoid of money or employment. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to procure work, he obtained the necessary implements and went to sawing wood. During the spring of 1871, he obtained a position with McPike & Allen, druggists, and there he continued until the above firm was established, which was in March of '73. He has been employed with them ever since, and in January, 1879, became traveling salesman for the house, which he followed for two years, and has since been head bookkeeper. Mr. Elliott is the oldest employe of the house, and as an energetic and reliable business man has won the confidence and esteem of the firm with which he is associated. He was born in Lebanan, Marion Co., Ky., June 9, 1854, and married at Atchison in 1874 to Miss Henrietta Segler.

HENRY ELLISTON, now Atchison City Attorney, came to the place in the spring of 1868, and after attending school one year, was employed as clerk until 1874, at which time he commenced his law studies in the office of Judge Berry, and in 1875 was admitted to the bar. He commenced and continued his law business without a partner until April, 1882, when he became associated with Seneca Heath. He was elected City Attorney April, 1881. Mr. Elliston is a native of Ireland, and was reared in Saratoga and Suffolk Counties, N. Y. He was married in Atchison, February, 1880, to Henrietta Kean, a native of Atchison County. They have one child, also named Henrietta. Mr. Elliston is a member of I. O. O. F.

LUMAN ELLWOOD, auction store of general merchandise, first became a resident of Kansas in 1870, locating at Topeka, where he made his home, but traveled throughout the Western States and Territories, handling and importing Oriental goods, sea shells, etc. Following this for some time he finally became manager of a dry goods store for one Mr. Lovejoy. This he pursued until the spring of 1880, when he removed to Atchison and opened his present business in company with B. W. McCoy. This firm continued until March, 1882, when Mr. Ellwood purchased his partner's interest, the business per annum amounting to $50,000. The subject of this sketch was born in Monroe County, N. Y., August 22, 1840. He is a member of A. F. & A. M.

JOSEPH T. ELSON, engineer on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, residence Parallel street between Eleventh and Twelfth, Atchison, was born in Hancock County, Ill., January 1, 1846. When old enough, he learned harnessmaking, which he followed till January, 1873, when he entered the service of the R. I. & Pac. R. R., as wiper in the engine house at Trenton, Mo. This he followed one year; then became fireman for two years, after which he was put in charge of an engine. After running this one year, he came to Atchison, where he has since run as engineer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. In April, 1882, Mr. Elson was the engineer on No. 158 that was blown from the track be a tornado near Waterville, of which a full account is given in another part of this work. The subject of this sketch has attained a considerable skill as an engineer, and his rapid advancement after entering the railroad service shows what ability and perseverance will do. He is a member of Unionville Lodge No. 210, of the A. F. & A. M. of Missouri, and also of the Locomotive Engineers' Brotherhood, No. 164. He married, in 1871, Miss Louisa E. Richards, of Missouri.

DR. WILLIAM H. EVANS, dentist, was born in St. Louis, Mo., January 4, 1857. His parents were John B. and Judith H. Evans. The former of Welch descent, was a practicing lawyer of St. Louis, and the latter born in England, her maiden name Hanson. Mr. Evans received a collegiate course of education in St. Louis, graduating from the Dental College of that place in 1875. He afterwards practiced in that city until he came to Atchison, which was in 1877. Dr. Evans is very skillful in his profession, and during his residence in this city has performed several difficult dental operations, always meeting with decided success.

 A. S. EVEREST, came to Kansas in 1871, locating in Atchison in February of that year, opening a law office. He continued the business alone until 1874, when he became a partner of A. G. Otis, and after a dissolution of that partnership, formed another with B. P. Waggener, with whom he is still associated, the members of the firm now being Aaron S. Everest, B. P. Waggener, and Frank Everest. Everest & Waggener are attorneys for Missouri Pacific Railroad, for Pacific Express, and W. U. Tel. Co.; for Hetherington's Exchange Bank, First National Bank, Atchison Savings Bank, and the Atchison Bridge Company, the firm being also connected with the Union Pacific R. R. Co. Col. Everest is a native of Plattsburg, N. Y. In 1856 he emigrated to the Northwest, remained in Wisconsin a few months then located at Austin. Minn., which place was his home until 1871. In 1862, he enlisted in the army, and in the fall of 1863, organized Company C, Second Minnesota Cavalry. After a year and a half of service, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers, and served as a staff officer in Missouri in 1865. He has been engaged in the practice of law since 1854, when he was admitted to the bar in New York, his father, Hon. Josiah T. Everest, being a judge and prominent citizen of that State. 

 JOHN FAGAN, Division Master Mechanic of the A., T. & Santa Fe R. R., was born in Lancaster County, Pa., September 29, 1816. Commenced railroading in 1832, on what is now known as the Penn. Central R. R., where he remained until '38; then removed to Dearborn County, Ind., and in 1852 engaged with the Cin. & Indianapolis R. R. as engineer, during his employment with them, held various responsible situations. In 1869, he left there, moving on a farm in Tippecanoe County, same State, but after operating it for two years, came west to Atchison, and in August of 1871, again entered the railroad service, as engineer for the A., T. & Santa Fe; continued as such a little more than one year, and from that time until the completion of this line to Atchison, had charge of the delivery of material for the construction of the road. Mr. Fagan was then appointed to his present situation, where he has charge of about twenty men, and has general supervision of the Round-House . He is without doubt the oldest railroad man in the State, and during his many years service as such, has always been extremely fortunate, never having met with any accident in his whole railroad career. His wife was Miss Jane A. Ward, to whom he was married in Dearborn County, Ind., in 1840. They have but one son living, W. W. Fagan, Superintendent of the Central Branch of the U. P. R. R.

W. W. FAGAN, Superintendent Central Branch Missouri Pacific R. R., is a native of Indiana. He was born in Dearborn County, September 20, 1840. His railroad life commenced in Indiana in 1854, when he took a position as train boy on what is now known as I., C. & L. R. R. He was with this company for over fifteen years, first firing, then as locomotive engineer. In 1869, he removed to Kansas, to take the position of Assistant Superintendent of the A., T. & S. Fe R. R., with headquarters at Topeka. In 1875, he was appointed General Superintendent of the Kansas Midland R. R., now know as the Kansas City Division of the A., T. & Santa Fe R. R. Retained this position about eighteen months, and was then appointed Superintendent of the Western Division of the H. & St. Joe. R. R., with headquarters at Kansas City. Was appointed to present position January 1, 1879, and moved to Atchison. Mr. Fagan was married in Lawrenceburg, Ind., in July, 1861, to Miss Amanda Simonton. They have one child living, Fannie C.

H. V. FARIES, Master Mechanic Central Branch M. P. R. R., was born in Middletown, Butler Co., Ohio, September 15, 1825. He was educated in his native county, and in 1844, was apprenticed to learn the machinist's trade at Cincinnati, Ohio. Was attached to the locomotive department, and in 1847 helped build engines for the Little Miami R. R. In 1851, became connected with the Madison & Ind. R. R., running engine on the Madison Railroad, Indiana; was then appointed Assistant Master Mechanic, at Indianapolis. In 1856, he moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where he ran an engine a few months on the Mil. & Miss. R. R., then returned to Indiana and entered the service of the I. & C. R. R., running an engine until 1863. In March, 1865, was appointed Master Mechanic on the Eaton & Hamilton R. R., retaining this position until the road sold out. In 1869, Mr. F. moved to Kansas, and was appointed Master Mechanic of Locomotive and Car Department of the A., T. & S. Fe R. R., at Topeka. In June, 1878, was transferred to the superintendency of car building at St. Charles, Mo., and Jeffersonville, Ind. Was appointed to present position in June, 1879. Mr. Faries was married in Louisville, Ky., June, 1848, to Miss Vaughan. She died, leaving two children; one survives, Sallie I., now Mrs. B. A. Fassett, of California. Mr. F. was married to his present wife in Indianapolis, Ind., August 1, 1861. She was Miss Martha E. Boynton, a native of Cornish, Me. They have three children - Florence, Berenice and J. Byron. Mr. F. is a Royal Arch Mason.

C. H. FARWELL, of the Atchison Furniture Company, was born in Stephenson County, Ill., January 10, 1850. In 1859 he came with his parents to Bourbon County, Kansas, and two years later to Atchison. In 1863 he commenced his trade in Atchison. In 1865 engaged in freighting across the plains. He located in Montana about two years, engaged in mill-wrighting, then returned to Atchison, and worked in the furniture factory until it was burnt down. Then formed the firm of Stebbins & Farwell, in bridge building, etc., continuing in this business about three years. In 1874 he visited California with Mr. Stevenson. On his return to Atchison he worked at cabinet-making until the present firm was established. Mr. Farwell was married in Atchison, Kansas, November 5, 1871, to Miss Cora C. Dickson, of that city. They have two children - Claudis J., and Myrtle. Mr. F. is a member of the Uniform Rank, K. of P.

WILLIAM A. FERGUSON, physician and surgeon, son of Dr. Eli Ferguson, of Atchison, who has been a practicing physician for thirty-two years. Was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., March 16, 1856. After attaining an academical education, he read medicine with his father, and in 1880 was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. He immediately began the practice of his profession at Atchison, and has been City Physician nearly ever since. Dr. Ferguson has acquired considerable skill as a surgeon, and in December, 1881, performed an operation which was truly wonderful, removing a tumor weighing nearly sixty pounds from a girl fifteen years old, from the effects of which the patient has fully recovered. The subject of this sketch is medical examiner for the A. O. U. W. of Atchison, and the National Aid Society at Des Moines, Iowa. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies, and secretary of the latter institution.

CHARLES McLEAN FINCH, contractor, came to Kansas May 21, 1872, locating at Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. F. is a member of the I. O. O. F. Was in the army, as Sergeant of Company E, Third Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Enlisted May 13, 1861. On the 24th of December, 1863, Sergeant Finch re-enlisted in his regiment, the famous "Old Third Michigan," for three years longer. On the 10th day of June, 1864, his regiment, owing to the severe losses it had suffered during its term of service, was consolidated with the Fifth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Sergeant Finch served with his new regiment as a member of Company E, until his final discharge, at Jeffersonville, Ind., July 4, 1865. He participated in almost all of the battles in which his regiments were engaged, among which were the First Bull Run, Siege of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' Fight, Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, Wilderness (where he was for the third time wounded while in the U. S. service), Siege of Petersburg, and Final Surrender of Lee. In all, he participated in forty-seven battles and engagements. Mr. F. was born in Niagra County, N. Y., July 27, 1839. He remained in his native place until his eighth year, when his parents removed to Doylestown, Wayne County, Ohio, where they lived about one year, when they removed to Jackson County, Mich., where they lived nearly one year, when they moved to Ionia County, of the same State. Mr. F. lived in this county until his removal to Atchison. Mr. Finch has been married twice. His first marriage took place December 25, 1876. His wife's maiden name was Mary F. Scott, a daughter of Mr. John J. Scott, who has resided in Atchison County since 1853. There was no issue by this marriage. His first wife died July 9, 1879. On the 19th day of April, 1882, he was united in marriage to Hettie H. Hammond, a native of Washtenaw County, Michigan.

WILLIAM H. FINKBINE, passenger conductor on the Central Branch of the M. P. R. R., running from Atchison to Leonora, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847. In his younger days he learned the cooper trade, and for some time carried on an extensive business in that line at Lawrenceburg, Ind. In 1850 began his railroad career, on the Indianapolis, LaFayette & Cincinnati road, working at the construction of the same until it was completed and was then put on as conductor and has served in the capacity nearly all the time since, on various roads. Conductor Finkbine is the oldest, most prominent, and we may safely say, the most successful conductor in the West, and is held in high estimation by all of the most important railroad companies. In the fall of 1859, when the Prince of Wales took his extended tour through the United States, the subject of this sketch had charge of the train that took the Prince and party from St. Louis to Vincennes, General McClellan being superintendent of the road. At the time General Lyons was killed at the battle of Wilson Creek, Mo., his train also took the General's remains and its escorts to his former home. In 1881, he came to Atchison and took his present position. Conductor Finkbine was one of the charter members of the Railway Passenger and Freight Conductors' Mutual Aid and Benefit Association of the United States and Canada, and also of the Railroad Conductors' Life Insurance Association of the United States and Canada, the former organization at Chicago, Ill., the latter at Columbus, Ohio. He also belongs to the Knights Templar in Masonic Society, and is a member of the Knights of Honor. His wife was Miss Mary Woodward, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., whom he married October, 1847. They are the parents of five children, only one of them now living, namely - E. Cora, now Mrs. G. N. Petty, of Kansas City, Mo. During the war, in 1864, a particular friend of Mr. Finkbine's, one James W. Gaft, wished him to start steamboating, and to exemplify the high esteem in which Mr. Finkbine was held as an enterprising business man, Mr. Gaft even went so far as to give him a boat, which he afterward ran until the close of the Rebellion, and continued to run until the spring of 1867, when he lost the Lady Franklin by fire at New Orleans, when he was running her from New Orleans to Jacksonport, on the White River of Arkansas, under the auspices of Dean, Adams & Gaff, cotton merchants of New Orleans. In the spring of 1865, while running the Lady Franklin, and having the steamboat Eclipse in tow, when near Johnsonville, Tenn., the latter boat exploded, setting it on fire, and 150 lives were lost. This is a well known fact, and is recorded in the history of the Rebellion, in connection with the Ninth Indiana Battery. Had over 100 on the Lady Franklin, ice bound at Paducah, Ky., under medical treatment in his care for three weeks before the ice broke up, so he could take them to Evansville (Indiana) Hospital, where they all got well.

EDWARD V. FINUCANE, engineer on the Mo. P. railroad, residence, Kansas City, Genese street between Twelfth and Fourteenth, was born in the County Clare, Ireland, September 10, 1857. Emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863, and lived in New York City for a time. In 1874 the subject of this sketch began railroading, as brakes-man on a freight train on the K. C. Ft. S. & G. railroad, but after a short time changed to the Missouri Pacific, where he got a situation as fireman between Kansas City and Atchison. On the tenth of January, 1881, Mr. Finucane made his first run as engineer on this same route and has since served in that capacity, and being a young man of ability and enterprise, he is sure to make a success of this, or anything else he may undertake.

FREDERICK C. FISS, merchant, came to Kansas in 1869, locating at Washington, where he remained five years, and was engaged in farming. From Washington Mr. F. came to Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. F. was engaged in clerking for the first five years of his life in Atchison, and in 1879, commenced business for himself. He is a member of Schiller Lodge No. 33, I. O. O. F. Mr. Fiss was born in Germany, April 2, 1853. He remained in his native place until his tenth year, when he came to America and settled in Chatsworth, Livingston County, Ill., where he remained about six years , when he came to Kansas and settled in Washington. He was married May 18, 1869, in Atchison, to Carrie Stephen, a native of Missouri. They have two children - Cora and Bertha.

M. K. FLEMING, general agent B. & M. railroad in Nebraska, and K. C., St. Jo. & C. B. railroad, was born in Dakota County, Ohio, November 21, 1841. He was educated in his native county, and learned the harness maker's trade. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry on the three month's call. Re-enlisted in Company B, Sixteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry for one year. On being discharged he re-enlisted in Company C, Eighty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteers. The command was captured at Harper's Ferry, Va., and paroled on the field. Mr. Fleming then took a position in the railroad department of the quartermaster at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained until exchanged in January, 1863. He then enlisted in Company L, Seventh Indiana Cavalry and served until the close of the war. He returned to Ohio, learned telegraphing and took a position as station agent on the Indiana Central railroad. In 1867 he removed to Nebraska City, Neb., as agent and operator for the R. & M. railroad, and has since that time been connected with the system of roads in the freight and passenger traffic, at different points. Was appointed to present position February 1, 1882. Mr. Fleming has only lost thirty days time in fifteen years. He was married in Darke County, Ohio, in June, 1861, to Miss Northrup, of that county. They have five children living - Harry H., Addie H., Mary L., Bertha C., James G. Mr. F. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W.

CHARLES V. FLETCHER, conductor of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence North Fifth street, between Riley and Mound, is a native of Troy, Me., born April 12, 1847. His railroad career extends as far back as 1867 when he began as a brakes-man on the Hannibal and St. Joe R. R. one year, and at the expiration of that time he was promoted to conductor on a freight train. From that time until 1880 he ran both freight and passenger trains to Missouri, then came to Kansas and accepted his present situation as conductor of a passenger train. Mr. Fletcher has had a great many years experience in this line, and that coupled with an untiring business energy has made him one of the most successful railroad employees in the West. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. at Brookfield, Mo., and has attained the degree of Knight Templar. Was married at that place in 1873, to Miss Merriam, formerly of Ohio.

ROBERT FORBRIGER, the vice-president of the German Savings Bank, entered land in Lancaster County township in March, 1857, his claim being the southeast quarter of Section 21, Town 5, Range 19. For about twelve years was employed in farming, and in 1859 located in Atchison and engaged in the liquor business, which he continued until 1865 when he commenced real estate and insurance, which he has continued to the present time. Mr. Forbriger is a native of Saxony, Germany, where he was born September 5, 1825, and from whence he emigrated in June, 1849, spending, after his arrival in America, some time in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Alabama, two years in the latter State at Mobile, and two years in Elgin, Ill. Since his residence in this country, Mr. Forbriger has held various local offices, having been town trustee for four years, and a member of the City Council. He was married in Atchison, In February, 1862, to Helen Geler, of Baden, Germany, their three children being named Robert, Emil and Bertha. Mr. Forbriger is a member of the A., F. & A. M. to the thirty-second degree, of the I. O. O. F., of the Society of Turners, and is secretary of the Atchison Coal Mining Society.

THOMAS D. FRASER, engineer, on the A. & N. Div. of the B. & M. R. R.; residence corner of Second and Atchison streets, was born in Nova Scotia, August 30, 1854. His first experience at railroading was with the B. & M. R. R. at Lincoln, Neb., where he served as fireman one year and eight months. During that time he was fireman on the train that made the fastest time on record in the State of Nebraska. This occurred at the time of the expected penitentiary riot at Lincoln, going from Ashland, Neb., to the former city, a distance of twenty-four miles, in twenty-five minutes. Mr. Fraser has barely escaped with his life in several railroad accidents, the most distressing of which was the running off the bridge of the engine and fourteen loaded freight cars, when one entire carload of life stock was burned. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Locomotive Engineer Brotherhood, No. 164, of Atchison. On the 30th of March, 1882, he was married to Miss Annie C. Mahn, of this city.

ROBINSON FRAZIER, grocery store, corner of Fifth and S streets, was born June 12, 1820, in Ohio County, W. Va. Received a practical education under the old school system, and while in his native State his occupation was that of a farmer. In February, 1858, came to Kansas, and was at first a resident of Leavenworth, where he started a small confectionery stand. He only ran this a short time however, when he engaged as a clerk in a grocery store, and afterward was employed by W. C. Lovenstein in the hide and leather trade. This he continued eight seasons, then moved on to his farm, which he operated successfully till the spring of '81, then came to Atchison. Mr. Frazier was in the Home Guards service at Leavenworth, during the rebellion, being too old for service in the army. He was married in his native State, on May 23, 1843, to Miss Mary E. Milligan. Both are members of the United Presbyterian Church. They have been the parents of nine sons, but only seven are living now: George E., Samuel A., William M. C., Anderson M., Robert C., James H. and John C.

H. FRIEDENBURG, restaurateur. This well known gentleman is a native of Germany, and was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, March 21, 1833; was educated and reared in his native country, coming to America in 1850, locating for a time at Philadelphia; he afterward went to Cincinnati, Ohio, residing in that city seven years, his time being employed as a clerk in a clothing house. He next went to Jeffersonville, Ind., residing two years. On the 18th of March, 1864, he became a resident of Atchison; he embarked in merchantile pursuits, and was prominently identified in commercial circles for eight years, when he engaged in present business. Mr. F. is a social and entertaining gentleman, and there are but few people engaged in the hotel and restaurant business in Kansas who are more favorably acquainted. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Friendship Lodge, No. 5. On the 14th of August, 1858, Miss Clara Hirch became his wife; she is a native of Greece and came to this country with parents when young, locating in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. F. is an estimable lady, whose graces of mind and heart endear her to a large circle of friends. They have had eight children by this union, six of whom are living: Rosa, Lonora, Filsen, Eva, Birda, Abraham and Max; lost two, Matilda and Clara.

CHARLES FULLER, general yard manager for the M. P. R. R. Co.; residence on Park street, between Sixth and Seventh; was born in Huron County, Ohio, July 17, 1847. Began railroading when eighteen years of age, and has followed it constantly ever since, excepting when injuries from accidents confined him to his room. His first experience was as fireman on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, but after one year was given an engine, first as switch in the Elkhart yards and afterwards on the road. From this he was advanced to freight conductor, then to passenger conductor for this company, and one year after the Chicago fire engaged with the North-Western R. R. Co. During the winter of 1872, Mr. Fuller was in a terrible collision that occurred at LeGrand, Iowa, and from injuries received was confined to his bed for seven months. Upon recovery he came to Newton, Kan., where he was engineer until 1875, then entered the employ of the M. K. & T. R. R. as freight conductor, being soon advanced to passenger, and running to Texas. During the early part of 1881, Mr. Fuller got his foot caught in a "frog" at Emporia, and an engine backed over it, which laid him up again for four months. When able to get around again he came to Atchison, in July, 1881, and engaged with the Central Branch of the U. P. R. R., but on the 5th of August of that year, he was caught between an engine and a car, which confined him to his bed until October. As soon as he was able he went on the road again, and in April, 1882, the whole train upon which Mr. Fuller was running, was blown from the track by a cyclone, the way-car being blown 75 feet. The father and mother of the subject of this sketch were in the car with him, and all received serious injuries. When Mr. Fuller recovered from this accident he accepted his present situation, and it seems truly wonderful that he has escaped with his life from so many disasters. He is a member of both the conductors' and engineers' brotherhood, the former of Chicago, the latter of Elkhart, Ind. He also belongs to the Masonic Society and the higher degree of St. Bernard Commandery, Chicago. His wife was Miss Eva Hosley, of Kansas; they were married at Kansas City, Mo., in September, 1877.

JAMES H. GARSIDE was born in Canton, Fulton County, Ill., January 26, 1848. In 1856 he removed with his parents to Nebraska City, where he attended school, and afterwards worked on a farm. In 1864, he moved to Atchison, and worked as clerk in J. E. Wagoner's hardware store one year; with A. S. Parker & Co., as forwarding and delivery clerk two years, and with J. Garside & Co., railroad transfer, forwarding and commission merchants and steamboat agents, successors to that firm, two years as chief clerk and agent of St. Louis and Omaha Packet Line. L. S. Howe retiring from this firm in 1869, James H. Garside was admitted as a partner under the name of J. Garside & Son. In 1872 the firm discontinued business, and he accepted a situation as accountant for Julius Kuhn, wholesale grocer. In 1873, he was with Wm. Heatherington, as assistant book-keeper; in 1874 he was agent for Hamilton & Flint's Railroad Transfer Company, and its successor, J. M. Hamilton & Co. During the year he bought out Hamilton's interest, and the transfer company was run by Garside and Anderson until 1881, when Mr. Garside accepted a situation with the A., T. & S. F. R. R. as clerk, where he is now employed. He was married September 14, 1870, at Canton, Ill., to Mattie H. Preston. They have one child - Willie Preston, two children having died in infancy.

JOSHUA GARSIDE was born in Cheshire, England, December 16, 1821, and married in Stockport, Cheshire, June 9, 1844, to Miss Ann Cox, also a native of Cheshire. in 1847 he immigrated to America, located at Canton, Ill., and remained in that city, engaged in banking until he removed to Nebraska City in 1854, where also he engaged in banking, and remained until 1864. He then removed to Atchison and was bookkeeper for A. & P. Byram, freighters between that city and Colorado, Utah, Montana and Arizona, which business they carried on until 1866, when he succeeded them. This he was quite extensively engaged in, also produce dealing, and doing the Railroad Transfer business with teams; also running the omnibuses and baggage business, building, while in this trade, the warehouse known as the Garside warehouse. His son, James H., was associated with him in the business at that time, the firm representing the St. Louis & Omaha Packet Line. Mr. Garside has been cashier and bookkeeper with William H. Hetherington & Co., in the banking business for a time, and for the last ten years has been general accountant in general office of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railway, being now cashier in the Missouri Pacific Central Branch Railway's freight department. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been during his residence in Atchison, fifteen years superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He served also for several years as a member of the school board. Mr. and Mrs. Garside have nine children living: Emma, James H., Mary A., Eliza J., Charles A., Florence, Rose, Fannie L., Kittie B.

F. C. GEHRETT, wholesale and retailer dealer in stoves, tinware and tinner's stock. This gentleman established his trade in Atchison, October 1, 1879, in a frame building on the site of the one he now occupies, at a rental of $15 per month. The 1st of August, 1879, he removed six doors west and occupied the store at a rental of $30 per month. February 10, 1880, moved into his present commodious structure, for which he pays $70 per month. His trade has been continually on the increase since his embarkation in business, and in the cornice and tin roofing, of which he makes a specialty, he keeps a large force of men at work. His jobbing trade is not confined to Kansas, but extends into eastern Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado. He has been one of the most successful business men in the city. Mr. Gehrett is a native of Huntington County, Pa., and was born March 4, 1850; is a son of John S. Gehrett, Esq., a well known citizen of that portion of Pennsylvania. F. C. was reared, educated and became familiar with the hardware and tinner's trade in Westmoreland County, Pa., and for five years was engaged in business at Latrobe, in that county, coming from there to Kansas. Mr. Gehrett was married in 1874, to Miss Rebecca Harr, of Allegheny County, Pa. They have five children, Clara A., Annie E., Patti E., Cora B., and Homer Harr. Mr. Gehrett is a member of the A. O. of U. W., and receiver of the Atchison Lodge, No. 4. Agent for Graff & Co. 's Hot-air Furnace.

JACOB GEORGE, SR., member of the firm, George & Durst, live stock dealers, came to Kansas in the spring of 1857, and for three years worked at carpentering in the town of Sumner. On May 13, 1860, he was married to Amelia, daughter of Benjamin Ogden, one of the pioneers of Atchison County, and this same winter moved to Buchanan County, Mo., where he worked for $10 per month and took his pay in cottonwood lumber, for which he had to find his own market. He finally succeeded in trading for one yoke of oxen with which he returned to Atchison County, and commenced farming, his receipts being ten cents per bushel of corn and eight cents for potatoes, for which he took groceries in pay. This being his start in Kansas, Mr. Geogre, in 1861, started freighting across the plain from Atchsion to Denver, Col., with one span of horses, and during his continuance of the same, himself and train had several encounters with the Indians. He received from $4 to $22 per 100 for hauling freight, and in 1867, when he sold his freighting outfit, had accumulated ten four-mule teams and seven ox-wagons, with four yoke to each wagon. The subject of this sketch then purchased 400 acres of land, seven miles southwest of Atchison, on Camp Creek, and embarked in stock raising and buying, and in 1870 removed to the city and started in the live stock business, which he has since operated in addition to his farm. The firm of George & Durst have a large cattle ranch seventy miles southwest of Wichita, Kan., and aside from this have about 200 head grazing in Jackson County. Mr. George is the oldest stock dealer in the county, and is one of the five business men of that place, always taking an active interest in the public welfare of the county. He is one of the educational board of Atchison; was born January 6, 1836, in Westmoreland County, Pa.

M. GERBER, baker, is a native of Germany, and was born in Baden, December 14, 1833; was reared, educated, and learned the baker's trade in his native country. In 1853, he came to the United States, and for a number of years resided temporarily at various points - St. Louis, St. Paul, and other cities, working at his trade. Was pastry cook on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers for a considerable length of time. Eventually, in 1857, he located at Leavenworth, and after a short sojourn went to Weston, Mo., remaining five months. In 1858, he came to the then town of Sumner, Kan., and opened the first bakery in the place. Sumner at that time was considerable of a metropolis for the western country. After two years in active business in Sumner, he came to Atchison, opening up business, October 1, 1860, on Commercial street, between Second and Third, and aside from a couple of years he was sick, he has been continually catering to the wants of Atchinsonites. Since being continually before the people, there is no citizen that is more favorably recognized than M. Gerber. He was married in Sumner, in 1859, to Miss Lena Mehre, a native of Switzerland, and an estimable lady who is also a pioneer of the State of Kansas. They have two children, Annie M. and John G.

FRANK GEROS, engineer on the Mo. Pac. R. R., residence corner of Liberty street and Utah avenue, was born October 13, 1844, in Pike County, Mo. His boyhood was spent on a farm with his parents, during which time he received a practical education. In 1862, he came with them to Leavenworth, Kan., where he began freighting across the plains, in the employ of the Government. Was a member of the Leavenworth Fire Department for over eight years. His first experience with the Mo. Pac. R. R. was as brakesman; then he was fireman for two years, and in 1878, commenced as engineer - first on a switch engine, and then on the roads, and during his five years run in that capacity has been exceedingly fortunate as regards accidents. In 1869, Mr. Geros was married to Emma, daughter of Alex and Flora Tack, who were pioneers of Leavenworth. He is a member of the Locomotive Engineers' Brotherhood, No. 164, of Atchison, and also the Locomotive Fireman's Brotherhood, No. 31. 

 H. M. GLANCY, Secretary of the Atchison Gas Company, is a native of Ohio; he was born in Clermont County, June 6, 1827, was educated in his native county, and in 1852 had a position as salesman in a wholesale dry goods house in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1862, he went into business for himself in Springfield, Ill. In 1869, he settled in Atchison, Kas., and engaged in dry goods business until March, 1881. Was appointed to present position in December 6, 1880, but did not give it his entire attention until March, 1881. Mr. G. was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in August, 1854, to Miss Death, a graduate of Hughes' High School, of that city. They have two children - Absalom D. and William H. Mr. and Mrs. Glancy are members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Glancy is known in Kansas as a prominent temperance worker.

H. C. GOLDEN, local freight agent C. R. I. & P. R. R., was born in Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., February 7, 1844. His parents moved to Newark, N. J., in 1852, where he received his education and was engaged as bookkeeper in a merchantile establishment. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment New York; Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned First Lieutenant in December, 1864, and in 1865, received his commission as Captain of same company. The Regiment was captured at Harper's Ferry, parolled on the field and three months after exchanged and returned to the army of the Potomac and participated in all the battles up to the close of the war. On the close of the war he returned to New York, and shortly after became connected with the Boston & Albany R. R., as freight clerk, at Springfield, Mass. In 1867, he moved to Kansas and located at Lawrence as paymaster clerk on the K. P. R. R., one year later removed to Atchison to take the position of chief clerk of the freight department of the Mo. P. R. R. In 1874, was appointed agent of the Mo. P. R. R. Retained this position until 1877, when he resigned to take his present position. Mr. G. was married at Atchison, December 20, 1876, to Miss M. A. Kelley, of Atchison. They have one child - Harry H. Mr. G. is a member of the Lodge, Chapter, Commandry and Council in the Masonic Fraternity, being P. E. C. of Commandery. Is also a member of the A. O. U. W., and Knights of Pythias.

JOHN ERVING GRAHAM, barber and hair dresser, came to Kansas, April 1, 1880, and located at Atchison. Mr. Graham was born in Middleport, Iroquois Co., Ill., January 4, 1853, where he lived but one year, when his parents removed to Fayette, Fayette Co., Iowa, where he remained until he came to Kansas. Mr. Graham is a member of the tonsorial firm of Graham & Hudson, of Atchison, and they have one of the finest establishments west of the Mississippi River.

SAMPSON GRAVES, farmer, three and one-half miles northwest of Atchison, was born in Union County, Tenn., in 1825, and brought up in that State. In 1842, moved to Buchanan County, Mo., and engaged in farming. In 1846, he drove a team to Dent's Fort, N. M., returning the following year to Buchanan County, where he remained until 1850, when he went to California, where he followed lumbering until 1852, when he engaged in farming until 1855. He then moved to this State, arriving in 1857 and locating a farm north of Troy, Doniphan County. In 1862, enlisted in Company B., Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, and served in the Western Department; was at the battle of Prairie Grove, Mo., and in nearly all the engagements of his regiment, and was discharged at Leavenworth, Kas., in July, 1865, when he returned to his farm in Doniphan County, which he shortly afterwards sold, moved to his present place on Deer Creek, where he has ninety-six acres, eighty acres under cultivation, has 800 fruit trees and one and one-half miles of hedge fence. Was married in 1850, in Buchanan County, Mo., to Miss Elizabeth Moses. They have six children - Solomon, Ann L., Sylvester, Ida B., Minnie M., and Frederick S. He was elected Treasurer of the School Board and served three years. In 1880, was elected Township Trustee; has held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Township Clerk. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

J. C. GREENAWALT has been engaged in the practice of law at Atchison since the fall of 1871, the time of his location in the State of Kansas. He was born near Morristown, in Montgmery Co., Pa., April 17, 1840. At about four years of age he removed with his parents to Ohio, which State remained his home until 1864, in which year he was admitted to the bar at Ravenna, Ohio. He commenced practice in Platte City, Mo., remaining there until about a year prior to his locating in Atchison. In 1862, after graduating from the Michigan University, he entered the army, enlisting in the Eighty-Sixth Ohio Infantry. He was in that regiment, and also in the First Ohio Sharpshooters for a few months.

RICHARD J. GROVES, florist, was born in Worcestershire, England, August 8, 1831. Was employed in gardening in his native country; and after coming to the United States, located in Atchison in 1860. One year later he entered the war of rebellion, volunteering with Company D of the Thirteenth Kansas Infantry; but at the expiration of nine months was discharged, ill health unfitting him for active service. Returning to Atchison, he followed various occupations until 1867, when he embarked in his present undertaking, and fifteen years' experience in that time has increased his stock and trade considerably. His original hot house, 10X12, has been succeeded by four large structures, one 24X60, another 20X60, and still two others, 11X60. He is well known throughout the State as one of the oldest and best florists in Kansas. Mr. Groves is also quite extensively engaged in vegetable gardening, and has an island of thirty acres in the Missouri River devoted to that purpose. He has raised, during the past year, 6,000 bushels of sweet potatoes.

ALPHONSE E. GUSHING, senior member of the firm of Gushing & Merwin, grain commission merchants, was originally from France, born in the city of Verdun, September 14, 1841. Emigrated to the United States in 1845, locating in St. Louis. In 1871 came to Atchison, and first engaged in the loan and real estate business, but in '74 abandoned this to go into the grain trade, which he operated alone for one year. Then the firm of Gardner & Gushing was organized, but in 1877, they dissolved, and the firm was afterwards known as Gushing & McNeil, dealers in coal and grain. After running together two years, they also dissolved, and from that time until the present firm was organized, the subject of this sketch was engaged at railroad contracting. They are now one of the most extensive grain commission firms in the city. Their receipts for 1882 will exceed one million bushels. They have four men who travel throughout Kansas and Nebraska, in addition to eight and sometimes more local buyers in this State. Both men are efficient members of the Board of Trade, while Mr. Gushing was one of the instigators of the same and has worked with untiring zeal and energy for the promotion and success of this enterprise. Mr. Gushing has served one term on the Board of Education of Atchison, and is a member of both of the Chicago and St. Louis Boards of Trade.

G. V. HAGAMAN, located in Wayne Township, Doniphan Co., Kan., in the fall of 1868, at which place he resided and carried on his farm until September, 1881; the two latter years of this period being also engaged in buying grain at Brenner. In January, 1882, in partnership with D. M. Wynkoop, he opened a hardware and agricultural implement establishment in the city of Atchison. Mr. Hagaman was born in Berkley County, W. Va., May 6, 1845, from which place he removed to Indiana with his parents at the age of four years, and there lived until he located in Kansas. He was married February, 1868, at Laporte, Ind., to Anna Mary Wynkoop, from Pennsylvania. The names of their three children are, Cora May, Maude Estelle, and Pearly. Mr. Marinus Hagaman, father of G. V., lives in Wayne Township, Doniphan County. His mother died in Indiana. The parents of Mrs. Hagaman, David and Sarah Wynkoop, reside in Wayne. In February, 1865, Mr. Hagaman enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-First Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until September of the same year. In 1880 he was elected member of the Kansas House of Representatives.

GEORGE L. HALL, engineer on the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence at St. Joseph, Mo., has been in the employment of the railroad since 1870. He first worked at repairing roads on the K. C., St. Joeseph & C. B. R. R., but soon quit that and went to braking on a freight train. From this he got to be a fireman on an engine, and then in March, 1876, began to run an engine himself. In December, 1879, Mr. Hall engaged with the Missouri Pacific R. R. and is now running between St. Joe and Atchison. He was born in Clinton County, Ind., September 13, 1850. His wife was Miss Mattie Smallwood, of Kentucky, whom he married in December, 1872. She died May 12, 1881, leaving one daughter, Flora G. Mr. Hall is connected with the Locomotive Fireman's Brotherhood of St. Joe, Mo., No. 43.

J. A. HAM, boot and shoe dealer, one of the pioneers of Atchison, and one who has been closely associated with the development of Kansas, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Fleming County, October 1, 1835. In 1852 came to Kansas and entered 160 acres of land in Atchison County. He was among the first settlers in Atchison, and after a short residence removed to Rushville, Mo. In 1861 he entered the employ of Gard & Newcomb as clerk, continuing two years, and has been identified in the commercial circles of Atchison since that time, engaging in the present business January 1, 1882. Politically and socially, he has figured prominently in Atchison County, and few citizens are more favorably and popularly known. He was City Assessor of Atchison one year, and with the pioneer and the newcomer was always a favorite acquaintance. Mr. Ham was married in 1865 to Miss Francisian Barnes. By this union they have six children - Willie, Charlie, Linley, Nellie, George, Eddie. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

EDWIN S. HARRIS, engineer on the Mo. Pac. R. R., residence 1505 Utah avenue, corner of Liberty street, was born April 19, 1841, at Bellevue, Mich. At the age of nine years he began as a train boy on the Michigan Central, which he followed two seasons; then for a time went to school, and afterwards came west to Wisconsin, and was brakeman on the old Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad. Then went as fireman on the New Albany & Salem road, but in the fall of this year returned to school again, and from that time until 1857 followed various occupations. Came to St. Louis in the fall of that year, and until September 4, 1864, was employed as a fireman on different roads. He was then put in charge of an engine, which he ran on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad until the fall of 1864, and between that time and 1877 was engineer on various railroads, six years of that time being spent on the Wabash road. He then came to Atchison and entered the service of the Mo. Pac. R. R. where he is considered one of the best engineers on the road. Mr. Harris is one of the original members of the Loconotive Engineers' Brotherhood; also belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. & A. M., both in the lodge and chapter. His wife was Mrs. Catherine Adams, of Quincy, Ill., whose maiden name was Spreen. They were married February 22, 1863.

HARRISON & ROBINS, steam laundry. This firm was established March 16, 1882, and runs one of the largest steam laundries in the city, employing ten men. Is furnished with all of the latest improvements in that line, which go so far in making a success of this business. Henry P. Harrison, senior member of the above firm, came with his parents Thomas and Mary Harrison, to Atchison in 1867, his father being a capitalist. After receiving a liberal education, he learned the plumbers' trade. Was born in Dubuque, Iowa, February 23, 1858. A. H. Robins, of the above firm. was born in Zanesville, Ohio, February 26, 1851. Removed west to Henry County, Iowa, with his parents, who were farmers; afterwards going to Cedar Rapids, and in 1881 came to Atchison.

ALFRED J. HARWI, wholesale and retail hardware merchant, came to Atchison in August, 1873, and established the above business in company with C. H. Dearborn. At the expiration of five months, purchased his partner's interest, conducting the business since that time alone. Has steadily increased from the original small capital of $2,200, till to-day he carries a stock of $60,000. This speaks well for the excellent business capacity of Mr. Harwi, and he may well be classed with the live, energetic men of the city. Employs nine men continually, two of them traveling salesmen, as he also handles farm machinery, wagons, etc. Occupies three floors, the main one 22X150, basement the same, and upper floor 60X22, besides carriage repository, 45X100 , and to give a more definite idea of the magnitude of this firm's business, the trade during the year past amounted to $150,000. A. J. Harwi was born in Lehigh County, Pa., January 21, 1847. Commenced clerking in a hardware store in 1860, and has had twenty-two years experience in that line. In 1878, at Atchison, he married Miss Lizzie Whitehead, of Michigan, Edwin C. Harwi, traveling salesman, and brother of the above, came to Atchison in 1877, and first became connected with the above house as a canvasser for the agricultural implement department. In two years' time he worked up considerable trade in this branch; then took charge of the retail hardware department for one year, and at the expiration of that time became traveling salesman for the same house. He is a gentleman who thoroughly understands his business, and is not excelled by any salesman on the road. E. E. Harwi is also a native of Lehigh County, Pa., born January 7, 1850, and pursued various occupations previous to coming to Kansas. His wife was Miss Ellen Kemmerer, of Pennsylvania, to whom he was married there in 1871. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church.

GEORGE HELD, proprietor of restaurant and boarding-house, came to Kansas in April, 1861, locating in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 5, I. O. O. F., of Atchison. He took part in the late war as a member of Company B., Eighth Regiment Kansas Infantry, and enlisted in July, 1861, at Fort Leavenworth, and discharged for disability at the United States General Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, February, 1863. Mr. Held was born December 10, 1819, in Elsas, France, and lived in his native country until his twenty-sixth year, when he emigrated to America and located (July 4, 1845), in Chicago, where he lived five years, and then removed to Freeport, Ill., where he lived seven years and from there removed to Monroe, Wis., where he lived about one year and then started for Pike's Peak, but got no farther than Omaha, where he remained about seven months, after which time he returned to Leavenworth, where he remained but a short time and then removed to Weston, Mo., where he lived until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, when, on account of his Free-state proclivities, he left Missouri and came to Kansas. Mr. Held was married in Elsas, France, on Easter Tuesday, 1845, to Miss Mary Magdalina Meyer, a native of France. They have six children living, whose names are: Marie (married to Otto C. Hager, a merchant of Atchison), George W., Carrie (married to Henry Manglesdorf, a grocer of Atchison), Emma (married to Frank Bockris, a tinsmith residing in Atchison), John C. (a cigar-maker, at present residing in Chicago), and Annie.

GEORGE W. HELD, harness-maker, came to Kansas in June, 1866, locating in the city of Atchison, where he commenced learning his trade with ex-Mayor Clem Rohr. With the exception of the time spent in the United Staes Army, he has made his home in Atchison since. He is a member of Roth Bro's. cornet band. Mr. Held entered the army during the war of the rebellion as a drummer boy in Company B., Eighth Regiment Kansas Infantry, at the early age of eleven years and six months, being undoubtedly the youngest soldier in any Kansas regiment. He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth in November, 1861, and was mustered out in San Antonia, Texas, November 16, 1865. He was present at the battles of Nashville, Tenn., Perryville, Ky., Kenasaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro', Franklin, and other minor engagements. Mr. Held was born in Chicago, Ill., February 22, 1850, and lived in his native place about one year, when his parents removed to Freeport, Ill., where they lived seven years, and from there removed to Monroe, Wis., where they lived one year. From Wisconsin they removed to Western Missouri, where they lived until 1861, when the family removed to Kansas. In 1872, Mr. H. entered the United States (Regular Army as a member of Company G, Sixth Infantry. He enlisted at St. Louis, November 12 of that year. He served faithfully five years, chiefly in the Yellowstone country, and was discharged at Fort Buford, D. T., November 12, 1877. After his discharge he returned to Atchison, where he has been industriously following his trade from that time to this.

MICHAEL GORDON HELD, miller, was born in Washington County, Wis., April 2, 1856, and lived in his native State until 1879, when he became a resident of Kansas, locating at Ellinwood, Barton County, where he was engaged in working at his trade, and where he resided one and a half years. From Ellinwood he went to San Francisco, Cal., where he was engaged in the milling business, and lived about eighteen months. From California he returned to Kansas, locating in Atchison, where he has since resided, and where he has occupied responsible positions in the large flouring mills of Bowman & Kellogg, and Blair & Auld. He is a member of Palmyra Lodge, No. 68, A. F. & A. M., of Palmyra, Wis., and of Nevada (Mo) Lodge, No. 279, I. O. O. F. Mr. Held is a graduate of the Spencerian Business College of Milwaukee, Wis., class of '71, and in addition to being a thorough master of his trade, is a first-class and accurate bookkeeper. He is a young man of thoroughly practical business habits and integrity, and is well and favorably known for his excellent social qualities.

JACOB B. HELLENER, hardware salesman, came to Kansas in May, 1877, locating at Marysville, where he remained until September of the same year, when he removed to Valley Falls, Kas., living there until he came to Atchison in January, 1878. He immediately obtained employment in the hardware establishment of Blish, Mize & Silliman, and remained with that firm until July, 1881, when he accepted the position which he now fills with the extensive hardware dealer, A. C. Faust. Mr. H. was married at Atchison, February 7, 1882, to Virginia L. Hutchinson, a native of Beverly, Ohio. Mr. Hellener was born at Easton, Pa., February 4, 1857, that was his home for only about four years, when his parents, Frederick and Elizabeth W. (Speck) Hellener, removed with their family to Bethlehem, Pa., where they resided until 1869, at that time locating at Quakerstown , Pa. In 1871 they removed to Chester Springs in the same State, and in 1874 returned to Bethlehem, where the subject of this sketch remained until he came to Kansas. He is a member of the National Temperance Relief Union, and of the Lutheran Church. His father was killed before Petersburg, Va., in 1862, while serving in the Federal army. Mother now resides in Bethlehem, Pa.

GEORGE HENNINGER, merchant, came to Kansas in the spring of 1860, and located in Atchison. Mr. H. is a member of the Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F., and the Atchison Liederkranz. He was born in Weiswell, Baden, Germany, February 23, 1849, and lived there until his ninth year, when his mother - his father being dead - emigrated to America and settled in Buchanan County, Mo., where they lived two years, when they removed to Atchison. Mr. Henninger was married in Atchison, August 18, 1872, to Miss Wilhelmina Yahn, a native of Nassau, Germany. They have three children - Eliza, Mina and Matilda.

JEREMIAH HEPWORTH, firm of Redington & Co., stone yards, has been a resident of Atchison since 1859. Commenced working at his trade, but when the great Rebellion broke out, he enlisted with Company G, of the First Kansas Volunteer Infantry, but was transferred to Company K. After serving his country three years, returned to Atchison and resumed his former employment of stone-cutting, and during the winter of 1869, became a partner with the above firm. They contracted the stone for the State Asylum, and for various other large buildings throughout Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. The subject of this sketch is an Englishman, born in Yorkshire, June 2, 1826. Learned his trade, but only followed it for a short time there and in 1851 emigrated to America. Worked at his trade in various places previous to settling down in this city. His wife was Miss Susanna Key, whom he married at Atchison, October 15, 1865. She came from the same country as himself, but born in Lincolnshire.

R. R. HERD, engineer of the Diamond Mills. Among Kansas' earliest settlers may be mentioned the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Philadelphia, Penn., and was born September 17, 1836. When young removed to Pittsburg, where he learned his trade and resided until 1854, when the family came to Kansas, locating six miles west of Lawrence, where his father, T. R. Herd, kept a tavern and was favorably known at an early day to the travelers on the old California stage route. The subject of this sketch passed all through the early difficulties, which were so noted in Lawrence and vicinity. In 1857 he came to Atchison and took charge of a small saw-mill as engineer, that was erected at the mouth of Clay Creek, and in which capacity he was identified for several years. Mr. Lukens, now of the Diamond Mills was proprietor of a saw-mill on the east side of the river, and for him Mr. Herd was head sawyer for a time. During the rebellion he enlisted, but owing to a mishap about the time he was ready to go in the service, was obliged to remain at home; however, he engineered some on the Missouri River for the Government, when enlisted. He has almost been a constant resident of Atchison since 1857, and is about the first mechanical engineer that located here. He has been in the employ of Mr. Lukens of Lukens & North, for over seventeen years. He married in 1860, Miss Mary E. Backus, of Atchison. They have but one daughter, Allie, now Mrs. Griswold. Mr. H. is a member of the K. of H. and the Ladies K. of H. His father returned from Kansas to the East and died in Pennsylvania a few years ago.

JULIUS HERMAN, cigar manufacturer and wholesale dealer in tobacco and cigars. Atchison has been fortunate in securing men of commendable enterprise and sterling worth for its manufactures and wholesale dealers. It has given the city a reputation and tone that is widespread and increasing. Among those that are deserving of special mention, and have contributed amply in this respect is Mr. Juluis Herman. He became a resident of Atchison in 1870, and for several years was an extensive dealer in dry goods and clothing. In 1878, he embarked in his present line. He carries one of the largest stocks to be found in the northwest, and his trade is in conformity, extending into Nebraska and Colorado, as well as Kansas and Missouri. He makes a specialty of fine brands of cigars and does business strictly on the merits of his goods. Atchison can not secure too many such business men as Mr. H. He is a native of Germany and was born in Bavaria, August 12, 1832, came to the United States when five years of age, with his parents. His father, Lewis Herman, locating at Boonville, Mo., he eventually located 100 miles south of that city, at a point which is known as Herman, and derives its name from that gentleman being its founder. He was engaged in merchandising and favorably known throughout that portion of Missouri for a number of years. The subject of this sketch was also in business in Missouri, and at an early day was largely interested in the Santa Fe trade. In 1865 he engaged in business in Topeka, Kas., continuing until 1870, when he removed to Atchison.

DR. ALVIN HERTLING, veterinary surgeon, is a native of Mercersburg, Prussia, born April 24, 1824. Received his literary education in the High School of that city, and spent three years and a half in the Veterinary College, Berlin, from which he graduated in 1847. During the year following came to the United States, but after practicing here for three years, went back to his native land, where he graduated again from the same college, but in a higher degree. In '57 returned to the States, locating at Davenport, Iowa, and in 1861 entered the U. S. Army as veterinary surgeon of Gen. Sherman's headquarters, serving three years. Then established a Veterinary Hospital at St. Louis, Mo., which he operated till his removal to Atchison. His wife was Miss Bell Prayor, whom he married at Quincy, Ill., in 1868.

WEBSTER W. HETHERINGTON was born in Pottsville, Pa., December 19, 1850, and at an early age came to Kansas with his parents. He was employed for five years in his father's bank, at the end of which time he became a partner, and has been such for the past ten years. Mr. Hetherington was married in Atchison in November, 1875, to Lillie Miller, a native of Pennsylvania. They have three children - Ruth, Mary and Webster W. Mr. H. served a term as Alderman of the Second Ward. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., of the I. O. O. F., and of the K. of P.

HENRY HILLER, city policeman. Mr. Hiller came to Kansas in 1856, and located in Leavenworth where he remained about six months, when he went to Ft. Riley, where he was in the employ of the U. S. Government for the next two years; from there he went to Weston, Mo., where he was engaged in the brewing business, and from there came to Atchison, where he has since lived, except while in the army. Mr. H. is a member of the Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F., and has gone through all the chairs from subordinate offices up to N. G. and P. G. He was a private in Company K, First Kansas Volunteers, enlisted May 24, 1861, participated in all the engagements of his command, and was mustered out at Ft. Leavenworth, June 16, 1865, at the expiration of his term of enlistment. He was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, March 12, 1835, and lived there until his seventeenth year, when he emigrated to this country. He was married in Atchison, January 20, 1866, to Lena Stotz, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. Two children were the fruits of this marriage - Henry and Julia.

JOHN HILLER, barber and hair dresser, came to Kansas in April, 1880, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived and carried on his business. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Order of United Workmen. He was a member of the U. S. Marine Corps during the late war, and served three years and nine months at sea. He enlisted at Philadelphia, Pa. May 7, 1861, and was mustered out of the service in the same city May 7, 1865. He took part in the sinking and capture of the Confederate sloop Petrel, did blockade duty along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and took part on the U. S. Frigate St. Lawrence in the fight with the Rebel ram Merrimac off Newport News. Mr. Hiller was born in Holzgerlingen, Wurtemburg, Germany, January 23, 1837, and lived in his native country until his fourteenth year, when he emigrated to America and first located in Philadelphia, where he lived until he entered the U. S. Service. After the war he traveled extensively over the United States and subsequently located in Oil City, Pa., where he lived about twelve years, and then came to Kansas. Mr. Hiller was married in Oil City, Pa, December 4, 1871, to Miss Lizzie Welte, a native of Ohio. They have two children, viz. : George and Eddie.

STEPHEN AMBROSE HINKEL, laborer, came to Kansas, April 15, 1879, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and of Roth Bros. Cornet Band. He was born in Uhlersville, Northampton County, Pa., April 4, 1856. He lived in his native place until his fourteenth year when he went to Hellertown, Pa., where he lived for five years, when he went to Fredericksville, Lehigh County, Pa., where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. H. was married August 5, 1876, at Hellertown, Pa., to Miss Emma Matilda Roth, a daughter of Joel W. Roth, Esq. She was born in Center Valley, Lehigh County, Pa. They have one child who is named Catherine Elizabeth, born April 23, 1877. 

 JOHN HOENSCHEIDT, editor and proprietor of the Kansas Staats Anzeiger, was born in 1848 in Neiderdollendorf, a town situated on the river "Rhein" in Prussia, Germany. He graduated at the Freidrich Wilhelm's Gymnasium at Cologne, Germany, in 1863; then visited the Polytechnic school at the same place from which he graduated in 1866; from this up to 1868 he was engaged on the Rheinische Eisenbahn (Rhine R. R.) as civil engineer. In May, 1868, he emigrated to this country, landing in New York, May 15, 1868, from there he came direct to Leavenworth, Kansas; here he followed his profession of architect until 1870, when he went to Greenwood, Butler Co., and engaged in farming and stock raising until 1878, when he moved to Winfield, Kan., following his profession as architect and civil engineer. He held several public offices, among them that of City Engineer, District Clerk, and Justice of the Peace. By the formation of a company of artillery of the State Militia, called Battery No. 1, Kansas Militia, he was commissioned as First Lieutenant. In August, 1880, he bought a half interest in the Kansas Staats Anzeiger, a German weekly newspaper, of nine column folio, 28X44 in size and with a circulation of nearly 2,000, at that time published at Topeka, Kan., now published at Atchison, Kan., of which paper he then took charge as editor. Having bought out the interest of his partner, a Mr. P. Schmitz, he finally moved his paper to Atchison where it is now published, enlarged to a six column quarto, 30X46 inches in size, with a present circulation of over 3,000. He married in 1869, in Leavenworth, Kan., Miss R. Ebenhack. His family consists to-day, besides himself, of his wife and two children, a girl named Maggie, and a boy named Willie. He is a member of the Atchison Turnverein, Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F., and Winfield Lodge, No. 18, A. O. U. W., in which societies he has held several offices.

M. PAUL HOFFMAN, book-keeper, came to Kansas in June, 1877, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since. He is a member of Atchison Turnverein, of which association he is secretary: a member of the Harugari Society and of the Knights of Pythias of Allentown, Pa. Mr. Hoffman was born in the city of Berlin, Prussia, September 21, 1847, and lived in his native city until his seventeenth year, when he came to America, and located in New York City, where he lived six years, and was salesman for his father, Richard P. Hoffman, in the wholesale furniture business. From New York he went to Philadelphia, where he lived two years and was in the same business. From there he went to Emaus, Lehigh County, Pa., where he secured a position as book-keeper in the iron works at that place, which position he held for eight years, and then went to Easton where he lived about one year, and was engaged in making vinegar. From Easton he came to Kansas. Married in August, 1871, to Miss Lillie Sussman, a native of Easton, Pa. They have three children living, whose names are: Amelia, Paul R., Louise.

CHARLES HOLBERT, a native of Monroe, Orange County, N. Y., came to Kansas and located at Atchison in May, 1857. He then engaged in the banking business with H. L. Davis, with whom he remained until 1861, during which year he served as City marshall. In the fall of 1862, in company with Major Grimes, he was engaged in the Quartermaster's Department of the army, and stationed for three years at Rolia, Mo. From Rolia he was removed to Fort Leavenworth, from whence after a short stay of three months, he returned to his home, where he remained until February, 1866. He was then stationed at Salt Lake with Major Grimes, and at the expiration of one year was transferred to Fort Laramie, where he remained until June, 1868. Returning to Atchison he embarked in the furniture business, which he carried on until 1874. From 1876 to June, 1878, he was in St. Louis with his old partner, Major Grimes, and for the two succeeding years with the Central Branch Railroad Company. Since that time he has been employed by Moulton & Yates, as clerk and collector. Mr. Holbert was born December 2, 1831. At the age of fourteen he removed from his home in Monroe to New York City, where he remained until he came to Kansas, in 1857. In 1853 he was married in New York City to Miss Ellen Neiligan, a native of Ireland. Their children are, William B., Anna A., Ida, Clifton B. and Adrian D. Mr. Holbert is a member of the Knights of Honor; was County Treasurer in 1858 and '59; was Alderman during the first and second terms of the City Council, and was a member of the School Board four years.

DANIEL J. HOLLAND, M. D., physician and surgeon, located in Atchison in September, 1877. He was born February 5, 1853, at Sharon, Ohio, of Huguenot ancestry, but received his early education in North Carolina, where he lived until the fall of 1864. At that time he went to Nazareth, Pa., graduating from Nazareth Hall, Northampton County, three years later. He then pursued his medical studies at Philadelphia, graduating from Jefferson Medical College in that city, March, 1876, and remaining in Philadelphia as resident physician and surgeon at the city hospital until his removal to Atchison. Dr. Holland is a member of the State Medical Society, and Grand Chancellor of the K. of P. His time and attention are entirely devoted to his profession, he being now a surgeon for the Burlington and Missouri, in Nebraska, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, and the Atchison, Topekas and Santa Fe roads. Possessing a thorough mastery of his profession, added to native adaptedness to its practice, Dr. Holland, although young, stands to-day the peer of any surgeon in the State. He was married December, 1877, to Mary E. Prunty, a native of Jacksonville, Ill. Their children are, Frank H. and Wm. L.

CHARLES A. HOOPER, druggist, came to Kansas in the fall of the year 1879, and located at Atchison, where he has lived since. Mr. H. is a member of Castalia Lodge, I. O. Good Templars, of the city of Atchison, and of the Home Social Club. He was born in Decatur, Adams County, Ind., September 29, 1860, and lived in his native place until his eleventh year, when his parents moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he lived until his sixteenth year, when he went to St. Mary's College at South Bend, Ind., where he remained for two years pursuing his studies, and from there went to Valparaiso, Ind., where he remained for six months, taking a commercial course in the Northern Indiana Normal College; at the expiration of this time he went to Chicago, where for eight months he was in the employ of Dr. Rose, of that city. From Chicago he came to Kansas. Mr. Hooper is at present (June, 1882), connected with the large wholesale drug house of John W. Allen & Co., where he holds an important position. His father is a lawyer, and resides at Fort Wayne, Ind.

CHIEF JUSTICE HORTON. The antiquity of the Horton family is established by the fact that one Robert de Horton manumitted a bondman to his manor of Horton, long before the time of Henry Larey, Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310. It is also ascertained that the Hortons had a manor house in Great Horton, at a remote period. The word Horton, in the Anglo-Saxon language, means an exclosure, or garden of vegetables. It is said to be derived from ort and tun, ort meaning plant and tun enclosed. The name is evidently of latin origin and has been known in England ever since the conquest of Caesar. The Horton coat-of-arms in England is as follows: a stag's head cabossed, silver; attired, gold; and for distinction, a cantone ermine. Crest, out of the waves of the sea proper, a tilting spear erect,gold; enfiled with a dolphin, sliver finned, gold, and charged with a shell. The motto, "Quod vult, valde vult:" What he wills he wills cordially and without stint. William Horton, Esq., of Frith House in Barksland, Halifax, descended from the above mentioned Robert Horton. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hanson, Esq., of Toothill and died about 1640. He had issue as follows: William Horton, of Barksland, or Bark Island Hall, who purchased in the fifteenth of Charles I, the estate of Howroyde, was born about 1576; Joseph Horton, born about 1578. Barnabas Horton, the ancestor of the Horton family in America, was the son of Joseph Horton, above mentioned, and was born in the little hamlet of Mously, Leicestershire, on the 13th of July (old style), 1600. He came over in the ship "Swallow," between 1633 and '38, and landed at Hampton. Mass. In 1640, he came to New Haven, Conn., and on the 21st day of October, 1640, assisted by the venerable Rev. John Davenport and Gov. Eaton, organized themselves into a Congregational Church and sallied to the east end of Long Island, now Southold. They had all been members of Puritan churches in England. He built the first frame dwelling house ever erected on the east of Long Island, and that house, in 1876, was still standing and occupied. He died at Southold, on the 13th day of July, 1680, aged eighty years. This Barnabas Horton is known in the history of the Horton family as "Barnabas, the old Puritan. " He was a man of sincere piety, and a warm advocate of civil and religious freedom. His third son was born in the autumn of 1640, and was called Caleb. He settled at Cutchoque, Southold Township, Long Island, and died October 3, 1702. Caleb's first child was born September 23, 1666, and was named Barnabas, after the "Old Puritan. " Barnabas, number two, had a second son who was also named Barnabs, who was born in Southold, Long Island, about 1690. In 1732, he moved to Goshen, N. Y. The fifth son of Barnabas the third was born in Southold, Long Island, in 1730, and was named Silas. The sixth child of Silas was born the 30th of June, 1770, in Goshen, N. Y., and was also called Barnabas. He married in 1794, Millicent Howell, and dies October 24, 1823, in Minnisink, Orange County, N. Y. The third child of Barnabas the fourth was born in Goshen, N. Y., February 1, 1800, and was named Harvey. He was married to Mary Bennett, and died May 10, 1840. His children were as follows: Harvey Addison, born March 13, 1832; Millicent Ellen, born September 3, 1833, and Albert Howell, born March 12, 1837. Dr. Harvey Horton was an educated and skillful physician, and practiced his profession with success in Minnisink and the adjoining towns, and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. His son, Harvey Addison, was instantly killed September 3, 1861, by the fall of a bridge with a train of cars upon it, one of which he was in, which spanned the Little Platte River, nine miles east of St. Joseph, Mo. The bridge had been partly burned by the Confederates, but left standing, ready to fall when the cars came upon it. Millicent Ellen died March 24, 1841. Albert Howell Horton, the subject of this sketch, is the second son of Dr. Harvey Horton and Mary Bennett. He was born near Brookfield, in the town of Minnisink, Orange Co., N. Y., March 12, 1837. He attended the public schools of West Town, N. Y., until thirteen years of age, and then was prepared for college at the "Farmers' Hall Academy," at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y. In 1855, entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., as a freshman, and remained two years, but was obliged to leave college on account of inability to study, owing to an affection of the eyes. In 1858, he entered the law office of Hon. J. W. Gott, at Goshen, N. Y., as a law student, and remained there until December 15, 1858, when he was admitted as a counselor and attorney-at-law, at a general term of the Supreme Court, held in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1859, he came West, with his brother, Dr. Harvey A. Horton, and selected Atchison, Kan., as his home, and has resided there ever since. In 1860, he was appointed the City Attorney of Atchison by the Mayor, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the elected City Attorney. In the Spring of 1861, he was elected City Attorney of the city, upon the Republican ticket. In September, 1861, he was appointed District Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Kansas, by Gov. Charles Robinson. He was twice elected to the same office and then resigned, to resume the practice of his profession. In 1868, he was elected one of the Electors on the Republican State ticket of Kansas, and was selected as the messenger to take the vote of Kansas to Washington. From 1861 to 1864, in addition to attending to the duties of Judge of the District Court, he assisted in editing the Weekly Champion, a newspaper printed and published at Atchison City. On May 26, 1864, he was married at Middletown, N. Y., to Anna Amelia Robertson, daughter of William Wells Robertson and Adeline Sayer. The children born to them since their marriage are as follows: Carrie Robertson, born in Middletown, N. Y., April 22, 1865; Mary Bennett, born in Atchison, Kan., July 12, 1868; Rosa Sayer, born in Atchison Kan., June 2, 1871; Albert Howell, Jr., born in Atchison, Kan., April 1, 1874. In May, 1869, Mr. Horton was appointed by President Grant, U. S. District Attorney for Kansas, and held the office until his resignation on July 18, 1873. In November, 1873, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Kansas, from Atchison City, and in November, 1876, was elected State Senator to represent Atchison County. January 1, 1877, he resigned the office of State Senator to accept the appointment of Chief Justice of Kansas, tendered him by Hon. Thomas A. Osborn, the Governor of the State of Kansas. Under this appointment he held the office of Chief Justice until the regular election in the fall of 1877, when he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, Hon. Samuel A. Kingman. In November, 1878, he was elected Chief Justice of the State for a full term of six years, and holds that office at this time. At the session of the Kansas Legislature, held in 1879, the Republicans had a large majority of the members, but were unable to agree upon a caucus nominee for the U. S. Senator. His name was presented as one of the Republican candidates to be voted for, and upon the final ballot in the joint convention of the Legislature, he received eighty votes. John J. Ingalls received eighty-six votes, and was declared elected. Three votes were scattering. Mr. Horton has been for years a member of the orders of Free Masons and Knights of Honor. He has also been one of the contributing editors of the Central Law Journal of St. Louis, Mo. ever since his promotion to the supreme bench. He is one of the vestry of Trinity Parish, Atchison, and is also a trustee of Christ's (Episcopal) Hospital at Topeka. He is now in the prime of life, in excellent health, and has before him, in the ordinary course of things, many years of activity and usefulness.

CARL L. HOWE, manager of Kansas Spice Mills, was born in Plattsburg, N. Y., November 6, 1858. Came to Atchison with his parents in 1865, received his education at that city and at Princeton, Ill. In 1878, engaged in business under firm name of Howe Bros., which continued until 1880, when he took present position. Mr. H. is a member of uniform Rank, K. of P.

GEORGE C. HOWE, shipping clerk, came to Kansas in October, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since. Mr. H. is a member of Castalia Lodge, I. O. G. T. He was born in Underhill, Vt., April 29, 1859, and lived there until he came to Kansas. Mr. Howe believes in the old adage that "a rolling stone gathers no moss. " He is steady, upright and honest, and in business has no superior for his years.

DR. ROBERT D. HUDSON, physician and surgeon, No. 1501 Main street, West Atchison, was formerly from Pennsylvania. Born in Chester County, October 9, 1845; received his literary education in and graduated from the Millersville State Normal School, of Lancaster County, Pa., and was afterwards a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, medical department, at Philadelphia, in March, 1877. Practiced in that State until 1879, when he came to Atchison and operated a drug store on the corner of Main and Liberty streets, which he ran for two years, and at the same time practiced his profession. Dr. Hudson is a thorough scholar and stands high in his profession, ranking among the first physicians in the State. During his short residence in this city he has gained the confidence and respect of the community. He is an active member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Atchison County institution of that name, and a member of the School Board of Atchison City.

WILLIAM J. HULSE, conductor on the C. B. of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, residence 712 Spruce street, between Seventh and Eighth, South Atchison, was born in Weston, Mo., March 7, 1849. Commenced railroading in 1871 with the A. & N. division of the B. & M. R. R. as car inspector of the Atchison yards. This he continued for eight months, and for the next two years was employed in these yards and those of the Missouri Pacific as yard master. He then went to Nebraska and engaged with the B. & M. R. R. as freight conductor, and remained there until the fall of 1876. Came back to Atchison, and for a short time was in company with P. Galbraith, in the farm machinery business, whose daughter Ella, the subject of this sketch subsequently married, in January, 1877. Finding, however, that railroading was his vocation, he commenced it again, this time as yard master; from that to freight conductor on the C. B. of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, but in May, 1881, was promoted to passenger conductor, which position he has since filled. Mr. Hulse is a member of the Golden Cross Lodge, No. 7, of the K. of P.; also of the Conductors' Brotherhood.

CHARLES W. HUMES, head bookkeeper for the Chicago Lumber Co., was born in Madison, Ind., July 3, 1847. He is the son of Wm. P. Humes, contractor and builder, Shelbyville, Ky. After receiving a limited education, he engaged with different merchantile firms, where he gained considerable experience as a bookkeeper. Came to Atchison in the spring of 1879, and was employed by the above firm as a bookkeeper. This he continued for one year, when he returned to his former home at Shelbyville, Ky., remaining until February, 1882. Then came back to Atchison and re-engaged with the same firm, and from the creditable manner in which he performs his duties of said position, he has gained the confidence and respect of his employers. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Howard Lodge, No. 15.

GEORGE W. HUNTER, foreman freight house, A., T. & S. Fe R. R., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 25, 1834. Received his education in the city, finishing at the Cincinnati High School. His father died in 1854, and the family moved to Whiteside County, Ill., where George W. engaged in farming, until 1858, when he took a position as second clerk on a river steamer. Was afterward advanced to first clerk. In 1861 was captured by Rebels in Arkansas; was detained a few months. On being released he returned home and entered Government service on the river for a time. In 1865 he moved to Jefferson County, Kan., and purchased a farm; shortly after, engaged in clerking on the Mississippi River, continuing in this business about three years, with headquarters at St. Joseph. Then returned to Kansas and entered the employ of the A., T. & S. Fe R. R.; was at Topeka a short time only. Then moved to Atchison; was appointed to present position in 1871. Mr. Hunter was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 1868, to Miss Matilda J. Covert, of that city. Mr. H. is a member of the K. of P., and the A. O. U. W.

J. G. HUTCHINSON, proprietor of the Avenue House, was born in Shenandoah County, Va., August 21, 1832. After leaving school, he learned the trade of miller, which he followed in Beverly, Washington Co., from 1856 to 1868; in the latter year settled in Kansas City, Mo., where he engaged in the same business. In 1873 he moved to Atchison, Kas., to take the position of head miller in the Central Mills. In 1879 he was obliged to resign his position on account of ill health. He was married in 1857, in Edenburg, Shenandoah county, Va., to Miss Miley, of that place. They have five children - Lillian (Now Mrs. C. H. McDuff); Virginia (now Mrs. J. Hellener); Lucy, Anna and Joseph Warren. Mr. H. is a prominent member of the Baptist Church.

HON. JOHN J. INGALLS, is a citizen of Kansas since October 4, 1858, and of Atchison for the past twenty-one years, made his first home in the territory in the new town of Sumner, just started a few miles below Atchison. The town proved a failure, town shares in a few years being obtained "without money and without price, and would not command ten dollars a dozen. " So wrote one of the early settlers of Sumner. In the summer of 1859, then less than a year in the Territory, Mr. Ingalls was elected Delegate from Atchison County to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, being at that time in his twenty-sixth year, and, according to the testimony of one present, "a comely youth to look upon," as well as "the recognized scholar of the convention. " In 1860, Mr. Ingalls was Secretary of the Territorial Council; in 1861, Secretary of the State Senate, and in 1862, State Senator from Atchison County. In September, 1863, in company with Albert H. Horton, he leased the Atchison Champion, editing the paper until the return of Col. Martin from the army, January, 1865. He was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by the Republican Union State Convention of 1862-63, and, as the "anti-Lane" candidate, was defeated. He was elected United States Senator to succeed S. C. Pomeroy taking his seat March 4, 1873, and at the expiration of his term of service, was re- elected to the same office, January 21, 1879. Senator Ingalls is the son of Elias Theodore and Eliza Chase Ingalls, and a lineal descendant of Edmund Ingalls, an English Puritan, who with his brother Francis emigrated from Yorkshire in 1628, and the following year founded the town of Lynn, in Massachusetts. He was born in Middletown, Mass., December 29, 1833, graduated at William College, in 1855; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857; emigrated to the territory of Kansas a year later, and devoting all his energy of mind and soul to her interests, is now thoroughly identified with the political, juristic and literary history of his adopted State. After locating in Atchison, Mr. Ingalls conscientiously devoted himself to his professional duties, finding meantime recreation and rest for himself, and giving unbounded satisfaction and pleasure to others, by writing occasional articles for publication, which Kansans think of to-day with a feeling of exhilaration. The name of Senator Ingalls is thoroughly identified with the best literature of the State, and his readers will never forget the pleasure derived from his magazine essays and sketches. During the war, Mr. Ingalls was Judge Advocate and Aide with rank of Major to Gen. George W. Deitzler, of the Volunteer State Militia, participating in the battles of Westport, Lexington and Independence, during the Price raid in the fall of 1864. He was married, September 27, 1865, at Atchison, to Anna Louisa, daughter of Hon. Mr. Chesebrough, a prominent merchant of New York City. Mr. Chesebrough removed with his family to Atchison in 1859, residing in that city until his death, which occurred in October, 1864. The children of Senator and Mrs. Ingalls, now living, are Ellsworth, Ethel, Ralph, Sheffield, Constance, Marion and Muriel.

SAMUEL IRVIN, Assistant Superintendent of the car department of the Missouri Pacific R. R. Shops, residence corner of Seventh street and Kansas avenue, was born March 26, 1846, near Toronto, Canada. Learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and in 1866, entered the car shops of the Michigan Central R. R. at Detroit, Mich., in that capacity. At the expiration of three years, he engaged with Woodard & Co., at St. Louis, Mo., then went to Fort Buford, Montana, where he was in the service of the Government, erecting forts in Government quarters, on the plains and in the mountains. After working one year at this, he returned to Detroit, Mich. and engaged in the Detroit Car Manufacturing Company for five years, and after it was changed to the Pullman Car Company, he still remained with them, and for the last five years was delivering messenger of rolling stock. In 1876, he was sent to Philadelphia with two cars for exhibition at the Centennial Exposition. In 1878, Mr. Irvin came to St. Louis, Mo., as agent for the company, where he had general supervision of all their rolling stock in the St. Louis Division. Here he remained until November, 1880, when he came to Atchison and assumed his present position with the Missouri Pacific R. R. Company. He has the supervision of 100 men and the repair of all cars west of Leavenworth. Mr. Irvin is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and Washington Chapter, Washington Commander, Knights Templar, No. 1., and also K. of H., 1284, of Atchison. His wife was formerly Miss Katie D. Esterling. They were married in Detroit, Mich., in 1868.

RICHARD A. IVERS, messenger for the United States Express Company, on the C. R. I. & P. R. R., residence South Fourth street between S. and T. The subject of this sketch was originally from Louisiana, born Nov. 11, 1834. He commenced the express business as early as 1856, his first employment in that line being with the old Richardson Express Company, on the Missouri River Steamboat Line. This he continued one year, then engaged with the United States Express Company, running from Jefferson City to St. Joseph on the boat in the summer and the Stage Line during the winter. At the breaking out of the war, Mr. Ivers was sent by Supt. J. W. Parker, in the summer of 1860, to close all express offices on the Stage Line, between Kansas City and Sedalia, and on the river between the former place and Jefferson City, all of which remained closed until the fall of '61. He then traveled for this company on the Missouri Pacific R. R. until the spring of 1863, when he left their employment and organized what was then known as Parker's Express Company. In 1865, Mr. Ivers returned to St. Louis and re-engaged with the United States Express Company, and June 8, of 1868, while running as messenger on the Missouri Pacific R. R. was robbed of $25,000, by three men, one of them engineer for the same road. The subject of this sketch was chloroformed while the robbery was committed, but six days after he started in pursuit of them, finally succeeding in capturing one of the party. By the infliction of various punishments he was made to tell who the others were, and where the money was, and Mr. Ivers succeeded in getting all the money stolen, (with the exception of ten dollars), which was all delivered safely to the company. Resuming his position, he was in 1867, promoted to general route agent for Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, filling this situation with credit to himself and his employers until 1880, when he was put in his present office. Mr. Ivers is the oldest employed expressman in Missouri, Kansas or Nebraska, and holds membership in the Expressmans' Mutual Benefit Association. He was married in December, 1856, at Jefferson City, Mo., to Miss Elizabeth Callahan. 

 T. H. JACKSON, inventor and manufacturer of the "Common Sense Liniment," has a laboratory in Atchison, where said liniment is prepared, but he is constantly on the road introducing the liniment. This liniment is fast becoming popular, being first put on market in 1879, and the manufacture of it is rapidly growing to be one of the leading industries of the thriving city of Atchison. The sale of it is extended throughout Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. Mr. Jackson is also the inventor and proprietor of "Jackson's Renovating Powders" and the "Common Sense Colic Cure," both of which are excellent preparations and deserving of attention by all needing their healing properties.

OSCAR JANSSEN, senior member of the firm of Janssen & Freyschlag, wholesale notions, came to Atchison in 1879 and entered business with the firm of G. L. Florence & Co., composed of G. L. Florence and E. W. Freyschlag. The firm was then known as Florence, Janssen & Co., Mr. Freyschlag remaining as third partner until January, 1882, when the other members bought out Mr. Florence, and established the firm under its present name. The business of Messrs. Janssen & Freyschlag is very extensive, amounting to from $75,000 to $100,000 per year. They run four notion wagons throughout Kansas and Nebraska, employing seven men. They are also gentlemen well-calculated to increase an already large and lucrative trade. He was born in Germany, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, February 27, 1830. Emigrated to America in 1851, and during the first seven years operated a retail fancy goods store at Chillicothe, Ohio, and during the Rebellion was connected with the Ohio National Gurads. In 1865 Mr. Janssen removed to St. Louis, Mo., where for fourteen years he was in the hop and brewery supply trade, being a member of the well-known firm of Charles F. Hermann & Co. His wife was Thekla Susenbeth, a native of the same part of Germany as himself, whom he married at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1854. Their family is composed of five boys and two girls.

ISAAC S. JELF, harness and saddlery, was originally from Kentucky, born in Woodford County, December 21, 1821. His father died when he was but a small child, and when eight years old he removed with his mother to Indianapolis, Ind. At the time of the California mining excitement in 1852, Mr. Jelf thought he would try his fortune in the Far West, but two years later returned to his former home. During the spring of 1856, he came west to Kansas, and took a claim of 160 acres in Mt. Pleasant Township, where he resided improving his land for seven years, at the expiration of which time he moved to Atchison and opened a harness shop, being now one of the oldest dealers in the city. He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for more than thirty-five years. His wife was Miss Emma Stops, of Illinois, whom he married October, 1867. They are parents of two sons - John W. and James T.

H. N. JEWETT, of the firm of Howell, Jewett & Co., located in Atchison in January, 1879, becoming a member of the present firm in January, 1882. He is a native of Ft. Madison, Lee County, Iowa. In 1872 he removed to Chicago, and engaged in the lumber business in that city, since 1874 having been associated with Mr. Howell. They are now carrying on an extensive wholesale lumber business in Atchison, their sales extending to Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, and their business in 1881 amounted to $611,095, nearly doubling in one year.

HERMAN JOCHEMS, dealer in hardware, stoves and tinware, came to Kansas, June 4, 1861, and located in Atchison, where he lived for fifteen years, and then removed to Winfield, Cowley County, where he was engaged in his present business five years, when he returned to Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. Jochems, by his sagacity, industry and business tact, has succeeded in building up an immense business, and is rated as one of the "solid" men of Atchison. He was born in Cleve, Prussia, April 16, 1847, and lived in the city of his birth until his thirteenth year, when his parents emigrated to America and settled in Atchison, where they now live. Mr. Jochems was married in Atchison, May 21, 1871, to Miss Crezentea Ostertag, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. They have seven children living, whose names are as follows: Margurite, Elizabeth, Johannah, Herman, Albertina, Carl and Wilhelm.

B. F. JOHNSON, M. D., physician and surgeon, located in Mount Pleasant, Atchison Co., Kan., May 10, 1870, residing there until his removal to the city of Atchison in January, 1880, since which time he has continuously practiced in that place. Dr. Johnson was born in Georgetown, Ky., his early education being in the schools of that city. He afterwards attended the St. Louis Medical College four years, and also the Missouri Medical College, graduating from the latter in March, 1860. He commenced the practice of his profession a year later - March, 1861, at Platte City, Platte Co., Mo. Dr. Johnson is a member of the State Medical Society, a member of the A., F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F. He was married in St. Joseph, Mo., March, 1870, to Malvina Hartman, a native of Indiana. Their two children are Garland and Theresa.

G. H. T. JOHNSON, M. D., physician and surgeon, one of the old homoeopathic physicians of Atchison, located in this place March 4, 1867, as a partner of Dr. J. A. Rubicon, taking charge of a portion of his practice. He remained with Dr. Rubicon until the fall of 1868, when he went to St. Louis and graduated February 25, 1869, from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri. Had previously studied medicine in St. Louis, Mo., and Cleveland, Ohio, and attended a full course of lectures in each of these cities. Is also a member of the American Institute of Homoepathy. In 1875 he was elected President of the Kansas State Medical Society, and in 1876 attended as delegate the World Homoeopathic Convention at Philadelphia. He was two years a member of the Kansas State Board of Medical Examiners, and has been for the last three years Treasurer of the Kansas State Homoeopathic Medical Society. March 10, 1881, Dr. Johnson was honored with the degree of Ad Eundem, conferred by the St. Louis College of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. The doctor is a member of the orders of A., F. & A. M., K. of P., A. O. U. W., and I. O. O. F., having been a representative from the latter order to the Grand Lodge. He was married at Atchison, June 2, 1869, to Drusilla G. Bowman, a native of Brownsville, and daughter of Capt. G. W. Bowman, one of the pioneers of Atchison, and a member of the Old Town Company. Capt. Bowman died in Atchison, in August, 1869. Has been for many years a prominent Republican, and delagate to city and county conventions.

W. C. JOHNSON of H. B. Salis & Co., Manager of the Union Depot Hotel, was born near Aurora, Dearborn Co., Ind., December 11, 1847. he was educated in his native country at Moore's Hill Male and Female Institute. After leaving school was engaged in the grain business until about 1876, then took a position as traveling salesman for a St. Louis carriage manufacturing establishment. In 1878 he settled in Solomon City, Kan., where he engaged in grain business under firm name of W. C. Johnson & Co. An interest he still retains. Came to Atchison in January, 1882, to open the depot hotel. Mr. J. was married in Vincennes, Ind., October 1, 1867, to Miss Eliza D. Kuykendall. They have two children - Fannie and William.

DAVID D. JOHNSTON, dealer in fine groceries, corner of Ninth and Kearney streets, came with his parents to Kansas in 1859, and lived on a farm eight miles west of Atchison. Some years afterward commenced running an express wagon in the city, and after abandoning that, clerked, and followed various occupations until August, 1879. At this time established his present business, at which he has done exceedingly well, his trade continually increasing. Mr. Johnston was born in Scotland near the city of Borstnest, April 24, 1849. Came to America when but a small boy with his parents, William and Elizabeth Johnston, living in Utah until their location here. He married May 20, 1872, in Atchison, Miss Trachia Aull.

WILLIAM STURGIS JONES, keeper of restaurant, came to Kansas in September, 1877 and located in Atchison where he has since lived and carried on business. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. During the late war, Capt. Jones commanded his own steamer "Little Dorritt," and rendered efficient aid to the Government. He also at one time commanded the steamers "Tom Swan" and the "Bluff City. " Capt. Jones was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, August 14, 1838, and lived in his native place until his fourteenth years, when he became a pilot of the Muskingum River. At this employment he continued for eighteen years. In 1863, Capt. Jones was appointed Librarian of the State of Minnesota, by Gov. Miller, which position he held three years. After this he ran the steamer "War Eagle," between La Crosse and St. Paul; then was engaged in farming and rearing fine-blooded horses, at Owatonna, Minn. From the latter place he went to California, where he remained a couple of years, and then returned to Kansas City, and from there to Fayetteville, Ark., where he remained about a year and was engaged in the furniture business. From Fayetteville he came to Atchison. Capt. Jones was married July 3, 1875, to Miss Mary Norton, a native of Des Moines, Iowa.

REV. PETER KASSENS, O. S. B., parish priest of Atchison Parish, came to Kansas, October 4, 1863, and located in Atchison, at St. Benedict's College. He is a member of the Benedictine order, spiritual adviser of the Catholic Knights of America; of the St. Joseph Benevolent Society and of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Society; director of the Young Ladies' and Young Mens' Sodalities, and principal of the Parochial school attached to St. Benedict's Parish. Father Kassens was born in the Province of Osnabrueck, of the then Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, May 28, 1841, and lived in his native place until September 17, 1858, when he came to the United States and located in Vincennes, Ind., where he remained four years, and was engaged in shoemaking; thence he went to St. Louis, where he remained one year and one half, and then went to St. Benedict's College at Atchison, where he remained and prosecuted his studies for two years and then went to St. Vincent's, Pennsylvania, where he remained one year in the novitiate of the order, and then returned to Atchison where he continued his studies for one year; then went to St. Louis where he attended Jones Commercial College, to fit himself for the profession of bookkeeper, and then again went to St. Vincent to prosecute his theological studies, and remained there two years. He then again returned to St. Benedict's and became professor of bookkeeping and mathematics at this institution until 1875, when he performed one year's missionary work in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska; and then again became professor at St. Benedict's of the same branches he had taught previously. April, 1881, he was appointed parish priest of Atchison Parish, which position he holds at present.

W. J. KEHLER, butcher, West Main street. This gentleman was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 7, 1850. His father, Dr. J. S. Kehler, came to Atchison County, with his family, locating here at an early day, and was one of the first practitioners in northeastern Kansas, He was very favorably known for a long distance around the city; was Coroner of the county for a time. He was a surgeon in the army, for the Second Colorado Regiment, which was afterward consolidated with the Second, and served all through the Rebellion. His death occurred in Atchison, in 1869. W. J. Kehler was reared and educated in Atchison, learned the butcher's trade which he has principally followed. In the season of 1882, he built a fine building on West Main street where he carried on a flourishing business being one of the most popular dealers in the city. He was married in 1876, to Miss Sophie McNamara, daughter of one of Atchison's oldest and most respected citizens, who was born in Kansas in 1855. They have had three children, Grace and Elizabeth, and Walter, deceased.

A. KEITHLINE, farmer and stock-breeder, four and one-half miles west of Atchison, on Parallel road, was born near Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa., in 1822, and was raised on a farm. In 1848, went to Minnesota and engaged in lumbering for a short time, when he worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1850, returned to Beach Haven, Pa., and clerked in a general store until the winter of 1855, when he moved to White Pidgeon, Mich., where he clerked in the Farmer's Union Store until the spring of 1859, when he moved to Atchison, Kan., where he clerked for Walter Bros. until 1864. That year he moved to his farm, then a piece of wild land, but now one of the best farms in Shannon Township. It comprises 160 acres, all under cultivation, and sixty acres of pasture. He has fifteen acres in fruit trees and two acres in walnut trees, and two and one-half miles of hedge. He has been engaged in breeding fine stock. He was married November 5, 1854, to Miss Rosetta Warner, at Beach Haven, Pa., and has two children, Gilbert D. and Cora C. Was a member of the Sixteenth Regiment Kansas Militia during 1863-64, and was called out to repel Price when on his raid in 1864. He is a member of the Washington Lodge, No. 5, A., F. & A. M., Atchison.

J. S. KELLOGG, of the firm Bowman & Kellogg, proprietors of the Central Mills, was born in West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., June 12, 1830. His parents moved to Binghamton, N. Y., when he was two years old, and about 1838 settled in Columbia County, N. Y., where he received his education. At an early age he commenced clerking in mercantile business, in which he continued about two years; then went to New York City in same occupation. About 1856, he engaged in business in Massachusetts and in 1859, moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where he became connected with the construction of what was then known as the "Platte Country Railroad," now the K. C., St. J. & C. B. R. R. He held the position of auditor, and was afterward appointed assistant superintendent. About 1873, he became connected with the Central Branch R. R., in 1875 resigned and settled in Jackson County, Kan., where he continued engaged in farming until he bought an interest in the Central Mills in 1879. Mr. Kellogg was married in Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y., December 11, 1857, to Miss Osborn of Waterville. They have five children, James, John, Waldo, Wallace and Henry. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the Episcopal Church.

MICHAEL F. KELLY, foreman of the Missouri Pacific Copper Shops, residence 1638 Commercial street. Was formerly a resident of Utica, N. Y., where he was born August 1, 1844. After learning the trade of coppersmith he removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1863, and went to work in the railroad shops of the Chicago and Alton, where he afterward became foreman, having between four and five men under his supervision. In 1871, Mr. Kelly removed to Little Rock, Ark., and was there employed in the copper department of the Iron Mountain railroad shop as foreman of the same, and here he remained until his removal to Atchison, which occurred in 1879, when he accepted his present position. Mr. K. has had a great many years' experience in this line of work, and careful attention and study have perfected him in all details of the same. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., both of Friendship Lodge No. 5, and Hesperian Encampment No. 6. He was married in Utica, N. Y., in 1863, to Miss Agnes McCarty, of that city. Their family consists of four sons and one daughter.

KETCHUM & CO., steam saw-mill. Present firm organized in 1878. It consists of William Ketchum and Mr. Kring. They employ about twenty-five hands in all, both in mill and woods, and cut about 10,000 feet daily of native timber. Mr. Ketchum, senior member of the firm, was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., April 7, 1842. His parents settled in Will County, Ill., in the same year, and here the subject of this sketch was educated, and remained until 1851, when he settled in Atchison, Kansas, where he engaged in lumber business under firm name of Jones & Co. This firm had one of the first saw-mills built in the city. Since that time Mr. Ketchum has been actively engaged in this line of business. He also operated for some nine years large mills in Eastern Texas, which he has since sold. He was married in Atchison, November 17, 1873, to Miss Hattie Kipp, of Atchison. They have two children - William and Edith. Mr. K. is a member of the Baptist Church, and of the A. F. & A. M.

L. KIPER & SONS, wholesale hides and leather. There are but few institutions in the city of Atchison that have had a more substantial growth than the above house. It was established in 1863, by L. Kiper. Commencing in a small way, it has steadily developed, until at this date (1882), the business done by this establishment throughout Kansas and Southern Nebraska, will compare with any house in the great Northwest. Mr. L. Kiper, the head of the firm, is a native of Germany, and was born in Prussia, September 18, 1829, where he attained his twenty-first year. He learned the shoemakers' trade in his native country and pursued that vocation in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and other cities, and in 1858, came to Kansas, locating in Douglas County, where he opened a shop, and did business until the spring of 1863, when he became identified with the commercial interests of Atchison, making his debut as a buyer of wool, hides, etc. By his sterling business qualifications and close attention to his legitimate pursuits, he was very successful, and in 1868, established and commenced the wholesale leather business. Mr. K. is recognized as one of Atchison's most worthy and respected citizens. He has always been prominent in contributing toward any commendable enterprise that would further the interests of his adopted city. He has never been a political aspirant, preferring the bustle of business to official honors. However, at the present time, he is serving as one of the Commissioners of Atchison County. When he made his advent in Kansas, at an early day he took up the gauntlet in favor of the Free State. Mr. K. belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and to the Council of Atchison, of which he is a charter member. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Knights of Honor. He married in 1851, Miss Yette Hechburg, of Germany. By this union they have six children -Julius, Herman, Bluma, Charles, David and Hannah. The four sons are live and sterling business men, and all interested in the business, which comprises the firm of L. Kiper & Sons.

J. W. KIRKHAM, machine-pressed brick manufacturer, Atchison, Kansas. Was born in England. in 1833. At an early age his parents emigrated to America, and settled in Texas. In 1850 to '53, worked at the painter's trade. In 1854 engaged in contracting and building, at Mount Pleasant, Texas; also engaged in making brick, at that place, and continued in the business until 1862, when on account of the war, salt being very scarce, he engaged in manufacturing salt. In 1863, fearing that he would be compelled to enter the Confederate army, he left his property and his family started for Kansas, and after many hardships they succeeded in reaching Leavenworth with $1. 50 in good money. Shortly after his arrival there, he opened a photography gallery, which business he followed until 1881, when he was appointed Acting Superintendent of the Leavenworth railroad bridge, and in 1882 came to this place, and in company with John F. Price, began the manufacturing of machine-pressed brick on an extensive scale, and have facilities for the making of three to four million brick during the season, and employ twenty hands. Was married in 1857, at Mount Pleasant, Texas, to Miss Fannie Price, who died in 1864, leaving two children. In 1871, was married to Miss Katie Underwood, at Leavenworth, Kansas, and has four children. Is a member of King Solomon Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., Leavenworth, and has been Secretary for ten years. Is a member of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., and also the Grand Encampment. Belongs to Ivanhoe Lodge, K. of P., Leavenworth.

JOHN H. KIRKMAN, foreman of manufacturing department of F. Howard & Co., was born in New York City, September 29, 1839. Received his education in the city. In 1859, he commenced learning the trade of cutter in the establishment in New York, and has since that time been uninterrupted in the business. In July, 1881, he moved to Atchison, Kansas, to organize this department for H. & Co., in which he has made a marked success.

CHARLES H. KNAUSS, painter, came to Kansas, June 12, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived, and followed his trade. Mr. Knauss is a member of G. A. R., P. O. S. of A., and I. O. O. F. He was in the army during the late war, and was a member of Company B, Forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry. He enlisted in Allentown, Pa., September 2, 1861, and was mustered out of the service October 10, 1863, at Key West, Fla.; re-enlisted in the same regiment at Key West, Fla., October 12, 1863, and was finally mustered out of the service of the United States, December 25, 1865, at Charleston, S. C. He participated in all the engagements of his command and was severely wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. Mr. Knauss was born in Allentown, Pa., November 27, 1841, and lived in his native place until he entered the army. After his discharge he returned to Allentown, and lived there until he came to Kansas. He was married November 20, 1864, in Allentown, Pa., to Miss Amanda R. Butz, a native of Allentown. They have three children living whose names are - Harry R., Lillian S., Claude E. Mr. Knauss' wife died in Atchison, September 23, 1878.

MORRIS P. KOCH, shipping clerk Regneir & Shoup, queensware establishment, came to Kansas, March 15, 1877, and located in Seneca, Nemaha County, where he remained about two years, when he came to Atchison, where he has lived, employed as a shipping clerk in the extensive queensware establishment of Regneir & Shoup. Mr. Koch was born in Allentown, Pa., August 29, 1858, and lived there until his eleventh years, when his parents moved to Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio., where they lived for two years when the returned to Allentown, where the subject of this sketch lived about eight years , when he came to Kansas.

CHARLES H. KREBS was born in Orwigsburg Landing, Schuylkill Co., Pa., February 23, 1835. His parents removed, when he was one year old, to Pottsville, in the same county, where he was raised and received his education. In September, 1854 , he removed to Fremont, Ohio, where he resided until he came to Atchison in 1868. While at Fremont, he was a member of the Ohio National Guards of the State Militia, being Captain of Company E, of the One Hundredth Regiment. On locating in Atchison in March, 1868, Mr. Krebs engaged as bookkeeper and cashier of the Land Department of the C. BB. U. P. Ry., which position he held about three years, and then became general accountant of the road. The latter position he retained until 1874, when he entered upon the duties of County Clerk, having been elected to that office in the fall of 1873. He was subsequently re-elected, and now holds the position. During a part of 1872-7, he was a member of the Board of Aldermen from the Third Ward. February 1, 1882, he engaged in real estate, loan and abstract business in partnership with J. O. Peebler. He was married at Fremont, Ohio, February 1, 1858, to Violetta Kridler, of Fremont. Their three children are Minnie, Rolia C. and LeRoy. Col. Krebs is a member of I. O. O. F., having been Grand Master of the State from October, 1880, to October, 1881. He is Oast Chief patriarch of the Encampment, and Past Chancellor of the K. of P.; is also a member of the K. of H.

CHARLES F. KROENING, family grocery store, corner Main and Fifteenth streets, came to Atchison in October, 1877, starting a commission business on Fifth street, but in '79 quit that and opened a grocery store as above. Mr. Kroening was born in Prussia, near Slettine, June 10, 1838; came to the United States with his parents in 1851, locating in Ozaukee County, Wis., where they farmed. Charles F. went to Chicago some years later, where he was engaged first in the milk trade, then as a grocer, afterward in a commission house, and finally in a grocery store again until 1877. He was married there in 1866 to Miss Sophia Rintelmann, born in Hanover, Germany. They are members of the German Lutheran Church, and have a family of eight children, among them only one boy.

F. L. KRUSEMARK, foreman of the coach department, M. P. shops, was born in Holstein, Germany, September 10, 1839. After finishing his schooling, he was apprenticed to the house carpentering trade; served three years at home and then spent four years in travel, working at his trade in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, devoting some time to studying his trade in the capitals of each. He then returned home and worked at his trade until the breaking out of war with Germany. He enlisted in the Danish army and participated in all the principal engagements. On the close of the war he returned home, and in November, 1865, took passage in the ship "Washington" for the United States. The vessel was dismasted, and did not get into New York City until January, 1866. He then settled in La Porte, Ind., where he was engaged for ten years in the car department of the Lake Shore Railroad. When the shops were moved he engaged in house carpentering, until disabled by a fall of 157 feet from a church steeple. On his recovery, he moved to Kansas; was appointed to his present position in 1879. He was married in La Porte, Ind., to Miss Ottele Streng, a native of Bavaria. She died in Atchison, leaving three children - Ida, Fred and Julia. Mr. K. is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the I. O. O. F.

JOHN B. KURTH, head salesman with C. Weber, clothing merchant, came to Leavenworth, Kan., with his parents in 1855. His father, John B. Kurth, started in the furniture line, and was one of the first merchants in that city. The subject of this sketch remained at home until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted with the First Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years in the same regiment, his time expiring in June, 1864. In '65 he came to Atchison and engaged with C. Weber, in whose employ he has been ever since. The subject of this sketch is a native of Prussia, born in the city of Cologne, February 14, 1844. At the time of the Great Revolution in 1848, which caused so many intelligent Germans to emigrate to America, he came with his parents, first locating at St. Louis, but in 1855 removed to Leavenworth, Kan., where one year later, his father and an elder brother were taken prisoners by the Pro-slavery party, and his mother and three children were put aboard a boat and compelled to leave, being landed at St. Louis. His father soon afterward escaped. 

 J. M. LANE, proprietor of livery stable and roller skating rink, business established in 1881. The building is of brick, 45 X 150, two stories high. He keeps about thirty head of horses and a full stock of carriages of all kinds. Was born and educated in New York. Before he entered his present business he was a brick and stone contractor and builder. His parents are old residents of the county, having settled here in 1858.

AUGUSTUS LANG was born in Prussia, July 20, 1844. In August, 1865, he emigrated to America, first locating in New York City, where he remained six months, and thence removed to St. Joe, Mo., residing in that place until he came to Kansas and settled in Troy in 1868. In 1870 he again removed, locating this time at Atchison, where he now resides, engaged in drug business. Mr. Lang was married in St. Joe, Mo., January 18, 1867, to Miss Ellen Dyer, of St. Joe, Mo. Their five children are August, Carl, Annie, Louis and Robert. Mr. Lang is a member of I. O. O. F., being P. G., and member of Grand Lodge of the Order. He is interested in the cause of education, and has been several times member of the Board.

CHARLES E. LATHROP, book-keeper for the firm of Washer & White, proprietors of Elevator "A," was born December 14, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Came to Kansas in 1877, locating at Palmer, Washington County, and embarked in the grain trade. He still does business there, owning an elevator which has a capacity of 25,000 bushels and has a grist mill in connection. Mr. Lathrop also has an elevator at Scandia, this State, and another at Republic City, the former having a capacity of 7,000 bushels, the latter for 8,000. During the year 1878 the subject of this sketch came to Atchison and engaged with the above firm, where he has since remained. Being a gentleman of unusual ability and strict attention to business, he has won the entire confidence and respect of his employers, and the approbation of a host of friends, his reputation as an energetic business man is constantly increasing. Mr. Lathrop was one of the original members of the Atchison Board of Trade, being now chairman of the Call Board. He is also identified with the K. of P., Golden Cross Lodge No. 7.

LUE & LUGTON, proprietors of Lindell Hotel. D. T. Lugton was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 8, 1854. received his education in his native city. In 1869, he moved to Kansas with his parents and located in Lawrence. He finished his education at the old State University, and in 1874 moved to Atchison, to take the position of Clerk at the Otis House. Retaining this position until the firm was organized, of which he is a member, in October, 1878.

O. A. LEE, city weighmaster, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Erie County, December 22, 1817. His father, Stephen C., was a pioneer in Erie County; he had been Captain in the army during the war of 1812. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. O. A. received the advantages of what was considered a liberal education in the common schools. He adopted and pursued for several years the vocation of school teaching, in Alleghany County. He eventually embarked in the coal trade and was identified with that branch of industry for fifteen years, doing business in Pittsburgh and McKeesport. In 1858 came west, went to Pike's Peak, was at what is now Denver City before there was a house built; was engaged in mining and speculating until the spring of 1862; came to Kansas, locating temporarily in Jefferson County; came to Atchison County in January, 1863, engaging in farming four miles south of Atchison; for a number of years was closely identified with the agricultural development of the county. A few years ago removed to Atchison, and was the first to open a coal yard in the city which he did in connection with a feed store which he still operates. Mr. Lee is a well-informed gentleman, thoroughly conversant with the important issues of the day. He is one of the most public spirited citizens in the city - one who aims to keep pace with the progress of time. He was married in 1843 to Miss Martha J. Pollock, of Elizabeth township, Alleghany County, Pa. They have by this union three daughters - Mary A., now Mrs. Hanson; Lizzie and Ella. The last mentioned ladies are favorably known in Atchison as educators, being teachers in the city schools for the past ten years. Mr. Lee, wife and family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

THOMAS M. LEE, merchant, was born in Atchison County, Kansas, March 13, 1861. He is a member of St. Benedict's Church. Mr. Lee has lived in Atchison County ever since his birth. About four years ago he removed to the city of Atchison and became connected with the large wholesale and retail grocery house of William F. Dolan, in whose employ he remained two years, and then entered that of Symns & Co., wholesale grocers, where he was about six months, and then returned to his home and went to farming, in which he was engaged until the first of March, 1882, when he went into business for himself. His parents are still living in Walnut township, Atchison County.

GEORGE W. LECHLER, JR., car accountant for the A., T. & S. F. R. R. Co., residence corner of Eleventh and Laramie streets, was born in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pa., May 16, 1858. His first experience in the railroad business was in the transfer depot of the Pennsylvania Central R. R. in his native State, where he was engaged previous to coming to Atchison. This transpired in October, 1878, when he engaged with above company, first as freight loader, then as check clerk, and finally, in May, 1881, was advanced to his present situation. Mr. Lechler is a young man of ability and careful industry, and is bound to make a success of whatever he may undertake, always receiving the approbation of his employers. He was married in Atchison in 1871, to Miss Minnie Gehrett.

JACOB LEU, dealer in hardware, stoves, tinware, etc. Business established in 1860 by Mr. Leu. He carries a stock of about $20,000 and employs seven men. Mr. Leu was born in Switzerland June 28, 1833. In 1850 he came to the United States and located in Adrian, Mich., where he learned the trade of tinsmith, and continued at this until 1857, in which year he settled in Atchison, Kan., working at his trade until he established his present business. Mr. Leu has been twice married. His first marriage was in Atchison, June 12, 1859. Mrs. Leu died leaving three children - Belle, Grand W. and Lawrence W. He was married to his present wife in Atchison, December 16, 1870. She was Miss Minnie Ward of Indiana. They have three children - Ida, Minnie and Jessie. Mr. Leu is a member of the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery in the Masonic Fraternity; also belongs to the A. O. U. W.

JACOB LEVIN, manager of the Western Union Telegraph office, Atchison, was born in Beaufort County, S. C., January 11, 1851, and since learning telegraphy has been operator at the following different stations: Charleston, S. C.; Savannah, Augusta and Athens, Ga.; Tallahasee, Fla., and St. Louis, Mo. Has also been manager of the telegraph office at Sedalia, Mo. and Dennison, Texas, and was in the South during the war. In 1876, Mr. Levin took charge of the office in this city, but had been operator here since 1873. At that time there were only five men employed there, now there are nineteen and the business has increased about eight times the original amount. Mr. Levin has eight men under his control and receives all news of the Associated Press from every part of the world the same day it transpires. He is a gentleman fully competent and reliable, and is excellently qualified for this position, as he understands his business thoroughly. His wife is a daughter of Dr. J. G. Miller, an old settler of this city.

J. J. LOCKER, Probate Judge of Atchison County, emigrated to Kansas April 1, 1857; settled on southwest quarter Section 32, Township 6, Range 19, and lived on that claim until the fall of 1858, when he lost the place, it being disposed of to other parties at the land sale. Misfortunes came fast upon him at this period - the loss of his father by death in August, 1857, and of his mother in February, 1858. Mr. Locker continued to live in the neighborhood of the old place until the fall of 1861, when he commenced teaching school in the vicinity of Locust Grove, then called Spring Hill, and taught the winter term. The next summer - August, 1862, - he enlisted as private in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry and remained with that regiment about two years. November 10, 1864, he was mustered in as Second Lieutenant of Company B, Second Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, promoted to First Lieutenant July 12, 1865, and mustered out in the following November. Throughout his term of service with this regiment he was acting adjutant of the regiment and participated in all the engagements of his command. Was examined and recommended for retention in the regular army. Was offered a second lieutenancy, but declined on account of ill health. The records of the regiment were corrected by Mr. Locker, and are said to be the most accurate of any colored regiment in the field. The good service the Second Colored performed at Jenkins' Ferry deserves most certainly a faithful chronicler. After leaving the army, he returned to Locust Grove, Mount Pleasant Township, where he again taught school until January, 1867, when he was appointed to a position in the office of the Secretary of State, which he was obliged to resign after a few months, in consequence of a severe attack of typhoid fever, which developed into an illness of two months in length. In the fall of 1867, he was elected Register of Deeds, and after serving two terms in that position, went back to his farm, where he remained until May, 1879, serving several years as postmaster during the period. He was then elected Probate Judge, and in 1880 was re-elected to the same position, which he occupies at the present time. Judge Locker was born in Sheffield, England, February 13, 1839. He came to America in 1853, with his parents, Robert and Elizabeth (Preston) Locker. Their first location was Meadville, Crawford Co., Pa., where they remained until they came to Kansas, with the exception of one year in Butler County, Pa. Judge Locker was married at Locust Grove, April 23, 1867, to Emily C. Beeson, of Kentucky. They have seven children, Minerva Edith, George Elmer, Nora May, Ambrose Lewis, Homer Hardy, Elsie Arabel and Effie Isabel. The fourth named is a triplet; the last two twins. Four of their children have died - William Preston, Albert L., and Alfred L., in infancy, and Charles Elbert, at the age of ten and one-half years.

ISAAC LOEWENBERG, wholesale and retail millinery, hair goods, notions and fancy goods, No. 419 Commercial street. Came to Kansas during the spring of 1879, and for a time followed pack-peddling. In 1880 opened his present business on Fifth street, Atchison. During the spring of 1881 moved to 614 Commercial street; to 419 Commercial street this fall. He has the most extensive and complete line of millinery goods in the city, and during the year 1882 his trade amounted to $25,000. By this it will be seen that he is a live and energetic business man to have increased his trade to such an extent in so short a time. He was born in Prussia, at the city of Paderborn, Province of Westphalen, June 20, 1856. He came to the United States in 1874, locating first in New York City, where he was engaged with his elder brother in the wholesale glue business.

THOMAS C. LOGAN, engineer of the Atchison Water Company, is a Pennsylvanian, born in Meadville, October 9, 1847. Learned the engineer business in the Ottawa machine shops and foundry in Illinois, and for five years was engineer on the city fire engine of that place. In 1878 he came to Atchison, and from that time until he got his present situation, was engaged with Blair & Auld of the City Mills. Mr. L. is a member of the A. O. U. W. He was married January 3, 1871, in Ottawa, Ill., to Miss Laura Phelps, of that place, who is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their family consists of four children: Harvey J., Charley, Burton B. and Lora A.

FREDERICK M. LOGEMAN, dealer in live stock, came to Kansas in the spring of 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since. Mr. Logeman was born in Columbus, Columbia Co., Wis., November 1, 1852, and lived there until the year 1873. From there he went to Newton, Ia., where he was engaged five years in the live stock business. From Newton he came to Kansas. Mr. Logeman was married in the City of Atchison, May 12, 1881, to Miss Mary L. Weir, a native of Indiana.

JAMES A. LOPER, now County Treasurer of Atchison County, came to Kansas in 1866, working one year on a farm in Shannon Township, before coming to Atchison. On his arrival in the city, he entered the office of the Champion, serving the first year as "devil," at a starting salary of $100. After remaining three years as an apprentice, he was promoted to traveling agent and correspondent; then to foreman of newspaper department; to assistant manager and finally to business manager, which position he retained until he was elected County Treasurer in the fall of 1881. Mr. Loper was born in Elmer, N. J., September 28, 1846. He was educated in the common schools of his neighborhood, and on the 26th of April, 1871, was married to Miss Maggie H. Couch, of Mason County, W. Va. They have one child - Kittie H. Mr. Loper belongs to the orders of K. of P. and K. of H.

DAVID LUKENS, of Lukens & North, proprietors of the Diamond Mills, was born in Mifflen County, Pa., December 19, 1833. His parents died while he was young, and he was taken by an uncle to Perry County, where he received his schooling, and was taken by his uncle into a sawmill when twelve or fourteen years old. About 1855, he struck out for himself and went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he worked in a sawmill about two years. In 1857, settled in Atchison, Kas., where he was employed to run a sawmill. During the years 1860-61 and '62, he engaged in mining in Colorado, then returned to Atchison. In 1864, he purchased the sawmill he had previously been employed in, known as the "Pomeroy Mill," located at Winthrop, on the opposite side of the river from Atchison. From this time until 1877, he did a very large business in lumber, at the same time raising large crops of corn on the Missouri bottoms, some years as high as 10,000 bushels of corn, most of which he fed to his own teams. He returned in 1877, and the following year commenced the erection of the Diamond Mills. Mr. Lukens was married in Lancaster County, Pa., January 1 , 1868, to Miss Mary J. North, of that county. They have four children living - Arthur, Edwin, Mary and David Jr. Mr. L. is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

EUGENE H. LEUTWEILER was born in Rochester, N. Y., September 21, 1850, and lived in his native town until 1863. He then moved to York, Pa., where he resided until 1865, then returned to Rochester and remained about three years. Then removed to Mississippi, engaged in merchantile business, and remained in the State until he came to Kansas, and located in Atchison, April 1879 . Soon after his arrival in the city, Mr. Leutweiler established a grocery store, which he carried on until the spring of 1882, being also Superintendent of the Street Railway until June 1882. While in Mississippi, he was member of the Legislature of that State, and for six years Deputy Chancery Clerk at Canton, Miss. He was married at Canton, June 17, 1873, to Edith Cadlen, of St. Louis, Mo. They have two children - John O. and Eugene, Jr. Mr. Leutweiler is Grand Reporter of the Knights of Honor, and Dictator of K. of H. Lodge, 1234. He is a member of Knights of Pythias.

SAMUEL McBRIDE, laborer, was born in Centre township, Atchison Co., Kas., April 9, 1858. A member of the Christian Church in Atchison, Mr. McBride has lived in Atchison County ever since his birth, excepting six months, when he was in Western Texas, engaged in railroading. He was reared on a farm near Pardee, and is a son of Thomas Crawford McBride and Mary Mason McBride, both natives of Tennessee. He discontinued farming March 27, 1881, when he went to Texas, returning from there August 1, 1881, and located at Atchison, entering the employ of A. B. Symons & Co., wholesale grocers, with whom he has been since. His parents now reside on the farm near Pardee, where they first located in 1854.

JAMES A. McCOLGIN, engineer on the Central Branch of the M. P. R. R.; residence No. 1429 Santa Fe street; was originally from Indiana; born October 9, 1839, in Morgan County. Began railroading on the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis road in 1861; his first position was that of fireman. In the spring of 1865, took charge of his first engine, but after running until the fall of the same year, he removed to Richmond, Ind., where he was engaged in a plow manufactory until 1870. He then came to Topeka, Kan., and for six years was in the employ of the A., T. & S. F. R. R. Co. In 1878 the subject of this sketch commenced running for the Central Branch Union Pacific, since the Missouri Pacific has taken charge of it it is called C. B. Div. M. P., where he has since been engineer. In July, 1878, he ran into the washout one mile west of Palmer, but fortunately there was no one hurt, and this is the only accident he has had happen to him on the road that was of any consequence. Mr. McC is chief Engineer of the Locomotive Brotherhood, Division 164, and was one of the original members of the same. He married at Marengo, Iowa, February 28, 1878, Miss Addie C. Bullis, of that State.

ROBERT McCRIE, merchant tailor, was born in Bath, Somersetshire, England, December 31, 1830, and learned the tailor's trade in his native country. Emigrated to the United States in 1858, living first in Iowa City for one year, afterward in St. Joseph, Mo., nearly one year, and at the expiration of that time came to Atchison, commencing in business as a merchant tailor. He is one of the oldest merchants in the city and his trade has increased to a wonderful extent, owing to the industry and good management of the same, having, in addition to all his city trade, a great deal of custom work throughout the northwestern portion of the State. He has in his employ seven men. Mr. McCrie is a stockholder, and was for a number of years one of the directors of the Atchison National Bank.

SAMUEL S. McDONALD, Section Boss of the Missouri Pacific track in the yards; residence corner of Union and Commercial streets, West Atchison; is a native of New York State, born in Monroe County, May 4, 1837. He served three years as a soldier in the Rebellion with Company F, of the Eighty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and in 1863 was promoted to First Lieutenant, at the battle of Stone River; and later at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, was commissioned Captain, both for meritorious service. In 1869, Mr. McDonald began railroad constructing in Michigan, and was employed on various roads in that State until the spring of '79. Then came to Kansas and engaged with the M. P. R. R. Co., and has since been in their employ. In March, 1882, he was appointed to his present situation, where he has charge of about twenty miles of road, and the supervision of ten men. Mr. McDonald is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. Was married in Missouri in 1881 to Miss Sarah Godfrey.

DR. W. ADISON McKELVY, dentist, No. 703 Commercial street, became a resident of Atchison in November, 1880. Mr. McKelvy was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1858, and took a mathematical course at the State University, after which he entered the office of Dr. M. S. Burns of Sewickley, where he practiced dentistry two years. In the fall of 1878, became a student of the Philladelphia Dental College, where he graduated in the spring of 1880, and the remaining months between this and the removal to Atchison were devoted to the practice of his profession at Pittsburgh, Pa.

W. H. McNEIL, coal dealer, came to Atchison, September 15, 1875, and has been since that time engaged in coal business in the city, his office being 423 Commercial street, and yard the corner of Twelfth and Main. The firm of W. H. McNeil & Co. is composed of W. H. McNeil and A. A. Carey. The business is carried on in a large way, the sales being principally in Kansas, southern Nebraska and Colorado. Besides coal, the firm deals largely in lime, plaster, and all kinds of pipe, sewer, house and drain building material, etc.

ALEXANDER B. McQUEEN, painter, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, June 28, 1830. Emigrated to the United States and first settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned his trade; but after living there six years, went to Racine County, Wis., where he made his home until his emigration to Kansas in 1858. Opened a paint shop at Atchison, which was the first one in the city, and has done business here ever since. In 1860 he served in the State Militia; he has been Councilman for two years, and a member of the School Board; was also treasurer of the American Bible Society of Atchison for a number of years. Mr. McQueen was married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854, to Miss Sarah M. Fryar, formerly from New York State and of English descent. They are members of the Presbyterian Church.

CHARLES MAAGE, general merchandise store. This old and well known pioneer is a native of Germania, and was born in the city of Elbing, Prussia, December 15, 1830; was educated, reared and learned the carpenter and millwright trade in his native country. When twenty years of age, he visited most all the principal cities in Europe, and then came to this country, where he first settled in Quincy, Ill., where he worked in a furniture factory until 1856; then came to Kansas, locating in Atchison, then a small village. He engaged in the building of houses, mills, etc., and many of the best houses in the county were built by him. He assisted in building the first water-power mill, in the then Territory, on Independence Creek, eight miles northwest of Atchison; then built a large water-power mill, saw and grist mill combined, in Cooper County, Mo.; also built a large number of houses and other buildings in Missouri. For a number of years during the winter months, he would go into southern Missouri, work all winter, and then return in the spring. He eventually engaged in the boot, shoe, and leather trade in Atchison, between Fourth and Fifth streets on Commercial, and for two years did a prosperous business. The memorable and destructive fire of 1868, burned him out, by which he lost his accumulation of fifteen years, owing to the fact that the insurance company he was insured in had become insolvent about that time. He was obliged to commence at the bottom round again, and did so for several years; worked as a salesman in a lumber yard, and when, in 1875, he had a small amount saved, he built a store house on Main street, his present location, where he engaged in the general merchandise business, in which he had been eminently successful. There are few business men in Atchison that have more substantial friends than Charles Maage, nor is there a more happy and contented family to be found than his. He was married in Quincy, Ill., July 15, 1863, to Miss Henrieta Wilms, by Rev. H. Ellerback. They have seven children - Frederick William, born June 1, 1865; Charles Henry, born March 16, 1867; Emma Dorethea, born January 2, 1869, and died September 11, 1869; Frances Lillian, born August 7, 1870; Anna Clara, born August 16, 1873; Emma Frances, born February 3, 1876; Danel Dolph, born October 27, 1879; Albert Horton, born May 1, 1882. Mr. Maage is a charter member of Schiller Lodge, I. O. O. F.; formerly was a member of Friendship Lodge and has occupied several offices of honor and trust in both lodges.

H. G. MACAULAY, lawyer, came to Kansas, May, 1878; located in Marysville, and remained there about a year, during which time he taught school and read law. In September, 1879, he completed his course at law reading in the office of Mills & Wells of Atchison, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1880. He has since been practicing his profession in Atchison County. Mr. Macaulay is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Westmoreland County, November 7, 1857. He remained in Ligonier, his native town, until his eleventh year, when he entered the preparatory department of St. Vincent's College and four years later was admitted to the collegiate department, and graduated therefrom, June 25, 1876. The same year came West, and for eighteen months was in the employ of the U. S. Government in the Indian Territory. From that point came to Kansas. Mr. Macaulay is a young gentleman of more than ordinary ability, and since his debut in Atchsion, his services have been almost constantly in demand. He is destined in the near future to be recognized as one of the prominent practitioners of northeastern Kansas. He was married on the 8th of June, 1882, to Miss Annie Sussman, a native of Allentown, Pa.

J. W. MARSHALL, SR., member of firm of Marshall & Park, proprietors of planing mill, sash, door and blind factory, was born in Plattsburg, N. Y., October 18, 1842. His parents moved to a point near Toronto, Canada, when he was an infant; was educated in Canada, and engaged in the merchantile business until 1862, when he moved to Alpena, Mich., where he acted for a time as bookkeeper in a sash, door and blind factory, after a time purchasing an interest in the business, remaining there until 1878, in which year he settled in Atchison, Kan. He was married in Grey county, Canada, September 3, 1865, to Miss Sarah McSorley, of that county. They have four children - W. James, Myrtle M. J., Geo. W., St. Claire. Mr. M. is a member of the M. E. Church, and Washington Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. 

 AARON F. MARTIN, located in Atchison and commenced the practice of law May 11, 1871; since which time he has been continuously engaged in his profession in that city. In the spring of 1879, he became associated with W. Durve as a partner - prior to which time he was alone. Mr. Martin is a native of Westmoreland County, Pa. was educated at Millersville State Normal School in Lancaster County, Pa., and graduated from the Law Department of Michigan University, soon after which time he removed to Atchison. He served for about a year, commencing in the fall of 1862, in the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was mustered out of service and re-enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Pennsylvania, in 1864, serving one hundred days as Orderly Sergeant in the latter regiment. He is a member of the Knights of Honor.

F. P. MARTIN, house painter and grainer. Business established in 1880 by himself. He employs from three to eight and ten men, according to the season. Mr. M. was born in Elizabethville, Dauphin Co., Pa., December 7, 1853. Was educated in his native county; then learned his trade in Harrisburg; moved to Ohio in 1875, following his trade, and in 1878 settled in Atchison. Has been in the business continuously since the age of seventeen years. He was married in St. Joseph, Mo., September 8, 1880, to Miss Anna M. Haskell, of Nortonville, Kan. They have one child, Franklin R. Mr. Martin belongs to the Uniform Rank, K. of P., and is Vice Grand of Friendship Lodge, no. 5, I. O. O. F.

COL. JOHN A. MARTIN was born March 10, 1839, at Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pa. While a mere lad, he learned the trade of printing, in the office of Brownsville Clipper, being foreman and local editor of that paper during the last year of his apprenticeship. When he was eighteen, in the spring of 1857, he went to Pittsburg, and was employed in the office of the Commercial Journal as a printer, and in October of the same year emigrated to Kansas. Located in Atchison, and for a short time set type for the columns of the Squatter Sovereign; afterward working in the office of the Crusader of Freedom, at Doniphan. He purchased the Squatter Sovereign of O. F. Short, in February, 1858; changed its name to Freedom's Champion, and on the 20th of the same month commenced his long editorial career in Kansas, by the issue of the first number of the paper with which he has since been so honorably identified. Since that time he has been elected to several offices, filling them to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents. He has been early and late, first and last, a stanch Free-state man, and an ardent Republican, being one of the prime movers in the organization of the latter party in his adopted State. He was secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, and was elected State Senator from Atchison and Brown district before he was twenty-one. He served as delegate to the Territorial Convention at Lawrence, of April 11, 1860, and to the Chicago National Convention which followed. He was secretary of the State Railroad Convention which met at Topeka during the same year, to devise a railroad system for the State, and was a member of the Senate for the first State Legislature, in 1861. During the summer of 1861, he assisted in organizing the Eighth Kansas Infantry, of which he was appointed Lieutenant- Colonel. The regiment served on the Missouri border during the fall and winter of 1861. Early in 1862, he was appointed Provost Marshall of Leavenworth, and in March of the same year his regiment was ordered to Corinth, Miss., Lieut. - Col. Martin in command. A few weeks after arriving at Corinth, the regiment, with the division to which it was attached, was ordered to join Gen. Buell, in Tennessee, and thereafter, during the whole war, it served in the Army of the Cumberland. Lieut. -Col. Martin was promoted to be Colonel on the 1st of November, 1862; and was Provost Marshall of Nashville, Tenn., from December, 1862, to June, 1863. The regiment, under his command, took part in the battles of Perryville, Ky., and Lancaster, Ky.; the campaign against Tullahoma and Chattanooga; the battle of Chickamauga; the siege of Chattanooga; the storming of Mission Ridge; the campaign in East Tennessee, in the winter of 1863-'64; the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and the subsequent pursuit of Hood northward. Col. Martin commanded the Third Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, on the second day of the battle of Chickamauga and during the siege of Chattanooga; and commanded the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, from August, 1864, until his muster out at Pulaski, Tenn., November 17, 1864. Returning home, he resumed control of the Atchison Champion early in January, 1865, and on the 22d of March, issued the first number of the Daily Champion. He has been Commander-in-Chief of the State Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic; a delegate from Kansas to the National Republican Conventions of 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880; a member of the National Republican Committee from 1869 to the present time; a member of the United States Centennial Commission, and one of the vice-president of that body; was one of the incorporators of the Kansas Magazine , and of the State Historical Society, of which he was president one term; was president of the State Editors' and Publishers' Association in 1878; was elected by the two Houses of Congress, one of the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Homes, in 1878, and re-elected in 1882, being now second vice-president of that body; and was elected Mayor of Atchison in 1865. He was married, June 1, 1871, to Miss Ida Challiss, oldest daughter of Dr. William L. Challiss of Atchison, and has four children.

MAY & CO., dealers in second-hand goods of all descriptions. Firm composed of Joseph May and L. Swarz; business established in 1877. Joseph May was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, December 18, 1843. In 1864 he came to the United States and located in New York City, where he engaged in general occupations. In 1867 he removed to Nebraska City, Neb., where he remained until 1870, in which year he settled in Atchison and engaged in peddling and dealing in second-hand goods. He was married in Atchison, Kas., June 3, 1877, to Miss Lippman, a native of Germany.

FRANK MAYHOOD, butcher, came to Kansas in the spring of the year 1864, and located in Springdale, near Leavenworth. He lived there about one year and then went to Stranger Township, Leavenworth County, where he remained about eight years. From there he moved to Wyandotte, where he lived two years, and from there came to Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. Mayhood was born in Manchester, N. H., October 25, 1855, and lived in his native place until his twelfth year, when his parents removed to Kansas. His parents are both living in Atchison.

J. C. MEACHAM, was born at Rutland Township, Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 18, 1828. When ten years of age he went to Ohio, where he lived several years, and then removed to Michigan, which State remained his home until he came to Kansas in August, 1866, and located at Atchison. Two years after settling in Atchison, he engaged in lumber business, which he carried on in that city for six years. He then moved his yard to Seneca, residing in Atchison during the period of four years that his lumber yard was in Seneca. In 1874 he engaged in lime-plaster and cement business, which he now carries on, both wholesale and retail, manufacturing the Asbeston stone for building and sidewalk purposes. Mr. Meacham was married March, 1852, in York Township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, to Mary Comstock, a native of the township.

ALBERT E. MEIER, druggist, came to Kansas in the spring of the year 1876, and located in Atchison. he resided in St. Joseph, Mo. for five years previous to coming to Atchison. Mr. Meier is an active and prominent member of the Atchison Turn Verein, of Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F., and an honorary member of the St. Joseph Grueth Verein, and has held offices in all of these societies. He was born in Sursee, Switzerland, November 4, 1856, and remained there about two years, when his parents removed to Lucerne, Switzerland, where they remained until the subject of this sketch had attained his twelfth year, when they emigrated to America and settled in St. Joe, Mo. His father is still living in the city of Atchison. From St. Joe, Mo., Mr. Meier removed to Atchison, where he has resided since. He was engaged in the drug and grocery business, while living in St. Joe, and has always been in the drug business, while living in Atchison. In 1880-1 he was in business for himself and was a member of the firm of Meier & Wagner, corner Eighth and Commercial streets. Before and since that time he has been connected with the wholesale drug house of McPike & Fox. Mr. Meier was married in Atchison, May 11, 1878, to Elizabeeh Spatz, a native of Reading, Pa. DWIGHT D. MERWIN came to Atchison County, in March, 1857, and in company with his brother-in-law, located at Sumner, where he remained until February, 1860. He then moved to Centre Township and resided in that place until he enlisted as a private, July, 1862, in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, being mustered into United States service on the 22nd of the same month. Early in 1864, he was promoted to Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, and retained that position until July 1, 1865, the date of preliminary discharge of the regiment; the formal discharge occurring at Fort Leavenworth a few weeks later. After leaving the army Mr. Merwin returned to Centre Township, where he resided until March, 1869, when he removed to Atchison and accepted the position of 'Deputy Register of Deeds. ' While holding that position he had superintendence of the compilation of a set of complete title abstracts of Atchison County, now in use by Manley & Coates. For a time he held the position of Deputy County Clerk, and was Deputy County Treasurer from July, 1872, until October, 1878, when he was elected County Treasurer, and re-elected in 1880. Mr. Merwin was born in Louderville, Holmes Co., October 17, 1845. When quite young he removed with his parents to Grange County, Ohio, and afterwards to Connecticut and Brooklyn, N. Y.

SAMUEL S. METZGER, cabinet-maker, came to Kansas in March, 1879, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. M. was in the Government employ in the Pioneer Corps. during the late war. Mr. M. was born in Lancaster, Pa., January 29, 1829, and resided in his native place until his twenty-fifth year, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he stayed but a short time, and then went to Greensburg, Ind., where he remained about eighteen months. In the fall of 1858 he removed to Lawrenceburg, Ind., where he worked at his trade for twenty years. From the latter place he removed to Kansas. He was married at York Ridge, Dearborn County, Ind., July 19, 1859, to Miss Adelaide Ward, a native of Indiana. They have six children living - George W., Carrie C., Charles D., Mary J., Sarah E., and Thomas Browne.

JOHN MEYER, proprietor Empire Bakery, is a native of Germany, and was born in Bavaria, April 4, 1847. He was educated, raised and learned the baker's trade in his native country. When twenty-one years of age came to America, locating in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa., where he worked one year at his trade; the next, went to Pittsburgh, and eventually to St. Louis, where he resided three years. In 1874 came to Atchison, where he has since resided, working as a journeyman for a considerable length of time before engaging in business. Mr. Meyer is a superior baker, and being a gentleman of a social and entertaining disposition, commands a large trade. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Schiller Lodge. He married in 1875, Miss Lizzie Galifeiter, one of Atchison's estimable ladies. They have two children - Bertie and Willie.

D. E. MILLER, proprietor Miller's Restaurant. This popular gentleman is a native of Ohio, was born in Portage County, March 9, 1843. His father, A. D. Miller, was one of the pioneers of that county. When D. E. was quite young, the family emigrated to Wisconsin, located in Marguette county, where he spent his youthful days, and resided until 1861, when he came to Kansas. He was a resident of Topeka in 1862, and in that year enlisted in Company H., Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He participated in thirteen general engagements, among those were King Hill and Prairie Grove; was in pursuit of Gen. Price on his raid in Missouri: he received one slight wound while in the service. After the war, he took up his abode in Pleasant Hill, Mo., residing about four years, when he removed to Lawrence, Kan., at which point he resided until 1874, when he came to Atchison, and has since been the urbane host of Miller's Restaurant. As a caterer to the traveling public, Mr. M. has attained a notable and well-deserved reputation. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Friendship Lodge, No. 5, and the Encampment, and is at present Chief Patriarch. He is also a member of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., K. of H., A. O. U. W. and K. of P., and for two terms was Master of Exchequer for the lodge. In 1868 he married Miss Mary Johnson, an estimable lady. She was born in Manchester, England. They have two children - Katie and Lulu.

JOHN G. MILLER, physician and surgeon, was born near Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pa., July 31, 1820. Resided in Adams, Bedford and Franklin counties, until the spring of 1835, when he moved with his father, Jacob Miller, to Columbiana Co., Ohio. In 1841 he attended Jesse Holms' High School in New Lisbon. In 1842 he attended Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. In 1843 and 1844 he attended college at Oberlin, Ohio, after which he taught school in Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio, and studied medicine in the office of Dr. Abel Carey, of Salem, Columbiana Co., Ohio, attending a course of medical lectures at Cleveland, during the winter of 1848-'49. In the summer of 1849 he started West to grow up with the country, and practiced medicine in Miami Co., Ind., Red Rock, on the Des Moines River, Marion County, Iowa, and Maysville, De Kalb Co., Mo. In 1853 he attended lectures and graduated at Castleton Medical College, Vermont. In 1854 he attended lectures and hospitals in New York city, and again graduated in medicine, this time at New York (now the Bellevue Hospital) Medical College. After visiting Philadelphia, Pa., and attending medical lectures and hospitals there, he practiced his profession in North Georgetown, Columbiana Co., Ohio, Pella, Marion Co., and Osceola, Clark Co., Iowa, until 1857. In the spring of this year he went to California, and traveled extensively over the State, spending some time in San Francisco. In 1858 he returned from California and located in Leavenworth, Kan., forming a professional partnership with Dr. Hathaway of that place. In 1860 he moved to Woodson County, in the southeast corner of the State; on account of the total failure of the crops in that portion of the State, he left in the same year and located in Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa. In 1862 he was appointed by Gov. Kirkwood Assistant Surgeon to the Eleventh Iowa Infantry, and soon afterward was promoted to be Surgeon of the same regiment, during the fighting around the siege of Atlanta, Ga. He had charge of the Seventeenth Army Corps, Field Hospital, at Marietta, Ga. On Sherman's march to the sea, and until the army reached Washington, he had charge of the Moving Hospital of the Sixth Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps. Was mustered out of the service with his regiment at Louisville, Ky., in July, 1865. After the close of the war he spent eighteen or twenty months in the Pennsylvania oil regions, practicing his profession and dealing in oil. In 1867 he located in Pleasant Hill, Cass Co., Mo., where he practiced his profession successfully until the fall of 1872, when he removed to Atchison, Kan. In the spring of 1873, the Ad Eundem degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City, Mo. In December, 1876, he went to the Black Hills, D. T., where he remained four years, except one winter spent in Atchison. While in the Black Hills, he was physician and surgeon for the Homestake Mining Company and had charge of the Hospital of the Holy Cross, controlled by the Sisters of mercy. He spent the summer of 1881 in Gunneson mining region, and is now (June, 1882), practicing his profession in Atchison, office in Breman's drug store, 421 Commercial street, residence 721 North Fifth street. Dr. Miller was married at Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pa., in 1854, to Annie Bennett, daughter of Capt. Isaac Bennet. They have two children living, both daughter - Lillie, wife of W. W. Hetherington of Hetherington Exchange Bank, and Mary, lately married to J. Levin, Manager of the Western Union Telegraph office at Atchison.

JULIUS MILLER, manufacturer and wholesale dealer in cigars. One of the leading wholesale houses of Atchison that has come rapidly to the front in the past few years is this establishment. Mr. Miller is a native of Germany, and was born in Breman, October 15, 1840. When young, came to America with parents, locating in St. Louis, Mo. He eventually removed to St. Charles, Mo., where he resided for several years, and learned the cigar-makers' trade. In 1861, Mr. Miller was among the first to respond to the call for Union troops, and enlisted in Company G, Twelfth Missouri Infantry. He participated at the battles, Pea Ridge, first attack on Vicksburg, Siege of Vicksburg, and other remarkable engagements. Was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was wounded in the right hand at Dallas, Georgia, and taken prisoner at that point, but escaped from the guards. Mr. M. held the rank of Corporal, and was honorably discharged and mustered out at St. Louis, in 1864. In 1865, he embarked in the manufacture of cigars at Lawrence, Kansas. Commencing in a small way, in a few years he built up a large and lucrative trade. In 1879, removed his house to Atchison, and has since been identified with the substantial merchants and manufacturers of the city. Mr. Miller is a member of the K. of H. He married in 1881, Miss A. E. Cambell.

ADOLPH MOHRBACHER, retail grocer, corner of Ninth and Kearney streets, was originally from Milwaukee, Wis., where he was born February 5, 1852. Came West with his parents in 1860, locating in Marshall County, Kansas, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. In 1880, he came to Atchison and opened a grocery store at his present stand, and although his stock is not extensive, he has a good trade, continually increasing, which bids fair to yield in time a large and lucrative business, under the able management of the proprietor.

ALFRED J. MOORE, contractor and builder, came to Kansas December 21, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has resided since. Mr. Moore is a member of Bethlehem Lodge No. 183, A. F. & A. M. He was in the army as Captain of Company G, Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. He enlisted in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1862, participated in all of the engagements of his command, and was mustered out of the service at City Point, Va., in January, 1866. He was born in Allentown, Pa., August 13, 1843, where his parents lived until he attained the age of six years, when they removed to Springtown, Bucks County, Pa., where they remained until the year 1858, when they removed to Bethlehem, Pa., where Mr. M. resided all the time, except while in the army, until he came to Kansas. He was married December 31, 1870, at Bethlehem, Pa., to Miss Harriet L. Miksch, a native of Pennsylvania. Captain Moore is an extensive contractor and builder, and has erected some of the finest buildings in the city of Atchison, among which are the stately Ogden block, the palatial residences of J. E. Wagner, W. W. Marbourg, W. W. Hetherington, and L. Frank, Esq. He also built the fine public school buildings in Easton and Bethlehem, Pa.; the Brainerd Presbyterian Church, Easton, and aided in the construction of the Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.

G. L. MOULTON, came to Kansas, March 12, 1858, his brother, H. H., arriving in the spring of 1857. They were engaged in livery business together about eight years, when G. L. brought out his brother's interest, and took sole charge of the establishment for about the same period. His brother then rejoined him, and six months later, James Yates became a partner - the three being still associated. They have done, since the first year (1858), a nice general transfer and omnibus business, and have also been for the past eight years in the ice business, giving employment in the cutting season to 150 men, and the remainder of the year to about twenty. G. C. Moulton was born in Brimfield, Portage County, Ohio, June 17, 1836. At the age of twelve he went to Michigan and remained several years in Kalamazoo, from whence he went to Detroit and St. Clair, and thence to Buchanan County, Iowa, residing about ten miles from Independence. He was married in Atchison in 1865, to Emma H. Ammon, of Michigan, and has two children - Lucretia G. and Guy.

H. H. MOULTON, came to Kansas in April, 1857, and located at Atchison, September, 1857, and commenced the livery business on the corner of Second and Atchison streets, which has been carried on by himself or brother ever since. At the time they started, it was the only establishment of the kind in the place - the "rigs" consisting of Indian ponies and a couple of buggies procured at St. Louis. In the spring of 1859, they commenced running a "bus line," the only one ever established in the city. From 1867 to 1873, H. H. was dealing in stock, and at an early period of his life was engaged in farming. Mr. Moulton is a native of Brimfield, Portage Co., Ohio. He was born September 26, 1834, and removed to Michigan when about fourteen years of age. He was married July 4, 1856, at Kalamazoo, to Alcesta Davis, of New York. They have three children, Minnie L., Ruby and Harry Custer. Mr. Moulton is a member of the society of K. of H.

MOULTON & BRO. commenced the business of freighting in 1862, which they continued until 1860, forwarding freight to Denver, Laramie, Salt Lake City, and Virginia City, Neb. The first mining machinery taken to Virginia City was sent by them in 1863, in charge of Mr. Backus. For a time they were employed by Gen. Fitz John Porter, continuing the business on their own account.

ROBERT G. MUELLER, carpenter, came to Kansas in August, 1878, and located near Effingham, where he lived three and a half years and then moved to Atchison, where he has lived since. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Was born in the city of Erfurt, Germany, March 5, 1839, and lived there until 1851, when he emigrated with his parents to America, and located in Buffalo, N. Y., where he lived two years and then went to Williamsville, N. Y., where he remained two years more, and then went to Alleghany, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where he lived eighteen years and was engaged working at his trade. He then moved to Salamanca, N. Y., where he lived about five years and was engaged in the hotel business. From there he came to Kansas. Mr. M. was married January 1, 1860, in Alleghany, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., to Miss Kate Ehret, a native of Flomrshem, in the Rhine, Pflatz Bavaria. They have had seven children, of whom six survive, George William, Robert Gottleib, Anna Christina, Henry Peter, Maria Wilhelmina (died April 1, 1881), Charles Gottleib and Willie. Mr. Mueller is a member of the K. of H.

EUGENE MULDOON, farmer, four and one-half miles northwest of Atchison, is a native of the Emerald Isle, and was born in 1816, emigrating to America in 1839. Shortly after his arrival he engaged in the boot and shoe business in New York City, continuing in that business until 1854, when he went to Portage City, Wis., and engaged in the same business until 1859, when he went to Colorado and engaged in mining and prospecting and discovered some of the most valuable mines in that Territory, his prospecting tours extending through southern Colorado and down into New Mexico - the latter tour being made in company with Kit Carson, the noted scout, and was fraught with many hairbreadth escapes. He remained in the mines until 1864, when he came to Atchison and engaged in freighting from that point and Nebraska City. In the following year, freighted from Kansas City to Fort Union, N. M.; in 1866, went to farming in this county. In 1868, bought his present place. His farm comprises 160 acres - 150 under cultivation, six acres in orchard and grove. Was married in 1847 to Miss Alice McCaney, of New York city, who died March 3, 1882, leaving six children, James, Mary, Eugene, John, Margaret and Lola. In 1873, was elected Township Trustee of Shannon Township, serving one term. In 1876, was elected County Commissioner of Atchison County, serving one term.

HENRY MYERS, farmer, four miles north of Atchison, was born in Hanover, Europe, in 1829; his parents emigrated to this country in 1837, and settled in Jackson County, Ind., and followed farming. Here he remained until 1849, when he started for the West, coming to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1850. He worked on a farm near that place for some time. In 1851, was a Government teamster, and made a trip across the plains and returned. In 1852, engaged in the making of cottonwood shingles three miles north of Atchison, on the opposite side of the river, which business he followed until 1867, when he bought 160 acres of land, four miles north of Atchison, and engaged in farming. He owns 400 acres in Atchison County, 260 under cultivation, with good buildings, orchard and other improvements. He also has a stock farm of 320 acres, near Severance, in Doniphan County, and is engaged in stock-raising. Was married in Buchanan County, Mo., in 1842 to Miss Lethe Hartwick, and has four children, William, Mary, John and Henry B. Mr. Meyers is a member of Arcane Lodge, No. 31. of Doniphan, Kan., A., F. & A. M. 

 W. NANCE, farmer, three miles northwest of Atchison, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1828, and raised on a farm where he lived until 1854, when he started for the West. For a short time in 1853 lived in Missouri, but in the fall of that year came to Atchison County, Kas., and settled on Deer Creek near his present home, and engaged in farming until 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, and was at the battles of Cain Hill, Prairie Grove, Van Buren, and all the battles of his regiment, serving until June, 1865, when he was discharged at Little Rock, Ark. He returned to his farm in this county and engaged in farming and stockraising, which he followed since. His farm consists of 240 acres, 100 under cultivation, twelve acres of orchard, good buildings and well-watered. Was married in 1858 in Atchison County Kas., to Miss Anna Synder. They have seven children - Sarah, Willie, Eddie, Lutitia, Birdie, Albert and daisy. Mr. Nance has held the Clerkship of the school Board of his district for six years. Is a member of Methodist Episcopal Church.

C. J. NEAL, of Crookham & Neal, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1831. In 1842 his parents moved to Maryland, and from there in 1845 to Xenia, Ohio. Here the subject of this sketch finished his education, and then learned the carpenter's trade, and followed this until 1858, when he moved to Kansas, where he engaged in contracting and building some years. He then entered the employ of the Overland Stage Line, having his headquarters at Atchison , Salt Lake City and Denver, building coaches for them; also acted for a time as express messenger. In 1868, he settled in Atchison, and became connected with present business. He was married in Atchison, September 9, 1860, to Miss Frances J. Fulton, a daughter of Dr. A. Fulton, of Kansas City, Mo. They have two children, bot daughters - Annie and Mary. Mr. N. is P. M. of Washington Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M., is also a member of the A. O. U. W.

EDWIN C. NICHOLS, located at Emporia, on his first arrival in Kansas, June 8, 1878, remaining in that place until his removal to Atchison in 1881. For the past seventeen years his business has been solely that of an architect, a large portion of the time in New York. Among the buildings for which he has furnished plans for construction of remodeling may be mentioned the Washington and Winfield Hotels, the High School building at Emporia (Nichols & Squiers), the Odd Fellows' Temple, the City Gas Works, and the private residences of Hon. William Jay, Senator Plumb, Dr. A. J. Moore, Lewis Hallock, of Burlington, G. S. Galbraith, J. C. Meacham, J. C. Greenawalt, E. W. Sergeant, C. H. Thompson, W. C. North and A. H. Sahler, besides residence tenements for G. G. Ingalls, J. C. Meacham, and others. Mr. Nichols was born in New York City, January 5, 1843, which remained his home until his removal to Kansas. In 1861, he enlisted in the army, and was with the army of the Potomac, principally on detached service, until he was mustered out in 1865, having at that time attained the rank of Captain.

MATHIAS NOLL, JR., druggist and pharmaceutist, came to Kansas, April 20, 1880, located in Atchison and immediately secured a situation in the large German Drug House of Augustus Lang, where he has since been employed. He is a member of St. Benedict's Church and of the Michigan Pharmaceutical Association. Mr. Noll was born in Weston, Mo., July 23, 1859, and lived there until his fourteenth year, when he attended the Christian Brothers' College, at St. Joseph, Mo., for two years. He then secured an engagement in the prescription drug store of Fred Schelbe in St. Joe, where he remained about three years, and then entered the employ of Samuel I. Smith & Co., the well-known wholesale druggist of St. Joe. He remained with this firm a short time and then entered the school of pharmacy, of the University of Michigan, where he staid until his course of studies was completed, when he returned to St. Joe and was placed in charge of the drug store of John Wade, as managing clerk. He held this position for one year and then accepted the position he holds in Atchison at present.

A. J. NORTH, of the firm of Lukens & North, proprietors of the Diamond Mills, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Juniata County, March 7, 1822. His parents James and Rachel Jordon North, were old residents of that section. The subject of this sketch received his preliminary education in his native county, and finished his education in Carlisle, Penn. He commenced life as a clerk in 1837, continued until 1850, when he engaged in mercantile business on his own account, in Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co., and made this his business up to 1870, when he moved to Kansas, taking a stock of goods with him, which he traded for land. He held the Postmaster's office in one of the towns in Mifflin County, Pa., over eighteen years. He settled in Atchison in 1870, and engaged in lumbering business, and continued in it until the present firm was formed. Mr. N. has been married twice, his first wife was Miss Jane Macklin, to whom he was married in Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co., Pa., February 18, 1845; she died in 1849, leaving two children - Mary Jane, now Mrs. David Lukens, and William Cloyde. His present wife was Miss Sarah Ann Withrow, of Beaver Dam, Mifflin Co., Pa. They were married in that town February 18, 1851. They have six children living - James C., Laura, Flora, Rebecca, Annie and Addie. Mr. N. is a member of the Presbyterian Church; has been a member of the School Board six years. he was one of the first to conceive the idea of making a State exhibit at the Centennial in 1876. Judge Horton introduced the bill in the Legislature, and Mr. N. was the first member of the board appointed. He helped do all the preliminary work and acted as assistant at Philadelphia.

J. C. NORTH came to the State of Kansas, January 13, 1870; located at Atchison, and engaged in the retail and jobbing grocery business, which he still continues, it now amounting to about $60,000 per year. Mr. North was born in McKey Township, Mifflin Co., Pa., January 13, 1855, that being his home until he removed to Kansas. He was married at Atchison, May 26, 1880, to Miss Belle Leu, daughter of Jacob Leu. They have one child, named Esther Ann. Mr. N. is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

W. C. NORTH, of firm of Lukens & North, proprietors of Diamond Mills, was born in Mifflin County, Pa., March 30, 1848. Received his education in his native county, and in 1868(sic), removed to Iowa, where he engaged in clerking in mercantile establishments until 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Company F, and was mustered out at expiration of term of enlistment. In 1869, he settled in Atchison, Kan., where he engaged in lumber and grain business until present firm was established. Mr. North was married in Mifflin County, Pa., January 9, 1873, to Miss E. B. Wilson, of that county. They have three children - Jeanette, Eleanor and David. Mr. N. is a member of the K. of P.; is Treasurer of the Uniform Rank.

J. A. NORTON & SON, dealers in watches, jewelry, plated goods, clocks, etc.; business established in 1873, by present firm. They carry a stock of $12,000 to $15,000. C. B. Norton, junior member of the firm, was born in Waupun, Wis., July 5, 1852. His father was engaged in jewelry business there, and afterward moved to Kewaunee, Ill., and then to Villisca, Iowa. The subject of this sketch was educated at Ripon College, and after finishing his studies, engaged with his father. In 1873, they moved to Atchison, and organized present business. Mr. N. was married in Kewaunee, Ill., January 16, 1873, to Miss Castle, of that city. They have three children - Edith, Imogene, Fannie. Mr. N. is a member of the Uniform Rank , K. of P., and of the A., F. & A. M.

ALONZO OCOBOCH, merchant, came to Kansas, April, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. O. was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., August 15, 1852, where he resided until his eighth year, when his parents removed to Henry County, Ill., where he lived until his removal to Atchison. Mr. Ocoboch was married in Geneseo, Henry Co., Ill., in February, 1874, to Mary Ella Reis, a native of Henry County, Ill. They have a boy and a girl, whose names are Herman Burtis, and Pearl.

JOHN J. O'DONNELL, head bookkeeper in the wholesale grocery house of A. B. Symms & Co., was born in New Bedford, Mass., March 21, 1856. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1865, settling in Leavenworth. He graduated from Benedict College of Atchison in 1874.

ALFRED G. OTIS was born in Cortland County, N. Y., December 13, 1828, being the son of Isaac and Caroline A. Otis. While yet a mere boy his father removed to Barry County, in the then new State of Michigan, and engaged extensively in farming. His son, Alfred, with other members of the family were thus brought up on the farm, and shared all the labors and hardships of a pioneer life. At the age of twenty Mr. Otis resolved upon professional life, and determined, as the first step, to obtain a thorough classical education; and as the father was burdened with the care of a large family, the son set about the task of getting it for himself. His first studies in Latin and Greek were commenced in the evening upon the farm after the day's work was done. Afterwards, by teaching, he acquired means to prosecute his studies at the Kalamazoo Branch of the Michigan University. Entering as a sophomore in 1849, he graduated in regular course, in 1852. He then went South to the State of Mississippi, where he taught and studied law at the same time, from there he attended the Louisville Law School, where he graduated in 1854, and commenced practice in that city. In October, 1855, he removed to Atchison, Kansas, where he has resided ever since. He engaged at once in the active practice of his profession, and was for several years extensively engaged in the land litigation which, about this time, sprung up in the new Territory, and in which he took a leading and important part. In 1860, Judge Otis, then in full practice, formed a partnership with Hon. George W. Glick, a lawyer of about his own age, recently from Ohio. This partnership continued until 1873, and the firm did their share of the legal business of the State, both in State and Federal courts, and before the United States Land Office. They were the regularly employed attorneys of the Central Branch, Union Pacific Railroad, from 1865, during the whole of this period, and after the dissolution of the firm in 1873. Judge Otis retained the same position until he was elected to the bench in 1876. During this period, though in the full tide of actual business and professional labor, he yet found time to actively aid the Episcopal church, of which denomination he was a member, being the warm personal friend of Bishop Vail the Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Kansas. he was also prominently identified with the business and railroad enterprises of Northern Kansas, Atchison being then as now the commercial center for that section of the State. In 1876 Judge Otis, though a prominent Democrat, was elected District Judge of the Second Judicial District, then largely Republican. He served his term of four years to the general satisfaction of the people and the bar, and, at its close, took an active part in the management of the Atchison Savings Bank, one of the leading banks of the city, and of which he had long been President. This with the care of his own private business, engrosses, at present, his time and attention. In 1862 Judge Otis was married to Miss Amelia Harres, of Philadelphia, and has by her six children still living - William A., Amy, Mark E., Pearl, Theodore and Carl. The eldest, William A., a young man of eighteen, is a student at Lawrence University. The rest are still a part of the home circle. The family were in all eight children, two - Grace and Harrison G., having died in infancy. Judge Otis still resides in a beautiful residence overlooking the Missouri River, surrounded by a grove of his own planting, where he first brought his wife in 1862. Of the same family Judge Otis has two brothers, George L. and Charles E., a law firm at St. Paul, Minn., - and also two brothers, Ephraim A. and Arthur G., well known lawyers at Chicago, ill. Another brother, Isaac N., recently deceased, was a devoted minister of the Presbyterian Church at Boulder, Colorado. The father of this family, Isaac Otis, died in 1854. The mother Caroline A. Otis, is still living.

JAMES P. OWENS, merchant, came to Kansas, March 8, 1867, and located in Atchison County. Mr. Owens is a member of St. Mary's Branch, No. 207, Catholic Knights of America, and is Sergeant-at-Arms of this association. Mr. O. was born in Watertown, Wis., June 8, 1856, and lived in his native place until his fourth year, when his parents removed to St. Joe., Mo., where they lived nine years. From there they came to Walnut Township, Atchison County, where they reside at present. When Mr. Owens first came to Atchison, he was employed by Joseph Gottesburen for some time. He then engaged in farming for two years, in Atchison County, and then entered the employ of J. W. Burkhart & Co., dealers in ice, with whom he continued one and a half years. He next entered the service of Gottsburen & Seitz, grocers, and after leaving them, worked in the machine shops of the Atchison & Nebraska R. R., in Atchison, where he remained nine months, and then entered the employ of John M. Bowen & Co., wholesale dealers in wines and liquors, with whom he remained until went into business on his own account.

JOHN W. PAGE, residence 1527 Commercial street, fireman on the Central Branch of the M. P. R. R., is the son of Linles B. Page, who came to Atchison in 1855 and took a claim on Deer Creek, three miles north of the present city, on which he lived two years. He then removed to Atchison and opened a butcher shop, where the subject of this sketch was born, September 27, 1857. he attended the schools of Atchison, and worked at various occupations until 1879, when he commenced railroading with the above company, first as wiper for one year, then as fireman, which he has followed since. Mr. Page is a member of the Locomotive Fireman's Brotherhood of Atchison, No. 31. His wife is Elizabeth, daughter of William Ross of Wellington, Kan., who was one of the early pioneers of that section of the State. They were married August 28, 1878. Mr. Page's father now resides near St. Joe., Mo.

H. CLAY PARK, editor of the Patriot, was born in Irvine, Estill Co., Ky., March 2, 1845. His father died June 30, 1849. When twelve years of age he moved to Platte City, Platte Co., Mo., where for five years he attended the male academy of Prof. F. G. Gaylord. In 1862 he removed to Campden Point, in the same county, and continued his studies under the same preceptor. In July, 1864, he moved to Atchison, Kan., and began the study of law under the instruction of Hon. John M. Price. The following spring he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the city of Atchison. As Mr. Root was then actively engaged in the publication of the Daily Free Press, the labors of the Clerk's office fell mainly on young Park, who performed the work diligently and intelligently, and that he made a faithful officer is evidenced by the fact that at the succeeding election he was chosen for the Clerkship by an almost unanimous vote of the people. In 1867 he was re-elected, and by appointment of the Mayor and City Council he held the office until 1871. In 1868 he became junior partner in the real estate firm of Fox & Park - at the same time publishing the Real Estate Bulletin. In the autumn of the same year, Mr. Park became associated with Hon. B. P. Waggener and Nelson Abbott in the editorial and business management of the Atchison Daily Patriot, under the style H. Clay Park & Co. The following year Mr. Park withdrew from the firm and associated himself with his former law preceptor, Hon. John M. Price, in the real estate business. In the spring of 1873, and for a brief period, engaged in the grocery trade with T. E. Park. In 1873 he was elected to represent the Fourth Ward in the City Council, and in 1875 was admitted to the Bar, and in April, 1876, he was elected Chief Justice of Atchison, but after a year's service resigned. In December, 1875, he purchased, in connection with F. L. Vandergrift, the Daily Patriot, and has been its chief editorial writer ever since. The Patriot is ably and successfully managed, and is the oldest daily democratic journal in Kansas. In January, 1879, Mr. Vandergrift disposed of his interest in the Patriot to Thomas Stivers, who attends to the "local" office. Mr. Park is respected by his fellow-citizens, and that he stands high in the estimation of his political friends the evidence is found in the fact that he has served as candidate for Presidential elector, delegate to several State conventions, and for two terms a member of the City Council. He has also "passed the chairs" in several secret societies - is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias organizations. December 24, 1867, he was married to Miss Lizzie Armstrong, of Newmarket, Platte Co., Mo., by whom he has had two children - Mary C. and Gilbert C. Mr. Park is active and influential in all schemes for the upbuilding of his adopted city. As a citizen he is public-spirited and liberal, as a politician frank, bold and outspoken, and a man warm in his friendships. He despises tricksters and time-servers, and like his great namesake, had "rather be right than President. "

STANTON PARK, head bookkeeper for the firm of Bowman & Kellogg, proprietors of the "Central Mills," was born in Oneida County, N. Y., July 21, 1836, where he acquired a practical education. Came to St. Louis, Mo., in 1864, and was employed in an express office for two years. Then came to Atchison in 1866, and engaged with Atchison & Pike's Peak R. R. Co., as local freight agent, this road being now known as the Central Branch of the U. P. Remained with this company for one year, and from that time up to 1874, was employed at various occupations. He then entered the Atchison Savings Bank as bookkeeper, and in '76 re-engaged with the Central Branch of the U. P. R. R. This he followed until 1880, when he became a partner with J. V. Bryning in the linseed oil mills, where he still does business. One year later accepted his present situation, which is one of trust, requiring diligence and business talent. These qualities Mr. Park possesses in an unusual degree, as may be seen in the success of his different undertakings and his gradual but certain advancement as a business man. He has been secretary of the Engine Fire Company of this place. His wife was Miss Adelaide C. Button, to whom he was married at Atchison in 1868. During his employment with the Central Branch of the U. P. R. R., Mr. Park issued the first way-bill that went out of Atchison toward the West.

J. C. PARK, of Marshall & Park, proprietors of sash, door and blind factory, was born in Norfolk County, Canada, November 22, 1835. Was educated in his native county and learned the trade of carpentering which he followed until 1858, in which year he moved to Michigan. Remained one year at Port Huron and then settled in Alpena, where he engaged in contracting and building some time, then went into the sash, door and blind factory of Bingham & Co., where he remained until he removed to Atchison, Kan., in 1878. He was married in Port Huron, Mich., January 7, 1862, to Miss Cole, of Lakeport, Mich. They have three children living - Lawrence, Wilber H. and Mina. Mr. P. is a member of the First Baptist Church and is also a member of Washington Lodge No. 5, A., F. & A. M.

W. R. PEABODY, located at Atchison in January, 1875, being at that time local station agent for the A., T. & S. F. R. R., and for the past two years general agent of the company. He is a native of Massachusetts, his birth place being near Boston, in which city he had charge of the A., T. & S. F. office during the year 1876. He has also been connected with railroads in Nebraska, his entire attention being given to that business.

R. S. PEASE, one of the early settlers in Atchison, came to this place in March, 1857, and in company with John J. Pratt engaged in surveying lands and town sites in the vicinity. In the following year he was elected City Register and held the office one term. The same year he commenced a set of books containing abstracts of the titles to the lands and lots in the county, making records of the entries at the U. S. Land Office. He also opened the first insurance office in the city, being agent for the Aetna, Hartford, Home and other leading companies. In the spring of 1861, he was elected cashier of the Bank of the State of Kansas, which was founded in the spring of 1858 as the Kansas Valley Bank, which position he held until March, 1866. At the first election for State officers he was the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer. In the fall of 1861 he was made Trustee of the Overland Stage Line from Atchison to Salt Lake City, and had charge of the stage route for several months. For several years succeeding 1866 he was engaged in no active business save that of dealing in real estate. For the past ten years he has been connected with the South-western Wyoming and several other incorporated stage companies that are engaged in carrying mails, and doing business in several States and Territories. He is a native of Somers, Conn.

JOHN O. PEEBLER, arrived in Kansas in September, 1854, and with his father, Andrew W. Peebler, located on Stranger Creek in Mt. Pleasant Township, Section 16, Township 7, Range 20. In the fall of 1881, Mr. Peebler, Sr., sold the old homestead and removed to Meriden, Jefferson County, where he still resides. John O. was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1860, when he went into the freighting business, in which he remained three or four years. He then became a school teacher, and was so employed until the fall of 1871, at which time he was elected Register of Deeds, holding the office by virtue of re-election until January, 1882. He had previously been one of the Trustees of Mt. Pleasant Township for three terms, and also served on the School Board. Mr. Peebler was born near West Point, Lee Co., Iowa, December 7, 1837. His parents removed to Jefferson County, in the same State, when he was two or three years of age, where he resided until he was about sixteen. In 1852 he went to Independence, Mo., coming to Kansas two years later. He is now living at Atchison, engaged in the real estate and insurance business. On the 28th of December, 1874, Mr. Peebler was married in Atchison, to Julia A, Hamner, a native of Missouri, but long a resident of the city, her parents removing to the place in the summer of 1854. They have but one child - Chester H. Peebler.

G. W. PENNELL has been a resident of Atchison since the fall of 1874, having since that time had charge of the lumber yard of G. C. Hixon & Co. He is a native of Honeoye, Ontario County, N. Y. In July, 1866, he came to Missouri, where he became connected with the lumber firm of G. C. Hixon & Co., with whom he has remained to the present time. He is a member of the Masonic order.

W. D. PENNEY, gardener. This gentleman is a native of England and was born in Nottinghamshire, December 30, 1834. When about fifteen years of age, he removed to Yorkshire, where he learned the butchering trade, a vocation which he pursued for several years. In 1870 he came to America, locating in Milwaukee, Kas., residing until 1873, when he took up his abode in Atchison, residing for a time, when he became a resident of Doniphan, where he was in the employ of the A. & N. R. R. In 1879, located permanently in Atchison and has devoted his attention to gardening, making it a success in every sense of the word. Mr. Penney is an industrious and enterprising citizen. In 1858, Miss Henrietta Chatterly became his wife. They have three children - Lillian W., Rosa Ada and Violet Josie.

MAHLIN W. PERDUE, night foreman C. R. I. & P. R. R., came to Kansas in the fall of 1878, and located in Leavenworth, where he remained one year. From there he went to Trenton, Mo., where he lived for three years, when he came to Atchison, where he has since resided. Mr. Perdue is a member of Golden Cross Lodge, No. 38, Knight of Pythias, of Trenton, Mo. He is also a member of the Uniform Rank of the same lodge. He was born in Elmore, Ottawa Co., Ohio, December 25, 1857, and lived in his native place until his seventeenth year, when his parents removed to Fairfield, Lenawee Co., Mich., where he lived until his twenty-first year and then came to Kansas. Both of Mr. P. 's parents are still living in Fairfield, Mich.

JOHN PERKINS, a resident of Atchison since 1864, was born in Devonshire, England, November, 1842. When about eighteen or nineteen years of age, he emigrated to America, first landing in Canada, where he remained until the latter part of 1863. He then lived for a short time in Rochester, N. Y., and in Chicago, finally locating at Atchison in December, 1864. For about three years he was engaged in the manufacture of flour, at the expiration of which time he commenced the retail grocery business in which he is still engaged. His business is extensive, amounting to about $100,000 per annum, and giving employment to ten men. For the last seven years he has been without a partner. Mr. Perkins was married in Atchison, December, 1867, to Mary A. Garside of Canton, Ill. Their six children bear the following names: Mollie Grace, Fannie, Alice, Jessie, Bessie Garside and Edna Rose. Mr. Perkins is a member of A. O. U. W.

DAVID W. PERRY, foreman of the boiler department of the Missouri Pacific machine shops, residence 1518 Commercial street, was formerly from Canada, born near Kingston, June 1, 1851; learned his trade in the K. C., Ft. S. & G. R. R. shops at Kansas City, Mo. Beginning in 1870 and after serving an apprenticeship of three years, was appointed foreman in said shop, having the supervision of seven men. In 1875 he left there and entered the employ of the M. K. & T. R. R., where he continued until 1879, when he came to Atchison and took charge of the shops as above, where he has the management of eight men. Mr. Perry married November 22, 1874, in Kansas City, Mo., Miss Margaret Shookman, of New Haven, Mo., a daughter of Michael Shookman, who was formerly an old pioneer of Missouri from Tennessee, and died at the advanced age of 105 years. The subject of this sketch belongs to the I. O. O. F., being a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 5, and of the Hesperian Encampment, No. 6.

T. M. PIERCE was born near St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Mo. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1856, first locating at Iowa Point, Doniphan County, which place remained his home until he removed to Atchison in 1872. He received his education at Highland University, Kansas, and Battleground Collegiate Institute, Indiana. Read law with W. W. Guthrie, of Atchison, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, and is now practicing law in Atchison. Mr. Jacob T. Pierce, his father, still resides in Doniphan County. On August 13, 1862, at the age of fifteen, Mr. T. M. Pierce enlisted as a private in Company B, Thirteenth Kansas, serving until July, 1865, when he was honorably mustered out with his regiment at Fort Leavenworth. He was in the Post Adjutant's office for about one year, while stationed at Van Buren, Ark. He also served as a member of the legislature from Doniphan County in 1872, and held the office of Justice of the Peace of Atchison City for one year, and was one of the enumerators and statistical agents of the Census Bureau of 1880.

AUGUSTUS R. PLATT, bookkeeper for the wholesale grocery house of Julius Kuhn, is native of New York State, born in Onondago County, June 7, 1843. Came to Kansas in 1868, living at Atchison till the spring following; then went to Hiawatha, where he first held the position of Assistant County Clerk, then County Clerk, and was afterward elected Register of Deeds of Brown County, which he filled two years. Returned to Atchison in 1874, and for some time was employed as bookkeeper by various firms. Under the administration of B. B. Gale, he entered the post-office as Register Clerk, but was soon promoted to Assistant Postmaster, where he served during this administration. Mr. Platt then entered the service of the U. S. and Am. Express Cos., which were then operated together, and April 6, 1881, accepted this situation with the above firm, and as a thoroughly practical and intelligent man of business, ranks among the best of them. He is Treasurer of Friendship Lodge, No. 5, of the I. O. O. F., which position of trust he has held for five years; is also a member of Hesperian Encampment, No. 6. His wife was Miss Orpha Jones, whom he married February 22, 1865, at Syracuse, N. Y. They have one son, Charles T. 

 J. POEHLER, retired merchant. Among those that figured conspicuously at an early day in Atchison County, is Mr. Poehler. He is a native of Germany, and was born in Wurtemberg, January 7, 1821; was educated and reared in his native country. In 1848, came to the United States, locating temporarily in St. Louis; removed to Beardstown, Ill., where for ten years he was identified in business. In 1858, came to Kansas, engaging in business at Sumner, Atchison County, being one of the first business men in the county. The years of '63 and part of '64, held the position of Postmaster in Sumner. In 1864, came to Atchison and from that date until 1877, was one of the most prosperous and prominent dealers in general merchandise. Mr. P. is a genial and entertaining gentleman, eminently popular with the masses. He is a charter member of the I. O. O. F., Schiller Lodge, in Atchison, and a member of the Encampment, No. 33; also belongs to the Turn Verein. He married, in 1848, Miss Annestina Trulleb, of Wurtemberg, Germany. They have by this union six children - George, Ernst, Amelia, Carrie, Charlie, and Edward. The two oldest sons, George and Ernst, comprise the well known house of Poehler Bros., confectionery, bakery, etc.

J. P. POMEROY came to Atchison, October, 1878, in the interest of the Central Branch Union Pacific Ry., being land commissioner, purchasing agent, and general manager of the extension of the road beyond Waterville, Marshall County. He is now settling old loan interests of the Atchison, Colorado & Pacific Branch, which involves settlement of debts contracted along the route during its construction. He is also now general agent of the road, and handles all the varieties of coal used in operating it, his business amounting to from 8,000 to 10,000 cars of soft coal per year, and from 3,000 to 5,000 cars of hard coal. Mr. Pomeroy was born and received his education in the State of Ohio. He remained in the State, engaged in mercantile pursuits, until 1865, when he made an extended tour of Europe, remaining abroad until 1869. On his return he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. In 1875, he again made a visit of about two years in Europe, removing to Atchison soon after his return, and remaining since that time a citizen of that city. Mr. Pomeroy is now president of the Atchison & Southwestern R. R.; vice-president of Exchange National Bank of Atchison; vice-president of the Frankfort National Bank of Frankfort, Kansas, and president of the Atchison Opera House Company.

PHILLIP PORTER, laborer, came to Kansas in the fall of 1865, and located in Atchison, and has lived here since. Mr. Porter is a member of the Independent Order of Immaculates of which he is the Worthy Monarch; also of the Benevolent Society, of which he is President. Mr. P. was Orderly Sergeant of Company B, Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted July 9, 1863, and was mustered out of service in October, 1865 at Kamlin, Ark. He was born in Madison County, Mo., in the year 1835, and married in Atchison, in 1871, to Isabeth Boone, a native of Missouri. The names of their children are: John P., Franklin, Samuel, and Maud.

J. J. POTTER, manufacturer of carriages, Main Street, between Eighth and Ninth, Atchison, Kan., was born in Mohawk Flats, N. Y., in 1828. In 1845, went to Utica, N. Y., and learned the carriage trade. In 1848, went into the manufacturing of carriages at Syracuse, N. Y., where he remained until 1866, when he moved to Leavenworth, Kan., and engaged in the manufacture of carriages until 1879, when he came to this place and engaged in the same business. Was married in 1850 to Miss Fannie Sherwell of Lawrence County, N. Y. Has two daughters, Julia and Celia, both married. Mr. Potter is a member of Plattsburgh (N. Y.) Lodge of A., F. & A. M.

ALBERT W. PRETZEL, manufacturer of soda water, ginger ale, champagne cider, etc., etc., came to Kansas on September 2, 1868, and located in Atchison, where he has lived since and carried on business. He is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 33, and of Hesperian Encampment, No. 6, I. O. of O. F. Has filled all the chairs in Schiller Lodge. He is also a member of the Atchison Turnverein and has held nearly all the offices of this association. Mr. Pretzel was born November 30, 1847, in the Province of Pomerania, Prussia, where he lived until he came to America and settled in Chicago. He remained there a few months and then went to Chatsworth, Livingston Co., Ill., where he was engaged by a German sugar-refining company. After remaining at this place over a year, he came to Kansas. Mr. P. was married in June, 1869, in Atchison, to Miss Carolina Fiss, a native of Prussia. They have two children living, whose names are Paulina and Minna.

JOHN M. PRICE, eldest son of Thomas S. and Sarah Jarman Price, was born in Richmond, Madison Co., Ky., October 4, 1829. His parents were natives of Virginia, but reared, educated and married in Kentucky, from which State his father emigrated in the fall of 1838, locating first in Johnson County, Mo., and afterwards near the present site of Sedalia, in the same State, where he resided until his return to Kentucky, in 1845. John M., who returned to his native State on a visit during the summer of 1844, decided to remain with his uncle, Morton N. Price, assist him on his farm during the summer, and attend school at Irvine in the following winter. This arrangement was carried out, and after the winter school was over, John went into the drygoods store of Thomas D. Chilies, where he remained until the fall of 1847. He then went to Mt. Sterling, Ky., and attended school during that fall and winter, being a member of the household of Col. Walter Chilies, his uncle-in-law, a prominent lawyer of that place. In the following spring, he obtained a clerkship in the office of the County Clerk of Montgomery County, writing through the day and studying law with his good friend and instructor, Col. Chilies, at night. In March, 1849, at the age of nineteen, he passed his examination, was admitted to the Bar, and immediately returned to his old home in Irvine, opened a law office and commenced practice. Two years later, in 1851, the young lawyer was elected County Attorney for Estill County, which position he occupied by virtue of a re-election in 1855, until his removal to Kansas, in 1858. On locating in Atchison, Mr. Price again opened a law office, and soon established a reputation as a skillful, honorable and sagacious attorney. During his residence of twenty-four years in the city, he has been honored with nearly every office in the gift of the Republican citizens of Atchison County, and his name is most prominently identified with the material growth and prosperity of the city. He is enthusiastic in his devotion to the "brethren of the mystic tie," and has reached the has reached (sic) the topmost round of the Masonic ladder. It would be idle to enumerate the many offices - political, business or Masonic - with which Mr. price has been honored, but mention some that have been conferred by the latter and kindred societies: G. M. of the Grand Lodge; G. C. of Grand Commandery of K. T.; Deputy Grand H. P. of Grand Chapter and Thrice Illustrious Deputy G. M. of Grand Council; G. H. P. of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Kansas, and Grand Secretary of the same; President of the Holy Order of the High Priesthood of Kansas, and Grand Treasurer of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the State. In the I. O. O. F., he has served as Grand Master of the Most Worthy Grand Lodge of Kansas, and twice as Grand representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States. The Knights of Pythias have elected him Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Kansas and Supreme Representative to the Supreme Lodge of the World, which latter office he still holds. He is Grand Master Workman of the Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W. of the State of Kansas, and also a member of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor. Mr. Price was married at Irvine, Ky., January 10, 1854, to Miss Eliza Jerman, only daughter of Elihu and Mary Park, of that town. Five children have been born to them, four of whom are living: Mollie F. (now Mrs. Singleton), Nannie B. (Mrs. Vandergrift), John M. and Eliza Park. One little boy, also named John M., died January 23, 1875. Mr. Price is now Postmaster at Atchison, entering upon the duties of that position April 1, 1878.

CHARLES PULLEN, firm of Pullen Bros., roofers, was born in the county of Surrey, England, March 25, 1850. Emigrated to the United States in 1871, locating the same year at Atchison, where he was differently employed till 1876. At this time the above firm was organized. They are the oldest, and, in fact, the only exclusive roofers in the city, their trade extending throughout this State and Nebraska. During the season they employ four and five men, and are gradually working up a large and lucrative business.

QUIGG & ALLEN, wholesale grocers. This firm was organized in 1873, its members being Mathew Quigg and J. W. Allen, who still constitute the company. The business was started by Delan & Quigg, in 1865, as wholesale and retail grocers. The jobbing business was commenced by the old firm in 1870. Quigg & Allen now give employment to eight men, three of whom are traveling salesmen. Their sales are made principally in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and New Mexico, and amount to about $300,000 per annum. Mr. J. W. Allen was born in Craftsbury, Orleans Co., Vt., where he lived until his removal to Atchison, in 1870. In the East he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and after his arrival in Atchison he was in the wholesale drug business with McPike & Allen until the formation of the firm of Quigg & Allen. In October, 1861, Mr. Allen enlisted in the First Vermont Cavalry and served until December, 1864, a portion of the time being in the quartermaster's department, Army of the Potomac.

JOHN B. QUIGLEY, superintendent of the Atchison Water Company, office corner Fourth and Commercial streets, was born March 19, 1857, in Massachusetts. Received a liberal education in the High School of Boston, and in 1874 graduated from the Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College of that city. His parents subsequently removed to Fitchburg. He came to Atchison, April 27, 1879, and until the summer of 1880 was in the employ of the government, improving the Missouri River. When the Union Depot was completed at this place, Mr. Quigley entered it as an assistant ticket agent, where he remained until he took his present position. The Atchison Water Works is one of the most important features of the city, and is certainly one of which the inhabitants may be proud. They consist of the settling reservoir, which has a capacity of 1,250,000 gallons, a storage reservoir with a capacity of 3,500,000 gallons, and the building where the pumps are situated. This is a handsome structure built entirely of brick, 87X27, and is located at the west end of the Missouri River bridge. In this are two large engines of seventy- five horse power each, capable of pumping 1,000,000 gallons into the settling reservoir every twenty-four hours, only one of them is used at a time, however, thus preventing stoppage of water in case one is broken. This is an excellent thing for Atchison, as their water supply in case of a fire is now inexhaustible.

W. O. RAGAN, portrait artist, one who has attained a first rank among the artists in the West, and is favorably known in Kansas. He is a native of Ohio, and was born in Champaign County, June 25, 1841. In 1851 he removed to Macomb, McDonough Co., Ill., where he was educated, reared and learned the photograph business. For a time he was proprietor of a gallery in Macomb, and also at Bushnell. In 1866 he came to Kansas City, Mo., and was recognized as the leading artist of that city for a number of years. For four consecutive years he took the premium at the Kansas city fairs for the finest work in his line. His crayon work has but few equals, and can not be excelled in the Northwest. In 1876 he located in Atchison, and for several years was interested in conducting a photography gallery. Mr. R. is held in high esteem in Atchison by the admirers of fine art. He married in 1864, Miss Henrietta Wood. They have seven children - Frank, George, Harry, Ida, Owen, Arthur and Albert.

WILLIAM L. RAMSEY, son of George W. and Harriet A. Ramsey, came to Kansas June 7, 1879, locating on northwest quarter Section 31, Township 6, Range 19, Lancaster Township, September 21, 1879, Mr. Ramsey entered the employ of Mr. Forbriger as clerk, and has been connected with him since that time.

JAMES R. REDHEAD, clerk in K. C. R. R. office, came to Kansas in April, 1875, and located in Atchison, where he still resides. Mr. R. was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 1861, and lived there until his fifth year, when his parents removed to Chicago, where they lived until they came to Kansas. His parents are both living in Atchison. Mr. R. has held numerous confidential and important positions for one so young. He was for a time a clerk in C. W. Brown's post-office book store, and since then has held positions in different railroad offices in the cities of Atchison and St. Joe., Mo.

JAMES REDINGTON, of the firm Redington & Co., dealers in cut and building stone, is by birth a Scotchman, born in the City of Aberdeen, April 19, 1820. After acquiring a common school education, he learned the stone-cutter's trade, and in 1844 came to the United States. Worked three years in Washington, D. C., then went to Frankfort, Ky., and in 1850 was married at Louisville, same State, to Margaret Manuel, also a native of Scotland. Resided in Kentucky until 1857, then came to Kansas, where he took a claim of 160 acres in Doniphan County, upon which he lived long enough to prove it up, and at the expiration of that time moved to Atchison, where he has since conducted the above business. Mr. Redington has nine children, five of them boys.

T. J. REGG is a native of Owen County, Ky. He was born September 29, 1846, and resided in his native place, until his removal to Kansas in March, 1870. After residing until March, 1871, in Atchison, he removed to Netawak, Jackson Co., where he remained two years, principally engaged in trading with the Pottawatomies. He was then employed as a bookkeeper in a foundry until August, 1881, and then for several months had charge of the railroad material used in the construction of a road being built in the county. In November, 1881, he was elected Register of Deeds, and entered upon the duties of the office June, 1882. Mr. Regg was married in Jackson County, July 16, 1871, to Sallie H. Taliferro, of Mississippi. Their three children are, William C., Mollie, and Edward O. Mr. R. is a member of A. O. U. W. and K. of P.

CHARLES N. REGNIER, of the firm of Regnier & Shoup, is a native of Bingen-on-the-Rhine, from whence he emigrated in 1867, his first location after his arrival in this country being at Atchison, June 7, 1867. He was employed in a wholesale grocery house for a time, and in 1869 started the crockery business on a small scale, up to ten years ago two men being able to perform all the work required. It has now grown to such dimensions that it requires nineteen men to handle the business.

J. C. REISNER, proprietor of the Tremont House, was born in Lebanon County, Pa., March 26, 1829. He learned the carpenter's trade in Reading, then went to Philadelphia, where he learned cabinet making. In July, 1857, he settled in Atchison County, Kansas. His family joined him the following spring, when he moved into town and built the hotel, furnishing it in 1859, and has since managed the house, with the exception of two or three short terms. He was architect, superintendent and builder, and also made a large part of the furniture, and even rafted the logs which were to be used in building the hotel. Mr. R. was married in Philadelphia, March 17, 1853, to Miss Rebecca D. Fichthorne, of Reading, Pa. They have raised thirteen children, of whom four survive - Charles W. C., John H., Kate (now Mrs. J. G. Thayer), and Christian F. Mr. R. is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of Friendship Lodge No. 5, I. O. O. F.

ISAAC THOMAS RICE, carpenter, came to Kansas March 24, 1882, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Rice was born in Loudon County, Va., September 17, 1852, and lived in Loudon County until he came to Kansas. He was married March 2, 1881, to Sarah E. Casler, a native of Morgan County, Va.

S. L. RICKER, of Clover Hill Dairy, Atchison, Kansas, was born in Pennsylvania in 1848, where he remained until 1878, when he moved to Lincoln County, Kansas, where he remained until 1880, when he came to this place and ran a feather renovator. In the fall of 1880, took charge of the Clover Hill Dairy. The farm embraces 150 acres, 100 of which are in clover. This dairy supplies the leading hotels and restaurants, requiring about 1,500 gallons of milk per year. Mr. R. was married in March, 1882, at Atchison, Kansas, to Miss Annie Sheats, of Pennsylvania.

ROBERT H. ROBERTS, chief clerk in the extensive dry goods establishment of Donald Brothers, came to Kansas with the members of this enterprising firm in the spring of 1879, and has been connected with the house from its opening in Atchison to the present time. Mr. Roberts was born in March, 1850, in New York City, where he resided until he came to Kansas. While residing in New York he was for many years employed in the establishment of A. T. Stewart & Co., and subsequently was engaged in the produce business in New York City, in connection with his brothers, for three years. Mr. Roberts is a young, enterprising business man, whose record needs no better endorsement than the position he now holds with the live house with which he is connected.

SOLON W. ROBERTS, Constable, came to Kansas October 1, 1877, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. He was born in Crab Orchard, Lincoln Co., Ky., June 11, 1854, where he lived until his eighteenth year, when he removed to Christian County, Ill., where he lived about three years, and was engaged in farming. From Illinois Mr. Roberts went to Tecumseh, Neb., where he remained about nine months and then came to Atchison. While in Atchison until his election as Constable over a Republican candidate by an overwhelming majority, in an intensely Republican city, he was employed as fore-man at elevator C. Mr. R. was married in Christian County, Ill., September 19, 1876, to Miss Florence Viola Porter, a daughter of Hon. Eli Porter, of Christian County, Ill. They have three children, whose names are Anna, Florence Viola, and Solomon W.

LOUIS ROCHAT, dealer in jewelry, etc.

DAVID B. RODGERS, manager of the wholesale grocery house of Julius Kuhn, came to Atchison in 1869, and engaged in the grocery house of D. C. Robbins & Co. as shipping clerk. After a little time accepted the position of bookkeeper, and in November of the same year was put on the road as traveling salesman, being the first salaried wholesale commercial agent employed from the city of Atchison to travel on the road. In January, 1874, he became a member of the firm of Chaliss Bros. & Co., where he continued for four years, and in 1881 secured his present situation. The subject of this sketch was born April 9, 1848, at St. Louis, Mo., where he graduated from the High School in 1866, his employment having been mostly in the grocery line since. Mr. Rogers married February 5, 1873, Miss Bertha, daughter of Dr. W. L. Chaliss, of this city. He is president of the Owl Club Literary Society, and was one of the instigators of the Bankers' and Merchants' Benefit Association, being secretary of the same. Is also an active worker in Washington Lodge No. 5 of the Masonic Order.

CHARLES E. ROTH, carpenter, came to Kansas October 5, 1878, and located in Atchison where he has since resided. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and belongs to Roth Bros.' Cornet Band. He was born September 28, 1856, at Centre Valley, Lehigh County, Pa., where he lived until his ninth year, when his parents removed to Lower Saucon, Northampton County, Pa., where he lived until he came to Kansas. While in Pennsylvania he was engaged in farming and at the Hellertown Iron Works. Since living in Kansas he has followed his trade, that of carpenter.

JOEL W. ROTH, carpenter and builder, came to Kansas August 1, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of Lodge No. 390 I. O. O. F., of Coppersburg, Pa., and a member of the Lutheran Church. He was a private in Company E, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and enlisted October 18, 1862, and was mustered out of the service August 16, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Roth was born in Colebrookdale Township, Berks Co., Pa., November 16, 1827. His parents resided but one year in this place. After his birth they removed to Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh Co., Pa., where the subject of this sketch resided continuously for thirty-five years, when he removed to Lower Saucon Township, Northampton Co., Pa., where he lived until he came to Kansas. During all these years he was engaged sometimes at farming and sometimes working at his trade. Mr. Roth was married in Upper Saucon, Lehigh Co., Pa., August 26, 1849, to Miss Catherine Schaefer, a native of Lower Milford, Lehigh Co., Pa. They have had ten children, of whom nine are living - William Henry, born march 3, 1850; Wilson Franklin, February 6, 1852; Oscar John, August 24, 1854; Charles Edwin, September 28, 1856; George Washington, July 24, 1858; Emma Matilda, August 16, 1860; Mary Catherine, August 14, 1862, died October 20, 1864; Robert Winfield, August 1, 1865; Thomas Jacob, March 3, 1867; Preston James, May 31, 1869.

OSCAR J. ROTH, carpenter, came to Kansas October 5, 1878, and located in Atchison where he has since resided and followed his trade. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He was born August 24, 1854, in Upper Saucon township, Lehigh County, Pa., where he lived until his eleventh year, when his parents removed to Lower Saucon, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he resided until he came to Kansas. While in Pennsylvania he engaged in farm work a short time, and the rest of the time was at work in the Bethlehem rolling mills and the iron works at Hellertown, Pa. Since he has lived in Atchison he has followed his trade of carpenter. Mr. Roth is a member of Roth Bros.' Cornet band, which is mainly composed of himself and six of his brothers. A brother- in-law is also one of the members. The whole band consists of eleven pieces and only three performers are not members of the Roth family. George W. Roth is the able leader of it. The whole family are noted for their musical abilities and their band is in frequent request at parades, picnics, etc. Mr. Roth was married May 1, 1875, at Hellertown, Pa., to Miss Isadore Orner, a native of Lower Saucon, Pa. She died October 18, 1879. They had three children, two of whom are living - Walter Eugene, born October 4, 1875 and Jennie May, born March 27, 1877.

WILLIAM H. ROTH, carpenter, came to Kansas October 5, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he lives at present. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Saucanna Lodge No. 606, I. O. O. F., Hellertown, Pa., and of Roth Bros.' Cornet Band. Mr. Roth was born in Lehigh County, Pa., March 3, 1850. While he lived in Pennsylvania his first employment was on a farm. At the age of seventeen he commenced learning the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for some years. One year before coming to Kansas, he worked for the Hellertown Iron Company as a furnaceman. Mr. Roth was married December 30, 1869, at Fogelsville, Lehigh County, Pa., to Sovilla Hollenbach, a native of Lehigh County, Pa. They have six children, four of whom are living - Elenora C., born February 16, 1870; Peter H., born March 6, 1871, died August 11, 1871; James S., born September 15, 1872, died June 7, 1875; Irene J., December 25, 1876; Stella M., June 7, 1879; Horace W., November 12, 1881.

MORRIS S. ROTHSCHILD, manager of Sterns & Bro's. branch house of millinery and fancy goods, No. 611 Commercial street, Ogden block. This house was established at Atchison in February, 1878, by Henry and Isaac Sterns who have been actively engaged in the mercantile business at Leavenworth, Kans., for a quarter of a century. The subject of this sketch has been in the employ of the above firm for two years, the first year at Leavenworth, when he was sent to Atchison to take charge of their branch house, which carries a stock of $20,000, the sales per annum amounting to $35,000. The storeroom is 142X22, and the business requires nine salesmen and women, but employs mostly ladies. Mr. Rothschild's birth place was at Leavenworth, Kans., December 22, 1863, where he also acquired his education, being a student of the High School at that place previous to his engagement with this firm, his father, S. M. Rothschild, being formerly engaged in the same business.

WILLIAM M. RUSSELL, yard master for the A., T. & S. F. R. R. Co., residence corner Hickory and Division streets, North Atchison, commenced railroading in 1867, as brakesman on the C. R. I. & P. In 1876 he was given a freight train on this road, which he ran to Brooklyn, Iowa, and for three years was engaged in this. In 1879 he came to Atchison and until the spring of 1880, was employed as a switchman in the yards, and then was appointed yard master of the same. During his sixteen years of experience on railroads he has never met with an accident. Mr. Russell hails from Logan County, Ohio, where he was born December 31, 1848. In 1869 he was married in Davenport, Iowa, to Miss Alice Pelton, their family consisting of two sons. He is a member of the Railroad Accident Insurance Company of Hartford.

HENRY J. RUST was one of the pioneers of Atchison County, having made claim in the fall of 1854 to the northeast quarter of Section 20, Township 6, Range 20 (Mount Pleasant Township), to which farm he removed his family April 1, 1855. Prior to settling in Kansas he had lived in Platte County, Mo., being permanently located there in 1849. He was engaged in farming until January, 1862, when he gave up the office of County Clerk to which he had just been elected, enlisted in the Second Kansas Cavalry and served with his regiment until he died of disease at Fort Smith, Ark., in the fall of 1863.

CHARLES W. RUST came to Kansas with his parents in 1855, located in Section 20, Township 6, Range 20, and was engaged in farming until he entered the army, Sept. 19, 1861. He enlisted at that time in Company C, Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and was with his company in all engagements until Dec. 15, 1864, when he received a wound which rendered amputation of the leg necessary. He received his discharge June 6, 1865. After his return he lived in Mount Pleasant until his election November, 1865, to the office of County Clerk, the duties of which he assumed in January, 1866, serving three successive terms. He then engaged in real estate and abstract business, which he followed until October, 1878, since which time he has been Deputy County Treasurer. Mr. R. was born near Vernon, Jennings Co., Ind., September 7, 1842, and lived in his native town until he came to Kansas. He was married in Atchison, December 26, 1867, to Mary J. Biddle, of Columbus, Ohio, daughter of Joseph Biddle, an old settler and present resident of Atchison. Mr. and Mrs. Rust have four living children - Lillie Belle, Mabel C., Charles H., and Alice Florence. Maud died at the age of six years; George Ralph, aged two and a half, and a little daughter at about the age of one year. Mr. Rust's mother died several years ago in Atchison. Mr. R. is a member of the Knights of Honor.

GEORGE W. RYAN, foreman of bridges and buildings M. P. shops, was born in Newport, County Tipperary, Ireland, April 22, 1843. His parents came to the United States in 1846, and settled in Chicago, where George W. received his schooling and learned the carpentering trade. In 1865 he became connected with the M. P. R. R. during its construction in the bridge building department; was afterwards in the same department with the Fort S. and Gulf R. R., and was some three years with the H. & St. Joe R. R.; left the latter at Hannibal to take the present position in July 17, 1880. Mr. R. was married in Kansas City, September 19, 1872 to Miss Catherine Quirk, a native of Ireland. They have four children living - George H., Mary E., Marcellus, Aurelia. Mr. Ryan is a member of the Catholic Church.

THOMAS MOORE RYAN, Inspector of weights and measures and market master of the city of Atchison, came to Kansas September 15, 1865, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He was in the army in the Quartermaster's Department at Little Rock, Ark., in 1863-'4, and was mustered out of the service in September, 1864, at Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Ryan was born in the city of Manchester, Eng., April 23, 1820. He remained in his native city two years, when his parents removed to County Tipperary, Ireland, where he remained until his eighteenth year, when he returned to the city of Manchester, where he remained until his thirtieth year, when he came to America, and located in St. Louis, Mo., where he was engaged in shoemaking and where he remained nine years, and then went to St. Charles, Mo., where he remained one year and then went to Booneville, Mo., where he remained until he entered the army in 1863. After being mustered out of the service he went to St. Louis, where he staid six and a half months and then went to Glasglow, Mo., where he remained one year, and came from there to Atchison, where he has resided since. Mr. Ryan was married in Stockport, near Manchester, Eng., September 6, 1846, to Miss Catherine Herr, a native of Tipperary, Ireland. They have had eight children, of whom but two survive, whose names are Robert Henry and Nellie, both of whom are married and have families. 

 THOMAS TRUMAN SAFFORD, city policeman, came to Kansas in the spring of 1870, and located and married in Atchison, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Friendship Lodge, No. 5, I. O. O. F. Mr. S. was Assistant-Marshal of the city of Atchison for four years, and has been on the police force of the city nearly all the time he has lived in Atchison. He was born in Martinsburg, Lewis Co., N. Y., April 8, 1834. His parents lived in Martinsburg until the subject of this sketch was a little over one year old, when they removed to Camillus, Onondago Co., N. Y. In this place Mr. Safford lived until he attained the age of twenty-four, when he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis.; from there he removed to Saginaw. Mich., from whence he came to Kansas. While he resided in Fond du Lac he was engaged the greater part of his time in breaking and training young horses, in which he is an adept. Mr. Safford was for four years Deputy Sheriff of the County of Saginaw, Michigan. He also, subsequently held the office of City Policeman of Saginaw City, Mich. He was married in Atchison in the fall of the year 1870, to Miss Mollie Stawpert, a native of St. Louis, Mo. They have one child, a boy aged eight, named Charlie.

H. B. SALLS, of H. B. Salls & Co., proprietors of the Depot Hotel, was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, January 6, 1852. He was educated in Canada and remained there until 1876, when he went to St. Paul, Minn., where he engaged in clerking until 1877, in which year he settled in Kansas. First located in Lawrence and engaged in clerking, then moved to Scandia, where he engaged in grain business until 1879, then operated in various stations of the Central Branch R. R. until he came to Atchison to take charge of the Depot Hotel. Mr. S. is a member of the K. of P., of Clyde, Kas.

JAMES A. G. SAMPLE, M. D., was born in Meigs Township, Adams Co., Ohio, December 22, 1833. His grandfather, George Sample, was an Ohio pioneer, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to that section before 1800, and served in the war of 1812. His father Mathew Sample, was born in Adams County, in 1806; his mother, Elizabeth Guilford, was the daughter of a Virginian. James A. G., acquired his early education in Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine in 1859, with Dr. George Noble, of Highland County, in the same State. He received his first course of medical lectures in the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, graduated from the New York State Medical University, New York City, in 1862, and commenced practice at Mooretown, Upper Canada, removing from that place to Sombra. He graduated from the medical department of the Michigan University in 1864, and afterward moved to Rushville, where he engaged in the drug and grocery business in connection with his regular practice, residing at that place until his removal to Atchison, November 20, 1880, attending in the meantime in the winter of 1879, another course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, from which he graduated March, 1880. Dr. Sample was married July 2, 1866, at Marine City, Mich., to Emma Judson, of Chatham, Canada. They have three children - Annie D., Rolla P. and Pearl. Two of their children have died, Charles Edward at the age of three years and James Oscar while an infant. Dr. Sample is a member of the Alumni Society of the Ohio Medical College, of the Blue Lodge and Chapter A. F. & A. M., and of the I. O. O. F., being now District Deputy Grand Master of that order in Missouri.

M. L. SARGENT, general freight agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R., with headquarters in Kansas City, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26, 1837. Received his education in that city. In 1861, he took a position in local freight department of the I. C. & L. R. R. at Cincinnati, and was shortly after made bookkeeper and paymaster of construction with offices at Harrison, Ohio, then Brookville and Connersville, Ind. Early in 1868, returned to Cincinnati to take a position as contracting agent for the same company, which position he resigned in the fall of the same year, to accept a position with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. Co., he being one of the subscribers to the first subscription for fund to construct this road. He went to Topeka, Kas., November 1, 1868, as bookkeeper and paymaster for the A., T. & S. Fe R. R., and as the road was opened organized the different departments and had general charge of the operating departments, remaining as general freight agent until 1878. January 1, 1879, he accepted a position as general freight and passenger agent of the Central Branch Union Pacific R. R. and moved to Atchison, Kas. This road was annexed to the Gould System, July 1, 1879, he remaining in charge of freight and passenger department, under the title of assistant general freight and passenger agent, which position he retained until October 1, 1882, having also in charge these departments of all the Missouri Pacific lines west of Kansas City. At this time he resigned and accepted the general freight agency of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R., with headquarters at Kansas City. He was married at Hamilton, Ohio, April 23, 1862, to Miss C. C. Hughey. They have two children - John A. and Gertrude. Mr. S. is a Knight Templar in the Masonic Fraternity.

HARLAN SCARLETT, engineer on engine 119 in the yards; residence corner of Park and Eleventh streets, is a native of Orange County, Ind., born in 1833. He served two years in the great Rebellion as Second Lieutenant of the Eleventh Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, Company B. The subject of this sketch engaged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. Co., in 1871 as wiper in the round-house at Emporia, Kas. Only remained there a short time, however, when he was removed to Topeka in the same line. In 1874, he became fireman, and ten months later commenced switching in the yards at Atchison, and was afterwards put on the road as engineer. Mr. Scarlett has been in the employment of this company for eleven years, six of them as engineer, and during that time has never had any accident occur except one, and that was not from any neglect of duty on his part, but was caused by a washout at Ellinwood in 1877, in which his fireman was very badly injured. Mr. Scarlett has been married twice. His first wife, Miss Mary C. Pace, whom he married in 1852, died April 15, 1869. His present wife was Miss Celinda A. Sax, of Lyon County, Kas., whom he wedded November 17, 1875.

GEORGE SCHEIGNER, yard and depot master, Union Depot, Atchison. Mr. S. came to Kansas in the month of November, 1879. He located in Topeka, where he remained until February, 1880, and was engaged as brakeman on the Santa Fe R. R. He was employed in the same capacity on the Hannibal & St. Joe .R. until July 25, 1880, and then came to Atchison and took charge of the Union Depot yard, where he has been engaged since. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and the U. S. M. A. A. Mr. Scheigner was born in Sauk City, Sauk Co., Wis., February 5, 1857, and lived there until July, 1875. Since 1875 he has lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri and then came to Kansas. He was married in Burlington, Iowa, March 21, 1878, to Emma Christopher, a native of Morris, Grundy County, Ill. They had two children whose names are Frederic O'Nellius and Cora. The wife of Mr. S. died August 21, 1881. His daughter, Cora, died June 16, 1881.

THEODORE SCHRAGG, professor of music and stenographic reporter, came to Kansas December 25, 1872, and located at Peabody, where he remained about one year, when he removed to Atchison, where he has since lived and followed his profession. Prof. Schragg was born in Newport, Ky., April 15, 1844, which he always considered his home until he came to Kansas. In 1860-61, he attended Nelson's Mercantile College in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he did not remain to graduate owing to the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, in which he took an active part. Immediately upon the breaking out of the war, he entered the United States naval service and was in it until the close of the war in 1865. Prof. S. was married in Atchison, December 24, 1877, to Miss Nellie K. Morrison, a native of Atchison. They have two children, whose names are Loyal Theodore and Louis Willie.

G. A. SCHULTZ, two and one-half miles southwest of Atchison, was born in Blair Co., Pa., in 1850, and raised in that State. He came to this State in 1881, where he engaged in farming. He was married in Blair, Pa., in 1871, to Miss Mary M. Stickler. They have four children - John, Alice, Harry and Maud.

WILLIAM A. SCOLES, assistant superintendent of Fowler Bros., pork packing house of East Atchison, residence Kansas City (care of the above firm). The subject of this sketch was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., July 4, 1854, and prior to coming West was employed at merchandising in New York City. In 1876 he entered the employ of the above company in their packing house at Chicago, where he was foreman of a gang of men. Two years later he came to Atchison and took his present position in their immense establishment, which was erected in 1878 at the enormous expense of $200,000. When running its full capacity they employ 600 men, and put up 3,000 head of hogs daily. The dimensions of the buildings are as follows, all constructed from brick. The largest, which is the warehouse is 160 feet square and four stories high, with an addition on the north side for office, 60X75 and three stories high. The next building, which is devoted to getting the stock ready for packing and contains the boiler and engine house, is 160X90 and four stories. The third and last building contains four ice houses, each with a capacity of 18,000 tons, and aside from this they have five more at Mud Lake, Mo., holding 20,000 tons. They have connection with all the railroads centering at Atchison, and their yards and stock pens cover thirty-two acres.

JOHN J. SCOTT, farmer, P. O. Atchison, came to Kansas March 16, 1855, locating in the City of Atchison, where he lived until the 23rd day of August of the same year, when he moved to Shannon Township, Atchison County, where he lived until the next spring, when he removed to his farm in Walnut Township, in the same county, five and a half miles from the city of Atchison, on the Leavenworth road, where he has since resided. Mr. Scott participated in the last war as a member of Company D, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, and enlisted August 19, 1862, in Atchison, and was mustered out of the service at Little Rock, Ark., June 26, 1865. He took part in the battles of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill and other minor engagements and skirmishes. Mr. Scott was born in Tennessee, April 27, 1823, and lived there until his seventh year, when his parents removed to Beaver County, Pa., where he lived until he came to Kansas. He was married in Beaver County, Pa. October 22, 1846, to Miss Margaret Jorden, a native of Pennsylvania. They have had seven children, of whom three are living - James Marquess, (a resident of Salem, Oregon Territory, Married May 19, 1881, to Miss Emily Huffman, a native of the same Territory); Martha Amanda, and John Wheeler. Mr. Scott has a fine farm of 250 acres, bottom land, mostly enclosed and in cultivation. The farm is well watered, Walnut Creek flowing through the center of it. It is also supplied with a well and cistern. The improvements consist of a large and roomy frame dwelling, large stock barn, granary, smoke-house, etc., etc. The orchard covers fifteen acres, and contains 500 apple trees of the most desirable varieties. Mr. S. has also a couple of acres of grapes, and an abundance of small fruits, such as blackberries, strawberries, etc. Mr. Scott is one of the prominent farmers of Atchison County, and is noted for his thrift, industry, and genial good nature.

D. SCHWARTZ & BRO., manufacturers and wholesale dealers in cigars, Atchison. This house has attained a wide and well-merited reputation as a wholesale mart among those that have given the city tone in this respect. The firm was established in 1872, and from the commencement the enterprise has been a success, their trade being substantially and continually on the increase, and at the present time their trade in Kansas and Nebraska is one of the largest controlled in the Northwest. Mr. D. Schwartz, the senior member of the firm, is a native of Germany, and was born in Bavaria, October 29, 1839. When fourteen years of age he came to the United States, taking up his abode in Fredrick, Md. where he learned the cigar making trade, and resided two years. From 1857 to 1864 he pursued his adopted vocation in New York city, and in the latter year, came West, locating in Champagne, Ill., where he embarked in trade and was identified until he came to Atchison in 1872. He was married in July, 1869, to Miss Rosa Horchheimer, of New York. By this union they have five children - Carrie, Fannie, Joseph, Aaron, and Leopold. Mr. S. is a member of the I. O. O. F., Schiller Lodge.

HENRY SCHWARTZ, of D. Schwartz & Bro., is a native of Germany, and was born in Bavaria, December 7, 1854; came to America in 1865, locating in Champagne, where he was engaged in the cigar and tobacco business until the firm established in Atchison in 1872. Mr. S. is a live business man, thoroughly conversant with the details of his business.

E. C. SCHWEIN, grocer, came from Germany, kingdom of Prussia, to Chicago, Ill., in 1874, and clerked for George Lessman & Co. until 1878, when he went to his present location, Atchison, Kan. First went into business under the firm name of C. F. Kroening & Co., and afterwards in the year 1881, he established his present grocery house. Mr. Schwein came to America when but twenty-one years old, since which time, without capital to start with, he has risen gradually from a clerk's position to his present powerful position of being the proprietor of the well-known Star Grocery establishment of Atchison, Kan. Mr. S. is a member of the German Lutheran Church; was married December 7, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Back, who was born in Atchison.

CHARLES N. SEIP, agent for the Pacific Express Company, at Atchison, came originally from Pennsylvania. Born in Reading, Berks County, October 22, 1849. Came to Atchison in 1859, with his parents, Thomas L. and Keturah Seip, who are still residents of this city. Charles N. Seip served four years at the printer's trade, in the office of the Daily Champion, and during the month of December, 1865, engaged in the express business with the U. S. Company, first in a local office in St. Joe, Mo., as porter. He was soon, however, advanced to money deliverer, then to cashier, and then finally, in 1870, was put on the road as messenger, making headquarters at Atchison. He remained in the employ of that company until January, 1880, when he took entire charge of the business for the Pacific Express Company in this city. There are six men in the office, ten messengers, and two wagons kept in constant use, for they do the largest express business in the city, and Mr. Seip, being a thorough and practical business man, is fully competent to take entire charge of the same, and run it successfully. He was married in Jefferson City, Mo., April 22, 1872, to Miss Fannie C. Grimshaw.

OWEN E. SEIP, is one of the oldest contractors and builders in Atchison, having been engaged in the business continuously since his arrival in the place, in 1857, with an interim of four years - 1876, '77, '78 and '79 - during which time he served as Sheriff. Mr. Seip was born in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., January 9, 1836. He thoroughly learned the trade of a carpenter in his native town, serving an apprenticeship of three years, and at the age of eighteen moved to Sterling, Ill., to commence work for himself. Among the structures built by Mr. Seip in Atchison, are the Old Central School buildings, the Kansas Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Hetherington's Bank building, the Champion, and the Postoffice building, and most of the business structures on Commercial street. Among the private residences may be mentioned those of Messrs. Hetherington, H. Leisback, Jacob Leus, C. J. Meacham and Mrs. Bush, besides forty-eight which he has built and owned himself at various times. Mr. Seip was married at Sterling, Ill., July 17, 1856, to Mary Boler, a native of Reading, Pa. The same year he emigrated to Kansas, residing in the State a number of months before he located at Atchison. He has served as County Commissioner two terms, and is now serving his third term as Alderman of the First Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Seip have four children - Eleanora, Mary J., Emma and Lillie. Mr. Seip is a member of A., F. & A. M., of I. O. O. F., of K. of H. and A. O. U. W.

WILLIAM H. SEIP, M. D., removed from Washington, N. J., to the city of Atchison in 1878, where he is now successfully established as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Seip was born in Easton, Pa., August 20, 1835. At an early age he manifested a decided predilection for the study of medicine, persisting in his chosen pursuit until he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1859. From 1859 to 1861, being at the same time engaged in following his profession, he was editor and publisher of the Easton Times and Der Beobachter, April 17, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company D, First Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving until July 29 of the same year. In the following September he again entered the service as First Lieutenant of Company H, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was promoted to Captain October 28, 1861; again promoted January 19, 1864, to Major of the First Regiment of the United States Colored Cavalry; to Lieutenant Colonel December 6, 1865, and on the 22nd of May, 1866, was breveted Colonel "for faithful and meritorious services during the war," as his commission reads, to rank from March, 1865. During his first three months term of service as private, Dr. Seip was appointed Assistant Surgeon of his regiment, and was detailed as one of the surgeons in charge of the post hospital. From December 23, 1865, to February 4, 1866, he was in command of his regiment and was stationed at Brazos, Santiago, Texas, where he was mustered out of service. On his discharge he commenced the practice of medicine in Easton, Pa., where he remained about three years, when he moved to Washington, N. Y., in which place he was engaged in the practice of his profession until his removal and location in Atchison in 1878. Dr. Seip received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., December 26, 1865. He was married in May, 1855, to Emma O., a native of Easton and daughter of Rev. John P. Necht, professor of German in, and one of the trustees of, Lafayette College. They have four living children - Sallie C., Mary G., Annie B. and William Hecht. Amy Leah died at the age of sixteen; Percy Thomas at the same age, and Louise B. in infancy. Dr. Seip was one of the members of the New Jersey and one of the founders of the Kansas State Pharmaceutical Association. While residing at Washington, N. J., he was commander of Post No. 30, G. A. R.

ANDREW SEMPLE, JR. member of the firm of Redington & Co., is a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, his birth occurring July 28, 1850. Here he learned the stone cutter's trade, and in 1873 came with his parents to Canada, but after passing a short time there came to the United States, his destination, Cleveland, Ohio. Lived there three years, then traveled around working on various public buildings until the summer of 1879, when he became an employee of the above firm, and two years later a partner of the same. Mr. Semple is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Active Lodge 158. He and his wife are connected with the Presbyterian Church of Atchison. She was Miss Jennie B. Hamilton, of Scotland where they were married in 1873.

REV. JAMES SHAW, retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas Conference, was born in the town of Hunter, Green Co., N. Y., November 30, 1808. His parents were Moses and Christina Shaw, the former of English descent and the latter born in Holland, her maiden name Burger. They removed to Medina County, Ohio, when the subject of this sketch was quite a lad, and here he acquired a common school education, and at an early age learned the trade of hatter. This he followed until his marriage with Caroline Curtiss, of Ohio, which occurred April 11, 1828. Feeling it their duty to live a religious life they both immediately united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became deeply impressed with the idea that he ought to become a minister of the gospel, and began to educate himself for that calling. He first began an academic course at the Norwalk Seminary, and in 1836 united with the Michigan Conference, but according to the rules of the Church, had to preach two years and pursue a theological course of study and pass an examination before ordination. His appointments were as follows: 1836, Kenton Circuit, Ohio; 1837, Dundee, Mich.; 1838, Romeo, Mich.; 1839, Farmington; 1840, Pontiac, where he remained two years,; 1842, Monroe City, where he remained two years. In 1838 he was ordained Deacon, and in 1840, Elder. In 1844 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Ann Arbor District; 1847 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Lansing District, where he was elected chaplain to the Michigan Senate; he was a delegate to the General conference of 1848; in 1848 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Detroit District, where he remained four years; in 1852 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Lake Superior District, embracing the mines and Indian missions, where he remained four years; in 1857 he was transferred to Kansas and settled in Doniphan County, and in May of that year preached the first sermon in Atchison; in 1858, he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Leavenworth District, and has served in various districts since, always putting forth his best efforts to build up the cause of Christianity.

ANDREW SHAY, depot master Atchison Union Depot, came to Kansas, September 12, 1876, and located in the city of Atchison, where he has resided since. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He was in the United States naval service during the last war; was enlisted in New York city, February 5, 1862, and was discharged from the service in the same city, April 25, 1865. While in the service he participated as one of the crew of the United States frigate "St. Lawrence," in the fight with the "Merrimac" off Newport News. He was subsequently transferred from the "St. Lawrence" to the United States sloop of war "San Jacinto," and served in her until she was lost off the Bahamas Banks. He was then transferred to the United States schooner "Two Sisters," on which he served the remainder of the time while in service. Mr. Shay was born in Owan, Wurtemberg, Germany, November 9, 1838, and lived in his native land until his thirteenth year, when he emigrated to America in company with two of his sisters, and located in the city of New York where he lived three years. From there he removed to Ulster County, N. Y., where he lived one year and then returned to New York city, where he lived two years and then went to sea, where he served in various merchantmen until 1862, when he entered the United States naval service. After the close of the war, he again went to sea, serving once more on merchantmen, which occupation he followed until he came to Kansas. Since his advent in his adopted State, he has held numerous positions of trust under the city government and else-where, all of which he has filled with rare fidelity and zeal.

B. SHIFFLET, livery, sale and boarding stables. Business established in 1879, by Evans & Shifflet. Evans retired in 1880. Mr. Shifflet keeps about fifteen horses with a full camplement (sic) of carriages. Mr. Shifflet was born in Greene County, Ohio, June 6, 1840. In 1846, his parents moved to Bureau County, Ill., where he was raised. In 1869, he settled in Atchison County, Kan., where he engaged in farming until 1879. In 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served until the close of the war. Mr. S. was married in Bureau County, Ill., December 25, 1862, to Miss Lucy J. Osborne, of Bureau County. They have two children, George and Minnie.

L. SHIFFLET, proprietress Fifth Street House. Business established in 1880. The house is frame, two stories and basement, about 35X45 feet, and contains sixteen rooms.

CHARLES A. SHOUP came to Atchison in September, 1871, and became associated with Mr. Regnier, in the crockery business, the same month, the firm being Regnier & Shoup. He is a native of Canton, Ill., and removed from Galva, Henry County, Ill., to Atchison. Regnier & Shoup have built up a large and prosperous wholesale and retail business, their sales extending to Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri and New Mexico.

ROBERT SINCLAIR, bookkeeper for firm of Bryning & Grimes, manufacturers of linseed oil and oil cake was originally from New Brunswick, born November 16, 1852. His time was devoted to acquiring an education until 1869, when he embarked in the mercantile business in his native town, and until 1874 was engaged in the same. During the fall of 1877, Mr. Sinclair came to Boston; worked for I. S. Trafton during the winter, and in the spring took a course in commercial studies in French's Commercial College; after which he came to Atchison, Kan., his first employment in Atchison being with the Atchison Elevator Company, W. F. Downs, president; remained in this employ two years. He next went with Cain Bros.' branch office at St. Louis; and in October, 1881, returned to Atchison to fill his present position. 

 D. B. SMART, machinist, Atchison, was born in Burnham, Me., May 3, 1845. When quite young his parents moved to Fayette County, Iowa, where he was raised. At eighteen he left home, and began trading at different points on the Upper Mississippi river, which pursuit he followed until 1870, when he went to Eau Claire, Wis., and learned the machinist trade, remaining three years. He then went to Minneapolis, Minn., where he worked at his trade until 1876. Coming to this place, he found employment at the Central Branch Railroad shops, where he remained until 1880, when he opened a shop at 905 Commercial street. He has superior machinery and tools, and has facilities for turning out nearly all classes of work in his line. Was married in Red Wing, Minn., in 1875, to Miss Lillie A. Burch, and has three children - Harry, George and Roy. Is a member of Active Lodge, No. 158, A. F.& A. M., Atchison.

GEORGE G. SMITH, foreman blacksmith department M. P. shops, was born in Cambridge, England, October 10, 1845. He came to the United States with his parents in 1852 and located at Aurora, Ill. He learned his trade in the C. B. & Q. R. R. shops, commencing in 1861. During the war he was in government service for a time at Nashville, Tenn. In 1865 moved to Kansas City in the employ of the M. P. R. R. During 1868 was connected with the U. P. R. R. at Omaha and Laramie. In 1869 was a short time with the H. & St. Jo R. R., at St. Jo, Mo. Then took charge of Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. shops at Kansas City, remaining about four years. Was then connected with the A. & N. R. R. at Atchison, until he took his present position in 1877. Mr. S. was married in Kansas City, Mo., February 12, 1867, to Miss Jane Smithey, a native of Indiana. They have seven children - Charles G., William G., Annie, James G., Edith, Cora, Alice. Mr. S. is a member of the I. O. O. F.

JACOB M. SMITH, proprietor of the American Pork House, situated on the east side of the Missouri River, in what is known as East Atchison. This establishment was erected in 1880, at the large expense of $100,000, and when in full running order has a capacity for about 17,000 hogs per day, the meat being shipped to both home and foreign markets. Mr. Smith was born in Monroe County, W. Va., September 24, 1831, and is the son of Merry W. Smith, who was engaged largely in the manufacture of wool in that State, who moved to Adams County, Ill., with his family, in 1840, and settled on a farm. Jacob M. learned the cooper's trade in his young days, and in 1850 crossed the plains to California, at the time of the mining excitement. He, however, returned to Illinois the same year and purchased his father's cooper shop, being employed at this and merchandising until 1855. At this time he gained his first experience at pork packing, and he carried it on extensively at Quincy, Ill., until his removal to Kansas, which occurred in 1880. Mr. Smith was elected Mayor of Quincy in 1875, and served several terms as Alderman. He is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 5, of Atchison, and was initiated in the Masonic Order in 1862, having now attained the thirty-second degree. His wife was Miss Zippy Hanks, whom he married in Adams County, Ill. in 1851.

RUEBEN F. SMITH was born in Greenwood, Steuben Co., N. Y., August 3, 1840. From his native State he removed to Illinois, and lived for a time at Waukegan, and in 1858 immigrated to Kansas. He lived for one year at Troy, Doniphan County, and in 1859 went to Pike's Peak, where he remained two years, engaged in mining and merchandizing. In 1861 he returned, and in September entered the Quartermaster's Department of Union Army, at Jefferson City, Mo., in which he remained until March, 1866, being Quartermaster's Agent for about four years, with the rank of A. Q. M. During this time his stations were Jefferson City, St. Louis, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Mobile, and Montgomery. In May, 1866, he returned to Kansas and lived for about two years at Wauthena, where he published a history and directory of Doniphan County. From Wauthena he removed to Council Bluffs, Iowa and remained in that place a year and a half, being one of the proprietors of the commercial college of Marshall, Smith & Co. He then went to Sedalia, Mo., and remained in that town four years. While there, he started the Daily Bazoo, and was one of its editors three years, afterwards starting the Daily Democrat, of which he was one of the editors eight months. He also published at Sedalia "Smith's Guide to the Southwest." In 1873 he removed to Atchison and became one of the editors and proprietors of the Atchison Daily Globe, which was discontinued in December of the same year. Mr. Smith then took a position as bookkeeper for McPike & Allen, wholesale druggists, and in 1875 published "Smith's Guide to Northern and Northwestern Kansas." He commenced dealing in real estate in 1878, and has been continuously engaged in the business since that time. He was married in Montgomery, Ala., April 17, 1866, to Laura A. Vaughan, a native of Virginia. They have four children now living: William W. A., Mary Elena, Rueben F. and Alonzo McPike. Mr. Smith is a member of I. O. O. F., Friendship Lodge, No. 5; Atchison Lodge, 1284, Knights of Honor; Golden Rule Lodge No. 7, K. & L. of H., and Atchison Lodge, No. 4, A. O. U. W., and Atchison Legion No. 16 S. K. A. O. U. W.

WILLIAM R. SMITH, a native of Peru, LaSalle Co., Ill., came to Kansas with his parents, and located near Valley Falls, Jefferson Co., in the fall of 1857. In 1860 he went to Atchison and commenced his law studies with Judge P. L. Hubbard; in 1870, graduated from the Literary Department of Kenyon College, Ohio, and in 1872, from the Law Department of Michigan University. He commenced practice in Atchison, and has remained in that city until the present time - since 1876, associated with Henry C. Soloman.

HENRY SNELL, section boss of Section 1 of the A., T. & S. Fe R. R., residence, corner of Kansas avenue and Eighteenth street. This section includes all of the track inside of their yards at Atchison, making about seventeen miles. He has also nine men under his general supervision. The subject of this sketch was born February 29, 1832, in Westmoreland County, Pa. After attaining a liberal education, he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed until he commenced railroading. In 1859 he married Miss Amanda J. Truxel, of his native State, and in '63 engaged with the old Pennsylvania Central, first as carpenter, then, after one year, took charge of the tracks in the yards. In the fall of 1881 Mr. Snell came West to Atchison, where he has since been employed as above with the A., T. & S. Fe R. R.

JOHN L. SYNDER, barber, came to Kansas March 14, 1871, and located in Pottawatomie County where he lived eleven years, and from there came to Atchison, March 12, 1882. Mr. Synder was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment Illinois Infantry, and enlisted in Springfield, Ill., January 1, 1863. He participated in all the engagements in which his regiment took part, and was mustered out of the service September 10, 1864, at Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill. Mr. S. was born in Putnam County, Ohio, July 27, 1847. He lived in his native place about one year when his parents removed to Pennsylvania, and lived there until his seventh year, when they removed to Illinois, where he lived until March, 1871, when he came to Kansas. He was married in Farmington, Fulton County, Ill., December 22, 1869, to Miss Emily A. Spence, a native of Ohio. They have three children living, whose names are - Harry W., Mary A. and John Burton.

JOSEPH SPECK, engineer on the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence West Kansas City, is a native of Ohio, born March 17, 1852, in Coshocton County. His first employment on the railroad was with the Midland Pacific Co. as fireman, where he remained seven months then changed to the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis road, where he served in the same capacity for a time, and in 1875 ran his first engine. Mr. Speck removed to Kansas City, Mo., July 22, 1877, and entered the service of the Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., and has since been running an engine between that city and Atchison. He is a gentleman well acquainted with his business, and stands high in the estimation of his employers. Mr. Speck is a member of the A. O. U. W., of Illinois, being also connected with the Locomotive Engineers' Brotherhood of Wyandotte, Kansas. His wife was formerly Miss Harriet Bentze, of Barnsville, Ohio. They were married at Kansas city, in 1878.

DR. A. N. SPRAGUE. Among the first practitioners of the medical profession in Northeastern Kansas is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Vermont, was born in Windsor County, August 22, 1825. His parents were old settlers of the Green Mountain State and removed to North Adams, Mass., when A. N. was very young. Here he resided until thirteen years of age. Early in life he took up the study of medicine in Pittsfield, Mass., afterwards in Syracuse, N. Y.; took lectures in New York City, and in the spring of 1845 graduated in the Crosby St. College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city. He practiced his profession in New York State, Louisiana and Ohio, being located in Rochester, of the latter State, and came from there to Kansas, arriving in Atchison, May 1, 1860. He was in very limited circumstances, having but $1.50 when he arrived at the pioneer town of Atchison. He was obliged to sell a large part of his library at a sacrifice, owing to the fact that purchasers of medical works were scarce in Kansas at that remote period. His early experiences in Kansas were fraught with all the drawbacks incidental to the first settlers in a new country. As the country began to settle up his practice extended out, and he was frequently called long distances from Atchison. During the war, like other patriotic citizens, he belonged to the militia; was on the Price raid in Missouri a few years after, locating in Atchison, he built a residence and dealt extensively in town property; was engaged in freighting on the plains and in this line was eminently successful for a time, but unfortunately he lost one entire train, on account of an Indian raid; the loss he sustained amounting to $12,000. There are but few citizens who have been more closely associated with Western enterprise than Dr. Sprague, or are more universally popular. When he first came to Atchison there was considerable sickness, and the people were in poor circumstances. He attended to their wants, dealing out hundreds of dollars' worth of medicine which he had in stock, gratuitously, without any prospects of ever being recompensed. During his long sojourn in Atchison he has been noted for the active part he has taken in all matters pertaining to the moral status of the city. He has always been an active worker in the temperance cause and for a number of years was Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Northern Kansas. The doctor has been married twice, first in Albany, N. Y., in 1854, to Miss Louisa Hunt. They had two children - Eugene and Nettie, both deceased. Eugene died in Ohio and Nettie in Atchison. Mrs. S. also died in Atchison in 1867. Miss Annie Haskins became his wife in 1868. She is the daughter of Joseph Haskins, Esq., one of Atchison's oldest citizens. They have one daughter - Louisa.

D. C. STARR, blacksmith, 905 Commercial street, Atchison, Kan., was born in Audrain County, Mo., in March, 1847. At eight years of age his parents moved to Doniphan County, Kan., settling near Doniphan, where he attended school winters and worked on the farm summers, until nineteen years old, when he engaged in farming for himself, until 1871, when he moved to this place, and was car repairer on the A. & N. Railroad. In 1872, went into the car-shops of that road, where he remained until 1875, when he went to Nebraska, and was fireman on the Midland Railway until the spring of 1876; returned to this place, and in connection with P. B. Urie, started a blacksmith shop on Eighth street. In 1878, sold his interest to his partner, and opened a shop on Main street, where he remained until 1881, when he built a stone shop at his present location. Was married in St. Joseph, Mo., September 25, 1873, to Elizabeth Ogden, of Atchison, Kan. They have one child, Maud A. Is a member of Atchison Lodge, No. 60, I. O. G. T.

STEELE & McKELVEY, manufacturers of galvanized iron cornice, 113 Seventh street, north of Commercial. This firm was established in November, 1881, and is now doing an extensive and prosperous business; receive orders all over the State; making a specialty of this and tin roofing. James W. McKelvey, of this firm, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 25, 1858; learned the tinner's trade in his native State, and in 1879, came to Kansas, starting in business here as above. W. H. Steele, of the said firm, is a native of the same State, Lawrence County, born April 29, 1851. He learned the tinner and cornice trade in Ohio, and subsequently came to Atchison in 1877, where he worked by day at his trade, until he established the above business.

JOHN I. STEELE, engineer on the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence 519 North Second street, commenced railroading in 1867, as clerk in the General Superintendent's office of the Central Branch of the Mo. Pac. road. Having a desire to be a machinist, he entered the shops at Atchison, where he learned the trade. In the spring of 1872, he engaged with the U. S. Express Co., as messenger, which he pursued till '76, when he re-entered the service of the Mo. Pac. R. R. Co. For two years he acted as fireman, taking his first engine in August, 1878, and has since been engineer on this road discharging his various duties in a thorough and every way creditable manner. Mr. Steele is connected with the Masonic Fraternity, in Active Lodge, No. 158. He is also a member of the Engineer's Locomotive Brotherhood, and was a charter member of the firemen's society by the same name.

MYRON L. STEPHENS, head bookkeeper for G. C. Hixon & Co., lumber merchants, was born in Livonia, N. Y., during the year 1860; came West with his parents in 1865, stopping in Illinois, where his father, Dr. W. M. Stephens, practiced his profession until August, 1880, when he removed to Atchison, Kan. In the spring of 1879, Myron L. began a western tour, starting from Cerro Gordo, Ill., and landing first at Denver, Colo. From there he went to the northern part of the State, and to Wyoming, and thence traveled southward into New Mexico as far as the Hot Springs, at Las Vegas. Thence he went northward to Colorado, and from there undertook an overland trip to western Kansas; down the South Platte and up to Frenchman's Fork of the Republican River; then going to Atchison, where he has since resided. Here he completed his study of bookkeeping, and in the spring of 1882, became connected with the above firm as bookkeeper. Mr. Stephens is a gentleman of decided business talent, being well adapted for this vocation, and although young, has thoroughly established his position as a bookkeeper.

R. STEPHENSON, photographer, a native of New Jersey, was born January 21, 1824. His father, Charles Stevenson, was a native of New Jersey and removed with his family, including the subject of this sketch, to Delaware County, Penn., when he was very young. Here he spent his earlier days. He learned the photographing business in Philadelphia, Penn., of which city for several years he was a resident. In 1858, came to Kansas, locating in Leavenworth, being one of the first in that branch of art in the city. Was prominently identified for several years. In 1871, he located in Atchison and has built up a good trade, being an artist of superior merits. Mr. Stevenson was married in 1854, to Miss Annie Taylor, of Pennsylvania. They have five children - Annie, Charles, William, Mary and Horace.

S. R. STEVENSON, of Atchison Furniture Company, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, December 26, 1847. His parents were both Scotch visiting County Donegal at the time. A few months after his birth they returned to Glasgow, Scotland, where he received his education. In 1859, he came to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where he engaged in clerking until 1865, in which year he settled in Atchison, Kas., and learned cabinet making with Dickinson & Co. In 1874, he went to California remaining only a few months, then returned to Atchison and became connected with the A. & N. R. R., and continued with them until the present firm was established. Mr. S. is the founder of the present extensive business. He was married in Doniphan County, Kas., June 18, 1871, to Miss Sadie A. Price, of that county. Her family are now in Atchison County. They have four children - Annie, Mattie, Bessie and Willie. Mr. S. is a member of the Episcopal Church, Is a Knight Templar in the Masonic Fraternity, being P. M. of Washington Lodge No. 5. In the I. O. O. F., he is the "P. G." in the Lodge and the "P. C. P." in the Encampment. Is also a member of the Uniform Rank, K. of P.

CHARLES A. STUART, Justice of the Peace, came to Kansas, May 22, 1869, and located at Atchison, and with the exception of twenty-one months spent at Troy Junction, Kan., as agent for the A. & N. R. R., has lived here since. For about eight years of this time he was a clerk in the A. & N. and M. P. R. R. offices, and for three years was connected with the extensive wholesale drug house of McPike & Fox, as shipping and receiving clerk. On the 4th day of April, 1882, he was elected Justice of the Peace on the Democratic ticket, by a large majority in an intensely Republican city, which shows the high regard Mr. S's neighbors have for his honesty and capacity. Mr. Stuart previous to coming to Kansas was clerk of the Circuit Court of Greenbriar County, W. Va., for eight years. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and A. O. U. W. He was born in Augusta County, Va., November 22, 1835, and lived there seven years, when his parents removed to Greenbriar County, W. Va., where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. S. has been twice married. His first marriage took place at Rockbridge County, Va., September 23, 1856, to Miss S. Lizzie Bell, who died in September, 1862. On the 14th day of March, 1868, he was again united in marriage at Lewisburgh, W. Va., to Miss Nellie P. Lewis, a native of Lewisburgh, a grandniece of Gen. George Washington.

J. H. SUTLIEF, farmer, five miles west of Atchison on Parallel road; was born in 1861 at Monrovia, Kan., where he attended school winters and worked on the farm summers; has always lived in Kansas; was married November 23, 1881, to Miss Claudia Bailey, of this county.

FRANK SUTTER, dealer in Jewelry, watches, clocks, silverware. Business established in 1868 by Mr. Sutter, and has since remained unchanged. Mr. Sutter was born in Switzerland, December 3, 1836. In 1854 he came to the United States and settled in Michigan, where he engaged in jewelry business until 1868, in which year he moved to Atchison, Kan. Mr. Sutter was married in Detroit, Mich., June 8, 1863, to Miss Mary Shadde, a native of Germany. They have five children - Edward, Clara, Emma, Frank, Allie.

P. L. SWEENEY, weigh-master for the M. P. R. R. Co., residence on Commercial street, between Ninth and Tenth. Was born in Oneida County, N. Y., May 10, 1838. In early life he learned the trade of miller, and followed this occupation in his native State and in Boston, Mass., up to the time he started railroading. Came to Kansas in 1873, and during the same year entered the employment of the U. P. R. R. Co., as night watchman and baggage master on the Central Branch. Just as soon as the business of the road increased, however, he became general baggage master, and filled that situation until January, 1880, when he assumed his present vocation, and for nine years has never been off duty nor in any way lost any time, always attending faithfully to the discharge of his various duties.

GEN. B. F. STRINGFELLOW was born and received his academic education at Fredericksburg, Va., afterward continuing the study of mathematics and the natural sciences at the University of Virginia, at Charlotteville, from which institution he graduated. In the fall of 1835, he commenced the study of law at Fredericksburg, and after reading two years was admitted to the bar. He commenced his practice at St. Louis, afterward removing to Huntsville and thence to Keytesville, Mo., where he was appointed Circuit Attorney and held the office four years. He was a member of the Missouri Legislature of 1844-45, and subsequently Attorney General for the State four years. In 1849, he formed a law partnership with P. T. Abell at Brunswick, in Charlton County, where they remained until the fall of 1853, when they moved to Weston, in Platte County, Mo. The partnership continued until the fall of 1861. Mr. Abell in 1858, going to Atchison, Kas., and Gen. Stringfellow also moving to same place in the fall of 1859, where with his family he still resides, one of the most honored and respected citizens. As an attorney his attention is mainly given to special cases of importance, principally railroad cases. He has been attorney for the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs R. R., since its organization, and was one of the founders of the enterprise. He was married May 15, 1844, to Catherine A. Adams, of Charlton County, Mo.

A. B. SYMNS was born in Monroe County, West Virginia. He came to St. Joe, Mo., in 1853, where he was employed as a clerk two years, and afterwards lived three years in St. Louis, before locating in Kansas. In 1858 he settled in the town of Doniphan, Doniphan County, and remained there engaged in mercantile pursuits, until he removed to Atchison in march, 1872. He opened in Atchison a wholesale and retail grocery, and continued this business without a partner until March 1, 1878, when the firm became Symns & Turner, which was again changed in 1880 to the present firm of A. B. Symns & Co., the members being A. B. Symns, J. B. Murphy and R. H. Ballantine. 

 TABOR BROS., clothing and gent's furnishing goods, Mo. 308 Commercial street, established this business at Atchison in April, 1881. The firm consists of three brothers, two of whom are in Cohoes, N. Y., where they have a large establishment devoted to the above line of business. The brothers are Anson, Bernard, and Leo, all born in Bavaria, at the city of Munich, the latter in 1860. He emigrated to the United States in 1873, and was engaged with his brothers at Cohoes, N. Y., previous to coming to Atchison and establishing this branch. The storeroom is 22X90 and well filled with the choicest and most complete line of gent's furnishing goods to be found in the city, and is strictly "one price only."

JOSEPH TACK, engineer on the Missouri Pacific R. R., residence Utah avenue between Liberty and Federal streets, is a native of Wisconsin, born at Steven's Point Portage Co., February 2, 1856. In 1873 the subject of this sketch commenced railroading on the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific as wiper in the shops at Atchison. At the expiration of one year he advanced to fireman, and three years later was put in charge of an engine, running on this road in that capacity ever since. Mr. Tack is now the oldest employee of this road in the capacity of engineer; and once, by the special order of Supt. Maj. W. S. Dowers, made a fast run of 185 miles in four hours and thirty- six minutes. The subject of this sketch is a member of the Engineer's Locomotive Brotherhood, No. 164, at Atchison, and the Fireman's Locomotive Brotherhood of the same city. His wife was Miss Kate Reilly, of this city, to whom he was married January 7, 1879.

JOSEPH H. TALBOT first came to Kansas on a prospecting tour in 1855. In June, 1857, he located with his family in Centre Township, at Monrovia, where he resided until he was elected Register of Deeds, and assumed the duties of the office in January, 1862. At this time he removed to Atchison, and after serving three terms as Register of Deeds, engaged in real estate business, in which he has continued to the present time, being now the oldest real estate dealer in the city. Mr. Talbot was a member of the State Militia, and participated in the Price raid. He has always been a Free-state man, and an active Republican. He is now a member of the School Board, also a member of the orders of A., F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and K. of H. He was born in Canal Dover, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, May 20, 1832. At the age of twenty-one he located in Zanesville, Ind., near Fort Wayne, where he resided for about four years engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1856 he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until he located in Kansas. He was married at Canal Dover, Ohio, August 21, 1853, to Maria L. Reck, daughter of Rev. John B. Reck of the English Evangelical Lutheran Church, a clergyman prominent in the organization of Wittemburg College at Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Talbot is a native of Washington County, Md. They have six children - Kate K., John R., B. Frank, Maria L., Grace R., and Joseph H.

T. D. TARRANT, contractor and plasterer, Atchison, Kan., was born in Greene County, Tenn., in 1833. When thirteen years of age his parents removed to Cass County, Mo., where he attended school until eighteen years old, when he learned the carpenter's trade and shortly afterward the plasterer's trade; the latter he has since followed. In 1863 moved to this place where he engaged in contracting. He was married in 1856 at Harrisonville, Mo., to Miss Martha Hollenback. They have eight children - Laura B., Mary S., Ella A., Oliver, Thomas H., Minnie L., William and Stella E. He is a member of the Atchison Lodge, A. O. U. W. No. 4.

ASA PEASLEE TENNEY, M. D., was born in Concord, N. H., September 21, 1833. In 1855 he commenced the study of medicine in his native town, and continued his studies in 1856-57, under the instruction of Dr. J. F. Jarvis, of Boston, Mass. In the fall of 1857, he became connected with the Boston Lunatic Asylum as assistant physician, a position he retained until 1859. He graduated March 3, of that year, from Harvard Medical College, Boston. From 1859 until June, 1864, he was assistant physician at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, and afterward practiced his profession at Bloomington. In October, 1877, was appointed Superintendent of the Kansas State Lunatic Asylum, located at Osawatomie. In December, 1879, he removed to Atchison, where he continues in the active practice of medicine and surgery. He was a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, the Central Illinois District Society, and McLean County Society; was for several years secretary of the Board of Examining Surgeons at Bloomington, Ill. In Kansas, he is a member of the State Medical Society; has been President of the Atchison County Medical Society, and is the United States Examining Surgeon for pensions. He is master of Washington Lodge, in the order of the A., F. & A. M.; holds office in Washington Chapter and Commandery, and is a member of the Grand Lodge. He was married, September 21, 1863, to Minerva Tenney of Binghamton, N. Y. They have had four children. The oldest son died in infancy. The second, Walter H., died in Atchison, September, 1879, aged twelve years. One daughter, Emily, and son, Edwin Roy are living.

THOMAS D. TERRELL, Ph. G., Ph. D., chemist and druggist, came to Kansas April 16, 1881, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. Ever since his arrival in Atchison he has held an important and responsible position in the large wholesale drug establishment of McPike & Fox. Dr. Terrell is a member of Paradise Lodge No. 127, I. O. O. F., Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of the Independent Order of Red Men, Tribe No. 190, of the same city. Dr. T. was born in Macon, Miss. September 4, 1853, where he lived until his sixth year, when his parents removed to Camden, N. J., where they lived for five years, when they removed to Philadelphia, Pa., where the subject of this sketch resided until September, 1879, when he came to Columbia, Boone County, Mo., from whence he came to Kansas. Dr. T. is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, class of '74, and a member of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, and is well and favorably known for his practical and scientific acquaintance with his profession.

CHARLES G. TIBBITS, foreman of the Santa Fe railroad yards, and of engine No. 119, residence 1029 Parallel street, entered the railroad service in the fall of 1866, as brakesman on the Lake Shore Railroad. Remained there till the spring of 1870, then came West, where he followed the same occupation for a time, and afterwards ran a freight train four years. Was then conductor on the C., M. & St. P. R. R. until the fall of '78, when he came to Atchison, and immediately took charge of the yards for the Santa Fe Railroad Company, at Wichita, and in May, 1881, was located in Atchison as above. Mr. Tibbits took an active part in the late Rebellion, serving the entire four years and three months as a volunteer in the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, Company F, and at the battle of Chickamauga was wounded twice, the first time in the head, the second in the foot, while lying unconscious. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Hawkeye Lodge No. 30, Muscatine, Iowa, and has a policy in the Hartford Accidental Insurance Company. Mr. Tibbits' first wife was Miss Sarah J. Lacey. They were married at Toledo, Ohio, in 1860. She died in March, 1879. In February, 1880, he married his present wife, who was formerly Miss Clara M. Phillips.

L. L. TODD, superintendent of the Chicago Atchison Bridge Company, came to Kansas in the spring of 1857, and located at Leavenworth, where he was employed in the Citizens' Bank about two years as bookkeeper and teller, and afterward as teller for Smoot, Russell & Co., until the spring of 1860. He next went to Denver, where he was cashier for Clark, Gruber & Co., for about a year, and then engaged in the grocery business in the same place. In 1863, he returned to Leavenworth, and took a position as bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery house. Went again to Denver, in the spring of 1864, and in the spring of the same year moved to Michigan, where he engaged in mercantile business at Morence, and remained until the spring of 1870. July, 1870, he moved to Atchison, and was in the drug business in that city until June, 1874. In May, 1875, he was made cashier of the American Bridge Company, and held that position until the completion of the Chicago & Atchison Bridge, at Atchison, September 1, 1875. On the 2d day of September, 1875, he received the appointment of superintendent of the Chicago & Atchison Bridge Company, and has held the position since that time. Mr. Todd was born in Adrian, Mich., January 28, 1832, and lived in that State until he removed to Kansas. He was married in Clayton, Mich., to Adelphe K. Hodge, a native of New York. Their children are Frank A. and Belle L. Mr. Todd is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge and Chapter, in Atchison, and Detroit Consistory.

N. D. TODD, assistant superintendent Atchison bridge, was born in Lenawee County, Mich., September 16, 1845. Was educated there and engaged in farming until October, 1863, when he enlisted in Company H, Eleventh Regiment Michigan Cavalry, and served until mustered out in September, 1865. He then returned to Michigan and engaged in drug business at Morenci, until 1874. In 1875 he moved to Kansas, settled in Atchison, and was appointed Toll Collector of Bridge. Appointed to present position in 1878. Mr. Todd was married in Lewanee County, Mich., May 14, 1871, to Miss Hulda Aldrich, of Gorham, Fulton County, Ohio. They have two children - Luther and Hugh. Mr. T. is a Knight Templar in Masonic Fraternity. He is King in Chapter, Captain General in Council, and P. M. in Lodge.

JOHN C. TOMLINSON located at Atchison, November 1868, and soon after commenced practice as an attorney, in company with Thomas Metcalf, remaining with him about a year. Since July 1879, he has been associated with Charles T. Griffin. During his residence in Atchison, Mr. Tomalinson has been offered nominations for Probate Judge, County Attorney, and Member of the Legislature, all of which he had declined. In 1879, he was elected Mayor on the Democratic ticket, being the first regular nominee of that party elected to the office. During his term of service as Mayor, the City Railway and City Waterworks were built; the Fire Department organized; the streets macadamized; City Buildings bought; $300,000 city indebtedness was compromised and refunded; 960 houses being erected during the first year alone of his term of office. He was nominated for Congress on the Democratic ticket, in 1880, but declined to run on account of his various public duties as Mayor and President of Kansas Exposition, and the private duties of his profession. Mr. Tomlinson was born in Lewisburg, Mason Co., Ky., October 15, 1849; received his early education in the public schools of the county, and his later academic education at Mount Sterling, Ky., afterward reading law at the same place with J. M. Crawford and Thomas Metcalfe. He was married at Atchison, November 5, 1880, to Mary Belle Easton, of Belmont County, Ohio. They have one child - John C. Mr. Tomlinson is a member of A. F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F.

CARL TREFFZ, proprietor Central bakery. This prosperous and enterprising citizen is a native of Germany, and was born in Hesse Darmstadt, October 28, 1841; was reared, educated and learned the baker's trade in his native country. He served five years in the German army, and fought against Prussia in 1866. In 1867, he came to America, and located in Atchison. He applied himself assiduously to work for about seven years, and having accumulated a fair start, opened his business in 1875. Few resident of the city are more highly respected than Mr. Treffz. He married, in 1867, Miss Elizabeth Sieber, of Germany, an estimable lady. They have three children - Katie, Augusta, and Lottie.

H. V. TRIMMER, junior member of the firm of Benedict & Trimmer, retail grocers, No. 1503 West Main street, became a resident of Atchison in 1880. Co-operated with E. S. Wills, buying grain, and has since continued successfully in that line of business. In October 1881, became connected with G. A. Benedict in the grocer trade, and together they have made a successful business venture. Mr. Trimmer is a young man of marked ability and decided business talent, and is well-calculated to receive the confidence of his friends and patrons. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 17, 1857, where he lived until his removal to Atchison, and acquired a liberal education in the high school of that city.

A. C. TRUEBLOOD, a native of Salem, Ind., was born January 30, 1838, and resided at that place until he came to Kansas, and located at Shannon Township, in the spring of 1880. He remained at Shannon, engaged in farming, one year, at the expiration of which time he removed to Atchison and opened a wholesale and retail crockery store, which he still carries on. At the opening of the war, April 19, 1861, young Trueblood enlisted as a private in Company G, Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He participated in all the battles in which his command was engaged; was promoted to Captain of his Company, January 13, 1863, and was mustered out at close of term of service - three years - on June 19, 1864. He then returned to Indiana, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until he emigrated to this State. Mr. Trueblood is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge and Chapter. He was married in Salem, Ind., December 29, 1864, to Harriet Allen, of the same place. Their children are Albert A., Victor E., Paul B., Owen H., and Nellie.

FREE TUFTS, assistant superintendent bridges and buildings, Mo. Pac. Ry., and general roadmaster, Kansas City to Omaha, was born in Litchfield, N. H., September 10, 1844. He was educated as a civil engineer, following his profession about five years on the Erie Railway, three years to the Chicago & Northwestern Ry., and about the same length of time on the C., R. I. & P. R. R. Coming to Kansas in the summer of 1877, when the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railway was being built from Greenleaf west, he accepted the position of assistant engineer. In December of the same year he was appointed engineer and roadmaster of the completed line, and the following year was made chief engineer, which position he held until January 1, 1880, when he was appointed assistant superintendent B. & B. Mo. Pac. Ry., and in September, 1882, was added the title and duties of general roadmaster, Kansas City to Omaha.

MILTON VORSE, engineer, came to Kansas in June, 1881, and located in Atchison and has remained there since. He was a private in Company H, Sixth United States heavy Artillery, and enlisted in the fall of 1863, in Natchez, Miss. He participated in all the engagements of his command, and was severely wounded at the battle of Concordia Lake, La., and was captured by rebels, but managed to escape shortly afterward, and rejoined his command. He was mustered out of the United states service May 3, 1866 at Natchez, Miss. He was born near Cumberland Gap, in Virginia, in 1832, and remained there until his twelfth year, when he came to Buchanan County, Mo. Here he remained about six years, and then went to Platte County, of the same State, where he lived seven years. From there he went to Rodney, Miss., where he lived five years, and then entered the United States army. After his discharge from the service he returned to Platte County, Mo., where he lived seven years, when he removed to Buchanan County, Mo., where he lived until he came to Kansas. he was married in Platte County, Mo., in the fall of 1867, to Jane Kennedy, a native of Kentucky. They have four children living, Celia, Abraham Lincoln, Phoebe and George.

J. L. WADE, farmer, two and a half miles southwest of Atchison, was born in Cole County, Mo., in 1839, and was raised on a farm. In 1859 he came to Kansas and settled on a farm near his present location, but farming did not pay then as now. He followed freighting across the plains from Atchison to Denver and other points until the fall of 1864, when he bought his present farm, and has been engaged in farming and stock raising ever since. In 1864 the State Militia was called out to repel Price, who threatened a raid into the State. He being a member of Company -, the regiment was out fifteen days, and in one battle near Westport, Mo., he was wounded, losing the end of the left hand forefinger. Was married in Shannon Township, Atchison Co., in 1863, to Miss Quintilla, Millen. They have six children living, viz., Birdie, George, Francis, Johnston, Olea and Sarah A. Has been Treasurer of School District No. 4 for the past ten years.

BALIE P. WAGGENER was born July 18, 1847, near Platte City, Platte Co., Mo. He was educated in Platte City, and on September 5, 1866, entered the law office of Otis & Glick, at Atchison, as a student. he was admitted to the Bar at Atchison, Kan., June 10, 1867. In 1870, he formed a partnership with A. H. Horton, present Chief Justice of the State, with whom he continued until January 1, 1877, when he formed a partnership with A. S. Everest, under the firm name of Everest & Waggener. The firm of Everest & Waggener are now the attorneys for the Mo. Pacific Ry. Co., C., B. U. P. R. R. Co., C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co., West. Union Tel. Co., Pacific Express Co., Exchange Nat. Bank of Atchison, Atchison Savings Bank, First Nat. Bank of Atchison, and Atchison Bridge Company. Mr. Waggener is not a politician, but devotes his time exclusively to the practice of his profession. He was married in Atchison, May 27, 1869, to Emma L., daughter of William Hetherington.

JOHN E. WAGNER, retired merchant, residence on Fourth street, South Atchison, is a native of France, born in Valenciennes, July 20, 1822. emigrated to the United States in 1850, and for eight years was connected with a large hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1858, having a desire, as thousands of other business men of the eastern cities had, to transfer his place of business to some of the young, enterprising towns of the West, he accordingly set forth, in July of that year, to look up a location, having his eye on St. Joseph, Leavenworth or Kansas City, all three of these towns at that time bearing a good name in the East. After his further examination of several of the western towns, Mr. Wagner decided that Atchison was a very desirable location, but was doubtful of the propriety of opening a hardware store in so small a place. He, however, met with Senator Pomeroy, whose faith in the location of Atchison as one that, in time, must make a large city, inspired Mr. Wagner with a similar confidence, and his decision was that this place should be his future home. Removing from Cincinnati, he at once opened his stock of hardware in the then only brick building in the town, standing on Commercial street, near the Levee, of which Mr. Wagner was the first occupant. Here he did business for two years, meeting with a liberal patronage of the people, and then removed to a frame building on the same street, between Second and Third; but after three years, the growth of the city had been so large that his place of business was too far from the business center, and he erected a brick building on the corner of Fourth and Commercial streets, three stories high and 25X75 feet, for his business had grown to such an extent that it needed a great deal of room for the display of goods. Here Mr. Wagner continued business until January, 1871, when he sold out to Messrs. Blish & Silliman, and during the same year, in company with his wife, took a trip embracing Colorado, California, Panama, Jamaica and San Domingo; and since that time they have made several voyages to Europe. Mrs. Wagner was born in Lierre, France, and both are original members of the Congregational Church of this city. Mr. Wagner erected the first residence in South Atchison, in 1859, and built his new residence, the present brick edifice, in 1880.

SAMUEL WAGSTAFF, dealer in flour, feed, etc. Among those that pioneered west of the Missouri River and contended with the privations of the first settlers, is the subject of this sketch. He was a native of England, and was born in Derbyshire, September 7, 1825; was reared and resided in his native country until 1854, when he crossed the ocean, locating in New York city, where he was a resident for two years. In 1857, he came to Nebraska, and was among the first settlers of Nemaha County, where he opened a farm and was for twenty years closely associated with its growth and development. Coming in at that day he had all the trials of the first settlers to meet. He was eminently successful as a farmer and secured a well-merited reputation as an agriculturist, by industry and good judgement. In 1877, Mr. W. discontinued farming, came to Atchison, and engaged in the soap business, which proved a rather disastrous venture, but not through any mismanagement of his, however. His present business was established on December, 1881. Mr. W. is an affable and well informed gentleman, has an excellent memory, and takes great delight in recounting the reminiscences and exploits of early days in the far West. He has been married twice - first in England, in 1848, to Miss Margaret Milner, now deceased. His present wife, formerly Mrs. M. E. Nichols, he married in 1870.

CLAUDIUS D. WALKER, with his parents, Harvey and Anna Belle Walker, came to Kansas in the fall of 1858, first locating at Fort Scott, where they remained until 1861. From Fort Scott they removed to Winchester, Jefferson Co., Kan., which place was the home of Claudius D. until 1868, and where his parents still reside. After receiving his early education at the public schools, young Walker attended Baker University at Baldwin City, Kan., and was afterward four years at the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. He then read law nearly two years with Royce & Boyd of Cincinnati, and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1878, locating soon afterward in Atchison, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Walker was born in Greeneville, Mercer Co., Pa. He was married in Atchison June 7, 1881, to Lizzie E., daughter of W. W. Auld. Mr. W. is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor.

E. E. WALKER, general agent H. & St. Jo. R. R., was born in Burlington, Iowa, March 1, 1859. His parents were old residents of Burlington, though originally from Jefferson County, Ohio. He received his education in Burlington, graduating from B. & S. Business College in 1872. He then commenced clerking for E. S. Edger & Co., and remained with this firm about five years. He then became connected with W. C. Wadsworth & Co., of Davenport, for a time. In 1877, he moved to Kansas and took a position in freight office of H. & St. Jo., and has worked through all the clerkships until appointed to present position, November 1, 1881.

JOHN WALSH, general baggage agent at the Union Depot, was born at Carbondale, Pa., April 14, 1855. While in his native State he was employed in the coal mines, and also as clerk in a store. In 1878, accepted the position of baggage master in the old depot at Atchison, and remained in that situation until the erection of the new Union Depot, and then accepted the position of general baggage master, where he has five men under his supervision. Mr. Walsh is a brisk and enterprising business man, always working for the best interest of his employers, and consequently stands high in their estimation, as well as in that of his many friends.

JOHN WATERSON, butcher. This enterprising fellow-citizen is a native of Scotland and was born at Edinburgh April 13, 1832. Was reared and educated in his native country, where he resided until 1855, when he came to America, locating at Milwaukee, Wis., where he was identified with the business interests of this city as a butcher for nearly twenty years. In 1873, came to Kansas, locating in Clyde, where he secured a farm and took an active part in the development of that portion of the State. In 1875, he located in Atchison, where he has since been identified with the commercial interests of the city. In 1861, Miss C. Steel became his wife. By this union they have three children - Agnes E., Robert W., Nellie G. Mr. W. is a Royal Arch Mason.

COONRAD WEBER, clothing merchant, was born in Bavaria, city of Offenbach, in the year 1839. He attended school in his native country, and in 1852, with his parents Henry G. and Margaret Weber, emigrated to the United States. Settled on a farm near St. Louis, Mo., where Coonrad W. lived, attending school and working on the farm until seventeen years of age. He then learned the blacksmith's trade, which vocation he followed in and about St. Louis till 1863, when he started in the clothing business at Rolla, Mo., with one B. Loewenstein, but after remaining there one year removed their goods to Atchison, in a small frame building on the corner of Second and Third streets. At the expiration of two years, Mr. Weber bought out his partner, and at the same time took his brother Frederick in with him. In 1868, the building he occupied, on the present site of the Otis House, was destroyed by fire, but Mr. Weber was fortunate enough to save most of his goods. In 1878, moved to his present location, where he keeps a most complete line of goods, and is now the oldest firm in the city. He married in Atchison in 1866, Miss Persela Clits, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he has five children, two of whom are girls. He has served one term as Councilman, and belongs to both the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H. in this city. Has been a member of the Hook and Ladder Fire Department of Atchison, since its organization, and he and his wife are members of the First congregational Church.

A. WEINMAN, proprietor of the barrel factory, was born in Guttenburg, Germany, November 30, 1831. Received his education in Germany and learned the coopers' trade. In 1853 he came to the United States and followed his trade in New York city, Grand Rapids and Lansing, Mich., until 1859, when he settled in Atchison, Kan. Engaged in the brewery about two years, then established present business. He was married in Ann Arbor, Mich., June 6, 1859, to Miss Kate Breisch, a native of Stuttgart, Germany. They have three children - Louis, Kate, Dora. Mr. W. is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F.

A. WELSH, proprietor of cracker factory, was born in London, England, June 23, 1842, came to the United States in 1850 with his parents, and settled in St. Louis, Mo., where he was educated and learned his trade, commencing at the age of eighteen. In 1869, he settled in Wyandotte, Kan., and worked at his trade in Kansas City until 1876, when he went into business for himself. In 1878, he moved to Atchison, Kan., and established the present business. He was married in Wyandotte, Kan., in October, 1872, to Miss Serena Barnett of that city. They have four children - Joseph, Stella, Walter and Alfred Jr. Mr. W. is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Wyandotte.

CHARLES WELLS, first located in Concordia, Kansas, in 1870, where he remained five years. In the fall of 1875 he removed to Atchison, in which city he has since resided, engaged in the practice of law. In 1874 and 1875 he was a member of the Legislature, and has been County Attorney for the last four years. He was admitted to the bar in 1865, in Monmouth, Ill., and since his arrival in Kansas has been constantly engaged in his professional duties. Mr. Wells is a native of Painesville, Ohio.

ROBERT F. WETZEL, butcher, prominently identified in the city of Atchison. He is a native of Germany and was born in Saxon, October 25, 1836. Learned his trade and resided in Germany until 1856, when he came to the United States, locating in Port Washington, Wis.; was also a resident of Madison, Wis., for one year, and for a time at Dubuque, Iowa. He eventually went to New Orleans, and the winter of '57 and '58 was butcher for the company in the construction of the Tehuantepec R. R. extending from the Gulf to the Pacific Ocean. He remained in Mexico about nine months, and upon returning to the States located in Chicago, Ill., there residing until 1864, when he came to Atchison, and has since figured conspicuously in the growth and development of the city, being actively engaged in trade. For some time was proprietor of a vineyard in Atchison county. Mr. W. is now serving his fifth year as Councilman, and is President of the Council. During his connection with that body he has been instrumental in doing much towards the interests of Atchison, being Chairman of the Board of Improvements; he worked assiduously for the present system of waterworks, and the organizing of a first-class Fire Company. He is a gentleman possessing excellent judgement, and commands the respect of all. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Schiller Lodge, No. 33; also the Turners, and the K. of P. He has been representative to the Grand Encampment of the I. O. O. F., and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Turners. He married in 1862, Miss Antonia David; by this union they have seven children - Wilford, Maurice, Amelia, Gustave, Ida, Robert, Antonia. 

 H. L. WHITAKER, was born in Hampden County, Mass., July 24, 1838. He lived in Massachusetts until he was fourteen years of age, when he left home and went to West Meriden, Conn., to learn the machinist trade, at which he worked until January 1, 1855, when he went to Brown County, Ill., where he engaged in farming. In the fall of 1856, he moved the Rev. Pardee Butler from Brown County, Ill., to Atchison County, Kas. Mr. Whitaker then returned to Brown County, Ill., and moved his mother, Mrs. Emeline Whitaker, to Pardee, Atchison County, Kas., took a claim for her in the spring of 1857; left his mother and two brothers on it, while he went to Henderson County, Ill., and engaged in farming. While here, he was married to Miss Harriet E. Merriman, of West Meriden, Conn., September 22, 1857. In the fall of 1858, he came to Pardee, Atchison County, Kas., his sole capital being a team and ten cents in money. He rented a small place that year, and his mother gave him forty acres of the quarter section that he took up for her in the spring of 1857, which is in the southeast quarter of Section 33, Township 6, Range 19. Mr. Whitaker has added to his farm and now has about 500 acres. He has built three houses on this place, the last one costing him $3,600. April 1, 1882, Mr. Whitaker purchased the retail department of the Western Hardware Company. He deals in farm implements, barb wire, shelf hardware, and everything appertaining to an establishment of the kind. Their children are Lyman M., Frank S., Emma M., Mary I., Joseph A., Harry O., Hattie E., John Allen and Arthur. Mr. Whitaker was a member of the Pardee Seminary Co., retaining that position about fourteen years. He was Overseer and Trustee of the Township six years, and Justice of the Peace from 1872 until the spring of the present year, 1882. He has also from the first been identified with the interests of the schools, having held several offices on the School Board.

THOMAS L. WHITE, of T. L. White & Son, candy manufacturers, was born in Orange County, Ind., October 27, 1833. Received his education in his native county, and engaged in farming. In 1871 he moved to Kansas and settled in Atchison County. In 1875 moved into the city and engaged in general occupations until he established present business. He was married in Orange County, Ind., to Miss Maris, of that county. They have four children - Charles M., George A., Thomas L., Jr., Mary. Mr. White is a member of the Friends' Church. George A. White, of above firm, was born in Paola, Orange Co., Ind., July 27, 1858. Educated in Atchison, Kan., where he settled with his parents in 1871.

EDGAR A. WILLIAMS, grocery and provision store, corner of Ninth and Parallel streets, was born in Wales, January 11, 1828. Came to the United States with his parents, stopping at Newark, Ohio. His father is a painter by trade. Here Edgar learned the shoe-makers' trade, at which he was employed until 1869, when he changed his place of abode to Sheridan County, Mo. Here his vocation was that of farming, which he followed till he came to Atchison, this being in May of 1879. Embarked in his present undertaking during the January following, of which he has made a decided success. Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married in Ohio in 1850, Miss Esther A. Fultz.

DOCK WILSON, city expressman, came to Kansas February 27, 1862, and located in Atchison, where he has since lived. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Was in the army as a private in Company B. Seventy-ninth Regiment, U. S. C. Infantry; was enlisted August 15, 1862, and was mustered out of the United States service at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, October 1, 1865. He participated in all the battles in which his command was engaged. Mr. W. was born in Randolph County, Mo., May 15, 1831, and lived there until his thirteenth year, when he went to near Glasgow, Howard County, Mo., where he lived about ten years. From there he went to Andrew County, Mo., where he resided about seven months, and from there he went to Platte County, Mo., where he stayed about eleven months, and from there to Buchanan County, Mo., where he lived seven years. From there he came to Kansas. Mr. Wilson was married in St. Joseph, Mo., December 25, 1858, to Maria Saxton, a native of Maryland.

GEORGE B. WILSON, commission merchant, came to Kansas, April 11, 1879, and located in Atchison, where he has resided since. Mr. Wilson is President of the Home Social Club. He was born in New York City, November 10, 1857, and remained in his native city until his fifteenth year, when he went to Elmwood, Peoria County, Ill., where he lived two years, and then went to Galesburg, Ill., where he remained but one year. After two years spent in traveling the States of Illinois and New York, he went to Hastings, Iowa, where he lived one year. From there he went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained one year, and from thence he came to Kansas.

HIRAM G. WILSON, driver, Atchison fire department, came to Kansas in October, 1864, and located in Doniphan County, where he remained one year. He then went to Gosport, Marion County, Iowa, where he remained three years, and then returned to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, where he lived about five years, when he moved to the City of Atchison, where he has since resided. Previous to moving to Atchison, he was engaged in farming. After moving to the city he was for a long time employed as a driver of the Atchison Transfer Company. On the 19th of December, 1881, he obtained the position which he now holds. Mr. Wilson was born in Parke county, Ind., July 8, 1849. He remained in his native place until his fifth year, when his parents removed to Marion County, Iowa, where Mr. W. Lived until his removal to Kansas. His parents are still living in Atchison County.

CHARLES WINCHECK, foreman machinery department M. P. shops, was born in New York City, November 25, 1846. In 1858 his parents moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he finished his education, and then learned the trade of machinist, commencing in private shop in 1862, and one year later entering the M. P. R. R. shops under Charles Williams, master machinist. Has since been connected with the machinery department of the O & M., Northern Missouri, and Missouri Pacific railroads. In 1872 became connected with the Central Branch, when he was appointed to present position. Mr. W. is a Royal Arch Mason.

MELVILLE G. WINGAR, located in Atchison in November, 1867, since which time he has been engaged for a position of the time in mercantile pursuits. On the 10th of March, 1882, he has appointed Postmaster, assuming the duties of the office April 1, 1881. His native town is Syracuse, N. Y., from which place he removed to Kansas, being local mail agent for a time on his first arrival.

LEMUEL R. WOLF, family grocer, Seventh and Mound streets, was born in Harrison County, West Va., January 30, 1818. His boyhood was spent on a farm, being employed at this and merchandise up to his removal to Harrison County, Ky., in 1865, and farmed there until he came to Atchison. This occurred in June, 1875, and one year later he established the business he is now engaged in, where by close attention to business, and the class of goods kept, he has succeeded in working up a thriving and substantial trade. His wife was Miss Harriet Arnold of Virginia. They have three sons and two daughters.

WESLEY J. WOLFE, formerly manager of branch office Singer Manufacturing Co., is a native of Ohio, and was born in Richland, now Ashland, County, July 28, 1838. At an early age he removed with parents to Olney, Richland County, Ill., where his father, John was prominently identified for over a quarter of a century. He was County Surveyor and the first Assessor of Richland County, was Circuit Clerk for a number of years, and associated with the county's interest generally. He was one of the incorporators and secretary of the company that constructed the Grayville and Mattoon R. R., and it was largely through his individual efforts that the road was built. He is still a resident of Olney. Wesley J. embarked in the sewing machine business in 1865, being the pioneer wagon man in South-eastern Illinois. He inaugurated the wagon system of selling machines in that country. He was a dealer, and has been identified with the sewing machine trade of Olney and the country tributary almost continually from 1865 to the spring of 1882, when he located in Atchison, taking charge of the business here for the Singer Manufacturing Co. April 18. In latter years for a time, he was in the employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co., attending to special business on the lines of the principal railroads in Southern Iowa. Mr. Wolfe was thoroughly conversant with the sewing machine business and is a sterling business man. He is a genial and entertaining gentleman, being a fluent conversationalist. He is a member of the I. O. of M. A. No. 95, Olney, Ill. He has been twice married, first in 1858 to Miss Sarah A. Bower; her death occurred in September, 1868. By this union had three children, one of whom is living - Edward C.; lost two - Emanuel and Mary Margaret. In 1869 Miss Elizabeth Allen, of Olney, became his wife. They have had one daughter, Hattie, deceased.

ISAAC WOOLF, proprietor of the New York Hat Store and dealer in gents' furnishing goods. Commercial street, is a native of Ulster County, N. Y., born September 16, 1847, the son of David Wolf, a stock dealer. Received a common school education there. During the spring of 1878 the subject of this sketch came to Milford, Neb., where he was employed at various occupations, and in October, 1881, removed to Atchison and embarked in his present business. Carries a stock of about $4,000, and makes the manufactory of silk hats a specialty. This firm is increasing its trade rapidly and is certainly one of the most enterprising in the city. Mr. Woolf was married at Seward, Neb., to Miss Hattie E. Potter, formerly from Essex County, N. Y.

J. A. WRONG, freight agent of Missouri Pacific R. R., was born in Elgin County, Canada West, September 27, 1845. At the age of fourteen he commenced clerking in mercantile business. In 1862 he went to Oswego, N. Y., clerking in a dry goods store for a time, then returned home and spent about two years on the lakes. In 1866 he moved to St. Louis where he entered the service of the I. & St. L. R. R. in their freight department in East St. Louis. Commenced with the Missouri Pacific at St. Louis in 1870, and since that time has been in their various branches, though always under Mr. Talmage, general manager. Was appointed to present position in March, 1882. Mr. W. was married in St. Louis, Mo., September 1, 1869, to Miss Emma O. Newkirk, of St. Louis. They have four children - John N., Edmund B., Charles A., and Walter E. Mr. M. is a member of the A., F. & A. M., of Sedalia, Mo.

FRANK W. YALE, wholesale dealer in butter and eggs, foot of Commercial street, was born in New York city, in 1856, and is the son of Benjamin O. Yale, of that city. After acquiring an education, he was employed by the well known firm of G. S. Hart & Co., as traveling buyer, and by this means obtained a thorough knowledge of the business he is now engaged in, from New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia markets. In 1881, came to Atchison, and established the present business in the spring of that year, being the only exclusive dealer of the kind in the city. His shipments amount to two and three car-loads per week, and for the preservation of the produce until ready for market, he has a refrigerator that holds 100,000 pounds. Mr. Yale employs five traveling men through this State and Nebraska, and six men in the house. He is a gentleman of excellent business capacity, and although young, has had experience that makes him exceptionally adapted to this line of trade, and the success of his undertaking will be seen in the figures above.

ERNST YOUNG, merchant, came to Kansas in the spring of the year, 1857, and located in Atchison, where he has resided since and carried on business. Mr. Young is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio, February 24, 1851, and lived in his native place until his fourth year, when his parents started for the West with an ox team and came "overland" to Atchison, where they settled and have lived since. Mr. Young's father is one of the "old settlers" of Atchison, and can relate many interesting reminiscences of the early days of the now prosperous city. Mr. Young was married in Atchison, September 9, 1872, to Miss Philobena Shaback, a native of Weston, Mo. They have three children living, whose names are: Ernst, Henrietta and August. Honest and industrious, and attending strictly to his own affairs, Ernst Young stands deservedly high in the estimation of his fellow-citizens.

FRANK YOUNG, proprietor of the Liberty House, is a native of Germany, and was born in Prussia, on the Rhine, September 16, 1828; was reared, educated and learned the cabinet making trade in his native country, and served two years in the army. Came to the United States in 1853, locating in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1857. came to Atchison and engaged in keeping a boarding-house, being one of the pioneers in that line. His house, which he erected at that time, was on Fifth street, where he kept three years, when he removed a short distance from his old stand. In 1865, he purchased a brewery, and turned his attention to that branch of industry, with which he was identified for several years. In 1881, he again came before the public in the capacity of landlord, and his wide acquaintanceship and well-merited reputation as a caterer in this line, have given him a superior prestige. In 1859, by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting, he was deprived of his left hand. Mr. Young was married in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1857, to Miss Margretta Butts, of Germany. They have six children - Frank, Otto, George W., Lizzie, Josephine, and Gusta.

ABRAHAM ZAHN, butcher and dealer in live stock, came to Kansas, March 28, 1878, and located in Atchison, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Atchison Turnverein, of which society he has been Secretary, and of Schiller Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F. Mr. Zahn was born in Baden, Germany, October 26, 1850, and lived in his native place until his fourteenth year. He then traveled extensively all over Europe, except in Italy. In 1870, he was in the Fourteenth Army Corps of the German army, commanded by General Werther, and participated in all of the engagements of his command in the Franco-Prussian war. Immediately after the close of the war, he sailed for this country, and settled in New York city, where he remained four years, and followed his trade. From New York he removed to Bethlehem, Pa., where he lived five years, and from there came to Kansas. Mr. Z. was married in Bethlehem, Pa., January 14, 1875, to Miss Kate Picht, a native of eastern Pennsylvania. They have three children living whose names are: Beulah May, Henry George and Norman A.

HERMAN ZIBOLD, the brewer. This well known gentleman is a native of Germany, and was born in Granton, Baden, April 4, 1836, and learned his profession, that of brewing, in his native country, and in 1854 came to the United States, locating temporarily at Lawrenceburg, Ind.; after which he was a resident of St. Louis and Chicago, eventually locating in St. Louis. He was among the first to tender his services to preserve the Union, enlisting in the three-months' call and served through until the close, being honorably discharged as Corporal. He was under Gen. Franz Seigel, and participated in second battle of Vicksburg, Pea Ridge and other notable events. After the war, for a time, was a resident of St. Louis, and from there came to St. Joseph, where he was employed in Nunning's brewery. In 1871, established present business, which is one of the first in the State, having all the modern improvements. The firm of H. Zibold & Co. is among the substantial firms of Atchison. The subject of this sketch was married, August, 1867, to Miss Rosa Franz. By this union they have five children - Rosa, Emma, Frank, Louisa, and Josephine. Mr. Zibold is a member of the Turn Verein. 

 GEORGE BALL, nurseryman, Section 14, P. O. Atchison, is a native of England, and was born in Wilkshire, June 16, and was raised and educated in his native country, following the pursuit of horticulture. When twenty-seven years of age he came to the United States, locating Des Moines, Iowa, where he resided a considerable length of time. In the autumn of 1857 came to Kansas, locating on Section 14, Atchison County, a short distance from his present abode, where he started a nursery; planting in 1859 50,000 trees, and in 1860, 60,000 more. In 1865 he purchased his present farm. He has one of the finest nurseries in Northeastern Kansas, in a thrifty condition. Mr. Ball is one of Atchison County's most substantial and progressive citizens, and being among the pioneers has been closely associated with the progress of Kansas. Mr. Ball was married in Kansas to Miss Sarah Edwards. By this union they have ten children - James, Sarah, Eliza, William S., John, Oliver, Frederick, Rosa Ethel, Nellie M., George M.

G. M. BLODGET, farmer and stock raiser, Locust Grove, is one of the pioneers of Mt. Pleasant township, coming to the State in April, 1855, and locating on Section 19, Town 7, Range 20, entering 160 acres of land; now owns 285, 220 under cultivation, with good buildings, hedge and stone fences, orchard and grove. In the spring of 1856 he bought a breaking team of twelve yoke of cattle, and for the next three years broke prairie for himself and neighbors, and bought the first reaper and threshing machine sold in Atchison County, which he ran during the season until 1862, when he enlisted in Company F, Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Corn Hill and Van Buren, and in all the skirmishes of his command, serving as Orderly Sergeant, and was mustered out at Leavenworth in 1865, returning to his farm, which pursuit he has since followed. He was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1832. In 1842 his parents moved to Kalamazoo County, Mich., where he remained until 1851 when he went to Moline, Ill., and worked in a lumber yard until 1853, when he went to Davenport, Iowa, and during the threshing season ran a threshing machine and bought stock in the interval until 1853, when he came to this State. Was married in 1858 in Mt. Pleasant township, at the residence of Henry Cline, to Miss Margaret J. Cline, and has six children viz: Thomas Lincoln, Elvina, Frank, Fred, Josephine and Louie. Has been overseer of his road district for a number of years, also served several terms as constable.

M. A. BRUMFIELD, farmer and dairyman, P. O. Atchison, is a native of Green County, Ky., and was born in Campbellsville July 3, 1832. At an early age he went to Missouri, locating in Buchanan County, residing for a time at Rushville. In September, 1854, came to Atchison County. He turned his attention to agriculture and was one of the first farm openers in the county. Has been closely identified with the progress and development of Northeastern Kansas. Mr. Brumfield is a genial and sterling citizen and eminently popular with all. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. In 1858 he married Miss Catherine Wade. By this union they have eight children - Annie, William J., Elizabeth, Carrie, John, Minnie and Samuel J. Tilden. James Preston, their first born, died.

THOMAS L. CLINE, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Henry County, Iowa, in 1845. In 1855 his father, Henry Cline, moved to Mt. Pleasant Township and settled in Section 21, Town 7, Range 20. Young Cline has passed his life principally in this State, inheriting the old homestead and adding thereto, until he now owns 320 acres, 190 of which are under cultivation, with good buildings, grove, orchard and excellent stone and hedge fences. In 1864 he served in the militia on the occasion of Price's raids. Was married in 1874 in Atchison County, Kan., to Miss Susan M. Vandiver, and has three children, viz. - Orella M., Nellie and Charles. In 1881 was elected Township Treasurer.

HENRY CLINE, deceased, was born in Virginia in 1809: his father moved to Ohio in 1811: he went from there to Illinois, where he was married, in 1834, to Miss Eleanor Leonard: moved to Iowa in 1839, and from there came to Kansas in the Spring of 1855. He located in Atchison County, near Mt. Pleasant, being one of the pioneers. In 1861 was appointed postmaster of Locust Grove, and held the position until his death in 1875. His family consisted of four children: Juliana, now Mrs. Jay; Mary, now Mrs. Blodgett; Charles, who enlisted in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and died at Cow Creek, Arkansas, in 1862, and Thomas.

B. E. FRIEUND, broom manufacturer and farmer, P. O. Atchison, identified with the manufactures of Northeastern Kansas, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Germany, and was born May 20, 1851. When very young came to America, locating in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was reared, educated and learned his trade of manufacturing brooms. For a time he was engaged in business in Huron County, Ohio, and also in Kentucky, from which point he came to Kansas in 1879, and has since been recognized among the substantial manufacturers of this portion of the State. Mr. F. is a grower of broom corn, has a well arranged building for his business, and makes an excellent article in the broom line. He married in 1879 Miss Minnie Stauffer, of Kentucky, an estimable lady and an excellent helpmate.

JOHN GLANCY, farmer, Mount Pleasant Township, was born in Ireland in 1816, and emigrated to America in 1849, settling near Philadelphia, Pa. and followed farming until he removed to this State, in 1857, settling on Section 2, Town 7, Range 20, Mount Pleasant Township. He now owns 250 acres of land, 110 acres improved, with good buildings, all fenced. He was married in Atchison County, Kan., in 1858, to Miss Mary Grady. They have six children - Michael, John, James, Bridget, Mary and Eugene. Mr. G. held the office of Justice of the Peace in Mount Pleasant Township for ten years.

MICHAEL GLANCY, farmer, Mount Pleasant Township, was born in Ireland in 1812, and emigrated in 1849 to America, and located at Philadelphia, Pa., and followed butchering and speculating until 1857, when he came to Kansas, settling on Section 10, Township 7, Range 20, Mount Pleasant Township. He owns 340 acres of land, with good buildings, fences, orchard and timber. Was married in Ireland in 1843, to Miss Honora Conner, and has five children - John C., the only son (enlisted, in 1862, in Company C - Capt. Gardner - of the Second Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Col. Cloud; he was killed at Roseville, Ark., in 1864); Bridget (now Sister Agnes); Annie (married to Joseph Donahue; he served two terms in the Kansas Legislature); Fannie (unmarried, staying at home); Mary Jane (now Sister Ethelburga).

W. W. HALL, farmer, Mount Pleasant Township, was born in Erie County, N. Y., in 1833, where he was brought up; attended school until he was twenty-one years of age, when he went to Michigan and joined a timber exploring party, in the employ of Ludington, Sinkley & Co., and was in that State until 1855. Then he came to this State and joined the Government force of surveyors, and was engaged in "townshipping" and sectionizing, also ran the half-breed line of Iowa Indians, until 1859, when he located on the southwest quarter of Section 19, Township 6, Range 20, and engaged in improving it, and now was 110 acres under cultivation, with a good orchard, fences, etc. He was married in 1859, to Miss Margaret S. Banghart, at Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich. They have two children, Edwin R. and Colorado G. He was made a Mason in Washington Lodge, No. 5, A., F. & A. M., Atchison, Kan.

FREDERICK HARTMAN, farmer and stock raiser, Section 29, P. O. Atchison. Among the pioneers of Atchison County was Mr. Jonathan Hartman, who came to Kansas, with his family, in 1855, and was one of the pioneer saw-mill proprietors in the West. His son Frederick is a native of Indiana, was born in Franklin County, December 7, 1844; came to Kansas with his parents in 1855; has been closely identified with the development of the country, and contributed amply toward its progress. In 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and on duty during his time in service, in Missouri and Arkansas; was honorably discharged July 5, 1865; returned to Atchison County, where he has since made his home. The autumn of 1880, he was the choice of the people for County Commissioner, which office (1882) he now holds. Mr. H. was married, December 20, 1865, to Miss Cynthia Parnell. They have eight children - Henrietta, Hannah, Dorinda, Jonathan, Josephine, May Florence, Birdie B., and Frederick Jr. Mr. H. is a member of the I. O. O. F., Echo Lodge, 103, of Mount Pleasant.

JONATHAN HARTMAN, farmer and stock dealer, Mount Pleasant Township, was born in Brookville, Franklin Co., Ind., in 1820, and was raised on a farm. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and followed that trade in his native State until 1846, when he moved to Platte County, Mo., following his trade until 1849, when he went to California and followed mining until 1852, when he returned to Platte City, Mo. In the spring of 1853, went to Salt Lake City, Utah with a stock of groceries and provisions, which he disposed of and returned to Platte City the same fall. In 1854, came to Kansas and located at Port William, and ran the first saw-mill erected in Atchison County, making the first lumber made in the county. In 1857, having lost all he had invested in the mill, and being considerably in debt, he located on a quarter of Section 20, Township 6, Range 20, in Mount Pleasant Township, and has followed farming and stock raising ever since. He now owns 160 acres, all under cultivation, with good buildings, orchard and fences, and owes no man a dollar. He also owns 20 acres of valuable timber land on Stranger Creek, four miles distant. Was married July 8, 1841, in Dearborn County, Ind., to Miss Christina Wolking, who died April 3, 1880. Mr. Hartman and family have been identified with the interests of the county from its earliest day. Of the children there are living, Frederick, Robert D., William M., James S., Richard M., and Alice. Those dead are: Henry (who died at Pine Bluffs, Ark., August 30, 1864, while serving his country); Mary (who died at the homestead, September 3, 1878); and Elijah E. (who died in 1856, at Port William, Kan. ). Mr. H. became a member of the A., F. & A. M., in 1856, at Platte City, Mo. Is a member of the Christian Church.

X. KLEIN, Postmaster, and dealer in general merchandise, Mount Pleasant, was born in Baden, Germany, October 26, 1826, and learned the tailor's trade in that country. On April 26, 1846, he landed in New York city, where he worked at his trade until 1848, when he went to Madison, Ind., where he followed his trade until 1857, when he came to Kansas, locating at Sumner, this county, where he ran a boarding-house until 1861, when, in company with Jacob Pahles, he went into general merchandising. In 1862, being in poor health, he sold his interest to his partner, and in 1864 came to Mount Pleasant and opened a general store. On the re-establishment of the post-office at this place, in 1864, he was appointed Postmaster, and has held the office ever since. In 1871, serving as Township Treasurer, and in 1874 was elected School Director, and held the office for five years. In 1881, was elected Justice of the Peace. Was married in 1851, at Madison, Ind., to Miss Rosana Rhinenger; they have five children, viz: Charles A., Mary, Rose, Minnie and Annie. Is a charter member of Mount Pleasant Lodge, No. 158, A., F. & A. M., Mount Pleasant, Kan. Is a charter member of the Echo Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F. Mount Pleasant. In 1868, was Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F.

W. J. MAYFIELD, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Mo., in 1830, and raised on a farm. At eighteen years of age he went to Adams County, Ill., where he engaged in farming until 1854, when he moved to Buchanan County, Mo., and in September of that year moved to Walnut Township, Atchison Co., Kan. In 1857, he moved to Mount Pleasant Township, and located on Section 19, Town 7, Range 20, buying 280 acres of land. He now owns 360 acres, all fenced with hedge, stone and wire; 240 acres under cultivation, with good buildings, grove and orchards. Was married in Adams County, Ill., in October, 1850, to Miss Mary Nations, who died in Walnut Township, Kan., in 1856. By this marriage four children were born, viz: George W., John W. (who died in Illinois in 1877), Zilda C., and Levi T. In 1857, he was married to Sarah A. Morris, at Leavenworth, Kan., and has ten children, viz: Rhoda T., Louisa, James F., Joseph, Fannie, Olivia, Richard, Gertrude, and W. J. jr. Was in the Kansas Militia in 1864, and was at the skirmish with Price at Westport, Mo. Has held the office of Treasurer of the School Board in his district for a number of years.

FRANK NEERMAN, farmer and stock raiser, Section 20, P. O. Atchison; is a native of Germany, and was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, April 30, 1836. When thirteen years of age, came to the United States, locating in St. Louis, Mo., where he learned the harness making trade, after which he went to California, and engaged in the harness and saddlery business in Georgetown, remaining four years, being very successful. In 1858 he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, near Lancaster, opened a farm, being one of the first in that portion of the county. He had many serious drawbacks to contend with, which, however, he overcame by untiring industry. After a residence of about nine years on that farm, took up his abode where he now resides, which is one of the most desirable homes in the county, the general surroundings indicating comfort and prosperity. Mr. Neerman was married in 1859 to Miss Isabella Rust, a Kansas pioneer. They have by this union six children - Ida, Charles, Alma, Nellie Mabel and an infant.

FRANCIS MARION POTTER, farmer, P. O. Mount Pleasant, came to Kansas, October 16, 1854, locating in Walnut Township, Atchison Co., where he lived until 1856, when he moved to Buchanan County, Mo., where he resided until 1861, when he entered the United States service as a member of Company K, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, in which he enlisted January 2, 1861, at St. Joseph, Mo., and was discharged June 22, 1863, in the same city. On the 14th day of February, 1864, he again enlisted, at Fort Leavenworth in Company M., Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry, and was finally discharged from the United States service in December, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth. He participated in the battles of Sibley, Mo., and Powder River, Montana, and numerous engagements with Quantrell in Southern Missouri. Mr. Potter was First Sergeant of both companies in the two regiments to which he belonged, holding this position from the time he enlisted until his final muster out. Before his final discharge, however, he received a commission as Second Lieutenant of Company M., Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry, but was not mustered in, owing to the muster out of the regiment. Mr. Potter is clerk of the Township in which he resides. He was born in Lincoln County, Ky., September 13, 1828, and lived in his native State until his tenth year, when his parents moved to LaFayette County, Mo., where they lived two years, and then removed to Buchanan County of the same State, where he resided until he came to Kansas. Mr. P. has a choice and valuable farm of sixty acres, all enclosed and all in cultivation, which this year yielded twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. His corn crop yielded sixty bushels and the year before seventy-five bushels to the acre. He has a fine young orchard, which has one hundred bearing apple and about thirty cherry trees. He also has a small vineyard on his farm, the vines being mostly of the Catawba and Concord varieties. He has an abundance of small fruits, such as raspberries, blackberries, and gooseberries. He has a good well on the property and a large spring which flows through the farm furnishing sufficient water to supply his stock.

ROBERT M. PRATHER, farmer, residing on Section 23, Township 6, and Range 20 east, Atchison County, Kan. This old and well-known citizen, a native of Rutherford County, Tenn., was born July 28, 1813; when very young his parents emigrated to Kentucky, and located in Warren County, where his father, William Prather, was engaged in agricultural pursuits. Young R. M. remained and lived with his father until he was twenty-two years of age. During the time of his minority the facilities for obtaining a practical education were very limited, there being nothing better than small and poorly arranged schools, but by dint of perseverance and energy, he succeeded in obtaining a limited education. On the 19th of November, 1835, he was united in marriage with Miss Celia Ann Dyer. After a brief but happy life of three years, Mrs. Prather was called to join that great and innumerable company of the ransomed host. On October 10, 1838, she calmly and peacefully passed away. The fruit of this marriage was two lovely children - Susan H. and William M., both of whom have long since died. In the fall of 1839, Mr. Prather for the first time visited Missouri, having relatives living in Platte and Buchanan Counties - it then being a new country, and known as the Platte Purchase. He remained until the fall of 1840, when he returned to Kentucky. In the fall of 1841, his father and mother with the remaining portion of their family, and Mr. Prather and his two little children removed to Missouri, and located in Buchanan County, where he lived about fifteen years. During this time he was engaged for five or six years in a woolen mill during the summer season, and for about four years was employed as Deputy County Surveyor of Buchanan County, doing a large amount of work in that line. With the exception of these years he has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits. December 26, 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Jane Walker, who was young and beautiful, and with whom he walked side by side for more than thirty years. In the spring of 1855, Mr. Prather sold his farm in Buchanan County, Mo., and removed to Leavenworth County, Kan., locating on what was known as the Delaware Trust Lands. In the winter of 1856 and '57 these lands were sold at public auction, the bona fide settler having the preference of bidding the appraised value; his claim was knocked down to him immediately. At these sales, Mr. Prather bought in his claim of land, consisting of 160 acres. In the spring of 1857, he sold his 160 acres of land for $6,000, and bought a claim three miles from Atchison City, Atchison Co., adjoining Leavenworth, where he resides at this time. This claim in Atchison County was on the Kickapoo lands, for which the General Government had treated with the Kickapoo Indians, and it was subject to be held and entered under the pre-emption law of the Government. When that law was fully complied with, and in April of the same year, Mr. P. moved on to his claim in Atchison County, built a house and improved, and in due time entered the same by pre-emptions. At this time his family consisted of himself, wife, and four little girls. His father, William Prather, died in Buchanan County, Mo., on the 29th of August, 1845, aged sixty-four years and one-day. His mother Frances Prather, died at his home in Atchison County, Kan., February 14, 1867, aged eighty-four years. Mr. Prather has been a frontiersman most of the time for forty years, and has endured many privations and difficulties in trying to develop the resources and benefits which might accrue to somebody by the subjugation of the wilderness. Mr. Prather has always been an earnest and true friend to morality, benevolence and religion and to the educational interests of the community in which he lived. He can not remember an instance in forty years of ever having been appealed to for aid in any benevolent enterprise, that he did not respond to as best he could. In the year 1860, he, with a few others, conceived and put into execution the idea of building a church edifice near the corner of his farm, mainly for the use of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but it has always been open for the use of all evangelical denominations of Christians to worship in. The fruits of Mr. Prather's second marriage was eight children, five daughters and three sons, seven of whom are living - the eldest child, Armilda Jane, who was united in marriage with G. W. Carpenter, in February, 1866, died October 19th, 1880. Mr. Prather's wife by his second marriage, though not robust nor physically strong, was a woman of indomitable energy, industry and perseverance. Very much of the success and prosperity of the family and of her husband is attributed to her diligence and untiring efforts to make all who came in contact with her feel happy and contented. Her kind disposition made friends of all who knew her. But alas! The fell destroyer had marked her out as his victim. About the year 1871, her health began to decline and continued to do so until October, 1874. On the 16th of that month the lamp of life was blown out and her happy spirit was released from her suffering body, and went to dwell where there is no sickness nor suffering. The subject of this sketch is still living at his home, surrounded by some of his children, and at the advanced age of sixty-nine years is feeling hearty and well for a man at that stage in life, and hoping and desiring that when the summons shall come for him to close up his accounts with earth, he may be fully ready and equipped for the journey.

A. SPARKS, farmer and stockraiser, was born in Scott County, Ind., in 1819, and raised in that State. In 1834 he learned bricklaying at New Albany, Ind., and followed that trade until 1845; he then went to Texas, where he remained one year, going to Platte City, Mo., where he ran a boot and shoe store, and a farm, until 1855, when he came to this State and engaged in farming. Was married in Clark County, Ind. In 1843, to Miss Sarah Ellen Campbell, who died in June, 1865, leaving three children - Charles A., Rachel Carrie, and Martha Alice. In 1868 he was married again to Miss Rebecca A. Fisher. They have five children - Joseph, Albert, Andrew, Eveline, and Annie. In 1864 he bought the quarter Section 34, Township 6, Range 20, in Mount Pleasant. He now owns 240 acres of land all under cultivation, enclosed with hedge, stone and wire fences. Has good buildings, orchard, and grove.

MARION THOMPSON, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Atchison. One who was favorably known among the first settlers in Atchison County, and figured closely with the development for a number of years was Mr. Isaac Thompson, who came with his family in 1856, locating near where his son resides. His death occurred in Osage County in 1875. The subject of this sketch is a native of Indiana, was born in Putnam County June 1, 1838. He came to Missouri with his parents in 1839, and lived there eight years. After a short sojourn in that State they removed to Oregon Territory in the year 1849, residing four years. During this time went to California, made quite a raise in gold mining, when they returned to Missouri, making the trip by the Isthmus of Panama. Resided in Missouri until they located in Kansas in the spring of 1856. In 1862 Mr. T. enlisted in Company C, Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. His duties were principally in Arkansas and Missouri. He participated at the battles of Fort Wayne, Prairie Grove, and Fort Smith, and was on Steele's expedition. He served three years and two months, and was honorably mustered out at Fort Leavenworth. Mr. T. has traveled considerably in the western country and is quite familiar with its topography. Has been constantly a resident of Kansas since 1854 aside from his term in service and while he was at Pike's Peak. He married in 1866 Miss Nancy J. Southard, an estimable lady. By this union they have eight children living - Albert, William, Mary, John, Melville, Benjamin, Milton, and an infant; lost one by death - Orrin P. The family is identified with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, nee Fisk, died in 1852 on the Missouri River when the family was returning from Oregon.

GEORGE W. THOMPSON, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Georgetown, Ky., in 1827. In 1843 his parents moved to Parkeville, Mo., where he learned the trade of brick-layer, which trade he followed until his removal to Kansas in 1855, settling five miles south of Leavenworth. In 1856 he moved to Section 34, Township 6, Range 20, Mount Pleasant Township, Atchison County, and has 160 acres, eighty under cultivation, with good fences, orchards, buildings and timber. In 1859 was elected County Superintendent of Schools but refused to accept the office. In 1864 was a member of the Twelfth Kansas Militia, holding a commission as First Lieutenant of Company A., and was at Westport, Mo., and took part in the battle against Price's force. Was elected to the Legislature and served in houses of 1867-68-69 as member from the old Eighth District. Was married in Platte Co., Mo., in 1850, to Miss Rebecca E. Steigers; have seven children - Benjamin, Mary C., Harriet M., John, Dora, George M., and Clara A. 

 A. F. ACHENBACH, liveryman; Effingham. This popular citizen and gentleman is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Clifton County, January 12, 1847; was there reared, educated and resided until he came to Kansas, in 1869. He first located and was identified with the business interests of the towns of Washington and Hanover, being in the employ of some of the leading merchants of both places, who were engaged in merchandising, and in the grain and lumber trade. In 1876, came to Effingham and engaged in the livery business in connection with operating a farm he owned in Jackson County. Mr. A. is a public spirited and progressive citizen, and eminently popular with all who know him. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and secretary of McKay Lodge, No. 48 of Effingham. He was married in 1875, to Miss Hattie Gish, of Kansas, a native of Ohio. By this union they have two children - George and Glen.

GEORGE P. ALLEN, dealer in merchandise, hardware and grain; Effingham. One of the representative merchants of Atchison County, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of New York, and was born in Brockport, Monroe County, February 12, 1836. He was educated and spent his earlier days in his native town. His father, Philemon Allen, was a prosperous merchant and real estate owner in Clarion County, and was widely known throughout that portion of Pennsylvania. When George P. was fourteen years of age, he became a clerk in one of his father's stores, and it may be said that in merchandising he was literally bred in the business. When nineteen years of age he assisted in managing a branch of his father's business. He eventually embarked in business in Brockport, in the manufacture of furniture, conducting a store in this connection, the firm being Smith & Allen; the style was afterwards known as Allen & Paine. Mr. A., in 1871, concluded to come West, where he could find a larger scope for his energies, and in that year engaged in the nursery business on the Salt Creek Valley, a short distance from Leavenworth, Kansas, continuing in that industry until 1878, when he engaged in merchandising at Nortonville, Kansas, and in the spring of 1879 established himself in Effingham. The firm, until the spring of 1882, was known as Allen & Way. Mr. Allen is a progressive, energetic business man, and has been eminently successful in his undertakings. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and among its liberal patrons and supporters. Mr. A. has been twice married, first in 1858, to Miss Juliet A. Spring, now deceased. By this union, he has three children - Edgar A., Herbert M. and George A. In 1866, Miss F. Smith became his wife.

HALL & HERRON, dealers in saddlery and harness; Effingham. These enterprising and popular young business men are favorably known throughout Atchison County, and among Effingham's most substantial citizens. The business was established by Mr. Hall in 1880. Charles Hall is a native of West Virginia, and was born in Wirt county, March 6, 1856. When young removed to Champaign County, Ill., where he was reared, educated and learned the saddlery and harness trade, after which for a time was engaged in business in Mulberry Grove, Bond County, Ill. He traveled considerably in the western country, working at his profession, and is a thoroughly experienced workman. William C. B. Herron is a native of Fayette County, Pa., and was born Nov. 9, 1858; was reared, educated and resided in his native State until 1871, when he came to Kansas with his parents, the family locating on a farm a short distance from Effingham, and W. C. B. learned his trade in Effingham.

G. M. BARTLOW, carpenter; Effingham. This well known builder is a native of Carmel County, Ky., and was born October 10, 1846. He came to Kansas with his parents in 1857, locating in Doniphan County, where his father, R. D. Bartlow, Esq., was familiarly known as one of the pioneers, residing two years; the family then removed to Brown County, where the senior Bartlow is still a resident, his home being near the town of Marak. G. M. was reared in Brown County, his early life being spent in agricultural pursuits. In 1875 he removed to Muscotah, where he followed the carpenter's trade, in which he is proficient, for four years, coming to Effingham from that point. He is finished workman, and has erected a number of the substantial structures in Atchison County. In 1880, he was called to Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Mo., where he built the attractive pagoda and a number of edifices. He is well known throughout Atchison and Brown counties. In 1871, he married a daughter of one of the oldest settlers of Atchison county. By this union they have four children - William, Hattie, Clinton and Daisy.

DR. JOHN C. BATSELL, P. O., Monrovia. Among the best known and popular gentlemen of Atchison may be mentioned Dr. Batsell, who for upwards of a quarter of a century has been one of its representative physicians. He is a native of Kentucky and was born in Marlon County, March 16, 1818. His father, Thomas Batsell, and his mother, Kesia Knoll, were natives of Culpepper County, Va. He was raised and educated in his native county. He there took up the study and became proficient in the science of medicine. He commenced to practice his profession in Valeene, Orange Co., Ind., where he continued successfully for over seven years. The autumn of 1855 found him in Kansas, and after reconnoitering in Atchison County, went to DeKalb, Mo., remaining until the spring of 1856, when he pre-empted the claim which is now his present home, and engaged, in connection with farming, to practice medicine, being the first practitioner west of Atchison in the county. He made long rides, being frequently called into Doniphan and Brown counties. Malarial diseases prevailed to a great extent in those early days; the people were in stringent circumstances. He furnished medicine and attended to their wants, losing largely financially, as the greater portion of the first settlers moved away. In 1863 the Doctor organized one-half of Company D, Thirteenth Kansas; was tendered the captaincy of the same, but declined and accepted the position of First Lieutenant. After a forced march through the Indian Territories and Arkansas, was taken dangerously sick and was obliged to resign and return to his home, serving three months in the army. He was also Major in the Twelfth Kansas during the Price raid. After the close of the Rebellion, he was elected to the Legislature by the Republican party. While a member of that body acquitted himself creditably and satisfactorily to his constituents. He was originally an old line Whig. Upon the organization of of (sic) the Republican party accepted of its principles, always being in favor of the abolition of slavery. The Doctor of late years has been discontinuing his practice, and devotes his time to the cultivation of the farm. His home is pleasantly situated, and is one of the most desirable in the neighborhood. He was married in Carmelsville, Ky., to Miss Rhoda A. Hazlewood. They have had eight children: Missouri J., Josephine A., Lee H. and Cora R. Four deceased: Thomas A., Samina E., Kate N. and John B.

HON. MILTON R. BENTON was born in Madison County, Ky., May 3, 1815. His father, Jesse, was a farmer and an extensive trader in Kentucky, having been engaged for twenty years in driving stock across the mountains through the Cumberland Gap, and at one time was a member of the Kentucky Legislature. His mother, Phoebe Quick was born in North Carolina and brought by her parents to Boon's Fork, Ky., in her infancy, She was a pioneer in the latter State. Milton was taught in the select schools of Kentucky, but his principal education was obtained by his own exertion under embarrassing difficulties. He began trading in stock at an early age and was particularly fond of good animals. He followed that vocation for about eight years, buying in Kentucky and driving to South Carolina and Virginia. He has been a farmer the greater part of his life pursuing that business in Kentucky and Kansas. He emigrated to the latter State in 1857, locating in Atchison, where he resided until 1867. In the latter year he removed to his farm in Atchison County. He was the first Marshal of the city of Atchison, being elected in 1858. In 1863, he was elected Mayor of the city, and in 1864, member of the Council. In 1859, was elected member of the Senate in the Territorial Council, and to the State Legislature in 1864. For three years was Trustee of Center Township. He was instrumental in organizing the present Township of Benton, which consists of a portion of Center and other townships. He is an Odd Fellow and passed through several chairs of the fraternity. Is also a Master Mason. His early religious education was received under the discipline of the Baptist Church, to which he was attached when fourteen years of age. He afterward joined the Christian Church, of which he is still a member. His political education was the Democratic, but before he cast his first vote, he approved and accepted the doctrine of Cassius M. Clay in opposition to slavery, and identified himself with that movement. He was a Free-state man in Kansas. Was an ardent supporter of A. Lincoln and the Republican party until the close of the war. He was then favorably impressed by the policy of re-construction advocated by President Johnson and supported his administration. In 1872, supported Horace Greeley, and has since been identified with the Democratic party. He endorsed the course of President Hayes. He was married February 4, 1838, to Miss Angelina Wilson, of Kentucky. She died in 1851, leaving five children. In 1853, he was married to Elizabeth Walters, of Kentucky, daughter of Samuel Walters, Esq. Mr. Benton had two sons in the late war - Coleman D., who was Captain in the Eighth Kentucky Infantry, and Curtis M., Captain of Company K. First Kansas Volunteers, and a son-in-law, who was a Lieutenant in a Kansas Regiment. He is an active business man and devotes himself to the real estate business besides carrying on a farm. He is a very genial gentleman and advocates right, let it cost what it will.

PROF. T. F. COOK, nurseryman, Section 13, P. O. Monrovia, is a native of North Carolina, and was born in Ashe County, December 31, 1833. When nine years of age he emigrated with his parents to Missouri, locating in Buchanan County. His father, Henry, was one of the pioneers of that county. T. F. Received the benefit of a good education in the Pleasant Ridge County. In 1860, he came to Atchison County, locating at Huron. In 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He was at the battles of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill and other engagements. After serving one year in the Thirteenth, he was transferred to the Indiana Corps. He acted as Lieutenant. His base of operations being in the Cherokee and Creek nations. He served until the close of the Rebellion, when he was mustered out in the Thirteenth Kansas. He returned to Atchison County, and turned his attentions to agricultural pursuits. During the winter seasons, for a number of years, he pursued the vocation of school teaching. In 1869, Prof. Cook was the choice of the Republican party for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in 1871, was re-elected. During his four years in that important office he identified himself creditably with the educational interests of Atchison County. In 1871, he located where he now resides, engaging extensively in the nursery business. In 1880, he married Mrs. Margaret Bohanan. They have six children - Annie, Kate, Ella, Clara Belle, Sarah and Thomas L. Mr. Cook is a Master Mason.

REV. T. C. DOWNS, presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Atchison Circuit, is a native of Delaware, and was born in Kent County, November 25, 1841, and was reared in his native State, receiving the advantages of a good academic education in the academy at Smyrna. His early aspiration was to become an expounder of the gospel, and after thoroughly familiarizing himself with the important facts of the profession he adopted, was ordained. In 1868, he came to Missouri and joined the Missouri Conference, and for three years had charge of the Wyandotte Circuit. He next went on the Oskaloosa Circuit, where he continued one year; was next on the Leavenworth Circuit for two years, one year on the Palona Circuit and four years on the Council Grove Circuit, from which appointment in 1878 was placed in charge of the Atchison Circuit. Elder Downs has been one of the most successful ministers in the cause of Christianity in Kansas, and has contributed an ample share towards the upbuilding of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which is one of the most flourishing denominations in the State. He is a diligent worker, a firm and impressive speaker, and handles the subject of his discourse in a masterly manner. The Elder is eminently popular, not only in the pale of his own church, but with all denominations. In 1873, Miss R. E. Bowls, of Kansas, became his wife.

JAMES FARRELL, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Monrovia, is one of the most substantial citizens of the county. He is a native of Ireland, and was born in the County Louth. Was reared and educated in his native country, following the pursuit of agriculture until twenty-seven years of age, when he came to America, locating at Wheatland, N. Y., residing there a considerable length of time. He was married to Miss Ann Skelly, in Scotsville, Wheatland County, N. Y., October 15, 1855, and left for Michigan October 18. He settled in Salem, Mich., and worked on a farm there three years. April 18, 1859, he came to Kansas, settling at Atchison. He was one of the first settlers, and was closely associated with the early development of the Great West. He engaged in freighting across the plains, his destination for seven years being Denver. In 1867 he turned his attention to agriculture. His success in this line has been pre-eminent, as he now possesses, one of the finest farms in the county, in a high state of cultivation. He has five children - Willie, James, Mary, Agnes and Jane.

JAMES GALLAGHER, merchant, Monrovia. This well known gentleman is a son of the veteran Kansan, Mr. J. M. Gallagher, and was born in Brandenburg, Ky., Jan. 31, 1845. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1856, locating at Easton, Leavenworth County. He was reared and educated in Kansas. During his earlier days assisted his father in merchandising and other pursuits. In 1865 he engaged in freighting across the plains. He afterwards was installed as clerk in a large merchandise house in Leavenworth, where he remained several years. For one and one half years he sold goods for them on the line of the Kansas & Texas R. R. When that line was being constructed followed up the construction until it reached Dennison, Texas. For two years he was connected with his father in trade at Valley Falls, in 1875 embarked in trade at Monrovia. Mr. Gallagher is a man possessed of sterling business ability, is very unassuming and notably popular with all. He was married in 1877 to Miss Mary Devinney. Himself and wife are members of the Catholic Church.

J. M. GALLAGHER, merchant. Among the citizens who figured at an early day in Kansas may be mentioned the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Ireland and was born in the County of Galaway, May 9, 1815. When he was about eighteen years of age came to the United States. For a considerable length of time he was in the Province of New Brunswick, but eventually located in Louisville, Ky., where he engaged largely in the wholesale tobacco business, until the Know Nothing riots in 1855, which proved disastrous to him financially. In 1856 he came to Kansas, locating in Easton, Leavenworth County. Embarked in mercantile business in connection with operating a large farm. He was the pioneer merchant of Easton and closely identified with that county until 1864, when he removed to the city of Leavenworth, where he engaged for a considerable length of time in the livery business and stock trade, and also dealt largely in city real estate. In 1873 came to Atchison County, and turned his entire attention to the cultivation of the farm; but the pursuit of agriculture was too monotonous for a man like Mr. Gallagher who had been an active business man so long, and in 1874 he engaged in the grocery and drug business in Effingham, and has been before the public the greater portion of the time since. Mr. G. is a man of excellent judgment and has been very successful in all of his undertakings. While a resident of Leavenworth County was Justice of the Peace several years, County Commissioner four years, and while a resident of the city of Leavenworth was the choice of the people as a member of the Town Board, which office he filled four years. He was married in 1842 to Miss Louisa Caine, of Louisville, Ky. By this union they have three children - James, Richard and Nellie.

JACOB GRAVES, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Monrovia. This pioneer and well known gentleman is a native of Tennessee and was born in Claiborne County April 13, 1837. He came to Missouri with his parents in 1840, his father, Anthony, locating in Buchanan County, where he resided a considerable length of time, when he became a resident of Nodaway County, Mo., where the father died. The subject of this sketch is a brother of Mr. John Graves, who is also a pioneer of Atchison County. In 1858 he came to Kansas and took a claim of 160 acres to which he has been adding from time to time until at present he has one of the finest estates in the county. Mr. G. had many drawbacks to contend with at an early day, which are usually incidental to the pioneer, and he is deserving of special mention for the progress and success he has had in developing the country. He is an affable and courteous gentleman and much respected by his fellow citizens. He was married in Nodaway County, Mo., in 1860 to Miss Emmeline Groves. They have had eight children - Isabelle, George M., Nancy A., John A., James A., Charles E., Martha G. and Willis J. The Family is identified with the Christian Church.

JOHN GRAVES, farmer, P. O. Monrovia. The name of Graves has become a household word in Atchison County, and it certainly should, as there is no name that has been more closely associated with the county's progress for over a quarter of a century than that of Mr. John Graves. He is a native of Tennessee and was born in Granger County, November 27, 1829. When in his eleventh year his father, Anthony Graves, with his family, including John, emigrate to Buchanan County, Mo., locating near DeKalb. He was one of the pioneers in Northwestern Missouri, and closely identified, up to the time of his death which occurred in Nodaway County, a few years ago. He left a family of thirteen children. Eight daughters and two sons reside in Nodaway County, Mo. The subject of this sketch came to Atchison County and took a claim on the ninth day of October, 1854; that claim is now his present homestead. On March 28, 1855, he took up his permanent abode. He was the first settler in that locality on Stranger Creek, his nearest neighbor being four miles. He at once set to work assiduously to make a home, and although his financial status was very eager, by industry and economy he succeeded to accomplishing his purpose, and at an early day displayed to the new comers a model Kansas farm. He has seen Northeastern Kansas develop from a barren and trackless plain to a garden spot that any country might well be proud of. During his long sojourn in the county Mr. Graves has not been a political aspirant, preferring the quiet of his regular pursuits. He was one of the proprietors and original owners of the town of Monrovia. He was married on the tenth of February, 1850, to Miss E. A. Lundrum, a native of Indiana. Has three children - J. M., H. L. & A. M.

L. B. HARGROVE, stock dealer and farmer, P. O. Monrovia. One of the most extensive stockmen in the West, and one of the first settlers of Kansas is L. B. Hargrove, Esq. He is a native of Missouri and was born in LaFayette County, May 28, 1835. At an early age removed to Buchanan County, Mo., with his parents, his father, John Hargrove, being a pioneer in that portion of the State. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated on Sugar Creek, there residing until 1854, when he became a resident of Atchison County. For a time he was engaged in herding cattle, and pre-empted a claim in close proximity to his present home, his brother having pre-empted the farm he now owns. Being one of the first farm openers he early identified himself with the agricultural interests of the State. He has always made a specialty of the stock trade and in this line has been eminently successful, being recognized in Chicago and St. Louis as one of the largest shippers in the Northwest. He is a self-made man, commencing in meager circumstances he has obtained a competency by industry and good management. He has been twice married. In 1839 to Miss Sarah Duncan, of Kentucky, now deceased. Had nine children - Elizabeth M., George, Willis, Robert, Reuben C., and Bonifred; three deceased - Ada, Sarah and Missie. His present wife was formerly Mary Miller. By this marriage they have two daughters - Gracie Pearl and Allie. Mr. Hargrove during the Rebellion was a soldier in the State Militia, and while in the engagement at Westport, Mo., was severely wounded. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, McKey Lodge, of Effingham.

G. W. HARRIS, Postmaster, Effingham, is a native of Michigan, and was born in LaPeer County, July 11, 1845. He was raised and educated in the town of Dryden, where he learned the carriage-making trade. He carried on that business for a time. In 1873, he came to Effingham, embarking in the manufacture of wagons, and carried on undertaking and merchandise. In December, 1874, was appointed Postmaster under President Grant's administration. Mr. Harris is a live business man and makes an excellent Postmaster. In connection with merchandise trade he still continues wagon-making. He was married in 1864, to Miss Sarah E. Brown, whose death occurred in 1872. They have three children - Samuel Herbert, Libbie G. and George B. His present wife was Miss Fannie Cohoon, of Atchison County, Kansas, and married August 9, 1874.

D. W. HAWK, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Effingham; is a native of Ohio, and was born in Coshocton County, June 15, 1831; was reared and educated in his native State, where he resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1869, when he moved to Iowa, taking up his abode a short distance from Grinnel, in Powesniek County, continuing there four and a half years. In 1877, became a resident of Kansas, locating where he now resides. Mr. Hawks is one of the largest and most successful farmers in the county, and has made a success by combining practical and theoretical. He is a genial and entertaining gentleman. In 1856, he was married to Miss Sarah DeCamp, of Ohio. They have had nine children - Sadie E., Francis M., Noble E., Laura A., Loyal Grant, Harvey M. and Mary M. Lost, two - Eda Viola and Brazela L.

JOESPH HENDERSON, Sr., farmer, Section 26, P. O. Monrovia; is a native of Tennessee, and was born in Cocke County, May 22, 1803; was reared and educated in Green County, Tenn. In 1831, came to Missouri, being one of the pioneers of Jackson County, where he resided for a time, and removed to Platte County, being one of the first settlers of the Platte Purchase. In 1855, came to Kansas, taking up his abode in Leavenworth County, where he resided until 1868, when he became a resident of Atchison County, settling on his present farm. Mr. Henderson has always pursued farming, and has had many obstacles and hardships, which he endured as a pioneer in developing the different localities where he resided, and is deserving of much credit for what he has done in the West. Although past the meridian of life he is still quite active, and as industrious as in his younger days. He was married in Tennessee, to Miss Hannah McCoy. They have had nine children - James, Mary A., Sarah, John, Joseph Jr., George, Nannie. Lost two - William and Gilbert.

JOSEPH HENDERSON, Jr., farmer, Section 26, P. O. Monrovia. This gentleman is a son of the veteran citizen Joseph Henderson, and was born in Platte County, Mo., May 19, 1842. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1855; was principally reared and educated in Leavenworth County, his boyhood days spent in tilling the soil. Came to Atchison County in 1868, where he has since been a resident. He married in Kansas, Miss Fannie Benton, a native of Kentucky. They have three children - Charles, Annie and Joseph M.

F. C. HERRON, farmer, Section 10, Township 6, Range 18, P. O. Effingham; is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Alleghany County, August 23, 1823; removed in early life to Fayette County. He was raised and educated in his native State, and followed agricultural pursuits in the Monongahela Valley for several years. In 1871, he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County. He is extensively engaged in stock raising, and is one of Atchison County's thrifty farmers. During his sojourn in the county, Mr. Herron has been prominently identified. In 1874-75, was one of the County Commissioners, and for four years was Justice of the Peace. He organized all the Granges in Atchison County, and in that departure was a leading figure. He is a man of keen judgement and possessed of considerable executive ability. He was married in Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah Carter. They have four living children, two sons and two daughters - Mary, William, Nannie and James. Mr. H. is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

O. P. HIPPLE, Postmaster and merchant, Monrovia. Among those who figured prominently in Kansas at an early day was Mr. Samuel Hipple. He was a native of Perry County, Pa., born in 1815. He figured early in railroading in his native State, constructing a number of miles of the Pennsylvania Central. In 1867, he came to Kansas and engaged in freighting, his business extending into New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and other localities in the far West and Southwest. Mr. H. located his family on a farm in 1857, adjacent to the present town of Monrovia. He built the first saw-mill - to which was attached a corn-grinder - that there was in that portion of the State. It being located on Stranger Creek. The entire saw-mill he brought from St. Louis. During the late war he had charge of the quartermaster department at Cape Girardeau, Mo., for the distributing of supplies in the West, his father, Mr. John, assisting him in the management of that branch of his business. He was largely interested in Kansas real estate, owning at one time 2,300 acres of land. He served one term in the Legislature from Atchison County, discharging the duties of his trust creditably to himself and the satisfaction of his constituents. His death occurred in 1875. In latter years he had devoted his attention to the buying and shipping of stock. His wife, Emeline Hipple is still living on the old homestead. They reared a family of five children - John S., O. P., Samuel L., C. J. and W. M. O. P. Hipple, whose name is at the head of this sketch is a native of Pennsylvania; was born in Schuylkill County, January 19, 1850; came to Kansas with his parents in 1857; was reared to manhood in Atchison County, receiving his early education in the district school in Center Township. He attended the State Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kansas, and graduated in military tactics under General John W. Davis, in 1870. He was employed with his father in the stock trade, and followed various pursuits until in the spring of 1882, he engaged in trade. He was married in 1873, to Miss Melvina Shiflett, of Atchison County. By this union they have four children - Harry Lea, George E., Grace E. and Mabel. 

 A. KEPLINGER, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Effingham. This popular gentleman is widely and well known as one of the substantial agriculturists of Atchison County. He is a native of Virginia, and was born in Jefferson County, August 28, 1816; was educated and reared in his native county, until he attained his eighteenth year, following farming in that county. At times was a resident of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, coming to Kansas in 1863, locating where he now resides. Mr. K. is a genial and affable gentleman, public-spirited, and takes a live interest in the progress of Kansas.

S. A. KEPNER, J. P., farmer, Section 9, P. O. Effingham, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Juniata County, March 19, 1836. His father, Samuel, and his mother, Hester, nee Walker, were natives of the Keystone state. S. A. was reared and educated in Pennsylvania. In 1857, when he came to Kansas, pre-empting a claim in Atchison County, he built a log house on the claim, and made Kansas his home until 1859, when he returned to Peoria County, Ill., where he had resided for a time previous to coming to Kansas. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he entered the employ of the Piper & Sheffler Keystone Bridge Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, who were doing Government work. He was at Mechanicsburg, Gettysburg, and other points; assisted in building the bridge at Harrisburg, Pa., which was so constructed as to drop a span, and prevent the Confederate forces from crossing, if required. After the war, he took up his abode again in Illinois, and resided until 1871, when he located permanently on his farm in Kansas, and has contributed an ample share toward developing the agricultural resources of Atchison County. In 1880, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected in 1882. Squire Kepner is one of the most popular citizens of Benton Township. He married in Smithville, Peoria County, Ill., in 1869, Miss Hannah M. Downing. They have had eight children - William, Luetta M., James W., Mary A., and Hester M.; three deceased - Matilda J., Edward D., and John Samuel.

GEORGE J. KETCH, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Hardin County, Ohio, in 1846, and lived on the old homestead until 1863, when he enlisted in Company E, Fifty-Fourth Ohio Infantry, and was in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Jonesboro, Ga., Nickojack Creek, and both battles at Atlanta, in the first of which he was taken prisoner, July 22, 1864, but he escaped from the captors and rejoined the regiment the same day. With the exception of three months in the hospital, he was with his regiment in all engagements and skirmishes, and was discharged at Little Rock, Ark., August 22, 1865, when he returned to his native place, and in 1869 came to Kansas and settled in Kapioma Township, where but very few settlers' cabins were in sight. In 1869, he was married to Miss Amy J. Callahan a daughter of Col. C. C. Callahan, at Effingham, Kan. They have six children - Mary, Alva, Thomas, George W., Charles, Amy May. He has served as Constable, and held other minor offices.

JOEL M. KETCH, dealer in hardware, tinware, and groceries, Effingham, is a native of Ohio, and was born in Hancock County, January 11, 1851; was there reared and educated. In 1869, his father, Thomas Ketch, with his family, including Joel M., came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, on Coal Creek, engaging in agricultural pursuits. Here the subject of this sketch resided six years. He then went to San Francisco, Cal., and traveled in the West for about a year, returning to Kansas and located in Osage County, engaging in agricultural pursuits, and for a time operated a stationary engine. Mr. Ketch is a natural mechanic, and a great reader of mechanical works. He is thoroughly conversant with all the improvements in the mechanical world, and keeps pace with the progress of time. In the spring of 1881, he established his present business in Effingham, which has proved a success in every particular. Mr. K. is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He married in 1875, Miss Sophia Jewett, of Johnson County, Kan. By this union they have three children - Mary, Dow, and Amos.

W. H. LANDRUM, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Monrovia. This genial gentleman is a native of Indiana, and was born in Owen County, December 30, 1831. He was educated and resided in his native State until seventeen years of age, when he came to Buchanan County, Mo., with his parents, locating ten miles from St. Joe. Here he resided until 1855, when he came to Atchison County, and pre-empted a claim, where he now resides, being one of the first in this portion of the county. In 1856 he did some breaking, and continued to develop his farm until 1862, when he went to Mexico, residing for a short time. He continued to reside in Atchison County until 1872, when he removed to southern Kansas, residing two years, then returning to his home farm. His estate consists of 143 acres of choice land, in a high state of cultivation. Mr. L. is one of Kansas' most substantial and respectable farmers. He has been twice married, first in 1854, to Miss C. A. R. Brock; they had four children - one, Hiram, living; lost three; Laura died in Montgomery County, Kan.; was married, her name being Mrs. Eubanks; James E., and an infant. His second was Elizabeth Stone. They have two children, William A., and Ephraim E. He is closely identified with the Christian Church, and is clerk of the same for the Christian Society in his neighborhood.

JAMES E. LOGAN, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Effingham. This sterling gentleman is a native of Jefferson County, Ind., and was born March 17, 1836; was there reared and educated. When eighteen years of age, came to Hancock, Ill., where he resided fourteen years. In 1862, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois. He was in the engagements around Vicksburg in 1863, and in that year was appointed Sergeant of Company H, and later recruited and organized Company I, of the One Hundred and Eighteenth, serving gallantly until the close of the Rebellion, when he was honorably discharged. Before organizing Company I, he had been discharged on account of disability. His last discharge specifies that it was on account of the Government not having any further use for him. In 1869, he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, where he has since been identified with the stock interests of this section. He was married in Illinois, to Miss Delia D. Sawyer. They have six children - Annie M., Emma D., Frank J., John T., Edwin R., and Mattie P.

FRANCIS LOOMIS, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Effingham, is a native of Connecticut and was born in Tolland County, July 23, 1808. His father, E. Loomis, Esq., was a native of Connecticut, and his mother, Lucretia Porter, was also. He is of English and Dutch ancestry. Mr. L. was reared and educated in his native State, his earlier days being spent in agricultural pursuits. For a considerable length of time, followed school-teaching. For seven years was engaged in merchandising in his native town, Coventry. In 1838, he came to Illinois, locating in Kewanee, where he operated a farm in connection with a real estate agency. For fourteen years was Justice of the Peace. During his career in that capacity, many of the now prominent statesman and leading legal luminaries of the Sucker State pleaded their first cases. In 1869, he came to Kansas, locating where he now resides, which is one of the desirable homes in the county. He was married September 24, 1834, to Miss Fannie Rose, of Connecticut. They have four children, Joseph R. (now in business at Bull City, Kan. ); lost three, Francis, Elizabeth and Herbert. The latter was killed October 7, 1873, in Atchison, being crushed between the cars. He was a clerk in the Central Branch R. R. shops, and a popular young man. Mrs. Loomis died December 14, 1873. Mr. Loomis is a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. E. McCORMICK, butcher, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Clarion County November 7, 1850, and was there reared, educated and resided until 1878, when he came to Kansas, where he has since been a resident, with the exception of eighteen months spent in Colorado. He engaged in business in Effingham the spring of 1882. Mr. McC. is a clever and entertaining gentleman, and one of Effingham's most prominent citizens. In 1880, he married Miss E. A. Wallace, an estimable lady, of Benton Township, Atchison County.

J. F. MARTIN, physician and surgeon, was one of the first practitioners of the medical profession in Atchison County. He is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Bourbon County, September 29, 1828; when young, removed to Fayette County, where he was reared and educated. His father, James Martin, was a prominent farmer and stock-raiser in that part of Kentucky. His maternal ancestors were Laytons. The subject of this sketch graduated in the Transylvania Medical University in 1854, and afterwards took a course of lectures in St. Louis Medical University. The same year he came to northern Missouri, locating in DeKalb, Buchanan County, where he practiced medicine until 1856; came to Kansas, and took up his abode in Atchison which at that time was in its crude state. Dr. Martin had a large practice, his rides frequently extending into Doniphan and Brown counties. After a successful career of ten years, he returned to Decatur, Ill., in 1866, where he made his home for about seven years, when he again became a resident of Kansas, locating in Effingham. The doctor is thoroughly conversant with the early history of northeastern Kansas, and has been closely associated with its development. He was married in 1858, to Miss Caroline Jarvis of Plattesburg, Mo. Her death occurred in Effingham in 1877, leaving one son, Harris E., who resides in Effingham.

ROBERT NEILL, farmer, P. O. Effingham. This sterling agriculturalist is a native of the County Down, Ireland, and was born October 9, 1826. Was reared, educated and followed farming in his native county until 1850, when he came to America, locating in Indianapolis, Ind., where he resided three years, thence went to Wisconsin, where he resided for a few years, and in 1857 came to Kansas, taking up his abode in Leavenworth county. In August of that year, bought the claim which is now his home, and turned his attention to developing it, working on farms in the vicinity for several years. During the war he was in the State militia. He has been closely associated with the growth and development of Atchison County. He has been twice married, both times in Kansas. His first wife was Miss L. C. Hart, now deceased. His present wife was formerly Arretta Hundley.

JAMES NESBITT, lumber dealer, Effingham, was born in Stark County, Ohio, January 10, 1838; removed to Huron County, 1847; was there reared, educated and learned the carpenter's trade. On the 1st of June, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Columbus, Ohio. They were changed in April, 1862, to the Twelfth Ohio Independent Battery. He participated in many of the notable events of the war; was at the second battle of Bull Run, Nashville and others. While with the artillery, he held the position of Artificer. After serving there three years, entered the commissary department, continuing until the close of the war. After the war, came to Missouri, locating in Davis County; engaged in farming in connection with contracting and building. In the spring of 1872, came to Atchison, Kansas, and for nearly ten years was prominently identified with the building interests of that city, erecting a number of substantial and imposing edifices. In 1882, established his present business. Mr. N. is a well-informed gentleman, very affable, and a live business man. He is Past Master of the A. O. U. W., Atchison Lodge, No. 4. In 1866, Miss Elizabeth Doll, of Davis County, became his wife. They have by this union four children, Joseph, Florence, George and Charles.

P. J. O'MEARA, merchant, the pioneer merchant of Effingham, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Ireland, was born in the county of Tipperary, March 27, 1829. Came to the United States with his parents when two years of age, locating in Indiana, his father, Thomas O'Meara, being one of the first settlers of Miami County, locating near Peru. Here Mr. O'Meara received his education and passed his boyhood days in tilling the soil. During the American Rebellion he dealt largely in stock buying and selling to the Government. In 1865 came to Atchison, Kan., and embarked in the grocery trade on Commercial street between Third and Fourth streets, where he did business until Effingham was laid out as a town site, when he came to this point and built a stone building. He has done a large and well-paying business. Few citizens of Atchison County are more popularly known in their respective community than Mr. O'Meara. That he displayed considerable foresight in selecting Effingham as a trading point is fully demonstrated. He was married in 1846 to Miss Sissen Akright, of Huron, Ohio.

S. C. PAGE, physician and surgeon, is a native of Juniata County, Pa., and was born July 16, 1845. His father, Rev. Samuel Page, of the Seventh-Day Baptist denomination, was a native of that State. He is now a resident of California. The name of Dr. Page's maternal ancestors was Coffman; both paternal and maternal are of German origin. The name traces back in the old country to that of Bertsch, but has been changed by degrees until it has assumed that of Page. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county, receiving the benefits of a good education in Juniata County, after which he took up the study of medicine. In 1867-68 attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. In the autumn of 1867 came to Kansas and took up his abode in Center township, Atchison County, five miles south of Effingham, and turned his attention to the cultivation of a fine farm, which he purchased. This he operated a few years, when he located in Effingham, and has since devoted his time entirely to the practice of his profession. The doctor took a course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1879 and '80, graduating from that institution. He has been eminently successful as a practitioner, and has the confidence of the people in his ability. Dr. Page has been married twice, first in 1866 to Miss Louise Knose, now deceased. By this union he had no children. His present wife, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Ingram, nee Burd, he married in 1868. By this union has five children - Oscar B., Ida Ella, Harvey B., Nancy L. and Presley.

ALBERT PHILLIPS, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Effingham. Among the early pioneers of Kansas may be numbered the subject of this sketch. He is a native of New York and was born at Fort Plain, Montgomery Co., N. Y., March 25, 1830. When he was young he removed with his father, Seth Phillips, to Berkshire County, Mass., where he was raised and educated. His mother's name was Phoebe Smith. His parents were natives of Massachusetts, his mother died while he was an infant, and he was brought up by his great uncle, Ebenezer Calkins, who resided on a farm near Hartsville, Berkshire Co., Mass. In October, 1851, he went to California with an uncle named Jared Phillips, and engaged in mining for two years, and then returned, landing in New York, October 8, 1853. He owned an interest in a mill in Hartsville, Mass., for two years, and sold out and came to Kansas with his uncle, William Phillips, in 1856. William Phillips was killed while in his own house by the border ruffians who were under the leadership of Frederick Emery, September 1, 1856. His uncle, Jared Phillips, was in the house at the same time and was shot in the left arm and side; his arm was amputated near the shoulder. He was afterward killed by the Indians in 1862, on his way to California. William and Jared Phillips were prominent Free-state men and hence were hated by all that wished to make Kansas a slave State. Mr. Albert Phillips was largely interested in agricultural pursuits in Leavenworth County, where he lived until 1870, when he came to Atchison County and settled on the farm four and a half miles south of Effingham, where he has since lived. Mr. Phillips is a gentleman who has had a wide experience in the western country, and is thoroughly conversant with the early history of Kansas; is a great reader, and is familiar with the current events of the day, and political issues. He has a fine farm and a pleasant home. He was married in 1857 to Miss Mary A. Curtiss, of New York. She is an estimable lady.

JESSE PICCOTT, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1837, and brought up on a farm. In 1855 he moved to Cedar County, Iowa, and engaged in farming. In 1878 he moved to Kansas, and settled in Osage County. In 1879 moved to his present location, where he has a half section of land under cultivation, with good buildings and other improvements. In 1870 he became identified with the Greenback party, and is a prominent worker, and has been a member of every County, District, and State convention held in his State. In 1880 was a delegate to the National Convention held in Chicago, Ill., from this State. From 1871 to 1877 he was Deputy Grand Master of the Iowa State Grange, and was a prominent organizer of granges throughout that State. He was married in the fall of 1859 to Miss Sarah Waddle, of Cedar County, Iowa, and has seven children.

JACOB ROYER, farmer, P. O. Monrovia. Is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Center County, November 13, 1840. Was reared, educated and learned the blacksmith trade in his native county, following that vocation for a number of years. He sojourned temporarily for a time in Indiana, and in 1866 located on his present farm. Mr. Royer is one of Atchison County's most progressive agriculturalists and worthy citizens. He was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Mary McClain, of that State. They have two children - Emma and Samuel Decker.

WILLIAM SCOVILLE, farmer, P. O. Monrovia, is a native of New York, and was born in Jefferson County, September 20, 1820. Was educated and raised in his native State until 1843, when he came to Cook County, Ill., which was his home until 1865. His residence was in the town of Wheeling; for fifteen years he was Justice of the Peace and for three years was Deputy Sheriff of Cook County. During the war he was on the U. S. Detective force in Chicago. For upwards of twenty years Mr. S. was well known in the political circle of Cook County, and was recognized among the solid men of the times. In 1865 he came to Kansas, engaging in the lumber trade in Atchison, and was one of the leaders in that branch of trade for a number of years. A few years ago he became interested in a large tract of land where he now resides, and in the year 1880 became a resident thereon. Mr. S. is a gentleman of more than ordinary ability, is very familiar with the political history of the country, and an entertaining conversationalist. He was married in 1843 to Miss Lucinda Lasher. They have a family of four - E. J., Orland C., Freeman and Giles. Orland C., son of William Scoville was born in Cook County, Ill., February 4, 1846. Was there raised and resided until 1864. He enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois, being appointed Sergeant; served eight months. In 1865 came West, being for four years in California. For several years he has been following agricultural pursuits in Atchison County. He was married in 1873 to Miss Virginia Williams. They have one son - William.

ALONZO SPENCER, the restaurateur and dealer in fancy groceries, is a native of Connecticut, and was born in Windom County, August 28, 1830. Was reared, educated and learned the shoemaker's trade in his native State. In 1849 went to Pennsylvania and engaged in railroading on the Pennsylvania Central, and became proficient as a locomotive engineer, continuing with that company for five years. He then located in Indiana, and engaged in boot and shoe trade, being identified in that capacity for several years. After a temporary sojourn in Illinois he came to Kansas in 1870, locating in Concordia, Cloud County, where he embarked in trade, continuing until 1875, when there was a disastrous failure of the crops throughout that section, owing to the grasshoppers. In that year, Mr. Spencer returned to Indiana and resided until 1879, when he again became a resident of Kansas, engaging in the restaurant business in Atchison. The spring of 1881, took up his abode in Effingham, and established present business. Mr. S. is the right man in the right place, and is thoroughly conversant with the details of his line. He is a genial gentleman, and has a good trade. He was married in 1862, to Miss Margaret Moore, an estimable lady. Her father was one of the pioneers of Cloud County, Kansas.

W. H. STEWART has been prominently identified with the educational advancement in Atchison County. He is a native of Washington County, Ohio; was born July 22, 1847. At an early age he removed to Guernsey County, with his parents, where he was reared and educated, receiving the benefits of the Fairview College at Fairview, Ohio. During the Rebellion, he responded to the call for 100-days men, serving that period. For two years he pursued the vocation of teaching, in Ohio. In 1868, he came to Kansas, and assumed the garb of teacher. In the spring of 1869, he engaged to teach the Monrovia school, and taught that year, and also the years 1870 and 1871, in Monrovia. He has been constantly teaching in Atchison County for fourteen years, during all this time in the immediate neighborhood of Monrovia. In the fall of 1862, the Republicans nominated him for County Superintendent, but the county giving a Democratic majority of 138, he was defeated by ninety votes. He was married January 20, 1870, to Miss Mary A. Eberty, of DuPage County, Ill. Her death occurred October 10, 1879, leaving four children - Charles Franklin, Laura Emma, John B., and Mattie Mabel. In connection with teaching, he manages a farm near Monrovia. His father, Mr. Charles Stewart, was one of the pioneers of Washington County, Ohio. His mother, Margaret Stewart (nee McCormick) was thrown from a horse and instantly killed, August 27, 1867, leaving a family of ten children.

C. C. STIVERS, physician and surgeon, is a native of Brown County, Ohio, and was born January 6, 1842; was there reared and educated, and took up the study of medicine under Dr. Pettigan, a prominent physician of Finn Castle, Brown County. When the Rebellion broke out Dr. Pettigan went into the Union ranks, and the subject of this sketch soon followed, enlisting in Company A, Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the second battle of Bull Run, Cross Keys, Port Royal and other notable engagements. Was honorably discharged at Fort McHenry, in 1863, on account of disability. After returning to Ohio, he applied himself to the study of his adopted profession, and took a course of lectures at the Miami University of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1870, he came to Missouri, and located in Alpha, Grundy County, where he practiced medicine very successfully until 1877, when he came to Kansas, locating in Eden, where he continued to practice until April, 1881, when he took up his abode in Effingham. The Doctor has served a long and closely applied period in the medical profession, and is a very close student. In 1880, attended the Keokuk Medical College, and graduated from the institution. The Doctor is a brilliant conversationalist and interesting gentleman. He married in 1863, Miss Mattie Long, of Ohio. By this union they have three children - Charles C., Lewis E. and Viola. Lewis E. is engaged in the drug trade in Salem, Nebraska.

R. H. TALIAFERRO, farmer, P. O. Effingham; was born in Alabama, August 15, 1827; at an early age returned to Mississippi with his parents, locating in Copiah County, where he was raised and educated, following in that State the vocation of cotton planting. In 1868 he came to Kansas, taking up his abode where he now lives. Mr. T. has a fine farm, and is one of Atchison County's most substantial citizens. He is a Master Mason. He was married in the State of Mississippi, to Miss Melissa Brown. They have thirteen children - Sally, Edwin P., Mary, Fannie, R. H., A. B., C. A., Howard B., David, Melissa, Lucy, Robert Y. and S. C.

A. VAN WAGONER, farmer, P. O. Effingham; was born in Niagra County, N. Y., January 21, 1836, and was raised on a farm. From 1853 to 1855 attended Wilson Collegiate Institute. In 1856 taught school at Wilson, N. Y. In spring of 1857 he engaged in farming until 1862, when he went into mercantile business at Somerset, Niagra County, N. Y. In 1864 he sold out his business and returned to farming, and has since followed that pursuit. In 1871 he came to Kansas and settled in Kapioma Township. He was married in 1857, to Miss F. E. Wilson, of Somerset, N. Y., and has three children, viz: Charles, George M. and Sarah E. He is Clerk of the School Board in District No. 29.

JOHN S. WALL, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 25, P. O. Monrovia, was a very early settler in northeastern Kansas, and one of the substantial farmers of his township. He became a resident of the State in the spring of 1857, pre-empted a claim in Center Township, in the part which is now Benton Township. In 1858, he went to Pike's Peak, and for a time figured in the far West. In 1862, he tendered his services to the Union cause, enlisting in Company D, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry; participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Caine Hill, Fort Smith and others. Served three years, when he was honorably discharged, at Fort Leavenworth. Has since been engaged in farming in Atchison County. He is a genial and popular fellow citizen.

BENJAMIN WALLICK, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Effingham, one of the most prominent men in northeastern Kansas, is the subject of the sketch. He is a native of Ohio, and was born in Tuscarawas County, February 16, 1822; was educated and reared in the Buckeye State, his boyhood days being spent in tilling the soil; for a time followed agricultural pursuits in Indiana. The spring of 1860, came to Kansas, purchasing a large tract of land where he now resides. In the early part of the Rebellion, he was appointed enrolling officer in Atchison County, a very unenviable position to hold, as the county was about equally divided on the pro and con question. Mr. W., however, was a strong Union man and a Republican, and when he came to the State brought his politics with him, proposing to stand by them, let it cost what it might. In 1863, he was elected Sheriff, and re-elected in 1865. During his four years in that office, took thirty-seven prisoners to the penitentiary. There was undoubtedly more lawlessness in the State at that time than before or since. He has been identified with minor offices, educational interests, etc., and is a staunch advocate on the prohibition question. When Kansas is composed entirely of men like Ben Wallick, the millennium will have come. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married in Ohio, to Miss Mary Fisher. They have eight children, B. F., E., M. E., Kate, John, George, Ada and Charlie.

SIMEON WALTERS, contractor and carpenter. Among the pioneer mechanics in Kansas, may be mentioned the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Richmond, Madison County, November 13, 1828; was there reared, educated and learned trade and resided until 1856, when he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison. He was one of the first carpenters there, and erected many of the early buildings that have since passed into oblivion. For over a quarter of a century Mr. Walters has been a contractor and builder, in Atchison County, and few people are more popularly and universally known. When Effingham was laid out, Mr. W. built the first house, a store for Mr. P. J. martin. Since then he has erected a large number of the fine buildings in Effingham. Mr. Walters is a public-spirited citizen, and has a host of friends in northeastern Kansas. He married in 1853. Miss Ann M. Barron, of Winchester, Ky. By this union they have had five children, one of whom is living, Sydney; lost four, James A., two by the name of Willie, and Bettie.

D. G. WILSON, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 34, P. O. Effingham. This prominent gentleman is a native of Ohio, and was born in Tuscarawas County, January 18, 1836. Was reared and educated in his native State, eventually coming to Illinois, locating in Bureau County, where he was a resident and closely identified with the agricultural interests of the county for fifteen years. In the spring of 1869, came to Kansas, taking up his abode where he now resides. He has large landed interests in the State, and is one of Atchison County's most substantial citizens. In 1874, he was the choice of the Republican party to represent Atchison County in the Legislature, and was in the extra session that year, which was called to take action in behalf of the grasshopper sufferers. He has held the office of Township Trustee, and other positions, during his sojourn in the county. During the Rebellion, Mr. W. enlisted twice, each time being rejected on account of disability, He was married in Illinois to Miss Appalona Maxwell. They have seven children, John W., Olive, Frank B., Emmet R., Eddie, Carrie and Albert H. 

 H. R. ACHENBACH, R. R. Agent and Postmaster, Farmington; one of the most genial and popular gentlemen on the line of the Central Branch. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Clinton County, December 5, 1844. He was reared and educated in his native State, graduating from the People's Commercial College at Reading. After leaving this college, he clerked in the Prothonotary and Register and Recorder's office at Lock Haven, Clinton Co., Pa. Then he went to Williamsport, where he was engaged in the confectionery and bakery business with his brother. His father, Hon. George A. Achenbach, is one of the leading citizens of Clinton County, and for a number of years has been prominently identified officially. We clip from the sketch-book of legislatures of Pennsylvania, in 1876, the following: "George A. Achenbach, Representative from Clinton County, is a gentleman of reputation on the Democratic side of the House. He was born in Columbia County, October 22, 1815, before the birth of the common schools, consequently was educated in the subscription schools, which were in vogue at that day. At twelve years of age he became a clerk in a store. In 1836, he moved to Sugar Valley, then in Center, but now in Clinton County, where he engaged in managing the mercantile interests of a furnace company. In 1860, he was elected to the Legislature from Clinton and Lycoming Counties, serving his constituents so satisfactorily that he was returned by a large majority. He was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, serving on some important committees. Mr. A. is very unassuming at his post of duty, and is emphatically a business legislator. He is a man stout built, but not corpulent, with gray hair, large head, and closely shaven face, his countenance indicating good nature. " H. R. resided in Pennsylvania until 1877, when he came West, arriving in Atchison County, July 6. He at once engaged in merchandising. In that capacity he was identified until the summer of 1881. During that time he took up the study of telegraphy, and was appointed railroad agent October 27, 1880. He had received his appointment as Postmaster, October 24, 1877. In both capacities he is eminently qualified, and without the radiant countenance of "Auchy," at the station, Farmington would have but few attractions. He was married June 24, 1869, to Miss Annie E. Ayers, a native of Chester County, Pa., an estimable lady. They have had four children - Mary E., Preston A., Harry S., and James P. Mr. A. is an Odd-Fellow, and in 1876 was District Deputy of Clinton County, Pa., organizing Salona Lodge, No. 937, June 24, 1876. He is also Master Mason.

SAMUEL ARTHUR, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Pardee, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Blair county, August 22, 1826. His father, Joseph Arthur, was a native of Bedford County, a farmer, and came to Illinois with his family in 1846, locating in McDonough County. Samuel followed canal-boating during his early days in Illinois, though his principal vocation was farming, which he adhered to until he came to Kansas, in 1871, locating where he now resides. His estate consists of 320 acres of choice land. Mr. A. is one of the most successful of agriculturalists, combining the practical with the theoretical. He was married in 1851, to Miss Sarah Hagerman, of Wayne County, Ohio. They have fourteen children - Elizabeth, Amanda, William, Flora, Ella, Charles, Adaline, Daniel, Isabelle, Cynthia, Josie, Walter, Joseph, Hattie, Herbert. Mr. and Mrs. A. and family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

GREGORY G. ASHE, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Pardee. A pioneer in Kansas, and one who has contributed more than an ample share toward the early development of Atchison County, is Mr. Gregory Ashe. He is a native of Ireland, and was born in the County Kerry, December 26, 1826. When twenty-two years of age, came to the United States. For several years he traveled, and resided temporarily in different parts of the country. The summer of 1855, came to Kansas, and pre-empted the 160 acres that is now his homestead. In 1858, went to St. Jo., Mo., residing until 1860, when he took up his permanent abode where he now resides. Being among the first inhabitants, he endured many privations and draw-backs. During the war he belonged to the State Militia, and was on duty at Kansas City during the trouble there. Mr. Ashe is an industrious, go-ahead citizen, and just the kind of a man to build up the reputation of a new country. He has been twice married, first in Ohio, to Miss Rachel A. Stanton; they have two children, Fred M. and Eugene; lost one - Frank. Mrs. Ashe, as far as can be ascertained, taught the first school in Center Township (in 1856). Her death occurred in Kansas. His present wife was formerly Annie C. Bechtel. By this marriage they have three children - Frank G., James W., and Edith M.

O. W. BABCOCK, stock raiser and dealer, P. O. Nortonville, well known as one of the prominent stockmen of eastern Kansas. He is a native of New York, and was born in Jefferson County, December 30, 1839; was there educated, reared, and resided until 1866, when he emigrated to Wisconsin, locating at Albion, Dane County, where, in company with Mr. O. Davis, they carried on general merchandising for several years. The spring of 1873, came to Kansas, locating where he now resides, himself and Mr. O. Davis purchasing a large tributary to Nortonville. Mr. Babcock is, in every sense of the word, a man who commands respect of his fellow-men. He was married in Allegany County, N. Y., to Miss Harriet A. Lamphear, of that county. Himself and wife are closely identified with the Seventh Day Baptist Church.

A. S. BEST, farmer and stockraiser, P. O. Monrovia, is one of the most substantial agriculturists of the county. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Clinton County, June 27, 1839, was reared and educated in his native State; his boyhood days being spent tilling the soil. The spring of 1860 his father, Mr. J. W. Best, with his family, including A. S., came to Kansas, locating in Center Township, Atchison County, the subject of this sketch taking and locating on his present homestead, where he erected a house and assiduously set to work to make a comfortable home and develop a farm. How well he has succeeded is known to those acquainted with him, as his farm, residence, orchard, etc., are in conformity with the name of the owner, "the Best. " Mr. B. has been closely identified with the growth and development of the county. During the war he was Captain of a Militia Company in Center Township. At present he discharges the duties of Township Clerk for Center Township. In 1860 Miss Mellinda Bricker, of Pennsylvania, became his wife. By this union they have four children - Ella R., Mary C., Emma, and John H.

LUCIUS H. BISHOP, farmer and stockraiser, Section 18, P. O. Monrovia. There are but few people within the boundary line of Atchison County more widely known as pioneers than L. H. Bishop. He is a native of Vermont; was born in Orange County, June 6, 1824. When young removed with his parents to Allegany County, N. Y. His father was a blacksmith by trade, and L. H., in his earlier days, assisted some at the forge. The spring of 1857 found him at Atchison, Kan., which at that time consisted of a few very diminutive buildings. He pre-empted some land, which is now embodied in his present estate, and built a log cabin which is intact, still standing adjacent to his residence. He was among the first farmers of this portion of the country, and as an agriculturist has been very successful. He has a fine farm in a high state of cultivation, and the surroundings indicate comfort. Mr. B. passed through all the difficulties subsequent to the first seekers of the new country, and the obstacles he had to encounter at that day and age were different from those generally incidental to a pioneer life. During the Rebellion he was in the Twelfth Kansas Militia Regiment, and participated in the engagement at Westport, Mo., where his horse was shot from under him. Mr. B. was a strong advocate for the abolition of slavery. At an early day was a member of the Board of Township Supervisors, and identified with the educational interests of District No. 6, of which he made the first report to the County Superintendent. He was married in New York in 1851 to Miss Betsy M. Wilson, an estimable lady. They have by this union four children - Frank W., Willie E., Sadie and Amelia, twins.

S. AUG. BUCH, farmer and carpenter, Section 26, P. O. Farmington. Is a native of Saxony, Germany, and was born May 2, 1832. Was reared, educated, and learned cabinet making trade in his native country. Came to the United States in July, 1869, arriving on the fourth, located in Pennsylvania, residing until 1871. Came to St. Joe, thence to Atchison County the same year. He devotes a great portion of his time to contracting and building; being a first-class mechanic has all the work he can attend to. Mr. B. has been twice married, first in Germany in 1861, to Miss Ernestine Otto. Her death occurred in 1871. Had three children - Margaretta, Dorotha, and Katherina. His present wife was formerly Miss Margretta Mack, of Wurtemberg, Germany. She was a widow at the time, her name being Smith. By her former husband she has two sons, Henry and Willie.

JOHN BURNS, farmer, P. O. Nortonville. This pioneer is a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and was born July 8, 1831. Was reared, educated, and resided in his native country until 1851; came to the United States, and for two years worked on a farm in Kentucky, after which for a few years he resided in different parts of the country engaged in various pursuits. In 1857 Kansas attracted his attention and in March of that year he pre-empted the 160 acres of land which is now his own, being one of the first settlers in that part of the country. He had many obstacles to meet at that early date which were only overcome by untiring industry. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry. He participated at the battle of Prairie Grove and other notable engagements of the war, serving three years when he was honorably discharged. Returned to Atchison County where he has since been a resident. His wife's maiden name was Miss Ann Quinn. By this marriage they have five children - Mary Grace, Annie, John F., Daniel, and an infant.

C. T. BUTIN, farmer, Section 7, P. O. Nortonville. This popular agriculturist is a native of New York, and was born in Rensselaer County, June 1, 1830. His father, Horace Butin, and mother, Annie Saunders, were natives of the Empire State. When quite young he moved to Allegany County, New York; then at eight years of age returned to Rensselaer County, where he was raised and educated. He was deprived of his father by death soon after their return. In 1857 he came to Kansas and bought a claim in Atchison County, being one of the pioneers of Center Township. He was closely identified with the early development of northeastern Kansas. He has a pleasant and attractive home, indicating comfort and prosperity. He is a close observer, a deep thinker, and has made a success as an agriculturist, by combining the practical with the theoretical. He was married March 22, 1862, to Miss Marie Cushman, an estimable lady. They have one daughter, Annie L., an accomplished young lady. Mr. Butin's mother came to Kansas, where she died in 1860. He has two sisters living within half a mile from him, Catherine E. Perry and Alma L. Maris, both well situated in life, and each the mother of three children - two boys and one girl. The family is identified with the Baptist Society of the Seventh Day denomination.

REV. PARDEE BUTLER, P. O. Farmington. Was born in 1816 in Onondago County, N. Y. His parents were from Connecticut. In 1819 they emigrated to the Connecticut Western reservation in northern Ohio. This was the only exclusively Puritan colony that was ever planted by the New England States, though they have furnished a predominating portion of the population of many of the western and northwestern States. The Western Reserve was an unbroken wilderness, and the settlers were proverbially poor, provided men can be called poor under any circumstances who have Yankee thrift, pluck, and intelligence. Mr. Butler remembers how his father, Phineas Butler, used to say that the only money he had for one year after coming to Ohio, was a quarter of a dollar, which he refused to spend, because he would not be wholly without money. Wheat would not bring twenty-five cents per bushel in Cleveland, but furs and pelts brought fair prices, and became a sort of legal tender; and so Phineas Butler became a noted hunter. There is yet preserved a local tradition how he and a brother hunter had a savage fight with a she bear, which they found in an alder swamp with her cubs one night when they were hunting raccoons. Frederick Brown, uncle to Ossawatomie, John Brown, lived in the same settlement, and under his impulse a Congregational Church and Sunday-school were organized in the log schoolhouse, which has followed soon after by a Debating Society, in which the subject of our sketch took his first lessons as a public speaker. Lyman Beecher's sermons on temperance, delivered in Litchfield, Conn., made on the Western Reserve a deep impression, and our young reformer took his first lessons at the hands of mobs by being pelted with eggs for delivering temperance lectures. At an early day he became identified with the anti-slavery movement. In the elections of 1844 he voted with the Liberty party for James J. Birney. A friend and a man of some position said to him: "Now Mr. Butler, you are just starting in life, and will you throw yourself away by voting with such an insignificant minority?" He replied, "My father was an old Henry Clay Whig, and I admire Mr. Clay very much, but I think a new party necessary and I shall vote for James G. Birney. " The Liberty party was the nest egg, out of which was hatched the Republican party. Alexander Campbell, and his father, Thomas Campbell, were Scotch Presbyterian ministers. Changing their views with regard to the action of baptism like Adoniram Judson, they became identified with the Baptists. They refused, however to adopt any sectarian name or any creed but the Bible, seeking thus the union of all Christians, and were therefore compelled, finally, to set up for themselves. Having many things in common with the New England Puritans, their views spread rapidly on the Western Reserve, and the subject of our sketch, together with his father and mother, became identified with this movement, and he spent thirty years of his life promulgating these views in the West, never, however, having forgotten his devotion to temperance and anti-slavery. He came to Kansas and settled in Atchison County, in the year 1855. His boldness in expressing his disapprobation of the measure of the pro-slavery party soon marked him out to the leaders of this party as a man too dangerous to be tolerated in the country, and on the 15th of August of the same year a mob seized him in the town of Atchison, and put him on a raft of two logs, and set him adrift on the Missouri River. They threatened that if he should return they would certainly hang him; and he replied, "Gentlemen, do your duty as you understand it, and I will do my duty as I understand it: I ask no favors of you. " In due time he returned. The next spring he was taken by a company of South Carolinians, and tarred and feathered, his life only having been saved by the interposition of Judge Tuft, of St. Joseph, Mo. He was married in 1843 to Miss Sibyl S. Carleton, also of the Western Reserve, who is now living. They have had seven children born to them, of whom three are now living. He has been a farmer for a life time, and his work as a preacher, anti-slavery and temperance lecturer, has been largely without charge. He has never had but one law suit. He prosecuted a man for petty larceny, and proved his charge; but the Justice dismissed the case and awarded the prosecutor with the costs. Among the many valuable lessons he has learned in this wicked world he regards this as one of the most valuable. And now, before he has attained the age allotted to men, he finds slavery forever abolished, and the dram-shops prohibited by constitutional provisions in the State. Meantime, there is a strong moral certainty that they will in like manner be ere long prohibited throughout the United States. A great advance has also been made toward the union of all Christians in one fold and under one Shepherd. Public integrity, private virtue, and good government have made encouraging progress; and the subject of this sketch feels, now as he is drawing near the end of a somewhat stormy and eventful life, that he has not wholly lived in vain.

MILO CARLTON, farmer, P. O. Pardee, is a native of Massachusetts, and was born in Franklin County, August 8, 1814. At an early age, came with parents to Ohio, his father, Joseph, being one of the early settlers of the Western Reserve, where Milo was reared and educated. He was a resident of the counties of Medina, Loraina and Ashland, and lived in one place, caused by changes of the lines. The Carltons are of English ancestry. His mother, Dolly Parmley, was a native of Vermont. In 1853, Mr. Carlton came to Kansas, locating in Center Township, being about the first in that vicinity. He was one of the company who was interested in starting and laying out the town of Pardee, and has figured prominently from that date to the present, doing all in his power for the best interests of the village. A few years ago, he built a flour mill which was to be operated by wind power. It proved rather a disastrous enterprise, owing to its being demolished by a storm. He has been closely associated with the educational interests of the community, and a few settlers are more favorably known. He was married in Massachusetts, to Miss Harriet Gate. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton, although advanced in years, are hale and hearty.

W. G. CARTER, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Lancaster. This genial and popular citizen is a native of Greenbrier County, Va., and was born May 20, 1847. In 1860, his father, W. P. Carter, Esq., emigrated with his family to Kansas, locating in Lancaster Township, the senior Carter being prominently identified with the growth and development of that township. W. G. was here educated and reared to manhood, his earlier days being spent in tilling the soil, and he has always adhered to that calling. He has a fine farm of 160 acres, ninety of which are under cultivation. He was married in 1871, to Miss Nannie Henderson of Atchison County. They have three children, Susie, Ida and Lillie.

R. N. CIRTIVILL, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Farmington, is a native of New York, and was born in Jefferson County, February 20, 1828. He was reared and educated in his native county, three miles from Sackett's Harbor. In 1850, he married Miss Susan Burns, a native of England. In 1864, enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, Company I, serving ten months; was at the battle of Petersburg and the surrender of Gen. Lee. His son Burt was also in the same regiment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Petersburg. After the war, located in New York and resided until 1871; came to Kansas, locating where he now resides. Mr. C. has a fine farm, and is one of Atchison County's most progressive citizens. His son, Burt Cirtivell, is engaged in the livery business, in Effingham, Kan. He has an adopted daughter, Melvina Slack.

A. CUSHMAN. This venerable and popular gentleman is a native of Massachusetts, and was born in Plympton, seven miles from Plymouth Rock, November 28, 1796. His father, Ignatius, was also a native of Massachusetts, and his mother, Ruth Washburn, was a native of that State. The Cushmans are of English ancestry. Thomas Cushman came to America in the "Mayflower," and was married to Mary Allerton. From this union the Cushmans of the United States sprang. He was a minister of the Puritan denomination, and delivered the first sermon in the New England States. Deborah Standish, great grand-daughter of Miles Standish, was the great grandmother of the subject of this sketch. When he was quite young, he removed to the State of Maine with his parents, and for a number of years resided in the vicinity of Belfast, where, at a later day, he was prominently identified in business. In 1857, came west, taking up his abode in Atchison County, Kan.; engaged in farming a short distance from Pardee, being among the first in that part. He built a store in Pardee, and for several years was engaged in trade. He has been a constant resident of the county since 1857, with the exception of about a year spent in the far West and in Maine, on pleasure. In 1861, Mr. Cushman was a passenger on the ill-fated train that went through the Platte River bridge, near St. Joseph, Mo. A large number of people, including the conductor, were killed. Mr. C. was so seriously injured that he has never fully recovered. Although far past the meridian of life, he is well preserved. His memory is excellent, and he takes a live interest in the political issues of the day. he has been a Jackson Democrat, and his sympathies always have been with that party. In 1825, Miss Celia Pearce became his wife. She is a native of Maine. They have had nine children, Marcia (wife of C. T. Butin, Esq. of Atchison County), Augustus, Almacia, Adolphus, Alfred, Washburn, Harriet and Addison.

G. A. CUSHMAN, farmer, P. O. Pardee, is a native of Maine, and was born in Penobscott County, June 18, 1831. Was reared and educated in his native county, following lumbering for a number of years and resided there until 1864. He came to Kansas, locating in Pardee; the spring of that year he went to Montana and engaged in mining for a considerable length of time. The autumn of that year he was so unfortunate as to have his leg broken, a short distance from Fort Bridger. He made his way to Salt Lake City, and remained until the spring of 1865, when he went to Virginia City. The seasons of 1865-66, he was on the police force at Helena, Montana, after which he went to Idaho, where he remained for about one year, when he departed for Kansas. He took passage down the Missouri River on the steamer Mackinaw, which was abandoned, and after being out several days, Mr. Cushman, in company with others, purchased a mackinaw, and had progressed quite a distance, when they took passage on the steamer Deer Lodge. In 1867, he engaged in pork packing in Pardee, and aside from the season spent in that pursuit, he had been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has a pleasant and comfortable home in Pardee, and is one of Center Township's most progressive citizens. He was married August 26, 1856, to Miss M. J. Smith, of Penobscott County, Me. Her father, E. Smith, Esq., was one of the oldest citizens of that county. They have had three children, who are deceased - Herbert E., Annie and Gustavus. The summer of 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Cushman made a tour to Maine, visiting their own home and passing several months.

O. DAVIS, of the firm of Davis & Babcock, stockmen, P. O. Nortonville, is a native of Rhode Island, and was born in Washington County, September 1, 1832; was there educated and reared. In 1862, came West, locating in Albion, Dane Co., Wis. where he was identified in the commercial circles for a number of years, doing a general merchandising trade, in the autumn of 1873, he came to Kansas engaging in the stock trade and farming, in company with his brother- in-law, Mr. O. W. Babcock. Mr. D. is a well-read man, a deep thinker. Has always been a strong Republican, and is an ardent advocate of temperance. He has been twice married, first in New York, to Miss Sophrena Babcock, of Jefferson County. By this union has one daughter - Lillian. Mrs. Davis's death occurred in Wisconsin. His present wife was formerly Elizabeth Williams, of Wisconsin. Mr. D. is of English extraction, his maternal ancestors were Reynolds. Himself and wife are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.

A. DEVIN, farmer, P. O. Farmington. This gentleman is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Helena, ten miles from May's Lick, May 22, 1818. His father William, was one of the substantial citizens of that county. He resided in his native county, and learned the blacksmithing trade. In 1844, he came to Weston, Mo., and engaged in blacksmithing, and for a time conducted a large livery stable. In 1860, came to Kansas, locating in Atchison, where he built a shop and was identified among the early Vulcans of that point. In 1863, he engaged in freighting in the California trade for Hardesty & Alexander, in the capacity of wagon master, in which he was eminently successful. He eventually made a trip with the Butterfield outfit, and was surrounded by Indians in the vicinity of Fort Ellsworth, the train was captured and Mr. D. was surrounded for four weeks before government troops came to the rescue. He was in such imminent danger that his hair turned gray in a very short period. He continued in the blacksmithing business in Atchison until 1877, when he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He is one of Kansas' most substantial citizens. He was married January 1, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Wood. They have three children - James F., Adrian Jr., and Elizabeth.

THOMAS DONAHUE, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Farmington. One of Atchison County's most sterling farmers is the subject of the sketch. He is a native of Ireland, and was born in the Parish Kill Glass, County Roscommons, November 10, 1804; was reared, educated and learned the stone mason's trade in his native country. In 1847, he came to America, locating in Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked at his trade and resided a number of years. In 1861, came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, where he now resides, his first purchase being 100 acres, he set to work assiduously, and when not engaged on the farm he worked at his trade. His landed estate now consists of 360 acres of fine land, the greater portion of which is under cultivation. Has a grand old orchard, and a residence that is a model of taste, indicating comfort. He was married in February, 1844, to Miss Bridget McGuire, of the County Roscommon, Ireland. They have six children - Joseph, John, Ellen, Katie, Jane and Louisa. Joseph was elected two terms to the Legislature. 

 JAMES M. FLETCHER, farmer, P. O. Farmington. This popular fellow citizen is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, and was born June 3, 1819. At an early age he removed with his parents to Henry County, Ind., where he was reared and educated. His father Thomas Fletcher, was an agriculturist. The family eventually emigrated to Iowa County, Wis., where James M. resided until 1857 when he came to Kansas. The trip was made by teams, the family spending three months out of doors. He took up a claim where he now resides, being one of the first settlers in this part, and developed a farm, and has since been a resident. He had numerous obstacles to contend with in starting, being obliged to sell his only team to pay for his claim, and other drawbacks. His estate is one of the finest in Center Township. He was married March 19, 1843, to Miss Ephey L. McCann, of Indiana, a native of Ohio. She was born April 30, 1825. They have had nine children, eight of whom are living - Amos Warren, Samuel Harrison, John, Nelson, Burd, Ann, Sarah and Melissa. Lost one - William

MICHAEL GALLATIN, farmer, P. O. Atchison, is a native of Switzerland, and was born August 22, 1832. Was reared and resided in his native country until 1853. Came to the United States, locating in Pennsylvania, where he resided four years. He then came to Wisconsin, and in 1861 enlisted in Company K, Ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He participated in many of the stirring events of the war which the Ninth passed through, and was honorably discharged at Milwaukee in 1864. In 1865 came to Kansas where he has since been a resident. Mr. G. is one of the most substantial citizens in Atchison County. He married in 1871, Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer. Mrs. G. has two children by her former husband - Sophie and Mary.

DURAND C. HALL, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Farmington, is a native of Ohio, and was born in Portage County, June 17, 1834. His father, William Hall, was a pioneer in the Western Reserve. Durand was reared and educated in his native county, following agricultural pursuits, and continued to reside there until the spring of 1869. Came to Kansas, locating on his present farm, which is one of the finest in the county, and well equipped for stock raising, of which he makes a specialty. Mr. Hall was married in Ohio to Miss Ellen M. Underwood, who died September 9, 1871. His four children - Inez M., Albert S., Herbert D., Mary E. Lost one - John H. His present wife was Susan I. Merrian. They have one daughter - Susan E. Mr. Hall is a Master Mason.

JOHN A. HENNIGH, farmer, P. O. Farmington. This gentleman is a native of Pennsylvania and was born in Center County March 3, 1852. His father, David, was a prominent farmer of Center County, and a native of the Keystone State. John was educated and reared in Center County, following agricultural pursuits. He came to Kansas locating in Lancaster Township, Atchison Co., residing one year, when he removed to his present farm. He was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Nancy Lytle. They have three children - Nora, Willie and Mary.

ROSSELL HIGLEY, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Pardee. This pioneer and well known citizen is a native of New York, and was born in Delaware County, January 10, 1833. Was reared and educated in his native State, locating in Allegany County when sixteen years of age. When twenty-one years of age came to Adams County, Id., residing until 1856, when he came to Kansas, being one of the first in Atchison County. He pre-empted 160 acres which is now his home farm, erected a claim cabin and turned his attention to developing the farm. In 1862 he tendered his service to the Union cause, enlisting in Company F, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry as private, serving three years, passing through the usual routine of warfare, and was mustered out as Corporal. Returned to Kansas and has since been a resident. He has an excellent farm and is in a prosperous condition. In 1872 was married to Mrs. Mary E. Galpin, of Connecticut. They have four children George N., Asphi M., Henry W., Arthur Garfield.

SANFORD JARRELL, farmer, P. O. Monrovia. One of the most popular gentlemen of Atchison County is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of North Carolina, and was born in Rockingham County, March 9, 1836. Came to Indiana when young, where he was reared and educated, following agricultural pursuits. In 1857 came to Kansas and pre-empted a claim in Jackson County. He was identified among the early farm openers and farmers until 1861, when he enlisted in Company E, Second Kansas Cavalry. He participated in a number of the prominent engagements of the war, was at Prairie Grove and Cane Hill. Was mustered in as a Corporal, and after the Prairie Grove engagement was promoted to Duty Sergeant, in which capacity he acted until discharged, serving three years and three months. Since the war he has been continually a resident of Atchison County. He married in 1865 Miss Annie Fletcher, and estimable lady, daughter of James M. Fletcher, Esq., and early Kansan. They have two children - John F. and Mary M.

LAWRENCE JOHNSON, farmer, P. O. Atchison. One of the oldest and most respected citizens of northeastern Kansas, is Mr. Johnson. He is a native of Ireland, and was born in Queens County, March 15, 1813. He was deprived of his father and mother by death when young, and although the family had been in good circumstances, Lawrence was thrown upon his own resources with limited means. Came to the United States when nineteen years of age, locating in New Jersey, where he followed agricultural pursuits for a few years. In 1837, emigrated West, taking up his residence in Atchison County, Kan., where he now resides. Being one of the pioneers of the county, he has been closely associated with its development, and few people have contributed more amply in this respect. His farm of 160 acres, conveniently located to Atchison, is very desirable for a country residence, and his residence is a model of taste and comfort. Mr. Johnson has never been an official aspirant. Politically, in "ye halcyon days," he was a Jackson Democrat, and he still sides with that party. He was married in New Jersey, to Miss Susan Johnson. They have ten children, eight of whom are living - Elizabeth, Fannie, William L., George, John C., Susan, James D., and Mary Ann; lost two, Theresa and Frank. William L., and John C. comprise the well known book and stationery house of Johnson Bros., of Atchison. Mrs. Johnson, one of the pioneer ladies of Kansas, well advanced in years, is still hale and hearty.

S. R. JONES, farmer and stock raiser, Section 3, P. O. Cummingsville, is a pioneer of Kansas. He is a native of Kentucky and was born in Harlan County, December 29, 1827. At an early age removed with parents to Carter County, where he was reared and educated, following agricultural pursuits in his earlier days. In 1854, came to Kansas, locating on Crooked Creek in Jefferson County. He was one of the first in Jefferson, and had many drawbacks to contend with. It was requisite at that time to go to Missouri for breadstuffs, and to make this trip in winter was frequently a hazardous undertaking. Mr. J. saw this portion of the country partially developed, residing until 1857, when he came to Atchison County, locating on Deer Creek. He was one of the pioneers in that locality, and figured prominently at that day. He was one of the first judges of election, and a member of the Township Board for a number of years. On one occasion, in Atchison, Mr. Jones was obliged to take the ballot-box home with him at noon, the partisan contest becoming so riotous as to make it unsafe. After residing on Deer Creek several years, moved on to a farm on Parallel Road, where he resided several years. During the was, Mr. J. was a member of the State Militia, and for two weeks was stationed at Kansas City. For three years was a resident in the vicinity of Lawrence. At one time he was one of the largest real estate owners in northeastern Kansas. His present farm he purchased and moved on, in the spring of 1881. It is one of the most desirable homes and best farms in Center Township. Mr. J. is a gentleman of excellent judgement, is very progressive, and held in high esteem by all who know him. Was married in 1852, to Miss Lucinda J. Clark, nee Howard. They have four children - David J., Stephen R. jr., Sarah E. (now Mrs. George Butler), and James W. Mrs. Jones had a family of two by her former husband, Rosa A. and George W. The latter was killed by the Sioux Indians, in 1864, in western Kansas, while en route for the mountains with another party, they having a threshing machine. He was then in his twenty-first year, and one of the most promising young men. Mrs. J., at an early day in the West, passed many lonely nights, and had reasons to fear the red men, who at that time were prevalent to a great extent, and at times not altogether sociable.

J. A. KERNS, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Pardee. This popular young man is a son of William R. Kerns, Esq., who came to Atchison County in 1856, being one of the pioneers in Center Township, and among the early farm openers. He came from Putnam County, Ohio. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Thirteenth Kansas, and died in the service from sickness contracted while discharging his duty. J. A. was born in Atchison County, Kan., March 30, 1857, and here educated and reared, adhering to agricultural pursuits . He has a fine farm, and is numbered among the substantial citizens of Center Township. He is a musician of more than ordinary ability, and eminently a favorite in society.

GEORGE A. LAMBERSON, SR., farmer, Section 8, P. O. Farmington. One who figured prominently at an early day in Atchison County, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of New York, and was born in Onondago County, February 27, 1821; was reared, educated and learned the carpenter's trade in his native county. When he attained his majority, his father, Lawrence, gave him a farm, and for two years he followed agricultural pursuits. In 1846, came West, and for four years resided in Wisconsin, after which he went to California, remaining three years; returned to New York, and in the spring of 1858, came to Kansas, pre-empting a claim on Section 7, Center Township, Atchison County. After farming five years, removed to Monrovia, engaging in hotel-keeping and working at his trade. Monrovia, at that time, was a competing point for the county-seat, and Mr. Lamberson contributed amply toward the up-building of the town. After five years in Monrovia, again returned to farming, in which pursuit he is still engaged. At the time of his coming to Kansas, his father, Lawrence Lamberson, also took up his abode in the State, residing for a number of years. He now lives in Chicago, Ill., aged eighty-seven years. Mr. L. was married, May 15, 1844, to Miss Rosamon Lamberson, of New York. They have two children - George, jr., and Charles O.

A. K. McBRIDE, farmer, Section 29, P. O. Pardee, is one of the pioneers of Kansas, and a man who has contributed amply toward the early development of Atchison County. He is a native of Tennessee, and was born in White County, December 13, 1821; was reared, educated, and resided in his native State, following agricultural pursuits until 1855, when he came to Kansas, locating on the section he still resides on. He took 160 acres of land, and in a log cabin commenced to make a home, in what then was considered a howling wilderness (minus the wilderness), as there was not a particle of timber for miles. Mr. McB. was among the first in this neighborhood, and had many drawbacks to contend with. He has at present a fine home, which indicates comfort and prosperity. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Sarah A. Walker. By this union they have had five children - Lucian L., De Janira, Floritta, Leonora, and Lucillus A. Mrs. McBride's death occurred October 22, 1877.

T. C. McBRIDE, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Pardee. Of the few '56-ers in Atchison County, Mr. McBride was one of the most prominent. He is a native of Tennessee, and was born in White County, February 5, 1826. His father, Andrew, was a native of Virginia, and a farmer in White County. T. C. was educated and reared in Tennessee, residing until 1856, when he came to Kansas, arriving on the 22d of March. He pre-empted a portion of land he now occupies, and in 1857, set about developing it. Where Mr. McB. 's residence now stands, there was, about that time, a town started, which was promised a bright future. All the old settlers well remember Ocena. It was the first stopping place west of Atchison, in point of importance. However, it never attained but a few buildings. One of those was a store, in which the subject of this sketch carried a small stock of goods. He was also Postmaster, being appointed to the latter post in 1856, under President Buchanan's administration, building the office until it was removed to Pardee. In the fall of 1857 in a grove on his place, the first church services in that section were held. It was on the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Mr. McB. was clerk of the School Board for sixteen years, and has been closely associated with the educational interests of the county. He was married in 1845, to Miss Mary Mason. They have had twelve children - Sarah E., Samuel M., M. F., Louisa A., Thomas C., A. J., and Ada C.; lost five - Perilla, Isaac, and John A.; two died in infancy.

ISAAC MARIS, farmer, Section 5, P. O. Nortonville. This well-known pioneer is a native of Ohio, and was born in Mahoning County, July 16, 1834. His father, Jonathan Maris, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Chester County in 1800. He came to Ohio in 1823, being one of the pioneers of Mahoning County, and was a descendant of George Maris, who emigrated from Worcestershire, England, and settled in Chester County, Pa. (now Delaware), in 1683. His mother's maiden name was Thomason Morris, a native of Salem, N. J. She was born in 1802. Isaac was reared, educated, and resided in Ohio, following agricultural pursuits until 1857, when he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison county, pre-empting the 160 acres which is now his home. In the autumn of that year he built a cabin on his claim, and turned his attention to developing the farm. Mr. Maris has been closely associated with the growth and development of the county, and has contributed more than an ample share towards advancing the educational and religious tone of not only his immediate community but northeastern Kansas. He has been eminently successful as a Sabbath-school organizer, and has devoted considerable time to the cause. For six years was superintendent of union and denominational Sabbath-schools, and also for the past six years has been vice-president of the County Sunday- school Association, and president of Center Township Sabbath-school Association; for the past two years for Lancaster and Benton townships also. In the temperance cause he has been a life-long and active member. Religiously he belongs to the Society of Friends, and for the past fifteen years has been an esteemed and acceptable minister in that society, but has been largely engaged, as opportunity offered, in holding meetings at different points in his own and adjoining counties, ever manifesting a deep interest in all Christian work. The country can not have too many such citizens as the Rev. Isaac Maris. He was married December 7, 1858, to Miss Alma L. Butin, of Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. They have three children - Jesse E., Alice A. and Frederick B.

PETER NOFFSINGER, farmer, Section 35, P. O. Monrovia, is a native of Ohio, and was born in Monroe County, Nov. 18, 1832. When ten years of age his father, Peter Noffsinger, with his family, including the subject of this sketch, emigrated to Missouri, locating in Nodaway County, where he was reared and educated; his early days being spent in tilling the soil. In 1838, he came to Kansas, locating in Atchison County, where he has since been a resident with the exception of about three years; during the war he was in the Government employ as assistant wagon master. Previous to coming to Kansas he spent a considerable length of time in Nebraska. Mr. Noffsinger has a fine farm, and is one of the solid farmers of the county. He married Miss Margaret Martin in Nodaway County, Mo., she is the daughter of Levi Martin, Esq., one of the pioneers of that county and owned the land where Burlington Junction now stands. They have ten children - Julie E., William A., Missouri A., Martin L., Johnnie, Amanda, Maggie, Lona, Clara and Mollie.

HON. L. F. RANDOLPH, farmer and stockraiser, Section 9, P. O. Pardee, one of the most popular and enterprising citizens of Center Township, is a member of the Kansas Legislature. He is the son of Rev. A. A. F. Randolph, who was born in Bridgeton, N. J., January 1, 1805; was of Scotch ancestry and was married in Allegany County, N. Y., in 1828, to Miss Lucy C. Maxson, a native of Rhode Island. In 1816, the family moved to Meadville, Pa., and in 1863, came to Kansas, settling on the farm where the widow now resides. Rev. Mr. Randolph became the pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at its organization in 1863, which position he retained until his death, June 25, 1868. The oldest son, Hon. A. M. F. Randolph, of Burlinton, Kas., is a lawyer. He graduated at the Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1853; was Attorney General of Kansas from 1874 to 1876; has been a member of the Kansas Legislature, and is at present reporter for Supreme Court. Of the sons, Julius was Captain of Company H, Second Wisconsin Infantry, was killed at the battle of Gainesville, Va., August 28, 1862. Eugene was in Company D, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Infantry; died January 8, 1864. William was in the Pennsylvania Militia and afterward served in Company F, Seventeenth Kansas Infantry; was drowned June 21, 1865, in the Allegheny River, Pa. George served in the Kansas Militia, and now lives on a farm adjoining the old homestead. Two sisters - Emily and Georgie, together with the youngest son, Leslie F., live at the home of their mother, Mrs. Lucy C. Randolph. Rev. Mr. Randolph, during the few years he was a resident of Kansas, did much toward advancing the cause of religion in his locality, and was held in high esteem by all.

ALEX RILEY, stockraiser and dealer, Section 9, P. O. Cummingsville. This well-known stockman is a native of Ohio, and was born in Muskingum County, January 30, 1840. His father, Samuel, was one of the first settlers of that county. In 1859, the family, including Alex, came to Illinois, residing temporarily; thence to Missouri, and eventually to Kansas. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, tenth Kansas Infantry, participated at the battle of Prairie Grove and other engagements, serving three years and was honorably discharged. After the war he located in Atchison County, and has devoted his attention to the stock trade. Mr. R. is a genial gentleman, a great reader, and thoroughly conversant with the details of the day. He was married in September, 1866, to Miss Alvina Carlton, of Atchison County. They have four children - Francis E., Charles S., E. A. and Ashley A.

ABEL ROBINSON, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Pardee, is a native of England, and was born in Olney, Buckinghamshire, February 12, 1826. He was the youngest of nine children of Samuel and Martha (Dewey) Robinson. Was reared, educated and learned the book-binder's trade in his native country. In 1848, came to America, locating in New Jersey, where he worked at his trade for a time, and for nine years was clerk in a book and stationery house. His employer eventually came West, locating in Davenport, Iowa, where Mr. R. was in his employ for a few years, and then turned his attention to farming, locating in Fulton County, Illinois. Here he resided until the spring of 1865, when he emigrated to Kansas, locating in Atchison County on present farm. He has been twice married; first in 1850, to Miss Matilda Townsend, whose death occurred in Davenport, Iowa. Had four children, one of whom is living - Martha. In 1856, Miss Leah Davison became his wife. They have had eight children, six of whom are living - Louisa, Priscilla, Arabella, Jabez E., Alberti and Zillah. Lost, two - Cornelia and Charles Walter. The former's death resulted from a snake bite, and the latter was killed by lightning. The family is identified with those of the Abrahamic faith who look for a literal fulfillment of the promises.

HENRY SHELL, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Monrovia. One of the first settlers of Atchison County is Mr. Henry Shells. He is a native of Indiana, and was born in Bartholomew County, October 9, 1824. Was reared, educated and followed agricultural pursuits in his native State until he attained his majority. he then went to Missouri, locating in Platte County, where he followed his adopted profession until 1857, when he became a resident of Kansas, taking up his abode in Center Township. He was one of the first farm openers in his vicinity, and passed through all the trying ordeals which the early Kansans had to contend with. There are but few citizens in the county that are more popular than Mr. Shell. He was married in Missouri, to Miss Sarah T. Nuzum. They have eight children - Emma, Tolbet B., Hannah E., Leah Lusetta, Thulas F., Henry L., Mattie and Annie E.

JOSEPH F. STILLMAN, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Nortonville. This able agriculturist is a native of Rhode Island, and was born March 16, 1831; was reared and educated in his native State and resided in the eastern country until 1870, when he came to Kansas. He embarked in farming in Riley County, continuing four years, when he came to Atchison County, locating where he now resides. Mr. Stillman is a genial and popular gentleman and one of Center Township's most progressive citizens. He was married in 1866, to Miss Ada C. Burdick. They have four children - Edwin L., Phebe, Benjamin and Maggie. Mr. S. and his family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Society.

HIRAM J. WARD, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Farmington, well known as one of Atchison County's substantial citizens, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Michigan, and was born in Kalamazoo County, April 3, 1841. His father died when he was ten years of age, and with his mother he removed to Illinois locating in Will County, where his mother died when he was only thirteen years of age. He then removed to Champaign County, living with a cousin, S. O. Woodworth, and served seven years in the mercantile and banking business. His father, Daniel C. Ward, and his mother, Eunice nee Woodworth, were natives of Seneca County, N. Y. H. J. learned the carpenter's trade, and resided in Illinois until April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry. He participated in eighteen hard fought battles besides thirteen skirmishes; among the former was the siege of Atlanta; served valiantly for three years and three months, when he was honorably discharged at Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill. At the battle of Chickamauga was severely wounded. A great portion of his time was a detached ordinance officer. In 1864, he came to Kansas, engaged to work on the C. B. R. R., soon after purchased his present farm, which was in its crude state and densely covered with underbrush; he turned his attention to developing his estate, and by indomitable industry has made it one of the most valuable farms in the county. His orchard of 1,000 trees all well advanced and in a thrifty condition. To horticulture and apiculture Mr. Ward devotes considerable of his time. In the culture of bees he had been very successful, and his apiary is one of the largest in the county. He is a first class mechanic, and very ingenious. Is a great reader, his library being well filled with books relating to all branches of industry, art and history.

HON. JOSHUA WHEELER, Section 6, P. O. Nortonville, is prominent among the men of mark in Kansas, who have figured conspicuously, and to the State's interest. He is a native of England, and was born in Buckinghamshire, February 12, 1827. His father, George R. Wheeler, was a watchmaker, and Joshua adopted and learned the trade. When 17 years of age he came to the United States, taking up his abode in New Jersey, where he principally worked as a farm hand until 1848, when he came to Illinois, locating in Fulton County, where he was identified as an agriculturist until the autumn of 1857, when he became a resident of Kansas, pre-empting the claim which is now a portion of his large estate. The country tributary to where Mr. wheeler located was in its crude state, and he has seen it develop into what is now one of the garden spots of the State. He has been closely associated with the educational and religious progress of the county, and has always been found ready to lend his support in all commendable enterprises. Politically, he has always been found in the Republican ranks, voting for Fremont in 1856. In 1859, he responded to the first call made for the organization of the Republican party in Kansas. From 1862-65, he was State Senator, being elected by that party, and also held the office of Regent of the State Agricultural College. In 1874, he was elected member of the State Board of Agriculture, and has been re-elected three consecutive terms, holding the position at the present time, 1882. He is thoroughly conversant with Kansas politics, and is a great reader, has an excellent memory and an easy but not loquacious way of expressing his opinions and conveying his ideas. He is one of the most companionable and entertaining gentlemen. He was married in Fulton County, Ill., in 1850, to Miss Maria Reynolds, a native of England. They have had four children- Charles Greeley and Adeline R. are living, two deceased. Mr. Wheeler and family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Society. 

 PETER BUCKELS, farmer, P. O. Lancaster, was born in Williamsburg County, S. C., in 1829, and was raised there on a farm. He remained on his father's farm until 1856, when he came to Kansas and pre-empted 160 acres of land ten miles northwest of Doniphan County. In 1860 he went to Gage County, Neb., and bought 240 acres on Wild Cat Creek, which he improved and lived on until 1867, when he moved to Lancaster Township, Atchison County, and located on Section 17, Range 19, Township 5, and has 220 acres, 130 under cultivation and the balance in timber and pasture. He was married in 1858, to Miss Elsie A. Miller, of Brown County, Kansas. They have six children, viz: Julia, Frankie, Dora, Katie, Jessie and Mary.

J. D. CARPENTER, hotel, Huron; was born in Kentucky, and raised in that State. In 1856, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Lewis County, and served for twelve years. In 1874, he came to Kansas, and located near Huron, and engaged in farming. He was married in 1858, to Miss Ruth Fregus, of Lewis County, Ky., who died November 29, 1877, leaving two children - Alvadora and Willie. In 1882, he came to Huron and opened a hotel.

HON. FRANK E. CLOYES, farmer, Lancaster Township: was born in East Middlebury, Vt., in 1847. In 1859, his parents moved to Kansas, locating on Section 27, Township 5, Range 19, which section is now owned by the father and his two sons, and is one of the largest farms in the township. In 1864-65, Frank attended Pardee Seminary, at Pardee, Kansas. In 1866-67, attended the University at Highland, Kansas, and in 1868, turned his attention to farming, which business he has successfully followed ever since. He was married in Lancaster Township, in 1869, to Miss Martha Rust. They have five children, viz: Addie M., Etta J., Frank H., Susie E., and Marshall J. In 1880, he was elected to the Legislature from Atchison County, and during the last legislative term served the interests of his county faithfully; was re-elected for the same position in 1882. He has been Clerk of the School Board for his district for the past twelve years. He is a member of the Effingham Lodge, A., F. & A. M.

G. GRANER, farmer, P. O. Lancaster; was born in Kurhaessen, Germany, in 1834, where he learned the brewers' business. In 1854 he emigrated to America, and located at Belleville, Ill., where he ran a farm and worked in a brewery until 1859, when he worked in breweries at St. Louis and at Jefferson City, Mo. In June, 1861, he enlisted in a Missouri battalion and served until October the same year, when, the term of enlistment expiring, he was discharged at Jefferson City, when he returned to Belleville, Ill., and worked in a brewery at that place until 1865, when he came to Atchison as foreman in the brewery of Kurtz & Young, where he remained until 1867, when in company with Frank Young he engaged in butchering and packing pork. In 1866, he bought 160 acres of land in Section 20, Township 5, Range 19, and now owns 320 acres, 200 acres under cultivation, with good buildings, orchard, vineyard, and hedge fence. Was married in Atchison, Kansas, in 1866, to Miss Martha Hauck, and has six children, viz: Matilda, Willie, Ina, Henry, Ferdinand and Adolph. Is a member of Schiller Lodge, I. O. O. F., Atchison, Kansas.

JEFFERSON GREGG, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Lancaster: was born in East Tennessee in 1816, but was raised in Missouri, his parents moving to that State in 1818, settling in Ray County. In 1840 he moved to Buchanan County and engaged in farming. In 1856 he moved to Kansas, settling in Jefferson County, near Winchester, and engaged in farming. In 1857 he moved to his present location, and has been engaged in stock raising and farming. In 1836 he was married in Clinton County, Mo., to Miss Mary A. White. They have six children, viz: Mahala, Anna, James, Margaret, Alice and Bascom. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

B. F. HURSH, farmer, P. O. Lancaster; was born in Lewisburg, Union County, Pa., in 1836, and was raised in that State, attending the common schools and the Baptist University at his native town. On leaving school he clerked in a general store. In 1863 he was employed as a clerk in the commissary department of the U. S. Army, and during that year was stationed at Chain Bridge, District of Columbia. In 1864 was with the Twelfth and Twenty-fourth Army Corps. In 1865, was stationed at Washington, D. C., as superintendent under Captain Samuel B. Lauffer, A. A. Q. M. In the spring of 1866, he returned to his native State and engaged in the grocery business at Sunbury until 1868, when he sold out and returned to Lewisburg, where he remained until 1871, when he moved to Kansas, settling in Osborne County, being among the early settlers in that county, and helped organize the county government. In 1873 he returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1881 came to Lancaster Township and bought one of the best improved farms in the township, and the finest groves in the county. He was married in 1861, to Miss Kate I. Wilson, in Union County, Pa., They have two children - Frank W. and Guy L. In 1871, was Justice of the Peace in Osborne County, Kansas. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

H. H. KELLY, farmer, Huron: was born in Lewis County, Ky., in 1829, and was raised as a farmer, which pursuit he followed there until he came to this State in 1858, when he settled near Kennekuk. In 1880 he moved to his present location, where he owns 160 acres, and has a vein of coal varying from twelve inches to three feet, underlying the greater portion of his place. He was married in 1857, in Lewis County, Ky., to Miss Mary W. Carpenter, of Kentucky. They have two children - John S. and George E. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

W. R. PATTERSON, farmer, P. O. Huron, was born in Fayette County, Pa., in 1839. When fourteen years old he determined to go to the West, and left with only the clothes on his back and walked to Pittsburgh, where he secured a position as cabin boy on one of the river steamers, and went to Evansville, Ind., where he left the boat and went to Peoria, Ill., and went to work on a farm, and in 1857, came to this State, locating at Atchison, where he engaged in teaming until 1859, when he located on his present farm. 1860 and 1862 were spent in mining in Colorado. Returning to Kansas, he engaged in farming until the spring of 1880, when he went to California, then to Brownsville, Pa. Returning in the winter of 1880, he engaged in the butchering business at Atchison until the fall of 1881, when he returned to his farm. Was married in 1860, near Brownsville, Pa., to Miss Rachael Chalfant. Is a member of Huron Lodge, No. 72, A., F. & A. M.

EDWARD PURDUE, farmer, Lancaster Township, was born in Canada, in 1850, and was brought up on a farm. In 1868, came to the United States and settled in Black River Falls, Wis., and engaged in lumbering until 1870, when he came to Kansas, locating in Lancaster Township, buying 160 acres of land, and has been an unusually successful farmer, owning 400 acres of Kansas soil, 280 acres under cultivation, with good fences, buildings and other improvements. He was married in 1878, to Miss Ola Davey, of Brown County, Kan. They have two children, viz, Marie and Charles.

W. G. RUCKER, of Dennet & Co., lumber dealers, was born in Noble County, Ohio, in 1859. In 1862, his parents moved to a farm in Livingston County, Ill. In 1876, he came to Kansas and located at Corning, where he engaged in general merchandising until 1881, when he sold out his business, and in April, 1882, came to Huron and engaged in the lumber business, and, during the short time the firm has been engaged in business, has met with marked success. In 1880, he was married at Corning, Kan., to Miss Jennie Butler, of that place. In 1881, was elected to the office of Township Trustee, but resigned the office on his removal to Huron.

SALEM RUPERT, farmer, P. O. Lancaster; was born in Armstrong County, Pa., in 1840, and was raised in that county. In his early years of manhood, followed farming and coal-mining. In 1864, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, as a recruit, and joined the command just before the battle of the Wilderness, and was wounded in the left thigh by a musket ball. On his recovery, was assigned to the Invalid Corps; was stationed at Pittsburg, then transferred to Harrisburg, Pa., and was discharged at the latter place July 12, 1865, when he returned to Armstrong County and engaged in farming, and, in 1872, moved to Kansas, settling on Section 36, Town 5, Range 18, Lancaster Township, Atchison County. He now owns 280 acres of land, eighty acres under cultivation, the balance in tame grasses. In 1866, was married in Indiana County, Pa., to Miss Susan Altman, and has five children, viz., Mary, Agnes, Lulu, Nola and Zenus.

JOHN S. RUST, Section 34, P. O. Lancaster, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1819; learned the trade of plasterer in his native State; in the fall of 1839, went West; cast his first vote in Clark County, Mo., for President Harrison, in 1840; then removed to Jennings County, Ind. He married Miss Jane Boner, in 1842. She died ten years after their marriage. In 1852, he married Mrs. Mahala Worth. In 1853, they moved to North Vernon, where he built the first storehouse and hotel, and continued in business there a little over one year. He then moved to Madison County, Iowa, in 1855, and lived in Winterset one year. He then moved to Kansas in 1857, and purchased the farm on which he now resides. He was one of the first settlers in Atchison County, and was proprietor of the first hotel outside of Atchison, in the county, located on the military road from Leavenworth to Fort Kearny. Mr. Rust was elected Justice of the Peace in 1858, and elected County Commissioner in 1861. He enlisted in the army November 6, 1861, and served three years and three months as Quartermaster Sergeant in Company D, Second Kansas Volunteers. His second wife died December, 1865. He married his third wife, Miss Adie A. Gibson, in 1868. He was appointed Postmaster of Lancaster, Atchison County, in May, 1882.

G. W. STABLER, farmer and stock-raiser, Lancaster Township, was one of the oldest settlers of this township; was born in Stablersville, Baltimore Co., Md., in 1839, where his ancestors had lived for 200 years. In 1852, he moved to Ohio, where he remained until 1854, when he moved to Adams County, Ill., where he learned the carpenter's trade. In the fall of 1858, he moved to Kansas, settling in Lancaster Township. In 1859-60, he worked in a quartz mill in Colorado. In the spring of 1861, returned to Kansas and enlisted as a private in Company D, Second Kansas Infantry, for 100 days; at the expiration of that time, he re-enlisted in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and was made Sergeant; was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, Van Buren and all the battles of his regiment. In June, 1863, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and in 1865 was promoted to Captain of Company C, and was mustered out at Leavenworth in August, 1865, when he returned to his farm and has followed that pursuit ever since. The farm comprises 230 acres; 140 under cultivation. He was married at Huron, September 21, 1865, to Mrs. Nancy Wilson, who died in October, 1878, leaving four children, Gale C., John P., James H. and Mark O. He was again married January 14, 1880, at Huron, Kan., to Mrs. Anna Berger, of Nodaway County, Mo. Capt. Stabler has always taken an active part in the politics, both in county and State issues. In 1870, he was census taker for the western part of Atchison County. In 1871-72, served as Deputy United States Marshall. In 1866, was elected to the Legislature, and served his constituents faithfully. He has been Justice of the Peace for the past twelve years. He is an active member of the Huron Lodge, No. 72, A., F. & A. M.

JAMES STICKLER, farmer, P. O. Lancaster, was born in West Virginia, in 1817, and brought up upon a farm. In early manhood he ran a ferryboat across a stream near his father's farm for some four or five years, when he engaged in farming in West Virginia until the fall of 1856, when he came to Kansas and settled in Shannon Township, Atchison County. In 1865, he moved to his present location, where he has 150 acres of well-improved land. In 1847, he was married to Miss Martha J. Smithson, of Monroe County, W. Va., and has three children living, Sarah E., Margaret and Amanda. Is a member of Mackey Lodge, No. 78, A., F. & A. M., Effingham, Kan. He is also a member of the Baptist Church, and has been a deacon in that church for the past eighteen years.

C. B. TULEY, farmer, P. O. Huron; was born in Burlington County, N. J., in 1812. In 1820, his parents moved to Warren County, Ohio, thence to Miami County, where he lived and followed farming until 1869, when he moved to Lancaster Township, Atchison Co., Kan., settling on Section 35, Town 5, Range 19, and has 100 acres of land, all under cultivation. Was married in Miami County, Ohio, May 10, 1838, to Miss Elizabeth Frazier, and has eight children, viz, Mary A., Thomas, Sarah, Rhoda, Angeline, John, Ellen and Perry. Is a member of Huron Lodge, A., F. & A. M.

P. A. UNDERWOOD, farmer, P. O. Good Intent, was born in Parke County, Ind., in 1838, and was brought up on a farm, working summers and attending school winters. In 1859, came to this State and settled at Doniphan, but shortly afterward moved to a farm a short distance west of that place. In 1861, at the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and was in all the battles of his command, among them Corinth, Iuka, Coffeyville and Wyatt Miss., and after an active service of four years and four months, without receiving a scratch or being one day on the sick list, was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kas. In the fall of 1865, bought the present homestead, and has been engaged in improving it. Was married in 1867, at Rockville, Parke County, Ind., to Miss Elizabeth J. Pinnegar, of that place. They have five children - Ida M., Jno E., Sarah E., Cora Bell and Nellie M.

H. J. WATSON, carpenter and blacksmith, Huron, was born in Hendricks County, Ind., in 1841. In 1847, his parents moved to Buchanan County, Mo., and in 1856 to Kansas, settling in Atchison County, near Huron. The Watson family are pioneers of this section. H. J. worked at the blacksmith, tin and carpenter's trades, and from 1858 until 1882 ran a shop at Huron. He has always taken an active part in politics in this county. In 1864, was married at Huron, Kan., to Miss Sarah A. Elliott. In 1869, was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, and was successively re-elected until 1875. In 1876, was elected Township Trustee, and has held the office ever since. Is a member of Huron Lodge, No. 72, A., F. & A. M. 

 WILLIAM ADAMS, farmer and stock raiser, Section 10, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Somersetshire, Eng., October 6, 1819, son of George and Rachel Adams nee Thayer. He worked at farming in his native country until 1842, when he emigrated to the United States and settled in Onondaga County, N. Y. Here he learned the trade of carriage maker, and in 1852 went to California, via the Isthmus, to seek his fortune with the rest of the gold miners. Two years later, however, he returned to New York, where he made his home until his emigration to Kansas, which was in the spring of 1857. In company with what was known as the Cayuga Colony, he took up a claim of 160 acres, but has since added to it until he owns in all 800 acres, all under cultivation. He usually keeps on hand about 100 head of graded cattle, 20 horses, and hogs and other small stock in abundance, and has been a very successful stock raiser. Mr. A. was married in New York State, July 4, 1848, to Miss Mary A. Ellsbury, who was formerly from the same shire in England as himself. They have one daughter, Julia E., and a son, Samuel.

JAMES D. ARMSTRONG, Section 29, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Effingham, came to Kansas in June, 1857, and settled at Atchison where he soon afterwards engaged in driving cattle and breaking prairie. After working at that for a short time he accepted a position at clerking. Followed that and going to school up to 1864, then he crossed the plains to Colorado, where he remained but a short time, when he returned to Waterville, Kans., and started a store. Afterwards went to Texas, from 1876 to 1878, and was there engaged in lumber business. After this he removed to the place where he now lives. He is a native of Andrew County, Mo., born September 12, 1840, son of Joshua D. and Elizabeth Armstrong, nee Cogdill; the former of Irish descent, the latter of English extraction. He is at present School Treasurer of School District No. 17, his township, and an active member of the Masonic Order. Was married in the City of Atchison in 1872 to Miss Laura McCubbin, whose parents were among the early settlers of that city.

HON. WILLIAM P. BADGER, was born December 17, 1817, at Sanbornton Square, Belknap County, N. H. The genealogy of the Badger family is traced to the time of William the Conqueror, the original name being Bagehoot, a French title from Normandy. Gov. Badger of New Hampshire, was a cousin of John E. Badger, father of William P. Badger, and was descended from Sergeant John Badger, who came to America in the Mayflower and settled at Newburyport, Mass., and from whom are descended about all the Badgers in the United States. The family coat of arms now in the possession of the subject of this sketch bears the following inscription "The family of Badgers originally descended from Lancelot Baghoot, who is mentioned by Sir John Servin's visitations of the County of Leicester to have been settled at the Hoo, in that county, in the year 1347. His descendant, Richard Badger, served under the Emperor of Germany against the Turks, in the reign of Henry VIII, by whom he was knighted, and had the three golden eagles added to his arms in memory of his gallantry in the service of the Emperor." Several members of this family appear to have settled in America about the time of Cromwell's usurpation. John E. Badger, the father of William, was born in New Market, N. H., and followed mercantile pursuits. His mother, Irene Carter, was born in Portsmouth, N. H.; both parents died in Atchison, Kans. William attended school, and at the age of twelve years became an apprentice to a hatter at Montpelier, Vt. While working at his trade he studied the science of medicine, but on account of ill health did not follow the profession as a regular pursuit. In 1857 he moved to Kansas for the recovery of his health, and founded the town of Muscotah, following the business of a farmer for several years. In 1857-8 was a member in the Kansas Legislature, taking a part as a Free-state Democrat. At the close of the session he was appointed agent for the Kickapoo Indians, a position he held until June, 1861. In 1862 he entered the army as Adjutant of the Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry and served in that capacity until 1864, participating in the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove and others. He is an Odd Fellow, belongs to the Masonic order, and in the latter has advanced to the Knight Templar degree. He has done considerable to promote the railroad and other improvements. He is also a scientist and deeply interested in scientific pursuits. He has been a Republican since his entry in the army, and has proved a useful member of the party. He was married on December 2, 1841, to Miss Chloe E. Kellogg, daughter of Rev. Sherman Kellogg, of Montpelier, Vt., and sister to Gov. William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana. They have had four children, only one of whom is living, Miss Clara R.

HARLAN A. BELDEN, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., May 23, 1838. His parents were Edson and Mary Jane Belden, who removed to Bureau County, Ill., while he was a small child, and were among the early settlers of that county. Here the subject of this sketch obtained a common school education, and worked on the farm with his father. In 1864 he was married to Edith J., daughter of Edward and Helen Peabody, who were originally of the first family of the county. During the year 1868 Mr. Belden came to Kansas and purchased 160 acres of the old Kickapoo reservation, and was one of the first to commence improving these lands. In the fall he brought his family, and also three others, out from Bureau County, Ill., and he has been the means of establishing the Illinois settlement which now numbers some thirty families or more. He now owns 220 acres of land, all under a high state of cultivation. The old Kickapoo Indian trail that had been traveled for years by them before the advent of any white settlers in these parts, used to run through what is now Mr. Belden's door yard, and for some time after his settlement there was used as such by them, and faint traces of it can yet be discovered. Mr. Belden and wife are originally of the New Malden Congregation Church society.

GEORGE T. BEVEN, druggist and stationer, Muscotah. One of Atchison County's pioneers is Mr. Beven, who for a number of years has been one of its prominent agriculturists. His son, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Atchison County, and was born May 17, 1862. Was here educated and reared. For four years he pursued the vocation of clerking in Muscotah, and in 1881 embarked in trade. He is a young man possessed of sterling business qualifications, and has been very successful in trade.

HENRY BEVEN, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Muscotah, came to Kansas in April, 1859, locating at Leavenworth City, where he opened a brick-yard. This he operated one year, then removed to Atchison and ran a brick-yard two years, and at the expiration of that time started farming. He now owns a fine farm of 340 acres, and has it all under cultivation and well improved. He was born in Kent, England, town of Gravesend, May 25, 1825; son of John and Maria Beven, the latter now a resident of Leavenworth, this State. Mr. Beven was a brick-maker in his native country, and in 1855 emigrated to the United States, living in both Ohio and Illinois previous to his location in Kansas. He was married in England in 1849, to Miss Jane M. Gernett. Both are original members of the First Baptist Church at Kennekuk. Their family contains eight children - Henry, Emma M., George, Alfred, Morris, E. J. L., William and Celia.

HON. LEWIS M. BRIGGS, was born at Coldwater, Barry County, Mich., December 6, 1841. At the age of one year his parents moved to Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Mich. He attended school at Albion College, Michigan. At the age of twenty-one he went to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, in the employe of the General Government as a wagon-master, with Indian supplies, from there to Montana Territory, and spent four years, with ups and downs, as a miner. Returned to Michigan after five years. Married Emma, daughter of Zeno Gould. Moved to Muscotah, Atchison County, Kansas, in 1869, and settled in Muscotah and engaged in mercantile business, as Briggs & Watson, and L. M. Briggs. Followed the same for twelve years. He was elected County Commissioner in 1878, for two years; served as Chairman. He was elected to the Legislature for the session of 1878-79 to represent the Sixth District. In 1879, was elected as Senator for four years in the Second District. In politics he is a Republican.

F. J. BROWN, real estate, was born in Kalamazoo County, Mich., April 19, 1842. He was educated at the State Agricultural College, and at Ann Arbor University. After leaving school, engaged in farming until 1865, in which year he moved to Kansas, located in Atchison, and engaged in grocery business. In 1867, he removed to Muscotah and started a mercantile business, putting up the first building and having the first stock in town. Sold out in the following August. In 1872, became connected with the land department of the Central Branch Railroad, as regular agent, a position he retained until he sold out. Since that time he devotes his attention to his private real estate interests. Mr. Brown was married in Muscotah, July, 1870, to Miss Sarah Kridner, of Muscotah. They have two children, Harvey and Samuel. Mr. B. is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 116, A., F. & A. M. He is also one of the City Councilmen.

HARVEY L. BROWN, farmer and gardener, Section 19, Township 5, Atchison County, Muscotah P. O.; was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., October 5, 1833. He is the son of John and Mary Brown nee Robinson. His father of German descent and his mother of old New England extraction. Mr. Harvey L. Brown in early life learned the cooper's trade, and also received a common school education. When he had reached the age of twenty years he went with his father to Marshall County, Ill., where he worked at the cooper's trade up to 1854, when his health failed him and he was obliged to abandon his trade. He returned to New York and spent three years in visiting some of the most popular Water Cures in that State, and succeeded in recovering his health at Danville Water Cure, Livingston County, N. Y., August 26th, he was married to Mrs. Majesta Hubbs. He then engaged in various enterprises and occupations until 1868, when he removed to Kansas and located on the place where he now lives, which contains eighty acres of well improved farm land, eight acres of which are devoted to gardening and small fruit raising. They had one son - Edward W. Brown. His first wife died March 16, 1874; was married again to his present wife, Anna R. Brown, nee Anna R. West, January 21, 1876, who is a native of Sweden, Europe. Mr. Brown is a member of the Congregational Church at Muscotah. Mr. Brown started on his little farm with very limited means, and has passed through all the grasshopper plaques and droughts of Kansas of the last fourteen years. But with careful saving and industry of himself and his family they have a good comfortable home and other necessaries of life to make them seem happy in their old age.

WILLIAM G. BUCKLES, farmer, Section 12, P. O. Muscotah, was born August 10, 1847, in Russell County, Va. He served nearly one year in the Rebellion as a soldier of the Confederate army, and was first in State Militia, and afterwards transferred to regular service in the Thirty-fourth Volunteer Cavalry. At the close of the war he returned to his home in Virginia, and August 3, 1869, was married to Miss Malinda J. Routh. In the spring of the year following, Mr. Buckles emigrated to Kansas, settling in Grasshopper Township, Atchison County, and commenced farming. In 1874 he removed to the farm which he now owns, and two years later purchased it. His family contains two children - Becca Lou and Asa A.

WASHINGTON CAMPBELL, farmer and stock raiser, Section 10, P. O. Muscotah, was born July 24, 1831, in Butler County, Pa. In 1858, he made his first journey to Kansas, and for two years was employed as a carpenter by the Government on the fort at Leavenworth. In 1860, he crossed the plains to Pike's Peak, where he engaged in mining for about six months, and at the expiration of that time, returned to his former home in Pennsylvania. Here he was employed in the oil regions, and had an interest in several oil wells. This he continued until the spring of 1869, when he came to Kansas, locating in Grasshopper Township, Atchison County, where he now owns 160 acres of fine, improved land. Himself and wife are active workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Muscotah, of which they are members. They were married May 9, 1865, in Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Miss Annie E. Graham.

JOSEPH CARPENTER, farmer, Section 7, P. O. Whiting, Jackson County, was born Nov. 25, 1820, in Livingston County, N. Y. Son of William and Betsey Carpenter, nee Banister, who were of old New England stock. The subject of this sketch followed various occupations until March, 1843, when he was married to Miss Urzelia M. Belden, and in the October following, removed to Kenosha County, Wis., and opened a farm. Here he was living at the time of the Rebellion; and in the fall of 1862, Mr. Carpenter enlisted with Company I, of the Thirty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, but after serving seven months, was discharged on account of ill health contracted while in Government service. In 1864, he recovered his health, and re-enlisted with the First Light Artillery, at Chicago, and in this served till the close of the war. Then returned to his home in Wisconsin, and in 1868 removed to Kansas and purchased 148 acres of land, which was a portion of the old Kickapoo Reservation. He now has it all under cultivation, and being excellent land for agricultural pursuits, makes a fine farm. Mr. Carpenter and wife are members of the Mount Pleasant Freewill Baptist Church, of Brown County. They have three sons - Millard F., George W., and Lincoln F.

THOMAS CLARK, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Muscotah, was born April 4, 1826, in Lincolnshire, England. He was raised to the occupation of a farmer, and in August, 1849, he emigrated to the United States. He first stationed himself in Erie County, N. Y., but in 1859 removed to Lake County, Ill., where he made his home until 1876. He then came to Kansas, and purchased a farm in Atchison County, where he still resides, and owns 257 acres of fine, improved farm land. He is also proprietor of ten town lots in the village of Muscotah. His wife was formerly Mary J. Davis of this county, whom he married at Atchison, in 1879.

RICHARD B. CLEAVELAND, farmer and stock raiser, Section 2, P. O. Muscotah, was born December 29, 1830, in Oswego County, N. Y. While but a lad his parents removed to Cook County, Ill., where he farmed until 1861. He then came to Jackson County, Kan., and in the spring following brought out his family. In 1863, he enlisted in Falls City, Neb., in the Second Volunteer Cavalry, and served nine months on the frontier, fighting the Indians. Then returned to his home in Jackson County, but took a part in the Price raid in Kansas, during the year 1864. Mr. Cleaveland purchased a quarter section of land where he now lives, but has since added to it, until he now has 240 acres, all under a high state of cultivation, and excellent improvements on it. Mr. Cleaveland was married at Lockport, Ill., in 1856, to Miss Rodda A. Pervin, of Canada West. They are both united with the Congregational Church of Muscotah, while Mr. Cleaveland is an original member of the same.

BARNABAS COHOON, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Effingham, was born in Surry County, N. C., August 25, 1816. Here he was also married in 1838, to Miss Lucy Reece, and followed the occupation of a farmer in that county until 1844. He then removed to Buchanan County, Mo., where he made his home until 1855, at which time he came to Atchison County, Kan., and pre-empted 160 acres of land, and this, with enough since added to it to make 296 acres, composes his present farm. In 1856, he took his family back to their former home in Missouri, on account of the border troubles, but it was really unnecessary, and they returned in a short time. They have a family of eight children - William R., Jacob A. Susanna, Elizabeth J., Nancy C., Mary C., Sarah F., and Thomas A. Mr. Cohoon and wife are of the Methodist persuasion.

WILLIAM R. COHOON, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Effingham, was born in Ray County, N. C., in 1846, son of Barnabas and Lucy Cohoon, who came to Kansas in the spring of 1855, and were among the very first settlers in Atchison County. They pre-empted the land on which William now lives, and he has remained in this county ever since, with the exception of three years spent in the Rebellion. He enlisted with Company D, of the Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, in the fall of '61. Was wounded while out scouting, and taken prisoner, but after remaining in Rebel hands a short time, was turned loose. Mr. Cohoon was married, in 1868, to Mary Jane, daughter of Levi and Sophia Lockwood, who settled in Atchison County, in 1859. They are the parents of four children - Levi B., Sarah A., Sophia L. and James H. Mr. Cohoon and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

AUGUSTUS CRANE, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Huron. Was born in Sweden near city of Guttenburg, June 22, 1840. His father died when he was but a small boy, his mother emigrated to America in 1848 and settled in Chautauqua County, N. Y. She and one of his brothers and two sisters died with the cholera in 1853. He was then left to his own resources and a stranger in foreign lands. He set to work at various occupations. In 1861, at the breaking out of the Rebellion, he enlisted in Seventy-Second New York Volunteer Infantry, Company B. In 1864 he veteraned in same regiment and served till the close of war and was in all the principal engagements of his regiment. After the war he returned to New York where he remained till he came to Kansas and settled on the place where he now lives, which contains 160 acres of well improved farm. He was married in Atchison County, Kan., to Miss Mary Murter, whose parents settled in Nemaha County, Kan., in 1855, formerly Platte County, Mo. They are the parents of six children, viz: Morgan L., Julia, Charle O., Flarnie M., Lucinda R., and Frank S.

HENRY B. DANA, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Muscotah. Was born in Windsor County, Vt., November 9, 1821. He is the son of Daniel and Percis Dana nee Brown. Henry B. was reared on a farm and received such education as the district schools of the early day afforded. Here he married, March 24, 1845, and from that time until 1852 followed farming in his native State. he then came West to Waukesha County, Wis., where he purchased a farm and made his home. Here his wife died in 1868 and during the year following he was married to his present wife a Mrs. Mary A. Alexander, of Waukesha, Wis. During the fall of 1870, Mr. Dana came to Kansas and purchased 160 acres of wild prairie land which he has now all under cultivation with fine improvements. Both Mr. Dana and his wife are original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Muscotah. The former has been a member of the denomination for twenty-eight years while the latter has been connected with this church forty years. They have one son - Giles P.

OVERTON A. ELLISON, farmer, Section 36, P. O. Muscotah. Was born in Mercer County, W. Va., April 15, 1843. His parents were Larkin T. and Nancy Ellison, the former of Scotch origin, the latter, whose family name was Cummings, was of German descent. They removed from the State in which he was born and came to Missouri in 1853, living near St. Joseph until April, 1853. They then removed to Atchison County, Kan., where his father had previously taken a claim in the fall of 1854. After remaining a little more than one year they removed to Mount Pleasant Township. In 1865 the family all went to Oregon with the exception of the subject of this sketch; and in July, 1861, he removed to his present home where he owns 160 acres of farm land all improved. Mr. Ellison was with the State Militia at the time of the suppression of the famous Price raid during the Rebellion. His wife was Margaret A., daughter of E. B. and Nancy L. Simmons, who settled in Atchison County as early as 1854. Their family consists of five children, viz: Laura J., Nancy E., Amanda May, Martha J., and Leroy O.

ERP & FLOWER, merchants at Kennekuk. This firm was organized in May, 1882, and consists of James A. Erp and Frank Flower. The former came to this State in 1858 and commenced farming near the village of Kennekuk. This he continued up to 1870, when, being afflicted with a cancer on his face he was no longer able to farm. He then engaged with Charles Flower, of the above village, as clerk in his general merchandise store. At the expiration of four years he returned to his farm on which he lived until the firm of Erp & Flower was organized as above. He was born in Pulaski County, Ky., October 15, 1835; he was reared on a farm and in 1854 removed to Missouri, and shortly after to Kansas. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 116, A., F. & A. M. His wife was Miss Martha Claunch, whom he married in his native State. Frank Flower, of the firm, was born in Columbia County, N. Y., January 17, 1858, and at the age of seven years, which was in 1864, removed to Kennekuk with his father and mother and has lived there ever since. His father, Charles flower, deceased, was born in North Adams, Mass., July 8, 1827. He was foreman in a cotton factory in Vermont for a time, where he married Fidelia E. Chase, and in 1864 came from Columbia County, N. Y. to Kansas, and commenced keeping a hotel called the Union House, which was the main station on the old military road. This he managed until the time of his death, which sad event occurred March 28, 1875.

R. D. FISHER, R. R. agent, and agent Pacific Express Company, Muscotah, was born in Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., Pa., November 16, 1835. He received his schooling in his native town. In 1854 he learned telegraphing and pursued this business in a commercial office, also helping his father in a hat and cap store. In 1862 he located in Piedmont, W. Va., as operator for the B. & O. R. R. Shortly afterward entered the employ of the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. as operator, and was located at different points in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 1871 he returned to the B. & O. R. R. and was stationed at Altamont. His last station was Salem, W. Va., from whence he came to Kansas in July, 1880, and was appointed to present position the same month. He was married in Westonport, Md., January, 1863, to Miss Belle L. Carroll, a native of Somerset County, Pa. She died in Salem, Ohio, leaving one child - Anne M. He was married to his present wife in Muscotah, December 26, 1881. She was Miss Arte Hooper, a daughter of William P. Hooper, Mayor of Plattsburg, Mo. Mr. F. is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F.

G. M. FULLER, farmer and stockraiser, P. O. Huron, was born in Columbia County, N. Y., December 22, 1822. He is the son of Amasa and Orilia W. Fuller. He received a good liberal education, taking an academic course at Fulton, Oswego Co., N. Y. In the spring of the year 1857 he came to Kansas with a company of emigrants from Auburn, N. Y., and pre-empted the 160 acres of land on which he still lives, which was then a wild and unbroken country, but is now a fine farm all under a high state of cultivation, as is also all of the county about him. In the spring of 1858 he was chosen a member of a Constitutional Convention which convened at Leavenworth. In the spring of 1864 he went to Fort Leavenworth, leaving the farm to work at carpentering for Government, and going from Fort Leavenworth in June, 1865, under contract to work for the Government at Fort Union, in New Mexico, remaining at Fort Union for nearly three years, then returning to his farm, where he has lived up to the present time. Mr. Fuller was married at Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1855, to Sophia Curtis, who came with him to Kansas, and who died September 9, 1858, leaving one son, Chester H. Fuller, now a resident of Binghamton, N. Y. Mr. Fuller was married again in Jordan, Onondaga Co., N. Y., February 19, 1862 to Harriet Tracy, who is still living with him at his homestead in Atchison County, Kan. 

 RUFUS H. GOODING, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Kennekuk, was born in Fleming County, Ky., February 26, 1824, son of Samuel and Margaret Gooding; his father's people were English, his mother, whose family name was Hinton, was of Scotch origin. He lived at home with his parents until October 15, 1846, when he was married to Miss Margaret McCoy, born in Kentucky, March 16, 1826. During the fall of 1849 they started West for California, but on arriving at Buchanan County, Mo., met a friend who persuaded them to stop at that point. Mr. Gooding accordingly purchased a farm on which he lived until the spring of 1854, when he removed to Kansas and pre-empted a claim of 160 acres, being the farm where he now lives. He was the second settler in Grasshopper Township, and remained on his claim through all the border troubles before and during the Rebellion. His life was often threatened, but nothing of a serious nature ever happened to him. Mr. Gooding and wife were original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South society, and the first sermon was preached at their residence by the Rev. F. M. Williams, services being afterwards conducted at their house for one year. They are the parents of six daughters and one son, viz. - Charlotte, now Mrs. Henry Claunch, of Kennekuk; Nancy H., married to J. W. Perry, of Palmyra, Neb.; Margaret A., who is Mrs. George Billingsley; Sarah J., now Mrs. A. F. Canter, of Jordan Valley, Oregon; Mary J., Elizabeth M. and Frankie D.

JOHN J. HALLIGAN, farmer and stockraiser, Section 28, P. O. Effingham, was born in Mercer County, Ky., May 3, 1827. Went to school and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years old, then learned the carpenter's trade, which he completed in the city of Lexington, and in 1851 removed to Buchanan County, Mo., where he continued his trade up to 1859. During the fall of this year he purchased the farm upon which he now lives, in Atchison County, where he owns 320 acres, of which 100 are under cultivation, and the balance for pasture. Has also three acres of orchard, including choice apple and peach trees. Mr. Halligan was a soldier in the Rebellion, enlisting with the Third Kansas Volunteer Infantry in 1862, but had previously been Third Lieutenant in the State Militia. After serving eight months he was discharged, ill health unfitting him for further service. He was married to his first wife, Miss Melissa D. Rose, of Buchanan County, Mo., in 1853, who died the year following. He married his present wife in the same place in 1857, her maiden name was Mary M. Morris, by whom he has five children - Otto M., Jacova F., John M., Robert J. and Maggie E. Mr. Halligan and wife are original members of East Grasshopper Baptist Church. The former is a charter member of Huron Lodge, No. 72, A., F. & A. M. He has always taken an active part in the advancement of all public enterprises of his town and county, and has served several terms as Justice of the Peace.

WILLIAM M. HAM, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Muscotah, is a native of Fleming County, Ky., born April 13, 1833. His parents were George G., and Ruth F. Ham, the former of Irish, the latter of Dutch descent, her maiden name was Riggs. Mr. Ham was reared on a farm and acquired a district school education. During the spring of 1861, he came to Atchison County, Kas., and settled in Grasshopper Township, where he still resides. Is proprietor of 396 acres of land, all of which is under a high state of cultivation, with eight acres planted in choice fruit trees, and an osage-orange hedge surrounding his farm four and a half miles in length. In 1863 Mr. Ham was elected Trustee of that township, and the same year organized the first company of State Militia, of which he was Captain all through the famous Price raid during the Rebellion. He then resumed farming, and in 1869 was elected Representative of the State Legislature from the Tenth District. This included Grasshopper and Lancaster townships then, but has since been re-districted. Mr. Ham's first wife was Miss Rebecca J. Humphries, to whom he was married in Kentucky in 1855. She died May 10, 1879, leaving nine children - Sallie S., Louisa A., Mary E., Lillie F., Etha A., William H., Isabell H., Stella M. and Halla M. His present wife was Margaret Black, of Hancock County, Ill., whom he married June 28, 1880. Both are active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, while Mr. Ham is President of the County Sunday-school Convention.

FERDINAND HAPWOOD, farmer and stock raiser, Section 11, P. O. Kennekuk, was born July 9, 1819, in Shelby County, Ky., son of Moses and Susan Hapwood, nee Sharpe, his father of Irish, his mother of English lineage. The subject of this sketch worked on a farm and attended the district schools, until seventeen years of age. Then learned the carpenter's trade, completing his apprenticeship in Louisville, Ky. In 1839, he moved with his parents to Indianapolis, Ind., but after three years' residence there, returned to Kentucky, where he was extensively engaged in contracting and building, until 1850. Mr. Hapwood went to Indianapolis again, in that year, and in 1857 was married to Miss Julia McNony, at Greencastle, Ind., who was a native of Illinois. Immediately afterward, the subject of this sketch removed to Leavenworth, Kan., and worked at his trade a part of the time, being in Government employ in the erection of the fort at that city. In 1859, purchased the place upon which he now lives, but in the spring following went to Colorado, working in the mines for three years. Then went back to Indiana, where he stayed till the close of the Rebellion. Then returned with his family to his land in Kansas, where he has since lived, and owns 240 acres, all highly improved. Mr. Hapwood's family consists of six sons - Charles C., Moses E., Andrew J., William C., Ferdinand, and Edgar F.

WILLIAM H. HARDIN, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Huron, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Fayette County, February 18, 1825. When eight years of age, his place of abode was changed to Butler County, Ohio. Here he lived until 1853, when he removed to Buchanan County, Mo., and two years later came to Kansas. His first settlement here was on South Wolf River in Brown County, where he took up a claim, on which he lived up to 1858. Then sold out and went to Colorado, and engaged in mining, but returned to Kansas the same year, and located permanently in Atchison County. Mr. Harden took part in the late war, enlisting in 1862 with Company D, of the Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry. After serving two years and four months, he was discharged on account of poor health contracted while in the service of his country. Then returned to his home in Kansas, where he now has a fine farm of 350 acres, and is also extensively engaged in stock-raising. Mr. Harden's wife is a daughter of Eli Watson, who was one of the pioneers of Kansas. They were married February 7, 1860, in Atchison County, her name Mary C. Both are original members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They are the parents of four sons and a daughter.

JAMES M. HAZLETT, livery and sale stable, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1830, He lived at Mansfield, same State, for a number of years, working at various occupations, and in April, 1870, came to Kansas; located at Muscotah, and embarked in his present business, which he has carried on with decided success, his stock embracing about eighteen head of horses. Mr. Hazlett has served as School Treasurer of Muscotah District for eight years. He married Miss Phoebe J. Egle, of DeKalb County, Ind., in 1868.

JOSEPH C. HEATH, Postmaster and dealer in agricultural implements and hardware, was born in Potter County, Pa., June 19, 1849. In 1864, he enlisted in Company B, of the One Hundred and Fifty-Third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war; came with his parents to Kansas in 1867, and settled in Grasshopper Township. In 1873, they removed to the village of Muscotah, where the subject of this sketch has since run a hardware store. In 1879, Mr. B. became a member of the firm, continuing until 1881, when they dissolved, and Mr. Heath purchased his interest. In 1876, he was appointed Postmaster of that village, which position he filled until 1879, when he resigned; but in 1881 was re-appointed, and has since officiated in that capacity. Mr. H. has served as Town Treasurer from 1876 to 1882. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Muscotah Lodge, No. 116, and has served as Master of the same for five years. His wife was Miss Florence Davis, of Iowa, whom he married in 1874.

HIRAM S. HEATH, father of the above, physician and surgeon, was born in Ontario County, N. Y., February 8, 1816. He graduated from the Geneva Medical College in 1847. He has been in constant practice since twenty-one years of age; commenced to practice medicine in Coudersport, Pa., in 1847; removed to Roanoke, Ind., in 1854, and practiced medicine there until 1867, and at the expiration of that time came to Muscotah. He purchased a section of land, and is now the oldest resident physician in Grasshopper Township. Dr. Heath and his wife are original members of the Congregational Church, and have always been workers in the temperance cause. Mrs. H. was formerly Harriet B. Smith, born in Herkimer County, N. Y. They were married in that State in 1842. Mr. H. is connected with the Masonic Society, and in the spring of 1882, was elected Justice of the Peace at Muscotah.

PHILLIP G. HERSHMAN, farmer, Section 11, P. O. Muscotah, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Fayette County, August 30, 1807. His father died while Phillip was a boy, leaving a widow and eight children in limited circumstances. According to the custom of the times in those early days, Phillip G. was put out with one of the neighbors to be reared, and when eighteen years of age began to learn the wheelwright trade, which he followed a number of years, removing, in the meantime, to Wayne County, Ohio. Here he was married, in 1845, to Miss Sarah Henney, and seven years later went to Ingham County, Mich., where he made farming his occupation. From there went to Henry County, Ill., and this was his home until his removal to Kansas, in 1869. After purchasing 160 acres of land three miles east of Muscotah, he moved on the place where he now lives, moving his family out during the following spring, and has now a fine farm and a comfortable home, one and one-half miles east of Muscotah. Mr. Hershman's family is composed of seven children living - John H., David, Cristina, Sarah A., Amanda, Emma, and Mary E. They lost one son, Peter, who died September 13, 1852, at the age of one year and eleven months. Some of the family are members of the Wesleyan Church Society of Muscotah.

CAPT. THOMAS C. HONNELL, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Huron, was born in Shelby County, Ohio, July 6, 1840. He is the seventh son of William and Ellen Honnell, nee Wilson, the former of German descent, the latter of English extraction, who were among the pioneers of Shelby County, and were also there engaged extensively in farming. The subject of this sketch remained at home, working on a farm up to the age of thirteen years, when his father died, after which he received an academical education, and at the age of seventeen years he was proficient to take charge of a school. He followed teaching successfully till 1861, when he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion with the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company C, in the first three- months' call. After serving his time in that he returned home. In 1862 he re-enlisted in the Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company C; in 1864, this regiment having been consolidated with the Fiftieth Ohio, he previously having been promoted to the position of Captain of Company C, and after the Battle of Atlanta, he was one of the staff of General Cooper till the close of the war. He then returned home and resumed his former occupation of teaching and farming. In 1865 he was married to Miss Sarah Tuley, daughter of C. B. Tuley, now of Lancaster Township, Atchison Co., Kansas. In the spring of 1870 he removed to Atchison County, Kansas, and located on the farm where he now lives, which contains 480 acres, and is one of the best improved farms in the township. He is also extensively engaged in stock raising. He and wife are prominently connected with the Presbyterian Church at Kennekuk. Mr. H. is also a member of the Masonic Order, Huron Lodge, No. 72.

AMOS A. HOWELL, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Huron, came to Kansas in the winter of 1856, and in the spring of the year following pre-empted the claim upon which he now lives. This was situated on the old military road from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearney, and in early times Mr. Howell had considerable trade with the Indians and freighters who traveled on this road, which he found to be very profitable, and continued it a number of years, in addition to improving his land. From 1860 to 1866 he was himself extensively engaged at freighting across the plains to Colorado, running from twelve to twenty teams, as the business demanded. Mr. Howell is considered by all to be one of the most successful farmers in Grasshopper Township, and owns 480 acres of land, most of which is under a high state of cultivation, the remainder in pasture for stock. He has always taken an active part in the various public enterprises of his county, always contributing liberally to the support of charitable and religious institutions. During the Rebellion he was a Lieutenant in the State Militia for the suppression of the famous Price Raid. He was born December 26, 1824, in Fayette County, Penn. His parents were Seth and Elizabeth Howell, the former of Welsh, the latter of German descent, her maiden name Turnbaugh. His grandfather on his father's side was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards settled at Trenton, N. J., and ran the Howell Ferry across the Delaware river, which to-day bears that name. Mr. Howell was married in Pennsylvania in 1844, to Miss Easter A. McBerney. They are the parents of four children - Mary A., now Mrs. Frank Lewis, of Jackson County, this State; Nathaniel E., Charles A. and Sabina R., who is married to Joshua Page, of Atchison County.

DAVID KESSLER, blacksmith and farmer, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., April 22, 1834. His parents were Jacob and Catherine Kessler, nee Hersh. His father was a blacksmith, and David learned his trade with him. He died in 1853 with the cholera, at the time of the great epidemic in Columbia, Pa. The following year Mr. Kessler removed to Buchanan County, Mo., and in the fall of 1856 came to Atchison County, Kansas, and took up a homestead in Kapioma Township; here he lived up to 1860, and then moved to Mount Pleasant Township and opened a blacksmith shop, which he ran there until 1867, at that time removing to Kennekuk. Opened a shop at this place, where he operated successfully until 1875, when he moved onto his farm, which is situated one mile south of the village. During the spring of 1880 he returned to the village and again started at his trade, which he still plies. Mr. Kessler was married in Buchanan County, Mo., in 1855, to Miss Nancy J. Wylie, formerly from Indiana. She is a member of the Baptist Church. They have four boys and three girls.

THOMAS LITTLE, farmer, Muscotah, was born in Scotland, Dumfrieshire, May 14, 1824; emigrated to Canada in 1841, and lived near the city of Guelph, Ontario, where he learned the carpenter's trade. This he followed in Canada until 1871, when he came to Kansas and continued his former employment at Muscotah three years, and since that time has been engaged at farming. He was married in Canada in 1850, to Miss Margaret Turnbull, a native of Roxburgh, Scotland. The following are the names of their seven children; Ellen (now Mrs. John Feisted, of Leavenworth), James, Thomas, Andrew, Euphemia, William and John.

LEVI W. LOCKWOOD, farmer, Section 24, P. O. Muscotah, was born on Green Mountain, Vt., January 8, 1822. He is the son of Henry and Polly Lockwood - his mother's maiden name, Hewly. When fourteen years of age, his parents moved to Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and two years later he was apprenticed in the foundry at Jamestown, same State. Here he remained six years, then went to Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade, and three years later, in company with his brother James, came west to Fulton County, Ill., for the purpose of starting a foundry. He, however, changed his mind, and started farming instead. In 1849, he was married to Miss Sophia Cozad, and at the same time removed to Warren County, purchased a farm and, by judicious management, accumulated considerable of this world's goods. Thinking, however, that all men were as honest as himself, he trusted them in such matters as going security, and the like, and found out too late that he had lost a goof deal of his money. He then removed to DeKalb County, Mo., but was obliged to leave there in 1857, as people suspected he had something to do in helping slaves to escape across the river, and had threatened to hang him. Mr. Lockwood then came to Atchison, and in the spring of the year following moved to the place where he now lives and owns 215 acres of fine farm land, all of which he has made since his removal here. Himself and wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fourteen years. They have five children living, Jane, Sarah, Samuel, Minnie and William.

W. M. McCLAIN, retired merchant and farmer, P. O. Muscotah, was born February 13, 1822, in Port Patrick, Scotland; learned the trade of mason, which he followed in his native land until May 1, 1851, when he emigrated to the United States, and, on his arrival here, had but one shilling in his pocket, when he went to Albany, N. Y., where he was engaged in contracting and building; but this did not prove very successful, and the same year he moved to Illinois and engaged in railroad constructing, on the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1868, Mr. McLain came to Muscotah, Kan., and for a number of years worked at his trade here. He now owns 320 acres of good farm land, and is one of the largest property owners in the town of Muscotah, having always taken an active part in the building up of the town and the improvement of the same. His wife was Miss Rosanna Saul, to whom he was married in Scotland, January 8, 1846.

D. W. McCUAIG, miller, Muscotah, one who became identified with Kansas at an early day, is the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Canada, and was born in Ontario, November 27, 1834; removed to Michigan when comparatively young, where he followed various pursuits until 1856, when he came to Kansas, locating first at Leavenworth for several years. He was engaged in the Santa Fe trade and overland freighting from Nebraska City and other points. Mr. McC. is thoroughly conversant with the Western country, and had many stirring exploits with the Indians in those early days when it may be said a man traveled with his life in his hand. There are but few of the early settlers that were interested in Western enterprise beyond the Missouri River, that are more favorably known than Mr. McC. In 1866, he located in Atchison, and was interested in the Missouri River transfer for four and one-half years. In 1873, engaged in the milling business at Muscotah. He owns a first-class mill and does merchant milling aside from custom work. He is one of the most substantial citizens of Muscotah. In 1868, he was married to Miss Ada P. Howe. By this union they have three children, Jennie, Claude and Birdie. Mr. McC. is a Master Mason, a member of the K. of P. and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

DANIEL W. MOONEY, stock-dealer, is a native of West Virginia, born April 10, 1842, in Marshall County. Here he was employed at farming and stock- raising, with his parents, Daniel and Jane C. Mooney, until 1855, at which time they moved to Ohio and engaged at merchandising, and from there went to Clinton County, Mo., in 1858. Three years later, enlisted with the Federal army in the Forty-fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Company F, serving in the same until 1863. He then united with the regular Confederate army, and in this took a part till the close of the Rebellion, then returned home and farmed there for himself up to the time of his removal to Kansas, which was in the fall of 1875. Located at Muscotah and embarked in the grain business, where he has since lived, with the exception of two years which he spent in Leadville, Col., in the grain trade. Mr. Mooney is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married in September, 1881, at Atchison, Miss Alice T. Sharpe. Mr. Mooney's stock-shipping amounts to about 150 car loads per annum.

BERNARD C. MORITZ, farmer, Section 21, P. O. Huron, was born in State of Mechlenburg, Germany, in 1833. Learned the trade of cabinetmaker, which he followed in his native country till 1850; then emigrated to the United States, and lived in Iowa, near the city of Guttenburg. Afterwards removed to Dubuque, where he worked at the carpenter's trade. From this time till 1861 his time was spent on the Mississippi River as ship carpenter, and in Galveston, Texas. He then came to Kansas and purchased the farm where he now lives, which contains 160 acres. Mr. Moritz is a member of the Turner Society of Atchison, and is one of the School Board of District No. 62. He was married at Leavenworth, this State, in 1863, to Miss Bertha Gerbitz, who was born in Holstein, Germany. They have five children living - Minnie, Eliza, Sophie, Emma and Bertha.

CHARLES C. MUNGER, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 19, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Erie County, N. Y., February 21, 1834. His parents were Samuel and Cornelia, who were of old New England stock, his mother's family name, Clark. His father was engaged extensively in farming and Charles went to school and worked on the farm with him until grown. He then traveled around through various Western States, and finally settled down in Kansas during the fall of 1868. The spring following saw him established on his present place, which then consisted of 160 acres of raw prairie, but with judicious management and industry it has now become a fine thriving farm. Mr. Munger was married in July, 1869, at Effingham, Kan., to Miss Mary E. Walters, daughter of Sidney Walters, who was an early settler of Atchison County.

ELIHU H. OSBORN, wagon repair shop and carpenter, came to Kansas in March, 1859, locating in Easton, Leavenworth Co., where he was employed at contracting and building. This he continued six years, then removed to Kennekuk in March, 1865, and started a wagon shop, this village being on the old military road from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearney. Here he has since made his home, and in 1869 was elected Justice of the Peace of Grasshopper Township, which office he has ever since held, with the exception of the years 1880 and '81. Mr. Osborn has also served as Notary Public for nine years, and has been an efficient member of the School Board of his District. The subject of this sketch was born in Marshall County, Ill., April 1, 1837. Removed with his parents, Samuel and Martha Osborn, to Linn County, Iowa, where he went to school and worked on the farm with his father up to 1855. He then learned his trade, and May 30, 1859, was married to Miss Hannah Johnson, formerly of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Their family consists of three children - John S., Emma J. and Zella R. 

 B. S. PATE, grocer, Muscotah. Among those that came to Kansas at an early age was the Pate family, locating in Atchison County in 1858, a short distance from where Muscotah now stands. His father, Andrew, was closely identified among the agriculturists up to the time of his demise in 1868. The subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee, and was born in Granger County, January 5, 1843; came to Atchison County, Kas., in 1856. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Second Kansas Cavalry, serving three years and two months, and was honorably discharged; returned to Atchison County, and pursued agriculture until 1869; went to Osage County, residing until 1874. Returned to Atchison County on the 14th of November, 1881, embarked in the grocery trade. Mr. P. is eminently popular in Muscotah as well as the county adjacent. He is a live worker in the old school Baptist Church, and for a number of years has been Elder. He was married in 1865 to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Hooper. They have had seven children by this union - Emma L., Wm. J., Mary E., Abraham W., Sarah D. and Robert B. They lost one daughter - Carrie.

SIDNEY PLATT, farmer, Section 17, P. O. Muscotah, was formerly from England, born in Yorkshire, September 9, 1825. His parents were James and Betty Platt, nee Ashworth. His father stood high in the literary circles of England, and a volume of his manuscripts was published in 1865. Sidney Platt was educated by his father and in the private schools of England, after which he clerked in his father's office until twenty-seven years of age. At that time he went to Port Natal, South Africa, for the purpose of opening a cotton plantation. This he did, employing the natives and the coolies imported from the East Indies, but soon found that it was not a profitable undertaking; so he turned his attention to the sugar traffic, exporting it to England. Here he remained till 1865, when he emigrated to America, and lived for three months at Lawrence, Mass.; and at the expiration of that time came to Atchison County, Kas., which would make the date of his settlement here 1868. At that time there were a great many wild animals in these parts, and Mr. Platt was often compelled to place traps around his dwelling to protect his family. In Africa he once caught a spotted leopard, these being uncommon, and at another time killed a snake eighteen feet in length and six inches through. Mr. Platt is a distant relative of the celebrated African explorer Livingstone, and at one time received a letter from him stating his intention of visiting him, but owing to change in the route did not do so. Mr. Platt was married in England July 31, 1848, to Miss Sarah Mills, who was born in Yorkshire. They are the parents of eight children, seven of whom are living - Fannie O., Julia, Jennie A., Lucy, Eva B., Sidney L. and Petrena S. They were all born in South Africa with the exception of the last named whose birth place was Lawrence, Mass.

L. N. PLUMMER, physician and surgeon, was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 30, 1848. The doctor was thrown upon his own resources when fourteen years old, though he managed to obtain an education and then attended medical lectures at Cincinnati, Ohio, teaching school in the winter time and also clerking, to obtain means to pursue his favorite study. In 1868 he went to Kansas, settled in Muscotah and engaged in practice, in which he has since continued, with the exception of two years, during which time he, in company with nine others, located the town of Cedarville, Smith County. The doctor bought a printing press and issued a paper there for a time, but finally disposed of his interest and returned to Muscotah and resumed his practice. Dr. P. was married in Hocking County, Ohio, November 3, 1867, to Miss Thee Karshuer of that county.

LEVEN V. PLUMMER, deceased, Section 24, was born in Fleming County, Ky., October 26, 1818. Here he was married, August 2, 1848, to Matilda Norman, and in 1854 they removed to Platte County, Missouri. Two years later they came to Atchison County, Kas., and settled on the farm where Mrs. Plummer now lives, and were among the first settlers on what is known as Brush Creek, in Grasshopper Township. Here the subject of this sketch lived until the time of his death, which occurred February 7, 1868. He was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his wife, and both have been members of that organization since 1860. Mrs. Plummer has a farm of eighty acres, and a good comfortable home, and by careful management and industry has reared her family of nine children and given them each a liberal education. During the fall of 1877 their house was destroyed by fire, which has since been rebuilt. The names of the children are as follows - Mary E., Dentsey A., Charles O., Thomas O., Benjamin F., Leonamus, Commodore, Harriet A., and Lumculus N.

JACOB REECE, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Effingham, was born in North Carolina, Ashe County, October 18, 1825. Is the son of Joel and Fannie Reece, nee Shearer; the former of German descent, the latter of Scotch origin. They removed to Buchanan County, Mo., in 1844, when they engaged at farming and stock raising. Jacob remained at home working on the farm and going to school till 1846, then volunteered in Government service as teamster in the Mexican war, during the latter part of which he was in active service under Col. Doniphan, during which time he never stood back in doing his duty as a soldier obeying the command of his officer or serving his country, after the close of which he returned to his home and resumed his former occupation as stock raiser. He being anxious to develop his business it became necessary for him to emigrate to some country where he could find extensive ranges for grazing, so in September, 1854, he removed to Atchison County, Kas., and settled on the place where he now lives, and was one of the very first settlers in that part of the county. Here he has successfully operated since, and he is now proprietor of 260 acres of good farm, and well stocked, and is also proprietor of forty town lots in the village of Arrington which is noted for its mineral springs, of which Mr. R. was the discoverer of the superior medicinal qualities of the water, although he has been rather reserved in some of the political contests of his county he has stood with undoubted integrity, always giving his money and influence in all public enterprises. He was initiated into the Masonic Order at Atchison in 1863, and was afterwards a charter member of Huron Lodge No. 72, of his own town. He was married in Buchanan County, Mo., in 1848, to Miss Elizabeth A. Allie. They are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and are the parents of seven children, viz. - William N., Martisha E., the first white child born in Grasshopper Township; Samuel M., John B., Nora R., Annie E. and Wilson A.

WILLIAM REECE, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Effingham, was born in Ashe County, N. C., May 15, 1832. His parents were Joel and Fannie Reece, the former of Dutch descent, the latter of Scotch, her maiden name was Shearer. They removed to Buchanan County, Mo., in 1844, and engaged in farming, being among the early settlers in that section of country. Mr. Reece was married October 30, 1852, to Miss Huldah Allie, who was born in Owen County, Ind., December 8, 1833. During the winter of 1854 he came to Atchison County, Kas., and bought the claim on which he now lives, and in the spring following moved out his family, which now consists of eight children - Riley A., Leanna J., Olive, Permelia A., Melvin D., Eva and Ella, who are twins, and Lone H. Mr. R. owns 192 acres of excellent farm land, a good portion of which is under cultivation. He served ten months as a teamster in the Mexican war. Mr. R. and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

REV. THOMAS RIBBENS, Muscotah. This popular gentleman is a native of England, and was born in Kent, February 10, 1820. Was there raised and educated. He early in life turned his attention to preparing for the ministry; was duly ordained in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Came to the United States locating in Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1851, residing two years; came to Ohio, thence to Indiana, and in 1866 came to Kansas locating in Atchison County. He organized the Wesleyan Methodist Church at old Muscotah, and has been an active worker in the Christian religion in the Kansas and Nebraska circuit since that date. For a time he was a resident of Butler County, where he had charge of a church. Rev. Ribbens also attends to outside affairs from his church duties, and in Muscotah has manufactured bricks to considerable extent. He is a very popular gentleman, commanding the respect of all. He was married in England, September 5, 1840, to Miss Mary Russell, an estimable lady who, although well advanced in years, is hale and hearty.

SAMUEL M. RIGGS, physician and surgeon, was born in Grayson County, Ky., June 20, 1853. He took a course of study at Buffalo Medical College, New York, during the years 1872 and '73, and in 1874 was a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College. The subject of this sketch first came to Muscotah in 1873, and practiced his profession here between his lectures, going back again to college. One year after graduating he returned to Muscotah, and since continued to practice here, and is now one of the leading physicians of the place. Dr. Riggs is a member of the Masonic Order, and is also identified with the Eclectic Medical Association of Kansas. He married October 29, 1874, at Larkins, this state, Miss Gertrude E., a daughter of Henry and Jane L. Pridey, who settled in Leavenworth County in 1857. Their family contains three children, two sons and a daughter.

FREDERICK ROACH, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Muscotah, was born in Estill County, Ky., April 5, 1831. In 1844 he removed to Missouri, and was a resident of Platte County for fourteen years. Here he was married to Miss Sarah A. Lorlar, and in February, 1858, came to Kansas and located on Section 35, Grasshopper Township, Atchison County, where he farmed successfully until 1872. He then removed to the village of Muscotah, where for five years he was engaged in merchandising, and at the end of that time commenced keeping hotel. This has been his occupation since, and he also runs a farm in addition to this. Mr. Roach served a number of years as Trustee of Grasshopper Township, and in 1870 and '72 served as County Commissioner.

REV. THOMAS S. ROBERTS, Pastor of the Congregational Church, was born in January, 1848, in Steuben County, N. Y. Received the foundation of his literary education at the Franklin Academy in the same State; and later, entered the Theological College of Hillsdale, Mich., where he graduated in 1876. His first labors for the Church commenced at Fond Du Lac, Wis., where he took charge of the Free-will Baptist Church and there remained until March, 1878. At that time he came to Kansas and has since had charge of the Congregational Church at Muscotah. His wife was formerly Miss Nellie Allison of this place whom he married in March, 1880. They have two daughters - Beulah S. and Bertha V.

WILLIAM H. SEEVER, farmer, Section 22, P. O. Muscotah. Was born March 28, 1826, in Fleming County, Ky. He learned the carpenter's trade in his younger days, and followed various occupations until 1852, when he removed to Buchanan County, Mo., where he was employed at contracting and building bridges, and at general carpenter's work. He came to Atchison County, Kan., in 1862, locating on his present farm. He owns 120 acres of good farm land, and has been a licensed local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church ever since his residence in Kansas. Mr. Seever is extensively engaged in raising sorghum, and has a complete set of machinery for the manufacture of the same with a capacity of 140 gallons of molasses per day. He has been a strong temperance man ever since he was twenty-one years of age, and has always worked for the best advancement of the same. He was married in Kentucky to Miss Nancy Hurst, by whom he has seven children living - John W., Samuel D., Charles W., George W., Clay M., Squire M., Mary E.

ABNER D. SIMMONS, farmer, Section 30, P. O. Muscotah. Was formerly from Sullivan County, Ind., born June 4, 1827. He is the son of Johnson and Margaret Simmons, his father of English descent, and his mother, whose maiden name was Alumbaugh, was of German lineage but American born. His parents removed to Buchanan County, Mo., in 1832, and were among the early settlers in that region. They both died there in 1850, and four years later Mr. Simmons removed to Atchison County, Kan., and pre-empted the land where he now lives, and was one of the very first settlers in the county, and the third settler in Grasshopper Township. During the border troubles of 1856 he removed his family back to his former home in Missouri; but for all the disturbance there was they might as well have remained in Kansas. Mr. Simmons has always been identified with all public enterprises of his town and county. Mr. Simmons and wife are workers in the cause of Christianity, and were original members of the Old School Baptist Church of this town. Mrs. S. was formerly Miss Nancy L. Cook, a native of North Carolina. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Margaret A., John W., Sarah C., Kansas A., one of the very first white children born in Grasshopper Township: Mary I., Laura B., James W. and Cora M.

REV. J. SMITH, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Muscotah; was born in Athens, Ohio, March 11, 1845. He was educated at the Ohio University, graduating in the class of 1866. He then went to Missouri and engaged in insurance business, returning to Ohio in the fall of 1867, to take charge of the Hocking Seminary. In 1868 he established the Logan Journal, at Logan, Hocking County. Sold out his interests in the fall of 1869. In 1871 became connected with the Grand Island Mission, in Nebraska Conference; remained until 1880. In that year took a charge for a time in Rawlins County, Kas., then returned to Nebraska. In the spring of 1881 removed to Monrovia, remaining until March, 1882, when he took his present charge. Mr. Smith was married in Grand Island, Neb., December 6, 1874, to Miss Treffren, a native of New Hampshire. They have one child living - Lulu.

C. A. SPARKS, farmer and school teacher, Grasshopper Township, six miles northwest of Effingham, was born near Platte City, Mo., in 1850. In 1855, his parents moved to Atchison County, Kansas. In 1873, taught school in Jefferson County. In 1874-75 attended the State Normal School at Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1876, taught school in Buchanan County, Mo. In 1877, bought a farm of 120 acres in Grasshopper Township; has sixty-five acres under cultivation, fifteen acres of timber and orchard; has good buildings and farm enclosed with wire fence. Was married in 1876, in Grasshopper Township, to Miss Adelia Simmons, daughter of A. D. Simmons. They have one child. He has taught school in his district for the past four years.

JOSEPH SPEER, farmer and coal dealer, Section 35, P. O. Muscotah; was originally from Lawrence County, Ind. Received a common school education, and worked at farming until March, 1860, when he emigrated to Kansas and purchased a quarter section of land, where he now lives. This was all wild prairie land then, but is now changed to a fine improved farm. There are also extensive coal beds on Mr. Speer's land, the depth varying from ten to sixty-five feet. The thickness of the layers is eighteen to twenty inches, and he has men at work at them, and they promise to develop handsomely. Mr. Speer was one of the State Militia who suppressed the famous Price Raid during the Rebellion. He was married in Indiana, March, 1859, to Miss Mary Fountain, by whom he has nine children, all of whom are living.

JOHN B. TERRY, farmer, Section 32, P. O. Muscotah, is a Pennsylvanian, born April 17, 1815, in White County. He is the son of Joseph and Sarah A. Terry, his father of English descent, the latter, whose family name was Harris, born in East Tennessee. Mr. Terry lived on a farm with his parents, and attended school until the fall of 1833, when he moved to Green County, Mo., with a colony of people, among whom were a number of his relatives. They were the first settlers in that county, and here he made his home until 1838, when he removed to the northwestern part of the State, in what is now known as Platte County. Here he opened up a farm and lived until August, 1854, when he came with his wife and four children to Kansas, and took up a claim two and a half miles south of the present city of Atchison, and was one of the very first settlers in the county. Here he lived through all the border troubles, and neither himself or family received any personal injuries, although there were plenty of threats from the border ruffians, and they occasionally lost a horse and other stock. Mr. Terry was married in Platte County, Mo., in 1842, to Miss Sarah A. Mason, a native of Kentucky. Their family contains eleven children, viz: William H., Joseph E., James M., John B., Thomas (one of the first white children born in Atchison County), Jesse, Samuel L., Walter B., Martha (now Mrs. Rice McCubbin), Susan M. and Lizzie, (now Mrs. Robert McCubbin.)

GEORGE TETIRICK, farmer at Kennekuk, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, April 7, 1820. He received a common school education and followed farming in early life, up to the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion. Enlisted in Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with that until 1864, and was then transferred to the First Indiana Heavy Artillery, which he served efficiently until the close if the war, when he returned to Jay County, Indiana, and resumed his former occupation until April, 1870. He then moved to Atchison County, Kansas, and located at the above place, where he has continued to reside since, except four years he lived in Brown County, Kansas. He was married August 18, 1843, in Ohio, to Miss Margaret Wiley, also a native of Ohio. They have five daughters, viz: Mary L., Roda J., Salinda M., Delia E. and Martha. They are members of the First Baptist Church at Kennekuk.

S. R. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O. Huron. Born in 1845 in Saline County, Missouri, he grew up in the county, and well remembers his five-mile walk to and from school. He came in 1858 to Kansas with his widowed mother and his stepfather, S. Dille, and has since that time been a resident of Atchison County. During the rebellion he served eighteen months in the Second Kansas Cavalry, and was engaged at Prairie Grove, Cane Hill and Roseville, Ark. In 1872 he bought his present farm, eighty acres, costing him $1,200. On this he built a fair frame house and planted one hundred trees, the farm now renting for $200 per annum. Mr. Thompson is descended from an old Missouri family, though his parents were both from out of the State, yet they were very early settlers in Saline County. There are two sisters of S. B. Thompson - Adeline S. Meeker, of Brown County, and Eliza J. Dickinson, of Atchison County.

STEPHEN G. TOLLE, farmer and stock raiser, Section 19, P. O. Muscotah, was born December 28, 1829, in Fauquier County, Va. His parents removed to Mason County, Ky., while he was only a small child, and here he was reared on a farm, attending school until 1855. He then came to Missouri, and between that time and 1870, made several trips to Kansas in surveying parties, and during the war was enrolled in the State Militia of Missouri and served till the close of the Rebellion. Mr. Tolle came to Kansas in 1870, and settled on his present farm, where he owns 110 acres of good farm land. He is Treasurer of School District 23, and himself and wife are members of the Bethel Baptist Church. Mrs. Tolle was formerly Miss Mary Martin to whom he was married in Buchanan County, Mo., in 1858. Their family consists of three children - Edward L., Lucy M. and Katie.

JOSHUA K. TRUEBLOOD, farmer and stock raiser, Section 6, P. O. Whiting, Jackson County, is a native of Parke County, Ind., born January 14, 1841. He is the son of Elias and Elizabeth Trueblood, the former of English, and the latter, whose maiden name was Kelly, of Irish descent. The early life of Joshua K. was spent on a farm with his parents who gave him a liberal education. He was an undergraduate from Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., in 1869. In October of the same year he came to Atchison County, Kan., and purchased some land. This was originally a portion of the Kickapoo Reservation, and Mr. Trueblood taught the first Indian school on the diminished reserve of this tribe, during the winter of 1869-'70. In April, 1870, he returned to Indiana, and was married to Miss Matilda Morris, with whom he soon came back to Kansas, and in the fall of the following year they went to the Indian Territory, where Mr. Trueblood was Principal of the Indian school of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, which he managed successfully one year. Then returned to his land in Kansas, where he has since lived. He has a fine farm, well stocked with cattle, hogs, and other stock. Mr. T. and wife were among the first members of the New Malden Congregational Church, and are earnest and faithful workers in that society. The former was Superintendent of the County Sabbath School Association for three years, and had previously been Vice-President of the Township Association of the same body.

ROBERT A. WALLACE, Principal of the Muscotah Graded School, and farmer, Section 1, is a native of Licking County, Ohio, born in 1833. After acquiring a common school education, he attended the Academy at West Alexander, Pa., where he graduated in 1856. He made teaching his vocation during his residence in the East, and in 1868 came to Kansas; located near Farmington, Atchison County, where he was engaged in farming and teaching. In 1877, Mr. Wallace removed to the farm where he now lives, and is extensively engaged in stock raising and shipping. At the beginning of the spring term, he took charge of the Muscotah Graded School, which has an average attendance of 150 pupils, and one assistant lady teacher. Mr. Wallace was married in Washington County, Iowa, in 1860, to Miss Maggie Larrimer, a teacher in the high schools of that county. Their family comprises four boys and two girls - Lena M., Arthur F., Harry L., Bertie O., Stella J., and Orio F. C. The subject of this sketch served three years as a soldier of the Rebellion, first in the Ninetieth Regiment, and afterward in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth.

MARTIN J. WALSH, lumber merchant, was born in Ireland, County Kilkenney, November 17, 1835. Emigrated to the United States with his parents Michael and Nancy Walsh, locating in Marquette County, Wis., and engaged in agricultural pursuits, being one of the early settlers. The subject of this sketch received but a limited education, and in 1858, removed to Stephenson County, Ill., but after living there a short time, came to Kansas, locating at Leavenworth, where he was in the employ of the Government. During the spring of '59, he crossed the plains to Colorado, making several trips, the last being in 1862. In the fall of '63, Mr. Walsh went to Montana, where he mined in company with a Mr. Campbell, and afterward, returning to Kansas, they purchased a lot of stock, which they worked in partnership till 1867. Mr. Walsh then purchased 785 acres of land in Brown County, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. In the spring of '81, he started in the lumber business at Muscotah and takes an active interest in the public enterprise of his town. In 1859, he married Miss Mary Louisa, daughter of George and Margaret Tedrick, who settled in Atchison County in 1869.

WARREN H. WARING, proprietor of Kennekuk House, came to Kansas in January, 1878, and started at farming in Muscotah. During the spring of 1881, he removed to Kennekuk, and purchased the place where he now lives. Mr. Waring was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., February 27, 1830, on the farm where his great grandfather, grandfather and father had lived and died, and which Warren H. Waring sold to the city of Saratoga for a cemetery. His great grandfather and grandfather were participants in the war of 1776. Mr. Waring was married at Fort Miller, on the Hudson, to Miss Sarah E. Deyoe, whose parents lived in Rensselaer County. He and his wife were members of the First Baptist Church of Saratoga for twenty years, and since their residence in Kansas have united with the same denomination at Kennekuk. They have one son and one daughter living - Joseph and Lucy L.

CONRAD WEAVER, farmer, Section 1, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Germany, December 3, 1844. Emigrated to the United States with his parents when only ten years of age, who settled in Henry County, Ill., where he lived until 1865. He then enlisted in Company I, of the One Hundred and Fifty-First Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving one year in the army, and at the expiration of that time, settled at his home in Illinois. He came to Kansas in 1870, locating on the place where he now lives, but subsequently removed to Lancaster Township, where he lived until the spring of 1879, and then returned to the former place. He owns 225 acres of land, of which 160 are under cultivation, and the remainder used for pasture. Mr. Weaver is a member of the Army of the Cumberland. His wife was Miss Sarah Hershman, daughter of Philip Hershman, of Muscotah, to whom he was married in Illinois in 1870.

GEORGE W. WHITE, attorney at law, land and insurance agent, notary public, represents the Home of New York, Aetna of Hartford, Conn., Phoenix of Hartford, Conn., Phoenix of Brooklyn, N. Y., Sun of London, England, American Central, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. White was born in Richmond, Chittenden Co., Vt., January 22, 1816; moved with his parents to Waterbury, Vt., at the age of two years; received his school education in the common school of the town; December, 1835, embarked as a soldier to the then Territory of Florida, to put down the Seminoles; remained there two years and four months, and on the tenth day of May, 1838, left Florida for the Cherokee Nation, North Carolina, under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott. In August, 1838, went with the regiment to Charleston, S. C., thence to New York, thence to Plattsburg, N. Y., thence to Troy, Vt., where, on the fourth day of December, 1838, was honorably discharged from the service of the United States. Immediately returned home to Waterbury; went to Waitsfield, Vt., in 1839; commenced the study of law with B. F. Adams; was admitted to the Bar in 1841; in 1842, May 5, was married to Miss Lois L. Foster, of Jericho, Vt. In 1847, moved to Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming for a time. Moved to Waushara County, in 1853. Was admitted to the Bar and followed his profession till 1873, when he moved to Kansas. His wife died in Atchison, Kan., September 10, 1873, leaving two children, Julius R. and Ellen M. March, 1874, moved to Muscotah, Kan., and in December, 1874, was admitted to the bar and established his present business. Mr. W. is Police Judge of the city of Muscotah, Kan.

ISAAC B. WILCOX, farmer, was born in Delavan County, N. Y., Town of Harpersfield, April 11, 1834. He is the son of Alonzo B. and Hannah Wilcox, the former of English descent and the latter, whose maiden name was Swift, of Holland Dutch. They were engaged in farming in that State, and Isaac B. spent some of his time on the farm with them, and the rest was devoted to acquiring an education. He graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1854, and later took a course to fit himself for civil engineering. He then taught school until 1856, when he came West to Minnesota, where he followed surveying until 1860. At that time he removed to Missouri and was Chief Engineer in the survey of the Parkville and Grand River, R. R. Removed to Leavenworth, Kan., in 1863, and for some time was employed in the survey of the Kansas Pacific R. R., from that place to Lawrence under the supervision of John C. Fremont and Samuel Hallett. After this he took charge of twenty-eight miles of the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., and later took contracts from the Government for the survey of lands in the western portion of the State of Kansas. Since 1867 he has made his home at Muscotah, and in the meantime has made large investments in real estate. He now owns land in Grasshopper and Kapioma Townships, all of which is under improvement. Mr. Wilcox's wife was formerly Miss Nannie J. Mooney, of West Virginia, whom he married at Plattsburgh, Mo., in 1865. He is a member of Muscotah Lodge, No. 164, of the A., F. & A. M.

ISAAC H. WILLARD, blacksmith, was born in Worcester County, Mass., October 18, 1850. Came with his parents to Kansas in 1865, living in Nemaha County on a farm. The subject of this sketch learned the blacksmith trade and afterwards worked at it in various places until 1877, when he removed to Muscotah and opened a shop for himself, and has met with decided success. He is a thorough mechanic and one who certainly understands his business. Mr. W. was married at Muscotah to Miss Bridget Mathews, of that place. 

 ALEXANDER ACHESON, farmer, P. O. Larkin. Was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1836, and was raised a farmer but learned the blacksmith trade which he followed until his removal to Kansas in 1869, when he located on Section 17, Township 7, Range 18, and has 160 acres, 120 under cultivation. He was married in 1859, in Carroll County, Ohio, to Miss Mary E. McAllister, and has four children, viz: William, Anna M., Edward D. and Joseph H. He has been Treasurer of School District No. 54 for several years.

J. M. ARTMAN, proprietor of hotel and livery stable, Larkin, was born in Boone County, Mo., in 1832, and was brought up a farmer. In 1857 he came to Kansas and located in Jackson County, but raising no crop he returned to Missouri. In the fall and in the spring of 1858 he went to Johnson County, Kan., and engaged in farming. In 1859 he again located in Jackson County where he lived until 1867, when he removed to his present location. He has been a successful farmer. He now owns 140 acres near Larkin, and 160 acres near Tippinville, in Jackson County, - all well improved land. In 1880 he opened a hotel and livery stable in Larkin. He was married in 1854 to Miss Lucinda J. Hubbard, of Platte County, Mo., a daughter of Stephen Hubbard, one of the pioneers of that county. They have nine children - Elizabeth, Stephen, Nancy, Mary, James, Janie, Adeline, Katie, and Albert. Mr. Artman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

G. W. BOWSER, farmer, P. O. Larkin, was born in Tennessee near the Virginia line, in 1834, and at the age of sixteen was engaged in teaming to Knoxville and King's Salt Works, which business he followed until 1855, when he came to Kansas with his parents and settled on Section 8, Town 7, Range 17. In 1859, his father dying, the care of the family devolved on him, and considerable credit is due to him for the faithful manner in which he has discharged his assumed duty. His mother lived to the age of seventy-four years, and was his especial care in her declining years. In 1864, he was a member of the Kansas Militia, and was called out to repel Price, when on his raid through this State. At Westport, during an engagement with Price's forces, his horse was stunned by a bullet and fell on him, but he escaped without any injury; his horse died in a few days. In 1872, he was married to Miss Margaret Roberson, a daughter of James Roberson, one of the pioneers of this township. They have had four children, but two of whom are living - John and Olia. Mr. Bowser is a very successful farmer and stockraiser. He owns 597 acres of land, 250 under cultivation, making one of the finest farms in Kapioma Township.

M. HARVEY, P. O. Valley Falls, was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1820, and was brought up on a farm, and in 1867, came to Kansas, settling on his present location, where he has 160 acres of land all under cultivation with good buildings and other improvements. Was married in 1840 to Miss Betsey A. Van Etten, of Onondaga, N. Y.; they have no children.

DAVID HENEKS, proprietor of Arrington Merchant Mills, was born in Montgomery County, Pa., in 1834, and was raised on a farm where he worked a portion of the time at the blacksmith trade. In 1855, he moved to Cedar County, Iowa, and engaged in farming, and in 1861, moved to Kansas and settled near Wetmore, Nehama County, and engaged in farming. In 1863, he went to Montana and engaged in mining until 1865, when he returned to Kansas; during the winter of 1865-66, he spent at Leavenworth, working at the wagon trade. In 1866, he worked at the wagonmaker's and carpenter's trade in Nehama County, and followed until 1871, when he engaged in farming until 1880, when he bought the Arrington Mill property, embracing besides the mill and dwelling some eighty acres of land, lying on both sides of the Delaware River. The mill is of the old style water mill, and through the present proprietor, has established a reputation second to none. In 1881 a mineral spring was discovered near the mill dam, and has added largely to the prosperity of the place. Mr. Heneks laid out the larger part of his property in town lots and has leased the spring and grove to a party of capitalists. Lately he has discovered two more mineral springs, one of them showing the best analysis of any in America. He was married in 1857 to Miss Mary Keyser, in Montgomery County, Pa. They have three children - Noah B., John and Eldora. Mr. Heneks is at present Treasurer of School District No. 30.

W. R. LATTIMORE, farmer, two and one-half miles south of Muscotah, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Ottawa County, Ohio, in 1840, and was reared on a farm. In 1862, enlisted in Company G., One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Infantry. Was mustered in at Toledo, Ohio, in August, and was in the army of the Cumberland, engaged in over thirty-two battles and skirmishes. Was mustered out as Orderly Sergeant at Salisbury, N. C., in July, 1865, and discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, in the same month. He was married January 1, 1866 at Port Clinton, Ohio, to Miss Sarah L. Harris. They have four children - Willie S., Burton, Asa E. and Albia M.

DANIEL RICE, farmer, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Indiana County, Pa., in 1821, and brought up on a farm. At eighteen years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in his native place until 1854, when he went to Stephenson County, Ill., and farmed and worked at his trade until 1870, when he came to this State and settled on south quarter of Section 22, Town 6, Range 17, in Kapioma Township, and now has a well-improved farm with good buildings. He has in the meantime followed his trade. In 1843, he was married to Miss Lucy Earhart, of Indiana County, Pa.; they have nine children - David E., Nettie C., Milton A., M. L., Edwin C., Laura C., Leonora C., Homer M. and Emma R. He has been Treasurer of his School District for eleven years, and takes an active part in all matters pertaining to the public schools. He is a member of Lena Lodge, No. 42, A., F. & A. M., of Lena, Ill.

HENRY SCHIFFBAUER, farmer, stockraiser and fruit grower. P. O. Arrington, Atchison Co., Kas., was born in the city of Cologne on the Rhine, Prussia, January 27, 1841. In 1851, his parents emigrated to America, and settled in Kentucky. In 1855, his parent's moved to Kansas, but while on their way here the cholera broke out and they stopped at Hermann, Mo., where the mother died. In 1856, young Henry came to Kansas and settled at Leavenworth, where his father was engaged in the confectionery business. He found employment with a Dr. Davis. In 1857, he entered the employ of the Government Quartermaster Department as teamster, and was in the United States service in various capacities until 1866. In 1857, was with the Cheyenne expedition. In 1858, went across the plains to Fort Bridger, and from that point was detailed to accompany Kit Carson, the famous scout, to Albuquerque, N. M., with important dispatches, and on his return went to Salt Lake City, where he remained until 1859, when he returned to Fort Leavenworth and was promoted to wagon master. In 1861, went to New Orleans and back, when he went to Fort Gibson, I. T. as wagon master, where he remained eighteen months, when his train was sent to Fort Smith, Ark. At this point he acted as scout for eight months, and while out on a scouting expedition and at a point near Rays Mills, was wounded on his right hip. On his recovery he took charge of his train and made several trips to Leavenworth and Fort Scott, and after the closing of the war was honorably discharged. In 1866, he came to Kapioma Township, Atchison County, and bought 160 acres of land on Section 9, Township 7, Range 17, and has since successfully followed farming. He now owns 320 acres of land, 160 under cultivation, the balance in meadow and pasture. He has large stock interests, and is also a large fruit grower, has four acres in grapes. He was married in 1867, to Miss Margaret Glemm, daughter of John Glemm, of Kapioma Township. They have seven children - Christina E., Charles E., Sarah A., William J., Mary G., Henry F. and Robert I. He has been School Director a number of terms.

HON. RANSOM A. VAN WINKLE, P. O. Arrington, the first settler in Kapioma Township and the founder of the town of Arrington, was born November 25, 1818, in Wayne County, Ky. His father, Micajah Van Winkle, was a first-class Kentucky farmer. He was for over thirty years a Justice of the Peace, and at one time Sheriff of his county. He died in Iowa, aged seventy-seven years, universally respected. His ancestors were from Holland and settled in New York in 1642. His great grandfather, Michael Van Winkle, owned a one-third interest in 13,000 acres of land within twelve miles of New York city, but sold it in 1774, just before the Revolutionary war, at twenty-five cents per acre (it was poor sandy land then - a wilderness of pine and sand), entered the American war, and was in the battles of King's Mountain and other engagements. His paternal great grandmother was a sister of Gen. Carter, of Revolutionary fame, who afterwards settled in east Tennessee, where a large number of his descendants still reside, and where a county has been named in his honor. His grandfather's wife was a French Huguenot, his mother was Mary Phillips Van Winkle, of Welsh extraction, and was born in Culpepper County, Va. Ransom A. Van Winkle received the rudiments of an English education in a Kentucky log schoolhouse, but was for two years a cadet at West Point, and received a good education. On leaving school, he went to Illinois, and engaged for a short time in the mercantile pursuits. He was married May 4, 1843, to Miss Luia J. Cloud, daughter of Rev. Newton Cloud, a distinguished citizen of that State, a Democrat in politics, and Treasurer of the Canal Board. His wife lived but three months. He returned to his native State and followed general merchandising. He was again married November 10, 1847, to Miss Mary S. Cravens, daughter of Dr. Cravens, of a distinguished Kentucky family, a lady of education and accomplishments. He has had a varied experience in business. He at one time owned an interest in coal lands in Kentucky, which he has since sold for more than $2,000,000. He lost over $6,000 by a flood at Rowena, on the Cumberland River. He finally removed to St. Joseph, Mo.,, in 1849, and did a lucrative business in farming, for six years. In February, 1855, he removed to Kansas, and build the first claim cabin on the Grasshopper, now Delaware River, above Valley Falls, in Kapioma Township. He also built the first steam sawmill and sawed the first lumber, and built the first farm house, and taught the first school, in Kapioma Township, and was the first Postmaster at Arrington. In 1857, he purchased the claim and removed to where he now resides, on Arrington Heights, and is one of the prosperous and substantial farmers of this township. Mr. Van Winkle has taken an active part in the politics of the county. He was originally a Kentucky Abolitionist, both he and his father voting for Cassius M. Clay, for Governor. He acted with the Whig party until the organization of the Republican party, when his name headed the list for the organization of that party in Atchison County. He was a prominent Free-state man, in the early struggle in Kansas, and contributed liberally to the cause, and worked hard in its behalf. He has held a number of local offices, having been a Justice of the Peace for fourteen years, Postmaster five years, Town Trustee of Kapioma Township for eight years, a member of the Legislature in 1861 and 1862, and for six years County Commissioner of Atchison County. He was made a Master Mason in Monticello Lodge, No. 103, in Wayne County, Ky., and is a member of the Muscotah Lodge, No. 163, of Muscotah, Kan. By his second marriage he has had three children, all of whom died in infancy. He has taken a boy named Charles P. Castetline, from the Poor Farm, whom he will rear and educate. For some time he took care of his grand nieces, Misses Lillie and Mary S. Ramfield. He laid out nearly twenty acres into town lots, for his addition in the new town of Arrington.

C. A. WOODWORTH, Sr., farmer, P. O. Muscotah, is one of the pioneers of Atchison County, first settling in Walnut Township, five miles south of Atchison, in 1856, and in 1859 moved to the divide, in Mt. Pleasant Township, and in 1865 to his present location, thus having improved three farms in this county. He took an active part in politics in Territorial days, and was a member of nearly all the Free-state conventions held at that time, and in 1858, went to Washington, D. C. in the interests of that party. He was born in Seneca County, N. Y., in 1811, and was brought up a farmer, and ran a large wheat and stock farm, until 1851, when he went to Virginia, and bought a plantation of 1,000 acres. In 1855, he sold his plantation and came to this State. He was married in 1836, to Miss Ellen Gordon, of Orange County, N. Y., and has four children, viz: C. A., jr., Gilbert M., B. F. and David Gordon.

HON. C. A. WOODWORTH, JR., farmer, P. O. Muscotah, was born in Luzerne County, Pa., in 1838, and received a common school education. In 1851, his parents moved to Virginia, and in 1857, he came to this State. In 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fourth Kansas Infantry, and in the fall of the same year was made Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment, and in the summer of 1862 was commissioned as First Lieutenant of his company, and in the fall of 1862 was offered and accepted a Major's commission in the Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, and commanded that regiment until the close of the war, and was mustered out at Leavenworth, in July, 1865, when he engaged in freighting across the plains. In 1866, went to Chicago, where he took a course in and graduated from Eastman's Business College. In 1867, he went to Atchison, Kan., and engaged in livery business, in 1868, he engaged in farming, and has followed that pursuit since. In politics he has always taken an active part, and has represented his District in the State Senate two terms - the sessions of 1877 and 1879. He was married in 1867, at Valley Falls, to Miss Margaret Shaw, and has two children, Nora and Edwin S. 

 JOHN M. BLANKENBEKER, farmer, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in December, 1870, locating at Oak Mills, Atchison County, where he has lived since. He participated in the last was as a member of Company B, Tenth Virginia (Confed.) Infantry, and enlisted October, 1864, in Madison, Va., served six months, and was discharged in Buckingham County, Va. He took part in the siege of Petersburg and other minor engagements. He was born in Madison County, Va., April 20, 1821, and lived in his native State until June, 1869, when he removed to Jay County, Ind., where he lived but a short time, and then came to Kansas. Mr. B. was married in Madison County, Va., March 20, 1856, to Miss Helen Hood, a native of Virginia. They have had seven children, of whom six are living: Louisa C. (married to Charles Henson, a native of Kansas), Duane L., Charles E., John W., Opal W., and Helen Avadna. Mr. Blankebeker has a small but fertile and highly cultivated place of fifteen acres near the village of Oak Mills. He devotes his attention to raising corn and fruit. His orchard contains fifty apple trees of the latest varieties. He has 100 bearing grape vines, and an abundance of small fruits. The improvements on his place consist of a neat and cozy four-roomed frame dwelling, stable, corn crib, etc., etc. The water supply is excellent.

HARRISON H. BROWN, farmer, Section 16, Town 7, Range 20, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in January, 1864, and located in the city of Leavenworth, where he lived one year, and from there removed to his farm in Walnut Township, Atchison County, where he has resided since. Mr. Brown is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in Mason County, Ky., in August, 1812, and lived in his native State until his twentieth year, and then removed to Platte County, Mo., where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. B. was married twice. The first marriage took place January 30, 1844, in Platte County, Mo., to Miss Eliza Black, a native of Kentucky. They had ten children, four of whom are living, and whose names are John (married to Mary Washington, of Missouri), Daphne (married to James Pyron, a native of Kentucky), Sallie and Celia (married to Alexander Moore, a native of Missouri). The second marriage took place September 4, 1867, at Winthrop, Mo., to Mrs. Annie Porter, a native of Polk County, Mo. By this marriage they have one child, a daughter, Amanda. Mr. B. has a small but fine farm of forty acres, part upland and part cotton land. It is all enclosed, eighteen acres under cultivation; the balance is pasture and timber land. The water supply is fine. His orchard contains seventy-five bearing apple trees and a few pear and cherry trees. The improvements consist of a three-roomed frame and log house, stocks table and smoke house. His wheat averaged sixteen bushels to the acre; his corn, forty bushels.

JOHN DAVITZ, general merchant, Oak Mills, came to Kansas in February, 1868, locating in the city of Atchison, where he lived one year. From there he removed to Millwood, Leavenworth Co., where he lived five years, and was engaged in the milling business. From Millwood he came to Oak Mills, Walnut Tp., Atchison Co., where he has resided ever since. While residing at Oak Mills he was for the first three years engaged in the mills there, and since then has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Davitz is the Postmaster at Oak Mills, which position he has held for three years past. He is a member of the Catholic Church. Mr. D. in addition to superintending his large and constantly increasing trade, manages his fine cotton farm of fifty-eight acres. His barn and stables are new and commodious. His orchard covers two acres and contains 200 apple and peach trees. He has sixty Poland-China and Berkshire hogs, twenty-three head of fine cattle and two horses on his farm. The water supply is excellent, there being two never-failing wells of pure cool water near his store. Mr. D. 's farm is all enclosed, all in cultivation, and this year, is all in corn which promises an enormous yield. Besides corn he raises cattle, hogs and horses. In addition to his farm he owns the whole village of Oak Mills, eight acres which contain seven buildings besides his store. He also deals extensively in lumber, wood, rock lime, pork, etc. He is a young and energetic merchant and does a safe and large trade.

FERDINAND JAEDICKE, farmer and stockraiser, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in August, 1858, locating at Leavenworth, where he lived until 1863, and then removed to Walnut Township, Atchison County, where he has since resided. Mr. J. participated in the war of the Rebellion as Second Lieutenant of Company K, Second Regiment Kansas Infantry, and enlisted in the summer of 1862 at Leavenworth and was mustered out of service in the same city in the fall of 1862. He took part in the battle of Wilson's Creek, Shelbina and other minor engagements. He was also in the German army during the years of 1847 - 48, - '49, He was born in Prussia, December 25, 1828, and lived in his native country until 1854 when he came to America and first settled in Buffalo, N. Y., where he lived five years, and then came to Kansas. He was married in Prussia in November, 1854, to Miss Sophie Schickel, a native of Hanover, Germany. They have three children - William L., Emma and Augusta. He owns a two hundred acre farm, which is all enclosed with substantial fences. One hundred acres are in cultivation, the remainder being timber land. The improvements are a new, roomy, frame dwelling house, new barn, granary, wagon-house and corn crib. His orchard covers eight acres and contains 800 apple, 300 peach and 100 cherry trees. He also has one acre covered in a vineyard, which contains 1,000 vines. He devotes his principal attention to raising wheat, corn, cattle, hogs and horses. His wheat this season will average thirty bushels to the acre. Owing to the drought he will only have two-thirds of a crop of corn this fall. It will, however, average fifty bushels to the acre. When Mr. Jaedicke, came to Kansas he was in very poor circumstances financially, but by hard work and rigid economy, he now ranks among the wealthy farmers of his county.

MOSES LYNCH, farmer and stockraiser, Section 21, Township 7, Range 17, P. O. Mount Pleasant, came to Kansas in the spring of 1873, and located on his farm in Walnut Township, Atchison County, where he has resided since. Mr. Lynch was Road Overseer of District No. 3, Walnut Township, one year. He is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Mr. L. was born in County Wexford, Ireland, January 6, 1826, and lived in his native country until his twentieth year, and then emigrated to America and located in Chester County, Pa., where he resided ten years, and was engaged in the lead and silver refining. From Pennsylvania he went to Staten Island, N. Y., where he lived seven years and was engaged working at his trade. From New York, he went to Colorado, where he lived until he came to Kansas. Mr. Lynch was married in August, 1847, in County Wexford, Ireland, to Miss Bridget Byrn, a native of Ireland. They have eight children living - Marcella, (married to Michael Grady, a native of Ireland and a resident of Atchison); John B., Thomas M., Michael A., Daniel R., Moses T., Mary J., and Catherine F. Mr. Lynch has a fine upland farm of eighty acres, all enclosed and under cultivation. The water supply is good. His orchard covers four acres, and contains two hundred apple trees. The improvements consist of an eleven-roomed frame dwelling house, stock stables, granary, etc. He had thirty-four acres in wheat this season, which averaged twenty-five bushels to the acre, and twenty-eight acres in corn, which averaged forty bushels to the acre. His oats averaged thirty bushels to the acre.

WILLIAM E. OLIPHINT, farmer and fruit raiser, P. O. Oak Mills, was born in Walnut Township, Atchison County, September 5, 1857, where with the exception of two years spent in attending an academy in Weston, Mo., he has always resided. He is Clerk of the Board of School District No. 33, Atchison County. Mr. Oliphint was married in Weston, Mo., November 8, 1881, to Miss Lydia Frankie Robbins, a native of Missouri. He has a choice upland farm of sixty acres, pleasantly situated on the Atchison and Leavenworth road, one and a half miles from the village of Oak Mills. The farm is all enclosed, and all in cultivation except sixteen acres, which is timber land. The orchard covers twenty acres, and contains 1,900 apple trees, 100 peach and twenty-five cherry trees, all of the finest varieties. There are also 300 bearing Concord grape vines, and an abundance of small fruits on the property. The water supply is excellent, there being two splendid springs that flow through the farm. The improvements consist of a new eight-room frame dwelling house, large frame barn, wagon shed and new smoke-house.

J. H. POTTER, farmer and carpenter, P. O. Mt. Pleasant. Came to Kansas in 1860 and located in Jefferson County, where he resided until February, 1862, when he enlisted in St. Joseph, in Company K, Fifth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and was discharged from the United States service June 22, 1863, in the same city. He participated in the battles of Sibley, Mo., and in numerous engagements with Quantrell in southern Missouri. He also participated in several different battles with Poindexter in northern Missouri, causing the defeat and demoralization of Poindexter's entire army, amounting to nearly three thousand men General Poindexter himself being captured. Mr. Potter was a brave and heroic soldier. He underwent a great many hardships, passing through them all without a gunshot wound of any kind until the spring of 1863, when near Kansas City, Mo., while acting under orders of Lieut. -Colonel Phillip A. Thompson, his horse fell with him, causing a severe and painful wound in his left leg. For his brave and daring exploits he received two promotions. Mr. Potter has been clerk of School District No. 68, Jefferson County, for one year, and is at present road overseer of District No. 34, Walnut Township, Atchison County. He is a member of the Christian Church. He was born in Jefferson County, Ky., June 11, 1834, and lived in his native State until his fourth year, when his parents moved to Lafayette County, Mo., where they resided two years, and then removed to Buchanan County, in the same State, where he resided until he came to Kansas. He was married twice. The first marriage took place in March, 1858, in Buchanan County, Mo., to Miss Isabel Barnes, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1859. One child, a daughter, Beatrice, was the fruit of this marriage. The second marriage occurred February 14, 1866, in Buchanan County, Mo., to Miss Ermina Frances Cobb, a daughter of Colonel Cobb, of Kentucky. She died in 1869. By this marriage he had one child, a son, named Jesse.

HON. JOSEPH POTTER, farmer, was one of the pioneers of Walnut Township, being the first settler on Stranger Creek, settling at a point three miles south of the village of Mount Pleasant, in June, 1854, where he built a cabin and moved his family to it in September of that year, and lived there until 1857, when he bought on Section 20, Township 7, Range 21, Walnut Township. He has 200 acres of land, all under cultivation, with good buildings, hedge and wire fences, grove, orchard, and other improvements. Was born in Lincoln County, Ky., April 4, 1819. At fifteen he was apprenticed to learn cotton spinning at Shelbyville, and served three years at that occupation. In 1841 he moved to Buchanan County, Mo., and settled on a farm about half way between Weston and St. Joseph, where he remained until his removal to this State. Was married March 4, 1852, in Buchanan County, Mo., to Miss Minerva Wyley, and has seven children, viz: Celia, Frances, Thomas J., Phoebe A., Samuel L., Josephine and John J. Mr. Potter has at all times been identified with the political issues of the day, and was a delegate to the first Free-state convention held in this county. In 1846 he enlisted in Company B of the Missouri Battalion and served in New Mexico. While at Santa Fe he was taken with fever, which incapacitated him from further duty, and in fall of 1847 was discharged from service. In 1861, on the breaking out of the war, he helped raise a company of Home Guards, and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant of Company H. Shortly afterward the company joined the Fifth Kansas Cavalry, but he being physically incapable of performing military duty, was not mustered into service. In 1880 was elected to the Legislature, and during the session of 1881 served with marked ability. Is an active member of the Temperance League. Has been a member of the Christian Church for the past forty-three years.

GEORGE W. REDMON, physician and surgeon, Oak Mills, came to Kansas in the fall of 1869, locating at Mount Pleasant, Atchison County, where he resided two years and practiced his profession. From there he removed to Oak Mills, where he has resided since. He was Township Treasurer of Walnut Township one term, and at present is Justice of the Peace of the same township. He was born October 19, 1848, in Bourbon County, Ky., where he lived until his fifth year, when his parents removed to Cooper County, Mo., where they lived eight years, and from there removed to Platte County, Mo., where they lived until 1872, when they removed to Kansas City. From Platter County, Doctor R. went in the fall of 1865 to Arrow Rock, Saline County, Mo., where he entered the office of his uncle, Dr. H. B. Redmon, where he read medicine for nearly three years, and then attended lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in 1869. Shortly after graduating he commenced the practice of his chosen profession in Mount Pleasant. He was married December 21, 1873, in Oak Mills, to Miss Annie E. Douglas, a native of Missouri. They have four children - Ethel, Edith, Virginia and Georgie. Dr. Redmon is a young and successful practitioner, and is held in high esteem by his neighbors and patients, as his constantly increasing practice sufficiently attests. He has twenty-four acres of ground surrounding his neat and cozy dwelling. The lawn in front of his house is filled with fruit and shade trees, many of the former literally bending and breaking under the fruit with which they are laden. His residence is situated on a high elevation, and commands a fine view of the Missouri River, and the City of Weston, Mo. Among the Doctor's fruit trees are the latest and most approved varieties of apple and peach trees. His vineyard contains 250 vines, principally of Concord, Isabella, Catawba and Early Ives varieties. The water supply is good; he has a large cistern near the door of his house, and a splendid well of water near his barn. He raises his own pork and garden vegetables. Dr. R. laid eighteen acres in wheat this year, which averaged over thirty bushels to the acre. The remainder of his land is in corn and tomatoes. His place is situated on the Atchison and Leavenworth road near the village of Oak Mills.

HENRY SACKS, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in April, 1855, and first located at Leavenworth, where he became steward of the Government mess house at the fort. He was thus engaged until October 1, 1857, when he entered a farm of 160 acres in Walnut Township, Atchison County, on which he immediately moved and on which he has resided ever since. He was Road Overseer of Walnut Township for four years, and member of the School Board of District No. 33, Atchison County, three terms. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He took part in the last war, during the Price Raid, as a member of Company A, Second Regiment Kansas Militia, and enlisted in Walnut Township, in September, 1864; served fourteen days, and was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth. He was born in Prussia, June 11, 1827, and lived in his native country until 1854, when he emigrated to America and first located at Galveston, Texas, where he lived seven months and then came to Kansas. He has been married twice: the first marriage took place in Galveston, Texas, December 25, 1854, to Miss Dora Knauch, a native of Prussia. They had four children, three of whom are living - John Henry, William and Harvey. The second marriage took place at Kickapoo Township, February 17, 1867, to Miss Rhoda A. Johnson, a native of Missouri. They have had eight children - Albert, John Adam, Joseph Franklin, Nancy Jane, Dora, Mary Olive, George Washington and Amy Matilda. Since the original entry on his farm, Mr. Sacks has purchased 160 acres more, contiguous to and adjoining his first farm, thus making the entire amount of land owned by him 320 acres. His farm is all upland, and is one of the finest and most fertile in the county of Atchison. It is all enclosed, and all in cultivation except seventy acres, which is timber and pasture land. His orchard covers ten acres, and has in it 900 apple, fifty peach and fifty cherry trees. The vineyard contains about 100 vines. Mr. S. devotes his attention principally to raising wheat, corn and fine stock of all descriptions. He has sixty-five acres in wheat this season, which yielded 2,000 bushels, an average of over thirty bushels to the acre. He has forty-five acres in corn this year, which promises to yield sixty bushels to the acre. He has two acres in potatoes the present season. The same ground last year yielded 400 bushels of the same tubers, which were sold for $1. 10 per bushel in the Leavenworth market. Mr. S. has on his farm ten horses and mules, twenty head of fine cattle, and eighty head of Poland China hogs. The improvements on the farm are a five-roomed frame dwelling house, large sized stock barn, granary, corn-crib, smoke-house and wagon shed. The supply of water is abundant and never-failing, there being two good wells and three fine springs, one of which flows for half a mile through the farm. Mr. Sacks also served three years in the German army, previous to coming to America, being a member of the Sixth Company of the Kaiser Alexander Regiment. He took part in the Schleswig-Holstein war in 1848, and participated in several engagements in the German Revolution of '48, and still later in the campaign of Saxony.

JOHN L. WADDLE, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in November, 1854, locating in Easton Township, Leavenworth County, where he resided until the fall of 1860 when he removed to Walnut Township, Atchison County, where he has since resided. He has held all the various township offices, from Road Overseer to Trustee; has been a member of the School Board of his district ever since he has been in Kansas; and was the first Postmaster of Oak Mills, holding the office for two years. He is a member of the Baptist Church and of Kickapoo Lodge, No. 4, A., F. & A. M. He participated in the last war as a Sergeant of Company B, Twelfth Kansas Cavalry. He enlisted in the spring of 1863, at Oak Mills, and was mustered out at Sumner, in November, 1864. He took part in a number of engagements, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Independence, Mo., but was soon thereafter paroled. He was born June 25, 1835, in Pulaski County, Ky., and lived in his native State until his nineteenth year, when he came to Kansas. He has been married twice. The first marriage took place January 20, 1859, in Leavenworth County, to Miss Elizabeth Wright, a native of Kentucky. They had six children, two of whom are living - Ida I. and Andrew J. The second marriage occurred in the city of Leavenworth, April 13, 1874, to Miss Alice Boten, a native of Kansas. By this marriage he had four children, three of whom are living - James, George A., and Oliver L. Mr. Waddle has a farm of 400 acres - 150 acres upland, balance bottom land; 200 acres are in cultivation. His orchard covers eight acres, and contains 400 apple, 600 peach, 200 cherry, and a few pear trees. His vineyard contains 200 vines. He raises wheat, corn, hogs, cattle, and horses. His wheat this season averaged thirty bushels to the acre. His corn will average fifty bushels. The improvements on his farm consist of a new frame dwelling house, containing five rooms; large new barn, granary, corn-crib, smoke-house, etc. The water supply is excellent, there being three never-failing wells on the property. The educational facilities are handy, the schoolhouse of District No. 34 being across the road from his dwelling. Mr. Waddle is one of the enterprising and get-ahead farmers of his township, and is very popular among his neighbors, as his frequent elevation to office shows. 

 CHARLES ALLBRIGHT, farmer, P. O. Good Intent, was born in Washington County, Pa., in 1825, and at fourteen years of age went to work at Monongahela, in the Glass Works, and became a thorough workman in all branches of the trade. In 1846, went to Elizabethtown, Pa., and worked at his trade until 1848, when he went to Brownsville, at which place he worked at his trade until his removal to Kansas in 1870, where he bought a farm and engaged in farming until the present time. He has 160 acres, all in cultivation, with orchard, grove, and hedge fences. Was married, June 3, 1846, at Monongahela City, Pa., to Miss Martha Chess, who was born in Washington, Pa. They have seven children - Mary A., John C., Henry B., Viola J., Charles S., Elmer E., Daisy B. Was elected Township Trustee in 1881, and re-elected in 1882. Is a member of the Brownsville, Pa. Lodge, No. 51, I. O. O. F., and of Redstone Fort Encampment, No. 70, of the same place.

L. P. DU BOIS, farmer and stock dealer, Good Intent P. O., was born in Salem County, N. J., in 1834, and reared in that State. In 1858, came to this State and located in Atchison, where he clerked for P. R. King until 1859, when he went to Fort Kearney, Neb. with a wagon train as assistant wagon master, and on his return went to Denver, Colo. with a wagon train as wagon master; arrived in the summer of 1859, where he remained until 1860, when he went to Fort Garland, N. M. Returning to Colorado, he engaged in prospecting through the district where Leadville now stands. He prospected until 1862, when he returned to New Jersey, and farmed for a year, when he went to Philadelphia and ran a restaurant until 1865, when he came to this county and engaged in farming. In 1868, bought his present farm of 160 acres, and has it all under cultivation, with a fine grove, and 200 fruit trees, and devotes his time to stock feeding. Is largely interested in New Mexico gold and silver mines, principally in the White Oak Mining District, and has an interest in eight mines, among which are the Hannibal, Du Bois, Little Maggie, Hiawatha, and Home-stake. Was married, in 1863, to Miss Sallie Jones, at Elmer, N. J. They have two children - Carrie J. and Samuel. Was elected Trustee of Shannon Township, in 1876, and served for two years.

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C. M. STREEPER, farmer an postmaster, Good Intent, was born in Cumberland County, N. J., in 1824; his father died the same year of his birth, and his mother dying when he was ten years old, he went to live with a relative. In 1842, commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, and worked at it until 1854, when he bought a general store at Daretown, N. J., which he ran until 1857, when he engaged in farming near that place. In 1871, he sold his farm and moved to this county, settling at his present location, where he has 120 acres all under cultivation, and raises small grain and potatoes, of the latter crop, he is the largest grower in the county. In 1873, in the establishing of the Good Intent post office, he was appointed postmaster, and has held the office ever since. Was married at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1847, to Miss Rebecca Du Bois. They have six children living - Rollins, Alice, Howard, Kate, Clarence E. and Emma D. Is a member of Cincinnatus Lodge, No. 85, I. O. O. F., of Pitts Grove, N. J.

H. B. TREAT, nurseryman and fruit grower, P. O. Atchison, is a native of New York, was born in Chautauqua County, April 24, 1825. When thirteen years of age he came to Illinois, with his parents; for several years was a resident of Marquette and Columbus Counties, Wis. In 1857, came to Kansas, locating in Leavenworth County, where he resided one and one-half years, opening and working for a time a nursery in Pottawatomie County in the spring of 1859, when he came to Atchison County, locating one mile from town in Shannon Township. Here he started and opened a nursery until 1871, when he located where he now resides, three and one-half miles southwest of Atchison. Mr. T. has one of the most desirable homes to be found in Atchison County, and the general surroundings indicate comfort and prosperity. He is thoroughly schooled in horticulture and it may be said of him that he was literally bred in this profession. He is a genial and entertaining gentleman, and one of the most popular citizens in Shannon Township. Mr. T. has been married three times, his first and second wife being deceased. He is a Master Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F.

J. R. UNDERWOOD, farmer, four miles northwest of Atchison, was born in Parke County, Ind., in 1836. Came to Kansas in the fall of 1855; settled in Doniphan, Doniphan County. Married Miss Artilla B. Dooley, of Walnut Township, Atchison Co., Kan., August 13, 1857. Moved to Shannon Township, Atchison County, in 1861, and on his present farm in 1867. Was Second Lieutenant in Company H, Twelfth Regiment, State Militia, under Col. Treat, and was called into service to repel Price's raid, and was at the battle of West Port, Mo.; is a member of the Christian Church, and of temperance; has been clerk of his school district twelve years; has eight children living, viz:, William P., Ella M., Charles G., Addie K., Ruby C., James M., and J. Perry.